To clarify my original post, I once read a book that advanced "evidence" that modern humans (not proto-humans of genus Homo or other) go back millions of years. You know, the deal about the "human footprint in the coal beds" kind of thing -- Creationists out of Western and Christian culture find such things to prove that that the coal beds are geologically young whereas the authors of this book were assuming the great geologic age and using that purported artifact to show that humans are truly ancient.
One of my points is that Fundamentalists are not the only game in town with respect to religion and the Evolution Controversy. As to attributing this book to the Hare Krishna movement, the forward to this book had Something-Something-Center for Krishna Consciousness. I took this organization to be speaking for whom we in the West call "the Hare Krishna's" rather than Hinduism in general.
I have the impression that the Hare Krishna movement does not speak for all Hindus and may even, in India, be regarded as something as an heretical sect. On the other hand, I kind of have the impression that Hinduism isn't as "uptight" about perceived heresy and deviationism as the three major Abrahamic Western religions. Correct me if I am wrong, but an observant Hindu would not be going around saying "Don't pay heed to those Hare Krishna people" but would not necessarily be endorsing everything they say. I also have the impression that the Hare Krishna movement comes out of the cultural context of Hinduism -- at least they base parts of their religion on Hindu scripture and religious culture?
I blew off applying mod point to this thread to post.
What is this business of "despising" Creationists regarding their delight about the absence of transitional intermediates? If one is pursuing a scientific course, who cares what everyone ranging from Fundamentalist Christians to the Hare Krishnas believe or say on the subject? And yes, the Hare Krishna movement has its own religiously inspired spin on Evolution -- I came across a book once that had some kind of desire to prove the modern human race (not just earlier Homo and Australopithicans) to go back millions of years to fit in with Hindu scriptures regarding recurrent cycles.
Purely from a scientific standpoint, the Cambrian explosion, abiogenesis, even the transition from Procaryote to Eucaryote forms still require a lot of 'splainin, and there is probably more to the Cambrian explosion than some mystery process of why fossils don't last longer than 600 million years, and there are intriguing interpretation of the Edicaran fossils has being primitive forms or a dead end where things started from fresh in the Cambrian. These are all legitimate and open questions, and if some people are going "See, see you Evolutionists are all wrong!", I mean, like who cares?
Journal pages or manuscript pages? Single-column publication form used in many math journals or the scrunched two-column format used by many engineering and science journals?
My fantasy is perhaps more modest. I would purchase a Powerball ticket, win a couple-hundred million dollar jackpot, and then make a telephone call to Gilbert Levin, sewage plant engineer, to see if that amount of swag could put a life-sciences package on the surface of Mars.
You see, the LR (labeled release) technique was developed by Levin to do assays on treatment plant effluent without having to streak plates, which doesn't work if the levels are too low. Levin's LR on the Mars Viking Lander gave a positive life signal according to pre-determined criteria, but folks said, "Nah! That can't be!" after the fact and blamed the signal on soil oxides, a hypothesis that hasn't been nailed down either.
Levin has been wanting to fly a follow-on "Chiral LR" experiment to follow up, but NASA says nothing doing and the British agreed but crumped their South Polar Lander on Mars.
What would happen is that Gilbert Levin would be awarded a Nobel Prize, and I would be remembered as the chump who gave up his Powerball jackpot.
For this to happen I would have to actually purchase one or Powerball tickets, which I haven't done, because lotteries are a scam and the jackpots are manipulated and hyped to get fools to part with their money.
I would like to see something that gets 50+ lumens per watt in a smaller size -- there are all kinds of applications, track lighting, accent lights, night lights where one could use a high-energy efficiency in a lower wattage lower lumens bulb.
The LEDs I have seen in the small sizes are just pi$$ weak. Compact fluorescents get less energy efficient in the smaller sizes, but I am thinking that since the big light bulbs have multiple LEDs, that you could get high efficiency at the low wattage end?
LEDs seem to have a directivity to them where they are more efficient as a spotlamp where a compact fluorescent has losses to the reflector whereas an LED seems to be less efficient as an area light, since it seems to want to throw its light in a cone anyway. One should play to the advantages of the particular tech.
This is from IBM, so it is intended for a laptop computer, right? The cathode may be ambient oxygen, but with the energy density involved, if I park this thing in the wrong place, I could burn by anode?
Um, m-f's are not women, they are guys, as in really bad-a$$ed dudes. I mean, a seriously morally depraved dude could have carnal knowledge with his mom, but why would a chick do that, or if she did, what would it mean. The ornery m-f's are the dice, not the casino babes. The dude talks to the dice, man.
That there was a concern about global cooling is right there in TFA.
The text of the article makes reference to "misconceptions regarding cooling" that were driven by "Northern Hemisphere effects up to 1970." The paper argues for Global Warming not Global Cooling, but there was enough of a buzz about Global Cooling back in the day that this paper gives it mention.
I was thinking the "other killer asteroid movie" with Billy Bob Thornton in it. Get it, Southern guy with 3 names? Neil deGrasse Tyson has 3 names? OK, Dr. Tyson is a black Northerner and Mr. Thornton is a white Southerner? Oh, heck, you are right, joke is way overused and no longer funny,
It seems to me that long before fusion achieves commercial break-even, it will be viable as a source of highly energetic neutrons.
Does this pose a proliferation risk in using such a reactor to breed large amounts of fissionable nuclii along with large amounts of tritium that can make fusion weapons more powerful?
On the flip side, does this present a solution to the nuclear waste problem, that with fusion as a neutron source we could transmute some of the substances that pose problems for long-term storage?
I always thought that owning a second place that you kept closed up for winter was a pain -- squatters, nosy neighbors, raccoon and squirrel damage, local meth addicts looking to take your stuff, trees falling down, water pipes freezing and bursting. And now this, meteorites! There is no end to the trouble!
I am basing this on the John Wayne-Kirk Douglas-Patricia Neal movie In Harm's Way along with Tom Clancy's Red October, so you know this is authoritative. And Star Trek The Wrath of Khan.
I was under the impression that a Navy Captain sometimes had to order one or more compartments sealed with sailors still inside. The idea is that you sacrifice some of your men to save the ship and the remaining crew. Do I have this wrong?
Diss Hillary Clinton, pal, and the rule of law is largely irrelevant.
You don't tug on Superman's cape, and you don't cross paths with the current Secretary of State, as a lot of other men as well as women besides Mr. Assange had found out. It may be terribly unjust what is happening to ol' Julian on account of the fun he had with some sista's in Sweden, but certain things are existential, such as the wrath of Secretary Clinton, and poor Mr. Assange is like, so clueless.
If the owners or operators of the resort campground had any degree of responsibility, culpability, or negligence in the accident that had happened there, I might agree with your reasoning. As far as I can tell, that a petrochemical company had a hazardous load on a tanker truck blow up on the road outside the resort has absolutely no correlation or comparison with the complicity of the German people, either active or silent, in the events you describe.
You are going to have to come up with a better argument in favor of Google, a commercial entitity, in reminding people about a tragedy of which another commercial entity was an innocent victim. Your snarky post has me siding with the folks in Spain.
OK, I have 512 M RAM with a 1.2 GHz PIII running XP. It is indeed "perfectly adequate" for everything from Web surfing to programming (I mainly use Eclipse) to dynamical simulations used in engineering research. The one thing I don't try to run on it are solid modeling packages such as SolidWorks or NX, for which I use the computer lab that is kept up to date with the latest and greatest.
It is not quite 1995 vintage; it was assembled from parts and I am thinking more Millenium vintage. From what I remember of dynamical simulation benchmarks, the latest-and-greatest is maybe a factor of 6 faster. Since the turn of the Millenium, speed increases seem to have stalled compared to the decade of the 90's when they were just roaring.
I thought there was an arrangement where if an artist published a song under the aegis of ASCAP or BMI that anyone was free to play that song, provided they payed the tithe to ASCAP or BMI to play songs in a public venue.
In other words, if the Gingrich Campaign is paid up with ASCAP, they can play Eye of the Tiger all they want, even if the writers of that song disagree vehemently with Mr. Gingrinch's politics. The writers could go their own and not deal with ASCAP, which I kind of doubt they did, and hence retain more control over their works, but then they are on their own and lack ASCAP's "muscle" in getting the tithe paid.
If the Gingrich people are not paid up with ASCAP or BMI, well, some lame capitalists they are and Mr. Gingrinch doesn't deserve to run for President on account of legal ignorance.
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One of my points is that Fundamentalists are not the only game in town with respect to religion and the Evolution Controversy. As to attributing this book to the Hare Krishna movement, the forward to this book had Something-Something-Center for Krishna Consciousness. I took this organization to be speaking for whom we in the West call "the Hare Krishna's" rather than Hinduism in general.
I have the impression that the Hare Krishna movement does not speak for all Hindus and may even, in India, be regarded as something as an heretical sect. On the other hand, I kind of have the impression that Hinduism isn't as "uptight" about perceived heresy and deviationism as the three major Abrahamic Western religions. Correct me if I am wrong, but an observant Hindu would not be going around saying "Don't pay heed to those Hare Krishna people" but would not necessarily be endorsing everything they say. I also have the impression that the Hare Krishna movement comes out of the cultural context of Hinduism -- at least they base parts of their religion on Hindu scripture and religious culture?
What is this business of "despising" Creationists regarding their delight about the absence of transitional intermediates? If one is pursuing a scientific course, who cares what everyone ranging from Fundamentalist Christians to the Hare Krishnas believe or say on the subject? And yes, the Hare Krishna movement has its own religiously inspired spin on Evolution -- I came across a book once that had some kind of desire to prove the modern human race (not just earlier Homo and Australopithicans) to go back millions of years to fit in with Hindu scriptures regarding recurrent cycles.
Purely from a scientific standpoint, the Cambrian explosion, abiogenesis, even the transition from Procaryote to Eucaryote forms still require a lot of 'splainin, and there is probably more to the Cambrian explosion than some mystery process of why fossils don't last longer than 600 million years, and there are intriguing interpretation of the Edicaran fossils has being primitive forms or a dead end where things started from fresh in the Cambrian. These are all legitimate and open questions, and if some people are going "See, see you Evolutionists are all wrong!", I mean, like who cares?
Journal pages or manuscript pages? Single-column publication form used in many math journals or the scrunched two-column format used by many engineering and science journals?
You see, the LR (labeled release) technique was developed by Levin to do assays on treatment plant effluent without having to streak plates, which doesn't work if the levels are too low. Levin's LR on the Mars Viking Lander gave a positive life signal according to pre-determined criteria, but folks said, "Nah! That can't be!" after the fact and blamed the signal on soil oxides, a hypothesis that hasn't been nailed down either.
Levin has been wanting to fly a follow-on "Chiral LR" experiment to follow up, but NASA says nothing doing and the British agreed but crumped their South Polar Lander on Mars.
What would happen is that Gilbert Levin would be awarded a Nobel Prize, and I would be remembered as the chump who gave up his Powerball jackpot.
For this to happen I would have to actually purchase one or Powerball tickets, which I haven't done, because lotteries are a scam and the jackpots are manipulated and hyped to get fools to part with their money.
Early adopter.
The LEDs I have seen in the small sizes are just pi$$ weak. Compact fluorescents get less energy efficient in the smaller sizes, but I am thinking that since the big light bulbs have multiple LEDs, that you could get high efficiency at the low wattage end?
LEDs seem to have a directivity to them where they are more efficient as a spotlamp where a compact fluorescent has losses to the reflector whereas an LED seems to be less efficient as an area light, since it seems to want to throw its light in a cone anyway. One should play to the advantages of the particular tech.
This is from IBM, so it is intended for a laptop computer, right? The cathode may be ambient oxygen, but with the energy density involved, if I park this thing in the wrong place, I could burn by anode?
Um, m-f's are not women, they are guys, as in really bad-a$$ed dudes. I mean, a seriously morally depraved dude could have carnal knowledge with his mom, but why would a chick do that, or if she did, what would it mean. The ornery m-f's are the dice, not the casino babes. The dude talks to the dice, man.
The text of the article makes reference to "misconceptions regarding cooling" that were driven by "Northern Hemisphere effects up to 1970." The paper argues for Global Warming not Global Cooling, but there was enough of a buzz about Global Cooling back in the day that this paper gives it mention.
So there.
I was thinking the "other killer asteroid movie" with Billy Bob Thornton in it. Get it, Southern guy with 3 names? Neil deGrasse Tyson has 3 names? OK, Dr. Tyson is a black Northerner and Mr. Thornton is a white Southerner? Oh, heck, you are right, joke is way overused and no longer funny,
We need this Southern guy with three names to come up with a plan to drill into the asteroid . . . never mind!
mmmm, a 5-year old laptop!
Does this pose a proliferation risk in using such a reactor to breed large amounts of fissionable nuclii along with large amounts of tritium that can make fusion weapons more powerful?
On the flip side, does this present a solution to the nuclear waste problem, that with fusion as a neutron source we could transmute some of the substances that pose problems for long-term storage?
This kind of think was already addressed in "The Great Gatsby."
I always thought that owning a second place that you kept closed up for winter was a pain -- squatters, nosy neighbors, raccoon and squirrel damage, local meth addicts looking to take your stuff, trees falling down, water pipes freezing and bursting. And now this, meteorites! There is no end to the trouble!
I was under the impression that a Navy Captain sometimes had to order one or more compartments sealed with sailors still inside. The idea is that you sacrifice some of your men to save the ship and the remaining crew. Do I have this wrong?
You don't tug on Superman's cape, and you don't cross paths with the current Secretary of State, as a lot of other men as well as women besides Mr. Assange had found out. It may be terribly unjust what is happening to ol' Julian on account of the fun he had with some sista's in Sweden, but certain things are existential, such as the wrath of Secretary Clinton, and poor Mr. Assange is like, so clueless.
You are going to have to come up with a better argument in favor of Google, a commercial entitity, in reminding people about a tragedy of which another commercial entity was an innocent victim. Your snarky post has me siding with the folks in Spain.
Yeah, but that is in Canadian Dollars . . . yeah? . . . oh? . . . never mind!
It is not quite 1995 vintage; it was assembled from parts and I am thinking more Millenium vintage. From what I remember of dynamical simulation benchmarks, the latest-and-greatest is maybe a factor of 6 faster. Since the turn of the Millenium, speed increases seem to have stalled compared to the decade of the 90's when they were just roaring.
I guess that principle goes back to the Pleistocene.
The ultra-sonic cleaner?
No, George Michael. Early George Michael. Wham. "Wake me up before you Go-Go." I am still cringing from the thought.
How is anyone in Germany able to purchase anything they need, anyway, without skipping work?
I am of Ausland-Slavic heritage, by the way, which gives me license to rag on Germans.
(Roman transliteration of inscription on the scroll of the Northwestern University seal, excerpted form John 1:14 in the Christian New Testament)
In other words, if the Gingrich Campaign is paid up with ASCAP, they can play Eye of the Tiger all they want, even if the writers of that song disagree vehemently with Mr. Gingrinch's politics. The writers could go their own and not deal with ASCAP, which I kind of doubt they did, and hence retain more control over their works, but then they are on their own and lack ASCAP's "muscle" in getting the tithe paid.
If the Gingrich people are not paid up with ASCAP or BMI, well, some lame capitalists they are and Mr. Gingrinch doesn't deserve to run for President on account of legal ignorance.