I doubt theres much the NASA/Pentagon admins could learn from this guy other than UFO looney bin talk--oh wait were talking about NASA, nevermind.
Yes, we're talking about that bunch of jerks who sent man into space and created world's best astronomical observatory (HST). Peanuts. You'd have done it in your spare time, otherwise you wouldn't write such sarcastic comments about them, would you?
No, when someone destroys my property I get compensated according to the average costs in my area. If I hire a locksmith and pay him twice the market rate, it's my business.
If I can't send an e-mail to my wife from work saying "what do you want me to buy at the grocer's at the way home?", then it's only fair when I ignore anything job-related as soon as I exit the company building. But this is of course absurd, and companies all the time expect people to carry over their work problems into their spare time -- read stuff, talk to people, etc. If it's OK for the employer, it should be also OK to let me send a few private e-mails from work. Otherwise, it's not fair.
What popes did contradict each other while reaching for the "infallibility" doctrine?
Also, the sentence "the saint made a miracle" is a shortcut for "the saint prayed to God for one". Really.
Flood? What flood? The flood you're talking about must have covered the whole planet without leaving a trace in the biological records. There's no record for that.
If what you said were true, we should see a sharp drop in the amount of fossils dated "just before the flood". Is there any?
Another comment: it seems that calling someone a "Jew" may carry two different meaning. One -- confined more or less to Europe and Middle East -- means ethnicity, second -- more common in the USA -- means religion. Hence the confusion and turmoil on/. In Poland, we sometimes write "zyd" (Polish for a Jew) when we mean religion, and "Zyd" when we mean ethnicity (although this is not popular, since antisemites write "zyd" always, to show their hate, and thus normal people write "Zyd" just in case someone might get offended). In English, the ethnic and religious denominations are both written with a capital letter, so there is no distinction (which in this case would be quite useful).
Note that the Wikipedia entry assumes the existence of precursors to Mitochondrial eve, but that is only resting on the assumption of evolution. Mitochondrial Eve would look the same whether or not Eve herself had ancestors or not, or whether or not she was the only person alive when she was born/made. The existence of her ancestors and contemporaries flows from the theory of evolution only, and not from data.
Now that is an outright lie. We have tons of skeletons of humanidae much older than 6,000 years. The dates are firmly established by isotope measurements. Feel free to provide any proof that the half-life period of carbon 14 is much shorter then we have previously thought.
What? The larget Christian denomination is Roman Catholicism, which currently considers Benedict XVIth, previously known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, as a representative of their faith (no quotes needed). Do you any problem with that?
By that definition the Amish of Pennsylvania and Ohio are a distinct ethnic group. They have their own language, culture, most certainly clothing and are sharply separated from other groups.
If the language they are using is so different from English as Yiddish was from Polish, we could start thinking of them as a different ethnic group. I urge you to read a little about the richness and potential of Jewish culture in pre-war Poland, before you criticize what I wrote.
but one of the worst thing about the constitution is that no one understand it, no one can explain it, its everything but clear and simple, and this, specially in hard/hot times isnt the best way to go...
So we're now left with the Nice treaty, which is obviously so simple and clear that the French preferred it over the Constitution.
people right now already thing that the EU administrative organization too complicated, too independent, unmonitored, uncontroled, lobby infected, unrepresentative of what people think and with all this, also powerfull
And by rejecting the Constitution we will change it? How?
3 - "It was a compromise"
this was why it was so obscure and useless... it tried to be all, do all... i blame both the EU politics, but also each country governement and leaders, that were more interested in defending their diferent values instead of finding the common ones
But that's what compromise is for! It's not like the governments have different values, the nations of Europe have different values. The French are social, the British are liberal, the Poles catholic and the Dutch atheistic. This Constitution had to be a compromise, a dirty, tiring, messy compromise. This is how treaties are written, for God's sake. What kind of dreamworld do you live in, if you think we could come up with a treaty which would be 100% satisfying to everyone?
And how will the "Non" change it? The constitution would bring a little more democracy in the EU. Instead, we will gain nothing, because there won't be any "Constitution -- Reloaded" for the next 10 years or so.
The talmud ( or so called 'oral law') which was being written down at the time of Jesus is case law. Jesus was not protesting the Talmud, per se. He was protesting those rulings in the talmud which 'annulled the written law.'
You seem to hold the view that Jesus rallied against Talmud because he wanted a strict adherence to the Old Testament. It's not true, he in many places said quite clearly that he brings new moral laws and rules which are set to replace the old ones.
Aren't you overreacting? I'm in no way a Holocaust denier (how could I be, I live a few km away from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto), but I think the notion of the Jew as an ethnic group, not a religious one, is not absurd. There certainly was a distinct Jewish ethnic group in Poland before the war, with its own language, culture, clothing, sometimes separated sharply from other groups -- isn't that enough for you? I think the name "race" is not really appropriate, because it implies some genetic difference. While there well may be (I heard one group of the Jews -- sephardic or ashkenasi -- has increased propensity to get Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease, for example), they are, I think -- I'm not a professional in this area -- too small to call Jews a "race". Hitler did it, but for totally different reasons. Maybe that's why you react so strongly to this term. But calling Jews a "race" in no way embraces the denial of Holocaust by itself.
There is a danger the EU may crash down, and I'm not happy writing this. France was an important player in the EU. And this important player has just shown the middle finger to the rest of the gang. After all, this Constitutional Treaty has been already shaped in a lot of aspects so as to please the French. It was a compromise. Yet the French decided they want all or nothing. It's not fair to the rest of nations in the EU.
Special relativity is far from being enough. You need general relativity. And even then, it's not simple. General relativity is all about nonlinear partial differential equations (feel impressed? I do!). What it means that you can't just toss any starting conditions and see what happens afterwards. In a general case, you'll get shit. In fact, people have built their careers on studying the "Cauchy problem of Einstein equations" and the "boundary conditions problem".
"On the island of Java, the Japanese are holding some 300,000 prisoners,
both military and civilian. As the war ends, the Japanese field marshall
stationed in Saigon issues order to `eliminate these useless consumers
of scarce food supplies.` The prisoners are told to dig their own graves
and nearly complete the job when the first atomic bomb is dropped on
Hiroshima. Emperor Hirohito now commands the field marshall to rescind
his order. The field marshall does not wish to comply. Hirohito sends
his brother, Prince Chichibu, to Saigon to dissuade the field marshall.
The second atomic bomb is dropped; the 300,000 prisoners are spared."
_Marching Orders_, Bruce Lee, page 492.
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Really? So according to you, we should all screw each other at every occasion? This is not my idea of a society.
Of course not, what do you think?
I doubt theres much the NASA/Pentagon admins could learn from this guy other than UFO looney bin talk--oh wait were talking about NASA, nevermind.
Yes, we're talking about that bunch of jerks who sent man into space and created world's best astronomical observatory (HST). Peanuts. You'd have done it in your spare time, otherwise you wouldn't write such sarcastic comments about them, would you?
No, when someone destroys my property I get compensated according to the average costs in my area. If I hire a locksmith and pay him twice the market rate, it's my business.
The fact that both Einstein and me wrote "E=mc^2" does not mean that I'm also a physics genius.
If I can't send an e-mail to my wife from work saying "what do you want me to buy at the grocer's at the way home?", then it's only fair when I ignore anything job-related as soon as I exit the company building. But this is of course absurd, and companies all the time expect people to carry over their work problems into their spare time -- read stuff, talk to people, etc. If it's OK for the employer, it should be also OK to let me send a few private e-mails from work. Otherwise, it's not fair.
What popes did contradict each other while reaching for the "infallibility" doctrine?
Also, the sentence "the saint made a miracle" is a shortcut for "the saint prayed to God for one". Really.
s/biological/biological, historical and geological
Flood? What flood? The flood you're talking about must have covered the whole planet without leaving a trace in the biological records. There's no record for that.
If what you said were true, we should see a sharp drop in the amount of fossils dated "just before the flood". Is there any?
Sainst and popes are no more divine than you and me.
In fact the country hit hardest by WWII was the then-USSR, who lost 20 million people (10 million of whom were military.)
If take the percentage of population lost as a measure, than it was not the USSR but Poland.
Another comment: it seems that calling someone a "Jew" may carry two different meaning. One -- confined more or less to Europe and Middle East -- means ethnicity, second -- more common in the USA -- means religion. Hence the confusion and turmoil on /. In Poland, we sometimes write "zyd" (Polish for a Jew) when we mean religion, and "Zyd" when we mean ethnicity (although this is not popular, since antisemites write "zyd" always, to show their hate, and thus normal people write "Zyd" just in case someone might get offended). In English, the ethnic and religious denominations are both written with a capital letter, so there is no distinction (which in this case would be quite useful).
Note that the Wikipedia entry assumes the existence of precursors to Mitochondrial eve, but that is only resting on the assumption of evolution. Mitochondrial Eve would look the same whether or not Eve herself had ancestors or not, or whether or not she was the only person alive when she was born/made. The existence of her ancestors and contemporaries flows from the theory of evolution only, and not from data.
Now that is an outright lie. We have tons of skeletons of humanidae much older than 6,000 years. The dates are firmly established by isotope measurements. Feel free to provide any proof that the half-life period of carbon 14 is much shorter then we have previously thought.
What? The larget Christian denomination is Roman Catholicism, which currently considers Benedict XVIth, previously known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, as a representative of their faith (no quotes needed). Do you any problem with that?
The difference is, Jews were the only group the Nazis wanted to destroy fully, down to the last man.
By that definition the Amish of Pennsylvania and Ohio are a distinct ethnic group. They have their own language, culture, most certainly clothing and are sharply separated from other groups.
If the language they are using is so different from English as Yiddish was from Polish, we could start thinking of them as a different ethnic group. I urge you to read a little about the richness and potential of Jewish culture in pre-war Poland, before you criticize what I wrote.
but one of the worst thing about the constitution is that no one understand it, no one can explain it, its everything but clear and simple, and this, specially in hard/hot times isnt the best way to go...
So we're now left with the Nice treaty, which is obviously so simple and clear that the French preferred it over the Constitution.
people right now already thing that the EU administrative organization too complicated, too independent, unmonitored, uncontroled, lobby infected, unrepresentative of what people think and with all this, also powerfull
And by rejecting the Constitution we will change it? How?
3 - "It was a compromise"
this was why it was so obscure and useless... it tried to be all, do all...
i blame both the EU politics, but also each country governement and leaders, that were more interested in defending their diferent values instead of finding the common ones
But that's what compromise is for! It's not like the governments have different values, the nations of Europe have different values. The French are social, the British are liberal, the Poles catholic and the Dutch atheistic. This Constitution had to be a compromise, a dirty, tiring, messy compromise. This is how treaties are written, for God's sake. What kind of dreamworld do you live in, if you think we could come up with a treaty which would be 100% satisfying to everyone?
And how will the "Non" change it? The constitution would bring a little more democracy in the EU. Instead, we will gain nothing, because there won't be any "Constitution -- Reloaded" for the next 10 years or so.
The talmud ( or so called 'oral law') which was being written down at the time of Jesus is case law. Jesus was not protesting the Talmud, per se. He was protesting those rulings in the talmud which 'annulled the written law.'
You seem to hold the view that Jesus rallied against Talmud because he wanted a strict adherence to the Old Testament. It's not true, he in many places said quite clearly that he brings new moral laws and rules which are set to replace the old ones.
Aren't you overreacting? I'm in no way a Holocaust denier (how could I be, I live a few km away from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto), but I think the notion of the Jew as an ethnic group, not a religious one, is not absurd. There certainly was a distinct Jewish ethnic group in Poland before the war, with its own language, culture, clothing, sometimes separated sharply from other groups -- isn't that enough for you? I think the name "race" is not really appropriate, because it implies some genetic difference. While there well may be (I heard one group of the Jews -- sephardic or ashkenasi -- has increased propensity to get Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease, for example), they are, I think -- I'm not a professional in this area -- too small to call Jews a "race". Hitler did it, but for totally different reasons. Maybe that's why you react so strongly to this term. But calling Jews a "race" in no way embraces the denial of Holocaust by itself.
There is a danger the EU may crash down, and I'm not happy writing this. France was an important player in the EU. And this important player has just shown the middle finger to the rest of the gang. After all, this Constitutional Treaty has been already shaped in a lot of aspects so as to please the French. It was a compromise. Yet the French decided they want all or nothing. It's not fair to the rest of nations in the EU.
Special relativity is far from being enough. You need general relativity. And even then, it's not simple. General relativity is all about nonlinear partial differential equations (feel impressed? I do!). What it means that you can't just toss any starting conditions and see what happens afterwards. In a general case, you'll get shit. In fact, people have built their careers on studying the "Cauchy problem of Einstein equations" and the "boundary conditions problem".
If the simulation's results don't agree with observations, then that tells us about where the model fails.
Or the simulation...
Whenever someone points out my ignorance to me, I shut up and be thankful for it. I guess you were brought up in a different way.
"On the island of Java, the Japanese are holding some 300,000 prisoners, both military and civilian. As the war ends, the Japanese field marshall stationed in Saigon issues order to `eliminate these useless consumers of scarce food supplies.` The prisoners are told to dig their own graves and nearly complete the job when the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Emperor Hirohito now commands the field marshall to rescind his order. The field marshall does not wish to comply. Hirohito sends his brother, Prince Chichibu, to Saigon to dissuade the field marshall. The second atomic bomb is dropped; the 300,000 prisoners are spared." _Marching Orders_, Bruce Lee, page 492.