Nearly every culture across the world has their own flood myth, because cultures developed near sources of water and transportation (i.e. rivers) that tended to flood. No single event generating all those myths is needed; in fact, the single flood hypothesis is not supported by the details of those flood myths.
The "separate floods" hypothesis is further supported by those cultures that lack flood myths. They're not by rivers. Surely they would have a flood myth if they got flooded out, no?
The day-age hypothesis doesn't last very long when tested against the evidence. It gets too many things in the wrong order (flowering plants before fish and other sea life, for example)
Life being only 6,000 years old is contradicted by much of geology, and paleontology, and the simple chemical and physical processes that support them.
You can't fiddle with fundamental constants to get out of this: Oklo disproves that.
I thought the "Episode IV" stuff started with the re-release of Star Wars just before _The_Empire_Strikes_Back_ was released. That's when the talk of "a trilogy of trilogies" started, and the doubters quipped that at three years between pictures, the last movie would be released in 2001! Which was still way in the future, back then...
You didn't say it directly, but it's worth bringing out: Stand-alone TiVo's record an analog signal, and digitize it and compress it itself.
DirecTiVo takes the digital stream from the satellite and writes it to hard disk.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could buy a box, hook it up to my cable service, plug in an authentication module provided by the cable service, and record their digital stream directly to hard disk? Why do I have to rent their box which only has analog outputs, control it with an IR dongle, and have the digital signal go through decompression, d-to-a, a-to-d, and compression again?
But it's been long known that control groups that get nothing react differently than control groups that get something that may or may not be medicine. That's why the there _is_ something called _the_placebo_effect_. It has been observed.
when you snag someone off the field in Afganistan, and they are carrying an AK-47, and are not in the Northern Alliance or a US Special Forces soldier using native weapons for practical reasons, then it is safe to assume they are a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.
Do you believe that every person in Gitmo was captured under these circumstances?
Actually, it wouldn't be illegal to detain the suspected terrorists at Gitmo even on US soil
Actually, it would. The United States is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, which describe how POWs or captured civilians are required to be treated.
The United States is in violation of those treaty requirements. Treaties are the Supreme Law of the Land (U.S. Constitution Article VI.) So it is not sufficient for Alberto Gonzolas to say "Geneva doesn't apply".
There are a bunch of tax web sites out there. Start at irs.gov; the IRS really is encouraging e-filing. Avoids transcription costs and errors for them.
I used MacInTax (or later, TurboTax for Mac) through 2001, when my Bride made taxes uber-complicated for 2002. She hired a prep firm: $600.
2003 and 2004 were freeTaxUSA.com. I paid them their $10 to e-file my state return, and had both refunds within a week. SSL throughout.
Let the horror stories about how I am scr3\/\/3d by having my tax info on line.
Reed the Torvalds vs. Tannenbaum debate. Even though it's what, over a decade old?
"Modern" doesn't always mean "applicable to this problem". I think both Torvalds and Tannenbaum have good points; Linux focuses on performance, while Micro-kernels focus on modularity.
Calling MacOS X free may be silly, but it is definitely wrong. It costs $129 for a single-computer license.
The fact is that Macs cost about the same as a comparable PC. Asserting otherwise is as truthful as asserting there are no picture editing programs for Linux.
Apple is backing away from FireWire, in that they are making it $20 more expensive to use an iPod with FireWire than to use it with USB 2.0.
If they had one price and you made a choice, USB or FireWire, that would be one thing. But inisiting that those who want to use an iPod with FireWire pay for a USB cable they don't want to use is backing away.
You need to go back to Econ 101 and re-read the chapters titled "Market Failure". Or you know what you're saying, and you just live in a different world....
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But the current party in power does not espouse liberal ideals.
They believe in fiscal irresponsibility.
They believe in trampling civil liberties.
They believe that the President is above the law and the Constitution.
They believe in suppressing workers' rights.
They believe in forcing costs onto consumers when it increases corporate profits.
All of this is demonstrated by their actions and their legislation.
Nothing liberal about any of this.
A heliocentric solar system is supported by scientific evidence to the same extent as is evolution.
The principle of Evolution is as fundamental to biology as the periodic table is to chemistry. And both are solidly grounded in evidence.
There is no controversy, except for why fundamentalists seek to use politics to get what they can't get from the evidence.
Nearly every culture across the world has their own flood myth, because cultures developed near sources of water and transportation (i.e. rivers) that tended to flood. No single event generating all those myths is needed; in fact, the single flood hypothesis is not supported by the details of those flood myths.
The "separate floods" hypothesis is further supported by those cultures that lack flood myths. They're not by rivers. Surely they would have a flood myth if they got flooded out, no?
The day-age hypothesis doesn't last very long when tested against the evidence. It gets too many things in the wrong order (flowering plants before fish and other sea life, for example)
Life being only 6,000 years old is contradicted by much of geology, and paleontology, and the simple chemical and physical processes that support them.
You can't fiddle with fundamental constants to get out of this: Oklo disproves that.
I thought the "Episode IV" stuff started with the re-release of Star Wars just before _The_Empire_Strikes_Back_ was released. That's when the talk of "a trilogy of trilogies" started, and the doubters quipped that at three years between pictures, the last movie would be released in 2001! Which was still way in the future, back then...
You didn't say it directly, but it's worth bringing out: Stand-alone TiVo's record an analog signal, and digitize it and compress it itself.
DirecTiVo takes the digital stream from the satellite and writes it to hard disk.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could buy a box, hook it up to my cable service, plug in an authentication module provided by the cable service, and record their digital stream directly to hard disk? Why do I have to rent their box which only has analog outputs, control it with an IR dongle, and have the digital signal go through decompression, d-to-a, a-to-d, and compression again?
But it's been long known that control groups that get nothing react differently than control groups that get something that may or may not be medicine. That's why the there _is_ something called _the_placebo_effect_. It has been observed.
That, and to brake, they run the motors backward, and charge the batteries back up.
Do you believe that every person in Gitmo was captured under these circumstances?
The US was even willing to give the Taliban foreign aid to help with eradicating the Opium Poppies.
Just like the SOMETHING that linked Iraq to 9-11. Wishful thinking...
No WMDs. Nothing that could threaten the US or Europe.
Actually, it would. The United States is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, which describe how POWs or captured civilians are required to be treated.
The United States is in violation of those treaty requirements. Treaties are the Supreme Law of the Land (U.S. Constitution Article VI.) So it is not sufficient for Alberto Gonzolas to say "Geneva doesn't apply".
There are a bunch of tax web sites out there. Start at irs.gov; the IRS really is encouraging e-filing. Avoids transcription costs and errors for them.
I used MacInTax (or later, TurboTax for Mac) through 2001, when my Bride made taxes uber-complicated for 2002. She hired a prep firm: $600.
2003 and 2004 were freeTaxUSA.com. I paid them their $10 to e-file my state return, and had both refunds within a week. SSL throughout.
Let the horror stories about how I am scr3\/\/3d by having my tax info on line.
I have my tax refund already.
Reed the Torvalds vs. Tannenbaum debate. Even though it's what, over a decade old?
"Modern" doesn't always mean "applicable to this problem". I think both Torvalds and Tannenbaum have good points; Linux focuses on performance, while Micro-kernels focus on modularity.
Calling MacOS X free may be silly, but it is definitely wrong. It costs $129 for a single-computer license.
The fact is that Macs cost about the same as a comparable PC. Asserting otherwise is as truthful as asserting there are no picture editing programs for Linux.
Tom Sholtz, of Boston, went to MIT, not an Ivy League school. Engineering, not Liberal Arts.
Compaq bought the ashes of DEC after DEC settled with Intel on some DEC patents that Intel was supposed to have violated.
One of the tenets of XP is to have a customer representative available all the time. To avoid "having to interpret and 'guess-timate' a lot".
People have called it eXtreme Programming because of the graphic design on the book's cover.
;-)
That, and it's abbreviated XP, so those are the letter capitalized...
Is there a market need for folks who understand both technology and business?
Seems like developing both skill sets would be worthwhile....
Sculley depositioned Apple by shrinking revenues from $1 Billion/year all the way down to $10 Billion/year.
On the minus side, he did sign the 1985 licensing agreement with Microsoft that ended up undoing the company in 1995.
Apple is backing away from FireWire, in that they are making it $20 more expensive to use an iPod with FireWire than to use it with USB 2.0.
If they had one price and you made a choice, USB or FireWire, that would be one thing. But inisiting that those who want to use an iPod with FireWire pay for a USB cable they don't want to use is backing away.
The Supreme Court has defined "limited" as "unlimited". So the public loses.
You need to go back to Econ 101 and re-read the chapters titled "Market Failure". Or you know what you're saying, and you just live in a different world....