When I saw the headline I expected that the story would be about how once apple went down the path of suing their competitors they got sucked in and the whole thing began to snowball as it become a bigger and bigger part of what defines them.
I have a window fan in my front room. I run it at night to pull cool air in through my bedroom and apartment. I'd recommend Lasko Reversible 2155, and put it in a window far from your bedroom and put in in exhaust mode. Close all the windows except your bedroom window and you'll have a nice cool night breeze coming in your window without the noise of a fan next to your bed.
I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would need a server running Unix to operate a simple window fan. Am I missing something here?
Wrong. The various breeds of dogs have evolved from wolves, but not by natural selection. You might call it forced selection or unnatural selection, but it is undoubtedly evolution.
"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations." from wikipedia.
Watch the video. Bill doesn't mention the words creationism or intelligent design. What he says is that teaching kids that evolution is a lie is detrimental to our society. Watch the video.
Again, it's important to look at such accounts in context. Moses wrote down what he did for a specific reason, and in a specific context. The account in Genesis wasn't meant to be an all-encompassing scientific description of how life began. It's more like a Cliff's Notes version of "how we got to this point in the story".
Great! good for you. If you want to believe there is a god behind the scenes guiding evolution, I have no problem with that. It is totally your prerogative. That is not what I and Bill Nye are objecting to. There are so many people in the US that reject evolution and geology completely and insist that the world was created in 6 days about 7,000 years ago. Fine I don't care about that either. BUT I GET REALLY PISSED when they try and force the public schools to indoctrinate all children with their ignorant nonsense. I also GET really PISSED when these ignorant and dangerous fools elect nutjobs that believe that we have to support Israel at all costs because doing so will help usher in the second coming of the LORD. If you have other reasons for supporting Israel, I'll listen. But as far as I'm concerned anyone in government who directs foreign policy with the goal of bringing on the great battle of Armageddon is a traitorous villain who should be imprisoned.
I object to this sort of Christian fundamentalist lunacy the same way I object to violent jihad, or stonings for blasphemy, or blood sacrifice, or genital mutilation, or any of the other primitive and immoral remainders of ancient mythologies that infect our societies today.
The belief that the world is billions of years old and that biological diversity has grown gradually through a process of mutation and natural selection is in no way incompatible with the belief that God created the world or that He has guided the process. From Asa Gray- said by Darwin to be Darwin's best advocate- to the present day, hundreds of millions of people, including a good number of evolutionary biologists, have held both of these beliefs. Evolution is, however, inconsistent with an overly literal and naive reading of the first chapter of Genesis.
I really don't get this. Never have. If the biblical story of creation is false and you agree that it is simply a myth, WHY oh why do you cling to that last scrap of the story and still believe that a god created the world. What is your basis for this theory? If it's silly to believe a god created the world in 6 days, because the source of this story clearly contradicts things we know to be fact, then why create all sorts of work arounds just to hang onto that one bit. The account is clearly false, why credit the first verse and reject the rest.
All of this bickering is irrelevant. The test that the EPA uses to measure mileage does not include any 80mph or 70mph driving. In fact it is based on simulated driving and mostly stop-and-go conditions.
In fact the tests are done on a dynomometer so wind resistance isn't accounted for. I think it should be but the mileage standard the President is implementing will be based on the EPA test cycle, not you hauling ass down the freeway.
But pot use after age 18 doesn't have long-term affects on IQ, only for the time immediately after consuming the drug.
Actually the most significant effects were found among those who were persistent users regardless of what age they started with an average IQ decline of 6 points. Within that group of persistent users those who started before 18 had an average IQ decline of 8 points.
Why do so many fools cling to the myth of regulation fixing things? Here, I gave an example of a heavily regulated industry, the banking industry that just so happens to have all the characteristics which you allege come from "unregulated markets" such as collusion, squeezing of smaller players, oligopolies.
What you are missing is that from the late 1930s until the mid 1990's there were regulations that were designed to prevent these bad behaviors and for the most part they worked pretty well. Then we removed many those regulations and the bad behaviors started popping up right away, and eventually lead to the collapse of our economy. So just because the bank industry still has regulations, doesn't mean that it still has all of the important core regulations that it used to have.
... and isn't your country even more bankrupt than ours?
I suppose you aren't to be blamed for the fact that the media has blacked out stories about Iceland for several years now. So it isn't your fault that you don't know that Icelanders threw out their government and decided that the people didn't owe the bad bank debt. So the banks in Iceland went bankrupt not the Icelandic people. In fact they are emerging from the financial turmoil better than the rest of us. I believe they are also prosecuting some of the CEO's responsible for the debacle in Iceland.
I got the v1 v2 bit wrong. And the 911 is a direct descendant of the original beetle. But the F-1 contained the contributions of an army of skilled engineers who were rocket geeks and never Nazis.
Von Braun may have lead the effort, but it was done with the support of countless engineers and scientists, some that I know personally, that wanted nothing more than to fulfill Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon. They did it. For the most part these were men who launched their own rockets when they were boys, who hot rodded model A fords, who dreamed of exploring space. Sure some of the lead engineers were former Nazis but by then they were American citizens, immigrants like so many other Americans, and those were just a handful of the thousands that contributed. Perhaps you are so jaded that you can't see the wonder in the fact that actual people walked on the moon and came back, but I'm not. It is a wonder and a tremendous achievement. Would it have been better if we had squandered the knowledge of Von Braun because he was tained with his Nazi party membership? WW2 and the holocaust are one of our darkest chapters, I'm glad that one worthy achievement came out of it.
So you can just sit in your armchair and snipe at people who did something beautiful and worthwhile, but the world would be better if you went out and actually did something worthwhile like the engineers who put people on the moon.
Yes, we are all slaves to society. You have no right to your labor, only what the government lets you keep.
My employer keeps most of the value of my labor and distributes it to shareholders long before the government gets its cut. The healthcare industry also takes its cut before the government.
Before 2001 we were at peace, with the only event since 1991 (Desert Storm) being a few cruise missles lobbed into Serbia to bring them to heel.
Seriously!?!? I agree with you that were we ever at peace we would continue to arm ourselves (we're a bit pathological that way), but to suggest we were at peace in the 1990s is one of the stupidest things I have heard in a long time (and this is a presidential campaign year!).
During the 1990s the US:
Bombed Iraq and patrolled the no-fly zone continuously,
Lead the UN occupation of Somalia for two years,
Lead a Naval Blockade of Serbia and Montenegro for 2 years,
Patrolled a no fly zone over Bosnia for most of the decade (shooting down planes and bombing targets),
Blockaded Haiti and put Aristide back in power with troops on the ground,
Had troops on the ground in Rwanda in 1996 and 1997,
Bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan in 1998,
Bombed Afghanistan in 1998,
Bombed Iraq intensively for 4 days in 1998, and
Bombed the hell out of Serbia in 1999 including hitting the Chinese embassy.
You can make whatever justifications you want about any of the above military actions but to say we were at peace before 2001 is just plain wrong.
the Saturn V technology and was also NOT a NASA project, but another cabal of MIC contractors from the Saturn V project as well as now a few others. NASA hasn't done any significant launch vehicles on their own.
If your opinion mattered what you said would be a huge slap in the face of the THOUSANDS of American engineers and scientists who worked on the space program.
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When I saw the headline I expected that the story would be about how once apple went down the path of suing their competitors they got sucked in and the whole thing began to snowball as it become a bigger and bigger part of what defines them.
It's open source. Go for it.
I think we can safely conclude that Apple considers journalism that falls outside of the narrow range of MSNBCNNBBCBSFOX to be objectionable.
I have a window fan in my front room. I run it at night to pull cool air in through my bedroom and apartment. I'd recommend Lasko Reversible 2155, and put it in a window far from your bedroom and put in in exhaust mode. Close all the windows except your bedroom window and you'll have a nice cool night breeze coming in your window without the noise of a fan next to your bed.
I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would need a server running Unix to operate a simple window fan. Am I missing something here?
Dog breeds are not evolution
Wrong. The various breeds of dogs have evolved from wolves, but not by natural selection. You might call it forced selection or unnatural selection, but it is undoubtedly evolution.
"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations." from wikipedia.
Watch the video. Bill doesn't mention the words creationism or intelligent design. What he says is that teaching kids that evolution is a lie is detrimental to our society. Watch the video.
Again, it's important to look at such accounts in context. Moses wrote down what he did for a specific reason, and in a specific context. The account in Genesis wasn't meant to be an all-encompassing scientific description of how life began. It's more like a Cliff's Notes version of "how we got to this point in the story".
Great! good for you. If you want to believe there is a god behind the scenes guiding evolution, I have no problem with that. It is totally your prerogative. That is not what I and Bill Nye are objecting to. There are so many people in the US that reject evolution and geology completely and insist that the world was created in 6 days about 7,000 years ago. Fine I don't care about that either. BUT I GET REALLY PISSED when they try and force the public schools to indoctrinate all children with their ignorant nonsense. I also GET really PISSED when these ignorant and dangerous fools elect nutjobs that believe that we have to support Israel at all costs because doing so will help usher in the second coming of the LORD. If you have other reasons for supporting Israel, I'll listen. But as far as I'm concerned anyone in government who directs foreign policy with the goal of bringing on the great battle of Armageddon is a traitorous villain who should be imprisoned.
I object to this sort of Christian fundamentalist lunacy the same way I object to violent jihad, or stonings for blasphemy, or blood sacrifice, or genital mutilation, or any of the other primitive and immoral remainders of ancient mythologies that infect our societies today.
The belief that the world is billions of years old and that biological diversity has grown gradually through a process of mutation and natural selection is in no way incompatible with the belief that God created the world or that He has guided the process. From Asa Gray- said by Darwin to be Darwin's best advocate- to the present day, hundreds of millions of people, including a good number of evolutionary biologists, have held both of these beliefs. Evolution is, however, inconsistent with an overly literal and naive reading of the first chapter of Genesis.
I really don't get this. Never have. If the biblical story of creation is false and you agree that it is simply a myth, WHY oh why do you cling to that last scrap of the story and still believe that a god created the world. What is your basis for this theory? If it's silly to believe a god created the world in 6 days, because the source of this story clearly contradicts things we know to be fact, then why create all sorts of work arounds just to hang onto that one bit. The account is clearly false, why credit the first verse and reject the rest.
There's not a single car for sale that gets 54mpg on the highway.
Here is a link listing 15 from 2009. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/02/report-all-of-europes-15-most-fuel-efficient-cars-get-better-t/ All sold in Europe. So there may be some market impediment to good mileage in cars in the US, but it ain't physics.
All of this bickering is irrelevant. The test that the EPA uses to measure mileage does not include any 80mph or 70mph driving. In fact it is based on simulated driving and mostly stop-and-go conditions.
In fact the tests are done on a dynomometer so wind resistance isn't accounted for. I think it should be but the mileage standard the President is implementing will be based on the EPA test cycle, not you hauling ass down the freeway.
Pushing a vehicle at 80MPH down the highway is going to be hard to do and get 54.5 MPG.
The EPA test which is used to determine the official mileage of vehicles sold in the US does not include any driving at 80mph.
Additionally there are only a handful of places in the US where driving 80mph is legal.
The study showed that these same effects are absent when used by adults.
Actually no it didn't. The effects among the most persistent users was present even among those who started after 18.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22213-teenage-cannabis-use-leads-to-cognitive-decline.html
But pot use after age 18 doesn't have long-term affects on IQ, only for the time immediately after consuming the drug.
Actually the most significant effects were found among those who were persistent users regardless of what age they started with an average IQ decline of 6 points. Within that group of persistent users those who started before 18 had an average IQ decline of 8 points.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22213-teenage-cannabis-use-leads-to-cognitive-decline.html
BTW New Scientist consistently does a better job reporting science issues than the mainstream media like the BBC article linked above.
Why do so many fools cling to the myth of regulation fixing things? Here, I gave an example of a heavily regulated industry, the banking industry that just so happens to have all the characteristics which you allege come from "unregulated markets" such as collusion, squeezing of smaller players, oligopolies.
What you are missing is that from the late 1930s until the mid 1990's there were regulations that were designed to prevent these bad behaviors and for the most part they worked pretty well. Then we removed many those regulations and the bad behaviors started popping up right away, and eventually lead to the collapse of our economy. So just because the bank industry still has regulations, doesn't mean that it still has all of the important core regulations that it used to have.
They are not suing Amazon for the fire, or Google for the Nexus line....
Yet.
I was on a jury in a civil case. We had 30 questions to answer. It took us 4 days. That's 24 hours.
700 question in 22 hours, that's less than 2 minutes per question. Were there really 700 questions or did the judge whittle that down a bit?
... and isn't your country even more bankrupt than ours?
I suppose you aren't to be blamed for the fact that the media has blacked out stories about Iceland for several years now. So it isn't your fault that you don't know that Icelanders threw out their government and decided that the people didn't owe the bad bank debt. So the banks in Iceland went bankrupt not the Icelandic people. In fact they are emerging from the financial turmoil better than the rest of us. I believe they are also prosecuting some of the CEO's responsible for the debacle in Iceland.
Maybe you aren't considering that Iceland is about the size of Arizona...
I got the v1 v2 bit wrong. And the 911 is a direct descendant of the original beetle. But the F-1 contained the contributions of an army of skilled engineers who were rocket geeks and never Nazis.
Von Braun may have lead the effort, but it was done with the support of countless engineers and scientists, some that I know personally, that wanted nothing more than to fulfill Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon. They did it. For the most part these were men who launched their own rockets when they were boys, who hot rodded model A fords, who dreamed of exploring space. Sure some of the lead engineers were former Nazis but by then they were American citizens, immigrants like so many other Americans, and those were just a handful of the thousands that contributed. Perhaps you are so jaded that you can't see the wonder in the fact that actual people walked on the moon and came back, but I'm not. It is a wonder and a tremendous achievement. Would it have been better if we had squandered the knowledge of Von Braun because he was tained with his Nazi party membership? WW2 and the holocaust are one of our darkest chapters, I'm glad that one worthy achievement came out of it. So you can just sit in your armchair and snipe at people who did something beautiful and worthwhile, but the world would be better if you went out and actually did something worthwhile like the engineers who put people on the moon.
Yes, we are all slaves to society. You have no right to your labor, only what the government lets you keep.
My employer keeps most of the value of my labor and distributes it to shareholders long before the government gets its cut. The healthcare industry also takes its cut before the government.
Before 2001 we were at peace, with the only event since 1991 (Desert Storm) being a few cruise missles lobbed into Serbia to bring them to heel.
Seriously!?!? I agree with you that were we ever at peace we would continue to arm ourselves (we're a bit pathological that way), but to suggest we were at peace in the 1990s is one of the stupidest things I have heard in a long time (and this is a presidential campaign year!).
During the 1990s the US:
Bombed Iraq and patrolled the no-fly zone continuously,
Lead the UN occupation of Somalia for two years,
Lead a Naval Blockade of Serbia and Montenegro for 2 years,
Patrolled a no fly zone over Bosnia for most of the decade (shooting down planes and bombing targets),
Blockaded Haiti and put Aristide back in power with troops on the ground,
Had troops on the ground in Rwanda in 1996 and 1997,
Bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan in 1998,
Bombed Afghanistan in 1998,
Bombed Iraq intensively for 4 days in 1998, and
Bombed the hell out of Serbia in 1999 including hitting the Chinese embassy.
You can make whatever justifications you want about any of the above military actions but to say we were at peace before 2001 is just plain wrong.
even when we are at complete peace.
We have never been at "complete peace." Certainly not since WW2. To state otherwise is to betray your completely inadequate history education. Sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
The F-1 engine is about as close to the V1 as a 1985 Porsche 911 is to a 1951 VW beetle.
the Saturn V technology and was also NOT a NASA project, but another cabal of MIC contractors from the Saturn V project as well as now a few others. NASA hasn't done any significant launch vehicles on their own.
If your opinion mattered what you said would be a huge slap in the face of the THOUSANDS of American engineers and scientists who worked on the space program.