Any claims concerning the age of the universe are based on the flawed idea that we can extrapolate information on ages and distances from a relatively small sample.
Try estimating the population of the planet earth based on the population density of a small Nebraska town and you'll have some idea of what I am talking about.
Recorded history can be examined for clues concerning the passage of time. Unfortunately recorded history only amounts to about 6000 years so that really isn't much help.
The scientific age of the earth is only accurate if the underlying assumptions are accurate. We have no way of knowing whether or not they are.
They had a device like this in the old television show "Emergency". They talked into this little thing and a doctor's voice came out of it and gave them advice on what to do. The doctor and nurse at the other end then prepared the trauma center for their arrival.
Looks like they are expanding quite a bit on that idea though. Could be nice for certain rural areas.
While they are interpreted the same way by nearly all listeners I think it could be logically argued that most speakers intend "I couldn't care less".
The phrase is used to mean "I do not care" so "I could care less" seems to translate logically to "I do care some actually".
I do wonder why "You never looked lovelier" is considered a compliment while the logical equivalent "At all times prior to now you were uglier" seems to be taken negatively.
It was revealed today that some terrorists had conversations in a private home, highlighting the near impossibility of monitoring everyone's communications at all times.
George Tenet could just as easily have noted how we do not yet know everything that everyone is thinking and we have not figured out how to prevent crimes by monitoring individual's brain waves for possible "dangerous" ideas. If we had this equipment we could eliminate all crime and free thought. Think of how secure we would be then.
Certainly in a free country having free unmonitored conversations isn't such a terrible thing. It isn't fair to just say the magic word "terrorists" and use that as an excuse to remove all privacy and freedoms.
While it was Riker that got married to Troi and to Deanna, you are correct that Wil was there. In the deleted scenes I think he either talks or you just get a better view of him.
I was one of those that sincerely enjoyed the Wesley character. The appeal of the show for me centered more around the characters of Data, Geordi, Dr Crusher, and the Picard but Wesley had some great stories as well.
I wouldn't say I looked up to him but I did identify with him as a young person in an adult world with capabilities that are untapped simply because of being young.
If I had the parts I would certainly build my own repulsor beam from the "My First Tractor Beam" construction set or some of the other experiments that Wesley managed to do.
My favorite Wesley episode is probably the one where he gets into trouble at the academy. I think I would have enjoyed a spinoff featuring Wesley at the academy or something like that.
My point is that the incredible accuracy of atomic clocks is defined rather than measured. They are so accurate because they are defined as being so accurate.
When differences are found comparing to other time measuring methods the other methods are assumed to be inaccurate because atomic clocks are so incredibly accurate.
You could never measure fluctuations in the timing of atomic clocks because they are already assumed to never fluctuate so the measured fluctuation is assumed to be a fluctuation of whatever you compared it to.
The official measures of time are the earth's rotation and the earth's trip around the sun. Atomic clocks can't seem to match this. They are off by a full second some years.
So I ask you, how can you tell how accurate a clock is when there is not a more accurate clock to measure against? and 2, how can you claim a clock is accurate when it can't even keep time compared to the official time keeping method of the earth?
Windows ocassionally removes functionality and changes licenses during their updates while open source software generally only adds functionality and keeps licenses either the same or very close.
Perhaps Gentoo is less mature that some other distros. I don't know. I do know that after updating I often have to troubleshoot some annoying little problem that occured. I like Gentoo a lot so I am willing to put up with those annoyances but I'm not ready to install it on my parent's computer and I am not ready to configure it to update automatically.
Now you understand. Our patent system doesn't require you to invent anything. Only to think of something. If thinking of things made you an inventor I would be a pretty serious inventor. (I still think that the line painted in the street to show you if you are too close to the intersection to stop if the light is yellow is a good idea.)
The current trend is to take obvious ideas and add the phrase "on the internet" and boom, new invention.
Old Idea. "I want to buy something" New Idea. "I want to buy something on the internet"
Old Idea. "I want to auction something" New Idea. "I want to auction something on the internet"
Old Idea. "You can find things with a table of contents" New Idea. "You can find things with a table of contents on my web site, which is on the internet"
I just question that jail/prison is an appropriate punishment. It isn't that I feel prison is too harsh. It is just that it is very expensive (to the taxpayer) and it keeps criminals in the company of other criminals, which I feel is not an environment conducive to learning to act in a non-criminal manner.
Of course I haven't come up with a fitting alternative. Fines can not be administered fairly to criminals in different financial tiers and public flogging is generally not approved of.
Side note: after thinking about it, I don't like the idea of taking away a felon's voting rights. Suppose that eating were made a felony. The fix for something that stupid would be to vote the jokers that passed it out of office. But no one could vote them out of office since they would all be felons.
Best Buy chose to compete on price and to implement policies that attract bargain hunters. I don't feel sorry for them if that isn't working well for them.
Instant rebates don't have the above problem as the proper price is noted on the receipt.
Mail-in rebates are just a scam anyway so that you can claim you are selling something at a lower price but a percentage of the buyers won't go to the trouble of mailing in the forms. Or if they do they will discover a hidden fine print such as "limit 1 per customer" after they purchased 2 or more of an item.
I purchase all my expensive appliances at a local store that has good prices and great customer service. If Best Buy has something super-cheap advertised I might go there to buy it so I am probably one of their "bad customers". I say if you don't want people to buy it for that price then don't sell it for that price.
And finally, regarding their customer profiling (referring to the article, not your comment), if you have to depend on their staff you are in trouble already. Your "electronics expert" making barely more than minimum wage will re-write all the laws of physics trying to sound like he knows what the different features are or how one is better than the other. You are better off doing your own research and picking your items before you go into the store.
I have not used any of them myself. I only discovered that low cost self-publishing was possible recently when iUniverse was mentioned in the paper. They are located in the same town as me and I thought the idea of self-publishing was a pretty neat idea.
iUniverse says your book will be listed on Amazon.com's web site and Barnes & Noble's web site. Those options appealed to me. I haven't reviewed Lulu or CafePress yet to see if they offer the same thing. Thanks for the links. I will check them out.
Since I discovered the possibility I have been trying to think up what interesting books I could write.
"If you get angry -- even at injustice and murder -- it will automatically and immediately transform you into an unalloyedly evil person!"
I have watched these scenes and thought about them some. It is possible the author never intended the depth I attribute to them but here goes.
The Emperor is lying. He wants Luke to join the dark side and a big part of that is convincing Luke that he has already gone over. If Luke believes he has already joined the dark side he will stop resisting and embrace it.
So, while hate and fear may make someone more susceptible to the dark side, it does not take away their power of choice. Anakin does not learn this until the very end when he sees Luke defeat the dark side in the battle of wills.
(and yes, that is very long. you should write a book)
What would work well for me is if they assigned version numbers to their click-through agreements like GNU does. If I downloaded Windows Service Pack 27 and it popped up MS User Agreement 4.7 and I had recently agreed to version 4.5 then I would only need to review the changes between agreement 4.5 and 4.7 and I could click comfortably.
As it currently stands they probably have legal rights to my firstborn and any proceeds from the sale of stock for Tahiti-based companies.
Voting for Bush or Kerry is throwing away your vote. Neither of them are fit to lead the country at this time. If you really want to make your vote count write in the person you believe should be president.
I am writing in Colin Powell. I believe him to be a good and honest man with the leadership skills and knowledge to lead. His extensive military experience give him the skills to effectively lead the military while he has shown himself to be a man of peace and diplomacy.
Yes. well it takes a bit longer. But when I was a kid every other kid I knew had a cassette copy of Bill Cosby's comedy and the Jerky Boys. I never once saw an original.
"thousands of other people" requires a pretty hefty internet connection, btw.
Besides, the ability to break the law is not the same as breaking the law. Millions of people have cars which are capable of being used as weapons or plenty of other interesting crimes.
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Any claims concerning the age of the universe are based on the flawed idea that we can extrapolate information on ages and distances from a relatively small sample.
Try estimating the population of the planet earth based on the population density of a small Nebraska town and you'll have some idea of what I am talking about.
Recorded history can be examined for clues concerning the passage of time. Unfortunately recorded history only amounts to about 6000 years so that really isn't much help.
The scientific age of the earth is only accurate if the underlying assumptions are accurate. We have no way of knowing whether or not they are.
Now if we could only reprogram his nose to grow if he told a lie.
They had a device like this in the old television show "Emergency". They talked into this little thing and a doctor's voice came out of it and gave them advice on what to do. The doctor and nurse at the other end then prepared the trauma center for their arrival.
Looks like they are expanding quite a bit on that idea though. Could be nice for certain rural areas.
Diesel does not have to be a fossil fuel. If my understanding is correct biodiesel may be used as a direct replacement for petroleum based diesel.
h p? id=3,0,0,1,0,0
It has temperature issues, turning solid at low temperatures so a mixture with petroleum based diesel can help keep it liquid at a colder temperature.
Find out more at http://www.soygold.com/biodiesel.htm
and
http://www.biodieselamerica.org/biosite/index.p
A pure biodiesel that can handle cold would be a nice breakthrough as would a nice low-cost biodiesel.
Because if we did that for him we would have to do that for other creators like people that make movies and music. Oh wait. We already do that.
(It was for than a "little" effort. He worked on it for years.)
While they are interpreted the same way by nearly all listeners I think it could be logically argued that most speakers intend "I couldn't care less".
The phrase is used to mean "I do not care" so "I could care less" seems to translate logically to "I do care some actually".
I do wonder why "You never looked lovelier" is considered a compliment while the logical equivalent "At all times prior to now you were uglier" seems to be taken negatively.
It was revealed today that some terrorists had conversations in a private home, highlighting the near impossibility of monitoring everyone's communications at all times.
George Tenet could just as easily have noted how we do not yet know everything that everyone is thinking and we have not figured out how to prevent crimes by monitoring individual's brain waves for possible "dangerous" ideas. If we had this equipment we could eliminate all crime and free thought. Think of how secure we would be then.
Certainly in a free country having free unmonitored conversations isn't such a terrible thing. It isn't fair to just say the magic word "terrorists" and use that as an excuse to remove all privacy and freedoms.
While it was Riker that got married to Troi and to Deanna, you are correct that Wil was there. In the deleted scenes I think he either talks or you just get a better view of him.
I was one of those that sincerely enjoyed the Wesley character. The appeal of the show for me centered more around the characters of Data, Geordi, Dr Crusher, and the Picard but Wesley had some great stories as well.
I wouldn't say I looked up to him but I did identify with him as a young person in an adult world with capabilities that are untapped simply because of being young.
If I had the parts I would certainly build my own repulsor beam from the "My First Tractor Beam" construction set or some of the other experiments that Wesley managed to do.
My favorite Wesley episode is probably the one where he gets into trouble at the academy. I think I would have enjoyed a spinoff featuring Wesley at the academy or something like that.
My point is that the incredible accuracy of atomic clocks is defined rather than measured. They are so accurate because they are defined as being so accurate.
When differences are found comparing to other time measuring methods the other methods are assumed to be inaccurate because atomic clocks are so incredibly accurate.
You could never measure fluctuations in the timing of atomic clocks because they are already assumed to never fluctuate so the measured fluctuation is assumed to be a fluctuation of whatever you compared it to.
The official measures of time are the earth's rotation and the earth's trip around the sun. Atomic clocks can't seem to match this. They are off by a full second some years.
So I ask you, how can you tell how accurate a clock is when there is not a more accurate clock to measure against? and 2, how can you claim a clock is accurate when it can't even keep time compared to the official time keeping method of the earth?
Windows ocassionally removes functionality and changes licenses during their updates while open source software generally only adds functionality and keeps licenses either the same or very close.
Perhaps Gentoo is less mature that some other distros. I don't know. I do know that after updating I often have to troubleshoot some annoying little problem that occured. I like Gentoo a lot so I am willing to put up with those annoyances but I'm not ready to install it on my parent's computer and I am not ready to configure it to update automatically.
Now you understand. Our patent system doesn't require you to invent anything. Only to think of something. If thinking of things made you an inventor I would be a pretty serious inventor. (I still think that the line painted in the street to show you if you are too close to the intersection to stop if the light is yellow is a good idea.)
The current trend is to take obvious ideas and add the phrase "on the internet" and boom, new invention.
Old Idea. "I want to buy something"
New Idea. "I want to buy something on the internet"
Old Idea. "I want to auction something"
New Idea. "I want to auction something on the internet"
Old Idea. "You can find things with a table of contents"
New Idea. "You can find things with a table of contents on my web site, which is on the internet"
I just question that jail/prison is an appropriate punishment. It isn't that I feel prison is too harsh. It is just that it is very expensive (to the taxpayer) and it keeps criminals in the company of other criminals, which I feel is not an environment conducive to learning to act in a non-criminal manner.
Of course I haven't come up with a fitting alternative. Fines can not be administered fairly to criminals in different financial tiers and public flogging is generally not approved of.
Side note: after thinking about it, I don't like the idea of taking away a felon's voting rights. Suppose that eating were made a felony. The fix for something that stupid would be to vote the jokers that passed it out of office. But no one could vote them out of office since they would all be felons.
Best Buy chose to compete on price and to implement policies that attract bargain hunters. I don't feel sorry for them if that isn't working well for them.
Instant rebates don't have the above problem as the proper price is noted on the receipt.
Mail-in rebates are just a scam anyway so that you can claim you are selling something at a lower price but a percentage of the buyers won't go to the trouble of mailing in the forms. Or if they do they will discover a hidden fine print such as "limit 1 per customer" after they purchased 2 or more of an item.
I purchase all my expensive appliances at a local store that has good prices and great customer service. If Best Buy has something super-cheap advertised I might go there to buy it so I am probably one of their "bad customers". I say if you don't want people to buy it for that price then don't sell it for that price.
And finally, regarding their customer profiling (referring to the article, not your comment), if you have to depend on their staff you are in trouble already. Your "electronics expert" making barely more than minimum wage will re-write all the laws of physics trying to sound like he knows what the different features are or how one is better than the other. You are better off doing your own research and picking your items before you go into the store.
To tell the truth I see plenty of people driving likes idiots, being a hazard to themselves and all ground-bound life forms in unmodified vehicles.
The article explains this. The monster referred to as GINO will be in the movie as "Zilla". and yes, Zilla and Godzilla will fight.
My financial advisor told me to invest in CDs.
Switching to blue screen mode works too.
I have not used any of them myself. I only discovered that low cost self-publishing was possible recently when iUniverse was mentioned in the paper. They are located in the same town as me and I thought the idea of self-publishing was a pretty neat idea.
iUniverse says your book will be listed on Amazon.com's web site and Barnes & Noble's web site. Those options appealed to me. I haven't reviewed Lulu or CafePress yet to see if they offer the same thing. Thanks for the links. I will check them out.
Since I discovered the possibility I have been trying to think up what interesting books I could write.
"If you get angry -- even at injustice and murder -- it will automatically and immediately transform you into an unalloyedly evil person!"
I have watched these scenes and thought about them some. It is possible the author never intended the depth I attribute to them but here goes.
The Emperor is lying. He wants Luke to join the dark side and a big part of that is convincing Luke that he has already gone over. If Luke believes he has already joined the dark side he will stop resisting and embrace it.
So, while hate and fear may make someone more susceptible to the dark side, it does not take away their power of choice. Anakin does not learn this until the very end when he sees Luke defeat the dark side in the battle of wills.
(and yes, that is very long. you should write a book)
Lawyers are like guns. If you are threatened by one you need to have a bigger one on your side.
What would work well for me is if they assigned version numbers to their click-through agreements like GNU does. If I downloaded Windows Service Pack 27 and it popped up MS User Agreement 4.7 and I had recently agreed to version 4.5 then I would only need to review the changes between agreement 4.5 and 4.7 and I could click comfortably.
As it currently stands they probably have legal rights to my firstborn and any proceeds from the sale of stock for Tahiti-based companies.
Voting for Bush or Kerry is throwing away your vote. Neither of them are fit to lead the country at this time. If you really want to make your vote count write in the person you believe should be president.
I am writing in Colin Powell. I believe him to be a good and honest man with the leadership skills and knowledge to lead. His extensive military experience give him the skills to effectively lead the military while he has shown himself to be a man of peace and diplomacy.
Yes. well it takes a bit longer.
But when I was a kid every other kid I knew had a cassette copy of Bill Cosby's comedy and the Jerky Boys. I never once saw an original.
"thousands of other people" requires a pretty hefty internet connection, btw.
Besides, the ability to break the law is not the same as breaking the law. Millions of people have cars which are capable of being used as weapons or plenty of other interesting crimes.