The problem is pretty simple to understand. Basically, you take one scam artist, and one scientifically clueless reporter, make promises about curing some problem that's big in the news at the moment, and bam, you have a news story. The editor either doesn't know or doesn't care, because he can just turn around and say "he duped us just like everyone else" should the public ever decide to put his head on a stake for perpetuating this scam.
There really should be some kind of accountability here. That way, they'd do a little checking around before publishing scams like this.
The problem with the theory of evolution and its vehement and passionate arguments is that it's traditionally argued in a completely un-scientific manner.
There are people who would want to believe that human beings are *not* animals, and how dare you suggest that we evolved from them?
There are people who would want to believe that everything was created by the gods in one fantastical story or another.
And then there are people who want to understand. They argue amongst themselves endlessly, while the other two groups ferociously attack them in perpetuity because they have something to lose.
Is it any wonder that people on slashdot look at you funny if you start saying that the theory of evolution is bullshit?
This theory also directly contradicts another theory I saw this month in Sky and Telescope, which referred to this article. This one is for the formation of the outer gaseous planets and the kuiper belt. The basis of the theory is that the orbits of all the gas giants should have been closer to the sun, as they would have required a much denser gas-and-dust cloud than would have existed as far out as they are now. As well, the kuiper belt would have formed closer to the sun.
Due to gravitational interactions between the gas planets and the kuiper belt objects, Jupiter's orbit shrinks and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune expand, with the latter two actually changing place and moving into much more elliptical orbits before settling down into their current orbits. These larger orbits put both planets squarely into the primordial kuiper belt and, well, cause the Late Heavy Bombardment.
and it's true microsoft innovates very little, especially compared to other companies. but you must remember, sharing ideas and what people like to call "ripoffs" aren't the same thing.
I have no problem with the fact that Microsoft doesn't innovate a lot. What I have a problem with is that Microsoft *claims* they are all about innovation. This is known as "false advertising" and there are laws against it.
She even has the degree. Now, she works in a call center. You want to know why? It's because as soon as she met real reporters working for real newspapers, she realized real quick that they're all psychopaths. They all think they're smarter than the public, and are only interested in exploiting that to their own ends. In the computer industry, we call those people virus authors and spammers.
Now, do you want to take back your defence of their innocence?
I was actually going to compare it to a sailplane. The comparison (as others have pointed out) is a stupid one. Larger wingspans do not mean an increase in power required to fly. In fact, larger wingspans mean an increase in lift and in fact, less energy required to fly. Airlines have even proposed folding wing designs on passenger jets, to fit larger wingspans into the same space at the terminal.
And moreover, the spitfire had its wingspan reduced in later revisions in order to go faster, as shorter wingspans mean less drag. They also mean less lift, but that only becomes a problem near the aircraft's stall speed, which isn't really something that a fighter pilot cares about except on takeoff and landing.
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And I'll have to chime in that I *am* deviant, and I personally know and meet up with dozens of women who are like minded. Some of the tamer things that are partaken tend to be some of the most extreme things you would find in mainstream porn. Things like violence, pain, humiliation and degradation are being forced upon these women.
Are these women being victimized, emotionally and physically abused?
Fuck no. They engage in this kind of thing not only consensually, but gleefully.
Are these people psychologically damaged? Actually, they're easily the most stable and well-adjusted people I've ever met. "Normal" people are much more neurotic by and large.
Does this sort of sexual deviancy hurt intimate relationships? Sure. I hear of past marriages having been broken up by wild incompatibilities all the time. The story generally goes "Once I realized I was kinky, and that our sex life lacked passion because all I really wanted was to be beaten and sodomized, and he would have none of that, it kind of went downhill from there."
Sex is like food. For the Japanese, raw squid is a delicacy. For Americans, it's disgusting. For some people, including the author of this book, anal sex and bukakke are disgusting. For other people, it's the epitome of their sexuality. Basically, we can't all be the same. People should be free to find their own path so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
But it's a choice that is serving them well right now, as it has pushed their economies towards more consolidated land use, more mass transit, and smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Europe had more consolidated land use, more mass transit, and smaller cars long before they raised taxes on gas. That's because their cities were founded two thousand years before the car came along.
It all came down to a choice for politicians: Either discourage the use of cars, or lay the city flat in order to redesign them from the ground up in order to deal with the growing car problem. By "car problem" they mean "people have no place to park their cars in Rome. They're using the avenue medians", and "lorries are getting wedged between buildings", and "it takes an hour to drive 15 blocks in London".
And laying the city flat isn't exactly an option either. You actually have to *pay* people to take over their land. Nevermind the fact that doing so would destroy the cultural and historic landmarks that make the city what it is. To Europeans, this is more than unacceptable, it's blasphemous.
They're not just going to stop going to work or to the store because the price of gas doubles.
You see, the difference here is that in Europe, people have been going to the store and to work *without* gasoline for a thousand years before it came along. Whereas in America, most places didn't actually *exist* before gasoline came along. Most of your cities were built with the automobile in mind. All of Europe was not.
Thus *your* perception is "the government raises the price of gas to fund their own retirement plans" because everyone *needs* a car to get by in your world.
In Europe, it's utterly different. Streets are narrow, towns are close together, and before the EU, driving for an hour or two on the highway meant you needed a passport and a change in currency. For a lot of people, owning a car is totally impractical. In fact, this impracticality was the real reason for the government's efforts to try to reduce the use of cars. It was either try to stop people from driving as much, or totally re-engineer your cities to avoid major traffic problems, which would require destroying their history and culture as well as pissing off all the landowners.
Heck, who pays for the stabilisation of the oil-producing middle-east countries, if it doesn't come from fuel tax?
Oh, they just borrow money to pay for that. And lower taxes at the same time, so they have to borrow more. And they'll pay those loans off... sometime.
this proposal acknowledges that Open Document does not address pictures, audio, video, charts, maps, voice, voice-over-IP, and other kinds of data our customers are increasingly putting in documents and archiving.
Gee whiz, and here I thought Word was for... words. You know. Making documents that you can read. I guess I was totally wrong, because it appears that it also reads my e-mail and makes me toast in the morning. How the hell did this kind of silliness get integrated into the program? Would Microsoft actually attempt to make Word make toast for me in the morning if enough people asked for it? And what's that critical number, anyway?
Since I learned a smattering of ASL years ago, I automatically parsed that to mean something involving coding in sign language, or sign language as code.
And I thought to myself "Wow, that's some cool shit!"
But noooo...
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This is the best part of your post: "2. Envision every possible use of code they write"
Because, you know, they couldn't predict the possible abuses of automatic execution of VB code in e-mail attachments. I mean, *that* was a tough stretch of the imagination.
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The problem is pretty simple to understand. Basically, you take one scam artist, and one scientifically clueless reporter, make promises about curing some problem that's big in the news at the moment, and bam, you have a news story. The editor either doesn't know or doesn't care, because he can just turn around and say "he duped us just like everyone else" should the public ever decide to put his head on a stake for perpetuating this scam.
There really should be some kind of accountability here. That way, they'd do a little checking around before publishing scams like this.
Yes of course, but when you have a news story that involves 40,000 of anything, it'll get published. Real knowledge be damned.
That's funny, all I smell is ozone and burning plastic...
The problem with the theory of evolution and its vehement and passionate arguments is that it's traditionally argued in a completely un-scientific manner.
There are people who would want to believe that human beings are *not* animals, and how dare you suggest that we evolved from them?
There are people who would want to believe that everything was created by the gods in one fantastical story or another.
And then there are people who want to understand. They argue amongst themselves endlessly, while the other two groups ferociously attack them in perpetuity because they have something to lose.
Is it any wonder that people on slashdot look at you funny if you start saying that the theory of evolution is bullshit?
This theory also directly contradicts another theory I saw this month in Sky and Telescope, which referred to this article. This one is for the formation of the outer gaseous planets and the kuiper belt. The basis of the theory is that the orbits of all the gas giants should have been closer to the sun, as they would have required a much denser gas-and-dust cloud than would have existed as far out as they are now. As well, the kuiper belt would have formed closer to the sun.
Due to gravitational interactions between the gas planets and the kuiper belt objects, Jupiter's orbit shrinks and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune expand, with the latter two actually changing place and moving into much more elliptical orbits before settling down into their current orbits. These larger orbits put both planets squarely into the primordial kuiper belt and, well, cause the Late Heavy Bombardment.
and it's true microsoft innovates very little, especially compared to other companies. but you must remember, sharing ideas and what people like to call "ripoffs" aren't the same thing.
I have no problem with the fact that Microsoft doesn't innovate a lot. What I have a problem with is that Microsoft *claims* they are all about innovation. This is known as "false advertising" and there are laws against it.
I like to foil this effort by pressing "^U" a lot when I type my passwrod.
That is, for the passwords that aren't public keys...
From the post: "but a solar flare damaged the solar panels causing a reduction in power."
And now that it's so very close to its target, we have another one coming.
That's easy. It's because astronomers give them pretty pictures to put in the paper.
She even has the degree. Now, she works in a call center. You want to know why? It's because as soon as she met real reporters working for real newspapers, she realized real quick that they're all psychopaths. They all think they're smarter than the public, and are only interested in exploiting that to their own ends. In the computer industry, we call those people virus authors and spammers.
Now, do you want to take back your defence of their innocence?
I was actually going to compare it to a sailplane. The comparison (as others have pointed out) is a stupid one. Larger wingspans do not mean an increase in power required to fly. In fact, larger wingspans mean an increase in lift and in fact, less energy required to fly. Airlines have even proposed folding wing designs on passenger jets, to fit larger wingspans into the same space at the terminal.
And moreover, the spitfire had its wingspan reduced in later revisions in order to go faster, as shorter wingspans mean less drag. They also mean less lift, but that only becomes a problem near the aircraft's stall speed, which isn't really something that a fighter pilot cares about except on takeoff and landing.
You vastly overestimate the school's budget. They're probably trying to make it run on something like this.
A car can be helpful or kill you. Depends on how much you know.
Or depending on how fast the drunk driver that T-bones you is going...
Yeah right, all five of them.
And I'll have to chime in that I *am* deviant, and I personally know and meet up with dozens of women who are like minded. Some of the tamer things that are partaken tend to be some of the most extreme things you would find in mainstream porn. Things like violence, pain, humiliation and degradation are being forced upon these women.
Are these women being victimized, emotionally and physically abused?
Fuck no. They engage in this kind of thing not only consensually, but gleefully.
Are these people psychologically damaged? Actually, they're easily the most stable and well-adjusted people I've ever met. "Normal" people are much more neurotic by and large.
Does this sort of sexual deviancy hurt intimate relationships? Sure. I hear of past marriages having been broken up by wild incompatibilities all the time. The story generally goes "Once I realized I was kinky, and that our sex life lacked passion because all I really wanted was to be beaten and sodomized, and he would have none of that, it kind of went downhill from there."
Sex is like food. For the Japanese, raw squid is a delicacy. For Americans, it's disgusting. For some people, including the author of this book, anal sex and bukakke are disgusting. For other people, it's the epitome of their sexuality. Basically, we can't all be the same. People should be free to find their own path so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
But it's a choice that is serving them well right now, as it has pushed their economies towards more consolidated land use, more mass transit, and smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Europe had more consolidated land use, more mass transit, and smaller cars long before they raised taxes on gas. That's because their cities were founded two thousand years before the car came along.
It all came down to a choice for politicians: Either discourage the use of cars, or lay the city flat in order to redesign them from the ground up in order to deal with the growing car problem. By "car problem" they mean "people have no place to park their cars in Rome. They're using the avenue medians", and "lorries are getting wedged between buildings", and "it takes an hour to drive 15 blocks in London".
And laying the city flat isn't exactly an option either. You actually have to *pay* people to take over their land. Nevermind the fact that doing so would destroy the cultural and historic landmarks that make the city what it is. To Europeans, this is more than unacceptable, it's blasphemous.
So they raised the cost of owning a car.
They're not just going to stop going to work or to the store because the price of gas doubles.
You see, the difference here is that in Europe, people have been going to the store and to work *without* gasoline for a thousand years before it came along. Whereas in America, most places didn't actually *exist* before gasoline came along. Most of your cities were built with the automobile in mind. All of Europe was not.
Thus *your* perception is "the government raises the price of gas to fund their own retirement plans" because everyone *needs* a car to get by in your world.
In Europe, it's utterly different. Streets are narrow, towns are close together, and before the EU, driving for an hour or two on the highway meant you needed a passport and a change in currency. For a lot of people, owning a car is totally impractical. In fact, this impracticality was the real reason for the government's efforts to try to reduce the use of cars. It was either try to stop people from driving as much, or totally re-engineer your cities to avoid major traffic problems, which would require destroying their history and culture as well as pissing off all the landowners.
Heck, who pays for the stabilisation of the oil-producing middle-east countries, if it doesn't come from fuel tax?
Oh, they just borrow money to pay for that. And lower taxes at the same time, so they have to borrow more. And they'll pay those loans off... sometime.
this proposal acknowledges that Open Document does not address pictures, audio, video, charts, maps, voice, voice-over-IP, and other kinds of data our customers are increasingly putting in documents and archiving.
Gee whiz, and here I thought Word was for... words. You know. Making documents that you can read. I guess I was totally wrong, because it appears that it also reads my e-mail and makes me toast in the morning. How the hell did this kind of silliness get integrated into the program? Would Microsoft actually attempt to make Word make toast for me in the morning if enough people asked for it? And what's that critical number, anyway?
Since I learned a smattering of ASL years ago, I automatically parsed that to mean something involving coding in sign language, or sign language as code.
And I thought to myself "Wow, that's some cool shit!"
But noooo...
This is the best part of your post:
"2. Envision every possible use of code they write"
Because, you know, they couldn't predict the possible abuses of automatic execution of VB code in e-mail attachments. I mean, *that* was a tough stretch of the imagination.
ME TOO!!!1\
I'm still paying for that crap, ten years later. It's totally not worth it.
I was wise enough to take this advice while I was in college.
The problem is that you have your CS degree, and I don't.
So now ask yourself, was it not worth it?
No, it sounds much much more like the "Ministry of Love."
Oh man! Asterisk isn't even out of *beta* yet!