Plainly, evolution does happen. Plainly, Man is an animal. On the issue of whether the genus homo evolved or was created in a moment, all the evidence to date points to evolution. But the story does not stop there.
I do not believe that the wonderful complexity of this Universe just happened by chance. From the laws that govern the planets, to the complexity of the smallest living creature, I see design at work. Others don't. I believe that the creative impulse that leads to a new creature, or even to a new level of living things, comes from God, then evolution takes over. I may be wrong. I will respect any view that is argued, and not merely put as "something that Christians should believe", or "something that scientists should believe." When scientists get really deeply into the heart of what they are studying, they often see the hand of a God at work. It is the men and women in the street who see a contradiction. So there is room in my belief system for creation and evolution to coexist.
I do not believe that the issue should be one that politicians have to take a stand on, but I am in a country where it isn't even an election issue. I doubt whether the question whether I will be admitted at the Pearly Gates depends on my stance, either. According to Jesus, it will depend solely on how I have treated my fellow human beings. People who argue these points usually ignore the Gospels. One is lucky to get them to look beyond Revelation.
An auction is like a sale in that the contract is completed when the bid is accepted. The only difference with an eBay auction is that there is a time limit for bids, instead of stopping when there are no bids left.
At an auction, there may be a provision in the rules for the auction that no bidder may withdraw his/her bid. This is a standard condition for auctions of land in Australia. If there is no such provision, a bidder may withdraw a bid in the same way that a purchaser at a sale can.
As for authority in other countries, I am not aware how many eBay sales are big enough to go to Court over. This one plainly was, and monetary compensation would not satisfy the purchaser, so the Judge ordered the seller to carry out his contract. For general merchandise, the Court awards damages only, but a Whirraway aircraft is not the kind of thing that one can pick up anywhere.
"God does not exist. It is all 'hardwiring' in our genetic make-up. When we get the genetic tools, we can get rid of God." And'I suppose we can get rid of hunger and the need for foood as well (great for Third World countries.) We can get rid of sex drive (not acceptable in the U.S.)
"Glory to Man in the Highest, for Man is the Master of things." - A.C. Swinburne.
Or "Our genetic make-up requires God as much as it requires food and sex. We accept hunger, the sex drive, the need for affection and companionship and supply their needs appropriately. Why not do the same with our need for God?" If we get to the next life and find that there is no God, no Pearly Gates, that doesn't help us right now. Right now, we are starving ourselves if we ignore our need for God.
You can be proud of a different thing: Canada has a higher rating than the U.S. (or my country, Australia, the U.S.'s "Airstrip One") on privacy generally. We rate "systemic failure to uphold safeguards" while Canada rates "Significant protections and safeguards." http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2005 /phrtable.pdf
In Australia, prescription-only medicines must not be advertised to the general public.
A story was told about the anti-cholesterol drug Zocor. The company ran a big campaign, telling viewers to ask their doctor for Zocor. The doctor said "I normally prescribe the opposition product." Result: it was the opposition product whose sales went up. The company should have targeted the doctors, not the patients.
At common law, you could not be sued for leaving unless you had a contract (a) for a fixed term; or (b) to give a fixed amount of notice.
You can be sued for going to a competitor, but only for any damage to goodwill; not for competing.
You would need to find out what your own law provides regarding these things and length of notice. If you gave notice of the right length, you should not be able to be sued, and you are entitled to your full pay up until the date your notice ran out, plus entitlements. Here, I would go to the Department of Labor, who are there to protect you.
But I am not in America. Here, we don't (yet) sue somebody as a matter of course, every time the smallest thing happens. We still need a reason.
Why not just put up the price a modest amount and pay it to the RIAA? It would be a lot cheaper for them than suing people on the "You won't dare defend" basis.
But not with DNA. The police in Victoria can take your fingerprints if you are to be charged with a serious crime. In practice, they take fingerprints from everybody, whether the charge is serious or trivial, and whether or not the fingerprints will help them link you to the crime. They are required to destroy all original fingerprints, but they make sure that they have a copy first. How else does Interpol build up its database?
If you think that you can control our minimum wage, you are our "Big Brother" already. But don't trouble yourselves, our own unions are themselves keeping the minimum wage high enough that their bosses can't compete with cheap imports.
We haven't got a perfect government because we haven't got perfect citizens. Society needs to be organized because it can't be expected always to do "the right thing", and Governments are made up of the same kind of people.
It reminds me of the Microsoft employee who said that freedom of access to the Web would prevent 1984 from becoming a reality. The technology of the Web spawned XML, which can be easily adapted to drive telescreens, and Microsoft would be one of the first to tender to supply them. A family member told me about a country where surveillance cameras are routinely put in TV receivers to catch criminal activities (drug preparation, etc.) done while watching TV. One guy caught this way then had sex with his wife on the sofa. The Defence got the prosecution to play the entire video, and the affront to privacy resulted in an acquittal. Winston and Julia?
Yes, we have it, and it identifies the unwanted callers as "Unavailable" (those offshore) or "Private" (those who don't want you to ring them back as often as they ring you.)
I understood that in the U.S. a filter could be set to exclude those categories. Apparently not. Anyway, it can be dangerous. Some genuine callers use "Private" e.g. banks.
The worst problem is the robotic callers. When you answer, there is either 15 seconds of silence or musi while the idiot at the other end realizes that he has somebody on line. Surely there is a mechanical filter for this (besides the "wife").
And I throw out the broken ones. I agree with you that the slim ones are no good (but two will take the place of one in a standard CD rack.) And like you, I find that wallets are inconvenient.
I made exactly the same error in my dissertation (which I can no longer find.) A trademark is attached to specific goods, and doesn't have to be a new invention. Copyright belongs to the original owner, and lasts for the lifetime of the "inventor" and a fixed time thereafter. All copyrights more than 50 years old are now void (except I imagine, any right that living people such as Mr Loufrani have.)
If I patent something, nobody can use it without a licence from me. But a trademark merely distinguishes my goods from other people's. McDonald's have trademarked their logo for hamburgers, but that doesn't stop Hungry Jack's or even my Lions Club from selling hamburgers. It simply means that they can't be called McDonald's.
And trade marks apply only to a category of goods. If I want to sell nuts and bolts under the Big M logo (either Mcdonald's or the "BigM" flavoured milk logo here in Oz), it wouldn't cause any confusion with their product.
A trade mark doesn't have to be something newly invented. It used to have to be a "mangled" word not in common use in the language, but that seems to be no longer required. The name "Barrier Cream" was struck off because it merely described what the cream did, but that was years ago.
If I am right, both Loufrani and Wal-Mart are entitled to use the smiley, and so can you and I.
I said something similar a while back and lost my karma. Then the issue was whether a person is the inevitable product of a violent video game or whether there is something called choice in between.
Are these cells really "lesions"? That implies that they are bad. If my fingerprints are not standard, does that make me an inferior person? We are all unique. We are all genetically different. If my likes are not your likes, then frankly, I don't care what biological mechanism is responsible. But to say that because my likes are not your likes they are "lesions" to be eradicated, is one step closer to clones. "Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is your doxy" seems to be the order of the day. In truth, the infinite variety among human beings is what makes them interesting.
The OP says that the conventional captcha is already implemented. The Kittens link seems to be the way to go.
I run a genealogy site. Registrants must confirm by entering a code sent by e-mail. The stats showed that a spambot had made countless (well, 20+) tries to be registered. I wasn't notified - I think because the spambot didn't supply a password. The program had to be modified to deal with the SunTzu hacker.
My father was a dentist. The foot-operated drill he used during W.W.II was later given to a friend to polish gemstones. By modern standards, it would be considered "stone age." I thought that you were meaning such things.
Books from Roman times show that complicated operations were routine, but the scale of dentistry has its own particular challenges. Making a thick drill from flint may be easy, but to make a fine dental drill that won't break before the tooth could be a real challenge.
Originally, podcasts were limited to tunes. If that is what you are loking for, the advice of others is all that you need.
But podcasts aren't limited to music. Any MP3 file can become a podcast. I subscribe to the "genealogy guys" ( my interest is genealogy, but the American stuff, including this podcast, is of limited use to me here in Australia with British ancestors), and an Australian radio health report. There are lists on the Web. One resource site is http://www.podcast.net/
Do I hear Rousseau speaking? This isn't the Garden of Eden.
Being an Adult gives you the power to choose. To choose to watch violent movies. To choose to break the law. A guy wanted me to represent him for smoking cannabis. He wanted me to submit that the law was against human rights.
An emotional and moral adult can choose. Others can't. Terrorists are adults. They may have been brain-washed, but they are adults with the right to choose. But they don't have the POWER to choose, and that makes all the difference.
Responsible gaming is no problem. But addictive gaming leads to theft, company embezzlement and broken marriages. One child here died in an overheated car while its parent gambled. There is now a warning at each gaming venue not to do this. These people need to be protected from themselves.
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How they are acting doesn't matter. Just go elsewhere.
Plainly, evolution does happen. Plainly, Man is an animal. On the issue of whether the genus homo evolved or was created in a moment, all the evidence to date points to evolution. But the story does not stop there.
I do not believe that the wonderful complexity of this Universe just happened by chance. From the laws that govern the planets, to the complexity of the smallest living creature, I see design at work. Others don't. I believe that the creative impulse that leads to a new creature, or even to a new level of living things, comes from God, then evolution takes over. I may be wrong. I will respect any view that is argued, and not merely put as "something that Christians should believe", or "something that scientists should believe." When scientists get really deeply into the heart of what they are studying, they often see the hand of a God at work. It is the men and women in the street who see a contradiction. So there is room in my belief system for creation and evolution to coexist.
I do not believe that the issue should be one that politicians have to take a stand on, but I am in a country where it isn't even an election issue. I doubt whether the question whether I will be admitted at the Pearly Gates depends on my stance, either. According to Jesus, it will depend solely on how I have treated my fellow human beings. People who argue these points usually ignore the Gospels. One is lucky to get them to look beyond Revelation.
An auction is like a sale in that the contract is completed when the bid is accepted. The only difference with an eBay auction is that there is a time limit for bids, instead of stopping when there are no bids left.
At an auction, there may be a provision in the rules for the auction that no bidder may withdraw his/her bid. This is a standard condition for auctions of land in Australia. If there is no such provision, a bidder may withdraw a bid in the same way that a purchaser at a sale can.
As for authority in other countries, I am not aware how many eBay sales are big enough to go to Court over. This one plainly was, and monetary compensation would not satisfy the purchaser, so the Judge ordered the seller to carry out his contract. For general merchandise, the Court awards damages only, but a Whirraway aircraft is not the kind of thing that one can pick up anywhere.
Doug (Australian lawyer.)
"God does not exist. It is all 'hardwiring' in our genetic make-up. When we get the genetic tools, we can get rid of God." And'I suppose we can get rid of hunger and the need for foood as well (great for Third World countries.) We can get rid of sex drive (not acceptable in the U.S.)
"Glory to Man in the Highest, for Man is the Master of things." - A.C. Swinburne.
Or "Our genetic make-up requires God as much as it requires food and sex. We accept hunger, the sex drive, the need for affection and companionship and supply their needs appropriately. Why not do the same with our need for God?" If we get to the next life and find that there is no God, no Pearly Gates, that doesn't help us right now. Right now, we are starving ourselves if we ignore our need for God.
You can be proud of a different thing: Canada has a higher rating than the U.S. (or my country, Australia, the U.S.'s "Airstrip One") on privacy generally. We rate "systemic failure to uphold safeguards" while Canada rates "Significant protections and safeguards." http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2005 /phrtable.pdf
A story was told about the anti-cholesterol drug Zocor. The company ran a big campaign, telling viewers to ask their doctor for Zocor. The doctor said "I normally prescribe the opposition product." Result: it was the opposition product whose sales went up. The company should have targeted the doctors, not the patients.
You can be sued for going to a competitor, but only for any damage to goodwill; not for competing.
You would need to find out what your own law provides regarding these things and length of notice. If you gave notice of the right length, you should not be able to be sued, and you are entitled to your full pay up until the date your notice ran out, plus entitlements. Here, I would go to the Department of Labor, who are there to protect you.
But I am not in America. Here, we don't (yet) sue somebody as a matter of course, every time the smallest thing happens. We still need a reason.
Why not just put up the price a modest amount and pay it to the RIAA? It would be a lot cheaper for them than suing people on the "You won't dare defend" basis.
The article says that Qt4 can be used under Windows. Will that make it easier for Windows viruses to migrate to Linux in a double-boot system?
I went to a site a while back and saw a little graphic saying "Hello Doug. Guess how we know your name."
It was a link to amazon.com using my registered name there. Harmless enough, but still a potential security leak.
or even better - send a woman in to straighten him out.
is: sue the b--- for nuisance. Get an injunction. Or: get the Environment proection Authority in.
But not with DNA. The police in Victoria can take your fingerprints if you are to be charged with a serious crime. In practice, they take fingerprints from everybody, whether the charge is serious or trivial, and whether or not the fingerprints will help them link you to the crime. They are required to destroy all original fingerprints, but they make sure that they have a copy first. How else does Interpol build up its database?
If you think that you can control our minimum wage, you are our "Big Brother" already. But don't trouble yourselves, our own unions are themselves keeping the minimum wage high enough that their bosses can't compete with cheap imports.
It reminds me of the Microsoft employee who said that freedom of access to the Web would prevent 1984 from becoming a reality. The technology of the Web spawned XML, which can be easily adapted to drive telescreens, and Microsoft would be one of the first to tender to supply them. A family member told me about a country where surveillance cameras are routinely put in TV receivers to catch criminal activities (drug preparation, etc.) done while watching TV. One guy caught this way then had sex with his wife on the sofa. The Defence got the prosecution to play the entire video, and the affront to privacy resulted in an acquittal. Winston and Julia?
Yes, we have it, and it identifies the unwanted callers as "Unavailable" (those offshore) or "Private" (those who don't want you to ring them back as often as they ring you.)
I understood that in the U.S. a filter could be set to exclude those categories. Apparently not. Anyway, it can be dangerous. Some genuine callers use "Private" e.g. banks.
The worst problem is the robotic callers. When you answer, there is either 15 seconds of silence or musi while the idiot at the other end realizes that he has somebody on line. Surely there is a mechanical filter for this (besides the "wife").
Doug.
And I throw out the broken ones. I agree with you that the slim ones are no good (but two will take the place of one in a standard CD rack.) And like you, I find that wallets are inconvenient.
I made exactly the same error in my dissertation (which I can no longer find.) A trademark is attached to specific goods, and doesn't have to be a new invention. Copyright belongs to the original owner, and lasts for the lifetime of the "inventor" and a fixed time thereafter. All copyrights more than 50 years old are now void (except I imagine, any right that living people such as Mr Loufrani have.)
The link is on the Tentacle's page. The direct link is http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9117 .
If I patent something, nobody can use it without a licence from me. But a trademark merely distinguishes my goods from other people's. McDonald's have trademarked their logo for hamburgers, but that doesn't stop Hungry Jack's or even my Lions Club from selling hamburgers. It simply means that they can't be called McDonald's.
And trade marks apply only to a category of goods. If I want to sell nuts and bolts under the Big M logo (either Mcdonald's or the "BigM" flavoured milk logo here in Oz), it wouldn't cause any confusion with their product.
A trade mark doesn't have to be something newly invented. It used to have to be a "mangled" word not in common use in the language, but that seems to be no longer required. The name "Barrier Cream" was struck off because it merely described what the cream did, but that was years ago.
If I am right, both Loufrani and Wal-Mart are entitled to use the smiley, and so can you and I.
I said something similar a while back and lost my karma. Then the issue was whether a person is the inevitable product of a violent video game or whether there is something called choice in between.
Are these cells really "lesions"? That implies that they are bad. If my fingerprints are not standard, does that make me an inferior person? We are all unique. We are all genetically different. If my likes are not your likes, then frankly, I don't care what biological mechanism is responsible. But to say that because my likes are not your likes they are "lesions" to be eradicated, is one step closer to clones. "Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is your doxy" seems to be the order of the day. In truth, the infinite variety among human beings is what makes them interesting.
The OP says that the conventional captcha is already implemented. The Kittens link seems to be the way to go.
I run a genealogy site. Registrants must confirm by entering a code sent by e-mail. The stats showed that a spambot had made countless (well, 20+) tries to be registered. I wasn't notified - I think because the spambot didn't supply a password. The program had to be modified to deal with the SunTzu hacker.
Books from Roman times show that complicated operations were routine, but the scale of dentistry has its own particular challenges. Making a thick drill from flint may be easy, but to make a fine dental drill that won't break before the tooth could be a real challenge.
Originally, podcasts were limited to tunes. If that is what you are loking for, the advice of others is all that you need. But podcasts aren't limited to music. Any MP3 file can become a podcast. I subscribe to the "genealogy guys" ( my interest is genealogy, but the American stuff, including this podcast, is of limited use to me here in Australia with British ancestors), and an Australian radio health report. There are lists on the Web. One resource site is http://www.podcast.net/
Do I hear Rousseau speaking? This isn't the Garden of Eden.
Being an Adult gives you the power to choose. To choose to watch violent movies. To choose to break the law. A guy wanted me to represent him for smoking cannabis. He wanted me to submit that the law was against human rights.
An emotional and moral adult can choose. Others can't. Terrorists are adults. They may have been brain-washed, but they are adults with the right to choose. But they don't have the POWER to choose, and that makes all the difference.
Responsible gaming is no problem. But addictive gaming leads to theft, company embezzlement and broken marriages. One child here died in an overheated car while its parent gambled. There is now a warning at each gaming venue not to do this. These people need to be protected from themselves.