The environmental "scientists." They claim to be scientists--and many even are, by title. But I also feel a scientist has a responsibility to the truth of what he reports. When scientists start using their title as "scientist" to pass off unsubstantiated theories and hypothesis as verified results, they've lost all credibility as scientists and really ought not to be able to call themselves "scientists" anymore. They are liberal environmentalists with an adgenda and already know the results they want before they perform the "experiments."
I'm guessing you never took any environmental science classes in college. If you had, you'd see that your blanket statement about environmental science just simply isn't true. My environmental science prof was not some "liberal political agenda" type. There is, in fact, hard science to be learned here. Do you know what a rain shadow is? Do you know what the term "carrying capacity" means? Do you know what a microclimate is? Do you know what riparian zones are? These are not wishy-washy liberal political views, but observable, quantifiable scientific realities. Environmental science is a real discipline, with real research. Going out to the field station to observe and collect data about how these natural systems function is not a political agenda, but rather something that can be observed, hypotheses can be tested, and conclusions can be drawn.
It's true that some people with a political agenda pick and choose from environmental science data to try and prove their points, but that does not mean that the entire field of study is bogus.
The Bell Curve was such an odious piece of work. The author of The Bell Curve had an agenda, that agenda was attempting to indicate that racial and ethnic background had some sort of bearing on intelligence. He used some statistics on standard IQ tests to indicate that Asians and Ashkenazi Jews were the smartest, whites were somewhere in the middle, and blacks were the least intelligent. His research was just plain faulty for too many reasons.
The case with this guy is that he is trying to inject some kind of middle ground into the argument. I haven't seen much made of the the fact the he considers himself a Viridian green. Viridians take the position that we can have modern industry and be ecologically responsible at the same time, which I happen to agree with. I think that many people who don't like the (unworkable, utopian) idea that we can all go back to a pastoral existence where we all have a minimal impact on the environment can get behind the Viridian idea, which looks to the future as providing the technology and sensibility that we don't have to give up everything to stop having such adverse effects on our world.
I think you mean implausible, but that's beside the point. It's a sci-fi show, virtually all sci-fi shows have implausible plots and premises. That's the fiction part of science fiction. If you want a sci-fi show with a plausible premise, try Space Island One. Other than that, they're all implausible.
Nobody wants to blow up Australia because of their 'Axis of Evil' foreign policy. That's why you don't need to sweat terrorism. Although I'm surprised the Native Australians haven't become more militant.
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I'll tell you. For years and years, most of the people in the US were instructed in the Godless evil that is Communism. They were told all kinds of things about how they don't have any freedom, and they hate us, and that given the chance, they would gladly invade us and make us all into Communists.
This shit stuck. Now we have a ton of people in this country who don't know the first thing about Communism talking about how it's so dehumanizing, etc.
Socialism and Communism are openly hostile to the Capitalist class ( Kenneth Lay would be one of those in that class, we'll use the worst examples), and since those are the folks calling the shots in this country, naturally, they didn't want any of those factory workers at Ford or coal miners or Boeing employees thinking that they should get a bigger slice of the pie.
The short answer to your question is that Americans (United States), have been conditioned to reject anything that has the "Red Label" on it, so to speak. Their rejection is a gut-level emotional response, and is rarely grounded in any level of understanding of Communism, Marxism or Marxist Socialism.
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Yeah, more Russians died than Americans, and their lives are worthless, so there's no reason to commemorate their death.
Well, yeah, they were Commies. Don't you know that absolutely *everything* to ever come out of the Soviet Union was immoral and wrong? Aren't you aware that recognizing any achievement that that the Soviets ever accomplished is anti-American and un-patriotic?
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A lot of sport divers (and commercial divers, too) now use a mixture called 'Nitrox', which allows divers to have longer bottom times (the time you spend under water). I believe it contains less nitrogen than normal compressed air.
When diving, the time you can spend underwater without having to stop at 10 feet to decompress is inversely proportional to the depth you go to.
Multiple dives add a degree of complexity to the equation. In the old days, we used to have to figure out our nitrogen using charts, but now there are computers that you take with you under water that track your bottom time, and depending on your surface interval (the time you spend on the surface after your dive), the maximum depth and time you can spend on your next dive, and how long you'll have to wait before you can fly. The idea is that you should never have to make a decompression stop.
Nitrogen Narcosis ( the rapture of the deep) can occur really at any depth, but going below 90 feet puts you at risk. It's a very dangerous condition, because you have a tendency to forget what you're doing and go deeper, or ditch your buddy to go play with the whales. It's only happened to me once, and it was at about 75 feet. Strangely, I've been deeper than that many times since, but have not experienced it other than that one time.
The bends is the other potentially life threatening condition, and it's been discussed already.
Despite these risks, diving is a great experience, and everyone should do it at least once in their lives. A lot of big resorts will take you diving without a cert, but it's very limited, and you might not get to see as much cool stuff, but breathing underwater is awesome.
No, Walker is from Fairfield, I believe. I think his Dad now lives in Marin county somewhere. Anyway, Fairfield is between Sacramento and San Francisco, out in the valley, near Davis. In Solano county. Go get a map, fool.
Now Humbolt's economy is based on lawsuits and welfare checks
I dispute this. Humboldt's economy, on the books is still largely based on lumber. Of course, off the books it's marijuana, and everybody knows it. The cops, city government and local business all receieve kickbacks for looking the other way when it comes to grass, California's number one cash crop. What makes Humboldt and Mendocino counties such a haven for layabouts and shady folks is the drug trade. Go to Garberville one fall weekend, and you'll see the streets lined with Mercedes-Benzs. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with this, but pot is what saved Northern California, and much of rural Cascadia for that matter, after the timber industry there went south (as it sould have).
Therefore, it makes sense that a lot of these 'electro-sensitive' people live up there, stoners are more paranoid than most folks. You have tons of orthorexics there, too. It's a beautiful place, but there are some awfully freaky people up there.
In the words of John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel: "A strict constructionist is one who favors the prosecution in criminal cases and the defendant in civil cases"
No, you're right on. Apple is great, except for their their whole schtick about their own proprietary everything. Sure, it's fast, it looks cool, it happens to fulfill a certain niche of users (whose need for Apple computers is rapidly dwindling.) Their products are unique, and arguably superior to other manufacturers, but the way they act in the market just really gets up my nose. They're expensive, and certainly not really worth the expense. The platform is always two steps behind in terms of development, mainly because the development tools for the platform are utter garbage, and you have to suck Apple's choad forever if you want to develop for their platform, too.
Apparently, however, Apple seems to believe the rumours about their users being slow and totally inept at using a computer (hence the 'Playskool' approach to UI design, notice that XP is also heavy on the 'mash the keypad with your hand' scheme). I blows me away that they would be so incredibly stupid.
If the stories about Jobs are true, and they are, as I've talked with people who were there, whoever OK'd that release is, or will soon get, a huge ass-reaming the likes of which we see less and less of as Jobs gets older.
I dunno... I guess in the letter of the law, it's a violation of the law, but I mean, if you're not going to take reasonable measures to avoid piracy, then it's not really against the law for people to sidestep this woefully half-assed attempt at license control. It would be one thing if someone had developed "Apple OS 10.1 Rip-Off Enabler" and posted it all over the net. This doesn't even qualify as a 'sploit. Anyone who took a look at the contents of the CD could tell what they were looking at.
On the other hand, Apple is just doing damage control. They realize that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so they'll huff-and-puff and sue for damages, maybe they'll win maybe they won't.
But seriously. I'm in-between jobs right now, so if you're reading this and you work at Apple, let them know that I'll take over for the bonehead who OK'd the release, and make sure that something like that never happens again.
You might not be a right-wing extremist, but it's pretty clear that you regard Christianity as THE religion.
Pagan traditions are a perfectly valid religious tradition in and of themselves. Harry Potter books are mere fantasy, they have little to do with any existing pagan religious such as Wicca or Druidism.
Perhaps more teenagers are turning toward pagan religions because of the smug intolerance towards other religions (think of Reverend Lovejoy from "The Simpsons") they see from their "Christian" neighbors, who generally exemplify very, very little of Christ's teachings. Perhaps in a genuine search for a meaningful spirituality, they look into and find out more about other religious traditions such as those found in many of the neo-pagan traditions. Perhaps they end up becoming atheists, perhaps they end up joining Opus Dei. Perhaps they end up running through the woods nude under the full moon. Perhaps they end up eating bread that turns to flesh and wine that turns to blood. At any rate, Christians have not cornered the market on ethical or moral behavior, developing an interest in the modern adaptations of pre-christian religions is hardly the road to perdition that most bible thumpers would have us believe.
It's the same book. Truly, I do not know why they changed it for the American market, Philospher's Stone, the elusive goal of alchemists through time, seems like an adequate title, but I guess the publishing company must have figured that American kids were too dumb to grok the significance of the Philosopher's Stone reference.
Irish people don't eat corned beef and cabbage on Easter or any other day of the year. In fact, they don't eat it period. They don't drink warm Guinness there, either. Although I did see green beer on St. Patrick's day.
I agree. Instead of a panel of Japanese celebrities who most of us have never heard of, we'll have people we know. Imagine a panel of Wolfgang Puck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Stewart and Ben Stein deciding who wins? You could have themed panels, like sports stars, television stars, you could have politicians, normal joes, etc. Of course, if the producers are brain-dead fuckwits, nothing cool will happen and it will fail, but if they do it right, it could be pretty successful.
Wow. You're way off. There are so many different kinds of distinctly American cuisines. Cajun, Soul Food, Southwestern, California, Tex-Mex, not to mention the variations of European cuisines developed, like Italian in New York City and Chicago, French in New York and San Francisco... The list goes on. The American Iron Chef has the potential to be the strongest and most creative one, at least the one with the least limits.
That's interesting, because I just read a small piece in The New Republic that claims that ever since the 9-11 attacks, he's been hogging the spotlight nonstop.
When you consider the source, it makes sense, but I still have to wonder if they're just making stuff up because they wish they had Clinton to kick around again.
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I'm guessing you never took any environmental science classes in college. If you had, you'd see that your blanket statement about environmental science just simply isn't true. My environmental science prof was not some "liberal political agenda" type. There is, in fact, hard science to be learned here. Do you know what a rain shadow is? Do you know what the term "carrying capacity" means? Do you know what a microclimate is? Do you know what riparian zones are? These are not wishy-washy liberal political views, but observable, quantifiable scientific realities. Environmental science is a real discipline, with real research. Going out to the field station to observe and collect data about how these natural systems function is not a political agenda, but rather something that can be observed, hypotheses can be tested, and conclusions can be drawn.
It's true that some people with a political agenda pick and choose from environmental science data to try and prove their points, but that does not mean that the entire field of study is bogus.
The case with this guy is that he is trying to inject some kind of middle ground into the argument. I haven't seen much made of the the fact the he considers himself a Viridian green. Viridians take the position that we can have modern industry and be ecologically responsible at the same time, which I happen to agree with. I think that many people who don't like the (unworkable, utopian) idea that we can all go back to a pastoral existence where we all have a minimal impact on the environment can get behind the Viridian idea, which looks to the future as providing the technology and sensibility that we don't have to give up everything to stop having such adverse effects on our world.
I think you mean implausible, but that's beside the point. It's a sci-fi show, virtually all sci-fi shows have implausible plots and premises. That's the fiction part of science fiction. If you want a sci-fi show with a plausible premise, try Space Island One. Other than that, they're all implausible.
Nobody wants to blow up Australia because of their 'Axis of Evil' foreign policy. That's why you don't need to sweat terrorism. Although I'm surprised the Native Australians haven't become more militant.
This shit stuck. Now we have a ton of people in this country who don't know the first thing about Communism talking about how it's so dehumanizing, etc.
Socialism and Communism are openly hostile to the Capitalist class ( Kenneth Lay would be one of those in that class, we'll use the worst examples), and since those are the folks calling the shots in this country, naturally, they didn't want any of those factory workers at Ford or coal miners or Boeing employees thinking that they should get a bigger slice of the pie.
The short answer to your question is that Americans (United States), have been conditioned to reject anything that has the "Red Label" on it, so to speak. Their rejection is a gut-level emotional response, and is rarely grounded in any level of understanding of Communism, Marxism or Marxist Socialism.
Well, yeah, they were Commies. Don't you know that absolutely *everything* to ever come out of the Soviet Union was immoral and wrong? Aren't you aware that recognizing any achievement that that the Soviets ever accomplished is anti-American and un-patriotic?
When diving, the time you can spend underwater without having to stop at 10 feet to decompress is inversely proportional to the depth you go to.
Multiple dives add a degree of complexity to the equation. In the old days, we used to have to figure out our nitrogen using charts, but now there are computers that you take with you under water that track your bottom time, and depending on your surface interval (the time you spend on the surface after your dive), the maximum depth and time you can spend on your next dive, and how long you'll have to wait before you can fly. The idea is that you should never have to make a decompression stop.
Nitrogen Narcosis ( the rapture of the deep) can occur really at any depth, but going below 90 feet puts you at risk. It's a very dangerous condition, because you have a tendency to forget what you're doing and go deeper, or ditch your buddy to go play with the whales. It's only happened to me once, and it was at about 75 feet. Strangely, I've been deeper than that many times since, but have not experienced it other than that one time.
The bends is the other potentially life threatening condition, and it's been discussed already.
Despite these risks, diving is a great experience, and everyone should do it at least once in their lives. A lot of big resorts will take you diving without a cert, but it's very limited, and you might not get to see as much cool stuff, but breathing underwater is awesome.
No, Walker is from Fairfield, I believe. I think his Dad now lives in Marin county somewhere. Anyway, Fairfield is between Sacramento and San Francisco, out in the valley, near Davis. In Solano county. Go get a map, fool.
I dispute this. Humboldt's economy, on the books is still largely based on lumber. Of course, off the books it's marijuana, and everybody knows it. The cops, city government and local business all receieve kickbacks for looking the other way when it comes to grass, California's number one cash crop. What makes Humboldt and Mendocino counties such a haven for layabouts and shady folks is the drug trade. Go to Garberville one fall weekend, and you'll see the streets lined with Mercedes-Benzs. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with this, but pot is what saved Northern California, and much of rural Cascadia for that matter, after the timber industry there went south (as it sould have).
Therefore, it makes sense that a lot of these 'electro-sensitive' people live up there, stoners are more paranoid than most folks. You have tons of orthorexics there, too. It's a beautiful place, but there are some awfully freaky people up there.
In the words of John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel: "A strict constructionist is one who favors the prosecution in criminal cases and the defendant in civil cases"
Dude... Boys II Men was not a boy band like those. They were an R&B group.
Anyone? Anyone?
Apparently, however, Apple seems to believe the rumours about their users being slow and totally inept at using a computer (hence the 'Playskool' approach to UI design, notice that XP is also heavy on the 'mash the keypad with your hand' scheme). I blows me away that they would be so incredibly stupid.
If the stories about Jobs are true, and they are, as I've talked with people who were there, whoever OK'd that release is, or will soon get, a huge ass-reaming the likes of which we see less and less of as Jobs gets older.
I dunno... I guess in the letter of the law, it's a violation of the law, but I mean, if you're not going to take reasonable measures to avoid piracy, then it's not really against the law for people to sidestep this woefully half-assed attempt at license control. It would be one thing if someone had developed "Apple OS 10.1 Rip-Off Enabler" and posted it all over the net. This doesn't even qualify as a 'sploit. Anyone who took a look at the contents of the CD could tell what they were looking at.
On the other hand, Apple is just doing damage control. They realize that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so they'll huff-and-puff and sue for damages, maybe they'll win maybe they won't.
But seriously. I'm in-between jobs right now, so if you're reading this and you work at Apple, let them know that I'll take over for the bonehead who OK'd the release, and make sure that something like that never happens again.
Forget about Iron Chef. Did anyone see those crazy creatures in "Justice League"?
Is Wonder Woman and A-1 stone fox in show or what?
Haggis, being Scottish, is also not big in Ireland. Although souvlaki is very close to it in taste and texture.
Pagan traditions are a perfectly valid religious tradition in and of themselves. Harry Potter books are mere fantasy, they have little to do with any existing pagan religious such as Wicca or Druidism.
Perhaps more teenagers are turning toward pagan religions because of the smug intolerance towards other religions (think of Reverend Lovejoy from "The Simpsons") they see from their "Christian" neighbors, who generally exemplify very, very little of Christ's teachings. Perhaps in a genuine search for a meaningful spirituality, they look into and find out more about other religious traditions such as those found in many of the neo-pagan traditions. Perhaps they end up becoming atheists, perhaps they end up joining Opus Dei. Perhaps they end up running through the woods nude under the full moon. Perhaps they end up eating bread that turns to flesh and wine that turns to blood. At any rate, Christians have not cornered the market on ethical or moral behavior, developing an interest in the modern adaptations of pre-christian religions is hardly the road to perdition that most bible thumpers would have us believe.
It's the same book. Truly, I do not know why they changed it for the American market, Philospher's Stone, the elusive goal of alchemists through time, seems like an adequate title, but I guess the publishing company must have figured that American kids were too dumb to grok the significance of the Philosopher's Stone reference.
I think you're referring to uni, which is the genitals of sea urchins, not their semen.
My favorite was Spanish Mackerel. Where I come from , we call that bait.
Irish people don't eat corned beef and cabbage on Easter or any other day of the year. In fact, they don't eat it period. They don't drink warm Guinness there, either. Although I did see green beer on St. Patrick's day.
Hey, hal'kalash and crab juice is a might fine meal.
I agree. Instead of a panel of Japanese celebrities who most of us have never heard of, we'll have people we know. Imagine a panel of Wolfgang Puck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Stewart and Ben Stein deciding who wins? You could have themed panels, like sports stars, television stars, you could have politicians, normal joes, etc. Of course, if the producers are brain-dead fuckwits, nothing cool will happen and it will fail, but if they do it right, it could be pretty successful.
Wow. You're way off. There are so many different kinds of distinctly American cuisines. Cajun, Soul Food, Southwestern, California, Tex-Mex, not to mention the variations of European cuisines developed, like Italian in New York City and Chicago, French in New York and San Francisco... The list goes on. The American Iron Chef has the potential to be the strongest and most creative one, at least the one with the least limits.
Uh, just because it's privately held doesn't mean it's not a corporation.
When you consider the source, it makes sense, but I still have to wonder if they're just making stuff up because they wish they had Clinton to kick around again.