Scientists generally will tell you that answers we have today from science are not the final word. That is the nature of science; it changes as new information comes along. It is, after all, compiled by fallible humanity. Those who would set up science as the ultimate truth really are praising the cleverness of man. It is worth pointing out that a study found that half of all peer-reviewed scientific papers reached invalid conclusions, due to errors in research. Other research has uncovered the fact that fraud is disturbingly common in scientific research.
As science is fallible, changing and limited, we do well to make major social changes derived from science slowly.
A characteristic of God is that He has some attributes that are infinite. He exists infinitely past and future (the Alpha and Omega), knows all and so forth. Yet, when challenging religious concepts of god(s), atheists insist on treating god(s) as finite beings subject to approximately the same limitations as humans. Why do atheists pick and choose the characteristics of god(s) when trying to discredit religion?
00:40) Charles: "If I look inside this, to be quite honest, it's like uh, it's like a space habitation module. I-, I-, I've been in one of those, which is really neat, because uh, it's like a home away from home and you can, you can live in there, you can sleep in there, you can do everything else. One of the other things that's really neat about it is how clean it is. [-ui-] In fact, I think [ISS astronaut] Don Pettit made the comment on orbit how pristine the vehicle was when he went inside, he talked about it smelling like a new car."
01:06) Elon: "In Florida and uh, California, uh, people are used to launch, launches occurring in Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral. If it's a new place, people aren't used to it, then you can get some people that like, just, kind of file legal actions. They don't have a lot of merit, but they can just, really, really grind things to a halt. So we're just looking it to be considered.. a rocket launch should be considered on par with, say, with some of the protections that are all afforded to use of gunfire, and fireworks, and lawnmowers *laughs* Literally, it's like, just add rockets to the list of, you know... That seems like a reasonable request *laughs* Like you can't sue someone 'cos somebody's got a lawnmower next door, right? Rockets don't have that protection, so we gotta have a little, just, something like that."
02:49) Reporter: "Are you planning on adding more jobs to this facility?"
02:52) Elon: "Yeah, absolutely, we expect to grow quite a bit in the coming years. We absolutely expect over the next several years to have several hundred direct jobs added in McGregor. And then, of course, there's an amplification factor, so if, um, if every employee that we hire brings their family, and that generates jobs in terms of automobiles, housing, you know, plumbing, electricity, hotels, restaurants, so usually it's a 5x multiplier in terms of jobs creation, so effectively it would result in thousands of jobs in the McGregor/Waco area."
03:44) Elon: "Well what we're talking about would be an orbital launch facility, whereas in New Mexico it's a sub-orbital, so it's basically-- sub-orbital it's you just go up and you fall down, with orbit it's you go up and you stay up, so it's you've got a ground track that uh, that, uh, when you're orbiting Earth, you are circling Earth, that's it has to be on the coast, because if you're overflying a lot of cities, which you need to do to get to orbit, then you're putting people at risk. That's why an in-land launch facility for an orbital space flight is very difficult to do and still achieve... and still be safe, for people on the ground.
"I think a lot of people who have been critical, have been critical because of a lack of precedent for what's occurred, and now that we've been able to go to the space station and back, I think that some of the.. I think that we've answered some of their concerns, I'm [not quite sure?] that's definitely done, so I think we're seeing a significant decrease of detractors and.. and you know, just looking at the facts and saying, okay, well, SpaceX is showing that it can be done, and so it's getting.. kind of go with the facts, basically."
Western nations, including the U.S. and Australia, have their problems, but China has a far more repressive system. We allow people to meet peacefully together on a regular basis. We don't send tanks to run over peaceful protesters. We have a system of law that protects individuals to some degree from the state.
Maybe you need to look into getting a different job. I assure you that I won powerball I would find the use for the money but I would not leave my job.
I've always wanted to do things that no one would pay me very much (if anything) to do. I would like to travel the world, tinker with machines and start my own space exploration company. Yes, there are ways to get paid doing some of those things, but no one is going to pay me to do them, and in most cases in which people start out doing these kind of jobs, they find themselves eventually spending most of their time filling out paperwork.
I lost my full-time job 2 years ago. I decided to wrap up the loose ends of my schooling with whatever degree would be most convenient, then find another job. What I'm finding, though, is that I don't want another job that is going to require me to be in a room between the hours that someone else determines, doing what someone else determines, for whatever someone else determines I should be paid. I'm happy living in semi-retirement, though the economic realities are going to force my return to full-time work, eventually.
I like playing in my garden, cooking special foods, hiking in the woods and camping. I like photographing nature and finding remote locations without anyone around. I like quiet and tranquility. I like not being under the obligations of other people.
I still keep in touch with my former co-workers. We never hung out when we worked together, but I see them more in their off-work hours now than I did when I had a job.
You know what's boring? Being broke! Being forced to sit in my room and do little to nothing because I can't afford to do anything. I have more things I would like to do than I could ever have time or money to do them. Working on the menial, tedious tasks that usually pays my bills always seemed like a waste of my life to me.
"The result, they say, is a challenge to proponents of intelligent design who maintain that complex biological systems can only have been created by a divine force."
Oh, come on! You aren't even trying to be honest at this point! No one who can access the Internet has any excuse to give such a sloppy definition of Intelligent Design.
OK, say it with me: "Irreducible Complexity." Do you understand the words coming out of my keyboard? Apparently not! The term is IC, not just C. Even though some evolutionists deny that any complex system is irreducibly complex, that is not justification for distorting the ID position.
What we see is a common property of humanity; the constant attempt to establish a pecking order, with oneself at top and others below. The reason there isn't a dialog is not because the two sides are incomprehensible to each other. It is because the two sides simply reject the other.
I've known a lot of people for whom the facts they accept are just a convenient club with which to beat others. This happens in other human pursuits, too: some people use the law cynically, to get their way, rather than heal injury or achieve justice or even keep the law. People do that in religion, and they do it in science.
Most of the people in the debate between evolution and Creationism are not arguing purely out of intellectual interest in their position. Just by reading your post, I can tell that you don't know much about Creationism, and that implies to me that you might not know more than some buzz words and debate points regarding evolution. The fact that "Nature" stoops to encouraging this sort of behavior simply demonstrates the surely nature of a lot of evolutionists.
Saturnalia lasted more than one day, though how long depended on the era. When Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar in 46 BCE, he set December 25 as the Winter Solstice. Over time, differences between the Julian calendar and Earth's actual movements in space caused the Solstice to drift to December 16. In the 16th Century, the Catholic Pope reset the calendar, except for 3 days, making the Winter Solstice fall around December 22.
North Korea continues to exist because we keep giving it money, food and supplies. At least at importantly, China keeps North Korea alive, if only to keep North Koreans out of China. North Korea is China's ghetto. Kim Jong-il is the slumlord. Whenever the slumlord wants more money, food or supplies, he rattles his cage and makes faces and threatening noises, and the rest of the world tosses him a pacifier to quiet him.
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
North Korea is implementing Communism on at least 2 counts:
1) In Communism, the individual lives to serve the state. Communism is one form of Collectivism, and all forms of Collectivism consider the greatest good to be the benefit of the state, not the individual.
2) Leninism, a form of Communism, states that bloody revolution is essential to converting society to Communism. Leninism advocates violent revolution as much as possible, to spread Communism.
As for the ruling class of North Korea living better than the peasants, this is such a common feature of Communism that Orwell parodied it in "Animal Farm."
North Korea is what happens when the state assumes the role of god. North Korea is what an officially atheistic state always looks like.
I'm inclined to agree with those who state this was a honey pot. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but standard security procedure is to have a honey pot open and available for naive, young hackers to fall into. You probably aren't the first person in it, either, if this is a big name institution. I read that an unsecured computer left open to the Internet will have hundreds of attacks compromise it a day, within seconds of going online. So, I would guess those credit card numbers are also fake.
Your best bet is to leave it alone. If this isn't a trap, that's for the company and the customers to deal with it, and the repercussions that follow. The fact that you need to ask here what to do about it leads me to suspect that you are in over your head.
There was still NCSA Mosaic, which (despite its family connection to Netscape) would not have fallen into Microsoft hands and would have remained available for users.
Why would that have happened? How would MS' purchase of Netscape have kept Mosaic available? MS was bent on monopolizing the browser market. You really think they would have let that slip?
If the world were so unpredictable as you describe, no one would ever accomplish any of their goals. The reason that titans of industry succeed is that they can predict the outcome of their actions.
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Scientists generally will tell you that answers we have today from science are not the final word. That is the nature of science; it changes as new information comes along. It is, after all, compiled by fallible humanity. Those who would set up science as the ultimate truth really are praising the cleverness of man. It is worth pointing out that a study found that half of all peer-reviewed scientific papers reached invalid conclusions, due to errors in research. Other research has uncovered the fact that fraud is disturbingly common in scientific research.
As science is fallible, changing and limited, we do well to make major social changes derived from science slowly.
...but a lousy master! Do you disagree?
What is the solution to evil?
A characteristic of God is that He has some attributes that are infinite. He exists infinitely past and future (the Alpha and Omega), knows all and so forth. Yet, when challenging religious concepts of god(s), atheists insist on treating god(s) as finite beings subject to approximately the same limitations as humans. Why do atheists pick and choose the characteristics of god(s) when trying to discredit religion?
God is infinite; no one made Him. He transcends physical laws (indeed, He is the origin of them).
I thought of Proverbs 25:2,
"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter."
Here's my go on the UI parts of the transcript:
00:40) Charles: "If I look inside this, to be quite honest, it's like uh, it's like a space habitation module. I-, I-, I've been in one of those, which is really neat, because uh, it's like a home away from home and you can, you can live in there, you can sleep in there, you can do everything else. One of the other things that's really neat about it is how clean it is. [-ui-] In fact, I think [ISS astronaut] Don Pettit made the comment on orbit how pristine the vehicle was when he went inside, he talked about it smelling like a new car."
01:06) Elon: "In Florida and uh, California, uh, people are used to launch, launches occurring in Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral. If it's a new place, people aren't used to it, then you can get some people that like, just, kind of file legal actions. They don't have a lot of merit, but they can just, really, really grind things to a halt.
So we're just looking it to be considered.. a rocket launch should be considered on par with, say, with some of the protections that are all afforded to use of gunfire, and fireworks, and lawnmowers *laughs* Literally, it's like, just add rockets to the list of, you know... That seems like a reasonable request *laughs*
Like you can't sue someone 'cos somebody's got a lawnmower next door, right? Rockets don't have that protection, so we gotta have a little, just, something like that."
02:49) Reporter: "Are you planning on adding more jobs to this facility?"
02:52) Elon: "Yeah, absolutely, we expect to grow quite a bit in the coming years.
We absolutely expect over the next several years to have several hundred direct jobs added in McGregor.
And then, of course, there's an amplification factor, so if, um, if every employee that we hire brings their family, and that generates jobs in terms of automobiles, housing, you know, plumbing, electricity, hotels, restaurants, so usually it's a 5x multiplier in terms of jobs creation, so effectively it would result in thousands of jobs in the McGregor/Waco area."
03:44) Elon: "Well what we're talking about would be an orbital launch facility, whereas in New Mexico it's a sub-orbital, so it's basically-- sub-orbital it's you just go up and you fall down, with orbit it's you go up and you stay up, so it's you've got a ground track that uh, that, uh, when you're orbiting Earth, you are circling Earth, that's it has to be on the coast, because if you're overflying a lot of cities, which you need to do to get to orbit, then you're putting people at risk.
That's why an in-land launch facility for an orbital space flight is very difficult to do and still achieve... and still be safe, for people on the ground.
"I think a lot of people who have been critical, have been critical because of a lack of precedent for what's occurred, and now that we've been able to go to the space station and back, I think that some of the.. I think that we've answered some of their concerns, I'm [not quite sure?] that's definitely done, so I think we're seeing a significant decrease of detractors and.. and you know, just looking at the facts and saying, okay, well, SpaceX is showing that it can be done, and so it's getting.. kind of go with the facts, basically."
Except CSPAN wasn't on hand, as far as I could tell ;)
Various other networks local guys were, though, and for all I know CSPAN is happy to buy footage from any of them.
That would be good news....
Western nations, including the U.S. and Australia, have their problems, but China has a far more repressive system. We allow people to meet peacefully together on a regular basis. We don't send tanks to run over peaceful protesters. We have a system of law that protects individuals to some degree from the state.
Wife?
doing that for somebody else who takes the lion's share of profit from your 18 hour commitment? That makes you a tool.
Yes, it does, but some managers want only tools working for them. Everyone else can hit the trail.
Yes! This is *exactly* the way it should be! Why would someone expect anything else?
I do not expect to get laid off with zero notice. I do not expect my company to fuck me over.
Don't go to work in the IT field, or you will be in for a nasty surprise!
Maybe you need to look into getting a different job. I assure you that I won powerball I would find the use for the money but I would not leave my job.
I've always wanted to do things that no one would pay me very much (if anything) to do. I would like to travel the world, tinker with machines and start my own space exploration company. Yes, there are ways to get paid doing some of those things, but no one is going to pay me to do them, and in most cases in which people start out doing these kind of jobs, they find themselves eventually spending most of their time filling out paperwork.
I lost my full-time job 2 years ago. I decided to wrap up the loose ends of my schooling with whatever degree would be most convenient, then find another job. What I'm finding, though, is that I don't want another job that is going to require me to be in a room between the hours that someone else determines, doing what someone else determines, for whatever someone else determines I should be paid. I'm happy living in semi-retirement, though the economic realities are going to force my return to full-time work, eventually.
I like playing in my garden, cooking special foods, hiking in the woods and camping. I like photographing nature and finding remote locations without anyone around. I like quiet and tranquility. I like not being under the obligations of other people.
I still keep in touch with my former co-workers. We never hung out when we worked together, but I see them more in their off-work hours now than I did when I had a job.
You know what's boring? Being broke! Being forced to sit in my room and do little to nothing because I can't afford to do anything. I have more things I would like to do than I could ever have time or money to do them. Working on the menial, tedious tasks that usually pays my bills always seemed like a waste of my life to me.
Proceed.
"The result, they say, is a challenge to proponents of intelligent design who maintain that complex biological systems can only have been created by a divine force."
Oh, come on! You aren't even trying to be honest at this point! No one who can access the Internet has any excuse to give such a sloppy definition of Intelligent Design.
OK, say it with me: "Irreducible Complexity." Do you understand the words coming out of my keyboard? Apparently not! The term is IC, not just C. Even though some evolutionists deny that any complex system is irreducibly complex, that is not justification for distorting the ID position.
And where do you put yourself in this scheme?
What we see is a common property of humanity; the constant attempt to establish a pecking order, with oneself at top and others below. The reason there isn't a dialog is not because the two sides are incomprehensible to each other. It is because the two sides simply reject the other.
I've known a lot of people for whom the facts they accept are just a convenient club with which to beat others. This happens in other human pursuits, too: some people use the law cynically, to get their way, rather than heal injury or achieve justice or even keep the law. People do that in religion, and they do it in science.
Most of the people in the debate between evolution and Creationism are not arguing purely out of intellectual interest in their position. Just by reading your post, I can tell that you don't know much about Creationism, and that implies to me that you might not know more than some buzz words and debate points regarding evolution. The fact that "Nature" stoops to encouraging this sort of behavior simply demonstrates the surely nature of a lot of evolutionists.
Saturnalia lasted more than one day, though how long depended on the era.
When Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar in 46 BCE, he set December 25 as the Winter Solstice. Over time, differences between the Julian calendar and Earth's actual movements in space caused the Solstice to drift to December 16. In the 16th Century, the Catholic Pope reset the calendar, except for 3 days, making the Winter Solstice fall around December 22.
North Korea continues to exist because we keep giving it money, food and supplies. At least at importantly, China keeps North Korea alive, if only to keep North Koreans out of China. North Korea is China's ghetto. Kim Jong-il is the slumlord. Whenever the slumlord wants more money, food or supplies, he rattles his cage and makes faces and threatening noises, and the rest of the world tosses him a pacifier to quiet him.
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
North Korea is implementing Communism on at least 2 counts:
1) In Communism, the individual lives to serve the state. Communism is one form of Collectivism, and all forms of Collectivism consider the greatest good to be the benefit of the state, not the individual.
2) Leninism, a form of Communism, states that bloody revolution is essential to converting society to Communism. Leninism advocates violent revolution as much as possible, to spread Communism.
As for the ruling class of North Korea living better than the peasants, this is such a common feature of Communism that Orwell parodied it in "Animal Farm."
North Korea is what happens when the state assumes the role of god. North Korea is what an officially atheistic state always looks like.
I'm inclined to agree with those who state this was a honey pot. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but standard security procedure is to have a honey pot open and available for naive, young hackers to fall into. You probably aren't the first person in it, either, if this is a big name institution. I read that an unsecured computer left open to the Internet will have hundreds of attacks compromise it a day, within seconds of going online. So, I would guess those credit card numbers are also fake.
Your best bet is to leave it alone. If this isn't a trap, that's for the company and the customers to deal with it, and the repercussions that follow. The fact that you need to ask here what to do about it leads me to suspect that you are in over your head.
"The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination
And not just in the tech world. You can be sued if you do CPR and crack someone's ribs if you're not certified.
"there has never been a successful suit brought against someone performing CPR."
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/askdoctor.html#Can I get sued
also
"if you give assistance, including CPR, for a medical emergency Good Samaritan laws cover you."
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/askdoctor.html#Does the Good
You can be prosecuted if you shoot an invader in your house (at least in the UK).
That's why I live in Texas.
There was still NCSA Mosaic, which (despite its family connection to Netscape) would not have fallen into Microsoft hands and would have remained available for users.
Why would that have happened? How would MS' purchase of Netscape have kept Mosaic available? MS was bent on monopolizing the browser market. You really think they would have let that slip?
If the world were so unpredictable as you describe, no one would ever accomplish any of their goals. The reason that titans of industry succeed is that they can predict the outcome of their actions.
??? A free product? Like MS Internet Explorer? How was that going to go away?