Evolution springs to mind. (I seem to recall at least one person being put on trial for teaching it, don't you?) Which is, as I said, similar in that it is also fought against viciously by another group. Which is why you get the strong support: the science community, under assault, are simply pushing back. And apparently, they're wrong to do so. What would you have them do, when their work and their very honesty is attacked?
Evolution is nothing like this. The science behind evolution has been shown over and over for a very long time, it's even the basis for many medical theories. This supposed 'consensus' that I hear about has existed for how long?
Climate research isn't really any different from any other area of science, except that there's a lot of money being thrown against it by various lobbying groups who don't like where it's pointing.
You mentioned about baseless claims... yet you just made one. What lobbying groups are fighting the IPCC report? All I ever see and hear in the media (with exception to Fox 'News') is that climate change is man made, end of story, no room for questions, the end, it's done.
I hate that kind of crap, can anyone here think of a single other scientific theory that is so adamantly fought for by a group of people?
There is NOTHING wrong with skepticism and questioning; if the science is good, it will hold up.
The only way to enforce these rules is with a lawsuit. I can't stand lawyers.
All I cared about at the time was godaddy not killing my business by suspending my site's domain. Once I successfully transferred my domain away, I just made it a point to never deal with godaddy again; that's all.
This was back in 2005, but lucky for me gmail archives everything.;)
Dear *******,
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It appears that the complaint we've received regard off-topic or unauthorized email advertisements. A copy of one of the offending advertisement has attached to this message.
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2. Authorization for GoDaddy.com to charge a $199 non-refundable administration fee* to the credit card on file for your account.
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Please be aware that Go Daddy will continue to monitor this situation. If after you commit to ceasing this activity it is determined that this problem persists, your domain name may be immediately redirected and your service suspended. We realize additional complaints resulting from the posts you have just committed to stop may come in and we will of course consider this, and contact you before taking action.
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When I refused both those options (since I had paid for a years worth of registration and didn't feel like paying any penalties, they told me they would change my dns info without my permission).
However, even *if* I was a spammer, what right does godaddy have to confiscate my domain? I didn't even have any hosting with them, I just had a domain registered. This is clearly against ICANN policy. Registrars are not arbiters who get to take your domain away because they feel like it.
I had a domain with Godaddy a few years ago when they breached ICANN's rules by threatening to confiscate my domain unless I paid them $200, because I had supposedly breached their TOS.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....
Beatport.com
100% flash, I don't mind it so much because it's basically a music player.. it would be hard to make a similar site without something like flash.
Don't you see, teachers get taught by other teachers! It's like photocopying a photocopy! Next thing you know, you're being taught by an artifact ridden black and white blob!
If your developers are noobs and can't use real languages and there just Object Oriented kids who can't work on memory and need to access everything through abstracted methods, then fire them and get in some embedded developer who know speed = good code and good languages.
Yeah, us assholes with +10 years experience developing web applications are just a bunch of "noobs" because we never needed to learn Assembler or C. Enjoy spending two weeks developing what would take me an hour.
If the law's bite was no more than the cost of purchase for what you get caught illegally "sharing", there would be no incentive for people to be honest and pay for their music.
Are you one of those people that only obeys the law for fear of punishment? Most people have this thing called a conscience.
Handwriting recognition technology/research is even further off than speech recognition. If it's included, it will surely be a stapled on feature and not something core to the product.
Someone want to remind me why I should trust the IPCC (or climate "science") again?
Because the IPCC's mandate is to prove the existence of global warming, which means they will only ever discover that it's happening, sounds very neutral and scientific, eh?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body[1][2] tasked with evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human activity.
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Evolution is nothing like this. The science behind evolution has been shown over and over for a very long time, it's even the basis for many medical theories. This supposed 'consensus' that I hear about has existed for how long?
You mentioned about baseless claims... yet you just made one. What lobbying groups are fighting the IPCC report? All I ever see and hear in the media (with exception to Fox 'News') is that climate change is man made, end of story, no room for questions, the end, it's done.
I hate that kind of crap, can anyone here think of a single other scientific theory that is so adamantly fought for by a group of people?
There is NOTHING wrong with skepticism and questioning; if the science is good, it will hold up.
The only way to enforce these rules is with a lawsuit. I can't stand lawyers.
All I cared about at the time was godaddy not killing my business by suspending my site's domain. Once I successfully transferred my domain away, I just made it a point to never deal with godaddy again; that's all.
This was back in 2005, but lucky for me gmail archives everything. ;)
When I refused both those options (since I had paid for a years worth of registration and didn't feel like paying any penalties, they told me they would change my dns info without my permission).
Someone (falsely) accused me of spamming.
However, even *if* I was a spammer, what right does godaddy have to confiscate my domain? I didn't even have any hosting with them, I just had a domain registered. This is clearly against ICANN policy. Registrars are not arbiters who get to take your domain away because they feel like it.
Not surprising at all.
I had a domain with Godaddy a few years ago when they breached ICANN's rules by threatening to confiscate my domain unless I paid them $200, because I had supposedly breached their TOS.
GoDaddy is not to be trusted.
Oh, well if YOU don't want the spam then clearly no one ever would and Apple is right to remove it.
You seem like the kinda person who'd fit in great here: http://www.reddit.com/r/shittyadvice
Actually, Stephen Colbert apparently has one.
You forgot the part about them taking one game and splitting it into 3 games so they can charge me 3x more..
Whew, the system works.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Well, it's nice to say that. In the short term, we would certainly benefit, long term.. well, that's ambiguous...
Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....
I guess auditing their code would be impossible, after all, they certainly don't do that for banks and casinos..
How about this: http://www.irreligion.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BL3Lo.gif I confirmed this was the case, and until a week ago, it was still like that. For a good month the Google suggest tool was being censored.
I'd much rather what they have now over a popup..
Beatport.com 100% flash, I don't mind it so much because it's basically a music player.. it would be hard to make a similar site without something like flash.
No one is forcing this guy to develop for the iPhone. He does develop for the iPhone, because iPhone apps make way more money than android apps.
Don't you see, teachers get taught by other teachers! It's like photocopying a photocopy! Next thing you know, you're being taught by an artifact ridden black and white blob!
Yeah, us assholes with +10 years experience developing web applications are just a bunch of "noobs" because we never needed to learn Assembler or C. Enjoy spending two weeks developing what would take me an hour.
Are you one of those people that only obeys the law for fear of punishment? Most people have this thing called a conscience.
Handwriting recognition technology/research is even further off than speech recognition. If it's included, it will surely be a stapled on feature and not something core to the product.
Because the IPCC's mandate is to prove the existence of global warming, which means they will only ever discover that it's happening, sounds very neutral and scientific, eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change
You just managed to make a recursive comment...