"Most" is an utter lie. Maybe most of the ones you see on Fox are like that, but in reality most people who are interested in and concerned about anthropogenic climate change realize that we need to balance economic necessity and long-term conservation priorities, and we aren't even remotely beginning to do that. It's very convenient to paint the people who disagree with you as enemies of civilization, unfortunately it is completely dishonest and counterproductive.
Let me just say "yuuuuup". The way biology is taught in undergrad curricula is absolutely insane, and as a result a majority of the students coming out of undergrad biology programs know a lot of facts but have very little understanding of what science is or what it does. A kid with a great memory and awful critical reasoning skills will have a much easier time getting through school than a kid who has a bad memory but can actually think. I try my best to foster critical thinking and investigation in classes I teach, but the whole curriculum desperately needs to be reformed.
This issue is exactly why many scientists are moving towards model selection approaches instead of significance testing. Significance testing is arbitrary and silly at some level, and even Fisher knew that. The.05 cutoff is just something he pulled out of his butt one day as an arbitrary threshold that one might use for determining whether or not to provisionally believe a result, it's not some fundamental constant of the universe that has any real external justification to it. The good news is that the younger generation of scientists is increasingly comfortable with model selection, and as a result this is a problem that is in the process of correcting itself.
For grad school in the sciences, loan debt is uncommon--- students typically get paid stipends as research assistants or teaching assistants, which cover full tuition plus a modest salary (~$16k-30k or so, depending on field and institution).
It depends on where you are. The weird bit is that grad student stipends tend to be pretty consistent across the country, but living expenses aren't. Where I went to school (UCD), all students in my grad group got a stipend of 20k per year. When I first started that was plenty of money, but after six years of rent going up and my stipend staying the same I was taking loans and picking up extra work in order to make ends meet.
The rules are similar, but IIRC the makere of Friend or Foe screwed up the reward structure so that the game wasn't a true prisoner's dilemma. Specifically, the penalty for both defecting was actually the same as the penalty for being exploited (you go home with nothing). Cooperating while the other defects is supposed to be worse.
He kept saying that he had to leave the others half finished, and that this was his attempt to finish them. If that's truly the case, we should fire out a petition to get him to just stop wherever he is on the new one and release it now, as it's clearly better if he doesn't put too much work into his movies.
You know, I think Douglas Adams actually said at some point that he always pictured Marvin as seven feet tall with a finish like a shiny black (or was it silver?) Saab.
To be honest, I wasn't that impressed. It was all right, but I thought the writing was awfully melodramatic and the story a little less than stellar. There were a bunch of cheesy little narrative tricks (such as writing in the style of stage directions and whatnot) that did more to interrupt the flow of the story than to advance it, and overall I just felt like the author was a little pretentious and impressed with his own narrative voice.
The general idea of the story was very good, but it really didn't unfold very well as a story per se. It seemed more like a concatenation of "wouldn't it be cool if" ideas than a single narrative thread. All in all, I thought it was too annoying stylistically to be scary, although it certainly tried.
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Whew, I thought it was just me. There were a few points in that movie that were nice to look at, but overall I thought it was terrible. The writing sucked, and the acting was wooden.
I think that a lot of other studios are missing the most fundamental points about why Pixar is so successful. YES they have the best-looking animation you've ever seen, but the thing that keeps kids and adults coming back are the amazingly well-written stories and the attention to character and dialogue. Monsters, Inc. could've been pencil drawn on the back of cocktail napkins and it still would've been a good story. Titan A. E. coul've been piped into my brain via the most amazing virtual reality technology ever, and I still would've been bored.
I personally have never owned an S3 card that I was HAPPY with. Every last one of them has given me no end of trouble. I've never had any sort of difficulty with NVidia, so that's where my money will continue to go from now on.
No doubt that the government has the right and the duty to put down violent insurrections, but that doesn't mean they have the right to imprison people for talking about them, does it? Both the clauses you quote have to do with actual violence, not speech advocating violence.
Spoken like someone who doesn't remember the shrub being taken for task for not espousing any points of view until a few months before the election. It's simply too early in the campaign to take strong positions, and any savvy political candidate or advisor knows that.
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"Most" is an utter lie. Maybe most of the ones you see on Fox are like that, but in reality most people who are interested in and concerned about anthropogenic climate change realize that we need to balance economic necessity and long-term conservation priorities, and we aren't even remotely beginning to do that. It's very convenient to paint the people who disagree with you as enemies of civilization, unfortunately it is completely dishonest and counterproductive.
Exactly right. Lovelock has finally realized what most climate scientists and ecologists have know for decades: Lovelock is out of his frickin' mind.
What a hilarious parody of a stupid slippery slope argument! You are a comedy genius.
Color me unsurprised. And also not buying.
I think you meant to say "it would be a very different matter". You should probably resign.
I get (a), (c), and (d).
Let me just say "yuuuuup". The way biology is taught in undergrad curricula is absolutely insane, and as a result a majority of the students coming out of undergrad biology programs know a lot of facts but have very little understanding of what science is or what it does. A kid with a great memory and awful critical reasoning skills will have a much easier time getting through school than a kid who has a bad memory but can actually think. I try my best to foster critical thinking and investigation in classes I teach, but the whole curriculum desperately needs to be reformed.
This issue is exactly why many scientists are moving towards model selection approaches instead of significance testing. Significance testing is arbitrary and silly at some level, and even Fisher knew that. The .05 cutoff is just something he pulled out of his butt one day as an arbitrary threshold that one might use for determining whether or not to provisionally believe a result, it's not some fundamental constant of the universe that has any real external justification to it. The good news is that the younger generation of scientists is increasingly comfortable with model selection, and as a result this is a problem that is in the process of correcting itself.
Unless I'm mistaken, this "new theory" was part of the plot of an Orson Scott Card book, Pastwatch.
BN intends to open their own app store in January. If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say that they don't want the competition.
For grad school in the sciences, loan debt is uncommon--- students typically get paid stipends as research assistants or teaching assistants, which cover full tuition plus a modest salary (~$16k-30k or so, depending on field and institution).
It depends on where you are. The weird bit is that grad student stipends tend to be pretty consistent across the country, but living expenses aren't. Where I went to school (UCD), all students in my grad group got a stipend of 20k per year. When I first started that was plenty of money, but after six years of rent going up and my stipend staying the same I was taking loans and picking up extra work in order to make ends meet.
For anyone who likes independent/underground/obscure music, emusic is like a handshake from Jesus.
The rules are similar, but IIRC the makere of Friend or Foe screwed up the reward structure so that the game wasn't a true prisoner's dilemma. Specifically, the penalty for both defecting was actually the same as the penalty for being exploited (you go home with nothing). Cooperating while the other defects is supposed to be worse.
He kept saying that he had to leave the others half finished, and that this was his attempt to finish them. If that's truly the case, we should fire out a petition to get him to just stop wherever he is on the new one and release it now, as it's clearly better if he doesn't put too much work into his movies.
You know, I think Douglas Adams actually said at some point that he always pictured Marvin as seven feet tall with a finish like a shiny black (or was it silver?) Saab.
Right, first name that came to my mind. One of the best young directors around, imho.
To be honest, I wasn't that impressed. It was all right, but I thought the writing was awfully melodramatic and the story a little less than stellar. There were a bunch of cheesy little narrative tricks (such as writing in the style of stage directions and whatnot) that did more to interrupt the flow of the story than to advance it, and overall I just felt like the author was a little pretentious and impressed with his own narrative voice.
The general idea of the story was very good, but it really didn't unfold very well as a story per se. It seemed more like a concatenation of "wouldn't it be cool if" ideas than a single narrative thread. All in all, I thought it was too annoying stylistically to be scary, although it certainly tried.
Hence the chimney.
Whew, I thought it was just me. There were a few points in that movie that were nice to look at, but overall I thought it was terrible. The writing sucked, and the acting was wooden.
I think that a lot of other studios are missing the most fundamental points about why Pixar is so successful. YES they have the best-looking animation you've ever seen, but the thing that keeps kids and adults coming back are the amazingly well-written stories and the attention to character and dialogue. Monsters, Inc. could've been pencil drawn on the back of cocktail napkins and it still would've been a good story. Titan A. E. coul've been piped into my brain via the most amazing virtual reality technology ever, and I still would've been bored.
I personally have never owned an S3 card that I was HAPPY with. Every last one of them has given me no end of trouble. I've never had any sort of difficulty with NVidia, so that's where my money will continue to go from now on.
No doubt that the government has the right and the duty to put down violent insurrections, but that doesn't mean they have the right to imprison people for talking about them, does it? Both the clauses you quote have to do with actual violence, not speech advocating violence.
Did anyone else notice that the sample subpoenas were all dated the night of 6/26? Is there some known reason for this?
Spoken like someone who doesn't remember the shrub being taken for task for not espousing any points of view until a few months before the election. It's simply too early in the campaign to take strong positions, and any savvy political candidate or advisor knows that.
I second that "wow".