ID says look at the signal, analyze it, try to find other explanations for apparent "design", if there isn't one, label it "designer unknown".
No. Evolution is an explanation for apparent "design", yet IDists and Creationists reject it out of hand.
Those scientists who proposed ID have never been given enough of a hearing to develop any type of tests for the hypothesis that some element was designed or not.
It isn't the job of the scientific establishment to hear anyone who has a crackpot idea. It is up to those challenging the scientific establishment to show that their explanation is better than the current one. They've had twenty-two years since Edwards v. Aguillard to propose a testable theory of Intelligent Design, and they haven't done anything.
Just look at the reply just after yours for someone who doesn't even consider that some characteristics of life may fit the same category of information as SETI is based on.
SETI is looking for signals that are artificial, that cannot be explained by natural processes. The effort is huge, because the number of natural signals is overwhelming. ID, on the other hand, rejects well-known natural processes that account for the appearance of design, that are supported by many different independent lines of evidence.
The fact that some of the people who have adopted the idea of ID have gone on to extend it in religious ways does not invalidate the idea itself any more than the fact that many atheists have gone on to say that the Theory of Evolution proves there is no God invalidates Evolution.
Except that the earlies Intelligent Design writing, Of Pandas and People, is a search-and-replace edit of Creationist materials. s/Creator/Intelligent Designer/, and a few other terms. There was no "idea of ID" independent of Creationism.
My cable bill (TV and Internet) from Time Warner just went up by $6 per month. 5%. We had an outage of the digital cable box (analog signals still worked) on the night of the Oscars. My wife would have been furious if she had missed the show. Two long phone conversations with tech support, and I had to take time off work to be there for a service call. Then, all of a sudden, they fixed the problem. All that aggravation, and they give me a $3 credit and a $6/month surcharge.
Cable co's aren't "passing on costs", they're gouging consumers.
Most cable companies have exclusive agreements with local municipalities. So there can be no other competitors to undercut them. That's what keeps the prices so high, and enables the quality of service to decline.
Ah, then it would be fairly difficult, as it would need power just to keep its position.
You don't seem to understand how anchors work. The anchor digs into the seabed, and then there's a chain (mostly for weight) and then the anchor line that connects to the floating, anchored thing. Do this three times, with three anchors, off in slightly different directions. Kinda like this: \|/. No power needed. The current and wind push, the anchor lines resist that pushing.
Detailed global circulation models that predict climate accurately are still young. You are correct that we cannot tell definitively what will happen everywhere.
However, the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere is well understood. And the rate at which CO2 is being added to the atmosphere is also well understood. And the gross changes in earth's thermal radiation is also well known.
So we have ideas about what will happen. Ice caps melting at the poles, which raises sea levels and might change ocean currents. Warmer surface waters in the tropics, which is expected to increase storm frequency and intensity.
Do we keep on adding more CO2 to the atmosphere as if none of those effects will happen? Or do we change course?
The color Macintosh II came out in 1987. Pricey, but 256 colors out of a palette of millions in a 640x480 (std) or 70x x 512 (MaxAppleZoom) display. Apple IIGS came out with color in 1986. I forget the resolution/number of colors/palette issues on that machine, as I never had one.
Don't lie. I've been a java developer for years, back-end server stuff and web apps. Now I've been assigned to work on a project with a Swing front end. The developers who used to work on it were let go. Can one pick up swing in a couple of days? I have an 800 page book on my desk, just for swing.
It'll take a while to go through it, and go through my ad-hoc modifications of existing code, to figure out how to make the UI simply look good. I can go to my boss and say "but it will take me two weeks to get up to speed", and get away with it. If I had said "yeah, I know that stuff" it would be harder to avoid an unmanageable deadline.
If you have a 3 dimensional cube, divided into 27 cubelets, and two players playing tic-tac-toe, the first player can always win by choosing the center square. No matter where the second player goes, the first player can get two in a row (with the open space not lining up with the second player's first move), and then make a triangle.
There was no luck involved in the things that determined his personality
It just happened that that the skills he honed over those 10,000 hours happened to turn into something valuable. And then Microsoft got a series of lucky breaks. The weather happened to be good on the day that IBM wanted to talk to Intergalactic Digital Research, so the founder was out flying his plane. Had it been a rainy day, Gates' company might have made it through the 1980s, or it might have foundered or been bought out. It certainly wouldn't have been the powerhouse that it is.
Why is it that some musicians, after 10,000 hours of practice, are struggling with their day jobs, and others are mega-stars?
The Compaq LTE did not push the keyboard to the top of the lower case. It had the keyboard at the front, just like the Macintosh Portable that came out a month before. There were other computers with the hinge at the back of the lower case.
Apple was first with the palm rest.
From The Article: PowerBook
Company: Apple Released: Oct. 21, 1991 Specs: Integrated trackball; keyboard pushed to the back of the lower shell, making room for the palm rest.
For you and me, buy a nice monitor and a Mac Mini. I got a 1.4 GHz PPC mini, second hand, for $350 on eBay. I'm sentimental about Classic applications and AppleWorks. I boot 10.3 (for Classic, once in a blue moon), and 10.5.
When it gets too slow, I steel myself to leave Classic unrunnable, and buy a new Mac Mini.
I don't see this at all. If individuals were personally responsible for their own health care costs, many would not be able to afford preventative care. Regular check-ups would become semi-regular, as finances permit. Catastrophies would wipe out many families, and many people would die from conditions that could have been caught and treated earlier.
What do you mean by "opening up the market"? Letting anyone hang out a shingle and call themselves a doctor? Or offer whatever they want to call medicine? Less regulation means more thalidomide babies.
Do you really want doctors to compete for your business? Do you really want to shop around and read fine print about how fee structures have changed when you're sick, compare services and fee schedules when you're sick? Not me! Do you think it's valuable to have a long-term relationship with a doctor, who is familiar with events and treatments from your past without having to fill out a long form with a complete medical history for a new doctor on every visit?
No other advanced industrialized country pays as much for Health Care as we do here. No other advanced industrialized country has as balkanized a medical system as we do here. Medical savings accounts are ideology, not good public policy. High deductible
These energy-returning shock absorbers are less than 100% efficient. Not all of the energy the vehicle loses to the pothole gets returned to the car's batteries. You will still get better mileage on smooth roads than on bumpy ones.
The half-life of Carbon 14, which is the radioactive isotope of carbon used in carbon datingm is 5730 years, +/1 40, says google.
Fundamentalists also use Bishop Ussher's calculation for the age of the earth, which puts creation "to the night preceding 23 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar.", from wikipedia. So the universe, and the earth, are 6013 years old.
Hydrologically, Lakes Michigan and Huron are one body of water. They're at the same level, water flows back and forth between them with the tides. cite
Cue reference to "The Dragon" magazine's comparison of Fantasy Role Playing and Sci-Fi Role Playing: "With this wand of fireballs, I banish thou undead" vs. "eat hot photons, martian scum".
Especially entertaining is the source of the weapons.
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One value, and it has to be the same for a village on the edge of a desert as it is for survivors of a shipwreck in an overloaded lifeboat in the middle of Lake Superior.
I was a co-op for Eastman Kodak in the early 1980s. My recollection is that they thought a 35 mm still-camera film frame was equivalent to a 6 megapixel image (3000 x 2000). Since the film runs horizontally in a still camera and vertically in movie camera, a still frame is about twice the area as a movie frame. So I'd buy a movie film being equivalent to 3 megapixel images. Which is a little better than 1920x1080 HDTV, before you get into 24 frames per second of US film, vs. 60 frames per second of 1080p HDTV.
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No. Evolution is an explanation for apparent "design", yet IDists and Creationists reject it out of hand.
It isn't the job of the scientific establishment to hear anyone who has a crackpot idea. It is up to those challenging the scientific establishment to show that their explanation is better than the current one. They've had twenty-two years since Edwards v. Aguillard to propose a testable theory of Intelligent Design, and they haven't done anything.
SETI is looking for signals that are artificial, that cannot be explained by natural processes. The effort is huge, because the number of natural signals is overwhelming. ID, on the other hand, rejects well-known natural processes that account for the appearance of design, that are supported by many different independent lines of evidence.
Except that the earlies Intelligent Design writing, Of Pandas and People, is a search-and-replace edit of Creationist materials. s/Creator/Intelligent Designer/, and a few other terms. There was no "idea of ID" independent of Creationism.
My cable bill (TV and Internet) from Time Warner just went up by $6 per month. 5%. We had an outage of the digital cable box (analog signals still worked) on the night of the Oscars. My wife would have been furious if she had missed the show. Two long phone conversations with tech support, and I had to take time off work to be there for a service call. Then, all of a sudden, they fixed the problem. All that aggravation, and they give me a $3 credit and a $6/month surcharge.
Cable co's aren't "passing on costs", they're gouging consumers.
How did you negotiate the "unlimited forever" terms?
Most cable companies have exclusive agreements with local municipalities. So there can be no other competitors to undercut them. That's what keeps the prices so high, and enables the quality of service to decline.
Salt water is.
You don't seem to understand how anchors work. The anchor digs into the seabed, and then there's a chain (mostly for weight) and then the anchor line that connects to the floating, anchored thing. Do this three times, with three anchors, off in slightly different directions. Kinda like this: \|/. No power needed. The current and wind push, the anchor lines resist that pushing.
Detailed global circulation models that predict climate accurately are still young. You are correct that we cannot tell definitively what will happen everywhere.
However, the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere is well understood. And the rate at which CO2 is being added to the atmosphere is also well understood. And the gross changes in earth's thermal radiation is also well known.
So we have ideas about what will happen. Ice caps melting at the poles, which raises sea levels and might change ocean currents. Warmer surface waters in the tropics, which is expected to increase storm frequency and intensity.
Do we keep on adding more CO2 to the atmosphere as if none of those effects will happen? Or do we change course?
The color Macintosh II came out in 1987. Pricey, but 256 colors out of a palette of millions in a 640x480 (std) or 70x x 512 (MaxAppleZoom) display. Apple IIGS came out with color in 1986. I forget the resolution/number of colors/palette issues on that machine, as I never had one.
The article left off Apple DOS 3.3.
Don't lie. I've been a java developer for years, back-end server stuff and web apps. Now I've been assigned to work on a project with a Swing front end. The developers who used to work on it were let go. Can one pick up swing in a couple of days? I have an 800 page book on my desk, just for swing.
It'll take a while to go through it, and go through my ad-hoc modifications of existing code, to figure out how to make the UI simply look good. I can go to my boss and say "but it will take me two weeks to get up to speed", and get away with it. If I had said "yeah, I know that stuff" it would be harder to avoid an unmanageable deadline.
If you have a 3 dimensional cube, divided into 27 cubelets, and two players playing tic-tac-toe, the first player can always win by choosing the center square. No matter where the second player goes, the first player can get two in a row (with the open space not lining up with the second player's first move), and then make a triangle.
x2 | |
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x3 | x1 |
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| | o2
neutron bombs, AKA H bombs, are not so clean. See here or here.
It just happened that that the skills he honed over those 10,000 hours happened to turn into something valuable. And then Microsoft got a series of lucky breaks. The weather happened to be good on the day that IBM wanted to talk to Intergalactic Digital Research, so the founder was out flying his plane. Had it been a rainy day, Gates' company might have made it through the 1980s, or it might have foundered or been bought out. It certainly wouldn't have been the powerhouse that it is.
Why is it that some musicians, after 10,000 hours of practice, are struggling with their day jobs, and others are mega-stars?
The Compaq LTE did not push the keyboard to the top of the lower case. It had the keyboard at the front, just like the Macintosh Portable that came out a month before. There were other computers with the hinge at the back of the lower case.
Apple was first with the palm rest.
From The Article: PowerBook
Company: Apple
Released: Oct. 21, 1991
Specs: Integrated trackball; keyboard pushed to the back of the lower shell, making room for the palm rest.
For you and me, buy a nice monitor and a Mac Mini. I got a 1.4 GHz PPC mini, second hand, for $350 on eBay. I'm sentimental about Classic applications and AppleWorks. I boot 10.3 (for Classic, once in a blue moon), and 10.5.
When it gets too slow, I steel myself to leave Classic unrunnable, and buy a new Mac Mini.
Bull fertilizer. No, wait; Bull fertilizer is useful. Your uninformed rant is not.
I don't see this at all. If individuals were personally responsible for their own health care costs, many would not be able to afford preventative care. Regular check-ups would become semi-regular, as finances permit. Catastrophies would wipe out many families, and many people would die from conditions that could have been caught and treated earlier.
What do you mean by "opening up the market"? Letting anyone hang out a shingle and call themselves a doctor? Or offer whatever they want to call medicine? Less regulation means more thalidomide babies.
Do you really want doctors to compete for your business? Do you really want to shop around and read fine print about how fee structures have changed when you're sick, compare services and fee schedules when you're sick? Not me! Do you think it's valuable to have a long-term relationship with a doctor, who is familiar with events and treatments from your past without having to fill out a long form with a complete medical history for a new doctor on every visit?
No other advanced industrialized country pays as much for Health Care as we do here. No other advanced industrialized country has as balkanized a medical system as we do here. Medical savings accounts are ideology, not good public policy.
High deductible
It's such a good thing that the government never subsidized research into computer communication networks!
Now check the gauge on your sarcasm detector.
These energy-returning shock absorbers are less than 100% efficient. Not all of the energy the vehicle loses to the pothole gets returned to the car's batteries. You will still get better mileage on smooth roads than on bumpy ones.
The half-life of Carbon 14, which is the radioactive isotope of carbon used in carbon datingm is 5730 years, +/1 40, says google.
Fundamentalists also use Bishop Ussher's calculation for the age of the earth, which puts creation "to the night preceding 23 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar.", from wikipedia. So the universe, and the earth, are 6013 years old.
Hydrologically, Lakes Michigan and Huron are one body of water. They're at the same level, water flows back and forth between them with the tides. cite
Volume of Michiga/Huron: 4,920 km^3 (Michigan) + 3,540 km^3 (Huron) = 8,460 km^3
Volume of Superior: 12,100 km^3.
Volume of Lake Baikal: 23,600 km^3.
Cue reference to "The Dragon" magazine's comparison of Fantasy Role Playing and Sci-Fi Role Playing: "With this wand of fireballs, I banish thou undead" vs. "eat hot photons, martian scum".
Especially entertaining is the source of the weapons.
How much time did you spend on the search?
At what rate are you paid?
Minimize the cost to your boss...
What is the objective value of fresh water?
One value, and it has to be the same for a village on the edge of a desert as it is for survivors of a shipwreck in an overloaded lifeboat in the middle of Lake Superior.
Objective value is a destructive myth.
I was a co-op for Eastman Kodak in the early 1980s. My recollection is that they thought a 35 mm still-camera film frame was equivalent to a 6 megapixel image (3000 x 2000). Since the film runs horizontally in a still camera and vertically in movie camera, a still frame is about twice the area as a movie frame. So I'd buy a movie film being equivalent to 3 megapixel images. Which is a little better than 1920x1080 HDTV, before you get into 24 frames per second of US film, vs. 60 frames per second of 1080p HDTV.
I am very skeptical of your 28 megapixel claim.
Verizon and AT&T are both conglomerations of baby bells. But they're not the same company.
Verizon formed from a merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Bell Atlantic earlier gobbled up NYNEX.
The "new" AT&T is SBC, renamed. SBC gobbled up Pacific Telesis and Ameritech, the old AT&T, and finally BellSouth.