Bah! I did the same thing years ago using a strobe light and lava lamp. Got data transfer rates upwards of 20bps until it gave me an epileptic seizure.
Come on, you know everything Google does is cool, and by extolling its virtues I myself become cool by association. Look at me. I'm hip. I'm using the latest Google crap.
One could certainly be a competent physician, for example, and not believe in Darwinism (or neo-Darwinism). It seems to me that one could even be a quite competent practitioner of any of the biological sciences (other than the various sorts of paleontology) without necessarily agreeing with Darwinism. Yes, I'll take last year's flu vaccine because there's no way a virus can "evolve" when it's been intelligently designed already. And there's no reason to test medications on animals since they were designed independently of people. A much better approach would be to reverse-engineer the human design and create medicines based on design cues, or perhaps look for blueprints left by the Intelligent Agent. Such blueprints would have to be thousands of years old, possibly carved in rock.
If I rejected all aspects of biology and medicine derived from the theory of common ancestry, I'd be praying too.
Are you suggesting the offspring of these religious nuts will be "naturally selected" out of the good schools and good jobs? Or -- contrary to your "theory" -- will their children grow up to be President as if by the will of some intelligent designer? I'd say "The jury is still out."
We are already pushing hard to get the Theory of Intelligent Falling into the science books, but are finding it difficult to overthrow the existing dogma of atheistic gravity. I find it impossible to believe everything falls in the same direction by pure random chance!
Also the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a religion, it is a perfectly valid scientific critique seeking to fill gaps in the theory of Intelligent Design (which according to court-filed documents is also not a religion).
My biggest criticism is that he purports to tell us what liberals think, believe, and do. Yet I live in very liberal NorCal, and nobody I know fits the description he sells (and his listeners take as gospel). He's not my spokesman, so I don't know where he gets off telling people I want higher taxes, surrender to bin Laden, socialism, communism, etc etc etc. Sure I insult him plenty, but I don't purposefully misrepresent his views.
It's not the insults, it's that his strawmen get in the way of any meaningful debate. I can't talk politics with my parents (Rush listeners) because I have to first convince them that opposing warrantless eavesdropping doesn't mean I want terrorists to blow up the local mini-mall while we all hold hands and sing kumbaya on communist bicycles because we've banned cars and ownership of personal property.
If we can't get past that, how can we even start to objectively discuss the empirical results of single-payer health care?
Sure we went into space, but now the shuttle is rusting in the front lawn sitting on cinderblocks, while we sit on the porch drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon talkin about how as soon as we get around to fixin it, we're gonna drive 'er to Mars. And maybe put on some mag wheels. That'd be sweet.
Is there a single Sci-fi movie, book, or TV series they DIDN'T lampoon in the first four seasons? The Fry-Leela love story ran its complete arc. Every character did everything people do in their 20s. Even the hottie trust fund chick is spoken for. Did I miss something?
You kids complain about Jar Jar. Back in my day we had to put up with that supid kid and his muppet pet on Battlestar Galactica, or Buck Rogers and his robot bidibidibidbidibidi! Jar Jar is straight up street gangsta by comparison.
The problem of that economic analysis is that the main driver of cost in recovering the oil is energy. If the price of oil doubles, then the price of recovering that oil also doubles. You have to look at the basic energy equation. We drill where the amount of energy we get out is greater than the amount of energy required to extract and refine it.
If extracting these difficult sources consumes more energy than it produces, then it will never be economical. Period.
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Bah! I did the same thing years ago using a strobe light and lava lamp. Got data transfer rates upwards of 20bps until it gave me an epileptic seizure.
Come on, you know everything Google does is cool, and by extolling its virtues I myself become cool by association. Look at me. I'm hip. I'm using the latest Google crap.
And release the spambots in 3... 2... 1...
oh god. i may never have sex again.
i know, this is slashdot...
Irregardless, hackers do work with all intensive purposes, so the price free information is internal vigilance.
Clearly education isn't working. The average IQ has held steady at 100 for as long as records have been kept.
If I rejected all aspects of biology and medicine derived from the theory of common ancestry, I'd be praying too.
Are you suggesting the offspring of these religious nuts will be "naturally selected" out of the good schools and good jobs? Or -- contrary to your "theory" -- will their children grow up to be President as if by the will of some intelligent designer? I'd say "The jury is still out."
If that is really his point, then why all the references to the Spanish Inquisition, Hitler, and Eugenics?
I thought his point was that God-fearing Christians are being purged from academia in order to indoctrinate children with atheist dogma.
We are already pushing hard to get the Theory of Intelligent Falling into the science books, but are finding it difficult to overthrow the existing dogma of atheistic gravity. I find it impossible to believe everything falls in the same direction by pure random chance!
Also the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a religion, it is a perfectly valid scientific critique seeking to fill gaps in the theory of Intelligent Design (which according to court-filed documents is also not a religion).
You mean like the Apple eMate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
One of the first products Jobs killed when he returned to Apple in 1998.
I still have a prototype.
My biggest criticism is that he purports to tell us what liberals think, believe, and do. Yet I live in very liberal NorCal, and nobody I know fits the description he sells (and his listeners take as gospel). He's not my spokesman, so I don't know where he gets off telling people I want higher taxes, surrender to bin Laden, socialism, communism, etc etc etc. Sure I insult him plenty, but I don't purposefully misrepresent his views.
It's not the insults, it's that his strawmen get in the way of any meaningful debate. I can't talk politics with my parents (Rush listeners) because I have to first convince them that opposing warrantless eavesdropping doesn't mean I want terrorists to blow up the local mini-mall while we all hold hands and sing kumbaya on communist bicycles because we've banned cars and ownership of personal property.
If we can't get past that, how can we even start to objectively discuss the empirical results of single-payer health care?
He really didn't invent the chair with extra legs and the electric hammer?
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
We'll all need to brush up on our time travel hyper-grammar. Or we will-wollen will.
This means we really will be able to make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs!
They're going to bring back the mechanical dog!
That HTH went to blue screen of death?
Sure we went into space, but now the shuttle is rusting in the front lawn sitting on cinderblocks, while we sit on the porch drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon talkin about how as soon as we get around to fixin it, we're gonna drive 'er to Mars. And maybe put on some mag wheels. That'd be sweet.
Is there a single Sci-fi movie, book, or TV series they DIDN'T lampoon in the first four seasons? The Fry-Leela love story ran its complete arc. Every character did everything people do in their 20s. Even the hottie trust fund chick is spoken for. Did I miss something?
You kids complain about Jar Jar. Back in my day we had to put up with that supid kid and his muppet pet on Battlestar Galactica, or Buck Rogers and his robot bidibidibidbidibidi! Jar Jar is straight up street gangsta by comparison.
Roll the dice to see if I nail Starbuck.
Where's the Mountain Dew?
Normally I wouldn't think twice about Nintendo, but now that I know people are getting beaned on the head, and furniture is being smashed, I want one!
I just hope when they flash source code on the screen it is as good as the stuff in Antitrust...
Does anyone have that code? I heard the structure is PERFECT!
Actually, the Chinese used a 365.25 day Calendar during the same period. Theirs was more accurate.
The problem of that economic analysis is that the main driver of cost in recovering the oil is energy. If the price of oil doubles, then the price of recovering that oil also doubles. You have to look at the basic energy equation. We drill where the amount of energy we get out is greater than the amount of energy required to extract and refine it.
If extracting these difficult sources consumes more energy than it produces, then it will never be economical. Period.
Can't bring coffe, but somebody put all these m-f-ing snakes on this m-f-ing starship.