Re:Paris Hilton or Madame Curie... hmmm
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She would have been recieving it with Watson and Crick were it not for the fact that she was dead when the prize was being given out. Death of Cancers in Reproductive Organs robbed her of her prize, not Watson.
Let me guess, you're trying to make an anti-union sentiment, right? Go look at what happens in non-union schools. Teacher shortages.
Even so, IMHO the unions should focus more on getting teachers better pay and less on preventing them from getting fired. But teachers with experience are often reluctant to go to non-union schools.
The consoles that didn't switch from a totally awesome name to something that conjures up images of urine cost more because the people who buy their games are early adopter types who have more income so they can pay for a system with better hardware(which still doesn't work as well as just getting a better PC, IMHO)
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint"
That was a statement about "the youth of today".
Do you know when it was written?
About 2800 years ago. By Hesiod, one of the earliest known poets(only Homer could have been earlier).
Let's skip 400 years forward.
"The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties [food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannise their teachers"
Socrates. Now let's skip another 400 years forward.
"Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single honourable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing and dance and grow effeminate[the greatest insult you could give in Roman times was comparing them to a woman] and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks of speech; They are as languid as women and deck themselves out with unbecoming ornaments. Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the gifts with which they were born - then they complain of their lot"
Seneca. Now let's skip another thousand years.
"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence [respect] for their parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint; They talk as if they alone know everything and what passes for wisdom in us foolishness in them. As for the girls, they are foolish and immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress"
Peter the Hermit, who was a leading figure in the beginning of the Crusades. Skip forward another thousand years and we then get what we get today. In another thousand years this statement from Bill O'Reilly will be on this list from which I got those four quotations.
Actually, he's upset that the "under 45" demographic, when it does watch TV, doesn't turn to O'Reilly. It turns to Jon Stewart, who, despite being a humorist, still ends up informing people more than Fox News watchers.
Can someone with better Bible knowledge than me find Jesus' instructions to the disciples on evangelism? They included, if somebody said they weren't interested in Christianity, to just leave.
Conservatives remind me of the Pharisees, personally.
You ignored something about the mirrors in the sky--no friction means we have to keep them in the right positions using thrusters or else they could cause the opposite effect from their intention. And of course there's the hackability. And the problem of whoever doesn't trust the company/government/whatever that put all those satellites up. And the space junk. I'm sure there's a solution for all of those problems(with the exception of the distrust problem) although I think the CO2 solution would be a bit easier.
Reduction of CO2 levels...we know that will work. It is the only method we have that we know will work. The only flaws you listed about that method are with one particular law.
OK, let's try another tack - what would be the effect of decreasing the solar energy input by 1%? How about putting dust in the upper atmosphere? How about building a big wall across the equator to interrupt the jet stream? How about...
We can't predict the outcomes of any chaotic system, and yet chaos theory is one of the most important branches of mathematics now. (The climate is a chaotic system, we can prove general things about them, like that there will be huge changes and that adapting to those changes will be incredibly hard due to the large infrastructure here supporting the climactic status quo)
You are not going to be able to convince people to give up carbon based fuels until there is an alternative. You may think you have one, but you don't.
Use methods of transportation that run on electricity, and get the electricity from non-carbon-based methods. If they don't exist, make them.
"Consensus" means consensus in the actual scientific community, not in idiotic Slashdot posts.
Re:Idiot! How dare you bring facts into bush hatre
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The Senate in 1997 had a huge Republican majority.
We defeated Communisism once, we will defeat it again even if we don't have Ronald Reagan leading us this time. And we will do it while defeating Islamic Fascism. Because we must.
Sometimes, because of people like you, I wish the Communists won.
Yeah, you can read full-blown communist stories where everyone magically lives an advanced, wonderful life, too. It's why it's called "fiction".
Let me guess, you think Heinlein is gospel truth? That man made communists look sane.
The reality is that the more crap the government heaves on us, the slower the economy. The economy doesn't care if the intentions are good or not. And that's what few people realize.
The reality is that the economy isn't the most important thing in the world. Get an extinction-level event from global warming, the economy stops mattering because we're all too busy dying. And that's what few people realize.
In that case the legislators will use a different definition than others: for example, a tomato counts as a vegetable for taxation purposes even though it's botanically a fruit.
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She would have been recieving it with Watson and Crick were it not for the fact that she was dead when the prize was being given out. Death of Cancers in Reproductive Organs robbed her of her prize, not Watson.
I have this deep feeling that you're full of shit.
Nothing, Zonk's just a 360 fanboi.
how will a BSD resurgence magically save us from memory leaks and bad UIs, which are userland issues?
Living in North Carolina, i can confirm that. I haven't voted for any, though, because of my age.
Why'd they need it for that? Surely civil rights are necessary and proper!
It took thousands to go from Daedalus to the Wright Brothers.
Let me guess, you're trying to make an anti-union sentiment, right? Go look at what happens in non-union schools. Teacher shortages.
Even so, IMHO the unions should focus more on getting teachers better pay and less on preventing them from getting fired. But teachers with experience are often reluctant to go to non-union schools.
The consoles that didn't switch from a totally awesome name to something that conjures up images of urine cost more because the people who buy their games are early adopter types who have more income so they can pay for a system with better hardware(which still doesn't work as well as just getting a better PC, IMHO)
If it's that bad, email it to me. I won't tell Slashdot.
Does that mean Rush Limbaugh is a planet?
Considering how many of the Chinese are still starving, I'd say that it's a tossup.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint"
That was a statement about "the youth of today".
Do you know when it was written? About 2800 years ago. By Hesiod, one of the earliest known poets(only Homer could have been earlier).
Let's skip 400 years forward.
"The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties [food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannise their teachers"
Socrates. Now let's skip another 400 years forward.
"Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single honourable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing and dance and grow effeminate[the greatest insult you could give in Roman times was comparing them to a woman] and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks of speech; They are as languid as women and deck themselves out with unbecoming ornaments. Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the gifts with which they were born - then they complain of their lot"
Seneca. Now let's skip another thousand years.
"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence [respect] for their parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint; They talk as if they alone know everything and what passes for wisdom in us foolishness in them. As for the girls, they are foolish and immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress"
Peter the Hermit, who was a leading figure in the beginning of the Crusades. Skip forward another thousand years and we then get what we get today. In another thousand years this statement from Bill O'Reilly will be on this list from which I got those four quotations.
Actually, he's upset that the "under 45" demographic, when it does watch TV, doesn't turn to O'Reilly. It turns to Jon Stewart, who, despite being a humorist, still ends up informing people more than Fox News watchers.
Can someone with better Bible knowledge than me find Jesus' instructions to the disciples on evangelism? They included, if somebody said they weren't interested in Christianity, to just leave.
Conservatives remind me of the Pharisees, personally.
and yet the PS2 is still outselling the XBox 360. Say what you will about Sony but they're still doing better than Microsoft.
Oh, and as for the military, a large majority of people in the Army are people who have no other choice.
You ignored something about the mirrors in the sky--no friction means we have to keep them in the right positions using thrusters or else they could cause the opposite effect from their intention. And of course there's the hackability. And the problem of whoever doesn't trust the company/government/whatever that put all those satellites up. And the space junk. I'm sure there's a solution for all of those problems(with the exception of the distrust problem) although I think the CO2 solution would be a bit easier.
Reduction of CO2 levels...we know that will work. It is the only method we have that we know will work. The only flaws you listed about that method are with one particular law.
"Consensus" means consensus in the actual scientific community, not in idiotic Slashdot posts.
In that case the legislators will use a different definition than others: for example, a tomato counts as a vegetable for taxation purposes even though it's botanically a fruit.
That's just because they cheat with the Force, which is also why, in the Star Wars universe, Coruscant is actually plausible.
Would you say the same thing about VRML? Name me one person who profited off of VRML.
for every database there are twenty VRMLs.