... of a company based in an interventionist, formerly imperialist country?
Nope, not me, thanks.
Most people in Asia,, believe it or not, prefer to be called Asians, the conflict in "the Middle East" is referred as the "West Asia" conflict in Asian countries.
SO I will take my clue from them, because I prefer to be respectful and sensitive.
Unless you forget Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and many others.
And all the dictators of both colours whose crimes went unpunished (Mobutu Seseko, Pol Poth, Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos).
THere were millions killed thanks to rampant armamentism (of the conventional kind) that came very handy for the big arm producers and their economies (US, UK, France, Eastern Block, most recently China).
The only fact is that in your country guns are being used indiscriminately to kill people in a daily basis, in most other countries (unless they are in war) they aren't.
Try explaining to them that in the rest of the civilized world (and most part of the not so civilized one) "school shootings" are not a familiar term.
School shootings are like apple pie, Coke, and McDonalds: all American icons.
Explain that to the parents of the kids if you possibly can, if you can't see the clear correlation between the crappy gun controls in your country and the applaing acts of random violence then you need to question your sanity.
I do understand if US people have the right to bear arms, but if you think that the people that worte the constitution had in mind every person having free, unlimited access to any weapons of their choice, well, I can say no more and let that poor logic speak for itself.
You guys can count deaths by gun shoots by the thousends per year.
Killing people is lifestyle choice in your country.
In the UK it is national news when somebody gets stabbed to death, even more so when guns are involved (they are banned in the UK). We only have a few dozens of incidents per year in the whole country, most of them gang violence.
After the only serious school shooting incident in the UK guns were banned. Guess what? We have had no reocurrence.
Criminality ridden city, weapons all around the place (in the hand of criminals and the police mostly).
We never ever had a "school shooting" (bar the students riots in 1968, the police's bullets marks were still there when I went to HIgh School, but you will concede that is slightly different).
Why?
Most people do not carry weapons.
Spin it any way you want, it is hard time you have a look at yourselves, the statistics and the derided ammendment in your constitution that allows things like this to happen.
I hear the argument that if you ban weapons only criminals will have them.
You know what? I have no problem with that.
As the situation in Mexico City probes, criminals are not interested in indiscriminate shootings, it is a "tool of the trade" and the immense majority of people in Mexico City will never see a gun in their lives.
Whenever you need an informed opinion about a topic you ask somebody that has gained expertise in that topic.
Why one would not do the same in regards to literature scapes me.
You can consult different experts for sure, that would be the sensible thing to do, but never ever being even remotely curious about the opinions of experts in the field just shows a monumental amount of both arrogance and ignorance.
But if your anti-intellectual stance makes you feel better, who am I to get you out of your delusion?
Jazz and all its derivatives (blues, rock & roll, rap, etc) are an US phenomenon. The minimalist movement (whose major representative is Steve Reich) are perhaps the most influential movement in classical music in the last 30 years (get "Differnet trains" , an authentic masterpiece).
Writing:
Great Gatsby. Enough said.
Painting:
Andy Warhol? Wistler?
etc.
Most people in the US certainly are happy with disposable culture, perhaps in a major percentage that in other places, but there are many great things about US culture worth investigating (which I will when they drop the treatment of tourists as would be criminals or terrorists).
We get that because democracy is flawed.
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Companies, corporations and cartels should have no input whatsoever in the political process as dontaors, sponsors, etc.
That skews the political system on their favour, instead of finding fair solutions for everybody involved, politicians find solutions for the people that make possible for them to remain in office ( not the voters, but their campaign contributors, campaign money is what gives them a chance to get elected in the first place. Money comes before voters).
As long as US people do not drill that on their skulls and make it a high priority to get it fixed, the corporations will continue waging war by proxy against the US citizenry (and against the rest of the world by proxy, given the influence the US has politically and economically).
What many/.ers fail miserabley to understand is that any organization will have politics embedded into it no matter what.
You can let people completely unprared to handle politics do the politics (that is engineers, programmers, technicians, etc) or you can let people trained to handle politics to do so.
Having people handling the politics inherent in an organization allows others to get on with the job they are good at.
So stop demonizing your manager, if he is a good one he is allowing you to be more productive.
In it it clearly says that what was found *is not* DNA.
Now, assuming old DNA was ever found, that would only demonstrate that our chemistry knowledge regarding DNA was not complete, that would not invalidate all the other unccountable fields of scientific knowledge that show evolution by natural selection to be correct.
As for your ludicrous claims regarding carbon dating and bones of humans and dinosarus really pal, we can't help you out there, if you ever want to come from the dark ages you will need to do that by yourself.
IF the soft tissue is found in a layer of soil millions of years old that puts in question our knowledge about how soft tissue decmoposses, and about how long live matter may be preserved and as mentioned elsewhere, about how fossilization may work in some xpecial circumstances.
The tissue is still millions of years old, that has not changed, throwing around wild theories without any substantiation whatsoever (bar your fertile imagination) is not a way to make science.
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... Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
... of a company based in an interventionist, formerly imperialist country?
Nope, not me, thanks.
Most people in Asia,, believe it or not, prefer to be called Asians, the conflict in "the Middle East" is referred as the "West Asia" conflict in Asian countries.
SO I will take my clue from them, because I prefer to be respectful and sensitive.
That was a monumental failure of the police, but it is an isolated incident.
Police in the UK are unarmed (the incident you refer to involved special police forces) and they still somehow manage to deal with criminality.
Well, one could I suppose, if it is quite heavy and one aims carefully (me rolls eyes at stupid comparision).
... where guns are easily available, must also be.
Very peaceful down there buddy.
I would not want my son studying there, there are many good schools elsewhere where the culture is more humane.
Unless you forget Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and many others.
And all the dictators of both colours whose crimes went unpunished (Mobutu Seseko, Pol Poth, Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos).
THere were millions killed thanks to rampant armamentism (of the conventional kind) that came very handy for the big arm producers and their economies (US, UK, France, Eastern Block, most recently China).
The only fact is that in your country guns are being used indiscriminately to kill people in a daily basis, in most other countries (unless they are in war) they aren't.
If that was the case dictatorships would not exist.
Wo and watch "The life of others" (won Oscar for bet foreign movie last year) and see what people are prepared to do if told so by an authority.
.... clearly indicate that you live in a land full of fairies.
Back in reality you have thousends of deaths per year by gun shoots and with regularity random acts of violence.
In the mean time your government spoon feeds you fear of terrorism that is hardly a danger.
Guys, you are not smelling the coffee, for bunnies sakes, you show no signs of even waking up.
Try explaining to them that in the rest of the civilized world (and most part of the not so civilized one) "school shootings" are not a familiar term.
School shootings are like apple pie, Coke, and McDonalds: all American icons.
Explain that to the parents of the kids if you possibly can, if you can't see the clear correlation between the crappy gun controls in your country and the applaing acts of random violence then you need to question your sanity.
I do understand if US people have the right to bear arms, but if you think that the people that worte the constitution had in mind every person having free, unlimited access to any weapons of their choice, well, I can say no more and let that poor logic speak for itself.
You guys can count deaths by gun shoots by the thousends per year.
Killing people is lifestyle choice in your country.
In the UK it is national news when somebody gets stabbed to death, even more so when guns are involved (they are banned in the UK). We only have a few dozens of incidents per year in the whole country, most of them gang violence.
After the only serious school shooting incident in the UK guns were banned. Guess what? We have had no reocurrence.
Criminality ridden city, weapons all around the place (in the hand of criminals and the police mostly).
We never ever had a "school shooting" (bar the students riots in 1968, the police's bullets marks were still there when I went to HIgh School, but you will concede that is slightly different).
Why?
Most people do not carry weapons.
Spin it any way you want, it is hard time you have a look at yourselves, the statistics and the derided ammendment in your constitution that allows things like this to happen.
I hear the argument that if you ban weapons only criminals will have them.
You know what? I have no problem with that.
As the situation in Mexico City probes, criminals are not interested in indiscriminate shootings, it is a "tool of the trade" and the immense majority of people in Mexico City will never see a gun in their lives.
To anybody else, even religious people in other religions, that is all complete hogwash.
But SciFi writers go into "cookie cutter" mode with surprising frequency.
Whenever you need an informed opinion about a topic you ask somebody that has gained expertise in that topic.
Why one would not do the same in regards to literature scapes me.
You can consult different experts for sure, that would be the sensible thing to do, but never ever being even remotely curious about the opinions of experts in the field just shows a monumental amount of both arrogance and ignorance.
But if your anti-intellectual stance makes you feel better, who am I to get you out of your delusion?
Music:
Jazz and all its derivatives (blues, rock & roll, rap, etc) are an US phenomenon.
The minimalist movement (whose major representative is Steve Reich) are perhaps the most influential movement in classical music in the last 30 years (get "Differnet trains" , an authentic masterpiece).
Writing:
Great Gatsby. Enough said.
Painting:
Andy Warhol? Wistler?
etc.
Most people in the US certainly are happy with disposable culture, perhaps in a major percentage that in other places, but there are many great things about US culture worth investigating (which I will when they drop the treatment of tourists as would be criminals or terrorists).
Companies, corporations and cartels should have no input whatsoever in the political process as dontaors, sponsors, etc.
That skews the political system on their favour, instead of finding fair solutions for everybody involved, politicians find solutions for the people that make possible for them to remain in office ( not the voters, but their campaign contributors, campaign money is what gives them a chance to get elected in the first place. Money comes before voters).
As long as US people do not drill that on their skulls and make it a high priority to get it fixed, the corporations will continue waging war by proxy against the US citizenry (and against the rest of the world by proxy, given the influence the US has politically and economically).
Not about anything else the trolls have been trying to imply on this thread.
What many /.ers fail miserabley to understand is that any organization will have politics embedded into it no matter what.
You can let people completely unprared to handle politics do the politics (that is engineers, programmers, technicians, etc) or you can let people trained to handle politics to do so.
Having people handling the politics inherent in an organization allows others to get on with the job they are good at.
So stop demonizing your manager, if he is a good one he is allowing you to be more productive.
RTFA, really, you ought it to yourself.
In it it clearly says that what was found *is not* DNA.
Now, assuming old DNA was ever found, that would only demonstrate that our chemistry knowledge regarding DNA was not complete, that would not invalidate all the other unccountable fields of scientific knowledge that show evolution by natural selection to be correct.
As for your ludicrous claims regarding carbon dating and bones of humans and dinosarus really pal, we can't help you out there, if you ever want to come from the dark ages you will need to do that by yourself.
This kind of finding never happened before, that is why scientists believed it was not possible.
That does not change the fact that the material was embedded in a fossilized bone millions of years old in a soil layer millions of years old.
IF the soft tissue is found in a layer of soil millions of years old that puts in question our knowledge about how soft tissue decmoposses, and about how long live matter may be preserved and as mentioned elsewhere, about how fossilization may work in some xpecial circumstances.
The tissue is still millions of years old, that has not changed, throwing around wild theories without any substantiation whatsoever (bar your fertile imagination) is not a way to make science.