Realitycheck

I think adaptation is a very significant variable, no matter where you live. People tend to stay relatively aware and if a two children limit becomes necessary, I don't think it will be an issue with the advent of technology. The U.S already relies on immigration for population growth. I don't have an answer ready for places like Ethiopia, but that is not representative of the entire world. I would venture to say that some parts of the world could use a little help in terms of enlightenment and responsibility, but the age of information is still young. As far as your personal plans are, best of luck to you.

But is the curvature at the singularity really infinite, or is it just really, really, really big, entailing that science has essentially inserted a plug, leading to an infinite myriad of inaccurate misconceptions? Forgive me if my perception is vastly different from the average layperson. Don't get me wrong. I'm not chastising the evolution of knowledge. The methodology just seems odd.

I would venture to suggest that we have more and more valuable infrastructure at risk in concentrated areas, along with correlating congregations of people (such as New Orleans, which is practically below sea level and it was just a matter of time), and that this one year is just a spike.

This is just a minor point, but BOA went down because they got sued today over the mortgage crisis, for one. I wonder if there were similar disassociated reasons for the others.

Matter is being spread out further and further apart (except for local groups), eliminating cohesiveness, so the force driving it accelerates.

I just want to add, that on individual securities, you shouldn't wait till its worthless. Incorporating a stop/loss strategy is good. 80%? 90%? It's up to you. Money could be potentially better off somewhere else. How does performance compare to the market? This can be a good indicator of prevailing opinion regarding a particular stock, but I don't need to tell most of you that.

Wisdom is the ability to call from a vast, wide diversity of knowledge and make an intelligent decision, as computers lack much ability to answer, "What is the best way to do something?", unless it is specifically programmed to answer those questions, such as medical diagnosers. Pretty limited. I guess that would mean utilization of both spheres of intelligence - verbal and performance.

I think it may have been the Gravity satellite which confirmed Einstein's theory recently. It's just a bit frustrating, seeing all of these far-out hypotheses, or rather, how far out and how extensive they can be, but I guess there is a reason for everything.

Ok, maybe not 2000 years ago, but I think we've got a pretty good grip on it. It just seems kind of weird, all of the preaching to the choir, if you could call it that. There was once a time, not long ago, when there was no Religion forum. I'm thinking that maybe they opened it to attract more people, but if you don't believe in the supernatural, then your posts come across as quite insincere, or at least hardly comical. Not trying to chastise you, it's just the way it looks.

Somebody said that theory breaks down at the singularity of black holes, but I think at least Hawking has figured his way out of that (if I didn't suggest it first). It's not exactly rocket science. Somebody said that quantum theory doesn't match up in results to classic theory. What are the exact instances of that? You're not exactly comparing apples to apples. And if I remember right, most of the differences revolve around gravity. Will this new satellite put an end to all of the discrepancies and boundless speculation? Giving us a surefire theory of everything? I guess we would have to find the elusive but oh so necessary Higgs in order for it to be everything but if not, what then? (I, frankly don't see the need for a Higgs, but my QT is pretty weak in light of the level it has evolved to, so I'm probably missing something.) I guess we'll figure out something one way or another.

I think you're lacking a bit in detail, like by about 500 pages or so. Once you devise it all, then do all of the testing, what makes you think it will be any different? Why does it have to be different? What's wrong with the current model? Oh yeah. Time for another thread.

God has been reduced to sensibility. When he storms out of his other dimension and defies all of the laws of physics like Galactus or something, then I'll believe that much more. Until then, why believe in anything more than a microscopic extropic force of organization, at best? The historical record, the law of physics, the very nature of reason are all going against you, even the Pope. What's your point? Defining morality over the ages is not that hard. What works? What doesn't? I thought they finished the job 2000 years ago. Why hang on to all of the obsolete fantasy? It's called evolution.

S&P dropped their rating to AA. I'm calling for a correction of, say 10% tops (Asia already closed down 5%), but a crash? It's not the end of the world. Sooner or later, they're going to bring back some of that money and scoop up some of those bargains. Is one rating letter worth 50%? I think not.

Are you trying to say that all exploits are really just the result of weak spots in discipline, like the back office computer that is missing firewall software? When the article states that virtually any system can be hacked, that has a pretty powerful sound to it. It's odd though, that I've never really read that before.

Did you hear some fearmongering on television or something? The market went on a little run down, but there are plenty of decent fundamentals in place to avoid foretelling a crash. Maybe a bit of residual debt ceiling hysteria, but it's not like the sky actually fell. The U.S. isn't perfect.

I think this is sort of an accurate conclusion since economics is sort of an inaccurate science like weather, in which you try and predict it but tomorrow something happens outside the scope of your model and by day three, you must start all over. You also have a potentially infinite number of variables working against you, such as 2,000 pages of IRS code supporting an infinite list of various deductions in effect, all designed to support various special interests and get things done. Also reminds me of a joke about this president who says,"All I ever wanted was a one handed economist, because they always say,'On the one hand, this will happen, but on the other hand, this will also happen.'" However, if you had a question or issue regarding economics as it is applied to the sciences, why not Applied Mathematics?

This is an easy conclusion to arrive at, especially considering the war machine of ww2, but the military were going to be employed regardless. Reservists are called out, opening positions for others, but this can only be considered to be a nominal amount. It pales in comparison to the overall depressive effect on the economy - the price of oil, consumer confidence, depression in the stock market, just plain doom and gloom.

I read somewhere that microglia are also used similar to the immune system for destroying alien invaders on the other side of the blood/brain barrier. Their numbers are probably pretty limited though.

The Age of the Law? I guess it's a bit too soon for The Minority Report, or some other future where our superegos retain total control.

It seems that perhaps there is a bit of an issue regarding what is perceived as a miracle and what is actually potentially explainable, using modern day reasoning. A simple change in attitude regarding a disease a person has can make the difference, especially if they happen to take the right steps to ensure their recovery after a so-called healing. It's amazing what people can attribute to their rise or fall, especially way back then.

Also, consumer confidence has been down in the dumps for quite some time now. If we ever divorce ourselves from these wars, it will be interesting to see how long we can get around to working on ourselves for a change.

I see lots of hesitancy in the bourgeoise to create jobs in protest to the social programs being advanced that will supposedly milk their silver linings, as a form of silent protest.. I know this isn't really news, but it seems pretty irresponsible. I know that the govt. isn't exactly renowned for efficiency, but I seriously believe that the medical field is more than equally not capable of controlling costs. The high esteem of our medical system is coming at an exceedingly exhorbitant cost, so what other options are there? Kill all of the poor people, shop out all of the cheap labor to Indian telemarketers and central American immigrants, and open the floodgates to madness and mayhem. Sons of the civil war, see ya! Yeah, right. Get a grip. Everybody is waiting to see if the tea party poopers will ever amount to anything more than the boy who cried wolf, where the saying goes."Choke! Choke! Choke! Just don't choke me and my boss." It's amazing how strong the human neck turns out to be, so the net effect results in the Uni... err Warring States of America. Didn't we elect a black president for a reason? Or was it just a token of our need to appear just and fair? Or are we dumping bags of tea in the harbor in order to protest the very nature of the concept unity? I remind you that the Democrats have been around since the beginning, and while the Republicans were ushered in with Abraham Lincoln, boy, have they changed.

is a beancounter by trade. Does anybody else feel so stalked? In case you didn't read the sign that the sign holder was carrying, no doubt, constantly bitching, attacking people, and calling people names gets you banned. Something tells me you were in that much of a hurry to leave. I personally don't care why. Life isn't always fair. I suggest some Norman Vincent Peale. He's been around for a while, but he just keeps on ticking.

Haha. "the government, by the people, for the people."

http://www.defending-islam.com/page388.html It starts out pretty clear-cut, but then, (about 3/4 of the way down) starts taking these odd positions like time and space being discontinous? It sounds like maybe someone who has a faulty understanding of relativity or maybe hypothesizing some fantastic way for Allah to travel through the ages, but who knows. I was looking around, investigating something, and stumbled across it. Since Islam prides itself on being the accurate end-all, you would think that after 1,400 years in the Age of Information, they would get it right.