Do not fool yourself: through the tenuring process your values will change and you will feel you are special (and by special I mean 'better' than the rest of 'normal' people).
Frankly, that sounds a lot like Wall Street, and the "financial elite". I'm trying to figure out how being valued for your knowledge and wisdom became a bad thing in this country.
an intolerant monoculture as the tenured elite in their ivory towers
Achievement unlocked: buzzword combo!
Has anyone ever actually seen a tower made of ivory? Where did that come from? The "tenured elite" at my small school with only 50,000 students worked in some pretty shitty offices. It would have been pretty sweet to go to class inside an ivory tower instead of the crappy linoleum-tiled brick cages we had the privilege of occupying. As long as they also had ivory elevators.
The government has quite a bit more than 2 obligations (upkeep of roads, for instance). Personally, I see no reason why the government should not provide health care to anyone who needs it. I don't know if requiring health insurance is the right way to do that, but I believe that, along with education, the government has an obligation to provide basic minimum health care to anyone who needs it. Health care and education are probably the 2 most important things a government can provide to their population.
Where I live, a breathalyzer result is not permitted as evidence in court, it is only considered probably cause for the police to arrest you and perform a blood test. The blood test can be used in court.
What, like the test where the cop waves the pen in front of your face and says "yeah he's drunk, because I said so." Or the one where you blow into the machine and it comes back saying that your body is 5% alcohol, and the judge doesn't see a problem there?
In other words, you're saying that it's OK to have buggy testing equipment, because field tests?
No one wasted any additional time other than the time it wastes to watch the episode normally. The fact that they used a GWB head was pointed out in the commentary on the DVD, it wasn't something that someone just noticed.
It means that 13 year olds are between the states where they know nothing and know everything. That's to say that it wouldn't be out of the question to find a 13 year old who knows a lot about science, and it also wouldn't be out of the question to find one that knows nothing about it.
If it's not detrimental and it has a high enough probability of ocurrence, it'll happen, even if there's no fitness difference.
That's right, that's a more accurate way of saying what I was trying to say. Hell, even if it is detrimental and has a high enough probably it still may happen. Evolution isn't necessarily always about making creatures better. There seems to be a serious lack of understanding about how evolution actually works among people who challenge it. The fact that creatures can pass on their traits to future generations, and the fact that seemingly random mutations happen, are the only things that are required (and why can't god be responsible for those mutations?). Everything else (the results of that) seem to be so self-evident, but there are a lot of people who just don't understand it. They seem to think that we're trying to argue that humans came from chimps instead of both animals having a common ancestor which evolved into both family trees.
You seem to be assuming that current conditions will continue without major changes.
Of course I am. Maybe the day will come when humans and primates are wiped out and only the smartest cats survived, and they're busy studying anthropology and calculus to figure out how we did it.
No, the fast athletic quick-reflex cat gets the bird. He doesn't need to be smart, he only needs to be in the right place at the right time and have the necessary athleticism and reflexes. Athleticism and reflexes are fine-tuned in cats because those are the traits that helped them survive, and therefore pass on their genes. Supposedly my cat belongs to a breed that can run over 30 mph, he doesn't need to be smart if he can chase down a mouse or rabbit at that speed with his cat-like reflexes.
But the point isn't whether or not my cat is smart, or whether smart cats get birds. The point is whether or not being smart will help a cat pass on their genes more than a cat with less intelligence. Since cats currently have exactly zero problems passing on their genes, I can't see how intelligence would get a cat laid more than any other cat with enough frequency that the population of cats would start to get more intelligent. They have all of the speed and reflexes they need to survive and pass on their genes.
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
Extremely doubtful (but yes, even that is remotely possible). Why would you assume that evolution would select mathematics, among all other things, in cats? Cats are doing pretty well with their current set of instincts, I don't see a huge evolutionary need for cats to learn advanced mathematics. A cat who is really good at math isn't necessarily going to have a better chance of passing on their genes. That cat is going to be geeking out on a TI-89 while my stupid cat kills a bird, presents it to a female, and nails her.
And where the hell did that question come from? Are you the person who wrote the textbook quoted in TFS? How does that relate to any discussion about evolution?
You're bringing politics into this. Appropriate username you've got there.
Let's see...Windows is now the odd-man out in the OS world, being the only consumer and business OS that doesn't use a Unix kernel.
You know, you have a point there. Every time my mom needs a new laptop the one question she asks me is "but does the OS have a Unix kernel?"
The fact that it's closed source
Another good point. My dad needed a new computer for his business and the one requirement he had was that the OS be open source, so that he could contribute patches when he found problems. He didn't really care that it worked out of the box with his printer, he would rewrite and recompile his printer drivers if necessary.
for no other reason than people have to spend more money
What, like an Apple tax, where you spend more money vs. a Windows machine for the same hardware?
"Sancoff said that what’s in the patent filing isn’t quite how it works."
That should be forwarded to the examiner and the book closed.
I think the government may intervene on behalf of Juliet in that case. There are a lot of foreign governments who would love an exact description about how this works.
Here is a diagram from the patent application that shows the entire vehicle. It definitely looks like a shuttle craft, but the "two torpedoes" are right there, longer than the command pod (with props on the front, no less).
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Down with the dune sage brush lizard!
and then turn round and start new wars in Yemen, Libya, Syria. (I'm confused.)
Damn, the liberals did that? I thought that was the Arabs. Wait.. unless the Arabs.. are liberals! We're all doomed!
Do not fool yourself: through the tenuring process your values will change and you will feel you are special (and by special I mean 'better' than the rest of 'normal' people).
Frankly, that sounds a lot like Wall Street, and the "financial elite". I'm trying to figure out how being valued for your knowledge and wisdom became a bad thing in this country.
How is this in any way trolling ?
This is just a guess, but it might have something to do with the last paragraph sort of tainting the rest of it.
all of the sudden
Speaking of warping language...
an intolerant monoculture as the tenured elite in their ivory towers
Achievement unlocked: buzzword combo!
Has anyone ever actually seen a tower made of ivory? Where did that come from? The "tenured elite" at my small school with only 50,000 students worked in some pretty shitty offices. It would have been pretty sweet to go to class inside an ivory tower instead of the crappy linoleum-tiled brick cages we had the privilege of occupying. As long as they also had ivory elevators.
I hate all the orphans in the world!
The government has quite a bit more than 2 obligations (upkeep of roads, for instance). Personally, I see no reason why the government should not provide health care to anyone who needs it. I don't know if requiring health insurance is the right way to do that, but I believe that, along with education, the government has an obligation to provide basic minimum health care to anyone who needs it. Health care and education are probably the 2 most important things a government can provide to their population.
In deference to those of us who aren't sure where to go to review legal arguments like this, do you mind providing a reference to back up your claim?
Where I live, a breathalyzer result is not permitted as evidence in court, it is only considered probably cause for the police to arrest you and perform a blood test. The blood test can be used in court.
What, like the test where the cop waves the pen in front of your face and says "yeah he's drunk, because I said so." Or the one where you blow into the machine and it comes back saying that your body is 5% alcohol, and the judge doesn't see a problem there?
In other words, you're saying that it's OK to have buggy testing equipment, because field tests?
What if you're well under the legal limit and perfectly capable of driving safely but some machine says you're extremely drunk?
No one wasted any additional time other than the time it wastes to watch the episode normally. The fact that they used a GWB head was pointed out in the commentary on the DVD, it wasn't something that someone just noticed.
It looks like "old" and "young" got swapped, it makes more sense that way.
It means that 13 year olds are between the states where they know nothing and know everything. That's to say that it wouldn't be out of the question to find a 13 year old who knows a lot about science, and it also wouldn't be out of the question to find one that knows nothing about it.
If it's not detrimental and it has a high enough probability of ocurrence, it'll happen, even if there's no fitness difference.
That's right, that's a more accurate way of saying what I was trying to say. Hell, even if it is detrimental and has a high enough probably it still may happen. Evolution isn't necessarily always about making creatures better. There seems to be a serious lack of understanding about how evolution actually works among people who challenge it. The fact that creatures can pass on their traits to future generations, and the fact that seemingly random mutations happen, are the only things that are required (and why can't god be responsible for those mutations?). Everything else (the results of that) seem to be so self-evident, but there are a lot of people who just don't understand it. They seem to think that we're trying to argue that humans came from chimps instead of both animals having a common ancestor which evolved into both family trees.
A state can't hate or love anyone.
Or no, that's right -- Canada doesn't want to make it a pain the ass to visit their country, unlike the US.
Riiiiight, that's why they're coming here. To visit us.
You seem to be assuming that current conditions will continue without major changes.
Of course I am. Maybe the day will come when humans and primates are wiped out and only the smartest cats survived, and they're busy studying anthropology and calculus to figure out how we did it.
No, the fast athletic quick-reflex cat gets the bird. He doesn't need to be smart, he only needs to be in the right place at the right time and have the necessary athleticism and reflexes. Athleticism and reflexes are fine-tuned in cats because those are the traits that helped them survive, and therefore pass on their genes. Supposedly my cat belongs to a breed that can run over 30 mph, he doesn't need to be smart if he can chase down a mouse or rabbit at that speed with his cat-like reflexes.
But the point isn't whether or not my cat is smart, or whether smart cats get birds. The point is whether or not being smart will help a cat pass on their genes more than a cat with less intelligence. Since cats currently have exactly zero problems passing on their genes, I can't see how intelligence would get a cat laid more than any other cat with enough frequency that the population of cats would start to get more intelligent. They have all of the speed and reflexes they need to survive and pass on their genes.
My favorite part of that picture has always been that the dinosaur still looks like it's super-pissed.
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
Extremely doubtful (but yes, even that is remotely possible). Why would you assume that evolution would select mathematics, among all other things, in cats? Cats are doing pretty well with their current set of instincts, I don't see a huge evolutionary need for cats to learn advanced mathematics. A cat who is really good at math isn't necessarily going to have a better chance of passing on their genes. That cat is going to be geeking out on a TI-89 while my stupid cat kills a bird, presents it to a female, and nails her.
And where the hell did that question come from? Are you the person who wrote the textbook quoted in TFS? How does that relate to any discussion about evolution?
You're bringing politics into this. Appropriate username you've got there.
Let's see...Windows is now the odd-man out in the OS world, being the only consumer and business OS that doesn't use a Unix kernel.
You know, you have a point there. Every time my mom needs a new laptop the one question she asks me is "but does the OS have a Unix kernel?"
The fact that it's closed source
Another good point. My dad needed a new computer for his business and the one requirement he had was that the OS be open source, so that he could contribute patches when he found problems. He didn't really care that it worked out of the box with his printer, he would rewrite and recompile his printer drivers if necessary.
for no other reason than people have to spend more money
What, like an Apple tax, where you spend more money vs. a Windows machine for the same hardware?
"Sancoff said that what’s in the patent filing isn’t quite how it works."
That should be forwarded to the examiner and the book closed.
I think the government may intervene on behalf of Juliet in that case. There are a lot of foreign governments who would love an exact description about how this works.
Here is a diagram from the patent application that shows the entire vehicle. It definitely looks like a shuttle craft, but the "two torpedoes" are right there, longer than the command pod (with props on the front, no less).