You mean the way that people who express disagreement with left wing talking points have trouble getting jobs at many universities. You know like the guy who was fired by the University of Illinois for explaining Catholic teachings on homosexuality to a student in his class on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thoughtl?
The thing is, it doesn't matter if it is from Burgundy, what matters is if it tastes good. When wine from different areas were all called "burgundy", wine from Burgundy defined what it was supposed to taste like. Now that the wines that used to be called "burgundy" are called Pinot Noir wines from Burgundy no longer define what they should taste like. The thing is that the particular vineyard is more important to what something tastes like than where that particular vineyard is located (within certain broad parameters).
Because people know wine styles by those regional names. Of course as they are more successful at getting others to stop using those region names, the less valuable those region names are. When I first started drinking wine, I often ordered a "burgundy" wine because I liked the style, I did not care where it came from (generally I preferred that it not be from France because the French wines that were in my budget were terrible). I moved on to other wines since then and only recently started drinking Pinot Noir wines again. Until I looked some things up for this article, I did not realize that Pinot Noir is the same style of wine I used to call "burgundy". If I still drank "burgundy" wine there would be a cachet in drinking "burgundy" that was actually from Burgundy, but since I now drink Pinot Noir, who cares if it came from Burgundy.
Now, there is some logic to applying the geographical appellation to ordinary wines, because the soil and the climate potentially have significant effect on the way that the wine comes out (this is certainly true of another geographic appellation, Vidalia onions). However, from everything I have seen I do not believe that where a fortified wine is made has much effect on the flavor of a fortified wine. It seems far more likely that the process has much more effect on the taste/experience of drinking a fortified wine than where that fortified wine is made.
Yes, I am serious. This is not entirely fair to Colbert, since I don't really know his audience. However, it is completely fair to those who oppose what Beck's rally was about.
The Klan...overwhelmingly voted Democrat
Those who oppose Beck...overwhelmingly vote Democrat
The Klan..used threats and violence to intimidate their opponents
Those who oppose Beck...use threats and violence to intimidate their opponents
I could go on, but I think you see what I am getting at.
No, I assume that they will be the same type of people who show up at most left wing rallies. The only rallies I have ever seen where there was not a lot of trash lying around afterward are the Tea Party rallies and now this Glen Beck rally. This says a lot about the people who showed up at the Glen beck rally and their sense of responsibility.
Well considering that the Klan rally would be composed as the same demographic from an earlier generation as the potential Colbert rally, yeah, probably.
I have no idea how many people will show up at a Colbert rally, but I can tell you one very significant difference between the rally that Glen Beck held and one that Colbert holds. After the Glen Beck rally, it looked like the grounds crew had just finished getting the place ready for an event, everything picked up and put away, no trash on the ground. After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
I really hope that Colbert does hold such a rally, it will tell us a lot about what is going on in this country.
And there you prove the point. A "C" grade is supposed to represent the average student in the class, not the average student in the country. Now, I find it acceptable for a "C" grade to be the average of students who have taken the class over a number of years (say 3 or 4). However, if more than half the class gets a "B" or better on a regular basis, something is wrong. Either there is grade inflation or there is a large number of students in the class who should have been in a more difficult class to begin with. If it is a required course and you have that many people gettign high grades, the school should offer the opportunity to test out.
Harvard's grade distribution should be the same as every other schools and every school should have approximately the same number of "D"s as "B"s.
The entire point of board certification is to limit the amount of competition in a given field allowing those already in it to charge more for their services. The reason you gave is the excuse a professional organization uses to justify creating such a barrier to entry to their field. This does not mean that such tests do not accomplish the purpose that the excuse presents, just that that is not their real purpose and accomplishing it is secondary to limiting the amount of competition in a given field.
Right now, you can move to a different country a whole lot easier than you can stop doing business with Google.
I don't know about you, but it would be easier for me to stop using the Internet altogether (let alone just stop doing business with Google) than it would be for me to move to a different country.
Please give an example of racism connected with the Tea Party. Although that doesn't really matter, in what way is what the Tea Party calling for racist? In what way does it involve religious extremism? Why should it matter if some of the people who are calling for a particular course of action are racist or extremists if the action itself is not? If the action they are calling for does not lend itself to being easily distorted into some kind of racism or extremism?
I will also question whether or not you really understand what religious extremism is. Everything i have seen indicates that the Tea Party movement is only slightly more religious than America in general
Stephen Hawking played little or no role in the development of the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang theory (although it was not called that until much later) was first developed by George LeMaitre in 1927 on the basis of general relativity. The theory was pretty much confirmed in 1964 by the discovery of background radiation of the amount that the theory predicted throughout the universe. Since then most advances in the theory have involved reconciling more recent observations to the theory.
I had to google Kalam as I had never heard of it before. Perhaps you are unaware that the principle that anything that had a beginning had a cause is why so many atheists resisted the Big Bang theory for as long as they did?
That principle is also a basic tenet of all of the philosophies of science that I am aware of.
If your government isn't accountable, you can replace them. If RIM, Google, or anyone else decides to abuse your data... what then?
If RIM or Google or any other company decides to abuse your data, you can stop doing business with them. If your government decides to abuse your data (like maybe punishing those who organize to try and replace it), what then?
I believe it was Larry Niven who developed a plan to terraform Mars. He suggested gathering an asteroid that was composed mainly of ice and frozen gases (which current astronomy says are abundant in the asteroid belt--conveniently close to Mars, at least if you have the technology to put this plan into action in the first place). Smashing it into Mars to release the water and the gases (primarily CO2 and nitrogen). He did the calculations and a reasonably sized asteroid would supply sufficient gases for several hundred years. One would merely grab another asteroid every few hundred years to refresh the atmosphere (using a less catastrophic approach on subsequent introductions). I have seen several discussions and have never seen anyone dismiss it on any basis other than cost.
A very basic rule of philosphy is that anything that had a beginning had a cause. Basic Christian theology is that God did not have a beginning. If indeed current theories say that gravity existed before the universe then gravity would be a potentially valid cause for the universe. However, everything I have seen says that gravity is a product of elements of the universe. The "law of gravity" cannot be an explanation for the creation of the universe because the "law of gravity" is merely an explanation of how a phenomenom that humans have observed behaves.
Everything I have seen suggests that the math of all current physics theories generate nonsense results under conditions of singularity, which all currently accepted theories say is the starting point for the Big Bang.
NO, some people did something terrible a few years ago that has a superficial resemblance to something that some other people did hundreds of years ago. It is insensitive to the feelings of the victims of the first group to build a memorial to the second group more or less on the site of the first group's actions.
How is saying that putting a mosque as close to Ground Zero as they want to put what was originally going to be Cordoba House was insensitive to the feelings of those who lost loved ones there an attempt to punish Muslims? Especially when you consider that Cordoba is noteworthy as a city where Muslims built a mosque on the foundations of a church that they destroyed after they conquered the city?
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You mean the way that people who express disagreement with left wing talking points have trouble getting jobs at many universities. You know like the guy who was fired by the University of Illinois for explaining Catholic teachings on homosexuality to a student in his class on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thoughtl?
The thing is, it doesn't matter if it is from Burgundy, what matters is if it tastes good. When wine from different areas were all called "burgundy", wine from Burgundy defined what it was supposed to taste like. Now that the wines that used to be called "burgundy" are called Pinot Noir wines from Burgundy no longer define what they should taste like. The thing is that the particular vineyard is more important to what something tastes like than where that particular vineyard is located (within certain broad parameters).
Because people know wine styles by those regional names. Of course as they are more successful at getting others to stop using those region names, the less valuable those region names are. When I first started drinking wine, I often ordered a "burgundy" wine because I liked the style, I did not care where it came from (generally I preferred that it not be from France because the French wines that were in my budget were terrible). I moved on to other wines since then and only recently started drinking Pinot Noir wines again. Until I looked some things up for this article, I did not realize that Pinot Noir is the same style of wine I used to call "burgundy". If I still drank "burgundy" wine there would be a cachet in drinking "burgundy" that was actually from Burgundy, but since I now drink Pinot Noir, who cares if it came from Burgundy.
Now, there is some logic to applying the geographical appellation to ordinary wines, because the soil and the climate potentially have significant effect on the way that the wine comes out (this is certainly true of another geographic appellation, Vidalia onions). However, from everything I have seen I do not believe that where a fortified wine is made has much effect on the flavor of a fortified wine. It seems far more likely that the process has much more effect on the taste/experience of drinking a fortified wine than where that fortified wine is made.
Yes, I am serious. This is not entirely fair to Colbert, since I don't really know his audience. However, it is completely fair to those who oppose what Beck's rally was about.
The Klan...overwhelmingly voted Democrat
Those who oppose Beck...overwhelmingly vote Democrat
The Klan..used threats and violence to intimidate their opponents
Those who oppose Beck...use threats and violence to intimidate their opponents
I could go on, but I think you see what I am getting at.
No, I assume that they will be the same type of people who show up at most left wing rallies. The only rallies I have ever seen where there was not a lot of trash lying around afterward are the Tea Party rallies and now this Glen Beck rally. This says a lot about the people who showed up at the Glen beck rally and their sense of responsibility.
I have never heard someone recount anything Beck has said that is as ridiculous as Olberman on one of his more sane days.
Well considering that the Klan rally would be composed as the same demographic from an earlier generation as the potential Colbert rally, yeah, probably.
No, Colbert viewers are liberals. Liberals think it is someone else's problem to clean up the messes they make.
You obviously have never seen any of Keith Olberman's political rants.
I have no idea how many people will show up at a Colbert rally, but I can tell you one very significant difference between the rally that Glen Beck held and one that Colbert holds. After the Glen Beck rally, it looked like the grounds crew had just finished getting the place ready for an event, everything picked up and put away, no trash on the ground. After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
I really hope that Colbert does hold such a rally, it will tell us a lot about what is going on in this country.
Granted, it's hard to get a C grade...
And there you prove the point. A "C" grade is supposed to represent the average student in the class, not the average student in the country. Now, I find it acceptable for a "C" grade to be the average of students who have taken the class over a number of years (say 3 or 4). However, if more than half the class gets a "B" or better on a regular basis, something is wrong. Either there is grade inflation or there is a large number of students in the class who should have been in a more difficult class to begin with. If it is a required course and you have that many people gettign high grades, the school should offer the opportunity to test out.
Harvard's grade distribution should be the same as every other schools and every school should have approximately the same number of "D"s as "B"s.
The entire point of board certification is to limit the amount of competition in a given field allowing those already in it to charge more for their services. The reason you gave is the excuse a professional organization uses to justify creating such a barrier to entry to their field. This does not mean that such tests do not accomplish the purpose that the excuse presents, just that that is not their real purpose and accomplishing it is secondary to limiting the amount of competition in a given field.
Right now, you can move to a different country a whole lot easier than you can stop doing business with Google.
I don't know about you, but it would be easier for me to stop using the Internet altogether (let alone just stop doing business with Google) than it would be for me to move to a different country.
Every time the government has reduced taxes, revenue from said taxes has increased.
Please give an example of racism connected with the Tea Party. Although that doesn't really matter, in what way is what the Tea Party calling for racist? In what way does it involve religious extremism? Why should it matter if some of the people who are calling for a particular course of action are racist or extremists if the action itself is not? If the action they are calling for does not lend itself to being easily distorted into some kind of racism or extremism?
I will also question whether or not you really understand what religious extremism is. Everything i have seen indicates that the Tea Party movement is only slightly more religious than America in general
Stephen Hawking played little or no role in the development of the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang theory (although it was not called that until much later) was first developed by George LeMaitre in 1927 on the basis of general relativity. The theory was pretty much confirmed in 1964 by the discovery of background radiation of the amount that the theory predicted throughout the universe. Since then most advances in the theory have involved reconciling more recent observations to the theory.
I had to google Kalam as I had never heard of it before. Perhaps you are unaware that the principle that anything that had a beginning had a cause is why so many atheists resisted the Big Bang theory for as long as they did?
That principle is also a basic tenet of all of the philosophies of science that I am aware of.
If your government isn't accountable, you can replace them. If RIM, Google, or anyone else decides to abuse your data... what then?
If RIM or Google or any other company decides to abuse your data, you can stop doing business with them. If your government decides to abuse your data (like maybe punishing those who organize to try and replace it), what then?
I believe it was Larry Niven who developed a plan to terraform Mars. He suggested gathering an asteroid that was composed mainly of ice and frozen gases (which current astronomy says are abundant in the asteroid belt--conveniently close to Mars, at least if you have the technology to put this plan into action in the first place). Smashing it into Mars to release the water and the gases (primarily CO2 and nitrogen). He did the calculations and a reasonably sized asteroid would supply sufficient gases for several hundred years. One would merely grab another asteroid every few hundred years to refresh the atmosphere (using a less catastrophic approach on subsequent introductions). I have seen several discussions and have never seen anyone dismiss it on any basis other than cost.
Hawking simply extrapolated the laws of physics to the extreme, then came up with the big bang theory
Stephen Hawking was not alive when the Big Bang theory was first proposed. so he never "came up with the big bang theory".
A very basic rule of philosphy is that anything that had a beginning had a cause. Basic Christian theology is that God did not have a beginning. If indeed current theories say that gravity existed before the universe then gravity would be a potentially valid cause for the universe. However, everything I have seen says that gravity is a product of elements of the universe. The "law of gravity" cannot be an explanation for the creation of the universe because the "law of gravity" is merely an explanation of how a phenomenom that humans have observed behaves.
Everything I have seen suggests that the math of all current physics theories generate nonsense results under conditions of singularity, which all currently accepted theories say is the starting point for the Big Bang.
If it looks like a duck...
The European Union is a country in the same manner that the United States was under the Articles of Confederation (maybe even more so).
NO, some people did something terrible a few years ago that has a superficial resemblance to something that some other people did hundreds of years ago. It is insensitive to the feelings of the victims of the first group to build a memorial to the second group more or less on the site of the first group's actions.
How is saying that putting a mosque as close to Ground Zero as they want to put what was originally going to be Cordoba House was insensitive to the feelings of those who lost loved ones there an attempt to punish Muslims? Especially when you consider that Cordoba is noteworthy as a city where Muslims built a mosque on the foundations of a church that they destroyed after they conquered the city?