Comment Re:Are You Kidding? (Score 1) 541
Even a few examples like this would be considered falsification in any harder science. But race theory - social-vs-genes - is not so vulnerable that.
Even a few examples like this would be considered falsification in any harder science. But race theory - social-vs-genes - is not so vulnerable that.
Everyone knows that evolution is limited to effects from the neck down.
"When a student's parent's move between these two cities, their kids are screwed
If all it requires is some such easily-surmountable personal inconvenience to get a major federal government effort started, no wonder the feds thing *everything* is in their jurisdiction.
... plus why on earth would it need to be a *federal* matter? Education is local, at best state level jurisdiction.
"spilling immediates is insane by itself"
Not if the immediate takes more bytes to represent in the instruction stream than the bytes needed to reload it from the stack, and the compiler was told to optimize for (insn) space.
Many other sources suggest otherwise.
"What could possibly be gained from further experimentation at this point?"
A rhetorical assertion of a negative is not very convincing.
"Smallpox isn't a weapon."
We're not talking taxonomy, we're talking possible utility.
"So the only thing destroying live smallpox samples does is reduce the chances of a catastrophic screw-up."
No, it also reduces the ability of labs to experiment on & learn from the thing.
An awesome way to smuggle a wifi sniffer - or something naughtier - into the googleplex!
"If we voluntarily destroy all our samples, and some other nation doesn't, then there will be that much less smallpox. This is a valuable goal in itself,"
Do you support unilateral disarmament too?
"This is give and take, not a debating society."
If all you have available to "give" are poor imitations of intelligent debate, frankly it's not worth "taking" any of it.
Bravo, ad hominem and straw man mixed together in one stinky mess of an argument.
Congratulations (?).
The relevance of flight recorders to a missile attack is
lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?
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