Any president who reads the bible for help making presidential decisions cannot be pro-science,
That's an incredibly closeminded opinion, even with the "president" distinction. I read the Bible as part of my faith, yet am still interested in science enough to have degrees in mechanical and petroleum engineering, and following a career using that knowledge. Look to morality if you want to blame religion for any hindering of science; cloning people falls into this category, whereas topics such as the Kyoto Treaty and greenhouse gas control are grounded in economic-political ideology, with adequate science backing both sides of the debate.
At any rate, all these answers look pretty canned. There's some differences in mostly environmental and nuclear arms issues, but both candidates are saying the same rhetoric. Besides, both candidates profess to be of the same religion, so I guess their opinions on science don't matter anyways.
Hematite is formed by sediments. Since a primary way of sediment creation is by water, it stands to reason that the presence of hematite is a possibility that water is/was there. I don't really know the mechanics of how it's formed (not a geologist), but from it's molecular formula of Fe2O3, I'd imagine that the water combines with iron to form it.
Some links about hematite's composition and how NASA thinks it'll lead to indications of water existence: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y200 1/ast28mar_1.htm http://www.mindat.org/min-1856.html http:// www.minerals.net/mineral/oxides/hematite/he matite.htm
Depends. I feel that cloning organs and the like would be a massive boon to humanity, where we'd never have to worry about a lack of organs for transplants. Plus this will likely allow more research to be done on these organs to find better cures and treatments.
Cloning humans with a brain and self awareness, I don't think is such a great idea. Maybe for dumb automotons to do hazardous work and are put back into a box after work and don't care a bit, much like a living robot. You can almost compare to clones to AI, both of them could either just be smart about certain things and dumb in everything else (lack of self awareness) or self aware and living like "real" humans with the implications that come about (Blade Runner comes to mind).
Cloning like all technology will have it's alignment based on what we do with it. Making clones of organ, or advanced robots to work on assembly lines is one thing, making a real person is different, and is something that I don't think we as a whole can handle yet, as it WILL be misused.
So now all a group has to do to prevent criticism is trademark their name and shut down anyone that uses it? Microsoft(TM) is a trademark, does that mean we have to stop criticizing them? Scientologists know they're full of shit, and are hiding behind trademark law to try to squeeze a little more money out of its members. I honestly hope that www.xenu.net wins in the end, because I see this starting a dangerous precedent of deep-pocketed groups controlling what information we are exposed to.
no more movies are going to be made, since everyone is going to download this app and become a hardcore pirate, thereby breaking the motion picture industry. Woe is us. I myself have already put out of business a couple of studios by making illegal copies of my massive DVD collection. The MPAA needs to hurry up and sue download.com, cnet and affiliate sites, and everyone that visits them to protect the fragile movie industry.
Sheesh. I can only imagine the witchhunts that will follow once this lil' app gets around now.
Off topic, but I wonder if napster can be configured to transfer *.vob's now?;)
There have been reports of rampant drunkenness, performances by strippers, public nudity, and other licentious and mindless behavior at every gathering of Nuclear Fusion's henchmen
HA HA HA! For those of you too lazy to actually read that crap up there, this is the funny part. Or it was to me and the guys in my dorm. Eh. If you feel you need to spend moderation points on this, crank this post down.
...that the entertainment industry feels like it has to maintain a stranglehold on their products (movies and music mainly). I really want to see some numbers that show how much money the industry "loses" by allowing people the capability to digitally copy works. If it was as bad as they say it is, artists would stop putting out music and record companies would go under. As another/. poster said earlier (would post link but can't find it), it's people that steal movies and cd's from stores that cause the biggest financial drain on the industry. I just want to be able to make backup copies of my DVD's. Is that so wrong?
Aye, I have a copy of DeCSS, even made a short clip of Pi into mpeg1 last night to check out the quality. Word of warning, it takes a LONG time to rip a movie, and at least on my dvd drive (I have a Creative Labs 5x drive) the dvd and drive were both rather hot after the ripping. Make sure you have a lot of hard drive space too;)
As to where to get it? Look around on the net, I found it in about 5 minutes using good ol' search engines.
Damn, maybe I could start selling email accounts now from dusted.net. Now my roommate has all sorts of ideas of selling his number (176377) and getting out of debt. Sheesh, the things people buy.
"Oh, my school is run by people who abuse our rights!"
Interesting that you mock that. When I was in high school, I could nothing to people that abused me. Couldn't fight them, couldn't get the adminstration to deal with them, just couldn't stop them. Well, I graduated, and in my first semester of college, some of those guys decided to continue to harass me. So I called the cops on them (what they were doing WAS in fact illegal on the books), we had a talk about the situation, and I haven't heard from them since. Problem solved finally.
My point? What exactly changed from when I was in high school to college? I was 17 when the above incident happened, so it couldn't be that my rights are waived before the age of 18, otherwise the cops would've said "Tough shit, kid." I've been in public education in both instances (public hs and state university), so I know I was covered by the same state laws. So why all of a sudden do I have rights now? It's because public primary schools would violate those rights, either by action or by disinformation (never once in government did I learn about personal rights, call it a flaw of my class).
Whining about people that abuse your rights? I hope you do, because if it can happen at my old high school, it can happen to another.
And I thought that living in a conservative college town would limit my social freedoms, but after listening to other people's stories about getting carded at the theatres, refused admittance, etc., I think I got it pretty good. I look young for my age, when I tell people I'm a junior they think it's in high school. Even worse when I shave. Yet I've had absolutely no problems getting into Southpark and Eyes Wide Shut. And the town I live in (College Station) is almost notorious for being conservative, hence more likely to card (I remember seeing many young kids being refused admittance). Makes me wonder about this backlash against popular entertainment that's going on now.
As for what Jon has said, Jon, ordinarily I like your writing, makes me evaluate my mores, but this time you've gone too far. Those guidelines you have set up amount to anarchy. Though I may not agree with a law or system, I at least find civilized ways to deal with them. Yeah, I'm all for revolution, but let's do it in a civilized way, instead of acting like rampant madmen. Sheesh, had to get that off my chest.
Damn, sounds like me growing up. The people I hung around back then were my dad's friends (bunch of oil workers/ex-sailors), and I picked up on a bunch of stuff that they still won't put in movies from that lot of dirty ol' men. To this day I have yet to hear profanity in a movie that beats them out. So I laugh at any sort of censorship or rating based on language. Real world is a lot harsher than movies.
There's a realplayer copy of the hearing on nanotechnology last Tuesday here, which led to this government funding. Just click on the View Archive button next to it. Molecular systems research is pretty interesting stuff in my opinion, so screw you naysayers on nanotechnology;)
AOL certainly has been making big strides in acquiring the leading competitors in different areas of computing: Netscape, ICQ, Winamp, etc. To me, this is definitely AOL becoming another internet/media giant (Microsoft comes to mind quickly as an example). I don't really trust either company, or companies similar to them, and frankly, this scares the Windows-using part of me; the Linux part of me just laughs nervously over these acquisitions.
However, I see a large difference in how AOL and Microsoft are becoming giants. Microsoft just drives different companines out of business, providing only their crappy programs as alternatives. AOL, on the other hand, just buys out the companies and (hopefully) allows them run themselves without any AOL intervention in the coding process. That software remains out there, perhaps even promoted by AOL, and it remains a viable competitor to the crap Microsoft and other similar monopolies throw out at us.
I'm not saying AOL is a good guy for buying out these companies; these buyouts are in the interest of AOL, not the companies. I personally hate AOL's services. But at least AOL doesn't crush them out of existence. The great software is still there, it's just AOL owns it.
I'm probably wrong on some points, this is just how I see from my user-end vantage. Right now I have Netscape and ICQ open, and I'm having absolutely no problems with them (even the fact that AOL owns them). As long as the software AOL buys out remains the same, in the short-run I have no problem with them buying companies out. The long-run impact is something I'm still thinking about, and I see both good and bad in it. It all depends on how ethical AOL will be (yeah right).
*Raising shields for return fire* =) If you're going to flame, make it a respectable argument, please.
After testing out several other Linux distros, I have to say that I was most pleased with Mandrake in getting a system setup properly (haven't tried out Debian yet, and Mandrake 6 will probably make me hold off on that now). From the information on their website on the new release, I think that Mandrake will continue to reside on my computer. It's really nice to find a distro that caters to people like me that just want to use Linux, not hack into it (although that's probably the fun in using Linux for most). Eh, the Festen release made me stay in Linux much more than Windows, and it will be interesting to see the effect Venus will have on me once I install it. Kudos to the Linux Mandrake team.
This reminds me...the IRC channel I hang out at on Efnet recently got taken over...so what do the hostile parties do? Sell it on ebay! Wish I could find the URL for that auction, it was funny as hell when we found out.
At any rate, I think that this buying and selling of virtual property is kinda getting too much into the game. But I guess it was just a matter of time before something like this happened. Another case of rich people flaunting their money and taking the easy way out. It's a GAME, for crying out loud. If these people are playing Ultima Online they had better have a lot of time to begin with. All in all, this buying and selling sickens me, but it's natural in the progression of things...people are now buying their ways out of entertaining themselves.
I've been seeing a serious lack of technical degrees here at my univeristy (Texas A&M), one that was founded on technical degrees. Now we have so many people in liberal arts and business, from either going straight into it or failing out of engineering, that the college of business is jacking up the requirements for admission for LOWER-LEVEL CLASSES to absurd levels. We have so few engineers in my major that all my classes are half full and a good number of students lack the minimum requirements. I definitely see a lack of technical degree seekers. For me personally, I love it. I'm getting a highly specialized degree that can pretty much only come from college (how many self-taught, accredited, mechanical engineers do YOU know?), and there's a better chance of me getting paid $50K a year to do something I love (solving problems and creating things).
On the flipside, I can see this as being bad in the long run. We'll have fewer and fewer techies that make this world run, and those that do make it out will be worse and worse. Seriously, high schools need to start pushing technical electives on students. Lord knows we have enough PHB with business degrees that don't know the first thing about computers or a servo.
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That's an incredibly closeminded opinion, even with the "president" distinction. I read the Bible as part of my faith, yet am still interested in science enough to have degrees in mechanical and petroleum engineering, and following a career using that knowledge. Look to morality if you want to blame religion for any hindering of science; cloning people falls into this category, whereas topics such as the Kyoto Treaty and greenhouse gas control are grounded in economic-political ideology, with adequate science backing both sides of the debate.
At any rate, all these answers look pretty canned. There's some differences in mostly environmental and nuclear arms issues, but both candidates are saying the same rhetoric. Besides, both candidates profess to be of the same religion, so I guess their opinions on science don't matter anyways.
Hematite is formed by sediments. Since a primary way of sediment creation is by water, it stands to reason that the presence of hematite is a possibility that water is/was there. I don't really know the mechanics of how it's formed (not a geologist), but from it's molecular formula of Fe2O3, I'd imagine that the water combines with iron to form it.
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Some links about hematite's composition and how NASA thinks it'll lead to indications of water existence:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y20
http://www.mindat.org/min-1856.html
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Depends. I feel that cloning organs and the like would be a massive boon to humanity, where we'd never have to worry about a lack of organs for transplants. Plus this will likely allow more research to be done on these organs to find better cures and treatments.
Cloning humans with a brain and self awareness, I don't think is such a great idea. Maybe for dumb automotons to do hazardous work and are put back into a box after work and don't care a bit, much like a living robot. You can almost compare to clones to AI, both of them could either just be smart about certain things and dumb in everything else (lack of self awareness) or self aware and living like "real" humans with the implications that come about (Blade Runner comes to mind).
Cloning like all technology will have it's alignment based on what we do with it. Making clones of organ, or advanced robots to work on assembly lines is one thing, making a real person is different, and is something that I don't think we as a whole can handle yet, as it WILL be misused.
So now all a group has to do to prevent criticism is trademark their name and shut down anyone that uses it? Microsoft(TM) is a trademark, does that mean we have to stop criticizing them? Scientologists know they're full of shit, and are hiding behind trademark law to try to squeeze a little more money out of its members. I honestly hope that www.xenu.net wins in the end, because I see this starting a dangerous precedent of deep-pocketed groups controlling what information we are exposed to.
Well unless there is one already, you just made it up. My new .sig, Demona's Law =)
no more movies are going to be made, since everyone is going to download this app and become a hardcore pirate, thereby breaking the motion picture industry. Woe is us. I myself have already put out of business a couple of studios by making illegal copies of my massive DVD collection. The MPAA needs to hurry up and sue download.com, cnet and affiliate sites, and everyone that visits them to protect the fragile movie industry.
;)
Sheesh. I can only imagine the witchhunts that will follow once this lil' app gets around now.
Off topic, but I wonder if napster can be configured to transfer *.vob's now?
There have been reports of rampant drunkenness, performances by strippers, public nudity, and other licentious and mindless behavior at every gathering of Nuclear Fusion's henchmen
HA HA HA! For those of you too lazy to actually read that crap up there, this is the funny part. Or it was to me and the guys in my dorm. Eh. If you feel you need to spend moderation points on this, crank this post down.
...that the entertainment industry feels like it has to maintain a stranglehold on their products (movies and music mainly). I really want to see some numbers that show how much money the industry "loses" by allowing people the capability to digitally copy works. If it was as bad as they say it is, artists would stop putting out music and record companies would go under. As another /. poster said earlier (would post link but can't find it), it's people that steal movies and cd's from stores that cause the biggest financial drain on the industry. I just want to be able to make backup copies of my DVD's. Is that so wrong?
--Jack--
Aye, I have a copy of DeCSS, even made a short clip of Pi into mpeg1 last night to check out the quality. Word of warning, it takes a LONG time to rip a movie, and at least on my dvd drive (I have a Creative Labs 5x drive) the dvd and drive were both rather hot after the ripping. Make sure you have a lot of hard drive space too ;)
As to where to get it? Look around on the net, I found it in about 5 minutes using good ol' search engines.
Damn, maybe I could start selling email accounts now from dusted.net. Now my roommate has all sorts of ideas of selling his number (176377) and getting out of debt. Sheesh, the things people buy.
Interesting that you mock that. When I was in high school, I could nothing to people that abused me. Couldn't fight them, couldn't get the adminstration to deal with them, just couldn't stop them. Well, I graduated, and in my first semester of college, some of those guys decided to continue to harass me. So I called the cops on them (what they were doing WAS in fact illegal on the books), we had a talk about the situation, and I haven't heard from them since. Problem solved finally.
My point? What exactly changed from when I was in high school to college? I was 17 when the above incident happened, so it couldn't be that my rights are waived before the age of 18, otherwise the cops would've said "Tough shit, kid." I've been in public education in both instances (public hs and state university), so I know I was covered by the same state laws. So why all of a sudden do I have rights now? It's because public primary schools would violate those rights, either by action or by disinformation (never once in government did I learn about personal rights, call it a flaw of my class).
Whining about people that abuse your rights? I hope you do, because if it can happen at my old high school, it can happen to another.
--Jack--In the official cheer of Texas A&M University... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!
Damn, makes me wish my woman was here. Summer classes suck for relationships =(
And I thought that living in a conservative college town would limit my social freedoms, but after listening to other people's stories about getting carded at the theatres, refused admittance, etc., I think I got it pretty good. I look young for my age, when I tell people I'm a junior they think it's in high school. Even worse when I shave. Yet I've had absolutely no problems getting into Southpark and Eyes Wide Shut. And the town I live in (College Station) is almost notorious for being conservative, hence more likely to card (I remember seeing many young kids being refused admittance). Makes me wonder about this backlash against popular entertainment that's going on now.
As for what Jon has said, Jon, ordinarily I like your writing, makes me evaluate my mores, but this time you've gone too far. Those guidelines you have set up amount to anarchy. Though I may not agree with a law or system, I at least find civilized ways to deal with them. Yeah, I'm all for revolution, but let's do it in a civilized way, instead of acting like rampant madmen. Sheesh, had to get that off my chest.
Jack
Yup, I do too, especially when my boss is off during the Fridays I do work...so it's almost like having *2* Fridays off. =)
Funny you should mention that. Kyle's mom in the movie says something just like that.
Only thing I can think of is Heavy Metal...damn that's a fun movie to watch drunk
Damn, sounds like me growing up. The people I hung around back then were my dad's friends (bunch of oil workers/ex-sailors), and I picked up on a bunch of stuff that they still won't put in movies from that lot of dirty ol' men. To this day I have yet to hear profanity in a movie that beats them out. So I laugh at any sort of censorship or rating based on language. Real world is a lot harsher than movies.
Well, the previews DO have scenes of military action. Probably those Canadians fighting Saddam or something.
There's a realplayer copy of the hearing on nanotechnology last Tuesday here, which led to this government funding. Just click on the View Archive button next to it. Molecular systems research is pretty interesting stuff in my opinion, so screw you naysayers on nanotechnology ;)
Dammit! I'm that whiny brat Luke...then again I'm complaining here, so the truth might not be far off. At least I get to save the universe and stuff.
AOL certainly has been making big strides in acquiring the leading competitors in different areas of computing: Netscape, ICQ, Winamp, etc. To me, this is definitely AOL becoming another internet/media giant (Microsoft comes to mind quickly as an example). I don't really trust either company, or companies similar to them, and frankly, this scares the Windows-using part of me; the Linux part of me just laughs nervously over these acquisitions.
However, I see a large difference in how AOL and Microsoft are becoming giants. Microsoft just drives different companines out of business, providing only their crappy programs as alternatives. AOL, on the other hand, just buys out the companies and (hopefully) allows them run themselves without any AOL intervention in the coding process. That software remains out there, perhaps even promoted by AOL, and it remains a viable competitor to the crap Microsoft and other similar monopolies throw out at us.
I'm not saying AOL is a good guy for buying out these companies; these buyouts are in the interest of AOL, not the companies. I personally hate AOL's services. But at least AOL doesn't crush them out of existence. The great software is still there, it's just AOL owns it.
I'm probably wrong on some points, this is just how I see from my user-end vantage. Right now I have Netscape and ICQ open, and I'm having absolutely no problems with them (even the fact that AOL owns them). As long as the software AOL buys out remains the same, in the short-run I have no problem with them buying companies out. The long-run impact is something I'm still thinking about, and I see both good and bad in it. It all depends on how ethical AOL will be (yeah right).
*Raising shields for return fire* =) If you're going to flame, make it a respectable argument, please.
Jack
After testing out several other Linux distros, I have to say that I was most pleased with Mandrake in getting a system setup properly (haven't tried out Debian yet, and Mandrake 6 will probably make me hold off on that now). From the information on their website on the new release, I think that Mandrake will continue to reside on my computer. It's really nice to find a distro that caters to people like me that just want to use Linux, not hack into it (although that's probably the fun in using Linux for most). Eh, the Festen release made me stay in Linux much more than Windows, and it will be interesting to see the effect Venus will have on me once I install it. Kudos to the Linux Mandrake team.
Here's that URL for the auction. http://cgi.ebay.com /aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=98673453. Sigh, what some people will do for money or kicks.
Jack
This reminds me...the IRC channel I hang out at on Efnet recently got taken over...so what do the hostile parties do? Sell it on ebay! Wish I could find the URL for that auction, it was funny as hell when we found out.
At any rate, I think that this buying and selling of virtual property is kinda getting too much into the game. But I guess it was just a matter of time before something like this happened. Another case of rich people flaunting their money and taking the easy way out. It's a GAME, for crying out loud. If these people are playing Ultima Online they had better have a lot of time to begin with. All in all, this buying and selling sickens me, but it's natural in the progression of things...people are now buying their ways out of entertaining themselves.
Jack
I've been seeing a serious lack of technical degrees here at my univeristy (Texas A&M), one that was founded on technical degrees. Now we have so many people in liberal arts and business, from either going straight into it or failing out of engineering, that the college of business is jacking up the requirements for admission for LOWER-LEVEL CLASSES to absurd levels. We have so few engineers in my major that all my classes are half full and a good number of students lack the minimum requirements. I definitely see a lack of technical degree seekers. For me personally, I love it. I'm getting a highly specialized degree that can pretty much only come from college (how many self-taught, accredited, mechanical engineers do YOU know?), and there's a better chance of me getting paid $50K a year to do something I love (solving problems and creating things).
On the flipside, I can see this as being bad in the long run. We'll have fewer and fewer techies that make this world run, and those that do make it out will be worse and worse. Seriously, high schools need to start pushing technical electives on students. Lord knows we have enough PHB with business degrees that don't know the first thing about computers or a servo.
Jack