Take your science and your math somewhere else. If we were interested in facts and evidence we wouldn't have joined the GOP.
Oh, the GOP can twist statistics and science with anyone else out there. Can't just blame them for this. This fellow is a social conservative, the sort who can tell you exactly how you should be living, by their better standards. Reminds me in some ways of people of a more extreme bent who don't bother talking about it, but let their actions speak for them (particularly when they can find a willing sucker to carry them out.)
What Akin said is the way he believes it works, as advised by someone who shares his beliefs in pro-life.
What Akin truly missed out on was a golden opportunity to keep his ignorant trap shut, other than to refer to medical journals. Elections are dangerous times to be spewing things you know little to nothing about, giving air to your personal views. He now has a snowball's chance in Hell of being elected, but doesn't seem interested in aborting his campaign.
There is Science & Medicine and there are the political ways people try to interpret, shape and steer what studies say, then there are idiologues, who even the mainstream can identify as nuts, particularly the gender who are saddled with an unwanted pregnancy and are forbidden to do anything about it.
Our economic evidence is backing up what our medical evidence has already shown to be perfectly clear
What..... that big business, agri or otherwise, has no problem withholding salient information from the public (even when they have the right to know) in the name of profit?
Me and my mutants are enquiring minds and want to know.
I've been eating Killoggs Korn Flakes with a spoon in each right hand since I can remember when
I completely agree. This is the nail in the Windows coffin for me.
If you are an enterprise IT manager this is your dream come true. You're not seeing this from the angle Microsoft is, they count on enterprise income more than they do home users.
I kind of think "The cloud" at least in corporate terms, is entering a second life now. When it first came about, it was a lot of hype and nonsense. And I saw a lot of Execs getting excited about it and moving services to it. Over the years I've seen them realize the pitfalls of the services. Poor support, major security issues, unpredictable downtime relating to hardware issues we have no way of knowing about. But now I've seen it coming into it's own with the execs realizing that it IS good for some things. Your support site? Sure! Even if your whole company goes to shit it's still up. Your billing database? NOOOO...
Our present experience with it - users are hampered by their work. Clouds overloaded and unresponsive. Effectively it's not a hugely useful tool, yet. I suppose it will get better, as soon as someone is making some money at it and competition takes it's work seriously, rather than just being "Me, too!"
Only people who look vaguely similar to ducks are upset about Cheney.
And those concerned about federal spending.. Cheney: "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter." (addressing Paul O'Neill, then Treasury Secretary)
People who wonder about our super secret "energy policy" also seemed to be rather worked up, regarding Enron people in the room when it was worked on. Consider the manufactured electrical energy crisis which took place while the administration turned a most determined blind eye to it.
He's a real character, he is. But he's no longer the VP or in the running, he's playing at the Elder Statesman role these days.
I considered it, but it's a little overplayed and the likelihood of the Powers That Be at/. letting it slide (again) were pretty remote (they didn't allow it the first time I tried a shark related article, either.)
I really like the little solar powered surfboard, though. I'd like one just a bit bigger with a cooler on board.
We must be bombing a dozen foreign countries on regular basis (now with drones). We are hardly "at peace". Oh, and we are in "War on Terror" which is projected to end approximately never.
Congress needs to man up and demand that the Administration has to get damn permission and issue official war declaration in order to bomb anyone. And de-fund any and all money that goes toward "unofficial" offensive military action.
Before 2001 we were at peace, with the only event since 1991 (Desert Storm) being a few cruise missles lobbed into Serbia to bring them to heel. Yet our military spending, despite cuts and closures, still ranked high while the Pentagon found all manner of toys in its version of the Sears & Roebucks Catalog that it just couldn't live without. Even when we're not at war, we're preparing for total war.
Does this have anything to do with the James Webb being over budget.
It will quite possibly. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has done a lot for NASA PR. Amazing stuff. But James Webb isn't going to be about pretty pictures, it's about seeking answers to questions, questions the HST can't answer and no ground-based scope can do, because deep space IR doesn't penetrate the atmosphere.
When the USSR threw a silvery ball into orbit the US woke up, and answered a challenge issued by JFK. Now that China is making noise about landing on the Moon, people are 'Meh, who cares?' Times and attitudes have certainly changed. Not much national pride in scientific accomplishment.
Interesting? SyFy is WAY more interesting. Got it? The real Universe? Pretty irrelevant. In scale just as much as every single one of us is irrelevant to It.
The difference is, when a few Redshirts are dusted on Star Trek the nation doesn't stop what its doing. When we landed on the Moon the world watched. When we landed Curiousity on Mars a lot of people around the world still paid attention. High profile things are still able to get funding, but when an new telescope is proposed to study how the universe was made, it comes in pretty distant down the list. Some people don't care and some people don't want answers which challenge the answers they've already accepted.
Typical. You have no clue how much something takes to do, so naturally you assume your share is tooo much.
Here is a clue: Tax dollars aren't yours. Ever. They are all ours, societies. DO you really want New York, Detroit and Dallas and California to be the effective determination for all tax money?
Figure this: WW II was funded by the sale of bonds. Bond drives went on everywhere and were widely supported by the entertainment industry to underwrite the massive expense of a massive undertaking. But today we don't buy War Bonds, it's assumed we are all going to pony up $5,000 (on average) for our share of the annual Pentagon Budget, for whatever they decide they need. Let. Me. Tell. You. $5,000 is probably what I could have afforded for war bonds, had I lived in the 1940's in 1940's adjusted dollars. But this has been on-going since after the war ended and is still eating up a high percentage of our GDP, for years on end, even when we are at complete peace.
The interest of the general public could help keep funding. If people never heard of it, they will not notice or care.
I think that's one thing behind getting more pretty pictures out to the public as quick as they can. But we had a speaker at our astronomy club from the Little SDO and the advances in solar observing are startling (and quite likely of considerable value) and I don't think some people are as aware of these programs as I wish they were.
Y'know, I'd really like to see the government take an approach like that on things. Not just assume we're all going to keep paying out taxes for whatever that bunch of idiots in Congress deems fit and proper. When I look at some budgets and calculate my share, I'm not sure I really feel like paying that much for some things.
Damnit! Now what am I going to do with these scrolls of Firebolt? I already bought the book!
Drop them off at either political party headquarter, they'll come in handy during the Fall debates and you can write them off on your taxes (I've yet to see the IRS prevent me writing off donations of magical items.)
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Take your science and your math somewhere else. If we were interested in facts and evidence we wouldn't have joined the GOP.
Oh, the GOP can twist statistics and science with anyone else out there. Can't just blame them for this. This fellow is a social conservative, the sort who can tell you exactly how you should be living, by their better standards. Reminds me in some ways of people of a more extreme bent who don't bother talking about it, but let their actions speak for them (particularly when they can find a willing sucker to carry them out.)
What Akin said is the way he believes it works, as advised by someone who shares his beliefs in pro-life.
What Akin truly missed out on was a golden opportunity to keep his ignorant trap shut, other than to refer to medical journals. Elections are dangerous times to be spewing things you know little to nothing about, giving air to your personal views. He now has a snowball's chance in Hell of being elected, but doesn't seem interested in aborting his campaign.
There is Science & Medicine and there are the political ways people try to interpret, shape and steer what studies say, then there are idiologues, who even the mainstream can identify as nuts, particularly the gender who are saddled with an unwanted pregnancy and are forbidden to do anything about it.
Everything in the piece is a fact. There is no commentary on why this might be good or bad.
Although many of those pieces of Macs, iPads, iPhones, iPods, etc, are made in some of those companies which are lesser than Apple.
Big question is, can they keep it going without Steve around to scare people into producing?
Our economic evidence is backing up what our medical evidence has already shown to be perfectly clear
What..... that big business, agri or otherwise, has no problem withholding salient information from the public (even when they have the right to know) in the name of profit?
Me and my mutants are enquiring minds and want to know.
I've been eating Killoggs Korn Flakes with a spoon in each right hand since I can remember when
Does it shoot back?
No. But what you didn't read about the Curiosity Rover landing was how the got the shark with the laser there.
I completely agree. This is the nail in the Windows coffin for me.
If you are an enterprise IT manager this is your dream come true. You're not seeing this from the angle Microsoft is, they count on enterprise income more than they do home users.
I kind of think "The cloud" at least in corporate terms, is entering a second life now. When it first came about, it was a lot of hype and nonsense. And I saw a lot of Execs getting excited about it and moving services to it. Over the years I've seen them realize the pitfalls of the services. Poor support, major security issues, unpredictable downtime relating to hardware issues we have no way of knowing about. But now I've seen it coming into it's own with the execs realizing that it IS good for some things. Your support site? Sure! Even if your whole company goes to shit it's still up. Your billing database? NOOOO...
Our present experience with it - users are hampered by their work. Clouds overloaded and unresponsive. Effectively it's not a hugely useful tool, yet. I suppose it will get better, as soon as someone is making some money at it and competition takes it's work seriously, rather than just being "Me, too!"
Hopefully the pies that hit Oracle's lawyers will have hand grenades in them.
I don't think they have those on the menu at the Google cafeteria.
though I may be wrong
The important question then becomes what kind of pie?
Custard topped with whipped creme seems to go down well, but you can't beat Dutch Apple for shear weight.
Pie fight in the courtroom.
I don't know about Oracle and Google, but I think I'd enjoy it.
Only people who look vaguely similar to ducks are upset about Cheney.
And those concerned about federal spending.. Cheney: "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter." (addressing Paul O'Neill, then Treasury Secretary)
People who wonder about our super secret "energy policy" also seemed to be rather worked up, regarding Enron people in the room when it was worked on. Consider the manufactured electrical energy crisis which took place while the administration turned a most determined blind eye to it.
He's a real character, he is. But he's no longer the VP or in the running, he's playing at the Elder Statesman role these days.
lasers?
I considered it, but it's a little overplayed and the likelihood of the Powers That Be at /. letting it slide (again) were pretty remote (they didn't allow it the first time I tried a shark related article, either.)
I really like the little solar powered surfboard, though. I'd like one just a bit bigger with a cooler on board.
even when we are at complete peace.
We must be bombing a dozen foreign countries on regular basis (now with drones). We are hardly "at peace". Oh, and we are in "War on Terror" which is projected to end approximately never.
Congress needs to man up and demand that the Administration has to get damn permission and issue official war declaration in order to bomb anyone. And de-fund any and all money that goes toward "unofficial" offensive military action.
Before 2001 we were at peace, with the only event since 1991 (Desert Storm) being a few cruise missles lobbed into Serbia to bring them to heel. Yet our military spending, despite cuts and closures, still ranked high while the Pentagon found all manner of toys in its version of the Sears & Roebucks Catalog that it just couldn't live without. Even when we're not at war, we're preparing for total war.
Does this have anything to do with the James Webb being over budget.
It will quite possibly. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has done a lot for NASA PR. Amazing stuff. But James Webb isn't going to be about pretty pictures, it's about seeking answers to questions, questions the HST can't answer and no ground-based scope can do, because deep space IR doesn't penetrate the atmosphere.
When the USSR threw a silvery ball into orbit the US woke up, and answered a challenge issued by JFK. Now that China is making noise about landing on the Moon, people are 'Meh, who cares?' Times and attitudes have certainly changed. Not much national pride in scientific accomplishment.
Interesting? SyFy is WAY more interesting. Got it? The real Universe? Pretty irrelevant. In scale just as much as every single one of us is irrelevant to It.
The difference is, when a few Redshirts are dusted on Star Trek the nation doesn't stop what its doing. When we landed on the Moon the world watched. When we landed Curiousity on Mars a lot of people around the world still paid attention. High profile things are still able to get funding, but when an new telescope is proposed to study how the universe was made, it comes in pretty distant down the list. Some people don't care and some people don't want answers which challenge the answers they've already accepted.
Typical. You have no clue how much something takes to do, so naturally you assume your share is tooo much.
Here is a clue: Tax dollars aren't yours. Ever. They are all ours, societies. DO you really want New York, Detroit and Dallas and California to be the effective determination for all tax money?
Figure this: WW II was funded by the sale of bonds. Bond drives went on everywhere and were widely supported by the entertainment industry to underwrite the massive expense of a massive undertaking. But today we don't buy War Bonds, it's assumed we are all going to pony up $5,000 (on average) for our share of the annual Pentagon Budget, for whatever they decide they need. Let. Me. Tell. You. $5,000 is probably what I could have afforded for war bonds, had I lived in the 1940's in 1940's adjusted dollars. But this has been on-going since after the war ended and is still eating up a high percentage of our GDP, for years on end, even when we are at complete peace.
The interest of the general public could help keep funding. If people never heard of it, they will not notice or care.
I think that's one thing behind getting more pretty pictures out to the public as quick as they can. But we had a speaker at our astronomy club from the Little SDO and the advances in solar observing are startling (and quite likely of considerable value) and I don't think some people are as aware of these programs as I wish they were.
Kickstarter
Y'know, I'd really like to see the government take an approach like that on things. Not just assume we're all going to keep paying out taxes for whatever that bunch of idiots in Congress deems fit and proper. When I look at some budgets and calculate my share, I'm not sure I really feel like paying that much for some things.
All the rockets we want, as long as they are ordered by the Pentagon.
Science, it's now for total warfare.
Damnit! Now what am I going to do with these scrolls of Firebolt? I already bought the book!
Drop them off at either political party headquarter, they'll come in handy during the Fall debates and you can write them off on your taxes (I've yet to see the IRS prevent me writing off donations of magical items.)
Have they banned providing free shipping and using used underwear and magic spells as packaging?
Better do your shipping labels with Sharpies, risk not their ire by employing a Magic Marker.
I'll get me coat
What part of "starting in September" was unclear to you?
S'cuse mi, I havve onlye two wijks to clen out the dun^H^H^Hcellar. See my lystyngs for Homonculi!
Sounds like a case of "who backs up your magic?"
well, up to a week or so ago, it would have been demonoid...
I'm curious how this will impact items from Co$ for sale, such as LRH autographed e-meters and such.
Now how will the Charmed ones defeat Gandalf The Black?
You just don't think these things through at all, do you eBay?
They're in league with Sauron, didn't you know that?
Slash dot needs to go away, its a hateful site.
How about you go away instead? Less to move that way.
Yes, this is a fun site! Where else can we gather to make sport of crazy corporate dictums?
Next they'll ban the sale of slashdot mod points, the bastards!