but there is one positive thing I can say about ID: it's thrown a spotlight onto the theory of evolution, and has stimulated many concerned people towards a more comprehensive understanding of the theory
One thing that ID proponents don't seem to realize is that they are playing with fire. They don't seem to realize that rationality is a bully, and if religious types bend at all in the face of it, then their followers might start to come up with some uncomfortable questions of their own, like "How do I know that it's not the priests who are eating the milk and cookies I leave out for God?"
God put all those fossils there just to test us.....:-)
But the Bible leads us to believe that God wouldn't do this. However, the sacred scriptures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster explicitly say that He does do this; therefore, FMSism is the one true religion.
Rather, you're thinking, "Holy shit, how am I supposed to draw her elbow in that position?", "Dammit! Why can't I get that shadow around her hip right?", "It would be nice if I didn't have to see her fingers in profile"
It sure would be a lot easier if there were some kind of machine that could capture all of these details for you automatically. What did you say your degree was in?
Xena is not a roman god or goddess, not even a small one like Luna, Nike or Pluto.
I think Xena and Buffy are prefectly fine names. The Roman-God names are just drawn from the fictional mythology of the era in which many of the planets were discovered. I think the silliness that we may associate with Xena and Buffy is merely the same silliness and unimaginitiveness that many medical terms would have if we translate them literally into English.
Also, the discoverers wanted to use a name that started with 'X' to point out that they discovered 'Planet X'.
Yes, it appears sensational to say that a 'planet' appeared to be 1.5 pixels (100 exclamation marks)
Take a pill. Scientists are probably familiar with the parameters of the hubble telescope and the details of translating between pixels and angles and meters at a distance are probably irrelevant to the subject the article.
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry
the U.S. government struggled with malware infestations on more than 2,000 client machines. 'In that case, it was so severe that trying to recover was meaningless.
Whereas, if they had been using thin clients with no local storage, the only recovery action would have been on the server. And if they had been running non-Windows on the server, they wouldn't have had these infestations in the first place. A full-blown Windows PC on every desktop in an enterprise is just an expensive welfare program for MCSE types.
So, only tin pot dictators start unnecessary wars? Globalization is the only way to cure hunger?
If you want to parse what I said, in your rephrasing, you are confusing 'necessary' and 'sufficient' logical conditions, so the statements are not the same. There would be no wars if there were no tinpot dictators. First-world democracies do not go to war against each other.
However, the second statement I would argue is both necessary and sufficient (in the absence of embezzling dictators)--the only credible means to end world hunger is through globalization. Handouts will never end world hunger. I'm sure lefty types have zillions of other non-credible means.
I leave it as an exercise for you "far-right types" to pick up a newspaper and prove it.
I'm not a far-right type. They are just as dogmatic as far-left types. "There is no problem that can't be solved with more guns and more Jesus" vs. "There is no problem that can't be solved by giving more handouts to genocidal dictatorships".
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year to put off introducing a new ".xxx" domain for pornography on the internet.
This reminds me of far-left types who demand world peace and the end to world hunger but vehemently object to the only credible means of achieving either. War isn't going away without the removal of all tinpot dictators; hunger isn't going away without pervasive globalization of all commodity production and the removal of all tinpot dictators; and Internet porn isn't going away without the marshalling of all material into a single TLD and the eradication of all human males.
I've seen studies that claim exercise, jogging, gambling, video games, food, sex, etc. are all "addicting".
I'm currently fighting a DHMO addiction. Every time I think I'm getting close to kicking the habbit, I relapse, just like our corporate overlords want!
the bible also doesn't say that Jesus pissed or crapped. Are we then to assume that Jesus never did those things and we shouldn't either?
Well, I have no trouble believing that religious people never crap. In fact, this theory explains quite a lot.
the bible is not complete. Do a little research into how the New Testement was created.
Hey, I can assure you first-hand that committees are infallible. And this particular one even had a majority vote that Jesus was divine. You can't beat the majority vote of a committee of indoctrinated cult members!
The short, superficial answer is: yes, because we won.
The invasion was, as advertised, a very successful 21st century Blitzkrieg. The objective of a Blitzkrieg is to bypass and isolate pockets of resistance while making a dash for the capital city. The major danger of the strategy is that of outrunning your supply lines and leaving them relatively unprotected. Saddam's regime was toppled in only three weeks and most of his military didn't even fight.
However, as you indicated, the occupation was poorly planned, undermanned, and IMHO, ended far too soon. (Iraq is a soverign country with a democratically elected government (of thoroughly corrupt officials)). Bush needed to double- or triple-down as the jihadists gained momentum, but he didn't want to and the ankle-biters back home wouldn't have allowed him to anyway.
But the question is, did we win because the U.S. military is so much better than the Iraqi military, or because Saddam did some incredibly stupid things?
One of the reasons Saddam didn't sabotage his own country is that he expected his buddies France and Russia to prevent an invasion.
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All the Ice melting off Greenland might suck if you live in Venice, New Orleans
Are you sure that three degrees is going to do accomplish this?
But, if you are rebuilding in New Orleans, then you *deserve* to lose everything.
but they still won't admit macroevolution until you can turn the bacteria into a puppy before their eyes.
I think you're giving them too much credit.
Science doesn't have a specifically anti-Christian bias.
The true problem is that reality has an anti-Christian bias. There's not much that can be done about that.
but there is one positive thing I can say about ID: it's thrown a spotlight onto the theory of evolution, and has stimulated many concerned people towards a more comprehensive understanding of the theory
One thing that ID proponents don't seem to realize is that they are playing with fire. They don't seem to realize that rationality is a bully, and if religious types bend at all in the face of it, then their followers might start to come up with some uncomfortable questions of their own, like "How do I know that it's not the priests who are eating the milk and cookies I leave out for God?"
God put all those fossils there just to test us..... :-)
But the Bible leads us to believe that God wouldn't do this. However, the sacred scriptures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster explicitly say that He does do this; therefore, FMSism is the one true religion.
Rather, you're thinking, "Holy shit, how am I supposed to draw her elbow in that position?", "Dammit! Why can't I get that shadow around her hip right?", "It would be nice if I didn't have to see her fingers in profile"
It sure would be a lot easier if there were some kind of machine that could capture all of these details for you automatically. What did you say your degree was in?
Still I like my planet the temperature it is now, not severely hotter or colder.
Being a resident of inland Canada, I ask the global community to keep polluting! Milder winters, earlier spring, it's not so bad.
Xena is not a roman god or goddess, not even a small one like Luna, Nike or Pluto.
I think Xena and Buffy are prefectly fine names. The Roman-God names are just drawn from the fictional mythology of the era in which many of the planets were discovered. I think the silliness that we may associate with Xena and Buffy is merely the same silliness and unimaginitiveness that many medical terms would have if we translate them literally into English.
Also, the discoverers wanted to use a name that started with 'X' to point out that they discovered 'Planet X'.
Yes, it appears sensational to say that a 'planet' appeared to be 1.5 pixels (100 exclamation marks)
Take a pill. Scientists are probably familiar with the parameters of the hubble telescope and the details of translating between pixels and angles and meters at a distance are probably irrelevant to the subject the article.
50000000000000 mHz = 50 MHz.
50000000000000 mHz = 50,000,000,000,000 mHz = 50,000,000,000 Hz = 50,000,000 kHz = 50,000 MHz = 50 GHz. The grandparent used too many zeros.
so I can mod you "+1, I'm one of the six people in here who got that."
Fortunately, the other five had mod points.
The correct answer is: 50000000000000 - 70000000000000 mHz.
50-70 GHz? When will they be releasing thier supercomputers?
Fry: "This snow is beautiful! I'm glad global warming never happened."
Leela: "Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter canceled it out."
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry
the U.S. government struggled with malware infestations on more than 2,000 client machines. 'In that case, it was so severe that trying to recover was meaningless.
Whereas, if they had been using thin clients with no local storage, the only recovery action would have been on the server. And if they had been running non-Windows on the server, they wouldn't have had these infestations in the first place. A full-blown Windows PC on every desktop in an enterprise is just an expensive welfare program for MCSE types.
So, only tin pot dictators start unnecessary wars? Globalization is the only way to cure hunger?
If you want to parse what I said, in your rephrasing, you are confusing 'necessary' and 'sufficient' logical conditions, so the statements are not the same. There would be no wars if there were no tinpot dictators. First-world democracies do not go to war against each other.
However, the second statement I would argue is both necessary and sufficient (in the absence of embezzling dictators)--the only credible means to end world hunger is through globalization. Handouts will never end world hunger. I'm sure lefty types have zillions of other non-credible means.
I leave it as an exercise for you "far-right types" to pick up a newspaper and prove it.
I'm not a far-right type. They are just as dogmatic as far-left types. "There is no problem that can't be solved with more guns and more Jesus" vs. "There is no problem that can't be solved by giving more handouts to genocidal dictatorships".
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year to put off introducing a new ".xxx" domain for pornography on the internet.
This reminds me of far-left types who demand world peace and the end to world hunger but vehemently object to the only credible means of achieving either. War isn't going away without the removal of all tinpot dictators; hunger isn't going away without pervasive globalization of all commodity production and the removal of all tinpot dictators; and Internet porn isn't going away without the marshalling of all material into a single TLD and the eradication of all human males.
I bet your increased risk of getting hit by a bus because you're talking on your stupid phone instead of paying attention is more significant.
The people who died in this way were unavailable to participate in the study.
If there ever were any women here, they're definitely gone now.
Actually, I like, totally LOVE it! Pink is the new green. Like, welcome to 2006...HELLO!
I am unable to parse your message. Could you rephrase it using "OMG!!!", "LOL!!!", and/or "Ponies!!!"?
I've seen studies that claim exercise, jogging, gambling, video games, food, sex, etc. are all "addicting".
I'm currently fighting a DHMO addiction. Every time I think I'm getting close to kicking the habbit, I relapse, just like our corporate overlords want!
It's a popular modern quirk to consider ones time so unique and so different from any other time
That's not a modern quirk at all. To state this is to consider our time so unique and so different from any other time.
the bible also doesn't say that Jesus pissed or crapped. Are we then to assume that Jesus never did those things and we shouldn't either?
Well, I have no trouble believing that religious people never crap. In fact, this theory explains quite a lot.
the bible is not complete. Do a little research into how the New Testement was created.
Hey, I can assure you first-hand that committees are infallible. And this particular one even had a majority vote that Jesus was divine. You can't beat the majority vote of a committee of indoctrinated cult members!
how many PhDs were awarded in 2004 for Arabic? 10,000? 1,000? No - 6.
I suspect that there are more than six people in the US who are fluent in Arabic.
The short, superficial answer is: yes, because we won.
The invasion was, as advertised, a very successful 21st century Blitzkrieg. The objective of a Blitzkrieg is to bypass and isolate pockets of resistance while making a dash for the capital city. The major danger of the strategy is that of outrunning your supply lines and leaving them relatively unprotected. Saddam's regime was toppled in only three weeks and most of his military didn't even fight.
However, as you indicated, the occupation was poorly planned, undermanned, and IMHO, ended far too soon. (Iraq is a soverign country with a democratically elected government (of thoroughly corrupt officials)). Bush needed to double- or triple-down as the jihadists gained momentum, but he didn't want to and the ankle-biters back home wouldn't have allowed him to anyway.
But the question is, did we win because the U.S. military is so much better than the Iraqi military, or because Saddam did some incredibly stupid things?
One of the reasons Saddam didn't sabotage his own country is that he expected his buddies France and Russia to prevent an invasion.