I've always thought the wiser thing would be for a President to proclaim that we shall cure cancer within the next decade. Rather than the tired old Moo... er, Mars thing.
Been there. Done that. President Nixon launched a "War on Cancer" to find a cure within a decade.
While everyone makes a big deal about Face/Off, because they took the idea of a face transplant literally, the idea of surgery making you look like someone else has been around for quite a while.
For example, in Arsenic and Old Lace, one of the plot points involved a criminal whose looks have been altered to resemble Boris Karloff. In the stage play, this part was actually performed by Karloff.
I don't know if I find that site particularly credible. For one thing, he claims that the Irish Potato Famine was caused by climate change, when in fact it was caused by a fungus.
At the time he developed the theory of natural selection, Darwin was a Christian who had actually studied for the clergy, though probably for career reasons rather than a strong inclination to preach. He was never anti-religion and in fact, he delayed publication of his work in part because he realized the philosophical implications of his work. He eventually identified himself as agnostic.
Actually, 20 years ago, Creationism wasn't necessarily associated with Biblical literacy. There were always variants that looked the way ID does now. However, the "young earth creationists" hijacked the movement or became the dominant wing. That's one of the developments that lead to the invention of ID.
Because the Supreme Court saw that the young-earth variant was clearly religion, and struck down the state laws requiring it be taught, the anti-evolution brigade came up with ID.
If you read the wedge document, written by the Discovery Institute, you see that their goals include:
To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.
The evidence of evolution is so strong, that they are forced to admit it occurs, though they refer to a "micro-evolution". However, despite stating the precepts of ID in a way that would technically allow explanations like the Flying Spaghetti Monster as designer, the quote above proves that they have religios indoctrination as their true goal.
Actually, by the American Heritage definition, I'd say the parent is correct. Sabotage is a better term. Terrorism includes the intent to intimidate. The pipeline incident was intended to cause economic damamge, but it has done in a way that the Soviets would have not suspected any outside force, but assumed a construction error on their part.
While ID "as described in the literature" is not the same thing as creationism, the fact remains that ID was "designed" because creationism was failing.
Some of the articles published by the ID crowd have been shown to be earlier creationist texts with the references to God/creation/etc. removed and standard ID buzz-words inserted in their place.
Their strategy, outlined in the Discovery Institute's Wedge Document is stated quite baldly: "To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and hurnan beings are created by God".
The allegory interpretion, while widely disseminated, is most likely untrue. The fount of all things urband legend (snopes) dismisses it, as does this more scholarly analysis.
Drug samples are not designated exclusively for low-income patients. They're for anybody who walks into a doctor's office and said "I saw/read about this new drug" do you think it could help me?" The doctor drops a handful of pills into the patient's hands like Hallowe'en candy and says, "You know a lot of people have been asking about it since that big new ad campaign started, why don't you take some and tell me if it helps."
The patients goes home happy because they feel listened to, the doctor gets to schmooze with the drug company reps at the next convention, and the drug company likely gets a paying customer a few weeks down the road. It's a pure marketing play.
The workstations should hold you over well into the second and third revisions of Apple Intel hardware at least.
Not only that, but buying PPC Macs will save you money in software upgrade costs. Yes, the Intel hardware will run your software in emulation mode, but if there's anything you really need to use at full speed, you'll have to pay for an upgrade.
In early 1990s, Mitsubishi built a boat, the 'Yamoto', which uses a magnetohydrodynamic drive, is driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15 km/h.
A rocket lifting off at 15 km/h is going to take a while to get anywhere.
Check out these maps to see how the coastlines would change (and have changed since the last ice age).
No, the Canadian Rockies aren't threatened, but Florida would be about 1/3 under water if the West Antarctic ice sheet melted, and about 90% underwater if the East sheet melted as well.
Just to clarify the article. The DNA samples that are submitted to the National Geographic Genographic project are completely anonymous. In addition, they are only using the material to look for specific genetic markers that help indicate patterns of human migration, not any medical signatures.
Leeches contributed to the Chrisitan domination of the planet??? For one thing, blood-letting in ancient societies was considered a cure, and while we've discovered that it may actually have some health benefits, it's certainly no cure. For another, the use of leeches has arisen again in some very specialized cases, because their "technology", created by millions of years of evolution, for handling clotting problems, is better than ours.
As far as the decline of Rome goes, you're explanation is laughable. The marriage laws were about class distinctions. Augustus was worried that the lower classes would outnumber the "nobler" classes and was trying to encourage legitimate children in the upper classes.
Finally, ID explains nothing, which is why it has no business in a science class. Yeah, spend a day or two on it in a philosophy class, but it has no predictive power (unlike evolution, see this discussion on some misunderstandings about progress), it's merely naysaying.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. The time when a unix clone could have taken over the PC world was not the WinNT timeframe, but the DOS timeframe. I think you're correct that economics was the prime consideration, but there was a large attitude problem on both sides.
A surprisingly large number of people on the microcomputer side said, "We don't need a bloated OS with multitasking and user accounts, we just want to run our spreadsheets and play our games."
On the other side, there was the attitude of the minicomputer folks who saw micros either as toys compared to their VAXen or as threats, since they could sell a unix license for $1000 or more on a mini or high-end micro and DOS licenses would only bring them $50.
We could have been spared a great deal of the pain of DOS and its evil spawn had someone been willing to sell Unix for $50.
It makes a lot of sense to have video in iTunes where you have the bandwidth to command and your full monitor to display.
The trademark thing had to be expanded to include images anyway, may as well add video to be safe. Not that it won't happen some day, but I'd bet on the desktop first.
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I've always thought the wiser thing would be for a President to proclaim that we shall cure cancer within the next decade. Rather than the tired old Moo... er, Mars thing.
Been there. Done that. President Nixon launched a "War on Cancer" to find a cure within a decade.
While everyone makes a big deal about Face/Off, because they took the idea of a face transplant literally, the idea of surgery making you look like someone else has been around for quite a while.
For example, in Arsenic and Old Lace, one of the plot points involved a criminal whose looks have been altered to resemble Boris Karloff. In the stage play, this part was actually performed by Karloff.
Steamships. In page 2 of the article it notes that the fungus was native to South America and was probably carried with potato seeds.
I don't know if I find that site particularly credible. For one thing, he claims that the Irish Potato Famine was caused by climate change, when in fact it was caused by a fungus.
In addition, other sites suggest that water vapor accounts for much less of the greenhouse effect, 60% according to these folks, and the Wikipedia offers anywhere from 36% to 70%.
At the time he developed the theory of natural selection, Darwin was a Christian who had actually studied for the clergy, though probably for career reasons rather than a strong inclination to preach. He was never anti-religion and in fact, he delayed publication of his work in part because he realized the philosophical implications of his work. He eventually identified himself as agnostic.
It seems to me there are a couple of issues here:
1) Did the security companies ever even detect the rootkit?
If they did not, then they're crap. If they did, then:
2) What kind of deals did they cut with Sony?
In fact, if you go to his site, the first thing you are invited to do is "click on the lemur".
The writeup does a lousy job of telling us what the bill is about. It is apparently legislation to create a statutory framework for Internet Protocol and Broadband Services.
Here's what Cerf says: My fear is that, as written, this bill would do great damage to the Internet as we know it.
Because the Supreme Court saw that the young-earth variant was clearly religion, and struck down the state laws requiring it be taught, the anti-evolution brigade came up with ID.
If you read the wedge document, written by the Discovery Institute, you see that their goals include:
The evidence of evolution is so strong, that they are forced to admit it occurs, though they refer to a "micro-evolution". However, despite stating the precepts of ID in a way that would technically allow explanations like the Flying Spaghetti Monster as designer, the quote above proves that they have religios indoctrination as their true goal.
Actually, by the American Heritage definition, I'd say the parent is correct. Sabotage is a better term. Terrorism includes the intent to intimidate. The pipeline incident was intended to cause economic damamge, but it has done in a way that the Soviets would have not suspected any outside force, but assumed a construction error on their part.
While ID "as described in the literature" is not the same thing as creationism, the fact remains that ID was "designed" because creationism was failing.
Some of the articles published by the ID crowd have been shown to be earlier creationist texts with the references to God/creation/etc. removed and standard ID buzz-words inserted in their place.
Their strategy, outlined in the Discovery Institute's Wedge Document is stated quite baldly: "To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and hurnan beings are created by God".
Sorry, but you've been fooled.
of course
The allegory interpretion, while widely disseminated, is most likely untrue. The fount of all things urband legend (snopes) dismisses it, as does this more scholarly analysis.
Damn youngsters. Don't know nothin' nowadays.
We Don't Care, We Don't Have To.
Get Lily Tomlin on the line, she's got work to do.
You know, do you want it to be a holographic experience that you play in your bathtub?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Drug samples are not designated exclusively for low-income patients. They're for anybody who walks into a doctor's office and said "I saw/read about this new drug" do you think it could help me?" The doctor drops a handful of pills into the patient's hands like Hallowe'en candy and says, "You know a lot of people have been asking about it since that big new ad campaign started, why don't you take some and tell me if it helps."
The patients goes home happy because they feel listened to, the doctor gets to schmooze with the drug company reps at the next convention, and the drug company likely gets a paying customer a few weeks down the road. It's a pure marketing play.
The workstations should hold you over well into the second and third revisions of Apple Intel hardware at least.
Not only that, but buying PPC Macs will save you money in software upgrade costs. Yes, the Intel hardware will run your software in emulation mode, but if there's anything you really need to use at full speed, you'll have to pay for an upgrade.
From the Wikipedia article on Magneto Hydro Dynamics:
In early 1990s, Mitsubishi built a boat, the 'Yamoto', which uses a magnetohydrodynamic drive, is driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15 km/h.
A rocket lifting off at 15 km/h is going to take a while to get anywhere.
Check out these maps to see how the coastlines would change (and have changed since the last ice age).
No, the Canadian Rockies aren't threatened, but Florida would be about 1/3 under water if the West Antarctic ice sheet melted, and about 90% underwater if the East sheet melted as well.
Yes, I'm sure it's just biased accidentily. Consider:
Fox Primarily an "Opinion" Network
Fox Viewers More Likely to be Misinformed
Fox Shills for the War
Fox, Neither Fair nor Balanced
There's lots more out there if you open your eyes.
Yes. The skeptics are publishing, too. More here.
Just to clarify the article. The DNA samples that are submitted to the National Geographic Genographic project are completely anonymous. In addition, they are only using the material to look for specific genetic markers that help indicate patterns of human migration, not any medical signatures.
You also have a seriously warped view of history.
Leeches contributed to the Chrisitan domination of the planet??? For one thing, blood-letting in ancient societies was considered a cure, and while we've discovered that it may actually have some health benefits, it's certainly no cure. For another, the use of leeches has arisen again in some very specialized cases, because their "technology", created by millions of years of evolution, for handling clotting problems, is better than ours.
As far as the decline of Rome goes, you're explanation is laughable. The marriage laws were about class distinctions. Augustus was worried that the lower classes would outnumber the "nobler" classes and was trying to encourage legitimate children in the upper classes.
Finally, ID explains nothing, which is why it has no business in a science class. Yeah, spend a day or two on it in a philosophy class, but it has no predictive power (unlike evolution, see this discussion on some misunderstandings about progress), it's merely naysaying.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. The time when a unix clone could have taken over the PC world was not the WinNT timeframe, but the DOS timeframe. I think you're correct that economics was the prime consideration, but there was a large attitude problem on both sides.
A surprisingly large number of people on the microcomputer side said, "We don't need a bloated OS with multitasking and user accounts, we just want to run our spreadsheets and play our games."
On the other side, there was the attitude of the minicomputer folks who saw micros either as toys compared to their VAXen or as threats, since they could sell a unix license for $1000 or more on a mini or high-end micro and DOS licenses would only bring them $50.
We could have been spared a great deal of the pain of DOS and its evil spawn had someone been willing to sell Unix for $50.
iTunes != iPod
It makes a lot of sense to have video in iTunes where you have the bandwidth to command and your full monitor to display.
The trademark thing had to be expanded to include images anyway, may as well add video to be safe. Not that it won't happen some day, but I'd bet on the desktop first.