But Iran (nor China for that matter) is not a low-technology country. At the Robocup, for example, they always had good scores, especially in the Robocup rescue contest. Embargoes harm their technology more than religion (to say the truth they're embargoed for that very purpose...). Curiously enough, none ever speaks about Saudi Arabia, that would be a much more fitting example.
Why do we need to rate researcher quality in the first place? To label a scientist as first grade, second grade, third grade? Can't we just rate every single research instead, we've got a lot of example of (so called) mediocre researchers that had a brilliant idea later in their life, while many young promising scientists produced very little after a good start.
I would not be so sure about this very subject. The European slave afflux was as much, if not more, consistent and surely more prolonged in Northern Africa than in Syria/Lebanon/Palestine, yet the usual modern Libyan or Tunisian is not whiter than a modern Syrian.
We can't know for sure. Judes are pretty white, many Levantines are pretty white, by the time Jesus was born there was a lot of Greek, Roman, Hittite and Galatian blood in the area. Arab and turkish invasions happened a few centuries later...
Brazil +India + Taiwan + Thailand = 1.5 billion population
1.5 billion population - Brazil - India - Taiwan = 70 million population
That's correct for Thailand population.
Because that kind of theory is somewhat linked to racism, it's an offspring of the polygenist theory which was used by 19th century racists as a basis for their ideas. And as every reader of this thread now knows, just being a suspected racist is a capital crime. So better be not, that is the definition of political* correctness.
*politics is the art of keeping good social relations.
Stop with this non-sense, first of all single genesis is not more popular than multiple genesis, it all depends on the scientific field: e.g. in linguistic the majority favor the multiple genesis of the human language (though its evidence is scarce). Second, we were talking about origins, not genesis, those are different things: the first refers to the polygenist theory, the second to the multiregional theory (which is what challenges the out of africa theory today). Third, isn't this the best demonstration of what I was trying to say?
"He seems to challenge our established thought, God forbid, to the stake, to the stake that rabid unbeliever!" That's not the best way to spread ideas and scientific reasoning, though it works (and that's what I was saying).
I'm not racist, nor paranoid, nor I think that there is some kind of big secret conspiracy. It's thanks to profound, intelligent, scientific rebuttals like yours that there are racists in this world.
*the vast majority of biologists believes in the Out of Africa theory, so trying to disprove that might reduce the budgets of those who review your articles, award you with a doctorate and so on...
*that kind of theory is more likely to spur those who think there are different human races or species, as you can deduce from this very thread.
Even Serbians with 30 years old soviet technology were able to detect US "stealth" bombers. Probably Russians by now could detect stealth fighters from the generation to come.
Comparing Vista to 7 is like saying XP was just Win2000 with a better kernel, its horseshit.
Fixed for ya and I agree: it's horseshit, XP and Win2000 basically shared the same kernel, Vista and 7 do the same. Then, the new features of Windows 6.1 were so groundbreaking that they were rightfully backported to Windows 6.0, through Platform Update and Platform Update Supplement. However i might concede that some drastic improvements like the "10px taller taskbar" or the "fade-in highlight effect when the user moves the mouse over" the start orb are still Windows 6.1 exclusive.
However, it seems to me that cancer mutations are usually not germline, whereas these mutations in trees might well be... dare we use the term "Lamarckian"?
Poor Lamarck, after a century of darwinism his time has come.
Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)
Math is not a science, it's based on axioms like religions are based on dogmas.
the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.
That's because math majors usually don't believe to metropolitan myths to bolster their self confidence. They don't need to.
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But Iran (nor China for that matter) is not a low-technology country. At the Robocup, for example, they always had good scores, especially in the Robocup rescue contest. Embargoes harm their technology more than religion (to say the truth they're embargoed for that very purpose...). Curiously enough, none ever speaks about Saudi Arabia, that would be a much more fitting example.
T lst Grks nvntd vwls...
but they forgot the vowels!
As for East Africa, that is Ethiopia, their writing system is not older than Linear A, for sure.
Why do we need to rate researcher quality in the first place? To label a scientist as first grade, second grade, third grade? Can't we just rate every single research instead, we've got a lot of example of (so called) mediocre researchers that had a brilliant idea later in their life, while many young promising scientists produced very little after a good start.
I would not be so sure about this very subject. The European slave afflux was as much, if not more, consistent and surely more prolonged in Northern Africa than in Syria/Lebanon/Palestine, yet the usual modern Libyan or Tunisian is not whiter than a modern Syrian.
This is probably an Egyptian Jew of the I/II century AD from Fayum, he's not significantly darker than a typical Palestinian Arab, he is not even darker than a typical modern Egyptian Arab for that matter...
Jesus was brown.
We can't know for sure. Judes are pretty white, many Levantines are pretty white, by the time Jesus was born there was a lot of Greek, Roman, Hittite and Galatian blood in the area. Arab and turkish invasions happened a few centuries later...
Brazil +India + Taiwan + Thailand = 1.5 billion population 1.5 billion population - Brazil - India - Taiwan = 70 million population That's correct for Thailand population.
Because that kind of theory is somewhat linked to racism, it's an offspring of the polygenist theory which was used by 19th century racists as a basis for their ideas. And as every reader of this thread now knows, just being a suspected racist is a capital crime. So better be not, that is the definition of political* correctness.
*politics is the art of keeping good social relations.
Stop with this non-sense, first of all single genesis is not more popular than multiple genesis, it all depends on the scientific field: e.g. in linguistic the majority favor the multiple genesis of the human language (though its evidence is scarce). Second, we were talking about origins, not genesis, those are different things: the first refers to the polygenist theory, the second to the multiregional theory (which is what challenges the out of africa theory today). Third, isn't this the best demonstration of what I was trying to say?
"He seems to challenge our established thought, God forbid, to the stake, to the stake that rabid unbeliever!"
That's not the best way to spread ideas and scientific reasoning, though it works (and that's what I was saying).
I'm not racist, nor paranoid, nor I think that there is some kind of big secret conspiracy. It's thanks to profound, intelligent, scientific rebuttals like yours that there are racists in this world.
That's obvious, however you might concur that:
*the vast majority of biologists believes in the Out of Africa theory, so trying to disprove that might reduce the budgets of those who review your articles, award you with a doctorate and so on...
*that kind of theory is more likely to spur those who think there are different human races or species, as you can deduce from this very thread.
Genuine question.
I wonder why the one-origin theory is so prevalent in science. I never really understood it at university. I get that so much of our DNA is similar.
Because it's the more politically correct theory about the human evolution. Politics matter.
Even Serbians with 30 years old soviet technology were able to detect US "stealth" bombers. Probably Russians by now could detect stealth fighters from the generation to come.
Comparing Vista to 7 is like saying XP was just Win2000 with a better kernel, its horseshit.
Fixed for ya and I agree: it's horseshit, XP and Win2000 basically shared the same kernel, Vista and 7 do the same. Then, the new features of Windows 6.1 were so groundbreaking that they were rightfully backported to Windows 6.0, through Platform Update and Platform Update Supplement. However i might concede that some drastic improvements like the "10px taller taskbar" or the "fade-in highlight effect when the user moves the mouse over" the start orb are still Windows 6.1 exclusive.
Catholics who bomb abortion clinics and kill workers there are horrible.
LOL what?
Quantum entanglement is the equivalent of magic.
BTW I've added Nokia to my ever-growing list of boycotted companies:
I never boycott some company products, at most I try not to buy products from companies I don't like, but that's it.
Toyota
???
Apple
I never bought Apple hardware, but I habitually use CUPS or WebKit.
Google
Then you should never connect to the Internet.
Now it seems to me that every other version of windows sucks (2K/XP, Vista/7), and the version after it is just fine.
It seems to me that this is a poor urban legend. Windows 2K was probably the best Windows ever and Windows 7 is just a bug fix release of Vista.
However, it seems to me that cancer mutations are usually not germline, whereas these mutations in trees might well be... dare we use the term "Lamarckian"?
Poor Lamarck, after a century of darwinism his time has come.
So we should reject the only solution to a millenium prize problem because it was published as an un-peer-reviewed result?
Right, but not even 20 years ago they were a bit player in the office products business, and not a player at all in the game console business.
Their console business is still not sustainable after all these years.
Not in the slightest. When they launched the Xbox 360 they were negative by about 4 billions thanks to the original xbox, but the 360 made huge losses again. And it's still faltering.
For 100% certainty you need religion
Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)
Math is not a science, it's based on axioms like religions are based on dogmas.
the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.
That's because math majors usually don't believe to metropolitan myths to bolster their self confidence. They don't need to.
The x86 version is 42Wh as well
I think there's also something else that's noteworthy: only three US based supercomputers in the top 10. Is it an all time low?
Not counting that the EDD collects "related patent licensing revenue", that is a lot of money for free from the media/mobile phone industry.