If I am a creationist, is it allowable for me to research based on my assumptions of God?
Not in a scientific forum. At least not until you have a plausable hypothesis showing god exists or a research finding which demands he does. Creationists currently have neither.
Things like Haeckel's embryo drawings and the peppered moth story
The embryo drawings are discredited in the scientific world and any textbook which still has them decades later is a discredit to their ability to stay current, not an indication that evolution is false.
Same thing for the peppered moths. Though similar kinds of changes have been observed on many occasions (which for some reason the creationists don't tell us) it is true that the methodology behind the peppered moths findings was flawed.
Interestingly, only 38% of physicians think that evolution alone was sufficient to bring about all diversity of life. See http://www.hcdi.net/polls/J5776/ question #7.
99.85% of folks working in the field say that evolution is what happened. So if we're arguing from authority evolution wins in a landslide.
How much would you charge per week to drive some cases of coke to soldiers for Haliburton, knowing that chances are you'll be dead within a year of working there.
Chance are actually *very* good you will be alive in year. In fact, chances are very good that if you worked there for ten years you would be alive at the end.
It's a hell of a lot more dangerous than driving soda around Boston, but the odds are strongly in your favor of surviving.
I could see some programming jobs being outsourced to India, especially programming that revolves around the web, but you you really think that all software design will be outsourced?
No. I started a subsidiary a couple years ago to answer outsourcing needs of my clients and now am seeing that trend flatten and some projects brought back home. People grow weary quickly of the problems which ten thousand miles and eight time zones bring into the picture.
That's total bullshit. I know lots of people who do good work in IT as a day job and are happy to be computer free the rest of their lives. They do IT as a job because music, art, flying model planes, camping or whatever their passion really is doesn't pay.
Now that said, *if* someone has no ability to work on things which aren't interesting to them then they will suck at IT. But there are literally millions of people doing jobs they don't particularly enjoy with a high degree of skill becuase they can make a living at those jobs and fund their real passion.
This only makes sense for business concepts with low capitalization requirements. Many very good business ideas require a LOT of up front capital to get started.
Presumably that's why he said *if* you don't need millions.
It would be more accurate to say that educated people are the minority. An amazing number of people have an enormous depth of knowledge in sports trivia and fashion lines. But few are educated in any conventional sense of the word.
I am biased, grew up in Indiana where we are smart enough to leave our clocks alone
Smart enough?
I have a family member in government in Indiana and he's looked into this given that Indiana is likely to finally cave and join the rest of the country (for right or wrong) soon.
He found out that the original lack of DST isn't due to smarts, but due to lobbying from, get this, the drive-in theatre owners in days gone by.
However as the town grew and the TAXED income did as well what happened to THAT money?
Most of it was spent on parks since early in the life of the village they were ignored and now people are interested in preserve the few remaining open spaces before houses get built on them.
So, as you allude, costs have indeed gone up. But they have gone up at the request of the citizens. This seems perfectly reasonable. The part I don't understand is why people would vote for parks, but ignore schools. It seems incredibly short sighted.
There is also the mathematical reality that the money which was spent "less efficiently" by the consumer was in fact spent on something, so while it may not be as efficient for that particular consumer it might actually be more efficient from an economic perspecitve.
For example, it's hard to argue that buying more big macs, tvs or dvds is more efficient economically than getting 1.5% fewer of those and putting the difference into education.
Not to mention that the money paid in taxes doesn't disappear never to be seen again. It is paid in wages and other expenses and re-enters the economy just like the money spent on porn and cigs.
Sport? Well, I am pretty athletic. I'm just not sure how you knew.
when these threats were issued, did you wander in with a list of administrators and their salaries? No? Well, did you at least demand this list?
Didn't have to demand it. It is part of the public record in our district. There have been administrative cuts as well.
No?
Er, yes. With the qualifications about it being public knowledge above in place. Had you waited for my reply you wouldn't have made such a silly assumption.
The only real peril to your kids, Roscoe, is YOU. Your school system is out of control and you won't take an actual, direct step to correct the waste. Of course, that would cut into your TV watching time.
Hehe. Digging yourself in deeper on mistaken assumptions I see. Ooops.
All school systems across America -- yes, even the small ones -- have some administrator piece of shit sitting in some office collecting a paycheck, while budgets are cut BY THEM to target teachers, books, programs... in short, EVERYTHING ELSE but them.
Heh. lol. You must be able to see China by now.
Your school teachers should administrate the school system. Period. It is their privilege and duty to do so. Until that happy day arrives, we get scared little weenies like you blathering nonsense on public boards about your own failure to control the desk pilots.
Well, let's not get too nutty. There is some need for people which help the teachers concentrate on teaching instead of dealing with overhead. It isn't like the overhead will go away if the admin's are all released, it will just be put on the teachers plates. Doing this would merely reduce the time they have to teach.
A school system has only 1 function: to provide a place for teachers to instruct young citizens in the only 4 things that matter in public education (reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship).
Er, no. The school system indeed has one function, teaching. What you constrain the educational process too is unusably narrow in terms of subject matter and just plain wierd with citizenship. What are you a Stalinist?
That doesn't cost much money to perform. People who do think it's costly, are mentally deranged.
Or have looked at the spreadsheet. Just the teacher, the building and the books add up quite a bit you know.
If these basic school functions are being compromised for things like art, band practice, and the expense accounts of administrators, then somebody needs to firebomb the townsmen that allow such a travesty to occur.
That's why part of this is a ploy. Its like the School Disctrict in your tow saying they need to raise property taxes to fund everything, because if you don't then something will be cut.
Call that bluff at your childrens educational peril. My town did, we lost 24 teachers. We're voting on another one today which will cost us another 36 if it doesn't pass. Oh, and our "ignorance is bliss" town is also refusing to replace the forty year old (when the town at 12,000 people) library with a facility capable of serving the 40K that live here now.
Maybe sometimes it is hard to figure out if the boy is crying wolf, but sometimes it's worth it to find out before assuming that it's just a cheap ploy by a bunch of whiny teachers who want to buy another vacation house in Aruba.
LA and NYC both have HD local feeds. Many of us get access to those because we cannot get HD feeds from our local stations. So there are actually lots of people who could be effected by this.
Just wait till he casts himself as Graff, the recruiter who gets young Kirk to join the academy, and has the whole thing centered around buggers trying to destroy humanity.
My guess would be that the entry level for getting 15 minutes of ear time from a minimally qualified "Intellectual Property Rights" lawyer, who is a member of the bar in an American state [or the District of Columbia] is gonna be about $5,000.
I regularly have my attorney review contracts (I'm a consultant) and the most I've ever paid was $500 for a 18 page one.
It doesn't HAVE to be about monopolies to engender one.
The point is that Grid technology is inherently anti-monopolistic. It is a technology who's underpinnings are intrinsicly about using resources from all over the place.
If there's only a single supplier, then you've got a monopoly. Possibly a transitory one, but still, a monopoly.
The entire Grid computing field is very young and very immature and there are already many vendors involved. As you pointed out, IBM has a utility computing offering, but so does Sun. There are many large vendors interested in utility computing, cluster computing, large distributed storage systems, cycle scavenging and anything else you can think of to do with Grid technology.
The bar to entry is only required to slow down incoming competition. And start-up cost can be a very high bar.
This is a truism, but not applicable to the Grid domain.
IBM is already exploring "Grid computing" and leasing time (an old business of theirs).
Grid computing isn't about monopolies. It is about flattening the space so that people and organizations can use resources from anywhere. It's kind of an anti-monopolistic technology actually.
There is a new book coming out in a couple months which talks about Grid from a amanagement level. I hear it's very good.;-)
The CC companies and orgs do not want under any circumstances for retailers to ask for ID, even if the card is not signed.
Not quite right. You are absolutely correct in that the merchant isn't to ask for ID on the basis of a CC sale (they are, of course) allowed to ask for sales which require ID for other reasons (e.g. liquor, porn). However, when a card is not signed then the merchant is to ask for ID and then request that the customer sign the card.
You have no reason to like the other product better than the iPod
I listed four reasons in the great-grandparent.
You claim that the other product's joystick is superior to the scroll wheel when (1) it clearly is not, and (2) you don't even know how to use the scroll wheel.
lol
1) I don't like the joystick. I like the menus. The joystick is a device prone to fail mechanically.
2) I do know how to use a scroll wheel. I just happen to think it is not perfect.
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If I am a creationist, is it allowable for me to research based on my assumptions of God?
Not in a scientific forum. At least not until you have a plausable hypothesis showing god exists or a research finding which demands he does. Creationists currently have neither.
Things like Haeckel's embryo drawings and the peppered moth story
The embryo drawings are discredited in the scientific world and any textbook which still has them decades later is a discredit to their ability to stay current, not an indication that evolution is false.
Same thing for the peppered moths. Though similar kinds of changes have been observed on many occasions (which for some reason the creationists don't tell us) it is true that the methodology behind the peppered moths findings was flawed.
Actually, it's been around since Cicero.
But it's only been popular in the last couple decades since young earth creationism became more and more obviously false.
Interestingly, only 38% of physicians think that evolution alone was sufficient to bring about all diversity of life. See http://www.hcdi.net/polls/J5776/ question #7.
99.85% of folks working in the field say that evolution is what happened. So if we're arguing from authority evolution wins in a landslide.
How much would you charge per week to drive some cases of coke to soldiers for Haliburton, knowing that chances are you'll be dead within a year of working there.
Chance are actually *very* good you will be alive in year. In fact, chances are very good that if you worked there for ten years you would be alive at the end.
It's a hell of a lot more dangerous than driving soda around Boston, but the odds are strongly in your favor of surviving.
I could see some programming jobs being outsourced to India, especially programming that revolves around the web, but you you really think that all software design will be outsourced?
No. I started a subsidiary a couple years ago to answer outsourcing needs of my clients and now am seeing that trend flatten and some projects brought back home. People grow weary quickly of the problems which ten thousand miles and eight time zones bring into the picture.
Will there continue to be outsourcing? Yup.
Will it take over the world? Nope.
That's total bullshit. I know lots of people who do good work in IT as a day job and are happy to be computer free the rest of their lives. They do IT as a job because music, art, flying model planes, camping or whatever their passion really is doesn't pay.
Now that said, *if* someone has no ability to work on things which aren't interesting to them then they will suck at IT. But there are literally millions of people doing jobs they don't particularly enjoy with a high degree of skill becuase they can make a living at those jobs and fund their real passion.
This only makes sense for business concepts with low capitalization requirements. Many very good business ideas require a LOT of up front capital to get started.
Presumably that's why he said *if* you don't need millions.
It would be more accurate to say that educated people are the minority. An amazing number of people have an enormous depth of knowledge in sports trivia and fashion lines. But few are educated in any conventional sense of the word.
I am biased, grew up in Indiana where we are smart enough to leave our clocks alone
;-)
Smart enough?
I have a family member in government in Indiana and he's looked into this given that Indiana is likely to finally cave and join the rest of the country (for right or wrong) soon.
He found out that the original lack of DST isn't due to smarts, but due to lobbying from, get this, the drive-in theatre owners in days gone by.
Their lobby isn't as strong as it used to be.
However as the town grew and the TAXED income did as well what happened to THAT money?
Most of it was spent on parks since early in the life of the village they were ignored and now people are interested in preserve the few remaining open spaces before houses get built on them.
So, as you allude, costs have indeed gone up. But they have gone up at the request of the citizens. This seems perfectly reasonable. The part I don't understand is why people would vote for parks, but ignore schools. It seems incredibly short sighted.
There is also the mathematical reality that the money which was spent "less efficiently" by the consumer was in fact spent on something, so while it may not be as efficient for that particular consumer it might actually be more efficient from an economic perspecitve.
For example, it's hard to argue that buying more big macs, tvs or dvds is more efficient economically than getting 1.5% fewer of those and putting the difference into education.
Not to mention that the money paid in taxes doesn't disappear never to be seen again. It is paid in wages and other expenses and re-enters the economy just like the money spent on porn and cigs.
Elminated, funning on fees or running on volunteer labor.
Which basically seems fine to me, so I don't complain. But the fat has already been cut, now we're excising meat.
Really! Tell me, Sport
... in short, EVERYTHING ELSE but them.
Sport? Well, I am pretty athletic. I'm just not sure how you knew.
when these threats were issued, did you wander in with a list of administrators and their salaries? No? Well, did you at least demand this list?
Didn't have to demand it. It is part of the public record in our district. There have been administrative cuts as well.
No?
Er, yes. With the qualifications about it being public knowledge above in place. Had you waited for my reply you wouldn't have made such a silly assumption.
The only real peril to your kids, Roscoe, is YOU. Your school system is out of control and you won't take an actual, direct step to correct the waste. Of course, that would cut into your TV watching time.
Hehe. Digging yourself in deeper on mistaken assumptions I see. Ooops.
All school systems across America -- yes, even the small ones -- have some administrator piece of shit sitting in some office collecting a paycheck, while budgets are cut BY THEM to target teachers, books, programs
Heh. lol. You must be able to see China by now.
Your school teachers should administrate the school system. Period. It is their privilege and duty to do so. Until that happy day arrives, we get scared little weenies like you blathering nonsense on public boards about your own failure to control the desk pilots.
Well, let's not get too nutty. There is some need for people which help the teachers concentrate on teaching instead of dealing with overhead. It isn't like the overhead will go away if the admin's are all released, it will just be put on the teachers plates. Doing this would merely reduce the time they have to teach.
A school system has only 1 function: to provide a place for teachers to instruct young citizens in the only 4 things that matter in public education (reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship).
Er, no. The school system indeed has one function, teaching. What you constrain the educational process too is unusably narrow in terms of subject matter and just plain wierd with citizenship. What are you a Stalinist?
That doesn't cost much money to perform. People who do think it's costly, are mentally deranged.
Or have looked at the spreadsheet. Just the teacher, the building and the books add up quite a bit you know.
If these basic school functions are being compromised for things like art, band practice, and the expense accounts of administrators, then somebody needs to firebomb the townsmen that allow such a travesty to occur.
Ah. I'm being trolled. My bad.
That's why part of this is a ploy. Its like the School Disctrict in your tow saying they need to raise property taxes to fund everything, because if you don't then something will be cut.
Call that bluff at your childrens educational peril. My town did, we lost 24 teachers. We're voting on another one today which will cost us another 36 if it doesn't pass. Oh, and our "ignorance is bliss" town is also refusing to replace the forty year old (when the town at 12,000 people) library with a facility capable of serving the 40K that live here now.
Maybe sometimes it is hard to figure out if the boy is crying wolf, but sometimes it's worth it to find out before assuming that it's just a cheap ploy by a bunch of whiny teachers who want to buy another vacation house in Aruba.
LA and NYC both have HD local feeds. Many of us get access to those because we cannot get HD feeds from our local stations. So there are actually lots of people who could be effected by this.
Just wait till he casts himself as Graff, the recruiter who gets young Kirk to join the academy, and has the whole thing centered around buggers trying to destroy humanity.
The parent was modded insightful?
A few hundred? Where? In Bangalore?
My guess would be that the entry level for getting 15 minutes of ear time from a minimally qualified "Intellectual Property Rights" lawyer, who is a member of the bar in an American state [or the District of Columbia] is gonna be about $5,000.
I regularly have my attorney review contracts (I'm a consultant) and the most I've ever paid was $500 for a 18 page one.
It doesn't HAVE to be about monopolies to engender one.
The point is that Grid technology is inherently anti-monopolistic. It is a technology who's underpinnings are intrinsicly about using resources from all over the place.
If there's only a single supplier, then you've got a monopoly. Possibly a transitory one, but still, a monopoly.
The entire Grid computing field is very young and very immature and there are already many vendors involved. As you pointed out, IBM has a utility computing offering, but so does Sun. There are many large vendors interested in utility computing, cluster computing, large distributed storage systems, cycle scavenging and anything
else you can think of to do with Grid technology.
The bar to entry is only required to slow down incoming competition. And start-up cost can be a very high bar.
This is a truism, but not applicable to the Grid domain.
IBM is already exploring "Grid computing" and leasing time (an old business of theirs).
;-)
Grid computing isn't about monopolies. It is about flattening the space so that people and organizations can use resources from anywhere. It's kind of an anti-monopolistic technology actually.
There is a new book coming out in a couple months which talks about Grid from a amanagement level. I hear it's very good.
A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment.
I think that pretty much says it all. This is a quote from one of the people we're to take advice from...
It's really refreshing to see an environmentalist without an irrational fear of nuclear power.
Yes, especially when there are so many rational reasons to be wary...
The CC companies and orgs do not want under any circumstances for retailers to ask for ID, even if the card is not signed.
Not quite right. You are absolutely correct in that the merchant isn't to ask for ID on the basis of a CC sale (they are, of course) allowed to ask for sales which require ID for other reasons (e.g. liquor, porn). However, when a card is not signed then the merchant is to ask for ID and then request that the customer sign the card.
All I know is turkeys are carbon-based life forms and burning turkeys would seem to put carbon into the atmosphere just as oil does.
The carbon in the turkeys came from the air to begin with, so it's a wash.
You have no reason to like the other product better than the iPod
I listed four reasons in the great-grandparent.
You claim that the other product's joystick is superior to the scroll wheel when (1) it clearly is not, and (2) you don't even know how to use the scroll wheel.
lol
1) I don't like the joystick. I like the menus. The joystick is a device prone to fail mechanically.
2) I do know how to use a scroll wheel. I just happen to think it is not perfect.