1) Good for you Creationism is not science. You can't discover anything with it. It is religion. That's ok. We let people practice religion. We don't teach it as science in our public schools.

2) Yes, it is correct science to ask how chemicals enabled evolution. As a result of such questions we know how fairly complicated chemicals can form from simple situations.

The other of this is our understanding of the various nucleic acids. This has benefited everything from forensics to biological science to medicine.

It is a great question to ask. Asking it has improved our lives and created the groundwork for the next thousand years of biological and medical sciences.

Compare this to "Did god create the universe?" That's a bad question. We can't do anything with the answers. It doesn't lead to new interesting question. It's just a question that we can't answer. If we manage to answer it, we get nothing.

3) Yeah, I don't like people who misuse terminology either.

This is all correct. For instance, we know that ID in the Dover case is creationism dressed up as science, because the textbook originally advocated by the IDers was about Creationism in it's early drafts and was changed after the earlier court cases banning Creationism from being taught in schools. The diff was the cornerstone of the complaint's case.

We know that this is being done to introduce Chrisitanity into public schools, because those supporting ID, the Discovery Institute, said as much in the Wedge Document.

I think atraintocry is suffering from a bit of hubris. This is an ongoing fight that has not yet been won. While circuit and district courts have ruled on the issue, there has been no recent supreme court ruling and ID advocates have found their ways into School Boards across the nation. They have not given up, and this is no time to sit back just because we've won some small victories.

They are liars. They know it. The swarms of selectively ignorant religious folks that support them don't know they are liars or really understand the evolution 'debate'. So long as we are a democracy, we won't have won until we convince the public, not the courts.

So, would a KJ have to pay several hundred dollars for a cd because it is intended for use in public performances? That's somewhat different than the market for consumer CDs. It's also less defensible(morally and legally) because they are using to make money.

I don't mind Adobe going after companies for pirating their product. I think it's retarded(though more or less within their right) for them to do the same with individual end users. I'm not sure if that would be analogous.

Great, now explain Moe without sounding like a pedophile.

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Judges, either those issuing the warrants or those overseeing the appeals, are our only line of defense against that.

Which is why things like corrupt judges, such as those family court judges in Pennsylvania, can't be tolerated by a just society.

Read the whole thing before you quote it. That only applies to civil contempt charges.

Criminal contempt charges are punitive, not coercive. You don't know what you are talking about.

You know. That could create a pretty intresting situation, if you didn't mind body cavity searches and had a few free months.

Just create a massive file of random data. Never say it is anything else. Obviously, you can't decrypt it, but they can never prove it one way or another.

There is a slight possibility of being held in contempt indefinitely, but if you are a citizen with the current administration you will probably at the very least be detained without trial in-country.

At the very least, it's a lot of extra information to be taking in. Once someone is adjusted to it, it's absence could, in some cases, be uncomfortable.

I don't really know about the "Nothing will be satisfying enough unless it has an overlay on it", I figure I'd treat them like horrible webpages and run RealityMonkey(tm). The bigger issue is at some point I'm going to have to take them off. If you think crackberries are bad, good AR is going to be about a hundred times worse(obviously they'd be used for all sorts of communication in addition to just the AR role and bring the web closer than your fingertips).

It's very simple. That would take a lot of work. Chrome is slightly better than firefox at a few things.

It's not worth it.

Unless the changes make it back into the main fork, not a whole heck of a lot of people are going to make extensions anyway, so it is mostly pointless unless it supports firefox plug-ins(which is pretty close to not being feasible).

Now, Google pays people to do that sort of work. When we complain, they hear about it, however indirectly. Bitching about it can do something that a more hands on approach would do less well, and it's a heck of a lot easier.

Diesel also requires less energy to produce than gas(though extra taxes increase at pump costs, and refineries are geared to produce as little diesel, and as much gasoline, as possible suppressing supply).

Honestly, I think a lot of our energy problems could be helped by a nation wide effort to encourage diesel production and use. In the short term, with less taxes and more production, it will help with energy costs. In the long term, bio diesel would be more attractive because of a large fleet of vehicles that can use it with little modification.

Demand for diesel is pretty inelastic and already meets supply. It would take effort from manufactures, refiners and the federal government. I don't expect it to happen, but can't help but think it would save a lot of money and energy.

itunes+appstore has pretty good market penetration. Unless something similar and equally useful comes out to compete, Apple is probably going to have to start worrying about appearing anti-competitive.

They definitely have an advantage over other digital distribution networks, based on OS and Accessory tie-in. The EU will probably start looking down on that eventually.

The EU's decisions are fairly political. Most of this stuff is based off lobbying technologically ignorant politicians. If enough of the right people start complaining, it can happen.

pffffttt.. Wall-E doesn't pay as much attention to accurate micro gravity physics.

There is a class action lawsuit in progress against the judges, and like 16 other parties. I don't know if this girl is part of it.

At least it's not the WMD Particle...