Of course IC and ID make testable predictions. Namely that we would show signs of being intelligently designed. Some examples include, after perfecting the Octopus eye, the intelligence would be applied to the human eye. The human spine would not be subject all the design errors that are in it. Teeth would last a lifetime or at least be intelligently replaced. There is a huge list of predictions with most of them having been proved false. So IC and ID are scientific theories much like the ether or the theory that heavy things fall faster then less massive things. Perfectly logical theories until they are actually tested and IC and ID have failed badly in the testing department and should join so many other theories in the wastebin.
In 1930 if you asked 10 people if having some hemp should be a penal offence, you would have been laughed at. A couple of years later they renamed it and prohibited it. With a good propaganda campaign it didn't take long for most people to agree that possessing some marijuana should be a penal offence if not a capital crime. It's amazing what you can get accomplished with control of the media and a good propaganda campaign.
Canada got bullied into not building nukes back in the late '40's, early '50's. We also got bullied into dropping our fighter jet program in the '60's. When your neighbor is 10Xs bigger and a bully it's no wonder that bullying occurs.
How are you getting ~30 kb/s over a pots line? The highest rating I've seen is 5.6 kb/s in theory and in practice I get 3 kb/s for $29 a month for unlimited.
Isn't that why the constitution has an amending process. Any unconstitutional law can be made constitutional just by 2/3rds or 3/4s of the States saying so (I'm not an American so maybe my numbers are off). Perfect way to deal with the things the founders had no way to foresee. This was done when it was decided to prohibit alcohol. Unluckily it seems the only amendments now a days are administrative, like changing the election procedure.
Moving to Canada is only a temporary solution. Once again there is a DMCA type bill moving through Parliament. Actually it is worst then the DMCA because they've learned from America's version 1 of the bill and closed various loopholes. Of course the government claims it's better because it has an exception for breaking encryption on VHS. With luck there will be an election in the spring and once again the evil bill will die. Unluckily one of these times it will pass as the government is under enormous pressure from the States and our current governing party is pretty pro-USA.
What are you smoking? Estimates on the amount of Helium 3 on the moon are on the order of 0.01 to 0.05 ppm in the regolith. So that's what, 20 to 100 tons of soil to extract a gram of Helium 3 and a couple of billion years to replenish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3
As a revolution the American Revolution was a failure. You guys didn't even get closer then 2500 miles to the capital, little well overthrow the government. What it was, was a successful war of separation.
Actually I often go to the next town (I live close to the halfway point between them) and pay the extra 3 cents a litre because I'd rather give my money to the government then the oil oligopoly.
I've got the choice of 7 oil companies gas stations to buy gas from. All have the same price, go up and down in lock step and charge 3 cents a litre less then the next town over which has an extra 10 cents a litre transit tax (and buses). Isn't competition great. This is Canada which isn't too different from the States.
I'm in Canada, about 40 miles by road from downtown Vancouver which is as close as I can afford to live. My dialup bill just went up to $29 a month for unlimited time. I guess they needed to jack up the price to pay the guy who pulled the plug on usenet. I get 26.4 down and on a good day 14.4 up. Since the government sold the phone company things have really gone down hill.
I'm not sure if it is even possible to register copyright in Canada but considering some of these artists were very big I'm sure they would of registered if that is the way it is done in Canada.
Republic is a pretty general term that just means not a monarchy. Lots of dictatorships are republics and lots of monarchies are representative democracies.
Actually it was the pulp paper industry that was most responsible for pushing for the banning of hemp. A machine had finally been invented for breaking up the stalks and it promised very cheap, good paper. Hearst had just heavily invested in cheap crappy wood pulp paper and being a newspaper tycoon and publisher, used a lot of paper. I've also heard that DuPont also pushed for illegalization as they had recently invented nylon rope but have never seen any citations to that. The government was willing as all the bureaucracy and policing powers that it had gained during prohibition now had nothing to do. And as the other poster points out, most of the drug laws were also racist.
In some of Larry Nivens books he uses Legal Entity or LE for beings that aren't human/persons but have the same legal rights. In the stories Dolphins are Legal Entities.
I've heard arguments going both ways. One example is the reoccurring articles here on whether dirt is needed to help the immune system mature. There doesn't seem to be a scientific consensus on this and I'm not qualified to judge.
They're alive, just attenuated, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_virus . From the above, Secondary mutation can cause a reversion to virulence.[4] May still be able to cause disease, particularly in immunocompromised patients (e.g. those with AIDS)[citation needed], retain some virulence as live vaccine against plague. The question this raises is whether it would even be safer to split the vaccination into 3 separate vaccinations.
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Evolution says nothing about how life came to exist. Evolution explains how life has changed, which is a material phenomena.
Of course IC and ID make testable predictions. Namely that we would show signs of being intelligently designed. Some examples include, after perfecting the Octopus eye, the intelligence would be applied to the human eye. The human spine would not be subject all the design errors that are in it. Teeth would last a lifetime or at least be intelligently replaced. There is a huge list of predictions with most of them having been proved false.
So IC and ID are scientific theories much like the ether or the theory that heavy things fall faster then less massive things. Perfectly logical theories until they are actually tested and IC and ID have failed badly in the testing department and should join so many other theories in the wastebin.
In 1930 if you asked 10 people if having some hemp should be a penal offence, you would have been laughed at. A couple of years later they renamed it and prohibited it. With a good propaganda campaign it didn't take long for most people to agree that possessing some marijuana should be a penal offence if not a capital crime.
It's amazing what you can get accomplished with control of the media and a good propaganda campaign.
Canada got bullied into not building nukes back in the late '40's, early '50's. We also got bullied into dropping our fighter jet program in the '60's.
When your neighbor is 10Xs bigger and a bully it's no wonder that bullying occurs.
My mistake.
How are you getting ~30 kb/s over a pots line? The highest rating I've seen is 5.6 kb/s in theory and in practice I get 3 kb/s for $29 a month for unlimited.
Probably liked Mr Ed.
Isn't that why the constitution has an amending process. Any unconstitutional law can be made constitutional just by 2/3rds or 3/4s of the States saying so (I'm not an American so maybe my numbers are off). Perfect way to deal with the things the founders had no way to foresee. This was done when it was decided to prohibit alcohol. Unluckily it seems the only amendments now a days are administrative, like changing the election procedure.
Moving to Canada is only a temporary solution. Once again there is a DMCA type bill moving through Parliament. Actually it is worst then the DMCA because they've learned from America's version 1 of the bill and closed various loopholes. Of course the government claims it's better because it has an exception for breaking encryption on VHS.
With luck there will be an election in the spring and once again the evil bill will die. Unluckily one of these times it will pass as the government is under enormous pressure from the States and our current governing party is pretty pro-USA.
My mistake, should have used tonnes, a unit of mass.
What are you smoking? Estimates on the amount of Helium 3 on the moon are on the order of 0.01 to 0.05 ppm in the regolith. So that's what, 20 to 100 tons of soil to extract a gram of Helium 3 and a couple of billion years to replenish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3
As a revolution the American Revolution was a failure. You guys didn't even get closer then 2500 miles to the capital, little well overthrow the government.
What it was, was a successful war of separation.
Actually I often go to the next town (I live close to the halfway point between them) and pay the extra 3 cents a litre because I'd rather give my money to the government then the oil oligopoly.
I've got the choice of 7 oil companies gas stations to buy gas from. All have the same price, go up and down in lock step and charge 3 cents a litre less then the next town over which has an extra 10 cents a litre transit tax (and buses). Isn't competition great.
This is Canada which isn't too different from the States.
Actually I understand that now they use the cosmic background radiation as a zero point to measure the absolute motion of the Earth.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation#CMBR_dipole_anisotropy which suggests 627±22 km/s relative to the reference frame of the CMB
I'm in Canada, about 40 miles by road from downtown Vancouver which is as close as I can afford to live. My dialup bill just went up to $29 a month for unlimited time. I guess they needed to jack up the price to pay the guy who pulled the plug on usenet.
I get 26.4 down and on a good day 14.4 up. Since the government sold the phone company things have really gone down hill.
Actually the Flintstones were an adult cartoon
Status-4-evar does exactly this. I like having a status bar.
I'm not sure if it is even possible to register copyright in Canada but considering some of these artists were very big I'm sure they would of registered if that is the way it is done in Canada.
Republic is a pretty general term that just means not a monarchy. Lots of dictatorships are republics and lots of monarchies are representative democracies.
Actually it was the pulp paper industry that was most responsible for pushing for the banning of hemp. A machine had finally been invented for breaking up the stalks and it promised very cheap, good paper. Hearst had just heavily invested in cheap crappy wood pulp paper and being a newspaper tycoon and publisher, used a lot of paper.
I've also heard that DuPont also pushed for illegalization as they had recently invented nylon rope but have never seen any citations to that.
The government was willing as all the bureaucracy and policing powers that it had gained during prohibition now had nothing to do.
And as the other poster points out, most of the drug laws were also racist.
In some of Larry Nivens books he uses Legal Entity or LE for beings that aren't human/persons but have the same legal rights. In the stories Dolphins are Legal Entities.
I've heard arguments going both ways. One example is the reoccurring articles here on whether dirt is needed to help the immune system mature.
There doesn't seem to be a scientific consensus on this and I'm not qualified to judge.
They're alive, just attenuated, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_virus .
From the above,
Secondary mutation can cause a reversion to virulence.[4]
May still be able to cause disease, particularly in immunocompromised patients (e.g. those with AIDS)[citation needed], retain some virulence as live vaccine against plague.
The question this raises is whether it would even be safer to split the vaccination into 3 separate vaccinations.
MMR is 3 vaccines in one, so there is 3 live viruses being introduced to an immature immune system.