30 seconds, ridiculous. Any tech worth his salt will then actually boot the computer and make sure the ram is properly detected and that the computer does not exhibit random bad behavior due to defective or poorly seated-ram. Not that I'm saying that Best Buy techs are worth their salt, but that's what *I'd* do for 30 bucks. Note: I don't work for Best Buy.
Agreed. Morse code would be a useful skill for everyone to know for emergencies. Unfortunately the school systems seem taxed teaching just the three R's and making sure they don't leave children behind. Ever see the ST:TNG episode where Riker is captured and can only modulate a carrier wave manually to communicate and has to send a recognizable tune to the Enterprise so they would know it's him? Sheesh, SOS Starfleet - Riker.
Agreed, automated probes are where it's at for long-range exploration. But imagine how much cheaper it would be to produce and send those thousands of probes if they already had orbital velocity at construction time as opposed to being launched from the Earth. We need space-based industry and infrastructure!
Amoebas, sharks and tapeworms also tend to get what they want. That doesn't make them any less stupid. The ability to survive does not imply intelligence, it just means being able to avoid ultimate failure and death. And plenty of corporations do fail and die. After a century, the only surviving corporation of the 12 behemoths that made up the original Dow Jones Industrial Average is General Electric.
The solution to spalling is to use a carbon composite framework instead of iron rebar. I just saw a news segment about bridge inspection and that's what they're proposing as the new technological solution to corrosion and metal fatigue in steel bridges. The upside is the bridges are predicted to last 50 years longer. The downside is they will cost more at current price levels.
So now that we've figured out exactly how improbable it is, we just fire up our Finite Probability Generator, provide it with a cup of really hot tea, and voila, the Origin of Life. =p
Actually with corporate america, it's much more likely to be them being incompetent at being malicious. They're going for clever and evil but often end up at stupid and evil.
Look, this isn't rocket science. Does carbon dioxide reflect certain infrared wavelengths or does it not? It does. Is the amount of co2 in the atmosphere increasing or decreasing? It is increasing. Are human beings producing co2 or are we removing it from the atmosphere? We are producing it. There you go, the facts minus any political bias. Draw your own conclusions.
This whole question hinges upon what the definition of a real biologist is. Given that there is no legal certifying authority or statutory definition of a "real biologist", I doubt we will come to any sort of agreement. It's not dependent on credentials. Plenty of naturalists made real contributions to the field of biology without having academic degrees in the field. However, I would say that if actual verifiable biological principles apply to a given question and the number of people working on answering the question are divided into two groups, and one group are using said verifiable principles, and the other aren't, then the group that is not using the science of biology to answer the question are not real biologists for the purpose of the question at hand.
It's not a side jab. Real biology predicts actual observed behavior in biological systems. "Intelligent design" does not. People who study the facts and come up with scientific theories that are verifiable via observation are real scientists. People who speculate about an intelligent designer because the detail of the universe in their opinion is arbitrarily too complex to them or arbitrarily too finely tuned for human life are not being scientific. If "intelligent design" were in any way supported by objective facts , you'd find atheist scientists who would be confounded by it. They'd say, "I don't believe in a God but this stuff is clearly designed!!! Who did it, Xenu, the grays, Martians, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a giant black monolith?" You never ever find such a thing. Where are the "Intelligent design, Whodunit?" books by the nonreligious hard scientists? You'll never find an intelligent design proponent who doesn't have an a priori belief in a particular deity as designer. And since that belief is not founded on scientific principles it completely kicks the legs out from under any claims to scientific validity the "intelligent design" conjecture has. It's called assuming the antecedent.
Please, cars and computers are cheap. It's the development programs that are costly. We use million dollar cruise missiles to take out handfuls of islamist that could as easily be killed by a couple of dollars worth of bullets.
So instead of spaying and neutering, all we need to do to keep the pet population down is mangle the Queens's English? Cool! What piece of netspeak annihilates puppies?
Right, because everyone knows that's it's impossible to make a profit if other people have access to the same technology you do. Just like how nobody is able to make profits publishing materials in the public domain.
*Anything* creates legal liability, including doing nothing (negligence). Lawyers and plaintiffs will sue anywhere they think they can make a buck. Redistributing capital is much easier than actually creating value.
While astrology is yet another branch of that vast field "crapology" which is to say, "the study of bullshit", the loction of celestial bodies does in fact influence events in my daily life. For instance, the location of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun determines whether it will be 100 degrees outside or if I will get 6 feet of snow dumped on my head. The location of the Moon determines whether or not I will be able to sail peacefully or run aground due to lack of sufficient water close to shore. And if the asteroid Apophis is a few kms away from where we think it is, then we're in for a lot of trouble (luckily, it seems not to be). Funny quote though.
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30 seconds, ridiculous. Any tech worth his salt will then actually boot the computer and make sure the ram is properly detected and that the computer does not exhibit random bad behavior due to defective or poorly seated-ram. Not that I'm saying that Best Buy techs are worth their salt, but that's what *I'd* do for 30 bucks. Note: I don't work for Best Buy.
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Agreed. Morse code would be a useful skill for everyone to know for emergencies. Unfortunately the school systems seem taxed teaching just the three R's and making sure they don't leave children behind. Ever see the ST:TNG episode where Riker is captured and can only modulate a carrier wave manually to communicate and has to send a recognizable tune to the Enterprise so they would know it's him? Sheesh, SOS Starfleet - Riker.
It worked for War and Peace =)
Yeah! Cars and airplanes never crash and burst into flames! =p
This article explains how nicely http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=427
Agreed, automated probes are where it's at for long-range exploration. But imagine how much cheaper it would be to produce and send those thousands of probes if they already had orbital velocity at construction time as opposed to being launched from the Earth. We need space-based industry and infrastructure!
Invisible, my ass. http://www.satobs.org/
Amoebas, sharks and tapeworms also tend to get what they want. That doesn't make them any less stupid. The ability to survive does not imply intelligence, it just means being able to avoid ultimate failure and death. And plenty of corporations do fail and die. After a century, the only surviving corporation of the 12 behemoths that made up the original Dow Jones Industrial Average is General Electric.
Cool, now all we need is a miniaturized magnetic accelerator to shoot the plasma balls. And a man-portable power source.
Hell, some of these dolts are scared by the 'vaccine' part of it.
The solution to spalling is to use a carbon composite framework instead of iron rebar. I just saw a news segment about bridge inspection and that's what they're proposing as the new technological solution to corrosion and metal fatigue in steel bridges. The upside is the bridges are predicted to last 50 years longer. The downside is they will cost more at current price levels.
So now that we've figured out exactly how improbable it is, we just fire up our Finite Probability Generator, provide it with a cup of really hot tea, and voila, the Origin of Life. =p
Actually with corporate america, it's much more likely to be them being incompetent at being malicious. They're going for clever and evil but often end up at stupid and evil.
Look, this isn't rocket science. Does carbon dioxide reflect certain infrared wavelengths or does it not? It does. Is the amount of co2 in the atmosphere increasing or decreasing? It is increasing. Are human beings producing co2 or are we removing it from the atmosphere? We are producing it. There you go, the facts minus any political bias. Draw your own conclusions.
This whole question hinges upon what the definition of a real biologist is. Given that there is no legal certifying authority or statutory definition of a "real biologist", I doubt we will come to any sort of agreement. It's not dependent on credentials. Plenty of naturalists made real contributions to the field of biology without having academic degrees in the field. However, I would say that if actual verifiable biological principles apply to a given question and the number of people working on answering the question are divided into two groups, and one group are using said verifiable principles, and the other aren't, then the group that is not using the science of biology to answer the question are not real biologists for the purpose of the question at hand.
All these worlds are yours except Luna, attempt no landing there? Hogwash, we've already been!
It's not a side jab. Real biology predicts actual observed behavior in biological systems. "Intelligent design" does not. People who study the facts and come up with scientific theories that are verifiable via observation are real scientists. People who speculate about an intelligent designer because the detail of the universe in their opinion is arbitrarily too complex to them or arbitrarily too finely tuned for human life are not being scientific. If "intelligent design" were in any way supported by objective facts , you'd find atheist scientists who would be confounded by it. They'd say, "I don't believe in a God but this stuff is clearly designed!!! Who did it, Xenu, the grays, Martians, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a giant black monolith?" You never ever find such a thing. Where are the "Intelligent design, Whodunit?" books by the nonreligious hard scientists? You'll never find an intelligent design proponent who doesn't have an a priori belief in a particular deity as designer. And since that belief is not founded on scientific principles it completely kicks the legs out from under any claims to scientific validity the "intelligent design" conjecture has. It's called assuming the antecedent.
Please, cars and computers are cheap. It's the development programs that are costly. We use million dollar cruise missiles to take out handfuls of islamist that could as easily be killed by a couple of dollars worth of bullets.
It's easy, you thread the belt through the handle of the laptop case. I do it all the time. =)
So instead of spaying and neutering, all we need to do to keep the pet population down is mangle the Queens's English? Cool! What piece of netspeak annihilates puppies?
Right, because everyone knows that's it's impossible to make a profit if other people have access to the same technology you do. Just like how nobody is able to make profits publishing materials in the public domain.
*Anything* creates legal liability, including doing nothing (negligence). Lawyers and plaintiffs will sue anywhere they think they can make a buck. Redistributing capital is much easier than actually creating value.
So *that*'s what happened to Venus! =p
While astrology is yet another branch of that vast field "crapology" which is to say, "the study of bullshit", the loction of celestial bodies does in fact influence events in my daily life. For instance, the location of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun determines whether it will be 100 degrees outside or if I will get 6 feet of snow dumped on my head. The location of the Moon determines whether or not I will be able to sail peacefully or run aground due to lack of sufficient water close to shore. And if the asteroid Apophis is a few kms away from where we think it is, then we're in for a lot of trouble (luckily, it seems not to be). Funny quote though.