Perhaps some of those scientists are like myself, who has noticed an inordinate amount of fire coming towards them from the right flank. This could also explain the smaller percentage of scientist who wear jewelry of a guy nailed to a tree.
I work at a university and so work with PhDs all the time. There are a good many of them who think they know everything, but in reality have extremely limited knowledge outside of their narrow field.
Yeah, that's not really the point. The reason why Ph.D.'s would be expected more trustworthy on a topic outside their expertise (certainly more than a member of the general populus who is out of his element) is that they have a demonstrable ability to construct a hypothesis and support it through facts and arguments. While this does not mean that they are *right*, it does mean that they more likely to recognize an argument as well-constructed or so much anally-directed smoke.
So, in general, I put more trust in the opinions of a random person with a Ph.D. than a random person without one. But of course I'd think that. I have a Ph.D.
As well, Microsoft shouldn't be forced to state they didn't invent the internet as it happens to be fairly obvious. In fact I've never met anyone who thought they did (insert Al Gore reference).
So, Microsoft should not be forced to state that "they didn't invent the Internet" (which they neither said nor did), but you find it perfectly legitimate to imply that Al Gore HAS, thereby forcing others to state that "Al Gore didn't invent the Internet" (which he neither said nor did). He made a factual claim, backed up later by the support of statements by credible voices who DID "invent the Internet".
For myself and all of the other people who have had to put up with this shit for almost ten years now, let me just invite you to Go Fuck Yourself.
Werner von Braun's autobiography was titled "I Aim For The Stars." Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle, to make it "I Aim For The Stars (But Sometimes I Hit London)"
...but the iPhone has a good compromise: as you type in your iTunes password, the letter you just typed in gets bulleted. This is especially important for those of us who have trouble with typos on a regular keyboard, never mind the phone's.
At least Windows tends to be better supported as well for its lifetime.
Which it has to be, when Microsoft releases a new retail version of its OS that is so bad that a significant portion of its userbase prefers to use the previous version.
As compared to Apple, where I have heard of no one wanting to downgrade to previous versions because of the low quality of the new OS itself (hardware speed notwithstanding.)
I suspect the factory location is more political than practical.
Actually my initial thought was the opposite. Who is the most likely to buy (read, afford) these cars? Silicon Valley nerds and Hollywood liberals. (And I don't mean to disparage either of those groups; if I were in either of their socioeconomic strata I would be standing in line with them.) Factor in the stricter emission standards of California as extra incentive, and one has to wonder why it would make sense to build them 2000 miles away when all of the output will be going to the West Coast anyway.
People who claim that Obama or the American Democratic party for that matter is socialist needs to take a trip around the globe.
The kind of people who claim that Obama is socialist aren't the kind of people that travel around the globe. Well OK, Gov. Sanford does, but the REST of them...
The only way you can disagree with me is if you are under the influence of the Great Satan. So either you agree with me, or you are obviously evil. What better argument could you want?
So either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists?
Well maybe you missed the memo, but the problem is not "Global Warming" anymore, it's "Climate Change".
Of course, what you fail to notice is that memo suggesting the phrase "climate change" was on a list of suggested Republican talking points written by pollster Frank Luntz, as an attempt to soften the language of the ACTUAL PROBLEM so that stupid people would think that it wasn't a problem. And here you go using it against the opposition, as if he were the one with the language problem.
It's fucking stupid people like you that makes these Republican manipulations work. Nice dancing, monkey.
The problem is, and always has been, distribution.
And encroachment onto arable land. And erosion. And leaching of overused fertilizers and pesticides into the ground water. Oh, and the depletion of ground water. Not to mention the strain on infrastructure due to the tripling of the population.
But at least the last one will increase the odds of a good pandemic to cull the herd. Thanks, Malthus!
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If we could turn CO2 into useful oxygen and free carbon, don't you think we'd be doing it here on Earth first?
Yeah, but this was in Italy. I'm not completely familiar with Italian law, but I think ogling a 16-year-old there is mandatory.
Perhaps some of those scientists are like myself, who has noticed an inordinate amount of fire coming towards them from the right flank. This could also explain the smaller percentage of scientist who wear jewelry of a guy nailed to a tree.
Yeah, that's not really the point. The reason why Ph.D.'s would be expected more trustworthy on a topic outside their expertise (certainly more than a member of the general populus who is out of his element) is that they have a demonstrable ability to construct a hypothesis and support it through facts and arguments. While this does not mean that they are *right*, it does mean that they more likely to recognize an argument as well-constructed or so much anally-directed smoke.
So, in general, I put more trust in the opinions of a random person with a Ph.D. than a random person without one. But of course I'd think that. I have a Ph.D.
So, Microsoft should not be forced to state that "they didn't invent the Internet" (which they neither said nor did), but you find it perfectly legitimate to imply that Al Gore HAS, thereby forcing others to state that "Al Gore didn't invent the Internet" (which he neither said nor did). He made a factual claim, backed up later by the support of statements by credible voices who DID "invent the Internet".
For myself and all of the other people who have had to put up with this shit for almost ten years now, let me just invite you to Go Fuck Yourself.
YES! Wind turbines are an optical abomination upon the landscape. Unlike, say, uranium mining.
(That being said, I am a supporter of both.)
So unlike you, who sounds completely objective and scientifically knowledgeable.
I would think that the Bono Act would have ensured that this work was still under copyright.
It seems to me that those with advanced math skills would all agree that the Photoshopped images *were* of Miley Cyrus, via the transitive property.
I dunno...they gave ME a Reggi pole.
I prefer that to what we've seen lately, which is rewarding companies for failures of sufficient global impact.
waitasec... #4, www.bing.com, runs on *LINUX*? Man, the kool-aid in Redmond must SUCK.
Werner von Braun's autobiography was titled "I Aim For The Stars." Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle, to make it "I Aim For The Stars (But Sometimes I Hit London)"
...but the iPhone has a good compromise: as you type in your iTunes password, the letter you just typed in gets bulleted. This is especially important for those of us who have trouble with typos on a regular keyboard, never mind the phone's.
Which it has to be, when Microsoft releases a new retail version of its OS that is so bad that a significant portion of its userbase prefers to use the previous version. As compared to Apple, where I have heard of no one wanting to downgrade to previous versions because of the low quality of the new OS itself (hardware speed notwithstanding.)
Actually my initial thought was the opposite. Who is the most likely to buy (read, afford) these cars? Silicon Valley nerds and Hollywood liberals. (And I don't mean to disparage either of those groups; if I were in either of their socioeconomic strata I would be standing in line with them.) Factor in the stricter emission standards of California as extra incentive, and one has to wonder why it would make sense to build them 2000 miles away when all of the output will be going to the West Coast anyway.
Ask Apple — that is, once they recover from the devastating choices of entering the saturated mp3 player and smartphone markets.
The kind of people who claim that Obama is socialist aren't the kind of people that travel around the globe. Well OK, Gov. Sanford does, but the REST of them...
Congress will get to it after they're done repealing evolution.
You're right — it will be so much easier to build these windmills after we've used up all of the oil.
3300 square kilometers is 1275 square miles, not 2000.
So either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists?
My guess is that the DoS attack is so slow that, by the time it would have completed, the server has already crashed for a different reason.
Battle Zone. With the "add students" cheat turned on. Fuckers.
The problem is, and always has been, distribution. And encroachment onto arable land. And erosion. And leaching of overused fertilizers and pesticides into the ground water. Oh, and the depletion of ground water. Not to mention the strain on infrastructure due to the tripling of the population.
But at least the last one will increase the odds of a good pandemic to cull the herd. Thanks, Malthus!