Except that there is so little chance of life occuring the way it is today through evolution alone. I suppose I developed an 'intelligent design' belief, but there are WAY too many coincedences to support evolution alone.
Yet another assertion from incredulity. Not even a competent argument, just a bald assertion. You believe that it is true, because you have been told so by people you trues. But you have no understanding how your claim is supported, or why conventional biology, paleontology, chemistry, and statistics shows it to be rubbish.
You need a gap for your god to be in, and you are uncomfortable that science has filled in one more. Gods used to move the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. Now we know that it is gravity. God used to change the seasons; now we know about the earth's axial inclination. God used to control the weather; now meteorology gives us a pretty good prediction of what is going to happen a day or two in advance. God used to control good crops and famines; plentiful game or not; a good catch or now. Now we know about reproduction, and ecology. God used to be the creator of each individual kind of living thing; now we know we are all related, and the process that created the diversity of life forms we see in the present and the remains of life forms from the past.
The problem is what you have to throw out to believe in that literal 6-day creation.
Astronomy tells us that the universe is ~ 14 Billion years old. A sound conclusion based on many detailed and precise observations and measurements of the universe around us.
Geology tells us that the world is ~ 4.5 Billion years old. A sound conclusion based on many detailed and precise observations and measurements of our world.
Paleontology tells us the history of life. A history that goes back ~ 2 Billion years. Again, this history was inferred from a long series of detailed and precise observations of the world.
How does science progress? Detailed and precise observations are the bedrock, the test. The ultimate arbiter. This principle, that reality, carefully observed and measured, makes or breaks an explanation. Explain reality, and the explanation becomes stronger. Contradict reality, and head for the rubbish heap.
Creationism, and its court-inspired offspring, Intelligent Design, contradicts this bedrock principle. Creationism says stop observing nature. Stop explaining how nature works. Trust the robed men to tell you what you need to know.
Oh, and the notion that evolution has substantial problems is a lie. And Intelligent Design is not at all a consistent theory, at least for the scientific use of the word "Theory". As in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Computers are just as constrained: they have to work LOGICALLY to support applications.
The library of applications, and the library of accessible documents/databases/media files, are what make computers useful.
Build a new OS with a new API, and you will be ignored (unless the new API is radically better than anything that is out there, and that hasn't happened for 21 years).
There are a lot of people out there with older "computer skills" that have struggled for years after being downsized to find another job in the IT field. Some are training to sell real estate, or getting management degrees.
And soon, anyone in IT will be competing with 14,500 former HP employees.
Is it all that surprising that the number of people willing to spend four years of their lives and a hundred thousand dollars to enter this field are dropping?
Sometimes, the market needs a kick in the pants. Remember close-captioning? It used to be found only on premium TVs. FCC considered making it mandatory (with the V-chip? I don't recall the timing) and the manufacturers moaned that it would add $100 to the price of a TV.
The FCC made them mandatory anyway. And guess what? The price didn't go up $100. When the economies of scale kicked in, costs to the vendors were about 75 cents.
The same thing would happen. If the FCC mandated that all TVs sold after Jan 1 2006 had to be able to tune DTV and display it at current NTSC resolution, it would happen. TV prices might go up $5 or $10 at retail.
Piezoelectric print heads are still the method used to get the ink from the cartridge to the paper, and while HP has moved to Epson's model of separating the head and the ink reservoir. Big Whup.
Epson uses piezoelectric print heads. HP uses thermal: a dab of electricity boils part of the ink droplet, and the steam propels the rest of the droplet out the nozzle.
I wrote a lot of code using Stevens' Unix Network Programming. Highly, highly, highly recommended. Theory and practice, in one volume. Understanding how the C API works helps one understand network programming in every other language...
I have access to the first edition of APUE from the library, so I won't be running out to buy a new copy.
More fundamentally, there is bias in the way editors assign reporters to cover stories and the guidance they're given. In some cases, the bias of the editors is to cover the stories that will attract the most viewers/readers/listeners. Many in the Journalism community still believe that accuracy in reporting serves this cause.
In other cases, the decision is more about presenting a political viewpoint.
Looks similar to Face Off at King's Island (near Cincy, OH). Motor pulls the cars (riders are suspended, and sit face-to-face like on old passenger trains; the track is overhead) backwards and up an incline, then it lets go. You zoom back through the loading area, through a double loop, and back up another incline paralell to the first. Then back down, through the loops again, back through the loading area, up the hill, and then the brakes slowly lower you back down to the start.
Free trade always hurts those who lose their jobs to globalization. These people are easy to identify. Free trade helps those in exporting industries. Economists (and I play one on the net) claim that the help to exporting industries always exceeds the hurt to industries that compete with imports.
But that economic analysis makes a lot of assumptions. It assumes that the distribution of the benefits and losses doesn't matter. It assumes that there is a net benefit to losing a million dollars per year in jobs that competed with imports, and gaining a million and a quarter dollars per year in new exporting industries. Without noting that the dollar figures represent the loss of 20 middle-class jobs at $50,000/year, while the gain is 10 jobs at $25,000/year with $1 Million/year going to an executive.
Free Trade and Immigration are very good for the management teams that export the jobs, and for the politically connected who can snag export subsidies. They hurt workers in industries that face new foreign competition. And those hurt workers put downward pressure on wages in industries where their skills are even somewhat transferable. Resulting in a tendency to concentrate wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
The IBM PC came out in 1981; Apple's LISA in 1983, and the Mac in 1984. By 1984, IBM had a 32% market share vs. 15% for Apple II and % by the end of the year for the Mac.
Even the Amiga's custom graphics and sound chips couldn't give that machine enough of an advantage to overcome the DOS and Mac advantages of a wide pool of applications and users.
Sometimes you can own property in jurisdictions where you can't vote.
Own a business in a town other than where you live, for example. The local government you had no say in electing decides that it knows better than you what to do with your property.
What if one campaigns actively for an opponent of a local government official. The incumbant retains his seat, and then mobilizes the government against all who worked against him.
a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants).
A coal-burning plant produces more nuclear waste than does a nuke plant only during normal operation. That's ignoring the problem of decommissioning the plant after it becomes too old and too radioactive to maintain.
The plasma operates at far less than atmospheric pressure. It's nearly a vacuum. So if there was a leak, and you were standing right by it, you might feel a draft and hear a loud hiss as air rushes in, and douses the reaction.
Yes, but what about the very real risk that the Fusion reactor will get out of control, exploding in the face of its operators and
Can't happen.
and turning them into battle-scarred machine-slaved monsters with mechanical octopus arms, an addiction to Tritium and an obsessive drive to build more Fusion reactors?
Fox "News" isn't news; it is to the Republican Party what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. It "reports" what it is told to report, facts be damned.
It seems to me that this would, or has already been, tested on humans who aren't from the good ole US... The are billions of people of Earth, and they gov'y knows where to find the ones who won't be noticed... i.e. prostitutes etc.
Or foreign nationals. Abducted, and then given a choice between tortu^H^H^H^H^Hcoercive interrogation or volunteering for a medical experiment.
Legalization of pot would: (a) lower prices, (b) increase usage, and (c) decrease the crime involved in the production and distribution of the crop.
To me, it's a no-brainer. Add in (d) generate a bunch of tax revenue for the government. I'd split them to general revenues, and funding awareness programs (smoke responsibly) and research (what's the pot equivalent of a breathalyzer?) If DWH is as risky as DWI, then it should carry the same penalties.
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You need a gap for your god to be in, and you are uncomfortable that science has filled in one more. Gods used to move the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. Now we know that it is gravity. God used to change the seasons; now we know about the earth's axial inclination. God used to control the weather; now meteorology gives us a pretty good prediction of what is going to happen a day or two in advance. God used to control good crops and famines; plentiful game or not; a good catch or now. Now we know about reproduction, and ecology. God used to be the creator of each individual kind of living thing; now we know we are all related, and the process that created the diversity of life forms we see in the present and the remains of life forms from the past.
The problem is what you have to throw out to believe in that literal 6-day creation.
Astronomy tells us that the universe is ~ 14 Billion years old. A sound conclusion based on many detailed and precise observations and measurements of the universe around us.
Geology tells us that the world is ~ 4.5 Billion years old. A sound conclusion based on many detailed and precise observations and measurements of our world.
Paleontology tells us the history of life. A history that goes back ~ 2 Billion years. Again, this history was inferred from a long series of detailed and precise observations of the world.
How does science progress? Detailed and precise observations are the bedrock, the test. The ultimate arbiter. This principle, that reality, carefully observed and measured, makes or breaks an explanation. Explain reality, and the explanation becomes stronger. Contradict reality, and head for the rubbish heap.
Creationism, and its court-inspired offspring, Intelligent Design, contradicts this bedrock principle. Creationism says stop observing nature. Stop explaining how nature works. Trust the robed men to tell you what you need to know.
Oh, and the notion that evolution has substantial problems is a lie. And Intelligent Design is not at all a consistent theory, at least for the scientific use of the word "Theory". As in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Computers are just as constrained: they have to work LOGICALLY to support applications.
The library of applications, and the library of accessible documents/databases/media files, are what make computers useful.
Build a new OS with a new API, and you will be ignored (unless the new API is radically better than anything that is out there, and that hasn't happened for 21 years).
His (second) wife was 43 when his youngest daughter was born in 2000. That means that she was born in 1957, and got married in 1975.
At age 18.
Doohan was 55 at the time.
There are a lot of people out there with older "computer skills" that have struggled for years after being downsized to find another job in the IT field. Some are training to sell real estate, or getting management degrees.
And soon, anyone in IT will be competing with 14,500 former HP employees.
Is it all that surprising that the number of people willing to spend four years of their lives and a hundred thousand dollars to enter this field are dropping?
Huge SUVs _were_ popular, up until last year. Sales of medium and large SUVs are down 30% from a year ago.
There's a GM Assembly plant near here.
Sometimes, the market needs a kick in the pants. Remember close-captioning? It used to be found only on premium TVs. FCC considered making it mandatory (with the V-chip? I don't recall the timing) and the manufacturers moaned that it would add $100 to the price of a TV.
The FCC made them mandatory anyway. And guess what? The price didn't go up $100. When the economies of scale kicked in, costs to the vendors were about 75 cents.
The same thing would happen. If the FCC mandated that all TVs sold after Jan 1 2006 had to be able to tune DTV and display it at current NTSC resolution, it would happen. TV prices might go up $5 or $10 at retail.
This solves some of the subsidy problem...
TFA says they're lowering the price of an ink refill to $10, from the current $30.
I'll wait until a third party can verify the claim that printing really costs less. Then consider a networked all-in-one for me & my wife.
I wrote a lot of code using Stevens' Unix Network Programming. Highly, highly, highly recommended. Theory and practice, in one volume. Understanding how the C API works helps one understand network programming in every other language...
I have access to the first edition of APUE from the library, so I won't be running out to buy a new copy.
More fundamentally, there is bias in the way editors assign reporters to cover stories and the guidance they're given. In some cases, the bias of the editors is to cover the stories that will attract the most viewers/readers/listeners. Many in the Journalism community still believe that accuracy in reporting serves this cause.
In other cases, the decision is more about presenting a political viewpoint.
Looks similar to Face Off at King's Island (near Cincy, OH). Motor pulls the cars (riders are suspended, and sit face-to-face like on old passenger trains; the track is overhead) backwards and up an incline, then it lets go. You zoom back through the loading area, through a double loop, and back up another incline paralell to the first. Then back down, through the loops again, back through the loading area, up the hill, and then the brakes slowly lower you back down to the start.
Free trade always hurts those who lose their jobs to globalization. These people are easy to identify. Free trade helps those in exporting industries. Economists (and I play one on the net) claim that the help to exporting industries always exceeds the hurt to industries that compete with imports.
But that economic analysis makes a lot of assumptions. It assumes that the distribution of the benefits and losses doesn't matter. It assumes that there is a net benefit to losing a million dollars per year in jobs that competed with imports, and gaining a million and a quarter dollars per year in new exporting industries. Without noting that the dollar figures represent the loss of 20 middle-class jobs at $50,000/year, while the gain is 10 jobs at $25,000/year with $1 Million/year going to an executive.
Free Trade and Immigration are very good for the management teams that export the jobs, and for the politically connected who can snag export subsidies. They hurt workers in industries that face new foreign competition. And those hurt workers put downward pressure on wages in industries where their skills are even somewhat transferable. Resulting in a tendency to concentrate wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
The IBM PC came out in 1981; Apple's LISA in 1983, and the Mac in 1984. By 1984, IBM had a 32% market share vs. 15% for Apple II and % by the end of the year for the Mac.
Even the Amiga's custom graphics and sound chips couldn't give that machine enough of an advantage to overcome the DOS and Mac advantages of a wide pool of applications and users.
Sometimes you can own property in jurisdictions where you can't vote.
Own a business in a town other than where you live, for example. The local government you had no say in electing decides that it knows better than you what to do with your property.
What if one campaigns actively for an opponent of a local government official. The incumbant retains his seat, and then mobilizes the government against all who worked against him.
The plasma operates at far less than atmospheric pressure. It's nearly a vacuum. So if there was a leak, and you were standing right by it, you might feel a draft and hear a loud hiss as air rushes in, and douses the reaction.
Nope. There is no way a fusion reactor can explode. Not enough high-temperature, high-potential-energy material.
Fox "News" isn't news; it is to the Republican Party what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. It "reports" what it is told to report, facts be damned.
Legalization of pot would: (a) lower prices, (b) increase usage, and (c) decrease the crime involved in the production and distribution of the crop.
To me, it's a no-brainer. Add in (d) generate a bunch of tax revenue for the government. I'd split them to general revenues, and funding awareness programs (smoke responsibly) and research (what's the pot equivalent of a breathalyzer?) If DWH is as risky as DWI, then it should carry the same penalties.
But was your old boss's land under the Stadium and the parking lots?
Or was it just near the Stadium, and coveted by the Stadium developers. Who, as politically connected big-wigs, didn't want to pay the asking price?
"Congress shall make no law ..." It's right there, in the Constitution