If you're replacing the furnace and tearing the house apart as much as you say, why not switch to electric or radiant heating? The difference between the cost of electricity and heating oil will lower your heating costs more than a computer-controlled thermostate ever would.
There is a chance that people are thinking about ugly broken unmaintained windmills fifty or so years into the future.
to say that people who believe windmills cause strokes and interfere with menstrual cycles are even capable of "thinking" seems pretty charitable to me.
Let's see what happens to their precious property values when the icecaps melt and their homes are under 40 feet of water.
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While I'm all for energy conservation, especially when it comes to completely unneccessary little things like the blinking LED on your VCR, I see an unintended consequence of this being that utility companies have even less incentive to upgrade the nortoriously outdated power distribution system (e.g., the great blackout of 2003 http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/). Kind of like how faster processors and more RAM means software makers have less incentive to remove bloat and memory leaks from their applications.
Sure, if everyone who didn't have the gene was killed off in one generation then yes, the surviving population would all have the gene. But you know that's not what I meant when I said "arise in an entire population".
This seems an especially unlikely possibility in the case of kuru since the disease can have an incredibly long incubation period (up 30 years), which means a person likely won't die from Kuru until after they've had opportunities to reproduce, thus conferring little or no selection advantage on those with the disease resistance gene.
First, you should take a class in logic.
whoa buddy! who should take a class in logic?
the original statement wasn't if p then q, it was if AND ONLY IF p then q. In the case of a biconditional statement, the inverse is true. That's a pretty fundamental rule of logic to overlook if you're going to be suggesting other people's coursework.
you're right, I didn't read the entire post, sorry about that, I just didn't expect the original poster to go there after what he'd just said about developing a resistance. Still, I stand by what I say: it only would have taken a a quick web search to learn the fore tribe did quit eating humans.
Additionally, there's absolutely no chance a mutation would arise in an entire population in a single generation providing complete immunity to a disease. Biology just doesn't work that way.
While I'm being obnoxiously pedantic, I might as well also point out that creutzfeld jacobs disease is also potentially caused by cannibalism: in this case when cows are fed rendered bits of other cows (especially brain and spinal cord) in factory farms and tainted meat is then consumed by humans. For some reason, prions seem to like to develop when you eat the nervous tissue of your own species.
Kuru is mentioned in the referenced article and other reports that I have read suggest that the same genetic mutation may have occurred to allow the Fore to survive this. No cases of kuru have been noted among the Fore since sometime in the '50's and the same mutation that they mention in this referenced article has been cited as the reason. It seems that all (or most) members of the surviving tribe have the same genetic mutation. So this same example may be evidence of evolutionary pressure on the human species to counter this particular disease.
Good thinking, but do your research first, kuru disappeared among the Fore when they stopped eating the brains of kuru victims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_Tribe
"Lindenbaum and Vincent Zigas worked among the South Fore in New Guinea trying to identify and catalog the symptoms and possible behavior causing the disease. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek also traveled there in 1957, to study disease patterns in indigenous and isolated populations (Gajdusek, 1996). Lindenbaum, Zigas, and Gajdusek were all crucial to explaining the specifics of kuru to the rest of the world.
The disease all but disappeared with the termination of cannibalism in New Guinea."
We should only consider to be "taboo" those practices that are taboo across all cultures everywhere.
First of all, you use the term "taboo" in your proposed definition of taboo. That never makes for a helpful definition.
Second, your statement can either be taken to mean: if it's not forbidden in all cultures, then it's ok to do. Which means if you can find one culture that did not forbid, say, rape or murder or child molestation (which you probably could do), we should change our laws so as to stop discouraging these misunderstood "non-taboo" practices.
I doubt you mean anything that dumb, right? In which case you must be trying to distinguish between "taboo" and "immoral", where "taboo" means maladaptive and forbidden across cultures, and "immoral" is questionable but non-maladaptive behavior that should still be discouraged. Otherwise you've inadvertantly made yourself a NAMBLA advocate.
Nope, most ecologists want a mix of power sources. In France, for instance, many want to divert part the money funneled in nuclear-related research into some clean-energy work.
They also want to funnel a portion of that money into increased baguette production.
By that logic you could also say that blacks in the early 1960's should have simply communicated their distaste for jim crow laws instead of, say, staging lunch counter sit ins.
Sure, equal rights are more important than toilet jokes, but the point is the same: I don't want to spend all my time expressing my right to do something, I'll just go ahead and do it because I have a right to.
If it wasn't always, "raunch" is becoming a political message in itself. It's a backlash against people who think children are somehow wronged if they hear an expletive or see something violent or sexual. I'm not a particular fan of Howard Stern or toilet humor per se, but I love the way it pisses off simple-minded people who think janet jackson's naked breast is capable of destroying a person's capacity for moral reason. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, either.
That's not exactly true. Qwerty might slow people down, but the intent was to put the most commonly used letters as far apart as possible so the metal arms that hold the type wouldn't jam together. It was a spatial issue rather than a speed issue.
Find an old typewriter and press two keys that are close together simultaneously and you'll see what I mean.
I find that it hard to believe that cell phone text messages are being recorded to meet sarbanes-oxley requirements. I used to work for a big investment management firm. A big part of my job was filing and archiving all communications for sarbanes-oxley. All I ever saw were written documents (emails, personal notes, edits/comments on financial statements. There were never any recordings or even written summaries of phone conversations, let alone recorded text messages. A quick perusal of the sarbanes-oxley act, leads me to believe it applies only to written documents. Am I wrong?
If you want to help the poor and the minorities break this digital divide...
let's get one thing straight, it's poverty and only poverty that's responsible for the "digital divide". In itself, being black or asian, has nothing to do with the ability to use the internet. The "digital divide" is because people can't afford computers or spending $30+/month for broadband.
The only thing that really helps bring wealth to the poor is work -- hard work.
Have you been reading Horatio Alger stories? There are countless reasons hard work isn't always sufficient: medical bills, disability, insufficient child care, etc.
As for the anti-minimum wage argument, yes, raising the minimum wage may depress overall employment numbers slightly, but it would also allow for more single worker households where a spouse can stay home to care for children or go back to school since their partner is bringing in more income, not to mention increasing the minimum wage would increase consumer spending, which increases production, which increases employment -- something trickle down economics hasn't been able to accomplish in the 20 or so years it's been in effect.
Finally that minimum wage article was obviously written by someone who's never been poor. Poor people aren't actually poor because they're overweight and have color tvs???
90 percent of the time, the automated system is perfectly adequate
What? Personally--and I think this is true for most people--I never subject myself to a corporate bureacracy and automated phone menu maze unless something exceptionally terrible and out of the ordinary has happened (e.g., an overcharge or contested charge, a conflict regarding whether something that just broke is still under warranty, etc.), these are things a phone menu can't handle, and almost anything a phone menu can handle can be accomplished with less pain on the internet or by mail (paying a bill, changing your address, signing up for/canceling service, etc.).
90% of the time there's no specific option for whatever I'm trying to accomplish and I'm stuck suffering through an irrelevant menu SLOWLY repeated multiple times before I may be forwarded to a human or, just as likely, disconnected.
do some digging and you can probably find more, but I'm lazy. Admittedly not every exhibit web page includes donor information, but there have certainly been corporate donations to other exhibits/projects this year.
It's reasonable to conclude religious controversy contributed to the Museum's inability to find a corporate donor, even if it didn't cause it outright.
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If you're replacing the furnace and tearing the house apart as much as you say, why not switch to electric or radiant heating? The difference between the cost of electricity and heating oil will lower your heating costs more than a computer-controlled thermostate ever would.
There is a chance that people are thinking about ugly broken unmaintained windmills fifty or so years into the future.
to say that people who believe windmills cause strokes and interfere with menstrual cycles are even capable of "thinking" seems pretty charitable to me.
Let's see what happens to their precious property values when the icecaps melt and their homes are under 40 feet of water.
While I'm all for energy conservation, especially when it comes to completely unneccessary little things like the blinking LED on your VCR, I see an unintended consequence of this being that utility companies have even less incentive to upgrade the nortoriously outdated power distribution system (e.g., the great blackout of 2003 http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/). Kind of like how faster processors and more RAM means software makers have less incentive to remove bloat and memory leaks from their applications.
Sure, if everyone who didn't have the gene was killed off in one generation then yes, the surviving population would all have the gene. But you know that's not what I meant when I said "arise in an entire population". This seems an especially unlikely possibility in the case of kuru since the disease can have an incredibly long incubation period (up 30 years), which means a person likely won't die from Kuru until after they've had opportunities to reproduce, thus conferring little or no selection advantage on those with the disease resistance gene.
First, you should take a class in logic.
whoa buddy! who should take a class in logic?
the original statement wasn't if p then q, it was if AND ONLY IF p then q. In the case of a biconditional statement, the inverse is true. That's a pretty fundamental rule of logic to overlook if you're going to be suggesting other people's coursework.
you're right, I didn't read the entire post, sorry about that, I just didn't expect the original poster to go there after what he'd just said about developing a resistance. Still, I stand by what I say: it only would have taken a a quick web search to learn the fore tribe did quit eating humans.
Additionally, there's absolutely no chance a mutation would arise in an entire population in a single generation providing complete immunity to a disease. Biology just doesn't work that way.
While I'm being obnoxiously pedantic, I might as well also point out that creutzfeld jacobs disease is also potentially caused by cannibalism: in this case when cows are fed rendered bits of other cows (especially brain and spinal cord) in factory farms and tainted meat is then consumed by humans. For some reason, prions seem to like to develop when you eat the nervous tissue of your own species.
Good thinking, but do your research first, kuru disappeared among the Fore when they stopped eating the brains of kuru victims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_Tribe
We should only consider to be "taboo" those practices that are taboo across all cultures everywhere.
First of all, you use the term "taboo" in your proposed definition of taboo. That never makes for a helpful definition.
Second, your statement can either be taken to mean: if it's not forbidden in all cultures, then it's ok to do. Which means if you can find one culture that did not forbid, say, rape or murder or child molestation (which you probably could do), we should change our laws so as to stop discouraging these misunderstood "non-taboo" practices.
I doubt you mean anything that dumb, right? In which case you must be trying to distinguish between "taboo" and "immoral", where "taboo" means maladaptive and forbidden across cultures, and "immoral" is questionable but non-maladaptive behavior that should still be discouraged. Otherwise you've inadvertantly made yourself a NAMBLA advocate.
it's either crack, or the moderator demographic is skewed strongly towards 14 year old boys with attention problems. I tend to think it's the latter.
Nope, most ecologists want a mix of power sources. In France, for instance, many want to divert part the money funneled in nuclear-related research into some clean-energy work.
They also want to funnel a portion of that money into increased baguette production.
ok, drive around without a license plate then and see how far you get.
Can't someone just swap/steal/disable the tracking device?
Maybe the article submitter should read TFA before he submits it? There is no "tracking device", the cameras recognize ordinary license plates.
By that logic you could also say that blacks in the early 1960's should have simply communicated their distaste for jim crow laws instead of, say, staging lunch counter sit ins. Sure, equal rights are more important than toilet jokes, but the point is the same: I don't want to spend all my time expressing my right to do something, I'll just go ahead and do it because I have a right to.
If it wasn't always, "raunch" is becoming a political message in itself. It's a backlash against people who think children are somehow wronged if they hear an expletive or see something violent or sexual. I'm not a particular fan of Howard Stern or toilet humor per se, but I love the way it pisses off simple-minded people who think janet jackson's naked breast is capable of destroying a person's capacity for moral reason. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, either.
That's not exactly true. Qwerty might slow people down, but the intent was to put the most commonly used letters as far apart as possible so the metal arms that hold the type wouldn't jam together. It was a spatial issue rather than a speed issue. Find an old typewriter and press two keys that are close together simultaneously and you'll see what I mean.
Why don't we get some disposable astronauts, too? Cue the Christy McAuliffe jokes...
This movie's going to be great. We all know the longer a screenplay is the development, the better it gets! Right? Right?
once again, slashdot users have modded UP a comment from a person obviously doesn't get the joke...
I find that it hard to believe that cell phone text messages are being recorded to meet sarbanes-oxley requirements. I used to work for a big investment management firm. A big part of my job was filing and archiving all communications for sarbanes-oxley. All I ever saw were written documents (emails, personal notes, edits/comments on financial statements. There were never any recordings or even written summaries of phone conversations, let alone recorded text messages. A quick perusal of the sarbanes-oxley act, leads me to believe it applies only to written documents. Am I wrong?
caffeine generally only raises blood pressure temporarily, and regular coffee drinkers experience less of a blood pressure spike. http://www.ohiohealth.com/healthreference/referenc e/6488C9E0-4259-425B-975EDA39F3378760.htm?category =5171
Have you been reading Horatio Alger stories? There are countless reasons hard work isn't always sufficient: medical bills, disability, insufficient child care, etc.
As for the anti-minimum wage argument, yes, raising the minimum wage may depress overall employment numbers slightly, but it would also allow for more single worker households where a spouse can stay home to care for children or go back to school since their partner is bringing in more income, not to mention increasing the minimum wage would increase consumer spending, which increases production, which increases employment -- something trickle down economics hasn't been able to accomplish in the 20 or so years it's been in effect.
Finally that minimum wage article was obviously written by someone who's never been poor. Poor people aren't actually poor because they're overweight and have color tvs???
90% of the time there's no specific option for whatever I'm trying to accomplish and I'm stuck suffering through an irrelevant menu SLOWLY repeated multiple times before I may be forwarded to a human or, just as likely, disconnected.
or because blood that could be going to your brain is being sent to the intestines instead to absorb nutrients.
Maybe now there will finally be pornographic images of high enough resolution to meet my refined tastes.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/photo/voices/?src= e_h e dits.php 0 _utilities/14_swissre.php
-eastman kodak
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs/info/cr
-bank of america, reader's digest endowment fund
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/0
-swiss re
http://www.amnh.org/museum/imax/?src=e_p
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do some digging and you can probably find more, but I'm lazy. Admittedly not every exhibit web page includes donor information, but there have certainly been corporate donations to other exhibits/projects this year.
It's reasonable to conclude religious controversy contributed to the Museum's inability to find a corporate donor, even if it didn't cause it outright.