You got that right. Bush has blown any credibility the US has had in the world. Whether it's Intelligent Design, torture at Abu Ghraib or the bungling incompetence of the Federal relief effort after Katrina, any respect us non-Americans once held for the US is being flushed down the toilet. I wouldn't let GWB lead my cat to the litter box.
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Astronomers care about fog in the dark. Dew settling on telescopes is a major pain in the ass, and this will be a much better solution that heating the objective, or getting temporary relief with a dew shield.
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Exactly right. You don't need someone who knows zOS, you need someone who can learn zOS. And someone with good marks from a reputable program is presumably someone who can learn. (Is there anywhere else in the world that comment would be a troll?)
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Modern research is showing that most dinosaurs which left sufficiently detailed fossils were feathered. So it could be a serious problem. They'd look like vultures with teeth.
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The word "bright" has a specific meaning in astronomy, and that isn't it. The moon is brighter than Venus, but it is a good deal less reflective. But I'm still bugged; it's 25% further, larger and more reflective, but still only 1/20th of the brightness? Something is wrong here. It has to be smaller, less reflective or 5 times further away. There's an error in here somewhere.
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this is an object several times brighter than Pluto even though it is 25% farther out from the Sun
Pluto is currently around 13.7th magnitude. The new object is around 17th magnitude. This means the new object is actually ~20 times dimmer. Astronomical magnitudes increase and brightness decreases. The fact that it is 20 times dimmer than Pluto might be a hint as to why it was so hard to spot.
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It was never even a fad. Just some hype that showed up in business magazines.
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You're still on your rocker. Pro scopes are better for finding and tracking asteroids, but there aren't many of them, and they usually have better things to do. Amateurs, however, have the advantage of numbers and time, so things like asteroid tracking, supernova hunting and variable star measuring are good jobs for us.
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I see harm in acknowledging Intelligent Design. Because it is not testable or falsifiable, it is poor science, if it is science at all. You can call it religion, and teach it in religion class, or call it philosophy and teach it in philiosphy class and that's fine, but you can't call it science and it is wrong to teach it in science class. Irreducible Complexity is a weak argument. It rests entirely on the fallacy of arguing from incredulity: if I cannot understand the source of complexity, it cannot be understood by anyone ever, and must have a supernatural or metanatural explanation. But this just pushes the argument back a step. Who designed the designers? If they did not evolve naturally, eventually you end up facing divine creation. If we're interested in letting more than one world view into children's minds, does that mean we should also teach them that when you drop a rock, it falls because a magic ghost is pushing it? No. Among people who don't learn about science from the writings of Bronze Age sheepherders, evolution is a done deal. Teach your kids about differing world views in history class.
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What scientific alternatives to evolution are there? It's like looking for a scientific alternative to gravity. No one has seriously supported alternatives to evolution for decades. Now, if you want to say there is controversy about the mechanisms, or different evolutionary paths, I could buy that, but there are no (at this time) credible scientific alternatives to evolution. The alternatives are all religious ones, no matter how they try to disguise the language, and they do not belong in science class.
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There's another solution; recruiting foreigners with offers of money and/or citizenship. Just remember that it worked out really badly for Rome when their largely Gothic armies deserted en masse to join the invading Gothic kings.
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It sounds a bit like an urban legend to me. It sounds like an interesting idea, but it's pretty convoluted, and I can't see why it would be that much better than arresting the protesters and hauling them off in unmarked vans never to be seen again. Of course, I'm not saying it didn't/couldn't happen. It's a funny world.
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After reading "A State Of Fear" recently, and whilst I haven't fallen for all of Crichtons selective misrepresentations, I suspect their motivations a bit more than I used to.
If this is how you learn about how people think about risks to the environment, please promise me you'll never read "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
-aiabx
Live in a big city in a neighbourhood where the places we need to take the kids (school, swimming, ballet, library) are all in walking or biking distance. The housing costs more than an equivalent suburban house, but I make it up on car payments, gas and insurance. And I live down the street from a very nice cafe without wifi, where I can go and relax for half an hour before telecommuting to work.
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I know we have global warming and world hunger and all that crap, but I've always been bugged by the fact that JLP couldn't just say "Tea" and the computer would know he wanted "Earl Grey, hot".
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17 years in the computer business, and I stopped wearing suits the day I got my tie caught in the cooling fan on the back of a VAX. I yanked it out before I was choked or the fan was ruined. The tie was ruined though, and it was a pretty good scare, and that was the last time I wore a tie to work. When my bosses got annoyed, I packed up my slide rule and found a better job where I didn't have to dress like a monkey to do a technical job.
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No. They are suggesting you keep your eyes open, and when you read in your favourite magazine that "suits are back", think about who is telling you that, and what they have to gain from it. With increased awareness comes increased immunity.
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IIRC, Giordano Bruno was burned as a heretic for suggesting that all the stars had occupied worlds orbiting them. On the plus side, he has a crater on the moon named for him now.
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Not really. Scientists tend to use Universal Time (basically GMT, with minor adjustments for factors such as variations in the earth's rotation).
-aiabx
You self-centered swine, you think corporations should change their schedules for your convenience? Ho ho ho, you have something to learn. Now get back to work.
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You got that right. Bush has blown any credibility the US has had in the world. Whether it's Intelligent Design, torture at Abu Ghraib or the bungling incompetence of the Federal relief effort after Katrina, any respect us non-Americans once held for the US is being flushed down the toilet. I wouldn't let GWB lead my cat to the litter box.
-aiabx
Astronomers care about fog in the dark. Dew settling on telescopes is a major pain in the ass, and this will be a much better solution that heating the objective, or getting temporary relief with a dew shield.
-aiabx
Exactly right. You don't need someone who knows zOS, you need someone who can learn zOS. And someone with good marks from a reputable program is presumably someone who can learn.
(Is there anywhere else in the world that comment would be a troll?)
-aiabx
Modern research is showing that most dinosaurs which left sufficiently detailed fossils were feathered. So it could be a serious problem. They'd look like vultures with teeth.
-aiabx
The word "bright" has a specific meaning in astronomy, and that isn't it. The moon is brighter than Venus, but it is a good deal less reflective. But I'm still bugged; it's 25% further, larger and more reflective, but still only 1/20th of the brightness? Something is wrong here. It has to be smaller, less reflective or 5 times further away. There's an error in here somewhere.
-aiabx
this is an object several times brighter than Pluto even though it is 25% farther out from the Sun
Pluto is currently around 13.7th magnitude. The new object is around 17th magnitude. This means the new object is actually ~20 times dimmer. Astronomical magnitudes increase and brightness decreases.
The fact that it is 20 times dimmer than Pluto might be a hint as to why it was so hard to spot.
-aiabx
It was never even a fad. Just some hype that showed up in business magazines.
-aiabx
You're still on your rocker. Pro scopes are better for finding and tracking asteroids, but there aren't many of them, and they usually have better things to do. Amateurs, however, have the advantage of numbers and time, so things like asteroid tracking, supernova hunting and variable star measuring are good jobs for us.
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Oh please... like amateur astronomers aren't geeks.
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I'd do two and a half years for $200 million, though maybe that was already recoved, as below:.
I think I'd do some investigation into Nigerian prisons before I signed up for a deal like that. I can't imagine they are nice places.
-aiabx
I see harm in acknowledging Intelligent Design. Because it is not testable or falsifiable, it is poor science, if it is science at all. You can call it religion, and teach it in religion class, or call it philosophy and teach it in philiosphy class and that's fine, but you can't call it science and it is wrong to teach it in science class.
Irreducible Complexity is a weak argument. It rests entirely on the fallacy of arguing from incredulity: if I cannot understand the source of complexity, it cannot be understood by anyone ever, and must have a supernatural or metanatural explanation. But this just pushes the argument back a step. Who designed the designers? If they did not evolve naturally, eventually you end up facing divine creation.
If we're interested in letting more than one world view into children's minds, does that mean we should also teach them that when you drop a rock, it falls because a magic ghost is pushing it? No. Among people who don't learn about science from the writings of Bronze Age sheepherders, evolution is a done deal. Teach your kids about differing world views in history class.
-aiabx
What scientific alternatives to evolution are there? It's like looking for a scientific alternative to gravity. No one has seriously supported alternatives to evolution for decades. Now, if you want to say there is controversy about the mechanisms, or different evolutionary paths, I could buy that, but there are no (at this time) credible scientific alternatives to evolution. The alternatives are all religious ones, no matter how they try to disguise the language, and they do not belong in science class.
-aiabx
Like Hotblack Desatio, you can now take a year off dead for tax reasons.
-aiabx
There's another solution; recruiting foreigners with offers of money and/or citizenship. Just remember that it worked out really badly for Rome when their largely Gothic armies deserted en masse to join the invading Gothic kings.
-aiabx
It sounds a bit like an urban legend to me. It sounds like an interesting idea, but it's pretty convoluted, and I can't see why it would be that much better than arresting the protesters and hauling them off in unmarked vans never to be seen again.
Of course, I'm not saying it didn't/couldn't happen. It's a funny world.
-aiabx
After reading "A State Of Fear" recently, and whilst I haven't fallen for all of Crichtons selective misrepresentations, I suspect their motivations a bit more than I used to.
If this is how you learn about how people think about risks to the environment, please promise me you'll never read "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
-aiabx
Live in a big city in a neighbourhood where the places we need to take the kids (school, swimming, ballet, library) are all in walking or biking distance. The housing costs more than an equivalent suburban house, but I make it up on car payments, gas and insurance. And I live down the street from a very nice cafe without wifi, where I can go and relax for half an hour before telecommuting to work.
-aiabx
I know we have global warming and world hunger and all that crap, but I've always been bugged by the fact that JLP couldn't just say "Tea" and the computer would know he wanted "Earl Grey, hot".
-aiabx
Man, it makes me piss blood to think that I have to pay Celine Dion to back up my imaging data.
-aiabx
17 years in the computer business, and I stopped wearing suits the day I got my tie caught in the cooling fan on the back of a VAX. I yanked it out before I was choked or the fan was ruined. The tie was ruined though, and it was a pretty good scare, and that was the last time I wore a tie to work. When my bosses got annoyed, I packed up my slide rule and found a better job where I didn't have to dress like a monkey to do a technical job.
-aiabx
No. They are suggesting you keep your eyes open, and when you read in your favourite magazine that "suits are back", think about who is telling you that, and what they have to gain from it. With increased awareness comes increased immunity.
-aiabx
IIRC, Giordano Bruno was burned as a heretic for suggesting that all the stars had occupied worlds orbiting them.
On the plus side, he has a crater on the moon named for him now.
-aiabx
I'd be more worried that an evil penguin would override the controls and use it (and you) to steal heavily guarded jewels.
-aiabx
Not really. Scientists tend to use Universal Time (basically GMT, with minor adjustments for factors such as variations in the earth's rotation).
-aiabx
You self-centered swine, you think corporations should change their schedules for your convenience? Ho ho ho, you have something to learn. Now get back to work.
-aiabx