Though I can't get online with it. The tapes that are still in the box with it (Trivial Pursuit and The Last Samurai) don't work either. But the machine works when plugged in, and you can still code basic on it.
Libertas are clearly working against a deadline, since elections are in June and the new Lisbon referendum in Ireland is later this year.
They need members, voting allies, and funds. And they're desperate to get them. So they make questionable alliances, not out of shared idealogy, but out of a desperate "The enemy of my enemy is my temporary friend" mentality.
Unfortunately, large numbers of the voting public don't agree with this.
However, if the public had sided with Libertas from the begining, those alliances would not have been necessary in the first place. And if they sided with Libertas now, they wouldn't be necessary in the future either.
But no, much better to vote for the same shower of corrupt crooks again and again. And somehow convince yourself that voting for the lesser of two evils, maintains your moral centre.
And yet, for some reason, the one pan-european political party which is against this sort of supranationality, isn't getting much traction with the voters.
I love it. They get to say their messiah was only joking. But when Jesus said that if your eye offends you, you must remove it, we can't say "He was only kidding." Or can we?
but it was back in the days of Windows 95. I was working in software Localisation for a Lotus Notes product. We had several machines working in the test lab based on ghost images, so they were all pretty much identical.
One of the machines kept dying on us during the test phase, but none of the others did. Very confusing, for about a day. Until we realised that the machine which was crashing had an audio CD in the drive. (Not playing, not in Explorer. Just present in the drive.)
We verified it by swapping the audio cd into other machines, and running the same tests. Invariably, the machine with the CD in, crashed when we tried to perform task "x" in Lotus Notes.
It was escalated up, as I recall. And we eventually got a note back saying "Don't put CD's in the CD-Rom drives."
I still remember it (as a recent graduate) as my first exposure to management-style thinking.
I suppose even a stopped clock might be right twice a day. But still, there's a difference between man-made on purpose, and man-made by accident/human error. So all the tinfoil hat wearing brigade, can hold off on the "I told you so's".
"Returning to the MMR story, Wakefield has been widely discredited and hauled in front of the GMC and could be struck off."
This is true. However, the timing was off. Wakefield was very much subject to ad-hominem attacks almost from the moment he put forward his initial claims. And while it took time to refute them, the medical community's savage response to the man was responsible for more than one person thinking there might be something to this.
When Pons and Fleischmann put forward their (admittedly bizarre) cold fusion claims, the physics community tried to replicate the results. They did not start screaming from the rooftops that Pons and Fleischmann were frauds, hoaxers, etc...
Addendum, in case it's not clear : It's the difference between using the organs of a dead person in organ transplant, and murdering someone to steal their kidneys/lungs/heart etc...
The moral issue of Stem Cells isn't the Stem Cells but the fact that if you needed Embryonic Stem Cells you needed to Abort/Terminate/Kill/(whatever verb you think best describes the process) the fetus.
Actually, you're playing right into the hands of the pro-life movement by saying that. It is NOT (repeat NOT) that you needed to kill/abort the fetus so as to get stem cells.
The fetus was aborted already. It is now medical waste. The only question is if you can use the medical waste to save lives, or not.
The distinction is an important one, but one which is all to easily overlooked by those who wish to perpetrate the image of scientists aborting fetuses so they can get their hands on those precious stem cells.
I wasn't trying to indicate HOW you should teach sex-ed to very young children. If anything I was making the same point you were trying to make, that lying to them at an early age is a bad idea. (I used the Stork to represent that position in my post.)
The point was to use simple concepts first, then get more complex over time.
I suspect you were flagged as a Troll because you seem to have deliberately missed the point of the post, and snarkily decided that "hugging in a special way" would not be suitable as a first idea for children about where kids come from.
I realise now that in future, all hypothetical examples that I create to illustrate a point, should be accurate, factually based, preferably with all the physics worked out. And of course, meet with your pre-approval.
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This leaves two options: either these guys are really stupid, or the real goal is different from the stated goal.
Or both.
"what cultures are left on this planet that aren't racially mixed?"
Rednecks? I heard they go big for inbreeding.
Of course, I don't know if you can call them a culture exactly.
Though I can't get online with it.
The tapes that are still in the box with it (Trivial Pursuit and The Last Samurai) don't work either.
But the machine works when plugged in, and you can still code basic on it.
Yeah, that's an oft-repeated accusation with no proof behind it.
If pointing people towards Declan Ganleys wikipedia page is the best you can do, I'm okay with it.
Well that's a chicken and egg situation then.
Libertas are clearly working against a deadline, since elections are in June and the new Lisbon referendum in Ireland is later this year.
They need members, voting allies, and funds. And they're desperate to get them.
So they make questionable alliances, not out of shared idealogy, but out of a desperate "The enemy of my enemy is my temporary friend" mentality.
Unfortunately, large numbers of the voting public don't agree with this.
However, if the public had sided with Libertas from the begining, those alliances would not have been necessary in the first place. And if they sided with Libertas now, they wouldn't be necessary in the future either.
But no, much better to vote for the same shower of corrupt crooks again and again. And somehow convince yourself that voting for the lesser of two evils, maintains your moral centre.
And yet, for some reason, the one pan-european political party which is against this sort of supranationality, isn't getting much traction with the voters.
Now lobbyists only have to bribe a handful of central political bastards to affect the whole of Europe.
I love it. They get to say their messiah was only joking. But when Jesus said that if your eye offends you, you must remove it, we can't say "He was only kidding." Or can we?
On the off chance that you see the response, yes, it was in Ireland.
but it was back in the days of Windows 95. I was working in software Localisation for a Lotus Notes product. We had several machines working in the test lab based on ghost images, so they were all pretty much identical.
One of the machines kept dying on us during the test phase, but none of the others did. Very confusing, for about a day. Until we realised that the machine which was crashing had an audio CD in the drive. (Not playing, not in Explorer. Just present in the drive.)
We verified it by swapping the audio cd into other machines, and running the same tests. Invariably, the machine with the CD in, crashed when we tried to perform task "x" in Lotus Notes.
It was escalated up, as I recall. And we eventually got a note back saying "Don't put CD's in the CD-Rom drives."
I still remember it (as a recent graduate) as my first exposure to management-style thinking.
but they'll never see 12 million dollars out of it.
"How do you think us Wheel of Time fans feel?"
After book 6 or 7, I didn't think there was any fans left.
I suppose even a stopped clock might be right twice a day. But still, there's a difference between man-made on purpose, and man-made by accident/human error. So all the tinfoil hat wearing brigade, can hold off on the "I told you so's".
"A police officer can seize the immediate legal control over a situation but there will be hell to pay later if that is abused."
Sorry to butt-in here, but can I just ask, what planet are you from? It sounds lovely.
No, but the perpetual efforts to keep the damn things clean, might all add to the CO2 levels.
As a geek, have you ever worn a t-shirt that wasn't black?
Those stains really show up when you wear white, and they actually have to be laundered relatively frequently.
Huh. I heard about the 7 foot bunny at the upper echelons of Scientology.
Are they teaching it in Advanced (top secret) physics too?
Must get our lawyers on to that.
I know it says Anonymous Coward, but admit it... You're Whil Wheaton, aren't you?
"Returning to the MMR story, Wakefield has been widely discredited and hauled in front of the GMC and could be struck off."
This is true. However, the timing was off. Wakefield was very much subject to ad-hominem attacks almost from the moment he put forward his initial claims. And while it took time to refute them, the medical community's savage response to the man was responsible for more than one person thinking there might be something to this.
When Pons and Fleischmann put forward their (admittedly bizarre) cold fusion claims, the physics community tried to replicate the results. They did not start screaming from the rooftops that Pons and Fleischmann were frauds, hoaxers, etc...
Anyone check where they live? See if there's a large number of newspapers gathering dust in the doorway?
Or whether the subject had perhaps recently left his family, and I dunno, shacked up with his new boyfriend?
"At some point in the next ten months, the Democrats are going to get overconfident and ripe with corruption."
FTFY.
Didn't you hear? Red is the new blue.
Addendum, in case it's not clear :
It's the difference between using the organs of a dead person in organ transplant, and murdering someone to steal their kidneys/lungs/heart etc...
The moral issue of Stem Cells isn't the Stem Cells but the fact that if you needed Embryonic Stem Cells you needed to Abort/Terminate/Kill/(whatever verb you think best describes the process) the fetus.
Actually, you're playing right into the hands of the pro-life movement by saying that.
It is NOT (repeat NOT) that you needed to kill/abort the fetus so as to get stem cells.
The fetus was aborted already. It is now medical waste. The only question is if you can use the medical waste to save lives, or not.
The distinction is an important one, but one which is all to easily overlooked by those who wish to perpetrate the image of scientists aborting fetuses so they can get their hands on those precious stem cells.
And how can the news networks use it to induce fear?
And more importantly, how we can we use it to sell stuff?
"Black hole protective face-masks" just don't seem like a seller, to me.
I wasn't trying to indicate HOW you should teach sex-ed to very young children.
If anything I was making the same point you were trying to make, that lying to them at an early age is a bad idea. (I used the Stork to represent that position in my post.)
The point was to use simple concepts first, then get more complex over time.
I suspect you were flagged as a Troll because you seem to have deliberately missed the point of the post, and snarkily decided that "hugging in a special way" would not be suitable as a first idea for children about where kids come from.
I realise now that in future, all hypothetical examples that I create to illustrate a point, should be accurate, factually based, preferably with all the physics worked out. And of course, meet with your pre-approval.