Let's not forget that many species of dinosaurs were in decline well before the k-t event that is generally accepted as the point (65mya) when dinosaurs went extinct. Although the idea of a big rock killing all the dinosaurs is popular with geologists and catastrophists, many paleontologists still don't buy this explanation. Some even point to birds as the direct descendents of theropods and insist that dinosaurs never really went extinct in the first place.
Excellent post, AC. It's hard to resist the urge to tell companies not to charge a lot for expensive medicines or practices when people's lives are on the line. It would be cruel to let someone die just because they couldn't afford the latest healthcare. But it would be far worse to send business the message that you can't make money in medical research because a patent won't mean squat if it saves peoples' lives and the government will take it away. If governments cave to the temptation to just give hard-earned and expensive products away at a company's expense, then that company will go out of business or find a more profitable venture elsewhere.
The ones who left for the US might also have included surgeons who knew they were good and felt they deserved to be paid what they were worth. Very often, one man's altruism is another man's slavery.
"Boy George has decided its ok to have your cake and eat it too." Umm...how exactly is the Executive Branch responsible for the actions of the Judicial Branch carrying out the laws written by the Legislative Branch. You may or may not have just cause to hate Bush, but is it really necessary to blame everything that goes screwy in this country on him?
Um...let's put this into perspective, shall we? In three months, it will be winter in the northern hemisphere (I'm making an assumption that this is where this fellow's pond is, since the article itself seems to be slashdotted), and there'd be no point to taking a photo since the plants will be dead/dormant. Come back in roughly one year and take your picture.
I suspect they rerouted the EPS conduit from the primary pressure manifold to the secondary navigationdal deflector array and used the resulting graviton flux to trigger a rapid nadion cascade and thereby providing just enough kick to get the whole system back into spec.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the satellite was named "Voyager."
And what will Kyoto do to preserve visibility of auroras? Carbon dioxide is optically transparent, and Kyoto isn't concerned with reductions of any other emissions.
Uh huh. And for a little more information on that you had better brush up on Carroll v United States and the circumstances behind this tradition. And as far as your shopping list of things not listed in the Constitution, go take a look at the Ninth Amendment and review it's intent. Of course, these days there is precious little attention paid to the Ninth...it may as well have been repealed.
I'll say this, at least you recognize that it is wrong, even if you'd rather deny the strongest argument of why.
How about the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures? Hmm? Oh, that's right, this isn't intended for police use, is it? Ah, but as has already been pointed out, in this modern age of safety before liberty, government and corporate agencies are pretty quick to justify embracing new ideas like this and subverting them to their own use.
Oh, but then I guess you'll insist that I won't have anything to worry about as long as I don't break the law. Take your head out of the sand, son. In recent months it's been considered unpatriotic to question government intrusion into our lives. Did you miss the latest plan: Operation TIPS? Go have a look at the ACLU website for a nice picture of the rise of facism in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And herein lies the problem. The driver's license has long ago ceased to be a certification of a driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle. It is now considered to be ID and is treated as such routinely.
"Papers, please?"
So you endorse the heavy-handed use of armed Federal agents for what cannot be anything worse than a civil offense and is probably nothing more than a violation of contract? I assume then that you will also be quite happy when they take away your equipment for ripping your own CDs down to MP3s or watching DVDs on a Linux box? At what point do *you* draw the line, yatest5, before things have gone too far and you are uncomfortable with the actions of the authorities?
Correction, Mr. Mad. Before they allegedly started stealing the service. They are innocent of the crime until the prosecution proves them guilty. Your tone and attitude only encourages the authorities to experiment with broader and more severe responses in the future. After all, they're being tough on crime and you just eat that up, don't you?
Since politics is often the art of compromise, I find myself wondering if this particular proposal is deliberately extreme so that the Hollings Bill suddenly looks more reasonable and has better popular and political support.
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Let's not forget that many species of dinosaurs were in decline well before the k-t event that is generally accepted as the point (65mya) when dinosaurs went extinct. Although the idea of a big rock killing all the dinosaurs is popular with geologists and catastrophists, many paleontologists still don't buy this explanation. Some even point to birds as the direct descendents of theropods and insist that dinosaurs never really went extinct in the first place.
Silicon Poisoning?
Doctor, stay away from the beach!
I can see my house from here!
Excellent post, AC. It's hard to resist the urge to tell companies not to charge a lot for expensive medicines or practices when people's lives are on the line. It would be cruel to let someone die just because they couldn't afford the latest healthcare. But it would be far worse to send business the message that you can't make money in medical research because a patent won't mean squat if it saves peoples' lives and the government will take it away. If governments cave to the temptation to just give hard-earned and expensive products away at a company's expense, then that company will go out of business or find a more profitable venture elsewhere.
The ones who left for the US might also have included surgeons who knew they were good and felt they deserved to be paid what they were worth. Very often, one man's altruism is another man's slavery.
Yes he can.
According to the PopSci site, Klingon.
And you thought you were joking, didn't you?
"Boy George has decided its ok to have your cake and eat it too." Umm...how exactly is the Executive Branch responsible for the actions of the Judicial Branch carrying out the laws written by the Legislative Branch. You may or may not have just cause to hate Bush, but is it really necessary to blame everything that goes screwy in this country on him?
Um...let's put this into perspective, shall we? In three months, it will be winter in the northern hemisphere (I'm making an assumption that this is where this fellow's pond is, since the article itself seems to be slashdotted), and there'd be no point to taking a photo since the plants will be dead/dormant. Come back in roughly one year and take your picture.
I suspect they rerouted the EPS conduit from the primary pressure manifold to the secondary navigationdal deflector array and used the resulting graviton flux to trigger a rapid nadion cascade and thereby providing just enough kick to get the whole system back into spec. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the satellite was named "Voyager."
And what will Kyoto do to preserve visibility of auroras? Carbon dioxide is optically transparent, and Kyoto isn't concerned with reductions of any other emissions.
Tell it to Al Capone!
Damn them indeed. Break 'em down and use them to build the thing!
Umm...PhysicsGenius, please do the research before you make claims about how Aerogel. It is made from SILICON, like glass or integrated circuits.
My GOD! That thing is HUGE! In that first picture, you can see the artist's concept of the thing about to swallow a B-52!
Uh huh. And for a little more information on that you had better brush up on Carroll v United States and the circumstances behind this tradition. And as far as your shopping list of things not listed in the Constitution, go take a look at the Ninth Amendment and review it's intent. Of course, these days there is precious little attention paid to the Ninth...it may as well have been repealed.
I'll say this, at least you recognize that it is wrong, even if you'd rather deny the strongest argument of why.
How about the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures? Hmm? Oh, that's right, this isn't intended for police use, is it? Ah, but as has already been pointed out, in this modern age of safety before liberty, government and corporate agencies are pretty quick to justify embracing new ideas like this and subverting them to their own use.
Oh, but then I guess you'll insist that I won't have anything to worry about as long as I don't break the law. Take your head out of the sand, son. In recent months it's been considered unpatriotic to question government intrusion into our lives. Did you miss the latest plan: Operation TIPS? Go have a look at the ACLU website for a nice picture of the rise of facism in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Ah! It does this by turning your heart on and off really fast, just like the way sound was produced on the old TRS-80s?
And herein lies the problem. The driver's license has long ago ceased to be a certification of a driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle. It is now considered to be ID and is treated as such routinely. "Papers, please?"
So you endorse the heavy-handed use of armed Federal agents for what cannot be anything worse than a civil offense and is probably nothing more than a violation of contract? I assume then that you will also be quite happy when they take away your equipment for ripping your own CDs down to MP3s or watching DVDs on a Linux box? At what point do *you* draw the line, yatest5, before things have gone too far and you are uncomfortable with the actions of the authorities?
Correction, Mr. Mad. Before they allegedly started stealing the service. They are innocent of the crime until the prosecution proves them guilty. Your tone and attitude only encourages the authorities to experiment with broader and more severe responses in the future. After all, they're being tough on crime and you just eat that up, don't you?
Until the day they come after you.
Either way, it might be smart to respond to it's signals -- we don't want it clearing away any carbon-based infestations.
"6) True love exists -- at the bottom of a liquor bottle"
So...that dead worm is True Love? [pokes it with a stick] Eeew. I think I'll stick with one-night-stands.
Since politics is often the art of compromise, I find myself wondering if this particular proposal is deliberately extreme so that the Hollings Bill suddenly looks more reasonable and has better popular and political support.
smacks head Oh for crying out loud.
Yep, that'll do it. (To both posts)