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No it isn't. Flying is probably among the most carbon intensive thing you could possible do. I have heard that from multiple sources.

this ( I don't how great a source it is), says

"Flying from San Francisco to Boston, for example, would generate some 1,300 kilograms of greenhouse gases per passenger each way, while driving would account for only 930 kilograms per vehicle.

That is comparing a flight on airline to a passenger car. My guess can get the per person carbon down much lower than that if you use loaded buses.

The fact is all the pols screaming for us all to slit our throats to cut carbon while they jet all over the place for this summit and that, are the worst hypocrites of them all. If they really gave a damn they'd just have conference call.

Sort of.

1) You can (even in uniform) refuse an "unlawful" order, according to the UCMJ. If you can successfully point it out in a courts martial, it can include things like refusing an order to torture someone, shooting unarmed children, and similar things. It is also why the "I was just following orders" spiel is not a defense in court should you commit an atrocity and get hauled before a tribunal for it. This link looks like a good civilian-ready primer on how that works.

2) It doesn't require a uniform to perform immoral or unlawful acts, and sometimes you don't want the actors wearing one. See also certain military "contractors" in recent years.

Really? US dollar?

Absolutely.

Swiss Franc is much more stable.

The Swiss Franc is the currency of a relatively small country with a GDP around $350 billion. That is not big enough to protect itself against heavy currency speculation and certainly isn't big enough to be as safe as the dollar, yuan or euro. The Swiss economy is increasingly dependent on foreign investment and that should be worrisome if you think it is some sort of safe haven.

Euro, is very spendable, mostly stable

The Euro may not even exist in 10 years and it is anything but stable. Have you paid NO attention to the currency crises in Europe for the last 5 years?

US Dollar is not worth its weight in paper.

Really? Because the people who actually put their money where their mouth is completely disagree with you. If the dollar wasn't considered safe then interest rates should be going through the roof. Instead interest rates are near all time lows meaning that investors consider the dollar to be among the safest places to invest.

China holds vast amount of US Dollars and the moment they decide to sell some or all of these, the currency will start to look like the Zimbabwe Dollar.

Who do you think China is going to sell them to? Seriously, who? The answer is no one. There isn't another buyer that can buy or wants to buy $1 Trillion in US debt. China owns that US debt so that they can keep their currency cheap and thereby support their export driven economy. The moment they sell a substantial portion of their US debt holdings, the yuan will appreciate in value and every single export from China will immediately become more expensive overseas. There is NOTHING China can do to dump their US debt holdings that will not hurt China worse than it will hurt the US. China only holds about 8% of US debt. It's a nice sound bite but the notion that they somehow now "own" the US is absurd to anyone who isn't clueless.

1) Yet another reason why it should be illegal for cities/municipalities to award a monopoly cable contract. The folks living in such an area (90%+ of Comcast's network) cannot choose not to do business with Comcast if they want broadband Internet.

2) Yet another reason to set the primary DNS of every router you set up for a friend to a public DNS server.

It's like Old Ben Kenobi told young Luke Skywalker:

"If you're trying to run it on a JVM you've already lost to the darkside."

Star Wars Quotes (that never happened)

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Gmail offers you 15 GBs for free and IT customers wonder why they only have 2GBs at work.

A 2GB limit on corporate email has more to do with older versions of Outlook and Outlook Exchange being limited a 2GB file size. Getting users to delete old emails and move emails to archive files was a PITA back in the day.

Nah. The small limit on corporate email mostly has to do with reducing discovery (costs) when they get served with a lawsuit.

Gmail offers you 15 GBs for free and IT customers wonder why they only have 2GBs at work.

A 2GB limit on corporate email has more to do with older versions of Outlook and Outlook Exchange being limited a 2GB file size. Getting users to delete old emails and move emails to archive files was a PITA back in the day.

Some 40000 houses in Australia need to be rewired due to the recent use of a powercord by a specific company which failed to meet Australian standards due to a specific component missing the plastic insulation.

Sounds odd. Here in the USA 'power cord' implies what's being recalled, and 'rewired' implies replacing the wiring in a home. Was it some variation of Non-metallic building wire?

Is this the incident?
FTA: "While good-quality cable will last decades (up to 40 years) the Infinity brand is said to become brittle after 5 years, potentially exposing live conductors, creating the risk of fire and or electrocution."

1. I hope your guy's cable lasts more than 40 years. I had wiring much older than that in my last house, and my current is getting up there.
2. It doesn't say it was missing the insulation, the insulation was improperly chosen such that it'd break down early. Much harder to see.

At 10:22, American SBD Dauntless dive bombers approaching from the southwest and northeast struck the carriers Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi. In less than six minutes they reduced the Japanese ships to burning wrecks.

wow are you stupid [...] you are dumb

I like your style...

if the GOP congress hadnt mandated they pre-fund pensions 75 years into the future.

Consistent with your already-mentioned style, you don't offer any citations but I gather, you are referring to the 2006 legislation. What you would not read at DailyKos and MotherJones, however, is that the services has been losing money since e-mail took more and more business away from the First Class Mail...

there was no reason for that requirement

The USPS employees are federal employees and the government would be on the hook to pay for them, should USPS go bankrupt in the future.

other than to create teh false impression that the USPS is in financial ruin.

False, eh? It really is simple — if a service is useful, private companies will find profit in providing it... And they'd be better at it too — I'd take FedEx or even UPS over USPS any day of the week.

But even your own argument — that it is the Congress' meddling, rather than its own shortcomings, that keep USPS in the red — supports my opinion. Privatize the USPS (and Amtrak, and bridges, tunnels, roads) and keep the government types (from whatever party) out of their management...

While surely you can refuse the polygraph the prosecutor can use your "refusal" as an argument to a jury that you are guilty.

No, just like the judge will instruct the jury that your refusal to testify on your own behalf is not to be considered in the juror's evaluation of whether someone is guilty or not. If a prosecutor tries to argue that, they're going to get their knuckles rapped in front of the jury, not exactly helping their case, and possibly causing a mistrial.

And then there's this. The judge in question confirms that he was the judge in the "Photocopier Lie Detector", which snopes.com dismisses because they asked the wrong police department whether it had happened or not. It took place in Warminster Township, Bucks County, which would account for the Radnor police chief's denial.

More here, including the confusion of jurisdictions that led most to conclude it was an urban legend.

Communication 101: know your audience

If you had really "known" your audience, you either wouldn't have confused Immerman, or would have confused him in a far more entertaining way. As for me, I'm not interested in insincere agreement.

Having said that, there are some good points to your post above. Your last sentence in particular makes a very good point. If the public had put in more healthy skepticism and/or knuckle-dragging obstruction to climate change rhetoric and policies, it wouldn't have been so profitable a lobby.

What leaks? [...] I think the memory leak meme has outlived reality...

That just means it's gone gold, as far as Internet memes are concerned. If an Internet "meme" can remain in usage past the natural lifespan or the relevance of its subject, some people mistakenly think that makes it funny.

grumble, grumble Al Gore invented the Internet @(&*@) The Internet is ... a series of tubes *&^^$%^)*#@ 640k[i]B is enough memory for anyone #$@#$@*& BSD is dying !$%#@#)

Did they really know the risk?

Why yes they did. That's an immense amount of energy pushing out th eback of a rocket. If the wrong part fails - and there are many of those parts - life will be shortend significantly.

After the Columbia space shuttle tragedy, we learned a lot about the inside culture pushing for result without taking all the required precautions.

I think you might mean the Challenger, not the Columbia. Columbia's demise was based on something that most folks figured would not ever happen, while Challenger's kaboom was a direct result of launch fever.

Why should it be different at Virgin Galactic where you have an enormous presure on your shoulder to deliver results asap to satisfy the agenda? No one enrolled at Virgin Galactic to die for it. All resonable assumptions about the engineering environment, good practices, safety and risk management should be taken for granted.

I think you have a concept that sending up rockets is akin to opening a pizza shop. It isn't. I also think you are jumping to a conclusion that there was some sort of ressure put on the people at VG.

For now, the cause of the accident is not exactly known and an investigation is required. You cannot just say this death is nothing and was expected and move on to the next pilot asked to sacrifice his life for his employer which can do anything since the death is expected.

People die every day at work. People have died on the laying field, and even delivering pizza. No one's death is insignificant, but if we stopped doing anything as soon as a death occurred we'd probably still be living in caves.

Just as an example, could you imagine if powered flight were to be developed at this time? Our "safety is more important than anything else in the world" culture would insist we stop with the insanity when this happened:

http://history1900s.about.com/...

In the safety first world, the nerds living in their Mom's basement are the trailblazers. Well except for Radon. And vitamin D deficiency. But at least they aren't personally putting women in harms way with the dangers of childbirth.

Hitler publically declared himself to be a Christian, used Christian language and rhetoric openly to promote Nazi ideology, and spoke openly about his vilification of atheists.

In his book Mein Kampf Hitler made numerous religious pronouncements: "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

Before his ascension to power, Hitler stated before a crowd in Munich: "My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter."

In a speech delivered in Berlin, October 24, 1933, Hitler stated: "We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Also, from a speech delivered by Hitler:

"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. ...And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."

http://atheism.about.com/od/is...

I think "criminal histories" in this case is probably just a code-phrase for "smoked weed".

Lt. Col. Sharlene Pigg makes it sound like the military is relaxing its recruiting standards over criminal records because it needs "hackers".

But the truth of the matter is, the military has already relaxed its recruiting standards over criminal records. It did it for Vietnam and Korea when nobody else wanted to go. And it did it again ever since the war in Iraq got started, even formerly convicted felons have been able to get in (not just former weed smokers).

I'd say don't believe the hype regarding their need for hackers. The military is notoriously bad at matching recruits with jobs according to their existing technical abilities. If you want to do cyber warfare, get yourself a bachelor of art in something, anything, so that you get yourself recruited as an officer at the very least, to increase your chances -- not guarantee them mind you. If you enter the military without a degree because you like programming, or worse because you like playing video games, expect to be used as IED fodder in the Middle East, for the jobs that no one else wants to do.

How is Excel on your list of "don't really work" apps?

A) Learn how to quote. When you use quotation marks you are either being literal or possibly sarcastic or snarky or maybe referencing what someone would say. There may be other uses. You weren't being sarcastic or snarky. At best you were paraphrasing. Improper quoting isn't like speeling of grammer issues (which only make the writer look stupid). You are improperly - and possibly unethically - making false attributions to another person.

"When you paraphrase, you must entirely reword material taken from a source, without using quotation marks."
http://quotations.about.com/cs...

B) The reason you are, at best, paraphrasing, is that you didn't quite catch the meaning. This might explain why you didn't quote or paraphrase correctly. I took "Excel - often you need to use it because it's broken the same way as the software your accountant uses" to be a comment about an artificially created need for compatability.

Hilariously, you fit that mark perfectly:

My attempt to get used to the Apple operating system (I got a Macbook for work) was mostly successful but I eventually fell back to Windows because their version of Excel was so much better than the Mac version (not Apple's fault, but still important). There were some other minor reasons, such as me liking Notepad++ more than Sublime and my opinion that Windows 7 handles multiple large monitors better, but Excel was the main reason. I also like Visual Studio for most development, but IntelliJ was good enough. The alternatives to Excel were not good enough however.

In a quest for compatibility (GP's point if I understood correctly), you are buying MULTIPLE versions of the same damn product... a product you seem to be shilling for based on GP's def, "What Microsoft does well is getting IT people trained up to believe in their stuff. Many of the "shills" don't even realise they are that. They work for small IT companies where the only training they get is MS subsidised."

All your points can be true that Excel is a great product. This is not incompatible with you being a shill. However, you trumpet the product's shortcomings so loudly, that the irony is quite amusing. Sorry if I used "irony" incorrectly. I never got the proper meaining of it.

"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall finder"

Command line-only setting to see hidden files in the GUI? Bad design.

If you like you can download a dumb little application to do it for you that one time. Or you can add a context-menu to do it on the fly. The vast majority of OS X users should not be seeing hidden files, it would only confuse their work. What's bad design is leaving that option around with all the others where they can discover and toggle it and then accidentally f*% up their systems.

Are you saying you want a "pro version" of the GUI to be bundled with the OS? I suppose that would be nice for you, but it would suck for developers, who now have to support two completely different GUIs for the same platform.

The scrolling behaviour is designed to work with touch pads, because they're the primary analog interaction device on OS X, I'd strongly suggest you grab one.

Far less precise. Works for people playing, not people working.

Don't knock those trackpads until you've tried them. It's actually possible to be very precise indeed, because the surface even senses changes in the "center of contact" of your finger, i.e. if you roll your finger forward slightly, that registers as movement. Compare this to the mouse, where your accuracy is limited to how slowly you can push an object on a flat surface by flexing your hand.

The difference here is like playing the guitar with a pick, and playing the guitar with your fingers.

Correct, exposÃf© is the right tool for this job. You can also use cmnd-` to cycle through windows within an application.

Extra work for a simple task, bad design

Not sure what you mean by "extra work". There are five different UI mechanisms for sorting windows on OS X.

1. command-tab plus command-~. Hold down "shift" to cycle up the stack instead of down. Mouse over an icon to select it in the stack.
2. Expose, via extra mouse button, trackpad gesture, or key combination.
3. Flip between screens, with trackpad gesture, or key combination.
4. Raise the dock, click on an icon
5. Command-H to hide your foreground app and send it to the bottom of the stack, bringing the next app into context.

Or if you really love spotlight, command-spacebar, a few letters of the app you want foregrounded, and the return key.
And of course there's the old favorite: Move the freakin' mouse and drag the window into view.

And here's a tip: Most of these, along with exposing the desktop, work from the keyboard while you're dragging something with the mouse. You can do some really sneaky things this way!

As I said above ctrl-a and ctrl-e. Also cmmd-left arrow and cmnd-right arrow.

Bad design. Home and End should work as in every other system, the other shotcuts should be the "Apple Custom" ones.

Given that "every other system" in this case probably refers to two other radically different platforms whose interfaces treat every other function key on the keyboard differently, it doesn't make sense to call this "bad design" just because it's different. 'Home' scrolls the window without moving the cursor, just like 'page up' right next to it, while 'command-up arrow' moves the cursor to the top, just like 'command-left' moves the cursor to the left side. From my subjective point of view, this is more consistent, more useful, and makes more sense.

As an aside, you may not realize it, but the days when Apple's OS design team needed to cater carefully to Windows 'switchers' are actually over.

So what you're saying is that on Linux you're willing to install the appropriate software to make the machine behave like you want it, but on Mac OS, ha

Well, maybe we can convince some cities like Victoria BC from dumping their raw sewage directly into the mouth of the Puget Sound. http://environment.about.com/o...

They say they screen out the larger pieces of solid waste, but everything else (drugs, detergents, cooking waste, every sick person's waste) goes straight into the ocean.

I just hope they never have a person with HIV, Hepatitis C, Ebola, STDs, Clostridium difficile, Salmonella, or MRSA living or visiting there.

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We're 20x the size of them, have a completely different political setup and most people won't think to compare one arbitrary country to another?

Sweden is a unitary state, population 9.7 million, divided into twenty-one counties. Each county further divides into a number of municipalities or kommuner, with a total of 290 municipalities in 2004.

Sweden

The U.S. is a federal union of fifty states, population 316 million, with roughly 3,100 counties, parishes or the equivalent, 39,000 local governments and 50,000 or so special districts, for schools, water, sewage disposal, and so on. [based on census reports from scattered sources]

Local governing bodies in the U.S, are wholly the creation of state governments --- and can only can only do what their state permits them to do --- only a bare handful, for example, are permitted to tax income. City Income Taxes - U.S. Cities That Levy Income Taxes

"Municipal Internet" can look a lot like an upper middle class entitlement.

Which means that your proposal may not be economically or politically viable unless it is inclusive --- bringing affordable broadband Internet deep into the inner city and far out into the suburbs and perhaps beyond.

1 cup of flour is trivially measured by volume: Just grab the "1 cup" cup from your set of measuring cups, scoop up flour from your storage container, level. You're done.

This is indeed easy—but very inaccurate: it can lead to the measurement being out by as much as 30%.

The problem is that flour is compressible—so measuring it by weight is inherently more accurate.

Apple security....
Military Intelligence...
Cheerful pessimist....
Definite maybe... and many more.
http://grammar.about.com/od/rh...

" That would basically mean significant reforestation in progress."

How do you think the lumber/paper/tree industry works?

http://forestry.about.com/libr...

Same thing happening over in Europe.

A friend of mine wrote a small web application for french conjugation, with verbiste (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/verbiste).
You type a verb, and it gives you a table like this one :
http://french.about.com/od/ver...

My verb was "avoir && whoami", and its conjugation was "root" :D

Yeah but how do you separate smoking deaths from non-smoking deaths?

"Smoker diseases" like lung cancer afflict non smokers as well. For instance, 10-15% of lung cancers come from non-smokers:
http://lungcancer.about.com/od...

When you consider cancer is often caused by mutations, and smoking encourages gene mutations, this makes sense.

So really, smoking makes it more likely to die early, not that you are shooting yourself with a gun.

Thus the reason why you might assume anyone who actively has smoked above a certain age, who has smoked a long time, that did not die an accidental death died of smoking.

Either there is a not-so-small extremist element in Islam, or a silent majority who refuses to do anything about it.

First, the same sort of idiots were making this same idiot claim after the 911 attacks. Just because you can't be bothered to read about denuciations of terrorism doesn't mean that they didn't happen.

Second, you do know that the only reason ISIS exists is because Assad's enemies - chiefly the United States and Saudi Arabia - have been funding and arming the very "radicals" you are now complaining about?

Third, name one instance of "radical Islam" that isn't directly financed by western imperialists (Syria) or is a backlash to western imperialism (Iranians overthrowing the western-backed Shah).

MP3 doesn't support DRM.
Link http://netforbeginners.about.c...

Quote
*As of this writing, MP3 files themselves do not have DRM padlocks on them, but getting access to MP3 files is getting more difficult every day as the MPAA and RIAA crack down on MP3 file sharing.

What is this MP3 DRM you speak of?

Except They are the Cavalry — according to their own page — are focusing on Cyber Safety, not privacy.

And our privacy — as far as cars are concerned anyway — has been shot for over a century already, when New York (always the Illiberal) mandated license plates in 1901.

They could not think, of course, that some day automatic license-plate readers will be archiving our driving histories. But the move — targeting "the rich", of course — was just as invasive even back then, as mandating that people carry identification at all times would be. And not just carry, but keep it visible from distance too...

Cars' new electronics may make it easier for the State to track us, but it has not been that hard before...

Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.

Not according to these links:

Big Mac bun, 180 cal: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-sesame-seed-bun-i53842

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions - on a sesame seed bun.
What the jingle doesn't tell you is that the Big Mac bun has 3 pieces to it, not just two like the regular bun. The middle section is basically the same as the bottom section in size.

Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.

Not according to these links:

Big Mac bun, 180 cal: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-sesame-seed-bun-i53842

Big Mac patty, 204 cal: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-big-mac-all-beef-i53840

Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.

Not according to these links:

Big Mac bun, 180 cal: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-sesame-seed-bun-i53842

Big Mac patty, 204 cal: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-big-mac-all-beef-i53840

General forms of taxes are legalized theft anyway. When the government just takes money away for their "general bucket", it is nothing more than stealing.

Instead, tax-per-use: road tax, school tax, environmental tax, so the tax-payer knows what happens to their money.

If governments would be more transparent, less people would have problems paying taxes.

And a military tax too, while you're at it.

With this cry for war against ISIS , I think people should really see how wars hurt economies. And maybe people will think twice about getting involved in wars - especially unnecessary ones. And I'd hope that it would give people a reality check the next time they rant about those "people" and "entitlement programs" wasting money.

Then again, no one ever bothers to see waht the truth is because it's much simpler to listen to the propaganda and makes one feel less guilty since well, they are actually the problem (all those old people who watch Fox News all day long who listen to the liars about all those good for nothings on entitlement programs when they are the ones who are sucking this country dry - and they are the ones wanting wars because of "American Exceptionalism", "fighting evil" or some such jingoistic horseshit they grew up with.)

Oh! And let's take any budget shortfall out of Medicare, Social Security and retirements. No debt ceiling increase Mr. Teaparty old fart? Well, it comes out of your social security - none of this shutting the government down because you're afraid of "Obama Care" because some liar says it will hurt your entitlements.

The glass consists of a thin sheet of alkali-aluminosilicate. Gorilla Glass is strengthened using an ion-exchange process which forces large ions into the spaces between molecules on the glass surface. Specifically, glass is placed in a 400C molten potassium salt bath, which forces potassium ions to replace the sodium ions originally in the glass. The larger potassium ions take up more space between the other atoms in the glass. As the glass cools, the crunched-together atoms produce a high level of compressive stress in the glass that helps protect the surface from mechanical damage.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/...

How Sapphire Glass is made...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Reason 1 - Treating theories as 100% verified facts/laws

Remember, a theory is not 100% verified. A hypothesis with evidence but not 100% proven is a theory. Once it is 100% proven, it is a Law.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/...

- Gravity is a Law. It is 100% proven. Hence we call it the "Law of Gravity". Even defying gravity doesn't disprove gravity.
- Evolution is a theory, hence we call it the "Theory of Evolution." Not 100% proven but very good evidence to support it. However, there are gaps in the evidence.
- The big bang is a theory, hence we call it the "Big Bang theory."

Science is about observation. We observe what we can and try to determine why something happens or happened or how it happened.

We don't have to understand laws fully. While Gravity is a law, we can't yet explain how it works.

REASON #2 - To the lay person, science is just another religion.

In a religion, a very wise and righteous person sees something amazing (vision, God, taken up to heaven, whatever) that the average person could see if only they would be righteous enough. They call them a prophet. The prophet "preach" to the masses to get them to believe. The average person has to "trust" the prophet. The average person never gets the amazing experience but is asked to think about it and believe. Certain believes become so indoctrinated that they become zealots and lose rational scientific thought. Teachings are misconstrued by religious zealots.

There are a few very wise people who have seen something amazing that the average person could see if only they would be rich or educated enough. They call them scientists. Scientists "preach" to the masses to get them to believe. The average person just has to "trust" the scientists. The average person could never go to CERN and witness all that is happening there, but they are asked to think about it and believe. Certain believes become so indoctrinated that they become zealots and lose rational scientific thought. Certain believes become so indoctrinated that they become zealots and lose rational scientific thought. Certain believers become so indoctrinated that they become zealots and lose rational scientific thought. Teachings are misconstrued by scientific zealots.

REASON #3 - Using theories to disprove something they don't disprove (Usually by misconstrued scientific zealots)

I firmly believe in the the theory of evolution. We have evidence of changes in species over time. We still do not have proof that evolution was the result of an outside influence. We do, however, have evidence of evolutionary jumps--jumps meaning evolution that occurred faster than scientists suspect would be possible, hence there is the possibility that some outside influence gave evolution a bump. Contrary to popular belief (by scientific zealots), evolution and intelligent design and not contradicting theories. DNA looks like biological code and the way it is used in different species looks a lot like good code reuse or self-learning biological code.
The point is, claiming that the theory of evolution disproves intelligent design, or God, or some higher power, is not scientific. There is little correlation between the two ideas. Scientifically, God and evolution could both exist. God (or ancient aliens or a powerful race from a different dimension, or some entity outside of space and time, whatever) could have created the world/universe, whatever, and uses these scientific laws to do so.

Science observes and makes hypothesis, tests them, forms theories, and hopefully discovers scientific laws. It doesn't make brash statements that evidence for one theory disproves a completely unrelated theory.

REASON #4 - Science ignores the unexplained or calls the observer a liar.

Here is one example, but there are many more . . .

A person has a spiritual experience. Their mother returned to them as a spirit and gave them a bit of wisdom. Science scoffs at this exp

Mercury's in your flu shot

So sorry, we switched to preservative free.

Actually most federal agencies have armed tactical units these days.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2...

here is the epa doing the same thing:
http://www.naturalnews.com/042...

They all have armed divisions and if you ignore them they will send men with guns to sort you out.

This answers your question. They do have weapons.

Next question?

Just in the off-chance that you aren't a troll and are truly looking for a discussion: here's the first hit in Google. http://islam.about.com/od/terrorism/f/terrorism_verse.htm I disregard thereligionofpeace links, as they are utter nonsense, and just quote mining the Koran. If we're going down that road, the Bible is full of similar nonsense.

As for a more personal answer: it's because muslims as a group aren't bloodthirsty morons, and quite a few have learned to read the Koran so as to better their lives - just like Christians. Regarding your last question: Egypt's populous, military and judiciary just kicked out Morsi because he had turned out to be a fundamentalist. Just because you don't hear of it on Fox News doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

You are suggesting the bureaucrats and the people won?

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

But they are. They base it on flawed reasoning .

For me, it is not understandable at all. I would rather learn more before endangering myself and others. These people have experienced enough to doubt anything they've been told by the authorities, and rightfully so.

MULE also stands for Modular Universal Laser Equipment, which is a tripod mounted laser designator. It's essentially the USMC equivalent of the Army's G/VLLD.

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/marinefacts/blmule.htm

The Spanish Flu. The effects were as bad as Ebola and much faster. Even the military couldn't quarantine their bases fast enough to prevent spreading. This one would be even "better". Yes, purposeful scare quotes because an estimated 5% of the world population *did* die.

That 7% lethality stat was true for SF, not this thing purposefully designed to be more lethal. Makes that 20% look more feasible, doesn't it?

The Spanish Flu killed upwards of 5 percent of the world's population in one year in a world with much slower travel. Do you really think something like this, purposely designed to be far more lethal, would be counteracted in time to to help? If this gets out, the *remaining* five percent will understand why the other ninety-five died. Keep in mind, it it escapes, the researchers will be the first to go.

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"Luckily for libraries, they're safe for now because they still beat Kindle Unlimited and its competitors in at least one category: content you want to read.

There is so much wrong with that backhanded insult that there is no "content you want to read" among self-published books.

Currently, the top bestsellers lists contain more self-published authors than authors represented by publishing houses. Self-publishing authors are outselling traditionally published authors and are .

The OP's comment comes from the misnomer that self-publishing is the last bastion of a writer whose writing was so bad, he couldn't get it accepted. The reality is the cartel of the Big-5 publishing companies have been artificially keeping the number of authors on the market artificially small so they could better control the markets in terms of product availability and price controls.

The advent of digital publishing has given authors a way to get around the market controls of big-industry publishing. Even traditionally published authors such as Barry Eisler and H.M. Ward have walked away from the publishing houses and turned to self-publishing. The work coming out of self-published authors is incredible. Hugh Howey's dystopian science fiction Wool would probably have never seen the light of day if not for self-publishing and his books have sold millions of copies. There are other yet-to-be discovered authors such as William D. Richards Aggadeh Chronicles Book 1: Nobody or Michael Patrick Hicks Convergence who are turning out real page turners with gripping stories and excellent writing.

Yeah, there is some crap out there (published as a joke; read the description; the author, Phronk, is a satirist and pretty damned funny). If you are unsure about a book by a self-published author, just download the free sample of their work and see how it reads before you buy. Many authors with a series of books offer the first book free—if you don't like it, you aren't out any money. If you do, then you've got a whole series to buy.

Many independent writers take their craft very seriously. They employ a team of editors, proof readers, and a cover artist or two to ensure that the reader is going to get the best reading experience possible. If they weren't putting so much work into assuring the quality of their work was there, the self-publishing movement would have collapsed years ago. Instead, because of the commitment to quality by the authors, the self-publishing movement has been growing in strength, variety, and quality. Self-published authors gain no support from advance payments, no corporate backing, and no financial assistance. They are not subsidized by monies from other authors (as is a practice in traditional publishing). Instead, they make 100% of their incomes from direct sales to readers. If they weren't doing the proper Q.A. on their books, their livelihoods would be unsustainable.

So, don't go listening to big-publishing shills trying to shoot down the first real competition they've ever faced. There is plenty of excellent reading to be found among self-publising writers, contrary to what the O.P. alludes. And as far as public libraries are concerned, independent writers are huge supporters of libraries, unlike big-industry publishers who try to milk money from municipalities by over-charging libraries for books and ebooks.

The entire point of a CA is trust.

Agreed. But SSL is about encryption - authentication is merely an optional extra (if it weren't, self-signed certs wouldn't even be an option).
No intelligent person trusts the majority of websites, but they may still have valid reasons for not wanting their browsing habits eavesdropped upon.

Using a non-trusted CA would actually be a step backwards.

That depends on your priorities - on whether authentication or privacy is more important to you. Quite frankly, I find it hard to understand how encryption without authentication is worse than no authentication at all.

Even worse would be convincing people that manually installing a cert for a random website is a good idea.

Besides, I do believe that every single major browser now includes dire warnings if you go to a site with a cert from a non-trusted source.

Frankly, this is a usability problem. A user should not receive dire warnings for a self-signed cert; they should get some indication that it's inferior to a trusted cert, but that's it. (I like the red-yellow-green approach Chrome takes with the address bar.)
Dire warnings should be reserved for when a website's cert changes significantly, because that's the best indicator of malicious activity. Using them for self-signed certs just raises the false positive rate.

Certs are cheap. A quick Googling reveals a number of options for under $50/year

Cheap is relative. But more importantly, consider the implications of this. The web is slowly moving towards deprecating the use of unencrypted HTTP. Sure, it won't happen immediately, but it's going to happen sooner or later, especially given the way the IETF responded to the Snowden leaks. Meanwhile, CAs stand poised to charge an annual fee to anyone who doesn't want their site to be decorated by scary warnings. Stuff like this centralizes the internet and makes it more fragile and prone to interference by a single party. We need to be looking at more decentralized options, and making self-signed certs a viable choice is a good start to that.

The entire point of a CA is trust. Using a non-trusted CA would actually be a step backwards. Even worse would be convincing people that manually installing a cert for a random website is a good idea.

Besides, I do believe that every single major browser now includes dire warnings if you go to a site with a cert from a non-trusted source.

Certs are cheap. A quick Googling reveals a number of options for under $50/year

Not when measuring traffic speed. 10mbps is 10,000,000 bits per second.

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It probably started with this: http://history1900s.about.com/... That was when jews of the world decided to stop backing Germany in WW1 and made a deal with Britain to carve them out a nice chunk of some other country. The condition that they would use their economic and political clout to drag USA into the war as Britain's aid. This isnt a conspiracy theory, it's fully realized historical fact. TLDR: Jews literally dragged the american people into the bloodiest war the world had ever seen, just so they could get Britain to steal some land for them.

Pseudo.

Not to be confused with sudo

http://useconomy.about.com/od/...

Guess I should have included the link.

In its landmark 5-4 decision in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out years of campaign finance law by ruling that corporations and labor unions have the same First Amendment freedom of speech rights as individuals in using their funds to support or oppose candidates for election. In his dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens raised an interesting, if somewhat sarcastic question: does this mean corporations can vote now?
"Under the majority's view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech," wrote Justice Stevens.

-- So, Can Corporations Vote Now?