Hear! Hear! I only watch a few hours of TV a week, and almost half of them are Discovery Channel. I never heard of this show, but would have watched it if I had. The good news, is that they tend to show past episodes rather frequently on these short four parters, I think that the first episode of Storm Chasers was on about 10 times.
There were certainly no stick figures with clown feet in sight- unless the DI people scrawled them over the video with crayon.
In the article, in the video marked as original, during the time of 1:52 remaining through 1:45 remaining. It also makes an appearance later, as I recall, but that is enough to find it.
I can't remember if the Harvard copyright notice was in there or not. Not much reason to edit it out, since the short video doesn't say anything one way or the other about evolution, and Harvard was found as a religious school. There was some guy who gave the introduction to the video, who talked about how wonderfully complex cells were. But obviously looking at this video, most of the things that we see are extremely simplistic caricatures of stuff that actually happens in a cell. I mean come on, some stick figure with big old goofy shoes hauling a big bag up a pipe? That doesn't scream evolution at me.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to halt the global climate change that's causing catastrophic seaward events like these?
I realize you are trolling, but to answer your question: No. It is a lot easier to write software to detect rogue waves than it is to halt global climate change.
You think it's tightening $110M?
Tightening is the opposite of loosening, not loosing. I would think reigning in would be a more appropriate antonym for loosing.
I have counted four posts already in this thread with lose misspelled. If the supposedly more intelligent people that read slashdot are making this kind of error, how long will it be before loose is considered an appropriate alternate spelling of lose?
A giant fossilized claw discovered in Germany belonged to an ancient sea scorpion that was much bigger than the average man
Maybe the average man was much bigger 300 million years ago.
Funny, I'm in operations, not a manager, but I get four days off. Maybe it's because we have Linux servers.
Our servers have nothing to do with it. The banks are closed Thursday, and open Friday, so on Friday we have to be here and the work we receive in and have to process will be twice normal, which cancels out the holiday the day before.
Developers and managers don't have to concern themselves with the actual production work. They can take the day off. But operations always has to operate. That's why this is the last job I will ever take in operations.
People who aren't trustworthy are also mistrustful. They just assume everyone else is like them.
And speaking of higher ups, the higher ups (and the development staff) will be enjoying a vacation Wednesday through Sunday of this week. Unfortunately, people in operations, such as myself have to work every day except Thursday, and Friday will be a double load because of the holiday, and we will undoubtedly have to work overtime Friday into Saturday, so in effect, we get no day off at all, while the higher ups and development staff get three.
I do believe this is going to be the last job that I ever take in operations.
The last company I worked for sold software that processes more than 1/3 of the checks written in the United States. They paid all of their employees and most other bills electronically.
Of course you can only claim that God has not tried to contact us by ignoring all of the millions of people who say or said that He has.
I could far more easily ignore the one supposed signal from the stars than ignore millions of people claiming an experience with God.
Basically I'd agree with you if Earth 2 existed and had a COMPLETE MIRROR IMAGE of our planet's history.
I would disagree. Even given the exact same environmental settings, if a woolly rhino on Earth had a longer horn and was statistically more likely to survive predation actually did survive, while on Earth 2, the same woolly rhino happened to get killed by a freak accident, then longer horns may never have become a trait. Woolly rhinos may have died out earlier, or developed a different defense mechanism.
I think that given even a minor change to the luck of the draw, Earth's species would have turned out looking much differently than they do today.
The three problems with measuring time by solar events is that 1) the amount of time it takes for Earth to circle Sol varies from year to year, the amount of time it takes light from Sol to reach Earth varies constantly (elliptical orbit) and the amount of time that it takes Earth to rotate 360 degrees varies from day to day, and is also decreasing ever so slightly due to friction of water caused by tidal pull of the moon.
Things will never work out quite right until we can get the rotation of the Earth in sync with the orbital period of the Earth, and as soon as that happens, it will be out of sync again as the Earth's rotation slows.
Ford Prefect said it best: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Frankly, it's about time people started being punished for being stupid and careless. This whole "it's not MY fault" reeks of people being unable to take responsibility for their own actions. Let's up the ante and add in accomplice to fraud, as you're enabling the data theives with information...
While generally I agree that people need to take more responsibility, every stolen laptop situation that I am familiar with was one that the employee could not have helped. In one case, a laptop was sitting on the employees desk, and someone (probably one of the construction workers onsite at the time) decided take it. In another case, two laptops were stolen out of the trunk of a rental car while they were in a McDonalds. In another case, a laptop was stolen from inside a locked hotel room. In yet another, a laptop was stolen from next to a chair in a crowded hotel restaurant while the employee was 10 feet away getting an item at the breakfast bar.
While a careless employee should be punished for losing his laptop, in all cases of theft that I have been familiar with, proper care was taken. Furthermore, if data was removed from the laptop, then it is not the fault of the user, but of the IT policy which the user has no control over.
Texting is hideously inefficient and costs more money AND more time than calling. If he called and left a message, he would have been able to get 50 words in the same time he could have gotten one sentence. And it wouldn't have cost extra.
...with the new generation. My son and all his friends will absolutely not leave a message no matter what. At home, when my son's friends call and I ignore them because he is not home, they will not leave a message. They simply call back every so often until someone answers. if it is of an urgent nature, they call more frequently. My son once called me five times in the space of four minutes when I was in a meeting and couldn't answer. He never once left a message, which I could have listened to during the meeting to determine if it was actually important. You can try explaining this stuff to the new generation, but they don't get it.
Pardon me, there seem to be some teenagers on my lawn.
I want all phones to have that program to block the ghost calls.
Putting it on the phones is not efficient enough. It should just be put on the telco's switches.
Of course that would go over as well as ISP filtering your spam for you. Also, it would pretty effectively kill the jobs of 5% of the adult U.S. population.
Why do we still have such a problem with telemarketing even after the DNC registry? I would guess my calls got cut back by 25% or so, but most of the calls are from agencies which are exempt (but should not be) from the DNC, charities and politicians.
Now, many telemarketers are still able to get through because charities are paying telemarketing agencies to bug you.
Telemarketers aren't fooled by that. Acting interested is the wrong way to go. You need to record yourself saying things like "I'm right in the middle of dinner" or "this isn't a good time". Then they'll be on line forever.
I can't remember if it was the local radio show or a syndicated one that I listen to that had a guy on it who recorded his own pranking of telemarketer calls. He had one where he started off asking the telemarketer how he knew $IntendedRecipient and kept the guy on for about five minutes during which it evolved that there had been a murder, and that the telemarketer was now a suspect. They actually got the guy to admit where he was calling from and indicated that they were calling his local sheriff, and that he was not to move from his desk until the sheriff arrived. It was priceless.
I think it is disgusting when people prank call innocent Chinese takeout places, people's stay-at-home wives, and so forth, but a telemarketer is open game in my opinion.
I've replaced a bunch of bulbs with compact fluorescents. If I believe the packaging, I will save more money in a year on my lighting costs than I normally spend in a year on ALL of my electrical needs.
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Hear! Hear! I only watch a few hours of TV a week, and almost half of them are Discovery Channel. I never heard of this show, but would have watched it if I had. The good news, is that they tend to show past episodes rather frequently on these short four parters, I think that the first episode of Storm Chasers was on about 10 times.
Didn't you wonder why all the chain restaurants have their own version of a birthday song instead of just singing "Happy Birthday"?
There were certainly no stick figures with clown feet in sight- unless the DI people scrawled them over the video with crayon.
In the article, in the video marked as original, during the time of 1:52 remaining through 1:45 remaining. It also makes an appearance later, as I recall, but that is enough to find it.
I can't remember if the Harvard copyright notice was in there or not. Not much reason to edit it out, since the short video doesn't say anything one way or the other about evolution, and Harvard was found as a religious school. There was some guy who gave the introduction to the video, who talked about how wonderfully complex cells were. But obviously looking at this video, most of the things that we see are extremely simplistic caricatures of stuff that actually happens in a cell. I mean come on, some stick figure with big old goofy shoes hauling a big bag up a pipe? That doesn't scream evolution at me.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to halt the global climate change that's causing catastrophic seaward events like these?
I realize you are trolling, but to answer your question: No. It is a lot easier to write software to detect rogue waves than it is to halt global climate change.
You think it's tightening $110M?
Tightening is the opposite of loosening, not loosing. I would think reigning in would be a more appropriate antonym for loosing.
I have counted four posts already in this thread with lose misspelled. If the supposedly more intelligent people that read slashdot are making this kind of error, how long will it be before loose is considered an appropriate alternate spelling of lose?
A giant fossilized claw discovered in Germany belonged to an ancient sea scorpion that was much bigger than the average man
Maybe the average man was much bigger 300 million years ago.
Funny, I'm in operations, not a manager, but I get four days off. Maybe it's because we have Linux servers.
Our servers have nothing to do with it. The banks are closed Thursday, and open Friday, so on Friday we have to be here and the work we receive in and have to process will be twice normal, which cancels out the holiday the day before.
Developers and managers don't have to concern themselves with the actual production work. They can take the day off. But operations always has to operate. That's why this is the last job I will ever take in operations.
People who aren't trustworthy are also mistrustful. They just assume everyone else is like them.
And speaking of higher ups, the higher ups (and the development staff) will be enjoying a vacation Wednesday through Sunday of this week. Unfortunately, people in operations, such as myself have to work every day except Thursday, and Friday will be a double load because of the holiday, and we will undoubtedly have to work overtime Friday into Saturday, so in effect, we get no day off at all, while the higher ups and development staff get three.
I do believe this is going to be the last job that I ever take in operations.
The last company I worked for sold software that processes more than 1/3 of the checks written in the United States. They paid all of their employees and most other bills electronically.
Of course you can only claim that God has not tried to contact us by ignoring all of the millions of people who say or said that He has.
I could far more easily ignore the one supposed signal from the stars than ignore millions of people claiming an experience with God.
Basically I'd agree with you if Earth 2 existed and had a COMPLETE MIRROR IMAGE of our planet's history.
I would disagree. Even given the exact same environmental settings, if a woolly rhino on Earth had a longer horn and was statistically more likely to survive predation actually did survive, while on Earth 2, the same woolly rhino happened to get killed by a freak accident, then longer horns may never have become a trait. Woolly rhinos may have died out earlier, or developed a different defense mechanism.
I think that given even a minor change to the luck of the draw, Earth's species would have turned out looking much differently than they do today.
He sat through every disgusting frame of the game...twice.
The three problems with measuring time by solar events is that 1) the amount of time it takes for Earth to circle Sol varies from year to year, the amount of time it takes light from Sol to reach Earth varies constantly (elliptical orbit) and the amount of time that it takes Earth to rotate 360 degrees varies from day to day, and is also decreasing ever so slightly due to friction of water caused by tidal pull of the moon.
Things will never work out quite right until we can get the rotation of the Earth in sync with the orbital period of the Earth, and as soon as that happens, it will be out of sync again as the Earth's rotation slows.
Ford Prefect said it best: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
why? isn't that our right as US citizens?
Should be no problem so long as they don't record a policeman performing his job duties.
Frankly, it's about time people started being punished for being stupid and careless. This whole "it's not MY fault" reeks of people being unable to take responsibility for their own actions. Let's up the ante and add in accomplice to fraud, as you're enabling the data theives with information...
While generally I agree that people need to take more responsibility, every stolen laptop situation that I am familiar with was one that the employee could not have helped. In one case, a laptop was sitting on the employees desk, and someone (probably one of the construction workers onsite at the time) decided take it. In another case, two laptops were stolen out of the trunk of a rental car while they were in a McDonalds. In another case, a laptop was stolen from inside a locked hotel room. In yet another, a laptop was stolen from next to a chair in a crowded hotel restaurant while the employee was 10 feet away getting an item at the breakfast bar.
While a careless employee should be punished for losing his laptop, in all cases of theft that I have been familiar with, proper care was taken. Furthermore, if data was removed from the laptop, then it is not the fault of the user, but of the IT policy which the user has no control over.
Especially the Ionic Breeze which is not a HEPA air purifier, and produces Ozone which can actually be DANGEROUS to people with asthma.
My TRS-80 CoCo still boots in about 3/4 of a second. The fact that it still boots at all is an achievement in itself.
Or The Little Mermaid where a guy who looks like he is probably pushing 30 ends up kissing this girl who had earlier proclaimed herself to be 16.
Texting is hideously inefficient and costs more money AND more time than calling. If he called and left a message, he would have been able to get 50 words in the same time he could have gotten one sentence. And it wouldn't have cost extra.
You were in a meeting with your mobile switched on? You could have muted its bell or are you the boss?
Of course the ringer was off.
...with the new generation. My son and all his friends will absolutely not leave a message no matter what. At home, when my son's friends call and I ignore them because he is not home, they will not leave a message. They simply call back every so often until someone answers. if it is of an urgent nature, they call more frequently. My son once called me five times in the space of four minutes when I was in a meeting and couldn't answer. He never once left a message, which I could have listened to during the meeting to determine if it was actually important. You can try explaining this stuff to the new generation, but they don't get it.
Pardon me, there seem to be some teenagers on my lawn.
I want all phones to have that program to block the ghost calls.
Putting it on the phones is not efficient enough. It should just be put on the telco's switches.
Of course that would go over as well as ISP filtering your spam for you. Also, it would pretty effectively kill the jobs of 5% of the adult U.S. population.
Why do we still have such a problem with telemarketing even after the DNC registry? I would guess my calls got cut back by 25% or so, but most of the calls are from agencies which are exempt (but should not be) from the DNC, charities and politicians.
Now, many telemarketers are still able to get through because charities are paying telemarketing agencies to bug you.
Telemarketers aren't fooled by that. Acting interested is the wrong way to go. You need to record yourself saying things like "I'm right in the middle of dinner" or "this isn't a good time". Then they'll be on line forever.
I can't remember if it was the local radio show or a syndicated one that I listen to that had a guy on it who recorded his own pranking of telemarketer calls. He had one where he started off asking the telemarketer how he knew $IntendedRecipient and kept the guy on for about five minutes during which it evolved that there had been a murder, and that the telemarketer was now a suspect. They actually got the guy to admit where he was calling from and indicated that they were calling his local sheriff, and that he was not to move from his desk until the sheriff arrived. It was priceless.
I think it is disgusting when people prank call innocent Chinese takeout places, people's stay-at-home wives, and so forth, but a telemarketer is open game in my opinion.
I've replaced a bunch of bulbs with compact fluorescents. If I believe the packaging, I will save more money in a year on my lighting costs than I normally spend in a year on ALL of my electrical needs.