And yet it ranks in the top 20. Then you have a state like California that spends way more money, yet comes in in the bottom 20. And having gone to high school in Texas in a very conservative and extremely religious town, I never saw anything at all regarding creationism in biology class. Although not a whole hell of alot of evolution either. On the other hand, I did get handed chick tracts more than once from fellow students regarding evolution, which I did appreciate for the comedic value.
However, while attending grad school in biology at a university in California, I came to the realization that most California students had an extremely poor understanding of evolution. Point being, evolution is covered so poorly, even in strongly secular, left wing places like California, that complaining about the effect that religious nuts have on it in conservative areas is pretty much pointless.
But bigger point: either don't fear biotech advances, or at least be equal
But they're not equal. Dystopian futures involving computers promise a future where we're ruled over by machines - which, might be more capable than we are. There is an element of coolness to robotic/computer overlords.
Biotech dystopian futures, on the other hand, promise a future where we're ruled over by humans who think they're more capable than we are (but probably aren't)....just like now. And there's nothing cool about being ruled over by a human...just like now.
Or perhaps, a utopian future where the amoral sociopaths aren't allowed to hold public office?
And like any thief, these people knew that they'd be able to sell the Apple products for better prices than anything else. Wanting to limit their exposure, and get the most money for their risks, of course they picked the stuff that they could turn over faster and for more money. It doesn't say anything about what stuff is better, just what sells for more.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine
Oh really? I remember back after a major patch in WoW where PvP gear was mistakenly put up for nothing, and a few bans got issued for exploiting it. Not to mention the screwed up launch of LFR, where several guilds got bans that took them out of contention for world firsts because of gear exploiting the mistake by blizzard that allowed gear trading.
The moon's axial tilt is far less than the earth's. Only about 1.5 degrees as opposed to about 23.5 degrees for the earth. The only difficulty is that the solar arrays would have to be almost vertical, be just finding a nice hillside for them would solve that.
Some of Heinlein's early stuff was aimed at a younger audience. Red Planet, Time for the Stars, Farmer in the Sky, Podkayne of Mars, Citizen of the Galaxy, to name a few.
You do realize that the the 3/5s clause was to reign in the political power of the slave holders, don't you? Not a judgement on the worth of slaves as human beings? The slave states were attempting to have slaves classified as people, only under the census, so that they would benefit politically by having greater representation, while the free states argued that they shouldn't be counted at all because they weren't citizens and wouldn't be the ones to benefit from that representation in the government.
So what they're saying, is that using modern technology, they can confirm that these drawings, long known for their accuracy and detail, are, in fact, accurate and detailed. Amazing.
Actually, Apple doesn't use AMOLED because Samsung wouldn't supply them with enough screens for the iPhone, because they were tied up in Samsung's own smart phone offerings.
Hey, it's California, which is pretty close to being single party rule. Republicans are trying anything to get a little bit of say in the government. Districts out in the central valley, like this one, are the only places they even have a chance to elect some one.
Even so, much of that technology was developed by seeing such things actually happen in nature. There is a good amount of junk that exists in your own DNA that came from outside sources. Look up endogenous retroviral insertions some time for some examples.
Well, if you could (rather loosely) interpret gene patents or even new species with new genes placed in them as akin to software patents or copyrights.
Actually reading TFA, they've posted an update that, more than likely, the offending material wasn't from Ender's Game at all, but probably some other, unrelated, material from the internets. Card thinks that his book was lumped in because it's been a perennial target of the evangelical right due to his being a Mormon.
BTW most of those regulations are god-awful stupid, like saying a banana must have at least 15 degrees of curvature or else it must be destroyed. And labeling water bottles with, "Drinking water does not cure dehydration."
That was the EU that came up with those lovelies. Give credit where credit is due.
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And yet it ranks in the top 20. Then you have a state like California that spends way more money, yet comes in in the bottom 20. And having gone to high school in Texas in a very conservative and extremely religious town, I never saw anything at all regarding creationism in biology class. Although not a whole hell of alot of evolution either. On the other hand, I did get handed chick tracts more than once from fellow students regarding evolution, which I did appreciate for the comedic value. However, while attending grad school in biology at a university in California, I came to the realization that most California students had an extremely poor understanding of evolution. Point being, evolution is covered so poorly, even in strongly secular, left wing places like California, that complaining about the effect that religious nuts have on it in conservative areas is pretty much pointless.
Netcraft confirms it!
But bigger point: either don't fear biotech advances, or at least be equal
But they're not equal. Dystopian futures involving computers promise a future where we're ruled over by machines - which, might be more capable than we are. There is an element of coolness to robotic/computer overlords.
Biotech dystopian futures, on the other hand, promise a future where we're ruled over by humans who think they're more capable than we are (but probably aren't)....just like now. And there's nothing cool about being ruled over by a human...just like now.
Or perhaps, a utopian future where the amoral sociopaths aren't allowed to hold public office?
Well, then those viagra emails would be really embarrassing.
Bitch is not sexist in the same way that bastard or asshole is not sexist.
Well, I don't imagine that his fitness reports have been all that great over the last three years.
Yeah, I'm sure the Republican rural voters will be highly upset when they don't get their junk mail anymore.
And like any thief, these people knew that they'd be able to sell the Apple products for better prices than anything else. Wanting to limit their exposure, and get the most money for their risks, of course they picked the stuff that they could turn over faster and for more money. It doesn't say anything about what stuff is better, just what sells for more.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine
Oh really? I remember back after a major patch in WoW where PvP gear was mistakenly put up for nothing, and a few bans got issued for exploiting it. Not to mention the screwed up launch of LFR, where several guilds got bans that took them out of contention for world firsts because of gear exploiting the mistake by blizzard that allowed gear trading.
To be any more obvious he'd have to slap you with a wet fish with "bad satire" written on it in permanent marker.
The US is more like Rome in the late of the late Republic at this stage.
The moon's axial tilt is far less than the earth's. Only about 1.5 degrees as opposed to about 23.5 degrees for the earth. The only difficulty is that the solar arrays would have to be almost vertical, be just finding a nice hillside for them would solve that.
Some of Heinlein's early stuff was aimed at a younger audience. Red Planet, Time for the Stars, Farmer in the Sky, Podkayne of Mars, Citizen of the Galaxy, to name a few.
You do realize that the the 3/5s clause was to reign in the political power of the slave holders, don't you? Not a judgement on the worth of slaves as human beings? The slave states were attempting to have slaves classified as people, only under the census, so that they would benefit politically by having greater representation, while the free states argued that they shouldn't be counted at all because they weren't citizens and wouldn't be the ones to benefit from that representation in the government.
You're showing your age.
Having lived in a lot of places in the world, I can assure you that Americans are no stupider than people anywhere else.
So what they're saying, is that using modern technology, they can confirm that these drawings, long known for their accuracy and detail, are, in fact, accurate and detailed. Amazing.
careful that you don't burn your tongue.
Actually, Apple doesn't use AMOLED because Samsung wouldn't supply them with enough screens for the iPhone, because they were tied up in Samsung's own smart phone offerings.
Hey, it's California, which is pretty close to being single party rule. Republicans are trying anything to get a little bit of say in the government. Districts out in the central valley, like this one, are the only places they even have a chance to elect some one.
Even so, much of that technology was developed by seeing such things actually happen in nature. There is a good amount of junk that exists in your own DNA that came from outside sources. Look up endogenous retroviral insertions some time for some examples.
Well, if you could (rather loosely) interpret gene patents or even new species with new genes placed in them as akin to software patents or copyrights.
Actually reading TFA, they've posted an update that, more than likely, the offending material wasn't from Ender's Game at all, but probably some other, unrelated, material from the internets. Card thinks that his book was lumped in because it's been a perennial target of the evangelical right due to his being a Mormon.
BTW most of those regulations are god-awful stupid, like saying a banana must have at least 15 degrees of curvature or else it must be destroyed. And labeling water bottles with, "Drinking water does not cure dehydration."
That was the EU that came up with those lovelies. Give credit where credit is due.