Or examined the biology and physics research done at major religious universities worldwide. Some priests believe that actually observing and understanding their god's more practical handiwork is a form of worship, and I can certainly work with such people to do so. People believe all sorts of mythical beings, like truth, justice, demoracy, murphy's law, and various forms of god. As long as they keep a handle on it, we can work with them in real and effective ways.
Invalidated or not, fighting it in court is extremely painful for an individual employee. The result is that an employee who joins a thoroughly lawyer equipped firm, such as Microsoft or Intel, has protection from prosecution unavailable to small companies or individual developers creating a start-up company. Cases of this kind of lawyer protected theft include the VMS technologies 'leveraged' by the former DEC developer, David Cutler, to create Windows NT.
I've certainly shown code I've written for other companies. That's because it was under a GPL copyright. That's one of the besst ways to demonstrate competence, publicly and where other people can pick it apart and look for bugs.
Wouldn't it be legally safer to hire the former DEC designers from whom Intel stole the Alpha technologies for the Pentium itself, since that is much of the foundation of the Pentium designs ever since? Or do you think they've gotten too old? Quite a few of them were extremely upset when DEC failed to properly press its lawsuits against Intel for the theft. Between that theft, and the theft of VMS technologies by David Cutler for Windows NT, the Wintel architecture became powerful enough to challenge DEC's leadership, and DEC eventually got sold off to HP, then to Intel.
First: this man is a priest, and a biologist, and a respected biologist at that.
Second: the 'blunder' was basically failing to say things in a way that couldn't be misquoted. His original suggestions, which were also written about on Slashdot, were reasonable ones saying 'let students, and teachers, discuss it in class and compare its reasoning to that of science'. That's a good approach, just what Mythbusters does and excellent material for exploring scientific reasoning versus superstition or dogmatic beliefs.
Unfortunately for him, he's not a Jesuit. If he were, he'd have had far more practice in the kind of spirited debate that would have helped him avoid being misquoted and misunderstood.
Also unfortunately, the shouting has obscured one of the dangers of his actual suggestion. But bringing creationism into the classroom, even to discredit it, it is lent a certain respectability for people who are not in the class. And other teaching professionals, more convinced of their religious versions of biology and physics, can hide their fraudulent scientific claims by calling it 'analysis'. That kind of stunt used to be pulled all the time in US classrooms, teaching political propaganda, and I can only assume that it also occurs in UK classrooms as well. So we want to be very careful about what, exactly, we spend valuable classroom time analyzing.
Reconciling the distinct, sometimes conflicting needs of different groups is where good managers are priceless. If you've got that kind of antipathy between your tech people and your business people, someone has been doing something wrong. Tech is supposed to _enable_ people to do their work, not get in their way. And it can be fun in and of itself, which is why many of us do it.
But they don't often pay us to have fun of our own, they want things to work well and not cost too much. As soon as your tech staff starts calling people 'lusers', and the secretaries leave things broken because it's just too much trouble to come to us for help, then our company or department should start looking for a new leader. Not just a new IT person: a new leader to help create those relationships.
Oh, make no mistake. That wasn't about democracy: that was about religion, money, and power. But no, democracy doesn't get to play 'innocent bystander' on it. We let our leaders lie to us, playing on refreshed fears of terrorism. And we've let those fears erode democracy itself with the Patriiot Act, Guantanamo Bay, and genuine war crimes in Iraq, and before that in Bosnoya. (Take a good look at the legal protections for US mercenaries in both Bosnia and Iraq: they can't be tried under foreign law or US law for their war crimes in either place.)
Religion has been a particularly powerful justification for it: the idea that God, or gods, give a special right to the leaders to perform acts that override law and which are a sin to disobey is insidious and dangerous. Oddly enough, the 'militant atheists' mentioned earlier don't seem to exist as an organized group with that sort of behavior. And if you've not met idiocy tied particularly to religion, I suggest you look at Ethiopia, Bosnia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and even parts of the USA right now.
No, stress means pressures applied to something, usually expressed as a ratio of force to area. Instability is what you get when the stress is excessive, or the structure flawed: the normal stresses are what provide guidance to our paths, and even give us the traction with the world to interact with it.
To say that 'stress is indeed a form of instability' is to ignore the existence of normal, day-to-day stress.
Religion should not be allowed to play 'innocent bystander' in these slaughters, or play the 'guns don't kill people' sort of innocent plea. And goods are hardly the only reasons for religious slaughter, although to continue to full-scale genocide it helps continue the program.
Yes, and it shouldn't. But with SSH, at least the reference versions and defaults, it's not enabled on the client or the server, nor where they so enabled in the original versions. The standard versions from every SSH server I've ever seen reject such behavior automatically.
Then post the idea, and see if someone among these readers can post a version that already exists. And don't waste people's time on the discussion of what isn't even vaporware, but sounds like a dotcom business plan.
Oh, no. Practice and the law of averages have caught up with many cowardly, poorly implemented suicide attempts of real wimps. Alocholism, and its cousin drunken driving, have been the means of many successful suicide attempts. So has arguing with somebody with a gun.
Glorifying suicide as 'courageous' leads to suicide bombers.
It doesn't take mental instability to consider suicide. Stress of all sorts can encourage thoughts of suicide: some of them, such as the stress from terminal, painful, debilitating illness, are quite reasonable to consider suicide. Even the stress of the loss of loved ones can make suicide attractive, although that can usually be helped more easily.
Yes, I do expect the militant athesists to be better behaved. They don't have the history of wars over heresies, slaughter in the name of atheism, and cultural genocide. (The various Communist revolutions were not militantly atheistic, they were militantly political: I propose that there is, in fact, a difference.)
Moreover, right-wing religious zealotry has existed throughout the history of humanity. It can, and has, lashed out against far milder heresies than 'evolution' with the death and subjugation of their proponents in ways you need merely look at history to document. Right-wing atheists won't cure the existence of right-wing fundantamentalists at all.
Bring it up in a 'Mythbusters' sort of way. In fact, I think that Mythbutsters should be a good example of scientific method, experimental design, and how the presentation of an experiment can add to its chances of funding.
Because the UK has been colonizing Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, and other countries for centuries, and now has reaped the global outlooks of their former colonies. The US are latecomers at this with their recent colonization of Afghanistan and Iraq, but both have to deal with members who hold right-wing, 'scripture overrules biology' members of their cultures. Every Western society has to deal with people who engage in this kind of magical thinking.
It's worth going and reading what this biologist priest member of the Royal Society actually wrote. It's actually a fairly sensitive suggestion to take Creationist and other religious beliefs into account in the classroom, to _illuminate_ them as faith-based rather than scientifically based beliefs and to illuminate their tendencies to masquerade as science. This kind of illumination of the politics of science can be very educational, indeed, and help reconcile the issues for a student getting one message from home and another in the classroom.
Oh, Terry Pratchett was interested when he wrote "Strata". And for a more reasoned explanation of why creationism and a lot of guided evolution ideas are silly, there was his 'The Science of Discworld', a pretty good collaborative effort that compared magical thinking to real science, among other efforts by a gifted parody writer.
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Perhaps she needs a bra?
It worked for both Presidents Bush.
Subtitled 'Posting to Slashdot'?
Or examined the biology and physics research done at major religious universities worldwide. Some priests believe that actually observing and understanding their god's more practical handiwork is a form of worship, and I can certainly work with such people to do so. People believe all sorts of mythical beings, like truth, justice, demoracy, murphy's law, and various forms of god. As long as they keep a handle on it, we can work with them in real and effective ways.
Invalidated or not, fighting it in court is extremely painful for an individual employee. The result is that an employee who joins a thoroughly lawyer equipped firm, such as Microsoft or Intel, has protection from prosecution unavailable to small companies or individual developers creating a start-up company. Cases of this kind of lawyer protected theft include the VMS technologies 'leveraged' by the former DEC developer, David Cutler, to create Windows NT.
I've certainly shown code I've written for other companies. That's because it was under a GPL copyright. That's one of the besst ways to demonstrate competence, publicly and where other people can pick it apart and look for bugs.
Wouldn't it be legally safer to hire the former DEC designers from whom Intel stole the Alpha technologies for the Pentium itself, since that is much of the foundation of the Pentium designs ever since? Or do you think they've gotten too old? Quite a few of them were extremely upset when DEC failed to properly press its lawsuits against Intel for the theft. Between that theft, and the theft of VMS technologies by David Cutler for Windows NT, the Wintel architecture became powerful enough to challenge DEC's leadership, and DEC eventually got sold off to HP, then to Intel.
Well, first, you have to bundle them into stacks of strawmen.
First: this man is a priest, and a biologist, and a respected biologist at that.
Second: the 'blunder' was basically failing to say things in a way that couldn't be misquoted. His original suggestions, which were also written about on Slashdot, were reasonable ones saying 'let students, and teachers, discuss it in class and compare its reasoning to that of science'. That's a good approach, just what Mythbusters does and excellent material for exploring scientific reasoning versus superstition or dogmatic beliefs.
Unfortunately for him, he's not a Jesuit. If he were, he'd have had far more practice in the kind of spirited debate that would have helped him avoid being misquoted and misunderstood.
Also unfortunately, the shouting has obscured one of the dangers of his actual suggestion. But bringing creationism into the classroom, even to discredit it, it is lent a certain respectability for people who are not in the class. And other teaching professionals, more convinced of their religious versions of biology and physics, can hide their fraudulent scientific claims by calling it 'analysis'. That kind of stunt used to be pulled all the time in US classrooms, teaching political propaganda, and I can only assume that it also occurs in UK classrooms as well. So we want to be very careful about what, exactly, we spend valuable classroom time analyzing.
Reconciling the distinct, sometimes conflicting needs of different groups is where good managers are priceless. If you've got that kind of antipathy between your tech people and your business people, someone has been doing something wrong. Tech is supposed to _enable_ people to do their work, not get in their way. And it can be fun in and of itself, which is why many of us do it.
But they don't often pay us to have fun of our own, they want things to work well and not cost too much. As soon as your tech staff starts calling people 'lusers', and the secretaries leave things broken because it's just too much trouble to come to us for help, then our company or department should start looking for a new leader. Not just a new IT person: a new leader to help create those relationships.
Oh, make no mistake. That wasn't about democracy: that was about religion, money, and power. But no, democracy doesn't get to play 'innocent bystander' on it. We let our leaders lie to us, playing on refreshed fears of terrorism. And we've let those fears erode democracy itself with the Patriiot Act, Guantanamo Bay, and genuine war crimes in Iraq, and before that in Bosnoya. (Take a good look at the legal protections for US mercenaries in both Bosnia and Iraq: they can't be tried under foreign law or US law for their war crimes in either place.)
Religion has been a particularly powerful justification for it: the idea that God, or gods, give a special right to the leaders to perform acts that override law and which are a sin to disobey is insidious and dangerous. Oddly enough, the 'militant atheists' mentioned earlier don't seem to exist as an organized group with that sort of behavior. And if you've not met idiocy tied particularly to religion, I suggest you look at Ethiopia, Bosnia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and even parts of the USA right now.
No, stress means pressures applied to something, usually expressed as a ratio of force to area. Instability is what you get when the stress is excessive, or the structure flawed: the normal stresses are what provide guidance to our paths, and even give us the traction with the world to interact with it.
To say that 'stress is indeed a form of instability' is to ignore the existence of normal, day-to-day stress.
Religion should not be allowed to play 'innocent bystander' in these slaughters, or play the 'guns don't kill people' sort of innocent plea. And goods are hardly the only reasons for religious slaughter, although to continue to full-scale genocide it helps continue the program.
So maybe the place needs more electrical work than carpentry? Or he could marry a polygamous couple, or move to Massachusetts and marry a man.
Yes, and it shouldn't. But with SSH, at least the reference versions and defaults, it's not enabled on the client or the server, nor where they so enabled in the original versions. The standard versions from every SSH server I've ever seen reject such behavior automatically.
Then post the idea, and see if someone among these readers can post a version that already exists. And don't waste people's time on the discussion of what isn't even vaporware, but sounds like a dotcom business plan.
Oh, no. Practice and the law of averages have caught up with many cowardly, poorly implemented suicide attempts of real wimps. Alocholism, and its cousin drunken driving, have been the means of many successful suicide attempts. So has arguing with somebody with a gun.
Glorifying suicide as 'courageous' leads to suicide bombers.
It doesn't take mental instability to consider suicide. Stress of all sorts can encourage thoughts of suicide: some of them, such as the stress from terminal, painful, debilitating illness, are quite reasonable to consider suicide. Even the stress of the loss of loved ones can make suicide attractive, although that can usually be helped more easily.
Or investing in a bit aftershave, a bath, some flowers, and marrying a carpenter?
Yes, I do expect the militant athesists to be better behaved. They don't have the history of wars over heresies, slaughter in the name of atheism, and cultural genocide. (The various Communist revolutions were not militantly atheistic, they were militantly political: I propose that there is, in fact, a difference.)
Moreover, right-wing religious zealotry has existed throughout the history of humanity. It can, and has, lashed out against far milder heresies than 'evolution' with the death and subjugation of their proponents in ways you need merely look at history to document. Right-wing atheists won't cure the existence of right-wing fundantamentalists at all.
Bring it up in a 'Mythbusters' sort of way. In fact, I think that Mythbutsters should be a good example of scientific method, experimental design, and how the presentation of an experiment can add to its chances of funding.
Let's say "surprisingly well". They don't do well against dogs, for example, and don't prosper outside a pretty limited and protected environment.
Because the UK has been colonizing Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, and other countries for centuries, and now has reaped the global outlooks of their former colonies. The US are latecomers at this with their recent colonization of Afghanistan and Iraq, but both have to deal with members who hold right-wing, 'scripture overrules biology' members of their cultures. Every Western society has to deal with people who engage in this kind of magical thinking.
It's worth going and reading what this biologist priest member of the Royal Society actually wrote. It's actually a fairly sensitive suggestion to take Creationist and other religious beliefs into account in the classroom, to _illuminate_ them as faith-based rather than scientifically based beliefs and to illuminate their tendencies to masquerade as science. This kind of illumination of the politics of science can be very educational, indeed, and help reconcile the issues for a student getting one message from home and another in the classroom.
Or to have shopping malls grow from snowglobe eggs, with shopping carts as the larval stage? (From Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man").
Oh, Terry Pratchett was interested when he wrote "Strata". And for a more reasoned explanation of why creationism and a lot of guided evolution ideas are silly, there was his 'The Science of Discworld', a pretty good collaborative effort that compared magical thinking to real science, among other efforts by a gifted parody writer.