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The success of the platform says otherwise. Although there are less iPhones out there than the sum of all the various Android phones, far more iPhone apps are sold than Android apps. Heck, not even sold - there are more downloaded.

Looks like you're wrong now

It took time for Android to overtake iOS in the smartphone market. But not only are there more Android users, there are more total apps downloaded also. Currently, the iPhone has only more apps downloaded per user than Android. The more total apps downloaded is chalked up to the open policies of the Android Market.

Does the "one stop shop with strict rules approach" work? Of course it does. Does it result in many apps that would be great, innovative, and novel not being put onto that platform? Yup. See, you're falling into what TFA talks about. The problem with the iOS App Store is not that the strict rules don't work, because they obviously do. The problem is that more and more companies are seeing the walled garden strict rules approach as a viable option (look at Windows Mobile). If every company takes up that walled garden approach, then tons of creative, innovative applications will be disallowed from being created simply because some corporations don't allow it. If people don't make the fuss and aren't outright vocal about the restrictiveness of the rules, then it will continue to be seen as desireable.

Does it work? Sure it does. But if you're restricted just to the one market, then you're missing out on lots of applications. Many of which you might find useful, fun, productive, etc. You stay satisfied with "good enough" I'll stick with better

Dunder Mifflin recently introduced The Pyramid.

Also, don't grow apples

Cuz in the end, its not about catching people who run lights. Enforcing the law is not an end in and of itself, its supposed to be a means to an end. Who cares if we can "catch" more people? It may feel good and let someone justify their job with some metrics but, it doesn't solve the original problem of risks and dangers....not in anything even approaching a realistic way.

Unfortunately, while sane, thoughtful people would come to this conclusion, someone, somewhere would rather make a profit off of it. This isn't theoretical, it's already happened, as some cities would rather profit at the expense and injury of motorists. What this does to insurance and medical rates I hate to think.

• Chicago
• Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, California
• Anecdotes if not evidence

This sort of thing would be great for "dynamic yellow lights," as you implied. A sane, rational person would use this to make a yellow light last a little longer to prevent an accident. People like the above could widen the range a little and make it shorten the yellow light to catch a few extra bucks. It's not the technology; this algorithm is cool and great. It's the few abusers.

Apple's mobile success is due at least in part to the vibrancy of their app store. Now that there are 2 Android handsets for every iOS handset, and there are more Java developers than Objective C developers out there, the quality apps either also support Android, or sometimes come to Android first, and possibly only.

That will hurt Apple's presence, as it may already be doing - it looks like Samsung may be outselling Apple (which probably explains all the specious legal acrobatics Apple is tossing at Samsung).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/corporate-profit_b_1117741.html

income disparity - this is a perceived problem, not a real one, because the real problem is not the difference in income levels but poverty. Difference in income levels increases with the economy going global, but also with the destruction of competition that governments are involved in with every law that favors monopolies.

So in that attached article there is a graph, you can look at it or skip it and pretend it doesn't matter that the 1970s started the next large round of income inequality.

My understanding is that there are a lot of American football players with brain damage, as their (well protected) heads get sloshed about...

The problem is that American Football helmets do a good job of preventing most head or face injuries, but are very poor at preventing concussions.

On top of that, because the NFL takes concussions so seriously now (in large part because of the stereotyped brain damaged retired football player) players have an incentive to hide and play through minor concussive symptoms so they aren't benched. Obviously, this increases the chance of re-injury.

As an example (for the Patriots fans out there), Rob Gronkowski came as close to breaking his neck as I've ever seen. After that play he showed some wobbliness and confusion so he had to get himself checked out, but later went back into the game. In a post-game interview someone asked him about that play, his response was:

"Uh, I remember the moment and everything. And, if I didn't, I still wouldn't even say I didn't [because] I want to play this week."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-gibbs/green-nightmare-burning-b_b_395553.html

One. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tessa-blake/miscarriage-at-occupy-sea_b_1109211.html

What do you expect from a country that uses toddlers as speedbumps?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/chinese-toddler-death_n_1027153.html

Social Security is completely separate. Pays for itself, and has trillions in surplus. Medicare and Medicaid would also pay for themselves, had W not created a massive entitlement via the drug program without raising the tax to pay for it.

The US debt problem IS a revenue problem. Look at the chart- the biggest contributor to the debt going forward is the Bush tax cut.

Former East Bloc (i.e. communist eastern Europe) looked at the proportion of red/white muscles to see who would become explosive or athlete. This is an extension, but down to the family level... Even worse.

Thinking of the busy-body moms in today's China. Poor, poor kids. Jwish moms used to be seen as bad, overreacting psycho-freaks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-sachs/chinese-moms-vs-jewish-mo_b_807569.html

but, the Chinese are worse.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html

Soccer moms and Hockey dads, for what reason?

Calm down, all you mothers from Hell.

Yes, Virginia, there really is a frozen food lobby and they get congress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-wartman/pizza-is-a-vegetable_b_1101433.html to declare that because pizza has a tiny smear of processed tomato sauce pizza counts as a vegetable for the purposes of getting federal funding for school lunches.

Who defines what is porn?

This.

We have Hasidic Jews in NYC that are upset at bicyclists going through their neighborhood on a Saturday wearing shorts and teeshirts. Especially if they are women.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/hipsters-hasidic-jews-fig_n_384579.html

And that's just the US. I just read a story about how women in Saudi Arabia, that if they have "sexy eyes" while otherwise clothed head-to-toe must also cover up their eyes, or face the beatings by the Religious Police.

http://jezebel.com/5860660/helpful-saudi-arabian-committee-suggests-women-cover-their-sexy-eyes

People don't tell control freaks and prudes to fuck-off nearly as much as they need to.

--
BMO

Over prescribing means you piss way antibiotic, and impact the good stuff. Which should be stopped, but it is foolish to say over prescribing is what is driving the evolutionary change.

See here:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/03/2018247/How-Norway-Fought-Staph-Infections
And here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-rather/the-antibiotics-crisis_b_807887.html

Dr. Stuart Levy, a professor of molecular biology at the Tufts School of Medicine and one of the world's leading medical authorities on antibiotics, says the cause of the crisis is not in dispute: we are simply using too many antibiotics.

I'll copy it here:

By the way, here are some key useful health related links, and these are some of the issues I'd like to use such a system to discuss, refine, rebut, or promote.

On healthy diet:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx
http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Revolution-Your-Diet-World/dp/1573244872
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-John-Robbins/dp/0915811812

Knife and blender skills for eating better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhfAE6McrM
http://greensmoothierevolution.com/

On medically supervised fasting (both water and juice) and health:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-dr-fuhrman-on-fasting....
http://www.healthpromoting.com/why-water-fasting
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

And on getting enough vitamin D (in decreasing levels of recommended supplements):
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-to-get-your-vitamin-d...
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/recommendation
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/vitamin_D_recommendations.aspx

On vitamin D and pregnancy:
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20100504/high-doses-of-vitamin-d-may-cut-...
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/neurological-conditions...

On autism and health care in general:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_...

Understanding about good and bad fats:
http://peakperformance.runnersworld.com/2011/05/may-9-the-great-fat-deba...
http://nutsci.org/2011/05/04/the-great-fat-debate/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21515108

Mental health:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bCuC2H-6k_8C
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/dobbs-orchid-gene

Treadmill workstations for computer users (but be sure to get vitamin D being indoors so much):
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/08/the-treadmill-workstation/
http://www.squidoo.com/wal

I use a similar line to squick my mother about her 'free range' eggs. In the egg industry, half of all chicks are worthless, as they turn out to be male. Not only meaning no eggs, but not so well-behaved as the hens for meat production too. So for every egg-producing hen, there is a significent lack of a cock... they get killed immediatly after sexing, in the most efficient industrial-line process that could be designed. The industry calls it "instantaneous euthanasia" to try to hide exactly how because the process, while essentially painless due to the sheer speed, is also so violently messy that it would make many potential customers feel ill or - even worse - stop buying eggs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/chicks-being-ground-up-al_n_273652.html -- Some of those smug hippie activist types managed to get a hidden camera in.

4. Announced a plan to responsibly end the war in Iraq: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/washington/28troops.html

Notice that this article is almost 3 years old. In the present day, we have two people to thank for getting out of Iraq: George Bush, ironically, and whoever released the key Julian Assange's cache of cables. Obama was lobbying Iraq to stay longer but Iraq refused to extend the timetable setup by GWB. In other words, we are getting out DESPITE Obama, not because of him and he is holding in solitary the one person in this whole mess that deserves a peace prize way more than warmonger-Obama, providing Manning is the hero who helped bring us an end to Iraq by shining a light on war crimes.

So --- I wonder how many of the items in this list are pure BS like #4, and how many obscure acts are nothing more than list fodder.

4. Announced a plan to responsibly end the war in Iraq: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/washington/28troops.html

Notice that this article is almost 3 years old. In the present day, we have two people to thank for getting out of Iraq: George Bush, ironically, and whoever released the key Julian Assange's cache of cables. Obama was lobbying Iraq to stay longer but Iraq refused to extend the timetable setup by GWB. In other words, we are getting out DESPITE Obama, not because of him and he is holding in solitary the one person in this whole mess that deserves a peace prize way more than warmonger-Obama, providing Manning is the hero who helped bring us an end to Iraq by shining a light on war crimes.

So --- I wonder how many of the items in this list are pure BS like #4, and how many obscure acts are nothing more than list fodder.

I just read an article (similar to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/05/adults-living-with-parents_n_1077067.html) reporting that 19% of adult men aged 25-34 live with their parents.

These are not rich men but it seems to me that they have enough security to take risks such as starting new businesses.

I'm not sure I see the flaw.

TSA's job is to prevent passengers from bringing weapons onto the airplane. They have some successes and notable failures in doing this. Apple's job is to prevent malicious code from running on our iPhones and iPads and I'm sure they have some successes and failures.

What you're saying is that it's okay that the TSA might fail every now and again because the passengers will spot the malicious person and prevent him from performing his dastardly task. Of course, passengers tend to generate more false positives because they are not trained in security.

But if you want to go with this analogy, Android would be a better secure environment than iOS. Android has various tools that smart people can use to find malicious software So, to carry this into your analogy, using Android is like flying on airplane with a group of passengers who understand security and can spot the evildoer and warn others. iOS is like flying on an airplane where everybody says, "Oh, they made it through the TSA checkpoint. They must be okay."

Look into iodine, vitamin D, and eating lots of vegetables, fruits, and beans:
http://www.iodine4health.com/special/metals/metals.htm
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-to-get-your-vitamin-d/vitamin-d-supplementation/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx

I hate to be cynical and say that it doesn't really matter, since no politician is ever going to give you an honest or useful answer anyway (any written response won't even written by them, just some staffer, you know). But I will suggest one of the VERY few politicians at the top who actually seems to give a modicum of a shit about freedom, the little guy, and all that jazz. From his well-known editorial on why he supports net neutrality to his fight against contractors and for regulation of the financial industry, Al Franken seems to be one of the few people in Washington interested in something more than just padding his pocket.

I would be particularly interested to hear more on the Net Neutrality issue, since he seems to be one of the only politicians, Republican or Democrat, actively supporting it.

Yes, he is a little batshit from time to time and prone to saying some crazy shit. But in his defense, they did a LOT of coke on SNL back in the day. He's lost a few brain cells. Poor Chevy Chase is MUCH worse.

How about "Dept of 500 Billion Dollars Wasted"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/09/september-11-homeland-security-spending_n_953288.html

Seriously folks how hard would it be to get SAM's in the country when cartels brings tons of coke and dope over the border? How hard would it be to sit at the end of a runway and use a .50 incendiary round through the fuel tank of a plane about to lift off?

Hard shot? These anti-material rifles can shoot humans from 1.5 miles away.

Why hasn't it happened then? Because there is no terrorist threat.

Clearly we wasted our tax money on these incompetents, unless you like getting molested at the TSA check point (coming to a mall near you soon).

In a true scientific setting, you'll never hear an idea be rejected because an authority figure or holy book said that it wasn't so. It will be rejected based on lack of supporting evidence.

That is not true. Leading scientists rejected the big bang theory when proposed because of a holy book. They merely did so due to hostility rather than faith. Students interested in string theory were advised not to do research in that area because authority figures in the scientific community were dismissive of the theory.

Then I suppose that those were not true scientific settings then, were they? Also, science doesn't have holy books; I think you're mistaken.

Are you talking about this source? If you scroll down, there's an illustration of the cosmos as described by the Bible, which the rest of that source covers.

No. That illustration is not what the bible describes, it is what interpretations that are making quite a stretch describe. Stretches of the nature that something being above the earth implies the earth is flat.

The interpretations are what people use to claim that the Bible says that the earth is a globe. But it actually says that the earth is flat. When you understand that the Bible is composed of stories written between 2000 to 3500 years ago, you see that it does have a place in history and that the things it describes are based on the knowledge and culture of those who wrote it. The notion of a spherical earth wasn't accepted until the 3rd Century in Greece, over 100 years after the last book of the Bible was written.

I'd also like to point out that you've completely ignored my statement that the Bible has been used to justify such atrocities as slavery.

Its an irrelevant straw man, off topic related to the church and science. Many scientists back in the day supported slavery and various atrocities as well.

No, it's quite relevant. It shows that religious minds are willing to use their faith to justify atrocities.

No it shows that human minds are able to use anything to justify atrocities. There are ample examples in modern history of human minds using some political writing to justify atrocities. There are ample examples of men of science using scientific theory and concepts to justify atrocities.

You'd be really hard-pressed to find someone who would try justifying an atrocity without religion; I haven't seen the rational or scientific equivalent of a meeting or message board where people openly claim their desire for a return to slavery or anything as equally horrible, especially today. Because your Bible is able to justify despicable actions, it is also in a sense advocating them. It's written (or divinely inspired) by god, who is infallible, so there's no reason for its followers to disagree with its teachings.

Catholics are not a majority of christians in the US. Also the graph shows that those believing in a literal interpretation are declining and those with faith believing in evolution are increasing.

So Catholics believe that the Bible advocates evolution while other Christians believe that the same bible argue against evolution. Also, you may have missed some of the other data in that source:

Catholics and various other denominations have nothing against evolution. The stats are US centric, basically you are cherry picking a subpopulation to artificially inflate the stats. Altering the conversation from christianity in general.

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In a true scientific setting, you'll never hear an idea be rejected because an authority figure or holy book said that it wasn't so. It will be rejected based on lack of supporting evidence.

That is not true. Leading scientists rejected the big bang theory when proposed because of a holy book. They merely did so due to hostility rather than faith. Students interested in string theory were advised not to do research in that area because authority figures in the scientific community were dismissive of the theory.

Are you talking about this source? If you scroll down, there's an illustration of the cosmos as described by the Bible, which the rest of that source covers.

No. That illustration is not what the bible describes, it is what interpretations that are making quite a stretch describe. Stretches of the nature that something being above the earth implies the earth is flat.

I'd also like to point out that you've completely ignored my statement that the Bible has been used to justify such atrocities as slavery.

Its an irrelevant straw man, off topic related to the church and science. Many scientists back in the day supported slavery and various atrocities as well.

No, it's quite relevant. It shows that religious minds are willing to use their faith to justify atrocities.

No it shows that human minds are able to use anything to justify atrocities. There are ample examples in modern history of human minds using some political writing to justify atrocities. There are ample examples of men of science using scientific theory and concepts to justify atrocities.

Catholics are not a majority of christians in the US. Also the graph shows that those believing in a literal interpretation are declining and those with faith believing in evolution are increasing.

So Catholics believe that the Bible advocates evolution while other Christians believe that the same bible argue against evolution. Also, you may have missed some of the other data in that source:

Catholics and various other denominations have nothing against evolution. The stats are US centric, basically you are cherry picking a subpopulation to artificially inflate the stats. Altering the conversation from christianity in general.

40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years

And the fact remains that this survey also shows that this group is in decline.

Another 38 percent of respondents believe that humans have evolved from more basic organisms but with God playing a role in the process ... I'll admit that it's pretty vague because "playing a role in the process" doesn't tell us much about what god is supposed to be doing, but it shows that there are a lot of people on the fence about fact and faith.

Not really. As the church in question teaches, scientific discoveries are not in conflict with faith. There is no fence according to this church and those churches who share similar views.

And many prominent scientists rejected the big bang theory, and string theory, etc. Eventually they came around. So did those within the church regarding Copernicus as more data became available and tools (telescopes, mathematics) improved.

It's not quite the same. In a true scientific setting, you'll never hear an idea be rejected because an authority figure or holy book said that it wasn't so. It will be rejected based on lack of supporting evidence. In a religious setting, if an idea contradicts what the religion teaches, there will either be someone who says that it can't be possible since it's against scripture or there will be a new interpretation made for when the fact contradicts a section of the holy text.

Imagine that we're looking back on scientific history and we find some writings of Aristotle who believed that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones. We know that that isn't true, so instead of saying that he was wrong, we interpret his writing. When he said "heavier" he really meant that an object resisted more wind. See? He was never wrong! Would you be convinced by this assertion? I doubt it.

The specifically cited biblical passages linked to in previous posts did not seem to state that the earth was flat, and seemed to show that the proponent's interpretation of scripture was quite a stretch.

Are you talking about this source? If you scroll down, there's an illustration of the cosmos as described by the Bible, which the rest of that source covers.

I'd also like to point out that you've completely ignored my statement that the Bible has been used to justify such atrocities as slavery.

Its an irrelevant straw man, off topic related to the church and science. Many scientists back in the day supported slavery and various atrocities as well.

No, it's quite relevant. It shows that religious minds are willing to use their faith to justify atrocities. And it's also important given that the Bible has a number of passages condoning slavery. I haven't seen any interpretations for what those are actually supposed to mean.

I was unable to find any genuine scientific claims for slavery, but I was able to find plenty of recent things like this 17-page message Baptist board thread from 2009 [NSFW] that use the Bible to justify their desire for it. These people are using the same Bible that you do. The only difference is that you have your own way of abstracting and interpreting the text so that you can feel free to safely ignore these passages. You do this because, despite god saying that it's okay, you know that slavery is wrong. (And yes, I'm comfortable making this assertion of your views on slavery because, given your dismissal of my argument, it seems that you wouldn't be in favor of treating people as property.)

Catholics are not a majority of christians in the US. Also the graph shows that those believing in a literal interpretation are declining and those with faith believing in evolution are increasing.

So Catholics believe that the Bible advocates evolution while other Christians believe that the same bible argue against evolution. Also, you may have missed some of the other data in that source:

40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years. ... Another 38 percent of respondents believe that humans have evolved from more basic organisms but with God playing a role in the process. ... A mere 16 percent of respondents subscribed to the belief of "secular evolution

For example, a theologian-astronomer from that time named Giovanni Maria Tolosani said the following:

It appears that [Copernicus] is unskilled with regard to [the interpretation of] holy scripture, since he contradicts several of its principles, not without danger of infidelity to himself and the readers of his book.

And many prominent scientists rejected the big bang theory, and string theory, etc. Eventually they came around. So did those within the church regarding Copernicus as more data became available and tools (telescopes, mathematics) improved. Note that Copernicus' work was never banned, and while Galileo's original work was banned (due to political content mostly) a revised edition was allowed that had the mocking of the pope removed and just contained the scientific arguments supporting Copernicus. Admittedly it took the church quite a while to admit Galileo's persecution was political in nature and a mistake.

The specifically cited biblical passages linked to in previous posts did not seem to state that the earth was flat, and seemed to show that the proponent's interpretation of scripture was quite a stretch. Also note that those relatively modern scientists who criticized the big bang theory also questioned the author's competence as a scientist, seems a bit similar to your quote in this regard. It seems that men of science can fail regardless of whether they have faith or not. Humans screw up. Humans introduce their personal bias and social pressures into scientific debate.

I'd also like to point out that you've completely ignored my statement that the Bible has been used to justify such atrocities as slavery.

Its an irrelevant straw man, off topic related to the church and science. Many scientists back in the day supported slavery and various atrocities as well.

Perhaps you would be surprised to learn that the church teaches evolution in its science classes.

Yes, that would be very surprising, especially considering that there's a still large division between creationists and people who believe in evolution (at least in the USA).

Catholics are not a majority of christians in the US. Also the graph shows that those believing in a literal interpretation are declining and those with faith believing in evolution are increasing.

But anyway, I'm still curious why god would talk to ancient shepherds and have them author books of divine events decades after they happened, then not bother to make sure that the translations of the books were maintained or come back to tell us more information.

I'd be more curious as to why God does not prevent wars, does not cure cancer, etc. Add your question to the end of a very long list.

• Imperial presidency: judge jury and executioner.
• Unconstitutional detention.
• Unconstitutional wiretapping.
• Unconstitutionally waging war and not even bothering with the War Powers Act.
• Taking credit for Iraq ending when it was Iraq that kicked us out on Bush II's timetable and Obama was trying to stay longer. Assange has a much bigger claim for the removal of troops from Iraq.
• Cut deal with insurance industry while touting the public option. In the end, we get the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Recent financial reform legislation so weak it would not have even slowed the meltdown had it already been in place. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Forgiving torturers Excusing them makes him complicit.
• Not even a show-attempt to prosecute fraud in the meltdown. Instead its bailouts and bonuses.
• Made deepwater horizon more likely.
• And the famous "hire the lobbyists for the industry you bow to" tactic. Good for what I don't know.
• Whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing should not be treated as Manning has been, and we don't even know if manning was responsible. He'll probably just get indefinite detention because the president says so. Welcome to Napoleonic America.

• Imperial presidency: judge jury and executioner.
• Unconstitutional detention.
• Unconstitutional wiretapping.
• Unconstitutionally waging war and not even bothering with the War Powers Act.
• Taking credit for Iraq ending when it was Iraq that kicked us out on Bush II's timetable and Obama was trying to stay longer. Assange has a much bigger claim for the removal of troops from Iraq.
• Cut deal with insurance industry while touting the public option. In the end, we get the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Recent financial reform legislation so weak it would not have even slowed the meltdown had it already been in place. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Forgiving torturers Excusing them makes him complicit.
• Not even a show-attempt to prosecute fraud in the meltdown. Instead its bailouts and bonuses.
• Made deepwater horizon more likely.
• And the famous "hire the lobbyists for the industry you bow to" tactic. Good for what I don't know.
• Whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing should not be treated as Manning has been, and we don't even know if manning was responsible. He'll probably just get indefinite detention because the president says so. Welcome to Napoleonic America.

Maybe I have been ignoring Copernicus and his Heliocentric model. I'm not ignoring or denying that Copernicus was a monk. It makes sense that he was because monks and religious followers were the intellectuals of their time (heck, you had to at least be literate to read the Bible, after all). However, one of the arguments against his model of the solar system was that it contradicted scripture. For example, a theologian-astronomer from that time named Giovanni Maria Tolosani said the following:

It appears that [Copernicus] is unskilled with regard to [the interpretation of] holy scripture, since he contradicts several of its principles, not without danger of infidelity to himself and the readers of his book.

You can read more about the church, Copernicus, and Gallileo here if you'd like.

I'd also like to point out that you've completely ignored my statement that the Bible has been used to justify such atrocities as slavery.

Perhaps you would be surprised to learn that the church teaches evolution in its science classes.

Yes, that would be very surprising, especially considering that there's a still large division between creationists and people who believe in evolution (at least in the USA).

But anyway, I'm still curious why god would talk to ancient shepherds and have them author books of divine events decades after they happened, then not bother to make sure that the translations of the books were maintained or come back to tell us more information. We're left with broken translations and interpretations that no two churches can agree on. Everyone has a different interpretation with no good reasons for why theirs is the correct one. For instance, some Christians believe that the universe was created in six literal days while others interpret it to mean thousands, millions, or billions of years. Some believe that the Garden of Eden was a real place that Adam and Eve were banished from while others believe that the entire Genesis story were metaphorical. Christians can't even agree on whether or not Jesus and God were the same being thanks to arbitrary interpretation.

Is another person's dirty tricks rape accusation. A rape accusation that amounted to buyer's remorse in the first place (as opposed to forcible rape), and would only be rape in Sweden. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/anna-ardin-julian-assange_n_794285.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/21/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-warrant-sweden

And remember: Gore just recently purchased oceanfront property. If he were that concerned about rising ocean levels, you would think he might've invested in property farther inland...

Not that the opinion of Al Gore matters significantly, but if you take a look at the images of his new acquisition, it's quite clear the "ocean view" is a far cry from "down at the beach". Given that Gore is 63, at best he can hope to live maybe another 50 years. That's about half a meter of projected sea level rise. I'm sure he will be safe.

But you should wonder who made this subtle shift from "ocean view" to "beach front" and why they made it in this context.

What do you suppose would be the impact upon the taxpayer's "bang for their buck" (and the warfighter's "bang", in general) if military personnel who had any involvement throughout their careers with procurement, specification, or contract awarding were prohibited from taking jobs in the defense industry - to include the energy industry - after leaving the service? And I would include such phenomena as astoundingly large "speaking fees" in that ban...

• Stop unconstitutional execution of the American citizenry.
• Stop unconstitutional detention.
• Stop unconstitutional wiretapping and prosectue AT&T's complicity (and that of any other carrier).
• Stop unconstitutionally waging war. From Korea onward, all our wars have been illegal, but Obama doesn't even feel constrained by the weak tea requirements of the war powers act. Our founding fathers never intended for the president to be a Napoleon.
• End the wars we are in. And please don't cite Iraq. The ONLY reason we are pulling out troops is because Iraq would not succumb to Obama's lobbying for a longer stay with immunity from war crimes. Thanks to wikipedia for that.
• Quit sucking insurance industry cock, i.e., real nice move touting the public option while secretly cutting a deal for the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. I guess they got their money's worth.
• Quit sucking Wall Street cock, and don't pretend that the financial reform legislation would have even been a mild hindrance to the meltdown had it already been in place.
• Prosecute torturers rather than let them off the hook. Excusing them makes him complicit.
• At least make a show of investigating fraud on Street. The S&L crisis was 1/40th the size and 1000 bankers went to jail. This meltdown isn't even being investigated, instead, their handing out bonuses. A big "Fuck You Very Much Mr. Obama" for that.
• Thanks for helping to enable Deepwater horizon, it was exactly the gift I wanted!
• Quit hiring Keystone Pipeline lobbyists for your campaign.
• Bradley Manning. We know you have a hardon for anyone that might stand in the way of relentless war, but Christ, grow a soul and a sense of morality.

• Stop unconstitutional execution of the American citizenry.
• Stop unconstitutional detention.
• Stop unconstitutional wiretapping and prosectue AT&T's complicity (and that of any other carrier).
• Stop unconstitutionally waging war. From Korea onward, all our wars have been illegal, but Obama doesn't even feel constrained by the weak tea requirements of the war powers act. Our founding fathers never intended for the president to be a Napoleon.
• End the wars we are in. And please don't cite Iraq. The ONLY reason we are pulling out troops is because Iraq would not succumb to Obama's lobbying for a longer stay with immunity from war crimes. Thanks to wikipedia for that.
• Quit sucking insurance industry cock, i.e., real nice move touting the public option while secretly cutting a deal for the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. I guess they got their money's worth.
• Quit sucking Wall Street cock, and don't pretend that the financial reform legislation would have even been a mild hindrance to the meltdown had it already been in place.
• Prosecute torturers rather than let them off the hook. Excusing them makes him complicit.
• At least make a show of investigating fraud on Street. The S&L crisis was 1/40th the size and 1000 bankers went to jail. This meltdown isn't even being investigated, instead, their handing out bonuses. A big "Fuck You Very Much Mr. Obama" for that.
• Thanks for helping to enable Deepwater horizon, it was exactly the gift I wanted!
• Quit hiring Keystone Pipeline lobbyists for your campaign.
• Bradley Manning. We know you have a hardon for anyone that might stand in the way of relentless war, but Christ, grow a soul and a sense of morality.

It's just what happens when you have one party supplying the hardware and another party supplying the software, and both with different priorities.

The Android scenario is closer to the PC scenario in the bad old days before "Windows Update" etc.For example the old computers might still be running an old version of Windows. Is that a problem? Yes. Did Dell/HP/etc care? No. Did Microsoft care? Not back then. Did most users care? No. Not until something goes wrong.

As a recent article says, Apple of today is focused on Product not Profit: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2246209/how-steve-jobs-solved-the-innovators-dilemma
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/steve-jobs-failure_n_1025732.html

"My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products," Jobs told Isaacson. "[T]he products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."

When you have separate companies treating the software and hardware as different products, with different vision and priorities, the "whole product" is less likely to be as great.

A copyright system based on the number of copies encourages popular works. A patronage system where authors seek a wealthy sponsor tends to be more elitist.

That was certainly true when both the cost of distribution and the cost of soliciting funds were high, but between the web/YouTube and Kickstarter, both are getting much cheaper. The patronage/gift economy is driving some pretty quality work from some of my friends. Moreover, the social status of creating a popular work is often more of a driver for new pop art than monetary reward (which, even in popular art forms such as rock music, ends up to be pretty low, even for successful artists).

the LA times says http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/consumer-confidential-netflix-shares-plunge-subscribers-food-prices-grocery-bill-meat-grain-halloween-masks-recall-target-fro.html they lost 800,000 ending with 23.8 MILLION subscribers.
so they went from 24.2 to 23.2 million subscribers... and the rate change -huffington post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/netflix-price-subscription-plan_n_895779.html was from 9.99 to 15.98?

so before, they had 24.2 million at ten bucks a month, now they have 23.2 million at 15.98?

Too oldschool

Today its all about the zombies:

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/06/24/zombie-warning-kentucky-_n_883737.html

There really shouldn't be a need for a citation. There's a news story about state cuts to higher ed funding every few weeks. If you aren't aware that this has been happening, then you haven't been paying attention.

For example, here's an article about California's cuts for this budget year. This year marks the first year that University of California students pay more of their education cost than the state does.

When the UC system was created in the mid-1800s, it was designed to be tuition-free, with only minor incidental fees. (Indeed, the very definition of a public university is that most of the fees come not from tuition, but from the government.) Our country grew to technological superiority in large part because our government had the guts to make quality education free for everyone. It has only been within the past few decades that this has eroded.

Put another way, the folks equating the tuition increase with the availability of student loans have their cause and effect backwards. Those student loans became available because the cost of education had already risen from zero. If that were not the case—if a public education were nearly free as the designers of the system intended it to be—then loans would not have been necessary. Thus, clearly the loans were a reaction to the increasing tuition rather than its cause. Any insinuation to the contrary defies basic logic.

"Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall Street Is Wrong -- Myth #5. They're Just Modern-Day Hippies."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/occupy-wall-street-media_b_1019707.html

They are a pain to deal with sometime, but what else will society afford ?

You must be autistic yourself to believe that by having multiple children with a severe condition you have the right to demand proper care for them. Here is someone that did the right thing, you should follow her example:

Margaret Jensvold, Maryland Mom Who Killed Son Ben Barnhard, Agonized Over School Costs

Yeah...spread all over an Afghan hillside, unfortunately.

How's this insightful? Seems more like trolling.

And t's not even relevant: SEAL Team Six was estimated to be at 300 before that tragedy.

Yeah...spread all over an Afghan hillside, unfortunately.

WOW! Way to read WAY too much into a simple statement. Since there are several stories today about the earth's population reaching 7 billion this month it's not too hard to leap to the conclusion there will be food shortages and cramped cities. Especially considering that the population has more than doubled from 3 Billion in 1960.

There are terrific similarities between the two groups. They are both angry about the bank bailouts, but one focuses its rage on the government for providing the bailout and the other focuses its rage on Wall Street for taking it. In fact, the biggest difference between the two may be their demographic: Tea Party is mostly older and OWS mostly younger, making this a conflict of generations rather than classes. The problem is the manipulators are hard at work keeping people from finding any common ground by demonizing the other side instead of addressing their grievances.

The Tea Party got this treatment from the Huffington Post, who focused on the most racist signs from the protesters. Now we're seeing the same thing, with Andrew "we have the guns" Breitbart's photographer blatantly staging a photo of a protester supposedly defecating on a police car. Brietbart's previous credits include videos edited to make USDA employee Shirley Sherrod look like a racist and ACORN employees look like they were giving tax evasion advice on running child prostitution rings.

I sympathized with the early Tea Party. Now I sympathize with these protesters, and this constant demonization of them is so heartbreaking. For the first time in my life I'm confronting these people on Facebook, forcing them to support their statements with references or showing them how they are being manipulated (90% of the time by a story I can trace back to Breitbart). For a week they fought back, but then they toned down their attacks... Unfortunately, watching the new Facebook Ticker, I can see that they have merely taken their hatred to where they think I can't see it. Wonderful social experiment that new Facebook Ticker, see what you're "Friends" are saying about you behind your back and there's no way to turn it off.

All we can do is try to get people to see the human beings behind the villainous caricatures. When they try to connect the movement to the "sinister machinations of George Soros," I point out that Soros is a prolific philanthropist and humanitarian. When they call the protesters scum, slackers, and anarchists, I point them to the We are the 99% blog and ask them to justify their position with references from that site.

People in the Tea Party should be doing the same thing, putting a human face on their movement. We should be finding common ground. Keeping us fighting each other is exactly what the powers that be need to prevent any significant change.

I'm waiting to find out that I paid more than Google in taxes.

It's not just Google, here's a place to start. The problem is larger than that as some of the largest companies (Boeing, Ebay, GE) spend more money lobbying politicians than paying taxes.

>Apple has never done "product placement".

Yes, this tribute page, on the Huffington Post of all places, to Macs receiving product placement, is clearly a hallucination.

Apple's advertising department would never target white people who are financially well-off, with social and professional climber written all over them, and a compulsive need to be popular, or at least to be seen as popular.

A list of shows targeted by Apple:
Sex and the City
The Devil Wears Prada
Iron Man
Office Space
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zoolander
Legally Blonde
Funny People
Friends with Benefits