Another, less used means of maintaining a fixed exchange rate is by simply making it illegal to trade currency at any other rate. This is difficult to enforce and often leads to a black market in foreign currency. Nonetheless, some countries are highly successful at using this method due to government monopolies over all money conversion. This is the method employed by the Chinese government to maintain a currency peg or tightly banded float against the US dollar.
They simply did it by saying it is so, not by hoarding and releasing.
Before the attraction of gravity was discovered . . . astronomers might have said God ordered each planet to move in its particular destiny. In the same manner God orders each animal created with certain forms in certain countries. But how much more simple and sublime to let attraction act according to certain law. -Darwin, 1837 notebook.
IF a theory can be disproved by an observation, then it is a theory.
If there is no disprovable facts in a theory, then it is not a theory. (it must also have significant supporting evidence for it to get to the theory stage, otherwise it is a hypothesis)
ID is not a theory because there is no way to disprove it. No can prove there is no God(s), therefore it is not a matter of science, it is a matter of belief.
Evolution does not state life began on earth by autogenesis. It states that species evolve and specialize, and that more complex lifeforms evolved from lesser life forms.
So there are several possibilities: a. Autogenesis b. Exo-genesis (life came from another planet) c. Intelligent Design (genesis) d. Exo-genesis by another life form. (Quite a few nutters fall into this category, but it is also possible)
Occums Razor cuts out c, marginalizes d, and splits a/b in half with a being the most simple explanation. If we find identical lifeforms on Mars or in comet/astroid that matched Earth DNA exactly AND it predated any lifeform possibility on earth then b gets a boost as to how life formed on Earth.
They are not holding it down using reserves, they have semi-pinned it to the US dollar. It does not float freely against our currency, it is a managed float.
If they did that it would shoot up drastically, devaluing the dollars they hold and making Chinese goods much more expensive here.
You are right, I don't have any proof you are not God. Therefore it is possible that you are.
But people, scientists specifically, accept the existing of unobserved, unmeasured and thus unproven theories.
Scientists used strings and dark matter because it explains other observed but unexplained phenomena.
Eventually dark matter was "observed", or at least it's effect have been measured.
Strings are still a matter of debate.
In the same way God serves as a way to explain existential issues such as life, the universe and everything. Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing?
As a matter of scientific principal, you cannot prove a negative. Poppers line of Demarcation. So you "believe" god does not exist, a reasonable position given the data, but it is not a proof.
Consider the case of sub atomic particles and quarks. They were implied by the math, but there was no proof. Did that mean scientists could not use them to explain what they saw?
So a reasonable theist like myself believes in God, but really does not care if you do unless you want to talk about it.
More milk and honey for me!;)
Your sig is incomplete: Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no proof of God.
Your description of agnosticism is somewhat narrow. One can be an agnostic and have a "belief" in God.
It has more to do with knowing the nature of that God and proving the existence of God or an afterlife.
I fall firmly in the "there is a God" but that the constructs presented to me are limited and flawed because God is unknowable. Also known as agnostic theism.
I use Christian-Judeo as my basis for understanding what I can about the nature of God but do not believe it is the sole valid construct. The values are broadly tenable: Golden Rule and Ten Commandments.
Which is why when I was misidentified as the Assailant in a case I insisted on the whole thing being expunged from the records. I have a clearance and a felony assault would rather ruin that..
Slightly complicated, but the officer mixed up the report and identified me as the attacker/
The DA balked, because it would have meant he could not read the police reports, look at the evidence, and see that the officer screwed up the names.
Anyway, a threat of suing for malicious prosecution and a few stern looks from the judge (ok, mostly the judge) meant I got my case removed from the records.
But they have some nice advantages, you are not accelerating the fuel needed to get to whatever elevation you can get with the ground based launcher.
Where that energy comes from for a railgun does not really matter, it can be nuke, wind, solar or whatever stored in capacitors. However, it just needs to be a LOT of electricity.
I am not arguing the right or wrong either. I am arguing that US at least followed form. And it was not unilateral, although the US was the majority of forces engaged in Iraq.
Russia on the other hand, is practicing Realpolitik. They have invaded a sovereign nation with one thing in mind: expand Russian borders.
Where did all the Russian supporters come from? Mostly from Russia. Russia issued passports to Ossetians and also sent Russians there to stuff the ballot box. Many of the upper government posts are held by former Russian generals.
Remember, this is like Maine and New Hampshire deciding to break away from the US because there are a lot of Canadian ex-pats voted for it.
Second, it is far more evil than what the US did in Iraq. We are not annexing the land, as Russia is doing.
Also, we had 19 UN resolutions backing our action. Russia has none. To say they are equally evil is to make a ethical/moral equivalence that is just not there.
Unless you want to argue UN resolutions don't mean squat and don't even give you a figleaf of coverage.
In many cases, the so-called âoeidle leasesâ are not idle at all; they are under geologic evaluation or in development and could be an important source of domestic supply. However, this does not mean all leases have the potential to produce. Companies can evaluate leases for several years only to determine that they do not contain oil or natural gas in commercial quantities. ... [Emphasis added]
One wonders if a alternate fuel company made this much if they would be grabbing 75% of the profits as taxes and wanting even more from them as "windfall".
Rather, years of exploration is required before drilling can even begin. In some cases, no oil is found on leases they hold. In others, drilling the wells and building the pipelines takes years.
Sure, they were already taxed ~$33 billion, whats 11 more?
"In addition to making hefty profits, Exxon also had a hefty tax bill. Worldwide, the company paid $10.5 billion in income taxes in the second quarter, $9.5 billion in sales taxes, and over $12 billion in what it called "other taxes." " http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/31/news/companies/exxon_profits/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories
75% taxes rate. Let's just eat it all!
(And do remember where that 11Billion went... it went to shareholders)
Also, they spent $7 Billion on exploration:
"Exxon spent $7 billion in the second quarter finding and producing more new oil, up 38% from last year."
Has detailed analysis on what causes injury/death to cyclists.
It is other cyclists. Specifically ones riding against traffic and those breaking the law. One of the most common is getting rear ended by a cyclist that is NOT going to stop for a signal/stopsign.
Act like a car, other drivers will respect you. Granted, there are still a-holes... but they would do the same to you in a car.
You have to calibrate for weight. The more you weigh the more calories you burn at a surprising rate.
I just did (tonight) 1hr, 20 minutes, average 15 mph, burned 1450 cals. Using a Polar CS200 for a HR monitor. (My fitness goal is 1000 per hour, regardless of distance or speed. I can do that with ease.)
Why? I weigh 240. (Overweight, but even at a reasonable 12% BFI I would still be 205)
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Big assumption.
They probably deleted all those "useless files" on the fileserver when they fired him.
And the "terminal server" is probably his iPhone...
Read the next paragraph in your first quote:
Another, less used means of maintaining a fixed exchange rate is by simply making it illegal to trade currency at any other rate. This is difficult to enforce and often leads to a black market in foreign currency. Nonetheless, some countries are highly successful at using this method due to government monopolies over all money conversion. This is the method employed by the Chinese government to maintain a currency peg or tightly banded float against the US dollar.
They simply did it by saying it is so, not by hoarding and releasing.
You forgot Darwin:
Before the attraction of gravity was discovered . . . astronomers might have said God ordered each planet to move in its particular destiny. In the same manner God orders each animal created with certain forms in certain countries. But how much more simple and sublime to let attraction act according to certain law. -Darwin, 1837 notebook.
Poppers rule of Demarcation is a better measure.
IF a theory can be disproved by an observation, then it is a theory.
If there is no disprovable facts in a theory, then it is not a theory. (it must also have significant supporting evidence for it to get to the theory stage, otherwise it is a hypothesis)
ID is not a theory because there is no way to disprove it. No can prove there is no God(s), therefore it is not a matter of science, it is a matter of belief.
Evolution does not state life began on earth by autogenesis. It states that species evolve and specialize, and that more complex lifeforms evolved from lesser life forms.
So there are several possibilities:
a. Autogenesis
b. Exo-genesis (life came from another planet)
c. Intelligent Design (genesis)
d. Exo-genesis by another life form. (Quite a few nutters fall into this category, but it is also possible)
Occums Razor cuts out c, marginalizes d, and splits a/b in half with a being the most simple explanation.
If we find identical lifeforms on Mars or in comet/astroid that matched Earth DNA exactly AND it predated any lifeform possibility on earth then b gets a boost as to how life formed on Earth.
PhD is a degree. Professor is a job.
They are not holding it down using reserves, they have semi-pinned it to the US dollar. It does not float freely against our currency, it is a managed float.
If they did that it would shoot up drastically, devaluing the dollars they hold and making Chinese goods much more expensive here.
That would injury both parties.
You are right, I don't have any proof you are not God. Therefore it is possible that you are.
But people, scientists specifically, accept the existing of unobserved, unmeasured and thus unproven theories.
Scientists used strings and dark matter because it explains other observed but unexplained phenomena.
Eventually dark matter was "observed", or at least it's effect have been measured.
Strings are still a matter of debate.
In the same way God serves as a way to explain existential issues such as life, the universe and everything. Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing?
Oxygen? Insha'Allah.
That does not provide proof.
As a matter of scientific principal, you cannot prove a negative. Poppers line of Demarcation. So you "believe" god does not exist, a reasonable position given the data, but it is not a proof.
Consider the case of sub atomic particles and quarks. They were implied by the math, but there was no proof. Did that mean scientists could not use them to explain what they saw?
So a reasonable theist like myself believes in God, but really does not care if you do unless you want to talk about it.
More milk and honey for me! ;)
Your sig is incomplete: Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no proof of God.
Your description of agnosticism is somewhat narrow. One can be an agnostic and have a "belief" in God.
It has more to do with knowing the nature of that God and proving the existence of God or an afterlife.
I fall firmly in the "there is a God" but that the constructs presented to me are limited and flawed because God is unknowable. Also known as agnostic theism.
I use Christian-Judeo as my basis for understanding what I can about the nature of God but do not believe it is the sole valid construct. The values are broadly tenable: Golden Rule and Ten Commandments.
Which is why when I was misidentified as the Assailant in a case I insisted on the whole thing being expunged from the records. I have a clearance and a felony assault would rather ruin that..
Slightly complicated, but the officer mixed up the report and identified me as the attacker/
The DA balked, because it would have meant he could not read the police reports, look at the evidence, and see that the officer screwed up the names.
Anyway, a threat of suing for malicious prosecution and a few stern looks from the judge (ok, mostly the judge) meant I got my case removed from the records.
No no no!
Agnostic would be collecting little squares of paper with one side having pictures and numbers on it and the other being all sticky if you lick them.
They might be stamps, but you are not really sure.
Don't your servers come with an ILOM?
But they have some nice advantages, you are not accelerating the fuel needed to get to whatever elevation you can get with the ground based launcher.
Where that energy comes from for a railgun does not really matter, it can be nuke, wind, solar or whatever stored in capacitors. However, it just needs to be a LOT of electricity.
I am not arguing the right or wrong either. I am arguing that US at least followed form. And it was not unilateral, although the US was the majority of forces engaged in Iraq.
Russia on the other hand, is practicing Realpolitik. They have invaded a sovereign nation with one thing in mind: expand Russian borders.
Two things:
Where did all the Russian supporters come from? Mostly from Russia. Russia issued passports to Ossetians and also sent Russians there to stuff the ballot box. Many of the upper government posts are held by former Russian generals.
Remember, this is like Maine and New Hampshire deciding to break away from the US because there are a lot of Canadian ex-pats voted for it.
Second, it is far more evil than what the US did in Iraq. We are not annexing the land, as Russia is doing.
Also, we had 19 UN resolutions backing our action. Russia has none. To say they are equally evil is to make a ethical/moral equivalence that is just not there.
Unless you want to argue UN resolutions don't mean squat and don't even give you a figleaf of coverage.
*shrug*
Maybe they are Swedish?
Come on now, don't you think grid electricity is taxed?
Don't worry, they will take their pound of flesh from you.
Not so much as exploit them as give them a "lesser of two evil's choice"
From their point of view: Given the choice between weak-willed conservatives and Marxist Democrats they go for the weak willed conservatives.
Like we would ever let Huckabee or Ron Paul be the nominee, they are just nutters.
(In an interesting twist this year, it is the Democrat's candidate that wears his religion on his sleeve )
They indicate that in the second "fact"
In many cases, the so-called âoeidle leasesâ are not idle at all; they are under geologic evaluation or in development and could be an important source of domestic supply. However, this does not mean all leases have the potential to produce. Companies can evaluate leases for several years only to determine that they do not contain oil or natural gas in commercial quantities. ... [Emphasis added]
One wonders if a alternate fuel company made this much if they would be grabbing 75% of the profits as taxes and wanting even more from them as "windfall".
Easy, uses google:
Rather, years of exploration is required before drilling can even begin. In some cases, no oil is found on leases they hold. In others, drilling the wells and building the pipelines takes years.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/23/news/economy/oil_drilling/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://www.energytomorrow.com/energy/Facts_about_Non_Producing_Leases.aspx
Sure, they were already taxed ~$33 billion, whats 11 more?
"In addition to making hefty profits, Exxon also had a hefty tax bill. Worldwide, the company paid $10.5 billion in income taxes in the second quarter, $9.5 billion in sales taxes, and over $12 billion in what it called "other taxes." "
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/31/news/companies/exxon_profits/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories
75% taxes rate. Let's just eat it all!
(And do remember where that 11Billion went... it went to shareholders)
Also, they spent $7 Billion on exploration:
"Exxon spent $7 billion in the second quarter finding and producing more new oil, up 38% from last year."
Effective Cycling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_Cycling
Has detailed analysis on what causes injury/death to cyclists.
It is other cyclists. Specifically ones riding against traffic and those breaking the law. One of the most common is getting rear ended by a cyclist that is NOT going to stop for a signal/stopsign.
Act like a car, other drivers will respect you. Granted, there are still a-holes... but they would do the same to you in a car.
You have to calibrate for weight. The more you weigh the more calories you burn at a surprising rate.
I just did (tonight) 1hr, 20 minutes, average 15 mph, burned 1450 cals. Using a Polar CS200 for a HR monitor.
(My fitness goal is 1000 per hour, regardless of distance or speed. I can do that with ease.)
Why? I weigh 240. (Overweight, but even at a reasonable 12% BFI I would still be 205)
Yeah, I was hoping to get a Reiser out of someone.