We would have had that one-man fighter too, if that idiot pilot - who we invested huge amounts of time and money into training so he/she could fly under combat conditions without losing focus - hadn't hit Darth Vader at a crucial moment.
Arabic language journalism seems to be about where English language journalism was about 300 years ago.
Hopefully they will catch up, and hopefully stop about 30 or 40 years ago when the English language profession was at its high point, and not follow all the way to the degenerate crap that we have now.
The point they're making is that temperature can refer to energy and entropy other than just the kinetic motion kinds.
Unfortunately understanding the definition still doesn't get us very far for those of us without intuitive models of those other kinds of situations, so we're no farther ahead.
And it does not help that they focus all their attention on workplaces that are easy to unionize, and not on occupations that are genuinely underpaid or otherwise exploited.
The reality which (apparently) no-one can face is that society is *in transition*.
Have racism and other forms of discrimination gone away? Of course not. Are reverse discrimination and other well-meaning attempts to rectify systemic injustices excessive? Probably they are.
Deliberate, malicious racism has mostly vanished, and that is significant progress that really does deserve more recognition than it gets. Some people are actually unhappy that there's been so much progress because they are deeply invested in fighting racism, and they go looking for it where it has ceased to be found, creating new injustices and hurting the credibility of everyone else on their side. The unconscious and/or systemic racism is rapidly diminishing but certainly has not completed disappeared, and some people are not completely sure what the right strategy is. That's a good thing - it means we're halfway to the goal and perhaps it means some mental effort because it's time to consider new tactics.
In this case, however, a little statistical thought should tell us that if "the speakers were 100% white male", then we can be highly confident that there is something wrong. And therefore how to respond to the statistical anomaly is a perfectly valid question.
Of course, what they're trying to say is "this resource is so big we can't imagine ever using it up." Which, of course, says little about their imagination.
Actually, it says everything about their imagination. Or rather, lack thereof.
Would it be easier to spread the Good Word of Atheism, if religious people were encourage, not to entirely give up their beliefs, but to merely to accept them as metaphorical rather than literal? That is, that religious people give up believing religion provides any absolute truths but they could continue to practice their religion if they enjoy doing so?
Every single time, the evolution deniers make me laugh with this. They can't even get right what they are denying - climate change deniers and Holocaust deniers aren't that far wrong.
'Evolution' is the short-hand name for Darwin's theory, which is actually the Evolution of species by natural selection. Evolution is an observation. Natural selection is a mathematical principle. The theory was the part about linking the two.
So whether you accept the theory or not, evolution is the part that is entirely factual.
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We would have had that one-man fighter too, if that idiot pilot - who we invested huge amounts of time and money into training so he/she could fly under combat conditions without losing focus - hadn't hit Darth Vader at a crucial moment.
Arabic language journalism seems to be about where English language journalism was about 300 years ago.
Hopefully they will catch up, and hopefully stop about 30 or 40 years ago when the English language profession was at its high point, and not follow all the way to the degenerate crap that we have now.
The point they're making is that temperature can refer to energy and entropy other than just the kinetic motion kinds.
Unfortunately understanding the definition still doesn't get us very far for those of us without intuitive models of those other kinds of situations, so we're no farther ahead.
Neither extreme is particularly credible, nor is going from one extreme to the other without at any point having a balanced perspective.
The technology to genetically modify food species is not bad, but misuses of the technology are, and the misuses are happening.
This is where the whole theory of what a union horribly breaks down: where a strike hurts the customer, not the employer.
It turns out that having two quasi-monopolies is twice as bad as having one.
Everyone knows Alderaan has weapons of mass destruction.
And it does not help that they focus all their attention on workplaces that are easy to unionize, and not on occupations that are genuinely underpaid or otherwise exploited.
The fact that unions think they are there to protect jobs, rather than do them, is the root of their problems.
... you can just download another distro.
I really liked Ubuntu but that is what's going to happen.
It means someone wants you to *believe* that we cannot afford to let them fail. It might or might not actually be the case.
"Too big to fail" was a lie. You know because a politician was talking at the time.
Ironically, "they hate us for our freedoms" is ultimately the reason for most of the anti-American sentiment around the world.
What Americans need to start asking themselves is where did they ever get the idea that freedoms are theirs and no-one else's.
The reality which (apparently) no-one can face is that society is *in transition*.
Have racism and other forms of discrimination gone away? Of course not. Are reverse discrimination and other well-meaning attempts to rectify systemic injustices excessive? Probably they are.
Deliberate, malicious racism has mostly vanished, and that is significant progress that really does deserve more recognition than it gets. Some people are actually unhappy that there's been so much progress because they are deeply invested in fighting racism, and they go looking for it where it has ceased to be found, creating new injustices and hurting the credibility of everyone else on their side. The unconscious and/or systemic racism is rapidly diminishing but certainly has not completed disappeared, and some people are not completely sure what the right strategy is. That's a good thing - it means we're halfway to the goal and perhaps it means some mental effort because it's time to consider new tactics.
In this case, however, a little statistical thought should tell us that if "the speakers were 100% white male", then we can be highly confident that there is something wrong. And therefore how to respond to the statistical anomaly is a perfectly valid question.
Do we really still call them 'housewives' (itself a difficult and noble occupation) when they're professional smugglers?
It's not the eighteenth century. That's pretty much considered normal in the civilized world, and the US is by no means the most enlightened example
Gas prices *are* the defence policy, so you're both right.
Of course, what they're trying to say is "this resource is so big we can't imagine ever using it up." Which, of course, says little about their imagination.
Actually, it says everything about their imagination. Or rather, lack thereof.
A plutocracy is neither.
Was he trying to convince his coworkers or himself?
Himself. Exactly the same as everyone else who "believes" in Intelligent Design.
Neither liberals nor conservatives are rational. The only difference between the two is who they choose to empathize with.
Sad but unquestionably reality.
*Everything* the TSA does is political theatre.
Would it be easier to spread the Good Word of Atheism, if religious people were encourage, not to entirely give up their beliefs, but to merely to accept them as metaphorical rather than literal? That is, that religious people give up believing religion provides any absolute truths but they could continue to practice their religion if they enjoy doing so?
Every single time, the evolution deniers make me laugh with this. They can't even get right what they are denying - climate change deniers and Holocaust deniers aren't that far wrong.
'Evolution' is the short-hand name for Darwin's theory, which is actually the Evolution of species by natural selection. Evolution is an observation. Natural selection is a mathematical principle. The theory was the part about linking the two.
So whether you accept the theory or not, evolution is the part that is entirely factual.