As soon as you find a "missing link" half way between species A and species B some religious nutter will point out there are now two mising links. Of course you never had a missing link in the first place but that doesn't matter to the willfully ignorant.
just a hypothesis, and an unprovable one at that.
Please at least skim through the basics of scientific philosophy. You cannot prove ANY hypothisis, you can only falsify it. Long standing scientific explainations such as Germ Theory, Relativity and Evolution are considered "scientific fact" not because they've been formally proven and are now unquestionable but because millions of independent attempts to falsify them have failed.
There what is? Changes in beak size due to chages in the environment refutes Darwin's theory that changes in beak size are due to chages in the environment? Are you just trolling or are you really as dumb as dogshit?
But when the hiring process rates the skin-deep social shmoozing skills above the ability to do the job, then you get shitty teams of sycophants and incompetence.
The opposite extreme of a bunch of socially inept but technically competent people is just as bad, they will all sulk in their own corner and refuse to form a team (shitty or otherwise).
The mathematical abilities of savants have been studied quite a bit - and you're wrong about that. Savants do all the same steps that anyone good at doing math in his head does
Not sure how those studies managed to read the minds of savants but the only known "idiot savant" who's verbal skills are such that he can articulate his own number crunching thought processes is Daniel Tammet. He describes it as "I'm seeing things in my head like little sparks flying off and it's not until the very last moment that those sparks tell me what on earth they mean".
I don't know about you but it sounds nothing like the steps I take to solve numerical problems in my head. Of course there are people who can do "olympic level"math in their head and they may be considered savants by some definition, but we are specifically talking about autistic savants (sometimes unkindly called "idiot savants"), their abilities are way above olympic level.
BTW: The sign of 68 degrees is positive, no need for lookup tables or savants to work that one out.;)
You can create a model to simulate any effect you want. That's what's called in technical language "pulling numbers out of your ass".
No you have it backwards, first you pull numbers out of your arse then you feed them into a model, except in this case they pull the numbers from insurance data. But seriously, the entire body of scientific knowledge is itself is a model, so I fail to see anything wrong with the statement except that it doesn't say waht you wouldlike it to..
The addict that can not acquire $300 a day to feed their habit and stay alive also can not earn $20. a day as a rule. So even if drugs were cheap and easy to purchase their habits will still be supported by their crimes
Bullshit, nobody currently lives a life a crime to support their tabacoo habit but if you put the price of a pack of smokes up to $300 that would change very quickly. Look around your office, one or more of those people will go out on the weekend and snort some coke, smoke a joint or whatever.
Or we could just gun them down. You know, keep it simple.
Do your co-workers know about your perverse desire to "keep it simple"?
First the pro drug crowd not only wants decriminalization but they also want a very special status in which product quality and purity is not examined or a path to taxation kept in view.
Quality and tax revenue are two major points that ALL pro-drug lobby groups have been lobbying for since at least the 1970's. The fact that you think that they don't want either simply confirms you are just making shit up to suit your Rambo inspired worldview.
Coal, which is pretty much the only other viable alternative to nuclear energy at this point
Global nuclear power capacity is ~376GW, Global wind power capacity is ~200GW and growing at a much faster rate than nuclear. I've yet to hear about a catastrophic wind leak from a wind farm.
A fuel cell in the boot can power both your house and your car! Sure you can do that with Diesel but it's noisy and fills your garage with noxious fumes.
Yeah they could do that but it's an insurance company not a health provider so my money says they will use it to build better actuary tables.
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth". - Lillian Hellman
"Or could be invested by someone who has clearly proven they know how to create wealth in starting or expanding a wealth creating business that causes thousands of paupers to be middle-class and millions of other people to have their standard of living increased by a tiny amount."
"They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin.
"Oh, and as a side note, I'm working on getting out. I can't stand the corporate environment."
Before you do I recommend watching a movie from the 80's called "Lost in America", it's a very funny comedy but it's also a cautionary tale of the bird in the hand variety.
The US was one of the largest agrarian cultures on the planet, and we didn't have oil until the 1850's.
And you could buy a decent buggy whip, trip over gold nuggets, and build your log cabin with oak trees. However that was 160yrs ago and none of it is relevant to the modern world.
You say birth control is complicated and your alternative is moving 200,000+ people a day for the next 40yrs to an undiscovered planet with science fiction technology? - You must be a PHB.
Why do all those thing you ask? - Because we can. However, my idea of progress is securing the means of survival for the next generation and beyond, mearly doubling our number with no regard to natural limits requires no more intelligence or imangination than fermenting yeast in a sealed container.
It was an offhand comment, I also missed the part about "if humans evolved on Tiatan", so my comparison was kinda irrelevant since humans did not evolve in the polar regions, rather they just moved there when technology allowed them to.
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just a hypothesis, and an unprovable one at that.
Please at least skim through the basics of scientific philosophy. You cannot prove ANY hypothisis, you can only falsify it. Long standing scientific explainations such as Germ Theory, Relativity and Evolution are considered "scientific fact" not because they've been formally proven and are now unquestionable but because millions of independent attempts to falsify them have failed.
There what is? Changes in beak size due to chages in the environment refutes Darwin's theory that changes in beak size are due to chages in the environment? Are you just trolling or are you really as dumb as dogshit?
But when the hiring process rates the skin-deep social shmoozing skills above the ability to do the job, then you get shitty teams of sycophants and incompetence.
The opposite extreme of a bunch of socially inept but technically competent people is just as bad, they will all sulk in their own corner and refuse to form a team (shitty or otherwise).
I wish I could go get a good paying job
Stop crying, many baby bomers wish for the the same thing!
The mathematical abilities of savants have been studied quite a bit - and you're wrong about that. Savants do all the same steps that anyone good at doing math in his head does
Not sure how those studies managed to read the minds of savants but the only known "idiot savant" who's verbal skills are such that he can articulate his own number crunching thought processes is Daniel Tammet. He describes it as "I'm seeing things in my head like little sparks flying off and it's not until the very last moment that those sparks tell me what on earth they mean".
;)
I don't know about you but it sounds nothing like the steps I take to solve numerical problems in my head. Of course there are people who can do "olympic level"math in their head and they may be considered savants by some definition, but we are specifically talking about autistic savants (sometimes unkindly called "idiot savants"), their abilities are way above olympic level.
BTW: The sign of 68 degrees is positive, no need for lookup tables or savants to work that one out.
Your conspiracy bot still has a few bugs.
You can create a model to simulate any effect you want. That's what's called in technical language "pulling numbers out of your ass".
No you have it backwards, first you pull numbers out of your arse then you feed them into a model, except in this case they pull the numbers from insurance data. But seriously, the entire body of scientific knowledge is itself is a model, so I fail to see anything wrong with the statement except that it doesn't say waht you wouldlike it to..
I might be being a bit of an anal retentive wise-ass, but isn't a dinosaur a reptile and not an animal?
Animal = member of the animalia kingdom
Reptile / dinosaur = member of the animalia kingdom = animal.
What the Vatican calls Satanism is a form of Christian belief. Worshipping Satan makes no sense without the myth structure of God, Jesus etc.
I don't understand god botherers but I understand Satanists even less, they knowingly pick the losing side?
The addict that can not acquire $300 a day to feed their habit and stay alive also can not earn $20. a day as a rule. So even if drugs were cheap and easy to purchase their habits will still be supported by their crimes
Bullshit, nobody currently lives a life a crime to support their tabacoo habit but if you put the price of a pack of smokes up to $300 that would change very quickly. Look around your office, one or more of those people will go out on the weekend and snort some coke, smoke a joint or whatever.
Or we could just gun them down. You know, keep it simple.
Do your co-workers know about your perverse desire to "keep it simple"?
First the pro drug crowd not only wants decriminalization but they also want a very special status in which product quality and purity is not examined or a path to taxation kept in view.
Quality and tax revenue are two major points that ALL pro-drug lobby groups have been lobbying for since at least the 1970's. The fact that you think that they don't want either simply confirms you are just making shit up to suit your Rambo inspired worldview.
Coal, which is pretty much the only other viable alternative to nuclear energy at this point
Global nuclear power capacity is ~376GW, Global wind power capacity is ~200GW and growing at a much faster rate than nuclear. I've yet to hear about a catastrophic wind leak from a wind farm.
A fuel cell in the boot can power both your house and your car! Sure you can do that with Diesel but it's noisy and fills your garage with noxious fumes.
TFA also points out that the cars' computer proves that the test was staged.
My computer proves you're gullible and jump to conclusions, and computers don't lie, right?.
But still, outright lies and fabrications is going too far.
Yes, but the question is who is doing that, Telsa or Top Gear? - The only thing I can see here is a "he said - she said" story.
The dog gets to 45mph in about a second while the car just digs holes in the sand for the first 5 seconds.
Yeah they could do that but it's an insurance company not a health provider so my money says they will use it to build better actuary tables.
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth". - Lillian Hellman
"Or could be invested by someone who has clearly proven they know how to create wealth in starting or expanding a wealth creating business that causes thousands of paupers to be middle-class and millions of other people to have their standard of living increased by a tiny amount."
"They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin.
"Oh, and as a side note, I'm working on getting out. I can't stand the corporate environment."
Before you do I recommend watching a movie from the 80's called "Lost in America", it's a very funny comedy but it's also a cautionary tale of the bird in the hand variety.
I'm not advocating this, but it does illustrate that there are solutions to the illegal immigration problem if so desired
N. Korea have stopped illegal imigation into their country by shooting people who try to leave, no second chances!
What part of the new testament [snip] states that the point is to live well with your neighbor?
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." - Mathew 7:12
The problem with today's armchair religious historians is that they make assertions such as these which fly in the face reality.
I hope reality didn't knock you out of your armchair. ;)
The reason why FB is used over a website is pure laziness
If it does the job then it's no more lazy than buying pre-sliced bread.
The US was one of the largest agrarian cultures on the planet, and we didn't have oil until the 1850's.
And you could buy a decent buggy whip, trip over gold nuggets, and build your log cabin with oak trees. However that was 160yrs ago and none of it is relevant to the modern world.
Why not just move to a new planet?
You say birth control is complicated and your alternative is moving 200,000+ people a day for the next 40yrs to an undiscovered planet with science fiction technology? - You must be a PHB.
Why do all those thing you ask? - Because we can. However, my idea of progress is securing the means of survival for the next generation and beyond, mearly doubling our number with no regard to natural limits requires no more intelligence or imangination than fermenting yeast in a sealed container.
It was an offhand comment, I also missed the part about "if humans evolved on Tiatan", so my comparison was kinda irrelevant since humans did not evolve in the polar regions, rather they just moved there when technology allowed them to.