"Though, who knows if radio technology is common. Maybe most species skip past it rather quickly."
There have been proposals that radio may not be the best, or at least the only, way to communicate and that alien civs may use bursts of laser light to transmit info to other potential civs. SETI work may be expanded to hunt for rapid bursts of laser energy.
Ever notice how descriptions of alien abductions and sexual probings/experiments bear an uncanny resemblance to deeply suppressed childhood sexual molestations? Stories of vague human forms coming into people's rooms at night, forcing things into them that they cannot resist and possibly repeated visits.
You start from an arbitrary point, that things we find important (jets, skyscrapers) are of universal importance, and then claim that those things make us unique in the universe. Look at the incredibly intricate designs in a simple snowflake, they were created in minutes without human assistance (or divine if you dare). Snowflakes are the result of billions of particles randomly colliding also. Since most people don't find snowflakes interesting or important they would dismiss them as evidence of nature's power to create.
You use dog's lack of engineering skills as evidence of some higher purpose but dogs got by without dog houses for millions of years, they never had a need for them, we are the ones who make them use them. Dogs however developed an extremely powerful sense of smell beyond ours and a keen ability to work in packs. Those things were important to them surviving.
Maybe the dog's lack of a self-destructive streak (they have yet to build nuke bombs) proves they have a higher moral sense than us they just cannot communicate? Its just as valid as your point.
Good point. Sort of like saying "90% of the people in this room believe that it is on fire but only 77% believe it was started by Uncle Jimbo falling asleep while smoking in bed." You can believe the evidence and without having to believe the explanation behind it.
Well if it was beyond human perception and sensory capabilities then how can someone turn around and describe it or even sense it in the first place? It sure doesn't explain how some "sensory mode that does not depend upon the emission, transmission, or reflection of energy" can then become stories about anal probes and telling you your lucky number.
"I presume that you're saying that evolution is not testable, on the basis that it's all already happened, and we're just looking at the evidence left behind."
Dismissing evolution because you can't directly recreate it is like saying "A murder wasn't committed here because all I see is a weapon, blood, and a dead body but I can't kill the victim over again to prove how he died."
1. You can believe in god and still be able to give answers to the simple questions they asked on the survey. Just as an atheist can answer questions on religion without believing it also.
2. What evidence? Just because a bunch of people pass a polygraph only (sort of) proves they believe what they saying, NOT that what they are saying is true! Plenty of people have been sent to prison falsely because witnesses were SURE that was the person.
I'd support better pay for teachers as you recommended but only if the public can in turn demand true professionals in turn. No more teachers who consider film strips from 1967 or field trips to the candy factory to be quality education. The problem hasn't been just low pay but teacher's unions that scream bloody murder anytime someone even suggests raising standards of teaching.
In their defense I'd also support not dumping noneducational tasks on their backs like safety (don't talk to strangers!) and moral judgment (don't kill your classmates!). Those are things their parents are supposed to take care of. Teachers shouldn't be parentis-in-locis also.
This is from the network promoting a show on "Terrifying Animals" where people run into Raccoons and other such mortal enemies of mankind. What is next? "When Puppies Kill"?
Are Fox execs born sleazy or just raised that way?
Remember what network you are talking about. This is the "Cops Beating Prisoners" and "When Births Go Bad" network. I'd suggest Matt toss in some clips of people being brutalized to appeal to Fox execs.
Please don't go to streaming over the web, streaming sucks unless you have a cablemodem/t1 connection. A lot of towns don't even have DSL access.
Also, the early Simpsons were more human and people could sympathize with them. They had universal problems. That is a big part of any classic comedy. Now they are so bizarre and "cartoonish" that you can hardly relate to them.
Cameos and timely subjects are like sweets, a quick thrill and then even more quickly forgotten, and too much of them makes you sick.
Actually GtB is pretty good. You complain about Fox passing snap judgements then you go and do the same thing.
Before we pass judgment against Fox also, remember they were the ones to show the Simpsons in the first place when no one else thought a prime time animated series would fly.
Look at Seinfeld, at least we didn't have to watch it die a painful death, it was killed mercifully. The Simpsons is clearly running out of ideas. They even said so on their last clip show a few weeks ago!
If you look for something hard enough you'll see it everywhere. If you watch the news enough you'll believe the world is full of murders even though the murder rate is tiny compared to, say, deaths in car accidents or strokes. Now if you are a paranoid manager you'll see dangerous employees everywhere or one guy's computer misuse suddenly means it is rampant. The problem is paranoia caused by filtered news (only reporting bad news basically). You have to step back and look at the whole picture to keep a grip on reality.
I can say from personal experience from having worked at a defense lab for admin IT that the things we worried about the most were:
1. The guys in the information warfare/security group 2. Security staff
Guess which group had abused their privileges more than once? Hint, they are not group #1 Some of the security staff I wouldn't trust to watch my lunch.
You set aside a certain reasonable number of minutes a month for customer support (say 5-10) for each customer or a yearly amount. Those minutes are free, after that they pay a surcharge. This way you give reasonable support that the majority of customers deserve but the clueless minority who are problem customers pay extra to cover the cost of supporting them.
I can't think of too many more difficult things to deal with than to have problems thrown at you at random, by people of wildly varying computer skills (and probably emotionally worked up by the time they call), and then have to politely solve them remotely in a few minutes.
Any remains found that predate the European arrivals would be considered "Native Americans" by the accepted definition of the term. You can only question if the remains belonged to a specific tribe/ethnic group, i.e. "These bones are the remains of a Puyallup."
The big problem with your point-of-view is that by ignoring the SA's warnings they not only make his life miserable but THEIR OWN ALSO. So Phil from accounting not only has new IRS guidelines but is now frantically trying to use his email because he couldn't be bothered to read and remember the warning message he got that morning. Being busy is no excuse, the highways are jammed but that isn't an excuse to slam into other cars constantly. You belong to the pass the buck crowd, "It is ok for me to not think and screw up because someone will clean up after me."
A crisis on your part is not necessarily one on mine.
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"Though, who knows if radio technology is common. Maybe most species skip past it rather quickly."
There have been proposals that radio may not be the best, or at least the only, way to communicate and that alien civs may use bursts of laser light to transmit info to other potential civs. SETI work may be expanded to hunt for rapid bursts of laser energy.
Ever notice how descriptions of alien abductions and sexual probings/experiments bear an uncanny resemblance to deeply suppressed childhood sexual molestations? Stories of vague human forms coming into people's rooms at night, forcing things into them that they cannot resist and possibly repeated visits.
You start from an arbitrary point, that things we find important (jets, skyscrapers) are of universal importance, and then claim that those things make us unique in the universe. Look at the incredibly intricate designs in a simple snowflake, they were created in minutes without human assistance (or divine if you dare). Snowflakes are the result of billions of particles randomly colliding also. Since most people don't find snowflakes interesting or important they would dismiss them as evidence of nature's power to create.
You use dog's lack of engineering skills as evidence of some higher purpose but dogs got by without dog houses for millions of years, they never had a need for them, we are the ones who make them use them. Dogs however developed an extremely powerful sense of smell beyond ours and a keen ability to work in packs. Those things were important to them surviving.
Maybe the dog's lack of a self-destructive streak (they have yet to build nuke bombs) proves they have a higher moral sense than us they just cannot communicate? Its just as valid as your point.
Good point. Sort of like saying "90% of the people in this room believe that it is on fire but only 77% believe it was started by Uncle Jimbo falling asleep while smoking in bed." You can believe the evidence and without having to believe the explanation behind it.
Well if it was beyond human perception and sensory capabilities then how can someone turn around and describe it or even sense it in the first place? It sure doesn't explain how some "sensory mode that does not depend upon the emission, transmission, or reflection of energy" can then become stories about anal probes and telling you your lucky number.
"I presume that you're saying that evolution is not testable, on the basis that it's all already happened, and we're just looking at the evidence left behind."
Dismissing evolution because you can't directly recreate it is like saying "A murder wasn't committed here because all I see is a weapon, blood, and a dead body but I can't kill the victim over again to prove how he died."
"I was actually unable to enjoy that movie, due to that statement"
God help you if you try to enjoy Star Wars then. "Hey! There is no sound in a vacuum!"
1. You can believe in god and still be able to give answers to the simple questions they asked on the survey. Just as an atheist can answer questions on religion without believing it also.
2. What evidence? Just because a bunch of people pass a polygraph only (sort of) proves they believe what they saying, NOT that what they are saying is true! Plenty of people have been sent to prison falsely because witnesses were SURE that was the person.
I'd support better pay for teachers as you recommended but only if the public can in turn demand true professionals in turn. No more teachers who consider film strips from 1967 or field trips to the candy factory to be quality education. The problem hasn't been just low pay but teacher's unions that scream bloody murder anytime someone even suggests raising standards of teaching.
In their defense I'd also support not dumping noneducational tasks on their backs like safety (don't talk to strangers!) and moral judgment (don't kill your classmates!). Those are things their parents are supposed to take care of. Teachers shouldn't be parentis-in-locis also.
This is from the network promoting a show on "Terrifying Animals" where people run into Raccoons and other such mortal enemies of mankind. What is next? "When Puppies Kill"?
Are Fox execs born sleazy or just raised that way?
Remember what network you are talking about. This is the "Cops Beating Prisoners" and "When Births Go Bad" network. I'd suggest Matt toss in some clips of people being brutalized to appeal to Fox execs.
Please don't go to streaming over the web, streaming sucks unless you have a cablemodem/t1 connection. A lot of towns don't even have DSL access.
You are absolutely, 100% correct.
Also, the early Simpsons were more human and people could sympathize with them. They had universal problems. That is a big part of any classic comedy. Now they are so bizarre and "cartoonish" that you can hardly relate to them.
Cameos and timely subjects are like sweets, a quick thrill and then even more quickly forgotten, and too much of them makes you sick.
Noooo!
It'll be like that awful "The Jetsons meet the Flintstones" episode
Actually GtB is pretty good. You complain about Fox passing snap judgements then you go and do the same thing.
Before we pass judgment against Fox also, remember they were the ones to show the Simpsons in the first place when no one else thought a prime time animated series would fly.
Look at Seinfeld, at least we didn't have to watch it die a painful death, it was killed mercifully. The Simpsons is clearly running out of ideas. They even said so on their last clip show a few weeks ago!
And Oscar the Grouch now lives in a core dump.
If you look for something hard enough you'll see it everywhere. If you watch the news enough you'll believe the world is full of murders even though the murder rate is tiny compared to, say, deaths in car accidents or strokes. Now if you are a paranoid manager you'll see dangerous employees everywhere or one guy's computer misuse suddenly means it is rampant. The problem is paranoia caused by filtered news (only reporting bad news basically). You have to step back and look at the whole picture to keep a grip on reality.
Maybe he is not a native English speaker? They can surprise you sometimes.
I can say from personal experience from having worked at a defense lab for admin IT that the things we worried about the most were:
1. The guys in the information warfare/security group
2. Security staff
Guess which group had abused their privileges more than once? Hint, they are not group #1
Some of the security staff I wouldn't trust to watch my lunch.
I don't think it is vain to expect positive feedback for good work. After all, you certainly get negative feedback for poor work.
You set aside a certain reasonable number of minutes a month for customer support (say 5-10) for each customer or a yearly amount. Those minutes are free, after that they pay a surcharge. This way you give reasonable support that the majority of customers deserve but the clueless minority who are problem customers pay extra to cover the cost of supporting them.
I can't think of too many more difficult things to deal with than to have problems thrown at you at random, by people of wildly varying computer skills (and probably emotionally worked up by the time they call), and then have to politely solve them remotely in a few minutes.
All you tech support folks have my sympathies.
I can see it now...
"Welcome to the Daytona Airshow! The newest, most advanced fighter in the world, with the first carbon nanotube body!"
"Wooo! Quick, take a photo!"
*FLASH*
*FIZZLE*
*CRASH*
"Oh shit..."
Any remains found that predate the European arrivals would be considered "Native Americans" by the accepted definition of the term. You can only question if the remains belonged to a specific tribe/ethnic group, i.e. "These bones are the remains of a Puyallup."
The big problem with your point-of-view is that by ignoring the SA's warnings they not only make his life miserable but THEIR OWN ALSO. So Phil from accounting not only has new IRS guidelines but is now frantically trying to use his email because he couldn't be bothered to read and remember the warning message he got that morning. Being busy is no excuse, the highways are jammed but that isn't an excuse to slam into other cars constantly. You belong to the pass the buck crowd, "It is ok for me to not think and screw up because someone will clean up after me."
A crisis on your part is not necessarily one on mine.