If someone thinks that "god" is talking directly to them, then we need to find them a nice little padded room so they can do no harm to themselves nor to others.
At least it sounds better than "the little voices in my head."
So would you consider Chihuahuas and Great Danes one and the same species? Hint: They're mechanically incompatible. That's one of the problems we have with today's definition of Species. On one hand it is not appropriate to call all dogs part of the same species, on the other hand some species that have been called separate for a long time seem to be the same species in fact, like wolves and coyotes.
And what's the search space got to do with it? The number of dimensions does not change the speed of evolution, only the number of possible paths. The more dimensions you have, the more possibilities evolution has to explore and the quicker a random walk will move away from its origin. Ever wonder why evolution has mathematical rules behind it?
it's absurd to argue that her daughter getting pregnant saying anything about the effectiveness of that education program.
Yes it does. It's been shown again and again that preaching abstinence has exactly zero effect (would you have listened to it when you were a teenager? I sure wouldn't.) So, she was hit by the effect of what she preaches.
Bottom line: Some percentage of kids will have sex early, and abstinence education doesn't change it one bit. Now take away education about condoms and the pill, and you say "Sorry kids, you're on your own. If you get pregnant or catch a STD, it's your own damn fault." That's a deeply immoral stance to take.
Ha! Time magazine is pretty much the same as the Daily KOS.
Yes! Go to Faux News if you want the facts without the spin. We don't need to be brainwashed by liberal left wing media citing facts and appealing to reason.
Palin is also a right wing extremist - well to the right of GWB. I think this has something to do with it. Elect McCain, and if he dies, you'll have it way worse than it is today. That's the basic reasoning. I'm not excited about Biden either, but God help us if Palin becomes president.
Does it make a nonsense "theory" more palatable if certain people believed in it? This is not elitist, this is about basic facts. Evolution is a fact that can be proven in nature and in the lab all the time. Just because it usually takes a long time doesn't make it nonexistent. And that a 2000 year old book says otherwise doesn't either. The Bible is wrong, live with it.
Don't forget that cheating messes up the picture. This isn't an either-or, there's a whole spectrum of behaviors. 10 or so percent of DNA paternity tests come out negative. Clearly humans follow a very mixed strategy.
every tab and plugin will run as a separate process
Ooh, I've been asking for this in FF for a long time. I'll have to check it out. With all the Java applets from Gustav forecasts, I must have had 10 FF crashes yesterday.
I don't, but if I did, I'd be very clear that I'd rather be getting them on the pill or buying them condoms than learning that they're pregnant or causing a pregnancy. Which means that having sex is a decision they'd have to make on their own, but I'd make it clear that they'd have my support.
7. Hans' car is intelligent like Herbie, but in a fit of jealous rage his car kills Hans' wife. To protect his friend, a car, from dissection, he tries to cover up the murder and ends up getting caught.
Yeah Baen has really done it right. And their free program lead directly to me making purchases from them. In fact the only digital book purchases I have ever made.
Amen. I've discovered a few books that I bought in dead tree form to read on the beach. Browsing and ordering from Amazon is a nice complement to browsing at B&N.
one of the foremost is to instill in girls the self-esteem that can help in postponing sexual activity.
Why? Are you of the persuasion that "sex is bad"? If yes, ur doin it wrong. A girl (or boy) past puberty is sexually mature, and not having sex at that age is unnatural. It's just some weird religious "morals" that make sex bad. Like horrible (abstinence based) sex ed, horrible parental guidance, lack of information due to a prudish society, etc. As usual, the US are a couple of centuries behind the times, and other more enlightened societies are way past that stage (or have never gotten there in the first place.)
Germany bans certain subjects (and to avoid invoking Godwin's law, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader)
Germany doesn't ban subjects. It bans the display of Nazi symbols like the Swastika for political purposes. They are perfectly OK to use in e.g. historical discussions. And the Third Reich is discussed in depth in high school History.
PTB produces the official time standard for Germany, like NIST in the US. You bet they have better internal timebases than power lines given the number of Cesium clocks they have standing around. The 50 Hz power frequency in most of Europe is derived from them (via DCF77.) Which also means that long term, 50 Hz mains is an excellent frequency standard. Many clocks run directly off of it. Short term variations can be pretty big though. Sounds like the 60 Hz in the US isn't as well controlled.
Everybody is guilty of *something*. Now they have a way to find out. Yay! Now all we need is a secret division of the FBI. Let's call it Gestapo. They should be able to protect us from those Jews, err, terrists. Middle Eastern types, anyway.
OpenDNS has drawbacks too. They redirect Google.com and all non-existent domains to their own crappy search engine.
Which causes my VPN (Nortel) not to work. DNS lookups to Intranet domains only work if they fail properly on the primary network adapter so they are tried on the virtual adapter. With OpenDNS all Intranet names are resolved to the same (OpenDNS I assume) IP address unless I change the DNS server ordering manually each time I connect.
>The government has no business legislating morality. But it does anyway.
Agree with your points. The question is, to what degree are unusual lifestyles acceptable to society. My answer would be, as long as they aren't a significant burden to society and they aren't breaking any laws. Which goes back to the point above.
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If someone thinks that "god" is talking directly to them, then we need to find them a nice little padded room so they can do no harm to themselves nor to others.
At least it sounds better than "the little voices in my head."
So would you consider Chihuahuas and Great Danes one and the same species? Hint: They're mechanically incompatible. That's one of the problems we have with today's definition of Species. On one hand it is not appropriate to call all dogs part of the same species, on the other hand some species that have been called separate for a long time seem to be the same species in fact, like wolves and coyotes.
And what's the search space got to do with it? The number of dimensions does not change the speed of evolution, only the number of possible paths. The more dimensions you have, the more possibilities evolution has to explore and the quicker a random walk will move away from its origin.
Ever wonder why evolution has mathematical rules behind it?
Generations of farmers and herders around the world had observed it for millenia.
Yup, they created new species by pushing evolution through selection.
Shooting animals from low-flying planes?
Hey, she doesn't advocate nuking them from orbit, does she? Give the animals a fighting chance.
it's absurd to argue that her daughter getting pregnant saying anything about the effectiveness of that education program.
Yes it does. It's been shown again and again that preaching abstinence has exactly zero effect (would you have listened to it when you were a teenager? I sure wouldn't.)
So, she was hit by the effect of what she preaches.
Bottom line: Some percentage of kids will have sex early, and abstinence education doesn't change it one bit. Now take away education about condoms and the pill, and you say "Sorry kids, you're on your own. If you get pregnant or catch a STD, it's your own damn fault."
That's a deeply immoral stance to take.
Ha! Time magazine is pretty much the same as the Daily KOS.
Yes! Go to Faux News if you want the facts without the spin. We don't need to be brainwashed by liberal left wing media citing facts and appealing to reason.
Palin is also a right wing extremist - well to the right of GWB. I think this has something to do with it. Elect McCain, and if he dies, you'll have it way worse than it is today. That's the basic reasoning.
I'm not excited about Biden either, but God help us if Palin becomes president.
Does it make a nonsense "theory" more palatable if certain people believed in it?
This is not elitist, this is about basic facts. Evolution is a fact that can be proven in nature and in the lab all the time. Just because it usually takes a long time doesn't make it nonexistent. And that a 2000 year old book says otherwise doesn't either. The Bible is wrong, live with it.
Free iTunes for ruining your health? What a great deal.
Don't forget that cheating messes up the picture. This isn't an either-or, there's a whole spectrum of behaviors.
10 or so percent of DNA paternity tests come out negative. Clearly humans follow a very mixed strategy.
That name for the new JS engine is just nasty and politically incorrect.
Can you please rename it to Garden Patch, or at least to I4?
every tab and plugin will run as a separate process
Ooh, I've been asking for this in FF for a long time. I'll have to check it out. With all the Java applets from Gustav forecasts, I must have had 10 FF crashes yesterday.
I don't, but if I did, I'd be very clear that I'd rather be getting them on the pill or buying them condoms than learning that they're pregnant or causing a pregnancy. Which means that having sex is a decision they'd have to make on their own, but I'd make it clear that they'd have my support.
7. Hans' car is intelligent like Herbie, but in a fit of jealous rage his car kills Hans' wife. To protect his friend, a car, from dissection, he tries to cover up the murder and ends up getting caught.
Of course! And the car's name is Christine (book here).
Yeah Baen has really done it right. And their free program lead directly to me making purchases from them. In fact the only digital book purchases I have ever made.
Amen. I've discovered a few books that I bought in dead tree form to read on the beach. Browsing and ordering from Amazon is a nice complement to browsing at B&N.
See for example http://www.baen.com/library/ and http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/.
But sex at 14 isn't the wisest course of action either
Care to elaborate why, if it's done with the right amount of education about pregnancy, STDs, and with contraception?
one of the foremost is to instill in girls the self-esteem that can help in postponing sexual activity.
Why? Are you of the persuasion that "sex is bad"?
If yes, ur doin it wrong.
A girl (or boy) past puberty is sexually mature, and not having sex at that age is unnatural. It's just some weird religious "morals" that make sex bad. Like horrible (abstinence based) sex ed, horrible parental guidance, lack of information due to a prudish society, etc. As usual, the US are a couple of centuries behind the times, and other more enlightened societies are way past that stage (or have never gotten there in the first place.)
Germany bans certain subjects (and to avoid invoking Godwin's law, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader)
Germany doesn't ban subjects. It bans the display of Nazi symbols like the Swastika for political purposes. They are perfectly OK to use in e.g. historical discussions. And the Third Reich is discussed in depth in high school History.
PTB produces the official time standard for Germany, like NIST in the US. You bet they have better internal timebases than power lines given the number of Cesium clocks they have standing around.
The 50 Hz power frequency in most of Europe is derived from them (via DCF77.) Which also means that long term, 50 Hz mains is an excellent frequency standard. Many clocks run directly off of it. Short term variations can be pretty big though. Sounds like the 60 Hz in the US isn't as well controlled.
So we'll need to inject all girls with one of those too. Problem solved.
Everybody is guilty of *something*. Now they have a way to find out. Yay!
Now all we need is a secret division of the FBI. Let's call it Gestapo. They should be able to protect us from those Jews, err, terrists. Middle Eastern types, anyway.
OpenDNS has drawbacks too. They redirect Google.com and all non-existent domains to their own crappy search engine.
Which causes my VPN (Nortel) not to work. DNS lookups to Intranet domains only work if they fail properly on the primary network adapter so they are tried on the virtual adapter. With OpenDNS all Intranet names are resolved to the same (OpenDNS I assume) IP address unless I change the DNS server ordering manually each time I connect.
Well I guess that answers my question.
I was wondering whether I should try showing this article to my wife.
I guess I'd better not.
No!!! We need you!
Make sure you have an ambulance stand by.
>The government has no business legislating morality.
But it does anyway.
Agree with your points. The question is, to what degree are unusual lifestyles acceptable to society. My answer would be, as long as they aren't a significant burden to society and they aren't breaking any laws. Which goes back to the point above.