DNA is a program. It is a program that has features (and bugs) that vary in different regions. These features cluster together, and those larger clusters we call "race".
Is there a gene for intelligence? I don't know. But it's beyond ludicrous to suggest that a gene for intelligence has anything to do with the genes for skin color. Any attempt to justify your brand of racism through genetics has fallen flat on its face.
And how are going to use those 'readily available tools' if you don't even know what an integral or a p-test is? Something as basic as mp3s can't be understood without understanding a Fourier Transformation and you can't understand that with calculus.
2-4 hours of homework every other night? Are you complaining about having a class that takes 12 hours a week of effort? You poor baby. The rule of thumb is that every hour of class time should have 3 hours of homework time, so your workload is about right for a 3 or 4 credit class.
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I'm not asking for a plot summary. But explaining the genre is an even lazier form of review. Especially since your audience is probably already familiar with the general conventions of various sci-fi sub-genres and perhaps even the previous works of the specific author. If someone has read even one previous Culture book, they would get absolutely no new information from reading your so-called review.
Its not enough to say you don't think its his best, you're supposed to tell WHY you think it wasn't his best! Was it not as creative? Were the characters unbelievable? Was the plot well paced? Was there not enough action? Too much action? It wouldn't even kill you to quote some passages that support your opinion.
I'm offering some criticism so you can write better reviews in the future and you accuse me of being grouchy, dismiss my complaints and tell me to take your word for it. Typical blogger hack.
This is broad description of Banks's Culture novels, not a review of Matter. There not even any hint that the reviewer has read Matter, anyone familiar with the previous novels could have written this.
I've heard those numbers before and it's thought provoking, but your analysis leaves out a lot of important details.
Where are the the manufactured goods coming from? What materials are you using to build homes? 26 gallons a day is enough for personal water usage, but is it enough for irrigation?
Cities like New York, Singapore and Tokyo are not self-sufficient by a long shot. People can only live in at those densities by drawing on resources from a much much larger area. You will never find an area the size of Texas with all the resources that you need. At the very least you'll need to grow crops in different areas and you'll need people there to work those farms and more people to provide infrastructure to the farmers and probably someone to put the crops in cans and trucks to moves those cans and... now you're back to where we started with people spread out all over the world.
Plus your numbers would require that we all go vegan. Good luck with that one.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are at the arrival gate.
Historically, sort of. In theory, the nobility in many European countries were responsible for "maintaining the order" and so were the only ones that could own weapons. The right to bear arms is philosophically a response to this, that the US has no nobility and every person is responsible for maintaining order. Remember this was before police departments had been organized and before the US had a professional standing army.
The way to patent troll is to go after a few small companies that can't afford to fight back, score those victories, then use the precedent to go after the big money.
Why is it ironic? The scientist aren't protesting just any pope from visiting, they are protesting this particular pope, because of remarks that he made.
IMHO, about half of those are reasonable ideas worth considering. But even after you list all of the "crazy" ideas that Ron Paul has, NONE of them is as crazy/stupid as putting anti-missile technology on commercial jets. Keep that in perspective.
No computer, no video games, no cell phones, no cable TV
If you are willing to accept all those conditions, I'm sure you can afford some more free time. If you want more material wealth than 50 years ago, then don't complain that you have to work harder than 50 years ago.
Do you have any facts to back up your statements?? One and two probably have some factual merit, but the rest are just completely out of wack with reality.
- Children raised by one parent will be the norm. Two parent households will be rare.
So?
- America will be a mainly Spanish speaking country
No problemo. Diversity is good.
- Marriage will be almost non-existent
Good riddance.
- The military will be a small shadow of its former self
Also good riddance.
- Government will be "responsible" for all the care-and-feeding of the large majority of the population,
Seriously, you already pay farmers NOT to grow food, why not pay them to grow the food then give it away? "Luxury" food items will still be available for those who want them.
Housing projects have a bad reputation, but there's no fundamental reason why cheap, commodity housing couldn't be made available. Habitat for Humanity has a really good program for building affordable home and setting people up with fair mortgages. I see no reason why programs like that couldn't be extended.
Welcome to the future of America. Doesn't look bad to me.
Washington's most successful propaganda is convincing you that the Democrats and Republicans are in actual opposition. Did anything change when the Democrats took control of Congress? Do you expect Hillary or Obama to close Gitmo and overturn the wiretapping policies in their first hundred days?
it's probably easier for meteorites to travel inward than outward in the solar system (due to the sun's gravity well)
Nope, basically, an object on the surface of body orbiting the sun already has enough angular velocity to maintain an orbit around the sun at that distance. If you add in the delta V from whatever event caused it to leave the surface of said body, then its velocity = V(initial) + dV will result in an orbit farther from the sun.
You have to do some clever orbital mechanics to send probes to Venus and Mercury.
If you take any science related major you will be learning material in your undergrad studies that didn't exist 50 years ago. How can you compare the two?
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On a completely unrelated note, my doctor recently told me that I can no longer have children.
What's the point of putting any spin on this story? This isn't an issue that is going to be on a ballot or decided in the court of public opinion or executives. The only people that need to be convinced one way or another are the actual musicians. And hopefully they won't take either the slashdot or dudgereport story at face value. They will look at the money earned by Radiohead vs the money earned by signing with a label and decide from that.
I hadn't read about any layoffs. They just merged with ZipCar, which shows growth. As sibling post pointed out, the decision to require rental taxes may affect profitability. Either way, the cars are always in good shape, not a disaster and carelessness and vandalism.
A correction has been posted (to correct for currency devaluation):
'Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros ($100,000,000) in damages for invasion of their privacy after their homosexuality was revealed on the website.'
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Is there a gene for intelligence? I don't know. But it's beyond ludicrous to suggest that a gene for intelligence has anything to do with the genes for skin color. Any attempt to justify your brand of racism through genetics has fallen flat on its face.
The same thing was said about the automobile, the telephone, etc. etc.
In fact, she might grow up to be first-lady! http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp
Don't try to pretend that personal automobile transportation isn't subsidized.
Fine. There's nothing wrong with having a monopoly. It's the immoral and illegal exploitation of said monopoly that people should hate Microsoft for.
2-4 hours of homework every other night? Are you complaining about having a class that takes 12 hours a week of effort? You poor baby. The rule of thumb is that every hour of class time should have 3 hours of homework time, so your workload is about right for a 3 or 4 credit class.
Its not enough to say you don't think its his best, you're supposed to tell WHY you think it wasn't his best! Was it not as creative? Were the characters unbelievable? Was the plot well paced? Was there not enough action? Too much action? It wouldn't even kill you to quote some passages that support your opinion.
I'm offering some criticism so you can write better reviews in the future and you accuse me of being grouchy, dismiss my complaints and tell me to take your word for it. Typical blogger hack.
This is broad description of Banks's Culture novels, not a review of Matter. There not even any hint that the reviewer has read Matter, anyone familiar with the previous novels could have written this.
Where are the the manufactured goods coming from? What materials are you using to build homes? 26 gallons a day is enough for personal water usage, but is it enough for irrigation?
Cities like New York, Singapore and Tokyo are not self-sufficient by a long shot. People can only live in at those densities by drawing on resources from a much much larger area. You will never find an area the size of Texas with all the resources that you need. At the very least you'll need to grow crops in different areas and you'll need people there to work those farms and more people to provide infrastructure to the farmers and probably someone to put the crops in cans and trucks to moves those cans and... now you're back to where we started with people spread out all over the world.
Plus your numbers would require that we all go vegan. Good luck with that one.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are at the arrival gate.
Historically, sort of. In theory, the nobility in many European countries were responsible for "maintaining the order" and so were the only ones that could own weapons. The right to bear arms is philosophically a response to this, that the US has no nobility and every person is responsible for maintaining order. Remember this was before police departments had been organized and before the US had a professional standing army.
The way to patent troll is to go after a few small companies that can't afford to fight back, score those victories, then use the precedent to go after the big money.
Why is it ironic? The scientist aren't protesting just any pope from visiting, they are protesting this particular pope, because of remarks that he made.
IMHO, about half of those are reasonable ideas worth considering. But even after you list all of the "crazy" ideas that Ron Paul has, NONE of them is as crazy/stupid as putting anti-missile technology on commercial jets. Keep that in perspective.
~900 square foot home
1 car
1 small TV
a refrigerator and a couple small appliances
No computer, no video games, no cell phones, no cable TV
If you are willing to accept all those conditions, I'm sure you can afford some more free time. If you want more material wealth than 50 years ago, then don't complain that you have to work harder than 50 years ago.
That's a relief. I guess I'm just used to seeing similar lists of predictions with implicit negative connotations and I responded reflexively.
Do you have any facts to back up your statements?? One and two probably have some factual merit, but the rest are just completely out of wack with reality. - Children raised by one parent will be the norm. Two parent households will be rare. So? - America will be a mainly Spanish speaking country No problemo. Diversity is good. - Marriage will be almost non-existent Good riddance. - The military will be a small shadow of its former self Also good riddance. - Government will be "responsible" for all the care-and-feeding of the large majority of the population, Seriously, you already pay farmers NOT to grow food, why not pay them to grow the food then give it away? "Luxury" food items will still be available for those who want them. Housing projects have a bad reputation, but there's no fundamental reason why cheap, commodity housing couldn't be made available. Habitat for Humanity has a really good program for building affordable home and setting people up with fair mortgages. I see no reason why programs like that couldn't be extended. Welcome to the future of America. Doesn't look bad to me.
Washington's most successful propaganda is convincing you that the Democrats and Republicans are in actual opposition. Did anything change when the Democrats took control of Congress? Do you expect Hillary or Obama to close Gitmo and overturn the wiretapping policies in their first hundred days?
If you take any science related major you will be learning material in your undergrad studies that didn't exist 50 years ago. How can you compare the two?
BONUS!
What's the point of putting any spin on this story? This isn't an issue that is going to be on a ballot or decided in the court of public opinion or executives. The only people that need to be convinced one way or another are the actual musicians. And hopefully they won't take either the slashdot or dudgereport story at face value. They will look at the money earned by Radiohead vs the money earned by signing with a label and decide from that.
I hadn't read about any layoffs. They just merged with ZipCar, which shows growth. As sibling post pointed out, the decision to require rental taxes may affect profitability. Either way, the cars are always in good shape, not a disaster and carelessness and vandalism.
Tone the cynicism down. Shared car companies already exist. It works pretty well and they make a profit.
'Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros ($100,000,000) in damages for invasion of their privacy after their homosexuality was revealed on the website.'