Informative; thanks for pointing out the difference. Well, the accent alone is what I encounter most (it's correct English, just with a heavy accent), and therefore what I really refer to, although with this distinction between an accent and dialect, I guess my post about accents has nothing to do with this story about dialects (although I could, in all truth, just replace the word "accent" with the word "dialect" in my post and it would still hold true for me)
Ever notice how "professional terms" just get really long and add hyphens everywhere? I just call it the "black accent" and leave it at that. And since I know someone's thinking it, no that's not being racist. Racism implies that I implied something derogatory towards them. I haven't. Don't mind the people; the accent is just difficult to understand, just like any other strong accent.
My boss was upset that my position was eliminated (HR's call, not his), so he stole a company-logo'd coffee mug and gave it to me.
On another note, I did take with me a copy of their M$ Office 2003 installer/keys, but never have used it nor will I probably ever use it; it just satisfied a tiny desire for revenge to simply have a copy of it.
While Google tends to be better than others at prioritizing fixes vs enhancements, they seem to not be doing as well here.
This achievement is certainly commendable, and congrats to Google on making an advanced voice command platform. But come on, I still can't set SMS or email reminders on my Google Calendar in the Calendar app! Or on the Google Calendar mobile site, for that matter!
Sorry for picking on Calendar, but that's one thing that bugs me, because I use it all the time and have to either get on a computer or fumble around on the desktop site on my phone if I want to set my reminders.
Oh yeah, battery life would be nice, too.
Regardless of whether he can pay the money back or not, he still stole from clients. Even if he gives them twice what he stole, he's still guilty of a crime. I don't even need to say a word about the delayed sentencing. It's just bizarre.
Sex causes blood to rush to parts of the body other than the brain. Therefore, people who deprive their brain of blood more often than others are more likely to make the poor decision to buy an iPhone.
Either hybrids apparently have a very short lifespan, or people need to start being more conservative in their car spending rather than worry about their gas spending. Luckily, the car my wife wants is a perfect combination of the two. Mini Coopers are relatively cheap if you can stand to go without the luxury features, and have awesome gas mileage (although you do trade away all the space you'd have inside a normal-sized car). Unfortunately for most people's wallets, the general mindset is that if a car doesn't have heated seats, a dvd player, in-dash nav, a sunroof, horsepower over 9000, and the ability to fly, "it's not good enough for me", hence all the B[rutal]M[oney]W[aster]s and Mercedes you see these days.
I'd say it's a step in the right direction to hold students more accountable, but it's a far cry from a full solution. The real solution, in my opinion, is to hold the *TEACHERS* accountable. They should use the yearly standardized testing (which needs some improvements of its own, and stop dumb-ing it down!) and throw out the teachers whose classes always have lower scores than expected. Of course, each student's previous year's scores need to be factored in so you don't screw over a good teacher that got a bunch of dumb kids, but it's a start. There's more thought that needs to go into it, but basically what I'm trying to say is that accountability needs to be present in all places, not just students. Now if only there was a way to hold parents accountable...
How long before this gets abused by someone maliciously having someone else kidnapped and held for 10 hours? I'm pretty sure there's some legal issues there...
I'm not sure if I'm the only one who feels this way, but it seems to me that Lucy is no more relevant to science than the chimp down at the local zoo. The only non-chimp aspect of her was the knee, which was found a whole mile and a half away from the rest of her and in a different rock layer, with nothing suggesting that it was actually her knee. They need to find something that says she actually was something other than pure chimp, rather than just speculating. As it is, it isn't enough to convince me Lucy was anything special
Oh, but in regard to the religion thing, they already have severely infringed on the "no prohibiting free exercise thereof". Churches are made to become 501(c)(3) if they wish to be tax-exempt (even though they should already be by default), after which point the church is banned from speaking on certain topics, such as homosexuality (more specifically, speaking against anything the gov't has declared legal), under threat of losing tax exemption. When's the last time any of you churchgoers heard anything about homosexuality in church? Abortion? Wait... are there any churchgoers on/. ?
I have a feeling that 3D is catching on in the consumer world a whole lot slower than big corporations are thinking it is (or they know it and are just trying to make it sound popular so more people will buy = profit). Personally, I don't care to pay tons more for a technology that (in my opinion) doesn't add anything real to gameplay (just changing the graphical effect) and makes my eyes/head hurt after 2 straight minutes of gameplay instead of 2 hours
That being the case, I wonder if anyone had ever tried to sue another league/sport for having the same score in a game that they had in one of their "copyrighted" games... O_o
What you gave is an example of microevolution, which does happen. This has been proven over and over, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. However, I must draw the line when saying that this proves macroevolution. Macroevolution is the change from one "kind" of organism to another. Macroevolution has never been proven, observed, or demonstrated, which is what science is supposed to mandate. As an example, what did this study start with? A bacteria. What did they end with? A whole new strain/species! Of what?...Bacteria. Until they find actual evidence of MACROevolution, I'll never be convinced.
And I'm sure the evolution researchers will never see that, as they don't do studies to find out... they do studies to try to prove evolution
On a more atricle-related topic, I think schools should teach both ID and Evolution, and talk about the strong points of both, and the weak points of both, and lets the students make an educated decision, rather than indoctrinating them with one.
And you're right, evolution is no longer a theory. It has been immortalized by its followers, and has evolved into a metaphysical research program. It cannot be disproven, because there will always be something they come up with to circumvent any problems and issues they find.
There's a bigger problem than people not accepting science... it's people claiming their scientifically inaccurate beliefs are scientific.
Just to be a difficult person, I'll select an example that people here probably won't like. The Grand Canyon. Science says it was created very quickly, likely being a breached natural dam. Reason one: compare elevations at various points along canyon. it's actually a ridiculously long ridge that water flows through. The top of the canyon at its highest point is much, much higher than where the river enters the canyon. Reason two: near the beginning of the canyon, (now dried) rivers join the Colorado River at unnatural angles, which would have caused water to flow one way, then change its flow direction more than 90 degrees when it joined the river. This is a sign of water running off of a breached dam, joining the main river, and flowing back out through the breach point.
Now, without even touching on a ID vs Evolution debate, because I don't want a flame war, people all over still believe the GC was formed over millions of years. Citing Reason one above, since when does water flow uphill?
Now, I'm not trying to pick one point and say I'm right about everything... I'm just saying that I think a bigger problem than rejection of science is non-science being disguised as science. And I'm talking about the non-science coming from BOTH sides of the ID vs Evolution debate. It's probably why nobody is ever interested in an actual debate on the topic, and instead just wants a flame war over it.
Key word in the title of the post: "Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court
from Wikipedia entry for Certiorari: The court denies the vast majority of petitions and thus leaves the decision of the lower court to stand without review; it takes roughly 80 to 150 cases each term. In the most recently-concluded term, for example, 8,241 petitions were filed, with a grant rate of approximately 1.1%
2. Cause total chaos, since the (large, 6000+ employee) hospitals for which I work run almost exclusively XP machines. We have servers running Server 200[X] and nix, and a number of Windows 7 machines that you can count on your fingers, but otherwise, everything is XP. We skipped Vista entirely. This would be an extremely chaotic and labor-intensive upgrade. We're already in a state of chaos trying to get into SP3 now that SP2 is getting support yanked, and SP2 has been what our systems run on for a long time. Plus we probably can't afford all the new licences, since Obama-care has basically trashed our finances.
Not to be the party pooper here, but I do doubt this will get expanded to humans. Messing with Human DNA would take massive amounts of experimentation (since we don't really know squat about how it works, when you compare what we do know to what we don't know), with massive amounts of harmful effects (and deaths) on said test subjects. Without even debating the ethics of it here, I highly doubt that such experimentation would be welcomed by society.
I may be a young-earth creationist, but arguing the concept to anyone who only wants to push their own view is 99% of the time pointless, so I won't elaborate any further besides just saying that modifying an existing life form (that's all this is, really) doesn't count as "creating life". Quite far from it, actually.
1) And politics isn't just as distracting, if not way more?
2) Fixed that for ya:
"He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' This is going to be the government's excuse to start exerting excessive control over people, starting with technology"
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Informative; thanks for pointing out the difference.
Well, the accent alone is what I encounter most (it's correct English, just with a heavy accent), and therefore what I really refer to, although with this distinction between an accent and dialect, I guess my post about accents has nothing to do with this story about dialects (although I could, in all truth, just replace the word "accent" with the word "dialect" in my post and it would still hold true for me)
Ever notice how "professional terms" just get really long and add hyphens everywhere? I just call it the "black accent" and leave it at that. And since I know someone's thinking it, no that's not being racist. Racism implies that I implied something derogatory towards them. I haven't. Don't mind the people; the accent is just difficult to understand, just like any other strong accent.
I think somebody mis-vocab'd
Profiteering is bad, but definitely didn't happen here.
There's nothing wrong with Profiting. The game profits from the war, the soldier profits from the war, the citizens profit from the war (hopefully).
Yeah...because god, the creator and lord of all things, is going to enforce human laws.
Actually, yes, according to the Bible, breaking human laws is wrong, unless it contradicts God's law.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
My boss was upset that my position was eliminated (HR's call, not his), so he stole a company-logo'd coffee mug and gave it to me. On another note, I did take with me a copy of their M$ Office 2003 installer/keys, but never have used it nor will I probably ever use it; it just satisfied a tiny desire for revenge to simply have a copy of it.
While Google tends to be better than others at prioritizing fixes vs enhancements, they seem to not be doing as well here.
This achievement is certainly commendable, and congrats to Google on making an advanced voice command platform. But come on, I still can't set SMS or email reminders on my Google Calendar in the Calendar app! Or on the Google Calendar mobile site, for that matter!
Sorry for picking on Calendar, but that's one thing that bugs me, because I use it all the time and have to either get on a computer or fumble around on the desktop site on my phone if I want to set my reminders.
Oh yeah, battery life would be nice, too.
Regardless of whether he can pay the money back or not, he still stole from clients. Even if he gives them twice what he stole, he's still guilty of a crime. I don't even need to say a word about the delayed sentencing. It's just bizarre.
Sex causes blood to rush to parts of the body other than the brain. Therefore, people who deprive their brain of blood more often than others are more likely to make the poor decision to buy an iPhone.
Either hybrids apparently have a very short lifespan, or people need to start being more conservative in their car spending rather than worry about their gas spending. Luckily, the car my wife wants is a perfect combination of the two. Mini Coopers are relatively cheap if you can stand to go without the luxury features, and have awesome gas mileage (although you do trade away all the space you'd have inside a normal-sized car). Unfortunately for most people's wallets, the general mindset is that if a car doesn't have heated seats, a dvd player, in-dash nav, a sunroof, horsepower over 9000, and the ability to fly, "it's not good enough for me", hence all the B[rutal]M[oney]W[aster]s and Mercedes you see these days.
Maybe the dog just wanted some booze too, and since he couldn't reach it, he just took advantage of his owner's high BAC and went for the blood. =)
I'd say it's a step in the right direction to hold students more accountable, but it's a far cry from a full solution. The real solution, in my opinion, is to hold the *TEACHERS* accountable. They should use the yearly standardized testing (which needs some improvements of its own, and stop dumb-ing it down!) and throw out the teachers whose classes always have lower scores than expected. Of course, each student's previous year's scores need to be factored in so you don't screw over a good teacher that got a bunch of dumb kids, but it's a start. There's more thought that needs to go into it, but basically what I'm trying to say is that accountability needs to be present in all places, not just students. Now if only there was a way to hold parents accountable...
How long before this gets abused by someone maliciously having someone else kidnapped and held for 10 hours? I'm pretty sure there's some legal issues there...
I'm not sure if I'm the only one who feels this way, but it seems to me that Lucy is no more relevant to science than the chimp down at the local zoo. The only non-chimp aspect of her was the knee, which was found a whole mile and a half away from the rest of her and in a different rock layer, with nothing suggesting that it was actually her knee. They need to find something that says she actually was something other than pure chimp, rather than just speculating. As it is, it isn't enough to convince me Lucy was anything special
Oh, but in regard to the religion thing, they already have severely infringed on the "no prohibiting free exercise thereof". Churches are made to become 501(c)(3) if they wish to be tax-exempt (even though they should already be by default), after which point the church is banned from speaking on certain topics, such as homosexuality (more specifically, speaking against anything the gov't has declared legal), under threat of losing tax exemption. When's the last time any of you churchgoers heard anything about homosexuality in church? Abortion? Wait... are there any churchgoers on /. ?
I have a feeling that 3D is catching on in the consumer world a whole lot slower than big corporations are thinking it is (or they know it and are just trying to make it sound popular so more people will buy = profit). Personally, I don't care to pay tons more for a technology that (in my opinion) doesn't add anything real to gameplay (just changing the graphical effect) and makes my eyes/head hurt after 2 straight minutes of gameplay instead of 2 hours
That being the case, I wonder if anyone had ever tried to sue another league/sport for having the same score in a game that they had in one of their "copyrighted" games... O_o
What you gave is an example of microevolution, which does happen. This has been proven over and over, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. However, I must draw the line when saying that this proves macroevolution. Macroevolution is the change from one "kind" of organism to another. Macroevolution has never been proven, observed, or demonstrated, which is what science is supposed to mandate. As an example, what did this study start with? A bacteria. What did they end with? A whole new strain/species! Of what? ...Bacteria. Until they find actual evidence of MACROevolution, I'll never be convinced.
And I'm sure the evolution researchers will never see that, as they don't do studies to find out... they do studies to try to prove evolution
On a more atricle-related topic, I think schools should teach both ID and Evolution, and talk about the strong points of both, and the weak points of both, and lets the students make an educated decision, rather than indoctrinating them with one.
And you're right, evolution is no longer a theory. It has been immortalized by its followers, and has evolved into a metaphysical research program. It cannot be disproven, because there will always be something they come up with to circumvent any problems and issues they find.
And no, -1 Disagree is not an option.
There's a bigger problem than people not accepting science... it's people claiming their scientifically inaccurate beliefs are scientific.
Just to be a difficult person, I'll select an example that people here probably won't like. The Grand Canyon. Science says it was created very quickly, likely being a breached natural dam. Reason one: compare elevations at various points along canyon. it's actually a ridiculously long ridge that water flows through. The top of the canyon at its highest point is much, much higher than where the river enters the canyon. Reason two: near the beginning of the canyon, (now dried) rivers join the Colorado River at unnatural angles, which would have caused water to flow one way, then change its flow direction more than 90 degrees when it joined the river. This is a sign of water running off of a breached dam, joining the main river, and flowing back out through the breach point.
Now, without even touching on a ID vs Evolution debate, because I don't want a flame war, people all over still believe the GC was formed over millions of years. Citing Reason one above, since when does water flow uphill?
Now, I'm not trying to pick one point and say I'm right about everything... I'm just saying that I think a bigger problem than rejection of science is non-science being disguised as science. And I'm talking about the non-science coming from BOTH sides of the ID vs Evolution debate. It's probably why nobody is ever interested in an actual debate on the topic, and instead just wants a flame war over it.
Key word in the title of the post: "Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court
from Wikipedia entry for Certiorari:
The court denies the vast majority of petitions and thus leaves the decision of the lower court to stand without review; it takes roughly 80 to 150 cases each term. In the most recently-concluded term, for example, 8,241 petitions were filed, with a grant rate of approximately 1.1%
Those are some slim chances
2. Cause total chaos, since the (large, 6000+ employee) hospitals for which I work run almost exclusively XP machines. We have servers running Server 200[X] and nix, and a number of Windows 7 machines that you can count on your fingers, but otherwise, everything is XP. We skipped Vista entirely. This would be an extremely chaotic and labor-intensive upgrade. We're already in a state of chaos trying to get into SP3 now that SP2 is getting support yanked, and SP2 has been what our systems run on for a long time. Plus we probably can't afford all the new licences, since Obama-care has basically trashed our finances.
I would assume the pulse is a result of the mother's heartbeat, and therefore would require everything to stay attached in order to continue to do so.
Doh, you beat me to it. Nobody posted it, but by the time I found which # it was, it had been posted twice!
Not to be the party pooper here, but I do doubt this will get expanded to humans. Messing with Human DNA would take massive amounts of experimentation (since we don't really know squat about how it works, when you compare what we do know to what we don't know), with massive amounts of harmful effects (and deaths) on said test subjects. Without even debating the ethics of it here, I highly doubt that such experimentation would be welcomed by society.
Umm.. yeah, this is a far cry from creating life
I may be a young-earth creationist, but arguing the concept to anyone who only wants to push their own view is 99% of the time pointless, so I won't elaborate any further besides just saying that modifying an existing life form (that's all this is, really) doesn't count as "creating life". Quite far from it, actually.
1) And politics isn't just as distracting, if not way more?
2) Fixed that for ya:
"He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' This is going to be the government's excuse to start exerting excessive control over people, starting with technology"