To say another star has an exoplanet seems redundant. Why not just say it has planets?
For practically all practical purposes, everybody who uses both words "planet" and "exoplanet" in practice, the difference matters. Language is a tool, and it is practical to have words which are a compromise which between avoiding ambiguity, being short, being consistent, and being practical.
For example, now and at least several decades into future, you can resolve the disk of "planets" with telescopes, and even see most of them with Eyeball Mk1. Contrast this to "exoplanets", at best for a few cases you can capture a few photons you can be pretty sure came from the "exoplanet", and this is not going to improve much until most if not all current IAU members, who decided on the terminology, are pushing daisies.
Don't like the job..?? quit.. someone will be happy to take your place..
That's how they do it in the better 3rd world countries (in the worse ones, there's no option to just quit). I feel no desire to live in such a country, but if I did, I would have moved there by now. But here where I live, I prefer having the collective muscle of union negotiating power.
I think terrorists, by and large, fight for some cause they think is worth suffering for, in extreme cases which get most press, worth dying for. I just can't see a Satanist doing something like that, really. Terrorism isn't for personal gain.
About your perceived idea that Atheists are somehow more rational than religious people and would not engage in similar endeavors (like erecting a statue)... maybe on average they really are (and maybe not), but just because they believe in less deities (sometimes just 1 less) than believers of various faiths doesn't make them any more rational on individual basis.
Well, did the contractor who built the building you live in drive his supplies around in a prius?
Generally they'd drive a company van (usually with a high-mpg diesel engine) full of tools and stuff, or their own small car if someone else brought tools and materials. I think very few owned a van, or especially a pick-up (because those are pretty useless in the climate around here, compared to a tall van).
This is not just a problem with NSA. Knowing that my taxes are used for bombing villages in Pakistan is a little unsettling.
Well, there are just two quick ways to stop that. First, stop paying taxes, which has the downside of radically reduced quality of life. Second, move somewhere where your taxes are not used on bombing villages in Pakistan, which has the downside that you can no longer feel patriotic about being an American.
Then there are slower ways: Become rich enough so you can avoid paying taxes. Do a democratic change of politicians by making people of America vote differently. Start a traditional revolution (for NSA: just listing this option here for completeness, and not advocating it in any way, please!).
I'm no fan of Al Gore, but global impact of all the senseless trucks is pretty big, compared to global impact of senseless mansions. Also. the mansion itself might not be a nig deal, unless it is poorly insulated (lot of heating and cooling required), and watering its lawns etc draws from depleting water reserves (depends on location). Also, I happen to think that spending resources on long-lasting things (even mansions, and this assumes it is built to last) is much better than spending money on stuff like cars, which often don't last even a decade.
We produce and secrete different hormones in different places in different situations. Men tend to be stronger because they can grow muscles due to testosterone production. Women tend to grow breasts due to estrogen production. That is just how it is.
...and then there are the shot put and hammer throw athletes of indeterminate gender, predominantly (but not exclusively) hailing from so the called communist countries and competing in women's series.
When having an argument, getting your phone to interrupt you sounds like a great idea! Would save many a family from a divorce, I'm sure, at a small cost of a few smashed smartphones here and there.
Do manboobs require a different kind of bra, or what prevents men from wearing these too? I mean, just because there are more braless men than women does not make this sexist. Are you discriminating against men who wear bras?
My truck weighs 5,700lbs, or about 3 tons. You probably think that is insane. Maybe it is... but it is my right to own it because I like it...
No, it's your right to own it, because you can afford it, and don't believe in taking any personal responsibility for common resources, even when it would not decrease your quality of life (a more sensible car would actually improve your quality of life, most likely).
No, it's all natural when the cabling is born that way. If you want to see ruined sanctity, ram a current USB plug in the wrong way...
But I say this is only the first step. Next we must eradicate male - female difference, and have just one plug-socket which will fit, work and feel good no matter how you do the coupling.
I agree. Their lack of knowledge about animal grooming techniques is criminal.
You would use an affine transformation on a helpless animal! Savage! Torturer! Barbarian! Just think of the pain of having bones deformed like that... Nerve damage in the spine... Uhh.. I have no words.
What huge responsibility? What is the worst *individual* consequence of doing bad job?
You know Ballmer was recently let go from MS, right? He had to leave because...
He had to leave with a fat paycheck and financial freedom to do whatever he pleases, pursue whatever new things he wants. For "ordinary people", that's not taking responsibility, that's reaping a fat reward for a crappy job.
You probably mean "macroevolution" as defined by creationists... In biology it basically means evolution over many generations, which is kinda self-evident. Mutations and selection happens every generation, and generations follow each others, so I can't think of a mechanism where biological "macroevolution" could be avoided. On the other hand, the creationist idea of macroevolution is a confused, shifting concept with no proper definition.
It's all too common to see an executive do shitty job at high pay, then accept a golden handshake and resign. They usually have very little personal risk. Compare to a "grunt", who gets laid off and may have trouble paying rent next month.
Free market has its problems. When the whole rich elite is interconnected to a degree, also implicitly (such as general criminal responsibility for fraud or negligence), the good can not out compete the bad. Free market breaks due to corruption, too. And then there is the whole issue of classes. US is fast becoming a class society, where your status is defined by how rich your parents were, and where the wealthy live off from what they have by inheritance and family, not by what they do.
It certainly puts the rich in jeopardy. If money is "forced" to circulate, it means rich will have to be active to keep their wealth, and there is bigger risk of failure and financial ruin.
What huge responsibility? What is the worst *individual* consequence of doing bad job?
Compare to the responsibility of a mundane low-pay bus driver. One lapse in concentration at wrong moment, and there are dozens of immediate deaths. Including the driver him/herself.
Clang has really become a boon to open source compiler development. Unlike the open source *BSD operating systems, which are too far behind the GPL operating systems in many measures (not all), Clang has really electrified the compiler scene.
I see nothing but good things coming from this in near future.
And in such a rapidly evolving area as compiler development, having a *BSD license does not really hurt either. It's not like the *compiler* is likely to get put into some device with proprietary modifications.
Win 7 isn't too bad but if I had to choose between Vista and MS-DOS..........
I don't understand all this Vista bashing. At least with current updates it is just fine, I use it on an old laptop for heavy (relatively speaking, there's only so much latest browsers can do for modern web sites with 2GB of memory, no matter the OS) web browsing. It's a bit clunkier than Win7, but a lot better than XP ever was.
This really is too bad. Not that the Earth is going to die, but that humanity does not possess the necessary skills in cooperation and teamwork to move our collective asses somewhere else before it happens.
Time scale check. Life on Earth has enough time left to be wiped down to cockroaches and re-evolve to intelligence. Also, humanity will not do something like that as a whole. All it takes is a few hyper-rich to get their kicks out of becoming the pioneer visionaries, written down to history like Aristotle or Confucius or Buddha. A few centuries at most for self-sufficient space colonies (if we survive that long).
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To say another star has an exoplanet seems redundant. Why not just say it has planets?
For practically all practical purposes, everybody who uses both words "planet" and "exoplanet" in practice, the difference matters. Language is a tool, and it is practical to have words which are a compromise which between avoiding ambiguity, being short, being consistent, and being practical.
For example, now and at least several decades into future, you can resolve the disk of "planets" with telescopes, and even see most of them with Eyeball Mk1. Contrast this to "exoplanets", at best for a few cases you can capture a few photons you can be pretty sure came from the "exoplanet", and this is not going to improve much until most if not all current IAU members, who decided on the terminology, are pushing daisies.
Don't like the job..?? quit.. someone will be happy to take your place..
That's how they do it in the better 3rd world countries (in the worse ones, there's no option to just quit). I feel no desire to live in such a country, but if I did, I would have moved there by now. But here where I live, I prefer having the collective muscle of union negotiating power.
I think terrorists, by and large, fight for some cause they think is worth suffering for, in extreme cases which get most press, worth dying for. I just can't see a Satanist doing something like that, really. Terrorism isn't for personal gain.
About your perceived idea that Atheists are somehow more rational than religious people and would not engage in similar endeavors (like erecting a statue)... maybe on average they really are (and maybe not), but just because they believe in less deities (sometimes just 1 less) than believers of various faiths doesn't make them any more rational on individual basis.
Well, did the contractor who built the building you live in drive his supplies around in a prius?
Generally they'd drive a company van (usually with a high-mpg diesel engine) full of tools and stuff, or their own small car if someone else brought tools and materials. I think very few owned a van, or especially a pick-up (because those are pretty useless in the climate around here, compared to a tall van).
This is not just a problem with NSA. Knowing that my taxes are used for bombing villages in Pakistan is a little unsettling.
Well, there are just two quick ways to stop that. First, stop paying taxes, which has the downside of radically reduced quality of life. Second, move somewhere where your taxes are not used on bombing villages in Pakistan, which has the downside that you can no longer feel patriotic about being an American.
Then there are slower ways: Become rich enough so you can avoid paying taxes. Do a democratic change of politicians by making people of America vote differently. Start a traditional revolution (for NSA: just listing this option here for completeness, and not advocating it in any way, please!).
I'm no fan of Al Gore, but global impact of all the senseless trucks is pretty big, compared to global impact of senseless mansions. Also. the mansion itself might not be a nig deal, unless it is poorly insulated (lot of heating and cooling required), and watering its lawns etc draws from depleting water reserves (depends on location). Also, I happen to think that spending resources on long-lasting things (even mansions, and this assumes it is built to last) is much better than spending money on stuff like cars, which often don't last even a decade.
We produce and secrete different hormones in different places in different situations. Men tend to be stronger because they can grow muscles due to testosterone production. Women tend to grow breasts due to estrogen production. That is just how it is.
...and then there are the shot put and hammer throw athletes of indeterminate gender, predominantly (but not exclusively) hailing from so the called communist countries and competing in women's series.
When having an argument, getting your phone to interrupt you sounds like a great idea! Would save many a family from a divorce, I'm sure, at a small cost of a few smashed smartphones here and there.
Yep, well, if you're a guy wearing a bra then you know you already need to stop eating.
People who stop eating will spend the last few weeks of their life cranky, miserable and with a headache. Generally not recommended.
Do manboobs require a different kind of bra, or what prevents men from wearing these too? I mean, just because there are more braless men than women does not make this sexist. Are you discriminating against men who wear bras?
. . .we're talking Ballmer's hands on your flesh, by proxy.
Might not be a bad thing if you're Mrs. Ballmer, but, otherwise. . .
Why do you think Mrs.Balmer would like her husbands hands (by proxy) on the flesh of other women?
My truck weighs 5,700lbs, or about 3 tons. You probably think that is insane. Maybe it is... but it is my right to own it because I like it...
No, it's your right to own it, because you can afford it, and don't believe in taking any personal responsibility for common resources, even when it would not decrease your quality of life (a more sensible car would actually improve your quality of life, most likely).
Because you want.
They're looking at the jets, which conveniently record the history of the interaction, like a recording tape that is shooting out of them.
The black holes themselves are still moving quite "normally".
Ruins the sanctity of cabling.
No, it's all natural when the cabling is born that way. If you want to see ruined sanctity, ram a current USB plug in the wrong way...
But I say this is only the first step. Next we must eradicate male - female difference, and have just one plug-socket which will fit, work and feel good no matter how you do the coupling.
yet entirely consistent with the electric universe theory.
Isn't the "electric universe" one of those things, which is consistent with anything? Impossible to falsify and therefore absolute truth?
Shear ignorance
I agree. Their lack of knowledge about animal grooming techniques is criminal.
You would use an affine transformation on a helpless animal! Savage! Torturer! Barbarian! Just think of the pain of having bones deformed like that... Nerve damage in the spine... Uhh.. I have no words.
You know Ballmer was recently let go from MS, right? He had to leave because...
He had to leave with a fat paycheck and financial freedom to do whatever he pleases, pursue whatever new things he wants. For "ordinary people", that's not taking responsibility, that's reaping a fat reward for a crappy job.
Of course, by same argument She also does exist, at the same time.
You probably mean "macroevolution" as defined by creationists... In biology it basically means evolution over many generations, which is kinda self-evident. Mutations and selection happens every generation, and generations follow each others, so I can't think of a mechanism where biological "macroevolution" could be avoided. On the other hand, the creationist idea of macroevolution is a confused, shifting concept with no proper definition.
It's all too common to see an executive do shitty job at high pay, then accept a golden handshake and resign. They usually have very little personal risk. Compare to a "grunt", who gets laid off and may have trouble paying rent next month.
Free market has its problems. When the whole rich elite is interconnected to a degree, also implicitly (such as general criminal responsibility for fraud or negligence), the good can not out compete the bad. Free market breaks due to corruption, too. And then there is the whole issue of classes. US is fast becoming a class society, where your status is defined by how rich your parents were, and where the wealthy live off from what they have by inheritance and family, not by what they do.
It certainly puts the rich in jeopardy. If money is "forced" to circulate, it means rich will have to be active to keep their wealth, and there is bigger risk of failure and financial ruin.
What huge responsibility? What is the worst *individual* consequence of doing bad job?
Compare to the responsibility of a mundane low-pay bus driver. One lapse in concentration at wrong moment, and there are dozens of immediate deaths. Including the driver him/herself.
Clang has really become a boon to open source compiler development. Unlike the open source *BSD operating systems, which are too far behind the GPL operating systems in many measures (not all), Clang has really electrified the compiler scene.
I see nothing but good things coming from this in near future.
And in such a rapidly evolving area as compiler development, having a *BSD license does not really hurt either. It's not like the *compiler* is likely to get put into some device with proprietary modifications.
Win 7 isn't too bad but if I had to choose between Vista and MS-DOS..........
I don't understand all this Vista bashing. At least with current updates it is just fine, I use it on an old laptop for heavy (relatively speaking, there's only so much latest browsers can do for modern web sites with 2GB of memory, no matter the OS) web browsing. It's a bit clunkier than Win7, but a lot better than XP ever was.
This really is too bad. Not that the Earth is going to die, but that humanity does not possess the necessary skills in cooperation and teamwork to move our collective asses somewhere else before it happens.
Time scale check. Life on Earth has enough time left to be wiped down to cockroaches and re-evolve to intelligence. Also, humanity will not do something like that as a whole. All it takes is a few hyper-rich to get their kicks out of becoming the pioneer visionaries, written down to history like Aristotle or Confucius or Buddha. A few centuries at most for self-sufficient space colonies (if we survive that long).