I doubt most of the owners knew or approved of this, put specific people who worked for the corporation did. They should be the target of criminal charges. Having them go to jail would be a better deterrent then some financial liability spread among the owners.
As I recall Google search was better then the competition from day 1. Unlike it competition, it used all the words you entered in its search, wasn't flooded with flashy ads and had its vastly superior page-rank algorithm.
I don't scoff at religion. To create religion you need to have a vivid imagination. Neanderthals didn't bury trinkets in their graves like Homo Sapiens did, which suggests they didn't have anything like a religion because they didn't have a very good imagination.
Most of the stars you list are quite far away. Only 9 of the 51 closest stars are visible to the naked eye.
These are the ones with names: Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, Sirius, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, Epsilon Indi, Tau Ceti, Luyten's Star, Teegarden's star, Kapteyn's Star, Van Maanen's star. Some of the are still technical greek letter-constellation names.
We should probably come up with unique names for the all the stars within 10 light years or so instead of calling them things like WISE 1049-5319 and Wolf 359. They are probably going to be of increasing importance in the coming decades and centuries as we are able to study them more closely.
Math may be a bad example. The driving force behind this is to improve boy's achievement, since it has been recognized that boys need the help more and studies seem to suggest boys benefit the most from it
Why can't the people in charge of making the career decisions for academics take the few days a year to read and judge papers themselves rather the relying on the peer review system to do it for them.
Sounds like the a tiny, caseless computer for hackers and wannabe hackers designed mostly by volunteers is going to outsell a flagship product from one of the most powerful companies in the world.
It seems to me the Greenpeace's successful campaign against nuclear power and failure to campaign against coal power has been a major cause of global warming. No doubt Greenpeace knew or should have known since the 1980s how much worse coal is for the environment.
The previous rovers established existence of past water.
Showing the existence of past microbial life on Mars would be a big deal.
Given that it was found in soil instead of rock and how early in the mission it is suggest it is current microbial life that they found.
Microbacterial would probably not be the right term for life on Mars. Bacteria is on of the three domains of life on Earth. Life on Mars would have its own domains (unless life on Earth originated on Mars)
It's not detention. It was preventing him from going to the US, which is within US immigrations rights.
Technically he could have walked away at any moment as long as he didn't take a flight to the United States. I guess he stayed to have a chance to go, and they eventually let him go to the US.
When I broke by hand I used right-handed Dvorak, but semicolons where a pain. If it proves too much of a problem you can look into customizing the keymap yourself.
Governments behaving sensibly all the time. The problem is it never makes headlines, so no one knows about it. When they behave badly it make headlines, so people assume government always behave badly because that's all they hear about.
The increase in Carbon Dioxide and this chart is covered in a fair amount of detail in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
The reason that this isn't talk about much is the evidence of the dramatic increase in Carbon Dioxide in recent decades is so clear, even deniers don't reject it.
"We all pay lip service to the idea that most users never change the default settings in software, but we rarely follow this through to its logical conclusion."
Other distributors and retails have vast networks of warehouses, stores and employees. Apple provides some internet hosting and bandwidth (of course the customer pays for their share of the bandwidth). Apple's cost are a small fraction of the cost of transitional retailing.
On the other hand Apple is a monopoly distributor for iOS apps, so they can change anything they want, as long was developers are still willing to sell their apps.
We don't yet know if the Universe is understandable to us or our cybernetic decedents. We'll know when we completely understand the Universe.
Science can still work if the laws of physics change. Science could identify and quantify the change. For example, the laws of physics work totally differently at the sub-atomic level, yet we are making progress in understanding them.
Science is a method, so I used shorthand to suggest science is acting on its own when I mean people applying science. Science is the method of discovering the laws of the Universe, which we all must defer to. The laws of the Universe aren't a deity any more then the tax code is.
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I doubt most of the owners knew or approved of this, put specific people who worked for the corporation did. They should be the target of criminal charges. Having them go to jail would be a better deterrent then some financial liability spread among the owners.
As I recall Google search was better then the competition from day 1. Unlike it competition, it used all the words you entered in its search, wasn't flooded with flashy ads and had its vastly superior page-rank algorithm.
I don't scoff at religion. To create religion you need to have a vivid imagination. Neanderthals didn't bury trinkets in their graves like Homo Sapiens did, which suggests they didn't have anything like a religion because they didn't have a very good imagination.
Most of the stars you list are quite far away. Only 9 of the 51 closest stars are visible to the naked eye.
These are the ones with names: Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, Sirius, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, Epsilon Indi, Tau Ceti, Luyten's Star, Teegarden's star, Kapteyn's Star, Van Maanen's star. Some of the are still technical greek letter-constellation names.
We should probably come up with unique names for the all the stars within 10 light years or so instead of calling them things like WISE 1049-5319 and Wolf 359. They are probably going to be of increasing importance in the coming decades and centuries as we are able to study them more closely.
They should subtract out a factor based on how much the flu is being talking about in the media.
Math may be a bad example. The driving force behind this is to improve boy's achievement, since it has been recognized that boys need the help more and studies seem to suggest boys benefit the most from it
One solution I've heard are mixed gender schools with some classes, like math, being single gender.
Why can't the people in charge of making the career decisions for academics take the few days a year to read and judge papers themselves rather the relying on the peer review system to do it for them.
Sounds like the a tiny, caseless computer for hackers and wannabe hackers designed mostly by volunteers is going to outsell a flagship product from one of the most powerful companies in the world.
You seem to have a lot of shame.
I forgive you. You where only being human, driven by irrational fears.
It seems to me the Greenpeace's successful campaign against nuclear power and failure to campaign against coal power has been a major cause of global warming. No doubt Greenpeace knew or should have known since the 1980s how much worse coal is for the environment.
The information has always been just sitting there on Mars. It's no big deal there.
It could make a big difference when the information is available on Earth.
The previous rovers established existence of past water.
Showing the existence of past microbial life on Mars would be a big deal.
Given that it was found in soil instead of rock and how early in the mission it is suggest it is current microbial life that they found.
Microbacterial would probably not be the right term for life on Mars. Bacteria is on of the three domains of life on Earth. Life on Mars would have its own domains (unless life on Earth originated on Mars)
I guess the only solution to wireless signal jamming is to go back in time and start using Police Boxes, again.
It's not detention. It was preventing him from going to the US, which is within US immigrations rights.
Technically he could have walked away at any moment as long as he didn't take a flight to the United States. I guess he stayed to have a chance to go, and they eventually let him go to the US.
Their unsupported belief on God hurts my feelings, too. It sadness me that there is such widespread and passionate rejection of rationality.
Then I remember they are just being human.
When I broke by hand I used right-handed Dvorak, but semicolons where a pain. If it proves too much of a problem you can look into customizing the keymap yourself.
Governments behaving sensibly all the time. The problem is it never makes headlines, so no one knows about it. When they behave badly it make headlines, so people assume government always behave badly because that's all they hear about.
The increase in Carbon Dioxide and this chart is covered in a fair amount of detail in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
The reason that this isn't talk about much is the evidence of the dramatic increase in Carbon Dioxide in recent decades is so clear, even deniers don't reject it.
According to this study, the heatwaves would be less frequent of the temperatures were 1C cooler.
"We all pay lip service to the idea that most users never change the default settings in software, but we rarely follow this through to its logical conclusion."
That most users are ignorant?
Other distributors and retails have vast networks of warehouses, stores and employees. Apple provides some internet hosting and bandwidth (of course the customer pays for their share of the bandwidth). Apple's cost are a small fraction of the cost of transitional retailing.
On the other hand Apple is a monopoly distributor for iOS apps, so they can change anything they want, as long was developers are still willing to sell their apps.
"the government simply caved to U.S. led lobbying pressure"
It's not like the Conservatives where in any way reluctant to do exactly what large US corporations wanted.
We don't yet know if the Universe is understandable to us or our cybernetic decedents. We'll know when we completely understand the Universe.
Science can still work if the laws of physics change. Science could identify and quantify the change. For example, the laws of physics work totally differently at the sub-atomic level, yet we are making progress in understanding them.
Science is a method, so I used shorthand to suggest science is acting on its own when I mean people applying science. Science is the method of discovering the laws of the Universe, which we all must defer to. The laws of the Universe aren't a deity any more then the tax code is.