"ÂGenetic data show that, no matter how racial groups are defined, two people from the same racial group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different racial groups."
American Anthropological Association
Response to OMB Directive 15:
Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative ReportingÂ
(Sept 1997)
Exactly. It's not "fighting political correctness" to back the author of a popular book against all the experts he gets ideas from, who say he's misinterpreting their work; it's assholery.
Somebody has to be the dominant culture on earth at any given time. For a very short while now, it's been European. Most of the time, it's been Asian. For a little while, it was middle eastern.
You think genetics changes that fast as to cause these supremacies?
There is no real concept of Hell in the Old Testament or classic Judaism, especially as a punishment for sin, nor a devil who eternally torments the sinners; nor is there the current concept of Heaven. What there is is the concept of the resurrection, when all those who committed themselves to Yahweh, presumably via Judaism, and were reasonably faithful, will wake up in an earthly world, but one free of strife, pain, and suffering.
"ÂGenetic data show that, no matter how racial groups are defined, two people from the same racial group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different racial groups."
American Anthropological Association
Response to OMB Directive 15:
Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics
and Administrative ReportingÂ
(Sept 1997)
Yeah, it's not like some private company whose workers goofed off would produce a car that got drivers killed or anything.
And it's not like private corporate pressure to be profitable would ever cause sloppy work.
They could take it down a notch, though; I notice many of the contracts I sign for home improvement contractors, etc. insist that any disputes be settled by arbitration, rather than lawsuit. If that's legal, then I'd guess signing an agreement that any disputes be settled by arbitration rather than negative online reviews could be. At least arguably enough that anybody who decides to risk it is him/herself at risk of ending up in court for contract violation. You don't have to win, you just to have a plausible enough case to force the other guy into court, and that's enough to make any sane person give up.
Or you could make the case that in fact no equation really models any natural phenomenon; they just provide asymptotically more accurate estimates.
F=MA.
No it doesn't, you have to correct for relativity.
OK, now it does.
Nope, you have to correct for dark matter and dark energy.
And so on.
Conversely, our view of reality is shaped by our brains, which are in some way wedded to mathematical analysis and constructs. Which would explain why even complex theoretical physics barely even scratches the surface of the world of mathematics.
Look how many mammals have evolved gliding, with bats et al evolving actual flight.
Anyway weren't the flying reptiles pretty big? Didn't have to shrink down to bird size.
So here's the question; you and your family are sitting on the grass in a park, and over there is another guy sitting on the grass, with his family all around him. And both of you are armed with guns. (Maybe it's Texas). And the other guy starts shooting at your family. So.... you don't shoot back, because you don't want to hit his family.
My question is, does your family know you feel this way?
Seems to me a certain nationally prominent daily newspaper described a certain country's dangerous stock of WMDs citing a certain high placed administration official as an anonymous source, which was followed quite quickly by a certain high placed administration official speaking of said country's dangerous stock of WMDs, citing said newspaper article as independent verification. No Wikipedia involvement at all. Turned out quite a bit worse than some book repeating a nutty factoid about the inspiration for a fictional character.
Wikipedia editors, however, have a very slanted set of interests, and as a result errors in articles about Linux, Star Trek, or porn stars will be corrected in seconds, while errors in articles about arts or literature can remain indefinitely.
You should at least flag it as missing a reference. In the days before I gave up on Wikipedia because too many idiots thought it was some sort of hilarious fun to post weird stuff about things like Amelia Bedelia, when I was checking recent changes and I saw something like this without citation I'd make at least a Google search to try and verify it, and if a site came up I'd put in the reference myself, if not I'd look at the editor's prior edits to decide whether to believe them or not.
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"ÂGenetic data show that, no matter how racial groups are defined, two people from the same racial group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different racial groups." American Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 15: Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting (Sept 1997)
Exactly. It's not "fighting political correctness" to back the author of a popular book against all the experts he gets ideas from, who say he's misinterpreting their work; it's assholery.
Somebody has to be the dominant culture on earth at any given time. For a very short while now, it's been European. Most of the time, it's been Asian. For a little while, it was middle eastern. You think genetics changes that fast as to cause these supremacies?
There is no real concept of Hell in the Old Testament or classic Judaism, especially as a punishment for sin, nor a devil who eternally torments the sinners; nor is there the current concept of Heaven. What there is is the concept of the resurrection, when all those who committed themselves to Yahweh, presumably via Judaism, and were reasonably faithful, will wake up in an earthly world, but one free of strife, pain, and suffering.
"ÂGenetic data show that, no matter how racial groups are defined, two people from the same racial group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different racial groups." American Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 15: Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting (Sept 1997)
Yeah, it's not like some private company whose workers goofed off would produce a car that got drivers killed or anything. And it's not like private corporate pressure to be profitable would ever cause sloppy work.
On the one hand, it sure got them a lot of bad publicity. On the other hand, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
They could take it down a notch, though; I notice many of the contracts I sign for home improvement contractors, etc. insist that any disputes be settled by arbitration, rather than lawsuit. If that's legal, then I'd guess signing an agreement that any disputes be settled by arbitration rather than negative online reviews could be. At least arguably enough that anybody who decides to risk it is him/herself at risk of ending up in court for contract violation. You don't have to win, you just to have a plausible enough case to force the other guy into court, and that's enough to make any sane person give up.
That's an old argument. Did Newton invent F=MA? Or did he discover it, floating out there in some cognitive space waiting to be discovered?
Or you could make the case that in fact no equation really models any natural phenomenon; they just provide asymptotically more accurate estimates. F=MA. No it doesn't, you have to correct for relativity. OK, now it does. Nope, you have to correct for dark matter and dark energy. And so on.
Conversely, our view of reality is shaped by our brains, which are in some way wedded to mathematical analysis and constructs. Which would explain why even complex theoretical physics barely even scratches the surface of the world of mathematics.
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What a coincidence; there's a brain-dead zone in Connecticut, the size of Connecticut.
Look how many mammals have evolved gliding, with bats et al evolving actual flight. Anyway weren't the flying reptiles pretty big? Didn't have to shrink down to bird size.
I tried to eat omni but the staples stuck between my teeth.
They better have muscles for breathing. There were no cpap machines.
Exactly. Scarcity of resources selects for smaller organisms. Including little sheepish things we call mammals.
The bottom line is, if Hamas tells you to take shelter in a school/mosque/hospital, you should stay as far from there as you can.
So here's the question; you and your family are sitting on the grass in a park, and over there is another guy sitting on the grass, with his family all around him. And both of you are armed with guns. (Maybe it's Texas). And the other guy starts shooting at your family. So. ... you don't shoot back, because you don't want to hit his family.
My question is, does your family know you feel this way?
I have heard that Amelia Bedelia was actually born in Kenya.
Seems to me a certain nationally prominent daily newspaper described a certain country's dangerous stock of WMDs citing a certain high placed administration official as an anonymous source, which was followed quite quickly by a certain high placed administration official speaking of said country's dangerous stock of WMDs, citing said newspaper article as independent verification. No Wikipedia involvement at all. Turned out quite a bit worse than some book repeating a nutty factoid about the inspiration for a fictional character.
Mod up!
Wikipedia editors, however, have a very slanted set of interests, and as a result errors in articles about Linux, Star Trek, or porn stars will be corrected in seconds, while errors in articles about arts or literature can remain indefinitely.
You should at least flag it as missing a reference. In the days before I gave up on Wikipedia because too many idiots thought it was some sort of hilarious fun to post weird stuff about things like Amelia Bedelia, when I was checking recent changes and I saw something like this without citation I'd make at least a Google search to try and verify it, and if a site came up I'd put in the reference myself, if not I'd look at the editor's prior edits to decide whether to believe them or not.
Ooh, I like donkeys! What's his/her name?