That's the crux of the whole thing, as far as you're concerned, isn't it? Where did the "best of your knowledge" come from? Who is the "authority" that gave you your knowledge? "Polarik" and Jerome Corsi, some random "entertainers" on talk radio or cable? Do you agree with them because of the vast preponderance of evidence they presented? Or, because they affirm your preconceptions?
Think man, think. Understand why you have chosen to believe what you do.
And this proves exactly what? That some congressional district elected a person who is willing to pander to any loud group, or who is too dumb to understand what an official state document is?
The official government representatives of the state of Hawaii have stated repeatedly that Obama was born in Hawaii, that makes him a natural born US citizen, and eligible to be president of the United States.
Now, what particular part of "official state document" or "born in Hawaii" do you fail to comprehend?
The only documents that will be accepted for proof of US birth and citizenship have to be officially recognized documents. That is, they have to have be issued by a government records agency, signed by an appropriate government official and marked with a state issued seal.
Unless your original hospital birth certificate is signed by a government official and marked with a state seal, it's the same as toilet paper, as far as the US State Department or the DOD is concerned. That's from personal experience, I held a secret clearance for a time and started out with an original hospital birth certificate. I had to personally request a new document with the signature and state seal.
The document that Obama has presented meets the criteria for proof of US birth and is sufficient for proof of citizenship for a passport or a security clearance.
You say you'll accept no public statement from anybody representing the government, and then a few sentences later, call for a government official to verify Obama's documents. In case you didn't notice, the republican governor of Hawaii is a government official and he verified that Obama was born in Hawaii. The government official in charge of Hawaii's public records has verified that Obama was born in Hawaii. You seem to actually not want anything except to be right in your own mind.
I hope you're happy in your victimhood. You might as well be, because reality isn't going to rearrange itself to support your prejudices.
There is no "controversy" about the birth documentation.
The document presented is prima facia evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii. That is what the Hawaii state seal on the document and the signature of the state official on the document attest to. The republican governor of Hawaii and the Hawaii state officials responsible for maintaining those records have both publicly confirmed that they have reviewed the documents that are in state custody and those documents also prove that Obama was born in Hawaii.
How about this. There are only two things that malpractice needs to deal with. Helping the injured party, and preventing the incompetent provider from doing any more damage.
For dealing with the injury, another health care provider is needed, which is covered by the national health insurance program.
For dealing with the incompetent provider, make malpractice a criminal penalty, instead of a civil penalty. In other words, throw the incompetent ass in jail. That should weed out most of the incompetents that are only in it for the money.
Think about comparing the amount of snow that falls on the ocean side of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the amount of show that falls in the high desert on the rain shadow side of the mountains.
Greenland is the largest island on earth. The amount of snow that falls varies enormously. So, scientists trying to collect data from the past are going to try to drill ice cores from locations that accumulate enough snow to be useful, but no more than that.
Exactly where would anyone come up with something that absurd?
CO2 is most certainly a green house gas. It absorbs infrared radiation from the earth and prevents it from radiating back to space. It looks like the wikipedia article on greenhouse gases is fairly comprehensive, try reading that instead of some crank web site.
I've been thinking that it would be interesting to see what would happen if the US Congress were to stay out of Washington D.C. most of the time. It should be a lot easier to set up a distributed voting system for Congress than for the general elections. Let them show up in Washington, D.C. for the opening session, the state of the union address, and the closing session, but the rest of the time they're in their home state or district. You'd be able to keep a close eye on your congress-critters...
It might be fun to watch the K Street Klowns continuously on the run from state to state and district to district. It would probably boost the travel industry too.
If I'm not mistaken, many board members are CEO's or executives of other companies. The CEO and executive board members are so busy scratching each others' backs anything that actually benefits the shareholders and the company are probably accidental.
What you've stated as your position has nothing to do with science. It may feel unfair that what you accept as "evidence" of irreducible complexity or cataclysmic geological events, etc. isn't accepted by people who have spent most of their lives specializing in a field of science. Science is a self correcting process, over the long term. Evidence and explanatory power determine what science gets kept and what winds up in the dustbin of history.
The vast majority of geologists find no geological evidence for a world wide flood. The vast majority of evolutionary biologists find no barrier that can prevent "micro-evolution" from becoming "macro-evolution". And everything that Behe has labeled irreducibly complex has been refuted by fairly plausible explanations.
Science is not about fairness, or listening to both sides. Science is about explaining the universe we live in, using explanations that are consistent with and supported by the best evidence. Make no mistake about it, if new evidence is acquired that makes a scientific theory untenable, that theory will be changed or discarded in favor of something that explains the universe better.
While they aren't the same, the IBM Cell processor in the Xbox 360 and the PS3 are probably close enough to give you a feel for it. They're all PowerPC based.
The lobes in the picture show the path followed by the material from previous outbursts. That material is guided by the magnetic field around the star, to the axis of rotation of the magnetic field, which generally lines up with the axis of rotation of the star. Because of the angular momentum of the star, it should maintain that orientation and any new outbursts should go in the same direction as the previous burst.
I've bought flac files of Sarah McClachlan's work from werkshop.com. They also have Barenaked Ladies available in different formats. I've also found flac files of Loreena McKennitt's work at quinlanroad.com. Just in case someone is interested.
... And Ironicly Darwin, himself, professed Christianity later in his life.
This statement is three times wrong. First, it has nothing to do with the explanatory power of any Theory of Evolution. Second, it is a lie. It's probably some vague misstatement of the "Lady Hope" story, which has been debunked almost since it began. (For more details, you can check the talk.origins archive story. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html). I'll leave the third out, lest I be cursed with more spelling problems than usual.
When they tried this in Ohio last year, the whole idea crashed and burned because one of the state officials asked the Discovery Institute for a class syllabus for intelligent design. So, they would have some idea of what subjects would be covered.
The Discovery Institute and the Ohio board were both shocked to discover that there was nothing to teach about Intelligent Design.
And that dear friends is still the current state of affairs. That's why they're reduced to "teaching the controversy", which isn't science, it's politics.
Another twist on the same issue are chimera's. There are people living in the world today that are the result of two embryo's that merged into a single entity. Reference What happened to the "second soul"? Is the resulting embryo guilty of murder?
The parent couldn't be a more clear example of how religion and group think morality have damaged the United States' position in the world if the author had spent 10 years researching it and was paid a million dollars to create it.
"I don't need to evaluate any evidence from primary sources, every piece of information that agrees with my pre-conceptions goes straight into my attack bucket and any counter-information is from the 'evil-doers'".
The gods forbid anybody should disagree with any "right-minded" position presented to the world by our wonderous anointed leaders(tm). Our wonderous anointed leaders(tm) say so every day.
I think the hostility is most often a reflection of the attitude of the most vocal fundamentalists.
Once someone is convinced beyond any doubt that they have had the "One and Only Truth" revealed to them, anyone who doesn't subscribe to the same "Truth" is, at the very least, ignorant and quite possibly is in the service of the "Opponent".
Once, "The Truth" has been revealed to someone who disagrees and they continue to disagree that removes all doubt. They must be in the service of the "Opponent" and must be countered with all possible means.
When you have a division like that, discussion ends and all that is left is contempt and hatred.
Maybe to put some personal perspective on it, what steps would you take to prevent someone of another religious belief from influencing your children? What would you imagine that a parent of the other religious belief would do to prevent YOU from influencing their children? Would you feel offended at their actions?
This happened on a AIX system longer ago than I like to believe. I just wanted to clean out a bunch of . files from a user's home directory. So I entered
rm -rf.*
in the directory in question. By the time I realized that.. matched.* most of the system was gone.
I think that you would also only need to be in the shelter when the gamma ray source (or the sun (UV)) is above the horizon. 13,000 km of rocky minerals should shield you pretty well.
How about Kerberos for authentication (the same technology that Microsoft "borrowed" for their authentication services), OpenLDAP with TLS for user/directory information and NFS V4 for a distributed file system with ACL and crypto support.
That's the more well known way to set it up. In the setup's that I'm running, I'm using Kerberos, OpenLDAP and OpenAFS which make also supports distributed ACL's, encrypted data transfers, readonly volume replication for redundancy, integrated backup, and a few other things that make for a very low maintence infrastructure.
The biggest irony about human immortality is that most of the people who desperately long for immortality can't figure out what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
For myself, I think a century in good health would be more than enough.
But maybe it's not nearly the idea of immortality, as the ability to choose when you're done.
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That's the crux of the whole thing, as far as you're concerned, isn't it? Where did the "best of your knowledge" come from? Who is the "authority" that gave you your knowledge? "Polarik" and Jerome Corsi, some random "entertainers" on talk radio or cable? Do you agree with them because of the vast preponderance of evidence they presented? Or, because they affirm your preconceptions?
Think man, think. Understand why you have chosen to believe what you do.
The official government representatives of the state of Hawaii have stated repeatedly that Obama was born in Hawaii, that makes him a natural born US citizen, and eligible to be president of the United States.
Now, what particular part of "official state document" or "born in Hawaii" do you fail to comprehend?
Unless your original hospital birth certificate is signed by a government official and marked with a state seal, it's the same as toilet paper, as far as the US State Department or the DOD is concerned. That's from personal experience, I held a secret clearance for a time and started out with an original hospital birth certificate. I had to personally request a new document with the signature and state seal.
The document that Obama has presented meets the criteria for proof of US birth and is sufficient for proof of citizenship for a passport or a security clearance.
I hope you're happy in your victimhood. You might as well be, because reality isn't going to rearrange itself to support your prejudices.
The document presented is prima facia evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii. That is what the Hawaii state seal on the document and the signature of the state official on the document attest to. The republican governor of Hawaii and the Hawaii state officials responsible for maintaining those records have both publicly confirmed that they have reviewed the documents that are in state custody and those documents also prove that Obama was born in Hawaii.
The noise from the birthers is just denial.
For dealing with the injury, another health care provider is needed, which is covered by the national health insurance program.
For dealing with the incompetent provider, make malpractice a criminal penalty, instead of a civil penalty. In other words, throw the incompetent ass in jail. That should weed out most of the incompetents that are only in it for the money.
When you can't see Cheney's right hand and his lips are moving.
Greenland is the largest island on earth. The amount of snow that falls varies enormously. So, scientists trying to collect data from the past are going to try to drill ice cores from locations that accumulate enough snow to be useful, but no more than that.
CO2 is most certainly a green house gas. It absorbs infrared radiation from the earth and prevents it from radiating back to space. It looks like the wikipedia article on greenhouse gases is fairly comprehensive, try reading that instead of some crank web site.
It might be fun to watch the K Street Klowns continuously on the run from state to state and district to district. It would probably boost the travel industry too.
If I'm not mistaken, many board members are CEO's or executives of other companies. The CEO and executive board members are so busy scratching each others' backs anything that actually benefits the shareholders and the company are probably accidental.
What you've stated as your position has nothing to do with science. It may feel unfair that what you accept as "evidence" of irreducible complexity or cataclysmic geological events, etc. isn't accepted by people who have spent most of their lives specializing in a field of science. Science is a self correcting process, over the long term. Evidence and explanatory power determine what science gets kept and what winds up in the dustbin of history.
The vast majority of geologists find no geological evidence for a world wide flood. The vast majority of evolutionary biologists find no barrier that can prevent "micro-evolution" from becoming "macro-evolution". And everything that Behe has labeled irreducibly complex has been refuted by fairly plausible explanations.
Science is not about fairness, or listening to both sides. Science is about explaining the universe we live in, using explanations that are consistent with and supported by the best evidence. Make no mistake about it, if new evidence is acquired that makes a scientific theory untenable, that theory will be changed or discarded in favor of something that explains the universe better.
There's a description of the Cell processor here http://www.research.ibm.com/cell
The lobes in the picture show the path followed by the material from previous outbursts. That material is guided by the magnetic field around the star, to the axis of rotation of the magnetic field, which generally lines up with the axis of rotation of the star. Because of the angular momentum of the star, it should maintain that orientation and any new outbursts should go in the same direction as the previous burst.
I've bought flac files of Sarah McClachlan's work from werkshop.com. They also have Barenaked Ladies available in different formats. I've also found flac files of Loreena McKennitt's work at quinlanroad.com. Just in case someone is interested.
... And Ironicly Darwin, himself, professed Christianity later in his life. This statement is three times wrong. First, it has nothing to do with the explanatory power of any Theory of Evolution. Second, it is a lie. It's probably some vague misstatement of the "Lady Hope" story, which has been debunked almost since it began. (For more details, you can check the talk.origins archive story. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html). I'll leave the third out, lest I be cursed with more spelling problems than usual.
The Discovery Institute and the Ohio board were both shocked to discover that there was nothing to teach about Intelligent Design.
And that dear friends is still the current state of affairs. That's why they're reduced to "teaching the controversy", which isn't science, it's politics.
Another twist on the same issue are chimera's. There are people living in the world today that are the result of two embryo's that merged into a single entity. Reference What happened to the "second soul"? Is the resulting embryo guilty of murder?
"I don't need to evaluate any evidence from primary sources, every piece of information that agrees with my pre-conceptions goes straight into my attack bucket and any counter-information is from the 'evil-doers'".
The gods forbid anybody should disagree with any "right-minded" position presented to the world by our wonderous anointed leaders(tm). Our wonderous anointed leaders(tm) say so every day.
Once someone is convinced beyond any doubt that they have had the "One and Only Truth" revealed to them, anyone who doesn't subscribe to the same "Truth" is, at the very least, ignorant and quite possibly is in the service of the "Opponent".
Once, "The Truth" has been revealed to someone who disagrees and they continue to disagree that removes all doubt. They must be in the service of the "Opponent" and must be countered with all possible means.
When you have a division like that, discussion ends and all that is left is contempt and hatred.
Maybe to put some personal perspective on it, what steps would you take to prevent someone of another religious belief from influencing your children? What would you imagine that a parent of the other religious belief would do to prevent YOU from influencing their children? Would you feel offended at their actions?
in the directory in question. By the time I realized that .. matched .* most of the system was gone.
I think that you would also only need to be in the shelter when the gamma ray source (or the sun (UV)) is above the horizon. 13,000 km of rocky minerals should shield you pretty well.
That's the more well known way to set it up. In the setup's that I'm running, I'm using Kerberos, OpenLDAP and OpenAFS which make also supports distributed ACL's, encrypted data transfers, readonly volume replication for redundancy, integrated backup, and a few other things that make for a very low maintence infrastructure.
For myself, I think a century in good health would be more than enough.
But maybe it's not nearly the idea of immortality, as the ability to choose when you're done.
I hope it helps.