Maybe he should have home schooled. He might have gotten a better education. And with the "loving others" message taught by Evangelical Christianity, he might have presented it in a nicer way as well.
In the 80s Christian Rock was born. It may not have always had the highest quality, but some bands were good and there were lots of options.
In the 90s, all the small CCM labels got bought by the majors and soon there were about 6-7 bands pushed, all mediocre.
With the rise of the internet, the labels couldn't control things anymore. In the 2000s, cool innnative bands thrived. And they seem to be making a living at it still. I'll take that any day over the alternative.
When I was in college some guys modded Doom to make it the college campus. I didn't have a problem with that. Then they started talking about which teachers they wanted to shoot. That was a little dark. I told them to knock off talking about killing teachers (I was an RA). It IS a bit of a slippery slope, but pointing a finger and going "bang, bang" should NOT be an arrestable offense.
This is true. During the Beijing Olympics, one of my co-workers (also a contractor) went to the Chinese medal count page (sent there by NBC.com) and got a virus from one of the ads that infected several machines at the company. He was fired for checking the medal count. I had gone to that page as well, but I was using NoScript, so I didn't load a virus onto the company network and didn't get fired.
I remember them saying this about regular hard drives (at $1/MB). I remember 5 of us going together to get my buddy a 512 MB drive for $499 on Black Friday. We beat the experts prediction!
Six months later, you could get one for $399, and by the next Christmas, for $199. So much for that prediction.
I am guessing that this one will end similarly. Somebody will have a drive for.33/GB on Black Friday.
I just had a WD 3TB Green HDD fail instantly yesterday in the middle of a compile. Apparently the motors fail on these and there's little you can do to get the data off it (I lost a day's worth of data and it would take longer than that to recover it). So they don't always warn you and the failure can be instant and unrecoverable.
I have had SSDs fail when it's too hot, but continue to work afterward (data is gone, but drive still works). That could be a big problem in gamer rigs.
Funny that you think the scientific method was used in relation to explaining ice ages and global warming/cooling... Historical sciences are guesses at best and typically have very little to do with the scientific method. This is why they are overturned often and in massive ways. The "faith" that people have put into global warming based on only history and computer models is staggering. And the zeal with which they have attacked anyone who disagrees smacks of burning people at the stake for believing in a round earth. It's closer to politics or religion than science, because a true scientist doesn't care if other people agree with his "side". In a true science, the facts will do that for them.
Of course, now we know that instead of their being no ice in 2013 (as predicted), there is actually so much ice that 20 ships are trapped in the arctic and most of the shipping lines are completely blocked. On the past 2 seasons of Deadliest Catch, they had to go home and take a break for a few weeks because the entire sea was full of ice, the most in 30-40 years.
This stuff is way more complicated than most people think and we are in the early stages of understanding it. To treat anyone as an idiot for having a difference of opinion at this early stage is just mind-blowing. And as for "unprecedented rate of change of temperature"? I don't think.5 degrees over 100 years is that big of a deal, especially when I question the accuracy being good enough to catch half a degree 100 years ago.
Climate changes. With or without man. We see a "fertile crescent" in Iraq that now looks like a massive desert (because they cut down all the trees). We see a California which was a desert which is now Mediterranean (because of man planting lots of trees). We see flash frozen mammoths (and don't know why). We know the earth has recovered from an ice age in the past, so it's pretty darn resilient.
The bottom line is you are right. We should do our best to keep learning because we really don't understand this stuff yet. But vilifying people that disagree and trying to stifle their funding and ruin their careers hampers that effort significantly. And that's what the GP was lamenting.
Funny how in the UK, TV is full of near porn but the internet is blocked. In the US, the internet is full of porn but the TV is nearly blocked (unless you buy special channels).
And if you have ever seen "Hotel Rwanda", it appears that the Dutch can come in and start randomly classifying people and 50 years later they will go to war and start trying to genocide each other, even if they are from the same family.
But race is such a small part of DNA. At my last job, I had a friend who was from India. We just clicked immediately, no idea why. I'd be interested to see if his DNA is more similar to mine than other people I know in California. This is how I took the study.
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Yes. The European debt crisis is CLEARLY more related to the USA than to Greece, Spain and Cyprus... :rolleyes:
Maybe he should have home schooled. He might have gotten a better education. And with the "loving others" message taught by Evangelical Christianity, he might have presented it in a nicer way as well.
Yeah. Funny that this guy is saying Americans can't do math or geography when he can't even figure out what the 3rd largest country in the world is...
In the 80s Christian Rock was born. It may not have always had the highest quality, but some bands were good and there were lots of options. In the 90s, all the small CCM labels got bought by the majors and soon there were about 6-7 bands pushed, all mediocre. With the rise of the internet, the labels couldn't control things anymore. In the 2000s, cool innnative bands thrived. And they seem to be making a living at it still. I'll take that any day over the alternative.
When I was in college some guys modded Doom to make it the college campus. I didn't have a problem with that. Then they started talking about which teachers they wanted to shoot. That was a little dark. I told them to knock off talking about killing teachers (I was an RA). It IS a bit of a slippery slope, but pointing a finger and going "bang, bang" should NOT be an arrestable offense.
What's next? Arresting pre-schoolers who point a finger and go 'Bang Bang!!" ???
What do you mean "next"? You missed that one?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294 (Warning: auto-video. Hit Mute first.)
You mean like "If I'm going to face criminal charges anyway, I might as well have shot the bully..." Makes sense in a twisted sort of logical way.
This is true. During the Beijing Olympics, one of my co-workers (also a contractor) went to the Chinese medal count page (sent there by NBC.com) and got a virus from one of the ads that infected several machines at the company. He was fired for checking the medal count. I had gone to that page as well, but I was using NoScript, so I didn't load a virus onto the company network and didn't get fired.
I remember them saying this about regular hard drives (at $1/MB). I remember 5 of us going together to get my buddy a 512 MB drive for $499 on Black Friday. We beat the experts prediction!
Six months later, you could get one for $399, and by the next Christmas, for $199. So much for that prediction.
I am guessing that this one will end similarly. Somebody will have a drive for .33/GB on Black Friday.
I just had a WD 3TB Green HDD fail instantly yesterday in the middle of a compile. Apparently the motors fail on these and there's little you can do to get the data off it (I lost a day's worth of data and it would take longer than that to recover it). So they don't always warn you and the failure can be instant and unrecoverable.
I have had SSDs fail when it's too hot, but continue to work afterward (data is gone, but drive still works). That could be a big problem in gamer rigs.
10th at least. It's happened every month this year.
It's comments like these that make me wish Slashdot mods could go to 10 instead of 5. Nicely done.
Just use a different Steam account for each game. Problem solved.
So let's elect a president that will select a DOJ that will prosecute these guys.
Do you expect the head of a spy service NOT to lie?
To Congress? Yes.
that would be somewhere between politics and religion, not science
Sadly, this represents most of the science reported in the media these days...
Funny that you think the scientific method was used in relation to explaining ice ages and global warming/cooling... Historical sciences are guesses at best and typically have very little to do with the scientific method. This is why they are overturned often and in massive ways. The "faith" that people have put into global warming based on only history and computer models is staggering. And the zeal with which they have attacked anyone who disagrees smacks of burning people at the stake for believing in a round earth. It's closer to politics or religion than science, because a true scientist doesn't care if other people agree with his "side". In a true science, the facts will do that for them.
Of course, now we know that instead of their being no ice in 2013 (as predicted), there is actually so much ice that 20 ships are trapped in the arctic and most of the shipping lines are completely blocked. On the past 2 seasons of Deadliest Catch, they had to go home and take a break for a few weeks because the entire sea was full of ice, the most in 30-40 years.
This stuff is way more complicated than most people think and we are in the early stages of understanding it. To treat anyone as an idiot for having a difference of opinion at this early stage is just mind-blowing. And as for "unprecedented rate of change of temperature"? I don't think .5 degrees over 100 years is that big of a deal, especially when I question the accuracy being good enough to catch half a degree 100 years ago.
Climate changes. With or without man. We see a "fertile crescent" in Iraq that now looks like a massive desert (because they cut down all the trees). We see a California which was a desert which is now Mediterranean (because of man planting lots of trees). We see flash frozen mammoths (and don't know why). We know the earth has recovered from an ice age in the past, so it's pretty darn resilient.
The bottom line is you are right. We should do our best to keep learning because we really don't understand this stuff yet. But vilifying people that disagree and trying to stifle their funding and ruin their careers hampers that effort significantly. And that's what the GP was lamenting.
I don't know. I thought the flash-frozen mammoths with their last meal still in their belly was a dead giveaway. (No pun intended.)
I use NoScript to block Google Analytics. It's amazing how much faster the web is when you do that.
Funny how in the UK, TV is full of near porn but the internet is blocked. In the US, the internet is full of porn but the TV is nearly blocked (unless you buy special channels).
Why does everyone think this is about race? That's only like 1% of the way you could be similar to someone else.
But since race is only about 1% of DNA, you could be like them in many other ways.
And if you have ever seen "Hotel Rwanda", it appears that the Dutch can come in and start randomly classifying people and 50 years later they will go to war and start trying to genocide each other, even if they are from the same family.
But race is such a small part of DNA. At my last job, I had a friend who was from India. We just clicked immediately, no idea why. I'd be interested to see if his DNA is more similar to mine than other people I know in California. This is how I took the study.
And similar to this guy, the wing suit people fly within 3 feet of a rocky mountain face.