Agreed, dark matter is based on a long string of false assumptions and piss-poor science that borders on religion. The only reason that the idea persists is that the whole community can't admit that they have been wrong.
I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned focus as a major problem. I do not mean the optics of the device necessarily, but that is a likely source. What I'm talking about is usually from the content itself. When focus blur is used, or induced by the way a video is shot, it causes your eyes to attempt to fix the blur by focusing on the blurred area. When this inevitably fails your eyes will continue to try causing eye strain which leads to a headache.
This is the only issue I get from VR, but then again, I do not get motion sickness at all.
I disagree, sociopaths can lead a normal life and be decent people. Our leaders throughout history have all been psychopaths. They thoroughly enjoy the misery of the poor and inflict more misery for entertainment.
Except that DNA evidence is by no means rock solid. Innocent people are sent to prison based on it all the time, same with fingerprints. The jury has been fed an extremely large lie through all of these police dramas which depict various forensic methods as infallible when they are in fact far from it.
I would assume AmiMoJo is referring to the fact that the methods used for both are at least an order of magnitude less accurate(even without the corruption) than we are led to believe.
Much more accurate tests for DNA and fingerprints exist, but they are not used by our legal system. For example, the DNA test can be done on a white man and the results can match a black man who has no relation to the white man. That's right, the test cannot even determine race. We certainly have DNA tests that can identify a single person, but that test is very expensive and our legal system will not pay for it.
The answers to your question depend on where you are asking them. In most places it is illegal for a tow truck to tow a car which is not legally parked unless specifically asked by the property owner or a police officer (in which case you will also get a ticket). Some businesses(read as slumlords) enter into an agreement with towing companies giving them the freedom to patrol the parking lot and tow anyone who does not have their parking permit showing.
Then there are places like Newport News, Virginia... Where city ordinances give tow companies the ability to tow anyone who is "illegally parked". I will also assure you that they abuse this privilege as much as they possibly can.
On the money side, no, there is not a limit on what they can charge which I have heard of anywhere. There is a fixed amount the tow company can charge when the towing is ordered by the police in Virginia, but it only applies when the police call them.
If you want to know why little girls are being pushed away from STEM fields you first need to look at the home. Then you need to stare down the demon that is the church, which so many parents are taking their little girls to. The church is filling kids heads with the idea that women should be housewives baby factories, and nothing else. By the time that they are old enough to realize that they will not be able to just be a housewife they are often well into high school and have not even thought about specializing in anything. At this point they have learned very little of the foundations for such fields and really don't have that as an option anymore. And it doesn't matter if you don't indoctrinate your daughter. She will have to deal with being ostracized by her peers if she shows interest in anything beyond the "proper role of a woman" so many of the other girls were taught.
Like most of our other social problems, this one is rooted in religion.
The male teachers in elementary school is not going to change any time soon. There is a huge problem that has to be overcome first. We have to somehow kill the "every man is a potential child predator" craze that has swept the nation since the 80's. Very few men are going to try to teach children when they know that they are going to be scrutinized or even accused of being a child rapist every time they get in close proximity to a child.
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Agreed, dark matter is based on a long string of false assumptions and piss-poor science that borders on religion. The only reason that the idea persists is that the whole community can't admit that they have been wrong.
Yes, there are more STEM graduates than jobs, but somehow we still have a STEM shortage. I keep wondering how people keep believing the bullshit.
The pot and kettle were later arrested for loitering nearby.
Don't be a fool.
I have often heard that it was released by the CIA for the purpose of people fucking up and killing themselves.
The difference, fucktard, is that the people using a gun are serious about it. The others are crying for attention.
"Am I being too distrustful?"
When it comes to corporations and politicians there is no such thing as too distrustful.
I believe it has a much more broad relevance than commodities and health care.
Internet providers
GMO's
Politicians
The poor born into the ghetto
The list could fill a large book.
They get their money for that from concerts.
I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned focus as a major problem. I do not mean the optics of the device necessarily, but that is a likely source. What I'm talking about is usually from the content itself. When focus blur is used, or induced by the way a video is shot, it causes your eyes to attempt to fix the blur by focusing on the blurred area. When this inevitably fails your eyes will continue to try causing eye strain which leads to a headache.
This is the only issue I get from VR, but then again, I do not get motion sickness at all.
This should be insightful instead of funny.
Fake sugars do increase obesity by fucking up our body's ability to count calories.
And after each lesson it's time for the two-minutes hate. The ten-minutes hate has replaced recess.
And what exactly do you think a hypothesis is if not an educated guess.
I disagree, sociopaths can lead a normal life and be decent people. Our leaders throughout history have all been psychopaths. They thoroughly enjoy the misery of the poor and inflict more misery for entertainment.
Which is the problem.
I can't argue against that.
Except that DNA evidence is by no means rock solid. Innocent people are sent to prison based on it all the time, same with fingerprints. The jury has been fed an extremely large lie through all of these police dramas which depict various forensic methods as infallible when they are in fact far from it.
I would assume AmiMoJo is referring to the fact that the methods used for both are at least an order of magnitude less accurate(even without the corruption) than we are led to believe.
Much more accurate tests for DNA and fingerprints exist, but they are not used by our legal system. For example, the DNA test can be done on a white man and the results can match a black man who has no relation to the white man. That's right, the test cannot even determine race. We certainly have DNA tests that can identify a single person, but that test is very expensive and our legal system will not pay for it.
The answers to your question depend on where you are asking them. In most places it is illegal for a tow truck to tow a car which is not legally parked unless specifically asked by the property owner or a police officer (in which case you will also get a ticket). Some businesses(read as slumlords) enter into an agreement with towing companies giving them the freedom to patrol the parking lot and tow anyone who does not have their parking permit showing.
Then there are places like Newport News, Virginia... Where city ordinances give tow companies the ability to tow anyone who is "illegally parked". I will also assure you that they abuse this privilege as much as they possibly can.
On the money side, no, there is not a limit on what they can charge which I have heard of anywhere. There is a fixed amount the tow company can charge when the towing is ordered by the police in Virginia, but it only applies when the police call them.
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American made, of course! (I know GM for certain does this, I think Ford does it too now)
Amen!
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Actually, if all goes well, you may want to retract that part about lettuce and insulin... http://www.news-medical.net/ne...
If you want to know why little girls are being pushed away from STEM fields you first need to look at the home. Then you need to stare down the demon that is the church, which so many parents are taking their little girls to. The church is filling kids heads with the idea that women should be housewives baby factories, and nothing else. By the time that they are old enough to realize that they will not be able to just be a housewife they are often well into high school and have not even thought about specializing in anything. At this point they have learned very little of the foundations for such fields and really don't have that as an option anymore. And it doesn't matter if you don't indoctrinate your daughter. She will have to deal with being ostracized by her peers if she shows interest in anything beyond the "proper role of a woman" so many of the other girls were taught.
Like most of our other social problems, this one is rooted in religion.
The male teachers in elementary school is not going to change any time soon. There is a huge problem that has to be overcome first. We have to somehow kill the "every man is a potential child predator" craze that has swept the nation since the 80's. Very few men are going to try to teach children when they know that they are going to be scrutinized or even accused of being a child rapist every time they get in close proximity to a child.
Do you know the source for those numbers? This could be very useful in future debates.