He did use "your" incorrectly like a true veteran, though.
800k Slashdot IDs? I have five or six I've scrapped. I wonder how many of those are active.
Re:Not amazing at al really.
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This conflicts with my reading of the article.
This is Slashdot. We don't point out inconsistencies and conflicts with the content of articles; we only point out conflicts with our preconceptions and prejudices. Please rephrase your post.
Loud/fast cars impose themselves on everyone around them. What computer modders do in the privacy of their own mother's basement does not interfere with other people's lives.
Constitution Party nominee Michael Anthony Peroutka did not pull such a stunt and did not get arrested.
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If you don't see that cause-and-effect relationships go all the way back to existence itself, then the public schools are truly doing the job they were designed to do.
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Well, perhaps God has written fewer lines of code, but as far as usefulness is concerned, I'll take existence over cool tech any day.
Also, thanks to the "Patriot Act," you don't need facts or logic, just blather and decibels.
Did anything in the source stories say that this was done without a warrant? No. Then why are you ramping up the rhetoric based on speculation and ignorance of the available facts?
How does one reconcile the theory of macroevolution (species, over time, have evolved into more ordered organisms - humans - from less ordered organisms - one-celled animals) with the second law of thermodynamics (the natural tendency over time of any closed system is to enter into a *less* ordered state)?
The Earth is not a closed system. We are part of a driven out-of equilibrium system, with the sun's energy hitting our planet in a directed way and re-radiating in an isotropic way. Out of equilibrium process can create local regions of increasing order at the expense of dumping their entropy elsewhere.
Forget evolution for a minute and ask how anything grows at all. From a thermodynamic perspective, how does an acorn+soil+water+air become an oak tree? Can it be possible without appealing to the supernatural? Yes. The sun's energy comes in, and performs useful work, some energy becomes chemically stored through combinations of water and carbon dioxide in cellulose and carbohydrates plus oxygen, before the rest of the energy is re-radiated as mostly infrared back out to the environment. Overall this process increases the entropy of the universe (even though locally the oak tree becomes more ordered than soil+water+air), but most of that entropy is radiated away from the earth.
This is a coarse-level thermodynamic description, not a biological description, but your question was on the thermodynamic possibility. You'll notice that none of what I said here directly addresses where the genetic information and enzymes, etc. in the acorn came from, but it should show you an example where natural physical dynamics produce local order in an out-of equilibrium system. This can, in principle, be used to support the theory of evolution.
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He did use "your" incorrectly like a true veteran, though.
800k Slashdot IDs? I have five or six I've scrapped. I wonder how many of those are active.
This is Slashdot. We don't point out inconsistencies and conflicts with the content of articles; we only point out conflicts with our preconceptions and prejudices. Please rephrase your post.
Loud/fast cars impose themselves on everyone around them. What computer modders do in the privacy of their own mother's basement does not interfere with other people's lives.
Folks, it's not Orwellian unless it is backed by a totalitarian state. Most of your fears would be better directed at a Huxleyan future.
Yeah, but Pascal is an education-oriented language. Just wait till Ada catches on.
Constitution Party nominee Michael Anthony Peroutka did not pull such a stunt and did not get arrested.
If you don't see that cause-and-effect relationships go all the way back to existence itself, then the public schools are truly doing the job they were designed to do.
Well, perhaps God has written fewer lines of code, but as far as usefulness is concerned, I'll take existence over cool tech any day.
Also, thanks to the "Patriot Act," you don't need facts or logic, just blather and decibels.
Did anything in the source stories say that this was done without a warrant? No. Then why are you ramping up the rhetoric based on speculation and ignorance of the available facts?
Get some perspective.
Yeah, search warrants were unheard of before a few years ago.
Get some perspective.
But when Swiss cars are in neutral, they still profit from the other cars both in forward and reverse.
No, he's waiting for a question on distinguishing possessive pronouns from contractions.
"Chances are, unlikely things will happen."
The Earth is not a closed system. We are part of a driven out-of equilibrium system, with the sun's energy hitting our planet in a directed way and re-radiating in an isotropic way. Out of equilibrium process can create local regions of increasing order at the expense of dumping their entropy elsewhere.
Forget evolution for a minute and ask how anything grows at all. From a thermodynamic perspective, how does an acorn+soil+water+air become an oak tree? Can it be possible without appealing to the supernatural? Yes. The sun's energy comes in, and performs useful work, some energy becomes chemically stored through combinations of water and carbon dioxide in cellulose and carbohydrates plus oxygen, before the rest of the energy is re-radiated as mostly infrared back out to the environment. Overall this process increases the entropy of the universe (even though locally the oak tree becomes more ordered than soil+water+air), but most of that entropy is radiated away from the earth.
This is a coarse-level thermodynamic description, not a biological description, but your question was on the thermodynamic possibility. You'll notice that none of what I said here directly addresses where the genetic information and enzymes, etc. in the acorn came from, but it should show you an example where natural physical dynamics produce local order in an out-of equilibrium system. This can, in principle, be used to support the theory of evolution.
I'm sure the taxpaying Canadian public appreciates that they built up your Marie Antoinette-ish elitist attitude.
You gots tha grams cold fo sheezy.
Let me add that to the list of reasons I have for homeschooling my kids....
Oh, by the way, shouldn't that be "half never had it corrected" if you want to be consistent?
Young man, this is the sort of insolence up with which I will not put!
-W. Churchill (apocryphally)
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something you might not want to live without.
How would you fix it?
You forgot all of them after the decimal point.
It's not unprecedented. As I recall, Himmler was the "Chief Jew Strategist" for the Third Reich.
Oh, man. Did I write that?
Plus you got that whole Dennis Hopper/David Lynch aesthetic going for you.
Mumia will be relieved.