[..] most creationists are willing to accept micro-evolution, which is what the cartoon describes
There are no such things as micro-evolution and macro-evolution: those concepts come from misunderstanding evolution, or just plain ignorance of what evolution is.
I haven't hear yet someone saying he believes in micro-erosion and but not in macro-erosion. I hope it sounds stupid to everyone. (Well, the young Earth believers may have said something alike)
Can't they see that this is the same science which leads us to evolution and natural selection theory ?
A macroscopic particle (a drop) is bounded to a dynamic and local wave, both make an object which has exactly what de Broglie's theory is talking about.
Indiscriminate use of antibiotics for livestock also lead to resistance, do not only blame doctors and hospitals.
The concern centers on farmers' routine use of antibiotics. Its use on
livestock accounts for roughly half of the 25,000 tons produced in the
United States each year. - link -
The question of whether we are creating ‘resistances' in zoomatic organisms (that affect both species) out in the feedlot and pastures and passing this on to humans with veterinary use of drugs, however, is still a very up-in-the air question. - link -
Thank you for pointing out that we should be careful with the NIA site and its information, I will investigate a bit...
However, about the specific subject of student loans, I've read and watched their documents: They do have an interesting analysis.
One of the main points I remember: The more the loans are big and easy to get, the more the education costs raise. Reversed causality.
And so the more trapped in debt the students are.
For example, some greedy people seem to think: "ok: thanks to the loans those students will manage to get the money, so we can make them buy brand new books each year, with a 20% price raise each year also."
(books renewal is very often artificial)
In short, education could cost much less. The loans money is siphoned by publishers (mentioned above), institutions inflated fares,..., and then students end studies with a huge debt. Here is the scam.
NIA today officially released the most comprehensive documentary ever produced about higher education in the U.S. NIA's hour-long documentary called 'College Conspiracy' exposes the facts and truth about America's college education system. 'College Conspiracy' was produced over a six-month period by NIA's team of expert Austrian economists with the help of thousands of NIA members who contributed their ideas and personal stories for the film. NIA believes the U.S. college education system is a scam that turns vulnerable young Americans into debt slaves for life.
It also remind us:
After the burst of the Real Estate bubble, student loans are now the easiest loan to receive in the U.S., and total student loan debts now exceed credit card debts.
But I hope also that they won't buy any green oil nonsense which, to convert a crop to biofuel, use almost as much fossil fuel as produced.
I think they will be clever enough to compute the balance for the full process.
The world really need liquid fuel, and the military can't do without.
The more I think about your comment, the more I find it very likely that they will fund a promising way (or even find a way) to make fuel from renewable resource.
I did have a DIY linux fileserver a while ago, but I got rid of it in favour of a turnkey NAS.
DIY linux fileserver = built with standard PC spare parts.
NAS = built with specific hardware tailored for the job (for example mine has a sparc CPU).
My linux fileserver iddle power comsumption was 68W
My NAS iddle power comsumption is 27W
Here, the DIY linux server use 150% more power.
(and makes much more noise)
One could interpret this as a whole: we have a burning rate that leads us to a 120 years maximum lifespan. If any drug were to extend it to 150, one would have to live like a turtle...
1) End the Collusion Between Government and Large Corporations/Banks, So That Our Elected Leaders Are Actually Representing the Interests of the People (the 99%) and Not Just Their Rich Donors (the 1%).
How will they fund their presidential campaign ?
In some other countries, campaigns have a limit for their spendings and can be taxpayers funded.
Most PC motherboards have some unused on-board usb ports (with pins).
You can use a "pins to usb-B" cable to plug a usb key with a R/RW switch.
This cable is usually provided, otherwise a DIY will do, pin-out is in the mobo reference doc.
Then USB keys with a read only switch are not common, I have an old one but I didn't found any lately. You still can use a SD card with an adapter.
* Increase the friends/foes number limit. I've reach the maximum friends I can register, and I have queued more to come once the limit increased, in my journal. I use this to change mod points and skim the posts.
* Preview comment is very long to load, at least for the first preview.
(Submit is quite slow also)
* Search a topic or comment doesn't work well. I found it strange not to find a topic I knew I've commented. See in this thread: people tell about the problem.
* Remove the scripts from other sites: facebook, twitter, doubleclick,... I don't trust them (thank you NoScript!).
* Improve the "more" loading. Or at least show something to let us know it's loading, because sometimes the "more stories" / "Many more" button at the bottom seems unresponsive and it is often really slow.
* Let us fetch the stories by day: it was easier to do that before. When I miss a few days of reading I want to catch up easily. A calendar would be nice.
* Have an unread stories page, assuming loaded headlines allready have been checked by the user. Set a one or two month retention, enough to catch up after hollydays.
* I prefer the previous meta-moderation system, the new one confuses me.
* Have a quick bookmark system "Read this later" checkbox.
I agree with you. Getting our own data back from sites is often very difficult.
On most sites it can be done with custom spider bots.
The last time I did it, I wrote a greasemonkey script to copy a whole forum to another, with thousands topics and replies.
Some people already use this scheme:
1) Find a popular site for which users can't export their data.
2) Write a exporter tool.
3) Profit!
Garrett's answer isn't FUD or silly, it's factual and he really has a point here. (I wish your answer was also factual)
You can't UEFI secure boot other OS's now in 99% of cases. So what's changing?
(my emphasis)
What's changing? The world is changing. That's right, there isn't that much OS you can secure boot now, but we'll come to it. It is all about future, and future reinforced dominant position.
There will be some vendors who will offer "only boots securely into Windows 8". They will be special offerings for corporations and special cases. You would have to go out of your way to buy such a system, and not offering the option is restricting choice.
(my emphasis again)
Those "some vendors" could easily turn out to be "most vendors". Why ? Well, look how difficult it is to buy a vendor PC without MS Windows installed, or get a refund if you don't use this pre-installed OS. You see ?
Then, special offerings will be "boot what you want to". But if they are as much as the vendor PCs without MS Windows, this will dramatically restrict choice.
(And the Pentium Serial Number fiasco isn't a valid analogy since we don't have some other trick to lock down a PC mother board to a specific OS - this is a new issue - while we already had some anonymity problems when this chip with S/N came out )
list the attributes that matter to me (price, HP, fuel efficiency)
Talking about attributes...
The problem I have with online product reviews is that they sometime all lack one specific and pertinent attribute I'm interested in for a class of products.
A car "analogy" would be the RPM / torque diagram of the engine: Interesting data but quite hard to find for cars (it isn't advertised).
A central wiki site for reviews could help crowd sourcing such information.
I like this wikiwhatever idea for any product review.
I guess it will run into the same problem wikipedia has, such as self advertising, but it seems they can handle it.
You mentioned wikireviews.info, maybe the OP could ask there if their scope can be extended?
The site name is already fine:)
Why are you so negative about this question? And so gross sometime?
If it isn't of any interest to you, just leave it alone.
I was only mildly interested but though the OP question may lead to some valuable answers, nice unknown site reference, etc.
All I see is nasty and useless comments, to an extent we rarely see on/.
Anyway, thank you, those who kindly tried to answer (it wasn't an easy one;)
Microsoft have a dominant position in the desktop operating system market.
Why is it Microsoft's responsibility to get keys other than its own installed?
It is, for the same reason MS was forced to offer some choice for the Internet browser in Europe, remember ?
Oh wait, because Microsoft is the big, bad guy?
Big guy: yes, again we are talking about dominant position and its consequences, which lead to more power and possible abuses, thus the bad guy. Don't you remember some MS abuses?
Here's a few points I noticed: [...]
Add to those points: the dominant position of Microsoft. It should help a lot to understand Garrett's answer
Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory.
I can tell the OP that he shouldn't be afraid of that.
I used to have a qwery keyboard for Unix workstation and an azerty keyboard for a windows PC on the same desk, continuously switching to one to another.
I got used to it.
Later, even without working on such a desk, I kept the habit to type qwerty on any keyboard while on Unix, and azerty on any keyboard while on windows...
That's a context switching very well managed by the brain.
Don't worry, and keep the usual telephone and calculator pads...
Did you tried to block it with NoScript ? Or AddBlock Plus ?
I don't have such buttons on/.
If your access is blocked between initial page load and page render, it may be a solution.
* Neo. The whole case is an aluminum radiator, with fins on two sides, and holes.
It died after 4 years (DC input capacitor on mobo, I guess).
* FitPC2i. The aluminum case is the radiator, with no fins, no holes (except for connectors). Very small. Still running fine after 1 year (in the dust).
Both systems are silent - 0db - with solid state storage. Instead of SSD I use USB key and mmc on the FitPC2i.
Various configurations use those fanless cases, you can find some more suited to your needs
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[..] most creationists are willing to accept micro-evolution, which is what the cartoon describes
There are no such things as micro-evolution and macro-evolution: those concepts come from misunderstanding evolution, or just plain ignorance of what evolution is.
I haven't hear yet someone saying he believes in micro-erosion and but not in macro-erosion. I hope it sounds stupid to everyone. (Well, the young Earth believers may have said something alike)
Can't they see that this is the same science which leads us to evolution and natural selection theory ?
A macroscopic particle (a drop) is bounded to a dynamic and local wave, both make an object which has exactly what de Broglie's theory is talking about.
The concern centers on farmers' routine use of antibiotics. Its use on livestock accounts for roughly half of the 25,000 tons produced in the United States each year. - link -
The question of whether we are creating ‘resistances' in zoomatic organisms (that affect both species) out in the feedlot and pastures and passing this on to humans with veterinary use of drugs, however, is still a very up-in-the air question. - link -
Sometime executable names colide :
Two application can provide the same exp executable to export data.
How to they expect to handle this if they keep only one directory ?
I would rather keep them in separate directories and alias one of the executable
Thank you for pointing out that we should be careful with the NIA site and its information, I will investigate a bit...
However, about the specific subject of student loans, I've read and watched their documents: They do have an interesting analysis.
One of the main points I remember:
The more the loans are big and easy to get, the more the education costs raise. Reversed causality.
And so the more trapped in debt the students are.
For example, some greedy people seem to think:
"ok: thanks to the loans those students will manage to get the money, so we can make them buy brand new books each year, with a 20% price raise each year also."
(books renewal is very often artificial)
In short, education could cost much less. The loans money is siphoned by publishers (mentioned above), institutions inflated fares, ..., and then students end studies with a huge debt. Here is the scam.
NIA today officially released the most comprehensive documentary ever produced about higher education in the U.S. NIA's hour-long documentary called 'College Conspiracy' exposes the facts and truth about America's college education system. 'College Conspiracy' was produced over a six-month period by NIA's team of expert Austrian economists with the help of thousands of NIA members who contributed their ideas and personal stories for the film. NIA believes the U.S. college education system is a scam that turns vulnerable young Americans into debt slaves for life.
It also remind us:
After the burst of the Real Estate bubble, student loans are now the easiest loan to receive in the U.S., and total student loan debts now exceed credit card debts.
It was written May 16, 2011 ...
Yes it would
But I hope also that they won't buy any green oil nonsense which, to convert a crop to biofuel, use almost as much fossil fuel as produced.
I think they will be clever enough to compute the balance for the full process.
The world really need liquid fuel, and the military can't do without.
The more I think about your comment, the more I find it very likely that they will fund a promising way (or even find a way) to make fuel from renewable resource.
I did have a DIY linux fileserver a while ago, but I got rid of it in favour of a turnkey NAS.
DIY linux fileserver = built with standard PC spare parts.
NAS = built with specific hardware tailored for the job (for example mine has a sparc CPU).
My linux fileserver iddle power comsumption was 68W
My NAS iddle power comsumption is 27W
Here, the DIY linux server use 150% more power.
(and makes much more noise)
I searched "peak oil" in the 140+ comments of this story. Nothing!
I find it quite surprising...
The first thing that came to my mind:
At last! US army is aware of the peak oil and started moving away from fossil fuels.
The Morlock and the Eloi. The first will be the ones who produce the drug to control the second...
Creatures studies show that lifespan is closely linked to heartbeat, even for humans.
One could interpret this as a whole: we have a burning rate that leads us to a 120 years maximum lifespan. If any drug were to extend it to 150, one would have to live like a turtle...
1) End the Collusion Between Government and Large Corporations/Banks, So That Our Elected Leaders Are Actually Representing the Interests of the People (the 99%) and Not Just Their Rich Donors (the 1%).
How will they fund their presidential campaign ?
In some other countries, campaigns have a limit for their spendings and can be taxpayers funded.
Most PC motherboards have some unused on-board usb ports (with pins).
You can use a "pins to usb-B" cable to plug a usb key with a R/RW switch.
This cable is usually provided, otherwise a DIY will do, pin-out is in the mobo reference doc.
Then USB keys with a read only switch are not common, I have an old one but I didn't found any lately. You still can use a SD card with an adapter.
A late post here to link from my pool answer...
* Increase the friends/foes number limit. I've reach the maximum friends I can register, and I have queued more to come once the limit increased, in my journal. I use this to change mod points and skim the posts.
* Preview comment is very long to load, at least for the first preview. (Submit is quite slow also)
* Search a topic or comment doesn't work well. I found it strange not to find a topic I knew I've commented. See in this thread: people tell about the problem.
* Remove the scripts from other sites: facebook, twitter, doubleclick, ... I don't trust them (thank you NoScript!).
* Improve the "more" loading. Or at least show something to let us know it's loading, because sometimes the "more stories" / "Many more" button at the bottom seems unresponsive and it is often really slow.
* Let us fetch the stories by day: it was easier to do that before. When I miss a few days of reading I want to catch up easily. A calendar would be nice.
* Have an unread stories page, assuming loaded headlines allready have been checked by the user. Set a one or two month retention, enough to catch up after hollydays.
* I prefer the previous meta-moderation system, the new one confuses me.
* Have a quick bookmark system "Read this later" checkbox.
I agree with you. Getting our own data back from sites is often very difficult.
On most sites it can be done with custom spider bots.
The last time I did it, I wrote a greasemonkey script to copy a whole forum to another, with thousands topics and replies.
Some people already use this scheme:
1) Find a popular site for which users can't export their data.
2) Write a exporter tool.
3) Profit!
Garrett's answer isn't FUD or silly, it's factual and he really has a point here.
(I wish your answer was also factual)
You can't UEFI secure boot other OS's now in 99% of cases. So what's changing?
(my emphasis)
What's changing? The world is changing. That's right, there isn't that much OS you can secure boot now, but we'll come to it. It is all about future, and future reinforced dominant position.
There will be some vendors who will offer "only boots securely into Windows 8". They will be special offerings for corporations and special cases. You would have to go out of your way to buy such a system, and not offering the option is restricting choice.
(my emphasis again)
Those " some vendors" could easily turn out to be " most vendors". Why ? Well, look how difficult it is to buy a vendor PC without MS Windows installed, or get a refund if you don't use this pre-installed OS. You see ?
Then, special offerings will be "boot what you want to". But if they are as much as the vendor PCs without MS Windows, this will dramatically restrict choice.
(And the Pentium Serial Number fiasco isn't a valid analogy since we don't have some other trick to lock down a PC mother board to a specific OS - this is a new issue - while we already had some anonymity problems when this chip with S/N came out )
list the attributes that matter to me (price, HP, fuel efficiency)
Talking about attributes...
The problem I have with online product reviews is that they sometime all lack one specific and pertinent attribute I'm interested in for a class of products.
A car "analogy" would be the RPM / torque diagram of the engine: Interesting data but quite hard to find for cars (it isn't advertised).
A central wiki site for reviews could help crowd sourcing such information.
I like this wikiwhatever idea for any product review.
I guess it will run into the same problem wikipedia has, such as self advertising, but it seems they can handle it.
You mentioned wikireviews.info, maybe the OP could ask there if their scope can be extended? :)
The site name is already fine
Why are you so negative about this question? And so gross sometime?
If it isn't of any interest to you, just leave it alone.
I was only mildly interested but though the OP question may lead to some valuable answers, nice unknown site reference, etc. /. ;)
All I see is nasty and useless comments, to an extent we rarely see on
Anyway, thank you, those who kindly tried to answer (it wasn't an easy one
Microsoft have a dominant position in the desktop operating system market.
Why is it Microsoft's responsibility to get keys other than its own installed?
It is, for the same reason MS was forced to offer some choice for the Internet browser in Europe, remember ?
Oh wait, because Microsoft is the big, bad guy?
Big guy: yes, again we are talking about dominant position and its consequences, which lead to more power and possible abuses, thus the bad guy. Don't you remember some MS abuses?
Here's a few points I noticed: [...]
Add to those points: the dominant position of Microsoft. It should help a lot to understand Garrett's answer
I guess this thread is a good start for writing a wikipedia page of "Successful Software From Academia" .
(Likely to be linked with some OSS pages)
Any volunteer ?
Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory.
I can tell the OP that he shouldn't be afraid of that.
I used to have a qwery keyboard for Unix workstation and an azerty keyboard for a windows PC on the same desk, continuously switching to one to another.
I got used to it.
Later, even without working on such a desk, I kept the habit to type qwerty on any keyboard while on Unix, and azerty on any keyboard while on windows...
That's a context switching very well managed by the brain.
Don't worry, and keep the usual telephone and calculator pads...
Did you tried to block it with NoScript ? Or AddBlock Plus ? /.
I don't have such buttons on
If your access is blocked between initial page load and page render, it may be a solution.
What is this post except an invitation for readers to cluck in dismay like chickens.
An invitation for Anonymous to bash the OP and some others ?
Here are the fanless systems I have used :
* Neo . The whole case is an aluminum radiator, with fins on two sides, and holes.
It died after 4 years (DC input capacitor on mobo, I guess).
* FitPC2i . The aluminum case is the radiator, with no fins, no holes (except for connectors).
Very small. Still running fine after 1 year (in the dust).
Both systems are silent - 0db - with solid state storage. Instead of SSD I use USB key and mmc on the FitPC2i.
Various configurations use those fanless cases, you can find some more suited to your needs