Ah the emotional intelligence argument. When a wealth women loses all of her money in a scam job I would just love to ask her "It's a shame you lost all your money but how did you *feel* about the transaction?!?".
Isn't falling victim to a scam artist exactly the definition of low emotional intelligence? Susceptibility to being manipulated by someone who can parrot your deepest emotional needs?
This isn't a leak - it's an official USAF confirmation.
Yeah, but I'm sure that the USAF is well aware of the military and diplomatic implications of confirming this, and they wouldn't have done it if they didn't think it was in their best interests.
If RF caused cancer, we would have known it long before the advent of cell phones.
How long did it take to figure out that smoking caused cancer, and how long have people been holding RF emitters up to their heads for upwards of an hour a day?
So what if it did? Would anyone really stop using cell phones?
No, but I would be more inclined to use a wired earpiece, to keep the radio emitter further away from my precious gray matter. Inverse square of the distance and all that...
... the odds are pretty good that sometime in your lifetime, you'll have an automobile accident. It might even be fatal. Are you going to stop driving?
No, but I do wear a seatbelt, and my car has an airbag. The world is not binary.
... witnessed by the fact that 95% of our population isn't walking around with brain cancer.
And there aren't very many 20-year-old smokers with cancer, emphysema, or heart disease!:)
So it would seem that they are just doing preemptively what nature would have done anyway. It actually seems like a pretty non-destructive method to me.
Yeah , but what effect does this have on the wildlife that lives in that ecosystem? I've heard that these kinds of problems happen in dams, and also in places where nuke plants dump their cooling water, which is actually warmer than the stream they feed into.
As a drummer, you might be so accustomed to a particular rhythm that you don't count it out in the literal sense of counting out loud, but you do put eight strikes into a measure. Whether you acknowledge that as counting or not, it is still counting, it is just counting that you have become so accustomed to that you don't consider it counting because you need to reframe it in a different context before you can acknowledge to yourself that you are counting.
I'm skeptical. There could be something else other than enumeration at some level going on. He could be perceiving it more like a frequency on some level.
For instance, I was an exchange student in Finland. I learned to roll my 'r's when speaking Finnish. Years later, I read in a book about learning Finnish that Finns "give three or four flicks of the tongue for a rolled r". Thinking, I said several finished words to myself and realized that I was consistently doing 3 flicks. Nobody had ever told me 'three flicks'; I never consciously noticed it before; I was just imitating the sounds that I heard Finnish people saying -- and some other sounds, such as 'ö' 'y' took a lot of conscious teaching and training. ( And then when I learned Spanish my fellow students made fun of me for going wild with the flicks. )
Anywho, I believe that I perceive, at an unconscious, sound-production level, the 'r' flicks as a time slice of a frequency, rather than a series of individual flicks. Now that doesn't meant that it *isn't* countable, but I don't think that because it is I am *necessarily* using enumeration at some level to create the appropriate 'r' sound.
Anyhow, the drummer may be doing the same things. Frequencies during periods of time, not enumeration.
If you could precisely focus an image on the retina, couldn't you precisely focus an image on the lens so that it would appear 'correctly' to the lens-wearer? In other words, not a perfect focus, but whatever distortions or adjustments one needed to introduce to make it seem right to the viewer?
As an aside I have also heard that this Mayan 2012 prediction is all buffoonery. They Mayans thought their the world would end just like we think the world ends after December. It was their calender for keeping track of time. I think it was implied that you just restart the calender once the cycle is over.
That's not quite true. What's ending is the long count ( IIR the name C ), which is about 11,000 years, and yes, while it is a rollover event like our Dec 31st; unlike our December 31st, the change of the time periods was though to correspond with change in the world and society, in a sort of astrological sort of way. Sort of the way the Earth and society changes between summer and winter. So we are leaving the era of the fourth sun and entering the era of the 5th sun. Some changes are supposed to take places, above and beyond a complete calender rotation.
The basic quantum physics formulas that cover the interactions of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Well, I think you're over-simplyfying it. We do know the physics and equations for those, but just plugging them into a computer won't give us sea slugs. ( I think the domain of possibility of DNA life is infinite). We need to actually specify the 'sea slug' program -- as another poster pointed out, the DNA that specifically is a sea slug.
Has anyone actually done this? With even a ''simple'' organism ( yes, those are air-quotes ), like a paramecium? It sounds easy in theory, but I bet when we actually get down to it, there'll be a few speedbumps and unexpected obstacles in the way.
Once we get the sea slug calculation going, anyway, how do we test it? You know, to see that these formulas actually create a phenomena that mimics a sea slug, beyond just looking like one, cellularly? The environment that a sea slug lives in is probably orders of magnitude more complex than the sea slug. So what kind of program do we test it in? It might look like a sea slug, but would it act like one?
You wouldn't believe how many educated people I talked to were certain that president Bush would call martial law and cancel the election before Obama could be voted in (thus becoming emperor). You may have been one of them.
I guess you can call me "one of them". Although, I never thought it was a certainty, just a possibility.
Or at least, I have never encountered a historically documented use of that phrase. Maybe you know of one?
After Bush got out of office, we find out that the Bush administration wanted to use the military to arrest terror suspects inside of the United States.So yeah, it seemed like a real possibility, and after the fact, we find out that they were up to shenanigans like this. I don't think the people who suspected this were so paranoid.
The problem is a good portion of the US has trouble figuring out how to distinguish good information from bad information.
I suppose you have a universally valid method for doing so?
While we're on the subject, can someone point me to where I can find a formula for generating a broccoflower shape? I want to make one in 3d, but I'm not so good with teh maths.
It doesn't make sense for an intelligent designer to go through all the work again.
This is part of the problem of critiquing the intelligent designer thing. If the Creating Entity is all-powerful or God-like or whatever, non of the standard concerns of human creators need apply. When I want a particular goal accomplished, I have to deal with all sorts of constraints, like energy, resources, enthusiasm, motivation. Some projects are vital, like maintaining a decent job, and without doing it well enough, I suffer. Some projects, like eating or drinking, will result in my death if not carried out. An all-powerful being need have none of these concerns -- though it may; it *need* not.
So arguing that a Creator wouldn't do something because "it's a lot of work" or "it's repetitious" is stupid. Playing music is a lot of work, and it's dreadfully repetitious, but it's a blast! Maybe an intelligent creating God just gets a kick out of doing a lot of things in a variety of different ways -- he's not slavishly working hard and efficiently to some goal.
Years ago, while working at an ISP, I heard a geek bragging to another geek that they could do this very thing, to get back at someone they didn't like. My first thought was, "How does this guy know where to download it from?" I wouldn't even begin to know. I've never run across anything remotely similiar to it in all my web surfing. It struck me that there was probably stuff about this show off that I didn't to know about at all.
People need witches. People need easy targets to vent the full fury of the legal system upon. Pedophiles are perfect, because unlike witches, they actually exist.
That's sort of a compromise for the materialistic, evidence-based society we live in today. Witches are a better scapegoat because anyone could be one. For a pedophile, you need actual evidence, so not *so* great for society venting whatever frustration it has.
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Ah the emotional intelligence argument. When a wealth women loses all of her money in a scam job I would just love to ask her "It's a shame you lost all your money but how did you *feel* about the transaction?!?".
Isn't falling victim to a scam artist exactly the definition of low emotional intelligence? Susceptibility to being manipulated by someone who can parrot your deepest emotional needs?
How would you know that a supposed National Security letter you got was real?
I've gone up against experienced lawyers (including the government 3 times) at least half a dozen times - I've won every time.
Would you care to tell us more about these situations?
This isn't a leak - it's an official USAF confirmation.
Yeah, but I'm sure that the USAF is well aware of the military and diplomatic implications of confirming this, and they wouldn't have done it if they didn't think it was in their best interests.
If RF caused cancer, we would have known it long before the advent of cell phones.
How long did it take to figure out that smoking caused cancer, and how long have people been holding RF emitters up to their heads for upwards of an hour a day?
So what if it did? Would anyone really stop using cell phones?
No, but I would be more inclined to use a wired earpiece, to keep the radio emitter further away from my precious gray matter. Inverse square of the distance and all that...
... the odds are pretty good that sometime in your lifetime, you'll have an automobile accident. It might even be fatal. Are you going to stop driving?
No, but I do wear a seatbelt, and my car has an airbag. The world is not binary.
... witnessed by the fact that 95% of our population isn't walking around with brain cancer.
And there aren't very many 20-year-old smokers with cancer, emphysema, or heart disease! :)
C scripts are not C, it's just a scripting language that looks like C.
You mean PHP?
Have you never heard of a "plumber"?
So it would seem that they are just doing preemptively what nature would have done anyway. It actually seems like a pretty non-destructive method to me.
Yeah , but what effect does this have on the wildlife that lives in that ecosystem? I've heard that these kinds of problems happen in dams, and also in places where nuke plants dump their cooling water, which is actually warmer than the stream they feed into.
As a drummer, you might be so accustomed to a particular rhythm that you don't count it out in the literal sense of counting out loud, but you do put eight strikes into a measure. Whether you acknowledge that as counting or not, it is still counting, it is just counting that you have become so accustomed to that you don't consider it counting because you need to reframe it in a different context before you can acknowledge to yourself that you are counting.
I'm skeptical. There could be something else other than enumeration at some level going on. He could be perceiving it more like a frequency on some level.
For instance, I was an exchange student in Finland. I learned to roll my 'r's when speaking Finnish. Years later, I read in a book about learning Finnish that Finns "give three or four flicks of the tongue for a rolled r". Thinking, I said several finished words to myself and realized that I was consistently doing 3 flicks. Nobody had ever told me 'three flicks'; I never consciously noticed it before; I was just imitating the sounds that I heard Finnish people saying -- and some other sounds, such as 'ö' 'y' took a lot of conscious teaching and training. ( And then when I learned Spanish my fellow students made fun of me for going wild with the flicks. )
Anywho, I believe that I perceive, at an unconscious, sound-production level, the 'r' flicks as a time slice of a frequency, rather than a series of individual flicks. Now that doesn't meant that it *isn't* countable, but I don't think that because it is I am *necessarily* using enumeration at some level to create the appropriate 'r' sound.
Anyhow, the drummer may be doing the same things. Frequencies during periods of time, not enumeration.
Pagers still exist?
These are texts and pages from 9/11/2001, which is some 8 years ago.
If you could precisely focus an image on the retina, couldn't you precisely focus an image on the lens so that it would appear 'correctly' to the lens-wearer? In other words, not a perfect focus, but whatever distortions or adjustments one needed to introduce to make it seem right to the viewer?
Call their office, and explain to the aide who answers exactly what your stance is, and how it differs from the form letter you got.
Could be marriage.
As an aside I have also heard that this Mayan 2012 prediction is all buffoonery. They Mayans thought their the world would end just like we think the world ends after December. It was their calender for keeping track of time. I think it was implied that you just restart the calender once the cycle is over.
That's not quite true. What's ending is the long count ( IIR the name C ), which is about 11,000 years, and yes, while it is a rollover event like our Dec 31st; unlike our December 31st, the change of the time periods was though to correspond with change in the world and society, in a sort of astrological sort of way. Sort of the way the Earth and society changes between summer and winter. So we are leaving the era of the fourth sun and entering the era of the 5th sun. Some changes are supposed to take places, above and beyond a complete calender rotation.
This is part of NASA's purvey
I think you mean purview.
The basic quantum physics formulas that cover the interactions of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Well, I think you're over-simplyfying it. We do know the physics and equations for those, but just plugging them into a computer won't give us sea slugs. ( I think the domain of possibility of DNA life is infinite). We need to actually specify the 'sea slug' program -- as another poster pointed out, the DNA that specifically is a sea slug.
It's all chemistry, physics and math.
Has anyone actually done this? With even a ''simple'' organism ( yes, those are air-quotes ), like a paramecium? It sounds easy in theory, but I bet when we actually get down to it, there'll be a few speedbumps and unexpected obstacles in the way.
Once we get the sea slug calculation going, anyway, how do we test it? You know, to see that these formulas actually create a phenomena that mimics a sea slug, beyond just looking like one, cellularly? The environment that a sea slug lives in is probably orders of magnitude more complex than the sea slug. So what kind of program do we test it in? It might look like a sea slug, but would it act like one?
You wouldn't believe how many educated people I talked to were certain that president Bush would call martial law and cancel the election before Obama could be voted in (thus becoming emperor). You may have been one of them.
I guess you can call me "one of them". Although, I never thought it was a certainty, just a possibility.
During the congressional debates on the bank bailout bill, Representative Brad Sherman related that members of congress were told that martial law would be declared if the bailout bill was not passed. The damage-control story after Rep. Sherman's revelation was that "martial law" was a metaphorical phrase amongst congresspeople meaning that the House leadership would ram through legislation in spite of the concerns of the larger body. Problem is, the phrase has never been used to mean that.
Or at least, I have never encountered a historically documented use of that phrase. Maybe you know of one?
After Bush got out of office, we find out that the Bush administration wanted to use the military to arrest terror suspects inside of the United States.So yeah, it seemed like a real possibility, and after the fact, we find out that they were up to shenanigans like this. I don't think the people who suspected this were so paranoid.
The problem is a good portion of the US has trouble figuring out how to distinguish good information from bad information.
I suppose you have a universally valid method for doing so?
While we're on the subject, can someone point me to where I can find a formula for generating a broccoflower shape? I want to make one in 3d, but I'm not so good with teh maths.
A sea slug is already defined by known rules and equations, it's just a matter of doing the math.
Really? What are they?
There is no Jehovah, only Zul-9.
It doesn't make sense for an intelligent designer to go through all the work again.
This is part of the problem of critiquing the intelligent designer thing. If the Creating Entity is all-powerful or God-like or whatever, non of the standard concerns of human creators need apply. When I want a particular goal accomplished, I have to deal with all sorts of constraints, like energy, resources, enthusiasm, motivation. Some projects are vital, like maintaining a decent job, and without doing it well enough, I suffer. Some projects, like eating or drinking, will result in my death if not carried out. An all-powerful being need have none of these concerns -- though it may; it *need* not.
So arguing that a Creator wouldn't do something because "it's a lot of work" or "it's repetitious" is stupid. Playing music is a lot of work, and it's dreadfully repetitious, but it's a blast! Maybe an intelligent creating God just gets a kick out of doing a lot of things in a variety of different ways -- he's not slavishly working hard and efficiently to some goal.
Years ago, while working at an ISP, I heard a geek bragging to another geek that they could do this very thing, to get back at someone they didn't like. My first thought was, "How does this guy know where to download it from?" I wouldn't even begin to know. I've never run across anything remotely similiar to it in all my web surfing. It struck me that there was probably stuff about this show off that I didn't to know about at all.
People need witches. People need easy targets to vent the full fury of the legal system upon. Pedophiles are perfect, because unlike witches, they actually exist.
That's sort of a compromise for the materialistic, evidence-based society we live in today. Witches are a better scapegoat because anyone could be one. For a pedophile, you need actual evidence, so not *so* great for society venting whatever frustration it has.