Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects 'including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.'"
These are all currently topical subjects.
How is the origin of life and evolution "topical"? Aside from the fact that it keeps being attacked by disingenuous means such as these?
They selected those, why don't they suggest criticism of capitalism? Of global military interventions? Of the war on drugs?
What? Those are all things that the conservatives support, and the ones they suggested are all things religious whackjobs constantly dismiss? Must be pure coincidence, huh?
ID does not make any predictions that can be tested
It does, it predicts that no one will be able to explain X. Of course, they just ignore it when X is explained, but they do make claims. They just do in bad faith.
My personal opinion is that it will come in the form of drastic economic and research decline as the older (and currently poorer) nations start to evolve to fill the gaps a US withdrawal from the field will create.
I think those nations will be preemptively shocked and awed out of that opportunity.
Interestingly enough, Gates could have really improved his image during his tenure at Microsoft if he let emails like that "leak" out prior to stepping down. Instead, he gives keynotes about Microsoft and its "innovation."
I don't see how improving his image is gonna make him money.
In fact, looking at pictures of him, I don't see that he cares about his image one iota.
Congress always has the remedy of impeachment. If they're too afraid to pull the trigger, that's their problem in not asserting themselves. Actually, it's OUR problem. In fact, considering the global reach of this war-happy bunch, it's the entire Worlds' problem.
The greenhouse gass in question is Carbon Dioxide. Which is far more controversial, considering it is emitted by everything in the animal kingdom You know, feces are also produced by everything in the animal kingdom, do you happen to think it's controversial to consider those pollutants?
Gee, I wonder if submarines and space stations designers just go "oh, carbon oxides? Those are emitted by all animal life, we don't have to worry about those!".
The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates." I've been wondering since 2002 or so: When did the anonymous "intelligence community" become the leaders of the USA?
It's been the defense all this time, a war under false pretenses? That's ok, the "intelligence Community" told him those false pretenses.
Who do they answer to? Who elected them? Why won't the People take back that power from them?
What about putting goatse.cx as a background picture, including for the login page.
They might return the laptop to you right away... or just burn it.
You'll get the live goatse experience when they send you to prison under obscenity laws. We're talking about the USA here, not a nation with actual freedom of speech.
All data moving into and out of the US via the internet/other communications infrastructure is subject to searches by the US government. One program is Echelon, and the people who've tired to report on it and call attention to it are generally considered nut-jobs and conspiracy theorists (I'm not sure why, stories on it are always confirmed by credible sources, and the program was never strictly denied by the feds).
Someone else clearly has no idea either:-) Echelon is so 1950's and simply has never existed in the way you claim. Aside from this it is a physical impossibility anyway. Anyone calling attention to this persistent little word is actually somewhat deserving of the phrase you have used. This is simply because they close their eyes to reality in favour of a good old conspiracy theory instead.
Thursday, 6 July, 2000, 04:13 GMT 05:13 UK The Echelon spy system, whose existence has only recently been acknowledged by US officials, is capable of hoovering up millions of phone calls, faxes and emails a minute.
Its owners insist the system is dedicated to intercepting messages passed between terrorists and organised criminals.
But a report published by the European Parliament in February alleges that Echelon twice helped US companies gain a commercial advantage over European firms.
4th Amendment anyone!?! That's pre-911 thinking, obviously you hate america, and you're probably a secret muslim sleeper agent. We'd better shoot you, just to be safe.
I'd give quite a lot to see the guard who tries to search Richard Stallman. The man is famous for not bathing, and you could probably hide an OLPC laptop in that beard. Wouldn't that disturb the nesting birds?
That's kind of the point. The Nazi's weren't either, from their point of view.
If you read Feynmans biographical material, he was quite aware of the destructive potential of the device. Whether killing an army or civilians, the result is no less horrific,
Keyword: Potential.
The nazis were walking around with silver skulls on their hats, they knew what they were doing.
Does it strike anyone else as ironic that a site that proclaims that it delivers news for nerds appears to be accusing Bill Gates of making the IT industry appear nerdy? Not so much ironic as flat out stupid, but yeah, similar sentiment.
As if the Woz was any less of a nerd, despite being so much less of an ass. We got pleeeenty of reasons to fume against Billy G, no need to invent new ones.
The Wik also has a bit on the difference between vitamins and essential minerals or acids (I figure you're more likely to read this than the papers I would generally reference). Yes, yes I am:)
Mr. Walters is defending Clinton Raymond McCowen, who is facing charges that he created and distributed obscene material through a Web site based in Florida. The charges include racketeering and prostitution, but Mr. Walters said the prosecution's case fundamentally relies on proving that the material on the site is obscene.
How exactly is google trends going to clear him of racketeering and prostitution? Just curious.
You got me curious too, the article linked was light on details, so I googled the guys' name:
See, all this activity is stemming from things that occurred in the past. We had moved production from Pensacola almost three years ago. We moved to Tampa for a little while and then to Vancouver.
The question is simple: why are natural things like nudity, sex, and sexual intercourse considered obscene to begin with? Simple answer: They don't make the rich richer.
Suppressed sexual energy can be canalized for profit.
Is it possible that some things are just the way we've always done it, and that's why it shouldn't change? That's what conservatism is all about. Except that it isn't even that things have always been like that, just that they are perceived that way. Take the pledge of allegiance, "under god" was added LONG after it was first uttered, but conservatives want to keep it because this is the version they heard first, so they assume it's how it always was. They oppose change because it's different from what they were told was right, therefore it must be wrong.
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Just look at all the articles on /. in the last year. Count how had something to do with evolution
Count how many were creationist attacks on science, exactly like this effort, dumbass.
It's not topical, it's under attack, this is one of the attack vectors.
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Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects 'including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.'"
These are all currently topical subjects.
How is the origin of life and evolution "topical"?
Aside from the fact that it keeps being attacked by disingenuous means such as these?
They selected those, why don't they suggest criticism of capitalism? Of global military interventions? Of the war on drugs?
What? Those are all things that the conservatives support, and the ones they suggested are all things religious whackjobs constantly dismiss? Must be pure coincidence, huh?
ID does not make any predictions that can be tested
It does, it predicts that no one will be able to explain X. Of course, they just ignore it when X is explained, but they do make claims. They just do in bad faith.
How do you think that Noah managed to get 2 of every one of the 250000 species of beetles into his boat?
God did it, duh.
What happens when the Juggernaut (can't be stopped) charges into the Blob (can't be moved)?
Goatse?
evolution must be taught as a theory
And electricity, and Newtonian physics, and atomic-model chemistry, etc.
compared to what we should have been able to find by now.
What is it that you assume we SHOULD have found, by now?
My personal opinion is that it will come in the form of drastic economic and research decline as the older (and currently poorer) nations start to evolve to fill the gaps a US withdrawal from the field will create.
I think those nations will be preemptively shocked and awed out of that opportunity.
Interestingly enough, Gates could have really improved his image during his tenure at Microsoft if he let emails like that "leak" out prior to stepping down. Instead, he gives keynotes about Microsoft and its "innovation."
I don't see how improving his image is gonna make him money.In fact, looking at pictures of him, I don't see that he cares about his image one iota.
In fact, considering the global reach of this war-happy bunch, it's the entire Worlds' problem.
Gee, I wonder if submarines and space stations designers just go "oh, carbon oxides? Those are emitted by all animal life, we don't have to worry about those!".
It's been the defense all this time, a war under false pretenses? That's ok, the "intelligence Community" told him those false pretenses.
Who do they answer to? Who elected them? Why won't the People take back that power from them?
They might return the laptop to you right away ... or just burn it.
You'll get the live goatse experience when they send you to prison under obscenity laws. We're talking about the USA here, not a nation with actual freedom of speech.Someone else clearly has no idea either :-) Echelon is so 1950's and simply has never existed in the way you claim. Aside from this it is a physical impossibility anyway. Anyone calling attention to this persistent little word is actually somewhat deserving of the phrase you have used. This is simply because they close their eyes to reality in favour of a good old conspiracy theory instead.
Thursday, 6 July, 2000, 04:13 GMT 05:13 UKThe Echelon spy system, whose existence has only recently been acknowledged by US officials, is capable of hoovering up millions of phone calls, faxes and emails a minute.
Its owners insist the system is dedicated to intercepting messages passed between terrorists and organised criminals.
But a report published by the European Parliament in February alleges that Echelon twice helped US companies gain a commercial advantage over European firms.
former CIA director James Woolsey, in an article in March for the Wall Street Journal, acknowledged that the US did conduct economic espionage against its European allies, though he did not specify if Echelon was involved.
Obviously. Otherwise employers would have to fund Sumo training for their fat people.
They could have an entire floor of cubiculed sumos! It'd be just like chickens in industrial farms!From his POV, he wasn't doing anything wrong
That's kind of the point. The Nazi's weren't either, from their point of view.
If you read Feynmans biographical material, he was quite aware of the destructive potential of the device. Whether killing an army or civilians, the result is no less horrific,
Keyword: Potential.The nazis were walking around with silver skulls on their hats, they knew what they were doing.
As if the Woz was any less of a nerd, despite being so much less of an ass. We got pleeeenty of reasons to fume against Billy G, no need to invent new ones.
of Sumo? :(
How exactly is google trends going to clear him of racketeering and prostitution? Just curious.
You got me curious too, the article linked was light on details, so I googled the guys' name:See, all this activity is stemming from things that occurred in the past. We had moved production from Pensacola almost three years ago. We moved to Tampa for a little while and then to Vancouver.
You were shooting everything in Vancouver?
One hundred percent. Weâ(TM)ve been up there almost two years. Thatâ(TM)s why they chose racketeering. They couldnâ(TM)t charge us with prostitution, because it has a one-year statute of limitations. They could have charged us with obscenity, but I think as a whole, we have an extremely good chance of beating the obscenity charge. What they do is use the catchall: Any two predicates combined can equal racketeering, so thatâ(TM)s what they charged us with. That looks better on paper.
P.S. the new comment system has character encoding issues... I'll go tell our overlords about that.
The comparison is skewed.
I knew that when I saw the word "lawyer"Suppressed sexual energy can be canalized for profit.
Is it possible that some things are just the way we've always done it, and that's why it shouldn't change? That's what conservatism is all about.Except that it isn't even that things have always been like that, just that they are perceived that way. Take the pledge of allegiance, "under god" was added LONG after it was first uttered, but conservatives want to keep it because this is the version they heard first, so they assume it's how it always was. They oppose change because it's different from what they were told was right, therefore it must be wrong.