Tall, slender women with bodacious tatas are having few children, if any at all. It is women with average or below-average beauty (and intelligence) who continue to have relatively large families.
From HER website: "Mickey lives in Iowa with her husband and two of their children, and divides her time between her family, her writing, teaching at the local university, and the assorted livestock which roam her forty-acre farm."
Do they realize that, if they achieve their goal of turning California back to the way it was when Alta California was a province of Mexico, there will be no one to pay the taxes which fund their paychecks?
The standards were lowered long ago. Only a handful of those who received the Peace Prize in the last 40 years actually deserved it, and some continued their war-making or terrorist activities after receiving the prize, like Le Duc Tho and Yassir Arafat. More recently, Al Gore received it for being a wacko, Jimmy Carter for being an anti-Semite, and now Barack Obama for being one of the last true Marxists in the world.
Too many economists seem to think that the field of economics is a hard science, and they "prove" this by creating models and trying to quantify every variable.
Economics is a social science, it is a study of human psychology and would not be the same if applied to a different species on some other planet.
I had to laugh at the title of this thread. "Puzzled doctors decide to look inside patients' bodies for answers." "Astronomers to turn telescopes toward space."
Has Yucca Mountain closed? Or is it just receiving reduced funding this year? And what happens if Senator Harry Reid is defeated for reelection next year? If Nevada gets another Republican senator, then won't Obama have no reason not to make Yucca Mountain operational?
What you're addressing is not what is learned at an Ivy League college, but who is selected to attend. In a few experimental testing regimes, graduating seniors have tested more poorly than incoming freshmen. This raises the question, What exactly is learned? and that leads to the question, What is it worth? Or, How much is it worth to be surrounded by other brainy teenagers?
Perhaps the student who is accepted at an Ivy League school, but decides to save the money by registering for online courses, is demonstrating a higher intelligence than the ones whose primary claim to fame is a prestigious degree.
The California Air Resources Board is the main reason there are not more diesel-powered cars. The bureaucrats at CARB hate diesels, even more than they hate gasoline engines.
The disadvantage of a diesel-electric hybrid is the original cost. If you are already getting 50 mpg in a small car with a turbodiesel engine, and drive 15,000 miles a year, then your car consumes about 300 gallons of fuel annually. At 75 mpg, about 200 gallons, at 100 mpg about 150 gallons.
So how much EXTRA would you spend for a car that would save you 150 gallons of fuel per year? If fuel was $10/gallon, then maybe a considerable amount. But at less than $3/gallon, there is no reason to pay extra for extra fuel savings. Buy what you want, drive as much as you like.
Eventually the marketplace will nudge fuel prices higher and higher, and then innovative technologies like hybrids and electric vehicles will make sense. Right now they are all hype and PR.
True enough. When you start a major enterprise, one that will never be completed and will take several years just to reach a half-way useful level of operation, then the first few years will always be the most active. The last 5% will take as long as the first 50%
There are few important topics that do not have at least a little bit of information. I do run across articles that are woefully inadequate, but I'm not an expert in those fields and don't have much to contribute.... otherwise I would not be going to Wikipedia for information.
... but scientists are not members of any politically-favored labor union or other organization that can help members of Congress get reelected.
At the rate Congress is spending money, it will not be just the space program which gets cut. Tax-and-spend will ultimately turn the US into a slightly larger version of Argentina.
If you make up a SSN, then it might be one that belongs to someone else. So are there any federal laws that govern this? Or does the "intent to defraud" loophole make it okay?
I remember when the BBC was a reliable new source -- back in the good old days, the 1990s. Now it's just another propaganda network like al Jazeera or Pravda -- it's definitely worse than NPR.
Quote: "That's one way to ensure nobody reads his stuff."
No, that's one way to ensure nobody reads it for free.
It's a brilliant move, I think, because people will pay for quality news coverage but not for leftist editorializing masquerading as news -- they can always find plenty of that for free.
I've been a subscriber to the online edition of the WSJ for a decade or maybe longer, and believe that it's a pretty good deal.
But rather than pay a fixed amount each month for several subscriptions, I'd rather pay a few cents for each article I want to read. How long will it be before a web page has a brief synopsis of the story, and then a button labeled "Buy the rest of this article." Not for a dollar or even 50 cents, but 10 cents or 5 cents or even 2 cents. Maybe the author's pay would be a percentage of the revenue from each story -- a few cents for each article multiplied by 100,000 viewings would make for a decent paycheck.
Are we still evolving? We are too close to the subject, and unable to observe and test hypotheses over a period of 50-100 generations, which would still be less than the minimum required to detect any verifiable change.
Some might argue that the fittest are only not reproducing, but the less fit are having large families and the welfare state is supporting their offspring (see Idiocracy). This is also too short-sighted -- it assumes that current demographic patterns will hold for many thousands of years, not just for a couple decades.
Clearly the Google executives did not donate enough money to Democratic candidates in 2008. That's the only sure way to prevent unpleasant investigations by bureaucrats or congressmen.
It is hardly surprising that the author of Fahrenheit 451 would be a fan of books and libraries. He is also smart enough to know that the Internet is rapidly making traditional libraries obsolete.
With real books, you can hide them in the attic or cellar or in a secret compartment in the walls. But if they are online, then the government does not have to find all the copies of a book to wipe it out... it only needs to find the server and delete the files. Censorship is easier in the digital age.
Has anyone noticed how cold it's been this June? Snow in North Dakota, Ontario, Scotland, and elsewhere.
Has anyone noticed the shortage of sunspots? And when the climate was warming, there were lots of them? Hint: global warming, whether the globe is Earth or Mars or some other planet, is caused by the Sun.
Why is solar management not included in the legislative proposals?
Several years ago I taught American history and world geography in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The school did not have enough textbooks for every child, so only the one with real learning disabilities got their own text that they could take home. Everyone else only had the textbook that I handed out at the beginning of each class and collected at the end. I had a cart that I used to transport 30-35 of each text from classroom to classroom. (It was a heavy-duty cart that lasted the entire school year.)
Additionally, though I chose the better of the two American history texts that the school owned, I did not care much for it and made extensive use of photocopied handouts from "The American Pageant", a text I purchased from Amazon.com with my own money.
My niece who is entering 9th grade had an advanced math text of her own this last year, but no history text at all. My other niece, entering 7th grade, may have had textbooks but never had to bring them home because all homework assignments were on photocopied handouts.
Too bad for the textbook publishers, but they are in the same boat as newspaper publishers -- they are rapidly losing all their customers.
Yeah, I know there are lots of folks who are smarter than I am. but they are not THAT much smarter. Given a reasonably coherent explanation, I can usually understand most anything, including astrophysics and cosmology. String theory does sound like a prank.
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Tall, slender women with bodacious tatas are having few children, if any at all. It is women with average or below-average beauty (and intelligence) who continue to have relatively large families.
From HER website: "Mickey lives in Iowa with her husband and two of their children, and divides her time between her family, her writing, teaching at the local university, and the assorted livestock which roam her forty-acre farm."
But what if everyone moves out of California, except the unemployed agricultural workers?
Do they realize that, if they achieve their goal of turning California back to the way it was when Alta California was a province of Mexico, there will be no one to pay the taxes which fund their paychecks?
"Fair and balanced" is a goal -- FNC may not achieve it, but CNN and MSNBC don't even bother to try. And don't get me started on the BBC.
The standards were lowered long ago. Only a handful of those who received the Peace Prize in the last 40 years actually deserved it, and some continued their war-making or terrorist activities after receiving the prize, like Le Duc Tho and Yassir Arafat. More recently, Al Gore received it for being a wacko, Jimmy Carter for being an anti-Semite, and now Barack Obama for being one of the last true Marxists in the world.
Too many economists seem to think that the field of economics is a hard science, and they "prove" this by creating models and trying to quantify every variable.
Economics is a social science, it is a study of human psychology and would not be the same if applied to a different species on some other planet.
I had to laugh at the title of this thread. "Puzzled doctors decide to look inside patients' bodies for answers." "Astronomers to turn telescopes toward space."
These are speculations which have no possible resolution. Discussions of extra-terrestrial life will always deal with probabilities of existence.
Has Yucca Mountain closed? Or is it just receiving reduced funding this year? And what happens if Senator Harry Reid is defeated for reelection next year? If Nevada gets another Republican senator, then won't Obama have no reason not to make Yucca Mountain operational?
What you're addressing is not what is learned at an Ivy League college, but who is selected to attend. In a few experimental testing regimes, graduating seniors have tested more poorly than incoming freshmen. This raises the question, What exactly is learned? and that leads to the question, What is it worth? Or, How much is it worth to be surrounded by other brainy teenagers?
Perhaps the student who is accepted at an Ivy League school, but decides to save the money by registering for online courses, is demonstrating a higher intelligence than the ones whose primary claim to fame is a prestigious degree.
The California Air Resources Board is the main reason there are not more diesel-powered cars. The bureaucrats at CARB hate diesels, even more than they hate gasoline engines.
The disadvantage of a diesel-electric hybrid is the original cost. If you are already getting 50 mpg in a small car with a turbodiesel engine, and drive 15,000 miles a year, then your car consumes about 300 gallons of fuel annually. At 75 mpg, about 200 gallons, at 100 mpg about 150 gallons.
So how much EXTRA would you spend for a car that would save you 150 gallons of fuel per year? If fuel was $10/gallon, then maybe a considerable amount. But at less than $3/gallon, there is no reason to pay extra for extra fuel savings. Buy what you want, drive as much as you like.
Eventually the marketplace will nudge fuel prices higher and higher, and then innovative technologies like hybrids and electric vehicles will make sense. Right now they are all hype and PR.
True enough. When you start a major enterprise, one that will never be completed and will take several years just to reach a half-way useful level of operation, then the first few years will always be the most active. The last 5% will take as long as the first 50%
There are few important topics that do not have at least a little bit of information. I do run across articles that are woefully inadequate, but I'm not an expert in those fields and don't have much to contribute.... otherwise I would not be going to Wikipedia for information.
... but scientists are not members of any politically-favored labor union or other organization that can help members of Congress get reelected.
At the rate Congress is spending money, it will not be just the space program which gets cut. Tax-and-spend will ultimately turn the US into a slightly larger version of Argentina.
If you make up a SSN, then it might be one that belongs to someone else. So are there any federal laws that govern this? Or does the "intent to defraud" loophole make it okay?
I remember when the BBC was a reliable new source -- back in the good old days, the 1990s. Now it's just another propaganda network like al Jazeera or Pravda -- it's definitely worse than NPR.
Quote: "That's one way to ensure nobody reads his stuff."
No, that's one way to ensure nobody reads it for free.
It's a brilliant move, I think, because people will pay for quality news coverage but not for leftist editorializing masquerading as news -- they can always find plenty of that for free.
I've been a subscriber to the online edition of the WSJ for a decade or maybe longer, and believe that it's a pretty good deal.
But rather than pay a fixed amount each month for several subscriptions, I'd rather pay a few cents for each article I want to read. How long will it be before a web page has a brief synopsis of the story, and then a button labeled "Buy the rest of this article." Not for a dollar or even 50 cents, but 10 cents or 5 cents or even 2 cents. Maybe the author's pay would be a percentage of the revenue from each story -- a few cents for each article multiplied by 100,000 viewings would make for a decent paycheck.
Are we still evolving? We are too close to the subject, and unable to observe and test hypotheses over a period of 50-100 generations, which would still be less than the minimum required to detect any verifiable change.
Some might argue that the fittest are only not reproducing, but the less fit are having large families and the welfare state is supporting their offspring (see Idiocracy). This is also too short-sighted -- it assumes that current demographic patterns will hold for many thousands of years, not just for a couple decades.
Clearly the Google executives did not donate enough money to Democratic candidates in 2008. That's the only sure way to prevent unpleasant investigations by bureaucrats or congressmen.
A BS in physics and a PhD in economics sounds to me like excellent credentials. Especially when Carlin's BS is from Cal Tech and the PhD is from MIT.
http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/
What moron would buy a Panasonic camera anyway?
Or do they sell under another brand name?
It is hardly surprising that the author of Fahrenheit 451 would be a fan of books and libraries. He is also smart enough to know that the Internet is rapidly making traditional libraries obsolete.
With real books, you can hide them in the attic or cellar or in a secret compartment in the walls. But if they are online, then the government does not have to find all the copies of a book to wipe it out... it only needs to find the server and delete the files. Censorship is easier in the digital age.
I thought of mathematical proofs as a game, and I enjoyed working them. But there were only a handful of us who felt that way.
Has anyone noticed how cold it's been this June? Snow in North Dakota, Ontario, Scotland, and elsewhere.
Has anyone noticed the shortage of sunspots? And when the climate was warming, there were lots of them? Hint: global warming, whether the globe is Earth or Mars or some other planet, is caused by the Sun.
Why is solar management not included in the legislative proposals?
Several years ago I taught American history and world geography in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The school did not have enough textbooks for every child, so only the one with real learning disabilities got their own text that they could take home. Everyone else only had the textbook that I handed out at the beginning of each class and collected at the end. I had a cart that I used to transport 30-35 of each text from classroom to classroom. (It was a heavy-duty cart that lasted the entire school year.)
Additionally, though I chose the better of the two American history texts that the school owned, I did not care much for it and made extensive use of photocopied handouts from "The American Pageant", a text I purchased from Amazon.com with my own money.
My niece who is entering 9th grade had an advanced math text of her own this last year, but no history text at all. My other niece, entering 7th grade, may have had textbooks but never had to bring them home because all homework assignments were on photocopied handouts.
Too bad for the textbook publishers, but they are in the same boat as newspaper publishers -- they are rapidly losing all their customers.
Yeah, I know there are lots of folks who are smarter than I am. but they are not THAT much smarter. Given a reasonably coherent explanation, I can usually understand most anything, including astrophysics and cosmology. String theory does sound like a prank.