I'm curious as to the durability of the nylon beak compared with a natural beak. Now I doubt this bird will ever be released back into the wild (TFA seemed to indicate she's been in captivity for at least four years), so replacing the prosthetic isn't really an issue. Still, makes me curious how quickly it would wear out.
The biggest risk to most free states is not outside invasion, it's an internal regime change. A "well regulated militia" is far more likely to be engaged in action against the US military (or ATF, or food service commandos, or whatever department is involved) than it is a foreign power.
Full disclosure - I am not a gun owner but probably will be some day because it's fun to go to a range and shoot stuff.
I think you're spot on in your first two paragraphs there, but I can't say I agree with your solution. I fear there are simply too many people who would be comfortable with living in the safety net that they wouldn't step up to find more significant employment - the gap between rich and poor would just keep growing as more people from the middle class drop out of the job market. Money alone is not a powerful enough motivation for many people when they can do their mandated 20 hours of work and play video games the rest of the time.
Address health care and child care - then start working the "motivate to work" end of things.
You don't stop. You treat the entire bible as metaphors for life lessons taken within the context of events occurring at the time(s) it was written. Some elements may be Inspired by Actual Events. Some may not. Does this make the bible the work of men instead of the work of God? Possibly. But it could also be interpreted as God guiding the authors to lay out whatever lessons He needed to lay out - and there really is no conflict between that and a belief in God. A vast number of Christians believe in this way and are perfectly intelligent and reasonable people. The conflict arises when you have a group adhering to some person (or churches) interpretation of events that is contrary to what we can observe (like evolution). The current situation is a small group of very loud obnoxious ignorant people adhering to old beliefs that are not even explicitly laid out in the Bible. We are letting them turn this into a God vs Science debate and getting into these discussions where we try to outright disprove the Bible (which is again, life lessons taught through events, myths, and allegories). Instead of a battle against a small group of crazy people, we turn it into a battle against all Christians.
This is where we're failing the most. There are so many Christians who *should* be our allies in science education that we are going out of our way to antagonize by lumping them in with the ignorant ones. Instead of telling them "Hey, why don't you look at it from this point of view?" or even letting them say "Look at that cool thing God came up with that we just figured out!" we are simply saying "No, you're wrong. And stupid. And ugly." Of course they are going to fight you back, you're attacking them. Even the reasonable and intelligent ones are going to take it as an attack - and even though they don't agree with the crazy people - at least the crazy people aren't calling them stupid. The more we keep up our attacks, the more defensive they're going to be. All we end up doing is closing doors on dialogue that really should be happening. This battle might fight itself out within the churches if we'd let it.
Full disclosure: if it wasn't obvious by the tone here, this post was written by somebody who was raised Christian and subsequently converted to fundamentalist agnosticism.
You know - I picked up a handful of lighter weight wool socks (lightweight hiking socks) two years back or so. Never gonna turn back. They keep my feet drier than cotton, don't have near the smell, look decent enough to go with dress shoes, and they still have that "new sock" feel when I take them out of the wash. They're pretty spendy up front, but they last way longer. I've slowly replaced just about all of my cotton socks with wool and have yet to toss a pair of the new ones.
Don't forget the pressure that will generate inside of the barrel. A bullet gets its speed from containing the exploding powder in the barrel. Firing from a board doesn't contain the explosion and won't see the pressures you'd get firing through a barrel of any length.
I'm aware of the spectrum remapping effort, but everything I read points to users bringing their own unlocked iPhones rather than having a T-Mobile iPhone.
You and I may be all about unlocking our phones and using them wherever, but most users are going to head to the T-Mobile store and pick up whatever's subsidized off the shelf.
For what it's worth, I'm using an unlocked 1900MHz phone on T-Mobile right now this minute, so I'm quite interested in their spectrum reallocation efforts.
I wouldn't - T-Mobile's network runs on a different frequency from the other major providers. It would take a change to the radios used in the iPhone to get them working on T-Mobile at anything faster than EDGE.
Oh I get the post and I suppose I unfairly expanded the context to jab at a number of posts in several discussions lately - a lot of people seem to think that perjury means more than it does.
You're right, I'll go wipe the foam off of my mouth in shame.
Really, my response here has nothing to do with the credibility of Gizmodo in this article (they may or may not be, I honestly don't know). I just want to say that any time we defend an incredulous source of information because there might be a tiny nugget of truth buried in their lies, we only serve to give more credibility to those lies. Sort of like the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.
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I'm curious as to the durability of the nylon beak compared with a natural beak. Now I doubt this bird will ever be released back into the wild (TFA seemed to indicate she's been in captivity for at least four years), so replacing the prosthetic isn't really an issue. Still, makes me curious how quickly it would wear out.
And I am a post-PC girl!
How? They don't use flash!
...it's not designed to go up there
If the last fifty years of nuclear icebreaker operations are any indication... not a whole lot, really.
...woosh
The biggest risk to most free states is not outside invasion, it's an internal regime change. A "well regulated militia" is far more likely to be engaged in action against the US military (or ATF, or food service commandos, or whatever department is involved) than it is a foreign power.
Full disclosure - I am not a gun owner but probably will be some day because it's fun to go to a range and shoot stuff.
...like food stamps?
I think you're spot on in your first two paragraphs there, but I can't say I agree with your solution. I fear there are simply too many people who would be comfortable with living in the safety net that they wouldn't step up to find more significant employment - the gap between rich and poor would just keep growing as more people from the middle class drop out of the job market. Money alone is not a powerful enough motivation for many people when they can do their mandated 20 hours of work and play video games the rest of the time.
Address health care and child care - then start working the "motivate to work" end of things.
Flaimbait?! Come on people, this post was glorious!
Now if only we could get a MyCleanPC analogy...
Next question?
...No, because that's illegal (unless you're Hispanic and living in Arizona).
You don't stop. You treat the entire bible as metaphors for life lessons taken within the context of events occurring at the time(s) it was written. Some elements may be Inspired by Actual Events. Some may not. Does this make the bible the work of men instead of the work of God? Possibly. But it could also be interpreted as God guiding the authors to lay out whatever lessons He needed to lay out - and there really is no conflict between that and a belief in God. A vast number of Christians believe in this way and are perfectly intelligent and reasonable people. The conflict arises when you have a group adhering to some person (or churches) interpretation of events that is contrary to what we can observe (like evolution). The current situation is a small group of very loud obnoxious ignorant people adhering to old beliefs that are not even explicitly laid out in the Bible. We are letting them turn this into a God vs Science debate and getting into these discussions where we try to outright disprove the Bible (which is again, life lessons taught through events, myths, and allegories). Instead of a battle against a small group of crazy people, we turn it into a battle against all Christians.
This is where we're failing the most. There are so many Christians who *should* be our allies in science education that we are going out of our way to antagonize by lumping them in with the ignorant ones. Instead of telling them "Hey, why don't you look at it from this point of view?" or even letting them say "Look at that cool thing God came up with that we just figured out!" we are simply saying "No, you're wrong. And stupid. And ugly." Of course they are going to fight you back, you're attacking them. Even the reasonable and intelligent ones are going to take it as an attack - and even though they don't agree with the crazy people - at least the crazy people aren't calling them stupid. The more we keep up our attacks, the more defensive they're going to be. All we end up doing is closing doors on dialogue that really should be happening. This battle might fight itself out within the churches if we'd let it.
Full disclosure: if it wasn't obvious by the tone here, this post was written by somebody who was raised Christian and subsequently converted to fundamentalist agnosticism.
You know - I picked up a handful of lighter weight wool socks (lightweight hiking socks) two years back or so. Never gonna turn back. They keep my feet drier than cotton, don't have near the smell, look decent enough to go with dress shoes, and they still have that "new sock" feel when I take them out of the wash. They're pretty spendy up front, but they last way longer. I've slowly replaced just about all of my cotton socks with wool and have yet to toss a pair of the new ones.
I've done it...
...but only on my motorbike.
Somebody found a way to make a hell of a lot of money charging for drinking water...
But it's got shark skin, man!
Don't forget the pressure that will generate inside of the barrel. A bullet gets its speed from containing the exploding powder in the barrel. Firing from a board doesn't contain the explosion and won't see the pressures you'd get firing through a barrel of any length.
I'm aware of the spectrum remapping effort, but everything I read points to users bringing their own unlocked iPhones rather than having a T-Mobile iPhone.
You and I may be all about unlocking our phones and using them wherever, but most users are going to head to the T-Mobile store and pick up whatever's subsidized off the shelf.
For what it's worth, I'm using an unlocked 1900MHz phone on T-Mobile right now this minute, so I'm quite interested in their spectrum reallocation efforts.
Stupid cowards and their stupid mods!!
Oh crap, there's that foam again!
Idiots.
The evidence is clear. Studies indicate brain cancer causes cats.
I wouldn't - T-Mobile's network runs on a different frequency from the other major providers. It would take a change to the radios used in the iPhone to get them working on T-Mobile at anything faster than EDGE.
Oh I get the post and I suppose I unfairly expanded the context to jab at a number of posts in several discussions lately - a lot of people seem to think that perjury means more than it does.
You're right, I'll go wipe the foam off of my mouth in shame.
Perjury and lying are not the same thing.
The original AC's statement you guys are talking about is just... incorrect.
Does Taco Cowboy punch babies? Sources say maybe!
Really, my response here has nothing to do with the credibility of Gizmodo in this article (they may or may not be, I honestly don't know). I just want to say that any time we defend an incredulous source of information because there might be a tiny nugget of truth buried in their lies, we only serve to give more credibility to those lies. Sort of like the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.