>> One of the larger problems with a drill like this as I see it, is that you rely cant prepare for it.
Another one is forgetting that any would-be-killer is also participating in the drills, and so can observe choke points during a crowd rush, where the majority of students will go, where police will enter, etc.
The first Friday I worked as a games tester at EA, the whole company was having beer. About 1/3 of the beers were pop-top bottles (ie can't undo with your hands) and people were damaging the brand new furniture trying to open their bottles with brute force. I walked across to the office manager who was having a drink and politely explained the situation about the pop-tops and suggested that next week they get some bottle openers.
I found out 6 months later through the grape-vine that I was almost fired for this, for being "needy" and violating the hierarchy, stepping out of my place as a tester.
>> the SUV just does it at a very slightly faster rate
Isn't the MPG 1/2 that of a smaller car? So the damage is twice as fast, hardly small.
>> If you really believe that, then you need to stop driving altogether. You have fun with that.
I don't drive, I ride a mountain bike to work and average over 20mph on my way to work, which has no traffic lights, which is faster than a car (I've timed it)
>> it sounds like you need to get a more massive vehicle.
So your solution is a sec/newton arms race? Sounds like the kind of thinking that ultimately ending up with everyone driving 10 tonne trucks with spikes coming out the front... humans should be smarter than this, make people accountable for their dangerous actions and you remove this escalating vehicle weight tragedy of the commons.
>> And I already pay extra in taxes for my gas usage.
The amount of tax on US oil (assuming that's where you live, your attitude sounds like it) is hardly anything at all. Roads and highways are built with general revenue over there, right? So it doesn't even cover the cost of infrastructure, let alone pollution, foreign wars of conquest, etc.
What about how they wreck my planet, cause my friends to have to go to war to keep them fueled up, and are 17 times more likely to kill me in a side impact collision than a normal car?
People will stop complaining about SUV's when owners start taking accountability for their impact on others (eg carbon taxes and being thrown in jail if they kill someone in a collision when the person probably would have lived if they were hit by a normal car)
Remember what it was like in IT after the dot com bubble? The real estate bubble is _FAR_ bigger in terms of total amount of silly misdirected money and so it is likely the fallout will be bigger, too.
>> I can't remember his name at the moment. But there was a scientist who raised a chimpanzee along side his own son. He discontinued the experiment after his son started immitating it
This is a great idea - weather permitting - and I do it myself. Driving a car to the gym and getting on a stationary bike is silly when you can ride around outside, I've seen people catch an elevator up 1 flight of stairs to the gym, then go on a stair master!
Aside from individuals government & workplaces can help, with more cycle lanes (or even better, no traffic light/sharing with car paths along rivers etc) and showers at work. Another thing could be making people more accountable for killing people on the roads, this might stop dangerous driving and killing of cyclists.
>> is even evidence that it could have once been a giant lake, fish bones and such in desert.
Or, it was underwater millions of years ago...
>> Then when the dam broke water rushed out and carved the Grand Canyon. The idea is also supported from the fact that rushing water takes the path of least resistance and thus would explain the randomness of its path.
Actually, if that amount of water broke all at once it would likely cause an explosive exit, not a meandering path like the Grand Canyon. That seems better explained by a slow meandering river taking millions of years.
>> The Earth's rotation is slowing over time, by about 2 milliseconds a year. This means that billions of years ago when the Earth was so-called created the days were about 13.5 hours. The Earth's rotation would be so great that gravity would make it impossible to live and survive.
I think you are confused about centrifugal force and gravity (though that's the least of your problems)
Don't listen to the blasphemer. The Power Rangers are merely a misled sect who have brainwashed a generation so they no longer accept the truth - which is that the Autobot-Ninja turtle alliance is the true force of good in the world.
Look, you can have your beliefs, but trying to justify bronze age stories with modern science is not going to end well. You'll eventually get to some fact then say "god did it" or "God changed things so it looks like that" there's not much point.
If you hadn't been raised a Christian, and your community wasn't Christian, and you went to the Grand canyon, you probably wouldn't have thought "I bet this was made in a day!"
>> the evidence for a world wide flood
Where did all the water come from? I remember someone working out that science said this was impossible, because as water transforms from gas -> liquid, heat is released (the opposite of the cooling you get from evaporation, eg sweating) the amount of heat released for that amount of water would have killed the entire planet.
Also, Noah must have had a very very large ark (carrying, eg, gum trees for Koalas and huge amounts of specialist meat for carnivores), and we are inbred descendants of his family, who must have been carrying all diseases and viruses known to man.
>> the idea of the Grand Canyon being formed in a day
What would be different about it if it was formed in a day vs over millions of years?. Can you point that out then we'll look at how it is today, and make judgement on whether it's possible.
I've been there, and it looks like that stream at the bottom slowly wore it away into the earth. I remember the stream being quite small, it looks like it would take mroe than a day!
The religions that have survived over the last few thousand years are the ones that had specific policies to increase the numbers of their flocks. The pro-birth control, non-recruiting religions were overwhelmed and replaced.
The amount of religion today says that the uncaring forces of natural selection favours it.
You were shocked at them and felt separate from the community of people there.
They want to live in their community, and while they may occasionally have bursts of cognitive dissonance - their need to be part of their community and believe what everyone else believes shuts down any skepticism and questioning.
If a million is too much, that's your upper bound. Now use binary chop to find out the exact number of strangers your kid is worth. Now if your kid misbehaves you can tell them they have dropped X stranger-sacrifices, depending on how bad they were, so had better watch it.
However, ramp up time is often 4+ years (a degree). So there is likely to be the typical boom-bust cycle in IT wages as new students are attracted to high wages, spend X years in college, graduate and only then increase employee supply.
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...your "creation science" museum has a notice saying:
"Please note that the Creation Museum is a smoke-free facility. Firearms and pets (other than service animals) are not permitted in the museum."
http://www.creationmuseum.org/plan-your-visit
>> One of the larger problems with a drill like this as I see it, is that you rely cant prepare for it.
Another one is forgetting that any would-be-killer is also participating in the drills, and so can observe choke points during a crowd rush, where the majority of students will go, where police will enter, etc.
The first Friday I worked as a games tester at EA, the whole company was having beer. About 1/3 of the beers were pop-top bottles (ie can't undo with your hands) and people were damaging the brand new furniture trying to open their bottles with brute force. I walked across to the office manager who was having a drink and politely explained the situation about the pop-tops and suggested that next week they get some bottle openers.
I found out 6 months later through the grape-vine that I was almost fired for this, for being "needy" and violating the hierarchy, stepping out of my place as a tester.
>> the SUV just does it at a very slightly faster rate
Isn't the MPG 1/2 that of a smaller car? So the damage is twice as fast, hardly small.
>> If you really believe that, then you need to stop driving altogether. You have fun with that.
I don't drive, I ride a mountain bike to work and average over 20mph on my way to work, which has no traffic lights, which is faster than a car (I've timed it)
>> it sounds like you need to get a more massive vehicle.
So your solution is a sec/newton arms race? Sounds like the kind of thinking that ultimately ending up with everyone driving 10 tonne trucks with spikes coming out the front... humans should be smarter than this, make people accountable for their dangerous actions and you remove this escalating vehicle weight tragedy of the commons.
>> And I already pay extra in taxes for my gas usage.
The amount of tax on US oil (assuming that's where you live, your attitude sounds like it) is hardly anything at all. Roads and highways are built with general revenue over there, right? So it doesn't even cover the cost of infrastructure, let alone pollution, foreign wars of conquest, etc.
>> Don't like SUVs? Don't buy one.
What about how they wreck my planet, cause my friends to have to go to war to keep them fueled up, and are 17 times more likely to kill me in a side impact collision than a normal car?
People will stop complaining about SUV's when owners start taking accountability for their impact on others (eg carbon taxes and being thrown in jail if they kill someone in a collision when the person probably would have lived if they were hit by a normal car)
Remember what it was like in IT after the dot com bubble? The real estate bubble is _FAR_ bigger in terms of total amount of silly misdirected money and so it is likely the fallout will be bigger, too.
I love XCom, also check out Jagged Alliance 2 if you like that kind of game.
The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
That's interesting, so it should be human see, human do.
Chimps could write, or use sign language, or have beneficial selection on better vocal chords, but didn't. I think it's more than bad I/O.
>> I can't remember his name at the moment. But there was a scientist who raised a chimpanzee along side his own son. He discontinued the experiment after his son started immitating it
George Bush Senior?
>> if you could only find a credible link about intelligence being hereditary
Yes, this isn't immediately obvious so we need to raise a monkey and a baby human together and see which grows up to be smarter!
>> Of course, the key is to be one of the rich.
If you want less offspring, albeit with a higher standard of living.
>> If I overlap that exercise with my commute
This is a great idea - weather permitting - and I do it myself. Driving a car to the gym and getting on a stationary bike is silly when you can ride around outside, I've seen people catch an elevator up 1 flight of stairs to the gym, then go on a stair master!
Aside from individuals government & workplaces can help, with more cycle lanes (or even better, no traffic light/sharing with car paths along rivers etc) and showers at work. Another thing could be making people more accountable for killing people on the roads, this might stop dangerous driving and killing of cyclists.
>> is even evidence that it could have once been a giant lake, fish bones and such in desert.
Or, it was underwater millions of years ago...
>> Then when the dam broke water rushed out and carved the Grand Canyon. The idea is also supported from the fact that rushing water takes the path of least resistance and thus would explain the randomness of its path.
Actually, if that amount of water broke all at once it would likely cause an explosive exit, not a meandering path like the Grand Canyon. That seems better explained by a slow meandering river taking millions of years.
>> The Earth's rotation is slowing over time, by about 2 milliseconds a year. This means that billions of years ago when the Earth was so-called created the days were about 13.5 hours. The Earth's rotation would be so great that gravity would make it impossible to live and survive.
I think you are confused about centrifugal force and gravity (though that's the least of your problems)
Don't listen to the blasphemer. The Power Rangers are merely a misled sect who have brainwashed a generation so they no longer accept the truth - which is that the Autobot-Ninja turtle alliance is the true force of good in the world.
Look, you can have your beliefs, but trying to justify bronze age stories with modern science is not going to end well. You'll eventually get to some fact then say "god did it" or "God changed things so it looks like that" there's not much point.
If you hadn't been raised a Christian, and your community wasn't Christian, and you went to the Grand canyon, you probably wouldn't have thought "I bet this was made in a day!"
>> the evidence for a world wide flood
Where did all the water come from? I remember someone working out that science said this was impossible, because as water transforms from gas -> liquid, heat is released (the opposite of the cooling you get from evaporation, eg sweating) the amount of heat released for that amount of water would have killed the entire planet.
Also, Noah must have had a very very large ark (carrying, eg, gum trees for Koalas and huge amounts of specialist meat for carnivores), and we are inbred descendants of his family, who must have been carrying all diseases and viruses known to man.
>> the idea of the Grand Canyon being formed in a day
What would be different about it if it was formed in a day vs over millions of years?. Can you point that out then we'll look at how it is today, and make judgement on whether it's possible.
I've been there, and it looks like that stream at the bottom slowly wore it away into the earth. I remember the stream being quite small, it looks like it would take mroe than a day!
>> lack of lunar dust
Please go into more detail.
>> speed of the Earth's rotation
Please go into more detail.
The religions that have survived over the last few thousand years are the ones that had specific policies to increase the numbers of their flocks. The pro-birth control, non-recruiting religions were overwhelmed and replaced.
The amount of religion today says that the uncaring forces of natural selection favours it.
You were shocked at them and felt separate from the community of people there.
They want to live in their community, and while they may occasionally have bursts of cognitive dissonance - their need to be part of their community and believe what everyone else believes shuts down any skepticism and questioning.
Doesn't have to be nanobots. It would be cool to have little electronics that can run on your blood sugar.
Why exercise, when I could just plug a light into my body and burn off that excess carbs I had for lunch?
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=tortilla+crisis
Each pigeon would cost 2 million dollars and cities with many statues would be labelled as an imminent threats.
Doesn't it say "This is your God". No, wait. That was They Live
You'd kill 6, but would you kill a million?
If a million is too much, that's your upper bound. Now use binary chop to find out the exact number of strangers your kid is worth. Now if your kid misbehaves you can tell them they have dropped X stranger-sacrifices, depending on how bad they were, so had better watch it.
Yes, jobs and wages work on supply and demand.
However, ramp up time is often 4+ years (a degree). So there is likely to be the typical boom-bust cycle in IT wages as new students are attracted to high wages, spend X years in college, graduate and only then increase employee supply.
What if they are a multi-national corporation?
What if their GDP is bigger than the countries?