You are missing the hubris that dictates you are super special in the universe and were created by an all powerful and all loving god who will burn you in hell forever for not believing in special creation.
Please don't be offended, but your post clearly shows you have a child like understanding of science. You are unwittingly commiting a fallacy of equivocation. From wikipedia:
"In common usage, people often use the word theory to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements that would be true independently of what people think about them.
In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation."
So for something to attain the status of scientfic theory it must have been tested rigorously, be able to make predictions and be observable. Theory is as close to "truth" as you can get in science. Hypothesis is a closer analog to the common usage of theory.
It doesn't make sense to simply shade the earth. If you're going to the trouble of sending stuff into space you might as well set up a huge solar array that generates electricity and beams it down to the earth.
It's theatre. The court he was tried in has no legal standing over crimes that were perpetuated before the court was created. It was in every sense of the word a kangaroo court. He should have been tried in The Hague at the International Court of Justice. The problem with trying him there is that the US would lose control over the proceedings and would not be able to use the trial for their own political gain.
I've been playing with modded xboxes for a few months now and I was wondering how difficult it would be to get a mythTv front end running on an xbox while having a dedicated machine in another room doing the actual recording. Anyone try this yet?
If the latter, then you can not say he's hiding anything, but simply trying to protect the information that gives sensitive details about a program used to protect Americans (and probably others in the world).
Can there really be a wiretapping program whose details are so sensitive that there are no investigators trustworthy enough to have access to them? I find that very hard to believe. Federal investigators tend to be very patriotic and would not divulge classified information that would harm the US or its citizens. They also would not allow high government officials to get away with breaking the law.
The Crosley Icy Ball creates ice using ammonia absorbtion. All you need is a heat source(fire will do nicely) and an ice box of sorts and you're fine. You could easily modify a metal cooler to be the ice box. If you follow the link you will also see a design for an icyball that you can charge up and halt the colling process for later use.
There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith.
No, what dims the magic of movies is the asshole behind me who thinks everyone else wants his narration. Also the assholes who makes phone calls and the ones who bring babies and small children to movies that are obviously inappropriate for them.
"He playin' possum!" -- the asshole behind me during sith.
But don't you have to identify what specifically you consider libelous and defamatory if you are going to take legal action? I Guess Darl McBride has some alumni running Charter Schools USA.
I would write a letter back saying I have complied and to please let me know if I missed anything.
But as an established predator you can easily compete for potatoes and other plants. What herbivore is going to fight you over food when it can easily become the food by doing so?
From an evolutionary standpoint this is a great strategy which is why it happened. It works well for bears too.
The problem here is that ID is not science. If anything it's anti-science since it is non falsifiable and requires that you stop asking questions.
The thing people seem to misunderstand is that evolution is an observed fact and the theory of evolution is a description of the process of evolution. ID really isn't even a hypothesis so it has no place in a science class.
There is no "atheistic view of evolution" that's just rhetoric created by fanatical religious people who find the modern world to be a threat to their antiquated religious viewpoint. They recognize that their religious views cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas and so they try to use the force of law to prop up their idiotic ideas.
They even go so far as to try to destroy the judiciary in an attempt to push their illegal agenda. The US fought this battle over 200 years ago and now these cretins spit on the constitution and the sacrifice of thousands of honorable men and women in order to push their religion on others.
Religious freedom means that you can put up billboards and print all the material you want, on your dime. Don't expect to use the public money to push your religion. If you manage to succeed, in a few decades time it could be a different religion that is promoted by the government.
The invisible pinkness only seems like a contradiction because you lack faith.
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Actually you are misusing the word agnostic. Agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. You can be an agnostic atheist, in fact most agnostics are atheists. Agnosticism means that you believe that knowledge of god is inherently unattainable. It says nothing about whether you believe in a god. Saying you can't be an agnostic and an atheist is like saying you can't be blonde and tall.
Further, people go on a lot about the word disbelieve. Disbelief does not mean believing the opposite. It can mean simply not having the belief in question. Not believing in a god does not necessarily mean you believe there is not a god. There is a subtle difference here but any intelligent person can understand the nuance.
More like, thus the big hit on damages. The other problem with the McDonald's case is the cofffee was hot enough to cause third degree burns. It is illegal to sell food in a restaurant that is inedible or dangerous. The lady in question knew she did a dumb thing but she suffered third degree burns on her inner theighs which required skin grafts. She could not afford to pay her medical bills(she was very old and on a fixed income) and asked McDonald's to pay. She was not seeking any compensation past her own medical bills. When the jury found out that McDonald's knew their coffee was too hot, knew people were getting injured and figured the number of people getting third degree burns was acceptable, they stuck it to McDonald's.
If anything, this was a case that demonstrated why we need to be able to sue the shit out of a company when it deliberately harms people.
This is one of the reasons I was furius when incurious, lying through his teeth George made his assertion that Iraq could make a "nucular" bomb in 6 months if they were able to obtain fissionable material. No shit? Any modern country could. Hell, I could. The hard part is refininng the fissionable material, not making the bomb.
But, the dumb ass congresscritters and the majority of the US bought it and our so called liberal media legitimized it by not pointing out such fallacies.
You could engineer the leaves so they turn to dust rather than simply die and fall off. This way you don't have to rake stuff up. Of course that could cause a breathing hazard so how about leaves that die and then dissolve when it rains?
Minors in a school are a different thing altogether; and I don't buy the slippery slope arguments on that point. Kids do leave the schools without authorization. And no, that is never a good or welcome thing. This way school admin has another tool to know where they are, or are not, during school hours.
I would have loved to have this system when I was in school. It makes skipping that much easier. You just get other kids to put your badge in their books, purses, bags whatever. I can see kids organizing and having some fun with this too. Everyone decides one day to switch badges with someone else. Suddenly no one is where they're supposed to be.
I did something similar, but kind of the opposite. I live in Virginia and have for 15 years. I have a lot of family in Florida. So now with vonage I have a 904 area code. This way the locals have to pay long distance or use their cell phone to call me and my family doesn't have to pay long distance charges. Of course my grandmother and some other family members didn't use the number for the longest time. They kept thinking they wrote the number down wrong even though I explained to them several times that I now have a 904 number.
It's fun getting wrong number calls from Jacksonville.
What is even more confusing is when an actor plays another part in the same series. For example the woman who tortured Aeryn in Farscape ended up playing a good guy in the peacekeeper wars. I kept thinking, well I can see that it's the same bitch, what's going on here? It was a terrible distraction.
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You are missing the hubris that dictates you are super special in the universe and were created by an all powerful and all loving god who will burn you in hell forever for not believing in special creation.
Please don't be offended, but your post clearly shows you have a child like understanding of science. You are unwittingly commiting a fallacy of equivocation. From wikipedia:
"In common usage, people often use the word theory to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements that would be true independently of what people think about them.
In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation."
So for something to attain the status of scientfic theory it must have been tested rigorously, be able to make predictions and be observable. Theory is as close to "truth" as you can get in science. Hypothesis is a closer analog to the common usage of theory.
Also if you are interested you read why evolution is a fact and a theory
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It doesn't make sense to simply shade the earth. If you're going to the trouble of sending stuff into space you might as well set up a huge solar array that generates electricity and beams it down to the earth.
It's theatre. The court he was tried in has no legal standing over crimes that were perpetuated before the court was created. It was in every sense of the word a kangaroo court. He should have been tried in The Hague at the International Court of Justice. The problem with trying him there is that the US would lose control over the proceedings and would not be able to use the trial for their own political gain.
I've been playing with modded xboxes for a few months now and I was wondering how difficult it would be to get a mythTv front end running on an xbox while having a dedicated machine in another room doing the actual recording. Anyone try this yet?
If the latter, then you can not say he's hiding anything, but simply trying to protect the information that gives sensitive details about a program used to protect Americans (and probably others in the world).
Can there really be a wiretapping program whose details are so sensitive that there are no investigators trustworthy enough to have access to them? I find that very hard to believe. Federal investigators tend to be very patriotic and would not divulge classified information that would harm the US or its citizens. They also would not allow high government officials to get away with breaking the law.
Why do you mistrust our federal investigators?
Why does a god deserve worship?
Why would a god desire worship?
Isn't it more than a tad vain to think that a god would be interested in life on this little planet in the middle of nowhere?
The Crosley Icy Ball creates ice using ammonia absorbtion. All you need is a heat source(fire will do nicely) and an ice box of sorts and you're fine. You could easily modify a metal cooler to be the ice box. If you follow the link you will also see a design for an icyball that you can charge up and halt the colling process for later use.
These things would be great for camping.
I don't even want to look at my neighbor. I certainly don't want to talk to him. Home is where we get away from human interaction.
There is no evidence for a soul. You might as well be saying, "Your spleek will die along with your body".
There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith.
No, what dims the magic of movies is the asshole behind me who thinks everyone else wants his narration. Also the assholes who makes phone calls and the ones who bring babies and small children to movies that are obviously inappropriate for them.
"He playin' possum!" -- the asshole behind me during sith.
Actually life starts before that but so what? It's not like an embryo is a person.
But don't you have to identify what specifically you consider libelous and defamatory if you are going to take legal action? I Guess Darl McBride has some alumni running Charter Schools USA.
I would write a letter back saying I have complied and to please let me know if I missed anything.
But as an established predator you can easily compete for potatoes and other plants. What herbivore is going to fight you over food when it can easily become the food by doing so?
From an evolutionary standpoint this is a great strategy which is why it happened. It works well for bears too.
The problem here is that ID is not science. If anything it's anti-science since it is non falsifiable and requires that you stop asking questions.
The thing people seem to misunderstand is that evolution is an observed fact and the theory of evolution is a description of the process of evolution. ID really isn't even a hypothesis so it has no place in a science class.
There is no "atheistic view of evolution" that's just rhetoric created by fanatical religious people who find the modern world to be a threat to their antiquated religious viewpoint. They recognize that their religious views cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas and so they try to use the force of law to prop up their idiotic ideas.
They even go so far as to try to destroy the judiciary in an attempt to push their illegal agenda. The US fought this battle over 200 years ago and now these cretins spit on the constitution and the sacrifice of thousands of honorable men and women in order to push their religion on others.
Religious freedom means that you can put up billboards and print all the material you want, on your dime. Don't expect to use the public money to push your religion. If you manage to succeed, in a few decades time it could be a different religion that is promoted by the government.
What makes you think you have one or that robots don't? What do you mean by soul?
The invisible pinkness only seems like a contradiction because you lack faith.
Actually you are misusing the word agnostic. Agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. You can be an agnostic atheist, in fact most agnostics are atheists. Agnosticism means that you believe that knowledge of god is inherently unattainable. It says nothing about whether you believe in a god. Saying you can't be an agnostic and an atheist is like saying you can't be blonde and tall.
Further, people go on a lot about the word disbelieve. Disbelief does not mean believing the opposite. It can mean simply not having the belief in question. Not believing in a god does not necessarily mean you believe there is not a god. There is a subtle difference here but any intelligent person can understand the nuance.
For further reading see Austin Cline's excellent articles on atheism and agnosticism
All people are either theists or atheists. Simply put, an atheist is not a theist. If you aren't a theist, then by definition you are an atheist.
Well I saw an interview with her where she stated, "I knew I did a dumb thing..."
At least she felt dumb even if you or I don't agree.
More like, thus the big hit on damages. The other problem with the McDonald's case is the cofffee was hot enough to cause third degree burns. It is illegal to sell food in a restaurant that is inedible or dangerous. The lady in question knew she did a dumb thing but she suffered third degree burns on her inner theighs which required skin grafts. She could not afford to pay her medical bills(she was very old and on a fixed income) and asked McDonald's to pay. She was not seeking any compensation past her own medical bills. When the jury found out that McDonald's knew their coffee was too hot, knew people were getting injured and figured the number of people getting third degree burns was acceptable, they stuck it to McDonald's.
If anything, this was a case that demonstrated why we need to be able to sue the shit out of a company when it deliberately harms people.
The devil is in the details.
This is one of the reasons I was furius when incurious, lying through his teeth George made his assertion that Iraq could make a "nucular" bomb in 6 months if they were able to obtain fissionable material. No shit? Any modern country could. Hell, I could. The hard part is refininng the fissionable material, not making the bomb.
But, the dumb ass congresscritters and the majority of the US bought it and our so called liberal media legitimized it by not pointing out such fallacies.
You could engineer the leaves so they turn to dust rather than simply die and fall off. This way you don't have to rake stuff up. Of course that could cause a breathing hazard so how about leaves that die and then dissolve when it rains?
I did something similar, but kind of the opposite. I live in Virginia and have for 15 years. I have a lot of family in Florida. So now with vonage I have a 904 area code. This way the locals have to pay long distance or use their cell phone to call me and my family doesn't have to pay long distance charges. Of course my grandmother and some other family members didn't use the number for the longest time. They kept thinking they wrote the number down wrong even though I explained to them several times that I now have a 904 number.
It's fun getting wrong number calls from Jacksonville.
What is even more confusing is when an actor plays another part in the same series. For example the woman who tortured Aeryn in Farscape ended up playing a good guy in the peacekeeper wars. I kept thinking, well I can see that it's the same bitch, what's going on here? It was a terrible distraction.