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    Bush banning all media from New Orleans

    Agreed. They're powerful images, and it's foolish to blind ourselves to reality by censoring them.
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    Social Reproduction

    That's a common counter-example to the "basic economics" argument. In many fields, getting a PhD reduces people's salaries on average.
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    Social Reproduction

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    Social Reproduction

    The only way that more teacher education would be the primary cause of education being expensive is if such requirements resulted in high teacher salaries, which they don't. As a side note, neither the federal nor the state government has imposed a prerequisite of having a master's degree to be...
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    Social Reproduction

    If you want to move upward in society, it would help to move to Europe (though not the UK). From http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1469685,00.html
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    I am against federal help in rebuilding NOLA

    While the US needs a port for Mississippi River traffic, New Orleans presents serious problems. The Army Corps of Engineers estimated that it would take around 6 years to plan and 30 years to complete preparations that would defend the city against a hurricane like Katrina...
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    Stunt's Amazing Stock Picks - All 3 picks up over 20% in 11 weeks!!

    I'm not sure that I'd call it buttkicking. INTC was almost 35 in January 04, and it hasn't made it above 30 since.
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    Stunt's Amazing Stock Picks - All 3 picks up over 20% in 11 weeks!!

    Which energy fund are you talking about?
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    Another example of an "evil" corporation

    It is pretty sad when American corporations have more economic power than most countries, isn't it? However, I suspect much of the difference is the result of proximity, with Walmart being headquartered in an adjacent state.
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    The majority of Americans think creationism should be taught in schools

    The technique is fairly simple, but the precision required is extremely high and the satellites are moving fast enough to require the Theory of Special Relativity. The GPS system is also far enough away from the Earth to experience a slightly different gravitational field, resulting in...
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    The majority of Americans think creationism should be taught in schools

    If you need to build a system that works to high precision, you can't rely on archaic laws. You need modern theories. If you're doing very precise engineering, you need to give up Newton's Laws of Motion in favor of the Theory of Special Relativity and you need to give up Newton's Law of...
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    The majority of Americans think creationism should be taught in schools

    I've got a PhD in physics and I'm a working scientist. What you're saying is simply incorrect. We [scientists] do not differentiate between laws and theories based on the level of evidence for them.
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    The majority of Americans think creationism should be taught in schools

    In the scientific world, law is simply an archaic term for theory. Laws are not any more certain than theories, and in fact, laws are often superseded by modern theories that work better than the old laws do. For example, Newton's Law of Gravitation was superseded by Einstein's Theory of...
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    The majority of Americans think creationism should be taught in schools

    You're right to wonder about education. There was a recent article in Nature, which included the following graph demonstrating that belief in creationism decreases dramatically with education: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/fig_tab/4341062a_F1.html
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    recommended reading of non-fiction?

    Sounds good. I've been reading a fair bit of biology this summer, like Sean Carroll's Endless Forms Most Beautiful, but I haven't read much about biologists.
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    recommended reading of non-fiction?

    That's a good one, as is his book Dark Sun, which tells the history of the hydrogen bomb.
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    recommended reading of non-fiction?

    I'm reading a set of popular math books centered around Euler and the Riemann hypothesis at the moment that are good. e: The Story of a Number by Maor http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de...6795-8548911?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance Euler: The Master of Us All by Dunham...
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    recommended reading of non-fiction?

    I'd recommend reading Mehra's The Beat of a Different Drum instead.
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    programming and multi-core cpu's

    You've got the basics of the idea right there. If you can divide a task into largely independent pieces, then it's highly parallelizable. If you can't, it's not. To use your example, spell checking only cares about individual words, so it's highly parallelizable, while grammar checking needs...
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    Bush endorses Intelligent Design in the Classroom

    There's no need for analogy. Information theory clearly defines what information is, and it's the base-2 logarithm of the number of states a system can be in. If a gene is copied and then modified, resulting in two different genes, which is a common type of mutation, it's obvious that the...
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    May his noodly appendage grace you always...

    TV shows aren't science. You can't judge the quality of any science by the quality of TV shows made about it. Science is reported in peer-reviewed journals. If you've got an objection to a scientific result presented in a peer-reviewed journal, please present it. Can you support this...
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    Average CEO pay goes up again.

    The difference is that employees compensation is typically transparent and that employees don't have the level of control that CEOs do over their own compensation.
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    Average CEO pay goes up again.

    The Economist has an 9 Dec 2004 article that offers an indicator of this http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3485160 According to that, CEO pay increased by a factor of about 4 in a 13-year period from 1991 to 2004. This huge increase hasn't occurred in other...
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    Average CEO pay goes up again.

    It's only proof if people know what they're paying and have control over it, and due to the various ways of concealing executive compesation and American corporate governance procedures that give the CEO unprecendented power of the board of directors, the shareholders don't know how much they're...
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    May his noodly appendage grace you always...

    This paragraph is completely wrong. Law is an archaic term for theory, not an improved version of a theory. The last statement is particularly absurd, as Einstein's Theory of General Relativity replaced Newton's Law of Gravitation. We use General Relativity in technologies like the Global...
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    May his noodly appendage grace you always...

    Sure. Here are two pictures (one with more detail than the other from a better scope) of the Big Bang in the microwave spectrum: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/...iverse/images/cobe_wmap_jpg_image.html
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    Average CEO pay goes up again.

    That would be fine, but the problem is that CEO pay also increases when company performance declines. It's also disturbing to see how the true extent of CEO compensation is hidden from shareholders. See Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation to see why...
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    May his noodly appendage grace you always...

    Ah, but was it red sauce or white sauce? We don't want any of those neopastafarians who believe in red sauce baptism here. (-;
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    May his noodly appendage grace you always...

    The second law of thermodynamics does not state that matter naturally degrades. It states that entropy does not decrease in a closed system. The Big Bang is not the same thing as evolution; it is directly observable by anyone with a high quality telescope; and the Big Bang does not include...
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    Bush endorses Intelligent Design in the Classroom

    This is simply false. One of the most common types of mutation is the duplication of a gene and its subsequent modification, creating a new gene, i.e. adding information to the genome by creating two different genes where there was once only one gene.
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    Bush endorses Intelligent Design in the Classroom

    You are wrong. There is definitive evidence that the Bible has been altered. First, we need to get rid of the misleading term, the Bible. Every major branch of the Christian Church has its own set of books that it calls the Bible, ranging in number from a couple dozen books for some of...
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    Why conservatives think the global warming "conspiracy", ID, et al, make sense

    Actually, we've got multiple, different sources of data on global warming, not just tree rings., supporting the "hockey stick." We've got ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, observable glacial retreat in many areas of the world, including Glacier National Park in the US, warming in the...
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    Christian broadcaster calls for the assasination of Venezuela's Chavez

    Aren't personal attacks supposed to be banned on this forum?
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    Bush endorses Intelligent Design in the Classroom

    Daniel Dennet has an excellent op-ed on the lack of science in ID in the NYT today. From http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/28dennett.html?pagewanted=print His summary is particularly effective:
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    Christian broadcaster calls for the assasination of Venezuela's Chavez

    Thinking of the Gospel of Matthew, Hitler viewed himself as continuing the centuries long Christian execution of the curse accepted by the Jews in Matthew 27:25: "May his [Jesus] blood be on us and our children." Anti-semitism has a long history in the Western Christian churches, and Hitler...
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    Chavez offers cheap gas to poor in U.S.

    Being embargoed by your largest neighbor and former largest trading partner, who also hapens to be the world's most powerful nation has very bad effects on your nation's economy.
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    Is Gravity the next "theory" to be attacked?

    I've got a PhD in physics and I'm a working scientist, yet I've never heard about this idea of promoting a theory to a law. Why? Because it doesn't happen.. Law is simply an archaic term that means the same thing as theory, which is why it's Newton's Law of Gravitation but it's Einstein's...
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    Israel orders Palestinian land seized

    True. I'm not sure why people don't understand Sharon's policy. He's attempting to create a sustainable state with defensible borders. Gaza, with its 1.2 million Palestinians and few thousand settlers, was a drain on Israel's resources. He's giving it up for the same reason the Romans gave...
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    Israel orders Palestinian land seized

    Of course, it was European redrawing of borders that created Israel too. Israel isn't the first country that Europeans carved out of conquered areas of the Caliphate, so it's not like there's no history for us to learn from. The First Crusade established the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with borders...
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    Who Built the Moon?

    I agree that science and religion aren't necessarily opposed, and yes, I know religious scientists. However, ID creationism is a religious/political movement designed to replace science with religion, so ID and science are necessarily opposed. They call their strategy, the Wedge, which in...
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