I read somewhere that callers asking how to grow their own spaghetti tree were advised to "put a sprig of spaghetti into a can of tomato sauce and hope for the best". Sounds about right.
So "the system" that you espouse is (first two cases) "have a dictator and try and kill them if you don't like them" or "have an unelected monarch who is a militaristic nutter pissing around in America largely out of spite and who then descends into mental illness but you can't get rid of him because he claims to be appointed by a god"?
Well, I guess the system does work. I like the first one - can we get that written into a British consitiution?
Yes! You know who else was part of that fine tradition? Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini.
I know this may sound like a demonstration of Godwin's Law, but what the hell are you talking about? Why don't we just put the Queen back in charge if that's what you want?
Right - so he's a god botherer, who wants to push faith schools. Doesn't mean he believes in the Flintstones genesis stories though. He's not a *complete* moron.
Come off it - I don't remember the last time I heard the national anthem outside of a sporting event. And the point still remains that British politicians rarely talk about their religious beliefs. I think in this country, all you can do is alienate people by getting too specific.
While I accept that Blair is a god-botherer - I find it hard to believe that he believes literally in Genesis, etc. Got a reference for this? Lets face it, it should be journalistic dynamite so I find it hard to believe there is a supressed interview of him with Paxo saying he believes the Flintstones is a historical document.
However, the punishment for refusing to reveal your keys may well be less than that for the crime they'd charge you with if they did.
Yeah, except if they can arrest you and try you and convict you for this, they will have longer than the 90 days to try and decrypt your data, and then convict you for the first offence.
Gives an easy way out for the child porn rings: two years for not revealing keys versus God knows how much for dealing in child porn.
This is about suspected terrorists. It has nothing to do with child porn.
But the methods used to arrive at the conclusions are empirical in nature... There is no governing dynamic theory that these studies apply beyond basic statistics.
I might be wrong, but isn't that statement meaningless? All scientific theories are empirical - how else are they formulated and tested? What is a "governing dynamic theory"? What is the "governing dynamic theory" of weather prediction?
All these studies apply statistical techniques that are based around the theory of evolution. I don't understand what else you are driving at to try and deny this. I also don't understand your criteria for grading theories from A to D. On the face of it it seems absurd.
I suspect your problem is that Newton can make simple testable predictions for the movement of objects. If this is the case then you problem is not with physics but with the whole of biology, which deals with complex systems and so things are more messy (although in turn, the predictions are arguably more impressive when correct).
As a non-Jew, the issue of whether Moses wrote them or not matters about as much to me as the instructions to never eat shellfish, never cut my earlocks, and always wear tassles on the corners of my cloak.
And presumably the stuff about man not lying with another man as he would a woman too?
[Evolution] provides a plausible explanation for the origin of species, but has no predictive power at all.
How come even a cursory glance at the recent articles in the open access PLoS journals reveal lots of people making predictions from evolutionary information?
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I read somewhere that callers asking how to grow their own spaghetti tree were advised to "put a sprig of spaghetti into a can of tomato sauce and hope for the best". Sounds about right.
it's faster than java
really?
Yes - they are not 'vanity' TLDs - but you would be a bit weird to set Ctrl+enter just to fill in .fm...
So "the system" that you espouse is (first two cases) "have a dictator and try and kill them if you don't like them" or "have an unelected monarch who is a militaristic nutter pissing around in America largely out of spite and who then descends into mental illness but you can't get rid of him because he claims to be appointed by a god"?
Well, I guess the system does work. I like the first one - can we get that written into a British consitiution?
OK. How about some earlier rulers who were so good because they weren't "primarily motivated by re-election".
Charles I,
Oliver Cromwell,
George III?
Yes! You know who else was part of that fine tradition? Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini.
I know this may sound like a demonstration of Godwin's Law, but what the hell are you talking about? Why don't we just put the Queen back in charge if that's what you want?
If only they could make everyone not want one! Then they would be close to making a profit!
Try http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/26/216
Um, he said *hard* firewall...
>would you lose your place simply by going for a pee?
No, but you might get beaten up by the others for saying "God, I really want a Wii".
Right - so he's a god botherer, who wants to push faith schools. Doesn't mean he believes in the Flintstones genesis stories though. He's not a *complete* moron.
Come off it - I don't remember the last time I heard the national anthem outside of a sporting event. And the point still remains that British politicians rarely talk about their religious beliefs. I think in this country, all you can do is alienate people by getting too specific.
While I accept that Blair is a god-botherer - I find it hard to believe that he believes literally in Genesis, etc. Got a reference for this? Lets face it, it should be journalistic dynamite so I find it hard to believe there is a supressed interview of him with Paxo saying he believes the Flintstones is a historical document.
I'd rather live in a god-forsaken place than the US/UK where every other word out of a politician's mouth is "God."
Actually, here in the UK, politicians tend to get laughed/sneered at when they mention the word "god". After all, we don't do god.
But quantum entanglement does not allow faster than light communication. So you should probably change your view of the possible back to what it was before.
I have more (/.) karma than God.
God posts here? It's not hard to have more karma - the Bible was one of the world's biggest trolls.
That is 2.5-5% of the global population .
Is it April Fool's Day already?
I think it's likely to be because skype can use huge amounts of bandwidth if you become a Supernode. Since univeristies have fat pipes, this is likely to happen. In fact, according to Wikipedia Skype is blocked across all of Janet (Although it works for me at my .ac.uk research institue).
However, the punishment for refusing to reveal your keys may well be less than that for the crime they'd charge you with if they did.
Yeah, except if they can arrest you and try you and convict you for this, they will have longer than the 90 days to try and decrypt your data, and then convict you for the first offence.
Gives an easy way out for the child porn rings: two years for not revealing keys versus God knows how much for dealing in child porn.
This is about suspected terrorists. It has nothing to do with child porn.
But the methods used to arrive at the conclusions are empirical in nature... There is no governing dynamic theory that these studies apply beyond basic statistics.
I might be wrong, but isn't that statement meaningless? All scientific theories are empirical - how else are they formulated and tested? What is a "governing dynamic theory"? What is the "governing dynamic theory" of weather prediction?
All these studies apply statistical techniques that are based around the theory of evolution. I don't understand what else you are driving at to try and deny this. I also don't understand your criteria for grading theories from A to D. On the face of it it seems absurd.
I suspect your problem is that Newton can make simple testable predictions for the movement of objects. If this is the case then you problem is not with physics but with the whole of biology, which deals with complex systems and so things are more messy (although in turn, the predictions are arguably more impressive when correct).
As a non-Jew, the issue of whether Moses wrote them or not matters about as much to me as the instructions to never eat shellfish, never cut my earlocks, and always wear tassles on the corners of my cloak.
And presumably the stuff about man not lying with another man as he would a woman too?
[Evolution] provides a plausible explanation for the origin of species, but has no predictive power at all.
How come even a cursory glance at the recent articles in the open access PLoS journals reveal lots of people making predictions from evolutionary information?
Protein Molecular Function Prediction by Bayesian Phylogenomics
Whole-Genome Analysis of Human Influenza A Virus Reveals Multiple Persistent Lineages and Reassortment among Recent H3N2 Viruses
Comparative Genomics and Disorder Prediction Identify Biologically Relevant SH3 Protein Interactions
Fools! Don't they know that evolution has no predictive power at all?
Since when does google having just 384 results on any topic mean there's TONS?
I tried several times to come up with things that would result in just 384 results.
"steel reserve msi" "Steel Reserve" is a cheap malt liquor. MSI is a manufacturer of motherboards. How screwy can you get? How about 126,000 matches?
He did a Google News search you clod. The appropriate Google News search for Steel Reserve MSI gives no hits.
IE for the Mac was a steaming pile
Really? I thought it was widely regarded as better than IE5 on Windows. Hence:
When it debuted, Mac IE 5 was the best web browser in the world, primarily because of the Tasman rendering engine that provided unprecedented levels of standards compliance.
Eric Meyer said, "I don't think people realize just how much of a groundbreaker IE5/Mac really was, and how good it remains even today."