There is the spot-on proper response to this load of crap. I have nothing against the folks who want to offer opposition on the climate issue from the front that it may not be mankind's fault (the Michael Chrichton -- please don't hit me for mentioning him). But, to simply declare the scientific consensus automatically to be a loud minority is fallacy at best and lunacy at worst.
They bitch about the Halliburton beast, but totally ignore the fact people stopped caring long ago because they agree, of all damned things. Fairly similar point per the climate stuff.
It's not that people don't care, it's that we've already heard some version of most of this stuff.
Now, let's face facts. You've worked a hard day. Your back hurts. Your head is tired. Your kids finally shut the fuck up around 9pm.
Do you want to watch House, a show that is so campy it is unintentionally funny but it almost always has a happy ending even against all rational thought, OR Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi show that says humanity isn't worth saving?
Admittedly, I watch both, leading me to frequently blurt out during episodes of House that the 12 year old girl who's spitting blood is really a Cylon. But, that's a whole other issue involving the need for more TV show crossovers.
There is a reason that most of modern civilization developed more than 20 degrees away from the equator. Look at a map. All of the most developed countries are further from the equator.
It is more livable in Argentina than Ecuador. It is more livable in South Africa than Nigeria. It is more livable in Japan than Indonesia.
What's this "high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression"?! Journalists regularly just make shit up, sloppily rewrite press releases and largely ignore obvious agendas.
Now, they just have more bullshit to fish through. Has it ever occurred to these chuckleheads that developing human intel source BEFORE an attack occurs might be a better approach?
The most recent surveys I've seen are showing between 15-20% of Americans are atheists. 8% sounds nowhere near my own experience. I've knew a guy who went to church and didn't believe there was a God but didn't want to upset his wife. Perhaps they're counting his wife as a god-figure.
Also, wouldn't some of this depend on how you classify borderline religions like Buddhism? After all, Buddhists don't believe in a god or gods overtly in the way Westerner religions do. I'd offer that some forms of animism, ancestor worship and shamanism don't quite qualify as god-figure religions, either.
And then of course there is the sticky question of classifying agnostics. Where do they fit?
It's not unusual, however, for peer groups to cluster such as yours, where no one uses a particular technology. This is why some websites have huge concentrations of Mac or Firefox users. Would you judge the larger public's OS choices based on Slashdot? Hardly.
Russia... another country that doles out reliable intelligence.
At the bones of this what bothers me is the question of what exactly a 500 ton yield means. Jesus Christ, there have been bigger chemical explosions. If the North Koreans did trigger a nuke, it was a really crappy one. My understanding of nuclear theory says that any usable reaction would actually have to yield at least 2 kilotons.
And that brings me back to the Iranians and their space rocket. Countries don't make leaps like these. Especially countries that claim to have cured AIDS.
I'd like to see some independent verification, besides governments that benefit financially from trigger new arms races. Surely there have to be better sources of information than Putin and Bush and their toadies.
You'll accept my apologies if at this stage I'd like to see a third party besides the US gov't verifying these things. After all, these are the same people who said Iraq had a nuke program in 2002.
The neighbors don't seem so sure as the US ever was. Sorry, I'm not sold the North Koreans did anything. Especially if the Chinese and Japanese are unwilling to say they did.
The Iranians haven't released any photos. I have a nagging suspicion this is the North Korea nuke test all over again. There are a lot of knowledgeable people who think that was a fake (yielded under 1 megaton). And this fits the pattern: desperate, weird country claims major technological achievement but refuses to provide visual evidence.
I couldn't imagine pissing with XP on the something worse with less than 64 Mb. What did they do while thing was booting? Translate War and Peace from beginning to end?
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There is the spot-on proper response to this load of crap. I have nothing against the folks who want to offer opposition on the climate issue from the front that it may not be mankind's fault (the Michael Chrichton -- please don't hit me for mentioning him). But, to simply declare the scientific consensus automatically to be a loud minority is fallacy at best and lunacy at worst.
" And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design."
Does this not tell the tale?It's not that people don't care, it's that we've already heard some version of most of this stuff.
Do you want to watch House, a show that is so campy it is unintentionally funny but it almost always has a happy ending even against all rational thought, OR Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi show that says humanity isn't worth saving?
Admittedly, I watch both, leading me to frequently blurt out during episodes of House that the 12 year old girl who's spitting blood is really a Cylon. But, that's a whole other issue involving the need for more TV show crossovers.
It is more livable in Argentina than Ecuador. It is more livable in South Africa than Nigeria. It is more livable in Japan than Indonesia.
Expanding the tropical zone cannot be a net plus.
Or alpacas, if you want to be cutting edge.
By Memorial Day everyone will be talking about my movie, titled "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". Brilliant!
Just look all the stuff they certified as Vista-ready!
Civility my ass and manly side boobs! I spit upon BusinessWeek and all its stakeholders.
Isn't this sort of like trying to amputate legs from a four-legged duck?
That was a newspaper, surprisingly enough. Everything since has been Mac or Linux. And you can argue the OS-ness of Mac OSX, but I'd count it.
What's this "high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression"?! Journalists regularly just make shit up, sloppily rewrite press releases and largely ignore obvious agendas.
Now, they just have more bullshit to fish through. Has it ever occurred to these chuckleheads that developing human intel source BEFORE an attack occurs might be a better approach?
Or is he trying to raise the stakes?
Shhhh... he might here you!
And when we die, will Heaven be filled with bananas and flea-ridden chimps who need picked over?
The most recent surveys I've seen are showing between 15-20% of Americans are atheists. 8% sounds nowhere near my own experience. I've knew a guy who went to church and didn't believe there was a God but didn't want to upset his wife. Perhaps they're counting his wife as a god-figure.
Also, wouldn't some of this depend on how you classify borderline religions like Buddhism? After all, Buddhists don't believe in a god or gods overtly in the way Westerner religions do. I'd offer that some forms of animism, ancestor worship and shamanism don't quite qualify as god-figure religions, either.
And then of course there is the sticky question of classifying agnostics. Where do they fit?
It's not unusual, however, for peer groups to cluster such as yours, where no one uses a particular technology. This is why some websites have huge concentrations of Mac or Firefox users. Would you judge the larger public's OS choices based on Slashdot? Hardly.
Russia... another country that doles out reliable intelligence.
At the bones of this what bothers me is the question of what exactly a 500 ton yield means. Jesus Christ, there have been bigger chemical explosions. If the North Koreans did trigger a nuke, it was a really crappy one. My understanding of nuclear theory says that any usable reaction would actually have to yield at least 2 kilotons.
And that brings me back to the Iranians and their space rocket. Countries don't make leaps like these. Especially countries that claim to have cured AIDS.
I'd like to see some independent verification, besides governments that benefit financially from trigger new arms races. Surely there have to be better sources of information than Putin and Bush and their toadies.
Isn't that kind of an aggressive launch angle? Is this photo the actual photo of the launch?
You'll accept my apologies if at this stage I'd like to see a third party besides the US gov't verifying these things. After all, these are the same people who said Iraq had a nuke program in 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6040494. stm
The neighbors don't seem so sure as the US ever was. Sorry, I'm not sold the North Koreans did anything. Especially if the Chinese and Japanese are unwilling to say they did.
Peer review is how the Jews keep Islamic science out of the mainstream.
The Iranians haven't released any photos. I have a nagging suspicion this is the North Korea nuke test all over again. There are a lot of knowledgeable people who think that was a fake (yielded under 1 megaton). And this fits the pattern: desperate, weird country claims major technological achievement but refuses to provide visual evidence.
I couldn't imagine pissing with XP on the something worse with less than 64 Mb. What did they do while thing was booting? Translate War and Peace from beginning to end?
Are these exploits or "exploits"? After all, a lot of "exploits" are huff and bluff about what really should be called bugs or even just quirks.