Thank you for making this post. It's good to see that someone out there understands this basic concept. Although, as a sister post notes, we do have a pretty good idea as to the cause of gravity.
Law of gravity: Objects attract each other according to their mass and the square of the distance between them. (F = GMm/R^2)
Theory of gravity: Gravity is caused by the interaction of gravitons at the quantum level, making gravity one of the basic forces.
Notice that theories describe the how and why of things, laws make concrete facts about the way things are.
Neither scientific laws or scientific theories (not to be confused with traffic laws or layman's theories, which describe different things entirely) are above being revised. In the case of laws, becoming more precise as our instruments become more precise, for instance, I believe that the universal gravitational constant (G, above) has been changed at various times as we are able to get better measurements. Theories, are often refined, partially revised, or scrapped altogether, often, we will use different theories depending on the model we are using (once again, scientific model, not like a car model, or like a car in general, get your analogies away from me!;-) ).
The most important distinction between laws and theories, is that laws can be proven: measure the gravitational pull between two masses, if it fits the formula, voila! Gravity still works as predicted, the aprocralypse is not upon us yet. Theories, however, can only be disproven, you can say, "Gravitons cannot be the cause of gravity, here is my evidence, which the theory doesn't explain," but you cannot say, "Here is my proof that gravitons cause gravity." (you can try to get proof, but at most you will have a very strong correlation, which, as every slashdotter is fond of pointing out, does not prove causation.
"But," you say, "that means that everything we know could be a lie!" To which I reply, "Yes, yes it does, but that is unlikely, because most theories that actually have a name, have been shown to correlate with the facts very, very consistently, and although this doesn't prove causation, it's a pretty good indication that most of science is true."
We used to DREAM of having three letters. When I went to school, we only had one letter, and we only used that on exam days. Every other day, we drew pictures on the ceiling with our bloody toes, which we had to gnaw off ourselves.
That said, it seems like a deliberately sexual pose, which is rather offensive to me. I suspect it was intended to be provocative rather than alluring, but artistic intent is so difficult to pin down that it's not something you can base law on.
If you trust the photographer/band at all, then it wasn't (not saying you should). Here is the relevant section of the wikipedia article (/.ers from the UK... use a proxy)
Hm, OP mentions that he already knows C#, but would like to develop on linux. Parent mentions that with Mono, C# is an option for developing on linux, even providing a helpful link. Parent gets modded down.
I kill my own animals, and they are treated much better than anything you'll see from peta.
One shot to the skull to knock them out (you rarely kill a pig by shooting its head, its skull is too thick), and slice the aorta to let the blood drain.
And yes, tenderloin taken fresh from the hog and fried up is one of the tastiest things you will ever eat.
I have had both raw milk and goat's milk. I love the raw milk and can't stand the goat's. However, it is not even close to practical for me to only drink raw milk. My choices are pasteur/homogenized or rice/soy. I don't like rice or soy milk, so standard milk it is.
Speaking of which... the third (and last) Mistborn book just came out in hardback. If you have never read anything of Sanderson's, do yourself a favor - go out and buy the first one. Make sure you have some cash left over, though, because, if you are anything like me, you will be back in the bookstore the next day, after having stayed up all night to finish, buying the other two (and anything else of his you can get your hands on).
Mistborn is the best low-fantasy I have ever read, and it's close to the top of my best fantasy in general list.
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And if you play the game disk backwards, it says, "The recording industry is dead, the recording industry is dead, the recording industry is dead..." over and over.
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Thank you for making this post. It's good to see that someone out there understands this basic concept. Although, as a sister post notes, we do have a pretty good idea as to the cause of gravity.
Law of gravity: Objects attract each other according to their mass and the square of the distance between them. (F = GMm/R^2)
Theory of gravity: Gravity is caused by the interaction of gravitons at the quantum level, making gravity one of the basic forces.
Notice that theories describe the how and why of things, laws make concrete facts about the way things are.
Neither scientific laws or scientific theories (not to be confused with traffic laws or layman's theories, which describe different things entirely) are above being revised. In the case of laws, becoming more precise as our instruments become more precise, for instance, I believe that the universal gravitational constant (G, above) has been changed at various times as we are able to get better measurements. Theories, are often refined, partially revised, or scrapped altogether, often, we will use different theories depending on the model we are using (once again, scientific model, not like a car model, or like a car in general, get your analogies away from me! ;-) ).
The most important distinction between laws and theories, is that laws can be proven: measure the gravitational pull between two masses, if it fits the formula, voila! Gravity still works as predicted, the aprocralypse is not upon us yet. Theories, however, can only be disproven, you can say, "Gravitons cannot be the cause of gravity, here is my evidence, which the theory doesn't explain," but you cannot say, "Here is my proof that gravitons cause gravity." (you can try to get proof, but at most you will have a very strong correlation, which, as every slashdotter is fond of pointing out, does not prove causation.
"But," you say, "that means that everything we know could be a lie!" To which I reply, "Yes, yes it does, but that is unlikely, because most theories that actually have a name, have been shown to correlate with the facts very, very consistently, and although this doesn't prove causation, it's a pretty good indication that most of science is true."
Should have been:
...who won their state, but, twenty-four states...
We used to DREAM of having three letters. When I went to school, we only had one letter, and we only used that on exam days. Every other day, we drew pictures on the ceiling with our bloody toes, which we had to gnaw off ourselves.
Yes it does.
That said, it seems like a deliberately sexual pose, which is rather offensive to me. I suspect it was intended to be provocative rather than alluring, but artistic intent is so difficult to pin down that it's not something you can base law on.
If you trust the photographer/band at all, then it wasn't (not saying you should). Here is the relevant section of the wikipedia article (/.ers from the UK... use a proxy)
The music sucks, of course.
No, better yet, they are touched by muses and put out the greatest pop music ever.
Mod Redundant...
Author has been a verb (and a noun) since at least 1596 (oed).
Oh, so THAT's why my python wasn't working on the slashdot interpreter....
Hm, OP mentions that he already knows C#, but would like to develop on linux. Parent mentions that with Mono, C# is an option for developing on linux, even providing a helpful link. Parent gets modded down.
Sigh. Sometimes /. gets to me...
He was talking about intellegent design.
Dude, read slower; type slower.
did you mean...
Was I the only one first excited and then let down after speedreading through the title? Because it left me with, "Cool, Folding@home mobile phones".
Look, if I'm going to have an argument with you, then I'm going to have to take up a contradictory position.
"Cannibals say that human tastes of chicken, so, babies taste of chicken.
And chicken tastes of human.
Good. Glad you're coming with me on this."
~Eddie Izzard. Dress to Kill
I kill my own animals, and they are treated much better than anything you'll see from peta.
One shot to the skull to knock them out (you rarely kill a pig by shooting its head, its skull is too thick), and slice the aorta to let the blood drain.
And yes, tenderloin taken fresh from the hog and fried up is one of the tastiest things you will ever eat.
I have had both raw milk and goat's milk. I love the raw milk and can't stand the goat's. However, it is not even close to practical for me to only drink raw milk. My choices are pasteur/homogenized or rice/soy.
I don't like rice or soy milk, so standard milk it is.
only if your definition of junk food includes things like pasteurized milk...
Speaking of which... the third (and last) Mistborn book just came out in hardback. If you have never read anything of Sanderson's, do yourself a favor - go out and buy the first one. Make sure you have some cash left over, though, because, if you are anything like me, you will be back in the bookstore the next day, after having stayed up all night to finish, buying the other two (and anything else of his you can get your hands on).
Mistborn is the best low-fantasy I have ever read, and it's close to the top of my best fantasy in general list.
You try getting a cent symbol to print through slashcode.
There you go! Courtesy of sed.
But the issue isn't sex in this instance. It's "offensive language" particularly, the use of the words "fuck" and "shit".
So... PROVE HARM.
And we shall call it: "the internet".
at the time this list was compiled, those two words both still referred to animals.
Wait, they aren't?
And if you play the game disk backwards, it says, "The recording industry is dead, the recording industry is dead, the recording industry is dead..." over and over.
That's not a grammar problem, that's a diction problem.
As I am now correcting your diction.