Primarily used for Kosovo and Bosnia? That's strange, there were no US military fatalities in Bosnia, and I believe there were only 2 fatalities in Kosovo, both of which were non-combat related accidents.
No, the earth, and everything on it, is in constant freefall relative to the sun. We therefore feel no centripedal acceleration. Kind of like how astronauts are weightless when orbiting the earth.
Social Security isn't and never has been an investment system. You, as a worker, pay for currently retired old people to continue living outside of poverty. You don't invest anything other than the surplus which is allocated to a trust fund. This trust fund is used to cover future shortfalls. The only percieved "problem" with Social Security is based on projections made out decades from now, where the assumption is that population growth will slow and there will be too many retired people for the workers of the time to pay for. Investing social security funds doesn't address the potential problem at all.
and, like i said, a bad idea well communicated is more important than a good idea no one ever hears about because the person who had the good idea can't communicate it well.
I don't think this is a useful generalization. How bad of an idea are we talking about here? If the bad idea is "kill all the Jews" bad, then I don't want this idea well communicated. In fact, it is "more important" that this idea is communicated badly. Adolf Hitler was an excellent communicator filled with bad ideas.
If you want to compare apples to apples to make a useful generalization, you can't limit the socially limited person to being completely unable to express his ideas, and you can't limit the intellectually limited person to expressing ideas that are simply horrible. So, lets turn the generalization into: A slightly below average idea (call it poor) expressed effectively is more important than a slightly above average idea (call it good) not effectively expressed. I'd say this is not a true generalization. I'd say the good idea expressed poorly is more important, mainly because it is simply a "better idea." If expressed amongst intelligent people, this "good idea" will win out over the poor one, regardless of how it is expressed.
Why not? Why shouldn't parents be allowed to choose what kind of child they want? If your answer is because "its immoral" then why is it immoral? Do you consider abortion itself immoral? If so, do you also consider the birth control pill immoral?
Why is there a larger set of infinite real numbers than positive integers? Aren't the sizes of both sets infinite? Is one infinite bigger than another infinite? I'm not trying to be a math jerk here, I really don't know the answer...
Why not Afghanistan? The question was for 3 times the US attacked when a war was not already being fought. Afghanistan was not at war with anyone. The US attacked.
I'm far from a string theorist, but this supersymmetry is something that would have to be true for string theory to be true. If the supersymmetry is not true, string theory as it is understood today will be disproven.
The 14th Amendment extends the Bill of Rights to the states. Thats the answer to your first question. The answer to your second question is that the Supreme Court (working off writings of Thomas Jefferson to help framer intent) decided that the seperation of church and state was what "make no law respecting an establishment of religion" means.
This is exactly the kind of reaction Adams was talking about. Think about what you're saying...bullshit conversation? To who? You? Is it a bullshit conversation when someone is talking to someone standing right there next to them about everyday things? Why is it now stupid and bullshit when they are using a cell phone?
I saw Douglas Adams speak at Cambell Hall at UCSB a couple weeks before he died. He was a very friendly, funny guy who believed in embracing technology.
One example he told about was how 10 years ago, society's view of cell phones was that they were devices only bought by gabbers who liked to annoy other people. People had this viceral reaction when they saw a person with a cell phone, something like, "Oh God, that person thinks they are SO important, but they just look like an idiot gabbing away." His daughter (I think) told him one day, "Why should I use a phone with a cord when I can use a phone without a cord that I can take anywhere?" When Mr. Adams had this epiphany, he immediately went out and bought a cell phone.
This was an insightful story and really hit home because I was one of those people who had a very negative view of cell phones around 10 years ago, for no real reason other than they were new. Irony of all ironies though, Mr. Adams died on a treadmill (fake walking device) soon after.
If you don't want gay people, black people, jews or whoever to marry, make marriage purely a private institution. As long as marriage provides a state sanctioned protection, equal protection applies. Let religions view these marriages any way they want, but once you start enforcing *laws* regarding marriage, you must include everyone regardless of gender, creed and race.
I hope these guys bring some serious firepower...pirates these days don't carry rapiers, and a boatful of expensive electronics sitting in international waters is quite the treasure;)
The university's grading system, eGrades, is an in-house program that professors can access via the Internet to submit and alter students' grades. eGrades uses UCSB NetID, a campuswide authentication system, to check a user's identity. If a user forgets their password, they can reset it by entering their Social Security number and date of birth
Am I the only one who thinks this is a ridiculously shortsighted authentication system? Its not that difficult to get a person's (professor's) ss# and date of birth. I could pay $100 right now and get Henry Yang's (UCSB Chancellor) ss# and date of birth. Please tell me I misread this!
Because evolution is all about rationalising what hs already happened, we are completely unable to perform (in reasonable time) controlled experiments to check any of it. Ergo, the ability for it to make falsifiable predictions is limited making it really only borderline scientific.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Speciation has been observed many times in the laboratory. Look up "Drosophila melanogaster." Its a kind of fruitfly that has been observed undergoing speciation during controlled experiments. Even if tons of experiments hadn't been done, your "falsification" criteria is met every time geologists study a new part of the geologic record. We find new fossils, we compare these with known theories, and those theories are either falsified or they aren't, and we continue the process.
Just took a look at those polls...wow. 55% of people believe humans were created by god in their present form. Wow. I reserve the word 'stupid' for very extreme cases of ignorance, and this particular belief fits the mold perfectly. So, 55% of Americans are stupid. Thats certainly an eye-opener.
When I was renting I was paying about $1,200 a month, now I pay about $1,800 in mortgage payments. After taxes I'm only paying about $100 more a month out-of-pocket, which gets me more than double the living space (2100 ft^2, 4 bedrooms vs 900 ft^2 2 bedrooms).
That sounds like either rental rates or housing prices are way out of wack in your area. You lived in a place where rent was $1,200 a month rent for 900 sqft and $1,800 a month mortgage for 2100 sqft? That is absolutely insane. If that were the case, nobody would rent in your area. If they could show a bank that they could make $1,200 payments on rent, it would be a no-brainer to mortgage an equivalent (bit larger) sized condo for half the price per month (1150 sq ft, $900 a month, although this is a bit simplified math-wise). My guess is that you are leaving out a bunch of expenses, like housing upkeep, utilities...something! Or else every renter in your area is crazy.
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Primarily used for Kosovo and Bosnia? That's strange, there were no US military fatalities in Bosnia, and I believe there were only 2 fatalities in Kosovo, both of which were non-combat related accidents.
No, the earth, and everything on it, is in constant freefall relative to the sun. We therefore feel no centripedal acceleration. Kind of like how astronauts are weightless when orbiting the earth.
Social Security isn't and never has been an investment system. You, as a worker, pay for currently retired old people to continue living outside of poverty. You don't invest anything other than the surplus which is allocated to a trust fund. This trust fund is used to cover future shortfalls. The only percieved "problem" with Social Security is based on projections made out decades from now, where the assumption is that population growth will slow and there will be too many retired people for the workers of the time to pay for. Investing social security funds doesn't address the potential problem at all.
and, like i said, a bad idea well communicated is more important than a good idea no one ever hears about because the person who had the good idea can't communicate it well.
I don't think this is a useful generalization. How bad of an idea are we talking about here? If the bad idea is "kill all the Jews" bad, then I don't want this idea well communicated. In fact, it is "more important" that this idea is communicated badly. Adolf Hitler was an excellent communicator filled with bad ideas.
If you want to compare apples to apples to make a useful generalization, you can't limit the socially limited person to being completely unable to express his ideas, and you can't limit the intellectually limited person to expressing ideas that are simply horrible. So, lets turn the generalization into: A slightly below average idea (call it poor) expressed effectively is more important than a slightly above average idea (call it good) not effectively expressed. I'd say this is not a true generalization. I'd say the good idea expressed poorly is more important, mainly because it is simply a "better idea." If expressed amongst intelligent people, this "good idea" will win out over the poor one, regardless of how it is expressed.
It's just a place society shouldn't go, at all.
Why not? Why shouldn't parents be allowed to choose what kind of child they want? If your answer is because "its immoral" then why is it immoral? Do you consider abortion itself immoral? If so, do you also consider the birth control pill immoral?
Why is there a larger set of infinite real numbers than positive integers? Aren't the sizes of both sets infinite? Is one infinite bigger than another infinite? I'm not trying to be a math jerk here, I really don't know the answer...
and I had just gotten off the phone with the suicide hotline...Where'd that phone go?
Wow. Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? Really, look it up! It isn't there!
Somebody's seen The Last Starfighter one too many times.
Why not Afghanistan? The question was for 3 times the US attacked when a war was not already being fought. Afghanistan was not at war with anyone. The US attacked.
Panama, Beirut, Afghanistan.
I'm far from a string theorist, but this supersymmetry is something that would have to be true for string theory to be true. If the supersymmetry is not true, string theory as it is understood today will be disproven.
The 14th Amendment extends the Bill of Rights to the states. Thats the answer to your first question. The answer to your second question is that the Supreme Court (working off writings of Thomas Jefferson to help framer intent) decided that the seperation of church and state was what "make no law respecting an establishment of religion" means.
Technically speaking if we had enough infomation nothing would be considered randomn
You can't know everything. Uncertainty principle and all.
Do you have some proof of this? Every time somebody over there gives an estimate, the insurgency seems to be mostly locals...
This pict how actually most people its on modding already existing engines. Valve its even forward, modding his how mods ( Counter Strike: Source ).
Could someone parse this for me, please?
This is exactly the kind of reaction Adams was talking about. Think about what you're saying...bullshit conversation? To who? You? Is it a bullshit conversation when someone is talking to someone standing right there next to them about everyday things? Why is it now stupid and bullshit when they are using a cell phone?
I saw Douglas Adams speak at Cambell Hall at UCSB a couple weeks before he died. He was a very friendly, funny guy who believed in embracing technology.
One example he told about was how 10 years ago, society's view of cell phones was that they were devices only bought by gabbers who liked to annoy other people. People had this viceral reaction when they saw a person with a cell phone, something like, "Oh God, that person thinks they are SO important, but they just look like an idiot gabbing away." His daughter (I think) told him one day, "Why should I use a phone with a cord when I can use a phone without a cord that I can take anywhere?" When Mr. Adams had this epiphany, he immediately went out and bought a cell phone.
This was an insightful story and really hit home because I was one of those people who had a very negative view of cell phones around 10 years ago, for no real reason other than they were new. Irony of all ironies though, Mr. Adams died on a treadmill (fake walking device) soon after.
If you don't want gay people, black people, jews or whoever to marry, make marriage purely a private institution. As long as marriage provides a state sanctioned protection, equal protection applies. Let religions view these marriages any way they want, but once you start enforcing *laws* regarding marriage, you must include everyone regardless of gender, creed and race.
I hope these guys bring some serious firepower...pirates these days don't carry rapiers, and a boatful of expensive electronics sitting in international waters is quite the treasure ;)
The university's grading system, eGrades, is an in-house program that professors can access via the Internet to submit and alter students' grades. eGrades uses UCSB NetID, a campuswide authentication system, to check a user's identity. If a user forgets their password, they can reset it by entering their Social Security number and date of birth
Am I the only one who thinks this is a ridiculously shortsighted authentication system? Its not that difficult to get a person's (professor's) ss# and date of birth. I could pay $100 right now and get Henry Yang's (UCSB Chancellor) ss# and date of birth. Please tell me I misread this!
Because evolution is all about rationalising what hs already happened, we are completely unable to perform (in reasonable time) controlled experiments to check any of it. Ergo, the ability for it to make falsifiable predictions is limited making it really only borderline scientific.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Speciation has been observed many times in the laboratory. Look up "Drosophila melanogaster." Its a kind of fruitfly that has been observed undergoing speciation during controlled experiments. Even if tons of experiments hadn't been done, your "falsification" criteria is met every time geologists study a new part of the geologic record. We find new fossils, we compare these with known theories, and those theories are either falsified or they aren't, and we continue the process.
Just took a look at those polls...wow. 55% of people believe humans were created by god in their present form. Wow. I reserve the word 'stupid' for very extreme cases of ignorance, and this particular belief fits the mold perfectly. So, 55% of Americans are stupid. Thats certainly an eye-opener.
I'm sorry, but she *is* ugly. If I saw that woman in real life I would have the same reaction.
When I was renting I was paying about $1,200 a month, now I pay about $1,800 in mortgage payments. After taxes I'm only paying about $100 more a month out-of-pocket, which gets me more than double the living space (2100 ft^2, 4 bedrooms vs 900 ft^2 2 bedrooms).
That sounds like either rental rates or housing prices are way out of wack in your area. You lived in a place where rent was $1,200 a month rent for 900 sqft and $1,800 a month mortgage for 2100 sqft? That is absolutely insane. If that were the case, nobody would rent in your area. If they could show a bank that they could make $1,200 payments on rent, it would be a no-brainer to mortgage an equivalent (bit larger) sized condo for half the price per month (1150 sq ft, $900 a month, although this is a bit simplified math-wise). My guess is that you are leaving out a bunch of expenses, like housing upkeep, utilities...something! Or else every renter in your area is crazy.