Dorothy: "I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto!"
More seriously, Intelligent Design is a belief, not a theory, and doesn't belong in school. It scares the bejesus out of some folks, though.
It needs to be pointed out that even the Catholic Church accepts the theory of evolution, and also that ID does not conflict with evolution. Science and religion answer different questions.
There's a/. sig that reads (and my quote is probably not exact) "poop is a wone word argument against intelligent design". But actually as an engineering solution poop is elegant. Cows eat grass, which turns to poop, which fertilizes the grass. It is akin to making a car whose exhaust helps produce gasoline. The laws of thermodynamics make such a car impossible, of course, but God managed to do it with the cow.
Cows are tasty, too. The US's national religion worships a golden one.
Why would I need a license to engage in gainful employment?
I don't have a medical license, and have never seen you, but I think you might have a detached retina. I had a licensed surgeon perform a vitrectomy to repair my detached retina, but as you're so dead set against needing licenses for gainful employment you won't mind my doing the procedure on you? I work cheap!
Caution - an AC has informed me that the journal entry linked above may or may not be safe for work.
There was a news item about that a couple of days ago. I <:quote:>
Fed Announces New Lending Plan 8 July 2008 WASHINGTON - In an effort to prolong and worsen our economic woes, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the Fed will issue new rules next week aimed at ensuring they have a monopoly on shady lending practices. "People can't be trusted to spend their money poorly on their own," Bernanke said today at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "We want to spend it badly for them."
The sweeping plan would include strict new rules against private lenders giving money to people with "subprime credit," - people with a low likelihood of being able to pay back their loans. "Frankly, this is a market only the government should have access to," he said. "We plan on spending money we do not have to bail out companies on Wall Street who have squandered their own money already, and enable them to squander tax dollars as well."
After debriefing the press on what is to come, he congratulated Congress and the President for their accomplishment of sustaining a deep deficit and therefore increasing the effect of the Federal Reserve's lending practices. "Our tactics wouldn't be half as destructive to our nation without the cooperation of Congress, and for this they have my eternal gratitude." In a question and answer session with the press afterwards, one reporter pointedly criticized the Fed for not doing enough, prompting Bernanke to state that the Federal Reserve "still had tricks up it's sleeve," and that the current plan by no means exhausts the options at their disposal. "Interest rates are still at 3.5%, for instance, and that leaves a whole lot of room for future devasting cuts."
One of my Senators voted "yes", and one voted "no". I'm proud to have voted against Obama for Senator and the only thing that makes me not wish Durbin had run (A longtine friend of his who lives here in Springfield told me he had considered it last year) is that we would have lost a good Senator ("good" being relative, of course).
Of the two Corporate Party candidates, one voted "yes" and the other didn't vote at all. I urge everyone to vote Green, Libertarian, or Constitution Party this November.
As a cyborg with a CrystaLens implant in my left eye (see my sig for details) I know I consider it a success! After wearing "coke bottle glasses" since second grade, I now have better than 20/20 vision. Before the implant and after about age 40 I had contact lenses for distance and reading glasses for up close (I'm 56), now I don't wear any corrective lenses at all.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is not only futile, you will beg for assimilation!
As someone who is 11 years older than deGrey but looks 11 years younger, I think I can give you a few hints.
Take a good multivitamin daily. Drink moderately; in fact, do everything in moderation except perhaps tobacco; in fact, any addictive substance. You can't moderately imbibe in an addictive substance. Don't get into fights, run, or other high-impact exersize. Overdoing exersize itself is as bad as underdoing it; walk and swim. Get lots of sleep and drink lots of water. And don't take life too seriously; every time some bitch breaks my heart I get a little older.
There was a study of people aged 65 to 100, and the researchers were surprised by the fact that every single one of them who could walk a quarter mile (roughly half a kilometer) was still alive five years later.
People would be able to try different careers out and save up a lot of money for their retirement at the ripe old age of 900
You might want to rethink the 900 year old retirement age; you'll add signifigantly to the world's unemployment problems. Corporations would love it, high unemployment means low wages. I'm 56 and eligible to get a pension in three years, and damn but I wish I could afford to retire. I hate my alarm clock and the lack of freedom that a job requires.
People naturally tend to get set in their ways as they age. (I can see it happening with me and I'm not even 35 yet!)
I have friends your age who are older than me in a lot of ways. Back when I was posting at K5 people asked me "how can you rant like a teenager when you're the father of two teenagers?"
The older generation tends to view new technology with a suspicious eye while the younger generation embraces it.
That's from life experience, not a result of the aging process. For example, I'd rather use the money I'd need to buy a high-def TV and Blu-Ray on beer. And everyone's not like that, either. My 80 year old mother has a computer and cell phone, but my 77 year old dad doesn't. "I lived N years without X and I don't need it now", he says. His late former father in law said the same thing about indoor plumbing.
Right now, an aging "baby boom" generation might make laws to hold back progress because it offends their moral/religious views or because they just fear it.
I don't see where where you could have come up with that conclusion, what's your reasoning? I don't know any old people who don't want YOU to have new tech, they just don't want it themselves.
The thing is, it isn't the old that are causing the problems you mention, but the rich. It's just that proportionally there are more rich old men than rich young men; it takes a long time to steal enough money to get rich and powerful. The only young rich powerful men were born into wealth and/or influence; Bill Gates' mother was a lawyer for IBM and she was part of the reason Microsoft is what it is today. I laugh at Donald Trump's "how to get rich" seminars, he was born into wealth and influence and was handed a fortune at a young age. WTF could he possibly know about getting rich?
The difference between shaving and a radical mastectomy is that tits don't grow back. Beards and hooters are both secondary seual characteristics. A woman who doesn't like men with beards is like a man who doesn't like women with breasts.
No research that I know of, but when my grandmother was 95 she told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred. It ain't no fun bein' old!"
She died at age 99, outliving two husbands and three of her four children (my dad was the only one of her kids who outlived her).
When I worked at Disney World in the early 1980s, I had a conversation with a gentleman at Epcot's Chinese pavillion who had only arrived from China a month earlier. He had said something positive about President Reagan, and I set him straight about the doddering old fool that occupied the White House. I blasted his cuts of the Capital Gains Tax, which had unleashed an orgy of corporate takeovers and layoffs. The gentleman was horrified that I would dare say anything against the government, and looked around nervously as if expecting the FBI to appear from nowhere, slap me around and drag me away.
Certainly there are other countries (I can think of a few in the Middle East) with no freedom to speak.
But our own freedom to speak carries such heavy limitations that to think we are better than the Chinese is laughable. You can be arrested for "hate speech." If you badmouth the wrong corporation (and face it, the corporations are the government here, the politicians only being figureheads who do the corporations' bidding) you will be slapped down with a S.L.A.P.P. suit. You won't go to jail, but you will be financially ruined.
2600.org wasn't allowed to link to an algorithm (DeCSS). The courts have held that you have no freedom of speech when writing in a computer language.
Our freedom of speech is illusory.
Religion? Again there's China, and Cuba. However, I don't think that Christianity or Hinduism are illegal in Saudia Arabia.
On the other hand, children have been suspended and even expelled from school for evangelizing. They're being punished both for their speech and their religion.
As to freedom of assembly, that's been gone for quite some time. You want to "petition the government for a redress of grievances" by protesting en masse in front of the statehouse? You're going to go to jail for not having a permit- in short, you must have permission to petition the government by peaceful assembly. Having to ask permission doesn't seem too free to me.
the elephants are trying to get rid of the 4th Amendment, of course the jackasses are trying to get rid of the 1st.
They've all ten been dead for quite some time. Back in 2005 I wrote a K5 article titled Liberty? What liberty? outlining how they're all pretty much useless. Last year the cops searched my garage on Memorial Day without warant or permission looking for a drunken ex-girlfriend of mine, and a month later searched my car without warrant or permission looking for drugs because of where I parked it. I journaled it, I don't remember if the journal is SFW or not.
I agree that the only blogs that should be linked are slashdot journals (not mine, they're mostly NSFW) but there's the Firehose.
The only bias that is inherent in story submissions doesn't come from the/. editors but the fact that the firehose doesn't work in IE6.
In this particular story both the source and summary are pure unadulterated bullshit with no basis whatever in reality, but it gets evened out because there are usually lots of people saying "whoa" and posting links to something that actually has real content, or parody it.
Thank you for that; depending on how many states the Greens are on the ballot in, I'll vote for them or alternately Bob Barr, the fake Libertarian. From TFB:
Fairness Doctrine" that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting
What a load of horse shit. If the "liberals" said domething they had to counter it with a "conservative" stance. Apparently the submitter thinks it's OK to censor Dems but not Repubs. Actually it's the other three parties that are being censored; so much that I bet few of you even know who their candidates are.
And the conrporate media wants to keep it that way so the corporations only have two candidates to bribe.
The only thing the "liberals" want to be liberal with is my money, and the only thing the conservatives want to conserve is their own.
I'm a former beta tester for dirt. It's still full of bugs, nobody ever bothered to write a service pack. So we may not actually get a web 2.0 servoce pack.
The next think I was looking at is information about the author
Did they proofread the book or rely on a spill chucker two made surly tea spilled thins wright?
Amy Shuen concentrates on business models and teaches entrepreneurship, strategy, and venture finance on major business schools around the world. Amy is currently a Professor of Management Practice at the "China Europe International Business School"
This is the LAST person I would want to read a webmaster guide by.
provide you with a good feeling about the business case
I finally figured out the difference between web 1.1 and web 2.0. Web 1.1 was about content, web 2.0 is about filthy lucre.
This book is interesting for anybody involved in a Web 2.0 (or escaping Web 1.0;-) ) environment no matter if you are working in a big, small, or start-up company
There it goes again. As if the internet or the WWW is only about businesses and money. Dammit, Jim, I'm a nerd, not a businessman!
I thank you for the review; I see this is not the book for me. You may have saved me checking it out of the library.
I worked at Disney when they were building EPCOT. The Orlando Sentinal had a story about it at the time.
They also used us employees (I was in the sales division) to test their new rides. The runaway railroad ride (I don't remember its name, this was sometime in the early eighties) originally went at 60mph. It was a hellishly scary roller coaster, but before it was opened to the public one dumbass decided to stand up in the car and literally lost his head. IIRC it now only goes 20 mph.
The Haunted Mansion was closed for a while when I worked there when one idiot guest decided to get out of the car and have a close look at the hologram of the witch's head in the crystal ball, falling a long way down to his death.
I doubt if any of the construction deaths were due to such gross stupidity. But shit happens, as they say.
It's not that you might die, it's how many different horrible ways you could die.
The only non-horrible way to die is in your sleep. You think cancer is fun? Falling off a thirty story building? Falling into molten copper? Being buried alive in a trench?
Slashdot Mirror
Dorothy: "I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto!"
More seriously, Intelligent Design is a belief, not a theory, and doesn't belong in school. It scares the bejesus out of some folks, though.
It needs to be pointed out that even the Catholic Church accepts the theory of evolution, and also that ID does not conflict with evolution. Science and religion answer different questions.
There's a /. sig that reads (and my quote is probably not exact) "poop is a wone word argument against intelligent design". But actually as an engineering solution poop is elegant. Cows eat grass, which turns to poop, which fertilizes the grass. It is akin to making a car whose exhaust helps produce gasoline. The laws of thermodynamics make such a car impossible, of course, but God managed to do it with the cow.
Cows are tasty, too. The US's national religion worships a golden one.
Erm, I think we did. Slashdot: legal DDoS. Sorry, Ray!
Why would I need a license to engage in gainful employment?
I don't have a medical license, and have never seen you, but I think you might have a detached retina. I had a licensed surgeon perform a vitrectomy to repair my detached retina, but as you're so dead set against needing licenses for gainful employment you won't mind my doing the procedure on you? I work cheap!
Caution - an AC has informed me that the journal entry linked above may or may not be safe for work.
There was a news item about that a couple of days ago. I <:quote:>
They want to have their cake and eat mine, too.
Isn't Bee Pedantic Andy griffith's aunt? What, is it her birthday or something?
One of my Senators voted "yes", and one voted "no". I'm proud to have voted against Obama for Senator and the only thing that makes me not wish Durbin had run (A longtine friend of his who lives here in Springfield told me he had considered it last year) is that we would have lost a good Senator ("good" being relative, of course).
Of the two Corporate Party candidates, one voted "yes" and the other didn't vote at all. I urge everyone to vote Green, Libertarian, or Constitution Party this November.
As a cyborg with a CrystaLens implant in my left eye (see my sig for details) I know I consider it a success! After wearing "coke bottle glasses" since second grade, I now have better than 20/20 vision. Before the implant and after about age 40 I had contact lenses for distance and reading glasses for up close (I'm 56), now I don't wear any corrective lenses at all.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is not only futile, you will beg for assimilation!
As someone who is 11 years older than deGrey but looks 11 years younger, I think I can give you a few hints.
Take a good multivitamin daily. Drink moderately; in fact, do everything in moderation except perhaps tobacco; in fact, any addictive substance. You can't moderately imbibe in an addictive substance. Don't get into fights, run, or other high-impact exersize. Overdoing exersize itself is as bad as underdoing it; walk and swim. Get lots of sleep and drink lots of water. And don't take life too seriously; every time some bitch breaks my heart I get a little older.
There was a study of people aged 65 to 100, and the researchers were surprised by the fact that every single one of them who could walk a quarter mile (roughly half a kilometer) was still alive five years later.
People would be able to try different careers out and save up a lot of money for their retirement at the ripe old age of 900
You might want to rethink the 900 year old retirement age; you'll add signifigantly to the world's unemployment problems. Corporations would love it, high unemployment means low wages. I'm 56 and eligible to get a pension in three years, and damn but I wish I could afford to retire. I hate my alarm clock and the lack of freedom that a job requires.
People naturally tend to get set in their ways as they age. (I can see it happening with me and I'm not even 35 yet!)
I have friends your age who are older than me in a lot of ways. Back when I was posting at K5 people asked me "how can you rant like a teenager when you're the father of two teenagers?"
The older generation tends to view new technology with a suspicious eye while the younger generation embraces it.
That's from life experience, not a result of the aging process. For example, I'd rather use the money I'd need to buy a high-def TV and Blu-Ray on beer. And everyone's not like that, either. My 80 year old mother has a computer and cell phone, but my 77 year old dad doesn't. "I lived N years without X and I don't need it now", he says. His late former father in law said the same thing about indoor plumbing.
Right now, an aging "baby boom" generation might make laws to hold back progress because it offends their moral/religious views or because they just fear it.
I don't see where where you could have come up with that conclusion, what's your reasoning? I don't know any old people who don't want YOU to have new tech, they just don't want it themselves.
The thing is, it isn't the old that are causing the problems you mention, but the rich. It's just that proportionally there are more rich old men than rich young men; it takes a long time to steal enough money to get rich and powerful. The only young rich powerful men were born into wealth and/or influence; Bill Gates' mother was a lawyer for IBM and she was part of the reason Microsoft is what it is today. I laugh at Donald Trump's "how to get rich" seminars, he was born into wealth and influence and was handed a fortune at a young age. WTF could he possibly know about getting rich?
"Life? Don't talk to ME about life! Loathe it or hate it, you can't ignore it." -Marvin
Your mom told you to ask that, didn't she?
The difference between shaving and a radical mastectomy is that tits don't grow back. Beards and hooters are both secondary seual characteristics. A woman who doesn't like men with beards is like a man who doesn't like women with breasts.
No research that I know of, but when my grandmother was 95 she told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred. It ain't no fun bein' old!"
She died at age 99, outliving two husbands and three of her four children (my dad was the only one of her kids who outlived her).
When I worked at Disney World in the early 1980s, I had a conversation with a gentleman at Epcot's Chinese pavillion who had only arrived from China a month earlier. He had said something positive about President Reagan, and I set him straight about the doddering old fool that occupied the White House. I blasted his cuts of the Capital Gains Tax, which had unleashed an orgy of corporate takeovers and layoffs. The gentleman was horrified that I would dare say anything against the government, and looked around nervously as if expecting the FBI to appear from nowhere, slap me around and drag me away.
Certainly there are other countries (I can think of a few in the Middle East) with no freedom to speak.
But our own freedom to speak carries such heavy limitations that to think we are better than the Chinese is laughable. You can be arrested for "hate speech." If you badmouth the wrong corporation (and face it, the corporations are the government here, the politicians only being figureheads who do the corporations' bidding) you will be slapped down with a S.L.A.P.P. suit. You won't go to jail, but you will be financially ruined.
2600.org wasn't allowed to link to an algorithm (DeCSS). The courts have held that you have no freedom of speech when writing in a computer language.
Our freedom of speech is illusory.
Religion? Again there's China, and Cuba. However, I don't think that Christianity or Hinduism are illegal in Saudia Arabia.
On the other hand, children have been suspended and even expelled from school for evangelizing. They're being punished both for their speech and their religion.
As to freedom of assembly, that's been gone for quite some time. You want to "petition the government for a redress of grievances" by protesting en masse in front of the statehouse? You're going to go to jail for not having a permit- in short, you must have permission to petition the government by peaceful assembly. Having to ask permission doesn't seem too free to me.
The above was lifted from an old K5 post I wrote, Liberty? What liberty?
the elephants are trying to get rid of the 4th Amendment, of course the jackasses are trying to get rid of the 1st.
They've all ten been dead for quite some time. Back in 2005 I wrote a K5 article titled Liberty? What liberty? outlining how they're all pretty much useless. Last year the cops searched my garage on Memorial Day without warant or permission looking for a drunken ex-girlfriend of mine, and a month later searched my car without warrant or permission looking for drugs because of where I parked it. I journaled it, I don't remember if the journal is SFW or not.
I agree that the only blogs that should be linked are slashdot journals (not mine, they're mostly NSFW) but there's the Firehose.
The only bias that is inherent in story submissions doesn't come from the /. editors but the fact that the firehose doesn't work in IE6.
In this particular story both the source and summary are pure unadulterated bullshit with no basis whatever in reality, but it gets evened out because there are usually lots of people saying "whoa" and posting links to something that actually has real content, or parody it.
Thank you for that; depending on how many states the Greens are on the ballot in, I'll vote for them or alternately Bob Barr, the fake Libertarian. From TFB:
What a load of horse shit. If the "liberals" said domething they had to counter it with a "conservative" stance. Apparently the submitter thinks it's OK to censor Dems but not Repubs. Actually it's the other three parties that are being censored; so much that I bet few of you even know who their candidates are.
And the conrporate media wants to keep it that way so the corporations only have two candidates to bribe.
The only thing the "liberals" want to be liberal with is my money, and the only thing the conservatives want to conserve is their own.
I'm a former beta tester for dirt. It's still full of bugs, nobody ever bothered to write a service pack. So we may not actually get a web 2.0 servoce pack.
The next think I was looking at is information about the author
Did they proofread the book or rely on a spill chucker two made surly tea spilled thins wright?
Amy Shuen concentrates on business models and teaches entrepreneurship, strategy, and venture finance on major business schools around the world. Amy is currently a Professor of Management Practice at the "China Europe International Business School"
This is the LAST person I would want to read a webmaster guide by.
provide you with a good feeling about the business case
I finally figured out the difference between web 1.1 and web 2.0. Web 1.1 was about content, web 2.0 is about filthy lucre.
This book is interesting for anybody involved in a Web 2.0 (or escaping Web 1.0 ;-) ) environment no matter if you are working in a big, small, or start-up company
There it goes again. As if the internet or the WWW is only about businesses and money. Dammit, Jim, I'm a nerd, not a businessman!
I thank you for the review; I see this is not the book for me. You may have saved me checking it out of the library.
I worked at Disney when they were building EPCOT. The Orlando Sentinal had a story about it at the time.
They also used us employees (I was in the sales division) to test their new rides. The runaway railroad ride (I don't remember its name, this was sometime in the early eighties) originally went at 60mph. It was a hellishly scary roller coaster, but before it was opened to the public one dumbass decided to stand up in the car and literally lost his head. IIRC it now only goes 20 mph.
The Haunted Mansion was closed for a while when I worked there when one idiot guest decided to get out of the car and have a close look at the hologram of the witch's head in the crystal ball, falling a long way down to his death.
I doubt if any of the construction deaths were due to such gross stupidity. But shit happens, as they say.
No, I didn't. Thank you for the info.
Crap, I did it again. My apologies.
It's not that you might die, it's how many different horrible ways you could die.
The only non-horrible way to die is in your sleep. You think cancer is fun? Falling off a thirty story building? Falling into molten copper? Being buried alive in a trench?