It's not a question of interference; it's a question of saturating a cell. If you've ever been near a bus route using your phone and had a bus full of commuters on their way to work or home go but you might have encountered the issue.
I was once driving myself crazy trying to figure out an intermittent outage problem with a bunch of laptops using cellular modems to connect back to our main computer. Some, but not all, of the laptops would lose connection simultaneously for a short time, then be fine, the rest would loses connection similarly a few minutes later. They ran fine all morning but as it got on toward 3pm it started driving us all crazy. I happened to look out the window and see a full bus go by (one of the long, extended ones) and all but one connection dropped as it stopped nearby. I even lost my voice connection, as soon as the bus pulled away everything came back.
Imagine now a 747 full of people intermittently using their phones during a flight across any given part of the us, not only are they changing cells at a speed that is likely to tax the poor (I'm guessing 8088) processors doing the switching beyond their design specs, but also randomly knocking people off their calls all along the route.
Yes, lines of people who are probably not eligible. Do you thing having a cash incentive to lie is likely to make more people tell the truth about whether they are eligible or not? If you need a transfusion, do you want the unit that came from the junkie who lied on the form so they could get something to eat that day? The safety of the blood supply goes way down when you start paying people, that's why it's not allowed in the US. Anyone who "donates" and gets paid, the plasma isn't going to people, it goes to make cosmetics and stuff.
[snip] If Christians were allowed to arbitrarily re-interpret the bible and throw away the parts of it they didn't believe, then it would be a very different book. [snip]
-Don
Some would claim that it would be exactly the book(s) we see today.
It's really a question of will. Prior to 9/11 people's response to a hijacking was mostly "Oh, crap I didn't want to fly to Cuba" Are you willing to die to stop a plane being diverted to another airport?
Post 9/11, I doubt [most] anyone would hesitate to step in harms way to take down a hijacker.
The problem is, that when you reproduce for too long, into older age, you start competing with your own offspring for resources [wives/girlfriends] thus, effectively, reducing you previous contribution. Thus, not actually increasing the likelyhood of passing on those genes. Reproduction into old age is not really a desireable trait in a population.
... Its a FACT that if we had a computer powerful enough, and knew where every particle was and what speeds they were traveling at... Ever hear of heisenberg?
The more precisely the position is determined,
the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
--Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927
And Trolls spring fully formed from the forehead of ignorance?
Seriously, anyone who has a firm grounding in the science, whether they believe it or not, can make cogent arguments on the subject, lacking the education all you can do is parrot tired old, mostly refuted, arguments.
I would think the people who objects to evolution would welcome any opportunity to learn about the matter, so they can make informed arguments against it. Oh, wait, I forgot; they spell informed d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s.
Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style,
when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing.
It is certainly a word, just not the way many think.
That and They couldn't tolerate someone making Them look stupid for cancelling it.:)
I wonder If they'd let him at least write some more stories, release a book. Then someone could make an animated series... [shudders as he remembers the Star Trek animated series]...Never mind.
[pedant] Species is both plural and singular, specie is money [/pedant]
The neat thing about spreading to other planets would be that you wouldn't be limited to the resources of one planet anymore, heck you don't even have to move to take advantage of space bourne resources, but we AREN'T, that's one of the problems.
Every individual, as others have said, does not need to be killed at the same time to bring extinction to the race. Yes you can react to disasters as they come, but what if you can't DO anything until after it's too late? or won't.
There are people who study earthquakes who are predicting a bigun in the area of Istanbul, and did predict the one in Izmet. Nobody did anything. thousands (tens?) died. There are plenty of things that could happen on earth that could wipe us out. The issue is that if all of the members of our race/civilization are on one planet, then a really bad disaster could wipe it from the face of existance.
Well, there are a number of things that a large impact could cause that could adversly affect ALL life on the planet. The, so called, nuclear winter effect, for one. Imagine if enough dust were blasted up into the atmosphere that the effective albedo of the earth were changed for a couple of years? Thus lowering, or raising, the average temperature of the earth significantly w/o altering the orbital characteristics. Needless to say, a change of a few degrees, plus or minus, could have a profound effect on all kinds of things. Consider the chilling of the earth into an iceage like climate, with darkness and cold the power requirements will go up radically, ask California if they think there's plenty of extra power. Oh, and where are you going to get oil when the ocean is a mile away from all of your port cities?
How about your, current or future, kid's lives, and those of your friend's and family's kids? And their kids? If we don't start soon, what will this place look like in three or four generations? Assuming some terrorist, or president, doesn't do us all in first.
If you like being on earth, fine; I don't think EVERYONE should leave, but we do need to spread out more. We've run out of oceans of water to cross, to find new lands, we now must cross oceans that are as large and frightening to us as the Atlantic was to people 1000 years ago.
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After reading over that page a couple of times, I can only say it shows a profound lack of understanding on a number of different subjects.
A good rule of thumb to keep in mind: if you think you have a simple proof to a complex problem, you probably don't understand the problem.
One wonders about hemochromatosis too.
With all that "extra" iron floating around.
It's not a question of interference; it's a question of saturating a cell.
If you've ever been near a bus route using your phone and had a bus full of commuters on their way to work or home go but you might have encountered the issue.
I was once driving myself crazy trying to figure out an intermittent outage problem with a bunch of laptops using cellular modems to connect back to our main computer.
Some, but not all, of the laptops would lose connection simultaneously for a short time, then be fine, the rest would loses connection similarly a few minutes later.
They ran fine all morning but as it got on toward 3pm it started driving us all crazy.
I happened to look out the window and see a full bus go by (one of the long, extended ones) and all but one connection dropped as it stopped nearby.
I even lost my voice connection, as soon as the bus pulled away everything came back.
Imagine now a 747 full of people intermittently using their phones during a flight across any given part of the us, not only are they changing cells at a speed that is likely to tax the poor (I'm guessing 8088) processors doing the switching beyond their design specs, but also randomly knocking people off their calls all along the route.
Yes, lines of people who are probably not eligible.
Do you thing having a cash incentive to lie is likely to make more people tell the truth about whether they are eligible or not?
If you need a transfusion, do you want the unit that came from the junkie who lied on the form so they could get something to eat that day?
The safety of the blood supply goes way down when you start paying people, that's why it's not allowed in the US.
Anyone who "donates" and gets paid, the plasma isn't going to people, it goes to make cosmetics and stuff.
The thing to fix is, getting rid of the DST change completely, either way, and stop changing clock twice a year. THAT'S the waste here.
[snip]
If Christians were allowed to arbitrarily re-interpret the bible and throw away the parts of it they didn't believe, then it would be a very different book.
[snip]
Some would claim that it would be exactly the book(s) we see today.-Don
Ever read Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion"? :)
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Just finished it myself.
I ordered the UK version, but that's just me.
http://www.amazon.com/God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkin
The majority of Christians would disagree with you on that one bucko.
I don't even think it qualifies as an opinion, it's just plain wrong.
Books don't teach ANYTHING, books are just collections of words.
People teach stuff.
People make books, both can be wrong.
It's really a question of will.
Prior to 9/11 people's response to a hijacking was mostly "Oh, crap I didn't want to fly to Cuba"
Are you willing to die to stop a plane being diverted to another airport?
Post 9/11, I doubt [most] anyone would hesitate to step in harms way to take down a hijacker.
The problem is, that when you reproduce for too long, into older age, you start competing with your own offspring for resources [wives/girlfriends] thus, effectively, reducing you previous contribution. Thus, not actually increasing the likelyhood of passing on those genes. Reproduction into old age is not really a desireable trait in a population.
The more precisely the position is determined,
the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
--Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927
There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
:)
Seems you are the latter? as you only gave 10 examples.
And Trolls spring fully formed from the forehead of ignorance?
Seriously, anyone who has a firm grounding in the science, whether they believe it or not, can make cogent arguments on the subject, lacking the education all you can do is parrot tired old, mostly refuted, arguments.
I would think the people who objects to evolution would welcome any opportunity to learn about the matter, so they can make informed arguments against it. Oh, wait, I forgot; they spell informed d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s.
Censorship is preventing OTHER people from reading stuff you don't agree with.
According to the dictionaries I checked today:
Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style,
when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing.
It is certainly a word, just not the way many think.
This is what happens when people are in such a hurry to mod, they forget to read the post.
e.g "Ah, the word liberal in the subj, must be a troll."
That and They couldn't tolerate someone making Them look stupid for cancelling it. :)
...Never mind.
I wonder If they'd let him at least write some more stories, release a book.
Then someone could make an animated series...
[shudders as he remembers the Star Trek animated series]
I thought the creationist/ID crowd were the only ones who agreed that irreducible complexity even exists.
(ok, I really know otherwise but it sounds good, eh?)
What it means is: The federal and state gov't are not allowed to promote, or supress, any one religion with regard to another.
Until the erstwhile owner of the limb shows up, eh?
[pedant] Species is both plural and singular, specie is money [/pedant]
The neat thing about spreading to other planets would be that you wouldn't be limited to the resources of one planet anymore, heck you don't even have to move to take advantage of space bourne resources, but we AREN'T, that's one of the problems.
Every individual, as others have said, does not need to be killed at the same time to bring extinction to the race. Yes you can react to disasters as they come, but what if you can't DO anything until after it's too late? or won't.
There are people who study earthquakes who are predicting a bigun in the area of Istanbul, and did predict the one in Izmet. Nobody did anything. thousands (tens?) died. There are plenty of things that could happen on earth that could wipe us out. The issue is that if all of the members of our race/civilization are on one planet, then a really bad disaster could wipe it from the face of existance.
Well, there are a number of things that a large impact could cause that could adversly affect ALL life on the planet. The, so called, nuclear winter effect, for one. Imagine if enough dust were blasted up into the atmosphere that the effective albedo of the earth were changed for a couple of years? Thus lowering, or raising, the average temperature of the earth significantly w/o altering the orbital characteristics.
Needless to say, a change of a few degrees, plus or minus, could have a profound effect on all kinds of things.
Consider the chilling of the earth into an iceage like climate, with darkness and cold the power requirements will go up radically, ask California if they think there's plenty of extra power. Oh, and where are you going to get oil when the ocean is a mile away from all of your port cities?
How about your, current or future, kid's lives, and those of your friend's and family's kids? And their kids? If we don't start soon, what will this place look like in three or four generations? Assuming some terrorist, or president, doesn't do us all in first.
If you like being on earth, fine; I don't think EVERYONE should leave, but we do need to spread out more. We've run out of oceans of water to cross, to find new lands, we now must cross oceans that are as large and frightening to us as the Atlantic was to people 1000 years ago.
Repeat after me:
Never watch the sci-fi channel live, always record.
The more they advertise the show, the more they advertise IN the show.