Someone better tell the Egyptions. Apparently there is a movement in Egypt to sue Israel for reparations because Moses took their gold during the "Exodus".
FOX was definitely not the first to give Ohio to Bush.
According to wikipedia Fox called Ohio first for Bush first. NBC followed shortly after. CBS, ABC, and CNN waited until the late morning of November 3rd to make the call
. Interestingly, all of the networks called PA for Kerry early in the night. But Bush beat Kerry by a larger percentage in Ohio, than Kerry beat Bush in PA.
No, it isn't. Evolution (the fact) is the observation that species change over time. Evolution (the theory) attempts to explain how it happens. "Complexity" and "order" don't come into it.
A human being is much more complex than a single celled organism. Both are orderly.
Evolution (the theory), attempts to explain how the simple (relatively) single celled organism evolved into the complex human organism.
The word "the" is orderly. The word "the" is not complex.
In relation to the word "the", a page of randomly generated characters is complex. A page of randomly generated characters is not orderly.
The complete works of Shakespeare are both orderly and complex.
All three of the above are information.
A monkey on a typewriter could type a page of random characters. It is impossible for a monkey to type a page from Shakespeare.
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
"To be or jot to ba, thet is the qestio-n."
A line of Shakespeare with "mutations". Both lines contain equal amount of information. Both are readable. The first line is more orderly than the second.
You are describing natural selection, not evolution. Humanity has understood natural selection for long before the current use of scientific method. That's what gives us specifically breeded creatures like English Pointers and Scottish Terriors. The environment can also demonstrate natural selection - Texas longhorn cattle are a good example.
Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
So, natural selection can be proven. Evolution can not. We can prove that genetic mutations occur, but we cant prove that those mutations result in the combination of increased order and complexity over time.
The Supreme Court didn't "legalize abortion", it ruled that the states can't criminalize it.
Actually, the Supreme court did legalize abortion. In Roe v Wade (1973) the court determined that individual state abortion statutes violated Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (right to privacy). Here is the ruling.
Notice line 3: "State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life- saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's approach to term."
Or, for instance, if you call thousands of voters in South Carolina, and ask them how they'd feel if they were to find out that John McCain
John McCain on Michael Moore:
"Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls. Whether or not Saddam possessed the terrible weapons he once had and used, freed from international pressure and the threat of military action, he would have acquired them again."
I paid 481 pounds sterling (approx $750) for my TRS-80 model 3 disk controller and one 180k FDD (1982-ish). Anyone got a worse disk storage/cost ratio than that?
It depends too when you bought that computer. In 1984 the pound/dollar exchange rate was about £1 to $1.50. But in 1985 it was almost £1 to $1.
I wonder how long till someone hacks it to get a discount on their insurance.
It would be no different than committing odometer fraud. Sure, it can be done, but it's cheating (used car buyers in one case, insurance companies in the other).
If people think Idaho is more free than California, why aren't Californians moving to Idaho in droves?
You must be joking. Californians are leaving in droves - to Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, Utah, and yes even Idaho. This internal migration from California is being offset by immigrants from other countries.
There are different measurements of freedom. Certainly freedom of the press is a big one, and one that the liberals have a just concern for.
However, conservatives believe in freedom too, freedoms is just defined differently. The right to bear arms, the right to keep your money and have low taxes (see sig), the right to own property and do what you want with it, the right to start a business, etc.
For example, let's compare starting a dog kennal business in Los Angeles California and Boise Idaho:
Yeah, your odds would be about 47.37% for hitting on color.
But what if you bet double or nothing every time you lose, and keep the same bet if you win? Since your odds are almost 50%, you could keep betting 2x until you win.
Pharmaceuticals are corrupt and overpriced because of the pharma companies.
Maybe he was referring to the excessive FDA regulations. One of the reasons drugs cost so much is because of all the hoops you have to jump through to get a new drug approved. Average time from start to finish to get a new drug from molecule to FDA approval is 15 years.
# There is a 17 year span of time between Bilbo's departure and Frodo's departure from Hobbiton (FOTR p.72). Jackson makes it seem like, at most, a year has passed. Forgivable, yet that cuts out all the time during which Aragorn and Gandalf track down Gollum, Gandalf searches the archives of Denethor, the White Council drives the Necromancer (Sauron) from Dol Guldur, etc.
The White council drives Sauron from Dol Guldur at the epilogue of The Hobbit. That would have been before Frodo was born.
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Someone better tell the Egyptions. Apparently there is a movement in Egypt to sue Israel for reparations because Moses took their gold during the "Exodus".
According to wikipedia Fox called Ohio first for Bush first. NBC followed shortly after. CBS, ABC, and CNN waited until the late morning of November 3rd to make the call
. Interestingly, all of the networks called PA for Kerry early in the night. But Bush beat Kerry by a larger percentage in Ohio, than Kerry beat Bush in PA.
A human being is much more complex than a single celled organism. Both are orderly. Evolution (the theory), attempts to explain how the simple (relatively) single celled organism evolved into the complex human organism.
good distinction.
In relation to the word "the", a page of randomly generated characters is complex. A page of randomly generated characters is not orderly.
The complete works of Shakespeare are both orderly and complex.
All three of the above are information.
A monkey on a typewriter could type a page of random characters. It is impossible for a monkey to type a page from Shakespeare.
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
"To be or jot to ba, thet is the qestio-n."
A line of Shakespeare with "mutations". Both lines contain equal amount of information. Both are readable. The first line is more orderly than the second.
Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
So, natural selection can be proven. Evolution can not. We can prove that genetic mutations occur, but we cant prove that those mutations result in the combination of increased order and complexity over time.
Actually, the Supreme court did legalize abortion. In Roe v Wade (1973) the court determined that individual state abortion statutes violated Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (right to privacy). Here is the ruling.
Notice line 3: "State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life- saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's approach to term."
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John McCain on Michael Moore:
"Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls. Whether or not Saddam possessed the terrible weapons he once had and used, freed from international pressure and the threat of military action, he would have acquired them again."
You mean contemporary Russian has no "W" sound. Future Russian obviously does.
You can even make up a Spanish sentance using car names. El Camino nova al ranchero. (The road doesn't go to the ranch.)
It depends too when you bought that computer. In 1984 the pound/dollar exchange rate was about £1 to $1.50. But in 1985 it was almost £1 to $1.
Simple, flood the road ways with an inverse tachyon matrix.
It would be no different than committing odometer fraud. Sure, it can be done, but it's cheating (used car buyers in one case, insurance companies in the other).
You must be joking. Californians are leaving in droves - to Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, Utah, and yes even Idaho. This internal migration from California is being offset by immigrants from other countries.
However, conservatives believe in freedom too, freedoms is just defined differently. The right to bear arms, the right to keep your money and have low taxes (see sig), the right to own property and do what you want with it, the right to start a business, etc.
For example, let's compare starting a dog kennal business in Los Angeles California and Boise Idaho:
California
buy 1 acre of land for $1.2 million
spend 6 months getting environmental impact statement.
pay $20K to cut down 5 trees.
Pay $10K to get building permit.
Spend 6 months taking classes to get your dog kennal license.
build dog kennal.
Idaho
Buy 1 acre of land for $60K
get building permit for $400
build dog kennal
So which state is really more free? I would say Idaho.
Yeah, your odds would be about 47.37% for hitting on color. But what if you bet double or nothing every time you lose, and keep the same bet if you win? Since your odds are almost 50%, you could keep betting 2x until you win.
Scotty will find a way.
Maybe he was referring to the excessive FDA regulations. One of the reasons drugs cost so much is because of all the hoops you have to jump through to get a new drug approved. Average time from start to finish to get a new drug from molecule to FDA approval is 15 years.
They lost $521 million in 2001
They lost $1025 Million in 2002
They lost $1273 million in 2003
I wouldn't put it past Lucas to edit the Episode IV Cantina scene to include his wine.
Italy = Lamborghini, Ferrari
France = Renault, Peugeot
'nuff said.
Total points scored -vs- Number of ads with women in their underwear.
My guess is that the women will win that matchup. Sex sells, doesn't it?
The White council drives Sauron from Dol Guldur at the epilogue of The Hobbit. That would have been before Frodo was born.