The Dutch oe sounds like the English oo, but not the German one (though the German u does). The German oe (ö) sounds like the Dutch eu, which doesn't really have an equivalent in English, AFAIK.
His chosen field of study, incidentally, is not biology.
I'm sure Dyson is great in his field, but lately, whenever he's been brought to my attention (usually in the context of GW or his views on religion, not physics or mathematics), he's been wrong far more often than he's been right.
Computer simulations have already done just that. It hasn't been done in a lab because we haven't had functional laboratories for three billion years yet. Incidentally, repeatability in the sense you're implying isn't a fundamental basis of science. If it were, cosmology wouldn't exist as a field, for one. Falsifiability, on the other hand, is, and evolution hasn't been falsified so far.
Ah, Pascal's wager. Worthless cop-out. When you have two theories, and one is extensively supported by empirical evidence, and the other "just has to be believed", why the hell would you give the other one more than a passing glance?
String theory does make some very interesting predictions, and the ones that can be tested at this point (most of them trivially) do agree with what's observed. The rest is beyond our technological capability to test at this point, but that's not the same as being fundamentally unfalsifiable. Until we do develop the technology to test it, the worst you could accuse string theory of is being unparsimonious.
"Who I do feel sad for are the people who live there, as many of them did NOT bring this upon themselves, however, it IS up to them to free this country of an evil tyranny."
And how do you propose they do that when the vast majority don't realise the problem is that bad, or that they *could* do something about it? That's the entire point of censorship: to keep people in the dark about the gravity of their situation. And in almost all of mainland China, it's working perfectly.
That's harder to phrase succintly, though, and overly broad bills have a tendency to come back to bite people in the ass later on. Dealing with obvious problem areas as they show up (preferably before they become problematic) is the best way to do this.
"you can't legislate intent - you can only legislate action."
Then why is there a difference between murder and manslaughter, and an extra level for premeditated murder? I agree that this case is ridiculous, and I have full confidence the courts will throw it out (hopefully along with the Act on Responsibility for Electronic Bulletin Boards), but that's just bullshit.
And then you'll have paid the Windows licensing fee even though you don't intend to use it. That's, what, an extra $100 on the laptop price? In theory, they'll refund that, but good luck getting them to actually do that. Of course, for a business, the license fee isn't a big deal, but if you're looking for a Ubuntu laptop, chances are you'll care about the principle of the thing.
There's a difference between "deserving" and "having a right to". Even if he'd said they have a right to it, though, the US Constitution isn't the only source of rights, despite what so many Republicans would have you believe nowadays.
Any AV worth its bits will scan downloaded files before they're opened, and any executables before they're run. It's both the lock and the rifle, and the stain remover that gets the blood out of your carpet, though sometimes you'll have to buy a new carpet. Stretchy analogy is streeeetchy.
What? It's not under WP's (or Google's) control if people who run their blogging software themselves don't remember to update often. All WordPress.com blogs are automatically updated to the latest version. This is about people who have a WordPress blog on their own webspace.
This doesn't have anything to do with the WordPress crew sucking at security, just their users.
I don't know enough about a lot of your points to comment much, but two stood out to me in particular.
Deficit spending went through the roof (the deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion).
This is part of why you consider him worse than Bush? The total deficit for Bush's first term was $648 billion. His second term isn't quite as bad, but it's still a lot worse than it ever was during Carter's years.
Nobody said religion has to confer a survival advantage to have a genetic origin.
One explanation is that, given the fact that humans are neotenous apes, they retained their propensity for not really questioning or examining the information their parents give them, because in children, that would be disadvantageous (if a parent tells you you can drown in water, it's often a bad idea to go in and experiment just to be sure, since the experiment is likely to kill you). From there, it's just a matter of a meme developing to take advantage of that.
It's not exactly a new idea, or even a particularly controversial one.
ComedyCentral's website now seems to be better about uploading new Daily Show and Colbert Report clips quickly, and they've recently started offering embedding and better clip linking capabilities.
So it's not like they're telling fans to just go fuck themselves entirely.
NYC is already covered in security cameras, though the situation isn't quite as bad as it is in London yet. Still, the idea that anyone could look at the situation in London and think that's a good model to base your own project on is frightening.
Facebook has been open to the general public for months, much to its old userbase's dismay. They introduced the no-network and the regional accounts last September somewhere, IIRC.
There are contact emails in the DNS info, but yes, Google also trolls pages for them. Both I and a friend of mine got emails about not allowing their spiders on one of our subdomains through robots.txt, even though only my email is listed as a contact email.
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The Dutch oe sounds like the English oo, but not the German one (though the German u does). The German oe (ö) sounds like the Dutch eu, which doesn't really have an equivalent in English, AFAIK.
Carlos Slim Helú went from $30 billion to $67.8 billion in a year?
That's pretty impressive.
His chosen field of study, incidentally, is not biology.
I'm sure Dyson is great in his field, but lately, whenever he's been brought to my attention (usually in the context of GW or his views on religion, not physics or mathematics), he's been wrong far more often than he's been right.
Computer simulations have already done just that. It hasn't been done in a lab because we haven't had functional laboratories for three billion years yet.
Incidentally, repeatability in the sense you're implying isn't a fundamental basis of science. If it were, cosmology wouldn't exist as a field, for one. Falsifiability, on the other hand, is, and evolution hasn't been falsified so far.
Ah, Pascal's wager. Worthless cop-out.
When you have two theories, and one is extensively supported by empirical evidence, and the other "just has to be believed", why the hell would you give the other one more than a passing glance?
String theory does make some very interesting predictions, and the ones that can be tested at this point (most of them trivially) do agree with what's observed. The rest is beyond our technological capability to test at this point, but that's not the same as being fundamentally unfalsifiable.
Until we do develop the technology to test it, the worst you could accuse string theory of is being unparsimonious.
"Who I do feel sad for are the people who live there, as many of them did NOT bring this upon themselves, however, it IS up to them to free this country of an evil tyranny."
And how do you propose they do that when the vast majority don't realise the problem is that bad, or that they *could* do something about it?
That's the entire point of censorship: to keep people in the dark about the gravity of their situation. And in almost all of mainland China, it's working perfectly.
That's harder to phrase succintly, though, and overly broad bills have a tendency to come back to bite people in the ass later on. Dealing with obvious problem areas as they show up (preferably before they become problematic) is the best way to do this.
"you can't legislate intent - you can only legislate action."
Then why is there a difference between murder and manslaughter, and an extra level for premeditated murder?
I agree that this case is ridiculous, and I have full confidence the courts will throw it out (hopefully along with the Act on Responsibility for Electronic Bulletin Boards), but that's just bullshit.
And then you'll have paid the Windows licensing fee even though you don't intend to use it. That's, what, an extra $100 on the laptop price? In theory, they'll refund that, but good luck getting them to actually do that.
Of course, for a business, the license fee isn't a big deal, but if you're looking for a Ubuntu laptop, chances are you'll care about the principle of the thing.
There's a difference between "deserving" and "having a right to".
Even if he'd said they have a right to it, though, the US Constitution isn't the only source of rights, despite what so many Republicans would have you believe nowadays.
You know Fallout was made some time after 1957, right? I'd guess the Tulsa vault inspired Fallout, and not the other way around.
Any AV worth its bits will scan downloaded files before they're opened, and any executables before they're run. It's both the lock and the rifle, and the stain remover that gets the blood out of your carpet, though sometimes you'll have to buy a new carpet.
Stretchy analogy is streeeetchy.
What? It's not under WP's (or Google's) control if people who run their blogging software themselves don't remember to update often. All WordPress.com blogs are automatically updated to the latest version. This is about people who have a WordPress blog on their own webspace.
This doesn't have anything to do with the WordPress crew sucking at security, just their users.
I wish people would stop confusing "hominid" with "human". Gorillas are hominids as well.
Nobody said religion has to confer a survival advantage to have a genetic origin.
One explanation is that, given the fact that humans are neotenous apes, they retained their propensity for not really questioning or examining the information their parents give them, because in children, that would be disadvantageous (if a parent tells you you can drown in water, it's often a bad idea to go in and experiment just to be sure, since the experiment is likely to kill you).
From there, it's just a matter of a meme developing to take advantage of that.
It's not exactly a new idea, or even a particularly controversial one.
ComedyCentral's website now seems to be better about uploading new Daily Show and Colbert Report clips quickly, and they've recently started offering embedding and better clip linking capabilities. So it's not like they're telling fans to just go fuck themselves entirely.
Viruses and spam? On a filesharing service? The devil you say!
NYC is already covered in security cameras, though the situation isn't quite as bad as it is in London yet. Still, the idea that anyone could look at the situation in London and think that's a good model to base your own project on is frightening.
Secure beneath the watchful eyes indeed.
Facebook has been open to the general public for months, much to its old userbase's dismay. They introduced the no-network and the regional accounts last September somewhere, IIRC.
There are contact emails in the DNS info, but yes, Google also trolls pages for them. Both I and a friend of mine got emails about not allowing their spiders on one of our subdomains through robots.txt, even though only my email is listed as a contact email.