Irony being that his promises were a load of shit, and everyone except Ferdinand and Isabella were smart enough to know that his math sucked.
Everyone else in Europe knew just how far around the earth is. Columbus though he was smarter than them, that it was half that. They told him to go kill himself on someone else's dime.
Any intelligent person of the time knew there would be no profit from such an expedition--that there was, was the sheer dumb luck of stumbling onto an extra continent.
Your point is disingenous--a Mars mission has a better likelihood of return on investment than Columbus's mission, based on what we already know. Why? Because the technological problems of space travel yield major dividends--materials science research, engineering problems, so on and so forth. Life support systems and medical science advances needed to just keep astronauts alive that long are hugely beneficial, and not the kind of thing the Earth based medical establishment will research on their own.
The moon missions provided a huge dividend of secondary technological advances that were far more valuable than the cost of developing them.
Most $40-50 dollar games give me significantly less enjoyment than a good scifi novel. A good novel might take me 10-40 hours to read. Most $40-50 dollar games cease to be interesting in less than ten hours, making then ten times worse value in terms of entertainment hours per dollar. Only MMOs make sense in the entertainment hours per dollar--even if you just play an hour a day they're damn cheap.
Obviously games vary a lot in this. Morrowind and the later Oblivion absorbed, minimum, a combined 1000 hours from my life over several years (and possibly as much as double that). Damn good values, damn good games, and I was damn willing to pay. World of Warcraft similarly has probably consumed around 2,000 hours of my life over the last four years.
But for every Counter-Strike, there's been Fable I-II, Spore, Black&White 1&2(Molyneux games have especially burned me, and I will not pay for them on principle anymore), Force Unleashed (ten hours play time and it was a glorified coaster.). These are just the ones I can think of recently. Too Human, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space (I was so excited that a survival horror game was being made, and so disappointed with the results), Every 3D Sonic Game, Every racing game made post-SNES...........the list goes on, and on and vastly outnumbers those games that were worthy of their price tag.
Most games are not good, and are not worth $40-50, no matter how shiny the graphics. You could run Spore on the fastest supercomputer ever built, past present or future, by any civilization in the galaxy and it would still be a pretty boring game. No matter how much the texture artists got paid.
If you didn't vote for a candidate you actually wanted that is your own fault, not the candidates.. The reason the candidates people actually want don't win is because people don't vote for them.
I find the principle of political parties disgusting and cowardly.
If you vote for the party, you deserve to get raped by your representative.
He was elected as Arlen Specter, and he's the same Arlen Specter he was last week. If you voted for him solely because of the R next to his name, you don't deserve a vote at all.
Not all molecules are chiral. Simple molecules which form the raw materials for life forms are not themselves chiral because they are symmetrical (O2, H20, NH3, CO2, etc; chirality is only possible for asymmetric forms molecules). The simplest solution the problem you describe is to introduce simpler lifeforms from earth--bacteria or archaea to start producing organic molecules of the correct chirality from the raw material precursors.
You need to work on your prose; that sentence was a bitch to parse (it wasn't grammatically incorrect, but the simplistic sentence structure and abuse of pronouns made my head hurt).
Rewording:
What 'handedness' is earth?
I have no idea, but I'm not sure it matters. The method still works even if Earth is perfectly neutral--if the presumption is true then any planet that deviates significantly from the average must have life; although, those planets might not be typical of ones with life.
You only find it interesting because you don't realize that 'liberal' or 'conservative' platforms are incoherent and contradictory. I would find it much more noteworthy if an are actually followed the bizarre nonsensical orthodoxy of either party to the letter.
Reread the part I quoted. He was implying that washing out the inside of the knee isn't
homeopathy or some other treatment that couldn't possibly work.
, when in reality there is about as much science behind it as homeopathy in general.
In other words, he was making an ideological slam against subscribers to homeopathy whilst being guilty of the same intellectual bankruptcy by claiming that the washing out of the inside of the knee as cure for osteoarthritis wasn't like homeopathy (i.e. has no science behind it).
This is why I opt for, not tin-foil, but fine copper mesh sewn into my normal hats. Think 40 gauge copper wire used as thread, woven together. Short of taking my hats apart (since the mesh is in between the outer and inner portions of the normal hat) they'll never find it.
We're not talking about homeopathy or some other treatment that couldn't possibly work. These are plausible treatments that at one time seemed promising, but the evidence didn't back them up. If you think that some of them work, maybe you're just misinformed. It doesn't mean you're an ideological zealot.
Bleeding was a plausible treatment that at one time seemed promising based on the theory of the four humors.
Faith healing is a plausible treatment based on the theory of direct divine action in human affairs.
Arthroscopic knee surgery is a plausible treatment based on the theory based on the idea that washing the inside of your knee will reduce inflammation.
You know what we consider "some other treatment that couldn't possibly work"?
Treatments that have no explained mechanism of action.
Faith healing has a better explained mechanism of action than the knee surgery discussed in the article.
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There needs to be a -1 Head in the Sand mod if you're part of the slashdot audience and haven't heard about this.
Irony being that his promises were a load of shit, and everyone except Ferdinand and Isabella were smart enough to know that his math sucked.
Everyone else in Europe knew just how far around the earth is. Columbus though he was smarter than them, that it was half that. They told him to go kill himself on someone else's dime.
Any intelligent person of the time knew there would be no profit from such an expedition--that there was, was the sheer dumb luck of stumbling onto an extra continent.
Your point is disingenous--a Mars mission has a better likelihood of return on investment than Columbus's mission, based on what we already know. Why? Because the technological problems of space travel yield major dividends--materials science research, engineering problems, so on and so forth. Life support systems and medical science advances needed to just keep astronauts alive that long are hugely beneficial, and not the kind of thing the Earth based medical establishment will research on their own.
The moon missions provided a huge dividend of secondary technological advances that were far more valuable than the cost of developing them.
Most $40-50 dollar games give me significantly less enjoyment than a good scifi novel. A good novel might take me 10-40 hours to read. Most $40-50 dollar games cease to be interesting in less than ten hours, making then ten times worse value in terms of entertainment hours per dollar. Only MMOs make sense in the entertainment hours per dollar--even if you just play an hour a day they're damn cheap.
Obviously games vary a lot in this. Morrowind and the later Oblivion absorbed, minimum, a combined 1000 hours from my life over several years (and possibly as much as double that). Damn good values, damn good games, and I was damn willing to pay. World of Warcraft similarly has probably consumed around 2,000 hours of my life over the last four years.
But for every Counter-Strike, there's been Fable I-II, Spore, Black&White 1&2(Molyneux games have especially burned me, and I will not pay for them on principle anymore), Force Unleashed (ten hours play time and it was a glorified coaster.). These are just the ones I can think of recently. Too Human, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space (I was so excited that a survival horror game was being made, and so disappointed with the results), Every 3D Sonic Game, Every racing game made post-SNES...... .....the list goes on, and on and vastly outnumbers those games that were worthy of their price tag.
Most games are not good, and are not worth $40-50, no matter how shiny the graphics. You could run Spore on the fastest supercomputer ever built, past present or future, by any civilization in the galaxy and it would still be a pretty boring game. No matter how much the texture artists got paid.
You've never heard of cruise control on a 500 mile trip have you?
Mod parent insightful, if offtopic from GP.
Every frat guy I know smokes pot, so it must be legal.
That something should be legal, and that it is commonplace, does not make it so.
It was the first movie I remember seeing period, forget the movie theater.
If you didn't vote for a candidate you actually wanted that is your own fault, not the candidates.. The reason the candidates people actually want don't win is because people don't vote for them.
I find the principle of political parties disgusting and cowardly.
If you vote for the party, you deserve to get raped by your representative.
He was elected as Arlen Specter, and he's the same Arlen Specter he was last week. If you voted for him solely because of the R next to his name, you don't deserve a vote at all.
Permanent minority? Are you really that dense?
I'd accept minority that will outlast him, but it certainly won't be permanent--nothing ever is.
What's your asking price?
The problem is that they make my life more difficult too.
I suggest Sealand, but I hear that their immigration policies are rather strict.
We've known it since the 1770s.
Not all molecules are chiral. Simple molecules which form the raw materials for life forms are not themselves chiral because they are symmetrical (O2, H20, NH3, CO2, etc; chirality is only possible for asymmetric forms molecules). The simplest solution the problem you describe is to introduce simpler lifeforms from earth--bacteria or archaea to start producing organic molecules of the correct chirality from the raw material precursors.
I have no idea, but I'm not sure it matters. The method still works even if Earth is perfectly neutral--if the presumption is true then any planet that deviates significantly from the average must have life; although, those planets might not be typical of ones with life.
You only find it interesting because you don't realize that 'liberal' or 'conservative' platforms are incoherent and contradictory. I would find it much more noteworthy if an are actually followed the bizarre nonsensical orthodoxy of either party to the letter.
Pfft, we've been doing that to recognized diplomats since the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega#Capture
Two thumbs down cause that's all I got.
Bullshit. There are no ads on google news (that I can see anyway, even after disabling NoScript). Just links to news websites.
Don't tell the MAFIAA.
Reread the part I quoted. He was implying that washing out the inside of the knee isn't
homeopathy or some other treatment that couldn't possibly work.
, when in reality there is about as much science behind it as homeopathy in general.
In other words, he was making an ideological slam against subscribers to homeopathy whilst being guilty of the same intellectual bankruptcy by claiming that the washing out of the inside of the knee as cure for osteoarthritis wasn't like homeopathy (i.e. has no science behind it).
This is why I opt for, not tin-foil, but fine copper mesh sewn into my normal hats. Think 40 gauge copper wire used as thread, woven together. Short of taking my hats apart (since the mesh is in between the outer and inner portions of the normal hat) they'll never find it.
The rest of the world looks at the story and says 'meh, nothing of interest here yet as there are no actual facts, its probably nothing'
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH........ ....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
The rest of the world looks at the story and says 'where's the celebrity panty shot?' and loses interest.
You sir, have far too high an opinion of what makes it onto the nightly news.
We're not talking about homeopathy or some other treatment that couldn't possibly work. These are plausible treatments that at one time seemed promising, but the evidence didn't back them up. If you think that some of them work, maybe you're just misinformed. It doesn't mean you're an ideological zealot.
Bleeding was a plausible treatment that at one time seemed promising based on the theory of the four humors.
Faith healing is a plausible treatment based on the theory of direct divine action in human affairs.
Arthroscopic knee surgery is a plausible treatment based on the theory based on the idea that washing the inside of your knee will reduce inflammation.
You know what we consider "some other treatment that couldn't possibly work"?
Treatments that have no explained mechanism of action.
Faith healing has a better explained mechanism of action than the knee surgery discussed in the article.