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Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future
hackajar writes "Red Nova news has an interesting article about a random number generating black box that may be able to see into the future. From the article: "according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events"."
I wish I could rate the actually article up as funny. It bothers me that stuff like this appears on slashdot. It must be a slow new day or something. The article isn't even written scientifically. In the words of Strongbad, "This is total crap."
So he really has no reason to care whether or not the fund is given out, in a monetary sense.
The fund may as well be his personal checking account.
If you Read the challenge, you can see that every instance is "by James Randi", not "the JREF institute" or some other dispersonal body.
If the "debunking psychics" busness stops being profitable to Randi, he can just take his million dollars (plus whatever else he may have) and go into some other business. To say nothing of the 10,000 from his own account he must put up upon any demonstration.
Read this book. You'll love it, trust me on this one.
Well, assuming you're a teenager.
Who cares if it seems reasonable! Let's be "skeptical!"
So maybe they're lazy and can't be bothered to go back indefinitely every time. Or maybe they're aware that if they had a 100% hit rate, it'd give the game away and they'd lose their research grants.
Yes, maybe they are incompetent, and maybe they are corrupt. Very insightful.
Regardless, it's detail that appears to be missing from their description of their experimental method,
Does it? Have you actually read their material, or just the brief summary linked to by Slashdot?
and it's entire legitimate to poke at it. To fail to do so is to be unscientific.
Kind of like accusing them of incompetence or corruption without backing evidence, huh?
Looking at how when I was at work and Diana's funeral was on, a lot of people for some odd reason seemed to go to pieces... now I don't live my life through the glamour of others so I don't have any of those issues, and you probably do not either. We may even collectively PUKE over the thought that Diana was "as important" as "oooh poor US 9/11" but the fact remains that a lot of people seemed to care... and a lot of people mourned her.
The whole point of what they said was that it had nothing to do with US... If a billion people are exposed to a funeral of some person they remotely knew... its likely that at least a large ratio will react strongly. Same as with 9/11 footage (which our government uses to extort emotional responses from the weak minded on a daily basis without any "science" involved from their part).
JOKE EXAMPLE:
--"Sir, we can't go take the iraqi's oil and finish daddy's crusade!! The people want Osama, not Saddama!!"
--"Oh yeah?? Play the 9/11 footage plus some sad music and declare all who oppose the war, unpatriotic and in league with those EVIL killers!" --"Yes sir!"
RESULT: (a few weeks later we're at war with a nigh unanimous decision by people more afraid of political suicide than to send hapless teenage fools to their horrid deaths...)
I tune out a lot too, but judging by TFA alone, they said the reaction to Diana was predicted while it was occuring, might've been RF issues.
9/11 they say was producing a reaction quite a bit of time ahead... not minutes or seconds or as it happened.
9/11 was something allowed to happen so there would be something to sway a mindless mob here in the USA... much like the "Coliseum is the heart of the Plebes, the heart of Rome..." so it is with the americans... Televiseum is the heart of the USA's mob... sway it, and you sway their unquestioning loyalties. It is nice to know that 9/11 is a world defining event. I mean, its not like terrorism hasn't existed or even been USED by america to achieve its global aims... its just that now, our leaders used it to achieve THEIR ends HERE... AT HOME.
I'm tired of ranting, I've laundry to do... 1984's perpetual war is here... Oceania IS at war with Eastasia/Eurasia, Big Brother IS watching you, the people who voted for Bush are generally easilly swayed sheep, who vote based on religious party lines and less on facts... but then again, if its on TV and on Forbes and GQ... well... it MUST be true!!
Farewell oh sheep of they who pay orators to sway your blind loyalties to the empty promises of a priest or wannabe christian messiah.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
No, No, No! It's the clitoris!