So when a climatologist tells me it's a critical piece of understanding the climate, I tend to believe them. I'm not a climatologist, are you?
I know BS when I hear it.
The reason why I believe this is important is because the vast majority of climatologists and other scientists in allied fields tell me so.
Science isn't about voting on truth or building 'consensus'
Why do I believe them? Because they went TO SCHOOL and STUDIED HARD and EARNED LOTS OF DEGREES that I was either unwilling or unable to do.
Why are folks like Roy Spencerattached and insulted for presenting a different view of the data? He studied hard, researched for years, examined the data, and he has very different conclusions.
What this means is if you have doubts about man-made global warming then you don't count because you aren't a climatologist. If you are a climatologist with doubts, then you are a tool of "Big Oil."
Even if I didn't know any of them personally, I put my trust in scientists as a profession: when you think of everything SCIENCE has given us; medical tech, aerospace, agriculture, nukes, yes even the computer you're using, they've got a pretty good record.
You know, I don't know if you're a right winger but I've noticed more and more of them suffering from COGNITIVE DISSONANCE as they find their most highly cherished held beliefs overthrown by the facts. Evolution? Well all Biologists must be wrong! The age of the earth being older than 6000 years? Well all Geologists, Astronomers and Physicists must be wrong! Global Warming? Climatologists, Oceanographers... Hell all of science must be wrong! They're all in cohoots to raise my taxes!
A wobble of less than 1 degrees can have serious climate impacts on Earth (the Sahara was once a jungle . ..) Wrong, the only things that can change earth's climate are SUV's and bottled water.
If Creationist are just a bunch of crack pot fundamentalist nuts, why do these scientist frequently seem preoccupied with creationist. FTFA:
Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists, notes Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. "The thing I like most is it says you can get these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events," he says. "That's just what creationists say can't happen."
We use plone for a small corporate intranet, but I find it to be pretty complicated and annoying. It doesn't support recurring events in its calendar function, and one module for recurring events is dead, and 'Dateable' is not functional and perhaps dead. I have to agree with the users. Adding 52 events for a weekly meeting is pretty painful. I am looking at drupal and joomla, but they aren't necessarily any better for resource scheduling and calendars.
Doing a photo gallery with Plone was just bad. It is just easier for my folks to send me the photos. Then I generate a gallery with picasa and link to that from plone.
And with plone it seems like it is always easier to just hand edit the html rather than use plone's edit functions. It sort of defeats the purpose. Plone is great for all the modules that are out there, and the built in search is pretty nice, but it has such a steep learning curve that I have to make most of the changes rather than letting the users help themselves.
Anybody care to share their experience with Joomla, Drupal, etc?
The Warmlist has already been updated with this new information.
The article is very light on details, but it is just today's 'Everybody panic' story about global warming (climate change, or whatever). He is full of it. He says it 'may' cause a drop in barley production in au in the next 30 years. Oh crap. As if droughts and floods never happened before the ICE.
Or conversely, alligators as a species have always had these antibiotics. This is what evolution says. Anything that is came about over a long period of time. There is no 'always' with evolution.
At least the FA got this part right:
Scientists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation...
however the statistics tend to suggest that overall AL (like much of the deep south) has a pretty unhealthy, uneducated and poor population. Which means the "War on Poverty" programs have been a huge success
Get over yourself. Calling Gitmo a "concentration camp" is nuts.
Read the SOP. They are issued Korans, pray related items, clothes, toothpaste etc., and get this 'Wet wipes'. WET WIPES!!! Let me know when prisoners are beaten, maimed, gases, burned, frozen, shot, or made to watch their children murdered.
Let's contrast this with these lovely freedom fighters, who for a little while were video taping a beheading-of the-week to be played all over the world. They murder innocent people by the thousands in the name of Allah. Lying to/about infidels is encouraged. SOP for detainees is to whine about mistreatment, torture, Koran mishandling, etc.
These are not US citizens; therefore, the Bill of Rights + Constitution do not apply. These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply. But we treat them far better than any other military would treat them.
Evolution requires a non chicken to lay a chicken egg. We have not observed this event. Therefore, Evolution is not science.
Science is about observation, forming a hypothesis, and running experiments to test that hypothesis. Evolution is about observation, forming a hypothesis, and then writing textbooks.
They're also unlikely to become as ubiquitous as humans, since most of the world doesn't have acacia trees for them to graze on (acacia trees that not many other creatures can graze on, because the food is too high up - hence the evolution of the giraffe as a specialist acacia feeder).
Horse poo. Think about it.
First animal: "Hey! look at those yummy acacia leaves. Too bad they are like 15 feet up there". Next Generation: "Still looks yummy, too bad it is still 15 feet up there." Next Generation: "Hey! Now I am getting closer! Still can't get any acacia yet!" Next Generation: "only 8 feet more to got!!!" NG... NG... NG... Giraffe: "Mmm... yummy Acacia."
A slightly taller horse/(giraffe ancestor?) would have no special advantage unless they became 15 feet tall in one generation. And if that happened, their head would explode the first time they leaned down for a drink of water without the special valves in their veins. Don't forget to 'evolve' those while you are getting taller.
Perhaps because former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's son, Dare, works at Microsoft.
Dare is a nice guy, very smart, and he is even a (former?) slashdotter; however, he has been at Microsoft for like 4 years now. Maybe he has finally assimilated.
Huge content, daily updates, impeccable credentials - yeah, who'd imagine THAT could draw significant pageviews? I can't wait to ready all that high quality work from Jayson Blair.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it keep logs?
What would one of these things cost? I'm sure there are a ton of options, but what neighborhood are we talking? $1k, $10k, etc.?
So when a climatologist tells me it's a critical piece of understanding the climate, I tend to believe them. I'm not a climatologist, are you?
I know BS when I hear it.
The reason why I believe this is important is because the vast majority of climatologists and other scientists in allied fields tell me so.
Science isn't about voting on truth or building 'consensus'
Why do I believe them? Because they went TO SCHOOL and STUDIED HARD and EARNED LOTS OF DEGREES that I was either unwilling or unable to do.
Why are folks like Roy Spencerattached and insulted for presenting a different view of the data? He studied hard, researched for years, examined the data, and he has very different conclusions.
What this means is if you have doubts about man-made global warming then you don't count because you aren't a climatologist. If you are a climatologist with doubts, then you are a tool of "Big Oil."
Even if I didn't know any of them personally, I put my trust in scientists as a profession: when you think of everything SCIENCE has given us; medical tech, aerospace, agriculture, nukes, yes even the computer you're using, they've got a pretty good record.
You know, I don't know if you're a right winger but I've noticed more and more of them suffering from COGNITIVE DISSONANCE as they find their most highly cherished held beliefs overthrown by the facts. Evolution? Well all Biologists must be wrong! The age of the earth being older than 6000 years? Well all Geologists, Astronomers and Physicists must be wrong! Global Warming? Climatologists, Oceanographers... Hell all of science must be wrong! They're all in cohoots to raise my taxes!
Not relevant.
You have your chance to ask now. And you will definitely have your chance in the future.
We use plone for a small corporate intranet, but I find it to be pretty complicated and annoying. It doesn't support recurring events in its calendar function, and one module for recurring events is dead, and 'Dateable' is not functional and perhaps dead. I have to agree with the users. Adding 52 events for a weekly meeting is pretty painful. I am looking at drupal and joomla, but they aren't necessarily any better for resource scheduling and calendars.
Doing a photo gallery with Plone was just bad. It is just easier for my folks to send me the photos. Then I generate a gallery with picasa and link to that from plone.
And with plone it seems like it is always easier to just hand edit the html rather than use plone's edit functions. It sort of defeats the purpose. Plone is great for all the modules that are out there, and the built in search is pretty nice, but it has such a steep learning curve that I have to make most of the changes rather than letting the users help themselves.
Anybody care to share their experience with Joomla, Drupal, etc?
They have created The Iron Giant!
Maybe they could combine it CMU's Snake robot, so the snake can reassemble itself when it falls out of a tree.
The Warmlist has already been updated with this new information.
The article is very light on details, but it is just today's 'Everybody panic' story about global warming (climate change, or whatever). He is full of it. He says it 'may' cause a drop in barley production in au in the next 30 years. Oh crap. As if droughts and floods never happened before the ICE.
At least the FA got this part right: Scientists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation...
Or he runs a mainframe.
Not to mention the potential benefit of reusing the metal foil for headgear.
Thanks for the tip, James. Or should we call you Sean?
Current cloning technique requires a living female of the species to be cloned.
Of course, studies completed by major Colleges and Universities would be fine despite the fact that they are basically liberal think-tanks.
Get over yourself. Calling Gitmo a "concentration camp" is nuts.
Read the SOP. They are issued Korans, pray related items, clothes, toothpaste etc., and get this 'Wet wipes'. WET WIPES!!! Let me know when prisoners are beaten, maimed, gases, burned, frozen, shot, or made to watch their children murdered.
Let's contrast this with these lovely freedom fighters, who for a little while were video taping a beheading-of the-week to be played all over the world. They murder innocent people by the thousands in the name of Allah. Lying to/about infidels is encouraged. SOP for detainees is to whine about mistreatment, torture, Koran mishandling, etc.
These are not US citizens; therefore, the Bill of Rights + Constitution do not apply. These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply. But we treat them far better than any other military would treat them.
I guess Carlos can afford to hand out these $200 laptops.
Open source?
The MP3 player doesn't seem to support ogg.
Evolution requires a non chicken to lay a chicken egg.
We have not observed this event.
Therefore, Evolution is not science.
Science is about observation, forming a hypothesis, and running experiments to test that hypothesis.
Evolution is about observation, forming a hypothesis, and then writing textbooks.
Horse poo. Think about it.
First animal: "Hey! look at those yummy acacia leaves. Too bad they are like 15 feet up there".
Next Generation: "Still looks yummy, too bad it is still 15 feet up there."
Next Generation: "Hey! Now I am getting closer! Still can't get any acacia yet!"
Next Generation: "only 8 feet more to got!!!"
NG...
NG...
NG...
Giraffe: "Mmm... yummy Acacia."
A slightly taller horse/(giraffe ancestor?) would have no special advantage unless they became 15 feet tall in one generation. And if that happened, their head would explode the first time they leaned down for a drink of water without the special valves in their veins. Don't forget to 'evolve' those while you are getting taller.
Perhaps because former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's son, Dare, works at Microsoft.
Dare is a nice guy, very smart, and he is even a (former?) slashdotter; however, he has been at Microsoft for like 4 years now. Maybe he has finally assimilated.
Might be a good time to buy P&G and Kimberly Clark.
So... Second Life is just VRML from like 10 years ago?