>"But speciation has never been observed" has been the strongest rallying cry of evolution-deniers for more than a century...
And it has been a falsehood for at least half that time. Speciation has been observed in both the field an in the lab... repeatedly. Creationists trumpet the no observed speciation line until they are called on it, and then it becomes, "But they're still [fruit flies, fish, whatever]," The moving goal posts are the hallmark of creationism.
Remember, the "scientists" at the Institution for Creation Research have to sign an oath that nothing they "discover" will ever conflict with a litteral interpretation of the Bible.
Science has shown truths about the natural world that are unpleasant to the fundamentalist Republican masters of the United States (e.g. evolutionary biology, global warming.) Since they can't attack these realities that conflict with their world view, they attack the messengers. They want to ban the study of anything that bothers their religion, which seems to be an unholy marriage of Biblical litteralism and corporate dictatorship. The message here is that if you discover something that the religious overlords don't like, they will come after you with all of the power of the state.
Virtually every news item posted here can start a flamewar. Amidst the Microsoft bashing, several voices will point out good things they have done. Praise or bash the iPod, and you will generate a response. It's nice to see that there is one thing that unites us all, liberal/conservative, Apple fan/hater, and that is the universal agreement that Darl is scum.
There are very few universally accepted truths in this world, and it is nice to be reminded of them once in a while.
Been there, done that. The vast majority of Texans think that Austin should be sold to some other state cheap, and the capital moved to Lubbock. Austin is the coolness ghetto of Texas.
Certainly leaving Texas is a noble goal, but the route seems a bit boring. It is a race, so passing through Kansas as rapidly as possible is on everyone's mind, but then it always is, no matter what. Austin to Vancouver would be a lot more challenging.
Her suit should be allowed to go forward as soon as she can show her calcualtions of the exact amount of orbital change due to ablation each time the core swings around the sun. Otherwise, she can pay everyone's costs and go away.
It conjures up the two basic feelings central to all such articles:
1. Wow! what a cool project. This guy has some SERIOUS geek cred. Imagine hand wiring all of that, etc. and,
2. Wow! This guy really needs to get a life. You know, meet a few chicks, go bowling... something.
I have mod points, but since I couldn't find the drop-down for +4 Frightening, I'll write this. For those of us who live in the so-called free country of the USA, it is now unremarkable to have The Man come to your door for accessing public information. The "Patriot" Act wants your library records vetted by the Thought Police.
The Shrub says that the terrorists hate us for our freedom. It is apparent that his solution is to do away with our freedom.
>Yes, I was half expecting someone to tell me to get an HP-graphing-ultracalc
My calculator key launches Virtual TI, which I have set to emulating my TI-89. I do still have my Dietzgen aluminum log-log slide rule around. Definite geek cred... or geezer cred, whichever.
>"Flash-based drives based on the new technology are expected on the market by August of this year."
Many, many things "are expected on the market by [insert future time here]. This is not the same as saying that these puppies will be on the shelf in Fry's on August 12, 2005 at a cost of one gonad three pence. Any number of "expected on the market" items have become cliches here on slashdot. All of which is to say that people should be given some leeway for skepticism before being flamed.
That said, I can see some excellent uses not only in laptops as mentined, but PDAs and other small form factor devices. I'd love one in a Rio Carbon case.
The graveyard precinct vote has been a factor in US politics since before Washington was a state. The real news is that the state government is no longer considered a Boeing subsidiary.
The only way to stop spam is to start putting spammers in prison. Not jail; prison. A couple of years in stir as someone's boy-toy will cure a lot of this. I realize that not all, or even most, of the spammers are in the US. I think putting them in prison in Russia or Turkey or the PRC would be equally effective, if not more so.
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MAME is how I get my Xevious fix.
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I recently picked up a copy of Namco Museum for the X Boxfor $15.00 at Target. It has Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaxian, Galalga, Pole Position 1 and 2, and a couple of variants of them that I hadn't seen before. My 18 year old daughter is nuts over it. The 23 year old wishes it had Moon Patrol, a Williams game not Namco, sadly.
> "Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft". This last comment is disputed by retired Microsoft researcher Karen Jensen, who developed part of the underlying technology; "Only by knowing that 'Gates' probably refers to Bill Gates -- and not to the plural of the movable portion of a fence -- would the program know to suggest using 'does' instead."
Karen Jensen should know that in her version of the word "Gates", the sentence would properly read, "Gates do good marketing jobs in Microsoft." The idea of subject-verb agreement seems largely lost on many these days. As others have said, it is a weak tool and quite uneven in its application of rules.
>The real truth is we are far more likely to die in a car crash than to die at the hands of a would-be terrorist. Yet, billions are being poured into Homeland Insecurity and the TSA efforts, and what do we have? High false positive rates, millions of needlessly harrased travelers, and it's hard to get a fix on the false negative rates since terrorists are so rare to begin with.
More people in the United States were killed in traffic accidents in September 2001 than were killed in terrorist attacks in the same month. That is also true of August 2001, October 2001, and all subsequent months. The difference is that the figures for terrorism deaths in all of thase other months is zero. (2001 deaths =42,900)
The thing stopping airliner takeovers is the passengers willingness to take on the terrorists as in the Pennsylvania hijacking. TSA is there to comfort the rubes who fly once every five years. It also provides jobs for those who can't hack it at McDonald's.
I wonder if this Official Porn List Compiler is a new position, or if this is ongoing work in the AG's office. Perhaps all of the good workers there spend an hour a day cruising for new pR0n sites. They do spring up quickly. I'm sure this activity generates a bit of incoming email with links that need to be tracked down a checked out.
I'm certain that it will take a full-time upper-level management position to supervise all of this activity. It will certainly take someone with a bit of experience to tell whether some of these sites a actual pR0n or just creative amature photgraphs. Since there probably aren't too many experts on this subject in Salt Lake City, they will probably need to advertise the position in New York or Las Vegas. Could be the start of a whole new career in the law.
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>"But speciation has never been observed" has been the strongest rallying cry of evolution-deniers for more than a century...
And it has been a falsehood for at least half that time. Speciation has been observed in both the field an in the lab... repeatedly. Creationists trumpet the no observed speciation line until they are called on it, and then it becomes, "But they're still [fruit flies, fish, whatever]," The moving goal posts are the hallmark of creationism.Remember, the "scientists" at the Institution for Creation Research have to sign an oath that nothing they "discover" will ever conflict with a litteral interpretation of the Bible.
Science has shown truths about the natural world that are unpleasant to the fundamentalist Republican masters of the United States (e.g. evolutionary biology, global warming.) Since they can't attack these realities that conflict with their world view, they attack the messengers. They want to ban the study of anything that bothers their religion, which seems to be an unholy marriage of Biblical litteralism and corporate dictatorship. The message here is that if you discover something that the religious overlords don't like, they will come after you with all of the power of the state.
Virtually every news item posted here can start a flamewar. Amidst the Microsoft bashing, several voices will point out good things they have done. Praise or bash the iPod, and you will generate a response. It's nice to see that there is one thing that unites us all, liberal/conservative, Apple fan/hater, and that is the universal agreement that Darl is scum.
There are very few universally accepted truths in this world, and it is nice to be reminded of them once in a while.
Been there, done that. The vast majority of Texans think that Austin should be sold to some other state cheap, and the capital moved to Lubbock. Austin is the coolness ghetto of Texas.
Certainly leaving Texas is a noble goal, but the route seems a bit boring. It is a race, so passing through Kansas as rapidly as possible is on everyone's mind, but then it always is, no matter what. Austin to Vancouver would be a lot more challenging.
Her suit should be allowed to go forward as soon as she can show her calcualtions of the exact amount of orbital change due to ablation each time the core swings around the sun. Otherwise, she can pay everyone's costs and go away.
You're still in Texas. Sheesh! I though the idea was to escape.
I tried. Sadly, it wouldn't load. Perhaps others were trying at the same time. That sometimes happens, I find.
It conjures up the two basic feelings central to all such articles:
1. Wow! what a cool project. This guy has some SERIOUS geek cred. Imagine hand wiring all of that, etc. and,
2. Wow! This guy really needs to get a life. You know, meet a few chicks, go bowling... something.
My car stereo amp goes up to eleven.
I have mod points, but since I couldn't find the drop-down for +4 Frightening, I'll write this. For those of us who live in the so-called free country of the USA, it is now unremarkable to have The Man come to your door for accessing public information. The "Patriot" Act wants your library records vetted by the Thought Police.
The Shrub says that the terrorists hate us for our freedom. It is apparent that his solution is to do away with our freedom.
>Yes, I was half expecting someone to tell me to get an HP-graphing-ultracalc
My calculator key launches Virtual TI, which I have set to emulating my TI-89. I do still have my Dietzgen aluminum log-log slide rule around. Definite geek cred... or geezer cred, whichever.>"Flash-based drives based on the new technology are expected on the market by August of this year."
Many, many things "are expected on the market by [insert future time here]. This is not the same as saying that these puppies will be on the shelf in Fry's on August 12, 2005 at a cost of one gonad three pence. Any number of "expected on the market" items have become cliches here on slashdot. All of which is to say that people should be given some leeway for skepticism before being flamed.That said, I can see some excellent uses not only in laptops as mentined, but PDAs and other small form factor devices. I'd love one in a Rio Carbon case.
The graveyard precinct vote has been a factor in US politics since before Washington was a state. The real news is that the state government is no longer considered a Boeing subsidiary.
The only way to stop spam is to start putting spammers in prison. Not jail; prison. A couple of years in stir as someone's boy-toy will cure a lot of this. I realize that not all, or even most, of the spammers are in the US. I think putting them in prison in Russia or Turkey or the PRC would be equally effective, if not more so.
MAME is how I get my Xevious fix.
I recently picked up a copy of Namco Museum for the X Boxfor $15.00 at Target. It has Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaxian, Galalga, Pole Position 1 and 2, and a couple of variants of them that I hadn't seen before. My 18 year old daughter is nuts over it. The 23 year old wishes it had Moon Patrol, a Williams game not Namco, sadly.
The time to do it once may or may not be meaningful. Do it six more times and average the results.
>what is it about?
RTFB>mandatory life sentences for jay walking isn't draconian.
And neither is my long-standing proposal of death penalties for spammers.>and yes Jar-Jar is there albeit briefly
Please tell me he is being torn apart by something that could have oozed out of an H.P. Lovecraft novel.>Bonus would be the slogan, "Cthulhu Linux, it'll suck your face off."
I like it. I can think of several other excellent marketing themes:> "Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft". This last comment is disputed by retired Microsoft researcher Karen Jensen, who developed part of the underlying technology; "Only by knowing that 'Gates' probably refers to Bill Gates -- and not to the plural of the movable portion of a fence -- would the program know to suggest using 'does' instead."
Karen Jensen should know that in her version of the word "Gates", the sentence would properly read, "Gates do good marketing jobs in Microsoft." The idea of subject-verb agreement seems largely lost on many these days. As others have said, it is a weak tool and quite uneven in its application of rules.>The real truth is we are far more likely to die in a car crash than to die at the hands of a would-be terrorist. Yet, billions are being poured into Homeland Insecurity and the TSA efforts, and what do we have? High false positive rates, millions of needlessly harrased travelers, and it's hard to get a fix on the false negative rates since terrorists are so rare to begin with.
More people in the United States were killed in traffic accidents in September 2001 than were killed in terrorist attacks in the same month. That is also true of August 2001, October 2001, and all subsequent months. The difference is that the figures for terrorism deaths in all of thase other months is zero. (2001 deaths =42,900)The thing stopping airliner takeovers is the passengers willingness to take on the terrorists as in the Pennsylvania hijacking. TSA is there to comfort the rubes who fly once every five years. It also provides jobs for those who can't hack it at McDonald's.
>The list will be provided by the state AG
I wonder if this Official Porn List Compiler is a new position, or if this is ongoing work in the AG's office. Perhaps all of the good workers there spend an hour a day cruising for new pR0n sites. They do spring up quickly. I'm sure this activity generates a bit of incoming email with links that need to be tracked down a checked out.I'm certain that it will take a full-time upper-level management position to supervise all of this activity. It will certainly take someone with a bit of experience to tell whether some of these sites a actual pR0n or just creative amature photgraphs. Since there probably aren't too many experts on this subject in Salt Lake City, they will probably need to advertise the position in New York or Las Vegas. Could be the start of a whole new career in the law.