> > The only way I ace political science classes is by parroting the pinko commie crap that the professor advocates right back to him in my assignments. Works every time.
> You learn well, grasshopper. Now you only need switch to regurgitating Republican talking points and you have a bright future ahead of you.
ID isn't science, it's creationist apologetics disguised as science.
It's not a product of the scientific method, its advocates don't do what scientists do, they present their claims to religious audiences rather than scientific audiences, etc., etc., etc.
Oh, and their claims are easily shown to be logical fallacies. If they had practiced it as science, the claims would be on the junkheap of rejected scientific hypotheses anyway.
> Taking a wild ass guess I would be unsurprised if it turned out that the reason soil based bugs show such resistance is because some other bug is already using this antibiotic and they had to develop resistance to survive. For example, look at Penicilin which is naturually produced by mold presumably for this very reason: to kill bacteria.
We've been putting antibiotics in animal feed for a long time now. Probably the environment is "polluted" with it just like with pesticides, mercury, etc.
15-20 years ago a guy working on his PhD told me that that getting a PhD had become like getting a MA or MS had been a generation earlier, getting a MA/MS like getting a BA/BS had been, getting a BA/BS like graduating from high school had been, and so on down the chain.
I've always been tempted to dismiss that as just a "back in my day" story about walking to school in a snowstorm, but it's hard to dismiss certain facts. For example, Robert Graves tells us in his biography that when he an ~8 year old, about 100 years ago, he was "doing ok with Latin, but having trouble with Greek".
And now people are having trouble with their own native language when they graduate from college...
> > Software patents are not an inherently bad idea.
> Yes, they are. Patents are for inventions.
In the USA they're justified (or rationalized) in the Constitution as a way of promoting "progress in the useful arts". In practice they sometimes work only as a mechanism for extortion.
For example, in the USA public health is held hostage to the profits of the drug companies. They claim that they have to charge a lot of money to fund their research, but various sources keep reporting that they actually spend 10x on advertising what they spend on research. That advertising is paid for by the scalpers' rate you pay for the drugs, which of course they can only get away with due to the patents.
And there's other curious stuff going on. Claritin was formerly a prescription drug, but when its patent ran out it suddenly became an over-the-counter drug and insurance companies quit covering the cost. Meanwhile a new patent was taken out for Clarinex, a very similar product (see molecular structure diagrams at the links), and moved into the prescription/insurance niche formerly held by Claritin.
That may actually be possible "if" the US patent reform bill is passed. In the name of reducing the number of lawsuits it grants the rights to first-to-patent rather than to any actual inventor, so it seems that anything not already on the books will be patentable. Cooking, the wheel, your favorite sex position...
In principle the notion of prior art should prevent this, but the notion of prior art is inherently incompatible with the proposed "first to patent" doctrine. Unless they exercise extraordinary care in the phrasing of the law, it's going to open a huge can of worms.
> > To which i normally reply "So does that mean in heaven we don't have any freewill"
> Before I found my religious beliefs, this was a very tough question that I often asked believers. I've found the best answer I can give is that once I'm in heaven, the veil of uncertainty will be lifted.
How come that didn't work for Adam and Eve?
> Once I can see the consequences of an action, there would be no need to take any direction but the one with positive consequences. Does that mean free will in gone? Not really, but why make bad decisions when the good one is obvious?
But it will be possible, in principle, for people to sin in Heaven?
And if they do, will they get kicked out?
And what would be the point of putting other people in Hell, since they too will have all certainty removed? Wouldn't they do just as well in Heaven as anyone else would?
> Anyway, my answer to his problem is this: What about people who go into hypothermia in normal situations? Or people who are clinically dead but are then resuscitated? Or how about this: If the soul goes to heaven immediately at the time of death, then what's the point of a Christian burial?
FWIW, doctrine varies from sect to sect. I was raised in a denomination that taught that judgement is deferred until the end of time, so in that case it doesn't seem as though resuscitation would be theologically problematic.
Other sects have other beliefs. I have a relative who didn't want her father cremated according to his will, because she believes in resurrection of the body - doctrine that has plenty of other problems, but doesn't obviously have a problem with resuscitation.
> Too bad they couldn't figure out a way to do it safely yet, we could use for manned long-duration space travel or just to stick around and get defrosted, Futurama-style.
Or, like in Gene Wolfe's "New Sun" novels, dumped out unceremoniously by treasure hunters, no differently from the way mummies have been treated.
> If a 14-inch wide collector accumulated hundreds of humanly-visible samples in 195 days of travel - including at least one that caused a trace "large enough to put a small finger through", then any hope for high-speed space travel is really going to need excellent shielding.
Well, you'd need shields anyway, in case you run into Klingons or something.
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> Unfortunately, both want to take your money, spend it irresponsibly, and both want to tell you how to live your life.
You think it's bad now, wait until the Democrats decide the way to win elections is to compete with the Republicans for the votes of the religious extremists.
> The New "Republicans" don't believe in parental accountability. You raise Children the way the Rigth wants you to.
You can thank the brilliant 1980 "Southern Strategy" for roping in the votes of religious conservatives. The unfortunate side effect is that the party has been held hostage by them ever since.
And since that party now pwns all three branches of government, the Republic itself is held hostage by them.
> Most pre-war intelligence was believed to be true even by opponents of the war.
I was (and am) an opponent, and I didn't believe a word of it.
If you got your news anywhere other than the FAUX network you saw endless repetitions of:
Bush Spokesman: Saddam $EVILCLAIM.
[Cut back to anchorman]
Anchorman: But our contacts in the intelligence community tell us that the intelligence isn't solid.
You also saw interesting things if you stepped back and watched how the administration tailored the message to the current audience, e.g. trying to shame the UN into action by saying we were going to do it if they didn't, and then trying to shame Congress into action by saying the UN was going to do it if we didn't.
And endless repetitions of:
Bush: We're going to make the case.
[...]
Critic: You didn't actually make the case.
Bush: We're going to make the case when the time is right.
The whole thing was as transparently bullshit as the Intelligent Design offensive, and if it fooled you you were either getting your news from a propaganda outlet, weren't paying enough attention to the news you did get, or weren't thinking about the facts that did come to your attention.
Some of us have been pointing this out since before the shooting started.
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> Now we have primarily public funding in college. What do you expect but State-loving socialists instead of true masters of academia?
So, with Bush packing public offices with incompetents, should we expect them to become state-loving socialists as well?
> > The only way I ace political science classes is by parroting the pinko commie crap that the professor advocates right back to him in my assignments. Works every time.
> You learn well, grasshopper. Now you only need switch to regurgitating Republican talking points and you have a bright future ahead of you.
Sounds like he already has...
> and for your information ID IS a science.
ID isn't science, it's creationist apologetics disguised as science.
It's not a product of the scientific method, its advocates don't do what scientists do, they present their claims to religious audiences rather than scientific audiences, etc., etc., etc.
Oh, and their claims are easily shown to be logical fallacies. If they had practiced it as science, the claims would be on the junkheap of rejected scientific hypotheses anyway.
> Unfortunately, vouchers seem to have stalled
The voucher system is nothing but an attempt at an end run around constitutional restrictions on the way public money is spent.
> Taking a wild ass guess I would be unsurprised if it turned out that the reason soil based bugs show such resistance is because some other bug is already using this antibiotic and they had to develop resistance to survive. For example, look at Penicilin which is naturually produced by mold presumably for this very reason: to kill bacteria.
We've been putting antibiotics in animal feed for a long time now. Probably the environment is "polluted" with it just like with pesticides, mercury, etc.
> Strangely the study doesn't mention what schools were part of this survey. Does anyone know?
Harverd, Printstun, Cornale, and other I've e-leeg colejes.
> Patience... Not Literacy... It takes too much time to read the fine print on those damn offers...
And it may be the case that sometimes companies don't want you to understand an offer very well.
15-20 years ago a guy working on his PhD told me that that getting a PhD had become like getting a MA or MS had been a generation earlier, getting a MA/MS like getting a BA/BS had been, getting a BA/BS like graduating from high school had been, and so on down the chain.
I've always been tempted to dismiss that as just a "back in my day" story about walking to school in a snowstorm, but it's hard to dismiss certain facts. For example, Robert Graves tells us in his biography that when he an ~8 year old, about 100 years ago, he was "doing ok with Latin, but having trouble with Greek".
And now people are having trouble with their own native language when they graduate from college...
> > Software patents are not an inherently bad idea.
> Yes, they are. Patents are for inventions.
In the USA they're justified (or rationalized) in the Constitution as a way of promoting "progress in the useful arts". In practice they sometimes work only as a mechanism for extortion.
For example, in the USA public health is held hostage to the profits of the drug companies. They claim that they have to charge a lot of money to fund their research, but various sources keep reporting that they actually spend 10x on advertising what they spend on research. That advertising is paid for by the scalpers' rate you pay for the drugs, which of course they can only get away with due to the patents.
And there's other curious stuff going on. Claritin was formerly a prescription drug, but when its patent ran out it suddenly became an over-the-counter drug and insurance companies quit covering the cost. Meanwhile a new patent was taken out for Clarinex, a very similar product (see molecular structure diagrams at the links), and moved into the prescription/insurance niche formerly held by Claritin.
> If you're going to steal comments from Previous Articles, you could at least copy the formatting properly.
Ah, but they weren't patented, so he can use them however he pleases!
> I'm going to patent cooking!
That may actually be possible "if" the US patent reform bill is passed. In the name of reducing the number of lawsuits it grants the rights to first-to-patent rather than to any actual inventor, so it seems that anything not already on the books will be patentable. Cooking, the wheel, your favorite sex position...
In principle the notion of prior art should prevent this, but the notion of prior art is inherently incompatible with the proposed "first to patent" doctrine. Unless they exercise extraordinary care in the phrasing of the law, it's going to open a huge can of worms.
Why, BTW, may be a patent violation...
As others have pointed out, they'll try again and again, and they only have to win once. We have to win every time.
Once established (as in the USA) it will never be reversed, because then that would be "stealing" from the companies that own all the patents.
> Do I have to believe in God and be a Christian to get that opportunity to go hang out with god? Or can anyone do it?
Look at His bumper stickers, to see whether it's one of those "no ass, no grass, no ride" situations.
> > To which i normally reply "So does that mean in heaven we don't have any freewill"
> Before I found my religious beliefs, this was a very tough question that I often asked believers. I've found the best answer I can give is that once I'm in heaven, the veil of uncertainty will be lifted.
How come that didn't work for Adam and Eve?
> Once I can see the consequences of an action, there would be no need to take any direction but the one with positive consequences. Does that mean free will in gone? Not really, but why make bad decisions when the good one is obvious?
But it will be possible, in principle, for people to sin in Heaven?
And if they do, will they get kicked out?
And what would be the point of putting other people in Hell, since they too will have all certainty removed? Wouldn't they do just as well in Heaven as anyone else would?
> Anyway, my answer to his problem is this: What about people who go into hypothermia in normal situations? Or people who are clinically dead but are then resuscitated? Or how about this: If the soul goes to heaven immediately at the time of death, then what's the point of a Christian burial?
FWIW, doctrine varies from sect to sect. I was raised in a denomination that taught that judgement is deferred until the end of time, so in that case it doesn't seem as though resuscitation would be theologically problematic.
Other sects have other beliefs. I have a relative who didn't want her father cremated according to his will, because she believes in resurrection of the body - doctrine that has plenty of other problems, but doesn't obviously have a problem with resuscitation.
> Too bad they couldn't figure out a way to do it safely yet, we could use for manned long-duration space travel or just to stick around and get defrosted, Futurama-style.
Or, like in Gene Wolfe's "New Sun" novels, dumped out unceremoniously by treasure hunters, no differently from the way mummies have been treated.
> If a 14-inch wide collector accumulated hundreds of humanly-visible samples in 195 days of travel - including at least one that caused a trace "large enough to put a small finger through", then any hope for high-speed space travel is really going to need excellent shielding.
Well, you'd need shields anyway, in case you run into Klingons or something.
> I could write pages, on this but I'll try to keep it brief...
Just don't stick in any movies.
'nuff said.
> Unfortunately, both want to take your money, spend it irresponsibly, and both want to tell you how to live your life.
You think it's bad now, wait until the Democrats decide the way to win elections is to compete with the Republicans for the votes of the religious extremists.
> The New "Republicans" don't believe in parental accountability. You raise Children the way the Rigth wants you to.
You can thank the brilliant 1980 "Southern Strategy" for roping in the votes of religious conservatives. The unfortunate side effect is that the party has been held hostage by them ever since.
And since that party now pwns all three branches of government, the Republic itself is held hostage by them.
I was (and am) an opponent, and I didn't believe a word of it.
If you got your news anywhere other than the FAUX network you saw endless repetitions of:You also saw interesting things if you stepped back and watched how the administration tailored the message to the current audience, e.g. trying to shame the UN into action by saying we were going to do it if they didn't, and then trying to shame Congress into action by saying the UN was going to do it if we didn't.
And endless repetitions of:The whole thing was as transparently bullshit as the Intelligent Design offensive, and if it fooled you you were either getting your news from a propaganda outlet, weren't paying enough attention to the news you did get, or weren't thinking about the facts that did come to your attention.
Some of us have been pointing this out since before the shooting started.
> if the south had succeeded in seceding
Your whole post was just a setup for line, wasn't it.
> Damn, I need my own wiki page.. Promise i wont sue
Here ya go...