Yawn. Yea, lunatic fringe is lunatic fringe. There are also those who think the government can simply take control of all production and set prices as it sees fit.
Not really. There's a reasonable chance that the development of autism could be avoided or minimized if we understand what causes it. Many genetic diseases can be treated (e.g. MSUD, catch it in time and the child can live a fairly normal life).
Created by California lawmaker Former San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Leland Yee, now a senator, in the hopes of curbing children’s access to games that allow for assassination, violent crimes, rape, etc.
Seems this was a law the Democrats "attempted to push through".
The burrows were located 125 feet (38 meters) below the present surface in layers containing bones of large mammals, such as mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, bison, horse and deer...
Gubin said the study has demonstrated that tissue can survive ice conservation for tens of thousands of years, opening the way to the possible resurrection of Ice Age mammals.
Ice Age mammals might be useful today. If nothing else it would be pretty cool to see a mammoth or a wooly rhino..
It seems Slashdot articles are gearing up for election season. Even the headline of this article is nonsense - Warheads? - no, they're transporting components, not warheads.
How long before Chief Evil gets one of these programmed so it lets you drive through three green lights in a row, then quick changes to red on the fourth and uses the ticket camera to cite you for running the light? Bwaaahaahaaha.
Do they have a supercomputer to actively monitor every little thing on the Internet?
Yes. "Siri do you hear anything that might be a terrorist plot?". Once they're on a trail, a human can home in on the details. Been that way for decades with electronic eavesdropping.
I think it'd be a better idea to look at the socio-economic problems leading to people willing to commit crimes
*cough* or crimes committed in the name of religion.
No, the American Retard Party says: "the federal government must be all powerful, we'll just eliminate those pesky state and local governments and control everything from Washington."
Ever wonder why the country is called "The United States of America"? It's a federation of 50 separate states, like it or not. There's also a very good reason why the President and Vice President are elected by the Electoral College rather than popular vote (maybe you should read up on it some time).
Well, maybe they didn't use the word "bad", but apparently close enough:
According to the child's grandmother, a state agent took away the girl's homemade lunch and replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets.
The girl later told her family that she only ate three of the nuggets.
When asked to explain, the agent reportedly told the child that her lunch wasn't "nutritious" and "didn't meet USDA guidelines."
I was once told that even with medication in pill form, roughly 1/3 of prescriptions are never filled and another 1/3 are filled but the patient never takes them.
As the article states, getting a patient to take drugs which require daily (or multiple times per day) injections is very difficult. For obvious reasons people just don't want to stick themselves with needles, elderly patients forget, some drugs need to be given so frequently the patient has to be wakened every couple of hours, etc.
The Energy Institute said its report was conducted using general university funds, rather than specific grants from energy-industry companies or environmental groups. However, the institute said the Environmental Defense Fund assisted in developing the scope of work and the methodology for the study.
Apparently the ties are to an environmental group which wasn't at all happy with the conclusion. This group appears to believe scientists who suggest global warming is man made, but doesn't want to believe scientists who say hydraulic fracturing is safe. Hmm...
Its most recent seismic tragedy began in October 2008, when dozens of low-magnitude tremors began to hit the city...these tremors continued intermittently over the first three months of 2009...a resident named Giampaolo Giuliani began to make unofficial earthquake predictions on the basis of measurements of radon gas levels...their use as a reliable short-term predictor of earthquakes has never been scientifically proved or accepted...On 30 March, Giuliani says, national civil-protection officials cited him for procurato allarme — essentially instigating public alarm or panic — and forbade him from making any public pronouncements
Six months of tremors. Some guy running around telling everyone there was about to be a big earthquake. Do they ignore him? Kind of sounds like they went too far in saying there was no risk, but I could understand them trying to calm things down.
We're only getting one side of the story so it's impossible to tell if there was reasonable cause for what appears to be a search of the database. Per updates from JotForm the suspension has been lifted.
Apple skimmed off the cream and made a lot of money, but now tablets are a commodity with very low profit margins. I don't see Microsoft doing well in the tablet market, they're a software company and have never done well as an also ran hardware vendor. Besides, companies should be looking for the Next Big Thing, not last year's big thing.
"the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain – two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science"
From that, it sure sounds like they want to dissuade teachers from teaching science.
It's not an especially well written sentence, but jumping on it as proof that they are anti-science seems a bit of a stretch. Unfortunately both sides of this subject have gotten far too emotional to even consider the possibility that the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
By far the largest problem standing between us and mass smart TV adoption is the user interface.
No. By far the biggest problem is that there's no reason for a "smart" TV (whatever that is) when all you can do with it is watch the same junk that's on a dumb TV.
The money to build, launch, and operate GALEX has already been spent; those costs are sunk, gone, cannot be recovered. But NASA doesn't has any more money to continue operating the system. Given their choices - 1) decommission it 2) beg Congress for more money, or 3) give it away - it seems the best alternative is to give it away.
Even if Congress would give them more money (#2) it would be taken out of the funding for some other NASA program. The best path to continuing the space program is to decide where to spend limited resources.
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Yawn. Yea, lunatic fringe is lunatic fringe. There are also those who think the government can simply take control of all production and set prices as it sees fit.
Not really. There's a reasonable chance that the development of autism could be avoided or minimized if we understand what causes it. Many genetic diseases can be treated (e.g. MSUD, catch it in time and the child can live a fairly normal life).
Created by California lawmaker Former San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Leland Yee, now a senator, in the hopes of curbing children’s access to games that allow for assassination, violent crimes, rape, etc.
Seems this was a law the Democrats "attempted to push through".
FTA:
The burrows were located 125 feet (38 meters) below the present surface in layers containing bones of large mammals, such as mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, bison, horse and deer...
Gubin said the study has demonstrated that tissue can survive ice conservation for tens of thousands of years, opening the way to the possible resurrection of Ice Age mammals.
Ice Age mammals might be useful today. If nothing else it would be pretty cool to see a mammoth or a wooly rhino..
It seems Slashdot articles are gearing up for election season. Even the headline of this article is nonsense - Warheads? - no, they're transporting components, not warheads.
Drivers in most Asian (and many European) don't need wimpy traffic signals. Of course, Europeans don't always get it right
Ahh, the old "it's okay to pirate music because I only made a copy" defense.
It's not okay to copy private or copyrighted data without the owner's permission. Period.
What makes you think they don't have guns?
How long before Chief Evil gets one of these programmed so it lets you drive through three green lights in a row, then quick changes to red on the fourth and uses the ticket camera to cite you for running the light? Bwaaahaahaaha.
Do they have a supercomputer to actively monitor every little thing on the Internet?
Yes. "Siri do you hear anything that might be a terrorist plot?". Once they're on a trail, a human can home in on the details. Been that way for decades with electronic eavesdropping.
I think it'd be a better idea to look at the socio-economic problems leading to people willing to commit crimes
*cough* or crimes committed in the name of religion.
The vehicle reached an altitude of 0.248548477 furlongs in roughly 2.48015873 × 10-5 fortnights
No, the American Retard Party says: "the federal government must be all powerful, we'll just eliminate those pesky state and local governments and control everything from Washington."
Ever wonder why the country is called "The United States of America"? It's a federation of 50 separate states, like it or not. There's also a very good reason why the President and Vice President are elected by the Electoral College rather than popular vote (maybe you should read up on it some time).
Well, maybe they didn't use the word "bad", but apparently close enough:
According to the child's grandmother, a state agent took away the girl's homemade lunch and replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl later told her family that she only ate three of the nuggets. When asked to explain, the agent reportedly told the child that her lunch wasn't "nutritious" and "didn't meet USDA guidelines."
I was once told that even with medication in pill form, roughly 1/3 of prescriptions are never filled and another 1/3 are filled but the patient never takes them.
As the article states, getting a patient to take drugs which require daily (or multiple times per day) injections is very difficult. For obvious reasons people just don't want to stick themselves with needles, elderly patients forget, some drugs need to be given so frequently the patient has to be wakened every couple of hours, etc.
So, if doing fraking "right" requires you to have perfect cement jobs everytime, then it isn't possible to do fraking right.
That's a pretty big "if". You could also say that the vast majority of gas wells are done perfectly, and a few had problems which needed to be fixed
Keep in mind that natural gas in water wells is very common throughout the Appalachians
The Energy Institute said its report was conducted using general university funds, rather than specific grants from energy-industry companies or environmental groups. However, the institute said the Environmental Defense Fund assisted in developing the scope of work and the methodology for the study.
Apparently the ties are to an environmental group which wasn't at all happy with the conclusion. This group appears to believe scientists who suggest global warming is man made, but doesn't want to believe scientists who say hydraulic fracturing is safe. Hmm...
From the Nature article:
Its most recent seismic tragedy began in October 2008, when dozens of low-magnitude tremors began to hit the city...these tremors continued intermittently over the first three months of 2009...a resident named Giampaolo Giuliani began to make unofficial earthquake predictions on the basis of measurements of radon gas levels...their use as a reliable short-term predictor of earthquakes has never been scientifically proved or accepted...On 30 March, Giuliani says, national civil-protection officials cited him for procurato allarme — essentially instigating public alarm or panic — and forbade him from making any public pronouncements
Six months of tremors. Some guy running around telling everyone there was about to be a big earthquake. Do they ignore him? Kind of sounds like they went too far in saying there was no risk, but I could understand them trying to calm things down.
Probable cause, reasonable suspicion, yes I didn't get the term right, but you got the point.
but there doesn't appear to be real probable cause in this case
Really? How do you know that? We don't know why the Feds asked to have the domain unavailable for two days.
We're only getting one side of the story so it's impossible to tell if there was reasonable cause for what appears to be a search of the database. Per updates from JotForm the suspension has been lifted.
Apple skimmed off the cream and made a lot of money, but now tablets are a commodity with very low profit margins. I don't see Microsoft doing well in the tablet market, they're a software company and have never done well as an also ran hardware vendor. Besides, companies should be looking for the Next Big Thing, not last year's big thing.
"the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain – two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science"
From that, it sure sounds like they want to dissuade teachers from teaching science.
It's not an especially well written sentence, but jumping on it as proof that they are anti-science seems a bit of a stretch. Unfortunately both sides of this subject have gotten far too emotional to even consider the possibility that the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
By far the largest problem standing between us and mass smart TV adoption is the user interface.
No. By far the biggest problem is that there's no reason for a "smart" TV (whatever that is) when all you can do with it is watch the same junk that's on a dumb TV.
here's the interview
The money to build, launch, and operate GALEX has already been spent; those costs are sunk, gone, cannot be recovered. But NASA doesn't has any more money to continue operating the system. Given their choices - 1) decommission it 2) beg Congress for more money, or 3) give it away - it seems the best alternative is to give it away.
Even if Congress would give them more money (#2) it would be taken out of the funding for some other NASA program. The best path to continuing the space program is to decide where to spend limited resources.
If you can get a great candidate to be a popular and successful state senator, then he's got a good shot at becoming
A state senator moving all the way up to President? Unheard of...oh wait.