Quite. Back when the "martian meteorite" was in the news, the scientists released a cautious statement along the lines of "Well, we think that maybe the structures in the meteorite appear to bear a certain resemblence to those formed by bacteria on Earth, which, if this is the case suggests that maybe there might have been life on Mars in the past. Of course, we need to investigate a lot more."
The next day, the front page on The Sun shouted "LIFE ON MARS! IT'S OFFICIAL!!!"
Wasn't it a member of the Reagan administration who said that there was no need to worry about saving the environment as Jesus would return soon and set everything right?
I can't help worrying that Bush's advisors feel the same way...
This would not stop spam, as spammers use compromised PCs. It would be the innocent victim who is unknowingly hosting the spambot that suddenly gets the huge bill for the millions of spams his machine has sent.
I am not a physical chemist, but I would bet that 6000 C is past the disassociation temperature of combustion of whatever fuel and air, and you are not going to operate a gas turbine at 6000 C inlet temperature regardless of what miracle materials.
At Schipol airport (Amsterdam) the security guards buzz about on Segways. Single-level, flat areas with huge long corridors seem an ideal environment for them.
Debate is not the way to determine the truth of an issue. If the creationists have any good evidence that can stand up to scrutiny, let them publish it in reputable journals as all scientists do. Instead, they write books which are published by rich creationist organisations. This is not the way to do science.
There have actually been a number of debates between scientists and creationists, but the only thing the creationists do is attack evolution and make emotional appeals to the audience, they never, ever present any evidence for creationism. Because there is none.
Scientists realised long ago that debating creationists is playing into their hands, and making it appear that creationism is somehow deserving of the same attention as the theory of evolution, which it is not.
Why do spammers even bother to try to get around spam filters? If someone is actively blocking spam, it stands to reason that they are the least likely to buy any of your HerB0l Vi.aGra anyway, so what's the point in attempting to get into their inbox?
Isn't it equally as likely that the photos would be used to identify police officers to shower them with praise and commendations for a job well, done.
A while ago I was talking to my friend's step-son, who's about 11, and he was impressed by the amount of music I had on my iPod. He was surprised when I said I'd paid for it all as well.
The conversation went a bit like this: "Why did you pay for it? Why not just download it?" "Well, because that's stealing. I'd rather pay so that the artists I like get some money for the work they do, and stealing is wrong." "But it's not stealing, because it's free. How can you steal something that's free?" "It's only free because people illegally copied it and put on the net. You still end up with a product you should have paid for." "But it's FREE!"
As far as a lot of kids are concerned, if you can download it for free, what's the problem?
But even if Lucent were to win, isn't MPEG2 a software thing?
Kind of. It is possible to decode MPEG entirely in software (I know, I've done it) but it is a real nightmare. The only way to do it sensibly is to use hardware for lowest level of the decoding and colour conversion (and everything else, preferably). This is why most graphics cards have MPEG decoding built in.
Untangling the bitstream is horrible in software as well, as there are one or more interleaved audio/video streams which need to be stripped out, and each stream is made up of Huffman-encoded numbers of varying bit-sizes which cross byte boundaries, which involves much annoying bit-twiddling to make sense of. Untanging/unencoding/decompressing/converting all this is best left to hardware.
As to why I let myself in for that horror, I worked for a crazy person who wanted it.
ID is creationism, and all ID proponents are creationists who probably believe pretty much the same things as you do.
And yet I do believe that God created the universe and everything in it less than 10,000 years ago. Furthermore, I believe that the search for evidence supporting this hypothesis is scientific
Science, by definition, cannot include the supernatural simply because it is impossible to test for it. The search for a supernatural explanation can never be scientific. You may say "God created the world by supernatural means", but someone else may say "Millions of fairies from the 12th dimension created the world by supernatural means". How is it possible to test either of those?
Once you allow the supernatural in, anything can thought up as an "explanation" and science is broken.
Also, I recommend you have a read through the FAQs at www.talkorigins.org as they will likely address all your concerns about the age of the Earth, etc.
afaik the only difference between evolution and intelligent design is that intelligent design claims statistics is insufficient and a divine guiding hand was required
Absolutely incorrect, sorry. ID is nothing more than creationism, and invariably young-earth creationism at that. When pressed, IDers will tell you the usual creationist nonsense, like the Earth only being 6000 years old and even that the entire planet was flooded recently. The sole purpose of ID is to disguise creationism enough to try to get it into science classes, as they realise that evolution is a direct threat to their particular brand of Christianity.
It's enormously amusing listening to IDers being interviewed and squirming to avoid the question of who this "Designer" might be.
"Why yes, Jesus is my Personal Lord And Saviour, but as to who the Designer is... Oh, I couldn't possibly imagine!"
My coworkers and I think this is great news, and the excuse we need to finally buy Macs when we upgrade our computers.
I need to use Windows because I'm a programmer, and most of the work I do is often Windows based. I also play a lot of games which just aren't available on Mac.
If I have a dual-boot system I can start using it as a Mac all the time, and only boot into Windows for games and the work that needs it.
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The next day, the front page on The Sun shouted "LIFE ON MARS! IT'S OFFICIAL!!!"
Wasn't it a member of the Reagan administration who said that there was no need to worry about saving the environment as Jesus would return soon and set everything right?
I can't help worrying that Bush's advisors feel the same way...
There's no such things as memes. Tell all your friends.
This would not stop spam, as spammers use compromised PCs. It would be the innocent victim who is unknowingly hosting the spambot that suddenly gets the huge bill for the millions of spams his machine has sent.
What is this mysterious "outside" of what you speak?
Duh, haven't you heard of unobtainium?
They'll also change after they've played the vinyl three or four times and discovered the joys of scratches, hisses, dust and warped discs.
Insightful? Don't you know it's bad luck to be superstitious?
At Schipol airport (Amsterdam) the security guards buzz about on Segways. Single-level, flat areas with huge long corridors seem an ideal environment for them.
All these probes crashing into the moon probably explains why there are no whales there, reducing the whalers to working in the theme park.
Less energy than the vacuum?
Sounds like a job for my teenage son, at last!
Only because Microsoft haven't released a torrent client yet.
There is so much wrong with everything you said that you are either trolling or incredibly ignorant.
Debate is not the way to determine the truth of an issue. If the creationists have any good evidence that can stand up to scrutiny, let them publish it in reputable journals as all scientists do. Instead, they write books which are published by rich creationist organisations. This is not the way to do science.
There have actually been a number of debates between scientists and creationists, but the only thing the creationists do is attack evolution and make emotional appeals to the audience, they never, ever present any evidence for creationism. Because there is none.
Scientists realised long ago that debating creationists is playing into their hands, and making it appear that creationism is somehow deserving of the same attention as the theory of evolution, which it is not.
If you have evidence, publish it.
Why do spammers even bother to try to get around spam filters? If someone is actively blocking spam, it stands to reason that they are the least likely to buy any of your HerB0l Vi.aGra anyway, so what's the point in attempting to get into their inbox?
Oh my god, there are chemicals all around me! The terrorists have won!
Not any more...
They can also be used to pay the whalers.
Josh McDowell's has already been soundly refuted. Feel free to investigate for yourself : http://tinyurl.com/puhbe
A while ago I was talking to my friend's step-son, who's about 11, and he was impressed by the amount of music I had on my iPod. He was surprised when I said I'd paid for it all as well.
The conversation went a bit like this:
"Why did you pay for it? Why not just download it?"
"Well, because that's stealing. I'd rather pay so that the artists I like get some money for the work they do, and stealing is wrong."
"But it's not stealing, because it's free. How can you steal something that's free?"
"It's only free because people illegally copied it and put on the net. You still end up with a product you should have paid for."
"But it's FREE!"
As far as a lot of kids are concerned, if you can download it for free, what's the problem?
Kind of. It is possible to decode MPEG entirely in software (I know, I've done it) but it is a real nightmare. The only way to do it sensibly is to use hardware for lowest level of the decoding and colour conversion (and everything else, preferably). This is why most graphics cards have MPEG decoding built in.
Untangling the bitstream is horrible in software as well, as there are one or more interleaved audio/video streams which need to be stripped out, and each stream is made up of Huffman-encoded numbers of varying bit-sizes which cross byte boundaries, which involves much annoying bit-twiddling to make sense of. Untanging/unencoding/decompressing/converting all this is best left to hardware.
As to why I let myself in for that horror, I worked for a crazy person who wanted it.
And yet I do believe that God created the universe and everything in it less than 10,000 years ago. Furthermore, I believe that the search for evidence supporting this hypothesis is scientific
Science, by definition, cannot include the supernatural simply because it is impossible to test for it. The search for a supernatural explanation can never be scientific. You may say "God created the world by supernatural means", but someone else may say "Millions of fairies from the 12th dimension created the world by supernatural means". How is it possible to test either of those?
Once you allow the supernatural in, anything can thought up as an "explanation" and science is broken.
Also, I recommend you have a read through the FAQs at www.talkorigins.org as they will likely address all your concerns about the age of the Earth, etc.
Absolutely incorrect, sorry. ID is nothing more than creationism, and invariably young-earth creationism at that. When pressed, IDers will tell you the usual creationist nonsense, like the Earth only being 6000 years old and even that the entire planet was flooded recently. The sole purpose of ID is to disguise creationism enough to try to get it into science classes, as they realise that evolution is a direct threat to their particular brand of Christianity.
It's enormously amusing listening to IDers being interviewed and squirming to avoid the question of who this "Designer" might be. "Why yes, Jesus is my Personal Lord And Saviour, but as to who the Designer is... Oh, I couldn't possibly imagine!"
My coworkers and I think this is great news, and the excuse we need to finally buy Macs when we upgrade our computers. I need to use Windows because I'm a programmer, and most of the work I do is often Windows based. I also play a lot of games which just aren't available on Mac. If I have a dual-boot system I can start using it as a Mac all the time, and only boot into Windows for games and the work that needs it.
their's nothing too upset you're self about.