That gives us how far back it is to Adam.. On the other hand, it doesn't really say how many human years the 5 'God' days were that led up to the creation of Adam. There are also a lot of other missing pieces.
For example: After Cain kills Abel and god casts him out, he is afraid that people will kill him. Where did these people come from? Where did his wife come from? It may be that Adam is simply the beginning of the line that leads to Abraham, and not the first homo-sapien.
I forgot to add:
The nit-pickey aspects of things like how cosmology, evolution and relativity (or, for that matter, the macro aspects of weather systems) were beyond the understanding of people of that period (and even beyond the understanding of most of the people today). The only people for whom things like quantum theory regularly make a practical difference are the people who do things like design (as opposed to use) cpu circuits.
Does the question of how ducks came to be affect the question of whether I should respect this jewel of an earth that mankind was given as a gift. Does it affect the question of whether I should kill my neighbour for the gas his truck? no. For the most part, evolution vs creationism is just an irrelevant academic exercise and a distraction from more real issues like love, respect, trust, honouring the humanity and beauty around us, and being true to our responsibilities.
I suspect you are confusing social Christians with real Christianity.
There are plenty of people who label themself as a Christian simply because they grew up in a Christian household or because they go to church on Easter and Christmas.
I went to a Christian boarding school. Some of the priests there pointed out that there are many ways to read Genesis.
One is to consider that the length of God's first days were not specified. In fact, the earth doesn't appear until the second 'day'.
(i.e. "God said 'let there be light' and there was light." =~ The big bang)
Another is that god put dinosaur bones and other fossils into the earth as a practical joke for us technical types.
A third is to read it as a parable -- intended to get certain issues and ideas into our consciousness. Explaining Muons, Gluons, relativity and superstrings to people having a hard time even grasping the idea that the earth is just so freaking big that it only looks flat is something of a lost cause -- and besides, it would just be a distraction from the real messages (like the fact that Cain killing Abel in a jealous rage, and then lying to god about it is a bad idea.)
Quite possibly not. 'hard' means that it is resistant to pressure. The space elevator needs to be resistant to tension and torque. If this stuff is brittle (very likely), it could be useless for that application.
Forgive my ignorance after Reading TFA... but this "harder than diamond" material is... made of diamonds!
It's kinda like the difference between wood, and fiber-board or plywood. The latter are made of wood, but most people wouldn't confuse them with real pine.
oh. wait. whats this 'Switch off Bluetooth' option on my phone? that might be easier.
Might as well dump your email account while you're at it.
Then dump your cellphone alltogether, to prevent phone solicitors.
then.....
The purpose of buying a technology is to be able to use it. If somebody frustrates me to the point where it becomes funnctionally infeasable for me to use a technology that I've paid out heard-earned dollars for, then that actually classifies as mischief in Canada, which is a criminal charge. (summary or indictable depending on the mood of the judge and the particulars of the offence).
They're only broadcasting to people directly in front of the ad. This implies that they are using a directed antenna. That should increase the effective available range. If they wanna get real nasty, they can use a group of antennae each covering one part of the target area. One can hope that they don't get that nasty, but we're talking ad people.
That reminds me: we're at the beginning of this 'new frontier'. Right now, they're getting about a 1 in 6 acceptance ratio -- Today, it's a novel idea. A few months, or years, down the road, they'll be seeing those numbers drop preciptiously. Then they'll start resorting to all sorts of tricks to get people to 'accept' their garbage, and we'll have to start writing software to filter out thes ads, then they'll come up with work-arounds, and then....
Starting to sound like the spam wars??? There's a reason.
"I'm sorry. Our answering machine is broken -- but that's OK because our line is being tapped, so speak clearly and we'll get the transcripts from our lawyers."
The message didn't last too long, though, because a couple of people took it too seriously.
"We sometimes get so caught up in the fact that we can do something that we forget to ask if we should.
The intent of the game is to allow people to havee fun. When somebody does something that, wholesale, destroys fun for the rest of the community, then even though the game allows it -- it's still cheating, destructive of the game, and counter to the real intent.
This is like when Microsoft modified Windows to 'break' DR-Dos (and Lotus and....). Even though the computer system allowed it, what they were doing was against the basic intent of the free market. They can try and defend it as 'innovation', but -- by whatever name -- it's still dirty pool. (more like whacking your opponent on the back of the head with a pool cue while (s)he's taking a shot).
When you go into a bank's computer system (either hacking in, or as a trusted employee) and modify your account information, you're, in theory, just modifying bits and bytes -- not unlike the bot -- but the result is felt in the real-world. Thus it is that you get arrested. It's not much different here. The computer allows what this guy was doing, but it's still against the basic rules of the system, and destroys it's intended enjoyment for the community.
if it's gone, how would we know, especially a disease in the future?
I've got some good news and some bad news
The good news: The seed of this plant cures all known forms of cancer.
The bad news: We just destroyed the last known seed of this plant to find that out.
In real life, a number of animals (and probably plants) have been taken to, or beyond, the edge of extinction by 'harvesting' for the (purported) medicinal uses of various body parts, and others are well on their way there.
Sounds good, but we need to expand on that a little bit, and focus in on the company's benefits....
1 and 4 become: "Good PR". Copyrights remain with the company and all notices indicate that the company was willing to make this software available to the public. As the code improves the company gets the primary PR benefit.
2: Patches to the code come back to the company. This increases the value and stability of the code faster than if only maintained by you(r group).
3 is a subset of 2 but good to break out as a separate point.
Linux is a blatant example of 2/3: There is absolutely no way that Linus could have brought Linux from a hobby system to Microsoft's biggest threat in under a decade. Linux is an extreme example, but it clearly points out that giving more people access to the code (with a self-interest in improving it) results in more and faster bug fixes than any one of them could have achieved in he same period of time.
"Software is like love -- the best way to grow it is to give it away"
-- me
If I were to post a comment like Dido's touted comments (I'm only reading the headline here, I'm not about to give her any hits), I'd be happy to get +3 insightful for them -- and even then I'd only expect that if it were an early post.
These are all really obvious comments. All they prove is that DiDio isn't a complete idiot. If anything, this just places her other, counter-evidential comments in a worse light, since we now know that she's not completely lacking in processing skills.
I still wouldn't point any of my friends or clients at her site because they might presume that she actually knew what she was talking about and go listen to her other eructations. She can say what she wants, but she's burnt off enough of my ears. I'm done with her.
.... I have to say that "attention" or even "situational awareness: would be a better word/term, rather than "blindness".
It does, however, explain the phrases like 'blind rage'.
I'm guessing that the mind is 'stopping' to process full information out of the shocking image -- which means that processing of subsequent information is minimal/lost.
My understanding was that, for stunts like distance records and endurance, Guinness required a 10% improvement before the record was officially considered broken. If that's the case, then these people were just a little bit short of officially breaking the record.
(( oh, yeah, the DefCon records, besides strict verification, also have strict time limits. If the DefCon team didn't have time limits, they might have been able to tramp their way up the mountain to get the 144Mi record. If these guys want to break a DefCon record, they should do it at DefCon, by DefCon rules.))
As for why this is different than, say, Voyager: The DefCon records are supposed to be set with unamplified legal, production WIFI cards. (I'm not so sure about the production part, but they definitely have to be legal WIFI).
If Voyager has a WIFI card installed on it, I'd definitely like to talk to the people who did the upgrade.
Either that, or ask them for the phone number for the nearest IBM marketing rep. That would have probably lit a fire. I'm sure that IBM or Compaq would have been happy to take the laptop and details for a replacement....
You aren't going to see something like 'the day after'. That movie is, apparently, repeatedly cited by scientists and physicists as seriously bad science. Other than a possible sudden shift in the gulf stream costing Europe it's warm weather, most changes are likely to be noticed over a period of years or decades. By the time it's indisputable, however, it will also be inexorable.
"The effort required to change course changes exponentially with time."
One of the predicted effects of global warming is an increase in the strength and number of hurricanes. In other words, the last two hurricane seasons in the US SouthEast may just bee a warm-up.
Something similar is happening in Northern canada, and they are complaining. Polar bears are starving, the permafrost is turning into a bog, the hunting is getting messed up, and thawing ground is messing up buildings and other infrastructure designed with (no longer permanent) permafrost in mind.
And the polar ice cap is melting fast too... Most of us may live to see it all but disappear. Think of it as the mother of all ice cubes, and imagine what the melting is going to do --- dilute the 'drink' (which will change water density which will change ocean water flow, which will seriously mess with weather patterns) and once it finishes melting, it's function as a thermal buffer disappears and global warming will really start to hurt us.
I'm thinking that people are underestimating that last point.
You don't need to have your transit systems nation wide. Canada has much less population density than the US, but still manages to put together a decent public transit system in most of it's larger cities (at least, compared to what I've seen in the US). It takes some work to put up the investment, but it's going to be worth it in the long run. For most commuting needs, Single cars are a waste of energy and time.
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For example: After Cain kills Abel and god casts him out, he is afraid that people will kill him. Where did these people come from? Where did his wife come from? It may be that Adam is simply the beginning of the line that leads to Abraham, and not the first homo-sapien.
The nit-pickey aspects of things like how cosmology, evolution and relativity (or, for that matter, the macro aspects of weather systems) were beyond the understanding of people of that period (and even beyond the understanding of most of the people today). The only people for whom things like quantum theory regularly make a practical difference are the people who do things like design (as opposed to use) cpu circuits.
Does the question of how ducks came to be affect the question of whether I should respect this jewel of an earth that mankind was given as a gift. Does it affect the question of whether I should kill my neighbour for the gas his truck? no. For the most part, evolution vs creationism is just an irrelevant academic exercise and a distraction from more real issues like love, respect, trust, honouring the humanity and beauty around us, and being true to our responsibilities.
There are plenty of people who label themself as a Christian simply because they grew up in a Christian household or because they go to church on Easter and Christmas.
I went to a Christian boarding school. Some of the priests there pointed out that there are many ways to read Genesis.
Quite possibly not. 'hard' means that it is resistant to pressure. The space elevator needs to be resistant to tension and torque. If this stuff is brittle (very likely), it could be useless for that application.
It's kinda like the difference between wood, and fiber-board or plywood. The latter are made of wood, but most people wouldn't confuse them with real pine.
Like reply #1 to the parent.. You need to report them to the FCC. That really is what the government is (supposed to be) for.
Might as well dump your email account while you're at it. .....
Then dump your cellphone alltogether, to prevent phone solicitors.
then
The purpose of buying a technology is to be able to use it. If somebody frustrates me to the point where it becomes funnctionally infeasable for me to use a technology that I've paid out heard-earned dollars for, then that actually classifies as mischief in Canada, which is a criminal charge. (summary or indictable depending on the mood of the judge and the particulars of the offence).
That reminds me: we're at the beginning of this 'new frontier'. Right now, they're getting about a 1 in 6 acceptance ratio -- Today, it's a novel idea. A few months, or years, down the road, they'll be seeing those numbers drop preciptiously. Then they'll start resorting to all sorts of tricks to get people to 'accept' their garbage, and we'll have to start writing software to filter out thes ads, then they'll come up with work-arounds, and then....
Starting to sound like the spam wars??? There's a reason.
The message didn't last too long, though, because a couple of people took it too seriously.
Once a post has a 'funny' moderation tag, you can moderate it as 'underrated', which affects karma, but doesn't warp the tag.
The intent of the game is to allow people to havee fun. When somebody does something that, wholesale, destroys fun for the rest of the community, then even though the game allows it -- it's still cheating, destructive of the game, and counter to the real intent.
This is like when Microsoft modified Windows to 'break' DR-Dos (and Lotus and
When you go into a bank's computer system (either hacking in, or as a trusted employee) and modify your account information, you're, in theory, just modifying bits and bytes -- not unlike the bot -- but the result is felt in the real-world. Thus it is that you get arrested. It's not much different here. The computer allows what this guy was doing, but it's still against the basic rules of the system, and destroys it's intended enjoyment for the community.
I've got some good news and some bad news
- The good news: The seed of this plant cures all known forms of cancer.
- The bad news: We just destroyed the last known seed of this plant to find that out.
In real life, a number of animals (and probably plants) have been taken to, or beyond, the edge of extinction by 'harvesting' for the (purported) medicinal uses of various body parts, and others are well on their way there.- 1 and 4 become: "Good PR". Copyrights remain with the company and all notices indicate that the company was willing to make this software available to the public. As the code improves the company gets the primary PR benefit.
- 2: Patches to the code come back to the company. This increases the value and stability of the code faster than if only maintained by you(r group).
- 3 is a subset of 2 but good to break out as a separate point.
Linux is a blatant example of 2/3: There is absolutely no way that Linus could have brought Linux from a hobby system to Microsoft's biggest threat in under a decade. Linux is an extreme example, but it clearly points out that giving more people access to the code (with a self-interest in improving it) results in more and faster bug fixes than any one of them could have achieved in he same period of time."Software is like love -- the best way to grow it is to give it away"
-- me
These are all really obvious comments. All they prove is that DiDio isn't a complete idiot. If anything, this just places her other, counter-evidential comments in a worse light, since we now know that she's not completely lacking in processing skills.
I still wouldn't point any of my friends or clients at her site because they might presume that she actually knew what she was talking about and go listen to her other eructations. She can say what she wants, but she's burnt off enough of my ears. I'm done with her.
It does, however, explain the phrases like 'blind rage'.
I'm guessing that the mind is 'stopping' to process full information out of the shocking image -- which means that processing of subsequent information is minimal/lost.
(( oh, yeah, the DefCon records, besides strict verification, also have strict time limits. If the DefCon team didn't have time limits, they might have been able to tramp their way up the mountain to get the 144Mi record. If these guys want to break a DefCon record, they should do it at DefCon, by DefCon rules.))
As for why this is different than, say, Voyager: The DefCon records are supposed to be set with unamplified legal, production WIFI cards. (I'm not so sure about the production part, but they definitely have to be legal WIFI).
If Voyager has a WIFI card installed on it, I'd definitely like to talk to the people who did the upgrade.
As I said -- compared to what I've seen in the US (west coast, mostly). Compared to Europe, Canada has a loooonnnnngggg way to go.
Either that, or ask them for the phone number for the nearest IBM marketing rep. That would have probably lit a fire. I'm sure that IBM or Compaq would have been happy to take the laptop and details for a replacement....
(I can be a vicious bastard when pushed).
"The effort required to change course changes exponentially with time."
One of the predicted effects of global warming is an increase in the strength and number of hurricanes. In other words, the last two hurricane seasons in the US SouthEast may just bee a warm-up.
It's not just the Diebold machines.
And the polar ice cap is melting fast too... Most of us may live to see it all but disappear. Think of it as the mother of all ice cubes, and imagine what the melting is going to do --- dilute the 'drink' (which will change water density which will change ocean water flow, which will seriously mess with weather patterns) and once it finishes melting, it's function as a thermal buffer disappears and global warming will really start to hurt us.
I'm thinking that people are underestimating that last point.
Neither did anybody else!
(Anybody who flames me for hyperbole should be shot by a potato gun firing squad.)
You don't need to have your transit systems nation wide. Canada has much less population density than the US, but still manages to put together a decent public transit system in most of it's larger cities (at least, compared to what I've seen in the US). It takes some work to put up the investment, but it's going to be worth it in the long run. For most commuting needs, Single cars are a waste of energy and time.
Gotta keep up that Microsoft FUD, you know....
Sometime thru that experience, I would have started asking for a whole-body reeplacement. You obviously got a seriously bad apple.