Maybe you're not Canadian but...CBC is designed to offer a public media (TV, radio, and now online) option that is mostly Canadian content. It's a huge driver of our domestic arts industry. They're well within their rights to compete directly with all comers. Many Canadians would prefer not to spend their tax dollars that way, but many others are quite happy with the bargain.
Neutrinos having mass AND traveling at the speed of light means there is something seriously wrong with relativity or quantum theory. There's every reason to think at this point that there is a result in the offing, and there's no point making scientists tiptoe around while they try to find the hole.
Didn't Eric Drexler and a bunch of other people use Crit Link or something similar to do this on a website my memory says it was edge.org in the late 90s/early '00s?
In the FA, that allegation is not founded on anything other than the car manual, which states the battery will discharge in that amount of time, but doesn't state that the battery will brick, leading one to believe that Tesla are, in fact, not total idiots and the 11 weeks are probably for normal, non-damaging "full" discharge.
As I mentioned elsewhere, there's a difference in the grounding of the two. Apologies are grounded in social traditions and laws whose intent is to keep the peace and avoid liability concerns, both of which apply to all citizens. Religious speech is intrinsically grounded in culture. There can be a legal requirement to issue an apology for damaging behavior. There cannot be a legal requirement to participate in a religion other than one's own. As someone pointed out elsewhere, this is grounded in a totally separate part of law, but that does not change the fact that the two situations are very different. The end effect is that the one is targeted at the individual (ok, and in fact the necessary operation of law in a democracy) while the other is targeted at the cultural group (not ok).
I agree, as it happens. I went to a Catholic junior high where this was the exact practice, and I was in many respects happier there than at my secular elementary and high schools. But I understand that this is not the case for everyone, any more than it would be universally comfortable for a devout Christian in a school where several times a day all the other students pulled out prayer mats, gave the Christian student the stinkeye, and then prayed to Allah. I did not say I am totally against the practice. I simply said I was less comfortable with it than with forcing people to issue public apologies. And, more importantly, that the social forces in the two cases are very different.
Yeah, no, you're totally right, in context the post was about transmission of religious belief and not about all the other situations in which kids are forced to recite prayers. Of course that's the obvious interpretation. How silly of me.
Funny, my sister, who is a modern liberal Christian, my grandmother, who is devoutly and traditionally Christian, and my brother-in-law, who is an Israeli Jew, not to mention the Muslim girl I was hanging out with over Christmas, all missed your insight. Also, the lady who wrote the Christian nonfiction book I'm currently editing. But you're right, of course.
"even", in context, is a *diminishing* term. That is to say, it indicates that the lesser evil is forcing a kid to recite religious text. It does not indicate that the two are equal. You're welcome. And there is a huge difference between forcing public apologies (grounded in social traditions and legal liability) versus forcing kids to participate in belief systems (grounded in oppression of alternate belief systems). That you aren't aware of that is a little scary.
There's no "even" to forcing a kid to say a prayer. Using a diminishing modifier is wholly inappropriate. I'm a lot more comfortable forcing someone to apologize than forcing them to recite religious text of any sort.
Sorry, I mis-tracked the GP. Nonetheless, other commenters have suggested those are issues. They are not. As to the plot, it never really bogs down. He switches threads more than often enough to keep your attention in my opinion.
Along with Ian McDonald, Bacigalupi is part of a wave of authors doing a good job of using non-traditional, non-fluff settings for near-future fiction. His characters, despite what the GP would have you believe, are pretty vividly drawn. Calling the white guy the main character is a non-starter. It's a collisionist book, with many threads crossing one another to paint a more complete picture of the setting and the action. The actual language is beautiful. There are hard things about the book that seem to derive directly from the hard things about the cultural extrapolations the author is drawing. In general, it's just good writing, period. Not easy writing, not obsessive compulsive series fiction, but good, solid, literary science fiction in an unusual setting with a diverse cast. It's hard to imagine how it would not be at least in contention for a ton of awards.
And yet the official reviews of the leaked emails have concluded that while there are some weaknesses in the system (when aren't there?) overall the conduct of these people has been ethical and their stated interpretations in line with the data and models in use.
It's also a 66% confidence projection using a new climate model that has undergone peer review but probably not much other discussion in the community. It's interesting, but hardly definitive.
I don't know what you're talking about with "98 to 99% efficiency", but maybe be a bit careful throwing a number like that around. Nothing is vaguely close to 98% efficiency when looking at potential->output energy.
Five Years[...]injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code
Seven years later, the statute of limitations has expired. Read the research yourself?
Both my parents have lived in Qatar for 10 years and have visited most of the countries in the region. Text or no text there are a huge number of shitty drivers in the form of careless nationals driving over there who can get away with literally anything up to and including totalling hundred thousand dollar cars and face minimal or zero prosecution for doing so, even though they endanger other drivers in the process. Check Youtube for videos of young stupid bastards driving up on two wheels. This is something my dad's seen first hand. There is a huge sea change in traffic law enforcement required to make the roads safer in that area of the world. Being smug about cell phone usage doesn't begin to tap into the problem they're actually facing.
Maybe you missed it, but TFA is about how that totally amazing technology was being banned from sale because two giant companies are going to war over patents. Totally amazing technology that's not available is not much good to anyone.
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Maybe you're not Canadian but...CBC is designed to offer a public media (TV, radio, and now online) option that is mostly Canadian content. It's a huge driver of our domestic arts industry. They're well within their rights to compete directly with all comers. Many Canadians would prefer not to spend their tax dollars that way, but many others are quite happy with the bargain.
Neutrinos having mass AND traveling at the speed of light means there is something seriously wrong with relativity or quantum theory. There's every reason to think at this point that there is a result in the offing, and there's no point making scientists tiptoe around while they try to find the hole.
Congratulations, you've won the most irrelevant troll award for this thread!
Didn't Eric Drexler and a bunch of other people use Crit Link or something similar to do this on a website my memory says it was edge.org in the late 90s/early '00s?
They're YA but I really enjoyed one of H.M. Hoover's Morrow books, Children of Morrow. It's grim, but man I loved it forever.
Every other blogger seems to be referencing Mr. DeGusta's article. If you have a particular reliable source maybe you could point to it.
In the FA, that allegation is not founded on anything other than the car manual, which states the battery will discharge in that amount of time, but doesn't state that the battery will brick, leading one to believe that Tesla are, in fact, not total idiots and the 11 weeks are probably for normal, non-damaging "full" discharge.
As I mentioned elsewhere, there's a difference in the grounding of the two. Apologies are grounded in social traditions and laws whose intent is to keep the peace and avoid liability concerns, both of which apply to all citizens. Religious speech is intrinsically grounded in culture. There can be a legal requirement to issue an apology for damaging behavior. There cannot be a legal requirement to participate in a religion other than one's own. As someone pointed out elsewhere, this is grounded in a totally separate part of law, but that does not change the fact that the two situations are very different. The end effect is that the one is targeted at the individual (ok, and in fact the necessary operation of law in a democracy) while the other is targeted at the cultural group (not ok).
I agree, as it happens. I went to a Catholic junior high where this was the exact practice, and I was in many respects happier there than at my secular elementary and high schools. But I understand that this is not the case for everyone, any more than it would be universally comfortable for a devout Christian in a school where several times a day all the other students pulled out prayer mats, gave the Christian student the stinkeye, and then prayed to Allah. I did not say I am totally against the practice. I simply said I was less comfortable with it than with forcing people to issue public apologies. And, more importantly, that the social forces in the two cases are very different.
Yeah, no, you're totally right, in context the post was about transmission of religious belief and not about all the other situations in which kids are forced to recite prayers. Of course that's the obvious interpretation. How silly of me.
Funny, my sister, who is a modern liberal Christian, my grandmother, who is devoutly and traditionally Christian, and my brother-in-law, who is an Israeli Jew, not to mention the Muslim girl I was hanging out with over Christmas, all missed your insight. Also, the lady who wrote the Christian nonfiction book I'm currently editing. But you're right, of course.
The social tradition in question is keeping the peace. So yes, it is more valid, because it isn't culture-specific.
"even", in context, is a *diminishing* term. That is to say, it indicates that the lesser evil is forcing a kid to recite religious text. It does not indicate that the two are equal. You're welcome. And there is a huge difference between forcing public apologies (grounded in social traditions and legal liability) versus forcing kids to participate in belief systems (grounded in oppression of alternate belief systems). That you aren't aware of that is a little scary.
No doubt all of the lawyers who wanted only to make big dollars went into divorce law rather than, say, corporate.
There's no "even" to forcing a kid to say a prayer. Using a diminishing modifier is wholly inappropriate. I'm a lot more comfortable forcing someone to apologize than forcing them to recite religious text of any sort.
Her suggestion that water is *never* returned to the river seems wrong. Or is the word "evaporation" in "evaporation basin" a misnomer?
Sorry, I mis-tracked the GP. Nonetheless, other commenters have suggested those are issues. They are not. As to the plot, it never really bogs down. He switches threads more than often enough to keep your attention in my opinion.
Along with Ian McDonald, Bacigalupi is part of a wave of authors doing a good job of using non-traditional, non-fluff settings for near-future fiction. His characters, despite what the GP would have you believe, are pretty vividly drawn. Calling the white guy the main character is a non-starter. It's a collisionist book, with many threads crossing one another to paint a more complete picture of the setting and the action. The actual language is beautiful. There are hard things about the book that seem to derive directly from the hard things about the cultural extrapolations the author is drawing. In general, it's just good writing, period. Not easy writing, not obsessive compulsive series fiction, but good, solid, literary science fiction in an unusual setting with a diverse cast. It's hard to imagine how it would not be at least in contention for a ton of awards.
And yet the official reviews of the leaked emails have concluded that while there are some weaknesses in the system (when aren't there?) overall the conduct of these people has been ethical and their stated interpretations in line with the data and models in use.
It's also a 66% confidence projection using a new climate model that has undergone peer review but probably not much other discussion in the community. It's interesting, but hardly definitive.
I don't know what you're talking about with "98 to 99% efficiency", but maybe be a bit careful throwing a number like that around. Nothing is vaguely close to 98% efficiency when looking at potential->output energy.
Five Years[...]injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code
Seven years later, the statute of limitations has expired. Read the research yourself?
Both my parents have lived in Qatar for 10 years and have visited most of the countries in the region. Text or no text there are a huge number of shitty drivers in the form of careless nationals driving over there who can get away with literally anything up to and including totalling hundred thousand dollar cars and face minimal or zero prosecution for doing so, even though they endanger other drivers in the process. Check Youtube for videos of young stupid bastards driving up on two wheels. This is something my dad's seen first hand. There is a huge sea change in traffic law enforcement required to make the roads safer in that area of the world. Being smug about cell phone usage doesn't begin to tap into the problem they're actually facing.
Maybe you missed it, but TFA is about how that totally amazing technology was being banned from sale because two giant companies are going to war over patents. Totally amazing technology that's not available is not much good to anyone.
Deduction! Deduction! NERD POWER! Sounds like a winner to me...