And what does the Bible have to say about AGW, anyway?
Nothing directly, but that's never stopped people from interpreting it however they see fit before.
One impact fundamentalists have on global warming is that they think the world is coming to an end very soon, so they ignore global warming completely, thinking they'll be taken up to heaven before then.
Wait, is he a Nero or is he a Christian?
I meant a nero as in a very bad leader. And I'm pretty sure if we had a nero in the US, it would be an evangelical christian.
It doesn't matter anyway. The idiot AG got (rightfully) denied his chance to go on a fishing expedition through Mann's files.
If only that were a strong enough precedent to make politicians quit tying to make scientists say what they want.
Yes, and I'm quite certain it won't matter one way or another. My reasons we should mine asteroids rather than the earth have nothing to do with "it will make greenpeace happy."
On the other hand, sometimes with major projects like this, we find ways of making it cheaper and more efficient along the way. Seems like we will only become proficient at mining asteroids by starting to mine asteroids. Furthermore, the cost argument probably doesn't/can't take into account the cost in terms of environmental damage of mining these rare materials on earth.
Note to self: never accept a job in Virginia, and never collaborate with anyone working in Virginia. Sure, there might be little political controversy over cell biology that isn't ESC related, but who knows when a little nero from VA might get it in his head that the bible says I'm wrong.
I think I played that DLC scenario in Mass Effect. We just need to be careful about those 4 eyed space terrorists. Oh, and space worms. Fucking space worms.
Yet no one stops to think that moving to the suburbs and having kids is a huge contributor to the demand for resources.
If I don't have kids, how would that reduction of carbon / energy consumption / etc compare to, say, having kids and advocating restrictions on coal-fired power plants? Are we talking comparable amounts or are we talking my sacrificing my kids would be like one less hour of a coal plant running? I'm really more in favor of having the government clamp down on abusive corporations than not having kids, even moreso if reproducing would be small potatoes compared to your average corporate ubercitizen.
China is putting in more work to reduce pollution than anywhere else and luckily they didn't stop after the Olympics.
I thought they stopped most sources of smog only temporarily before resuming them after the games. And did they clean up their act anywhere besides Beijing? Because it's fine if they're trying to lower pollution in Beijing, but it's a big country. For those of us who don't live there, a coal plant 100 miles from Beijing isn't that much different than one in the very center.
The Jehovahs once brought round a leaflet containing exciting news of this new stuff that "scientists" had discovered on the ocean floor. The same "scientists" who all believe that god is a fact and believe in biblical creation.
What is it about crazy people and mixing science and religion? It's like their crack.
Actually, I guess plenty of crazy people use actual crack too...
How many congressmen (excluding Ron Paul) really make an effort to decide whether something is constitutional or not?
All of them! If and when they disagree with the item in question due to their paying supporters, if and when they can't make a "It's gonna raise taxes" argument first.
Yes. 6% is acceptable. I mean, 100% would be nice, but that's just not going to happen. 6% of respondents may have not taken it seriously, been insane, provided an answer that was unintelligible, meant to say "The US" but accidentally said something else, left the question blank on accident, found the question insulting, been drunk or high, etc or some combination thereof.
It also says at the top that "The margin of error for the total sample is +/- 4.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level."
How does that 6% compare to other countries? I'm guessing it's not that different from many others, and probably a lot higher than many countries with lower education.
Even if you don't bother learning your own presentation beforehand, powerpoint can be an improvement with the presenter view. You can essentially write exactly what you're going to say on the screen you see, and just put the important points up on the main screen.
Needless to say, lazy presentations using -any- format or technology will be inferior to a well thought out presentation using a chalkboard or even charades, but I suspect a lazy powerpoint presentation could be nominally better than a lazy chalkboard presentation.
It's certainly better for those of us who find ourselves going off on pointless tangents when we're actually in front of people. Get me in front of a crowd talking about my work, and it suddenly becomes stream of consciousness. Even working off a paper outline, I'll catch myself going into unnecessary detail at certain points and skipping ahead before looking down at the paper and then backtracking, losing anyone who may have still been following. It's like "OOH! And I should mention this which when I was preparing the presentation thought was non-essential, BUT IS AWESOME!"
I do realize that this is something which could be corrected by practicing the presentation several more times, but I don't always have that kind of time.
Sometimes they actually ARE stupid. Or rather, don't really care. Judging from the colonel's text, this is one of those times. He says he hasn't done anything for months, and the slides never change, and yet they are all required to be there. Sounds like mandatory mental nap time.
To the "think of the children" crowd's credit, I'm pretty sure it's more likely that kids will cuss and have sex than rip someone's heart out by their bare hands. If you buy the argument that "kids will emulate what they see on TV," then it makes sense that you wouldn't bar the superhuman feat of strength, since the most that would happen there is kids hurting their hands on other peoples' chests.
Against their credit, "kids do what they see on TV" is a stupid fucking idea held by idiots.
Nobody wants to see a cock on their TV. But let me fucking blow up a baby. Americans fucking love that.
Uh... I think you overdid the hyperbole there. All I can think about now is "Who the hell said it was okay to blow up a baby?" and "Is there something wrong with me because I -don't- want to see cock?"
In grad school, a large group of biology students were talking about the GRE, the required standardized test to get into grad school. Before you can take it, you need to write out a paragraph along the lines of "I promise not to cheat," only you were supposed to do it in cursive.
None of us getting our PhDs in genetics or cell biology knew how to write in cursive. We all had tried, and then quickly either given up and written in normal characters without lifting up the pen, or just made squiggles for the rest of the lines.
I always wondered if that was just some devious way to throw the test taker off his or her game. That's the closest thing I could think of to a rational explanation. Second was somehow some old nun, hellbent on preserving something she had worked her whole life for, wormed her way onto the board of whoever made the tests, and decreed that it would require a display of cursive.
By the way, I'd like to give a big FU to Sister Marie for making me waste my precious 3rd grade time learning a writing system that did absolutely nothing for me. These days I can't even read it.
Anyway, the same seems like it could be true of Kanji (chinese characters) for the japanese. They have a phonetic alphabet. Two in fact. They really don't need to use chinese characters. I don't speak japanese, but I'd wager that it's easier to type out the phonetic hirigana letters than it is to type them out and then convert to the correct kanji. I'd be a little surprised if in 50 years, it was as widely used as it is now.
saying "my company spent a million dollars creating and distributing free videos describing our product" would be a way to win, but "I have 10 GB of videos of my cat on my home page" would not
I don't see how you can say that without even knowing how cute my cat is. Mr. Mittens playing with a string would melt the heart of any judge and or jury.
Frankly I don't know what English not being his mother tongue has to do with his English mistakes. I only know English, and some people say I don't talk good, but that unpossible.
Are we sure it -wasn't- BP? Because they have an interest in taking the focus off the fact that oil can do that too, and this wouldn't be the biggest disaster they've caused this year.
(kidding about the conspiracy theory, just to clarify)
Then they'll get the judge to throw the book at the defendants, then sue the judge until they take over the entire legislative branch of the government.
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Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
Well, with that hair, he really should be going more for pastels.
Uh... I mean yeah, women... not fair man. Beer and stuff.
And what does the Bible have to say about AGW, anyway?
Nothing directly, but that's never stopped people from interpreting it however they see fit before.
One impact fundamentalists have on global warming is that they think the world is coming to an end very soon, so they ignore global warming completely, thinking they'll be taken up to heaven before then.
Wait, is he a Nero or is he a Christian?
I meant a nero as in a very bad leader. And I'm pretty sure if we had a nero in the US, it would be an evangelical christian.
It doesn't matter anyway. The idiot AG got (rightfully) denied his chance to go on a fishing expedition through Mann's files.
If only that were a strong enough precedent to make politicians quit tying to make scientists say what they want.
Yes, and I'm quite certain it won't matter one way or another. My reasons we should mine asteroids rather than the earth have nothing to do with "it will make greenpeace happy."
I'm not for or against global warming, I just don't care. It's just a change, which has happened any number of times in (pre)history.
So I guess it's safe to assume you and your family live on one of the islands that is going to be completely underwater..
On the other hand, sometimes with major projects like this, we find ways of making it cheaper and more efficient along the way. Seems like we will only become proficient at mining asteroids by starting to mine asteroids. Furthermore, the cost argument probably doesn't/can't take into account the cost in terms of environmental damage of mining these rare materials on earth.
Note to self: never accept a job in Virginia, and never collaborate with anyone working in Virginia. Sure, there might be little political controversy over cell biology that isn't ESC related, but who knows when a little nero from VA might get it in his head that the bible says I'm wrong.
I think I played that DLC scenario in Mass Effect. We just need to be careful about those 4 eyed space terrorists. Oh, and space worms. Fucking space worms.
Yet no one stops to think that moving to the suburbs and having kids is a huge contributor to the demand for resources.
If I don't have kids, how would that reduction of carbon / energy consumption / etc compare to, say, having kids and advocating restrictions on coal-fired power plants? Are we talking comparable amounts or are we talking my sacrificing my kids would be like one less hour of a coal plant running? I'm really more in favor of having the government clamp down on abusive corporations than not having kids, even moreso if reproducing would be small potatoes compared to your average corporate ubercitizen.
China is putting in more work to reduce pollution than anywhere else and luckily they didn't stop after the Olympics.
I thought they stopped most sources of smog only temporarily before resuming them after the games. And did they clean up their act anywhere besides Beijing? Because it's fine if they're trying to lower pollution in Beijing, but it's a big country. For those of us who don't live there, a coal plant 100 miles from Beijing isn't that much different than one in the very center.
The Jehovahs once brought round a leaflet containing exciting news of this new stuff that "scientists" had discovered on the ocean floor. The same "scientists" who all believe that god is a fact and believe in biblical creation.
What is it about crazy people and mixing science and religion? It's like their crack.
Actually, I guess plenty of crazy people use actual crack too...
I'm not making a case here, aside from "6% of people not correctly identifying their country on a map" is not a shocking statistic.
I'm certainly not claiming Americans are great at geography. Just that expecting 100% in a survey is unrealistic.
How many congressmen (excluding Ron Paul) really make an effort to decide whether something is constitutional or not?
All of them! If and when they disagree with the item in question due to their paying supporters, if and when they can't make a "It's gonna raise taxes" argument first.
if you can't find the lincoln memorial while you are standing around confused at the FDR memorial.. you have bigger problems to worry about.
Such as being 100% certain that the president was born in Kenya?
(ZING!)
Yes. 6% is acceptable. I mean, 100% would be nice, but that's just not going to happen. 6% of respondents may have not taken it seriously, been insane, provided an answer that was unintelligible, meant to say "The US" but accidentally said something else, left the question blank on accident, found the question insulting, been drunk or high, etc or some combination thereof.
It also says at the top that "The margin of error for the total sample is +/- 4.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level."
How does that 6% compare to other countries? I'm guessing it's not that different from many others, and probably a lot higher than many countries with lower education.
Even if you don't bother learning your own presentation beforehand, powerpoint can be an improvement with the presenter view. You can essentially write exactly what you're going to say on the screen you see, and just put the important points up on the main screen.
Needless to say, lazy presentations using -any- format or technology will be inferior to a well thought out presentation using a chalkboard or even charades, but I suspect a lazy powerpoint presentation could be nominally better than a lazy chalkboard presentation.
It's certainly better for those of us who find ourselves going off on pointless tangents when we're actually in front of people. Get me in front of a crowd talking about my work, and it suddenly becomes stream of consciousness. Even working off a paper outline, I'll catch myself going into unnecessary detail at certain points and skipping ahead before looking down at the paper and then backtracking, losing anyone who may have still been following. It's like "OOH! And I should mention this which when I was preparing the presentation thought was non-essential, BUT IS AWESOME!"
I do realize that this is something which could be corrected by practicing the presentation several more times, but I don't always have that kind of time.
Powerpoint also ASSUMES your audience is stupid.
Sometimes they actually ARE stupid. Or rather, don't really care. Judging from the colonel's text, this is one of those times. He says he hasn't done anything for months, and the slides never change, and yet they are all required to be there. Sounds like mandatory mental nap time.
To the "think of the children" crowd's credit, I'm pretty sure it's more likely that kids will cuss and have sex than rip someone's heart out by their bare hands. If you buy the argument that "kids will emulate what they see on TV," then it makes sense that you wouldn't bar the superhuman feat of strength, since the most that would happen there is kids hurting their hands on other peoples' chests.
Against their credit, "kids do what they see on TV" is a stupid fucking idea held by idiots.
Nobody wants to see a cock on their TV. But let me fucking blow up a baby. Americans fucking love that.
Uh... I think you overdid the hyperbole there. All I can think about now is "Who the hell said it was okay to blow up a baby?" and "Is there something wrong with me because I -don't- want to see cock?"
In grad school, a large group of biology students were talking about the GRE, the required standardized test to get into grad school. Before you can take it, you need to write out a paragraph along the lines of "I promise not to cheat," only you were supposed to do it in cursive.
None of us getting our PhDs in genetics or cell biology knew how to write in cursive. We all had tried, and then quickly either given up and written in normal characters without lifting up the pen, or just made squiggles for the rest of the lines.
I always wondered if that was just some devious way to throw the test taker off his or her game. That's the closest thing I could think of to a rational explanation. Second was somehow some old nun, hellbent on preserving something she had worked her whole life for, wormed her way onto the board of whoever made the tests, and decreed that it would require a display of cursive.
By the way, I'd like to give a big FU to Sister Marie for making me waste my precious 3rd grade time learning a writing system that did absolutely nothing for me. These days I can't even read it.
Anyway, the same seems like it could be true of Kanji (chinese characters) for the japanese. They have a phonetic alphabet. Two in fact. They really don't need to use chinese characters. I don't speak japanese, but I'd wager that it's easier to type out the phonetic hirigana letters than it is to type them out and then convert to the correct kanji. I'd be a little surprised if in 50 years, it was as widely used as it is now.
saying "my company spent a million dollars creating and distributing free videos describing our product" would be a way to win, but "I have 10 GB of videos of my cat on my home page" would not
I don't see how you can say that without even knowing how cute my cat is. Mr. Mittens playing with a string would melt the heart of any judge and or jury.
Frankly I don't know what English not being his mother tongue has to do with his English mistakes. I only know English, and some people say I don't talk good, but that unpossible.
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Correlation is not causation!
Sorry, slashdot reflex there.
Are we sure it -wasn't- BP? Because they have an interest in taking the focus off the fact that oil can do that too, and this wouldn't be the biggest disaster they've caused this year.
(kidding about the conspiracy theory, just to clarify)
I shot a server room AC in reno, just to watch it fry
Then they'll get the judge to throw the book at the defendants, then sue the judge until they take over the entire legislative branch of the government.