Of course you're right. Let's keep any book that glorifies rape, incest, murder and any other perverted, immoral act away from the children. Why, let's start with this one right here. Let me see, it's called "The Bible". Yep, better toss this one on the fire before the kids get ahold of it.
Yeah, yeah, we've heard the "slavery is freedom" bit before.
You missed: 3) aeroshell failure during entry. Alternately it seperates too soon. heat destroys lander and both impactors. 4) areoshell fails to seperate. impact destroys lander, impactors antennas damaged or shielded by lander deris.
First, the "The Bell Curve" is irrelevant, in that dispite the sloppy thinking and slanted data that went into it, it say nothing about the individuals involved in the MPL program. However, since you use it to attempt to prop up your "argument", it does speak volumes about you.
While I'm skeptical of the affirmative action programs, I do see the need for something to offset the bigotry of those like you, who, as you clearly demonstrate by your own post, who assume that you and those like you (i.e. White Angelo Saxon Protestant Males) are superior to anyone else.
You've provided no evidence that having woman in key positions in the MPL project were in any way responible for the failure. Care to point out which decisions caused the loss of the lander? You can't can you? On the other hand, NASA's biggest screwup, the Challenger launch decision, was made by which, females or males? Seven deaths versus the loss of a robotic lander, which was worse.
Frankly however, given your apparent attitudes about woman, I'm not suprised you're required to document your efforts to hire woman. Were it not for that, I doubt you'd hire any woman at all, inspite of their level of experience.
Face it, maybe your real problem is your own mediocrity. My problem, on the other hand, is how to keep clowns like you from messing up my daughters life.
-- davet Intelligent (IQ 163), White, Male, Father of Two, Ex-NASA contractor (ARC, ~10 years)
"Ah, you know the type. They like to blame it all on the Jews or the Blacks, 'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact that life's one big, scary, glorious, complex and ultimately unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only reason THEY can't seem to keep up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers." -- an analysis of neo-Nazis and such, Badger comics
GPL or BSDL, developers worthy of the title will continue to exchange ideas, if not source code. There is at least one case where two projects with similar goals but different licenses (GPL and BSDish) do work together. Instead of beating up on each other, they work together and both projects are richer for it.
Lets just keep the rabid advocates on either side occupied beating up on each other, not getting in the way of those of us who want to get something done.
"Can you install FreeBSD with only a floppy and a net connection?"
Yes, you can. As a matter of fact, I've installed FreeBSD this way on my laptop, which only supports USB peripherials and has a single PCMCIA slot, occupied by the network card. So FreeBSD booted off a USB floppy drive, something I haven't been able to do with any Linux distribution I've encountered.
Which genesis? 1 or 2? Or haven't yo bothered to read the whole bible? While we're at it, why don't you take a tour through leviticus and report back on how you're doing obeying gods laws that are listed there?
Hitler started out Christian, and was even involved in the German Christian Social Movement. He only switched to his version of Paganism after he found that the major Christian sects weren't as supportive of his acts as he had hoped.
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... we need beliving people."
Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933
Funny, this doesn't sound like a paganist talking, to me.
Have you read anything on science, other that creationist tracts? The main mechanism of natural section, is called death. If an organism fails to reproduce before it dies, or fails to live long enough to reproduce, it's been selected out. The offspring of those that do sucessfully reproduce, go on to try and carry on the tradition.
The original experiment basically consisted of a closed retort to keep contaminates out and a condenser. That's it, no filters. If you don't want to look like a fool, don't lie about details.
There is no evidence that earth ever had a significant amount of free oxygen that was not being constantly replenished by living organisms. Contrary to what you've managed to glean from the creationists, there is geological evidence that earth's atmosphere did NOT contain free oxygen before the appearance of life. Care to name another planet in our solar system whose atmosphere contains a significant percentage of free oxygen? Any place in the observable universe?
Hawkings? Who's that? Hawking is a theoretical physicist. You must mean Dawkins, whose field is zoology. Where does Dawkins write that evolution is directed?
Universal floods on mars? Do you have a non-creationist reference for that? And last time I checked, the idea for the resurfacing of Venus is only a hypothesis to explain it's uniform lack of impact craters. As far as the massive rock-layer inversions they're called faults and folds. Standard stuff if geology texts, not that I expect you've ever read one.
Isn't it amazing what you can prove, when you start out with false assuptions? The link given in #3 has some real howlers, if you look for them.
Hints:
Why are only 200 AA proteins useful, and not 199, or 198, or 197, etc? If you include proteins from 150 to 200 AA's long, and assume the various lengths have roughly the same number of "useful" combinations, the calculations would be off by a factor of 2x10e114. Quite an error. Just how short can a protein be and still display some catalytic ability? 100 AA's? 50?
How was the number of "useful" 200 AA proteins determined? Would you get another number, if you tried a differnet hat?
Why are 1000 "useful" proteins required for replication, and not 500, or 200, or 100?see above
Why do I get feeling Leon's only knowledge of biology and geology comes from reading creationist crap?
I'm curious, just what technology NASA should have used, other than rockets? Unfortunatly, the Apollo program wasn't a scientific program, it was political. The only real goal was to put men on the moon before the Russian's did. It's only luck that we managed to get any scientific goals accomplished while doing it.
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The Christic Idiots were demanding that Galileo be deflected away from earth. Apparently, they didn't realise that the probe and it's RTG's would still be in an orbit that crossed earth's. Fortunatly, they were ignored, and all that evil, nasty, poisonious:) Pu is now safely parked in orbit around Jupiter.
No, I doubt that the yammerheads did much reading on the subject at all, outside of alarmist articles. Altering Cassini's trajectory to any significant degree would require an impact with a BIG piece of space junk. And those are the ones that are kept track of. Hitting a stray piece of junk might damage or destroy the probe, but unless it hits something with a lot of mass, the resulting debris will just continue on along the same path.
If you wanted it fixed, why didn't you fix the code yourself? Frankly, LFS was never really a production quality filesystem, and now with SoftUpdates, I don't miss it in the least.
If people were rude to you, it's probably because you whined and didn't try to contribute.
And just what happened with X11R6.4? Did it make all the copies of X11R6.3 magically disappear? Making proprietary changes to freely available source code doesn't destroy the free version any more than the development of a commercial BSD based operating system based on BSD licensed code destroyed the freeware/open source projects like FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD.
Not everyone has the same opinion of Microsoft's ease of use. When I'm trying to do something on my son's Windows box, my wife usually knows it from my frequent muttering of "Why the hell did it do that?" None of the other OS's I run at home, a combination of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris, elicit this response.
As far as what to put on my mothers computer? I'm in the process of building one for mine, and I sure don't plan on putting Windows on it. She lives 3000 miles away, so what's needed is a system that does what she needs (e-mail, text processing and web browsing), won't crash while she's using it, and that can be maintained remotely.
One thing I found interesting about the article, was what didn't get mentioned. In the description of Microsoft's Hotmail, the use of Solaris was mentioned, but not it's use of another, free, operating system, FreeBSD. An oversight, or are some people loathe to admit that Linux isn't the only free OS out there?
Then along came Linux with its Virtual File System model.
I hate to break it to you, but the VFS model existed in Unix OS's before Linux existed. So you're right, it isn't the most lucid explanation, it isn't even an accurate explanation.
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Oh, why am I reponding to an obvious troll...
Of course you're right. Let's keep any book that glorifies rape, incest, murder and any other perverted, immoral act away from the children. Why, let's start with this one right here. Let me see, it's called "The Bible". Yep, better toss this one on the fire before the kids get ahold of it.
Yeah, yeah, we've heard the "slavery is freedom" bit before.
You missed:
3) aeroshell failure during entry. Alternately it seperates too soon.
heat destroys lander and both impactors.
4) areoshell fails to seperate.
impact destroys lander, impactors antennas damaged or shielded by lander deris.
Wow! What a load of bigoted claptrap.
First, the "The Bell Curve" is irrelevant, in that dispite the sloppy thinking and slanted data that went into it, it say nothing about the individuals involved in the MPL program. However, since you use it to attempt to prop up your "argument", it does speak volumes about you.
While I'm skeptical of the affirmative action programs, I do see the need for something to offset the bigotry of those like you, who, as you clearly demonstrate by your own post, who assume that you and those like you (i.e. White Angelo Saxon Protestant Males) are superior to anyone else.
You've provided no evidence that having woman in key positions in the MPL project were in any way responible for the failure. Care to point out which decisions caused the loss of the lander? You can't can you? On the other hand, NASA's biggest screwup, the Challenger launch decision, was made by which, females or males? Seven deaths versus the loss of a robotic lander, which was worse.
Frankly however, given your apparent attitudes about woman, I'm not suprised you're required to document your efforts to hire woman. Were it not for that, I doubt you'd hire any woman at all, inspite of their level of experience.
Face it, maybe your real problem is your own mediocrity. My problem, on the other hand, is how to keep clowns like you from messing up my daughters life.
-- davet
Intelligent (IQ 163), White, Male, Father of Two, Ex-NASA contractor (ARC, ~10 years)
"Ah, you know the type. They like to blame it all on the Jews or the Blacks,
'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact that life's one big,
scary, glorious, complex and ultimately unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only
reason THEY can't seem to keep up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers."
-- an analysis of neo-Nazis and such, Badger comics
Well said, Sir!
GPL or BSDL, developers worthy of the title will continue to exchange ideas, if not source code. There is at least one case where two projects with similar goals but different licenses (GPL and BSDish) do work together. Instead of beating up on each other, they work together and both projects are richer for it.
Lets just keep the rabid advocates on either side occupied beating up on each other, not getting in the way of those of us who want to get something done.
"Can you install FreeBSD with only a floppy and a net connection?"
Yes, you can. As a matter of fact, I've installed FreeBSD this way on my laptop, which only supports USB peripherials and has a single PCMCIA slot, occupied by the network card. So FreeBSD booted off a USB floppy drive, something I haven't been able to do with any Linux distribution I've encountered.
Which genesis? 1 or 2? Or haven't yo bothered to read the whole bible? While we're at it, why don't you take a tour through leviticus and report back on how you're doing obeying gods laws that are listed there?
BZZZT! Sorry, but thank you for playing...
Hitler started out Christian, and was even involved in the German Christian Social Movement. He only switched to his version of Paganism after he found that the major Christian sects weren't as supportive of his acts as he had hoped.
Funny, this doesn't sound like a paganist talking, to me.
Hints:
Why are only 200 AA proteins useful, and not 199, or 198, or 197, etc? If you include proteins from 150 to 200 AA's long, and assume the various lengths have roughly the same number of "useful" combinations, the calculations would be off by a factor of 2x10e114. Quite an error. Just how short can a protein be and still display some catalytic ability? 100 AA's? 50?
How was the number of "useful" 200 AA proteins determined? Would you get another number, if you tried a differnet hat?
Why are 1000 "useful" proteins required for replication, and not 500, or 200, or 100?see above
Why do I get feeling Leon's only knowledge of biology and geology comes from reading creationist crap?
The engineers were saying don't launch. The suits (let's guess how many had liberal arts degrees) pushed for launching despite the warnings.
I'm curious, just what technology NASA should have used, other than rockets?
Unfortunatly, the Apollo program wasn't a scientific program, it was political. The only real goal was to put men on the moon before the Russian's did. It's only luck that we managed to get any scientific goals accomplished while doing it.
The Christic Idiots were demanding that Galileo be deflected away from earth. Apparently, they didn't realise that the probe and it's RTG's would still be in an orbit that crossed earth's. Fortunatly, they were ignored, and all that evil, nasty, poisonious :) Pu is now safely parked in orbit around Jupiter.
No, I doubt that the yammerheads did much reading on the subject at all, outside of alarmist articles.
Altering Cassini's trajectory to any significant degree would require an impact with a BIG piece of space junk. And those are the ones that are kept track of. Hitting a stray piece of junk might damage or destroy the probe, but unless it hits something with a lot of mass, the resulting debris will just continue on along the same path.
If you wanted it fixed, why didn't you fix the code yourself? Frankly, LFS was never really a production quality filesystem, and now with SoftUpdates, I don't miss it in the least.
If people were rude to you, it's probably because you whined and didn't try to contribute.
And just what happened with X11R6.4? Did it make all the copies of X11R6.3 magically disappear? Making proprietary changes to freely available source code doesn't destroy the free version any more than the development of a commercial BSD based operating system based on BSD licensed code destroyed the freeware/open source projects like FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD.
Be honest now, if Hotmail used Linux instead of FreeBSD for their web servers, do you think Solaris would have been mentioned at all?
As far as what to put on my mothers computer? I'm in the process of building one for mine, and I sure don't plan on putting Windows on it. She lives 3000 miles away, so what's needed is a system that does what she needs (e-mail, text processing and web browsing), won't crash while she's using it, and that can be maintained remotely.
One thing I found interesting about the article, was what didn't get mentioned. In the description of Microsoft's Hotmail, the use of Solaris was mentioned, but not it's use of another, free, operating system, FreeBSD. An oversight, or are some people loathe to admit that Linux isn't the only free OS out there?
I hate to break it to you, but the VFS model existed in Unix OS's before Linux existed. So you're right, it isn't the most lucid explanation, it isn't even an accurate explanation.