> or that angels push the planets around in their orbits,
Actually, most theories say that they do. "Angels" is translated as messengers. That is exactly what exchange particles mediating an attractive or repulsive force are, as well.
Furthermore, the angels cannot chose NOT to push their planets around, as that would violate God's Will. Just as gravitons must attract planets.
The problem with "angels" is that calling exchange particles "angels" brings loads of other semantic baggage that is not necessary for the hypothesis. It violates Occam's Razor, a principle propounded by a theologian.
> In all the years they've been around, they've yet to suggest a > single experiment, or come forth with any single thing their > "theory" would predict.
Actually, they have. Most proposed experiments do not disprove evolution, some have been shown to be not the case, and so the less rabid ones don't mention them anymore, and most of the rest are non sequitors (and some aren't practical, yet, like String Theory experiments).
They want to come up with a glory (in the Humpty-Dumpty/Lewis Carroll definition), but cannot do it, yet.
Remember, they WANT to convince you that they are right. They are just not very good at it.
> From a Christian point of view, faith comes from the Bible
Interesting. So since my belief, like that of the Original Twelve, comes from the Holy Spirit (with support from the Bible, which they didn't have), I am NOT a Christian, or I don't have faith? Boy, won't Pastor be surprised!
> But don't try to bring it into science, > for faith requires belief without proof,
Actually, that is belief, even in the absence of proof. If a time machine goes back, and demonstrates that the Gospel account of the Crucifixion and Resurrection is as close to absolutely accurate as possible, faith does not require me to now disbelieve in those events because they CAN now be proven.
> and science requires proof before belief.
Then scientifically prove that there is something, rather than nothing with your senses being deluded.
Decartes could do it by believing that a Loving God wouldn't do something like that to him, but you are not Decartes.
I think that the only scientific answer is that it is not a useful hypothesis, compared to belief in an independent Universe, at least for now. After all, you MIGHT be in The Matrix, or a holocube like Dr. Moriarity on ST:TNG, and you could never know.
Science require evidence before belief, and a willingness to set aside beliefs if the evidence against them becomes too strong (and too strong is left to the individual). It rarely requires proof, and usually that its hypotheses can be disproven (at least in theory) if incorrect.
In an infinitely long, static universe without a personality-possessing diety making small changes to it.
Thus, the Cosmological Constant was introduced to allow a Static Universe, when all results predicted that a Universe would either quickly collapse into a black hole or expand forever.
Likewise, Quantum Theory must be wrong, because Uncertainty allowed scope for a hypothetical personal diety to operate.
So huge that I have never heard of it, before now. And, while not a professional musician, I do know some who are into obscure types, like that, and so should have, had it been "huge".
I must have missed VH-1's program "When Tropicalia Ruled The World"
Given that the tecnobrega movement has shown that copyright protection is not necessary to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, isn't it time to reconsider the whole basis of copyright law?
If you consider sampling as an original or useful art, or promoting the progress of art, perhaps (alas, that there is no sarc tag). Also, obviously, copyright is not necessary; one could also promote it by legislating that non-musicians have to pay high taxs to subsidize "musicians", regardless of their perceived skill, taste, or originality.
Finally, ending copyright means ending the careers of all non-performing composers and lyricists, as they have no way to get paid except by owning the groups and individuals which play their songs (or patronage, of course; JSBach did make a nice living as house composer to his Elector).
> Yes, for a limited time is a good thing. However, life of the author + 70 years is not.
Well, when Pirate Bay's downloads are mostly 1930's Jazz and Big Band recordings and Golden Age Hollywood movies, then you will have a point. As is, the so-called pirates are using a bad aspect of current copyright law to justify doing whatever they chose, and then declaring that those against their *actual* practices to be immoral, unethical, and fattening.
I find it to be very unlikely that the person who first thought of virtual desktops will get one penny out of any loss Red Hat will (hopefully never) suffer.
As I understand it, the patent was granted to Xerox, not to a particular person, therefore the person who thought of virtual desktops is Xerox, Inc. One might hope that Xerox gave the employees a bonus for the idea, but isn't germane, since the patent is supposed to encourage Xerox, if Xerox files.
I doubt that Xerox gave the patent to IP Innovation LLC out of the goodness of Xerox's heart (if so, Xerox shareholders can sue the directors serving at the time of the sale, in their PERSONAL capacity [ie, the director's children starve to pay the fines])(any current Xerox shareholders might try to check, BTW). Instead, I expect that IPILLC paid Xerox what Xerox thought was the value of the patent.
Therefore, the original owner has already been compensated, even if the patent proves valueless, if/when IPILLC loses the suit. The ability to monetize an asset, such as a patent, by sale to third or fourth parties, is an important part of the mechanism to reward inventors. The proof of this is obvious, and left as an exercize for the reader (as my texbook for Partial Differential Equations put it). Suffice it that not everyone has the ability to directly use their inventions (frex, suppose that the Rev.Jethro Tull did not own farmland upon which he could use his mechanical planter).
n New Voyages, we've actually got a navigator who is good enough to fly the ship like a fighter jet
Fly a battlecruiser the size of an aircraft carrier (the Forrestal, actually, which was the last class of nonnuclear powered carriers in the US Navy) like a fighter jet? Obviously, New Voyages CGI animators don't believe in accurate Newtonian physics, just in cranking up the stress level to 11 and damn the torpedoes.
And, btw, most battles in TOS took place at moderate warp speeds (IIRC, usually WF4), except during long distance chases, when it was "Scotty, give me all you can."
> Can you pick up an Icelandic book from the 16th century and read that as easily as you could read Shakespear?
Assuming that I could read Old Norse at all, yes and more easily. This is because the Icelanders have made a point of preserving the language as it was spoken in the time of the sagas, far more insistantly than even the French.
Occasionally, they need new words, so they recycle old ones that were rare but similar purposed. Frex, IIRC, a word describing the flight of an extinct goose now covers airplanes.
You're talking about a language in which the utterance "ain't" has been around for centuries and yet it has been insisted for equally long that "ain't ain't a word!"
Ain't is perfectly good Northumbrian English, but Southern English bigots never liked it, and repeatedly deprecated it, to no avail.
On topic, or at least on subject, the "we be" form is standard 17th Century and earlier Wessex dialect. Once the "I be, thou be'est, you be, he/she be, we be, y'all be, they be" form was common in all English dialects, but gradually disappeared, with Wessex as the last holdout. As it happened, the first slaves flourished where Wessex speakers settled, and they picked it up, as the masters began dropping it.
HP was always first and foremost a research company. That's gone today. There is very little innovation going on there. Any kid can assemble a PC from parts.
Except that HP isn't HP, just the division that kept the original corporate name. To find a real HP, you would have to look at Agilent. Unfortunately, they weren't granted enough money to support themselves in the style to which they had become accustomed.
Assuming that the label didn't sell the commercial's producer(s) on the song, of course, which is often NOT the case. A decent record promoter will check into alternate venues, if only to remind buyers that their bands are still selling music, even if the band has left the charts or the members died.
Anyway, why would it be better to find out about a song from someone selling commercials than from the commercial?
The 5th Dimension was a music group from the early 1970s, and did one of the most played versions of the Aquarius theme from Hair. Other groups covered it (no joke on Hair's famous nude chorus scene), but I don't remember which ones. One can assume Sonny and Cher, at least on one of their TV shows.
Adult and Umbilical Cord stem cell research can be, as well as Embryonic stem cell research on the approved cell lines.
> because it has the potential to cure MANY diseases.
Embryonic stem cells have only been demonstrated to have the potential to cause MANY cancers.
Adult and umbilical stem cells have produced numerous therapies being applied today.
Thus, all the noise is made about embyonic stem cell research (because it turns abortion into an actual GOOD thing, as opposed to unfortunate but legal, which is the best that most people view it).
> I don't mind abortion within the first trimester.
Cordwainer Smith was a University of Pennsylvania professor, writing under pseudonym, of course. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not anywhere in Britain.
BTW, I think that underpeople were made by manipulating animal DNA rather than fusing in human DNA. This is why the 7th Reich was able to make robots to hunt down and kill them.
> I'm having a hard time understanding how 6 feet of free fall ends in 900g of force
It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
I assume that the stop after a 6 foot fall generated that much deceleration (for an instant) in their worst-case testing rig, so thereafter they developed to the 900 G figure.
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> or that angels push the planets around in their orbits,
Actually, most theories say that they do. "Angels" is translated as messengers. That is exactly what exchange particles mediating an attractive or repulsive force are, as well.
Furthermore, the angels cannot chose NOT to push their planets around, as that would violate God's Will. Just as gravitons must attract planets.
The problem with "angels" is that calling exchange particles "angels" brings loads of other semantic baggage that is not necessary for the hypothesis. It violates Occam's Razor, a principle propounded by a theologian.
> In all the years they've been around, they've yet to suggest a
> single experiment, or come forth with any single thing their
> "theory" would predict.
Actually, they have. Most proposed experiments do not disprove evolution, some have been shown to be not the case, and so the less rabid ones don't mention them anymore, and most of the rest are non sequitors (and some aren't practical, yet, like String Theory experiments).
They want to come up with a glory (in the Humpty-Dumpty/Lewis Carroll definition), but cannot do it, yet.
Remember, they WANT to convince you that they are right. They are just not very good at it.
> From a Christian point of view, faith comes from the Bible
Interesting. So since my belief, like that of the Original Twelve, comes from the Holy Spirit (with support from the Bible, which they didn't have), I am NOT a Christian, or I don't have faith? Boy, won't Pastor be surprised!
> But don't try to bring it into science,
> for faith requires belief without proof,
Actually, that is belief, even in the absence of proof. If a time machine goes back, and demonstrates that the Gospel account of the Crucifixion and Resurrection is as close to absolutely accurate as possible, faith does not require me to now disbelieve in those events because they CAN now be proven.
> and science requires proof before belief.
Then scientifically prove that there is something, rather than nothing with your senses being deluded.
Decartes could do it by believing that a Loving God wouldn't do something like that to him, but you are not Decartes.
I think that the only scientific answer is that it is not a useful hypothesis, compared to belief in an independent Universe, at least for now. After all, you MIGHT be in The Matrix, or a holocube like Dr. Moriarity on ST:TNG, and you could never know.
Science require evidence before belief, and a willingness to set aside beliefs if the evidence against them becomes too strong (and too strong is left to the individual). It rarely requires proof, and usually that its hypotheses can be disproven (at least in theory) if incorrect.
> What religious beliefs did Einstein have?
In an infinitely long, static universe without a personality-possessing diety making small changes to it.
Thus, the Cosmological Constant was introduced to allow a Static Universe, when all results predicted that a Universe would either quickly collapse into a black hole or expand forever.
Likewise, Quantum Theory must be wrong, because Uncertainty allowed scope for a hypothetical personal diety to operate.
Once again, alas, that there is no sarc or irony tag.
Perhaps, if the ID had been JonathnSwift, the other respondents would have got it?
> That's how it worked since dawn of ages.
And your ancestors worked themselves to death so that mine could buy our armor and horses, and, well, lord it over yours.
(True for a certain select line of my ancestors, assuming that my relatives into geneology have it right.)
> Tropicalia is huge in the States
So huge that I have never heard of it, before now. And, while not a professional musician, I do know some who are into obscure types, like that, and so should have, had it been "huge".
I must have missed VH-1's program "When Tropicalia Ruled The World"
If you consider sampling as an original or useful art, or promoting the progress of art, perhaps (alas, that there is no sarc tag). Also, obviously, copyright is not necessary; one could also promote it by legislating that non-musicians have to pay high taxs to subsidize "musicians", regardless of their perceived skill, taste, or originality.
Finally, ending copyright means ending the careers of all non-performing composers and lyricists, as they have no way to get paid except by owning the groups and individuals which play their songs (or patronage, of course; JSBach did make a nice living as house composer to his Elector).
> Yes, for a limited time is a good thing. However, life of the author + 70 years is not.
Well, when Pirate Bay's downloads are mostly 1930's Jazz and Big Band recordings and Golden Age Hollywood movies, then you will have a point. As is, the so-called pirates are using a bad aspect of current copyright law to justify doing whatever they chose, and then declaring that those against their *actual* practices to be immoral, unethical, and fattening.
> March 2003: owned by domain@hiosilver.com! "Hi Ho Silver"? Them be pirates!
The Lone Ranger is a pirate?
So, I guess that you used the Wayback Machine to "return with us now, to those thrilling days of yesteryear" ?
> Pirate Bay having the wind gauge,
That's "weather" gauge, landlubber clod.
Or, in proper pirate: "Pirate Bay be having the weather-rrr gauge"
As I understand it, the patent was granted to Xerox, not to a particular person, therefore the person who thought of virtual desktops is Xerox, Inc. One might hope that Xerox gave the employees a bonus for the idea, but isn't germane, since the patent is supposed to encourage Xerox, if Xerox files.
I doubt that Xerox gave the patent to IP Innovation LLC out of the goodness of Xerox's heart (if so, Xerox shareholders can sue the directors serving at the time of the sale, in their PERSONAL capacity [ie, the director's children starve to pay the fines])(any current Xerox shareholders might try to check, BTW). Instead, I expect that IPILLC paid Xerox what Xerox thought was the value of the patent.
Therefore, the original owner has already been compensated, even if the patent proves valueless, if/when IPILLC loses the suit. The ability to monetize an asset, such as a patent, by sale to third or fourth parties, is an important part of the mechanism to reward inventors. The proof of this is obvious, and left as an exercize for the reader (as my texbook for Partial Differential Equations put it). Suffice it that not everyone has the ability to directly use their inventions (frex, suppose that the Rev.Jethro Tull did not own farmland upon which he could use his mechanical planter).
Fly a battlecruiser the size of an aircraft carrier (the Forrestal, actually, which was the last class of nonnuclear powered carriers in the US Navy) like a fighter jet? Obviously, New Voyages CGI animators don't believe in accurate Newtonian physics, just in cranking up the stress level to 11 and damn the torpedoes.
And, btw, most battles in TOS took place at moderate warp speeds (IIRC, usually WF4), except during long distance chases, when it was "Scotty, give me all you can."
> Can you pick up an Icelandic book from the 16th century and read that as easily as you could read Shakespear?
Assuming that I could read Old Norse at all, yes and more easily. This is because the Icelanders have made a point of preserving the language as it was spoken in the time of the sagas, far more insistantly than even the French.
Occasionally, they need new words, so they recycle old ones that were rare but similar purposed. Frex, IIRC, a word describing the flight of an extinct goose now covers airplanes.
Ain't is perfectly good Northumbrian English, but Southern English bigots never liked it, and repeatedly deprecated it, to no avail.
On topic, or at least on subject, the "we be" form is standard 17th Century and earlier Wessex dialect. Once the "I be, thou be'est, you be, he/she be, we be, y'all be, they be" form was common in all English dialects, but gradually disappeared, with Wessex as the last holdout. As it happened, the first slaves flourished where Wessex speakers settled, and they picked it up, as the masters began dropping it.
Except that HP isn't HP, just the division that kept the original corporate name. To find a real HP, you would have to look at Agilent. Unfortunately, they weren't granted enough money to support themselves in the style to which they had become accustomed.
Assuming that the label didn't sell the commercial's producer(s) on the song, of course, which is often NOT the case. A decent record promoter will check into alternate venues, if only to remind buyers that their bands are still selling music, even if the band has left the charts or the members died.
Anyway, why would it be better to find out about a song from someone selling commercials than from the commercial?
The 5th Dimension was a music group from the early 1970s, and did one of the most played versions of the Aquarius theme from Hair. Other groups covered it (no joke on Hair's famous nude chorus scene), but I don't remember which ones. One can assume Sonny and Cher, at least on one of their TV shows.
> They shouldn't be playing music that I remember being brand new
Just wait until Sympathy For The Devil shows up on Oldies or Easy Listening stations.
> maybe mamas and papas got it right.
The Fifth Dimension, among others, but never the Mamas and the Papas. They only did John Philips' songs, not Off-Broadway show tunes.
> Stem cell research should be legal
It is legal in the USA.
> and funded by the government
Adult and Umbilical Cord stem cell research can be, as well as Embryonic stem cell research on the approved cell lines.
> because it has the potential to cure MANY diseases.
Embryonic stem cells have only been demonstrated to have the potential to cause MANY cancers.
Adult and umbilical stem cells have produced numerous therapies being applied today.
Thus, all the noise is made about embyonic stem cell research (because it turns abortion into an actual GOOD thing, as opposed to unfortunate but legal, which is the best that most people view it).
> I don't mind abortion within the first trimester.
Some, OTOH, are blithely unconcerned.
> Well over 50 years ago a British author
Cordwainer Smith was a University of Pennsylvania professor, writing under pseudonym, of course. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not anywhere in Britain.
BTW, I think that underpeople were made by manipulating animal DNA rather than fusing in human DNA. This is why the 7th Reich was able to make robots to hunt down and kill them.
> I'm having a hard time understanding how 6 feet of free fall ends in 900g of force
It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
I assume that the stop after a 6 foot fall generated that much deceleration (for an instant) in their worst-case testing rig, so thereafter they developed to the 900 G figure.
> hose who were emperors of note (who expanded and prolonged Empire)
So, no one remembers Caligula, Nero, or Commodus (famous more for failures than successes?
Maybe you mean that those who got credit for expanding or prolonging were concientious?