Apples and Oranges. All it takes is for one informant to squeal. And how do you know the German government doesn't have a PRISM-like system. And if the U.S. had such good intelligence that they could stop every lone wolf, people like you would be screaming you've lost your freedom.
As the framers are no longer among the quick, and seeing as gays and lesbian relationships back then were very well hidden, it isn't clear what they would decide. Given the mores at the time, they would probably not countenance same sex marriage.
But then they didn't have all that many problems with slavery either....at least not enough of them to write it out of the Constitution. Instead, they wrote it into the Constitution. So Scalia would probably have voted not to abolish slavery.
I thought it was ankles the Taliban were objecting to...besides ears, noses, eyes, mouths, any assorted limbs. Their perfect woman is a UMO, Unidentified Moving Object.
There there, we're about to find dinosaur bones with human bones any day now indicating the humans were riding them (a bit of a misguided endeavor if you ask me). There's a museum in Kentucky showing this. However, Kentucky also gave us Rand Paul so I guess there's something in the water there.
I think you had a numb of an idea but then you lost the thread. Science and tech are to some extent rudderless. What the humanities should teach is how to build rudders. And good humanities departments do just that. They don't pronounce this or that science or tech good or bad, but rather how to evaluate them in the presence of externalities that have no counterpart at the science and tech level. This is probably what makes you think that they devolve into politics. However, politics is how societies (at least in free ones) enforce externalities. That latter is precisely what is going on now with NSA and information privacy. Privacy is an externality that doesn't translate particularly well into the tech, or if it does, there are several translations, no canonical translation.
Just for the record, the Arctic icecap melting isn't such a big deal if you are wondering about sea level rise (Arctic ice floats, melting it won't increase the sea level). However, Arctic tundra unfreezing means more carbon in the atmosphere, it's a feedback loop. Also, the Arctic unfreezing could change ocean currents. It might change the climate in Europe and other places.
If Greenland melts, that's a different story since that ice is on land. Melting all of it will raise the sea level between 11 and 22 feet. We'd have to say goodbye to NYC, Miami, etc. If Antarctica melts as well, say Hello to Waterworld.
So all the hand-wringing from the climate change deniers over what restrictions would be necessary to corral the problem and thereby tank the economy would be moot because the economy would be under water. So, basically, the question is, "Do ya feel lucky, punk?". The deniers claim they do feel lucky, even though they are placing a bet with the rest of our asses on the line.
That's big of you. Lemme guess, you have no children, and you'll never have grandchildren. And as for your fellow man, well...does ethics ring a bell, empathy, sympathy...poor people in nations about to be inundated by ocean water mean nothing to you?
Using Newton in this day and age is a bit disingenuous. His output was merely some well-thought out thoughts. Try coming up with the next drug to cure some current disease this way. You won't get past, gee, wouldn't it be neat if the disease worked like this, then I'd have a cure. It takes 100s of millions of dollars to come up with a single drug that hits the market. What's never shown are all the false starts and compounds that failed. And even then the FDA can send you back to the drawing board. And if your drug does make it to market, and you wind up killing or maiming a few people, expect to get your ass sued off.
Admittedly, the patent system is broken. In my own opinion, we need different rules for different sectors of the economy. That's going to be hard work and they cannot be fixed for 20 years because the economy evolves.
When Apple moved from OS9 to OSX, you could still run OS9 in a padded cell. From PowerPC to X86, you could run both executables up through 10.4 or 10.5. Apple never claimed their iThings were little Macs, in fact they claimed they were a new kind of device, or an old one done well this time.
MS came out with something they called windows but wasn't because it couldn't run the same apps. And even the x86 version of their Surface is a frankendevice...see, it isn't a lap top, it isn't a pad, it's both. Only a frankenexecutive produce such an alleged innovation.
You give the House not enough credit, or I should say the Republicans on the Science and Tech committee. The chairman is a bible thumping Sauropod from the Jurassic Period. He want no effort in research for how humans are affecting the earth, nor does he want any naughty asteroid capture technology to be developed 'cause if the Big One has our name on its ass, then it is G-d's will and all "deserving" souls will be raptured. Yet, the Republicans thought he'd be perfect for a committee that effects how we spend our science and tech budget.
I use CornerStone for an SVN gui on MacOS, costs about $60. I develop on Linux, and use Eclipse (sigh...) and Subclipse...but only to get stuff in and out. I manage SVN using CornerStone though.
Yes, but the Russians believe there is a Chechen terrorist behind every tree. They aren't exactly the kind of guys from which you would trust their information. And when the U.S. did try to get more, the Russkies clammed up.
Obama will have Snowden over for a State Dinner before he drags the U.S. into Syria. The Republicans in Congress are a different story, but they are not the Commander-in-Chief.
Unless he got into office and realized he security is lot trickier than he thought. A politician that never changes their views is more or less deadwood.
"Yeah basically anyone with a brain knows to go to a custom shop like mine", there's the fault in your logic right there. Consumers have more important things in their lives than learning enough geekdom to build their own PCs. They contract that out just like they do garbage collection, utilities, car repairs.
MS has a bigger problem; too many people have horror stories involving their software. That's the reason they cannot sell phones, people see the MS moniker and the old hobgoblins from their PCs start keening at them from beyond the grave.
Something similar happened to tomatoes, but it wasn't a disease. It was instead the American consumer who equate red with delicious. So companies in Florida started shipping the red, tasteless kind. The best thing that can happen to tomatoes in America is S. and Central America putting Florida tomato producers out of business.
Actually, that's not true. From 1950-1970's, the average temperatures plateaued. Then from about 1970 to 1990, they had a large rise. From 1990 until about now, they plateaued again. No one knows why, however the scientists expect it to have another large rise shortly. So, the planet isn't cooling and so you cannot feel comfortable continuing the live the lifestyle you'd like. You may have to...what is the word...change.
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So, you think the terrorists wouldn't have thought of this all by themselves?
One nut with a gun knocked off JFK.
Apples and Oranges. All it takes is for one informant to squeal. And how do you know the German government doesn't have a PRISM-like system. And if the U.S. had such good intelligence that they could stop every lone wolf, people like you would be screaming you've lost your freedom.
As the framers are no longer among the quick, and seeing as gays and lesbian relationships back then were very well hidden, it isn't clear what they would decide. Given the mores at the time, they would probably not countenance same sex marriage.
But then they didn't have all that many problems with slavery either....at least not enough of them to write it out of the Constitution. Instead, they wrote it into the Constitution. So Scalia would probably have voted not to abolish slavery.
I thought it was ankles the Taliban were objecting to...besides ears, noses, eyes, mouths, any assorted limbs. Their perfect woman is a UMO, Unidentified Moving Object.
Ikea furniture AND intelligent design? You ask much!!
There there, we're about to find dinosaur bones with human bones any day now indicating the humans were riding them (a bit of a misguided endeavor if you ask me). There's a museum in Kentucky showing this. However, Kentucky also gave us Rand Paul so I guess there's something in the water there.
I think you had a numb of an idea but then you lost the thread. Science and tech are to some extent rudderless. What the humanities should teach is how to build rudders. And good humanities departments do just that. They don't pronounce this or that science or tech good or bad, but rather how to evaluate them in the presence of externalities that have no counterpart at the science and tech level. This is probably what makes you think that they devolve into politics. However, politics is how societies (at least in free ones) enforce externalities. That latter is precisely what is going on now with NSA and information privacy. Privacy is an externality that doesn't translate particularly well into the tech, or if it does, there are several translations, no canonical translation.
I see, so semiconductors are built on a tissue of non-facts? Lemme guess, you are from the year 1000.
What is it about CO2 being a greenhouse gas you do not understand?
Just for the record, the Arctic icecap melting isn't such a big deal if you are wondering about sea level rise (Arctic ice floats, melting it won't increase the sea level). However, Arctic tundra unfreezing means more carbon in the atmosphere, it's a feedback loop. Also, the Arctic unfreezing could change ocean currents. It might change the climate in Europe and other places.
If Greenland melts, that's a different story since that ice is on land. Melting all of it will raise the sea level between 11 and 22 feet. We'd have to say goodbye to NYC, Miami, etc. If Antarctica melts as well, say Hello to Waterworld.
So all the hand-wringing from the climate change deniers over what restrictions would be necessary to corral the problem and thereby tank the economy would be moot because the economy would be under water. So, basically, the question is, "Do ya feel lucky, punk?". The deniers claim they do feel lucky, even though they are placing a bet with the rest of our asses on the line.
That's big of you. Lemme guess, you have no children, and you'll never have grandchildren. And as for your fellow man, well...does ethics ring a bell, empathy, sympathy...poor people in nations about to be inundated by ocean water mean nothing to you?
Using Newton in this day and age is a bit disingenuous. His output was merely some well-thought out thoughts. Try coming up with the next drug to cure some current disease this way. You won't get past, gee, wouldn't it be neat if the disease worked like this, then I'd have a cure. It takes 100s of millions of dollars to come up with a single drug that hits the market. What's never shown are all the false starts and compounds that failed. And even then the FDA can send you back to the drawing board. And if your drug does make it to market, and you wind up killing or maiming a few people, expect to get your ass sued off.
Admittedly, the patent system is broken. In my own opinion, we need different rules for different sectors of the economy. That's going to be hard work and they cannot be fixed for 20 years because the economy evolves.
When Apple moved from OS9 to OSX, you could still run OS9 in a padded cell. From PowerPC to X86, you could run both executables up through 10.4 or 10.5. Apple never claimed their iThings were little Macs, in fact they claimed they were a new kind of device, or an old one done well this time.
MS came out with something they called windows but wasn't because it couldn't run the same apps. And even the x86 version of their Surface is a frankendevice...see, it isn't a lap top, it isn't a pad, it's both. Only a frankenexecutive produce such an alleged innovation.
Yep, but what we really need is an big, honking space gun to shoot asteroids out of our path. If we don't, nothing else will matter.
You give the House not enough credit, or I should say the Republicans on the Science and Tech committee. The chairman is a bible thumping Sauropod from the Jurassic Period. He want no effort in research for how humans are affecting the earth, nor does he want any naughty asteroid capture technology to be developed 'cause if the Big One has our name on its ass, then it is G-d's will and all "deserving" souls will be raptured. Yet, the Republicans thought he'd be perfect for a committee that effects how we spend our science and tech budget.
I'm ashamed.
I use CornerStone for an SVN gui on MacOS, costs about $60. I develop on Linux, and use Eclipse (sigh...) and Subclipse...but only to get stuff in and out. I manage SVN using CornerStone though.
Yes, but the Russians believe there is a Chechen terrorist behind every tree. They aren't exactly the kind of guys from which you would trust their information. And when the U.S. did try to get more, the Russkies clammed up.
Obama will have Snowden over for a State Dinner before he drags the U.S. into Syria. The Republicans in Congress are a different story, but they are not the Commander-in-Chief.
Unless he got into office and realized he security is lot trickier than he thought. A politician that never changes their views is more or less deadwood.
"Yeah basically anyone with a brain knows to go to a custom shop like mine", there's the fault in your logic right there. Consumers have more important things in their lives than learning enough geekdom to build their own PCs. They contract that out just like they do garbage collection, utilities, car repairs.
MS has a bigger problem; too many people have horror stories involving their software. That's the reason they cannot sell phones, people see the MS moniker and the old hobgoblins from their PCs start keening at them from beyond the grave.
And if someone uses one and blows their hand off because of material failure, you will get sued for everything you would ever own.
Something similar happened to tomatoes, but it wasn't a disease. It was instead the American consumer who equate red with delicious. So companies in Florida started shipping the red, tasteless kind. The best thing that can happen to tomatoes in America is S. and Central America putting Florida tomato producers out of business.
Actually, that's not true. From 1950-1970's, the average temperatures plateaued. Then from about 1970 to 1990, they had a large rise. From 1990 until about now, they plateaued again. No one knows why, however the scientists expect it to have another large rise shortly. So, the planet isn't cooling and so you cannot feel comfortable continuing the live the lifestyle you'd like. You may have to...what is the word...change.