Maybe empirical wasn't the right word to be used, I am talking about the parts of science that can be actively observed, measured, and calculated.
Chemical equations, observing mitosis under a microscope, titration to create a precipitate due to saturation of a solution, observing crystals and the calculations involved for ionic bonding. Even basic biology itself starting from plants and working to animals, determining dicotyledons from monocotyledons, the chemical process of photosynthesis, anaerobic reproduction, DNA, the conversion of ATP into ADP etc..
My point is there is so much in general science that can be studied, and can give a good foundation to students that there is no need to keep fueling the controversy by trying to stick evolution into the mix and it's really a subject that can wait until the children are no longer under the care of their parents and get to choose which school they go to for their secondary education.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but is this really so bad? In each field of science there is so much that can be covered, that evolution never need come up. Geology, chemistry and even biology has so much depth that can be covered empirically that theoretical science could be left out entirely from primary education, and the kids would never be at a loss. Evolution is a controversial subject and could be covered much more in depth and less interference at a university level, and with the massive amount of science material that can be covered in the primary system, I don't understand why administrators and educators keep feeling the need to fuel the controversy.
"Mommy, teacher says we came from fish." "Well honey, we don't believe that, tell me have they ever taught you about mitosis, or the golgi aparatus?" "No" "What about covalent bonds and valence electrons?" "No" Mendelian Tables?" "No" "So what class is this teacher teaching?" "Science"
While some brands of peanut butter have a small amount of trans fats (very small to make it negligible), it is one of the healthiest things you can eat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
He was one of 215 users that was affected, it's possible they didn't even know the cause. All you have if someone whining that they waited "too long". How long is too long? 15 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours a day, multiple days? The user's post on that forum is very subjective and some people are just plain impatient.
One of them being that there were professional telegraph operators that still worked for the railroads. As amateur radio took off CW (morse code) was what those amateurs used to communicate. It was initially an insult as the professional telegraph operators thought that the amateurs operated their code keys as if they were ham fisted. Ham fisted radio operator later became ham radio operator.
Such as a driver's license or permission to use an artists work. We weren't granted our independence by anyone, we claimed our independence, we fought for it, and we earned it.
I don't understand how this was moderated a troll. You are absolutely correct on every point. I wish my moderator points were active today, I'd at least try to get you back to 0.
If you look at the pictures that accompany TFA, it would see "collapse" like a shopping car isn't quite what they mean but rather configure to take up a smaller footprint. From the looks of it it appears the rear wheel assembly ride along tracks along the bottom of the passenger compartment. When you park the vehicle and put it into compact mode, the rear wheels probably lock, and the front wheels push back towards the rear wheels causing the passenger compartment to rotate and slide along the track until the front wheels are near touching the rear wheels. I would bet in operational mode, that even if hit from behind with enough force to release whatever locking mechanism they have for the rear bumper assembly that the rear of the vehicle would slide harmlessly under the passenger compartment absorbing most of the energy.
Anyway this is how it appears to me from the pictures. I am not an engineer nor physicist, but it seems to me that this might actually have potential for conventional vehicles as well. If the rear bumper and wheels were able to slide harmlessly under the passenger area it could actually save lives.
The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity.
This bomb was built to cause destruction, it might have been tested but calling it utilized is a fallacy and I for one am glad it has never been utilized.
Archer was the first recorded Federation captain of a ship named Enterprise (NX-01)
Capt April was the first captain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) followed by Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk and then Willard Decker. Spock was captain occasionally.
Then on the Enterprise B (NCC 1701-B) John Harriman, and later Demora Sulu who was the daughter of Sulu from the original series.
Enterprise C was captained by Rachel Garrett.
And the Enterprise D was captained by Picard, although Riker, and Edward Jellico captained the ship at least once during it's commission.
There was one other Enterprise, the USS Enterprise (XCV 330) but little is known about it and there is no record of who it's captain was.
Finally sound is still transmitted through the material of the spacecraft itself, so monitors attached to said spacecraft would still detect sound. An example of this would be Tonto putting his ear to the ground to determine how big the posse is.
Boy you are asking me to stick my neck out. Children are exposed to too much too early. Parents should be protecting the innocence of their children for as long as possible and teach them to respect other people. You don't even have to go back 100 years, when young children and even teenagers called adults by Mr. and Mrs., and if you told them to please get out of your yard, or to move along to keep them from loitering, they said yes sir or ma'am and got out of the yard and moved on instead of f*** you and thinking they could defy you because they think violence is the answer.
Now do I blame video games? Absolutely not. However, I do blame parents for letting their children being exposed to certain video games, movies and even music before they are old enough to understand the content of such materials. Since parents are not taking the responsibility upon themselves someone has to do it. In the past a lot of people looked out for the welfare of children, people in your neighborhood, in the schools even in the churches. That is all gone now, so since the job must still be done, government is all that's left. I don't like the idea of that role falling to the government, can't raise themselves and if we ever want to get back to where we were not only respected by the world but each other, something must be done.
Dude I have bounced at many different types of clubs, and you are a fool if you think the situations are even close. Bouncing is easy, the people you are bouncing are usually drunk and are very pliant even if they struggle you just let loose and they usually hit the ground all by themselves.
Also where is the number 6 coming from, I saw 4 cops in the video and a kid who wouldn't listen to a lawful order.
Personally, this kid got what he deserved. If his parents would have raised him properly to respect authority when he was little, maybe with even giving him the occasional spanking when he got out of line, he wouldn't be acting like a spoiled little 3 year old brat when he's 21.
Also above someone mentioned joint locks that is a method of restraining an individual, it is not a method of subduing them. The FL kid needed to be subdued.
Here's a perfect example of a misunderstanding about rights.
The first amendment guarantees freedom of expression. That freedom applies to all media. To override the First Amendment would take a lot of evidence.
Yes it guarantees freedom of expression, it does NOT however guarantee access what is being expressed. It also does NOT,. guarantee that everything that is expressed will be heard,seen or accessed. Under the law that was in place, the game companies were still able to write (express) anything they wanted to. The law just prohibited a segment of our population from accessing the game companies' chosen form of expression It was not a rights infringement case. It could possibly be construed as a censorship case, but even that does not fit what censorship is. Censorship is barring access to the entire population of certain forms of expression. This was simply prohibiting access to minors who in my opinion have no rights except to be fed, house, clothed and educated.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by the government. Not the music industry, not the comic book industry, not the internet, not tv, and not the film industry. The MPAA ratings are self-enforced. If someone under 17 isn't allowed into an R-rated movie without an adult it is because the movie industry is inforcing those rules, not the government.
Therefore, if the videogame industry were to be singled out as the only medium to have its ratings enforced by the government there would have to be a mountain of evidence suggesting that violent videogames were harmful to minors. No such mountain exists. As such, these laws are misguided at best and hollow attempts on the part of politicians to appear "pro-family" at worst.
As unpopular as this will make me, I must say that perhaps that is where the problem lies. Perhaps these laws need to be more inclusive to cover books and movies and other forms of media. Children cannot parent themselves. If parents aren't doing the job, and the larger family units aren't doing the job, and the community isn't doing the job, it has to fall somewhere and unfortunately that leaves only the government. So maybe the lawmakers in Oklahoma just need to go back and make the law more inclusive in order for it to pass muster.
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Maybe empirical wasn't the right word to be used, I am talking about the parts of science that can be actively observed, measured, and calculated.
Chemical equations, observing mitosis under a microscope, titration to create a precipitate due to saturation of a solution, observing crystals and the calculations involved for ionic bonding. Even basic biology itself starting from plants and working to animals, determining dicotyledons from monocotyledons, the chemical process of photosynthesis, anaerobic reproduction, DNA, the conversion of ATP into ADP etc..
My point is there is so much in general science that can be studied, and can give a good foundation to students that there is no need to keep fueling the controversy by trying to stick evolution into the mix and it's really a subject that can wait until the children are no longer under the care of their parents and get to choose which school they go to for their secondary education.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but is this really so bad? In each field of science there is so much that can be covered, that evolution never need come up. Geology, chemistry and even biology has so much depth that can be covered empirically that theoretical science could be left out entirely from primary education, and the kids would never be at a loss. Evolution is a controversial subject and could be covered much more in depth and less interference at a university level, and with the massive amount of science material that can be covered in the primary system, I don't understand why administrators and educators keep feeling the need to fuel the controversy.
"Mommy, teacher says we came from fish."
"Well honey, we don't believe that, tell me have they ever taught you about mitosis, or the golgi aparatus?"
"No"
"What about covalent bonds and valence electrons?"
"No"
Mendelian Tables?"
"No"
"So what class is this teacher teaching?"
"Science"
While some brands of peanut butter have a small amount of trans fats (very small to make it negligible), it is one of the healthiest things you can eat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
He was one of 215 users that was affected, it's possible they didn't even know the cause. All you have if someone whining that they waited "too long". How long is too long? 15 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours a day, multiple days? The user's post on that forum is very subjective and some people are just plain impatient.
an article came up about atomic clocks and perfect time and I said...
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got enough time to troll....
My apologies to Chicago.
One of them being that there were professional telegraph operators that still worked for the railroads. As amateur radio took off CW (morse code) was what those amateurs used to communicate. It was initially an insult as the professional telegraph operators thought that the amateurs operated their code keys as if they were ham fisted. Ham fisted radio operator later became ham radio operator.
No one truly knows where the term originated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio
73 (yes only 73, not 73s)
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Well would it?
Such as a driver's license or permission to use an artists work. We weren't granted our independence by anyone, we claimed our independence, we fought for it, and we earned it.
I don't understand how this was moderated a troll. You are absolutely correct on every point. I wish my moderator points were active today, I'd at least try to get you back to 0.
If you look at the pictures that accompany TFA, it would see "collapse" like a shopping car isn't quite what they mean but rather configure to take up a smaller footprint. From the looks of it it appears the rear wheel assembly ride along tracks along the bottom of the passenger compartment. When you park the vehicle and put it into compact mode, the rear wheels probably lock, and the front wheels push back towards the rear wheels causing the passenger compartment to rotate and slide along the track until the front wheels are near touching the rear wheels. I would bet in operational mode, that even if hit from behind with enough force to release whatever locking mechanism they have for the rear bumper assembly that the rear of the vehicle would slide harmlessly under the passenger compartment absorbing most of the energy.
Anyway this is how it appears to me from the pictures. I am not an engineer nor physicist, but it seems to me that this might actually have potential for conventional vehicles as well. If the rear bumper and wheels were able to slide harmlessly under the passenger area it could actually save lives.
Can you even put a slug and bug together?
The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity.
This bomb was built to cause destruction, it might have been tested but calling it utilized is a fallacy and I for one am glad it has never been utilized.
The Blackberry needs at least a driver to tether it in to use as a modem.
You are correct, I mis-stated. The NX-01 was a Starfleet vessel, not a Federation vessel.
If you go by Star Trek Canon,
Archer was the first recorded Federation captain of a ship named Enterprise (NX-01)
Capt April was the first captain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) followed by Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk and then Willard Decker. Spock was captain occasionally.
Then on the Enterprise B (NCC 1701-B) John Harriman, and later Demora Sulu who was the daughter of Sulu from the original series.
Enterprise C was captained by Rachel Garrett.
And the Enterprise D was captained by Picard, although Riker, and Edward Jellico captained the ship at least once during it's commission.
There was one other Enterprise, the USS Enterprise (XCV 330) but little is known about it and there is no record of who it's captain was.
Hows that for a geek trekker side.
MOBIDIC was one such project and was a part of Operation FRELOC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOBIDIC
I need to know in order to adhere to the third rule of acquisition.
FTFA: "The laptop is now called the XO, because if you turn the logo 90 degrees, it looks like a child."
90 degrees in which direction? If you turn it the other way it looks like a skull and crossbones.
Finally sound is still transmitted through the material of the spacecraft itself, so monitors attached to said spacecraft would still detect sound. An example of this would be Tonto putting his ear to the ground to determine how big the posse is.
I think it's like a "swirly" where someone sticks your head in a toilet while it's being flushed, except a "whurley" is where you do it to yourself.
What's next?
Boy you are asking me to stick my neck out. Children are exposed to too much too early. Parents should be protecting the innocence of their children for as long as possible and teach them to respect other people. You don't even have to go back 100 years, when young children and even teenagers called adults by Mr. and Mrs., and if you told them to please get out of your yard, or to move along to keep them from loitering, they said yes sir or ma'am and got out of the yard and moved on instead of f*** you and thinking they could defy you because they think violence is the answer.
Now do I blame video games? Absolutely not. However, I do blame parents for letting their children being exposed to certain video games, movies and even music before they are old enough to understand the content of such materials. Since parents are not taking the responsibility upon themselves someone has to do it. In the past a lot of people looked out for the welfare of children, people in your neighborhood, in the schools even in the churches. That is all gone now, so since the job must still be done, government is all that's left. I don't like the idea of that role falling to the government, can't raise themselves and if we ever want to get back to where we were not only respected by the world but each other, something must be done.
Dude I have bounced at many different types of clubs, and you are a fool if you think the situations are even close. Bouncing is easy, the people you are bouncing are usually drunk and are very pliant even if they struggle you just let loose and they usually hit the ground all by themselves.
Also where is the number 6 coming from, I saw 4 cops in the video and a kid who wouldn't listen to a lawful order.
Personally, this kid got what he deserved. If his parents would have raised him properly to respect authority when he was little, maybe with even giving him the occasional spanking when he got out of line, he wouldn't be acting like a spoiled little 3 year old brat when he's 21.
And that's a fact.
Also above someone mentioned joint locks that is a method of restraining an individual, it is not a method of subduing them. The FL kid needed to be subdued.
Here's a perfect example of a misunderstanding about rights.
The first amendment guarantees freedom of expression. That freedom applies to all media. To override the First Amendment would take a lot of evidence.
Yes it guarantees freedom of expression, it does NOT however guarantee access what is being expressed. It also does NOT,. guarantee that everything that is expressed will be heard,seen or accessed. Under the law that was in place, the game companies were still able to write (express) anything they wanted to. The law just prohibited a segment of our population from accessing the game companies' chosen form of expression It was not a rights infringement case. It could possibly be construed as a censorship case, but even that does not fit what censorship is. Censorship is barring access to the entire population of certain forms of expression. This was simply prohibiting access to minors who in my opinion have no rights except to be fed, house, clothed and educated.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by the government. Not the music industry, not the comic book industry, not the internet, not tv, and not the film industry. The MPAA ratings are self-enforced. If someone under 17 isn't allowed into an R-rated movie without an adult it is because the movie industry is inforcing those rules, not the government.
Therefore, if the videogame industry were to be singled out as the only medium to have its ratings enforced by the government there would have to be a mountain of evidence suggesting that violent videogames were harmful to minors. No such mountain exists. As such, these laws are misguided at best and hollow attempts on the part of politicians to appear "pro-family" at worst.
As unpopular as this will make me, I must say that perhaps that is where the problem lies. Perhaps these laws need to be more inclusive to cover books and movies and other forms of media. Children cannot parent themselves. If parents aren't doing the job, and the larger family units aren't doing the job, and the community isn't doing the job, it has to fall somewhere and unfortunately that leaves only the government. So maybe the lawmakers in Oklahoma just need to go back and make the law more inclusive in order for it to pass muster.