For years practitioners used the Web and its language, HTML, as a free format and layout platform for forms and documents (often as paint for software applications).
Then along comes the W3C to proclaim to those practicing this craft: "HTML is not a format and layout language". They then proceed to break all the existing code that's out there in the name of that proclamation.
It may be coincidence that the W3C is filled with representatives of companies who make billions of dollars selling what are essentially formatting and layout platforms for forms and documents...
It may be coincidence, but it still makes your personal BS meter redline doesn't it?.
The theory of Evolution really should be broken into two parts.
1. the science of evolution: The theory that living organisms adapt to their current environment based on a process of natural selection occurring over generational boundaries...
This has been observed and is as close to being a "fact" as anything can be.
2. origin of life evolution: The belief that the science of evolution can be extrapolated back to non-biological matter, thereby explaining how life came to be. The last time I checked, it could not even prove that natural selection could be used to explain the emergence of new multi-celled organisms from existing species, let alone, the emergence of DNA from non-biological mater.
To be honest, it has been quite a few years for me, but I'm guessing if either of the problems with #2 had been experimentally supported, it would have made the main-stream press.
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Now for something completely different, but still on topic (if a little tongue in cheek).
As long as you treat ID as part of science and not as an attempt to discuss religion it actually might work (i think).
The two-slit experiment shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that an observer is required for the wave component of the universe to collapse into the physical atomic particles we (and our universe) are made of. This means an initial observer existed in wave form (pardon the pun) that is responsible for the current universe, from the smallest sub-atomic particles, to the biggest of bangs.
Also, this observer would have had to survive the collapse into physical particles or the universe would have simply reverted back to a wave function. It is even likely that an observer in the wave universe probably occurred many times but did not survive the collapse. The universe being here now proves (?) that the last observer made it.:-)
Of course, this theory has the same problem with origins that all other scientific theories have. The scientific method, being self-limited (sort of) to only observable physical phenomena, is required to produce an origin (a "cause") and can't... EVER.
Fortunately, religious faith has no such requirement beyond the ultimate and absolute origin. The great "I am", which is God.
Only a fellow geek could convince himself that street cred was something you could achieve with a soldering iron, a pair of headphones, and an ipod.:-)
Listen UP Mother Boards
You've been a cold Solder JOINT
cover your EARS, try not to HEAR
this is one you can't SKIRT
I got an iron with your NAME
An I'm not talkin 'bout your SHIRT
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re: "... purely a Pentagon press game. They have their own little war going on with China already."
How do we know your post isn't part of it?
Then along comes the W3C to proclaim to those practicing this craft: "HTML is not a format and layout language" . They then proceed to break all the existing code that's out there in the name of that proclamation.
It may be coincidence that the W3C is filled with representatives of companies who make billions of dollars selling what are essentially formatting and layout platforms for forms and documents...
It may be coincidence, but it still makes your personal BS meter redline doesn't it? .
The theory of Evolution really should be broken into two parts.
1. the science of evolution: The theory that living organisms adapt to their current environment based on a process of natural selection occurring over generational boundaries...
This has been observed and is as close to being a "fact" as anything can be.
2. origin of life evolution: The belief that the science of evolution can be extrapolated back to non-biological matter, thereby explaining how life came to be. The last time I checked, it could not even prove that natural selection could be used to explain the emergence of new multi-celled organisms from existing species, let alone, the emergence of DNA from non-biological mater.
To be honest, it has been quite a few years for me, but I'm guessing if either of the problems with #2 had been experimentally supported, it would have made the main-stream press.
. .
Now for something completely different, but still on topic (if a little tongue in cheek).
As long as you treat ID as part of science and not as an attempt to discuss religion it actually might work (i think).
The two-slit experiment shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that an observer is required for the wave component of the universe to collapse into the physical atomic particles we (and our universe) are made of. This means an initial observer existed in wave form (pardon the pun) that is responsible for the current universe, from the smallest sub-atomic particles, to the biggest of bangs.
Also, this observer would have had to survive the collapse into physical particles or the universe would have simply reverted back to a wave function. It is even likely that an observer in the wave universe probably occurred many times but did not survive the collapse. The universe being here now proves (?) that the last observer made it. :-)
Of course, this theory has the same problem with origins that all other scientific theories have. The scientific method, being self-limited (sort of) to only observable physical phenomena, is required to produce an origin (a "cause") and can't... EVER.
Fortunately, religious faith has no such requirement beyond the ultimate and absolute origin. The great "I am", which is God.
I'm no Microsofty. But this is playing the "OS warfare" card just a little too hard don't you think?
-cvst
Only a fellow geek could convince himself that street cred was something you could achieve with a soldering iron, a pair of headphones, and an ipod. :-)
Listen UP Mother Boards
You've been a cold Solder JOINT
cover your EARS, try not to HEAR
this is one you can't SKIRT
I got an iron with your NAME
An I'm not talkin 'bout your SHIRT