In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial-congress complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
I know it's complex, but if you ignore the political implication aspect you're devaluing the entire notion.
Of COURSE not, I didn't read something about science on a site called "answers in genesis". When I want science, I don't look to the superstitions of a bunch of desert slaves.
P.S. Jericho? They were digging under the walls and blowing horns as a distraction from that noisy work. If you were to put this kind of critical thinking to the claims in the bible, instead of furiously trying to prevent progress, you'd get more respect.
Examples like this show natural selection in practice.
They simply moved the goal post: So you have overwhelming evidence of evolution at the molecular level, they're forced to admit that it's happening, reluctantly, but their new goal is that they want overwhelming evidence of new organs. Prove THAT, Johnny Science!
and why exactly should cheaper methods be outlawed simply because you don't like them?
Wow, master of the loaded question that contains its own answer, are we?
And while we're at it, why should we ban lead from paint? Or arsenic from drinking water? Lets just allow big companies to poison us all, then we can buy medicine from them to feel better later on, it'll be fine! The important thing is to maximize profits.
And he's supposed to know that his crop was cross-pollinated with "patented" food just how? Not everyone can afford expensive testing of their crops.
Listen, he either pays Monsanto to certify his field is clear, or he pays Monsanto for their gene patents. Either way, he pays Monsanto. Also, he should pay an MPAA member while he's at it, I'm sure he had some IP running through his head during that time. And a bank, gotta pay the banks for the privilege of paying all those other folks.
I've been amazed at the Oil industries apparent inability to do any contingency planning. [...] Don't these people even think about risk mitigation?
I just posted up this thread with a link to an article about how the industry actively fights against rules in place to force them to make a relief well right after they finish drilling the main well.
Do not ascribe to stupidity what is more rationally motivated by avarice. It's gambling with other people's coastlines, they're willing to take that risk if it means a more profitable well, simple as that.
If this concrete dealy doesn't work, what other options do they have?
My understanding is that the only other option is to drill a relief well. Unfortunately it will take months before they have the equipment and logistics in place to do that.
The board is slated to hold hearings on the issue early next month in Inuvik, N.W.T.
But on Monday, ConocoPhillips, Transocean Inc. and Imperial Oil asked the NEB to postpone those hearings until more information becomes available about the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
There are obvious flaws in the CS5 algo; taking small things like the lion symbol and copying them in new places when a simple blend parallel to the adjacent lines would have been much better. It's obviously an algorithm designed for the chaos of nature rather than the line-heavy world of man.
It's an automated "stamp tool". It's a first iteration of it, so we'll have to wait for revisions before it offers more options, but we'll always have to go in and do touch-ups if we want to go near perfection.
I just think that it did a pretty good job at a glance, but yeah, if you nitpick, there's plenty to pick at.
"Even" in the image preceded by "4 - Pushing the bar. Now, let's get heavy. Removing a post of an urban image, where the background changes several times in the selection "?
You expected flawless results from the "push the bar", "heavy" challenge? *sigh*
The only real problem with this is that some people could be left thinking that computers do or can do some of these things. But that's more a case of those people not being able to tell fiction from reality, which has nothing to do with how Hollywood tells stories, it has to do with what sort of education and life experience a person has.
Instead of FBI warnings they should have a disclaimer: "Events and depictions in this motion picture may not accurately represent reality."
When John Wayne fired a gun, at least two Indians dropped instantly. *At least* two. You can keep those computers, I want to better understand the technology behind The Duke's bullets...
The gunshot was just coincidental, what brought them down was his musky scent.
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it was much harder to call the man who lead the largest amphibious invasion in history a pussy.
A frog, sure, maybe even a salamander... But never a pussy.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial-congress complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
I know it's complex, but if you ignore the political implication aspect you're devaluing the entire notion.
That's the one I know about. See A Poke in the Eye?.
Of COURSE not, I didn't read something about science on a site called "answers in genesis".
When I want science, I don't look to the superstitions of a bunch of desert slaves.
P.S. Jericho? They were digging under the walls and blowing horns as a distraction from that noisy work. If you were to put this kind of critical thinking to the claims in the bible, instead of furiously trying to prevent progress, you'd get more respect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment#Results
Why would ACTA have been vital to "national security"?
Because saying so means they don't have to show it to you.
having quite decent standard of living.
Someone pointless to include that caveat when it is already known that they don't
What is it that you think that you know?
What always ends up being the case is that natural selection, [...], is the cause, never what most people think of evolution
Yeah... no one ever thinks "natural selection" when they think of evolution. You're right. Sure. Why not.
Examples like this show natural selection in practice.
They simply moved the goal post: So you have overwhelming evidence of evolution at the molecular level, they're forced to admit that it's happening, reluctantly, but their new goal is that they want overwhelming evidence of new organs. Prove THAT, Johnny Science!
This was predictable for anyone who believes in evolution.
Maybe if people were less concerned with getting people to believe and more with getting people to understand...
Why do you think that Americans want to go back to tilling the soil? We've left it to immigrants, who feel forced by poverty to fruit-pick and such
You answered your own question with the same logic he used in the first place: Forced by poverty.
*ding* Fries are done!
Not all jobs are awesome, but everyone needs one.
and why exactly should cheaper methods be outlawed simply because you don't like them?
Wow, master of the loaded question that contains its own answer, are we?
And while we're at it, why should we ban lead from paint? Or arsenic from drinking water? Lets just allow big companies to poison us all, then we can buy medicine from them to feel better later on, it'll be fine! The important thing is to maximize profits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_welfare_and_ecological_footprint_sustainability.jpg
Yay Cuba?
And he's supposed to know that his crop was cross-pollinated with "patented" food just how? Not everyone can afford expensive testing of their crops.
Listen, he either pays Monsanto to certify his field is clear, or he pays Monsanto for their gene patents. Either way, he pays Monsanto. Also, he should pay an MPAA member while he's at it, I'm sure he had some IP running through his head during that time. And a bank, gotta pay the banks for the privilege of paying all those other folks.
But if this latest incident is any indication, the scanners sound like good news for anti-terrorism and bad news for less-than-average men.
So what you're saying, NBC, is that the only people who would complain about this invasive technology are terrorists and guys with small dicks?
Well done.
NBC seems quite adept at manufacturing consent. And if you disagree you have a small penis.
most porn is exploitative of women
No, rape is exploitative to women.
To PEOPLE. Have you never seen a prison movie?
a deceptive, plagiarized report on the digital economy that copied text from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (the primary movie, music, and software lobby in the U.S.), at times without full attribution. The report itself was funded by copyright lobby groups (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network, Copyright Collective of Canada which represents U.S. film production) along with the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. The role of the Ontario government obviously raises questions about taxpayer dollars being used to pay for a report that simply recycles the language of a U.S. lobby group paper.
I've been amazed at the Oil industries apparent inability to do any contingency planning. [...] Don't these people even think about risk mitigation?
I just posted up this thread with a link to an article about how the industry actively fights against rules in place to force them to make a relief well right after they finish drilling the main well.
Do not ascribe to stupidity what is more rationally motivated by avarice. It's gambling with other people's coastlines, they're willing to take that risk if it means a more profitable well, simple as that.
If this concrete dealy doesn't work, what other options do they have?
My understanding is that the only other option is to drill a relief well. Unfortunately it will take months before they have the equipment and logistics in place to do that.
The National Energy Board of Canada has been reviewing its Same Season Relief Well Capability Policy, which requires companies to drill a relief well in the same season that they're drilling in their main well in order to relieve pressure on the main well in the event of a blowout.
The board is slated to hold hearings on the issue early next month in Inuvik, N.W.T.
But on Monday, ConocoPhillips, Transocean Inc. and Imperial Oil asked the NEB to postpone those hearings until more information becomes available about the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
There are obvious flaws in the CS5 algo; taking small things like the lion symbol and copying them in new places when a simple blend parallel to the adjacent lines would have been much better. It's obviously an algorithm designed for the chaos of nature rather than the line-heavy world of man.
It's an automated "stamp tool". It's a first iteration of it, so we'll have to wait for revisions before it offers more options, but we'll always have to go in and do touch-ups if we want to go near perfection.
I just think that it did a pretty good job at a glance, but yeah, if you nitpick, there's plenty to pick at.
Even in this image: http://blog.ultradownloads.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Rua-do-Aljube_Blog2.jpg where CS5 is touted
"Even" in the image preceded by "4 - Pushing the bar. Now, let's get heavy. Removing a post of an urban image, where the background changes several times in the selection "?
You expected flawless results from the "push the bar", "heavy" challenge? *sigh*
The only real problem with this is that some people could be left thinking that computers do or can do some of these things. But that's more a case of those people not being able to tell fiction from reality, which has nothing to do with how Hollywood tells stories, it has to do with what sort of education and life experience a person has.
Instead of FBI warnings they should have a disclaimer: "Events and depictions in this motion picture may not accurately represent reality."
When John Wayne fired a gun, at least two Indians dropped instantly. *At least* two. You can keep those computers, I want to better understand the technology behind The Duke's bullets...
The gunshot was just coincidental, what brought them down was his musky scent.
if I'm to wish for something from SF movies, it would include stuff like:
- Hoshi's universal translator from Enterprise.
TNG's Communicators have Universal Translators built-in. Plus those hands-free suckers probably interface with a cell network automatically.
Wishing for Enterprise tech... WTF is the matter with you?
I hope they roast Apple's fruity little ass with the biggest legal flamethrower they have stuck aside.
Why?
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Ah: Haters gonna hate.
But inquire away! They've been uppity lately.