Does radar count? There's plenty of cases where a pilot ( and people on the ground ) report classical ufos ( saucers, cigars, triangles ) and these objects show up on radar.
The only time I've encountered a "fact checker" has been in connection with a magazine article. Magazine articles often are outsourced to freelancers, whose butts are not necessarily available for kicking the next morning if something is wrong, so fact-checkers are employed to verify information before it's published. Typically they'll call a news source: "Is your name really Heywood Jablome?"
I was on an eco-tour in Peru and one of the guys in the trip was a freelance journalist writing a piece about the experience. About a month after the trip,I got a call from his editor, who went through the most mundane details of the story, bit by bit, to confirm them with me. It was all basically correct, but I was really reaching to recall basic facts. Were the mats we slept on on the riverboat foam? Probably. Did that local guide say exactly that to the writer? I was only half-paying attention.
It was pretty thorough, and this wasn't an investigative piece or anything, just entertainment/travelogue. So at least for those kinds of pieces, editors do check up. Or at least one did for one story.
It's pretty sad that the events around the launch of their product are about the iPhone rather than their own. Don't they have anything to tout about Windows phone 7? Or can they only tear down the other guy?
When I interview, I am on the lookout for more than just raw skills... I look for people who turn into raging assholes on hour fourteen in a row on the Sunday night before release. They don't get hired.
...but some other double helix that was more stable...
Why does the molecule of life need be a double helix? Because it was the precursor to D/RNA? Because it folds up and compresses? Because that shape has some stability or protection from radiation?
You were moral because you chose to be, not because you "believed" in some silly magic book; or were too scared, or weak minded, to think for yourself.
Not that I disagree, but why is 'choosing' or 'thinking for yourself' the highest good, the one that some transcendent deity would base its judgment of you on? For all we know, it might judge you based on whether you ever had a toe infection.
If we're going to say that religious people claim that Deity is just and judges people justly, they also claim a lot of other things about Deity that we don't subscribe to (such as it wanting us to have faith). Why do we subscribe to this one?
Yeah, but it takes money to sue, something on the order of $10 to $20k, and a lot of folks don't have that lying around. It's risky. The media was just reporting that he was a suspect, just like the police thought, right?
The government is, misguidedly, trying to bring freedom and Democracy there.
No, no, it's really not, and it's not a conspiracy to say that this isn't true. This is just the cover story, naked propaganda.
What's going on is that the American military is providing peace and stability for oil companies and other international conglomerates that want oil, natural gas, and other raw materials to move freely around the baltic sea and the middle east. Unocal now has their natural gas pipeline up and running through Afghanistan, which they were unable to get when the Taliban were running the country.
If we are surprised by this, its our own fault. Smedley Butler, the most highly decorated enlisted marine, told us about this nearly a century ago in War is a Racket, where he recounts how the US military was used to 'defend' the interests of American businesses in Central America:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
You know what? I think an average American would not be surprised to hear that any of these facts were true: - That there are death squads killing Taliban leaders - That there are a lot of civilian casualties - That the Taliban is getting support from another Muslim neighbor country. I'll bet the thought they knew all of this already, and are pleased as punch that the American military is doing its job to fight Terrorism and keep up safe.
This sounds to me like a case of Nerds Gone Wrong again. They think that giving the public some factoids are going to change their minds and start a revolution. Never happened, never will. The American people are happy about the war against terror in Afghanistan, and this wikileaks leak is evidence in their favor.
the use of 'deadly' surface to air missiles rather than the fluffy kind,
You know, after WWII, with the firebombing of Germany and the atomic bombing of Japan, there was talk of making bombs and missles an illegal weapon, just like chemical and biological weapons.
What would war look like if soldiers actually had to risk their lives shooting at each other, and civilian infrastructure and massive civilian casualties didn't exist?
I didn't see any of the other large multinationals drilling in the area jumping in and offering their solutions.
Well, you can't really offer to build the well correctly after the fact, now can you?
Other countries require safeguards to already be in placebefore the well goes into production. We could have required an acoustic dead-man switch, or relief wells to be in place, before the well went into production. If they had been in place, we would have already had the solution when the wellhead blew.
Brazil and Norway require these acoustic switches. If the oil companies don't want to do it on their own, we can just require them to do it.
Um... yeah. The first page of results are links to slang dictionaries, band names, Q&A sites that cater to undereducated people, and pages of that ilk. I'm gonna call BS on this.
I'd say a good 85%+ of the pre-solder stuff I have is functioning well, while I've noticed a good 40%+ failure rate of the new solder soon after the warranty expires.
I know a lot of nerds like to complain about lead-free solder, but this strikes me as a "just so" story. Now when you have a cheap piece of crap DVD player from China fail, it's due to the lead-free solder, and not the incredible competition and cheapening of production in the past 20 years of manufacturing?
Yeah, that's the only logical possibility. Color me skeptical.
Here's the reason I found: For most of my relatives who aren't computer savvy, it's the easiest way to see photos of the young people and their babies.
Science isn't a priesthood where you must reach a certain level of trust, experience, or whatever to be allowed in. It is open to all, and all have the potential to contribute.
Wait, so you're telling me that $900 for the 3-day initiation workshop was a total waste of time and money!?!?
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a) There's no physical evidence.
Does radar count? There's plenty of cases where a pilot ( and people on the ground ) report classical ufos ( saucers, cigars, triangles ) and these objects show up on radar.
The only time I've encountered a "fact checker" has been in connection with a magazine article. Magazine articles often are outsourced to freelancers, whose butts are not necessarily available for kicking the next morning if something is wrong, so fact-checkers are employed to verify information before it's published. Typically they'll call a news source: "Is your name really Heywood Jablome?"
I was on an eco-tour in Peru and one of the guys in the trip was a freelance journalist writing a piece about the experience. About a month after the trip,I got a call from his editor, who went through the most mundane details of the story, bit by bit, to confirm them with me. It was all basically correct, but I was really reaching to recall basic facts. Were the mats we slept on on the riverboat foam? Probably. Did that local guide say exactly that to the writer? I was only half-paying attention.
It was pretty thorough, and this wasn't an investigative piece or anything, just entertainment/travelogue. So at least for those kinds of pieces, editors do check up. Or at least one did for one story.
It's pretty sad that the events around the launch of their product are about the iPhone rather than their own. Don't they have anything to tout about Windows phone 7? Or can they only tear down the other guy?
Yeah, but nobody scored...
>sniff<... wasn't it beautiful?
When I interview, I am on the lookout for more than just raw skills... I look for people who turn into raging assholes on hour fourteen in a row on the Sunday night before release. They don't get hired.
How do you see this in a job interview?
...but some other double helix that was more stable...
Why does the molecule of life need be a double helix? Because it was the precursor to D/RNA? Because it folds up and compresses? Because that shape has some stability or protection from radiation?
You were moral because you chose to be, not because you "believed" in some silly magic book; or were too scared, or weak minded, to think for yourself.
Not that I disagree, but why is 'choosing' or 'thinking for yourself' the highest good, the one that some transcendent deity would base its judgment of you on? For all we know, it might judge you based on whether you ever had a toe infection.
If we're going to say that religious people claim that Deity is just and judges people justly, they also claim a lot of other things about Deity that we don't subscribe to (such as it wanting us to have faith). Why do we subscribe to this one?
I could link to a dozen articles, at least, discussing just this here at Slashdot.
How many of these articles are in Portuguese? The public mass consciousness has no memory, only a fickle perception of the present.
They should build green modular homes and deliver them all over the country.
I think this was the idea behind Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house
Is it about understanding Open Source? Or giving credit where credit is due?
Do you call it Debian GNU/Linux?
Oh, I see, because that industry would be asking the FBI to solve it's problems, to protect their problems. I get it now :)
What? Don't you ever make important files called test.txt, and don't sometimes they make their way into version control?
If there were a missing persons industry
Human trafficking is big in the US, bigger than you would expect, and it's flying under the radar.
Yeah, but it takes money to sue, something on the order of $10 to $20k, and a lot of folks don't have that lying around. It's risky. The media was just reporting that he was a suspect, just like the police thought, right?
True, but some come to faith by evidence.
What exactly is that? Is that not a contradiction in terms?
The government is, misguidedly, trying to bring freedom and Democracy there.
No, no, it's really not, and it's not a conspiracy to say that this isn't true. This is just the cover story, naked propaganda.
What's going on is that the American military is providing peace and stability for oil companies and other international conglomerates that want oil, natural gas, and other raw materials to move freely around the baltic sea and the middle east. Unocal now has their natural gas pipeline up and running through Afghanistan, which they were unable to get when the Taliban were running the country.
If we are surprised by this, its our own fault. Smedley Butler, the most highly decorated enlisted marine, told us about this nearly a century ago in War is a Racket, where he recounts how the US military was used to 'defend' the interests of American businesses in Central America:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
Yeah, but now there is a unocal pipeline going through it, whereas before there was none.
You know what? I think an average American would not be surprised to hear that any of these facts were true: - That there are death squads killing Taliban leaders - That there are a lot of civilian casualties - That the Taliban is getting support from another Muslim neighbor country. I'll bet the thought they knew all of this already, and are pleased as punch that the American military is doing its job to fight Terrorism and keep up safe.
This sounds to me like a case of Nerds Gone Wrong again. They think that giving the public some factoids are going to change their minds and start a revolution. Never happened, never will. The American people are happy about the war against terror in Afghanistan, and this wikileaks leak is evidence in their favor.
the use of 'deadly' surface to air missiles rather than the fluffy kind,
You know, after WWII, with the firebombing of Germany and the atomic bombing of Japan, there was talk of making bombs and missles an illegal weapon, just like chemical and biological weapons.
What would war look like if soldiers actually had to risk their lives shooting at each other, and civilian infrastructure and massive civilian casualties didn't exist?
What? Nobody's suggesting the good ol' Macquarium?
I didn't see any of the other large multinationals drilling in the area jumping in and offering their solutions.
Well, you can't really offer to build the well correctly after the fact, now can you?
Other countries require safeguards to already be in place before the well goes into production. We could have required an acoustic dead-man switch, or relief wells to be in place, before the well went into production. If they had been in place, we would have already had the solution when the wellhead blew.
Brazil and Norway require these acoustic switches. If the oil companies don't want to do it on their own, we can just require them to do it.
(technical term.. look it up)
Um... yeah. The first page of results are links to slang dictionaries, band names, Q&A sites that cater to undereducated people, and pages of that ilk. I'm gonna call BS on this.
I'd say a good 85%+ of the pre-solder stuff I have is functioning well, while I've noticed a good 40%+ failure rate of the new solder soon after the warranty expires.
I know a lot of nerds like to complain about lead-free solder, but this strikes me as a "just so" story. Now when you have a cheap piece of crap DVD player from China fail, it's due to the lead-free solder, and not the incredible competition and cheapening of production in the past 20 years of manufacturing?
Yeah, that's the only logical possibility. Color me skeptical.
Here's the reason I found: For most of my relatives who aren't computer savvy, it's the easiest way to see photos of the young people and their babies.
Science isn't a priesthood where you must reach a certain level of trust, experience, or whatever to be allowed in. It is open to all, and all have the potential to contribute.
Wait, so you're telling me that $900 for the 3-day initiation workshop was a total waste of time and money!?!?