Are you kidding? Obama care and the incident in the original article have shown that the American Brand of Communism, complete with lack of liberty, is quite alive and well and *in force*.
Until it returns to actually showing science fiction shows, as opposed to paranormal, fantasy, horror and talk shows like Will Wheaton's show, it will still just be a pale pink version of itself.
I'm extremely skeptical of market forces. I'm even more skeptical of market forces *inside of science* which is why I made the comment that I did. Somebody's making money off of this scam. That's the only real explanation for being suddenly scared of fractions of a degree levels of warming, and failing to find a way to take advantage of the excess atmospheric carbon.
The idea that anything mankind does can affect a system as large as planet Earth other than slight noise on very limited time scales is ridiculous.
It is possible to build a building that will survive even a 9.5 on the Richter Scale.
The point is more, can you situate your lab in a place where even if the microbes escape, they can't survive on their own? The arid nature of the higher points of this desert, in combination with the significantly low pressure atmosphere, make even survival for humans slightly doubtful in places.
Nothing survives there. In 200 million years, no form of bacteria has been able to evolve to survive in the conditions there. You'd have to use pressurized buildings and carefully controlled climate though.
What I don't understand is *why the concern*. Why not switch to other crops than maize and wheat and rice? Say, maybe something that is drought tolerant like Quinoa?
And if I take 450 million year view, I can see an unambiguous cooling trend.:-) I still am waiting for somebody to explain how man caused the CO2 levels during the Ordovician Period. Especially since human beings wouldn't evolve for another 420 million years or so.
I can't speak for Grosseteste, who lived in an environment where coming out as a physicalist was pretty much suicide,
No it wasn't. The only guy who ever died for anything resembling science was an ex-Trappist cult leader who tried to use the system of Copernicus to revive the worship of Ra and the Egyptian religion. And even he, died for his *religious* beliefs, not for his scientific ones.
Even Galileo died in bed of old age.
"Combined with the fact that observations of similarity are based on observations of physical properties, it must have crossed his mind at some point that there may be nothing more than just the physical, since all else is irrelevant when trying to formulate the single set of natural laws which govern the universe."
Not if you believe in Roman Catholic Theology- a single set of natural laws which govern the universe flow quite naturally from a single Creator God who wrote those laws. In fact, for five centuries after Bishop Grosseteste lived, what drove intellectual curiosity about nature, was the supernatural.
Barely. Again, to call opinion polls valid measurements for the scientific method, you must agree that similar things behave similarly: you only need to choose the right boundaries for your black box (i.e. a good idea of what this 'similar' means) to analyze and predict someone's behaviour.
Once again, that's a part of basic Catholic theology- even God is restrained to reason. Fides et Ratio.
That goes against the notion that there must always be something inside the black box (a consciousness, a soul, whatever) that doesn't obey a natural, universal law, which is AFAIK something you need to refute physicalism.
Why would the consciousness and soul not obey universal laws? The only difference between the natural and the supernatural is human understanding, and it's a part of Catholic theology that even the supernatural obey universal laws.
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$1000 is not a lot of money in a campaign that took millions in, and Prop 8 said nothing about gays being "subhuman".
The only "public" he had to leave for was the 2% of Mozilla Employees who are gay.
How does forbidding an oxymoron exclude gays from society? I'd say allowing gay marriage is more exclusionary.
"In another role"- probably as 4th Basement Data Center Janitor. With an Office in a Disused Lavatory with a sign saying "Beware of the Leopard"
Except he didn't say that gays were subhuman.
So therefore a right wing company should have the right to fire gays, single mothers, and douchebags like you?
Yep. Given the Lavender Mafia, that role was probably Data Center Janitor.
Unfortunately? WH13 jumped the shark when they added the implied pro-same-sex-marriage narrative.
Are you kidding? Obama care and the incident in the original article have shown that the American Brand of Communism, complete with lack of liberty, is quite alive and well and *in force*.
Been happening for 10 years now. It was an inevitable part of the way Gay Marriage was handled. Why the surprise now?
Until it returns to actually showing science fiction shows, as opposed to paranormal, fantasy, horror and talk shows like Will Wheaton's show, it will still just be a pale pink version of itself.
I'm extremely skeptical of market forces. I'm even more skeptical of market forces *inside of science* which is why I made the comment that I did. Somebody's making money off of this scam. That's the only real explanation for being suddenly scared of fractions of a degree levels of warming, and failing to find a way to take advantage of the excess atmospheric carbon.
The idea that anything mankind does can affect a system as large as planet Earth other than slight noise on very limited time scales is ridiculous.
It is possible to build a building that will survive even a 9.5 on the Richter Scale.
The point is more, can you situate your lab in a place where even if the microbes escape, they can't survive on their own? The arid nature of the higher points of this desert, in combination with the significantly low pressure atmosphere, make even survival for humans slightly doubtful in places.
I think this place may be adequate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert
Nothing survives there. In 200 million years, no form of bacteria has been able to evolve to survive in the conditions there. You'd have to use pressurized buildings and carefully controlled climate though.
What I don't understand is *why the concern*. Why not switch to other crops than maize and wheat and rice? Say, maybe something that is drought tolerant like Quinoa?
And if I take 450 million year view, I can see an unambiguous cooling trend. :-) I still am waiting for somebody to explain how man caused the CO2 levels during the Ordovician Period. Especially since human beings wouldn't evolve for another 420 million years or so.
If CO2 is the real cause, why are you contributing to the problem by still breathing?
So if you don't share, you don't get a DMCA takedown on that file. Good to know.
Warning: Your posts on slashdot have exactly the same security as Dropbox.
Put on your headphones....
If you can't see the obvious connection between the two, try linguistics.
Actually, implementation of a rule change is drop dead easy.
Dump bitcoin and invent a new currency with the new rules.
In this case, overkill like a $4.95 locking doorknob?
No it wasn't. The only guy who ever died for anything resembling science was an ex-Trappist cult leader who tried to use the system of Copernicus to revive the worship of Ra and the Egyptian religion. And even he, died for his *religious* beliefs, not for his scientific ones.
Even Galileo died in bed of old age.
"Combined with the fact that observations of similarity are based on observations of physical properties, it must have crossed his mind at some point that there may be nothing more than just the physical, since all else is irrelevant when trying to formulate the single set of natural laws which govern the universe."
Not if you believe in Roman Catholic Theology- a single set of natural laws which govern the universe flow quite naturally from a single Creator God who wrote those laws. In fact, for five centuries after Bishop Grosseteste lived, what drove intellectual curiosity about nature, was the supernatural.
Once again, that's a part of basic Catholic theology- even God is restrained to reason. Fides et Ratio.
Why would the consciousness and soul not obey universal laws? The only difference between the natural and the supernatural is human understanding, and it's a part of Catholic theology that even the supernatural obey universal laws.
Forget Linux. Try NXT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Z-ym0k89Q
Seriously, if you can run this on a NXT brick why the hell are you bothering with a graphical operating system?