That choice of proxy needs some support, lest they end up accidentally gathering evidence that earning a 5.5 GPA in basketweaving does not correlate with unusual genes.
"The new approach is to create a mathematical model... And interestingly, the predictions closely match what researchers have found in practice"
Unless the mathematical model was built *before* any of those practical empirical test results, it is not at all interesting or surprising that the model happens to match the pre-existing data.
" If guns are restricted, *everyone* has less access to them, including the bad guys."
What you refuse to accept is that "less" access to guns by bad guys is still ample for them to shoot good defenceless people. What you also refuse to accept is that bad guys may be armed by other-than-guns and still threaten the lives of good defenceless people.
"This doesn't mean they have a gene for preferring Taryton cigarettes."
Straw man. No one said there is exactly a single gene for that. The effect of N genes working in conjunction toward outcomes such as visible racial features, social behaviors, preferences, are entirely consistent with theories such as those in this "decried" book.
"When a student's parent's move between these two cities, their kids are screwed..."
If all it requires is some such easily-surmountable personal inconvenience to get a major federal government effort started, no wonder the feds thing *everything* is in their jurisdiction.
Not if the immediate takes more bytes to represent in the instruction stream than the bytes needed to reload it from the stack, and the compiler was told to optimize for (insn) space.
"If we voluntarily destroy all our samples, and some other nation doesn't, then there will be that much less smallpox. This is a valuable goal in itself,"
It's ESA, not NASA, and the focus of the work was apparently the vision-based guidance system, not the quadcopter propulsion (which indeed would be absurd on Mars).
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That choice of proxy needs some support, lest they end up accidentally gathering evidence that earning a 5.5 GPA in basketweaving does not correlate with unusual genes.
Messrs. Castro and Castro may be a bit miffed about being called a mere "kid in the playground". Viva la revolucion and all that.
"The new approach is to create a mathematical model ... And interestingly, the predictions closely match what researchers have found in practice"
Unless the mathematical model was built *before* any of those practical empirical test results, it is not at all interesting or surprising that the model happens to match the pre-existing data.
" If guns are restricted, *everyone* has less access to them, including the bad guys."
What you refuse to accept is that "less" access to guns by bad guys is still ample for them to shoot good defenceless people. What you also refuse to accept is that bad guys may be armed by other-than-guns and still threaten the lives of good defenceless people.
"The geneticsts know this. Now you do."
Those geneticists who deny blatantly obvious genetic aspects of races are fooling themselves - and you.
... and one lost class-action lawsuit about employment practices is not enough, how about another one please.
"This doesn't mean they have a gene for preferring Taryton cigarettes."
Straw man. No one said there is exactly a single gene for that. The effect of N genes working in conjunction toward outcomes such as visible racial features, social behaviors, preferences, are entirely consistent with theories such as those in this "decried" book.
Even a few examples like this would be considered falsification in any harder science. But race theory - social-vs-genes - is not so vulnerable that.
Everyone knows that evolution is limited to effects from the neck down.
"When a student's parent's move between these two cities, their kids are screwed ..."
If all it requires is some such easily-surmountable personal inconvenience to get a major federal government effort started, no wonder the feds thing *everything* is in their jurisdiction.
... plus why on earth would it need to be a *federal* matter? Education is local, at best state level jurisdiction.
http://archiveteam.org/index.p...
"spilling immediates is insane by itself"
Not if the immediate takes more bytes to represent in the instruction stream than the bytes needed to reload it from the stack, and the compiler was told to optimize for (insn) space.
Many other sources suggest otherwise.
"What could possibly be gained from further experimentation at this point?"
A rhetorical assertion of a negative is not very convincing.
"Smallpox isn't a weapon."
We're not talking taxonomy, we're talking possible utility.
"So the only thing destroying live smallpox samples does is reduce the chances of a catastrophic screw-up."
No, it also reduces the ability of labs to experiment on & learn from the thing.
An awesome way to smuggle a wifi sniffer - or something naughtier - into the googleplex!
"If we voluntarily destroy all our samples, and some other nation doesn't, then there will be that much less smallpox. This is a valuable goal in itself,"
Do you support unilateral disarmament too?
"This is give and take, not a debating society."
If all you have available to "give" are poor imitations of intelligent debate, frankly it's not worth "taking" any of it.
Bravo, ad hominem and straw man mixed together in one stinky mess of an argument.
Congratulations (?).
The relevance of flight recorders to a missile attack is ... absent.
lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?
It's ESA, not NASA, and the focus of the work was apparently the vision-based guidance system, not the quadcopter propulsion (which indeed would be absurd on Mars).
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit...
They must be planning ahead for the time when terraforming is complete.
That.