Oh please. Galileo was under house arrest (not threatened with death), and that only because he directly insulted Pope Urban VIII (once his biggest supporter).
Speciation *is* repeatable. It and has been tested. It has been observed many times, both in the wild and in numerous laboratory experiments.
I've yet to see an example of speciation that is not extremely trivial. Ok, so selective pressures cause small changes in fruit flies or mosquitoes, probably just because of weeding out of certain genes from the existing gene pool.
I'm sorry, but the theory of evolution is such a gigantic leap onwards from this that there is no comparison with your other examples. In this case the repeatable part is about a billion-trillionth (well, whatever) of the claimed whole.
The origin of life is an interesting question... And it has no bearing on the validity of evolution.
I obviously disagree. Without a self replicating cell, evolution would not be even conceivable. How that cell got there most likely has a great deal to do with what happened next.
Yet for some reason Darwin's theory of evolution gets picked out so that teachers must highlight its weaknesses. Why might this be?
Perhaps because the theory of evolution has had a profound impact on Western thought, far more so than any other scientific theory I can think of.
And because although scientists can explain how they think evolution might have occurred, the scientific method can't be used to actually directly test the "origin of the species" - it isn't repeatable.
And perhaps also because the theory of evolution depends on the pre-existence of DNA, and there is currently no satisfactory explanation for how it originated.
And finally, because many proponents of evolution are every bit as religious about their beliefs as the ID'ers.
I'm assuming you are being facetious, but for the benefit of other readers - Gandhi was never in charge of anything. He had tremendous moral authority, but was never elected to or held any public office.
It reads as incoherent ranting and gibberish to me.
What's this "soft strokes to your hair" stuff all about? That's weird, and that paragraph should be dropped.
Then there's "To think that I would involve my kids in my "illegal" activities is an insult far beyond outrage". For one thing, the kid is obviously involved to some extent in his activity, handing out Linux disks. And what's this "far beyond outrage"? What exactly is far beyond outrage anyway?
Then there's a couple of irrelevant paragraphs ranting about a teachers' union. Not helpful.
Followed by "A teacher who cared about her students would do that". Translation: a teacher who cared about their students would follow my agenda. That's just insulting. As is "Don't shackle your students in your prison Karen."
The final paragraph is full of threats instead of a polite request for the disks to be returned.
Sorry Ken, you missed an opportunity to provide a polite response that could have pointed out how and why software can be free, and instead publicly insulted one of the people educating your children.
This is part of the city of Brisbane, about 13 km from the city center. There's a lot of Brisbane suburbia close by already.
It's more of a new suburb for Brisbane rather than a new town. Also, we've got a shortage of residential land in Brisbane so there's plenty of incentive.
And it is a beautiful spot right next to the Brisbane river.
That's an amazingly long time in prison for scamming people. He would have got less if he sold legitimate drugs that occasionally killed people.
No wonder American prisons are overflowing. Why not make him empty bedpans in retirement homes or some other yucky community service for a few years instead?
And 4x as a senior dev for an investment bank in London.
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Of course they'll start with contractors. I contracted in the UK for almost 10 years and economic downturns always resulted in contractors getting cut.
That's the whole idea behind having contractors - flexibility. Large numbers can be quickly shed without paying redundancies and without lawsuits.
I might add that the rates I was earning in 2000 in the UK (just before the huge IT cuts post Y2K) have not yet been reached again in the UK in the 8 years since.
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Yes - and get a pedometer to measure the distance to help you get motivated to do say 10,000 steps/day.
So does anyone use MySpace any more? It seems like none of my friends do ...
Divergent evolution? Nah. The city birds are just going deaf with all the noise.
Surprisingly, in ultra-marathons it seems that women are able to beat men - and are doing so regularly. Take a look at this for example.
With house prices crashing in Silicon Valley (well, everywhere in the US it seems), perhaps it is time to head back there?
Yes, me too. I simply ask "How do you spell spam?" for my question. Stopped the spambots in their tracks :)
Oh please. Galileo was under house arrest (not threatened with death), and that only because he directly insulted Pope Urban VIII (once his biggest supporter).
Insightful??? Why not just vote them out?
Moving over here to Australia will soon be almost the same thing!
It's ironic that the anti-abortion movement would rather see the eggs destroyed than used.
The anti-abortion movement would rather not have unused fertilized eggs lying around in the first place to create such ethical dilemmas.
And besides, using the fertilized eggs does destroy them.
Make sure that they can't just issue another 10,000,000 shares subsequently, and dilute your holding to almost nothing.
It happened to friends of mine the day after they signed a deal for an equity stake.
Speciation *is* repeatable. It and has been tested. It has been observed many times, both in the wild and in numerous laboratory experiments.
I've yet to see an example of speciation that is not extremely trivial. Ok, so selective pressures cause small changes in fruit flies or mosquitoes, probably just because of weeding out of certain genes from the existing gene pool.
I'm sorry, but the theory of evolution is such a gigantic leap onwards from this that there is no comparison with your other examples. In this case the repeatable part is about a billion-trillionth (well, whatever) of the claimed whole.
The origin of life is an interesting question ... And it has no bearing on the validity of evolution.
I obviously disagree. Without a self replicating cell, evolution would not be even conceivable. How that cell got there most likely has a great deal to do with what happened next.
Yet for some reason Darwin's theory of evolution gets picked out so that teachers must highlight its weaknesses. Why might this be?
Perhaps because the theory of evolution has had a profound impact on Western thought, far more so than any other scientific theory I can think of.
And because although scientists can explain how they think evolution might have occurred, the scientific method can't be used to actually directly test the "origin of the species" - it isn't repeatable.
And perhaps also because the theory of evolution depends on the pre-existence of DNA, and there is currently no satisfactory explanation for how it originated.
And finally, because many proponents of evolution are every bit as religious about their beliefs as the ID'ers.
Yup. *UNIX Network Programming* and *Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment* (and everything else by Stevens) is absolutely brilliant.
So many books ... not enough time.
*Design Patterns* is a classic.
*Unix Power Tools* is extremely useful.
Tanenbaum's *Computer Networks* should be read by all programmers.
Bach's *The Design of the UNIX operating system*.
Your facts are hardly facts.
I've never heard John Howard claim to be a Christian, although he holds conservative values, and cultivated Christian groups.
Tony Abbott, the previous Health Minister, is a Roman Catholic, not a fundamentalist Christian.
The Churches of Christ and the Assemblies of God are hardly "extreme" Christian fundamentalist churches.
And anyway, why shouldn't religious groups contribute to political parties, just like any other group?
I'm assuming you are being facetious, but for the benefit of other readers - Gandhi was never in charge of anything. He had tremendous moral authority, but was never elected to or held any public office.
It reads as incoherent ranting and gibberish to me.
What's this "soft strokes to your hair" stuff all about? That's weird, and that paragraph should be dropped.
Then there's "To think that I would involve my kids in my "illegal" activities is an insult far beyond outrage". For one thing, the kid is obviously involved to some extent in his activity, handing out Linux disks. And what's this "far beyond outrage"? What exactly is far beyond outrage anyway?
Then there's a couple of irrelevant paragraphs ranting about a teachers' union. Not helpful.
Followed by "A teacher who cared about her students would do that". Translation: a teacher who cared about their students would follow my agenda. That's just insulting. As is "Don't shackle your students in your prison Karen."
The final paragraph is full of threats instead of a polite request for the disks to be returned.
Sorry Ken, you missed an opportunity to provide a polite response that could have pointed out how and why software can be free, and instead publicly insulted one of the people educating your children.
This is part of the city of Brisbane, about 13 km from the city center. There's a lot of Brisbane suburbia close by already.
It's more of a new suburb for Brisbane rather than a new town. Also, we've got a shortage of residential land in Brisbane so there's plenty of incentive.
And it is a beautiful spot right next to the Brisbane river.
It is a common requirement in the UK for submitting your CV to recruitment agencies.
Yes, I spent 10 years contracting in investment banking. They primarily used recruiters.
Of course, the employment opportunities in investment banking are now somewhat limited :)
Cats carry fleas and the bubonic plague as well as rats. What makes you think having lots of cats around would have helped?
Also, I can't really find any evidence for your claim about Christianity causing cats to be driven away ...
That's an amazingly long time in prison for scamming people. He would have got less if he sold legitimate drugs that occasionally killed people.
No wonder American prisons are overflowing. Why not make him empty bedpans in retirement homes or some other yucky community service for a few years instead?
We need a new metric: CMH: degree "costs more than a house".
The way house prices seem to be going in the US, this metric won't rule out many universities!
And 4x as a senior dev for an investment bank in London.
Of course they'll start with contractors. I contracted in the UK for almost 10 years and economic downturns always resulted in contractors getting cut.
That's the whole idea behind having contractors - flexibility. Large numbers can be quickly shed without paying redundancies and without lawsuits.
I might add that the rates I was earning in 2000 in the UK (just before the huge IT cuts post Y2K) have not yet been reached again in the UK in the 8 years since.