Answers in Genesis ain't the best source for critiquing radiocarbon dating. See, for instance, this critique of some of the research of Steve Austin, who AIG quotes.
The thing is, radioisotope dating for a sample will be invalid if the sample is bad. This is pretty well know. Austin likes to pick bad samples and then claim the whole system is bad.
To make a lame analogy, let's say you're trying to find the average weight of an egg. Austin comes in, sees that you've broken a few, and tells you that your scale doesn't work because the broken eggs weigh less than the whole eggs. Well, yes. The broken eggs are bad samples--half is on the floor.
That'd be common (insert appropriate reptilian pre-dinosaur family here) ancestor, since the evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of dinosaurs and mammals came well before there were dinosaurs.
I wouldn't bother using these lines on a police officer when they've pulled you over, but it's worth trying the line about calibrating the radar gun in court.
I shared an office with a guy who got out of a speeding ticket with this line of thinking. At the time we were both QA auditors and he was pretty good (much better than I was, to tell the truth, which is why I haven't done that in 8 years).
It's called an editorial. An editorial is in fact an opinion piece. They are often written by journalists, and are included with all forms of journalism. However, they may also be written by editors, politicians, and others.
This particular article is even marked as such (see the word "Comment" in big red letters about the author's name). If not, it should have been obvious to all but the most clueless by the end of the first paragraph--or the summary of the article on Slashdot.
And yes, they are often quite biased because the author is trying to convince you of something.
You're making the assumption that Joe or Jane Blow can actually find the damn thing. I have one for my laptop, which I plan to use when I turn the thing into my employer when either I quir or the lease expires and I get issued another one.
So what if China is a one-party state run by something that calls itself the Communist Party of China? That's only a name. They've made some pretty drastic moves to a free market economy.
China still remains, as I said, "corrupt, oppressive dictatorship and a police state." That is not unique to communism. There are plenty of one party states that don't happen to be communist. Look at, for example, Singapore.
Now, if you wanted to argue with me, you could either argue that a one-party state is unique to communism, or that China is not really moving to a free market economy.
By running what is largely a capitalist economy, China loses its
claim to being a communist society. There are certainly large elements
of it left (particularly in the countryside), but what's left often
isn't that much different from the elements of the welfare state found
in places like Sweden or Singapore.
Now if you want to complain about China being a corrupt, oppressive
dictatorship and a police state, go ahead. That happens to be true. But
those are qualities found in many non-communist states.
You asked how "capitalistic" China is. Having just spent a couple of
weeks in Beijing, I can tell you that it really has become highly
capitalistic. China is booming. There is construction and industry
everywhere. They're tearing down large parts of old Beijing and putting
up skyscrapers and luxury condos. It's not that difficult to start up
a business; you just need the capital.
The Chinese people actually appear to have a fair amount of freedom--as
long as they don't oppose the government (and God help them if they
do). Which is also true in many US non-communist allies.
My advice is to go to China and find out what you're complaining about.
Tell me about it. I bought the damn game, then my motherboard goes out.
So, since the old one was getting pretty old anyway, I decide to go all out and upgrade the CPU, too. By the time I get around to deciding what to buy, it's a couple of weeks later.
Then I can't get it to work, so I open an RMA with AMD. AMD has me ship the CPU to them, they test it, tell me it's fine, and that my motherboard is probably hosed. Oh, and that they're shipping it back to me.
Great. I get an RMA on the motherboard, and head off to Beijing for two weeks on vacation.
When I get back I've got the motherboard, but no CPU. I can't get any info on my RMA from AMD's site, but they tell me it's on the way.
Fine. I'm pretty busy with work, so I wait a couple more weeks before calling again. Turns out they've sent my CPU to a G. von Guido in Florida. Unfortunately, I don't live in Florida.
After a few days, they send me a better CPU, which works in the new motherboard on the first try. I can't get my DVD-ROM drive to play the media at all, but that's another matter.
What's that? You were talking about installing the game itself? Oh, never mind.
I shouldn't tell you about all the fun I had last week with a cheap RAID controller. One of the disks went bad, and rather than just marking it bad the RAID controller flaked out and crashed the server.
It turned out that after rebooting their database was horribly corrupt and I had to restore it from tape.
It turns out, though, that the customer was relying entirely on filesystem backups, so it was a minor miracle we were able to get their database running again (which has now been fixed).
I think the RAID controller is going bad, but it's been well-behaved since then (for whatever that's worth).
It sounds like he/she/them/it has uninstalled iTunes. I suspect it does some dependency checking, and iTunes just happens to fulfill some stupid dependency.
Most likely this is some idiotic setting in the default update settings (although it take some digging to find it).
What I'm getting from this is that you should have a reasonable policy and you should follow it. If you don't follow it and delete potentially incriminating email before your policy dictates that you should, well, that could cause legal problems.
If your company has a post-it note retention policy, then yes, you should keep the damn things. If not, no.
This assumes that other regulations/laws don't apply.
Don't all remotely popular certification exams wind up on the net eventually? That has more to do with how often they change exam questions than anything else.
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If you need to pass an exam and you already have a reasonably good grasp of the material, these books are great. They tend to be focused on the material covered by the exam and review that material pretty well.
They're not ideal if you're learning the material for the first time.
Coming up with "their own flawed studies" is a creationist tactic that has evolved since it was pointed out in one of those trials in the eighties that creationists didn't actually do any research.
The problem with attempting to do research is that it makes the goalposts harder to move. Not that they won't try!
WTF are you talking about? It's well established that the Niger-Iraq documents were forged.
For example, see this Fox story about the White House admitting that the Niger claims were based on forged documents.
This New Yorker article discusses it in more detail. For instance, one of the forged documents was signed in 2000 by an official who had been out of office since 1989.
While I'm agreed with the general statement, I'm not sure it's of any real value. Where is this flawless source code? Based on recent experiences with Cisco code, Cisco certainly doesn't have it.
I don't meant to single out Cisco. Look at the history of openssh, and I think the OpenBSD folks write high-quality, security-conscious code.
Gun season here (I'm in Wisconsin) is usually pretty short--a week or two. I admit I'm fuzzy on the details since I don't hunt deer (I usually hunt birds of one kind or another, and I'm not real serious about it).
Lately the whole damn thing has been screwed up by chronic wasting disease (similar to mad cow disease). The decision was made to essentially eradicate the affected deer population to prevent it from spreading. So gun season has been much longer.
It depends at least in part how they handle vacation. For instance, my employer allots two weeks (or whatever) at the beginning of the year. You can take it all then, and it doesn't carry over to the next year. As a result, they're not obligated to pay you anything for vacation when you leave.
The result, of course, is that anybody who's thinking of quitting takes all their vacation early in the year. Often they take it after they've given notice.
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The thing is, radioisotope dating for a sample will be invalid if the sample is bad. This is pretty well know. Austin likes to pick bad samples and then claim the whole system is bad.
To make a lame analogy, let's say you're trying to find the average weight of an egg. Austin comes in, sees that you've broken a few, and tells you that your scale doesn't work because the broken eggs weigh less than the whole eggs. Well, yes. The broken eggs are bad samples--half is on the floor.
That'd be common (insert appropriate reptilian pre-dinosaur family here) ancestor, since the evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of dinosaurs and mammals came well before there were dinosaurs.
Crap, no mod points. Excellent point!
I shared an office with a guy who got out of a speeding ticket with this line of thinking. At the time we were both QA auditors and he was pretty good (much better than I was, to tell the truth, which is why I haven't done that in 8 years).
This particular article is even marked as such (see the word "Comment" in big red letters about the author's name). If not, it should have been obvious to all but the most clueless by the end of the first paragraph--or the summary of the article on Slashdot.
And yes, they are often quite biased because the author is trying to convince you of something.
How the hell did this get modded "Insightful?"
But I can't find the damn restore CD either!
So what if China is a one-party state run by something that calls itself the Communist Party of China? That's only a name. They've made some pretty drastic moves to a free market economy.
China still remains, as I said, "corrupt, oppressive dictatorship and a police state." That is not unique to communism. There are plenty of one party states that don't happen to be communist. Look at, for example, Singapore.
Now, if you wanted to argue with me, you could either argue that a one-party state is unique to communism, or that China is not really moving to a free market economy.
At his income, it isn't going to make much of a difference.
Now if you want to complain about China being a corrupt, oppressive dictatorship and a police state, go ahead. That happens to be true. But those are qualities found in many non-communist states.
You asked how "capitalistic" China is. Having just spent a couple of weeks in Beijing, I can tell you that it really has become highly capitalistic. China is booming. There is construction and industry everywhere. They're tearing down large parts of old Beijing and putting up skyscrapers and luxury condos. It's not that difficult to start up a business; you just need the capital.
The Chinese people actually appear to have a fair amount of freedom--as long as they don't oppose the government (and God help them if they do). Which is also true in many US non-communist allies.
My advice is to go to China and find out what you're complaining about.
Tell me about it. I bought the damn game, then my motherboard goes out.
So, since the old one was getting pretty old anyway, I decide to go all out and upgrade the CPU, too. By the time I get around to deciding what to buy, it's a couple of weeks later.
Then I can't get it to work, so I open an RMA with AMD. AMD has me ship the CPU to them, they test it, tell me it's fine, and that my motherboard is probably hosed. Oh, and that they're shipping it back to me.
Great. I get an RMA on the motherboard, and head off to Beijing for two weeks on vacation.
When I get back I've got the motherboard, but no CPU. I can't get any info on my RMA from AMD's site, but they tell me it's on the way.
Fine. I'm pretty busy with work, so I wait a couple more weeks before calling again. Turns out they've sent my CPU to a G. von Guido in Florida. Unfortunately, I don't live in Florida.
After a few days, they send me a better CPU, which works in the new motherboard on the first try. I can't get my DVD-ROM drive to play the media at all, but that's another matter.
What's that? You were talking about installing the game itself? Oh, never mind.
It turned out that after rebooting their database was horribly corrupt and I had to restore it from tape.
It turns out, though, that the customer was relying entirely on filesystem backups, so it was a minor miracle we were able to get their database running again (which has now been fixed).
I think the RAID controller is going bad, but it's been well-behaved since then (for whatever that's worth).
Most likely this is some idiotic setting in the default update settings (although it take some digging to find it).
If your company has a post-it note retention policy, then yes, you should keep the damn things. If not, no.
This assumes that other regulations/laws don't apply.
He works for Microsoft! Duh!
The thing is, you usually really have to rub Wall Street's nose in it but good before they notice the down side to anything.
Don't all remotely popular certification exams wind up on the net eventually? That has more to do with how often they change exam questions than anything else.
They're not ideal if you're learning the material for the first time.
I've [cough cough] ruined two keyboards like this.
The problem with attempting to do research is that it makes the goalposts harder to move. Not that they won't try!
For example, see this Fox story about the White House admitting that the Niger claims were based on forged documents.
This New Yorker article discusses it in more detail. For instance, one of the forged documents was signed in 2000 by an official who had been out of office since 1989.
Read a little yourself.
Nothing dramatic, but we haven't been keeping track for that long.
If I recall correctly (and as you would expect) the book discusses using strict.
While I'm agreed with the general statement, I'm not sure it's of any real value. Where is this flawless source code? Based on recent experiences with Cisco code, Cisco certainly doesn't have it. I don't meant to single out Cisco. Look at the history of openssh, and I think the OpenBSD folks write high-quality, security-conscious code.
Lately the whole damn thing has been screwed up by chronic wasting disease (similar to mad cow disease). The decision was made to essentially eradicate the affected deer population to prevent it from spreading. So gun season has been much longer.
The result, of course, is that anybody who's thinking of quitting takes all their vacation early in the year. Often they take it after they've given notice.
However, it is a clear and well-stated policy.