>Is Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG 'investigator' MediaSentry operating illegally in your state?.
They do not appear to be licensed in California. A check with the Department of Consumer Affairs license search does not show a license for MediaSentry. Searching on "Media" shows a delinquent license for Media Center Investigations in Kern County. It is, of course, possible that they are licensed under some other corporate identity.
>OK, now, prove to some fundamentalist teacher or other that it's not scientific, when they 'know' that it is.
That's already been taken care of. The US Supreme Court settled that hash in Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987) in a 7-2 decision. This is just the latest round in election year grandstanding by fundie politicians. This will go nowhere, even in Florida.
There is no logical reason to have a TV running 16h per day.
The dogs like to watch Animal Planet. They turn the teevee on as soon as I leave for work. They also get up in the middle of the night and watch old "Lassie" reruns on TVLand.
>My biggest problem with Symantec is that the software sucks, and in particular the Corporate edition. We walked away from it January,
I just made the decision to walk away from Corporate Edition as well. In my case, it was the @#$%^ memory leaks. We couldn't get more than a week's uptime out of our servers. Symantec does not offer a patch for this known problem, and their solution was for us to buy forty new licenses for their new version. Sorry, but Hell No.
Isaac Asimov maintained in "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer" that a scientist should have "a proper scorn for the niceties of classical philology." Thus the "amatogenic cortical principle" as named by Professor Johns.
Well, funding is pretty tight right now, but as soon as we free up some funds, we'll get right on that.
>(1) make publicly available to their students and employees, the policies and procedures related to the illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted materials required to be disclosed under section 485(a)(1)(P);
Please refer to page 257 of the Miskatonic U. Freshman Handbook titled, "Distribution of Copyrighted Materials."
>(2) develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property
Excerpt from page 257 of the Miskatonic U. Freshman Handbook titled, "Distribution of Copyrighted Materials": "Students may purchase software at the Campus Bookstore."
>develop...a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.
The President has appointed a Blue-Ribbon committee consisting of faculty, library staff, IT management, alumni, student representatives, and two DJs from the campus radio station to explore such technology-based deterrents. We anticipate that the first meeting of the committee will be held any day now.
Which brings up a couple of questions. Which sucks more, RealPlayer or MediaPlayer? Would some Satanic merging of the two programs become known as The Day That Music Died SP1?
The duty to pay taxes and the rights guaranteed under Article IV are not related. If I have no income, or if I am clever enough to shelter all my income, I pay no income tax. In fact, I might move to Washington State just because they have no state income tax. I might then drive over the border to Oregon to buy things because they have no sales tax. If I do not pay taxes that I am required to pay, I may be fined and/or imprisoned, or lose my house, but, prison aside, I still have the right to live where I wish.
Early last century they amended the constitution so that nobody could be president longer than two terms. Looks like we may have to take another hack at it, something about families to counteract this dynasty bullshit.
The 22nd Amendment was passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951 in reaction to Franklin Roosevelt having been elected President four times. The family thing goes way back. John Quincy Adams, the 6th President was the son of John Adams, the 2nd. Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison. The two Roosevelts were related as were Madison and Taylor.
For all the whining about not using kites, etc., no one has acknowledged the recreation of the camera. They did recreate a century old piece of equipment and used it to take an extremely high quality photo. I went to school from junior high through college with Ron Klein, and I guarantee that he built a meticulous reproduction of the original camera. It wouldn't surprise me if he used 100 year old brass screws to put the thing together. Let's give some props to some extremely cool retro-tech work instead of bashing it.
Indeed. Symantec's memory leaks keep bringing our servers down. Maybe that's a security feature; you don't get spam if you don't get mail, and you don't get viruses if nothing runs.
>I think to the anti-creationist, evolution is not falsifiable
Of course evolution is falsifiable. Doing so would get you the Nobel Prize and lasting fame and fortune. All it would take is one seriously out of sequence fossil (e.g. a mammal in a bed of trilobite fossils.) Creationists implicitly acknowledged this when they attempted the pathetic forgery of human footprints with dinosaur tracks at Glen Rose, Texas. The rest of your post isn't about falsifiability, but rather about your misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.
>Evolution fails to explain the most fundamental aspect of the theory, the coordinated evolution of independent biological organisms. What do I mean? I once heard, as an example of evolution, that humans may lose a toe over time. How then does the theory of evolution explain the "coordination" this change in the procreation of all humans across the planet?
You are confusing the fact of evolution with your failure to understand the mechanism of evolution and then trying to use this as an argument against evolution. This is the logical fallacy known as the Argument From Personal Incredulity. The explanation for the "problem" that you raise is natural selection. Every year there are humans born with more toes or less (fingers too) than the normal number of five. If humans with six fingers and toes had a survival advantage over those with five, or if they were significantly more attractive to the opposite sex, they would have more offspring than the fivers. After a sufficiently long time, all of us would be sixers.
>Unless something exterior directs changes during the procreation of life, each biological life that comes into existence must be root an independent tree of evolutionary change. Given the starting point of biological life on earth, and the time frames involved, What do we have so many humans, so many instances of life with basically the same biology?
You have just stated the principle of descent with modification. It is an argument for evolution, not against it.
Hate to be the one to break it to y'all, but evolution is pretty much just a theory too. Theory as in, not fact. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
From the BioTech Life Science Dictionary: theory definition:"In science, an explanation for some phenomenon which is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning. In popular use, a theory is often assumed to imply mere speculation, but in science, something is not called a theory until it has been confirmed over the course of many independent experiments."
What makes it better than proposing Creationism?
Evolution is supported by repeatable, publicly observable experimentation. Creationism is not
Evolution is supported by massive amounts of publicly observable evidence. Creationism is not.
Evolution is falsifiable. Creationism is not.
Evolution makes testable predictions. Creationism does not.
Think about it. I strongly urge you to begin doing so, rather than following the lead of charlatans.
Just out of curiosity, during the "DOS days", did you ever try Framework? If yes, what do you think of it? I'd forgotten about that. I didn't ever use it, although I knew folks who did. They generally liked it. Seemed like Ashton-Tate was pushing the hell out of dBase in those days. I never did get an "evaluation copy" of Framework to try out as I did with dBase. Some of those old programs were too god-awful expensive to just go buy to see if you liked it.
>In what way does access not meet theese requirements?
It really does meet them. I just sometimes have the feeling that I'm using an elephant gun to swat a fly. The only thing that ever really gives me problems has to do with the multi-user features of Access. Every once in a while, some special magic will result in a file thinking it is set up for replication when it is not. On the other hand, when I have set up replication on purpose, it works pretty well.
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The original marketing of Lotus 123 stressed its use as a database. 123 stood for 1=spreadsheet, 2=database. and 3=word processor. Excel still has 13 choices on its |Data menu. Lotus was a bloody awful word processor. Copy Con was better.
Back in the early DOS days, I used to use a flat file database called Professional File a lot. dBaseIII was overkill for what I needed.
In the later Dos days I was using Quattro Pro a lot for my spreadsheet work. I also used it for inventory lists, but hardware limitations, both RAM and drive storage were a problem when spreadsheet databases got over 200 records. Paradox worked better both for loading in memory and for much smaller file size than Quattro Pro for the same number of records.
In spite of its many faults, I use Access for mail merge data rather than the @#$%ing awful thing in Word.
I use Access for a database more than I use Excel, but sometimes Excel is simpler.
I would love to see a single-user desktop database program with modest relational capabilities, intuitive query and report functions, and decent ability to import and export data.
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>Is Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG 'investigator' MediaSentry operating illegally in your state?.
They do not appear to be licensed in California. A check with the Department of Consumer Affairs license search does not show a license for MediaSentry. Searching on "Media" shows a delinquent license for Media Center Investigations in Kern County. It is, of course, possible that they are licensed under some other corporate identity.
It is sad that there are people who call themself a Christian, yet cling to the heresy of Biblical Literalism.
There, fixed it for you.
>OK, now, prove to some fundamentalist teacher or other that it's not scientific, when they 'know' that it is.
That's already been taken care of. The US Supreme Court settled that hash in Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987) in a 7-2 decision. This is just the latest round in election year grandstanding by fundie politicians. This will go nowhere, even in Florida.There is no logical reason to have a TV running 16h per day.
The dogs like to watch Animal Planet. They turn the teevee on as soon as I leave for work. They also get up in the middle of the night and watch old "Lassie" reruns on TVLand.>My biggest problem with Symantec is that the software sucks, and in particular the Corporate edition. We walked away from it January,
I just made the decision to walk away from Corporate Edition as well. In my case, it was the @#$%^ memory leaks. We couldn't get more than a week's uptime out of our servers. Symantec does not offer a patch for this known problem, and their solution was for us to buy forty new licenses for their new version. Sorry, but Hell No.
FTFB:>"I didn't make a dime doing it."
The man's obviously a commie. Can't have a guy like that working on CNN.
Isaac Asimov maintained in "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer" that a scientist should have "a proper scorn for the niceties of classical philology." Thus the "amatogenic cortical principle" as named by Professor Johns.
>to the extent practicable
Well, funding is pretty tight right now, but as soon as we free up some funds, we'll get right on that.
>(1) make publicly available to their students and employees, the policies and procedures related to the illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted materials required to be disclosed under section 485(a)(1)(P);
Please refer to page 257 of the Miskatonic U. Freshman Handbook titled, "Distribution of Copyrighted Materials."
>(2) develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property
Excerpt from page 257 of the Miskatonic U. Freshman Handbook titled, "Distribution of Copyrighted Materials": "Students may purchase software at the Campus Bookstore."
>develop...a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.
The President has appointed a Blue-Ribbon committee consisting of faculty, library staff, IT management, alumni, student representatives, and two DJs from the campus radio station to explore such technology-based deterrents. We anticipate that the first meeting of the committee will be held any day now.
2008 on which calendar? I'm betting on the Islamic calendar, where the current year is 1429.
>..unless microsoft also plan to buy Real.
Which brings up a couple of questions. Which sucks more, RealPlayer or MediaPlayer? Would some Satanic merging of the two programs become known as The Day That Music Died SP1?
The duty to pay taxes and the rights guaranteed under Article IV are not related. If I have no income, or if I am clever enough to shelter all my income, I pay no income tax. In fact, I might move to Washington State just because they have no state income tax. I might then drive over the border to Oregon to buy things because they have no sales tax. If I do not pay taxes that I am required to pay, I may be fined and/or imprisoned, or lose my house, but, prison aside, I still have the right to live where I wish.
>you have no right to live here.
Actually, Article IV of the US Constitution says that I do.
The 22nd Amendment was passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951 in reaction to Franklin Roosevelt having been elected President four times. The family thing goes way back. John Quincy Adams, the 6th President was the son of John Adams, the 2nd. Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison. The two Roosevelts were related as were Madison and Taylor.
>Really? Have you ever seen the rain?
Comin' down on a sunny day?
For all the whining about not using kites, etc., no one has acknowledged the recreation of the camera. They did recreate a century old piece of equipment and used it to take an extremely high quality photo. I went to school from junior high through college with Ron Klein, and I guarantee that he built a meticulous reproduction of the original camera. It wouldn't surprise me if he used 100 year old brass screws to put the thing together. Let's give some props to some extremely cool retro-tech work instead of bashing it.
Indeed. Symantec's memory leaks keep bringing our servers down. Maybe that's a security feature; you don't get spam if you don't get mail, and you don't get viruses if nothing runs.
>If the CIA is right to attribute recent blackouts to cyberwarfare
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
>I think to the anti-creationist, evolution is not falsifiable
Of course evolution is falsifiable. Doing so would get you the Nobel Prize and lasting fame and fortune. All it would take is one seriously out of sequence fossil (e.g. a mammal in a bed of trilobite fossils.) Creationists implicitly acknowledged this when they attempted the pathetic forgery of human footprints with dinosaur tracks at Glen Rose, Texas. The rest of your post isn't about falsifiability, but rather about your misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.
>Evolution fails to explain the most fundamental aspect of the theory, the coordinated evolution of independent biological organisms. What do I mean? I once heard, as an example of evolution, that humans may lose a toe over time. How then does the theory of evolution explain the "coordination" this change in the procreation of all humans across the planet?
You are confusing the fact of evolution with your failure to understand the mechanism of evolution and then trying to use this as an argument against evolution. This is the logical fallacy known as the Argument From Personal Incredulity. The explanation for the "problem" that you raise is natural selection. Every year there are humans born with more toes or less (fingers too) than the normal number of five. If humans with six fingers and toes had a survival advantage over those with five, or if they were significantly more attractive to the opposite sex, they would have more offspring than the fivers. After a sufficiently long time, all of us would be sixers.
>Unless something exterior directs changes during the procreation of life, each biological life that comes into existence must be root an independent tree of evolutionary change. Given the starting point of biological life on earth, and the time frames involved, What do we have so many humans, so many instances of life with basically the same biology?
You have just stated the principle of descent with modification. It is an argument for evolution, not against it.
From the BioTech Life Science Dictionary: theory definition:"In science, an explanation for some phenomenon which is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning. In popular use, a theory is often assumed to imply mere speculation, but in science, something is not called a theory until it has been confirmed over the course of many independent experiments." What makes it better than proposing Creationism?
- Evolution is supported by repeatable, publicly observable experimentation. Creationism is not
- Evolution is supported by massive amounts of publicly observable evidence. Creationism is not.
- Evolution is falsifiable. Creationism is not.
- Evolution makes testable predictions. Creationism does not.
Think about it. I strongly urge you to begin doing so, rather than following the lead of charlatans.>In what way does access not meet theese requirements?
It really does meet them. I just sometimes have the feeling that I'm using an elephant gun to swat a fly. The only thing that ever really gives me problems has to do with the multi-user features of Access. Every once in a while, some special magic will result in a file thinking it is set up for replication when it is not. On the other hand, when I have set up replication on purpose, it works pretty well.