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(Yet) Another Year End List
gordonb writes "New Scientist has yet another of those endless end-of-year lists, "13 things that do not make sense", including such topics discussed on Slashdot this year as the placebo effect, dark energy, and the ever-popular cold fusion. I know there are a lot more than 13 things that don't make sense, such as free markets, but, oxymorons aside, this is an interesting list, nevertheless."
> 2 The horizon problem
> This "horizon problem" is a big headache for cosmologists, so big that they have come up with some pretty wild solutions. "Inflation", for example.
What is "wild" about inflation? Our prior experience with examination of the universe on the largest and smallest scales should warn us to expect the unexpected.
> So, in effect, inflation solves one mystery only to invoke another.
If he would take the time to read up on the topic, he would find that inflation actually solves several problems.
> 4 Belfast homeopathy results
6 Viking's methane
7 Tetraneutrons
11 The Wow signal
Get back to us when you've got more than a single example of the purported anomaly.
> 8 The Pioneer anomaly
FWIW, someone suggested last year that we may be able to winnow the proposed explanations, because they all predict different directions of the anomaly.
> 9 Dark energy
> IT IS one of the most famous, and most embarrassing, problems in physics.
Why is this embarassing?
Does that have any bearing on the science of the issue?
> 12 Not-so-constant constants
Yawn.
> 13 Cold fusion
Giggle.
Is New Scientist trying to move in on the supermarket tabloid market?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
#14 - Intelligent Design and its believers.
Trolling is a art,
The thought just occured to me, that if Slashdot is gonna be posting all these 'best of the year' type lists... then maybe Slashdot should compile its own 'best of' list?
In an utopian world, perhaps. Your idea would require that the editors actually perform some higher thought processes including reading, sorting and counting.
That, my friend, is crazy talk.
Trolling is a art,
Being that this is Slashdot, that actually makes sense!
> Free markets make perfect sense! They are the most logical, sensible system.
If you're on the top of the pile. Those being crushed on the bottom might reasonably feel otherwise.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Why does Chewbacca live on Kashyyyk? That doesn't make sense.
Can someone remind me how to mark a slashdot story as -1 (Troll)?
Some may pass it as truth. What's with the socialist propaganda lately? Oh wait this is Slashdot. Of course free markets don't make sense to someone that doesn't want to make sense of it. And yes it's an oxymoron when government regulates the markets, your hero your god your government.
It must be a cultural thing then. You can't see because you have been brainwashed. Only thing is there must be a limit to how much your brain has shrunk or is it defying th elaws of physics.
You can not administer homeopathic remedies the way that big drug companies administer double blind experiments. Each individual recieving the medicine has to be analysed individually.
What is it about that statement hat just can't penetrate your cranium?
There is plenty of room so maybe there is nowhere to go?
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Hey Stupe this is a Dupe!!!!!!!!!!
For your information, the term "free market" refers to a market in which pairs of individuals are free to conduct transactions at whichever price they choose.
For example, the software market is a free market because I can offer you a licence to use my software for a price upon which we agree.
By contrast, if for compatibility reasons I am forced to use GPL code in my software I lose my freedom to sell it to you for a price acceptable to us both because you can get it for free, and I lose my freedom to agree terms with the author becuse he has probably signed it over to the socialist FSF organisation. The FSF defines "free" as "free from anything that goes against Stallman's communist agenda".