Cane toads are native to the tropical areas of South and Central America. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the native peoples there consider them a sacred creature. But you'd have to talk to them.
We're not talking about foreigners visiting the US and kidnapping your bald eagles for pets though.
Yes, we are. Those animals don't exist in the wild in Europe. Someone at some point had to come to North America, grab one, and take it back to Europe.
Ah, well that is indeed a bird of a different feather then. Even with a non-releasable Eagle, releasing that poor bird into an enclosed space filled with people is just not acceptable. That trainer will be smoking a turd in 'murica hell for that one.
OTOH, here's another Bald Eagle showing it still has the proper American spirit. A true American, that bird.
what about the ones that were born and raised in captivity. What should we do with those?
It happens. What usually should happen in this case is that the Eagle is taken care of by one of our Eagle Rescue organizations, and whoever caused it to have to be raised that way (if it was purposely done by a human) is thrown in jail and charged with a felony.
Actually, if you read the text around that video, that was a WILD bald eagle that flew in through an open window. I happen to live about a mile and a half from that particular chapel, and yes we do have wild Bald Eagles here. Usually I only see juveniles on the utility poles behind my house, but I understand there are some adults over near the river (and that chapel happens to be smack dab between my house and the river).
Bald Eagles are native to North America. They simply don't exist in the wild anywhere else.
In the United States they were endangered most of my life (until about 10 years ago), and still to this day it is illegal to "own" one in captivity except under certain very rare circumstances. Usually, it has to be injured in some way which would physically prevent it from living in the wild.
In short, Bald Eagles should be wild. Combine that with them being a symbol of the USA, and a great many Americans find it offensive to see someone keeping one as a pet. Seriously offensive.
Yet I'm constantly seeing "tame" bald Eagles in Europe, and people there act like they aren't doing anything to be ashamed of. Another example is English Premiere League club Crystal Palace, which has a live Bald Eagle "mascot".
Where do they keep getting these Bald Eagles? Also, do they not care how offensive this is to Americans, or are they aware of that and are doing it on purpose?
However, it is a valid concern, in that in vitro CRISPR/CAS9 and CRISPR/CPF1 edits has historically hit identical palindromic sequences that happened to be outside the target edit area, since the palindromes in question are only 24 or so base pairs in length. You have to expect that there will be other instances elsewhere in the genome.
Google has stated that while concerns for health and environmental risks posed by Project Loon testing were 'genuinely held,' 'there is no factual basis for them.'
While Google's belief that provably invalid health and environmental concerns aren't important in a political matter might be genuinely held, there is no factual basis for that belief.
But that's all rubbish anyway because as far as I'm concerned the question itself doesn't make sense.
If you want to reach any of the more interesting conclusions out there, you must first allow us to perform the logical equivalent of a division by zero. You don't want to hold back progress in the science of philosophy, do you?
You make a pretty strong argument, but you totally lost me here:
Under US oversight, there was... the possibility of an ultimate recourse to Congress if these lobbyists capture ICANN
The current US Congress has trouble passing routine legislation (farm bill, highway bill, debt ceiling, etc), and saying it has been "captured by lobbyists" if anything underplays their influence. Asking this Congress for help would be like calling in a pack of wolves to get a fox out of your henhouse. In the unlikely event they actually get anything accomplished, its a pretty good bet you won't like it.
One of the things that bothers me is when news articles make a big deal out of predictions made by a group without giving you any idea of how well that groups previous predictions turned out.
Even worse is when they make a big deal of the one prediction that actually came true, while ignoring the scores of them that were outlandishly wrong. An infinite number of monkeys can predict the future just as easily as they can reproduce Shakespeare.
Moreoever, as the intro alluded to, chimpanzees have also been observed going to war with neighboring troupes. Since both species do it, and we are closer related to each other than to any other species on earth, its a pretty good bet that our common ancestor was engaging in warfare 5 to 12 million years ago. Finding it a mere 10,000 years ago is an interesting data point, but really neither particularly impressive nor exicting.
Hatred of Jar Jar comes from a combination of things that didn't exist in the original trilogy, which is why C3PO and Ewoks were tolerated
I'm guessing you weren't particularly old in '83 when Return of the Jedi came out. No, adult fans were not tolerant at all of the Ewoks. Pretty much every complaint you ever heard about Jar Jar is a rehashed complaint about the Ewoks. However, we didn't really have the Internet back then as a place for fans to get together and amplify their voices, so all those complaints just sort of sat around festering and honing themselves to a nice sharp edge in Usenet newsgroups for the next 16 years until Lucas unwittingly unleashed them upon the world by providing us Jar Jar.
I don't doubt that it OUGHT to be checked out no matter whose kid it was that wrote it. If my blonde-haired blue-eyed kid had written it, I still think the responsible thing would be to check it out.
OTOH, I'm also pretty sure the "check it out" is likely to be carried out a lot more respectfully on a rich white kid's family than on a relatively powerless poor immigrant's family. Particularly if they are from a background that has a rep for producing terrorists. Not that this isn't to be expected too, but it makes this particular error a lot more unfortunate in the muslim kid's house.
Another angle is how this particular error got made on the kid's part. Most likely they had only encountered both words verbally and didn't realize that they were actually different words with different spellings. So now ask yourself how this little muslim kid came to hear "terrorist" applied to themselves often enough that they thought it was a word for their kind of house?
The motivation wasn't really personal. The Latin Christians didn't set out to sack Constantinople. However Venetians were the only westerners with a fleet that could accommodate them all, they didn't have the money to pay for passage, and as a trading Empire the only thing over there Venice was interested as a land exchange was the Bosporus. To control the Bosporus you pretty much have to control Constantinople.
So basically the Venetians manipulated the Crusaders into taking Constantinople for them.
If you want to know, why did Constantinople fall to the Moslems? The answer is, it fell because it never really recovered from being sacked by the Fourth crusade.
That is probably more than half of it, yes. However, even weakened as it was, its walls still held out for another 250 years (longer than the USA has existed) until the Sultan brought in canon to knock them down. So you could also blame gunpowder. Considering that same sultan held half the Balkans already, and son and grandson proceeded to conquer all the land up to Austria, you could also argue that militarily the Byzantines had no right whatsoever to exist anymore, and the crusades (despite what happened in the 4th one) had just been staving off the inevitable.
What we have in Europe right now is a diaspora - people from a totally foreign culture forced to live with another. Of course, one can argue that the refugees are in Europe by their own will, but the economic and social hardships in their own countries is so bad, that I would consider this a diaspora.
The political correctness of the hosts will allow the new foreign culture not to assimilate, and the children of these foreigners will end up outsiders in their own country.
This is a prediction, not a known fact. You could test it if you want by looking at the results of previous generations of diaspora in other countries. There are certainly plenty of examples to chose from.
The only examples I can think of that had the results you describe were ones where the existing residents wouldn't allow the new ones full membership in society (including full-blown legal barriers).
When I was living in Florida a couple of decades ago I replaced our thermostat with a newfangled programmable digital one to save money when we weren't in the house.
Florida is of course the lightning capital of the world, so of course one fine evening in AUGUST a strike fried the thermostat about 10 minutes after the home supply stores had all closed. Nothing quite like being stuck all night in a un-airconditioned house in Florida in August with a cranky wife and baby.
Lesson learned: If you live somewhere with extreme temperatures, and your thermostat isn't 100% mechanical, always keep a mechanical spare.
When I was in elementary school back in the 70's my bus stop got cut as an extravagance because my house was only one mile from school.
We didn't have a form (thankfully) but I had to call the school and give my daughter special permission to walk home. We are *less* than a mile from the school, and she hated her overcrowded bus. She got home far quicker on foot too.
Do these people actually go out there and actually talk to real people. Is the fear mongering that effective that people are actually wanting this?
He isn't running for POTUS right now, he's running for the Republican nomination. Only about 27% of voters (about one quarter) right now consider themselves Republican. And those voters respond very differently to polls on issues than independents and Democrats (who on most issues actually seem to differ mostly in degree, not inclination).
So all a Republican candidate has to do is win about 14% of the Electorate to get nominated. If the current front runners (in an amazingly competitive field) both feel the best way to do that is to run FUD campaigns, that may not really be telling you much of anything about the USA electorate, but it tells you a rather large amount about the Republican party.
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Cane toads are native to the tropical areas of South and Central America. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the native peoples there consider them a sacred creature. But you'd have to talk to them.
We're not talking about foreigners visiting the US and kidnapping your bald eagles for pets though.
Yes, we are. Those animals don't exist in the wild in Europe. Someone at some point had to come to North America, grab one, and take it back to Europe.
Ah, well that is indeed a bird of a different feather then. Even with a non-releasable Eagle, releasing that poor bird into an enclosed space filled with people is just not acceptable. That trainer will be smoking a turd in 'murica hell for that one.
OTOH, here's another Bald Eagle showing it still has the proper American spirit. A true American, that bird.
If I came to their country, took one of their cows, and then proudly ate it, yeah, that would be kinda shitty too.
what about the ones that were born and raised in captivity. What should we do with those?
It happens. What usually should happen in this case is that the Eagle is taken care of by one of our Eagle Rescue organizations, and whoever caused it to have to be raised that way (if it was purposely done by a human) is thrown in jail and charged with a felony.
Actually, if you read the text around that video, that was a WILD bald eagle that flew in through an open window. I happen to live about a mile and a half from that particular chapel, and yes we do have wild Bald Eagles here. Usually I only see juveniles on the utility poles behind my house, but I understand there are some adults over near the river (and that chapel happens to be smack dab between my house and the river).
Bald Eagles are native to North America. They simply don't exist in the wild anywhere else.
In the United States they were endangered most of my life (until about 10 years ago), and still to this day it is illegal to "own" one in captivity except under certain very rare circumstances. Usually, it has to be injured in some way which would physically prevent it from living in the wild.
In short, Bald Eagles should be wild. Combine that with them being a symbol of the USA, and a great many Americans find it offensive to see someone keeping one as a pet. Seriously offensive.
Yet I'm constantly seeing "tame" bald Eagles in Europe, and people there act like they aren't doing anything to be ashamed of. Another example is English Premiere League club Crystal Palace, which has a live Bald Eagle "mascot".
Where do they keep getting these Bald Eagles? Also, do they not care how offensive this is to Americans, or are they aware of that and are doing it on purpose?
However, it is a valid concern, in that in vitro CRISPR/CAS9 and CRISPR/CPF1 edits has historically hit identical palindromic sequences that happened to be outside the target edit area, since the palindromes in question are only 24 or so base pairs in length. You have to expect that there will be other instances elsewhere in the genome.
I guess they need to use a larger CRC.
Google has stated that while concerns for health and environmental risks posed by Project Loon testing were 'genuinely held,' 'there is no factual basis for them.'
While Google's belief that provably invalid health and environmental concerns aren't important in a political matter might be genuinely held, there is no factual basis for that belief.
But that's all rubbish anyway because as far as I'm concerned the question itself doesn't make sense.
If you want to reach any of the more interesting conclusions out there, you must first allow us to perform the logical equivalent of a division by zero. You don't want to hold back progress in the science of philosophy, do you?
I'm old enough that I can still remember the good old days when "left wing propaganda" actually required misrepresenting the situation a little bit.
Under US oversight, there was ... the possibility of an ultimate recourse to Congress if these lobbyists capture ICANN
The current US Congress has trouble passing routine legislation (farm bill, highway bill, debt ceiling, etc), and saying it has been "captured by lobbyists" if anything underplays their influence. Asking this Congress for help would be like calling in a pack of wolves to get a fox out of your henhouse. In the unlikely event they actually get anything accomplished, its a pretty good bet you won't like it.
One of the things that bothers me is when news articles make a big deal out of predictions made by a group without giving you any idea of how well that groups previous predictions turned out.
Even worse is when they make a big deal of the one prediction that actually came true, while ignoring the scores of them that were outlandishly wrong. An infinite number of monkeys can predict the future just as easily as they can reproduce Shakespeare.
Moreoever, as the intro alluded to, chimpanzees have also been observed going to war with neighboring troupes. Since both species do it, and we are closer related to each other than to any other species on earth, its a pretty good bet that our common ancestor was engaging in warfare 5 to 12 million years ago. Finding it a mere 10,000 years ago is an interesting data point, but really neither particularly impressive nor exicting.
Hatred of Jar Jar comes from a combination of things that didn't exist in the original trilogy, which is why C3PO and Ewoks were tolerated
I'm guessing you weren't particularly old in '83 when Return of the Jedi came out. No, adult fans were not tolerant at all of the Ewoks. Pretty much every complaint you ever heard about Jar Jar is a rehashed complaint about the Ewoks. However, we didn't really have the Internet back then as a place for fans to get together and amplify their voices, so all those complaints just sort of sat around festering and honing themselves to a nice sharp edge in Usenet newsgroups for the next 16 years until Lucas unwittingly unleashed them upon the world by providing us Jar Jar.
I don't doubt that it OUGHT to be checked out no matter whose kid it was that wrote it. If my blonde-haired blue-eyed kid had written it, I still think the responsible thing would be to check it out.
OTOH, I'm also pretty sure the "check it out" is likely to be carried out a lot more respectfully on a rich white kid's family than on a relatively powerless poor immigrant's family. Particularly if they are from a background that has a rep for producing terrorists. Not that this isn't to be expected too, but it makes this particular error a lot more unfortunate in the muslim kid's house.
Another angle is how this particular error got made on the kid's part. Most likely they had only encountered both words verbally and didn't realize that they were actually different words with different spellings. So now ask yourself how this little muslim kid came to hear "terrorist" applied to themselves often enough that they thought it was a word for their kind of house?
). A bit of Googling suggests that the wonderfully named 'King Dick Tools' are still making stuff here.
Careful, Googling that may not give you quite the product line you were looking for.
That was only the 4th Crusade.
The motivation wasn't really personal. The Latin Christians didn't set out to sack Constantinople. However Venetians were the only westerners with a fleet that could accommodate them all, they didn't have the money to pay for passage, and as a trading Empire the only thing over there Venice was interested as a land exchange was the Bosporus. To control the Bosporus you pretty much have to control Constantinople.
So basically the Venetians manipulated the Crusaders into taking Constantinople for them.
If you want to know, why did Constantinople fall to the Moslems? The answer is, it fell because it never really recovered from being sacked by the Fourth crusade.
That is probably more than half of it, yes. However, even weakened as it was, its walls still held out for another 250 years (longer than the USA has existed) until the Sultan brought in canon to knock them down. So you could also blame gunpowder. Considering that same sultan held half the Balkans already, and son and grandson proceeded to conquer all the land up to Austria, you could also argue that militarily the Byzantines had no right whatsoever to exist anymore, and the crusades (despite what happened in the 4th one) had just been staving off the inevitable.
What we have in Europe right now is a diaspora - people from a totally foreign culture forced to live with another. Of course, one can argue that the refugees are in Europe by their own will, but the economic and social hardships in their own countries is so bad, that I would consider this a diaspora.
The political correctness of the hosts will allow the new foreign culture not to assimilate, and the children of these foreigners will end up outsiders in their own country.
This is a prediction, not a known fact. You could test it if you want by looking at the results of previous generations of diaspora in other countries. There are certainly plenty of examples to chose from.
The only examples I can think of that had the results you describe were ones where the existing residents wouldn't allow the new ones full membership in society (including full-blown legal barriers).
When I was living in Florida a couple of decades ago I replaced our thermostat with a newfangled programmable digital one to save money when we weren't in the house.
Florida is of course the lightning capital of the world, so of course one fine evening in AUGUST a strike fried the thermostat about 10 minutes after the home supply stores had all closed. Nothing quite like being stuck all night in a un-airconditioned house in Florida in August with a cranky wife and baby.
Lesson learned: If you live somewhere with extreme temperatures, and your thermostat isn't 100% mechanical, always keep a mechanical spare.
Of course my first thought was, "Their gravity experiment backfired on them, and now they are floating?".
Second thought was, "Awesome trick headline there /. Worthy of The Guardian. Nice to see editors here actually contributing something."
Third thought was, "Oh, of course. They took it verbatim from The Guardian. Should have known."
In case you were wondering, yes Kentucky has no waiting period to buy handguns.
If you want to express your thoughts immediately in KY, they prefer you do it with lead.
When I was in elementary school back in the 70's my bus stop got cut as an extravagance because my house was only one mile from school.
We didn't have a form (thankfully) but I had to call the school and give my daughter special permission to walk home. We are *less* than a mile from the school, and she hated her overcrowded bus. She got home far quicker on foot too.
There really wasn't any choice. They were forced to deny it under O.R.C.A. - the Open Records of Cetaceans Act.
Do these people actually go out there and actually talk to real people. Is the fear mongering that effective that people are actually wanting this?
He isn't running for POTUS right now, he's running for the Republican nomination. Only about 27% of voters (about one quarter) right now consider themselves Republican. And those voters respond very differently to polls on issues than independents and Democrats (who on most issues actually seem to differ mostly in degree, not inclination).
So all a Republican candidate has to do is win about 14% of the Electorate to get nominated. If the current front runners (in an amazingly competitive field) both feel the best way to do that is to run FUD campaigns, that may not really be telling you much of anything about the USA electorate, but it tells you a rather large amount about the Republican party.