Evolution, on a macro scale, has never been proven as scientific fact. In the millions upon millions of fruit fly generations produced, not once has a completely new lifeform come about. Any scientist that tells you that evolution is fact without a doubt is either a liar or ignorant of the truth. For all their talk, everything they say on a macro scale has never been proven as fact.
I remember seeing shows on maggots used to eat dead skin off wounds since the late 80s early 90s. This is extremely old news. To beat slashdot to it, there is also a resurgence in using leechs to drain fluids.
I wouldn't call the Singleton pattern a hack. It can be combined with a Factory pattern. Usually, you only want/need one instance of a particular factory. That's where a singleton comes into play. A static method for a singleton method with a static variable inside to the factory.
This insures that you always know when the static variable is created, and you don't need a specific instance of the class to access to get the factory. You can put the static singleton method in the factory class. Singletons have their place in Software Engineering. Many experts far better developers/Software Engineers than most of us see the value of singletons in the proper place. I would recommend the Gang of Four book Design Patterns for more information on Singletons.
Actually, wxWidgets would be a better choice. It is stable, and it is open source and free on all platforms.
Combine this with SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and Boost.org, and you get a great cross-platform development toolset. SDL is "a Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer."
Boost provides cross platforms threading and other nice things. If you keep your GUI seperate from from the main guts of your processing, you can do cross platform programming rather well.
The parent post is flamebait-or at the least a troll. I'll bite either way. What proof do you have of this? What have you done to fund technology in schools?
Sending money from the government to fund technology is the worst way to get technology in schools! You have no accountability what so ever as to how that money is spent. You don't know if they spend the money wisely and get systems that will help them, and not be 3 to 10 years behind the times!
A better solution is to set up a non-profit organization with technology specialists volenteering their time and knowledge (especially open source technologies like openoffice.org and linux).
To fund this you ask for donations from the American public--especially the rich and famous. Instead of buying gold plated toilet seats, rich athletes and performers can help these people out that really need it. This should be a goal for all the rich who came from humble backgrounds.
By pairing together the poeple with the money and the people with the knowledge and experience to produce technology solutions for schools in America, you can eliminate the government as the middle man. Everytime you send a dollar to government in the form of taxes, a portion of that gets taken out to run the government. It provides things like a very good health insurance plan and the other perks that come with being a Congressman (or woman) and a member of the government in general.
With a non-profit organisation, if it is run properly without corruption, you could get a lot more bang for your buck--especially if those solutions included open source technologies!
Government is not the solution! It rarely is the solution. There will never be enough money to fund all the social programs that the progressive socialists want--even if they take every single dollar we make. There is rarely any accountability to determine if the money is being spent wisely and if the social program is working. The smaller the money we give to the boverment, the better.
Insightful? This is a load of crap. Social Security will be be broke by then, or you will be paying a lot more in social security taxes. In 1950, there was around 16 people paying in to social security for every one person on social security. Social Security is and always has been a pay-as-you go system. Today, there is little more than 3 people per retiree.
"The original Social Security tax was just 2 percent on the first $3,000 that a worker earned, a maximum tax of $60 per year. By 1960, payroll taxes had risen to 6 percent. Today's workers pay a payroll tax of 12.4 percent"(from like this). The 12.4% is I believe on the first 90,000, and that means that people like Bill Gates, John Kerry, and the rest of Congress and rich pay less than 12.4%. Right now, roughly, 80% of Americans pay more in Social Security taxes than they do in Income tax!
This only going to get worse as time goes on. Social Security taxes are a pyramid scheme. Eventually, the liberal will raise it to keep the broken system going. The Democrats say it's not broken because they plan on raising taxes continuously to pay for it.
Back in 1999 & 1998 Clinton, and the Democrats, was saying Social Security was broken. Now that Bush wants to fix it, they say it's not broken.
Before anybody replies saying Bush's tax cuts broke it, think again. The Democrats are basing this on projected surplesses. In other words, the number crunchers assumed there would be future surplusses. The was no real surpluss. A surpluss only really exists after the fiscal years ends and there is money left over.
Bush's plan for small privitization of Social Security funds for younger generations is already in place for Government workers. The return is between 10% to 14%. I believe the military has it now too, and possibly Congress.
The liberals are just upset because they can't steal that money to throw away on their latest social failure of a program!
I can't watch Galactica. I can't stand it when they yell action alert! Can't they get the terms right. It should be Battle Stations or Red Alert--not Action Alert. Their are certain terms and phrase you just have to use, an dyou look stupid if you don't.
Everytime I hear action alert I picture a big, hairy, burly, castrated man in a pink tutu prancing around the stage saying it in a very feminine fashion.
A war movie/series? Try a geeks softcore porn fantacy with all the sex scenes. There's no great technical advances in the show as far as the character's technology. Everything is basically what we current think is possible, and there is not enough battle scenes to be a war movie. I don't really care about the Education Secretary turned President's current cancer status. I found it to be an irrelevant detail!
Star Trek atleast was a future projection of Earth, so they had an exscuse to reuse ideas take from modern day Earth. BG has no such exscuse besides the laziness of the wanna-be writer. The basic plot of BG is Terminator in space because man created the Cylons (no so in the original series) and same with the machines in the Terminator series.
I actually have liked some of the Star Trek Enterprise plots. I only watch the show when it has a good plot and an intertesting twist. It has been a refreshing change from the normally stale and dry characters of Star Trek.
This is still just a rumor. I will wait until I see the episode. There have been episodes that I didn't think I would like, but I did after watching them.
Actually there are very few words in English that have just one meaning. The both are viable definitions of the word. Yours take the term strictly from a medical point of view. I think you are to stupid to understand this. I suggest you read a dictionary once. You might find more definitions for some words than you knew about.
I don't think that you will have scientists argue over whether a tree is alive.
I was talking about trees. I was talking about the search for life outside of the planet Earth. The definition of what constitutes life in these situations are suddenly loose compared to human life.
Funny, in biology abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy. There are spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) and induced abortions. Induced abortions may be classified as therapeutic, elective or criminal.
You missed the point. The poster was talking about the personal religous beliefs of the religious right that life begins at conception--regardless of whether that conception is in a womb or otherwise. Thus disposing (or aborting) these fertilized eggs is considered murder. To abort means to end. There are definitions to words outside of your small biological world.
Whether you like it or not, these people are entitled to their beliefs and entitled to attempt to say how their tax dollars are spent--just as much as you are entitled to the same things. Just because they don't agree with you doesn't make them wrong. If you think otherwise, then maybe we should apply the same thinking to some cause you are pationate about.
I find it funny that what scientists consider to determine life really depends on the situation.
Since bone marrow is a form of stem cells (adult stem cells), then all of you are wrong. It can thus be said that stem cell reseach began in the 1950s and 1960s with with bone marrow transplants.
What world do you live in? I live in a world where the dead don't really vote, but in almost every state there are areas where the dead vote and the total number of votes exceed the number of people actually living in the area.
This becomes extremely important in cases where the margin of vitory is very small. America needs more strict voting proceedures to prevent things like this from happenning. Voter fraud is a reality and the Democrats are the primary users of it.
Everytime a person tries to challenge what a person is trying to vote more than once (or if they are legal to vote) in the innercity, Democrats cry racism or voter supression. Anytime someone tries to come up with a way to prevent voter fraud, the Democrats cry voter supression.
As for the Washington Governer's race, the only fair thing is to require a revote.
If so, a fascinating glimpse into the heart of Republican "morality." See the recent rash of Republican pundits who have said in essence that yes, they cheated in the election, but it's all right because they would have won anyway.
Where did you hear, see, or read this? In a tabliod maybe? It's a known fact that the most cheating goes on in the innercity by Democrats. Take the Crack for registrered voters scandal (google it for more info) where a man was paid in Crack Cociane for each registered voter.
Take the Washington state Governers election. The Democrats didn't win. They need a revote because there are counties where the dead rose back to life and voted and there are areas controlled by primarily Democrats where more people voted than there are citizens. Both of these problems is more than enough to eliminate the very small margin of victory.
I'd like to see more seasoned journalists do news analysis, rather than people on all sides with their minds decided before they collect the facts to back their opinions up.
What seasoned journalist? You mean like Dan Rather who did SO MUCH research before this story? Nearly all journalist today have their mind made up about an issue before they even do the research. Most of them only do the research to back up what they think is true and how it should be presented. What passes as journalism today is really opinions.
Go ahead an mod me down for being conservative, but that will not change things. I am glad to see this guy leave CNN. I don't watch CNN often, and I definately don't watch crossfire. I did try to watch it, but I found one of the hosts to be way in-your-face insulting of anybody who disagreed with him.
CNN has to do something to catch up with FOX, and crossfire is not helping them. It's simple business.
(Unless, of course, we're the Supreme Court in 2000. )
The Supreme Court stopped Al Gore from hi-jacking an election. He planned on recounting until he won. Al Gore took it to the courts first. All recount that were done are the Supreme Court said Bush won. Unless Al Gore was suceeded in fabricating new ballots, he lost. Get over it.
4 MORE YEARS! Did you see the county election map? That was quite a sea of red for the Republicans with small islands of blue in major cities! I know you liberal nerds can't stand to here this so you'll mod me down.
There are several things we do not know. The most important things is why those ballots were rejected. There are real and legal reasons to reject a ballot. Reasons such as they are not a citizen of the United States or they are a college student trying to vote where they are going to college instead of getting an absentee ballot from where they are from like you are supposed to do.
It is also known that the Democrats use the inner city to get more votes by having people vote more than once. There is no real system to insure that everyone who is supposed to vote votes just once. Remember the registration cards for crack cocaine scandal?
There is also such a thing as voter responsibility. Take Florida. If a person votes for more than one person for President of the United States, that ballot shouldn't be counted--even if it's just a dimple.
Democrats won't ever stop complaining because in their minds they won--even if they only get 1 vote! I am always a little suspicious about ballots that are suddenly found or were previously rejected!
I hope the Republican continue to fight this. The United States needs another Liberal in office like I need another hole in my head. Don't people learn from California's 80 Billion-dollar liberal fiasco.
KDevelop is not all it's hyped up to be. It's source code analysis needs a lot of work. I understand what this guy is looking for, and I too have been looking for something similar.
There is one problem. KDevelop is an IDE, and it's not really a RAD. It's missing the graphical dialog, message box, and window builder utility. It might have one for QT as an external program, but I doubt it binds anything else like Ruby or wxWidgets. If does have one, especially one that can build wxWidgets dialogs and windows, I haven't found it yet.
Do you really think other countries will tolerate this? It's not like a satellite will stay in position over China. Satellites circle the globe in some patern. This could be the begin of a satellite war. Also, what's to stop China from using this on the US and Great Britian along with other countries of the world?
I find it funny that they only talk about Democrat shorts by electronic voting. No mention of Republican. No mention that there is possiblities that in the inner cities some democrats voted more than once. We need a stronger system to insure each U.S. Citizens gets one, and only one vote. Although, any attempt to do so will be met with accusations of racism voter suppresion, etc. The fact is that we don't know how many of those votes are really legal votes.
Huh? Homosexuals are not being descriminated against. They are free to marry a member of the opposite sex if they want to. There is no evidence that someone is born gay. There are plenty of examples of people who used to live and advocate the homosexual life style, and these people are married to members of the opposite sex. Completely heterosexual.
The evidence usually provided by pro-homosexual people runs along the lines of their memories. Science has shown that memories are easily changed as we look back and reflect on our past. This means memories cannot be trusted.
I will modded down because the progressives here on slashdot don't care about science, or the truth. I know full well that I will be labelled a homophobe, and other suck hateful names, but I have never seen any evidence that proves someone is born with homosexuality instead of homosexuality being a result of positive and negative reinforcements acting on the conscious and unconscious brain of an individual.
Doesn't matter if India and China don't produce the same amount of greenhouse gasses. They will in the future, and with China's population, that is something that should be considered before hand rather than after they catch up to America.
It should be easier for countries like India and China to meet the standards by doing it right the first time. The treaty is a joke. Why should they be allowed to build up massive amount of factories, cars, and other GH producing sources when they can start out right without having all the problems of a large number existing GH producing sources.
If you want the USA on, then make it the same for everyone. It would not float in Congress either. It will be seen as political suicide because all the jobs being created would leave for countries like India and China faster to take advantage of the less strict environmental laws and extremely cheap labor (especially in China which has a huge population even with mandatory 1 child per family).
Don't let your excitement about environmental issues cloud your reasoning, judgement, and forethoguht. The environment is something we need to think about the effects of well in advance in addition to what's happenign today.
For example, oil is not an infite comoditity. It will run out. If the nation of OPEC had even 1 brain cell, they would be driving the charge to find alternative fuel sources that are renewable. They will eventually lose all the money they are making. It would seem logical to think that they would want to continue this trend of making money from oil.
Peer reviewed is a joke if all the reviewers think the same anyways. It simply means that everybody is running towards the same cliff claiming there is no cliff. I trust wiki sources even less.
The New York times ALWAYS tells the truth without any lies. Yeah right. (That was sarcasm.) They only quote liberal news sources. Iraq is better without Sadam, but there will be growing pains. No country gets freedom right the first time around--even the United States! For the first time in all of their history, tthe people of Iraq are getting a chance to decide their own future with the potential of a government of the people, by the people, for the people!
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Evolution, on a macro scale, has never been proven as scientific fact. In the millions upon millions of fruit fly generations produced, not once has a completely new lifeform come about. Any scientist that tells you that evolution is fact without a doubt is either a liar or ignorant of the truth. For all their talk, everything they say on a macro scale has never been proven as fact.
I remember seeing shows on maggots used to eat dead skin off wounds since the late 80s early 90s. This is extremely old news. To beat slashdot to it, there is also a resurgence in using leechs to drain fluids.
I wouldn't call the Singleton pattern a hack. It can be combined with a Factory pattern. Usually, you only want/need one instance of a particular factory. That's where a singleton comes into play. A static method for a singleton method with a static variable inside to the factory.
This insures that you always know when the static variable is created, and you don't need a specific instance of the class to access to get the factory. You can put the static singleton method in the factory class. Singletons have their place in Software Engineering. Many experts far better developers/Software Engineers than most of us see the value of singletons in the proper place. I would recommend the Gang of Four book Design Patterns for more information on Singletons.
Actually, wxWidgets would be a better choice. It is stable, and it is open source and free on all platforms.
Combine this with SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and Boost.org, and you get a great cross-platform development toolset. SDL is "a Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer."
Boost provides cross platforms threading and other nice things. If you keep your GUI seperate from from the main guts of your processing, you can do cross platform programming rather well.
The parent post is flamebait-or at the least a troll. I'll bite either way. What proof do you have of this? What have you done to fund technology in schools?
Sending money from the government to fund technology is the worst way to get technology in schools! You have no accountability what so ever as to how that money is spent. You don't know if they spend the money wisely and get systems that will help them, and not be 3 to 10 years behind the times!
A better solution is to set up a non-profit organization with technology specialists volenteering their time and knowledge (especially open source technologies like openoffice.org and linux).
To fund this you ask for donations from the American public--especially the rich and famous. Instead of buying gold plated toilet seats, rich athletes and performers can help these people out that really need it. This should be a goal for all the rich who came from humble backgrounds.
By pairing together the poeple with the money and the people with the knowledge and experience to produce technology solutions for schools in America, you can eliminate the government as the middle man. Everytime you send a dollar to government in the form of taxes, a portion of that gets taken out to run the government. It provides things like a very good health insurance plan and the other perks that come with being a Congressman (or woman) and a member of the government in general.
With a non-profit organisation, if it is run properly without corruption, you could get a lot more bang for your buck--especially if those solutions included open source technologies!
Government is not the solution! It rarely is the solution. There will never be enough money to fund all the social programs that the progressive socialists want--even if they take every single dollar we make. There is rarely any accountability to determine if the money is being spent wisely and if the social program is working. The smaller the money we give to the boverment, the better.
Insightful? This is a load of crap. Social Security will be be broke by then, or you will be paying a lot more in social security taxes. In 1950, there was around 16 people paying in to social security for every one person on social security. Social Security is and always has been a pay-as-you go system. Today, there is little more than 3 people per retiree.
"The original Social Security tax was just 2 percent on the first $3,000 that a worker earned, a maximum tax of $60 per year. By 1960, payroll taxes had risen to 6 percent. Today's workers pay a payroll tax of 12.4 percent"(from like this). The 12.4% is I believe on the first 90,000, and that means that people like Bill Gates, John Kerry, and the rest of Congress and rich pay less than 12.4%. Right now, roughly, 80% of Americans pay more in Social Security taxes than they do in Income tax!
This only going to get worse as time goes on. Social Security taxes are a pyramid scheme. Eventually, the liberal will raise it to keep the broken system going. The Democrats say it's not broken because they plan on raising taxes continuously to pay for it.
Back in 1999 & 1998 Clinton, and the Democrats, was saying Social Security was broken. Now that Bush wants to fix it, they say it's not broken.
Before anybody replies saying Bush's tax cuts broke it, think again. The Democrats are basing this on projected surplesses. In other words, the number crunchers assumed there would be future surplusses. The was no real surpluss. A surpluss only really exists after the fiscal years ends and there is money left over.
Bush's plan for small privitization of Social Security funds for younger generations is already in place for Government workers. The return is between 10% to 14%. I believe the military has it now too, and possibly Congress.
The liberals are just upset because they can't steal that money to throw away on their latest social failure of a program!
I can't watch Galactica. I can't stand it when they yell action alert! Can't they get the terms right. It should be Battle Stations or Red Alert--not Action Alert. Their are certain terms and phrase you just have to use, an dyou look stupid if you don't.
Everytime I hear action alert I picture a big, hairy, burly, castrated man in a pink tutu prancing around the stage saying it in a very feminine fashion.
A war movie/series? Try a geeks softcore porn fantacy with all the sex scenes. There's no great technical advances in the show as far as the character's technology. Everything is basically what we current think is possible, and there is not enough battle scenes to be a war movie. I don't really care about the Education Secretary turned President's current cancer status. I found it to be an irrelevant detail!
Star Trek atleast was a future projection of Earth, so they had an exscuse to reuse ideas take from modern day Earth. BG has no such exscuse besides the laziness of the wanna-be writer. The basic plot of BG is Terminator in space because man created the Cylons (no so in the original series) and same with the machines in the Terminator series.
I actually have liked some of the Star Trek Enterprise plots. I only watch the show when it has a good plot and an intertesting twist. It has been a refreshing change from the normally stale and dry characters of Star Trek.
This is still just a rumor. I will wait until I see the episode. There have been episodes that I didn't think I would like, but I did after watching them.
It is a specific term with a specific meaning.
Actually there are very few words in English that have just one meaning. The both are viable definitions of the word. Yours take the term strictly from a medical point of view. I think you are to stupid to understand this. I suggest you read a dictionary once. You might find more definitions for some words than you knew about.
I don't think that you will have scientists argue over whether a tree is alive.
I was talking about trees. I was talking about the search for life outside of the planet Earth. The definition of what constitutes life in these situations are suddenly loose compared to human life.
Funny, in biology abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy. There are spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) and induced abortions. Induced abortions may be classified as therapeutic, elective or criminal.
You missed the point. The poster was talking about the personal religous beliefs of the religious right that life begins at conception--regardless of whether that conception is in a womb or otherwise. Thus disposing (or aborting) these fertilized eggs is considered murder. To abort means to end. There are definitions to words outside of your small biological world.
Whether you like it or not, these people are entitled to their beliefs and entitled to attempt to say how their tax dollars are spent--just as much as you are entitled to the same things. Just because they don't agree with you doesn't make them wrong. If you think otherwise, then maybe we should apply the same thinking to some cause you are pationate about.
I find it funny that what scientists consider to determine life really depends on the situation.
Since bone marrow is a form of stem cells (adult stem cells), then all of you are wrong. It can thus be said that stem cell reseach began in the 1950s and 1960s with with bone marrow transplants.
What world do you live in? I live in a world where the dead don't really vote, but in almost every state there are areas where the dead vote and the total number of votes exceed the number of people actually living in the area.
This becomes extremely important in cases where the margin of vitory is very small. America needs more strict voting proceedures to prevent things like this from happenning. Voter fraud is a reality and the Democrats are the primary users of it.
Everytime a person tries to challenge what a person is trying to vote more than once (or if they are legal to vote) in the innercity, Democrats cry racism or voter supression. Anytime someone tries to come up with a way to prevent voter fraud, the Democrats cry voter supression.
As for the Washington Governer's race, the only fair thing is to require a revote.
Where did you hear, see, or read this? In a tabliod maybe? It's a known fact that the most cheating goes on in the innercity by Democrats. Take the Crack for registrered voters scandal (google it for more info) where a man was paid in Crack Cociane for each registered voter.
Take the Washington state Governers election. The Democrats didn't win. They need a revote because there are counties where the dead rose back to life and voted and there are areas controlled by primarily Democrats where more people voted than there are citizens. Both of these problems is more than enough to eliminate the very small margin of victory.
It would have been nice if they mentioned the price per unit to fill up a car.
What seasoned journalist? You mean like Dan Rather who did SO MUCH research before this story? Nearly all journalist today have their mind made up about an issue before they even do the research. Most of them only do the research to back up what they think is true and how it should be presented. What passes as journalism today is really opinions.
Go ahead an mod me down for being conservative, but that will not change things. I am glad to see this guy leave CNN. I don't watch CNN often, and I definately don't watch crossfire. I did try to watch it, but I found one of the hosts to be way in-your-face insulting of anybody who disagreed with him.
CNN has to do something to catch up with FOX, and crossfire is not helping them. It's simple business.
(Unless, of course, we're the Supreme Court in 2000. )
The Supreme Court stopped Al Gore from hi-jacking an election. He planned on recounting until he won. Al Gore took it to the courts first. All recount that were done are the Supreme Court said Bush won. Unless Al Gore was suceeded in fabricating new ballots, he lost. Get over it.
4 MORE YEARS! Did you see the county election map? That was quite a sea of red for the Republicans with small islands of blue in major cities! I know you liberal nerds can't stand to here this so you'll mod me down.
There are several things we do not know. The most important things is why those ballots were rejected. There are real and legal reasons to reject a ballot. Reasons such as they are not a citizen of the United States or they are a college student trying to vote where they are going to college instead of getting an absentee ballot from where they are from like you are supposed to do.
It is also known that the Democrats use the inner city to get more votes by having people vote more than once. There is no real system to insure that everyone who is supposed to vote votes just once. Remember the registration cards for crack cocaine scandal?
There is also such a thing as voter responsibility. Take Florida. If a person votes for more than one person for President of the United States, that ballot shouldn't be counted--even if it's just a dimple.
Democrats won't ever stop complaining because in their minds they won--even if they only get 1 vote! I am always a little suspicious about ballots that are suddenly found or were previously rejected!
I hope the Republican continue to fight this. The United States needs another Liberal in office like I need another hole in my head. Don't people learn from California's 80 Billion-dollar liberal fiasco.
KDevelop is not all it's hyped up to be. It's source code analysis needs a lot of work. I understand what this guy is looking for, and I too have been looking for something similar.
There is one problem. KDevelop is an IDE, and it's not really a RAD. It's missing the graphical dialog, message box, and window builder utility. It might have one for QT as an external program, but I doubt it binds anything else like Ruby or wxWidgets. If does have one, especially one that can build wxWidgets dialogs and windows, I haven't found it yet.
Do you really think other countries will tolerate this? It's not like a satellite will stay in position over China. Satellites circle the globe in some patern. This could be the begin of a satellite war. Also, what's to stop China from using this on the US and Great Britian along with other countries of the world?
I find it funny that they only talk about Democrat shorts by electronic voting. No mention of Republican. No mention that there is possiblities that in the inner cities some democrats voted more than once. We need a stronger system to insure each U.S. Citizens gets one, and only one vote. Although, any attempt to do so will be met with accusations of racism voter suppresion, etc. The fact is that we don't know how many of those votes are really legal votes.
Want an example? Gay rights.
Huh? Homosexuals are not being descriminated against. They are free to marry a member of the opposite sex if they want to. There is no evidence that someone is born gay. There are plenty of examples of people who used to live and advocate the homosexual life style, and these people are married to members of the opposite sex. Completely heterosexual.
The evidence usually provided by pro-homosexual people runs along the lines of their memories. Science has shown that memories are easily changed as we look back and reflect on our past. This means memories cannot be trusted.
I will modded down because the progressives here on slashdot don't care about science, or the truth. I know full well that I will be labelled a homophobe, and other suck hateful names, but I have never seen any evidence that proves someone is born with homosexuality instead of homosexuality being a result of positive and negative reinforcements acting on the conscious and unconscious brain of an individual.
Doesn't matter if India and China don't produce the same amount of greenhouse gasses. They will in the future, and with China's population, that is something that should be considered before hand rather than after they catch up to America.
It should be easier for countries like India and China to meet the standards by doing it right the first time. The treaty is a joke. Why should they be allowed to build up massive amount of factories, cars, and other GH producing sources when they can start out right without having all the problems of a large number existing GH producing sources.
If you want the USA on, then make it the same for everyone. It would not float in Congress either. It will be seen as political suicide because all the jobs being created would leave for countries like India and China faster to take advantage of the less strict environmental laws and extremely cheap labor (especially in China which has a huge population even with mandatory 1 child per family).
Don't let your excitement about environmental issues cloud your reasoning, judgement, and forethoguht. The environment is something we need to think about the effects of well in advance in addition to what's happenign today.
For example, oil is not an infite comoditity. It will run out. If the nation of OPEC had even 1 brain cell, they would be driving the charge to find alternative fuel sources that are renewable. They will eventually lose all the money they are making. It would seem logical to think that they would want to continue this trend of making money from oil.
Peer reviewed is a joke if all the reviewers think the same anyways. It simply means that everybody is running towards the same cliff claiming there is no cliff. I trust wiki sources even less.
The New York times ALWAYS tells the truth without any lies. Yeah right. (That was sarcasm.) They only quote liberal news sources. Iraq is better without Sadam, but there will be growing pains. No country gets freedom right the first time around--even the United States! For the first time in all of their history, tthe people of Iraq are getting a chance to decide their own future with the potential of a government of the people, by the people, for the people!