Your right. But, I would want students to receive as complete an education as possible. Leaving out the origins of modern biology and evolution just because some people don't understand (and some seem to refuse to try and understand) evolution doesn't cut it with me.
I think it is important to see articles like this posted. If for no other reason than to keep up on current events. As a person who likes science, I want to know what the science haters are up to; hince I'm glad this article was posted.
If a high school in my area started teaching or giving credence to homeopathy in biology classes I'd want to know. I would then be at the next school board meeting! You see, science isn't easy, but it's the best way we have to understand the world. Some people though want warm and fuzzy platitudes to replace that bit of certainty that science gives (witness psychics and faith healing).
It takes work not to lose the things science has given us. That is the danger of not knowing that ID (or other pseudoscience) is being pushed on the public. Thus, it is necessary to shout down the quackes as begin quackes; and I would use that word, to their faces. Anyone trying to destroy society deserves no respect.
No one is talking about deutirium. When someone writes H2, they mean H subscript 2. Hydrogen is a diatomic molucule like oxygen, nitrogen and a few others.
I understood you. Do you have some reference for this aberration of a snail? This still doesn't call into question C-14 dating (with out more information of course.) I'm not a moron; I refuse to jump to unfound conclusions though.
Still, if carbon dating was somehow faultly the whole scientific community would be up in arms to find a replacement (or fix the science behind it.) I agree that scientist aren't perfect, being human and all... But, science is self correcting.
If you have information that C-14 dating is greatly flawed, please let me know. Many others would be interested as well.
I'll believe that some carbon dating attempts produced produced off the wall results. But, you're wrong to say that it just doesn't work. The science and theory of carbon dating is very sound, and barring experimental error, sloppy work, or bad samples it is fairly accurate (withing the appropriate bounds of error.)
First off, whoever mod'ed the parent as a troll is uneducated. Hopefully this will be corrected during metamoderation...
Now to reply to the parent. I understand the "supply side economics" reasoning. But, I don't think our country should be following the supply-side concept right now for one simple reason: our HUGE national debt. The debt has the potential to hurt us more and modestly raising taxes. Really, there is going to be a point when no one will loan us more money.
The problem is you cannot control the demand either. It is a basic desire among humans to want to alter their perceptions.
Too bad I don't have mod points. You bring up a point that most prohibitionist and anti-prohibitionist do not realize: drug use is natural. Humans have always used drugs in some manner. I only know of one society that existed for a while without any history of use; there maybe more but I've not found mention of them.
Sure, drug _abuse_ is bad, but the best solution is treatment and the use of less dangerous drugs.
I don't know if we are thinking of the same book, but "The Truth Machine" uses all pervasive video cams worn by people as part of the plot. I don't remember the author, but I'm sure Amazon can reveal the name. It is a very interesting book BTW.
A USB drive lock which isn't infallible. The switch position is sensed by the OS not the drive. Under Linux I can write to a USB drive regardless of the switch position. Though there is an experimental kernel compile time option to sense the switch...
"Any conservative who claims to be in favor of capitalism -- the unrestricted exchange of goods and services between consenting persons -- but is in favor of the drug war, is a hypocrite."
I don't know the author, but I approve of the sentiment.
Sure, it is a different culture. But why would you think that Hollands drug policy wouldn't work here? Do health workers in Holland have different methods of treating aloholism than here in the US? I doubt that they do.
It may be necessary to educate our populace about MJ and other drugs (that isn't being done now). But, I think that the social improvement would be worthwhile just to be able to be rid of these unjust drug laws.
I'm curious about the geothermal. Thought those only worked in areas that were geologically active...
The term "geothermal" in this context is confusing. What this refers to is basically a heat pump system where the coils (which are usually in outside air) are buried underground.
I remember several years ago reading that a test road in Japan used a underground coil system to de-ice roads. Pretty cool, just not that common.
I don't think any serious activist is trying to have the teaching of evolution banned. They just want the Biblical viewpoint of creation to be included in the teaching curriculum.
Like the other person said, Christians want creationism tought in science classes. The trouble is creationism isn't science (the reason is largely because it CAN'T be disproved.) Our country's science and math education shouldn't have to fall lower because a person doesn't realize that religion is a very personal thing.
Prayer in school doesn't hold any problems for me or most other people. "Student led prayer" is a different matter. What is appropriate is a minute of silence, students can do what ever they want during that time period, pray or pick their nose as they like. Leading a prayer amongst a group of heterogeneous students? No way. In a public school that is rightly out of bounds.
About protecting the state from the "threat" of religious expression.
What you are describing is a threat. I'm sorry to bash you, but people who think teaching creationism in public schools is O.K. are a threat to science education. I can not be less blunt. Your right that government institutions are meant to serve the citizens; it serves to protect us from the more irrational elements of society.
I wish I saw this earlier, I doubt anyone will read this followup.:-|
I grew up going to a Baptist church and they spouted the same "wine really means grape juice" B.S. A bit of reasoning shows that when wine is mentioned it does refer to fermented grape juice containing alcohol. Consider this: if grape juice is what was really drunk, how did they _prevent_ its fermentation? Unrefidgerated grape will ferment/spoil in just a couple days. The only way to store grape juice during Biblical times was to ferment it into wine.
Just another example of how religion damages the ability to perform critical thinking.
CRT's don't fire any electrons at you. They would never make is out of the glass envelope (lead-free glass or not). The lead is there to shield you from the low energy x-rays produced by the electrons striking the phospher, glass and other parts of the screen.
On NPR yesterday it was reported that only about 100,000 people would be affected by the new changes. If IT folks aren't eligible then that reported number is much too low.
This sucks. I think that if you get an hourly wage you should get overtime pay, regardless of any other factors, if you work overtime.
I don't know. In the past year there was a case in Tennesse where a bar owner would drive to Virginia to buy beer. Virginia has much lower taxes than TN. The owner was arrested and charged with evading taxes. I don't know the outcome, but it is certianly possible to be charged with a crime for avoiding your states sales tax.
Speaking for myself: I've read about Haskell several times in the past three or four years and started reading some tutorials. The problems that I have is that the syntax is atrocious; it is worse than Perl!
Maybe I'll try again after I finish playing around with Ruby;)
That is true. Virginia Tech did a similar thing with their EE department several years ago (round '98 or so.) Though what happened is that the department split into two closely related departments: EE and ECE.
My experience in ECE there was that my time was split about 50-50 between doing hardware/electrical stuff and programming; though some courses were a mix such as microprocesser I. I really enjoyed the ECE college there.
is to reject messages where the outside envelope (not certain of the correct term) address(es) doesn't match any addresses in the To:, CC:, or BCC: fields on the inside.
A large portion of the spam I receive doesn't have my address in the To: field. Why doesn't mailer software look for this kind of mail? Am I missing something?
Never mind the fact that you NEED some ionizing radiation in order to get vitamin D.
If you live in a developed nation and drink milk (or many other foods supplimented with vit. D) you don't need any exposure to UV radiation. You don't have a very good argument for limiting exposure to the sun.
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Your right. But, I would want students to receive as complete an education as possible. Leaving out the origins of modern biology and evolution just because some people don't understand (and some seem to refuse to try and understand) evolution doesn't cut it with me.
I think it is important to see articles like this posted. If for no other reason than to keep up on current events. As a person who likes science, I want to know what the science haters are up to; hince I'm glad this article was posted.
If a high school in my area started teaching or giving credence to homeopathy in biology classes I'd want to know. I would then be at the next school board meeting! You see, science isn't easy, but it's the best way we have to understand the world. Some people though want warm and fuzzy platitudes to replace that bit of certainty that science gives (witness psychics and faith healing).
It takes work not to lose the things science has given us. That is the danger of not knowing that ID (or other pseudoscience) is being pushed on the public. Thus, it is necessary to shout down the quackes as begin quackes; and I would use that word, to their faces. Anyone trying to destroy society deserves no respect.
Since we are talking portable music players:
Does anyone know of any portable players that
support the Ogg format? Two thirds of my music
is in this format and I'm in no hurry to re-rip
it.
Why does everyone keep talking about Deutirium?
No one is talking about deutirium. When someone writes H2, they mean H subscript 2. Hydrogen is a diatomic molucule like oxygen, nitrogen and a few others.
Damn, I used my mod points yesterday.
This is very insightful. If we don't understand our enemies real motives we can't hope to defeat them.
I understood you. Do you have some reference for this aberration of a snail? This still doesn't call into question C-14 dating (with out more information of course.) I'm not a moron; I refuse to jump to unfound conclusions though.
Still, if carbon dating was somehow faultly the whole scientific community would be up in arms to find a replacement (or fix the science behind it.) I agree that scientist aren't perfect, being human and all... But, science is self correcting.
If you have information that C-14 dating is greatly flawed, please let me know. Many others would be interested as well.
I'll believe that some carbon dating attempts produced produced off the wall results. But, you're wrong to say that it just doesn't work. The science and theory of carbon dating is very sound, and barring experimental error, sloppy work, or bad samples it is fairly accurate (withing the appropriate bounds of error.)
Why would you suggest otherwise?
Now to reply to the parent. I understand the "supply side economics" reasoning. But, I don't think our country should be following the supply-side concept right now for one simple reason: our HUGE national debt. The debt has the potential to hurt us more and modestly raising taxes. Really, there is going to be a point when no one will loan us more money.
Too bad I don't have mod points. You bring up a point that most prohibitionist and anti-prohibitionist do not realize: drug use is natural. Humans have always used drugs in some manner. I only know of one society that existed for a while without any history of use; there maybe more but I've not found mention of them.
Sure, drug _abuse_ is bad, but the best solution is treatment and the use of less dangerous drugs.
I don't know if we are thinking of the same book, but "The Truth Machine" uses all pervasive video cams worn by people as part of the plot. I don't remember the author, but I'm sure Amazon can reveal the name. It is a very interesting book BTW.
A USB drive lock which isn't infallible. The switch position is sensed by the OS not the drive. Under Linux I can write to a USB drive regardless of the switch position. Though there is an experimental kernel compile time option to sense the switch...
This reminds me of one of my favorite email sigs:
"Any conservative who claims to be in favor of capitalism -- the
unrestricted exchange of goods and services between consenting
persons -- but is in favor of the drug war, is a hypocrite."
I don't know the author, but I approve of the sentiment.
Sure, it is a different culture. But why would you think that Hollands drug policy wouldn't work here? Do health workers in Holland have different methods of treating aloholism than here in the US? I doubt that they do.
It may be necessary to educate our populace about MJ and other drugs (that isn't being done now). But, I think that the social improvement would be worthwhile just to be able to be rid of these unjust drug laws.
The term "geothermal" in this context is confusing. What this refers to is basically a heat pump system where the coils (which are usually in outside air) are buried underground.
I remember several years ago reading that a test road in Japan used a underground coil system to de-ice roads. Pretty cool, just not that common.
Like the other person said, Christians want creationism tought in science classes. The trouble is creationism isn't science (the reason is largely because it CAN'T be disproved.) Our country's science and math education shouldn't have to fall lower because a person doesn't realize that religion is a very personal thing.
Prayer in school doesn't hold any problems for me or most other people. "Student led prayer" is a different matter. What is appropriate is a minute of silence, students can do what ever they want during that time period, pray or pick their nose as they like. Leading a prayer amongst a group of heterogeneous students? No way. In a public school that is rightly out of bounds.
About protecting the state from the "threat" of religious expression.
What you are describing is a threat. I'm sorry to bash you, but people who think teaching creationism in public schools is O.K. are a threat to science education. I can not be less blunt. Your right that government institutions are meant to serve the citizens; it serves to protect us from the more irrational elements of society.
I wish I saw this earlier, I doubt anyone will read this followup. :-|
I grew up going to a Baptist church and they spouted the same "wine really means grape juice" B.S. A bit of reasoning shows that when wine is mentioned it does refer to fermented grape juice containing alcohol. Consider this: if grape juice is what was really drunk, how did they _prevent_ its fermentation? Unrefidgerated grape will ferment/spoil in just a couple days. The only way to store grape juice during Biblical times was to ferment it into wine.
Just another example of how religion damages the
ability to perform critical thinking.
CRT's don't fire any electrons at you. They would never make is out of the glass envelope (lead-free glass or not). The lead is there to shield you from the low energy x-rays produced by the electrons striking the phospher, glass and other parts of the screen.
On NPR yesterday it was reported that only about 100,000 people would be affected by the new changes. If IT folks aren't eligible then that reported number is much too low.
This sucks. I think that if you get an hourly wage you should get overtime pay, regardless of any other factors, if you work overtime.
I don't know. In the past year there was a case in Tennesse where a bar owner would drive to Virginia to buy beer. Virginia has much lower taxes than TN. The owner was arrested and charged with evading taxes. I don't know the outcome, but it is certianly possible to be charged with a crime for avoiding your states sales tax.
Speaking for myself: I've read about Haskell several times in the past three or four years and started reading some tutorials. The problems that I have is that the syntax is atrocious; it is worse than Perl!
;)
Maybe I'll try again after I finish playing around with Ruby
That is true. Virginia Tech did a similar thing with their EE department several years ago (round '98 or so.) Though what happened is that the department split into two closely related departments: EE and ECE.
My experience in ECE there was that my time was split about 50-50 between doing hardware/electrical stuff and programming; though some courses were a mix such as microprocesser I. I really enjoyed the ECE college there.
A large portion of the spam I receive doesn't have my address in the To: field. Why doesn't mailer software look for this kind of mail? Am I missing something?
If you live in a developed nation and drink milk (or many other foods supplimented with vit. D) you don't need any exposure to UV radiation. You don't have a very good argument for limiting exposure to the sun.