Jeffrey Dahmer: "If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing" [An interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, Nov. 29, 1994].
I think old Jeffrey might disagree with you.
Europe has positive population growth.
Japan has only had three negative growth years over the last 50 and is currently positive.
The US has hovered around 10% for the last 50 years.
1960-1970 13% increase
1970-1980 11% increase
1980-1990 10% increase
1990-2000 13% increase
2000-2010 9% increase
Its a good thing people on the internet actually know what they're talking about.
And even if you are too incompetent to google population growth data, any increase of cars on already crowded roads is a problem.
"Another possible characteristic of the new species, Dr. Sereno said, is that its body might have been covered in quills, something like those of a porcupine. If so, he pictured that in life Pegomastax would have scampered around in search of suitable plants, looking something like a “nimble two-legged porcupine.”
http://bioteaching.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/img0.jpg
I love reading about dinosaurs but its hard to consider some paleontologists serious when they decide to just make shit up to make their discoveries more interesting.
I use AVG to spot check files I download and saw this in the plugin it installs.
"In addition, AVG Do Not Track supports the W3C DNT protocol to automatically notify sites that you don’t want to be tracked. This notification is enabled by default, but can be changed at any time."
Are the people that are crying about this standard blind to the fact that other software that millions of people install also use DNT by default?
Since I assume that the worst of the scammers/ad agencies/whatever will be ignoring this tag anyway I left that on as a joke and use Ghostery plugin. It gets kind of scary when you hit a site you normally trust and see 15-20 tracking plugins with 30-50 total tracking urls. Seriously, WTF?
If a dev could use a small section of code to sample several metrics from the card, (or even multiple pieces of hardware), and never let the end user know what data was being used from what was taken it seems like it would be impossible to spoof in order to steal someone's account. As it stands, many people out there will use tricks to hide their IP and use pirated, re-engineered software to get into online games and hack away. They don't care if the serial key or IP they use gets banned as they can just generate or spoof another one. On the one side spoofing the system to think emulated hardware was something other than what's really there might be doable, could you play a modern FPS game using those kinds of emulated techniques? GPU's are single purpose, powerful beasts that I doubt could be fully emulated by a CPU. Considering the amount of threads they could query along with expected speeds, it seems like a good dev could instantly spot an imposter anyway. Add all of that together with an authenticator tied to a cell phone, (if your card died or you needed to just upgrade), and you would have a way to perma-ban most hackers. Generating a new key or IP takes seconds and costs nothing. Having to go out and buy a new video card every time you get caught might actually have a dramatic impact on the quality of online games. Hard to pull off and not really perfect, but dam I would love this if someone got it right.
"It's not falsifiable - it doesn't allow for a way to show it isn't true, and isn't useful to predict, say, whether a satellite's orbit is stable or not.
It must be considered as much humbug as if i said that tiny naked ladies from an undetectable dimension push everything together. You can't prove it's not true, and it doesn't give us any insight whatsoever."
This is exactly how I feel whenever I read anything that has to do with what was happening before humans began making records of their observations. When I see a display of early hominids in a show on tv and know that the entirety of what I'm watching comes from a handful of broken bone fragments. Who cares what happened 10,000 years ago? What you say about gravity is definitely true and I feel confidant in saying that because I can measure and verify things myself. No one can do this with the universe's origin. And whether or not we claim they're just theories, my original point was based on the FACT that I could not find the word theory any where in my son's textbook regarding anything we haven't directly measured ourselves. Should a religion be put in the book? No. Should anything that we cannot prove scientifically be called anything but a theory? No. But in a move to fight religion, many of our teachers and textbook makers have already made that step into demanding that what they say be read as scientific truth and fact when an honest person can claim neither. And the bigger question is, why the hell does it matter one way or the other? I have yet to have evolution knowledge help me in any way, shape or form when it comes to my life and my job.
"Not whether right or wrong, true or false, but that they can be investigated through scientific methods."
These were YOUR words that instantly alarmed the scientist in me as the scientific method can only work when things are deduced, not inferred. Theories are built upon layer by layer and when step 2 relies on an assumption at 1.5, and step 10 relies on a dozen or more assumptions being correct, (none of which can be scientifically proven), in order for itself to considered true its not science and belongs in the rest of the heap you suggested several posts back.
It also disqualifies everything ever written about anything relating to what happened before a human was around to record it or test it. We may believe in evolution because enough evidence is there to cause reasonable doubt to contrary positions. We may believe we understand the history of our universe to an absurd level of probability. To take the next step and call it fact because it bolsters our fight against belief systems we disagree with is scientifically dishonest. Where does it end and who decides what the 'facts' are? We as a people have decided to fight religion to the point of taking so many intellectually dishonest positions we have weakened our own arguments as a result. For anything that we cannot CURRENTLY observe, measure and report there is no absolute truth. Its just conjecture and well reasoned arguments if you truly remove yourself from the fighting and try to be objective. You don't have to have the 'truth' as others measure it to be right.
I definitely agree. While an algebra class does great things for a student's ability to learn and use concepts in other ways, when its presented in a way that most students cannot relate to it does more harm than good. It almost seems like a throwback to decades past when that was the best way they had to get people to think outside the box. Seems like there must be better ways to get kids to think about problem solving that is more easily related to than a subject they have already convinced themselves they will never use again in their life.
America doesn't call these hick towns. Ignorant,self-righteous elitists do. Its always nice when people save us the investigative troubles of finding out how deep their stupidity and hate run and just come right out and tell us.
I've traveled through every state in the US and have yet to find one single person whom I couldn't understand. The problem in communication was entirely on your end. Sorry, but there is zero argument you could ever give that would not make you look like an ass in this situation. The person you were talking might have gone over board in his reaction, but taking it as an insult from someone being an asshole is the only way to take it.
The USA doesn't capture people for torture any more. The Democrats attacked Bush so hard on the topic of torture that Obama has had his hand forced. Now we just kill everyone and hope our intelligence gatherers on the ground can get the info we need. Was actually surprised to read that UAV bombings have gone up under the current administration. The acts of terrorism line above still stands. We do a lot of that...
Having many rights under both federal and state protections and freely choosing to work at an At Will employer are not mutually exclusive things. Unless you have a contract for employment you can both be let go for any reason or leave for any reason. It keeps companies hiring outside the family and gives you the ability to leave when things are done there that you don't like. The day the government forces companies to retain any and all employees that they hire is the day nearly every job in the USA becomes unavailable to the general public. I'm assuming you are not from the USA or a kid if you haven't already figured out the answer to your own question.Which is it?
Unions were great when there weren't laws to protect workers. My family came from miners in the early 1900's and got shat on coming and going. They needed the protection unions could give. Nowadays they only help in a highly skilled worked force. For low skill positions like those in a call center a union is pointless and a waste of time. They make demands, the company doesn't care and the employees strike. Next step is for the company to realize that its just cheaper to fire everyone for not showing up to work, (which they have the legal right to do), then hire more workers at a cheaper rate than everyone they just fired. The only way a union won't result in everyone being fired is if there are more positions available than workers looking for a job and we are definitely not in that place today in our economy.
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Jeffrey Dahmer: "If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing" [An interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, Nov. 29, 1994]. I think old Jeffrey might disagree with you.
Last year I read that 30% of internet bandwidth in North America was being used to watch Netflix. Netflix still uses Silverlight.
Europe has positive population growth.
Japan has only had three negative growth years over the last 50 and is currently positive.
The US has hovered around 10% for the last 50 years.
1960-1970 13% increase
1970-1980 11% increase
1980-1990 10% increase
1990-2000 13% increase
2000-2010 9% increase
Its a good thing people on the internet actually know what they're talking about.
And even if you are too incompetent to google population growth data, any increase of cars on already crowded roads is a problem.
"Another possible characteristic of the new species, Dr. Sereno said, is that its body might have been covered in quills, something like those of a porcupine. If so, he pictured that in life Pegomastax would have scampered around in search of suitable plants, looking something like a “nimble two-legged porcupine.” http://bioteaching.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/img0.jpg I love reading about dinosaurs but its hard to consider some paleontologists serious when they decide to just make shit up to make their discoveries more interesting.
I use AVG to spot check files I download and saw this in the plugin it installs. "In addition, AVG Do Not Track supports the W3C DNT protocol to automatically notify sites that you don’t want to be tracked. This notification is enabled by default, but can be changed at any time." Are the people that are crying about this standard blind to the fact that other software that millions of people install also use DNT by default? Since I assume that the worst of the scammers/ad agencies/whatever will be ignoring this tag anyway I left that on as a joke and use Ghostery plugin. It gets kind of scary when you hit a site you normally trust and see 15-20 tracking plugins with 30-50 total tracking urls. Seriously, WTF?
If a dev could use a small section of code to sample several metrics from the card, (or even multiple pieces of hardware), and never let the end user know what data was being used from what was taken it seems like it would be impossible to spoof in order to steal someone's account. As it stands, many people out there will use tricks to hide their IP and use pirated, re-engineered software to get into online games and hack away. They don't care if the serial key or IP they use gets banned as they can just generate or spoof another one. On the one side spoofing the system to think emulated hardware was something other than what's really there might be doable, could you play a modern FPS game using those kinds of emulated techniques? GPU's are single purpose, powerful beasts that I doubt could be fully emulated by a CPU. Considering the amount of threads they could query along with expected speeds, it seems like a good dev could instantly spot an imposter anyway. Add all of that together with an authenticator tied to a cell phone, (if your card died or you needed to just upgrade), and you would have a way to perma-ban most hackers. Generating a new key or IP takes seconds and costs nothing. Having to go out and buy a new video card every time you get caught might actually have a dramatic impact on the quality of online games. Hard to pull off and not really perfect, but dam I would love this if someone got it right.
Considering that a feeling of smug superiority is nearly priceless I could see where many would find that 1.5X much too high.
"It's not falsifiable - it doesn't allow for a way to show it isn't true, and isn't useful to predict, say, whether a satellite's orbit is stable or not. It must be considered as much humbug as if i said that tiny naked ladies from an undetectable dimension push everything together. You can't prove it's not true, and it doesn't give us any insight whatsoever." This is exactly how I feel whenever I read anything that has to do with what was happening before humans began making records of their observations. When I see a display of early hominids in a show on tv and know that the entirety of what I'm watching comes from a handful of broken bone fragments. Who cares what happened 10,000 years ago? What you say about gravity is definitely true and I feel confidant in saying that because I can measure and verify things myself. No one can do this with the universe's origin. And whether or not we claim they're just theories, my original point was based on the FACT that I could not find the word theory any where in my son's textbook regarding anything we haven't directly measured ourselves. Should a religion be put in the book? No. Should anything that we cannot prove scientifically be called anything but a theory? No. But in a move to fight religion, many of our teachers and textbook makers have already made that step into demanding that what they say be read as scientific truth and fact when an honest person can claim neither. And the bigger question is, why the hell does it matter one way or the other? I have yet to have evolution knowledge help me in any way, shape or form when it comes to my life and my job. "Not whether right or wrong, true or false, but that they can be investigated through scientific methods." These were YOUR words that instantly alarmed the scientist in me as the scientific method can only work when things are deduced, not inferred. Theories are built upon layer by layer and when step 2 relies on an assumption at 1.5, and step 10 relies on a dozen or more assumptions being correct, (none of which can be scientifically proven), in order for itself to considered true its not science and belongs in the rest of the heap you suggested several posts back.
It also disqualifies everything ever written about anything relating to what happened before a human was around to record it or test it. We may believe in evolution because enough evidence is there to cause reasonable doubt to contrary positions. We may believe we understand the history of our universe to an absurd level of probability. To take the next step and call it fact because it bolsters our fight against belief systems we disagree with is scientifically dishonest. Where does it end and who decides what the 'facts' are? We as a people have decided to fight religion to the point of taking so many intellectually dishonest positions we have weakened our own arguments as a result. For anything that we cannot CURRENTLY observe, measure and report there is no absolute truth. Its just conjecture and well reasoned arguments if you truly remove yourself from the fighting and try to be objective. You don't have to have the 'truth' as others measure it to be right.
I definitely agree. While an algebra class does great things for a student's ability to learn and use concepts in other ways, when its presented in a way that most students cannot relate to it does more harm than good. It almost seems like a throwback to decades past when that was the best way they had to get people to think outside the box. Seems like there must be better ways to get kids to think about problem solving that is more easily related to than a subject they have already convinced themselves they will never use again in their life.
America doesn't call these hick towns. Ignorant,self-righteous elitists do. Its always nice when people save us the investigative troubles of finding out how deep their stupidity and hate run and just come right out and tell us.
I've traveled through every state in the US and have yet to find one single person whom I couldn't understand. The problem in communication was entirely on your end. Sorry, but there is zero argument you could ever give that would not make you look like an ass in this situation. The person you were talking might have gone over board in his reaction, but taking it as an insult from someone being an asshole is the only way to take it.
The USA doesn't capture people for torture any more. The Democrats attacked Bush so hard on the topic of torture that Obama has had his hand forced. Now we just kill everyone and hope our intelligence gatherers on the ground can get the info we need. Was actually surprised to read that UAV bombings have gone up under the current administration. The acts of terrorism line above still stands. We do a lot of that...
Having many rights under both federal and state protections and freely choosing to work at an At Will employer are not mutually exclusive things. Unless you have a contract for employment you can both be let go for any reason or leave for any reason. It keeps companies hiring outside the family and gives you the ability to leave when things are done there that you don't like. The day the government forces companies to retain any and all employees that they hire is the day nearly every job in the USA becomes unavailable to the general public. I'm assuming you are not from the USA or a kid if you haven't already figured out the answer to your own question.Which is it?
Unions were great when there weren't laws to protect workers. My family came from miners in the early 1900's and got shat on coming and going. They needed the protection unions could give. Nowadays they only help in a highly skilled worked force. For low skill positions like those in a call center a union is pointless and a waste of time. They make demands, the company doesn't care and the employees strike. Next step is for the company to realize that its just cheaper to fire everyone for not showing up to work, (which they have the legal right to do), then hire more workers at a cheaper rate than everyone they just fired. The only way a union won't result in everyone being fired is if there are more positions available than workers looking for a job and we are definitely not in that place today in our economy.