Sooooo, if the Coelacanth had no change in the past 400 million years, how long did it take to evolve to point is at now? The modern coelacanths (two species, IIRC) are not the same species as the fossil ones. There are detectable differences between the fossils and what we have now.
The best students in the world go to the best Universities in the world. The Universities in the United States consistently dominate the top universities in the world. But that seems to be changing, from what I've read.
Specifically, can you patent a business practice, or a business model? Yes. The US Congress streamlined patent litigation by setting up a special court to cover it, and that court immediately set about ruling that everything under the sun is patentable.
I agree with all of what you say except the bold part, which I feel needs a response. So, AGAIN! Please read and learn the principal of the Laffer curve. I don't want to have to explain it again. Unfortunately the Wikipedia article that you linked to doesn't show the actual measured results, which don't provide clear support for the notion at all.
Sorry I can't link to a plot of the actual data... saw it in a print magazine a few months ago.
Make no mistake, this is the biggest, most lucrative business that could ever exist. You've somehow changed the topic from "what went wrong with the USA" in terms of civil liberties, to "big government is bad".
Whatever the merit of his suggestions, the idea that ISO is new to high-pressure corporate gamesmanship and requires a condescending lecture from a titan of industry like "the CEO of Freecode" has to qualify as the laugh of the day. OTOH, it seems obvious that they need a scolding from somebody.
Can't remember the details, but within the past few years a committee working on an IEEE standard caused so many complaints that IEEE disbanded the committee and started the process all over. It was also a case of suspected corporate tampering.
Microsoft's power is a temporary thing, just like IBM's before it. Quit wasting your time obsessing over it and worry about real social ills. Such as... Microsoft.
If the comments are resolved to the voter's satisfaction, the "no" vote can be changed to a "yes". Can comments be of the form "I would need more money in order to vote 'yes'"?
The US has the mightiest navy in the history of the world, greater than every country's navy put together. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president. Bush is not pleased with this offered resignation. Therefore he's likely to get fired for resigning?
Actually, Ashcroft was a right-wing asshole, with nothing better to do then go after sick people smoking weed (*gasp*, the horror!) but even he had misgivings about the direction this administration is taking civil rights and law enforcement. I.e., we're seeing the difference between a religious nutcase and a Nazi.
he's just a moronic drunk rich kid. That's why his handlers gave him the job. Imagine how little they would have gotten for their money if they had picked someone with a brain, morals, and a spine.
Because, according to TFA, he is an unaccredited amateur attempting to debunk Charles Darwin. 99.99% of the time, that screams "Christian biblical literalist," whatever the pretense. The remaining 00.01% being the Muslim biblical literalist who got Wordpress blocked at Turkey's borders a few days ago. (That was a "slander" case too, IIRC.)
His claim to fame is that he is a close friend of Steven Jay Gould. [...] Wow! Hey, if I got to know Stephen Hawking well enough, do you think I could write a book on how theoretical physicists got it wrong? Too bad Steven Jay Gould isn't around to further comment on the issue. How brilliantly convenient for Pivar. I think we're seeing how the ever-popular deathbed conversion stories come about. (FYI, a deathbed conversion story about Darwin is immensely popular among creationists.)
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Why is this news?
I read somewhere that we discover a new dinosaur species about once a month.
I checked the link, and this isn't coming from The Onion.
Sorry I can't link to a plot of the actual data... saw it in a print magazine a few months ago.
Also, the impact of taxation on the economy depends as much on how the tax money is spent as on the rate itself.
That's one reason there's so much noise on the curve.
Then we'll need an ISO standard for creating ISO standards for creating ISO standards.
Then we'll need... I don't think we'll ever catch up.
Can't remember the details, but within the past few years a committee working on an IEEE standard caused so many complaints that IEEE disbanded the committee and started the process all over. It was also a case of suspected corporate tampering.
Surely you're not suggesting that Microsoft would throw its money around in order to obtain special treatment.
If you don't know how you're going to use it to meet your classroom goals, maybe you should be asking yourself why you intend to use it at all.
"Because it's there" doesn't seem like a good reason for introducing technology into the classroom.
...to simply outsource the DoJ to somewhere offshore which can perform its non-function for much less money? Like the Russian Mafia?