The flood control was horrible. Without warning, all over town property became worthless.
The city itself was shocked i think because it means a lot of lost revenue as a $3,000,000 plot of land is suddenly worthless when you are no longer allowed to build or repair anything on it.
Because there was no reporting of the changes ahead of time, there was no reality check.
Now the city will look stupid if they reverse the policy.
In the local city paper in texas, they have a 6", one column story about how someone in Kansas was killed. This person is not otherwise newsworthy.
1st... WHO CARES???? 2nd... This creates the impression that the world is a lot more dangerous place than it really is. 3rd... again.. who cares? This isn't a famous person- they have no ties to texas... there is no reason for it to be reported anywhere in texas.
It's like talking about how wild monkeys are attacking a village in india last year.
I want my local paper to have local news. Heck, tell me about the flood control changes they plan ahead of time (instead of afterwards)- tell me about something happening in other texas cities.
The national stories should be in a national section and should be significant- not random.
More to the point... why waste at least 500 million years on various dead ends instead of just going to man. We have solid evidence the earth was populated for at least a billion years... a billion years is a very long time. We have pretty solid evidence that humans have only been around for 1 million or less years. Modern humans with cities and agriculture for at most 10,000 years.
Why did god have to wait so long for humans to come around? If there was any kind of guidance at all, surely it would have happened sooner. The timer period is so long, it's almost like intelligence finally just happened randomly... oh wait.. hmmm.
That's an interesting point. At some point, he will be a senior jurist and the one others look to for opinions.
I also agree that I'm shocked over Scalia's comments. It reminds me of when I was on a jury and one lady repeatedly said "But they didn't PROVE the defendent was innocent!!!!" She finally backed down- but I don't think she ever understood that the prosecution really did have to prove the defendent guilt even after we explained it to her.
This is off topic, but I'd never date a lawyer unless I was one.
Closing on the half century, I've just heard too many ugly stories about how bad it can get when the relationship ends. I'd prefer someone safe, like a gang leader's sister.
A lot of america's problems with guns relate to illegal drugs just as we had problems with illegal booze. With billions of dollars at stake, it's a lot easier to shoot people. With the corruption of police and judicial systems, society in general is more violent too.
From what I got out of the article itself, they already know it is a sequence of at least two mutations. One occured at approximately 20,000 generations with no apparent effect. The rest occur at different random periods after he restarts from that population.
"Law" is old terminology and an artifact of the 1800's and before. It doesn't mean anything different than theory.
http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/theory_vs__hypothesis_vs__law "Back when Newton declared his laws, he believed them to be absolute descriptions of how the universe worked. At the time, they were irrefutable. We now know that his laws are in fact approximations, rules that work when describing motion on the macroscopic scale but which break at the quantum scale.
Since that time, science has gotten warier about describing anything as being absolute."
However-- the transition still isn't complete. It's a linguistic work in progress. The "Law" of gravity turned out to be valid only under special circumstances. It's invalid where space is warped or speed is high. It's refutable.
If they can refuse membership to kids, are they going to vet and refuse software that was written by gays, atheists, agnostics, women?
Because I think they are going to have a hard time finding software that meets those criteria.
I was a cub scout-- love them to death-- definately a patriotic/nationalistic type organization. The entire religion thing has gotten a bit out of hand from what it was like when I was a kid. But they can believe what they want as long as they don't try to use free government buildings to promote their now religious agenda. And I'd prefer that they not be hypocritical about using products from people they would exclude to save some money.
A lot of very successful, very rich people, put in 80 hour weeks.
Some because they love money, some because they just love their jobs, some because they have no life.
A lot of poor people have found a way to get money enough for their needs with relatively little work. They are cool being poor as long as something doesn't take a turn for the worse.
I agree tho- I work a nice 40-44 hour a week job (maybe two 50 hour weeks a year) and get good money- but I gave myself cancer going to school and working and getting as little as 0 hours sleep per 40 hours to get there.
I don't recall anywhere in the constitution or federalist papers where they considered the long term implications of the 2nd amendment with regard to technology. You saying we are "supposed" to is about the same as the judges interpreting something.
Legalities never work for constitutions. You can't make a fusion bomb really illegal because then they find something 99% a fusion bomb that isn't one. Laws can keep up but constitutions become very ugly very fast if they try that approach.
There was once a question from the Book of Questions and it was "Would you spend a year of perfect happiness where your every desire was met if all memories were erased after that year?" and I said, "Sure. I don't remember most of what happened before 2 years ago anyway."
Likewise my memory naturally conflates things and remembers the "gist" rather than the details. For some reason, this gives me savant type conclusions where I just "know" what the correct answer is often but have no idea why I know it. I usually have to extract data to support after the fact to convince the gearhead types the first few times. Of course, I can't create ideas like that unless I have a lot of subject matter loaded into my subconcious.
I feel like my personality rides on top of some unseen smarter personality.
But since no one else even bothered to write her poetry, it didn't come up. And speaking poetry usually comes across as goofy.
I did customize a couple songs to sing to her tho and she loved those.
Unfortunately that one ended after 10 remarkably wonderful years.
Poetry, cooking, etc. didn't matter that much when "the universe sent a rich man to take care of me" and some guy with a ranch, an F250, a million bucks in cash, all day to spend it on her (retired) and such fine prose as "We make good luvin don't we?" [sic] came along and met her through her business during the day.
I can remember snatches of things- this was true before there was even an internet. Now, I can use that snatch to remember the entire thing where as previously, I would have let it go.
I seem much more witty and clever online where I can open a secondary window and browse for lyrics or a poem or a thought than in day to day situations where I'm disconnected from my memory.
This is literally the "Whackamole" of modern business.
They just do not get it.
People do not have $10,000 to load up an IPOD with content.
People will spend to the level they can/feel is ethical and then take the rest.
If they can't get it off the internet, they'll do it face to face in sneaker nets. Or they'll encrypt/mangle the packets. Or things we havn't even imagined yet.
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The flood control was horrible. Without warning, all over town property became worthless.
The city itself was shocked i think because it means a lot of lost revenue as a $3,000,000 plot of land is suddenly worthless when you are no longer allowed to build or repair anything on it.
Because there was no reporting of the changes ahead of time, there was no reality check.
Now the city will look stupid if they reverse the policy.
Bravo...
I really laughed outloud at this for some reason.
One of these days! It'll happen!
In the local city paper in texas, they have a 6", one column story about how someone in Kansas was killed. This person is not otherwise newsworthy.
1st... WHO CARES????
2nd... This creates the impression that the world is a lot more dangerous place than it really is.
3rd... again.. who cares? This isn't a famous person- they have no ties to texas... there is no reason for it to be reported anywhere in texas.
It's like talking about how wild monkeys are attacking a village in india last year.
I want my local paper to have local news. Heck, tell me about the flood control changes they plan ahead of time (instead of afterwards)- tell me about something happening in other texas cities.
The national stories should be in a national section and should be significant- not random.
Really bugs me.
If you had a time machine, perhaps you might turn out to be "The Man"
.Behold the Man)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ideas_in_science_fiction
(See..
More to the point... why waste at least 500 million years on various dead ends instead of just going to man. We have solid evidence the earth was populated for at least a billion years... a billion years is a very long time. We have pretty solid evidence that humans have only been around for 1 million or less years. Modern humans with cities and agriculture for at most 10,000 years.
Why did god have to wait so long for humans to come around? If there was any kind of guidance at all, surely it would have happened sooner. The timer period is so long, it's almost like intelligence finally just happened randomly... oh wait.. hmmm.
That's an interesting point. At some point, he will be a senior jurist and the one others look to for opinions.
I also agree that I'm shocked over Scalia's comments. It reminds me of when I was on a jury and one lady repeatedly said "But they didn't PROVE the defendent was innocent!!!!" She finally backed down- but I don't think she ever understood that the prosecution really did have to prove the defendent guilt even after we explained it to her.
This is off topic, but I'd never date a lawyer unless I was one.
Closing on the half century, I've just heard too many ugly stories about how bad it can get when the relationship ends. I'd prefer someone safe, like a gang leader's sister.
Exactly.. as it says later,
"The chinese will say they cannot do something even when they can."
They are just being modest.
I've read that our "monkey tribe" size actually goes up to 150.
A lot of america's problems with guns relate to illegal drugs just as we had problems with illegal booze.
With billions of dollars at stake, it's a lot easier to shoot people.
With the corruption of police and judicial systems, society in general is more violent too.
You are so droll, some may not get your ironic humor.
Someone mod parent + funny!
From what I got out of the article itself, they already know it is a sequence of at least two mutations.
One occured at approximately 20,000 generations with no apparent effect. The rest occur at different random periods after he restarts from that population.
"Law" is old terminology and an artifact of the 1800's and before. It doesn't mean anything different than theory.
http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/theory_vs__hypothesis_vs__law
"Back when Newton declared his laws, he believed them to be absolute descriptions of how the universe worked. At the time, they were irrefutable. We now know that his laws are in fact approximations, rules that work when describing motion on the macroscopic scale but which break at the quantum scale.
Since that time, science has gotten warier about describing anything as being absolute."
However-- the transition still isn't complete. It's a linguistic work in progress. The "Law" of gravity turned out to be valid only under special circumstances. It's invalid where space is warped or speed is high. It's refutable.
Amazingly.. everyone who graduated from my computer science program got a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Can you imagine the odds of that? Who would have expected it!?!?
And I hear most of the people in Japan are Japanese!
And humans are most likely only found on earth!
And we use oil and coal for energy instead of atomic elements that don't exist or uncommon in nature!
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Life fits this universe because it arose in this universe.
A different universe would have different life or be sterile.
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By the way... I just flipped a coin 20 times and it came up h,h,h,t,t,h,t,h,h,t,t,t,t,h,t,h,h,t,t,t.
The odds of that EXACT sequence coming up is over 1 in a million!!! I should buy a lottery ticket now!
The estimated cost is $5 billion per bomb.
So Bill Gates could buy 6 and still have $10 billion left over.
If they can refuse membership to kids, are they going to vet and refuse software that was written by gays, atheists, agnostics, women?
Because I think they are going to have a hard time finding software that meets those criteria.
I was a cub scout-- love them to death-- definately a patriotic/nationalistic type organization. The entire religion thing has gotten a bit out of hand from what it was like when I was a kid. But they can believe what they want as long as they don't try to use free government buildings to promote their now religious agenda. And I'd prefer that they not be hypocritical about using products from people they would exclude to save some money.
A lot of very successful, very rich people, put in 80 hour weeks.
Some because they love money, some because they just love their jobs, some because they have no life.
A lot of poor people have found a way to get money enough for their needs with relatively little work. They are cool being poor as long as something doesn't take a turn for the worse.
I agree tho- I work a nice 40-44 hour a week job (maybe two 50 hour weeks a year) and get good money- but I gave myself cancer going to school and working and getting as little as 0 hours sleep per 40 hours to get there.
I don't recall anywhere in the constitution or federalist papers where they considered the long term implications of the 2nd amendment with regard to technology.
You saying we are "supposed" to is about the same as the judges interpreting something.
Legalities never work for constitutions. You can't make a fusion bomb really illegal because then they find something 99% a fusion bomb that isn't one. Laws can keep up but constitutions become very ugly very fast if they try that approach.
pushing down people that irritate them.
As pointed out, since you can lie easily, this is really just about control and dominance.
While I understand (and mostly agree with) your point...
I do not want my neighbors to have thermonuclear weapons under the 2nd amendment.
And if they can't, then the document is subject to interpretation in light of current technology for reasonableness.
Amazingly so.
I have the most fuzzy memory.
There was once a question from the Book of Questions and it was "Would you spend a year of perfect happiness where your every desire was met if all memories were erased after that year?" and I said, "Sure. I don't remember most of what happened before 2 years ago anyway."
Likewise my memory naturally conflates things and remembers the "gist" rather than the details. For some reason, this gives me savant type conclusions where I just "know" what the correct answer is often but have no idea why I know it. I usually have to extract data to support after the fact to convince the gearhead types the first few times. Of course, I can't create ideas like that unless I have a lot of subject matter loaded into my subconcious.
I feel like my personality rides on top of some unseen smarter personality.
Very little.
But since no one else even bothered to write her poetry, it didn't come up.
And speaking poetry usually comes across as goofy.
I did customize a couple songs to sing to her tho and she loved those.
Unfortunately that one ended after 10 remarkably wonderful years.
Poetry, cooking, etc. didn't matter that much when "the universe sent a rich man to take care of me" and some guy with a ranch, an F250, a million bucks in cash, all day to spend it on her (retired) and such fine prose as "We make good luvin don't we?" [sic] came along and met her through her business during the day.
Currently healing and moving on.
Such a thin line between sarcastic irony and being modded flamebait.
Ah well.. perhaps next time!
Not everyone has a bard like memory.
I can remember snatches of things- this was true before there was even an internet.
Now, I can use that snatch to remember the entire thing where as previously, I would have let it go.
I seem much more witty and clever online where I can open a secondary window and browse for lyrics or a poem or a thought than in day to day situations where I'm disconnected from my memory.
This is literally the "Whackamole" of modern business.
They just do not get it.
People do not have $10,000 to load up an IPOD with content.
People will spend to the level they can/feel is ethical and then take the rest.
If they can't get it off the internet, they'll do it face to face in sneaker nets.
Or they'll encrypt/mangle the packets.
Or things we havn't even imagined yet.