I take exception to your reassertion that Der Spiegel is not a scholarly journal - it has pictures for crying out loud, is doesn't get more scholarly than that.
Why do videos like this always show people hang-gliding as if that's a sure sign of 'The World of Tomorrow'? Is there some key indicator of technological advancement that is based on unpowered flight? Or are they trying to appeal to the niche sportsman?
Also I'm glad to see all those women in the video were well covered up. Good to see that the envisaged middle east of the future still holds onto its core misogynistic values.
Another reason creationists refer to Darwinism is that it sets them up for an Ad Hominum attack.
Darwin was a slightly flawed individual, living as he was in a time when social values were "Victorian". He would naturally had a view of the world that was somewhat tainted by a patriarchal society that was imperial, sexist and racist. And creationists are often found to be using this as evidence against his theories.
As well as this, the writing of his time, even scientific writing, was colourful and designed to compel as well as convince. We see this being used against him all the time with the popular "Darwin didn't even believe the eye could have evolved" nonsense.
Add to this his famous "death bed conversion" - no matter how much the evidence contradicts this - and you have a neatly sewn up package.
Of course, being an Ad Hominum, it would matter not a jot even if Darwin became the archbishop of Canterbury and then shagged the queen - the theory of evolution (in its current form) is the best description available for the origin of the species on this planet.
Get real loser! What? Are you trying to suggest that after the battle of Yavin everyone just went home and made cupcakes.
Well they didn't, after the medals were given out, they all went out and got pissed. In fact, rumour has it that your precious farm-boy Luke ended up with two slave girls and an ewok of unknown gender that night - and he didn't need Obi Wan Kenobi's help to find the exhaust ports that time.
So don't come all holy holy on poor Leia - just coz zhe drinksh a little.
They won't be spending it all at once - but there needs to be the long term commitment to the spending - a commitment that far exceeds the horizon of this current crisis. This is the problem that congress faces. They could say, Ok, we'll give you $100b and see how you get on with that - which they could use to start the initial projects. However, with the state of the economy at the moment no external investor is going to row in with that and it will not have a positive effect on consumer confidence.
A large part of the problem at the moment is that banks are strangling the flow of credit to smaller companies because they cannot be sure of their long-term prospects. However, if a small company can point to a 5-year contract to make widgets for the government, then the banks will be a lot more free, and that money will then circulate to the suppliers of the widget makers etc etc etc.
If you only commit enough money for 1 year - then the risk is far higher.
I do agree with you that rushing things through Congress is a bad idea - however, it is like saying that you should be judicious about what you save when your house is on fire.
With less than 20% of any of it slated to go into effect in the first year the Obama "pass it or else" mantra is exposed as rhetoric.
Strange though it may sound, it is actually quite a difficult thing to spend $800b. When a stimulus package like this goes into effect, while the budget may be quickly allocated to specific projects, the actual draw down can only occur through vouched expenditure, and this can only occur as work is done. With this in mind, actually spending $160b (20%) is still quite an achievement.
However, the fact that the projects are started and have a guaranteed completion should provide more stimulus than the actual cash spend.
I don't know whether the spending is going to the right places, or that it will have the desired stimulus effect, but it's not correct to suggest that this is some kind of ruse just because it appears that the funding is not front-loaded.
Unfortunately, you do care about the split you just don't know it.
The main reason we don't have proper adherence to standards is that there's no pressure to conform. Microsoft etc can make up crappy standards for themselves that vaguely resemble the proper standards. Then anyone that develops to them pats them-self on the back for being "compliant", and nothing then safely works anywhere else. And then you get the "Linux is crappy, nothing works on it" nonsense.
With a 80/20 split, they just wouldn't get away with this.
We have more weapons on land, air, sea, even underwater than anyone else
...and you're still terrified.
How is arming yourselves even more going to solve the problem?
You have three potential threats:
1. Russia/China/etc: Have no interest in attacking the US, they have their own problems, they don't need yours. 2. Terrorism: The only successful counter to terrorism has been to make the underlying causes irrelevant. 3. Internal: Good luck with that...
On top of which there is a fourth real threat coming directly from the economic system that is collapsing around your ears and which is most certainly not going to be solved through wasting money on fantasy projects, isolationism, or "reds under beds" paranoia.
However, as with fundamentalism in the US - taking for example stem cells, the suppression of the science on religious grounds, ultimately leads to an uncompetitive situation that can only be rectified by the adoption of the technology in direct contradiction of the belief.
At the time of Ottoman Empire, and the preceding Islamic growth, the Muslim world was far more advanced than the seriously fundamentalist and bellicose dark age Christian Europe.
The more a nation like Iran embraces technology and science, the more difficult it is to reconcile that with crazy religious ideas. People are asked to accept the advanced scientific learning provided by reason, while at the same time suspend that reason when thinking about their ideology.
That can only be a good thing - in the long term.
Iran has also been very much maligned externally - which they have done little to mitigate. But their actions provide little evidence of the truth of their sabre rattling - and to suggest that there is a reason to fear them is unfounded.
1. Breastfeeding is more prevalent in more educated people, which is correlated to wealth - i.e. people with more money who can buy video games. Check to see if two cars or a bigger house is related to breastfeeding.
2. Even though I'm sure your the most popular guy on the planet, I doubt the sample you have tested is remotely significant. Clearly you need funding to take your research globally.
3. One of the key features of breastfeeding is that men can't do it. So they have more free time - especially as they're not getting any of the other kind of action.
Despite being privatised for nearly 10 years, Eircom still has an ethos that is basically semi-state.
They haven't the entrepreneurial balls to stand up for themselves which is why they have been a follower rather than a leader for their entire existence, even though the deck was always stacked in their favour (i.e. owning the infrastructure).
This is just another example of them rolling over for fear of making a stand. This will get interesting when the other ISPs get involved.
Does this mean Lloyd's leaving Corrie? What about Liz, he'll break her heart? And what about Steve, the feckless rogue? Mark my words he'll run Streetcars into the ground.
If the user is provided with a list like: Choose browser to install: (1) Internet Explorer 8.9 (2) Firefox 3.6 (3) Opera 9.2....
Which one will they choose? I would say most likely, 1, because it's from Microsoft (and it will be top of the list) - even if it is a piece of rubbish.
It would be far better if Microsoft provided a restricted simple browser that could be used to download other software - a sort of graphical version of lynx.
Looking at the companies that are doing the layoffs, I wonder is the "massive economic crisis" really to blame - directly anyway.
There seems to be a strange rush about all this - did Microsoft's and Intel's and IBM's fortunes suddenly get so bad overnight that they had to lay all these people off - or has there been a steady decline and the "crisis" is being used as an opportunity to shed some pounds while blaming it on an outside source and shifting responsibility away from the real cause.
In Microsoft's case, I would suggest that this real cause is the appalling ROI on Vista as well as flagship products like Windows, and Internet Explorer continually losing ground to Linux and Firefox - or more importantly the concepts that these products represent.
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That says more about those doing the labelling than it does about the labels themselves.
I take exception to your reassertion that Der Spiegel is not a scholarly journal - it has pictures for crying out loud, is doesn't get more scholarly than that.
Your attitude sucks more.
So you're the bastard that ate my ironing! Now I haven't a single shirt to wear.
Why do videos like this always show people hang-gliding as if that's a sure sign of 'The World of Tomorrow'? Is there some key indicator of technological advancement that is based on unpowered flight? Or are they trying to appeal to the niche sportsman?
Also I'm glad to see all those women in the video were well covered up. Good to see that the envisaged middle east of the future still holds onto its core misogynistic values.
Absolutely.
Another reason creationists refer to Darwinism is that it sets them up for an Ad Hominum attack.
Darwin was a slightly flawed individual, living as he was in a time when social values were "Victorian". He would naturally had a view of the world that was somewhat tainted by a patriarchal society that was imperial, sexist and racist. And creationists are often found to be using this as evidence against his theories.
As well as this, the writing of his time, even scientific writing, was colourful and designed to compel as well as convince. We see this being used against him all the time with the popular "Darwin didn't even believe the eye could have evolved" nonsense.
Add to this his famous "death bed conversion" - no matter how much the evidence contradicts this - and you have a neatly sewn up package.
Of course, being an Ad Hominum, it would matter not a jot even if Darwin became the archbishop of Canterbury and then shagged the queen - the theory of evolution (in its current form) is the best description available for the origin of the species on this planet.
Get real loser! What? Are you trying to suggest that after the battle of Yavin everyone just went home and made cupcakes.
Well they didn't, after the medals were given out, they all went out and got pissed. In fact, rumour has it that your precious farm-boy Luke ended up with two slave girls and an ewok of unknown gender that night - and he didn't need Obi Wan Kenobi's help to find the exhaust ports that time.
So don't come all holy holy on poor Leia - just coz zhe drinksh a little.
Princess Leia: I'd rather kiss a Wookie.
Then why try to spend it all at once?
They won't be spending it all at once - but there needs to be the long term commitment to the spending - a commitment that far exceeds the horizon of this current crisis. This is the problem that congress faces. They could say, Ok, we'll give you $100b and see how you get on with that - which they could use to start the initial projects. However, with the state of the economy at the moment no external investor is going to row in with that and it will not have a positive effect on consumer confidence.
A large part of the problem at the moment is that banks are strangling the flow of credit to smaller companies because they cannot be sure of their long-term prospects. However, if a small company can point to a 5-year contract to make widgets for the government, then the banks will be a lot more free, and that money will then circulate to the suppliers of the widget makers etc etc etc.
If you only commit enough money for 1 year - then the risk is far higher.
I do agree with you that rushing things through Congress is a bad idea - however, it is like saying that you should be judicious about what you save when your house is on fire.
With less than 20% of any of it slated to go into effect in the first year the Obama "pass it or else" mantra is exposed as rhetoric.
Strange though it may sound, it is actually quite a difficult thing to spend $800b. When a stimulus package like this goes into effect, while the budget may be quickly allocated to specific projects, the actual draw down can only occur through vouched expenditure, and this can only occur as work is done. With this in mind, actually spending $160b (20%) is still quite an achievement.
However, the fact that the projects are started and have a guaranteed completion should provide more stimulus than the actual cash spend.
I don't know whether the spending is going to the right places, or that it will have the desired stimulus effect, but it's not correct to suggest that this is some kind of ruse just because it appears that the funding is not front-loaded.
Unfortunately, you do care about the split you just don't know it.
The main reason we don't have proper adherence to standards is that there's no pressure to conform. Microsoft etc can make up crappy standards for themselves that vaguely resemble the proper standards. Then anyone that develops to them pats them-self on the back for being "compliant", and nothing then safely works anywhere else. And then you get the "Linux is crappy, nothing works on it" nonsense.
With a 80/20 split, they just wouldn't get away with this.
We have more weapons on land, air, sea, even underwater than anyone else
...and you're still terrified.
How is arming yourselves even more going to solve the problem?
You have three potential threats:
1. Russia/China/etc: Have no interest in attacking the US, they have their own problems, they don't need yours.
2. Terrorism: The only successful counter to terrorism has been to make the underlying causes irrelevant.
3. Internal: Good luck with that...
On top of which there is a fourth real threat coming directly from the economic system that is collapsing around your ears and which is most certainly not going to be solved through wasting money on fantasy projects, isolationism, or "reds under beds" paranoia.
MS is in no danger of going out of business, or becoming unprofitable
As were a lot of companies this time last year.
I do.
However, as with fundamentalism in the US - taking for example stem cells, the suppression of the science on religious grounds, ultimately leads to an uncompetitive situation that can only be rectified by the adoption of the technology in direct contradiction of the belief.
At the time of Ottoman Empire, and the preceding Islamic growth, the Muslim world was far more advanced than the seriously fundamentalist and bellicose dark age Christian Europe.
The US is of course an exception to the rule.
http://www.bodhipaksa.com/images/Blog_Pew_Religiosity.gif
And what an exception!
The more a nation like Iran embraces technology and science, the more difficult it is to reconcile that with crazy religious ideas. People are asked to accept the advanced scientific learning provided by reason, while at the same time suspend that reason when thinking about their ideology.
That can only be a good thing - in the long term.
Iran has also been very much maligned externally - which they have done little to mitigate. But their actions provide little evidence of the truth of their sabre rattling - and to suggest that there is a reason to fear them is unfounded.
I was breastfed as a baby, so I hear that sound quite a bit.
1. Breastfeeding is more prevalent in more educated people, which is correlated to wealth - i.e. people with more money who can buy video games. Check to see if two cars or a bigger house is related to breastfeeding.
2. Even though I'm sure your the most popular guy on the planet, I doubt the sample you have tested is remotely significant. Clearly you need funding to take your research globally.
3. One of the key features of breastfeeding is that men can't do it. So they have more free time - especially as they're not getting any of the other kind of action.
Despite being privatised for nearly 10 years, Eircom still has an ethos that is basically semi-state.
They haven't the entrepreneurial balls to stand up for themselves which is why they have been a follower rather than a leader for their entire existence, even though the deck was always stacked in their favour (i.e. owning the infrastructure).
This is just another example of them rolling over for fear of making a stand. This will get interesting when the other ISPs get involved.
Does this mean Lloyd's leaving Corrie? What about Liz, he'll break her heart? And what about Steve, the feckless rogue? Mark my words he'll run Streetcars into the ground.
WTF
What was wrong with "Demolition Man"?
Besides the obvious.
If the user is provided with a list like: ....
Choose browser to install:
(1) Internet Explorer 8.9
(2) Firefox 3.6
(3) Opera 9.2
Which one will they choose? I would say most likely, 1, because it's from Microsoft (and it will be top of the list) - even if it is a piece of rubbish.
It would be far better if Microsoft provided a restricted simple browser that could be used to download other software - a sort of graphical version of lynx.
My brain shutdown at that point in the sentence in a state of orgiastic ecstasy.
Looking at the companies that are doing the layoffs, I wonder is the "massive economic crisis" really to blame - directly anyway.
There seems to be a strange rush about all this - did Microsoft's and Intel's and IBM's fortunes suddenly get so bad overnight that they had to lay all these people off - or has there been a steady decline and the "crisis" is being used as an opportunity to shed some pounds while blaming it on an outside source and shifting responsibility away from the real cause.
In Microsoft's case, I would suggest that this real cause is the appalling ROI on Vista as well as flagship products like Windows, and Internet Explorer continually losing ground to Linux and Firefox - or more importantly the concepts that these products represent.
broadband's back. Want I should fetch the shotgun?"