ID has done quite a bit of harm to the minds of young people
I agree, just look at the young people of today. They're all crazy and it's clearly because of ID. Sorry for having to ask, but who exactly has ID harmed? The one school district in Pennsylvania that never taught it? The Georgia schools that had harmless stickers in their biology books for less than a year? I see statements like yours all over the place and can't quite figure out what you are referring to. Do you really believe this, or is it more of a deep hidden hatred of religion in general? I'd love to see how young people have been harmed by an ID theory that hasn't been able to reach the school systems.
I disagree, even when you read the actual papers about evolution, they read very much like this post. That was my point on bio-chemistry...when you get down into the actual details of biology where it blends with chemistry, very few people are talking about. Evolution opponents have capitalized on this notion, even publishing a book called "Darwin's black box" that addresses just this problem...hand waving.
It may be a matter of audience in a slashdot forum, but when the actual scientific papers speak the same language, there is a serious deficiency. Reading this actual news report, you see the same thing when it talks about the gills disappearing...no explanation for how an alternative method of air developed as one waned... No explanation of how oxygen is pulled through a non-existent trachea, etc.
The project, championed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, is intended to boost the city's technology credentials and help bridge the digital divide between the Internet haves and have-nots.
Of course, the have-nots are going to need to *have* a computer to make use of this technology. Most of the have-nots do not-have a computer, let alone a wireless laptop that tends to be more expensive than a desktop. I love when mayors pretend to bridge the gap, but instead grow the gap.
3. Get them to explain the evolutionary path that lead to creatures having sight.
Here goes: an eye spot that detects light and dark develops into a pit eye, which enables the creature to detect direction. This develops into a Pinhole Eye. This develops a protective layer. The layer develops fluid. Fluid turns into a protein lens. Cornea and Iris separate. Organism is perfected into what we have now. Totally simplified of course but good enough for slashdot!
Is it just me, or is evolution the only area of science where people can produce such hand-wavey arguments and still pass as science? Oh! Now I see how it works, gosh, it's just so simple! Take a look at papers on bio-chemistry and you're hard pressed to find anything about evolution because that's where the nitty-gritty goes down and waving your hands just doesn't cut it.
Now I'm not suggesting evolution is wrong, but rather, it usually gets by without doing any real science. A lot more work is needed...and explanations like this are more hokey than based on evidence.
Bell South originally offered to donate one of its damaged buildings to the city, providing space for the police and other city officials. I've got to wonder how much of a benefit free wireless is to an empty city as opposed to free office space for people who actually need it, and to a city that is already bankrupt.
Maybe they should have phrased it another way, "29 percent of environmental activists do not believe in global warming." Sounds like a more shocking result to me.
Yes I saw that too. The webhost might forward large amounts of traffic to the FBI site, thinking they are under a DOS attack....or in this case, slashdot attack.
You're right, especially when the actual article has no mention of forgeries or even that the find "has yet to be verified." The scientist they have quoted in the article is from Germany, and he doesn't sound suspicious, but instead genuinely interested in the scientific ramifications. Automatically assuming it is a forgery is not only biased, but scientifically close-minded.
It's nice to see the ipod has just over half of the market (51.3%), but that is not what we call cornering a market. That's called a majority market share. Cornering a market usually involves dominating almost the entire market and making it extremely difficult for the little guys to get a foothold. Let's wait till it is up around 80%+ and then you can start talking about cornering.
They had an episode where they tried to make a single-person jetpack, not too dissimilar from this, only on a smaller scale. It didn't go over too well, but they got close!
Episode 32: Jet Pack
In this "twin-taled" episode, Adam and Jamie embark on the longest and most ambitious build they've ever undertaken: creating their own personal flying machine from scratch. Are these machines as magnificent as their designers claim? To make the project more realistic, the two limit themselves to a build period of one month and a budget of $10,000. Then, the MythBuilders tackle the myth that preserving the pharaohs involved much more than mummification, that it was the shape of the pyramids themselves -- in particular, their cosmically inspired geometry -- that kept the bodies of Egyptian kings intact. Is it all a load of rot, or can the build team's homemade pyramids keep fruit fresh and razors sharp, as new-age gurus claim?
If you read the article, you'll find that the new alliance includes two other groups in addition to the Russian Space Agency:
(1) Space Adventures....a Virginia based company (that would be in the USA)
(2) Prodea....an investment firm in Dallas, Texas (that would be in the USA)
I've found this page to be the most insightful on the quote. It describes the origin of the quote and guesses at who wrote it (not Ben). It also has a nice snapshot of the actual print that the quote comes from, showing a much different version than the ones you see around the web:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
[i]Climate science has been a thorny issue for the administration since 2001, when [b]Mr. Bush[/b] abandoned a campaign pledge to restrict power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas linked to global warming, and said the United States would not join the Kyoto Protocol, the first climate treaty requiring reductions.[/i]
Did anyone notice that this article addressed the President as "Mr. Bush" four times in that article? This article complains that a NASA appointee wrote a memo asking all "big bang" references to be turned into "big bang theory". I wonder if the New York Times editors sent a similar memo that asked for all "President Bush" references to be turned to "Mr. Bush". Last time I checked, the correct address for a sitting president is, President. In fact, even former presidents are called, President.
Frist and foremost, the Internet is currently unregulated. This really bothers most governments around the world, and probably the United States most of all.
You must mean, 'it bothers the USA the most among countries where the Internet is unregulated.' Otherwise, I don't know how you make such a claim with China's citizen firewall sitting in place. And I can think of many other examples of regulation that occurs outside the USA. But maybe I'm just being defensive...
I stopped using google maps, but only because I found Yahoo's Map Beta to be better.
In fact, it is this type of fickle user preferences that a company like Google has the most to fear. Web software is just too easy to duplicate, and it only takes a couple of months for Yahoo to copy Google's maps, and then throw in some new features that make people like me switch. And I did it without feeling anything bad for leaving Google behind.
Forget the fear of lawsuits and patent infringement, the fear of quick and dirty software should be at the top of the list.
There has always been a push to get women in science, yet there is no similar push to get men in literature, social sciences, education, etc. It is extremely lopsided and the efforts are beginning to seriously affect how boys progress through the school system. The male/female ratio in college is now 44%/56%. Such numbers mean we need more pro-male programs, not more pro-female. Newsweek had a recent story about this and other factors, it's a good read.
"A new study monitored brain activity of partisans; they shun logic and use emotional processing centers to justify their candidate's contradictory statements."
"Ask Jeeves, an Internet search engine owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, has not received any requests from the government, spokesman Patrick Crisp said."
Poor AskJeeves, always getting left out of the fun... They should start a new advertising campaign around the slogan, "Need access to millions of searches? Ask Jeeves!!"
Indeed, the author is among the rest of the world that believes we can build intelligence and make systems smarter just by throwing large amounts of computing power at it. Human thinking is just one more processor away...
Nevermind that open issues of logical formalisms and knowledge representation, let alone application of statistics and probabilistic models have yet to be solved.
The report doesn't investigate how many of the "syntactically valid" addresses are correct. If 9% of the information is obviously false, I'd bet at least 50% of the rest uses fake addresses and phone numbers that look correct. Nobody wants to receive spam just for owning a domain name, so there is no motivation to put in correct information, nor is there a deterrent in place to stop people.
The Google Talk client is for colleagues and friends on the cutting edge
Perhaps this is nitpicking too much, but is Google Talk really "the cutting edge"? I can understand maybe the author is talking about having "the latest product", but that definitely doesn't equal the cutting edge. As far as I can tell, Google Talk doesn't make any major advancements in technology whatsoever, in fact not even its GUI is very original. It looks alot like Apple's iChat. I think it's one thing to have the latest product, but that certainly doesn't mean you have the best product. Bad products come out all the time, and the people who grab them up shouldn't be considered cutting edge.
Why not let us make our own decisions about what to watch--and let the networks make their own decisions about what to air?
Um, isn't that what a la carte pricing will do? What exactly are you arguing here? Perhaps your hatred for religion is blinding you to a pricing scheme that both you and the religious agree on. Really, it's ok to agree with religious people...try it sometime.
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I agree, just look at the young people of today. They're all crazy and it's clearly because of ID. Sorry for having to ask, but who exactly has ID harmed? The one school district in Pennsylvania that never taught it? The Georgia schools that had harmless stickers in their biology books for less than a year? I see statements like yours all over the place and can't quite figure out what you are referring to. Do you really believe this, or is it more of a deep hidden hatred of religion in general? I'd love to see how young people have been harmed by an ID theory that hasn't been able to reach the school systems.
It may be a matter of audience in a slashdot forum, but when the actual scientific papers speak the same language, there is a serious deficiency. Reading this actual news report, you see the same thing when it talks about the gills disappearing...no explanation for how an alternative method of air developed as one waned... No explanation of how oxygen is pulled through a non-existent trachea, etc.
Of course, the have-nots are going to need to *have* a computer to make use of this technology. Most of the have-nots do not-have a computer, let alone a wireless laptop that tends to be more expensive than a desktop. I love when mayors pretend to bridge the gap, but instead grow the gap.
Here goes: an eye spot that detects light and dark develops into a pit eye, which enables the creature to detect direction. This develops into a Pinhole Eye. This develops a protective layer. The layer develops fluid. Fluid turns into a protein lens. Cornea and Iris separate. Organism is perfected into what we have now. Totally simplified of course but good enough for slashdot!
Is it just me, or is evolution the only area of science where people can produce such hand-wavey arguments and still pass as science? Oh! Now I see how it works, gosh, it's just so simple! Take a look at papers on bio-chemistry and you're hard pressed to find anything about evolution because that's where the nitty-gritty goes down and waving your hands just doesn't cut it.
Now I'm not suggesting evolution is wrong, but rather, it usually gets by without doing any real science. A lot more work is needed...and explanations like this are more hokey than based on evidence.
Hey who modded this parent down? All Soylent Green references should be instantly modded up +5 without hesitation.
Episode 32: Jet Pack
In this "twin-taled" episode, Adam and Jamie embark on the longest and most ambitious build they've ever undertaken: creating their own personal flying machine from scratch. Are these machines as magnificent as their designers claim? To make the project more realistic, the two limit themselves to a build period of one month and a budget of $10,000. Then, the MythBuilders tackle the myth that preserving the pharaohs involved much more than mummification, that it was the shape of the pyramids themselves -- in particular, their cosmically inspired geometry -- that kept the bodies of Egyptian kings intact. Is it all a load of rot, or can the build team's homemade pyramids keep fruit fresh and razors sharp, as new-age gurus claim?
If you read the article, you'll find that the new alliance includes two other groups in addition to the Russian Space Agency:
(1) Space Adventures....a Virginia based company (that would be in the USA)
(2) Prodea....an investment firm in Dallas, Texas (that would be in the USA)
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Did anyone notice that this article addressed the President as "Mr. Bush" four times in that article? This article complains that a NASA appointee wrote a memo asking all "big bang" references to be turned into "big bang theory". I wonder if the New York Times editors sent a similar memo that asked for all "President Bush" references to be turned to "Mr. Bush". Last time I checked, the correct address for a sitting president is, President. In fact, even former presidents are called, President.
Frist and foremost, the Internet is currently unregulated. This really bothers most governments around the world, and probably the United States most of all.
You must mean, 'it bothers the USA the most among countries where the Internet is unregulated.' Otherwise, I don't know how you make such a claim with China's citizen firewall sitting in place. And I can think of many other examples of regulation that occurs outside the USA. But maybe I'm just being defensive...
I stopped using google maps, but only because I found Yahoo's Map Beta to be better.
In fact, it is this type of fickle user preferences that a company like Google has the most to fear. Web software is just too easy to duplicate, and it only takes a couple of months for Yahoo to copy Google's maps, and then throw in some new features that make people like me switch. And I did it without feeling anything bad for leaving Google behind.
Forget the fear of lawsuits and patent infringement, the fear of quick and dirty software should be at the top of the list.
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teachers and educators, coming together
There has always been a push to get women in science, yet there is no similar push to get men in literature, social sciences, education, etc. It is extremely lopsided and the efforts are beginning to seriously affect how boys progress through the school system. The male/female ratio in college is now 44%/56%. Such numbers mean we need more pro-male programs, not more pro-female. Newsweek had a recent story about this and other factors, it's a good read.
"A new study monitored brain activity of partisans; they shun logic and use emotional processing centers to justify their candidate's contradictory statements."
Poor AskJeeves, always getting left out of the fun... They should start a new advertising campaign around the slogan, "Need access to millions of searches? Ask Jeeves!!"
Nevermind that open issues of logical formalisms and knowledge representation, let alone application of statistics and probabilistic models have yet to be solved.
The report doesn't investigate how many of the "syntactically valid" addresses are correct. If 9% of the information is obviously false, I'd bet at least 50% of the rest uses fake addresses and phone numbers that look correct. Nobody wants to receive spam just for owning a domain name, so there is no motivation to put in correct information, nor is there a deterrent in place to stop people.
By having friends that don't use acronyms like "lol" and "rofl"
Perhaps this is nitpicking too much, but is Google Talk really "the cutting edge"? I can understand maybe the author is talking about having "the latest product", but that definitely doesn't equal the cutting edge. As far as I can tell, Google Talk doesn't make any major advancements in technology whatsoever, in fact not even its GUI is very original. It looks alot like Apple's iChat. I think it's one thing to have the latest product, but that certainly doesn't mean you have the best product. Bad products come out all the time, and the people who grab them up shouldn't be considered cutting edge.
Um, isn't that what a la carte pricing will do? What exactly are you arguing here? Perhaps your hatred for religion is blinding you to a pricing scheme that both you and the religious agree on. Really, it's ok to agree with religious people...try it sometime.