Do remember that proving someone else's theory is not a way to disprove your own. To be scientific it must be falsifiable anyway... falsifying evolution does not require the proof of ID, equally falsifying ID must not require the proof of evolution, not least because I can't see that it is possible to prove evolution, as is the case with any scientific theory.
"Macro-evolution" (not that I often hear scientists use that term... it implies a different process from what you might call "micro-evolution") itself may not directly be falsifiable. Common descent in all its forms certainly is though and the evidence has stood up to people trying for the last hundred years.
Abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution... the theory of evolution can perfectly easily be accepted by a Christian who (as most do) feels that God created the world and life at some early stage and left things ticking. Your post does rather collapse at "FACT: Abiogenesis has never happened..."... maybe "DOGMATIC BELIEF: Abiogenesis has never happened...", feel it's a prerequisite of evolution if you wish, believe that or specificically of "atheistic evolution" if you require, but to say its a fact is fundamentally dishonest.
I actually bought a wireless mouse originally because it was heavier, maybe because of being used to balled mice with nice heavy balls in.
As for batteries dying I have two sets that I alternate in this thing... as it turns out the rubber pad on the side of the mouse has been the first to go, not the rechargables.
Why do patriots stand up and say who they are? Did the French resistance in WWII stand up and say who they were? Would you consider them patriots? Surely a patriot only stands up and says who he is because his country is backing him, by definition a terrorist does not have that backing (although I suppose you could argue that in the circumstances the French resistance were terrorists).
Patriots fight to destroy oppressive governments? That really depends on the circumstance, doesn't it, you're just talking from a position of moral high ground because in the Iraq situation the terrorists are clearly particularly unpleasant people... not all terrorists by definition want to create oppressive governments though, often they just want their own government back.
It is possible to have too much moral clarity, I'm sure the terrorists do. It takes much more decency to consider the flaws in your own moral judgements than to make judgements of others.
I think the more obvious answer is that the logic leads to one place only, and that is that the war in Iraq (and similar conflicts) are immoral. It was not a lessening of terrorism but bringing so called "Patriotism" into what one might consider its true light.
Or so I read it anyway, not sure I agree though...
Lafora's disease sounds a lot worse than the problem described, but it could be a mild form; or a mild form of something else for that matter. I, for example, will find my eyes painfully watering in seconds looking at a CRT running at 60Hz or using most flourescent desk lamps when noone else has a problem... it's not something I've seen a doctor about to find a name for though, it didn't seem important, so maybe this person just doesn't know the name?
Maybe the difference there is in crediting it to the original author? It is normal afterall to be able to quote other people if you credit it as being their content, so if I copied parts of your site and said "From aussie_a's website" surely that would be ok? The internet archive certainly credits everything to the original owner... in effect the entire archive exists with that purpose in mind.
You must be trolling but as you posed it anyway, I shall bite anyway: Define information and define species (while you're at it define macroevolution... but that comes out of a definition of species really). Every time I've seen the information and speciation arguments the same flaw exists... that the person arguing for it has no meaningful definition for either.
Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing the arguments from anyone not parroting someone like "Dr" Hovind or AiG...
I'm guessing that the speed reductions on the M25 that frequently occur at peak time with no obvious reason are just to reduce traffic speed to reduce congestion? Could be wrong though...
Maybe I overgeneralised;) Comparing to the people I've spoken to the US is cheaper. I pay £30 (so, what, 50USD shall we say) per month for 400 minutes and 50 texts (to all UK landlines and mobiles). Something like 15p/min for extra minutes...
Maybe it's just the UK that's expensive:) Which wouldn't surprise me. 3 is cheap though... lots of minutes there, just such terrible service and up to now a poor choice of (3g only) phones that I moved away again.
It's not really a vectorial coprocessor, more suited for large scale stream processing. I'm not sure what extra opening of specs would help in this area though, the programming specifications seem to be quite easily available (people know how to write shaders, afterall) and work has been done on using the GPUs as generalised streaming processors http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/ind ex.html being a prime example. Within the hardware limitations (of which there are many) they are freely programmable.
While I think of it... the fact they can only compete on price and goodies would mean they were cheap, you'd think, surely? However they are more expensive than in the US...
You note though that you are charged a high rate for calling based on the highest of the termination charges. Your switching only cuts the margins of your end of the call, it won't help reduce the termination charge at the other end hence the price doesn't drop much, which is the point that was being made by the original poster.
The *caller* cannot switch to get a lower rate. That is to say if I call an o2 mobile, it costs a fortune whatever landline or mobile net I call from because o2 charges them a lot to do it. I cannot not use o2 because I'm not the one using o2, the person I'm calling is.
The point the gp makes is a fair one... I have been wondering for some time why calls to mobiles are so expensive. Receiver pays may well have helped reduce prices... it still seems unnatural though as you're paying for something you have no choice in.
I think you have to be very careful with suggestions like that. While I agree that what we as foreigners tend to see of the US is a country that is held to a religious level by its population, that isn't necessarily how the population as a whole feels about it. There are social circles of Americans I have been involved with who are exactly how you describe, and what makes it worse is that these people are loud and highly visible. However, there are also Americans who are quite the opposite and think very similarly to the way I do; they may not hate their country, they may defend their country from arbitrary rude comments, but they will not defend their country from well thought out criticism merely for the sake of doing so.
The people who accuse others of being unamerican are the problem, not Americans as an entire society.
Adding a large amount of mass probably risks changing the orbit of mars noticably as well though. Most likely this would be in predictable ways, but the changes could be problematic.
and why GPRS data rates in the UK are so high. Unfortunately the nice telecom companies chose to price UMTS data to price match GPRS... which makes it completely unusably for normal people for any real net use.
And how many thousnands of tons of carbon dioxide were emitted by the factories producing the oil fired generator equipment, and the generating plants powering them?
Linux is more heavily pushed, most of the programming exercises and so on in the early years are linux based, they try to persuade people to use Latex to generate reports etc. I see your point though...
Well... sometimes it works, anyway. We in my CS dept are still using win2000, apparently because MS hasn't given us XP and we have no intention of paying for it. The tactic hasn't worked for us yet... but then, it doesn't really harm us either.
Not suitable for use in schools? What do you think schoolkids do on the computers? Everything I ever did in a school IT lesson I could have done in an out of the box linux distro at the time, even more so now. Possible that some of the circuit design software for design tech might be missing... but then we had old Acorn machines still running for that very reason anyway and then had a few dedicated windows machines installed running just that, for the majority of school computers linux is just fine. Based on the UK National Curriculum at any rate, which is what matters for this.
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Do remember that proving someone else's theory is not a way to disprove your own. To be scientific it must be falsifiable anyway... falsifying evolution does not require the proof of ID, equally falsifying ID must not require the proof of evolution, not least because I can't see that it is possible to prove evolution, as is the case with any scientific theory.
"Macro-evolution" (not that I often hear scientists use that term... it implies a different process from what you might call "micro-evolution") itself may not directly be falsifiable. Common descent in all its forms certainly is though and the evidence has stood up to people trying for the last hundred years.
Abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution... the theory of evolution can perfectly easily be accepted by a Christian who (as most do) feels that God created the world and life at some early stage and left things ticking. Your post does rather collapse at "FACT: Abiogenesis has never happened..."... maybe "DOGMATIC BELIEF: Abiogenesis has never happened...", feel it's a prerequisite of evolution if you wish, believe that or specificically of "atheistic evolution" if you require, but to say its a fact is fundamentally dishonest.
> I can say the same thing about Darwin's hypothesis of evolution. Now, which experiment was it that proved that Darwin was correct?
One of the best single statements to ruin a case strikes again. The other being "Evolution's just a theory".
I actually bought a wireless mouse originally because it was heavier, maybe because of being used to balled mice with nice heavy balls in.
As for batteries dying I have two sets that I alternate in this thing... as it turns out the rubber pad on the side of the mouse has been the first to go, not the rechargables.
All it ever really did though was shift the burden from a second mouse button onto the keyboard instead, hardly an improvement really...
Why do patriots stand up and say who they are? Did the French resistance in WWII stand up and say who they were? Would you consider them patriots? Surely a patriot only stands up and says who he is because his country is backing him, by definition a terrorist does not have that backing (although I suppose you could argue that in the circumstances the French resistance were terrorists).
Patriots fight to destroy oppressive governments? That really depends on the circumstance, doesn't it, you're just talking from a position of moral high ground because in the Iraq situation the terrorists are clearly particularly unpleasant people... not all terrorists by definition want to create oppressive governments though, often they just want their own government back.
It is possible to have too much moral clarity, I'm sure the terrorists do. It takes much more decency to consider the flaws in your own moral judgements than to make judgements of others.
I think the more obvious answer is that the logic leads to one place only, and that is that the war in Iraq (and similar conflicts) are immoral. It was not a lessening of terrorism but bringing so called "Patriotism" into what one might consider its true light.
Or so I read it anyway, not sure I agree though...
Ah, I like that, I'll remember in future.
Lafora's disease sounds a lot worse than the problem described, but it could be a mild form; or a mild form of something else for that matter. I, for example, will find my eyes painfully watering in seconds looking at a CRT running at 60Hz or using most flourescent desk lamps when noone else has a problem... it's not something I've seen a doctor about to find a name for though, it didn't seem important, so maybe this person just doesn't know the name?
Maybe the difference there is in crediting it to the original author? It is normal afterall to be able to quote other people if you credit it as being their content, so if I copied parts of your site and said "From aussie_a's website" surely that would be ok? The internet archive certainly credits everything to the original owner... in effect the entire archive exists with that purpose in mind.
With open source compilers you do know exactly what you get, unfortunately that includes much slower executables than Intel's compiler produces.
You must be trolling but as you posed it anyway, I shall bite anyway:
Define information and define species (while you're at it define macroevolution... but that comes out of a definition of species really). Every time I've seen the information and speciation arguments the same flaw exists... that the person arguing for it has no meaningful definition for either.
Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing the arguments from anyone not parroting someone like "Dr" Hovind or AiG...
I'm guessing that the speed reductions on the M25 that frequently occur at peak time with no obvious reason are just to reduce traffic speed to reduce congestion? Could be wrong though...
Maybe I overgeneralised ;) Comparing to the people I've spoken to the US is cheaper. I pay £30 (so, what, 50USD shall we say) per month for 400 minutes and 50 texts (to all UK landlines and mobiles). Something like 15p/min for extra minutes...
:) Which wouldn't surprise me. 3 is cheap though... lots of minutes there, just such terrible service and up to now a poor choice of (3g only) phones that I moved away again.
Maybe it's just the UK that's expensive
It's not really a vectorial coprocessor, more suited for large scale stream processing. I'm not sure what extra opening of specs would help in this area though, the programming specifications seem to be quite easily available (people know how to write shaders, afterall) and work has been done on using the GPUs as generalised streaming processors http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/ind ex.html being a prime example. Within the hardware limitations (of which there are many) they are freely programmable.
While I think of it... the fact they can only compete on price and goodies would mean they were cheap, you'd think, surely? However they are more expensive than in the US...
You note though that you are charged a high rate for calling based on the highest of the termination charges. Your switching only cuts the margins of your end of the call, it won't help reduce the termination charge at the other end hence the price doesn't drop much, which is the point that was being made by the original poster.
The *caller* cannot switch to get a lower rate. That is to say if I call an o2 mobile, it costs a fortune whatever landline or mobile net I call from because o2 charges them a lot to do it. I cannot not use o2 because I'm not the one using o2, the person I'm calling is.
The point the gp makes is a fair one... I have been wondering for some time why calls to mobiles are so expensive. Receiver pays may well have helped reduce prices... it still seems unnatural though as you're paying for something you have no choice in.
I think you have to be very careful with suggestions like that. While I agree that what we as foreigners tend to see of the US is a country that is held to a religious level by its population, that isn't necessarily how the population as a whole feels about it. There are social circles of Americans I have been involved with who are exactly how you describe, and what makes it worse is that these people are loud and highly visible. However, there are also Americans who are quite the opposite and think very similarly to the way I do; they may not hate their country, they may defend their country from arbitrary rude comments, but they will not defend their country from well thought out criticism merely for the sake of doing so.
The people who accuse others of being unamerican are the problem, not Americans as an entire society.
Adding a large amount of mass probably risks changing the orbit of mars noticably as well though. Most likely this would be in predictable ways, but the changes could be problematic.
and why GPRS data rates in the UK are so high. Unfortunately the nice telecom companies chose to price UMTS data to price match GPRS... which makes it completely unusably for normal people for any real net use.
And how many thousnands of tons of carbon dioxide were emitted by the factories producing the oil fired generator equipment, and the generating plants powering them?
Linux is more heavily pushed, most of the programming exercises and so on in the early years are linux based, they try to persuade people to use Latex to generate reports etc. I see your point though...
What's wrong with free? Works for universities.
Well... sometimes it works, anyway. We in my CS dept are still using win2000, apparently because MS hasn't given us XP and we have no intention of paying for it. The tactic hasn't worked for us yet... but then, it doesn't really harm us either.
Not suitable for use in schools? What do you think schoolkids do on the computers? Everything I ever did in a school IT lesson I could have done in an out of the box linux distro at the time, even more so now. Possible that some of the circuit design software for design tech might be missing... but then we had old Acorn machines still running for that very reason anyway and then had a few dedicated windows machines installed running just that, for the majority of school computers linux is just fine. Based on the UK National Curriculum at any rate, which is what matters for this.