Actually the Catholic Church has generally stayed away from confrontations with scientific theory ever since getting egg on its face around the Galileo fiasco and heliocentrism.
Which was then and is now grossly misunderstood. The Church, at no point, ever condemned heliocentrism.
Accordingly, the Church has never actually opposed most of Darwinism, and has tacitly accepted it, with the critical caveats that Catholics cannot believe in the process being 'random', as whatever happened has to be part of God's plan.
Well, what the Archbishop was trying to say is that many people took JPII's statement on evolution as saying more than it did. That somehow he was allowing 'random' evolution, not evolution as planned before time began by God to provide what we have now.
BTW, schools need to neither teach Theistic nor Atheistic evolution - but simply that there is a process. I had teachers throw their atheistic beliefs at us as 'truth' we had to accept in Jr. High and HS, and that was accepted like someone teaching a religious faith would never have been.
The Catholic Church actually doesn't have much official teaching on the origin of the Universe, and allows both Theistic Evolution and Pure 6-day Creationism (and just about everything in between. If you believe the Universe was created and guided by God, then you're in line what the church requires).
(Also, Catholics have to believe that humans exclusively have souls.)
Nit-Pick: According to Catholic teaching, of the creatures on Earth, only humans have spiritual souls, while other creatures have non-spiritual souls. Catholic teaching does not preclude the possibility of non-terrestrial creatures having spiritual souls.
Look at the number of children those living in poverty in this country have, versus the number of children the average phd has.
This is a rather modern phenomenon, which has come about due to the easy availability of effective contraception. Just about any historical situation where the majority of people who are wealthy have less children than those who are poor is due to human-induced artificial constructs. Don't look at our society and assume that the same pressures exist today that existed thousands of years ago (which any discussion of Evolutionary Psychology is discussing).
So long story short, is, if you believe in true republican ideals, right now you need to vote democrat.
No, if you believe in "true republican ideals" you need to vote Libertarian or Constitution (depending on what part of 'true republican' you more adhere too). The Republicans have become more like Democrats ('let the state take care of you') recently (in order to gain traditional Dem and swing voters). This has caused the Dems to go crazy trying to figure out if they should go more towards the right (copy what works for Republicans), or go to the Left (get their base energized and rebuild).
It has also left the more conservative voters wondering what happened to their party. Much like many Kennedy-era Democrats are wondering what has happened to theirs.
amazing how rarely it [education] (is) actually studied in a scientific way. And when it's studied by psychologists, their research is ignored. Crap like "No Child Left Behind" is just a collection of things people made up and thought might help, with no verification whatsoever
NCLB has its good parts and its bad parts. In fact, it requires reading education to be based on science (which only causes reading program companies to hire some scientist to come up with good results).
Some of the worst ideas in education have come out of the 'scientific study' of education - because the people studying had their own theories, and their own goals. You'll find professors of education who will tell you the opposite things (and if you do what the other says - you'll "ruin the child").
Regardless of a judge's MORAL stance on an issue, they are to rule according to the LAW, and the Constitution. That's why abortion remains legal in this country. Regardless of whether or not you feel abortion is a sin, or morally repugnant, or whatever, abortion seems to be allowed by the Constitution.
No, some judges decided that *THEIR* MORAL stance required abortion to be legal, and so created what is generally seen (even by many pro-legal-abortion people) to be one of the WORST legal decisions ever. The judicial branch has been going crazy the last few decades with allowing the federal government's powers to expand.
Now, since Bush is the legally elected president, it's his prerogative to nominate judges who have a similar judicial theory to his own (probably some sort of originalism or other strict interpretation theory). Unless the Senate has some serious reservations about the person's ability to perform the function (not 'they may rule against my positions') then they should be confirmed.
Seriously though, I think being taught phonix(sp? lol) as a child really hendered my spelling capabilities because so many words are spelled in ways they shouldn't...
Then your teachers didn't use real phonics (don't worry, mine didn't either - so I have horrid spelling too).
A 2nd grade teacher I know uses old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century phonics (slightly updated for modern usage), and turns out kids who are spelling well above grade level (she also usually gets the students who were the worst spellers in 1st grade).
Well, it sounds like good buisness sense to me (build in your future costs so that you have the money to pay for that production facility when you need to build it).
I'm sure AMD takes into consideration the money they'll need for building facilities when determining minimum chip prices.
The only reason Intel can build the fab costs into the chip (if they even do that) is because they're a monopoly
Uh... the only reason a company is able to include the costs of making a product into the cost of said product is because it's a monopoly? All companies "build in" their production building costs into the cost of the product - or else they'd go out of business.
The contrived test they came up with was to bring a computer that won't boot up--the cause was the ribbon cable on the hard drive was upside down (which is unusual today because ribbon cables have the little notch to prevent that.) The solutin they were looking for for the technician to put the ribbon cable correctly.
When I can't access a HD, I will unplug the cable, blow out the areas, and plug it back in. It's one of the first things to come to mind.
Now, if this was over the phone, I prob. wouldn't tell someone to do that. If they brought it in to me, that's what I would do (and I only tinker, I don't work at a repair shop or anything).
In addition, the Gungans were probably the native species, while the Naboo were human colonists. Was there an ancient treaty that set this all up? (Humans go here, Gungans stay here, we'll all be happy)
My guess is that the Gungans didn't have the ability to disrupt inter-planet communications, so they couldn't use their standing army on the Naboo without the whole Republic knowing about it. Defensive only? Some sort of martial society that used it for exercise - and it was a good thing too when all those droids showed up?
There are lots of possibilities for cohabitation IF you have two relativly enlightened species coming together.
I can't think of one software product that they sell except to people in their captive hardware market.... Secondarily, they'll be media company via iTunes and the iPod.
Well, they may give it away instead of sell, but you just named one software product of theirs for non-apple computers (iTunes)
Why do americans look down on unions? I, for one, look down on unions because a lot of unions have outlived their usefulness in many cases. It's an old-style system that needs to adapt to modern life or go away.
Furthermore, they've become too political. Honestly, I would support legislation that prohibits unions from giving any kind of support to any politician (no $, no endorsements, nothing). If I was in a union, and they spent money on anything political (if I agreed or not), especially if it had nothing to do with my profession, then I would demand a refund of my portion of the money that went to it.
Thankfully, I am not and have never been in a union. There day is passed, let us move on.
Take the report, and give costs for covering each hole. Also, give your risk assesment to the company (yes, there is a hole that has a 1% chance of costing the company $5,000 dollars - but it will cost $500 to repair).
Then, let the boss make the budget decisions, and carry them out. Make sure extra staff is included in your report.
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Actually the Catholic Church has generally stayed away from confrontations with scientific theory ever since getting egg on its face around the Galileo fiasco and heliocentrism.
Which was then and is now grossly misunderstood. The Church, at no point, ever condemned heliocentrism.
Accordingly, the Church has never actually opposed most of Darwinism, and has tacitly accepted it, with the critical caveats that Catholics cannot believe in the process being 'random', as whatever happened has to be part of God's plan.
Well, what the Archbishop was trying to say is that many people took JPII's statement on evolution as saying more than it did. That somehow he was allowing 'random' evolution, not evolution as planned before time began by God to provide what we have now.
BTW, schools need to neither teach Theistic nor Atheistic evolution - but simply that there is a process. I had teachers throw their atheistic beliefs at us as 'truth' we had to accept in Jr. High and HS, and that was accepted like someone teaching a religious faith would never have been.
The Catholic Church actually doesn't have much official teaching on the origin of the Universe, and allows both Theistic Evolution and Pure 6-day Creationism (and just about everything in between. If you believe the Universe was created and guided by God, then you're in line what the church requires).
(Also, Catholics have to believe that humans exclusively have souls.)
Nit-Pick: According to Catholic teaching, of the creatures on Earth, only humans have spiritual souls, while other creatures have non-spiritual souls. Catholic teaching does not preclude the possibility of non-terrestrial creatures having spiritual souls.
Look at the number of children those living in poverty in this country have, versus the number of children the average phd has.
This is a rather modern phenomenon, which has come about due to the easy availability of effective contraception. Just about any historical situation where the majority of people who are wealthy have less children than those who are poor is due to human-induced artificial constructs. Don't look at our society and assume that the same pressures exist today that existed thousands of years ago (which any discussion of Evolutionary Psychology is discussing).
So long story short, is, if you believe in true republican ideals, right now you need to vote democrat.
No, if you believe in "true republican ideals" you need to vote Libertarian or Constitution (depending on what part of 'true republican' you more adhere too). The Republicans have become more like Democrats ('let the state take care of you') recently (in order to gain traditional Dem and swing voters). This has caused the Dems to go crazy trying to figure out if they should go more towards the right (copy what works for Republicans), or go to the Left (get their base energized and rebuild).
It has also left the more conservative voters wondering what happened to their party. Much like many Kennedy-era Democrats are wondering what has happened to theirs.
amazing how rarely it [education] (is) actually studied in a scientific way. And when it's studied by psychologists, their research is ignored. Crap like "No Child Left Behind" is just a collection of things people made up and thought might help, with no verification whatsoever
NCLB has its good parts and its bad parts. In fact, it requires reading education to be based on science (which only causes reading program companies to hire some scientist to come up with good results).
Some of the worst ideas in education have come out of the 'scientific study' of education - because the people studying had their own theories, and their own goals. You'll find professors of education who will tell you the opposite things (and if you do what the other says - you'll "ruin the child").
Regardless of a judge's MORAL stance on an issue, they are to rule according to the LAW, and the Constitution. That's why abortion remains legal in this country. Regardless of whether or not you feel abortion is a sin, or morally repugnant, or whatever, abortion seems to be allowed by the Constitution.
No, some judges decided that *THEIR* MORAL stance required abortion to be legal, and so created what is generally seen (even by many pro-legal-abortion people) to be one of the WORST legal decisions ever. The judicial branch has been going crazy the last few decades with allowing the federal government's powers to expand.
Now, since Bush is the legally elected president, it's his prerogative to nominate judges who have a similar judicial theory to his own (probably some sort of originalism or other strict interpretation theory). Unless the Senate has some serious reservations about the person's ability to perform the function (not 'they may rule against my positions') then they should be confirmed.
Seriously though, I think being taught phonix(sp? lol) as a child really hendered my spelling capabilities because so many words are spelled in ways they shouldn't...
Then your teachers didn't use real phonics (don't worry, mine didn't either - so I have horrid spelling too).
A 2nd grade teacher I know uses old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century phonics (slightly updated for modern usage), and turns out kids who are spelling well above grade level (she also usually gets the students who were the worst spellers in 1st grade).
Well, it sounds like good buisness sense to me (build in your future costs so that you have the money to pay for that production facility when you need to build it).
I'm sure AMD takes into consideration the money they'll need for building facilities when determining minimum chip prices.
The only reason Intel can build the fab costs into the chip (if they even do that) is because they're a monopoly
Uh... the only reason a company is able to include the costs of making a product into the cost of said product is because it's a monopoly? All companies "build in" their production building costs into the cost of the product - or else they'd go out of business.
Umm... you may want to look up the difference between the Utah legislature and the Utah representatives to the US Congress.
more than half of the top 500 runs on Intel processors
333 of them (2/3s), to be exact. And it's up from last year.
Call it JOB. Joe's Own Browser. Browsing is all we do at work anyway, so Job is a perfect name.
No, JOB should be for "Job's Own Browser."
The contrived test they came up with was to bring a computer that won't boot up--the cause was the ribbon cable on the hard drive was upside down (which is unusual today because ribbon cables have the little notch to prevent that.) The solutin they were looking for for the technician to put the ribbon cable correctly.
When I can't access a HD, I will unplug the cable, blow out the areas, and plug it back in. It's one of the first things to come to mind.
Now, if this was over the phone, I prob. wouldn't tell someone to do that. If they brought it in to me, that's what I would do (and I only tinker, I don't work at a repair shop or anything).
Just type all possible letters, numbers, and whatever else is in your password into one file, and use copy-paste to bring over what you need.
Yeah, it's a pain, but you could shorten it by just making sure everything's out of order and with some gibberish.
Of course, nothing's 100% secure, especially while traveling...
In addition, the Gungans were probably the native species, while the Naboo were human colonists. Was there an ancient treaty that set this all up? (Humans go here, Gungans stay here, we'll all be happy)
My guess is that the Gungans didn't have the ability to disrupt inter-planet communications, so they couldn't use their standing army on the Naboo without the whole Republic knowing about it. Defensive only? Some sort of martial society that used it for exercise - and it was a good thing too when all those droids showed up?
There are lots of possibilities for cohabitation IF you have two relativly enlightened species coming together.
what possible difference does it make whether there's a PPC or x86 CPU inside?!?
If you own Intel stock?
If they get Intel chips with VT, then you could have Windows, Linux, and OSX running at the same time.
Well, since the transition kit comes with OSX for Intel chips, and it includes an Apple-Intel machine - they'll be able to run it that same weekend.
I can't think of one software product that they sell except to people in their captive hardware market. ...
Secondarily, they'll be media company via iTunes and the iPod.
Well, they may give it away instead of sell, but you just named one software product of theirs for non-apple computers (iTunes)
You can also buy Quicktime Pro for windows.
Why do americans look down on unions?
I, for one, look down on unions because a lot of unions have outlived their usefulness in many cases. It's an old-style system that needs to adapt to modern life or go away.
Furthermore, they've become too political. Honestly, I would support legislation that prohibits unions from giving any kind of support to any politician (no $, no endorsements, nothing). If I was in a union, and they spent money on anything political (if I agreed or not), especially if it had nothing to do with my profession, then I would demand a refund of my portion of the money that went to it.
Thankfully, I am not and have never been in a union. There day is passed, let us move on.
More importantly, it will also require the local phone company to coordinate with the VOIP provider (ie, not stonewall and refuse to help).
Yes, things like that - where the teachers have training and proper equipment - can be helpful.
99.9% of 'computers in the classroom' do absolutely crap. It's all publicitity and grant funding.
Stallman and Carter: two sides of the same Commie coin.
Well, Carter IS history's greatest monster...
And they would pop even better if they were microkernels.
Are people in the US more greedy, or are we just more honest about being greedy?
Take the report, and give costs for covering each hole. Also, give your risk assesment to the company (yes, there is a hole that has a 1% chance of costing the company $5,000 dollars - but it will cost $500 to repair).
Then, let the boss make the budget decisions, and carry them out. Make sure extra staff is included in your report.