Qwest's stand against it was amazing to me. Generally a corporation acts in ways that benefits the shareholders, and bending over for the federal government is good politics--which generally directly correlates to good profits.
Yet Qwest said, "This is not what a warrant looks like. Come back with a real warrant." Staggering.
I've always wondered that myself. What happens if you capture wind power? Surely that will affect the weather patterns. It's not "free" energy since there's no such thing. It's converting energy, and not efficiently, so when you take away however many kwh of power, what does that do? (On the kind of massive scale that Pickens is talking about. A handful of windmills is not the same thing as 10,000 acres of windmills.)
Maybe it's harmless. I don't know. Nobody talks about it.
If you count all the people who logged in once and never again--and Linden Labs apparently does--Second Life has the population of a decent-sized country. I'd say it's got plenty of awareness.
The main problem is that less than a few hundred thousand think it's worth their time to stay.
Problem with Openfiler is it doesn't do any authentication itself. Or it didn't the last time I messed with it. You had to have another machine set up to do LDAP or Samba (or whatever) authentication. It was a huge pain in the ass and I gave up on it as a home-based solution. Very powerful, but huge overkill.
Once you've changed the oil you now have to dispose of it. That convenience alone is worth the $25 or whatever to have a dedicated shop do it. The oil recycling place is quite a drive. (Unless you're the type who pours it in a hole in the backyard. I try not to be.)
Not to mention if you use a good oil-change place they look at other things that I rarely (never) check.
Science always tries to disprove a hypothesis, science is what is left of all hypothesis ever proposed that no one could disprove.
That's not exactly true. Scientists are just as prone to prop up pet projects and theories as anybody else. Especially when the scientists' funding is on the line.
You can argue that the scientific method seeks to disprove hypotheses, but the scientific method doesn't actually do anything. Science is not a force of nature. It's subject to the whims of humans.
I'm just saying, if you're going to take part of the verse personally and literally, take the whole verse personally and literally. Angels (or demons, for that matter) lend credence to the imaginary sky friend.
Maybe it's a tacit agreement that speciation happens through evolution?
I think current Creationist theories hold that the flood also broke apart Pangea, which explains how the animals managed to disperse so widely; but I figure that if God managed to flood the Earth, He was also capable of getting the animals where they needed to go.
You would've thought that a prophet charged with punishing the nasty gay people for their sins would set a better example than trading his daughters as collateral for his imaginary sky friend.
Leadership may be an important factor, but whether for success or failure is unclear. Obama could show phenomenal leadership championing the worst possible alternative-fuel option for perfectly good reasons. Good leadership, bad result. See Iraq for another example. GWB did a phenomenal job on many wrong things.
IMHO we would have got here a lot sooner if we hadn't laughed Gore off the stage and I suspect progress will increase exponentially when Obama takes over.
That's an appeal to magic. Replace "Gore" with "God" and you're a fundamentalist.
Re: announcing now, were I the scientist in charge of this, I wouldn't have done that test going back to previous generations stored in the freezer. I would have run over nuns and kittens to announce my killer mutant bacteria. I think he showed considerable restraint.
Eh. The older Scouts and adults often end up getting involved with Order of the Arrow, which is by any definition heathenism. You participate in Indian dances, often working with local tribes to learn them. The whole thing is drenched in Indian symbolism and liturgy. I'm not even sure you could consider it monotheism, though it is theistic to some degree. I infer that you think the organization is fundamentalist, but I hope I've demonstrated that it's hardly that simple.
Part of the issue with the article you linked is that the Scouting organization is highly decentralized. Local councils and even troops are pretty autonomous. I know that he wouldn't have been hassled in our local troops, and we're in the middle of the Bible Belt, so it's not fair to tar the entire organization on that one case. The national office will support the council's decision, but they wouldn't interfere if the council ignored it.
You have exactly zero proof of life anywhere outside of our biosphere. Zero. As in none.
Which is not to say that you couldn't be right. It is to say that you're talking completely out of your ass, and doing so with a certainty that smacks of fundamentalism.
Really? Because of the preparation that they need to do after and before the school year, their "3 months off a year" works out to just over a month, if they're very lucky. And those vacations? They're usually filled with grading, preparation, continuing schooling that they need to do to keep their credentials. I went on a trip last weekend with a couple of good friends, one of which is a teacher. She spent almost the entire weekend preparing materials that she was going to be passing out to her class this week. Some vacation.
I hear this all the time, but it's just as true for any professional job. You can't work in, say, IT and not keep your certifications current or stop learning new things. Not if you want to still be employed when you're 50. Only in other professional careers you don't get three months off to do these things.
Teachers are adequately compensated. If they didn't like it they could quit, but they don't. Because they are adequately compensated. But nobody has ever said, "Gosh, no, you're paying me PLENTY, no need for a raise!" Teachers simply have a powerful union where their complaints gets results.
I hate it when SF automatically starts a download. Most of the time I'm not downloading to my local machine, I just want the download link so I can paste it in a terminal window for wget.
It's weird to me because you just KNOW SF is aware that this is annoying and useless. Click a link to download. Don't javascript the download. Morons.
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Qwest's stand against it was amazing to me. Generally a corporation acts in ways that benefits the shareholders, and bending over for the federal government is good politics--which generally directly correlates to good profits.
Yet Qwest said, "This is not what a warrant looks like. Come back with a real warrant." Staggering.
I've always wondered that myself. What happens if you capture wind power? Surely that will affect the weather patterns. It's not "free" energy since there's no such thing. It's converting energy, and not efficiently, so when you take away however many kwh of power, what does that do? (On the kind of massive scale that Pickens is talking about. A handful of windmills is not the same thing as 10,000 acres of windmills.)
Maybe it's harmless. I don't know. Nobody talks about it.
If you count all the people who logged in once and never again--and Linden Labs apparently does--Second Life has the population of a decent-sized country. I'd say it's got plenty of awareness.
The main problem is that less than a few hundred thousand think it's worth their time to stay.
No, it was believably cool.
Unbelievably cool would be if it came with a pony.
People who say "Period." are usually talking out of their hat.
The actual job of the CIO involves more than that. Most jobs cannot be so simply summarized. At least not usefully.
Problem with Openfiler is it doesn't do any authentication itself. Or it didn't the last time I messed with it. You had to have another machine set up to do LDAP or Samba (or whatever) authentication. It was a huge pain in the ass and I gave up on it as a home-based solution. Very powerful, but huge overkill.
Once you've changed the oil you now have to dispose of it. That convenience alone is worth the $25 or whatever to have a dedicated shop do it. The oil recycling place is quite a drive. (Unless you're the type who pours it in a hole in the backyard. I try not to be.)
Not to mention if you use a good oil-change place they look at other things that I rarely (never) check.
That's not exactly true. Scientists are just as prone to prop up pet projects and theories as anybody else. Especially when the scientists' funding is on the line.
You can argue that the scientific method seeks to disprove hypotheses, but the scientific method doesn't actually do anything. Science is not a force of nature. It's subject to the whims of humans.
I'm just saying, if you're going to take part of the verse personally and literally, take the whole verse personally and literally. Angels (or demons, for that matter) lend credence to the imaginary sky friend.
Maybe it's a tacit agreement that speciation happens through evolution?
I think current Creationist theories hold that the flood also broke apart Pangea, which explains how the animals managed to disperse so widely; but I figure that if God managed to flood the Earth, He was also capable of getting the animals where they needed to go.
Imaginary? He had angels in his house.
Are you counting people in the military?
Not in my experience. Sure, most do, but some just know they click on this certain icon for email.
"Do you use Outlook?"
"What's an outlook?"
Happens more than two times out of a hundred.
That's retarded.
Apple sold a million iPhones. Have you sold a million of anything? Why is your critique worth listening to?
Why don't you come back and preach when you've developed a GnuPhone and have given away everything you've ever worked on.
Some nerds seriously need to re-prioritize their self worth.
Or Brandon Bird.
Lazy Sunday Afternoon being a good choice.
Leadership may be an important factor, but whether for success or failure is unclear. Obama could show phenomenal leadership championing the worst possible alternative-fuel option for perfectly good reasons. Good leadership, bad result. See Iraq for another example. GWB did a phenomenal job on many wrong things.
The Blackberry Curve is pretty good. It's a pain to get to the pipe symbol in MidpSSH, but it's doable.
That's an appeal to magic. Replace "Gore" with "God" and you're a fundamentalist.
The extremists on both ends are twats.
Re: announcing now, were I the scientist in charge of this, I wouldn't have done that test going back to previous generations stored in the freezer. I would have run over nuns and kittens to announce my killer mutant bacteria. I think he showed considerable restraint.
I for one...
Eh. The older Scouts and adults often end up getting involved with Order of the Arrow, which is by any definition heathenism. You participate in Indian dances, often working with local tribes to learn them. The whole thing is drenched in Indian symbolism and liturgy. I'm not even sure you could consider it monotheism, though it is theistic to some degree. I infer that you think the organization is fundamentalist, but I hope I've demonstrated that it's hardly that simple.
Part of the issue with the article you linked is that the Scouting organization is highly decentralized. Local councils and even troops are pretty autonomous. I know that he wouldn't have been hassled in our local troops, and we're in the middle of the Bible Belt, so it's not fair to tar the entire organization on that one case. The national office will support the council's decision, but they wouldn't interfere if the council ignored it.
Gosh, your "seems like an awful waste of space" argument is compelling.
The standard of science is falsifiability, right? "Hard to believe" covers it, you think?
Twaddle.
What twaddle.
You have exactly zero proof of life anywhere outside of our biosphere. Zero. As in none.
Which is not to say that you couldn't be right. It is to say that you're talking completely out of your ass, and doing so with a certainty that smacks of fundamentalism.
I hear this all the time, but it's just as true for any professional job. You can't work in, say, IT and not keep your certifications current or stop learning new things. Not if you want to still be employed when you're 50. Only in other professional careers you don't get three months off to do these things.
Teachers are adequately compensated. If they didn't like it they could quit, but they don't. Because they are adequately compensated. But nobody has ever said, "Gosh, no, you're paying me PLENTY, no need for a raise!" Teachers simply have a powerful union where their complaints gets results.
I hate it when SF automatically starts a download. Most of the time I'm not downloading to my local machine, I just want the download link so I can paste it in a terminal window for wget.
It's weird to me because you just KNOW SF is aware that this is annoying and useless. Click a link to download. Don't javascript the download. Morons.