Uh... we change the curriculum and text books to match the new science like we've done hundreds of times before?
Teaching the things that are most supported by current evidence is the only sane way to teach. If a teacher is creating curriculum based on anything other than the current evidence and facts, they are a poor teacher. There is so much to know in this world, that spending any time on theories not supported by evidence really is a disservice to the student. In a history of science course it would make sense to describe all the various theories that have fell out of favor and why, but not in a science course.
And this specific subject shouldn't even be debated. That things evolve is a fact. The only thing being refined over time is the methods by which that evolution occurs.
Some people might argue that solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, for 2 years, is itself torture. Then there is the sleep deprivation, and the fact that he was told he was 'on duty' so he either had to stand, or sit in an upright position (no leaning, etc..). Then they intentionally reversed his nights and days, waking him at night, kept a bright fluorescent light on at all times, etc..
Might not be traditional thumb screw torture, but it sure seems like treatment designed to send a message to any future whistle blowers / rule breakers.
How does the state power thing work when neighboring state A allows a river flowing into state B to become heavily polluted? In the libertarian world view, is environmental regulation still a federal power?
. The oil goes into a central market and could be shipped anywhere if the costs are right.
That's a myth.
Refineries are generally built to process oil from a particular field, or a particular class of fields. You can't ship tar sands off to a light sweet crude refinery and expect to actually be able to refine them.
It's particularly bad for the heavier ones, like the sands and shales, since each deposit has a different set of impurities, which mean that different catalyst properties are required to avoid poisioning.
Of course, the end products are interchangable: diesel is diesel and Jet A is Jet A. So a failure in one supply means that the price of end producs goes up, so people can charge more for the feedstocks.
If you change the word 'oil' to 'gas' though, he's right. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/us-exported-more-gasoline-than-imported-last-year/1
You didn't even vote on local issues? That can have a huge impact in your daily life. And the political tone of the states can shape federal politics. Like for instance, Washington and Colorado legalizing pot is going to force the Feds to rethink their policy, and will likely encourage other states to legalize it when people can see that nothing really bad happened as a result.
I agree that the main power structures never really change president to president. The wealthy stay wealthy, the military industrial complex keeps right on rolling along, but there are tons of other issues that really do matter. Like if Romney were elected, he would likely have appointed 2 supreme court justices, which would mean that Roe vs Wade would have a very good chance of being undone.
I think of voting locally and federally like a tug o'war between the people and the power structures. We have to keep the young and progressive people excited about voting, keep pushing them to turn out, because that tugs back against corporations and other powers that, if they were not challenged every 4 years, would quickly bring us back to a serf-king society. Or whatever the modern equivalent is of a very very poor mass and a few wealthy elites at the top.
Are you sure? As far as I can tell, many of her issues seem left of what even most European countries are doing. Like 'break up the "too big to fail" banks'. Or imposing an immediate moratorium on foreclosures. And public financing of elections.
But yeah, a lot of her ideas are basically already implemented in many places in Europe. Single payer health care, free college, etc..
What sort of ideas do the far left have in European countries?
I wonder if that if that is a result of democratic bias or just the facts behind most of the issues?
There was so much more lying and misinformation on the conservative side of this election. I have some far right family members, and every time I got a political oriented email from them, or saw one of their facebook posts, it would literally take me 30 seconds on google to disprove it.
I know a VP of a hospital, I emailed them what you said, because I was curious if things had changed, or I missed something. This is the response:
"I disagree with him. Hospitals are mandated by the federal government to provide a medical screening exam for all patients coming to the hospital seeking emergency care. The law is EMTALA or the emergency medical treatment and active labor act. The medical screening exam must comprise all the services available the patient needs. So it might be lab work, CT scans, X-rays etc. If the patient is uninsured (private pay) we offer them a 60% discount off the top of their bill just coming in the door (all hospitals in WA state handle this the same way) If there is a way to seek funding through the state (Medicaid) we will do so. Most generally there are no funds available so the patient ends up being private pay and owes us 40% of their ED bill. Obviously most private pay patients don't have the resources to pay so we try to collect but generally end up w/o the bill as bad debt.
The government funding, both federal and state, has decreased dramatically in the last several years for hospitals."
Before you approach him, first familiarize yourself with the google api's. Maybe even have an example ready in whatever language Bob was using. Bob might be excited to know that his code can interact with google docs. As a transition you could even keep the old system, but just change the storage from local to google. Then if Bob leaves, at least the files are on google docs which has a well defined api for any new programmer
They are, ultimately, insured by the government against losses incurred treating people who go to the emergency room.
I worked for a hospital years ago. That is the first I'm hearing about insured against losses in the ER. I also wrote their budgeting app.
This seems to contradict you: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/18/nation/la-na-emergency-care-20120619
That hospital was also eventually bought out because it couldn't make ends meet, I lost my job, and the main problem was uninsured ER visits by mostly very sick poor people. In that community the largest type of uninsured were migrant farm workers.
This isn't a matter of 'improperly administered' so much as it's a "Microsoft released a patch which broke things which worked previously" problem, and it seems to be getting worse as time goes on.
Do you have windows automatic updates turned on? That would be an issue then.
In a mixed environment everything must be tested before being applied. If you find the MS patch introduces a glitch with Samba, don't install it.
If you don't have time to test things, then a mixed environment is always going to be buggier than a homogeneous one.
If you are really interested in archaeology, I would have thought your response would have been, "Really? That's cool. How big was it? How are they connecting it to the Ark Myth?"
There are some parts of the Bible that do match history. And some things, most notably the flood stories, have real evidence. Not that the earth was completely flooded, that was exaggerated. It was likely a local flood of some sort. Thousands of cultures around the world have flood myths. Most probably rooted in some local floods from thousands of years ago, spread out over time.
Likewise, some guy may have built a boat that was large enough to be memorable in his time. Over time the story grows and grows, to the point that it becomes a legendary myth, and gets blended with other myths/religious ideals.
I'm not sure if you've ever studied Anthro/Archaeology at a college level, but you do end up spending a lot of time analyzing religious myths and trying to determine their connections to evidence in the archaeological record.
Sure this particular finding of the ark may have lacked much evidence, but I'm not sure why that would make your blood boil. You would have had a healthier blood pressure either just nodding your head, asking what the evidence was, or at the very least learning about the boat characteristics. Heck, it may have been a really big boat that had some interesting history you could have learned about later.
If you want to respect all your employees, you can either call it a holiday party in December, or have 3-4 different parties, to celebrate the different religious and cultural holidays that occur in December.
It isn't about banishing the traditions of Christmas, it is about recognizing that there are different religious holidays in December.
I didn't have time to check the rest of your links, but your first link is about 1 nasa scientists using 1 model that might or might not be correct. And she is very clear about the impact:
"This feedback slows but does not alleviate the projected warming," Bounoua said.
If you search for 'commercial algae biofuel' you can see that several companies are already building commercial plants. The answer to number 6: Yields ( Gallons of oil per acre per year ) Corn 18 Soybeans 48 Safflower 83 Sunflower 102 Rapeseed 127 Oil Palm 635 Micro Algae 5000-15000
There was a Ted Talk on that idea. http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_trent_energy_from_floating_algae_pods.html
I don't understand the criticism that it takes more energy than it outputs as fuel either. Every algae project I've seen uses free sunlight to grow the algae and solar, tidal, or wind power to drive pumps for circulation.
Also the complaint about water use is odd. The projects I've seen use waste water, or are on the ocean and use that water (either straight as salt water or de-salinated), recycling it back into the ocean later.
You missed a big one, Chaco Canyon. A lot of it has not been excavated, you see thousand year old pottery shards lying on the ground. One of the Anasazi half-circle towns in Chaco, called Pueblo Bonito
That said, there are some pretty visually impressive natural rock formations all over the world. http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/most-surprising-rock-formations-from-around-the-wo . It'd be a shame to not see the American SW in one's lifetime, but you could get quite a fill from the rest of the world.
1. Provide intelligence information to the countries in question and have them arrest the terrorists and try them in a court of law.
If those countries don't cooperate with international law (because of course we have real solid evidence that these terrorists have committed terrorists acts right?) then it becomes a problem between us and those countries. A country is something we can declare a war on if things get bad enough. Declaring a war on the idea of terrorism with no end in sight is an obviously slippery slope with no bottom.
That is how I've always thought about it. There is probably small amounts of fraud on both sides. What is worse, tiny amounts of fraud on both sides, or disenfranchising millions of people, who also just happen to be people that tend to vote for Democrats?
The Pennsylvania voter ID law was estimated to effect around 700,000 people. That state has a total population of ~12,000,000. That is very large percent of people that would have to pay money in order to vote. Even in some states, where it has been suggested that the state could give out free ID's, often the case is that in order to prove who you are, you end up having purchase copies of your birth certificate or other documents, etc..
And the real kicker is that voter ID laws only prevent one type of fraud: in person voter fraud.
Why aren't conservatives up in arms about Diebold and the possibility of electronic manipulation of votes? I don't recall Fox News running stories 24/7 for weeks about Diebold.
As an individual thinking conservative, you can possibly convince yourself that voter fraud is bad enough to warrant some changes to voting procedures. But don't kid yourself that that is the motivation behind top Republicans pushing these voter purges and voter ID laws. It is obviously to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters.
Voter purges and other underhanded tactics are in fact happening all over the country. There has been some successful push back (Republican elections officials basically told Gov. Rick Scott (R) in Florida to shove his purge list you know where), but not everywhere. Voter ID laws have sprung up in dozens of Republican controlled states. Even in places like Pennsylvania where judges have ruled against the ID laws, the election officials still have misleading voter information on billboards and election sites stating that you must bring a photo ID to vote.
And the crazy thing is, it is absolutely obvious that the voter purges and voter ID laws have nothing to do with preventing voter fraud. There is even a Republican House Leader on tape stating that voter id laws in Penn. are going to allow Romney to win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8 But is that in the mainstream news? Not really. Some more liberal hosts like Rachael Maddow have covered it, but that is about it.
As far as I'm concerned, Republican and Democratic leaning people should be outraged over these blatant voting manipulation tactics.
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You mean the Patriot Guard Riders, right?
but what happens when science is wrong?
Uh... we change the curriculum and text books to match the new science like we've done hundreds of times before?
Teaching the things that are most supported by current evidence is the only sane way to teach. If a teacher is creating curriculum based on anything other than the current evidence and facts, they are a poor teacher. There is so much to know in this world, that spending any time on theories not supported by evidence really is a disservice to the student. In a history of science course it would make sense to describe all the various theories that have fell out of favor and why, but not in a science course.
And this specific subject shouldn't even be debated. That things evolve is a fact. The only thing being refined over time is the methods by which that evolution occurs.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1166253/-The-Torture-Techniques-Used-on-Bradley-Manning
The UN and Amnesty International both call his treatment torture. And he was being sleep deprived, in addition to other fun treatments.
Some people might argue that solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, for 2 years, is itself torture. Then there is the sleep deprivation, and the fact that he was told he was 'on duty' so he either had to stand, or sit in an upright position (no leaning, etc..). Then they intentionally reversed his nights and days, waking him at night, kept a bright fluorescent light on at all times, etc..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1166253/-The-Torture-Techniques-Used-on-Bradley-Manning
Might not be traditional thumb screw torture, but it sure seems like treatment designed to send a message to any future whistle blowers / rule breakers.
Even if you reduce the understatement of inflation to 2% the additional loss of purchasing power is over 49%
cite: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article1086.html
While incomes for the middle class have stagnated, the costs of important middle-class goods and services have increased significantly
cite: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09/the-middle-class/
There's even a wiki page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze
How does the state power thing work when neighboring state A allows a river flowing into state B to become heavily polluted? In the libertarian world view, is environmental regulation still a federal power?
. The oil goes into a central market and could be shipped anywhere if the costs are right.
That's a myth.
Refineries are generally built to process oil from a particular field, or a particular class of fields. You can't ship tar sands off to a light sweet crude refinery and expect to actually be able to refine them.
It's particularly bad for the heavier ones, like the sands and shales, since each deposit has a different set of impurities, which mean that different catalyst properties are required to avoid poisioning.
Of course, the end products are interchangable: diesel is diesel and Jet A is Jet A. So a failure in one supply means that the price of end producs goes up, so people can charge more for the feedstocks.
If you change the word 'oil' to 'gas' though, he's right. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/us-exported-more-gasoline-than-imported-last-year/1
You didn't even vote on local issues? That can have a huge impact in your daily life. And the political tone of the states can shape federal politics. Like for instance, Washington and Colorado legalizing pot is going to force the Feds to rethink their policy, and will likely encourage other states to legalize it when people can see that nothing really bad happened as a result.
I agree that the main power structures never really change president to president. The wealthy stay wealthy, the military industrial complex keeps right on rolling along, but there are tons of other issues that really do matter. Like if Romney were elected, he would likely have appointed 2 supreme court justices, which would mean that Roe vs Wade would have a very good chance of being undone.
I think of voting locally and federally like a tug o'war between the people and the power structures. We have to keep the young and progressive people excited about voting, keep pushing them to turn out, because that tugs back against corporations and other powers that, if they were not challenged every 4 years, would quickly bring us back to a serf-king society. Or whatever the modern equivalent is of a very very poor mass and a few wealthy elites at the top.
http://www.jillstein.org/issues
Are you sure? As far as I can tell, many of her issues seem left of what even most European countries are doing. Like 'break up the "too big to fail" banks'. Or imposing an immediate moratorium on foreclosures. And public financing of elections.
But yeah, a lot of her ideas are basically already implemented in many places in Europe. Single payer health care, free college, etc..
What sort of ideas do the far left have in European countries?
I wonder if that if that is a result of democratic bias or just the facts behind most of the issues?
There was so much more lying and misinformation on the conservative side of this election. I have some far right family members, and every time I got a political oriented email from them, or saw one of their facebook posts, it would literally take me 30 seconds on google to disprove it.
I know a VP of a hospital, I emailed them what you said, because I was curious if things had changed, or I missed something. This is the response:
"I disagree with him. Hospitals are mandated by the federal government to provide a medical screening exam for all patients coming to the hospital seeking emergency care. The law is EMTALA or the emergency medical treatment and active labor act. The medical screening exam must comprise all the services available the patient needs. So it might be lab work, CT scans, X-rays etc.
If the patient is uninsured (private pay) we offer them a 60% discount off the top of their bill just coming in the door (all hospitals in WA state handle this the same way) If there is a way to seek funding through the state (Medicaid) we will do so.
Most generally there are no funds available so the patient ends up being private pay and owes us 40% of their ED bill. Obviously most private pay patients don't have the resources to pay so we try to collect but generally end up w/o the bill as bad debt.
The government funding, both federal and state, has decreased dramatically in the last several years for hospitals."
I think you should feel less worried about an Android OS monopoly because unlike the others, it is free and open source.
Before you approach him, first familiarize yourself with the google api's. Maybe even have an example ready in whatever language Bob was using. Bob might be excited to know that his code can interact with google docs. As a transition you could even keep the old system, but just change the storage from local to google. Then if Bob leaves, at least the files are on google docs which has a well defined api for any new programmer
They are, ultimately, insured by the government against losses incurred treating people who go to the emergency room.
I worked for a hospital years ago. That is the first I'm hearing about insured against losses in the ER. I also wrote their budgeting app.
This seems to contradict you: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/18/nation/la-na-emergency-care-20120619
That hospital was also eventually bought out because it couldn't make ends meet, I lost my job, and the main problem was uninsured ER visits by mostly very sick poor people. In that community the largest type of uninsured were migrant farm workers.
Labor unions had a purpose long ago during the industrial revolution
What meaningful market force, or other force, counters the natural tendency of employers to race to the bottom in terms of wages and benefits?
This isn't a matter of 'improperly administered' so much as it's a "Microsoft released a patch which broke things which worked previously" problem, and it seems to be getting worse as time goes on.
Do you have windows automatic updates turned on? That would be an issue then.
In a mixed environment everything must be tested before being applied. If you find the MS patch introduces a glitch with Samba, don't install it.
If you don't have time to test things, then a mixed environment is always going to be buggier than a homogeneous one.
If you are really interested in archaeology, I would have thought your response would have been, "Really? That's cool. How big was it? How are they connecting it to the Ark Myth?"
There are some parts of the Bible that do match history. And some things, most notably the flood stories, have real evidence. Not that the earth was completely flooded, that was exaggerated. It was likely a local flood of some sort. Thousands of cultures around the world have flood myths. Most probably rooted in some local floods from thousands of years ago, spread out over time.
Likewise, some guy may have built a boat that was large enough to be memorable in his time. Over time the story grows and grows, to the point that it becomes a legendary myth, and gets blended with other myths/religious ideals.
I'm not sure if you've ever studied Anthro/Archaeology at a college level, but you do end up spending a lot of time analyzing religious myths and trying to determine their connections to evidence in the archaeological record.
Sure this particular finding of the ark may have lacked much evidence, but I'm not sure why that would make your blood boil. You would have had a healthier blood pressure either just nodding your head, asking what the evidence was, or at the very least learning about the boat characteristics. Heck, it may have been a really big boat that had some interesting history you could have learned about later.
I want Christmas to remain Christmas
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3228787&cid=41865537
If you want to respect all your employees, you can either call it a holiday party in December, or have 3-4 different parties, to celebrate the different religious and cultural holidays that occur in December.
It isn't about banishing the traditions of Christmas, it is about recognizing that there are different religious holidays in December.
I didn't have time to check the rest of your links, but your first link is about 1 nasa scientists using 1 model that might or might not be correct.
And she is very clear about the impact:
"This feedback slows but does not alleviate the projected warming," Bounoua said.
source: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/cooling-plant-growth.html
If you search for 'commercial algae biofuel' you can see that several companies are already building commercial plants.
The answer to number 6:
Yields ( Gallons of oil per acre per year )
Corn 18
Soybeans 48
Safflower 83
Sunflower 102
Rapeseed 127
Oil Palm 635
Micro Algae 5000-15000
Source: http://www.oilgae.com/algae/oil/yield/yield.html
There was a Ted Talk on that idea. http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_trent_energy_from_floating_algae_pods.html
I don't understand the criticism that it takes more energy than it outputs as fuel either. Every algae project I've seen uses free sunlight to grow the algae and solar, tidal, or wind power to drive pumps for circulation.
Also the complaint about water use is odd. The projects I've seen use waste water, or are on the ocean and use that water (either straight as salt water or de-salinated), recycling it back into the ocean later.
You missed a big one, Chaco Canyon. A lot of it has not been excavated, you see thousand year old pottery shards lying on the ground. One of the Anasazi half-circle towns in Chaco, called Pueblo Bonito
That said, there are some pretty visually impressive natural rock formations all over the world. http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/most-surprising-rock-formations-from-around-the-wo . It'd be a shame to not see the American SW in one's lifetime, but you could get quite a fill from the rest of the world.
1. Provide intelligence information to the countries in question and have them arrest the terrorists and try them in a court of law.
If those countries don't cooperate with international law (because of course we have real solid evidence that these terrorists have committed terrorists acts right?) then it becomes a problem between us and those countries. A country is something we can declare a war on if things get bad enough. Declaring a war on the idea of terrorism with no end in sight is an obviously slippery slope with no bottom.
That is how I've always thought about it. There is probably small amounts of fraud on both sides. What is worse, tiny amounts of fraud on both sides, or disenfranchising millions of people, who also just happen to be people that tend to vote for Democrats?
The Pennsylvania voter ID law was estimated to effect around 700,000 people. That state has a total population of ~12,000,000. That is very large percent of people that would have to pay money in order to vote. Even in some states, where it has been suggested that the state could give out free ID's, often the case is that in order to prove who you are, you end up having purchase copies of your birth certificate or other documents, etc..
And the real kicker is that voter ID laws only prevent one type of fraud: in person voter fraud.
Why aren't conservatives up in arms about Diebold and the possibility of electronic manipulation of votes? I don't recall Fox News running stories 24/7 for weeks about Diebold.
As an individual thinking conservative, you can possibly convince yourself that voter fraud is bad enough to warrant some changes to voting procedures. But don't kid yourself that that is the motivation behind top Republicans pushing these voter purges and voter ID laws. It is obviously to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters.
Voter purges and other underhanded tactics are in fact happening all over the country. There has been some successful push back (Republican elections officials basically told Gov. Rick Scott (R) in Florida to shove his purge list you know where), but not everywhere. Voter ID laws have sprung up in dozens of Republican controlled states. Even in places like Pennsylvania where judges have ruled against the ID laws, the election officials still have misleading voter information on billboards and election sites stating that you must bring a photo ID to vote.
And the crazy thing is, it is absolutely obvious that the voter purges and voter ID laws have nothing to do with preventing voter fraud. There is even a Republican House Leader on tape stating that voter id laws in Penn. are going to allow Romney to win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8 But is that in the mainstream news? Not really. Some more liberal hosts like Rachael Maddow have covered it, but that is about it.
As far as I'm concerned, Republican and Democratic leaning people should be outraged over these blatant voting manipulation tactics.