Comment Re:Canada (Score 4, Funny) 253
I miss the good old days, when you knew to blame everything on the Axis of Evil, and you could solve all our problems by bombing Iraq.
I miss the good old days, when you knew to blame everything on the Axis of Evil, and you could solve all our problems by bombing Iraq.
It's to help decide "whether" to bomb someone.
Space heaters are fire hazards.
I think the PIAP activists have started eliminating the competition.
actually, one word is impossible due to the lameness filter
Maybe we can get the FCC to take that on next!
Up with service! Down with monopolies! Up with net neutrality! Down with regulation! Up with Pluto! Down with Kim Dotcom!
Wait a minute - Today's stories leave me feeling edgy and confused.
What jurisdiction does the IAU have outside this solar system anyway?
What jurisdiction do they have anywhere?
Bullshit. Papers directly supported by funding/grants should, and usually do, thank/credit the sources. But just because someone funded you for one thing doesn't mean you have to disclose that in every paper you write that is remotely related.
Papers directly supported by funding/grants usually don't thank/credit sources (or maybe it's just so small that I never noticed it?).
It's de rigueur, and honest funding sources expect you to credit them.
In my field it's usually a paragraph right before the references cited. Sometimes there is also a Conflict of Interest statement, which I think is required by certain journals.
It makes brains so big it takes two stories to cover them.
What's really funny is that some people think they are giving technology to the gummit in exchange for the right to probe some of us. As if they would need permission.
Also, it's easier to hold a shield while operating a javelin.
If they have mastered interstellar travel, then then there is no way that they will be behind us in any other aspect.
Hopefully they might have fewer Star Wars prequels.
Ya, no shit. As someone who is from downunder, holy CRAP America is in the dark ages when it comes to its banking and communications systems.
And if this works, we might try the metric system.
I think the disconnect is in expecting evolution to produce optimal solutions. Biology is full of make-do solutions.
Fitness of a species is not relevant. It's all about fitness of individual genes. Read The Selfish Gene.
On the contrary, for sexually reproducing species it doesn't matter how fit you and your genes are. Without a species, the genes are dead-enders.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
