It's important to remember that SUV's are built to meet truck safety standards. Which means that while you might be better off in a centered head-on collision with a smaller vehicle, anything else and you're endangered by missing all those safety standards which apply to passenger cars. I would hate to be in a Hummer2 hit from the side, or skidding on an icy road.
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How does X have to be supernatural? Couldn't the "intelligent designer" have been a superior alien life form that designed DNA and used this planet as a giant test bed for it? As the gp said, intelligent design has nothing to do with religion, although Christians tend to latch on to it as their own. There are other possibilities as to who the designer was.
Well, here are two possibile thought processes. You decide for yourself which is good science. a) I don't understand how this could happen. My understanding of the process is incomplete, so I will look harder for evidence that will help me understand. If I find contradictory evidence, I will modify my theory accordingly. b) I don't understand how this could happen. It is therefore inexplicable, and was most likely caused by God/Gods/Mad Scientists/Superior Alien Life Forms. What evidence do I have for this conclusion? Well, it's inexplicable, isn't it?
Call me up when you find the glacier signed Slartibartfast, or the spare DNA strand that reads "Copyright UBM".
-aiabx
Allow me to summarize Intelligent Design: 1) I am really smart. 2) I don't understand how X could happen. Therefore 3) X must have a supernatural explanation.
If that's what passes for science, we might as well start praying to Zeus to stop throwing those lightning sticks at us.
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You're right there...if we're going to have the movie playing over and over in the house, then we show a bit more discrimination. Pixar is a sure thing, but none of the crappy sequels have ever made it under the Christmas tree.
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Speaking as a parent of an 8 year old, I can assure you that when those rainy Sunday afternoons come along, you will take the kids to see anything that doesn't cause instant brain paralysis. And I don't object to that. My parents took me to see The Love Bug, and The Computer Wore Tennis SHoes and all kinds of crap when I was a youngun, which I really enjoyed at the time, in spite of the fact that they were pure formulaix garbage. And I'll do the same for my daughter. I'm not going to deprive her of fun because the films don't live up to my grown up standards.
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Well, that's the name he was given by Zaphod, who is not a character famous for profound and deep thought. The fact that it isn't really appropriate is one of the things that makes it funny.
But he does look like a cute Disney sidekick character. Thank god I still have the radio show.
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So what you're telling us is that no one is allowed to complain about overwork because you do more for less money? And you can't give us a reason why that doesn't sound like a cliche from a sports movie, or an army commercial? I don't know what you do, but you must have a really compelling reason to do your job that you aren't telling us, or you are a prize-winning fool.
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Ummm, actually it codifies rights believed by the authors to be endowed by the creator. I personally have not seen the big stone tablet at the centre of the universe where the creator has explicitly codifed my right to possess an automatic rifle, own property or elect the judiciary. Speaking as a non-American, I can see that as constitutions go, the US constitution isn't a bad one, but it is a social construct. I'm always perplexed by people who treat it like the fifth gospel.
-aiabx
And TJ Hooker, a decent role in Judgement at Nuremburg, and some respect for doing Shakespeare at Canada's Stratford Festival. But I guess the real point is that he *did* all these things, he didn't just watch them on TV.
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Well, maybe it is natural. But that doesn't mean it isn't short sighted and self-destructive, in the same way that unchecked animals will eat everything in their environment and drive themselves into starvation. The difference is that we can see the ramifications of our actions, and choose a different course of action- one that will make the human population sustainable over the long term.
-aiabx
Speaking as a biking and bussing city boy, I'd rather rent a bigger car for the rare occasions when I need a car than own even a cute little smart car. But thanks for the warning. I don't come to slashdot for opinions from people with first-hand experience, but they are extra-valuable when they do show up.
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I've seen one driving around Toronto with the licence plate "REVOLT". I thought it was pretty funny. It looks like an excellent tooling-around-the-city car.
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I like the idea of a built in observatory, but you want some kind of pier to set the telescope on that isn't connected to the rest of the building, so footsteps don't cause vibration to the telescope. You also want some kind of retractable roof, so you don't have to reassemble and realign your telescope every time you want to observe. But I guess you need to put up with a bit of hardship if you want a building that looks like Dilbert.
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Well, you need people to rebuild the buildings that fall down, and build airplanes to replace the ones that crash, and funeral directors to bury the inhabitants of shoddy buildings, passengers of crashed airplanes and eaters of poisonous tuna.
-aiabx
I'd still vote for Beaker and Bunsen. It's refreshing to see a realistic portrayel of the respect scientists have for their assistants. Besides, they aren't cops or adventurers or political advisors or crap like that. They'e scientists! They sit around in a lab and mess around with stuff. If we got to see Bunsen grubbing for grants, it would be perfect.
-aiabx
In this case, the supernova was observed almost as soon as it was visible. We can tell, because we have amateur astronomer's images from just hours before the supernova exploded, and nothing out of the ordinary was there.
-aiabx
Ok, I'll try once more to explain this and then I'll go away. I'm not talking about you. I'm not talking about your girlfriend. The asian women that I know, who are close enough friends to discuss this issue with me, have strong negative feelings about being hit on by geeks who are attracted to them solely because they are asian. That's it. I'm not judging you for liking anime. I'm not judging you for having an asian girlfriend. If race is incidental to your relationship, then you win. I hope you're happy together.
-aiabx
Well, whether you kill yourself, or try to use "I really like asian women" as a pick up line, the results are the same as far as evolution is concerned: no breeding for you.
I'm not making a comment about what makes money in Japan; all I'm saying is that the asian women I know are repulsed and horrified at the prospect of being hit on by geeks because of their race. And yes, it happens a lot.
-aiabx
Why would you eat sushi when you can eat steak? The problem is in the question. The correct answer is you can do both, you just need to apply Sturgeon's Law to cut through the 90% of anime, and the 90% of "real" movies which are crap.
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It's important to remember that SUV's are built to meet truck safety standards. Which means that while you might be better off in a centered head-on collision with a smaller vehicle, anything else and you're endangered by missing all those safety standards which apply to passenger cars. I would hate to be in a Hummer2 hit from the side, or skidding on an icy road.
-aiabx
How does X have to be supernatural? Couldn't the "intelligent designer" have been a superior alien life form that designed DNA and used this planet as a giant test bed for it? As the gp said, intelligent design has nothing to do with religion, although Christians tend to latch on to it as their own. There are other possibilities as to who the designer was.
Well, here are two possibile thought processes. You decide for yourself which is good science.
a) I don't understand how this could happen. My understanding of the process is incomplete, so I will look harder for evidence that will help me understand. If I find contradictory evidence, I will modify my theory accordingly.
b) I don't understand how this could happen. It is therefore inexplicable, and was most likely caused by God/Gods/Mad Scientists/Superior Alien Life Forms. What evidence do I have for this conclusion? Well, it's inexplicable, isn't it?
Call me up when you find the glacier signed Slartibartfast, or the spare DNA strand that reads "Copyright UBM".
-aiabx
Allow me to summarize Intelligent Design:
1) I am really smart.
2) I don't understand how X could happen.
Therefore
3) X must have a supernatural explanation.
If that's what passes for science, we might as well start praying to Zeus to stop throwing those lightning sticks at us.
-aiabx
You're right there...if we're going to have the movie playing over and over in the house, then we show a bit more discrimination. Pixar is a sure thing, but none of the crappy sequels have ever made it under the Christmas tree.
-aiabx
Speaking as a parent of an 8 year old, I can assure you that when those rainy Sunday afternoons come along, you will take the kids to see anything that doesn't cause instant brain paralysis. And I don't object to that. My parents took me to see The Love Bug, and The Computer Wore Tennis SHoes and all kinds of crap when I was a youngun, which I really enjoyed at the time, in spite of the fact that they were pure formulaix garbage. And I'll do the same for my daughter. I'm not going to deprive her of fun because the films don't live up to my grown up standards.
-aiabx
Well, that's the name he was given by Zaphod, who is not a character famous for profound and deep thought. The fact that it isn't really appropriate is one of the things that makes it funny.
But he does look like a cute Disney sidekick character. Thank god I still have the radio show.
-aiabx
So what you're telling us is that no one is allowed to complain about overwork because you do more for less money? And you can't give us a reason why that doesn't sound like a cliche from a sports movie, or an army commercial? I don't know what you do, but you must have a really compelling reason to do your job that you aren't telling us, or you are a prize-winning fool.
-aiabx
True, but speaking in terms of the lifetimes of astronomers, 10 years is a long wait.
-aiabx
Ummm, actually it codifies rights believed by the authors to be endowed by the creator. I personally have not seen the big stone tablet at the centre of the universe where the creator has explicitly codifed my right to possess an automatic rifle, own property or elect the judiciary.
Speaking as a non-American, I can see that as constitutions go, the US constitution isn't a bad one, but it is a social construct. I'm always perplexed by people who treat it like the fifth gospel.
-aiabx
And TJ Hooker, a decent role in Judgement at Nuremburg, and some respect for doing Shakespeare at Canada's Stratford Festival.
But I guess the real point is that he *did* all these things, he didn't just watch them on TV.
-aiabx
It's not a pill...it's a suppository.
Ahhh... Futurama.
-aiabx
Well, maybe it is natural. But that doesn't mean it isn't short sighted and self-destructive, in the same way that unchecked animals will eat everything in their environment and drive themselves into starvation. The difference is that we can see the ramifications of our actions, and choose a different course of action- one that will make the human population sustainable over the long term.
-aiabx
Speaking as a biking and bussing city boy, I'd rather rent a bigger car for the rare occasions when I need a car than own even a cute little smart car. But thanks for the warning. I don't come to slashdot for opinions from people with first-hand experience, but they are extra-valuable when they do show up.
-aiabx
Or if they take a corner 5mph too fast, everyone dies.
-aiabx
I've seen one driving around Toronto with the licence plate "REVOLT". I thought it was pretty funny. It looks like an excellent tooling-around-the-city car.
-aiabx
I like the idea of a built in observatory, but you want some kind of pier to set the telescope on that isn't connected to the rest of the building, so footsteps don't cause vibration to the telescope. You also want some kind of retractable roof, so you don't have to reassemble and realign your telescope every time you want to observe. But I guess you need to put up with a bit of hardship if you want a building that looks like Dilbert.
-aiabx
Isn't there a song "Digging in the Dirt" on a Peter Gabriel solo album?
-aiabx
Well, you need people to rebuild the buildings that fall down, and build airplanes to replace the ones that crash, and funeral directors to bury the inhabitants of shoddy buildings, passengers of crashed airplanes and eaters of poisonous tuna.
-aiabx
That's a pretty good, arbitrary definition. Now you can struggle with the question of whether the solar system has 8 or 100000 planets.
-aiabx
I'd still vote for Beaker and Bunsen. It's refreshing to see a realistic portrayel of the respect scientists have for their assistants. Besides, they aren't cops or adventurers or political advisors or crap like that. They'e scientists! They sit around in a lab and mess around with stuff. If we got to see Bunsen grubbing for grants, it would be perfect.
-aiabx
No, but it is easily visible in an 8" telescope.
-aiabx
In this case, the supernova was observed almost as soon as it was visible. We can tell, because we have amateur astronomer's images from just hours before the supernova exploded, and nothing out of the ordinary was there.
-aiabx
Ah. Abuse.
Ok, I'll try once more to explain this and then I'll go away. I'm not talking about you. I'm not talking about your girlfriend. The asian women that I know, who are close enough friends to discuss this issue with me, have strong negative feelings about being hit on by geeks who are attracted to them solely because they are asian. That's it. I'm not judging you for liking anime. I'm not judging you for having an asian girlfriend. If race is incidental to your relationship, then you win. I hope you're happy together.
-aiabx
Well, whether you kill yourself, or try to use "I really like asian women" as a pick up line, the results are the same as far as evolution is concerned: no breeding for you.
I'm not making a comment about what makes money in Japan; all I'm saying is that the asian women I know are repulsed and horrified at the prospect of being hit on by geeks because of their race. And yes, it happens a lot.
-aiabx
Why would you eat sushi when you can eat steak? The problem is in the question. The correct answer is you can do both, you just need to apply Sturgeon's Law to cut through the 90% of anime, and the 90% of "real" movies which are crap.
-aiabx