So what is the theory of ID? What predictions does it make which we can test? Which phenomena does it explain with more detail or more elegance than "competing" theories?
This is the problem with ID theory - there's no "there" there. It makes no predictions. It proposes no tests. It explains nothing. It is not a theory at all.
Okay great, so here is where faith kicks in. You can either take the atheist/agnostic point of view and claim that these truly are random events, or you can take the faith-based view and see these events as the mechanism by which God has created the world.
What does the second option tell us about the world that the first option does not? I don't see that it adds anything. It just places the mysterious part in a box labelled "Do Not Open" or "God" (same thing).
All science images are processed. All of them. Every. Single. One. Not just space images. All images. Not a single one goes without processing. You cannot read a CCD chip without performing image processing. Imaging without image processing produces just a human-unintelligible string of binary digits.
If your data are reliable, you can transform it in many ways, like stereographic projection. Before computers, scientists would produce rectified images by projecting them onto spheres, and then re-photographing the image projected onto the sphere from angles other than the one from which the image was taken. Today, a computer can do this projection job much more efficiently and accurately.
There is no slight of hand. There is no deception. The images processing was disclosed. The raw, unprojected and unenhanced images are available for download. You cited the descriptions of the image processing steps yourself. So what is the problem?
It's just like ad supported TV, isn't it? I mean, who would pay for a game, and then subscribe to it for a monthly fee, if the game is supported by ad revenue?
I suspected the article of half-truth when it referred to the USA PATRIOT Act as an "Anti-Terrorism Act".
Do you also suspect the Bush administration of saying half-truths when they refer to the USA Patriot act as an anti-terror act? They do it all the time. Even in this article, they did it.
The Justice Department said in a letter to lawmakers that as of March 30, federal investigators had not used the Patriot Act to obtain library or bookstore records but that the authority provides "an important tool for investigating and intercepting terrorism."
The Act's supporters are convinced that it is an anti-terror act, too, and sell it that way.
Supporters of the Patriot Act countered that the rules are potentially useful and argued that the House was voting to make libraries safe havens for terrorists.
"If there are terrorists in libraries studying how to fly planes, how to put together biological weapons, how to put together chemical weapons, nuclear weapons,... we have to have an avenue through the federal court system so that we can stop the attack before it occurs," said Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Florida.
If the USA Patriot Act is not a anti-terror act, as you claim, then what do you make of these statements by Justice Dept. and the Act's supporters? Are they lying? What's the story?
I wasn't intending to be insulting, and I realized from the context you weren't a native English speaker when I replied to your post. I was just making a little joke, mimicking the online dictionary. I am sorry I caused you offense. I honestly don't know what word you were thinking of.
It's not odd at all. Who actually believes Microsoft is for free market capitalism? If they could get the government to force everyone to buy Windows, I have no doubt that they would do it. Same thing goes for most big corporations. Hell, the insurance industry has already done it!
In China, they have just such a government. Seems completely in character for Microsoft to get in bed with them.
How likely are the RIAA to get these logs? Do the ISPs by law have to keep these logs?
They will when the RIAA-sponsored Internet Copyright Infringment Evidence Preservation Act is passed. Their standard M.O. after getting spanked in court is to go buy a law that has the effect of overturning the unfavorable ruling.
Europe's workers, with their 35 hour work week, are also veiwed as extremely lazy.
View that way by Americans. Europeans think we're work-a-holics.
How likely do you think it will be that when these abused immigrants hold a majority that they will vote to continue transferring their wealth to a bunch of infidels?
Very likely. Look at the last national election in the US. If they can sell that, they can sell anything. All they have to do is find a scapegoat, and they will be able to rally the population to any cause. So the Anti-Infidel Party will come to power mouthing platitudes about sticking it to the infidel elite, all the while looting the gullible population and continuing the wealth transfer to the same corporate oligarchy that funds their political campaigns. It's worked in the US, don't see why it wouldn't work in Europe.
Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
Because their corporate charter is a social contract, issued in the expectation of receiving some societal benefit, like employment for citizens.
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else.
Not in Europe. They actually retained some ideals from the Enlightenment, beyond their immediate usefulness in fomenting rebellion. You know, things like human rights come before other considerations, like profits.
Seems like every time I'm in Europe there is a major strike happening.
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So what is the theory of ID? What predictions does it make which we can test? Which phenomena does it explain with more detail or more elegance than "competing" theories?
This is the problem with ID theory - there's no "there" there. It makes no predictions. It proposes no tests. It explains nothing. It is not a theory at all.
Okay great, so here is where faith kicks in. You can either take the atheist/agnostic point of view and claim that these truly are random events, or you can take the faith-based view and see these events as the mechanism by which God has created the world.
What does the second option tell us about the world that the first option does not? I don't see that it adds anything. It just places the mysterious part in a box labelled "Do Not Open" or "God" (same thing).
I always heard it about Windows 3.1.
"Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run."
Never heard that 'saying' concerning DOS.
All science images are processed. All of them. Every. Single. One. Not just space images. All images. Not a single one goes without processing. You cannot read a CCD chip without performing image processing. Imaging without image processing produces just a human-unintelligible string of binary digits.
If your data are reliable, you can transform it in many ways, like stereographic projection. Before computers, scientists would produce rectified images by projecting them onto spheres, and then re-photographing the image projected onto the sphere from angles other than the one from which the image was taken. Today, a computer can do this projection job much more efficiently and accurately.
There is no slight of hand. There is no deception. The images processing was disclosed. The raw, unprojected and unenhanced images are available for download. You cited the descriptions of the image processing steps yourself. So what is the problem?
Wow! The word S . T . A . R . T appears, and changes colors when you refresh. This is amazing technology!
That was lame.
You have no right to privacy on other people's property.
Funny, I usually play games in the privacy of my home, rather than at the publisher's premises.
It's just like ad supported TV, isn't it? I mean, who would pay for a game, and then subscribe to it for a monthly fee, if the game is supported by ad revenue?
Not me.
Do you also suspect the Bush administration of saying half-truths when they refer to the USA Patriot act as an anti-terror act? They do it all the time. Even in this article, they did it.
The Act's supporters are convinced that it is an anti-terror act, too, and sell it that way.
If the USA Patriot Act is not a anti-terror act, as you claim, then what do you make of these statements by Justice Dept. and the Act's supporters? Are they lying? What's the story?
I was thinking about a word expressing something being "choked" as in restrained from a vital attribute of human social interaction.
:)
Aha! Now I get it. Some words you might have used instead could be "provincialism" or "parochialism" or even "insularity."
[b]"Corporate executives visit China and literally break into tears at the discipline and parochialism of the workforce."[/b]
In America, we call such people "red-necks."
"Ma va' a morì ammazzato, va'!"
;)
"But va' to it died killed, goes '!"
I wasn't intending to be insulting, and I realized from the context you weren't a native English speaker when I replied to your post. I was just making a little joke, mimicking the online dictionary. I am sorry I caused you offense. I honestly don't know what word you were thinking of.
It's not odd at all. Who actually believes Microsoft is for free market capitalism? If they could get the government to force everyone to buy Windows, I have no doubt that they would do it. Same thing goes for most big corporations. Hell, the insurance industry has already done it!
In China, they have just such a government. Seems completely in character for Microsoft to get in bed with them.
...discipline and chockedness of the workforce.
Hmmm... Not sure what quality "chockedness" is trying to refer to. But it's an interesting post.
Did you mean chocked ness?
Suggestions:
chocked ness chocked-ness hookedness Pickedness
wickedness Forkedness Childness chickens
chicness Chubbedness Shaggedness chicken's
chickens' cheekiness chickadees chickadee's
chickadees' nakedness Shockingness chasteness
doggedness markedness
Would you like to search the Web for chockedness?
Actually, I was just making a pun with the song title "Imagine."
I don't watch real ads, so why should I "Imagine" one?
Unfortunately, the ideologies that come out on top are the ones that get the opponents to make all the sacrifices, rather than the supporters.
I see no reason to upgrade.
See differently.
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How likely are the RIAA to get these logs? Do the ISPs by law have to keep these logs?
They will when the RIAA-sponsored Internet Copyright Infringment Evidence Preservation Act is passed. Their standard M.O. after getting spanked in court is to go buy a law that has the effect of overturning the unfavorable ruling.
So why is it different when IBM does it?
Because IBM is doing it in Europe, where trade unions haven't yet fallen into disrepute.
Would you like fries with that?
I'm not much for big companies but you can't beat the job security of an ethically mandated JOB FOR LIFE.
Correct. It can't be beat.
Europe's workers, with their 35 hour work week, are also veiwed as extremely lazy.
View that way by Americans. Europeans think we're work-a-holics.
How likely do you think it will be that when these abused immigrants hold a majority that they will vote to continue transferring their wealth to a bunch of infidels?
Very likely. Look at the last national election in the US. If they can sell that, they can sell anything. All they have to do is find a scapegoat, and they will be able to rally the population to any cause. So the Anti-Infidel Party will come to power mouthing platitudes about sticking it to the infidel elite, all the while looting the gullible population and continuing the wealth transfer to the same corporate oligarchy that funds their political campaigns. It's worked in the US, don't see why it wouldn't work in Europe.
The article is about IBM Europe.
Europe is not part of the US.
Do you want fries with that?
Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
Because their corporate charter is a social contract, issued in the expectation of receiving some societal benefit, like employment for citizens.
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else.
Not in Europe. They actually retained some ideals from the Enlightenment, beyond their immediate usefulness in fomenting rebellion. You know, things like human rights come before other considerations, like profits.
Seems like every time I'm in Europe there is a major strike happening.
Their workers are not as cowed as ours.
BARF!