Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty. While I'm certainly not rich, there is no such stigma here.
In the county where I am in the US there are by-laws that prohibit hanging washing outside*, and from what I understand this is not uncommon.
In addition there are by-laws that prohibit using furniture and items that were intended for inside use, from being used outside your house. I assume this was to stop people putting old couches on their front porch. But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Home of the free. Yeah, right.
* And at this time of the year you wouldn't want to hang your clothe outside. There is so much pollen flying around that your clothes would be unrecognizable.
That sounds like an awful restriction! May I ask in which state you live?
1. In some cases, but perceived screen size is relative to your distance from it. A medium-sized TV can sufficiently fill my visual field as long as I'm not sitting clear across the room from it. Maybe not quite the same, but close enough for me. Bonus: My sofa's comfier than most theater chairs - and less sticky - and no tall people ever sit in front of me at home and block a corner of the screen (except the cat sometimes).
2. I don't need a group of people telling me when to laugh, thank you very much. My own emotional acuity is perfectly adequate for my enjoyment. When I do want company for a movie, friends and family make for a much more enjoyable shared experience than the random crowds of strangers at the theater.
3. I honestly can't relate to this issue. If you can't ignore your electronics long enough to watch a two or three hour movie, you may need to disconnect for a while.
4. Also can't relate, although I know there are many people like that. But even in the theater you can close your eyes and plug your ears to avoid the scary (my wife does this). Bonus: Watching at home is less relentless in bad ways; in a theater you can't pause to use the restroom or rewind to catch important missed dialog.
5. Theather-quality home speaker systems can be prohibitively expensive, but you can still get good quality for the price even on a budget. I'm not much of an audiophile, though, and am reasonably content with a $100 2.1 sound bar. YMMV.
6. Previews? Ick. I deliberately arrive a couple minutes late to avoid previews. If you like them so much, watch the ones you want on YouTube, not the limited selection they offer before your movie. I don't like paying to be advertised to.
7. Again, can't really relate. I can see how that would affect some people, but I don't watch a lot on the TV so sitting down to a movie really does feel like a time that's set apart. YMMV.
8. TRUE alone time at home, with your significant other, is also a cherished pastime and WITHOUT all those annoying "other people." Not everyone likes crowds - in fact, some of us *hate* them and go out of our way to avoid them.
9. Why not 32 ounces of diabet... er... cola in the dark that I don't have to pay $10 for? At home I can have full access to all my favorite snacks, on the cheap, no smuggling required.
10. Huh? Do you also brag that you wandered Walmart for 30 minutes trying to decide on a nice pillow to buy, instead of just getting one on Amazon in 5 minutes? Unless it's a premier showing of Star Wars, Star Trek, or some other suitably awesome movie, there are no bragging rights attached to watching a movie in the theater. And even then it's negligible.
America isn't THAT big, and most people are never more than an hour or two from a state line unless they're in the middle of TX or something.
Although most people in Michigan do find themselves within just an hour or two of Ohio and Indiana, there are populous areas in Northern Lower Michgian and the UP that are anywhere from 4 to 6 hours from the nearest state line, and many wealthy people who might like to own a Tesla have homes up there. Michigan is entirely peninsulas (except for the islands, of course), and that has a funny way of physically isolating you from other states - maybe not as much as in huge states like Texas, but still.
Now if they could go pick up their shiny new Tesla in Canada, that would be something else....
A practical question for your brother - If he's approaching a scene where there is a gun battle between the hypothetical competent law-abiding citizen and the active shooter bad guy, how does he know which is which?
Well, he has two options then:
1) Let the firefight play out until he knows which party is the original aggressor (ie, the Bad Guy). If one party is victorious in the firefight but then continues to shoot non-combatants, then he knows who the Bad Guys are. However, if the victorious party stops shooting after the firefight, the police order them to the ground and sort out the situation, determining eventually that they're the Good Guys.
2) Shoot everyone with a gun. This is bad news for the legally armed person, but is a known and accepted risk among concealed carriers (source: I am one, and I know many who are; we understand we could be mistaken for bad guys in this kind of situation, and accept that risk if we choose to engage the Bad Guy).
Either situation is a happier outcome for the innocent noncombatants than just hunkering down and dying en masse until the police arrive.
Now, collateral damage is always more of a risk with more combatants, especially with concealed carriers who don't keep up on their tactical training. However, I suspect that the overall damage is still lower than just letting the killer keep shooting at defenseless people, especially since most people tend to either run or take cover when gun fire starts, meaning there won't be too many people in the line of fire for very long except in very crowded places, and so the overall casualties will still be lower.
+1 to this. I actually switched my wife to Mint with Cinnamon from Mac OS. All the drivers worked without any tweaking. My wife's not technical at all, but had zero issues using the system and finds it very intuitive. She particularly likes the blend of clean aesthetics and great functionality - she's an artist, so I take her approval of the aesthetics quite seriously.
What actions or concessions should businesses take, on a social and practical scale, to help integrate and utilize those with autism, especially those with a particular gifting and working environment needs?
The problem is that that approach only works if you take a very metaphorical interpretation of the bible.
With regards to evolution, if you accept it as true, then Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden could not have happened. There were no "first humans," as there was no solid dividing line between our apelike ancestors and modern humans. If there was no Garden of Eden, then there was no original sin, which means that Jesus dying for our sins was pointless, unless God intentionally created as as inherently sinful creatures and then decided that we should be tortured eternally.
Well, to address at least that one point, one model I've heard from some Christian evolutionary biologists which seems to fit the data utilizes the Upper Paleolitic Revolution as a possible point in time at which humankind first became "spiritual" and therefore capable of sin. To quickly summarize the Upper Paleolithic Revolution (though I am not a bioligist/archaeologist/what-have-you; mere computer scientist and mathemetician by training), "anatomically modern humans" - ie, humans that look like you and me - have been found as far back as about 195 thousand years in the fossil record. But it wasn't until about 50 thousand years ago that we begin to see them exhibiting modern behavioral traits such as the creation of more advanced tools than they'd been using for 145 thousand years, accelerated language development, and the first evidence of religion. This sudden revolution occurred in East Africa or the Middle East and spread from there across the globe to anatomically human populations on other continents. It's been suggested by some Christian evolutionary biologists that this revolution represents the first moment in time in which God "breathed spirit" into humans, making them moral and creative beings, and from them it spread to others or their offspring. It could've begun with just two - who rebelled against God, making for original sin - and spread into the rest of the heretofore unspiritual, anatomical human population.
This solves at least two major issues. First, it allows for original sin. Second, it fits our genetic data which suggests that the genetic human population could never have been fewer than 10 thousand at any point in history; the unspritual population provides genetic diversity for the expansion of the spiritual population - or even become spriritual themselves through cultural interactions.
Seriously, you only found one shortcut for the Windows key? I find that surprising. There are quite a few more: Win+Arrow Keys can be used for window management (only in 7, to my knowledge), Win+R opens a run dialog, Win+D takes you to the desktop, Win+F opens a search window for the system, Win+E opens an Explorer window, Win+Break opens System Properties, Win+Spacebar peaks at the desktop (only in 7, to my knowledge), and Win+L locks the currently logged in account (useful if you live in a dorm or other environment where people like to mess with your system when you step away for a moment). There are many others, but these are the ones I find most useful. YMMV. I'm not sure what other simple key combinations could be used for the same functionality. And if you're using Mac OS or Linux with that Windows keyboard, it works as the command key or super key. So yeah, I'd say it can be quite useful.
""With her most recent drive of 482 feet on June 1, 2011 (Sol 2614), NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover has zoomed past the unimaginable 30 kilometer mark in total odometry since safely landing on Mars nearly seven and one half years ago on Jan 24, 2004. That's 50 times beyond the roughly quarter-mile of roving distance initially foreseen"
Dear Universe Today source article,
For the future, can we NOT mix our systems of measurement, please? Seriously, I don't know if I should be thinking in feet, kilometers, miles, or cubits right now. Please please please just choose metric or, if you must, US units. But whichever you choose, stick with one or the other when discussing one topic. Don't switch back and forth. It makes it impossible to get a good mental picture of what you're talking about in terms of scale.
Sincerely,
Self-righteous Complainer (but you left me no choice)
.. that if they give 'em an inch, they'll take a kilometer.
And that would just confuse us Americans.
Fixed that for ya.
Actually, I live in the US and went to public school here, and they taught us both metric and imperial measurements from elementary through high school. I'm very comfortable using either, and usually think of distance in terms of meters and temperature in terms of Celsius. Admittedly, I'm in college studying CS (formerly with a focus in Electrical Engineering) at an engineering school so I probably have more exposure to metric than the average American. But if my public school education is at least any indication of my generation's comfort level with metric, it doesn't seem there would be too much backlash from the public if we were to switch to an entirely metric system within the next twenty or so years.
Of course, there's still the big issue of industries that are built around the imperial system, but if the people are at least comfortable with metric then that's one major hurdle that's already been overcome in my generation.
This is a great discovery, but what are we going to do with it? The obvious thing is to mine it out, but wouldn't lightening the mass of the moon have a (probably quite bad) effect on it's tidal effects to the earth?
The mass of whatever rare elements we pull off the moon would probably be negligible compared to its overall mass. I would be more worried about the seemingly permanent change in appearance the moon would suffer with mining operations running on it. Without something like an atmosphere, any changes we make will be there for eons. I guess there's no practical reason for it, but I kind of like looking up into the sky and seeing a pristine lunar landscape. Maybe if they only mined the dark side of the moon....
It also says in the Bible to pay your taxes. Something that's convenient overlooked by the tea party and stupid people like Palin.
I was unaware that the Tea Party and so called, "Stupid People" were actively not paying taxes. Seems like we'd be hearing more complaints from the IRS were that the case. They are, however, protesting issues they feel are unjust, which they are well within their rights to do. They are still in obedience to the laws of the land, and uphold the spirit of the same which gives them the right to peaceably assemble and protest, regardless of whether or not we agree with them.
To me, that passage says human law is a waste of time and an illusion, since only god's laws are the ones that truly matter...
This is where reading the whole passage and not just one verse is nice, since it leaves less room for potentially errant interpretation. For example, here's the whole passage starting with the verse we've already seen:
1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Romans 13:1-7 (NIV)
Hopefully Zondervan won't condemn me in the last days with a curse for violating their IP in the use of that translation.... I suppose I could claim that Paul had prior art? IANAL....
Anyway, it still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, but at least that's hopefully a bit more clear than when just one verse was given by the grandparent poster. It more clearly means that human laws are to be obeyed. When taken in context with the rest of the Bible, the exception for not obeying evil laws is added.
Only if personality were set at conception. This is saying that personality is set well after first grade. The personality formed by that stage of life could be due to nurture or nature. It's only nature that makes it stick after it's been set.
Just my.02 cents.
This is explained. From TFA: Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.
"The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl has revealed that mammals are declining in the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant."
"they were able to correlate P300 brain waves to guilty knowledge with 100 percent accuracy in the lab"
Bet the accuracy wouldn't be so good in a non-controlled, non-laboratory environment. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily stop such a technology from being used, now would it?
The truth is, these keys are really just a safe guard in case/. ever posts Article Omega, bringing about the systematic slashdotting of the ENTIRE INTERNET!!!
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Then I'll hang it all out to dry.
Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty. While I'm certainly not rich, there is no such stigma here.
In the county where I am in the US there are by-laws that prohibit hanging washing outside*, and from what I understand this is not uncommon.
In addition there are by-laws that prohibit using furniture and items that were intended for inside use, from being used outside your house. I assume this was to stop people putting old couches on their front porch. But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Home of the free. Yeah, right.
* And at this time of the year you wouldn't want to hang your clothe outside. There is so much pollen flying around that your clothes would be unrecognizable.
That sounds like an awful restriction! May I ask in which state you live?
1. In some cases, but perceived screen size is relative to your distance from it. A medium-sized TV can sufficiently fill my visual field as long as I'm not sitting clear across the room from it. Maybe not quite the same, but close enough for me. Bonus: My sofa's comfier than most theater chairs - and less sticky - and no tall people ever sit in front of me at home and block a corner of the screen (except the cat sometimes).
2. I don't need a group of people telling me when to laugh, thank you very much. My own emotional acuity is perfectly adequate for my enjoyment. When I do want company for a movie, friends and family make for a much more enjoyable shared experience than the random crowds of strangers at the theater.
3. I honestly can't relate to this issue. If you can't ignore your electronics long enough to watch a two or three hour movie, you may need to disconnect for a while.
4. Also can't relate, although I know there are many people like that. But even in the theater you can close your eyes and plug your ears to avoid the scary (my wife does this). Bonus: Watching at home is less relentless in bad ways; in a theater you can't pause to use the restroom or rewind to catch important missed dialog.
5. Theather-quality home speaker systems can be prohibitively expensive, but you can still get good quality for the price even on a budget. I'm not much of an audiophile, though, and am reasonably content with a $100 2.1 sound bar. YMMV.
6. Previews? Ick. I deliberately arrive a couple minutes late to avoid previews. If you like them so much, watch the ones you want on YouTube, not the limited selection they offer before your movie. I don't like paying to be advertised to.
7. Again, can't really relate. I can see how that would affect some people, but I don't watch a lot on the TV so sitting down to a movie really does feel like a time that's set apart. YMMV.
8. TRUE alone time at home, with your significant other, is also a cherished pastime and WITHOUT all those annoying "other people." Not everyone likes crowds - in fact, some of us *hate* them and go out of our way to avoid them.
9. Why not 32 ounces of diabet... er... cola in the dark that I don't have to pay $10 for? At home I can have full access to all my favorite snacks, on the cheap, no smuggling required.
10. Huh? Do you also brag that you wandered Walmart for 30 minutes trying to decide on a nice pillow to buy, instead of just getting one on Amazon in 5 minutes? Unless it's a premier showing of Star Wars, Star Trek, or some other suitably awesome movie, there are no bragging rights attached to watching a movie in the theater. And even then it's negligible.
I'm a security-conscious sysadmin, which is why I spent my Saturday hunting squirrels.* You're welcome, America.
*actually, because free meat. Didn't know about The Rodent Threat until reading this, but you're still welcome, America.
America isn't THAT big, and most people are never more than an hour or two from a state line unless they're in the middle of TX or something.
Although most people in Michigan do find themselves within just an hour or two of Ohio and Indiana, there are populous areas in Northern Lower Michgian and the UP that are anywhere from 4 to 6 hours from the nearest state line, and many wealthy people who might like to own a Tesla have homes up there. Michigan is entirely peninsulas (except for the islands, of course), and that has a funny way of physically isolating you from other states - maybe not as much as in huge states like Texas, but still.
Now if they could go pick up their shiny new Tesla in Canada, that would be something else....
A practical question for your brother - If he's approaching a scene where there is a gun battle between the hypothetical competent law-abiding citizen and the active shooter bad guy, how does he know which is which?
Well, he has two options then:
1) Let the firefight play out until he knows which party is the original aggressor (ie, the Bad Guy). If one party is victorious in the firefight but then continues to shoot non-combatants, then he knows who the Bad Guys are. However, if the victorious party stops shooting after the firefight, the police order them to the ground and sort out the situation, determining eventually that they're the Good Guys.
2) Shoot everyone with a gun. This is bad news for the legally armed person, but is a known and accepted risk among concealed carriers (source: I am one, and I know many who are; we understand we could be mistaken for bad guys in this kind of situation, and accept that risk if we choose to engage the Bad Guy).
Either situation is a happier outcome for the innocent noncombatants than just hunkering down and dying en masse until the police arrive.
Now, collateral damage is always more of a risk with more combatants, especially with concealed carriers who don't keep up on their tactical training. However, I suspect that the overall damage is still lower than just letting the killer keep shooting at defenseless people, especially since most people tend to either run or take cover when gun fire starts, meaning there won't be too many people in the line of fire for very long except in very crowded places, and so the overall casualties will still be lower.
Mint is an Ubuntu fork. And it is wonderful.
+1 to this. I actually switched my wife to Mint with Cinnamon from Mac OS. All the drivers worked without any tweaking. My wife's not technical at all, but had zero issues using the system and finds it very intuitive. She particularly likes the blend of clean aesthetics and great functionality - she's an artist, so I take her approval of the aesthetics quite seriously.
What actions or concessions should businesses take, on a social and practical scale, to help integrate and utilize those with autism, especially those with a particular gifting and working environment needs?
With a name like Plato, I worry it won't see much other than shadows when searching for stars....
The problem is that that approach only works if you take a very metaphorical interpretation of the bible.
With regards to evolution, if you accept it as true, then Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden could not have happened. There were no "first humans," as there was no solid dividing line between our apelike ancestors and modern humans. If there was no Garden of Eden, then there was no original sin, which means that Jesus dying for our sins was pointless, unless God intentionally created as as inherently sinful creatures and then decided that we should be tortured eternally.
Well, to address at least that one point, one model I've heard from some Christian evolutionary biologists which seems to fit the data utilizes the Upper Paleolitic Revolution as a possible point in time at which humankind first became "spiritual" and therefore capable of sin. To quickly summarize the Upper Paleolithic Revolution (though I am not a bioligist/archaeologist/what-have-you; mere computer scientist and mathemetician by training), "anatomically modern humans" - ie, humans that look like you and me - have been found as far back as about 195 thousand years in the fossil record. But it wasn't until about 50 thousand years ago that we begin to see them exhibiting modern behavioral traits such as the creation of more advanced tools than they'd been using for 145 thousand years, accelerated language development, and the first evidence of religion. This sudden revolution occurred in East Africa or the Middle East and spread from there across the globe to anatomically human populations on other continents. It's been suggested by some Christian evolutionary biologists that this revolution represents the first moment in time in which God "breathed spirit" into humans, making them moral and creative beings, and from them it spread to others or their offspring. It could've begun with just two - who rebelled against God, making for original sin - and spread into the rest of the heretofore unspiritual, anatomical human population.
This solves at least two major issues. First, it allows for original sin. Second, it fits our genetic data which suggests that the genetic human population could never have been fewer than 10 thousand at any point in history; the unspritual population provides genetic diversity for the expansion of the spiritual population - or even become spriritual themselves through cultural interactions.
My primary source: http://godandnature.asa3.org/opinion-adam-and-the-origin-of-man.html
Depending on your skill set, some of the volunteer positions with Mercy Ships might fit the bill: http://www.mercyships.org/content/home
Positions available: http://www.mercyships.org/positions/P0/
Seriously, you only found one shortcut for the Windows key? I find that surprising. There are quite a few more: Win+Arrow Keys can be used for window management (only in 7, to my knowledge), Win+R opens a run dialog, Win+D takes you to the desktop, Win+F opens a search window for the system, Win+E opens an Explorer window, Win+Break opens System Properties, Win+Spacebar peaks at the desktop (only in 7, to my knowledge), and Win+L locks the currently logged in account (useful if you live in a dorm or other environment where people like to mess with your system when you step away for a moment). There are many others, but these are the ones I find most useful. YMMV. I'm not sure what other simple key combinations could be used for the same functionality. And if you're using Mac OS or Linux with that Windows keyboard, it works as the command key or super key. So yeah, I'd say it can be quite useful.
Dear Universe Today source article,
For the future, can we NOT mix our systems of measurement, please? Seriously, I don't know if I should be thinking in feet, kilometers, miles, or cubits right now. Please please please just choose metric or, if you must, US units. But whichever you choose, stick with one or the other when discussing one topic. Don't switch back and forth. It makes it impossible to get a good mental picture of what you're talking about in terms of scale.
Sincerely,
Self-righteous Complainer (but you left me no choice)
.. that if they give 'em an inch, they'll take a kilometer.
And that would just confuse us Americans.
Fixed that for ya.
Actually, I live in the US and went to public school here, and they taught us both metric and imperial measurements from elementary through high school. I'm very comfortable using either, and usually think of distance in terms of meters and temperature in terms of Celsius. Admittedly, I'm in college studying CS (formerly with a focus in Electrical Engineering) at an engineering school so I probably have more exposure to metric than the average American. But if my public school education is at least any indication of my generation's comfort level with metric, it doesn't seem there would be too much backlash from the public if we were to switch to an entirely metric system within the next twenty or so years.
Of course, there's still the big issue of industries that are built around the imperial system, but if the people are at least comfortable with metric then that's one major hurdle that's already been overcome in my generation.
This is a great discovery, but what are we going to do with it? The obvious thing is to mine it out, but wouldn't lightening the mass of the moon have a (probably quite bad) effect on it's tidal effects to the earth?
The mass of whatever rare elements we pull off the moon would probably be negligible compared to its overall mass. I would be more worried about the seemingly permanent change in appearance the moon would suffer with mining operations running on it. Without something like an atmosphere, any changes we make will be there for eons. I guess there's no practical reason for it, but I kind of like looking up into the sky and seeing a pristine lunar landscape. Maybe if they only mined the dark side of the moon....
This just in! A new study shows that studies return trash results!
Next up: Astrology might be a load of crap!
Oh the humanity...
Why do you only care about the humans?
Yes, but how likely are you to die prematurely if you NEVER SIT AT ALL?!
Standing - The ultimate secret in attaining immortality....
It also says in the Bible to pay your taxes. Something that's convenient overlooked by the tea party and stupid people like Palin.
I was unaware that the Tea Party and so called, "Stupid People" were actively not paying taxes. Seems like we'd be hearing more complaints from the IRS were that the case. They are, however, protesting issues they feel are unjust, which they are well within their rights to do. They are still in obedience to the laws of the land, and uphold the spirit of the same which gives them the right to peaceably assemble and protest, regardless of whether or not we agree with them.
To me, that passage says human law is a waste of time and an illusion, since only god's laws are the ones that truly matter...
This is where reading the whole passage and not just one verse is nice, since it leaves less room for potentially errant interpretation. For example, here's the whole passage starting with the verse we've already seen:
1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Romans 13:1-7 (NIV)
Hopefully Zondervan won't condemn me in the last days with a curse for violating their IP in the use of that translation.... I suppose I could claim that Paul had prior art? IANAL....
Anyway, it still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, but at least that's hopefully a bit more clear than when just one verse was given by the grandparent poster. It more clearly means that human laws are to be obeyed. When taken in context with the rest of the Bible, the exception for not obeying evil laws is added.
Only if personality were set at conception. This is saying that personality is set well after first grade. The personality formed by that stage of life could be due to nurture or nature. It's only nature that makes it stick after it's been set. .02 cents.
Just my
This is explained. From TFA: Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.
"The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl has revealed that mammals are declining in the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant."
Phew, that's a relief. With all that radiation, I was expecting something more like this to be happening to the mammals: http://www.snowspotmedia.com/blog/2010/04/06/Yao_Guai_by_Cyberpunk1989.jpg
Why is everything legitimized by putting the word terrorist in it? What does this have to do with terrorism?
As someone said here on /., terrorism is one of the magic keys, the other being child porn.
Because if you don't have magic keys like that, then the terrorists and pedophiles win!
"they were able to correlate P300 brain waves to guilty knowledge with 100 percent accuracy in the lab"
Bet the accuracy wouldn't be so good in a non-controlled, non-laboratory environment. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily stop such a technology from being used, now would it?
The truth is, these keys are really just a safe guard in case /. ever posts Article Omega, bringing about the systematic slashdotting of the ENTIRE INTERNET!!!