I don't have time to check it out -- but just because two items are in ever failed colony doesn't mean that's the cause. I'm touchy on the use of corollary evidence used to claim causation which is the irresponsible route of the fame whores of science.
If they were to introduce the two into a healthy colony together where it previously did not exist and they destroyed the colony near 100% of the time, it's causation.
But the quoted statement doesn't say anything about these two not existing in thriving colonies. It might be there, and I might be a grouchy old man for this, but -- well I am a grouchy old man, so it would fit.
The posers out there that want tax payer money to go to their cause are the absolute stingiest when it comes to their own money. Their motto is "Someone should give money, but it's not going to be me." That's cowardice, phoniness, and should be shamed. The idea of the government giving out charity money is awful for the personal growth and personal connection that donors get when giving their own money, under their own will, not under the threat of government force.
For Bill and Melinda to commit to giving all of their wealth away to charity before dying is beyond noble.
Bill's mosquito release brings a very real situation to a mostly sheltered culture. Those I know that have gone on mission trips to poverty stricken countries all profess that the were forever changed by the experience. Gates unleashed a small jar of change on that crowd, and I do hope it takes root and holds.
It amazes me that in the face of such collossal changes in science (like from flat earth, to round) that we're still reluctant to explore the possibility that maybe the earth hasn't really been the same size for millions of years.
explain it to them. They probably haven't thought this through.
Most times it seems like someone is being a complete ass, it's because he didn't perceive his own behavior as offensive. It usually only takes a cool, calm reply noting that you first believe this offending party to be a of good intention (a compliment) then note that you've noticed something that probably needs clarification because you're certain their intentions were honorable. In most cases when presented with high and honorable expectations, the offending party will seek to live up to those high expectations.
With every time that modern science is wrong, I'm more and more convinced of how little we really understand, and how we were irrefutably engineered and not the result of some random joining in a soup of amino acids.
How? When? Who? I don't know. God is as good a guess as anyone has at this point. If something went through the trouble of creating all this, wouldn't He/It give us some kind of advice, even if we didn't want to hear what He had to say? I know my 4 year old doesn't want to hear what I have to say either, but I'm trying to see that the boy sees 5 -- and that is a challenge.
Search, the answer is out there and the answer likely includes "keep searching".
. . . there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
The earth has been warming and cooling for hundreds of years. The earth warms and cools on documented cycles of the sun. The earth has never stopped changing, and expecting it to be stable just because we think it "should be" is ludicrous.
Stop listening to the moronic press who don't know how to use their cell phones, let alone try to understand the flawed methodologies of studies by ideological driven scientists whose jobs would disappear the day we all finally put our foots down and say, "STFU. We don't believe you."
Back in the early 80's I did a science report on what some magazines had printed as the eminent global warming that would cause NYC to be 4 feet under water by 2004. They said the damage was irreversible and we needed to prepare for disaster.
Well, it's 2005 and the only thing NYC is under right now is 2 feet of SNOW!
Before the '80s the buzz in the press was global cooling. Recently Slashdot had a story on global dimming. Which is it???
At what point do we finally call "BS" on these a-holes that keep duping our governments into spending more money on studies (wasting millions) and wasting our broadcast time with pointless interviews done by reporters who don't understand the periodic table, but love dramatic, apocalyptic stories?
Angry, angry, angry? While I don't think that your post was dignified enough to warrant a response, I'll do it anyway.
While some anti-trial lawyer brothers may suggest such radical measures, I don't think we should be killing anyone.
As for:
my boss firing me for my hair
If that's the way my boss wants to run his business, so be it. I believe that I can take my talents to a competitor and have my revenge in a productive way, aiding my new company to greatness.
my druggie kid getting busted
The law is the law. I would help him with a criminal defense attorney, but I would hope that he receives a just punishment.
You're right, some firms may go after a business and get nothing out of it. That's good because they probably shoul never have gone after them in the first place. Other firms take notice. Companies large and small won't just bend over and take a settlement up the ass to a frivolous law suit. As you may or may not know, most of these law suits end up in settlements with legal fees taken first.
If you were to read more closely, I believe that you would see that I specifically stated that they were "financial and quality-of-life" terrorists. If the word "terrorists" bothers you so much, replace it with "tornados" and I believe it still communicates the point that I was going for.
I must ask, does the amount of time that someone spends at a job justify the work that they are doing? If I were to spend 90 hour weeks on my home counterfieting operation, would that mean that my profession was dignified?
For those who are more interested in the reality of trial lawyers, here's a GREAT COLUMN titled "Why I Hate Lawyers" written by a lawyer.
In all your efforts to counter trial lawyers, please don't break the law.
For those of you who aren't keen to the way these settlements work, I'll enlignten. The lawyers get paid right away based on the total amount of the settlement. The consumers, plaintiff's, etc. get their money later, if not never.
The reason why insurance of all kinds is so high is because of this unending battle between insurance companies and trial lawyers. And you would think that insurance companies would be your friends in this type of situation, but they aren't. The more letigious society is, the more insurance you need. The more your insurance costs, the more money the insurance company makes with their margins.
I want to illustrate how bad this problem has become. Lookup "tobacco settlement lawyers fees" and see the billions that they collected. Also keep in mind the trial lawyers represent THE largets lobbying group in Washington, and not to spark a party line issue here, but the majority of their money goes to Democrat candidates. This is from triallawyersinc.com :
Out of total U.S. tort costs of over $200 billion--more than 2% of GDP--Trial Lawyers, Inc. grosses $40 billion per year in revenues, or 50% more than Microsoft or Intel and twice those of Coca-Cola.
Anytime that someone gets a retarded amount of money from some EVIL corporation out there, society on a whole is raped of the value of a hard-earned dollar because someone got something for virtually nothing. That means those who are producing carry the weight of that injust money redistribution on our collective shoulders. My big problem with trial lawyers is that they don't make life one bit better for anyone. When I program, I feel like I'm saving people some time and making life a little better for everyone. Trial lawyers do nothing but obstruct the progress of those that try to make life better. I think of them as financial and quality-of-life terrorists.
This "something for nothing is harmful" principle can be applied to every societal problem: welfare, prescription drugs, government health care, government housing, etc..
I urge you to all not celebrate those who get something for nothing. It is not a victory for the common man. It is just more burden for the common man to bear.
Slashdot Mirror
I smell a legislative rat.
I don't have time to check it out -- but just because two items are in ever failed colony doesn't mean that's the cause. I'm touchy on the use of corollary evidence used to claim causation which is the irresponsible route of the fame whores of science. If they were to introduce the two into a healthy colony together where it previously did not exist and they destroyed the colony near 100% of the time, it's causation. But the quoted statement doesn't say anything about these two not existing in thriving colonies. It might be there, and I might be a grouchy old man for this, but -- well I am a grouchy old man, so it would fit.
Follow the money. The telecommunications companies have billions. Trial lawyers are parasites and they go after healthy hosts.
I don't think I've seen a slashdot post so littered with errors before. Did the break.com writers get a hold of the controls?
Any heretic speech against the killing of embryos will not be tolerated and the heretics will pay dearly.
The posers out there that want tax payer money to go to their cause are the absolute stingiest when it comes to their own money. Their motto is "Someone should give money, but it's not going to be me." That's cowardice, phoniness, and should be shamed. The idea of the government giving out charity money is awful for the personal growth and personal connection that donors get when giving their own money, under their own will, not under the threat of government force.
For Bill and Melinda to commit to giving all of their wealth away to charity before dying is beyond noble.
Bill's mosquito release brings a very real situation to a mostly sheltered culture. Those I know that have gone on mission trips to poverty stricken countries all profess that the were forever changed by the experience. Gates unleashed a small jar of change on that crowd, and I do hope it takes root and holds.
It amazes me that in the face of such collossal changes in science (like from flat earth, to round) that we're still reluctant to explore the possibility that maybe the earth hasn't really been the same size for millions of years.
explain it to them. They probably haven't thought this through.
Most times it seems like someone is being a complete ass, it's because he didn't perceive his own behavior as offensive. It usually only takes a cool, calm reply noting that you first believe this offending party to be a of good intention (a compliment) then note that you've noticed something that probably needs clarification because you're certain their intentions were honorable. In most cases when presented with high and honorable expectations, the offending party will seek to live up to those high expectations.
Give it a try.
With every time that modern science is wrong, I'm more and more convinced of how little we really understand, and how we were irrefutably engineered and not the result of some random joining in a soup of amino acids.
How? When? Who? I don't know. God is as good a guess as anyone has at this point. If something went through the trouble of creating all this, wouldn't He/It give us some kind of advice, even if we didn't want to hear what He had to say? I know my 4 year old doesn't want to hear what I have to say either, but I'm trying to see that the boy sees 5 -- and that is a challenge.
Search, the answer is out there and the answer likely includes "keep searching".
Might have been coincidence, but I did have it happen.
. . . there's absolutely nothing we can do about it. The earth has been warming and cooling for hundreds of years. The earth warms and cools on documented cycles of the sun. The earth has never stopped changing, and expecting it to be stable just because we think it "should be" is ludicrous. Stop listening to the moronic press who don't know how to use their cell phones, let alone try to understand the flawed methodologies of studies by ideological driven scientists whose jobs would disappear the day we all finally put our foots down and say, "STFU. We don't believe you." Back in the early 80's I did a science report on what some magazines had printed as the eminent global warming that would cause NYC to be 4 feet under water by 2004. They said the damage was irreversible and we needed to prepare for disaster. Well, it's 2005 and the only thing NYC is under right now is 2 feet of SNOW! Before the '80s the buzz in the press was global cooling. Recently Slashdot had a story on global dimming. Which is it??? At what point do we finally call "BS" on these a-holes that keep duping our governments into spending more money on studies (wasting millions) and wasting our broadcast time with pointless interviews done by reporters who don't understand the periodic table, but love dramatic, apocalyptic stories?
Angry, angry, angry? While I don't think that your post was dignified enough to warrant a response, I'll do it anyway.
While some anti-trial lawyer brothers may suggest such radical measures, I don't think we should be killing anyone.
As for:
my boss firing me for my hair- If that's the way my boss wants to run his business, so be it. I believe that I can take my talents to a competitor and have my revenge in a productive way, aiding my new company to greatness.
my druggie kid getting bustedYou're right, some firms may go after a business and get nothing out of it. That's good because they probably shoul never have gone after them in the first place. Other firms take notice. Companies large and small won't just bend over and take a settlement up the ass to a frivolous law suit. As you may or may not know, most of these law suits end up in settlements with legal fees taken first.
If you were to read more closely, I believe that you would see that I specifically stated that they were "financial and quality-of-life" terrorists. If the word "terrorists" bothers you so much, replace it with "tornados" and I believe it still communicates the point that I was going for.
I must ask, does the amount of time that someone spends at a job justify the work that they are doing? If I were to spend 90 hour weeks on my home counterfieting operation, would that mean that my profession was dignified?
For those who are more interested in the reality of trial lawyers, here's a GREAT COLUMN titled "Why I Hate Lawyers" written by a lawyer.
In all your efforts to counter trial lawyers, please don't break the law.
For those of you who aren't keen to the way these settlements work, I'll enlignten. The lawyers get paid right away based on the total amount of the settlement. The consumers, plaintiff's, etc. get their money later, if not never.
The reason why insurance of all kinds is so high is because of this unending battle between insurance companies and trial lawyers. And you would think that insurance companies would be your friends in this type of situation, but they aren't. The more letigious society is, the more insurance you need. The more your insurance costs, the more money the insurance company makes with their margins.
I want to illustrate how bad this problem has become. Lookup "tobacco settlement lawyers fees" and see the billions that they collected. Also keep in mind the trial lawyers represent THE largets lobbying group in Washington, and not to spark a party line issue here, but the majority of their money goes to Democrat candidates. This is from triallawyersinc.com :
Out of total U.S. tort costs of over $200 billion--more than 2% of GDP--Trial Lawyers, Inc. grosses $40 billion per year in revenues, or 50% more than Microsoft or Intel and twice those of Coca-Cola.Anytime that someone gets a retarded amount of money from some EVIL corporation out there, society on a whole is raped of the value of a hard-earned dollar because someone got something for virtually nothing. That means those who are producing carry the weight of that injust money redistribution on our collective shoulders. My big problem with trial lawyers is that they don't make life one bit better for anyone. When I program, I feel like I'm saving people some time and making life a little better for everyone. Trial lawyers do nothing but obstruct the progress of those that try to make life better. I think of them as financial and quality-of-life terrorists.
This "something for nothing is harmful" principle can be applied to every societal problem: welfare, prescription drugs, government health care, government housing, etc..
I urge you to all not celebrate those who get something for nothing. It is not a victory for the common man. It is just more burden for the common man to bear.