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http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1996612,00.html A new tuberculosis strain is highly infectious (spread by airborne droplets) and kills 98% of those infected within 2 weeks :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm reminded of MC Lars's song "Signing Emo":

I don't know what scientific method you're using, but the one I'm familiar with is concerned with things like "testable predictions" and "falsifiability"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5164417-111414,00.html Interesting article. Over 250 scientists were asked and they hand-picked the best responses

I guess we'll have to see what happens when Bush gets his veto stamp warmed up. I'm certainly expecting that on the minimum wage bill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601336_pf.html Whatever happened to those?

Our brains aren't too good with absolutes. We're really good at storing information in relation to other information. I think perfect pitch is something of a savant ability, or something which is learned after prolonged periods of repetition. Listen to a pitch pipe enough and eventually you won't need it. However, everyone I've ever known with perfect pitch has been something of a musical savant.

I think you're confusing him with Ray Comfort Kent Hovind is the guy who likes to argue that dinosaurs were alive until long after the dawn of human civilization, citing multiple dragon legends as "evidence" He's also one of those people who likes to argue that the receeding waters from the flood carved the Grand Canyon in a matter of days/weeks.

Folks, I think we have our next Kent Hovind: http://www.livevideo.com/video/xtream1/6F7296405A9F46E7B971CC268FD6C23B/carbon-dating-is-a-farce.aspx

Yes, churches have to pay tax on their employees too. If Hovind really wanted his property to be registered under God's name, maybe he should've had God apply for a non-profit corporation.

It was a joke man. But I can't imagine that prostitutes are the most honest of people. Do you think you're going to get an honest answer to a question like "Do you have herpes?"

I'm a registered Democrat. I'm also a registered Democrat who's dissatisfied with Nancy Pelosi. After having been promised investigations into the many scandals which have occured under the Bush administration, we've since been informed that those investigations aren't going to take place. Is anyone else dissatisfied with Pelosi backtracking on her original promises?

Ostensibly because our government thinks in similar lines to Amos Schuman, or at least did until the Democrats took control

As a desktop OS, Mac OS X is still better than the best desktop experience I've ever had in Linux (Ubuntu Edgy) Ubuntu is nice... OS X is nicer. Windows Vista is quite nice as well, but comes with all sorts of downsides like DRM and Activation Updates.

Awesome Well not being a physics deparment I can't really say whether those studying physics are dwindling. My gut instinct would be that number is going up. Physics has such a learning curve and so much prerequisite knowledge that it's immensely difficult to make the leap from interested laymen to learned participant. That's a leap which, if I wanted to make, I would likely have to quit my job, spend several months relearning the fundamentals of calculus, then enrolling in a local undergraduate physics program.

Maybe he can teach his fellow inmates how the T-Rex breathed fire and all dinosaurs were vegetarians when they lived together in harmony in the Garden of Eden. Those sharp teeth were clearly for eating leaves!

I don't see any bullets on that page. Perhaps you can paste the relevant text. That link doesn't work, but this one does: Ending Subsidies for Big Oil Act of 2007 The specific outlined goal is: "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that oil and gas companies will not be eligible for the effective rate reductions enacted in 2004 for domestic manufacturers." Not being a lawyer, I don't think I'm qualified to distill from the bill exactly what changes it proposes, since it's using language like: So it's difficult to discuss without having the interpretation already been done for me by someone qualified. I'm having trouble lexing that statement. Perhaps you accidently omitted a "not"? Can you restate it, or perhaps provide some further explanation? There are two problems: Americans are dependent on foreign oil Oil is not a sustainable resource (I thought that was ostensible from my post... perhaps not) Boosting alternative energy research may provide a potential solution for both.

Really? Where did they do that? Perhaps you can pull up the relevant bill and look at what subsidies this law actually applies to. When you look at, say, subsidizing oil exploration vs. investing in alternative fuel research, why would you ever go with the latter knowing it's only putting a band-aid on a problem when a sustainable solution can only possibly lie in the latter?

It's more like removing exemptions for existing taxes than a new tax

Here's a breakdown: http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_09/vs.html Yes

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2805859 Well, they're not cutting spending (surprise surprise) but when the oil companies are turning record profits this only makes sense.

Yeah, now the press is linking him to Osama bin Laden and child molesters. "Whoops".

Hmm, I seem to remember a "watchmaker" argument being used by someone else... in a book rather than a Flash movie... Oh, right, "The Blind Watchmaker". Hmm, I think that argument was a little better. </sarcasm>

Obama's inexperience could prove an asset. I think people are tired of "politicians" and want change. They're probably too dumb to figure out what that change is, so that may translate to voting for someone inexperienced.

Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, he's nothing like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. He's more like Ahmadinejad. Or actually, maybe he is like Osama. Or maybe he's more like . At present Obama is my preferred candidate to win. Go Obama!