Also, one environment's defect is another's adaptation. Scientists don't have the last word on who among us is the fittest. Plus, our ability to create lenses widens the range of variability possible in our gene-pool, which is probably good for the species.
The fitness landscape is changing, broadening. This may actually be a good thing not just from a humane perspective, but because it will increase the possible variability in our species and raise the number of novel mutations we can try out.
BTW, as long as people are dying and being born, we will evolve. Given the vaugeries of sexual reproduction, even if everybody had exactly two kids, we'd still evolve.
We build a device for the food industry. One of our customers lost her blast shield, and after a few weeks the circuit board got so crudded up it wouldn't work anymore. We told her to open the case and run the board under a sink, wait till it dried completely, then turn it back on. She still is cleaning it that way, afaik, and it still works fine.
Agreed. All of my family and friends that learned English as a second language overseas have a much better hold on the language than people who are tought here.
I don't mean that they use the Queen's English while native writing is full of colloquialisms, I mean that they know more about the language than we do, unless you were taught by the Jesuits or something.
Putting on a tinfoil hat borrowed from Orwell, raising a generation of kids ignorant of their own language will cause them to think less clearly in that language and be more susceptable to manipulation.
In this case: an undeserved advantage in a multiplayer game.
I know many multiplayer games take quite a bit of skill, but saying anyone deserves anything in WoW is like saying a rat in a skinner box deserved the pellet.
It's Bush's job to kick butt down the chain of command till something gets done. He didn't and still hasn't done that. And yes, Clinton did kick butt until the millenium bombers were foiled.
I'd argue that security on planes, right now, is still inadequate.
I won't argue with your judgement on this, or with your point about 9/11 being a necessary stimulus for change, but if you are going to be intellectually honest, you'll note that today's beefed up security has no bearing on the fact that the old security regime was more than adequate to allow the feds to foil 9/11 attacks. At the very least they should have given it a shot.
BTW, Clinton obviously didn't do enough to get bin Laden. He really should have gone to war after the Embassy bombings, and certainly after the Cole bombing, for instance, but the Sudan story is nonsense. The offer was apparantly real, but it was from a source with no credibility.
One of the responders mentions that the script of the movie is not Adams' script at all, and that Disney rejected his outright. If that's so, where is his script, and what would it take to produce it?
It's funny you should say that. I've dabbled a very little in "literate programming", which is actually more comment than code, and while I don't find it useful for applications, it's pretty handy for short scripts, especially if it's in an obscure language that you don't use anywhere else.
A variable name can only tell you what the variable is, not why you chose to make it that way.
What do you mean? Most modern languages support pretty long variables. I'd venture to say that almost every variable definition comment could be turned into a varibale name.
There were many protest in Florida on both sides, many organized by the parties. This particular riot was a storming of vote counting location in an attempt to stop vote counters from doing their legal to count votes. It succeeded. If the protesters out front of the GOP convention had tried to shut down the convention through intimidation, then you'd have a point.
No, this is something new with regards to punishing dissent. These aren't political appointments, and no president who had any love for what this country stands for would do this.
There was a reporter in 2004 who went to a Kerry rally wearing a Bush shirt. He was allowed to enter, but warned that he'd be ejected if he caused trouble. The same reporter wore a Kerry shirt to a Bush rally and was immediately ejected.
There hasn't been much violence (directed inward, at least), but the nose of the Camel in that regard was the "spontaneus" riot that stopped a recount in one Florida county in 2000. Turns out the rioters were all GOP staffers and the riot was planned.
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It was envisioned by Heinlein and others many decades ago "The Man Who Sold The Moon" springs to mind.
But then they've already shown that those of us with nervous ticks burn a lot of energy that way anyway.
Also, one environment's defect is another's adaptation. Scientists don't have the last word on who among us is the fittest. Plus, our ability to create lenses widens the range of variability possible in our gene-pool, which is probably good for the species.
The fitness landscape is changing, broadening. This may actually be a good thing not just from a humane perspective, but because it will increase the possible variability in our species and raise the number of novel mutations we can try out.
BTW, as long as people are dying and being born, we will evolve. Given the vaugeries of sexual reproduction, even if everybody had exactly two kids, we'd still evolve.
Birth control trends suggest that the religious will be selected in favor of those of us who aren't!
It's not so much that every deep fish glows but that most that do have come to rely on it so that if they didn't they'd die.
We build a device for the food industry. One of our customers lost her blast shield, and after a few weeks the circuit board got so crudded up it wouldn't work anymore. We told her to open the case and run the board under a sink, wait till it dried completely, then turn it back on. She still is cleaning it that way, afaik, and it still works fine.
Any tactical nuke can be a suitcase (not quite suitcase, but maybe golfbag) nuke, and there are thousands of those.
Agreed. All of my family and friends that learned English as a second language overseas have a much better hold on the language than people who are tought here.
I don't mean that they use the Queen's English while native writing is full of colloquialisms, I mean that they know more about the language than we do, unless you were taught by the Jesuits or something.
Putting on a tinfoil hat borrowed from Orwell, raising a generation of kids ignorant of their own language will cause them to think less clearly in that language and be more susceptable to manipulation.
What's the bodymass of the average Steelers fan?
It's common in society for people of means to pay others to do grunt work for them.
The solution is Permadeath! You will have almost no dimbulbs at the higher levels. OTOH, the real world price for a leveled character would skyrocket.
In this case: an undeserved advantage in a multiplayer game.
I know many multiplayer games take quite a bit of skill, but saying anyone deserves anything in WoW is like saying a rat in a skinner box deserved the pellet.
It's Bush's job to kick butt down the chain of command till something gets done. He didn't and still hasn't done that. And yes, Clinton did kick butt until the millenium bombers were foiled.
I'd argue that security on planes, right now, is still inadequate.
I won't argue with your judgement on this, or with your point about 9/11 being a necessary stimulus for change, but if you are going to be intellectually honest, you'll note that today's beefed up security has no bearing on the fact that the old security regime was more than adequate to allow the feds to foil 9/11 attacks. At the very least they should have given it a shot.
BTW, Clinton obviously didn't do enough to get bin Laden. He really should have gone to war after the Embassy bombings, and certainly after the Cole bombing, for instance, but the Sudan story is nonsense. The offer was apparantly real, but it was from a source with no credibility.
One of the responders mentions that the script of the movie is not Adams' script at all, and that Disney rejected his outright. If that's so, where is his script, and what would it take to produce it?
A Lisp OS for x86 processors. Don't ask me if it works because I don't know. Sure doesn't look like it's very far along yet.
It's funny you should say that. I've dabbled a very little in "literate programming", which is actually more comment than code, and while I don't find it useful for applications, it's pretty handy for short scripts, especially if it's in an obscure language that you don't use anywhere else.
What do you mean? Most modern languages support pretty long variables. I'd venture to say that almost every variable definition comment could be turned into a varibale name.
for instance:
I'm going to bring Democracy to Brazil. Anyone who stands in my way will be crushed.
There were many protest in Florida on both sides, many organized by the parties. This particular riot was a storming of vote counting location in an attempt to stop vote counters from doing their legal to count votes. It succeeded. If the protesters out front of the GOP convention had tried to shut down the convention through intimidation, then you'd have a point.
No, this is something new with regards to punishing dissent. These aren't political appointments, and no president who had any love for what this country stands for would do this.
There was a reporter in 2004 who went to a Kerry rally wearing a Bush shirt. He was allowed to enter, but warned that he'd be ejected if he caused trouble. The same reporter wore a Kerry shirt to a Bush rally and was immediately ejected.
There hasn't been much violence (directed inward, at least), but the nose of the Camel in that regard was the "spontaneus" riot that stopped a recount in one Florida county in 2000. Turns out the rioters were all GOP staffers and the riot was planned.
In other words, light-weight brownshirts.
Keep your hands of "Pluto Nash". The movie was just fun. Way underrated.
I've never read anything that suggested they were all or even most diplomats.