The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4567868/ has endorsed Orrin Hatch. The really sad part about their endorsement of Hatch is that even in the way they phrase the endorsement, they are encouraging their readers to vote for him only because of a power play. They basically even say that Hatch is not one of the "good guys".
Suffice to say that a complete list of Hatch's negatives might exceed this space, especially if it included some of Hatch's more outrageous statements on public policy issues such as citing author Michael Crichton as an authority on the science of global warming, or suggesting that House Republicans' failure to act on former Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages may be attributable to their desire not to appear homophobic.
Hatch is all about big business and helping the multi-level marketing interests in Utah, and his record has done basically NOTHING for the individual. Besides which, Hatch isn't intelligent enough to be making decisions for our nation in this day and age. Even if I didn't strongly support Pete Ashdown because he is technologically savvy, anyone but Hatch would make a better Senator. Anyone. I'm just glad it's Pete running against him!
Because I can't say it better than Mark Twain.....
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Fairfax County paid between $24,000 and $30,000 in the last school year for the service, school system officials said.
Broad Run uncovered three instances of serious plagiarism in the first year it used Turnitin, Kent said, and other cases of poor paraphrasing that students failed to recognize as inappropriate. Since 2002, he said, the service has rooted out only three additional plagiarism cases at the school.
So, in the first year, they paid at least $8,000 per cheater, and since then the cost has gone up to at least $24,000 per cheater? Way to spend tax dollars!
There's plenty more of this kind of stuff to be found, but here are a couple of quick links related to Steorn.
The Steorn video can be seen on Google, where it's filed under hoax, snake oil and scam.
Wikipedia already has an article on them.
Oddly, the site makes mention of the "Bolton Trust, DIT, Steorn Student Enterprise Competition 2006, which I actually found record of on the Dublin Institute of Technology website.
Here is Steorn ad.
I don't think the DIT competition adds any credibility, though. I'm done even wondering if there's a chance this is real.
Of course it's up! Not only do they have unlimited power, they have unlimited processor power. Oh, and maybe the internet really is a truck, rather than a series of tubes, which of course also runs off of this power.
Thank you! I find it both amusing and irritating how people tend to think that because I believe in God, I must not think evolution was possible. Fundamentalism is a branch of Christianity that tends to promote every sentence of the bible as literal. Who are we to say God didn't use evolution to create people?
As a Catholic, I understand Genesis to be "the story" of creation, and was written for people at that time. Today, we tend to look for step-by-step guidebooks, we have a much greater need to understand the how's and why's. Back then, in my way of thinking, people just needed to know God created them, they couldn't possibly understand the science behind it. That isn't to say the creation story is a lie, it's a simplified version of the facts. If your kid asks you how babies get here, and he's 3, most people would probably say something like "Mommys and Daddys fall in love, and they kiss and then 9 months later a baby comes out". That's not the full story, but it's not a lie, either, right? In my mind, if my way of thinking is right, this just adds support to the idea behind creation via evolution. The Creator used evolution to create humans, and get them a story their rather simple minds could handle.
This is really just my own idea of the way it happened. But, I know a lot of Christians who would agree that evolution and creation don't have to be at odds. So, for those of you who aren't Christian, next time you find yourself discussing evolution with a Christian, you might want to ask them what they believe, instead of assuming all Christians close their minds to science. Unless, of course, your issue is with their Christianity, rather than their view of science. But, please don't confuse the two issues.
I recently signed up for a hotmail account using fake info, including a birthdate saying I was much older. I noticed today that the ads for the personal services that I normally see on there were off somehow. Usually they're at least halfway attractive and in their 20's, right? Well, then I realized that it was that they were for senior dating services and the people were all in their 50's. Yeah, hotmail is more secure than gmail...uh-huh..
Can you imagine the potential to exploit this? Suddenly everyone uses the MS scanner, right? Not only putting the guys like Norton out of business or making them raise their prices outrageously...
But, now the only thing you have to do to defeat Microsoft's security is rely on the fact that they don't know what they're doing. There's no other buffer....it's like putting a firewall on the network and calling it Fort Knox. *sigh*
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The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4567868/ has endorsed Orrin Hatch. The really sad part about their endorsement of Hatch is that even in the way they phrase the endorsement, they are encouraging their readers to vote for him only because of a power play. They basically even say that Hatch is not one of the "good guys".
Hatch is all about big business and helping the multi-level marketing interests in Utah, and his record has done basically NOTHING for the individual. Besides which, Hatch isn't intelligent enough to be making decisions for our nation in this day and age. Even if I didn't strongly support Pete Ashdown because he is technologically savvy, anyone but Hatch would make a better Senator. Anyone. I'm just glad it's Pete running against him!
Because I can't say it better than Mark Twain..... The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
So, in the first year, they paid at least $8,000 per cheater, and since then the cost has gone up to at least $24,000 per cheater? Way to spend tax dollars!
There's plenty more of this kind of stuff to be found, but here are a couple of quick links related to Steorn. The Steorn video can be seen on Google, where it's filed under hoax, snake oil and scam. Wikipedia already has an article on them. Oddly, the site makes mention of the "Bolton Trust, DIT, Steorn Student Enterprise Competition 2006, which I actually found record of on the Dublin Institute of Technology website. Here is Steorn ad. I don't think the DIT competition adds any credibility, though. I'm done even wondering if there's a chance this is real.
Of course it's up! Not only do they have unlimited power, they have unlimited processor power. Oh, and maybe the internet really is a truck, rather than a series of tubes, which of course also runs off of this power.
We can't have the US giving up control of the internet, because then the terrorists will get us!
Thank you! I find it both amusing and irritating how people tend to think that because I believe in God, I must not think evolution was possible. Fundamentalism is a branch of Christianity that tends to promote every sentence of the bible as literal. Who are we to say God didn't use evolution to create people?
As a Catholic, I understand Genesis to be "the story" of creation, and was written for people at that time. Today, we tend to look for step-by-step guidebooks, we have a much greater need to understand the how's and why's. Back then, in my way of thinking, people just needed to know God created them, they couldn't possibly understand the science behind it. That isn't to say the creation story is a lie, it's a simplified version of the facts. If your kid asks you how babies get here, and he's 3, most people would probably say something like "Mommys and Daddys fall in love, and they kiss and then 9 months later a baby comes out". That's not the full story, but it's not a lie, either, right? In my mind, if my way of thinking is right, this just adds support to the idea behind creation via evolution. The Creator used evolution to create humans, and get them a story their rather simple minds could handle.
This is really just my own idea of the way it happened. But, I know a lot of Christians who would agree that evolution and creation don't have to be at odds. So, for those of you who aren't Christian, next time you find yourself discussing evolution with a Christian, you might want to ask them what they believe, instead of assuming all Christians close their minds to science. Unless, of course, your issue is with their Christianity, rather than their view of science. But, please don't confuse the two issues.
I recently signed up for a hotmail account using fake info, including a birthdate saying I was much older. I noticed today that the ads for the personal services that I normally see on there were off somehow. Usually they're at least halfway attractive and in their 20's, right? Well, then I realized that it was that they were for senior dating services and the people were all in their 50's. Yeah, hotmail is more secure than gmail...uh-huh..
Can you imagine the potential to exploit this? Suddenly everyone uses the MS scanner, right? Not only putting the guys like Norton out of business or making them raise their prices outrageously... But, now the only thing you have to do to defeat Microsoft's security is rely on the fact that they don't know what they're doing. There's no other buffer....it's like putting a firewall on the network and calling it Fort Knox. *sigh*