"recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support." Silly guy, the US is not contributing to the UN, both financially and military.
"Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar." So where is OpenOffice, is it on het net or on the pc? If it's on the pc then I don't see a big difference between having an FTP client plus OpenOffice?
If i read the Kemeny report correctly the key problem to the problem getting out of control was that the (not adequately educated) personnel trusted some indicator of a valve saying it was closed, while it wasn't. I don't know whether.NET or any other software system could have detected that too, it was probably a mechanical problem, but a good analysis (by having an overview of the entire situation) could have made them see it.
To get back on and off topic: what's this with managers and politicians trying to change fixed situations by deciding the # of days needed for a project is 6 not 8, that Lethal Dose figures can be changed, or like that poster a dozen comments higher asking for 8 days a week, 25 hours each.
Yes, some people got it, but you stepped on a toe of some patriot (modded 'troll'). I've had a chinese PhD student working next to me; he was almost reliously convinced that Taiwan and Tibet belonged to China For Historic Reasons. (where did i hear that one before, was it yugoslavia?)
KDE-centric: what's wrong with that exactly? Can't you run KDE applications on Gnome too, using the KDE-libs, and doesn't the letter announce a port for Windows?
You said New Orleans is totally destroyed. Is this true also for the infrastructure? I can imagine roads, most sewers, most gas and electricity and water pipes are still working when the water is gone. Isn't that worth billions?
-- Btw I am totally in favour of big plans to reorganize cities, especially after having seen a movie showing how the American suburbs were built when oil was cheap, and how this would be a problem after 'oil peak'. (ambiguous: for oildependent us citizens I hope the current oil price peak is temporary, but for the environment I hope it is not)
The price for winning uranium is likely to increase too in the coming ten, twenty years. We've had the easy high-content ore, now soon we'll have to use lots more energy to get uranium out of the low-content ore. Well they dream of getting it out of seawater, I'm just waiting to see how much that will cost. With the increasing oil price, winning uranium will also become more expensive.
Just like with bio-fuel, you have to make sure you are eventually getting more enregy out of the system than you need to keep it working.
Remember, you are subsidising public transportation systems with it. There is no such connection. Maybe unfortunately. Taxes come in, are throw on a large heap and are spent irrelevant of where it comes from. And, after every relevant penny is counted, I bet the car turns out to be the most subsidized way of transport. I'm including environmental costs, health costs, destruction of valuable resources, climate change in.
I agree partly, I agree so far that people jump to conclusions way too fast in regard to climate change. However, anthropogenic increase of carbondioxide is pretty obvious if you ask me, and the link between CO2 and climate change is not doubted anymore is it?
Oh well yes by some oil companies.
---- Doesn't the fact that you post anonymously show you are not so sure of your facts?
It's funny you mention this, since I accidentally fell in the trenches of the GM debate, I was more and more convinced that the GMO discussion has a very religious nature. Many people drawing conclusions on ample evidence, mostly trying to fit whatever they hear on it to their dogma: GM is Saving the World of GM is Evil (evidently the last one is true;)).
It's equally surprising as your finding above, that a few years ago the Mexican maize (a.k.a. 'corn') was found to be contaminated with genes from GM maize, and this year an article was published that contradicted that (http://www.pulseofscience.org/pnasstatement). This is more important than it ight seem as Mexico is a 'center of origin' for maize.
If you ask me, Brian Johnson as well as the guys not finding GM genes in Mexican corn are lying bastards, but hell, I'm a religious anti_GMer...
Summary: Science is not a simple process of falsification of hypotheses. The philosophy of science is not just the views of Popper, which have some real problems. Evolution can be falsified in the usual meaning in scientific practice. From (and elaborated on): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/falsify.h tml
Intelligent Design is easily falsifiable [...] All you have to do is show once through an experiment that you can produce something that is supposedly of "irreducible complexity" from simpler parts.
And then? I'm 100% sure that as soon as I come up with an example, you would find a way to diagree and jump to your next argument. That's at least my experience, first it was the eye, now a flagella, etc. Actually I never heard of this irreducible complexity thing before but a quick search showed me it is a logic trap.
Please read about what's known on DNA, RNA, the whole logic in the development from single cells to 'higher organisms'. Then come back.
Evolution, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be falsifiable. How can you design an experiment to falsify the theory of Evolution?
Pretty easy if you try. * find fossils that are structurally impossible, like a way too advanced species in (undisturbed) ancient layers ('alas! God wants to test our faith and that's why He put the bones there')
* find the reuse of a tract in species that are, according to biologists, totally different, e.g. show that your Creative Designer has used the same construction for the human eye as for the octopus (they are actually pretty similar but the construction is totally different). Like find a centaur.
* prove that there ain't enough time for the evolution (without using the bible or your personal contact with God), like, the earth is only 6000 years old
There are more ways.
How come Darwin came with his ideas before DNA was discovered? How come it all fits so well?
You say your domain, not your email address, so I assume you have the same problem as I had, my mail server had a catch-all system so all Firstname_23@mydomain.nl type addresses the spammer invented came in my inbox. I had this catch-all system because I got the domain from another company but still received the odd mail to them.
In the end the only think that worked was stopping the catch-all, which is a simple setting on most servers. From then on all non-existing email addresses bounced back.
PS All invented 'from' addresses will bounce for a while and my domain was listed on a stupid blacklist until I explained it to them.
"2) Physical Law (that is the way the universe behaves) is consistent everywhere in the universe."
How do you define universe? Them weird physicists are coming up with very special theories lately, to get be able to combine several models or theories, like the one about snares, and worse: the "M-theory", stating, and i am depending on the BBC to inform me correctly, that there are several universes, every universe might have it's own set of physical laws and they might be interfering with each other as well.
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"recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support."
Silly guy, the US is not contributing to the UN, both financially and military.
"Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar."
So where is OpenOffice, is it on het net or on the pc? If it's on the pc then I don't see a big difference between having an FTP client plus OpenOffice?
If i read the Kemeny report correctly the key problem to the problem getting out of control was that the (not adequately educated) personnel trusted some indicator of a valve saying it was closed, while it wasn't. I don't know whether .NET or any other software system could have detected that too, it was probably a mechanical problem, but a good analysis (by having an overview of the entire situation) could have made them see it.
To get back on and off topic: what's this with managers and politicians trying to change fixed situations by deciding the # of days needed for a project is 6 not 8, that Lethal Dose figures can be changed, or like that poster a dozen comments higher asking for 8 days a week, 25 hours each.
Yes, some people got it, but you stepped on a toe of some patriot (modded 'troll').
I've had a chinese PhD student working next to me; he was almost reliously convinced that Taiwan and Tibet belonged to China For Historic Reasons. (where did i hear that one before, was it yugoslavia?)
thank you for seeing this too; i was reading through all of the above comments thinking hey, what do they think they are talking about...
so, anyone with a useful link?
No you're not: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/25/171 3249&tid=121 :).
- but also see the response to the other poor misguided b*stard
KDE-centric: what's wrong with that exactly?
Can't you run KDE applications on Gnome too, using the KDE-libs, and doesn't the letter announce a port for Windows?
gee, by your definition astrologist will have a lot more data to compute. And quite some new 'houses' to take into account: kfc, mcd, etc!
Did it ever occur to you that there were quite a few people there and not all of them might have been looters, that many of them helped others etc?
I find your comment disgusting for being shortsighted, prejudiced and condemning groups of people. Anonymous even.
"Raw fuel supply has never been a significant expense in nuclear power, and won't be for thousands of years."
You will be very very disappointed.
You said New Orleans is totally destroyed. Is this true also for the infrastructure? I can imagine roads, most sewers, most gas and electricity and water pipes are still working when the water is gone. Isn't that worth billions?
--
Btw I am totally in favour of big plans to reorganize cities, especially after having seen a movie showing how the American suburbs were built when oil was cheap, and how this would be a problem after 'oil peak'. (ambiguous: for oildependent us citizens I hope the current oil price peak is temporary, but for the environment I hope it is not)
The price for winning uranium is likely to increase too in the coming ten, twenty years. We've had the easy high-content ore, now soon we'll have to use lots more energy to get uranium out of the low-content ore. Well they dream of getting it out of seawater, I'm just waiting to see how much that will cost. With the increasing oil price, winning uranium will also become more expensive.
Just like with bio-fuel, you have to make sure you are eventually getting more enregy out of the system than you need to keep it working.
Remember, you are subsidising public transportation systems with it.
There is no such connection. Maybe unfortunately.
Taxes come in, are throw on a large heap and are spent irrelevant of where it comes from. And, after every relevant penny is counted, I bet the car turns out to be the most subsidized way of transport. I'm including environmental costs, health costs, destruction of valuable resources, climate change in.
Obviously your house is too large!
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say mrgonzo, what are you doing in your labs???
I agree partly, I agree so far that people jump to conclusions way too fast in regard to climate change. However, anthropogenic increase of carbondioxide is pretty obvious if you ask me, and the link between CO2 and climate change is not doubted anymore is it?
Oh well yes by some oil companies.
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Doesn't the fact that you post anonymously show you are not so sure of your facts?
It's funny you mention this, since I accidentally fell in the trenches of the GM debate, I was more and more convinced that the GMO discussion has a very religious nature. ;)).
Many people drawing conclusions on ample evidence, mostly trying to fit whatever they hear on it to their dogma: GM is Saving the World of GM is Evil (evidently the last one is true
It's equally surprising as your finding above, that a few years ago the Mexican maize (a.k.a. 'corn') was found to be contaminated with genes from GM maize, and this year an article was published that contradicted that (http://www.pulseofscience.org/pnasstatement). This is more important than it ight seem as Mexico is a 'center of origin' for maize.
If you ask me, Brian Johnson as well as the guys not finding GM genes in Mexican corn are lying bastards, but hell, I'm a religious anti_GMer...
Your missing the point: ID-ers are claiming their theory is falsifiable. Which made others come up with equally falsifiable theories :)_ Activating_Meatballs
e.g. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_%26_Pulsar
Summary: Science is not a simple process of falsification of hypotheses. The philosophy of science is not just the views of Popper, which have some real problems. Evolution can be falsified in the usual meaning in scientific practice.h tml
From (and elaborated on): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/falsify.
You might find this reading on that book extremely interesting:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html
Intelligent Design is easily falsifiable [...] All you have to do is show once through an experiment that you can produce something that is supposedly of "irreducible complexity" from simpler parts.
And then? I'm 100% sure that as soon as I come up with an example, you would find a way to diagree and jump to your next argument. That's at least my experience, first it was the eye, now a flagella, etc.
Actually I never heard of this irreducible complexity thing before but a quick search showed me it is a logic trap.
Please read about what's known on DNA, RNA, the whole logic in the development from single cells to 'higher organisms'. Then come back.
Evolution, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be falsifiable. How can you design an experiment to falsify the theory of Evolution?
Pretty easy if you try.
* find fossils that are structurally impossible, like a way too advanced species in (undisturbed) ancient layers ('alas! God wants to test our faith and that's why He put the bones there')
* find the reuse of a tract in species that are, according to biologists, totally different, e.g. show that your Creative Designer has used the same construction for the human eye as for the octopus (they are actually pretty similar but the construction is totally different). Like find a centaur.
* prove that there ain't enough time for the evolution (without using the bible or your personal contact with God), like, the earth is only 6000 years old
There are more ways.
How come Darwin came with his ideas before DNA was discovered? How come it all fits so well?
Can we safely assume that the quality of their nuclear material was constant to start with?
You say your domain, not your email address, so I assume you have the same problem as I had, my mail server had a catch-all system so all Firstname_23@mydomain.nl type addresses the spammer invented came in my inbox. I had this catch-all system because I got the domain from another company but still received the odd mail to them.
In the end the only think that worked was stopping the catch-all, which is a simple setting on most servers. From then on all non-existing email addresses bounced back.
PS All invented 'from' addresses will bounce for a while and my domain was listed on a stupid blacklist until I explained it to them.
"2) Physical Law (that is the way the universe behaves) is consistent everywhere in the universe."
How do you define universe? Them weird physicists are coming up with very special theories lately, to get be able to combine several models or theories, like the one about snares, and worse: the "M-theory", stating, and i am depending on the BBC to inform me correctly, that there are several universes, every universe might have it's own set of physical laws and they might be interfering with each other as well.