It is late when it's the only form of outreach. Unfortunately other forms of support like subsidized school lunches, Head Start, after school programs, enforcement of equal housing and employment laws, etc. were all on the GOP budget chopping block. I'd be thrilled if that education pipeline were fixed up. Instead we're debating the merits of slashing yet another rung in the ladder.
Like when peaceful white protesters have had dogs and fire hoses set on them by all black police departments? When white families were denied access to housing in black neighborhoods? When job applicants were looked over simply because they had a white sounding name? When white kids were more likely to be suspended or expelled from school for the same offenses as black kids? When black felons were more likely to get a job offer than a white person with a clean record? How about when whites were directed toward subprime mortgages while black counterparts at the same credit rating were given better interest rates? When whites were given the death penalty at higher rates than blacks for the same offense? When white jail time in general was longer than blacks for the same offense? When unarmed, non-resisting whites are much more likely to be killed by police than blacks? You mean when whites are referred to as "thugs" in the media when black folks aren't?
You must mean that "reverse racism" since that has been the racism that black folks have been living through, but in reverse.
Except that "who-knows-what" is Nickel Metal Hydride, and well known and understood. The batteries can also be recycled and used again as...
*drum roll*...a new battery. Let me see, a battery maintained in the car in solid form or constant emissions of CO2 into the environment. Hmmm, which is preferable?
I've got a first-gen Prius, bought in 2000. While I've had to replace the standard 12V car battery, the main hybrid battery's fine. As there are no Priuses substantially older than mine, I'd say that I'm a good example, as are the friends who have the exact same model let alone the later models.
As for diesels getting better mileage, you're right.
EXCEPT
You couldn't find passenger car diesels in large numbers in California and many other states until recently due to emissions restrictions.
Diesel costs more than gasoline at the pump, so the extra mileage won't save you any money in this case.
And finally, Orwell predicted two-way television screens monitored by government officials among other things. Orwell was writing about the rise of the Soviet Union (Stalin was the model for Big Brother) and its repressive tactics towards its citizens. Feel free to discuss similarities with present day governments, but Orwell did not get everything right. Hell, he only chose the date 1984 because 84 was flipped from 48, the year he wrote the novel.
I've got a first-gen Prius, bought in 2000. While I've had to replace the 12V standard car batter, the main hybrid battery's fine. As there are no Priuses substantially older than mine, I'd say that I'm a good example, as are the friends who have the exact same model let alone the later models.
As a Prius owner, let me assuage your concerns. There are two batteries in the Prius: the main hybrid battery that provides the power to move the car and a standard 12-volt battery that is used for starting the vehicle, running the radio, and all of the other things you would expect from a normal car battery.
The former has no user-serviceable parts and can kill you if you're careless. The harder to access in this case the better. The latter is easily accessible from the trunk and can be used with standard jumper cables to start someone else's car or similar functions.
If the main hybrid battery needs replacement, you sure as hell don't want to do it yourself. That thing is 330 volts, 6.5 amps, and a hell of lot bigger/heavier than a standard car battery.
Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective. Carbon-14 is the canard to which people cling desperately who don't know anything about radioactive isotopes. You would of course be correct that C14 only tracks material 50,000 years old or younger. Unfortunately for your argument, C14's 5,715 year halflife is just the tip of the iceberg.
Isotope and its respective halflife in years: Thorium-230: 75,400 Uranium-234: 248,000 Chlorine-36: 300,000 Beryllium-10: 1.52 million Uranium-235: 700 million Potassium-40: 1.26 billion Uranium-238: 4.5 billion Thorium-232: 14 billion Lutetium-176: 38 billion Rhenium-187: 42 billion Rubidium-87: 48.8 billion Samarium-147: 106 billion
Given that I have held hominid skulls from today's modern humans all the way back to our ancestor's when they first diverged from the other great apes, I have done the research, sir. I have held them with my own two hands and examined them with my own two eyes.
The rest of your rant against genetics, general biology, biochemistry, et al. clearly show that you have not taken a single course in any of these subjects at the college level. Even a casual look at the evidence in an introductory biology class should be enough. But you are so busy calling others dunces that you cannot see your own idiocy.
I failed to denounce Behe successfully? On what point? Please elucidate so I can make my denunciation more complete.
Who knows? Maybe you're too young to remember, but there was indeed a problem with Word 97 saving to Word 95 format. This caused a great deal of resentment in that either an entire organization and its partners had to stay on Office 95 or all upgrade to Office 97 together. A mixed environment was not simple. The only workaround at the time was to save a Word 97 document in RTF so that the earlier version could read it, albeit with a loss of functionality. The frustration was coupled with the fact that all Word documents had the extension ".doc", which meant that you could not tell which version of Word a particular document was written with short of trying to open it.
That's funny, because I recall having to fix pages when IE 5 came out, again when IE 5.5 was released, and again for 6 and 7. Each version of IE came with its own set of quirks and changes that caused non-trivial CSS layouts to render oddly. Conditional comments greatly aided the transition, but it was a transition nonetheless, so why not make a transition that actually makes web development more uniform for a change?
As for still requiring Microsoft's Java (because of JDirect or the com.ms.win32 stuff, I assume?) and IE6, IE8 is a moot point. If you aren't changing your environment either way, what does it matter what the rest of the world does?
Then again, there's no reason why your shop couldn't use Firefox with IE Tab and set your intranet domain to automatically revert to the IE renderer. Best of both worlds: local compatibility with global compatibility.
Democrats were in charge of nothing. Did everything work out for the better? No. Increased government corruption, two failed wars, erosion of civil liberties, and the laundry list keeps going.
And McCain voted with Bush more than 90% of the time.
Yeah, I'd call their supporters The Stupid Lobby. Doing the same thing and expecting a difference result is stupid.
If Obama is elected, Congress remains Democratic, and things get worse, then you can say I told you so. As it stands right now, The Republicans have no leg to stand on when challenged for being inept.
"Victorian times" refers to the mid-1800s, during the reign of Queen Victoria. The US fixation on the naughtiness of sex far predates that. Who landed on Plymouth Rock? A group of folks who were so well known for their collective stick up their collective asses, their group became synonymous with sexual repression: puritanism.
And before them in Europe was The Inquisition.
And before that were the books that spawned the rationale for The Inquisition.
I'm sure for every caveman that drew sexual images on the wall, there was some clan leader pushing him in front of a bear "to teach him a lesson in values."
I something happened to McCain, would you be comfortable with President Palin? Would you have voted for her were she the nominee for president against Obama today, not McCain? That's the test that she fails for me.
Were Biden the nominee, I wouldn't like him anywhere near as much as I like Obama, but I'd still vote for him over McCain.
Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance. Ignorance has no place in a class dedicated to discovery.
Evolution:
radiometric dating
fossil record
geological record
genetics
general biology
biochemistry
...and on and on -- every day gathering more data and comparing to our predictions. They all point to evolution. The evidence points to evolution.
Intelligent Design:
a book
an assertion that "God did it"
No recent discoveries, no predictions, no evidence, no tests that we can perform on it.
The roots of Intelligent Design mostly point to Michael Behe, a biochemist. What did he discover? Nothing. He looked at the discoveries of others, gave them a cursory analysis, and declared that God must have done it. Do discoveries, no predictions, and as far as he is concerned no falsifiability tests. God did it. That's final.
Then some folks actually took a look, discovered that the structures Behe asserted were irreducibly complex in fact were easily reducible. Any retraction from Behe? No. He had made up his mind, and no evidence to the contrary will sway him.
So I quote again, "Science is a philosophy of discovery. Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know we are largely in agreement here, and you're right that science isn't a matter of belief, but science and one of its discoveries, evolution, are not facts; it is a matter of evidence. Science is never wrong. Scientists are wrong sometimes. The consensus of scientists can be wrong sometimes. Science is never wrong.
Science is a philosophy of discovery, and that's the difference. Science is about discovery, making falsifiable predictions, performing tests, and finding more evidence.
Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance (God did it). With Creationism/Intelligent Design, curiosity stops. What has Creationism discovered lately? What predictions does it make? What evidence has it brought forth? What can we test with it? Nothing, nothing, and nothing.
Science is not about learning facts and figures and equations, though we must do so to become more proficient and knowledgeable. It is about seeking out those things we do not know, do not understand, and cannot grasp right away. It is a declaration that we will try to know more, to understand more, to grasp what was formerly too ethereal or esoteric.
Creationism on the other hand is asserting that we know how it all works (God did it), that we understand the workings of the world (God makes it go), and that we can know it all through detailed reading of a single book. It promotes relishing in the status quo, cataloging the gaps in our knowledge, but actively fighting against any examination of those gaps.
Simply put:
"Science is a philosophy of discovery; Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Third, the administration, whoever is president, has specific requirements for accounting and reporting to congress about any actions taken under the guide of a national emergency.
I'll remember that the next time I hear the phrase "weapons of mass destruction." Accountability and this administration -- nor a backbone for recent Congresses -- do not go hand in hand.
At a critical mass, this chain reaction goes out of control and you get a nuclear explosion.
Not quite. You seem to imply that if you put a whole bunch of U235 together you'll get another Hiroshima bomb. This is not the case, but it is one of the primary reasons why many people have an irrational fear of nuclear power: equating it with nuclear bombs, hence the vague "nuke" epithet.
The fuel in a nuclear power plant has about as much chance of having a fission/fusion explosion as a child's bubblegum exploding in their mouth. This isn't to say that it's a warm and fuzzy, harmless event, it's just that in a power plant the fuel simply gets too hot to properly manage, both in heat and radioactivity.
It doesn't explode like a nuclear weapon. That's like saying that fireworks could be like a sniper rifle or machine gun. Sure they all use gunpowder and must be used carefully, but they are very different animals.
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It is late when it's the only form of outreach. Unfortunately other forms of support like subsidized school lunches, Head Start, after school programs, enforcement of equal housing and employment laws, etc. were all on the GOP budget chopping block. I'd be thrilled if that education pipeline were fixed up. Instead we're debating the merits of slashing yet another rung in the ladder.
Like when peaceful white protesters have had dogs and fire hoses set on them by all black police departments? When white families were denied access to housing in black neighborhoods? When job applicants were looked over simply because they had a white sounding name? When white kids were more likely to be suspended or expelled from school for the same offenses as black kids? When black felons were more likely to get a job offer than a white person with a clean record? How about when whites were directed toward subprime mortgages while black counterparts at the same credit rating were given better interest rates? When whites were given the death penalty at higher rates than blacks for the same offense? When white jail time in general was longer than blacks for the same offense? When unarmed, non-resisting whites are much more likely to be killed by police than blacks? You mean when whites are referred to as "thugs" in the media when black folks aren't?
You must mean that "reverse racism" since that has been the racism that black folks have been living through, but in reverse.
p.s. I don't want to here any of this Perl is ugly crap either
How can we trust you with Perl when we can't even trust you with English?
Connected the terminals, started the Prius, and started the other car. Nothing special.
Except that "who-knows-what" is Nickel Metal Hydride, and well known and understood. The batteries can also be recycled and used again as...
*drum roll* ...a new battery. Let me see, a battery maintained in the car in solid form or constant emissions of CO2 into the environment. Hmmm, which is preferable?
I've got a first-gen Prius, bought in 2000. While I've had to replace the standard 12V car battery, the main hybrid battery's fine. As there are no Priuses substantially older than mine, I'd say that I'm a good example, as are the friends who have the exact same model let alone the later models.
As for diesels getting better mileage, you're right.
EXCEPT
You couldn't find passenger car diesels in large numbers in California and many other states until recently due to emissions restrictions.
Diesel costs more than gasoline at the pump, so the extra mileage won't save you any money in this case.
And finally, Orwell predicted two-way television screens monitored by government officials among other things. Orwell was writing about the rise of the Soviet Union (Stalin was the model for Big Brother) and its repressive tactics towards its citizens. Feel free to discuss similarities with present day governments, but Orwell did not get everything right. Hell, he only chose the date 1984 because 84 was flipped from 48, the year he wrote the novel.
Get off my lawn!
I've got a first-gen Prius, bought in 2000. While I've had to replace the 12V standard car batter, the main hybrid battery's fine. As there are no Priuses substantially older than mine, I'd say that I'm a good example, as are the friends who have the exact same model let alone the later models.
As a Prius owner, let me assuage your concerns. There are two batteries in the Prius: the main hybrid battery that provides the power to move the car and a standard 12-volt battery that is used for starting the vehicle, running the radio, and all of the other things you would expect from a normal car battery.
The former has no user-serviceable parts and can kill you if you're careless. The harder to access in this case the better. The latter is easily accessible from the trunk and can be used with standard jumper cables to start someone else's car or similar functions.
If the main hybrid battery needs replacement, you sure as hell don't want to do it yourself. That thing is 330 volts, 6.5 amps, and a hell of lot bigger/heavier than a standard car battery.
Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective. Carbon-14 is the canard to which people cling desperately who don't know anything about radioactive isotopes. You would of course be correct that C14 only tracks material 50,000 years old or younger. Unfortunately for your argument, C14's 5,715 year halflife is just the tip of the iceberg.
Isotope and its respective halflife in years:
Thorium-230: 75,400
Uranium-234: 248,000
Chlorine-36: 300,000
Beryllium-10: 1.52 million
Uranium-235: 700 million
Potassium-40: 1.26 billion
Uranium-238: 4.5 billion
Thorium-232: 14 billion
Lutetium-176: 38 billion
Rhenium-187: 42 billion
Rubidium-87: 48.8 billion
Samarium-147: 106 billion
Given that I have held hominid skulls from today's modern humans all the way back to our ancestor's when they first diverged from the other great apes, I have done the research, sir. I have held them with my own two hands and examined them with my own two eyes.
The rest of your rant against genetics, general biology, biochemistry, et al. clearly show that you have not taken a single course in any of these subjects at the college level. Even a casual look at the evidence in an introductory biology class should be enough. But you are so busy calling others dunces that you cannot see your own idiocy.
I failed to denounce Behe successfully? On what point? Please elucidate so I can make my denunciation more complete.
If evolution cannot happen, then how can it have been reproduced, creating a new species with abilities not available to its forebears? According to you, this can't happen. For while the nimrods at Conservapedia tried to wish it away and yell the evidence into non-existence, all they ended up doing was illustrating so clearly just how deluded they were.
Science is a philosophy of discovery. OpenCarry is an individual of ignorance.
Who knows? Maybe you're too young to remember, but there was indeed a problem with Word 97 saving to Word 95 format. This caused a great deal of resentment in that either an entire organization and its partners had to stay on Office 95 or all upgrade to Office 97 together. A mixed environment was not simple. The only workaround at the time was to save a Word 97 document in RTF so that the earlier version could read it, albeit with a loss of functionality. The frustration was coupled with the fact that all Word documents had the extension ".doc", which meant that you could not tell which version of Word a particular document was written with short of trying to open it.
Dream on.
http://www.frontmotion.com/FMFirefoxCE/index.htm
Have fun.
That's funny, because I recall having to fix pages when IE 5 came out, again when IE 5.5 was released, and again for 6 and 7. Each version of IE came with its own set of quirks and changes that caused non-trivial CSS layouts to render oddly. Conditional comments greatly aided the transition, but it was a transition nonetheless, so why not make a transition that actually makes web development more uniform for a change?
As for still requiring Microsoft's Java (because of JDirect or the com.ms.win32 stuff, I assume?) and IE6, IE8 is a moot point. If you aren't changing your environment either way, what does it matter what the rest of the world does?
Then again, there's no reason why your shop couldn't use Firefox with IE Tab and set your intranet domain to automatically revert to the IE renderer. Best of both worlds: local compatibility with global compatibility.
Of course, why do you think they're out-breeding us?
Democrats were in charge of nothing. Did everything work out for the better? No. Increased government corruption, two failed wars, erosion of civil liberties, and the laundry list keeps going.
And McCain voted with Bush more than 90% of the time.
Yeah, I'd call their supporters The Stupid Lobby. Doing the same thing and expecting a difference result is stupid.
If Obama is elected, Congress remains Democratic, and things get worse, then you can say I told you so. As it stands right now, The Republicans have no leg to stand on when challenged for being inept.
"Victorian times" refers to the mid-1800s, during the reign of Queen Victoria. The US fixation on the naughtiness of sex far predates that. Who landed on Plymouth Rock? A group of folks who were so well known for their collective stick up their collective asses, their group became synonymous with sexual repression: puritanism.
And before them in Europe was The Inquisition.
And before that were the books that spawned the rationale for The Inquisition.
I'm sure for every caveman that drew sexual images on the wall, there was some clan leader pushing him in front of a bear "to teach him a lesson in values."
I something happened to McCain, would you be comfortable with President Palin? Would you have voted for her were she the nominee for president against Obama today, not McCain? That's the test that she fails for me.
Were Biden the nominee, I wouldn't like him anywhere near as much as I like Obama, but I'd still vote for him over McCain.
Evolution might be right or it might be wrong. The evidence suggests that it is correct.
Creationism on the other hand is not even wrong.
Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance. Ignorance has no place in a class dedicated to discovery.
Evolution:
Intelligent Design:
No recent discoveries, no predictions, no evidence, no tests that we can perform on it.
The roots of Intelligent Design mostly point to Michael Behe, a biochemist. What did he discover? Nothing. He looked at the discoveries of others, gave them a cursory analysis, and declared that God must have done it. Do discoveries, no predictions, and as far as he is concerned no falsifiability tests. God did it. That's final.
Then some folks actually took a look, discovered that the structures Behe asserted were irreducibly complex in fact were easily reducible. Any retraction from Behe? No. He had made up his mind, and no evidence to the contrary will sway him.
So I quote again, "Science is a philosophy of discovery. Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know we are largely in agreement here, and you're right that science isn't a matter of belief, but science and one of its discoveries, evolution, are not facts; it is a matter of evidence. Science is never wrong. Scientists are wrong sometimes. The consensus of scientists can be wrong sometimes. Science is never wrong.
Science is a philosophy of discovery, and that's the difference. Science is about discovery, making falsifiable predictions, performing tests, and finding more evidence.
Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance (God did it). With Creationism/Intelligent Design, curiosity stops. What has Creationism discovered lately? What predictions does it make? What evidence has it brought forth? What can we test with it? Nothing, nothing, and nothing.
Science is not about learning facts and figures and equations, though we must do so to become more proficient and knowledgeable. It is about seeking out those things we do not know, do not understand, and cannot grasp right away. It is a declaration that we will try to know more, to understand more, to grasp what was formerly too ethereal or esoteric.
Creationism on the other hand is asserting that we know how it all works (God did it), that we understand the workings of the world (God makes it go), and that we can know it all through detailed reading of a single book. It promotes relishing in the status quo, cataloging the gaps in our knowledge, but actively fighting against any examination of those gaps.
Simply put:
"Science is a philosophy of discovery; Creationism is a philosophy of ignorance." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Once you go DVCS, you never go back.
While I am indeed excited about the potential of kite generators, I would like to see some working prototypes before basing energy policy on them.
I'll remember that the next time I hear the phrase "weapons of mass destruction." Accountability and this administration -- nor a backbone for recent Congresses -- do not go hand in hand.
Not quite. You seem to imply that if you put a whole bunch of U235 together you'll get another Hiroshima bomb. This is not the case, but it is one of the primary reasons why many people have an irrational fear of nuclear power: equating it with nuclear bombs, hence the vague "nuke" epithet.
The fuel in a nuclear power plant has about as much chance of having a fission/fusion explosion as a child's bubblegum exploding in their mouth. This isn't to say that it's a warm and fuzzy, harmless event, it's just that in a power plant the fuel simply gets too hot to properly manage, both in heat and radioactivity.
It doesn't explode like a nuclear weapon. That's like saying that fireworks could be like a sniper rifle or machine gun. Sure they all use gunpowder and must be used carefully, but they are very different animals.
They hung out on web discussion forums and said, "Don't feed the trolls?"
Seriously?
You think that replying to Slashdot trolls is being proactive in this world with regard to racism?
Seriously?
We're in worse shape than I thought.