ike that silly Catholic belief that dogs don't dream and the devil makes them twitch in REM sleep..
Uhh... WTF? Maybe someone who was Catholic said something like that once, but it's not a 'Catholic belief' and NOT Catholic teaching.
But, on your point, people may decide to have many children for a variety of reasons, regardless of religion or intelligence. You seem to be sterotyping here.
A.M.D.'s suit also alleges that Intel used illegal tactics to persuade dozens of companies - including Dell, Sony and Toshiba - not to use A.M.D. chips. In its response on Thursday, Intel called A.M.D.'s claims contradictory, since A.M.D. currently does business with many of those same companies.
Doesn't do business with many of those same companies, eh? I though that was one of the major points of the lawsuit
Go back and read again, especially the part where it says "AMD currently DOES buisiness..."
I believe the best defense is in the response, where Intel says that they've gained market share in the server buisness because of the Opteron. From the response:
"After dedicating a significant portion of its capacity to producing its recent Opteron processors, AMD has seen gains in its share of microprocessor sales in the profitable server market segment. This is precisely what one would expect in a truly competitive industry. In part because if this increased penetration of the server segment, AMD has been able to increase its average selling prices and profits from the sale of microprocessors."
I.E. When AMD does something right, they do better.
Scientists are explicit that science doesn't know everything and that all theories are only theories that will need updating sometime in the future in the light of further knowledge. It's only *creationists* who fraudulently claim that scientists say that science knows everything, so that they can say "But it doesn't so science is wrong". However, since scientists don't claim this, creationists are just liars. Google "straw-man fallacy" for more.
I love using a straw man, and then claiming that I am using one.
There is a group of people, which are mainly non-scientists, of whom I'm talking. Many of them are actually rather uneducated in science.
And, yes, there are some scientists who may pay some lip service to the fact that their theories may need updating someday, but deep down inside "KNOW" they are right. These are the ones who you see throughout history attacking theories we know today to be true/more accurate. It's called pride, and this study could be a hit to many scientists pride.
This scares a lot of people who've made Science their new religion. People who say things like "I don't believe in God because I believe in Scince" (as though there was some sort of intrinsic conflict), may have their life philosophy challenged be the fact that Scince may not know ALL.
A couple phone calls by an astute professor with a cheese fetish, and Kraft gives us Velveeta.
I'd call that a lot of things, but not cheese....
That's because it's not cheese. Read the package. It's "a cheese food product."
What is "cheese food?" Well, you feed dog food to dogs, and cat food to cats, so it seems to reason that you should feed Velveeta to cheese. It's certainly not fit for human consumption.
If putting Hg in the vaccines saves the manufacturers money, don't expect to see them stop the practice any time soon.
The FDA is trying to phase-out of Thimerosal. It is removed or reduced to trace amojunts for vaccines meant for kids under 6. Merck's MMR contains 0 Thimeosal
However, a family that lives two doors down from us is very opposed to immunizations, and their children have not had the standard rounds of shots, but still go to school. I don't know what was required to enroll them, but they managed somehow.
They fill out some form that says "we are opposed to immunizations." My wife actually did that when she started college instead of trying to track down her old doctor and getting the files from him (she knew she had the shots).
One might as well say that "men have been shown to be better at 'blah' then women, while women consistently outperform men at 'foo', and both are equally good at 'x'." Untill those 'blah', 'foo' and 'x' are defined the statement will make no sense.
And some women will yell and scream and hate you even if you never define 'blah.' If you so much as suggest that there may be something that men, on average, do better than women due to some actual *gasp* difference between men and women... they'll go hysterical (and I use that term for it's irony).
Okay, I've never had a woman argue that they are the same/better at peeing standing up, but most everything else...
Show us some of the secret information which cannot be found online. What book is so valueable that I cannot find any information like it on the net.
Maybe you're trying to do research on the thoughts of a particular individual who's been writing lots of books. Those books aren't yet public domain, and therefore you have to get the books to do your research.
Also, there's a TON of historical books that haven't been digitized yet. A lot of books in non-latin alphabets have to be re-encoded for Unicode.
PDAs are more portable than books, and the internet is a better model of distribution. These are facts and you cannot argue against it.
So, when your PDA runs out of power on a backpacking trip, it becomes dead weight. The internet may be a better model of distribution in theory, but it still doesn't have a fraction of what I needed when I was a student.
I think , it's more about whats been distributed than whats been printed, after all I understand the bible was held private by the catholic church for 1000's of years, but only after typesetting machines were mass producing it, would I consider it "frozen"
Bad example, because there were so many copies of the Bible around (even if hand-printed), and they were publically available.
I think a better example may be that when something is copied only a few times, but is mainly kept in memory. Many of the ancient greek plays were widely memorized, but not written down very much. Several of those are now lost to us.
For me, it's more about how to access what I want to read.
Which is why I want every book I buy to come with a digital version, but it's sadly not going to happen. I want both the digital and the paper, as they have different needs.
Or if you design your schools to be all about learning how to feel good about yourself while taking orders from above, like our current liberal-formed schools are, then you'll never have good scientists.
Yes, the conservatives haven't done too much to fix the problem.
Oh, I know, maybe if we scale back federal interference with schools, they may actually be freed enough to actually teach our kids something!
Don't study Darwin, don't study the Big Bang, no Stem Cell research, stay in the Dark Ages. They don't kill people anymore like they did with Galileo
Wow. How ignorant can one be? If you're going to be all high and mighty about how much smarter you are then the Christians, then at least know enough history to know that Galileo wasn't killed.
Besides, I know lots of Christian schools that study Darwin. Most Christians have no problem with the Big Bang (as long as it's understood that God Created the Big Bang), and have no problem with adult stem-cell research. Using your bigoted views as truth is no worse then the actions by the group of Christians you're attacking.
A slide claiming "10x lower power," and then showing a desktop marked "65 watts." Right. So either P4s use 650 watts on their own, or using one of these new CPUs is going to magically make the rest of the system components use less power.
Or, it's that.5W handtop that they're talking about when they say "10x lower power." Just as the article said.
Just looking at the pretty picutres isn't the best way to try to determine what is being talked about.
I do wonder how many people would actually get the "no hard disk" version.
Grandparents.
At least, mine would. Then I'd have to buy the hard drive later (the other stuff I could care less about / already have). They'd probably charge over $100 for the HD.
they were sending on AVERAGE about 100 MILLION emails a day by using a cluster of 100 small (1U) racked machines.
From the blurb: Rather than clustering a lot of smaller servers together, large ISPs can now use fewer systems to handle massive traffic load."
Reading TFA, is sounds like this is one server - not 100. Unless the system in the article is using 30 servers, they beat your evil-spammer-boss's system on a per-server basis.
every private charter school I have ever heard about has been a total failure.
Well, then you haven't heard about enough, because I'm constantly hearing about wonderful charter schools that are doing great jobs.
Yes, some fail. If they do a bad job the parents pull them out and send them somewhere else. If enough parents do this the charter school goes out of buisness. The good ones keep the kids.
After social security we still have the same thing. The system was based on the premise that the population will grow, so more people pay in, than who take out. Unfortunately, the rate of population increase has slowed, and most payments aren't enough to cover the costs of living.
It was also designed to only support people who lived longer than was expected. If we indexed it to the standard life expectancy, then we'd be back to what it was when it started.
No, thsts folklaw. I assume tou are talking about Plymouth Rock and the fundamentalist group that landed there. There had been settlement in America long before that - remember that America was England's penal colony until Australia took over
Well, the first English colony that survived was founded 1607 - not what I would call LONG before Plymouth colony.
I've never come across the use of America as an English penal colony before, do you have any references?
Don't forget that the Bill of Rights was written to stop the new Federal government from infringing on the powers of the existing States.
Yes, in fact 3 of the states at the time of the Bill of Rights had official state religions. They all really liked the 1st amendment because it prohibited Congress from making the establishment of religion in their state illegal. Yes, that's right, according to the original intent of the 1st amendment it's perfectly okay for a particular state to make a particular religion the official religion of that state.
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Eugenics was only a single generation (or perhaps 2 generations) of testing. breeding favorable traits (or any trait) requires many many generations.
to see this, just look at dog breeds.
And look at all of the problems purebreads tend to have.
Genetic diversity is a GOOD thing.
ike that silly Catholic belief that dogs don't dream and the devil makes them twitch in REM sleep..
Uhh... WTF? Maybe someone who was Catholic said something like that once, but it's not a 'Catholic belief' and NOT Catholic teaching.
But, on your point, people may decide to have many children for a variety of reasons, regardless of religion or intelligence. You seem to be sterotyping here.
Doesn't do business with many of those same companies, eh? I though that was one of the major points of the lawsuit
Go back and read again, especially the part where it says "AMD currently DOES buisiness..."
I believe the best defense is in the response, where Intel says that they've gained market share in the server buisness because of the Opteron. From the response:
I.E. When AMD does something right, they do better.
Scientists are explicit that science doesn't know everything and that all theories are only theories that will need updating sometime in the future in the light of further knowledge.
It's only *creationists* who fraudulently claim that scientists say that science knows everything, so that they can say "But it doesn't so science is wrong". However, since scientists don't claim this, creationists are just liars. Google "straw-man fallacy" for more.
I love using a straw man, and then claiming that I am using one.
There is a group of people, which are mainly non-scientists, of whom I'm talking. Many of them are actually rather uneducated in science.
And, yes, there are some scientists who may pay some lip service to the fact that their theories may need updating someday, but deep down inside "KNOW" they are right. These are the ones who you see throughout history attacking theories we know today to be true/more accurate. It's called pride, and this study could be a hit to many scientists pride.
If you know how to drive, you'll avoid that guy as well.
I was hit once while sitting parked in a parking spot, not much the best driver in the world could do to avoid that.
There are other times when you can't avoid being hit (rear ended at a stop light behind another car, etc).
Wow! Science can be wrong.
That is how the system works.
This scares a lot of people who've made Science their new religion. People who say things like "I don't believe in God because I believe in Scince" (as though there was some sort of intrinsic conflict), may have their life philosophy challenged be the fact that Scince may not know ALL.
That's because it's not cheese. Read the package. It's "a cheese food product."
What is "cheese food?" Well, you feed dog food to dogs, and cat food to cats, so it seems to reason that you should feed Velveeta to cheese. It's certainly not fit for human consumption.
If putting Hg in the vaccines saves the manufacturers money, don't expect to see them stop the practice any time soon.
The FDA is trying to phase-out of Thimerosal. It is removed or reduced to trace amojunts for vaccines meant for kids under 6. Merck's MMR contains 0 Thimeosal
Research ahead of time.
However, a family that lives two doors down from us is very opposed to immunizations, and their children have not had the standard rounds of shots, but still go to school. I don't know what was required to enroll them, but they managed somehow.
They fill out some form that says "we are opposed to immunizations." My wife actually did that when she started college instead of trying to track down her old doctor and getting the files from him (she knew she had the shots).
One might as well say that "men have been shown to be better at 'blah' then women, while women consistently outperform men at 'foo', and both are equally good at 'x'." Untill those 'blah', 'foo' and 'x' are defined the statement will make no sense.
And some women will yell and scream and hate you even if you never define 'blah.' If you so much as suggest that there may be something that men, on average, do better than women due to some actual *gasp* difference between men and women... they'll go hysterical (and I use that term for it's irony).
Okay, I've never had a woman argue that they are the same/better at peeing standing up, but most everything else...
Show us some of the secret information which cannot be found online. What book is so valueable that I cannot find any information like it on the net.
Maybe you're trying to do research on the thoughts of a particular individual who's been writing lots of books. Those books aren't yet public domain, and therefore you have to get the books to do your research.
Also, there's a TON of historical books that haven't been digitized yet. A lot of books in non-latin alphabets have to be re-encoded for Unicode.
PDAs are more portable than books, and the internet is a better model of distribution. These are facts and you cannot argue against it.
So, when your PDA runs out of power on a backpacking trip, it becomes dead weight. The internet may be a better model of distribution in theory, but it still doesn't have a fraction of what I needed when I was a student.
I think , it's more about whats been distributed than whats been printed, after all I understand the bible was held private by the catholic church for 1000's of years, but only after typesetting machines were mass producing it, would I consider it "frozen"
Bad example, because there were so many copies of the Bible around (even if hand-printed), and they were publically available.
I think a better example may be that when something is copied only a few times, but is mainly kept in memory. Many of the ancient greek plays were widely memorized, but not written down very much. Several of those are now lost to us.
For me, it's more about how to access what I want to read.
Which is why I want every book I buy to come with a digital version, but it's sadly not going to happen. I want both the digital and the paper, as they have different needs.
I like having an oldfashioned paper book in my hands rather than sitting in front of a desktop computer or even a laptop which at least is protable.
And curling up in front of a fire with a glass of Port and a PDA doesn't quite feel right.
Or if you design your schools to be all about learning how to feel good about yourself while taking orders from above, like our current liberal-formed schools are, then you'll never have good scientists.
Yes, the conservatives haven't done too much to fix the problem.
Oh, I know, maybe if we scale back federal interference with schools, they may actually be freed enough to actually teach our kids something!
Don't study Darwin, don't study the Big Bang, no Stem Cell research, stay in the Dark Ages. They don't kill people anymore like they did with Galileo
Wow. How ignorant can one be? If you're going to be all high and mighty about how much smarter you are then the Christians, then at least know enough history to know that Galileo wasn't killed.
Besides, I know lots of Christian schools that study Darwin. Most Christians have no problem with the Big Bang (as long as it's understood that God Created the Big Bang), and have no problem with adult stem-cell research. Using your bigoted views as truth is no worse then the actions by the group of Christians you're attacking.
A slide claiming "10x lower power," and then showing a desktop marked "65 watts." Right. So either P4s use 650 watts on their own, or using one of these new CPUs is going to magically make the rest of the system components use less power.
.5W handtop that they're talking about when they say "10x lower power." Just as the article said.
Or, it's that
Just looking at the pretty picutres isn't the best way to try to determine what is being talked about.
I do wonder how many people would actually get the "no hard disk" version.
Grandparents.
At least, mine would. Then I'd have to buy the hard drive later (the other stuff I could care less about / already have). They'd probably charge over $100 for the HD.
they were sending on AVERAGE about 100 MILLION emails a day by using a cluster of 100 small (1U) racked machines.
From the blurb:
Rather than clustering a lot of smaller servers together, large ISPs can now use fewer systems to handle massive traffic load."
Reading TFA, is sounds like this is one server - not 100. Unless the system in the article is using 30 servers, they beat your evil-spammer-boss's system on a per-server basis.
every private charter school I have ever heard about has been a total failure.
Well, then you haven't heard about enough, because I'm constantly hearing about wonderful charter schools that are doing great jobs.
Yes, some fail. If they do a bad job the parents pull them out and send them somewhere else. If enough parents do this the charter school goes out of buisness. The good ones keep the kids.
After social security we still have the same thing. The system was based on the premise that the population will grow, so more people pay in, than who take out. Unfortunately, the rate of population increase has slowed, and most payments aren't enough to cover the costs of living.
It was also designed to only support people who lived longer than was expected. If we indexed it to the standard life expectancy, then we'd be back to what it was when it started.
No, thsts folklaw. I assume tou are talking about Plymouth Rock and the fundamentalist group that landed there. There had been settlement in America long before that - remember that America was England's penal colony until Australia took over
Well, the first English colony that survived was founded 1607 - not what I would call LONG before Plymouth colony.
I've never come across the use of America as an English penal colony before, do you have any references?
Don't forget that the Bill of Rights was written to stop the new Federal government from infringing on the powers of the existing States.
Yes, in fact 3 of the states at the time of the Bill of Rights had official state religions. They all really liked the 1st amendment because it prohibited Congress from making the establishment of religion in their state illegal. Yes, that's right, according to the original intent of the 1st amendment it's perfectly okay for a particular state to make a particular religion the official religion of that state.
just my 2c
No, no, no, you answer should be 2A...