Then, I might point out that blowing up a mosque might offend you, but unless you are standing in the mosque, it hardly harms you.
Actually, I was thinking of an Al Qaeda or Islamist sympathizer considering a mosque at Ground Zero. I think that individual would think it was a victory, and a rallying point for the blessed New World Order that he is righteously trying to achieve. A sign from Allah himself to keep up the fight, no matter how ferocious the imperialist pig-dogs' firepower becomes.
I don't know if we want to encourage that line of thinking.
Seriously, I understand fandom (though not of corporations) but I don't understand the attribution of human emotions to legal fictions created in order to make profit while avoiding liability.
"If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands. " - an Indiana University professor on Harley Davidson owners.
It's just a matter of time before some fanboi has Apple tattooed on his chest.
Military technology is a double-edged sword. A peaceful society with white marble libraries, people in flowing robes discussing philosophy and nary a bad word to be heard will be destroyed when the first Viking longboat comes ashore.
On the other hand, an otherwise peaceful society with fantastically effective military technology might become militarily adventurous. And what the modern communications media is teaching us is that all war - ALL war - results in mangled noncombatants as well as mangled soldiers.
Everything we see in the Universe, from an ant to a galaxy, is made up of ordinary particles. These are collectively referred to as matter, forming 4% of the Universe. Dark matter and dark energy are believed to make up the remaining proportion, but they are incredibly difficult to detect and study, other than through the gravitational forces they exert. Investigating the nature of dark matter and dark energy is one of the biggest challenges today in the fields of particle physics and cosmology.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments will look for supersymmetric particles to test a likely hypothesis for the make-up of dark matter.
Getting an MS and/or a PhD from an accredited school - and doing it in a short period of time - is evidence that the individual can take up a lot of new information quickly. If someone is able to do this in the field of study you are interested in, they will probably be able to solve some of the more difficult problems.
Getting a BS from an accredited school shows that the individual has some basic common vocabulary with which to think about problems.
Without question, there can be brilliant high schoolers. But... how is a hiring manager to tell?
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Actually, I was thinking of an Al Qaeda or Islamist sympathizer considering a mosque at Ground Zero. I think that individual would think it was a victory, and a rallying point for the blessed New World Order that he is righteously trying to achieve. A sign from Allah himself to keep up the fight, no matter how ferocious the imperialist pig-dogs' firepower becomes. I don't know if we want to encourage that line of thinking.
"If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands. " - an Indiana University professor on Harley Davidson owners.
It's just a matter of time before some fanboi has Apple tattooed on his chest.
How many lives have tasers saved, due to their use versus a gun?
Or would the policeman just have used pepper spray or a club otherwise?
That would be an enlightening analysis.
Military technology is a double-edged sword. A peaceful society with white marble libraries, people in flowing robes discussing philosophy and nary a bad word to be heard will be destroyed when the first Viking longboat comes ashore.
On the other hand, an otherwise peaceful society with fantastically effective military technology might become militarily adventurous. And what the modern communications media is teaching us is that all war - ALL war - results in mangled noncombatants as well as mangled soldiers.
There needs to be a balance.
"People say bullies are cowards. Well, they're wrong. Bullies are brave because they're strong." - Abraham Simpson, "The Simpsons"
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003005/quotes
What is 96% of the universe made of?
Everything we see in the Universe, from an ant to a galaxy, is made up of ordinary particles. These are collectively referred to as matter, forming 4% of the Universe. Dark matter and dark energy are believed to make up the remaining proportion, but they are incredibly difficult to detect and study, other than through the gravitational forces they exert. Investigating the nature of dark matter and dark energy is one of the biggest challenges today in the fields of particle physics and cosmology.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments will look for supersymmetric particles to test a likely hypothesis for the make-up of dark matter.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/WhyLHC-en.html
The 27 million year period is interesting. Could be any of a myriad forces drawing large chunks of rock towards the earth.
Getting an MS and/or a PhD from an accredited school - and doing it in a short period of time - is evidence that the individual can take up a lot of new information quickly. If someone is able to do this in the field of study you are interested in, they will probably be able to solve some of the more difficult problems.
Getting a BS from an accredited school shows that the individual has some basic common vocabulary with which to think about problems.
Without question, there can be brilliant high schoolers. But... how is a hiring manager to tell?
Evidence.