Replacement stocks for plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, coatings, dyes, etc. Look around the room. Is there anything in the room that isn't made partially or predominantly with fossil fuels? There are a lot more uses for petroleum than moving a couple tons of steel down the street.
The Russian nuclear icebreakers can't make it to Antarctica unless they're towed, the water in the tropics is too warm for them to cool properly and they'd overheat. They're designed for operations in very cold locations only.
Why the eternal stupidity we see parroted every time that some country makes or attempts a technological advance? "ZOMG IT'S A WEAPON!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" The amazing cowardice of the general public never fails to disgust me.
More than "entertainer", he's an educator. He's quite experienced at presenting complex ideas to children in an understandable manner, which is going to be more necessary with a format like this. I could be mistaken, but I think the children are Nye's real target by taking this challenge. None of the 'true believers' are going to change their mind, I don't think that Nye is foolish enough to believe otherwise. The creationists are going to show this debate to children in all the church schools and home schools, blithely thinking they "won", and those kids are going to get their first presentation of the actual science delivered in a coherent manner by an experienced children's presenter. A good thing, IMNSHO.
You know how Christianity spread throughout the world? By Christians going out and talking to the people that didn't agree with them.
Where did this happen? Not in South or Central America, where the Spanish and Portuguese made heresy a capital crime.
Not in North America, where Indian children were forcibly taken from their families and sent to church schools to be converted.
Not in Europe, where the popes commanded huge armies to wipe out heresies and pagans, and crusaders and the Inquisition rampaged for centuries. (Presented with a town that was half Catholic and half Albigensian heretics Saint Dominic ordered, "Kill them all. God will know his own.")
Not in the Philippines, where the Spanish declared heresy a capital crime.
Not in Australia, where Aborigine children were forcibly removed from their families and sent to church schools to be converted.
Not in the Middle East, where the crusaders massacred entire cities of non-believers.
So the only places where your statement might possibly be valid, China, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of Africa, are those places where the penetration of Christianity is fairly minimal.
There are a lot of people who are having doubts about one aspect or another (or all) of their religious beliefs, but who never have the opportunity to hear the opposing viewpoint presented in anything like a coherent manner. Home schoolers and students at private schools are very much in that category. The creationists will probably push this debate full throttle among their followers, which will be a huge mistake. Kids who have never heard anything but the most garbled misinterpretation of evolution are going to hear it presented in a calm, logical manner by a guy whose demeanor has been honed by decades of presenting complex information to children.
If you believe that all that could happen without the knowledge or at least the approval of the owners/publishers you're more, well, trusting than I am.
Umm, yeah, as long as you're comfortable with the financial aspects of your life being secured by the lowest bidder. How many bank web site hacks have we seen the last couple of years? A couple of dozen? More? Such incredible stupidity as changing your account number in the URL of your online banking session would give complete access to any other account, a flaw that the bank apparently knew about but wouldn't pay to fix. I won't do online banking, and especially not from any of the remarkably insecure mobile OSs.
Other than agreeing to run Pentagon propaganda pieces as authentic "news" in return for exclusive access? Gleefully participating in illegal propaganda efforts against the US public throughout the '70s? Publishing known false disinformation repeatedly during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, in order to guarantee the ability to 'in-bed' their stenographers with the invasion forces? Deliberately assisting in covering up CIA drug running repeatedly throughout the '80s? Participating in the 2000 Florida vote recount, and then obfuscating the results to make it look like the results would not have been different if the Supreme Court hadn't intervened to stop vote counting? No one has ever mentioned any of those things to you at all?
Almost all credit unions belong to the same network, so I can withdraw money from my Seattle credit union account from some random credit union ATM in Michigan or Hawaii for no charge. As an additional benefit, international withdrawals are cheaper (by half) than any of the bank accounts we've had.
We take X-amount of money out of the cash machine every Friday. If we have money left on Thursday we know we've stayed under budget. If we need more cash we know where we spent it and what on, since it's unusual. Since we belong to a credit union rather than a bank there's no issue with finding no-fee machines.
We tried using mostly credit cards for a while, but neither of us could really tell how much we were spending on a weekly or monthly basis. The last time I lost my wallet was in the 1990s, and it turned up inside the couch a few months later.
We have one credit card which we use mostly to buy airline tickets or things online, and which we pay off in full pretty much every month. Some small portion of my purchases goes to the Planetary Society. It had to be reissued once, when someone stole the stupid "courtesy checks" out of the mailbox and tried to pay a bill with it. Since we had cash it was just an annoyance, not an inconvenience.
I can take a US twenty dollar bill, travel to Araypalpa, 3000 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, and use that to buy something. If no one knows the current exchange rate they can use the single telephone in town to call Cusco and find out. When I can do that with bitcoin I'll consider it a real currency. Until then it's about as useful to me as Zimbabwean dollars.
It's kind of inefficient to launder drug money using real estate. While the overhead is less than what CitiCorp or Bank of America would charge, it's really, really slow. The developer is probably just trying to expand his clients' options.
If the Nobel Peace Prize wasn't already made irrelevant by the awarding of it to internationally-wanted war criminal Henry Kissinger in 1973, then the award to unrepentant terrorist Menachim Begin in 1978 should have done it.
Always good to keep in mind that the Washington Post was headquarters of Project Mockingbird, and that the NYT had the largest membership in Project Mockingbird of any news organization (including the television networks). They're certainly not going to say something like this out of the goodness of their non-existent corporate heart. If Snowden comes back to the US he'll be targeted by some 'lone nut' fall guy, or end up in a small plane over a wooded area. I'd be surprised if he's not protected by Spetsnaz right now, does anyone think he'll get any similar coverage when he leaves Russia?
Have you looked up images of kawalas and nays? They're really, really obviously flutes, there's not much doubt possible about what they might be. I can't help but notice that his flight originated in Morocco, and the TSA twits likely figured they could get away with abusing any passenger with an Arabic-sounding name.
If Fatherland Security keeps confiscating my 2-ounce bottle of hot sauce because they think it could be used as a weapon there's no way will you get a dozen half-meter long sticks through security in your carry on.
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Replacement stocks for plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, coatings, dyes, etc. Look around the room. Is there anything in the room that isn't made partially or predominantly with fossil fuels? There are a lot more uses for petroleum than moving a couple tons of steel down the street.
The Russian nuclear icebreakers can't make it to Antarctica unless they're towed, the water in the tropics is too warm for them to cool properly and they'd overheat. They're designed for operations in very cold locations only.
Why the eternal stupidity we see parroted every time that some country makes or attempts a technological advance? "ZOMG IT'S A WEAPON!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" The amazing cowardice of the general public never fails to disgust me.
Ten percent inflation is nothing. For much of the world that would be almost unprecedented stability.
the pricing incentives of Planned Parenthood.
Huh? Planned Parenthood isn't paying anyone not to have kids, so what the frack are you talking about? And the UN? Really?
More than "entertainer", he's an educator. He's quite experienced at presenting complex ideas to children in an understandable manner, which is going to be more necessary with a format like this. I could be mistaken, but I think the children are Nye's real target by taking this challenge. None of the 'true believers' are going to change their mind, I don't think that Nye is foolish enough to believe otherwise. The creationists are going to show this debate to children in all the church schools and home schools, blithely thinking they "won", and those kids are going to get their first presentation of the actual science delivered in a coherent manner by an experienced children's presenter. A good thing, IMNSHO.
You know how Christianity spread throughout the world? By Christians going out and talking to the people that didn't agree with them.
Where did this happen? Not in South or Central America, where the Spanish and Portuguese made heresy a capital crime.
Not in North America, where Indian children were forcibly taken from their families and sent to church schools to be converted.
Not in Europe, where the popes commanded huge armies to wipe out heresies and pagans, and crusaders and the Inquisition rampaged for centuries. (Presented with a town that was half Catholic and half Albigensian heretics Saint Dominic ordered, "Kill them all. God will know his own.")
Not in the Philippines, where the Spanish declared heresy a capital crime.
Not in Australia, where Aborigine children were forcibly removed from their families and sent to church schools to be converted.
Not in the Middle East, where the crusaders massacred entire cities of non-believers.
So the only places where your statement might possibly be valid, China, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of Africa, are those places where the penetration of Christianity is fairly minimal.
There are a lot of people who are having doubts about one aspect or another (or all) of their religious beliefs, but who never have the opportunity to hear the opposing viewpoint presented in anything like a coherent manner. Home schoolers and students at private schools are very much in that category. The creationists will probably push this debate full throttle among their followers, which will be a huge mistake. Kids who have never heard anything but the most garbled misinterpretation of evolution are going to hear it presented in a calm, logical manner by a guy whose demeanor has been honed by decades of presenting complex information to children.
If you believe that all that could happen without the knowledge or at least the approval of the owners/publishers you're more, well, trusting than I am.
Umm, yeah, as long as you're comfortable with the financial aspects of your life being secured by the lowest bidder. How many bank web site hacks have we seen the last couple of years? A couple of dozen? More? Such incredible stupidity as changing your account number in the URL of your online banking session would give complete access to any other account, a flaw that the bank apparently knew about but wouldn't pay to fix. I won't do online banking, and especially not from any of the remarkably insecure mobile OSs.
Other than agreeing to run Pentagon propaganda pieces as authentic "news" in return for exclusive access? Gleefully participating in illegal propaganda efforts against the US public throughout the '70s? Publishing known false disinformation repeatedly during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, in order to guarantee the ability to 'in-bed' their stenographers with the invasion forces? Deliberately assisting in covering up CIA drug running repeatedly throughout the '80s? Participating in the 2000 Florida vote recount, and then obfuscating the results to make it look like the results would not have been different if the Supreme Court hadn't intervened to stop vote counting? No one has ever mentioned any of those things to you at all?
Almost all credit unions belong to the same network, so I can withdraw money from my Seattle credit union account from some random credit union ATM in Michigan or Hawaii for no charge. As an additional benefit, international withdrawals are cheaper (by half) than any of the bank accounts we've had.
We take X-amount of money out of the cash machine every Friday. If we have money left on Thursday we know we've stayed under budget. If we need more cash we know where we spent it and what on, since it's unusual. Since we belong to a credit union rather than a bank there's no issue with finding no-fee machines.
We tried using mostly credit cards for a while, but neither of us could really tell how much we were spending on a weekly or monthly basis. The last time I lost my wallet was in the 1990s, and it turned up inside the couch a few months later.
We have one credit card which we use mostly to buy airline tickets or things online, and which we pay off in full pretty much every month. Some small portion of my purchases goes to the Planetary Society. It had to be reissued once, when someone stole the stupid "courtesy checks" out of the mailbox and tried to pay a bill with it. Since we had cash it was just an annoyance, not an inconvenience.
I think when the car is gone the carport could double as an industrial oven.
Where do you think the phrase "not worth a Continental" came from?
Are you sure that doesn't refer to the inherent worthlessness of anything manufactured by Ford?
I can take a US twenty dollar bill, travel to Araypalpa, 3000 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, and use that to buy something. If no one knows the current exchange rate they can use the single telephone in town to call Cusco and find out. When I can do that with bitcoin I'll consider it a real currency. Until then it's about as useful to me as Zimbabwean dollars.
It's kind of inefficient to launder drug money using real estate. While the overhead is less than what CitiCorp or Bank of America would charge, it's really, really slow. The developer is probably just trying to expand his clients' options.
That's evolution in action, not planning.
Passenger jet? It was the Venezuelan government's version of Air Force One.
If the Nobel Peace Prize wasn't already made irrelevant by the awarding of it to internationally-wanted war criminal Henry Kissinger in 1973, then the award to unrepentant terrorist Menachim Begin in 1978 should have done it.
Easier to get at him and make him disappear for a lovely weekend at a domestic Black Site.
Always good to keep in mind that the Washington Post was headquarters of Project Mockingbird, and that the NYT had the largest membership in Project Mockingbird of any news organization (including the television networks). They're certainly not going to say something like this out of the goodness of their non-existent corporate heart. If Snowden comes back to the US he'll be targeted by some 'lone nut' fall guy, or end up in a small plane over a wooded area. I'd be surprised if he's not protected by Spetsnaz right now, does anyone think he'll get any similar coverage when he leaves Russia?
And you're so brave that you're posting this AC! Congratulations!
Have you looked up images of kawalas and nays? They're really, really obviously flutes, there's not much doubt possible about what they might be. I can't help but notice that his flight originated in Morocco, and the TSA twits likely figured they could get away with abusing any passenger with an Arabic-sounding name.
If Fatherland Security keeps confiscating my 2-ounce bottle of hot sauce because they think it could be used as a weapon there's no way will you get a dozen half-meter long sticks through security in your carry on.