Isn't it California that prohibits tossing flourescent lights in the trash because of the mercury content? (And they're also going to ban the sale of incandescents, putting Joe and Jane Consumer in a bit of a bind: forced to buy something with a limited lifespan that's a pain to dispose of.)
Seems to me that the law of unintended consequences may bite them.
The word you wanted in your last sentence is its; it's is a contraction for it is; thus, your sentence would be read as "However it is summary does contain a few."
Great Hog, to think you made that error in a thread about apostrophes.
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance. "What?" said Ford. "Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then, exactly, then?"
One shouldn't have to rebut vacuous drivel, especially in this case, as it seems there's no there there. All you should have to do is point it out as what it is: content free bloviation. And it seems to me that that's what Sokol was trying to do.
Unfortunately, so many in academia seem to be willing to play the parts of the Emperor's courtiers, and not be the little boy who says "But he has no clothes on."
Other than the fact that these are both MS ERP products, do you know anything else about them? Like the size of the companies and which industries they're targeted at? ERP solutions aren't one size fits all.
Would you be just as snarky if you found out that Intuit doesn't run Quickbooks and that SAP doesn't market to the coffee shop on the corner?
According to IMDB (http://imdb.com/name/nm0696481/) it was his last film, but not his last role; he had a couple of TV parts after that.
And he wasn't strictly speaking a "musical actor." He played on both the big and small screens as leading man and in supporting roles, in musicals, dramas and comedies, and won a couple of Tony awards for his stage work as well.
Can one of our fine moderators kindly tell me why the parent post, with exactly 1 vague statement of opinion and two questions, was modded "Informative"?
Sticks? Luxury! We didn't even have rocks. We were too busy jumping around to keep the slowly cooling crust of the earth from burning our feet to think about playing with rocks or sticks.
Perhaps I did mis the intent, but having re-read the post I replied to, I have to admit that if I misunderstood it, then I'm not sure what the point was.
Sure, they existed contemporaneously. My point was that doesn't mean the one is the source of the other. The fossils in sandstone are not the source of the sandstone, the fossils in volcanic ash are not the source of the volcanic ash. (I never mentioned limestone.)
And please note that I did not say that coal most definitely is not fossilized plant matter. The ONLY thing I'm saying is that simply pointing to fossilized plant remains in coal beds does not prove that coal most definitely is fossilized plant matter. Otherwise one might be led to conclude that sedimentary rock comes from dinosaur shit, because coprolites are found in sedimentary rock.
Fossils are also regularly found in other things such as sandstone and volcanic ash. But that doesn't mean the sandstone or volcanic ash are of bilogical origin.
I guess I don't get the problem. Sure, Word is loaded with a ton of features, and most people use maybe 10% of them at the most. But I've written tons of stuff using Word, a bit with FrameMaker, and before that, WordPerfect, and before that, a portable Smith-Corona that hummed and clunked with every keystroke. But whatever tool I was using to write, I never felt compelled to spend time twiddling with the formatting and trying to decide which font to use.
Just sit down, open a blank document and start writing, dammit. If you can't keep your hands off the Format menu and focus on your job, then YOU have a problem, not the program you use.
And guess what. You can turn off the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features if they piss you off. Geez, even when Clippy was first introduced, it took me about 30 seconds to figure out how to turn him off, too.
If someone told me I had to write my next project using Notepad, I'd do it. If I had to do it with vi, I might bitch a bit, because as others have noted, vi is a bitch to learn, but then I'd do the job. Use the tool you need to use.
. . . or composes their own music on their computer, the vast majority of it sucks.
But the fact that it allows anyone with the desire to get into it without a high "cost" of entry, that's a good thing. Used to be that everyone made their own music (no radio, no records), they didn't need a "professional" to do it for them. Yeah, not everyone was a Padrewski, or whatever, but they did it themselves, and they liked it, by gum. A little more of a do it yourself mentality wouldn't be a bad thing.
From what I recall (and a quick Google search), there is a big problem with Miller's experiment: the "environment" that Miller created was nothing like the environment of pre-biotic earth, becaus Miller's "atmosphere" was oxygen free, but geological evidence indicates that free oxygen has always been present on earth.
Also Miller had to create a "trap" to collect the amino acids being formed to protect them from breaking down again. What would the comparable "natural" trap be?
Finally, the mix of both D and L aminos in Miller's soup presents a major problem. Living cells only use L amino acids. D aminos and proteins are toxic.
So it seems to me that what Miller demonstrated is that creating amino acids requires an intelligent mind controlling the process.
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Isn't it California that prohibits tossing flourescent lights in the trash because of the mercury content? (And they're also going to ban the sale of incandescents, putting Joe and Jane Consumer in a bit of a bind: forced to buy something with a limited lifespan that's a pain to dispose of.)
Seems to me that the law of unintended consequences may bite them.
...I expect this will be just as successful.
The word you wanted in your last sentence is its; it's is a contraction for it is; thus, your sentence would be read as "However it is summary does contain a few."
Great Hog, to think you made that error in a thread about apostrophes.
It's is it is; its isn't.
"Don't go to Pluto. It's a Mickey Mouse planet."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance.
"What?" said Ford.
"Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then, exactly, then?"
Unfortunately, so many in academia seem to be willing to play the parts of the Emperor's courtiers, and not be the little boy who says "But he has no clothes on."
Why is it "intellectually dishonest" to point out that a journal is publishing vacuous drivel?
Other than the fact that these are both MS ERP products, do you know anything else about them? Like the size of the companies and which industries they're targeted at? ERP solutions aren't one size fits all.
Would you be just as snarky if you found out that Intuit doesn't run Quickbooks and that SAP doesn't market to the coffee shop on the corner?
Remember the earth lodge (http://fishhook.ndsu.edu/lodge/).
These are the "anthropoid apes" that adopted young John Greystoke after his parents died.
According to IMDB (http://imdb.com/name/nm0696481/) it was his last film, but not his last role; he had a couple of TV parts after that.
And he wasn't strictly speaking a "musical actor." He played on both the big and small screens as leading man and in supporting roles, in musicals, dramas and comedies, and won a couple of Tony awards for his stage work as well.
Can one of our fine moderators kindly tell me why the parent post, with exactly 1 vague statement of opinion and two questions, was modded "Informative"?
I'm sure 50% of the people out there pick their noses/ears and then their keyboard.
People pick their keyboard? Eeeew!
Sticks? Luxury! We didn't even have rocks. We were too busy jumping around to keep the slowly cooling crust of the earth from burning our feet to think about playing with rocks or sticks.
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Perhaps I did mis the intent, but having re-read the post I replied to, I have to admit that if I misunderstood it, then I'm not sure what the point was.
Sure, they existed contemporaneously. My point was that doesn't mean the one is the source of the other. The fossils in sandstone are not the source of the sandstone, the fossils in volcanic ash are not the source of the volcanic ash. (I never mentioned limestone.)
And please note that I did not say that coal most definitely is not fossilized plant matter. The ONLY thing I'm saying is that simply pointing to fossilized plant remains in coal beds does not prove that coal most definitely is fossilized plant matter. Otherwise one might be led to conclude that sedimentary rock comes from dinosaur shit, because coprolites are found in sedimentary rock.
Fossils are also regularly found in other things such as sandstone and volcanic ash. But that doesn't mean the sandstone or volcanic ash are of bilogical origin.
Our DVD of Oklahoma has the intermission.
Come to think of it, we have a VHS copy of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and it includes the intermission as well.
...or NAFTA. Or maybe it's SUVs.
At any rate, this WOULD NOT be happening if Gore was in the Oval Office.
</sarcasm>
Monsanto does not "manufacture" seeds. The plants do the tricky bits, Monsanto just packages the results.
Just stretching out the "back yard" to the moon is all.
Wind power runs into this all the time, too.
Consumer: "Yes, let's build more wind/solar power plants."
Power company: "OK. The best location for that is site A."
Consumer: "What? That will ruin the view!"
Power company: [sigh]
I guess I don't get the problem. Sure, Word is loaded with a ton of features, and most people use maybe 10% of them at the most. But I've written tons of stuff using Word, a bit with FrameMaker, and before that, WordPerfect, and before that, a portable Smith-Corona that hummed and clunked with every keystroke. But whatever tool I was using to write, I never felt compelled to spend time twiddling with the formatting and trying to decide which font to use.
Just sit down, open a blank document and start writing, dammit. If you can't keep your hands off the Format menu and focus on your job, then YOU have a problem, not the program you use.
And guess what. You can turn off the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features if they piss you off. Geez, even when Clippy was first introduced, it took me about 30 seconds to figure out how to turn him off, too.
If someone told me I had to write my next project using Notepad, I'd do it. If I had to do it with vi, I might bitch a bit, because as others have noted, vi is a bitch to learn, but then I'd do the job. Use the tool you need to use.
. . . or composes their own music on their computer, the vast majority of it sucks.
But the fact that it allows anyone with the desire to get into it without a high "cost" of entry, that's a good thing. Used to be that everyone made their own music (no radio, no records), they didn't need a "professional" to do it for them. Yeah, not everyone was a Padrewski, or whatever, but they did it themselves, and they liked it, by gum. A little more of a do it yourself mentality wouldn't be a bad thing.
You'll need something a bit more powerful.
From what I recall (and a quick Google search), there is a big problem with Miller's experiment: the "environment" that Miller created was nothing like the environment of pre-biotic earth, becaus Miller's "atmosphere" was oxygen free, but geological evidence indicates that free oxygen has always been present on earth.
Also Miller had to create a "trap" to collect the amino acids being formed to protect them from breaking down again. What would the comparable "natural" trap be?
Finally, the mix of both D and L aminos in Miller's soup presents a major problem. Living cells only use L amino acids. D aminos and proteins are toxic.
So it seems to me that what Miller demonstrated is that creating amino acids requires an intelligent mind controlling the process.