Yes, let's definitely insist that the ONLY possible explanation that's "scientific" involves pre-existent matter, pre-existent energy and pre-existent natural and physical laws...not to mention the entire "evolutionary process" having NO means to add information. That's clearly more "scientific"...
Basic creationist 'logic':
Everything requires a cause. Therefore God must exist. (God doesn't require a cause.)
They're not even just pushing religion into science class anymore. Now they're actually trying to censor information that contradict their dogma. Pathetic.
I think that has been the strategy all along: keep the kids ignorant so they won't abandon the religion.
And since they haven't had much luck getting creationism taught in schools, home-schooling has evolved (no pun) as an alternative means for keeping them ignorant.
Did I read that wrong or did you just day that you became a conservative because you were tired of liberals telling you you were smart? If so, you're still not doing any of your own thinking.
Think what might have happened if they had told him he was dumb.
So, before you talk about how shockingly the debt has risen in the past four years, tell us about the prior four years, and the policies from 2001-2008 that are still costing us out the wazoo.
You obviously don't know what the term Human Capital means:
Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
The term has no degrading or evil connotations [snip]
Except people are willing to invest it and write it off, just like money. Or more willing than for money, when it comes to writing it off.
Regarding both candidates, we should wonder about the headline: Did the candidates answer the questions, or their science advisors, or their campaign advisors, or their sponsors?
"We only detected monitors in Top 100 torrents; this implies that copyright enforcement agencies are monitoring only the most popular content music and movie on public trackers," the team says in its presentation paper.
So only people downloading the latest movies/music are monitored.
FWIW, Pogue's column in the latest Scientific American claims that of the 10 most pirated movies over the internet, none are out there for legal rent or purchase.
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They think they are "that old time religion" but they are actually nothing of the sort.
Everyone wants to turn the clock back to those Good Old Days that never existed.
The good thing about God is he exists whether or not you believe in him.
Here's wondering how many other societies thought the same about their own imaginary divinities, who you dismiss as superstitions.
I think South Korea's education system may have more pressing problems...
Once they get rid of evolution, grammar's next on the hit list.
Yes, let's definitely insist that the ONLY possible explanation that's "scientific" involves pre-existent matter, pre-existent energy and pre-existent natural and physical laws...not to mention the entire "evolutionary process" having NO means to add information. That's clearly more "scientific"...
Basic creationist 'logic':
Everything requires a cause.
Therefore God must exist.
(God doesn't require a cause.)
There are also no "columns of the earth" that are holding up the earth.
Right. Everyone knows it's held up by elephants.
Science is man's description of God's creation.
God is men's description of their own ignorance.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/54/
They're not even just pushing religion into science class anymore. Now they're actually trying to censor information that contradict their dogma. Pathetic.
I think that has been the strategy all along: keep the kids ignorant so they won't abandon the religion.
And since they haven't had much luck getting creationism taught in schools, home-schooling has evolved (no pun) as an alternative means for keeping them ignorant.
Perhaps there will be textbooks in 2100 that will even attribute the quote "Steve Jobs is dead" to Nietzsche then?
No, they will describe him as an 88 year old warrior-philosopher.
I'm thinking of the sun's 11-year cycle and the recent larger-than-normal volcano activity
I.e., any explanation except the actual one.
It may well be too late to stop the warming trend, we will have to make the best of it.
What I dread is scraping the foot-long dragonflies off the windshield of my flying car.
Apple shows what kind of crap you end up with when design trumps function. Why is anyone still doing this shit?
Maybe they're marketing to those of us who prefer to defile our own toys, rather than buying them predefiled.
I think the bastards are just copying the iPhone which also has no SD card slot. Apple should sue them.
Great business model: sue people for not doing things you're not doing.
Couldn't consumers just take their defiled phones to a priest and get them blessed?
Remember when they told us that traffic light cameras wouldn't be used for anything but managing traffic jams at that intersection?
You have to subtract the blue dog Democrats, who are just as bad as Republicans.
They *are* Republicans, for all practical purposes.
And Democrats helped with a lot of the 2001-2008 that's got us in such a jam.
You mean his supermajority for four months?
Shouldn't four months be long enough to fix eight years of fucking things up?
Note that while you added on "or purchase", the article never states this.
You're right; I should have re-read it rather than posting from memory.
My bad.
Did I read that wrong or did you just day that you became a conservative because you were tired of liberals telling you you were smart? If so, you're still not doing any of your own thinking.
Think what might have happened if they had told him he was dumb.
The debt has increased approximately $5.4 trillion since President Obama took office on January 20, 2009.
And none of it was because of the wars, tax cuts, etc., starting before that date.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/07/238653/animation-tax-cuts-deficit-debt/ (watch animation)
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/cbppdebtchart.jpg (static display of same plot)
http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2011/06/cbpp_deficit_factors_2011.jpg
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/govt-spending-per-capita.jpg
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/jamesfallows/assets_c/2011/07/24editorial_graph2-popup-thumb-560x622-58477.gif
http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2012/02/wsj_deficit_obama_2013.png
So, before you talk about how shockingly the debt has risen in the past four years, tell us about the prior four years, and the policies from 2001-2008 that are still costing us out the wazoo.
(yes I used to be a democrat/liberal)
I hope you're not implying that those are the same thing, or even strongly correlated.
You obviously don't know what the term Human Capital means:
Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
The term has no degrading or evil connotations [snip]
Except people are willing to invest it and write it off, just like money. Or more willing than for money, when it comes to writing it off.
Romney believes what he is paid to believe.
Just worthless. Corpro-bot 2.0
Regarding both candidates, we should wonder about the headline: Did the candidates answer the questions, or their science advisors, or their campaign advisors, or their sponsors?
following your way of thinking, the same question applies to a philosopher or a logician, don't you think ?
Yeah, I wouldn't go running to Penrose with questions about life, the universe, and everything either.
So only people downloading the latest movies/music are monitored.
FWIW, Pogue's column in the latest Scientific American claims that of the 10 most pirated movies over the internet, none are out there for legal rent or purchase.