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I can't ever hear Alan Turing's name anymore without getting angry all over again at the disgraceful way he died.

He essentially founded modern Computer Science. He also lead the team that cracked the German codes during WW2. You could make a case that we owe the man for everything we have today. This is the kind of guy who should have statues in DC and Trafalgar Square. So how did we thank him? By driving the poor guy to his death, that's how.

You see, none of that other cool stuff he did mattered in the slightest because he was gay.

F'n ingrates.

"Turbo Pascal, which challenged Microsoft's dominance in the application-development market"

I thought the original Turbo Pascal was a one-pass compiler that ran from memory as compared to Microsoft's Pascal two pass compiler and linker that ran from floppies. Turbo Pascal also ran as an IDE. Microsoft Windows didn't even exist at the time. So the logic of how Borland challenged Microsoft's dominance in the application-development market escapes me.

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The map is not the terrain. The model is not the phenomenon. No matter how detailed and accurate, this remains true. A particular model may describe something and have nothing to do with the real world.

Wishful thinking is far more easily, accurately and realistically described by the well proven phenomenon cognitive dissonance supporting another well understood function that causes rapid jumps to wrong conclusions, heuristic problem solving. When done in a social context, the primary attribution bias would definitely contribute.

The researchers in TFA, as psychologists, are certainly well aware of these facts. To present such an outlandish, unsupported and non-parsimonious construct when well understood and supported theory already explains more than their "model" (I find it highly unlikely they've actually constructed one) is to take science, dress it in miniskirt, knee high boots and too much make up, and send it out to walk the streets.

http://www.humantruth.info/thinking_errors.html
http://www.experiencefestival.com/cognitive_bias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful_thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

One word. PowerShell.

That's actually two words, with a misspelling, if the lack of a space can be called a misspelling.

Seriously, though, I'd take Perl over PowerShell anytime. Reasons: 1) CPAN; 2) Data saved as text instead of binary objects. The Unix Philosophy runs around the use of small scripts which can be used standalone and reused chained together. Perl was designed around this principle, it's perfect for text input.

Recorded history to me means what people write, not fossils.

Who's evading? I don't recall you saying once that recorded history was what people wrote. To me as far as history is concerned what's recorded is what's recorded no matter how it is recorded. Notice I didn't say "human history" I said history without qualifications, which "human" is.

Why should primates evolve into homo sapiens? Because that's what evolutionary theory said happened.

And history says primates can only evolve into humans? Or does history say thy can evolve into more than just humans?

So why would that process suddenly stop?

Who said it stopped? I don't recall but I'm pretty sure I didn't. Actually I believe humans are still evolving. Though I couldn't find it on /. I have said humans are still evolving. For instance I said because the SRI gene on the Y chromosome, which makes males male, is degenerating possibly the only hope for the survival of humans are intersexuals people who either have an ambiguous sex organs or have organs for both male and female.

You guys are all about testability and detecting false data - so answer the damn question. Why did the process stop?

See above.

And bodies don't last?

I guess you missed where I said a body would not last very long in the Everglades. Climate has a big impact on whether fossils will be preserved or not. I've got to say that if you didn't know that then your knowledge of science is poor, you don't know much about climatology, and I have no idea how you got a degree in engineering, if in fact you did.

Bye

Falcon

...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock smoking teabaggers!

Here you go

They struck me as more like:

You will accept my help.
You will not shoplift.
Resistance is useless.

If you can ignore some of the speakers, and make some leeway for amateurish enthusiasm, then I would say it is a fine movie. I would never want to watch it again, but it DOES include alot of interesting speakers and concepts (which already has been floated around in various books).

Just don't expect a Hollywood-production.

As for being cultist, somebody has to be behind such a movie. Nobody else is doing it, so somebody has to do it. I think they have tuned down the origin and source pretty well, and are actually covering mostly _others_ ideas and not their own curricullum.

Some of those speaking really should learn how to relate and speak to people! Yikes! It may be frustrating to be constantly misunderstood and misinterpreted, but that should not turn into frustration when speaking to millions of people!

There have been other such projects, which you have to give the creators some leeway since it may very well be their first production (judging from the quality).

For instance: Indigo
It is much lighter and has some very nice scenes. But beings one of the cheapest films in history, it is also very amateurish and rough in some ways. Well worth the look though.

It has received some criticism though: http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Indigo_Childre n/id/48920

I never really liked the term "Indigo children" anyways, so there ;-)
Still a nice movie :-)