Micro/macro. Please don't make distinctions unless you can point to that difference. If wolves can evolve into dogs, then apes can evolve into men. Therefore the PREJUDICE and BIAS for man being the Lord of Creation, is nonsense.
If we don't know much about what effects our actions will have on the environment, we should AIM to minimize it first. Especially if we only have one planet to play with.
Until we learn more by doing science, we should tinker less. But unfortunately, the time for such WISDOM seems to be over. Judging by certain governments, we seem to know enough to go on right ahead as we always have.
What's the point of your personal theory (which is moderated "insightful", a frightening thing) if you aren't bothered to go TEST it? Go talk to an environmentalist or something.
Feh, calling it a "theory" immediately puts to shame all the wonderful theories of science that we have, such as thermodynamics, and relativity.
I can't say she makes a watertight case about honeybees - maybe the optimality temperatures isn't really that optimal, and queen bees can survive for a long time in hibernation. But I think the way this researcher is thinking.
Comic book aficionados might recognise it, but "The Incredibles" is an origin tale. That it, it tells the story of the origin of The Incredibles. Most origin stories start with the hero not having powers, and then supply the powers and their motivations to be a hero. This origin tale does it differently, anchors in the family-themed element right at the center of the story.
I really want to see Pixar do more stories of The Incredibles. But please, not so many that they become mediocre.
I don't understand what you mean by GCC is not commercial. It fetched money, didn't it? And the FSF engaged in COMMERCE didn't it, even though it was non-profit organization?
But deception is also fraud. The grandparent poster is NOT WRONG, and has a point. The point being that even if the theft did not go through, one can still prosecute it as fraud. Thus the credit card companies who repay the merchant but don't persecute the fraudsters even with a lot of evidence are PART OF THE PROBLEM.
This is just wrong. The Newtonian prediction gave an angle of deflection which is half that of the Einstein prediction. The experimental prediction decided in favor of Einstein.
Excuse me, but I think it is you who are insane. I'm not comparing human lives to a potted plant. I used a convenient EXAMPLE to show where a hospital could save. To counter the other guy who believed that a entrepenuer saving money is opposite to a hospital being spendthrift where lives count.
I am saying EXACTLY you are saying. But I am rebutting someone else.
A lot of the world lives near oceans and beaches. If water levels were to rise 18 feet, then lots people will be affect. This rise will not be so slow that you can't discern, or so fast that it will drown people. Rather, In general, low lying areas of the world will see more flooding, and property WILL be destroyed.
Sorry, but the argument of Tack deserves some merit. It is true that for decades "kilo" meant 1024, but NIST has come out with a solution, and it is the only REAL solution so far. Whatever you can say about NIST, it is they who get standards in industry and government. So let's go with them, and perhaps in a hundred years, nobody will ever remember this temporary insanity which confused 1000 with 1024.
that the thinking processes and hands-on experience that come with 17 years of work in some way belong to the company as well. Which is utterly ridiculous.
Just to be a devil's advocate, why this is so utterly ridiculous? The value of these things is intangible, and just becuase it is intangible, that does not mean it is of no value. It seems that such an employee should be in a good position to negotiate for better pay, better benefits. And if he does so successfully, such a person DESERVES to get more, right?
Look at it this way: If I was an 90-something year old hospital tasked to make this decision, I'd do some research to improve my knowledge of the kinds of OSes out there, rather than contend with a silly conundrum that is manufactured out of my own damn ignorance.
Here's a clue: stop being so sensitive. A hospital that tries to save a buck is different from an entrepreneur saving a buck. Heck, a hospital could try saving a buck by watering it's potted plants less, and that'll be fine by me.
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interesting idea - COMPOSITION and LAYOUT are different things!
The deficiencies of TeX not being tweakable should not be used to against for the importance of the above idea. That about that.
Micro/macro. Please don't make distinctions unless you can point to that difference. If wolves can evolve into dogs, then apes can evolve into men. Therefore the PREJUDICE and BIAS for man being the Lord of Creation, is nonsense.
Evolution is a fact. Dogs are the descendents of wolves.
There's something insightful there, but the entire tone of the parent post is BAIT.
Until we learn more by doing science, we should tinker less. But unfortunately, the time for such WISDOM seems to be over. Judging by certain governments, we seem to know enough to go on right ahead as we always have.
Feh, calling it a "theory" immediately puts to shame all the wonderful theories of science that we have, such as thermodynamics, and relativity.
Silly Anonymous Coward. "About" not "of".
I can't say she makes a watertight case about honeybees - maybe the optimality temperatures isn't really that optimal, and queen bees can survive for a long time in hibernation. But I think the way
this researcher is thinking.
I really want to see Pixar do more stories of The Incredibles. But please, not so many that they become mediocre.
Sorry, the joke was just waiting to be said.
Touchy touchy. Did he imply that he was a hacker?
China is not corrupt? I realize that things are improving ... but China is less corrupt than say, the Swiss are?
I don't understand what you mean by GCC is not
commercial. It fetched money, didn't it? And the
FSF engaged in COMMERCE didn't it, even though
it was non-profit organization?
But deception is also fraud. The grandparent poster is NOT WRONG, and has a point. The point being that
even if the theft did not go through, one can still
prosecute it as fraud. Thus the credit card companies who repay the merchant but don't persecute
the fraudsters even with a lot of evidence are PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Preach it, brother.
but it is in no way a generalization.
Do you know the difference between a hasty generalization and jumping to conclusions?
Hmm
This is just wrong. The Newtonian prediction gave an angle of deflection which is half that of the Einstein prediction. The experimental prediction decided in favor of Einstein.
I am saying EXACTLY you are saying. But I am rebutting someone else.
A lot of the world lives near oceans and beaches. If
water levels were to rise 18 feet, then lots people will be affect. This rise will not be so slow that you can't discern, or so fast that it will drown people. Rather, In general, low lying areas of the world will see more flooding, and property WILL be destroyed.
Sorry, but the argument of Tack deserves some merit.
It is true that for decades "kilo" meant 1024, but NIST has come out with a solution, and it is the only REAL solution so far. Whatever you can say about NIST, it is they who get standards in industry and government. So let's go with them, and perhaps in a hundred years, nobody will ever remember this temporary insanity which confused 1000 with 1024.
Just to be a devil's advocate, why this is so utterly ridiculous? The value of these things is intangible, and just becuase it is intangible, that does not mean it is of no value. It seems that such an employee should be in a good position to negotiate for better pay, better benefits. And if he does so successfully, such a person DESERVES to get more, right?
Again, I'm not disagreeing with you.
Look at it this way: If I was an 90-something year old hospital tasked to make this decision, I'd do some research to improve my knowledge of the kinds of OSes out there, rather than contend with a silly conundrum that is manufactured out of my own damn ignorance.
Here's a clue: stop being so sensitive. A hospital that tries to save a buck is different from an entrepreneur saving a buck. Heck, a hospital could try saving a buck by watering it's potted plants less, and that'll be fine by me.
If that's so, then I'm Luke Skywalker.
He was THE MAN.
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