is bigger than the Health care bill. Who has time to read it?
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The only flaw I can see in your argument is that it assumes a low rate of catastrophe. 30% of all people will get cancer. Each will need 6 figure treatment (that is super conservative). 10^8 x 10^5 = 10^13 (that is like 10 trillion dollars -- and it would be working its way toward 100 trillion).
My current phone is better than my desktop computer of ten years ago. I think the 16 GB hard drive would have cost $8,000 and taken up a lot of desk space. So yeah, I would have been blown away by my phone in 1999 -- I'm kinda blown by it today.
I must just be in the old-and-creepy category, being 38 and all.
I have concerns about the privacy issues too, however, I'm not sure how this is a ton different than Monster, CareerBuilder or Match.com. If you purchase online, use a catalog, subscribe to a magazine or join a forum, then a large amount of personal information is handed over to the publisher.
The thing is... I'm just not sure that good data results in better advertising returns. It would seem that it should, however I have known a direct mail expert who claimed that targeting through statistical aggregation was bunk.
Vista is released, and though the beta has been available for some time now, Apple says, "hey don't upgrade - it will break iTunes." I would be surprised if the issue wasn't known to Apple for months now. However, the tech doc was conveniently provided just after Vista's launch. I'm not saying that it was evil -- just a well conceived competitive practice.
No 3G... but it has wifi, which is usually free. Jobs said in his key not that it would automagically detect wifi and switch when appropriate. Thus, internet usage should be good where wifi is available.
Ok. A cleaning was needed. But, that begs the question as to why nature (AKA rain) was used to do the job? Since all known physics are going to be violated in order to make the rain story true, why not just make the unwanted disappear without a trace?
If I had to guess the story is actually a misinterpretation of natural events. In the time of Noah, Glaciers were still receding, the Earth was warming and becoming wetter. There may have been local lake formations which were confined by glacier dams. A long rain, followed by glacier dam failure, would have resulted in massive local flooding -- there are some large geologic formations in the US that were likely from super floods resulting from lakes/inland oceans being suddenly emptied.
Maybe Noah noticed that a glacial dam was melting, decided to build a boat on a hill. Maybe he tried to save his friends by telling them that God told him to build a boat. People being less astute in the ancient world may not have understood the flood that was to come from a burst glacial dam -- as far as they were concerned everything was status quo. But the Earth was heating and those dams were going to bust.
By definition a God can do anything -- that is certainly true. However, in regard to the flood, you back up your faith with natural arguments e.g. "a giant water canopy" and a "meteor." Assume there was a giant water canopy, wouldn't that have been visible from the ground? Why no mention of it before it fell to the ground as rain?
Also, I would like to point out there are only two possibilities for a giant water canopy. First, it is in orbit and it exerts no pressure on the ground. In this case it could not be a canopy, it would have to be a ring e.g. Saturn style. A spherical surface made of gas molecules cannot be in orbit. Anything that falls out of orbit comes with a significant amount of violence. In space the water would be frozen, and when it hit the Earths atmosphere it would have exploded -- no rain -- more like a thermonuclear weapon -- think Siberia circa 1906. Noah wouldn't say hey, "it is a real pissing rain," he would be more like, "hey the sky is exploding with fire and destroying everything."
The second case, a canopy existed like our current atmosphere, and it was not in orbit. If it is not in orbit, then it would contribute to the atmospheric pressure and kill the inhabitants -- oxygen can be very toxic. Deep sea divers use a special mix of helium and oxygen to survive high pressures. Not to mention with the high pressure, Noah would have been very drunk with nitrogen narcosis.
Don't forget that water absorbs light. Water strongly absorbs infrared radiation. As infrared radiation is next to red-colored light on the EM spectrum, a small amount of visible red light is absorbed as well. This results in pure water appearing slightly blue when seen in mass quantities such as a lake or ocean. The needed volume of you proposed canopy would have made the planet dark and blue -- plants wouldn't have liked that.
Back to God can do anything. I don't have a problem with that -- I do have a problem with the fact that in-order for the Noah story to be true, God would have had to do so much that the story, as it is written, would be wrong.
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I was referring to reading the entire /. thread. Congress people should read the bills they vote on.
is bigger than the Health care bill. Who has time to read it?
The only flaw I can see in your argument is that it assumes a low rate of catastrophe. 30% of all people will get cancer. Each will need 6 figure treatment (that is super conservative). 10^8 x 10^5 = 10^13 (that is like 10 trillion dollars -- and it would be working its way toward 100 trillion).
It is a first person shooter .... of course you're going to go "Dylan Klebold" on everyone. Duh!!!!
Who really wants to look like Baron von Harkonen floating about the town?
My current phone is better than my desktop computer of ten years ago. I think the 16 GB hard drive would have cost $8,000 and taken up a lot of desk space. So yeah, I would have been blown away by my phone in 1999 -- I'm kinda blown by it today.
If it can't reach the beer in the fridge, then who really cares.
However, adding a bunch of adjustable parameters in order to get a good fit is not what I like about music.
I have concerns about the privacy issues too, however, I'm not sure how this is a ton different than Monster, CareerBuilder or Match.com. If you purchase online, use a catalog, subscribe to a magazine or join a forum, then a large amount of personal information is handed over to the publisher.
The thing is ... I'm just not sure that good data results in better advertising returns. It would seem that it should, however I have known a direct mail expert who claimed that targeting through statistical aggregation was bunk.
Wow. you get friend requests? Are you female?
Just one word to follow -- Singularity.
I was made in 1997 and I want my freakin hard drive back.
There is nothing quite like quantum chemistry. It makes you feel dumb and smart at the same time.
Everybody knows corn is best if converted to EtOH. My liver has been protesting for years.
when we have evidence for WMD's.
provided we can hitch a ride on a vogon destructor ship.
So that the final version would be fixed before it is made final.
Vista is released, and though the beta has been available for some time now, Apple says, "hey don't upgrade - it will break iTunes." I would be surprised if the issue wasn't known to Apple for months now. However, the tech doc was conveniently provided just after Vista's launch. I'm not saying that it was evil -- just a well conceived competitive practice.
The timing of the announcement seems a little convenient.
If you search for a "search engine" using Yahoo, then Yahoo ranks Google number #1 and Yahoo as #2. Try it
What does all of this mean for Sealand? Will Sealand dominate the North Atlantic?
No 3G ... but it has wifi, which is usually free. Jobs said in his key not that it would automagically detect wifi and switch when appropriate. Thus, internet usage should be good where wifi is available.
If I had to guess the story is actually a misinterpretation of natural events. In the time of Noah, Glaciers were still receding, the Earth was warming and becoming wetter. There may have been local lake formations which were confined by glacier dams. A long rain, followed by glacier dam failure, would have resulted in massive local flooding -- there are some large geologic formations in the US that were likely from super floods resulting from lakes/inland oceans being suddenly emptied.
Maybe Noah noticed that a glacial dam was melting, decided to build a boat on a hill. Maybe he tried to save his friends by telling them that God told him to build a boat. People being less astute in the ancient world may not have understood the flood that was to come from a burst glacial dam -- as far as they were concerned everything was status quo. But the Earth was heating and those dams were going to bust.
Also, I would like to point out there are only two possibilities for a giant water canopy. First, it is in orbit and it exerts no pressure on the ground. In this case it could not be a canopy, it would have to be a ring e.g. Saturn style. A spherical surface made of gas molecules cannot be in orbit. Anything that falls out of orbit comes with a significant amount of violence. In space the water would be frozen, and when it hit the Earths atmosphere it would have exploded -- no rain -- more like a thermonuclear weapon -- think Siberia circa 1906. Noah wouldn't say hey, "it is a real pissing rain," he would be more like, "hey the sky is exploding with fire and destroying everything."
The second case, a canopy existed like our current atmosphere, and it was not in orbit. If it is not in orbit, then it would contribute to the atmospheric pressure and kill the inhabitants -- oxygen can be very toxic. Deep sea divers use a special mix of helium and oxygen to survive high pressures. Not to mention with the high pressure, Noah would have been very drunk with nitrogen narcosis.
Don't forget that water absorbs light. Water strongly absorbs infrared radiation. As infrared radiation is next to red-colored light on the EM spectrum, a small amount of visible red light is absorbed as well. This results in pure water appearing slightly blue when seen in mass quantities such as a lake or ocean. The needed volume of you proposed canopy would have made the planet dark and blue -- plants wouldn't have liked that.
Back to God can do anything. I don't have a problem with that -- I do have a problem with the fact that in-order for the Noah story to be true, God would have had to do so much that the story, as it is written, would be wrong.