It does. Everyone who spews the bullshit, "Texas buys the most text books and thus controls the market" is just wrong. The textbook market it broken into two markets that can be described as California and Texas. The reason you don't hear about California is that were are not Bible thumping morons and Science rules our Science Classes and Religion is rules the Religion Classes. Same thing with our Sex Ed. You don't hear about the controversy about California Sex Education, because there is none. We teach real sex in our sex ed. classes.
Then why would you comment on something you clearly stated you dont know anything about? I dont know any thing about brain surgery, so I dont give advise about brain surgery. Just kinda makes sense.
Here on Earth and not Planet Black and White, there is thing called, "correct response to a problem". Here on Earth, we handout measured punishments based on the actually crime committed and the damage done to the victim. The offender in this case stole 5 cents of electricity. Which, while technically is a crime, is not a large one and not one worth the time of a police officer. If, for some reason, it did come to the attention of a police officer, they should have issued a warning since that may have all that is needed. Having a state employee deal with this is a net loss to society and its people since the officer could be doing other things like chase murders and rapists.
I get so annoyed with you people because you are corrupting the discussion of science and for what, so you can push your personal religious views ahead of science? Your suppression of science causes great harm to this country and to the human species, in general
I have posted a brief outline of the evidence in other posts today, I'm loathed to do it again.
Because you have none.
So where you want to think there is nothing out there, there *is* evidence. I don't suppose it will be enough for you, but never the less it is there. Let me give you a thumbnail sketch of part of it. Life is complex in its higher forms, yet is simple enough to continue to procreate. There are many forms of life, yet they all break down into standard building blocks that imply design. The universe is winding down like an old watch and will eventually run out of entropy, yet here we are.
This means nothing! Just creationist jibber jabber that says nothing and falls into the realm of unobservable, unprovable and untestable. You have stated nothing here which can be proven. You can't say, "It's complex, and yet it reproduces, so that implies there is a creator". Why must complex things have a creator? Why can't over the eons on time these things work themselves out? Yes, they are complex, but over long periods of time and trillions and trillions and trillions of different attempts and combinations, why can't they work themselves out (I know, a overly simple explanation of the process. I know I am using super dumbed down explanation for the forming of life)? Why is that so hard to understand? And why does the Universe winding down have anything to do with this? Yes, the Universe may some day turn into a realm of space where everything is evenly spaced out and has the same energy, but that may occur BILLIONS years from now. Plenty of time for life to rise and fall and rise again, and fall many many many times.
Again, I'm not claiming proof, only evidence. Evidence that has convinced many throughout the ages. You would assert the negative. That there is no creator, so I believe that the burden of proof does not fall to me but to you. How can you be sure? How do you prove the negative? I don't think you can logically, so I contend that logically you have to accept that a creator might be possible, like it or not.
Have a good holiday.. I'm done here.
Again, you don't get it. You have stated there is a creator. I say, "okay, show your proof", then you give me gibber jabber. I don't have to disprove anything, I can just sit here with thousands of other scientists (or wanna be scientists) and examine your evidence. When you gather enough evidence that passes muster, we will accept the theory of a creator and you will collect your Noble Prize. Your name will be spoken throughout the ages and I will be a fool.
Until then, stop ruining this country by dumbing down our kids with your non-sense.
Why is it so crossways with your thinking to believe in a creator?
Then fucking show your evidence! You have not one little drop of evidence at all. Nothing! You can put out all the assumptions, guesses and straw man arguments you want but in the end, you have ZERO proof of any creator of any kind. You can say, well it all goes back to Big Bang and he created that, but you have ZERO evidence. There is a lot of evidence for the Big Bang, but none for what was before it or what created it. And, if you say, "well, prove me wrong", then you have already lost the debate because when you state a theory or fact, you have to provide it with evidence.
What kills me about creationists is they might acknowledge microevolution but not macroevolution. How do you have micro and never macroevolution? With enough microevolution, you have to have macroevolution.
Creationism is not religion, even if its proponents are sometimes religious. Creationism is system of scientific thought that presupposes a specific world view that can not be proven or disproved. You have no way to know that there was no creator, you just start with that assumption. Creationists start with an alternate assumption and arrive at different conclusions on some points.
This paragraph is complete Creationist fail. If you have any "presupposes" in science then it is not science. Also, you never disprove anything with science, if you make the claim, YOU have to prove it. You do not make a claim in science and then tell other people to disprove your idea. If you can not put the data and evidence forward, then you are automatically wrong. If you claim there is a creator, prove it, it is not my responsibility to prove it, it is yours.
Your claim that it is teaching religion to teach creationism is a lie. Unless you are willing to stipulate that teaching evolution is tantamount to teaching atheism and thus is teaching religion too. I'm going to bet you won't stipulate that point.
So, do we teach both or do we just teach your religious view?
Just because some refutes your side of the argument does make the other person a subscriber of the opposite of the religion that you are pushing. You are pushing a religious philosophy into an area of science, which is the wrong thing to do. This does make science the realm of Satan and Atheist, it just means you have been called out for pushing your religion into a place it does not belong.
(I wish Amazon hadn't called it AWS. It's not recognizable enough without spelling out Amazon, and you end up effectively writing Amazon Amazon Web Services or people don't know what you're talking about.)
I always call it EC2, and more or less, everyone in the computing business knows what that is.
I'm not sure why you brought up the constitution. It says the feds have the ability not that only the feds can do it. Hell, if that wasn't the case, fed ex and ups couldn't exist.
FedEx and UPS can't deliver mail, just packages. What you are saying is not true.
How about this, a minimal floor of insurance quality is set that requires all insurance policies to cover birth control supplies, pre-natal care and other maternity care so that when it is need by the policy holder, they have access to it. With this policy, women can get access to birth control to have children they are ready to and when those children are born, they are born healthier and much less likely to become a tax burden and more likely to become a tax contributor. Which in the long run, lowers all of our taxes and health costs, even for narrow minded Tea Party dweebs. Also, that would just make us a good First World Country and not a central African shit-hole.
Call me a socialist, but making sure someone I don't know has a healthy kid that is not a burden to state, gets educated and thus less likely to pull out a gun and shoot me over $20 is in my best interest.
No, but a shit ton of them died. Indian famines and starvations are on a large scale, well into the millions of people dead. Putting 2.2% of their GDP to prevent this, sounds like a wise investment.
Well, let me be the first to say that you are a complete fucking selfish asshole. I imagine the millions of people that are going to die so you can a slightly more pleasant September will go to their graves knowing they died for a good cause. The hot spots on this planet are going to get hotter and the warm places are going to get hot. That means agriculture across the planet is going to be disrupted on the very large scale. Which possibly means millions of people of dying, but that's okay, you can wear a short sleeve shirt in September! As for those nobodies that live on the coast, which is probably a good chunk of the human population, they'll just have to suck it up. Their cities will disappear and they'll just up and move, like it's nothing. It's just their lives and livelihood, I mean, it's really nothing. The trillions of dollars in infrastructure across the world will need to be replaced or augmented will come out of our pocket change, but that's okay, you're warm in September! Of course, let's not discus the thousand or millions of species that live on this planet are going to heavily impacted or die. The giant and highly complex ecosystems across world with just have to "suck it up", you know, they don't do anything but make the world livable and the air breathable (I don't mean that figuratively either.) The environment will change in 100 years what would usually take 100,000 years, with a huge mystery of how it will turn out, but who cares, you get to drive a super size truck! I mean, if Mother nature was not such a pussy, she would not have this problem because it is all about YOU.
PS> If you don't like the September's where you live, you can fucking move, you ignorant fuck.
Your first statement is not true. I'm getting a fairly constant flow of photos and updates from friends out there now. Most for them work for the BORG, so they have a hard line data connection.
But yeah, most people turn off their phone.
The reason you get pictures from them is because the BORG has its own WiFi network that no one else can use. They can snap pictures and they do get out, everyone else, this is not true.
This article is so horribly written that it makes my head hurt.
First off, the Tech Titans that go to Burning Man fly in private jets and stay in "Pay to Play" camps. Not to be a Burning Man snob, they are not getting the Burning Man experience. Also, most of them stay a day or so and then leave.
The OpenBTS network that is setup is a closed private Cell Phone network (This is covered in the FAQ). You have to have a GSM phone, type in special codes to get it to work and there are a number of restrictions to using the network. As the article stated, calling out is limited and calling in very limited. It's great for sending TXT messages, but the coverage is spotty at best.
OpenBTS only supports GSM, not CDMA (Verizon and Sprint), so that means not everyone can use it. Verizon kinda works out there, but TXT is the only thing flowing in or out (With long delays) since there are still too many people out there for the local cell phone infrastructure.
There is wireless at Burning Man, but really only at Center Camp and after about 8:00a, it gets crushed with users. Trust me, no one is checking Facebook or Instagram at Burning Man.
This whole, "OMG, CELL PHONES AT BURNING MAN IS GOING TO RUIN BURNING MAN" is completely over blown. Just about everyone turns off their phones at the gates and leaves them off all week. Burning Man was and still is a completely different world for one week.
All of these Ask Slashdot questions appear to come from a Computer Science freshman class.
Before you buy a piece of hardware, you find out what the "lifetime" is of a piece of hardware and how long it is going to be supported by the vendor. For example, my last job we bought Dell servers, so we investigated that we could get support contracts from Dell for 5 years after purchase. So, we used servers in production for 3 years, and then after that, we would rotate them to another production level function that did not need the latest level of CPU or memory, and then at the end of 5 years, they were rotated to non-production. They stayed in non-prod until they died and we could not easily get parts for the server.
If you depend on something for production, you have to follow the vendor lifetime guidelines. If the vendor does not make it clear what the lifetime is, then don't buy from that vendor.
Show me a socialist program that is empowering people and bettering their lives.
Public Education Public University/College Publicly funded roads/highways Publicly funded Fire Department Publicly funded Police Department Publicly funded food programs for Children
That's the big 6 right there. None of those could ever be moved into the private sector.
Anyone who complains about an HOA is an idiot. You are not born into a HOA or forced to move into a HOA, you choose to live in an HOA. They don't magically show up one day and are forced on you, you voluntarily decide to move into a house/condo/apartment that has a HOA. If you don't like the rules, then you don't live there. There are no horror stories about living in a HOA, just people whining that they did not read the rules before buying a house in a HOA.
I love living in a HOA. Keeps my neighbors in line and prevent them lowering my property values.
'We don't have the ability to go to court and say, "We need a court order to effectuate the intercept."...
Can this guy be serious? The FBI doesn't have the ability to go to court and ask for a court order allowing them to listen in on conversations? Wow. Just utterly wow.
That leads me to believe that the FBI just says this stuff so that a good chunk of the population, which does not understand the 4th Amendment or Court Orders in general, just buys into what they are saying, just so they can get it.
How the FBI intercepts anything without a warrant or court order and the evidence is not thrown out of court, is beyond me.
I'm not a lawyer, so don't take legal advise from me, however, I have been following this story from the beginning and there are two things I get from all of this is: don't piss off the Internet and Charles Carreon is possibly a really bad lawyer.
He and his wife (To a lessor extent), have taken a blog posting by person with a serious and legitimate issue with someone stealing his hard work and managed to fold it into a substantially career damaging blunder. Every time Charles Carreon speaks, I just dislike him more and more and would advise him to hire him as a lawyer. How he continues to get any more cases is really beyond me. Two seconds with Google would demonstrate that this guy is possible off his rocker or a really bad lawyer.
As someone else pointed out, all he did was request data from a public server and AT&T sent it to him. Also, he got 41 months for forwarding 114,000 email addresses to news site, which is overkill. Had he physically broke into an AT&T office and took the email addresses from someone's desk, he would have received less prison time.
He should have been given community service at the most, and then got an award for exposing a flaw from AT&T.
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It does. Everyone who spews the bullshit, "Texas buys the most text books and thus controls the market" is just wrong. The textbook market it broken into two markets that can be described as California and Texas. The reason you don't hear about California is that were are not Bible thumping morons and Science rules our Science Classes and Religion is rules the Religion Classes. Same thing with our Sex Ed. You don't hear about the controversy about California Sex Education, because there is none. We teach real sex in our sex ed. classes.
Then why would you comment on something you clearly stated you dont know anything about? I dont know any thing about brain surgery, so I dont give advise about brain surgery. Just kinda makes sense.
Here on Earth and not Planet Black and White, there is thing called, "correct response to a problem". Here on Earth, we handout measured punishments based on the actually crime committed and the damage done to the victim. The offender in this case stole 5 cents of electricity. Which, while technically is a crime, is not a large one and not one worth the time of a police officer. If, for some reason, it did come to the attention of a police officer, they should have issued a warning since that may have all that is needed. Having a state employee deal with this is a net loss to society and its people since the officer could be doing other things like chase murders and rapists.
Whoa there Mullen.. Rein in the horse a bit.
I get so annoyed with you people because you are corrupting the discussion of science and for what, so you can push your personal religious views ahead of science? Your suppression of science causes great harm to this country and to the human species, in general
I have posted a brief outline of the evidence in other posts today, I'm loathed to do it again.
Because you have none.
So where you want to think there is nothing out there, there *is* evidence. I don't suppose it will be enough for you, but never the less it is there. Let me give you a thumbnail sketch of part of it. Life is complex in its higher forms, yet is simple enough to continue to procreate. There are many forms of life, yet they all break down into standard building blocks that imply design. The universe is winding down like an old watch and will eventually run out of entropy, yet here we are.
This means nothing! Just creationist jibber jabber that says nothing and falls into the realm of unobservable, unprovable and untestable. You have stated nothing here which can be proven. You can't say, "It's complex, and yet it reproduces, so that implies there is a creator". Why must complex things have a creator? Why can't over the eons on time these things work themselves out? Yes, they are complex, but over long periods of time and trillions and trillions and trillions of different attempts and combinations, why can't they work themselves out (I know, a overly simple explanation of the process. I know I am using super dumbed down explanation for the forming of life)? Why is that so hard to understand?
And why does the Universe winding down have anything to do with this? Yes, the Universe may some day turn into a realm of space where everything is evenly spaced out and has the same energy, but that may occur BILLIONS years from now. Plenty of time for life to rise and fall and rise again, and fall many many many times.
Again, I'm not claiming proof, only evidence. Evidence that has convinced many throughout the ages. You would assert the negative. That there is no creator, so I believe that the burden of proof does not fall to me but to you. How can you be sure? How do you prove the negative? I don't think you can logically, so I contend that logically you have to accept that a creator might be possible, like it or not.
Have a good holiday.. I'm done here.
Again, you don't get it. You have stated there is a creator. I say, "okay, show your proof", then you give me gibber jabber. I don't have to disprove anything, I can just sit here with thousands of other scientists (or wanna be scientists) and examine your evidence. When you gather enough evidence that passes muster, we will accept the theory of a creator and you will collect your Noble Prize. Your name will be spoken throughout the ages and I will be a fool.
Until then, stop ruining this country by dumbing down our kids with your non-sense.
Why is it so crossways with your thinking to believe in a creator?
Then fucking show your evidence! You have not one little drop of evidence at all. Nothing! You can put out all the assumptions, guesses and straw man arguments you want but in the end, you have ZERO proof of any creator of any kind. You can say, well it all goes back to Big Bang and he created that, but you have ZERO evidence. There is a lot of evidence for the Big Bang, but none for what was before it or what created it. And, if you say, "well, prove me wrong", then you have already lost the debate because when you state a theory or fact, you have to provide it with evidence.
Well since we're using poor metaphors, winning the lottery would be like winning a coin toss about 25 times in a row.
More like a thousand times and then getting struck by lighting right afterward.
There is evidence for the existence of a creator, despite what you likely think.
Well then, show it!
What kills me about creationists is they might acknowledge microevolution but not macroevolution. How do you have micro and never macroevolution? With enough microevolution, you have to have macroevolution.
Creationism is not religion, even if its proponents are sometimes religious. Creationism is system of scientific thought that presupposes a specific world view that can not be proven or disproved. You have no way to know that there was no creator, you just start with that assumption. Creationists start with an alternate assumption and arrive at different conclusions on some points.
This paragraph is complete Creationist fail. If you have any "presupposes" in science then it is not science. Also, you never disprove anything with science, if you make the claim, YOU have to prove it. You do not make a claim in science and then tell other people to disprove your idea. If you can not put the data and evidence forward, then you are automatically wrong. If you claim there is a creator, prove it, it is not my responsibility to prove it, it is yours.
Your claim that it is teaching religion to teach creationism is a lie. Unless you are willing to stipulate that teaching evolution is tantamount to teaching atheism and thus is teaching religion too. I'm going to bet you won't stipulate that point.
So, do we teach both or do we just teach your religious view?
Just because some refutes your side of the argument does make the other person a subscriber of the opposite of the religion that you are pushing. You are pushing a religious philosophy into an area of science, which is the wrong thing to do. This does make science the realm of Satan and Atheist, it just means you have been called out for pushing your religion into a place it does not belong.
(I wish Amazon hadn't called it AWS. It's not recognizable enough without spelling out Amazon, and you end up effectively writing Amazon Amazon Web Services or people don't know what you're talking about.)
I always call it EC2, and more or less, everyone in the computing business knows what that is.
I'm not sure why you brought up the constitution. It says the feds have the ability not that only the feds can do it. Hell, if that wasn't the case, fed ex and ups couldn't exist.
FedEx and UPS can't deliver mail, just packages. What you are saying is not true.
Me Me Me Me!!!!!
How about this, a minimal floor of insurance quality is set that requires all insurance policies to cover birth control supplies, pre-natal care and other maternity care so that when it is need by the policy holder, they have access to it. With this policy, women can get access to birth control to have children they are ready to and when those children are born, they are born healthier and much less likely to become a tax burden and more likely to become a tax contributor. Which in the long run, lowers all of our taxes and health costs, even for narrow minded Tea Party dweebs. Also, that would just make us a good First World Country and not a central African shit-hole.
Call me a socialist, but making sure someone I don't know has a healthy kid that is not a burden to state, gets educated and thus less likely to pull out a gun and shoot me over $20 is in my best interest.
The displays of multiple fully intact skeletons of Mammoths and the "Wall of Dire Wolves Skulls" is worth the trip alone.
No, but a shit ton of them died. Indian famines and starvations are on a large scale, well into the millions of people dead. Putting 2.2% of their GDP to prevent this, sounds like a wise investment.
Well, let me be the first to say that you are a complete fucking selfish asshole. I imagine the millions of people that are going to die so you can a slightly more pleasant September will go to their graves knowing they died for a good cause. The hot spots on this planet are going to get hotter and the warm places are going to get hot. That means agriculture across the planet is going to be disrupted on the very large scale. Which possibly means millions of people of dying, but that's okay, you can wear a short sleeve shirt in September!
As for those nobodies that live on the coast, which is probably a good chunk of the human population, they'll just have to suck it up. Their cities will disappear and they'll just up and move, like it's nothing. It's just their lives and livelihood, I mean, it's really nothing. The trillions of dollars in infrastructure across the world will need to be replaced or augmented will come out of our pocket change, but that's okay, you're warm in September!
Of course, let's not discus the thousand or millions of species that live on this planet are going to heavily impacted or die. The giant and highly complex ecosystems across world with just have to "suck it up", you know, they don't do anything but make the world livable and the air breathable (I don't mean that figuratively either.) The environment will change in 100 years what would usually take 100,000 years, with a huge mystery of how it will turn out, but who cares, you get to drive a super size truck! I mean, if Mother nature was not such a pussy, she would not have this problem because it is all about YOU.
PS> If you don't like the September's where you live, you can fucking move, you ignorant fuck.
Hey, some of go for the "Art, Sex and Music"!
Your first statement is not true. I'm getting a fairly constant flow of photos and updates from friends out there now. Most for them work for the BORG, so they have a hard line data connection.
But yeah, most people turn off their phone.
The reason you get pictures from them is because the BORG has its own WiFi network that no one else can use. They can snap pictures and they do get out, everyone else, this is not true.
This article is so horribly written that it makes my head hurt.
First off, the Tech Titans that go to Burning Man fly in private jets and stay in "Pay to Play" camps. Not to be a Burning Man snob, they are not getting the Burning Man experience. Also, most of them stay a day or so and then leave.
The OpenBTS network that is setup is a closed private Cell Phone network (This is covered in the FAQ). You have to have a GSM phone, type in special codes to get it to work and there are a number of restrictions to using the network. As the article stated, calling out is limited and calling in very limited. It's great for sending TXT messages, but the coverage is spotty at best.
OpenBTS only supports GSM, not CDMA (Verizon and Sprint), so that means not everyone can use it. Verizon kinda works out there, but TXT is the only thing flowing in or out (With long delays) since there are still too many people out there for the local cell phone infrastructure.
There is wireless at Burning Man, but really only at Center Camp and after about 8:00a, it gets crushed with users. Trust me, no one is checking Facebook or Instagram at Burning Man.
This whole, "OMG, CELL PHONES AT BURNING MAN IS GOING TO RUIN BURNING MAN" is completely over blown. Just about everyone turns off their phones at the gates and leaves them off all week. Burning Man was and still is a completely different world for one week.
To be really happy, it should be" Educated in USA, Work in France and Wife from Japan".
All of these Ask Slashdot questions appear to come from a Computer Science freshman class.
Before you buy a piece of hardware, you find out what the "lifetime" is of a piece of hardware and how long it is going to be supported by the vendor. For example, my last job we bought Dell servers, so we investigated that we could get support contracts from Dell for 5 years after purchase. So, we used servers in production for 3 years, and then after that, we would rotate them to another production level function that did not need the latest level of CPU or memory, and then at the end of 5 years, they were rotated to non-production. They stayed in non-prod until they died and we could not easily get parts for the server.
If you depend on something for production, you have to follow the vendor lifetime guidelines. If the vendor does not make it clear what the lifetime is, then don't buy from that vendor.
Show me a socialist program that is empowering people and bettering their lives.
Public Education
Public University/College
Publicly funded roads/highways
Publicly funded Fire Department
Publicly funded Police Department
Publicly funded food programs for Children
That's the big 6 right there. None of those could ever be moved into the private sector.
Anyone who complains about an HOA is an idiot. You are not born into a HOA or forced to move into a HOA, you choose to live in an HOA. They don't magically show up one day and are forced on you, you voluntarily decide to move into a house/condo/apartment that has a HOA. If you don't like the rules, then you don't live there. There are no horror stories about living in a HOA, just people whining that they did not read the rules before buying a house in a HOA.
I love living in a HOA. Keeps my neighbors in line and prevent them lowering my property values.
'We don't have the ability to go to court and say, "We need a court order to effectuate the intercept."...
Can this guy be serious? The FBI doesn't have the ability to go to court and ask for a court order allowing them to listen in on conversations? Wow. Just utterly wow.
That leads me to believe that the FBI just says this stuff so that a good chunk of the population, which does not understand the 4th Amendment or Court Orders in general, just buys into what they are saying, just so they can get it.
How the FBI intercepts anything without a warrant or court order and the evidence is not thrown out of court, is beyond me.
I'm not a lawyer, so don't take legal advise from me, however, I have been following this story from the beginning and there are two things I get from all of this is: don't piss off the Internet and Charles Carreon is possibly a really bad lawyer.
He and his wife (To a lessor extent), have taken a blog posting by person with a serious and legitimate issue with someone stealing his hard work and managed to fold it into a substantially career damaging blunder. Every time Charles Carreon speaks, I just dislike him more and more and would advise him to hire him as a lawyer. How he continues to get any more cases is really beyond me. Two seconds with Google would demonstrate that this guy is possible off his rocker or a really bad lawyer.
As someone else pointed out, all he did was request data from a public server and AT&T sent it to him. Also, he got 41 months for forwarding 114,000 email addresses to news site, which is overkill. Had he physically broke into an AT&T office and took the email addresses from someone's desk, he would have received less prison time.
He should have been given community service at the most, and then got an award for exposing a flaw from AT&T.