> I don't care what party you support, when you have two judges up for election to the supreme court and every single democrat on the election committe says something to the effect of "He's a loser and will not be a good judge" who are we kidding? Is this really the sad state of politics in America?
Yes. It's a sign that abortion has become the touchstone of American politics, and that the Supreme Court has come to be seen as a "higher legislature" that will vote your way if you can seat a majority.
> Ok, so it was a little before my time, but I seem to remember hearing that the whole idea that photography could even be an art form was rejected at first, especially by painters.
Yeah, until they started seeing pictures of naked ladies. Then most of them ran out and bought a camera.
> These scientists apparently didn't watch the X-Files, or John Carpenter's The Thing for that matter. Of course the ice contains a microbe that will soon overtake the entire planet if not contained.
Fortunately they used the ice to make martinis, and the alcohol killed all the vermin.
> I wonder what the scientists would do if they found nothing in that "1,000,000" year old block of ice. Just pure water. No organisms frozen for eons. Wonder what kind of excuses they would make up to still deny the existance of God.
a) appeals to hypothetical data aren't very convincing
b) most scientists in the USA believe in God
c) hope you're trolling, 'cause otherwise you're an idiot
> Browse/. at -1 and notice how stupidity doesn't develop in a vacuum either. Behind every "-1 Offtopic" comment, there are dozens of other equally irrelevant, nonsensical rants. One "Stephen King is Dead" post always leads to more, and penis bird lives on.
Probably because it surrounds itself with it surrounds itself with smart people, like Steven King.
> As for the conditions necessary for "genius" things to happen in science, that's called a "paradigm shift". Read Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolution".
Kuhn's paradigm [yuk,yuk], even if correct, hasn't got anything to do with 'genius'.
> Then, I think that Wikis would make a wonderful forum for developing legislation. Especially those 400+ page variety bills that seem to contain all sorts of pork.
Yeah, they could make life easy for the legislators by providing templates such as -
> If this was about oil, it was a damned stupid financial decision
Ah, but you neglect the distinction between who is going to pay for it and who was supposed to profit from it.
The oil companies were supposed to supposed to benefit from it (by means of the distribution contracts rather than by pwning the oilfields per se), but you and your descendents will be paying for the war, yea unto the seventh generation.
(Saw a news story somewhere this month about a new estimate of the war's total costs to the USA running to the amount of two trillion dollars. Cheney and his cronies won't be picking up the tab; they're already getting tax breaks on their record profits, while the national debt goes ballistic.)
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> Corporations don't exist to be humanitarian organizations. Their job is to make as much money as possible, while remaining within the law.
And our job is to distinguish fact from opinion.
> A guy I worked with briefly was Chinese.
What was he at other times?
If there is actually any substance to this, the headline should be that someone has produced a GUT by working out a quantum theory of gravity.
Instead we get "we've explained away dark matter and explained the Pioneer anomaly".
> The theory posits that gravitons are created by all (massive) matter, it's just that near densely packed stars the effect is more significant.
More gravitons are created where there's more mass? A no brainer, except that they require more than in porportion to the mass.
Sounds like another flavor of MOND to me. Call it Quantam MOND or something.
> When the simplest explaination works, there is no need to look any further."
So you propose vapidons rather than gravitons?
> "See I told you guys it wasn't flying monkeys! Turns out it's flying Unicorns!"
Why not flying spaghetti monsters?
Couldn't they make up their mind?
> I don't care what party you support, when you have two judges up for election to the supreme court and every single democrat on the election committe says something to the effect of "He's a loser and will not be a good judge" who are we kidding? Is this really the sad state of politics in America?
Yes. It's a sign that abortion has become the touchstone of American politics, and that the Supreme Court has come to be seen as a "higher legislature" that will vote your way if you can seat a majority.
> Any other Slashdotters feel that politics today is just for the highest bidders and the most convincing liars
Yes, though I don't know why you specify 'today'.
How do we know this conclusion is based on facts rather than the researchers' emotional responses?
> Ok, so it was a little before my time, but I seem to remember hearing that the whole idea that photography could even be an art form was rejected at first, especially by painters.
Yeah, until they started seeing pictures of naked ladies. Then most of them ran out and bought a camera.
> These scientists apparently didn't watch the X-Files, or John Carpenter's The Thing for that matter. Of course the ice contains a microbe that will soon overtake the entire planet if not contained.
Fortunately they used the ice to make martinis, and the alcohol killed all the vermin.
> I wonder what the scientists would do if they found nothing in that "1,000,000" year old block of ice. Just pure water. No organisms frozen for eons. Wonder what kind of excuses they would make up to still deny the existance of God.
a) appeals to hypothetical data aren't very convincing
b) most scientists in the USA believe in God
c) hope you're trolling, 'cause otherwise you're an idiot
d) p.s. - sorry for the flame
e) p.p.s. - the apology is pro forma
> you silly secular atheist. earth is only 6000 year old.
He's not a secular atheist, he's an Orthodox Reform Congregational atheist!
> > How do you Slashdot readers keep up with your continuing education, while still maintaining a personal life?
> Your question implies a misunderstanding.
Education, personal life, Slashdot - choose two.[*]
[*] Slashdot counts as two choices.
> I'm lucky if they tell me what day it is.
Why does a mushroom need to know what day it is?
I suppose if the company's managers want its infrastructure maintained by amateurs, that's their business. (No pun intended!)
However, you'll probably get the blame if something goes wrong. You might consider looking for another job.
...predicting Slashdupes?
> So if it takes more than one genius to produce another genius, does that mean we could be looking at a genius shortage in the future?
It takes more than one stray cat to make a stray kitten, and yet we don't seem to have any shortage.
> Browse /. at -1 and notice how stupidity doesn't develop in a vacuum either. Behind every "-1 Offtopic" comment, there are dozens of other equally irrelevant, nonsensical rants. One "Stephen King is Dead" post always leads to more, and penis bird lives on.
Probably because it surrounds itself with it surrounds itself with smart people, like Steven King.
> As for the conditions necessary for "genius" things to happen in science, that's called a "paradigm shift". Read Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolution".
Kuhn's paradigm [yuk,yuk], even if correct, hasn't got anything to do with 'genius'.
> Then, I think that Wikis would make a wonderful forum for developing legislation. Especially those 400+ page variety bills that seem to contain all sorts of pork.
Yeah, they could make life easy for the legislators by providing templates such as -
{{pork|money for my district}}
{{drillANWR}} (for Ted Stevens personal use)
etc.
Isn't that kinda like "I almost got laid"?
> If this was about oil, it was a damned stupid financial decision
Ah, but you neglect the distinction between who is going to pay for it and who was supposed to profit from it.
The oil companies were supposed to supposed to benefit from it (by means of the distribution contracts rather than by pwning the oilfields per se), but you and your descendents will be paying for the war, yea unto the seventh generation.
(Saw a news story somewhere this month about a new estimate of the war's total costs to the USA running to the amount of two trillion dollars. Cheney and his cronies won't be picking up the tab; they're already getting tax breaks on their record profits, while the national debt goes ballistic.)
> Maybe it's time for **AA to kick the bucket...
Sorry, but that's not a Customary Historic Use of buckets.