Thanks for the reading tip. Like many other people trained in computer science I also belive that combined with Darwinian ideas it will radically change our understanding of biology and ultimately ourselves.
"Just as the exchange of coded molecular instructions brought life as we know it to the early earths primordial soup, and as language and mind combined to form the culture in which we live, so, in the digital universe, are computer programs and worldwide networks combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured."
In Scotland, the legislation allowing for access to open land (which includes caves) specifically absolves the landowner of liability in the case of a person coming to harm by a natural hazard - otherwise every mountain and cliff would have to have warning signs along it.
I'm pretty sure the law in England and Wales has similar provisions, although access to land is not a right as it is in Scotland. It seems daft to make the landowner responsible for persons outwith their control.
Still when your child starts acting weird, and stops talking within days after getting a shot it is easy to draw a conclusion.
Yes, the old "post hoc ergo procter hoc" logical fallacy
Some of the studies were pretty simple, graphing autism rates compared to when the MMR vaccine was introduced. These should be easy to redo if the data is still available.
Like the study of 30 000 Japanese children that showed no correlation between autism and MMR (more specifically, withdrawing the MMR vaccine had no effect on autism rates).
I didn't know this guy but it seems arrogance killed him. Hate me for it if you have to but he went into a passage where 2 other people had to be rescued from years earlier. It's shameful that the cave owners/grotto overseeing the cave didn't have the foresight or fortitude to prevent future tragedies by closing that passage or making the cavers sign a form detailing that particular passage as off-limits
I'm a professional outdoor activities instructor, and I've had friends who've died while participating recreationally in the sports they love. It's an accepted part of what we do. Surely it's up to an individual to assess the risks themselves and make judgements on what they consider acceptable. Why should the cave owners be considered responsible for someone's safety? "Volenti non fit injuria" - ie if you know the risks and do it anyway, you've only yourself to blame when you get hurt..
I'm not a caver,. but I assume in the US, information about particular caves is disseminated through the community on much the same way as in the UK (guidebooks, internet etc). It should be easy enough to find out before entering a cave if a certain passage is dangerous or not. It shouldn't be up to the cave owners to require everyone to sign a form or modify the cave to prevent people choosing to go that way.
Guantanamo detainees have been treated with far more compassion than they legally deserve. After a thorough no-holds-barred interrogation, when I was certain they were of no more intelligence value, all I'd give them is a blindfold and a cigarette.
Really? Even people for whom the only evidence against them was obtained by torture?
They aren't Democrats, they are Progressives, an ideology that can be described as "Socialism-Lite" or "Conservative Socialism". This is a bad thing, as it *always* fails and devolves into a Socialist or Communist totalitarian state.
I believe the vast majority of the UK's deficit is due to a combination of loaning money to, and buying shares in, failing financial institutions. The cost of the NHS is nothing compared to that.
The reason Europeans care about American healthcare is the same reason we give money to NGOs to dig wells and build schools in developing countries: we don't like to see people suffer through no fault of their own. It's called compassion for our fellow humans. Or enlightened self-interest.
In Cambridge (England) Your final exam is a "tripos" - you sit on a three legged stool in the centre of the Quadrangle, and ANYONE can ask you questions! No cheating there!
I doubt this was even true in the 17th century. My brother got a First in Natural Sciences from Downing College, where my grandfather was a Fellow, and I don't recall either of them mentioning that their final exams were taken in the court (not quad, that's what they have at the other place).
Free software exists that can edit this format. Offices can choose to use a free software package (ie OpenOffice.org) instead of a costly proprietary one (MS Office), therefore saving money on software licenses.
now your students will have no idea what to do when they go out into the real world of business where everything is microsoft.
Like, open the word processor, type the document, click save, click print? Even if I'd never used Microsoft products before in my life, I'm pretty sure I could figure that out in 5 minutes.
Kids shouldn't be rote-learning a particular GUI (which will probably change - Ribbon Interface, anyone?); they should be able to generalise.
What happens if a kid only uses MS at school and home and then gets a job in an office where only Macs are used?
So you're saying it's not the gun laws that are the issue but the retarded drug prohibition laws which have obviously failed in their stated aim of reducing the availability of certain substances?
Give addicts free drugs as part of a rehabilitation program. At a stroke you remove the incentive to commit property crime to fund that habit. As a bonus, you significantly reduce the income of organised criminals.
Besides, if you're willing to use heavy water (which is non-toxic), you can even use natural uranium in a reactor.
Heavy water is in fact toxic due to deuterium interfering with normal hydrogen bonding, which stop mitotic spindle formation in eukaryotic cells. Luckily for us you need a large dose (many litres) to see any effects in humans.
What I want to know is, when we say "Ocean-crossing" here, does he just mean they're flying from India to the Maldives (about 500 miles offshore)? Because the word "crossing" normally implies "from one side to the other", which, when it comes to oceans, would generally be a rather greater distance (multiple thousands of miles).
TFA (extremely interesting video) shows that the dragonflies migrate from India to South East Africa (via the Maldives and Seychelles). In four generations, they chase the rains across the Indian Ocean and back. About 16000km.
And several species of birds follow them, including the Amur Falcon, which annually migrates from Siberia to Southern Africa.
You don't. You simply choose not to install any more apps signed with their key. For example, you could remove their key from the list of trusted keys which your package management software uses.
Get this and get this straight, he was shot because he ran and he ran because he was a criminal.
I'm not sure how it normally works in your country, but in Britain the police do not shoot suspected criminals who are running away from them. Most police do not carry guns. Most criminals do not carry guns.
The Jean Charles de Menezes case was exceptional precisely because the (special anti-terrrorism) police shot a man for the apparent reason that he ran away from them. They pursued him until he was trapped in a subway carriage. He was held down by the officers and shot several times in the head in front of other passengers. This was understandably viewed as abhorrent by most British people.
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Thanks for the reading tip. Like many other people trained in computer science I also belive that combined with Darwinian ideas it will radically change our understanding of biology and ultimately ourselves.
You may enjoy this book: Darwin among the machines, by George Dyson:
"Just as the exchange of coded molecular instructions brought life as we know it to the early earths primordial soup, and as language and mind combined to form the culture in which we live, so, in the digital universe, are computer programs and worldwide networks combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured."
This lazer device ... the lazer ... lazer, .....
Aaargh!
It's a laser.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LASER
Stimulated is not spelt Ztimulated.
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No, sq mm means nothing. The proper way to write it is mm.
Shirley the proper way to write sq mm is mm<sup>2</sup>
Well, it would be if /. supported that particular tag
Thanks, that's really interesting.
In Scotland, the legislation allowing for access to open land (which includes caves) specifically absolves the landowner of liability in the case of a person coming to harm by a natural hazard - otherwise every mountain and cliff would have to have warning signs along it.
I'm pretty sure the law in England and Wales has similar provisions, although access to land is not a right as it is in Scotland. It seems daft to make the landowner responsible for persons outwith their control.
Still when your child starts acting weird, and stops talking within days after getting a shot it is easy to draw a conclusion.
Yes, the old "post hoc ergo procter hoc" logical fallacy
Some of the studies were pretty simple, graphing autism rates compared to when the MMR vaccine was introduced. These should be easy to redo if the data is still available.
Like the study of 30 000 Japanese children that showed no correlation between autism and MMR (more specifically, withdrawing the MMR vaccine had no effect on autism rates).
I didn't know this guy but it seems arrogance killed him. Hate me for it if you have to but he went into a passage where 2 other people had to be rescued from years earlier. It's shameful that the cave owners/grotto overseeing the cave didn't have the foresight or fortitude to prevent future tragedies by closing that passage or making the cavers sign a form detailing that particular passage as off-limits
I'm a professional outdoor activities instructor, and I've had friends who've died while participating recreationally in the sports they love. It's an accepted part of what we do. Surely it's up to an individual to assess the risks themselves and make judgements on what they consider acceptable. Why should the cave owners be considered responsible for someone's safety? "Volenti non fit injuria" - ie if you know the risks and do it anyway, you've only yourself to blame when you get hurt..
I'm not a caver,. but I assume in the US, information about particular caves is disseminated through the community on much the same way as in the UK (guidebooks, internet etc). It should be easy enough to find out before entering a cave if a certain passage is dangerous or not. It shouldn't be up to the cave owners to require everyone to sign a form or modify the cave to prevent people choosing to go that way.
Guantanamo detainees have been treated with far more compassion than they legally deserve. After a thorough no-holds-barred interrogation, when I was certain they were of no more intelligence value, all I'd give them is a blindfold and a cigarette.
Really? Even people for whom the only evidence against them was obtained by torture?
They aren't Democrats, they are Progressives, an ideology that can be described as "Socialism-Lite" or "Conservative Socialism". This is a bad thing, as it *always* fails and devolves into a Socialist or Communist totalitarian state.
[citation needed]
I believe the vast majority of the UK's deficit is due to a combination of loaning money to, and buying shares in, failing financial institutions. The cost of the NHS is nothing compared to that.
The reason Europeans care about American healthcare is the same reason we give money to NGOs to dig wells and build schools in developing countries: we don't like to see people suffer through no fault of their own. It's called compassion for our fellow humans. Or enlightened self-interest.
In Cambridge (England) Your final exam is a "tripos" - you sit on a three legged stool in the centre of the Quadrangle, and ANYONE can ask you questions! No cheating there!
I doubt this was even true in the 17th century. My brother got a First in Natural Sciences from Downing College, where my grandfather was a Fellow, and I don't recall either of them mentioning that their final exams were taken in the court (not quad, that's what they have at the other place).
Goddammit, 6 hours late to the party. Note to self - scroll down before posting blatantly obvious link.
Doesn't emacs have a command for that?
Because these devices are your property, and you should expect to have control over your own property.
You do realise that you have a choice as to which devices you make your property? Why not choose only devices which you can have control over?
There's 415,000 "edge cases" where I live...that's about 1/10th of the population of the U.S.
So the US only has a population of 4,150,000 people? That's significantly less than I'd assumed.
Free software exists that can edit this format. Offices can choose to use a free software package (ie OpenOffice.org) instead of a costly proprietary one (MS Office), therefore saving money on software licenses.
now your students will have no idea what to do when they go out into the real world of business where everything is microsoft.
Like, open the word processor, type the document, click save, click print? Even if I'd never used Microsoft products before in my life, I'm pretty sure I could figure that out in 5 minutes.
Kids shouldn't be rote-learning a particular GUI (which will probably change - Ribbon Interface, anyone?); they should be able to generalise.
What happens if a kid only uses MS at school and home and then gets a job in an office where only Macs are used?
yum update xorg-x11-drv-ati
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
0118 999 881 999 119 725........3
There's a fire in here. Could you attend to it?
"as effective as" presumably not comparing likelihood of STD infection either.
More people die on Britain's roads each YEAR than have died as a result of terrorism in TOTAL.
Wrong: stats for annual British road deaths; according to wikipedia, just under 3000 people died during the September 11th attacks. That puts the 2007 road death figure in line with that single attack.
The Sept 11 attacks did not happen in the UK
So you're saying it's not the gun laws that are the issue but the retarded drug prohibition laws which have obviously failed in their stated aim of reducing the availability of certain substances?
Give addicts free drugs as part of a rehabilitation program. At a stroke you remove the incentive to commit property crime to fund that habit. As a bonus, you significantly reduce the income of organised criminals.
Besides, if you're willing to use heavy water (which is non-toxic), you can even use natural uranium in a reactor.
Heavy water is in fact toxic due to deuterium interfering with normal hydrogen bonding, which stop mitotic spindle formation in eukaryotic cells. Luckily for us you need a large dose (many litres) to see any effects in humans.
Please provide evidence that you can run a reactor on unenriched uranium.
Magnox reactors. Proudly in use since 1956.
What I want to know is, when we say "Ocean-crossing" here, does he just mean they're flying from India to the Maldives (about 500 miles offshore)? Because the word "crossing" normally implies "from one side to the other", which, when it comes to oceans, would generally be a rather greater distance (multiple thousands of miles).
TFA (extremely interesting video) shows that the dragonflies migrate from India to South East Africa (via the Maldives and Seychelles). In four generations, they chase the rains across the Indian Ocean and back. About 16000km.
And several species of birds follow them, including the Amur Falcon, which annually migrates from Siberia to Southern Africa.
You don't. You simply choose not to install any more apps signed with their key. For example, you could remove their key from the list of trusted keys which your package management software uses.
Get this and get this straight, he was shot because he ran and he ran because he was a criminal.
I'm not sure how it normally works in your country, but in Britain the police do not shoot suspected criminals who are running away from them. Most police do not carry guns. Most criminals do not carry guns.
The Jean Charles de Menezes case was exceptional precisely because the (special anti-terrrorism) police shot a man for the apparent reason that he ran away from them. They pursued him until he was trapped in a subway carriage. He was held down by the officers and shot several times in the head in front of other passengers. This was understandably viewed as abhorrent by most British people.