Make sure you find a geologist or palentologist. Getting a neuro-scientist or a ecologist to comment on geology is like having a mechanic comment on Plastics engineering. The media often does this. Ask a unrelated "Scientist" about something.
Well accepted doesn't make it correct. It's still a theory, and one (I might add) that cannot be proven, unlike a few others you've quoted.
Unlike in some circles, well accepted means no has yet found evidence against it in science. Not, we all beleive it to be true. When someone has evidence against it, it becoem a disproved theory is the evidence is strong enough. However the theory of evolution has had no credible evidence against it, neither has gravity, or thermodynamics. Only small addendums.
I have faith in Christ. I need not refute scientific evidence to support my faith. God is wonderfull, sometime msyterious, and I needn't beleive in fairies ot beleive in God. Why should I beleive in creationist theories when the evolution theory fits my faith just fine.
Your idea also fails to take into consideration that though intelligence is possibly a genetic trait, morals ethics and work ethic are not.
True enough. But also consider that the last few things you listed are learned and if the parent don't posses these the children will have difficulty obtaining them (see Canadian native populations) thus become as self perpetuating as true genetic traits.
As a side scrollign action game, Keith Courage rocked. I'd bought it for the system if it didn't come with it... never finisehd the game. Last boss always kicked my ass.
It's all stupid, anyway... XBox is obviously the best one.:)
HArdware wise? yes it has the best general arrangement of hardware. There are things Gc does better. Some PS2 does better. Generall Xbox is better. However there isn't a single game I want thats xbox eclusive. Thsu the point is moot. Like Mac's. Nice machines. But I have nothing I need to be run, avaiable just for macs. So I have not motivaiton to switch.
I just put 2 small extra fans into my p4 1.8 gzh machine (I went and got a nvidia fx chip and was worried about heat). It sounds like a friggin hair dryer. Although I've managed to tuen it out. I notice it when i turn it one and apaprenlty everyone in my 3 floor house notices the noise of this one computer.
But then, people take sci-fi horseshit pretty seriously these days. I was watching a Greenpeace guy debate some scientist about "the day after tomorrow" on some news show.
Thats generally like watching Bush debatign wiht anyone else.
A unknowgeleable knob who makes even the most marginal scientists seem like Einstien.
Good way to make yoruself into a uncredible exstremist.
Governments have huge elasticity. Many different systems can work. The democrat are no more left then the republicans. At best their right of center and slightly more right of center. Ditto with the Canadian government. We're Center and slightly right of center. The ideological differences between the USA's two parties are a lot smaller then you think if you take a step back and look at other countries in the world.
So? With that mandate comes higher premiums. It's a risk that wasn't covered because it's a risk people choose to undertake and should be prepared to handle on their own.
with this attitude, no wonder the first world has a negative growth rate (excludign immigration). We should emphasise reproduction, make it mandatoryt hat all married citizens making more then 40k a year must have three children. This is just we can keep our level stable. I see a disturbing trend. The low lifes are breeding while the academics and proffessionals are too busy getting Prada bags and Browns shoes to make kids. Fast forward a dozen generations and we'll all be trailer trash inhabitants with FAS.
A person is worth at least about 1 million dollars. Thats 20k a year for 40 working years plus interest and the fact they made soem children (DINK are worth the same because they make mroe money but don't have kids). Many make more, some make less. IT's statistically unlikly that they'd make significantly more then 5 million dollars. So I'd peg dollar value of a person at the age of 0-10 to be about 1 million dollars with the value receding 20k for each year after that. They have a negative worth after they retire (they tend to draw from the economy ratehr then contribute to).
So if you kill a senior, you should be rewarded? Would solve our coming medi-care crisis.
There only a few instances where I'd back capital punishment. Because capital punishment only garentees one thing: That individual will never commit another crime. So a repeat sex offender (3 strikes for a rapist 2 strikes for a pedofile if I had my way) would require execution. Why? because that type of crime has an exstremely high recidivism rate. theft? it's not as serious and it's more of a socio economic crime. But why not. You garentee that exact person will never steal again. Just make it 6 strikes for stealing to ensure a healthy margin of error. For murder a serial killer shoudl be executed right away why a crime of passion deserves jail time.
Just beign pragmatic. Justice shoudl be served quick. If it took 2 convictions to put you on death row, it's unlikly you didn't do both. As long as both cases were seperate and not related. So no appeals. just take them out of the court house after the second or third conviction of murder or rape and cut off his head. or shoot him twice in the back of the head.
When people argue against capital punishment they say it cost mroe to kill them then to jail them. No it doesnt. It cost more to hear all the appeals the criminal goes through before the execution date. So why not wait for 2 convictions (very hard to convict a innocent man twice.. or 3 times) and then just a sumamry execution. No appeal. No whiny activists. This guy went through the proccess twice (or three times or six times) so in the interest of preventing future crime from thsi one individual. kill him/her in the most cost effective way possible (leathal injection aint cheap why not try throwing them off a cliff. then let their families collect the body. make sure it's a bloody tall clif and they go over head first.)
Mercy is for the potential innocent, Vengence for the naive. I prefer practability.
Initially cost would far out pace traditional vehicles but give it half a centry then the old alternatives will be more expensive. Like Cars today. Getting a V8 costs an arm and a leg and the additional power is rarely worth it in a sedan. even though almost all cars had a v8 20 years ago.
Solution: Get a alternate heat source. Maybe a propane heater (maybe not since propane is so voletile and heavier then air), or maybe a ethonal based heater (On a really cold day take a few shots from the tank and you feel toasty.).
Not all things develope with a exponential curve like Chips seem too. Even harddrives have a different curve. Sure their capacity doubles eveyr X month but their read and write speed improve linearly. Same with lots of things. Just because chips improve eponentially doesn't mean anythign else has to.
Then the probelm becomes, games I enjoy may not appeal to the target audience. So I hire an expert that knows.. wait a minute thats the game reviewer and he does it at no cost to me.
Seriously. 30% of slashdotters are over 40 and think pong was the pinnacle of game design. Soem of us are over 30 and think every thign went south after Pac man. Others are over 20 and firmly believe that everything since Final fantasy 6 nothing is nearly as good. And thos under 20 think Anything that doesn't change color more then 4 time a second and does not involve collecting 255 items scattered through out a generic japanese locale is boring.
"We sold four million copies. That's $250 million worldwide... and Warner Bros. would penalize us because we didn't achieve 70%? Are they joking?"
In this case, the movie promoted and sold the game and the game studio had little or nothign to do with it's success. Because the game was buggy and crap but the licence sold it. So they should penalized.
It also helps if you don't paint your zepplin in rocket fuel.(the silver paint on the zepplins were composed of essential thermite, which is used as rocket fuel.
Once you're in an urban environment, it strips out a lot of (America's) technology advantages," he said. "It puts you in a fair fight. And you don't want to be in a fair fight."
Well to counter act this. Level the urban enviroment. Grind into a flat plane with a mid sized tactical nuke. Thats one tactic US generals were thinking of at one time. IT'd work too if the russians never got the bomb.
I'd argue even boxing isn't a fair match. Otherwise each and every fighter would have a 50:50 records and a large amount of matches would end in draws. If it was perfectly fair each and evey match would be a draw.
Body count. It's real easy. Just basic arithmetic: addition and subtraction.... it falls apart for a few reaons. You never know all the variables in an equation. The terrorists might eventually crash a plane into a densely populated area justifying killign the 200 people on board. of they may surrender at the next air port in exchange for a prisoner exchange and if you shot down the plane your now down 200 lives that cannot be replaced.
Same for Japan, they might have given up quickly any way with 0 extra causaulties of they might have fought on using surrender as a trick killing thousands of US GI's. Or russia might have taken them over and many of the things we take for granted form japan (Electronics and cars) may neve rhave materialized.
And no matter who you are, your people will always be far more valuable then theirs. In my mind my GF is worth 100,000,000 unknown civillians. Should she be hurt by Islamic terrorists i'd be all for nuking each and every islamic country.
(on a personal note: my GF is going back to her home country because she has to to get a US student visa. Indonesia isn't friendly to Chinese non-muslims even if they were born there and their family has been there for over a 5 generations. I worry about her. Her family has been very badly mistreated by the Indonesian government and the people there. Violence and discrimination.)
This is true, but another motivation for it was that the russians where moving into the area and the administration was already concerned about what they did in europe and thus wanted to expidite the end of the war.
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The other impact you are talking about was $250 million years ago, during another mass extinction. That is a new claim and still a bit controversial.
Wow, $250 mil eh... Well the US burned that much in the first night of the iraq invasion.. does that mean it was yesterday?
Make sure you find a geologist or palentologist. Getting a neuro-scientist or a ecologist to comment on geology is like having a mechanic comment on Plastics engineering. The media often does this. Ask a unrelated "Scientist" about something.
Well accepted doesn't make it correct. It's still a theory, and one (I might add) that cannot be proven, unlike a few others you've quoted.
Unlike in some circles, well accepted means no has yet found evidence against it in science. Not, we all beleive it to be true. When someone has evidence against it, it becoem a disproved theory is the evidence is strong enough. However the theory of evolution has had no credible evidence against it, neither has gravity, or thermodynamics. Only small addendums.
I have faith in Christ. I need not refute scientific evidence to support my faith. God is wonderfull, sometime msyterious, and I needn't beleive in fairies ot beleive in God. Why should I beleive in creationist theories when the evolution theory fits my faith just fine.
Your idea also fails to take into consideration that though intelligence is possibly a genetic trait, morals ethics and work ethic are not.
True enough. But also consider that the last few things you listed are learned and if the parent don't posses these the children will have difficulty obtaining them (see Canadian native populations) thus become as self perpetuating as true genetic traits.
As a side scrollign action game, Keith Courage rocked. I'd bought it for the system if it didn't come with it... never finisehd the game. Last boss always kicked my ass.
It's all stupid, anyway... XBox is obviously the best one. :)
HArdware wise? yes it has the best general arrangement of hardware. There are things Gc does better. Some PS2 does better. Generall Xbox is better. However there isn't a single game I want thats xbox eclusive. Thsu the point is moot. Like Mac's. Nice machines. But I have nothing I need to be run, avaiable just for macs. So I have not motivaiton to switch.
I just put 2 small extra fans into my p4 1.8 gzh machine (I went and got a nvidia fx chip and was worried about heat). It sounds like a friggin hair dryer. Although I've managed to tuen it out. I notice it when i turn it one and apaprenlty everyone in my 3 floor house notices the noise of this one computer.
But then, people take sci-fi horseshit pretty seriously these days. I was watching a Greenpeace guy debate some scientist about "the day after tomorrow" on some news show.
Thats generally like watching Bush debatign wiht anyone else.
A unknowgeleable knob who makes even the most marginal scientists seem like Einstien.
Democrat/Statist
Good way to make yoruself into a uncredible exstremist.
Governments have huge elasticity. Many different systems can work. The democrat are no more left then the republicans. At best their right of center and slightly more right of center. Ditto with the Canadian government. We're Center and slightly right of center. The ideological differences between the USA's two parties are a lot smaller then you think if you take a step back and look at other countries in the world.
So? With that mandate comes higher premiums. It's a risk that wasn't covered because it's a risk people choose to undertake and should be prepared to handle on their own.
with this attitude, no wonder the first world has a negative growth rate (excludign immigration). We should emphasise reproduction, make it mandatoryt hat all married citizens making more then 40k a year must have three children. This is just we can keep our level stable. I see a disturbing trend. The low lifes are breeding while the academics and proffessionals are too busy getting Prada bags and Browns shoes to make kids. Fast forward a dozen generations and we'll all be trailer trash inhabitants with FAS.
A person is worth at least about 1 million dollars. Thats 20k a year for 40 working years plus interest and the fact they made soem children (DINK are worth the same because they make mroe money but don't have kids). Many make more, some make less. IT's statistically unlikly that they'd make significantly more then 5 million dollars. So I'd peg dollar value of a person at the age of 0-10 to be about 1 million dollars with the value receding 20k for each year after that. They have a negative worth after they retire (they tend to draw from the economy ratehr then contribute to).
So if you kill a senior, you should be rewarded? Would solve our coming medi-care crisis.
(Logans run)
There only a few instances where I'd back capital punishment. Because capital punishment only garentees one thing: That individual will never commit another crime. So a repeat sex offender (3 strikes for a rapist 2 strikes for a pedofile if I had my way) would require execution. Why? because that type of crime has an exstremely high recidivism rate. theft? it's not as serious and it's more of a socio economic crime. But why not. You garentee that exact person will never steal again. Just make it 6 strikes for stealing to ensure a healthy margin of error. For murder a serial killer shoudl be executed right away why a crime of passion deserves jail time.
Just beign pragmatic. Justice shoudl be served quick. If it took 2 convictions to put you on death row, it's unlikly you didn't do both. As long as both cases were seperate and not related. So no appeals. just take them out of the court house after the second or third conviction of murder or rape and cut off his head. or shoot him twice in the back of the head.
When people argue against capital punishment they say it cost mroe to kill them then to jail them. No it doesnt. It cost more to hear all the appeals the criminal goes through before the execution date. So why not wait for 2 convictions (very hard to convict a innocent man twice.. or 3 times) and then just a sumamry execution. No appeal. No whiny activists. This guy went through the proccess twice (or three times or six times) so in the interest of preventing future crime from thsi one individual. kill him/her in the most cost effective way possible (leathal injection aint cheap why not try throwing them off a cliff. then let their families collect the body. make sure it's a bloody tall clif and they go over head first.)
Mercy is for the potential innocent, Vengence for the naive. I prefer practability.
Initially cost would far out pace traditional vehicles but give it half a centry then the old alternatives will be more expensive. Like Cars today. Getting a V8 costs an arm and a leg and the additional power is rarely worth it in a sedan. even though almost all cars had a v8 20 years ago.
No I mean actually have 2 systems in the car. 1 power system for the driver train. and a heat source.
Solution: Get a alternate heat source. Maybe a propane heater (maybe not since propane is so voletile and heavier then air), or maybe a ethonal based heater (On a really cold day take a few shots from the tank and you feel toasty.).
Not all things develope with a exponential curve like Chips seem too. Even harddrives have a different curve. Sure their capacity doubles eveyr X month but their read and write speed improve linearly. Same with lots of things. Just because chips improve eponentially doesn't mean anythign else has to.
yeah, it's called a "ZIP" drive. or how about a cd rom? write 10 megs in 1 second (with a constand 20 second lead in time).
Then the probelm becomes, games I enjoy may not appeal to the target audience. So I hire an expert that knows.. wait a minute thats the game reviewer and he does it at no cost to me.
Seriously. 30% of slashdotters are over 40 and think pong was the pinnacle of game design. Soem of us are over 30 and think every thign went south after Pac man. Others are over 20 and firmly believe that everything since Final fantasy 6 nothing is nearly as good. And thos under 20 think Anything that doesn't change color more then 4 time a second and does not involve collecting 255 items scattered through out a generic japanese locale is boring.
That being said, John Kerry doesn't exactly strike me as someone whose presidental administration will supprt non-petroleum/fossil fuel causes
And how does a family that drived much of it's wealth from oil seem more likly to implement alternative energy sourceS?
"We sold four million copies. That's $250 million worldwide... and Warner Bros. would penalize us because we didn't achieve 70%? Are they joking?"
In this case, the movie promoted and sold the game and the game studio had little or nothign to do with it's success. Because the game was buggy and crap but the licence sold it. So they should penalized.
It also helps if you don't paint your zepplin in rocket fuel.(the silver paint on the zepplins were composed of essential thermite, which is used as rocket fuel.
Once you're in an urban environment, it strips out a lot of (America's) technology advantages," he said. "It puts you in a fair fight. And you don't want to be in a fair fight."
Well to counter act this. Level the urban enviroment. Grind into a flat plane with a mid sized tactical nuke. Thats one tactic US generals were thinking of at one time. IT'd work too if the russians never got the bomb.
I'd argue even boxing isn't a fair match. Otherwise each and every fighter would have a 50:50 records and a large amount of matches would end in draws. If it was perfectly fair each and evey match would be a draw.
Body count. It's real easy. Just basic arithmetic: addition and subtraction. ... it falls apart for a few reaons. You never know all the variables in an equation. The terrorists might eventually crash a plane into a densely populated area justifying killign the 200 people on board. of they may surrender at the next air port in exchange for a prisoner exchange and if you shot down the plane your now down 200 lives that cannot be replaced.
Same for Japan, they might have given up quickly any way with 0 extra causaulties of they might have fought on using surrender as a trick killing thousands of US GI's. Or russia might have taken them over and many of the things we take for granted form japan (Electronics and cars) may neve rhave materialized.
And no matter who you are, your people will always be far more valuable then theirs. In my mind my GF is worth 100,000,000 unknown civillians. Should she be hurt by Islamic terrorists i'd be all for nuking each and every islamic country.
(on a personal note: my GF is going back to her home country because she has to to get a US student visa. Indonesia isn't friendly to Chinese non-muslims even if they were born there and their family has been there for over a 5 generations. I worry about her. Her family has been very badly mistreated by the Indonesian government and the people there. Violence and discrimination.)
This is true, but another motivation for it was that the russians where moving into the area and the administration was already concerned about what they did in europe and thus wanted to expidite the end of the war.