My point isn't really the accuracy of the information, but that the information is sorted through and used by Politicians for their own whim. Hence why Al Gore uses 20 times the electricity in his home of the average American and it costs more than $30k for him to speak for an hour at a university.
Here you go, this has lots of citations:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html
Therein:
-Science March 1, 1975 issue
-1974 National Science Board announcement that an Ice Age of 10,000 years in length should be expected
-The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."
Climate Science is a STUDY, much like Social Studies, Political "Science", and most (but not all) fields of Psychology. You cannot experiment on Climate on the timeframes or scales these "scientists" are suggesting. You cannot produce a hypothesis, alter variables, and confirm or deny your ideas.
Climate Studies, as it should be called, consists entirely of observation and computer modelling - a form of mathematics which is also not a science, but an art or "language".
In 1975, American Scientist, Nature, and New York Times were publishing story after story about the imminent New Ice Age that would plunge the world into subfreezing temperatures for the next 100 years. Suddenly, 20 years later and Global Warming is all we can talk about? I don't understand. No, I do understand... both points of view have been apparent for nearly a hundred years. Politicians and marketers just grab hold of whichever evidence they want to promote their own agenda. Sure it's possible, which is exactly why it's such a powerful weapon in the social manipulator's arsenal... just like 9/11 denier's evidence is just plausible enough to make people believe it... or how creationists can bend scientific discoveries just enough to gain a following.
Sure we might be warming, just as much as we might have been cooling in the 70s. But what does it matter? We need renewable energy regardless of what the environment is doing.
Except that Google has a lot of other information on us already, too. Cross-referencing data sets provides true statistical power. Our ISPs do not have the same information that we voluntarily give Google. There's regulation against our ISPs stealing the information that gets passed through them. There's no stopping voluntarily giving Google control of our email, calendar, health records, DNS requests, marketing information, voicemail transcripts, blog articles...
Sounds like someone's upset that they didn't get hired by Google... made up a story about being "too Google for Google". Now they can feel like a secret agent for Google while they work tech support for Dell.
Protein Kinase C is a key enzyme activated by many very different pathways involved in many different functions across the board. Blocking it will affect innumerable systems.
Saying Protein Kinase C is the key to neutralizing Parkinson's Diseases is like saying Money is the key to the Financial Crisis.... Duh.
The clinical effects of Parkinson's Disease are the result of neuron death. You can't reverse the effects. Even if you induce neuronal growth, the brain will have to relearn the connections it needs to make, which took a lifetime to form. Forget about playing the piano again. You'll have to relearn to play (although you'll still have the conceptual knowledge).
Oh come on! Are you a product of parents of the 70s "free love" and "intellectual exploration" process? Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
Sure, people choose something they're interested in, but most rational people want to make money so that they can live a relaxing life instead of a disgruntled on like you seem to lead, as evidenced by your spite toward gaining wealth through investment, and the idea that politicians are dirty, filthy rich. I bet you vote for Change, too.
These studies are important not just because it shows us how best to earn an income but also because it shows us where our society's deficits are. If we need fewer science professionals, we obviously need something else for them to do, and I'm sure if I RTFA I'd see it mentions what we do need.
Regardless, supply of professionals in a certain area definitely affects income, which influences career choices. How many of you thought IT professionals would be so valuable you'd live a rich life, and now you're doing Exchange server tweaking for some corporate branch in the middle of nowhere. Can any of you honestly say that you chose an IT career because you love to tweak Exchange servers?
The American Dental Association has it right and very tightly controls the number of dental students schools can accept in order to keep demand for dentists high and salaries in the very comfortable range. I wish Science did that. It would increase the mystique of the field, like MDs currently have. All MDs do is tweak patients like they're an Exchange server. They gather complaints from the patient/user and look up in some book how to fix it if they don't already know how. The only thing that makes us NOT doctors is that we don't have the password/prescription-pad, because med schools are tightly regulated to keep salaries and demand high.
Why would you want to send an auto-SMS and waste a text message when you don't answer a call? Isn't it implied that if it goes directly to voicemail that I'm busy and I will call back? Are the people that call you really that paranoid that you don't like them that they need an SMS to tell them that you didn't answer your phone but you still want to be friends?
I mean, sure, it's great that the phone's OS allows that kind of open development and all, but... honestly?
I also need to modify my above statement. Ectodermal cell differentiation occurs at day 16 in humans, after implantation, but still before most women would suspect a pregnancy.
I am a PhD student of Neurobiology and I consider abortion murder. Who cares about a heart beat when the embryo's circulation is directly linked to that of the mother? On the contrary, the nervous system is formed in humans within three days, before any woman would even notice being pregnant. In fact, the ectodermal cells that are the undifferentiated neurons destined to become the nervous system are in place and begin their morphological formation before implantation into the uterine wall. All of this talk of trimesters and trigger points like the first heart beat in development are not reflected by biological development, rather they are simple terms we use for convenience.
I don't even understand why people feel there is a need for abortion. There are condoms and pills, plan B/morning after pill, and many other old fashion ways to not get pregnant. What purpose does abortion serve?
It's acting more like a diode, really, than just a wire, but yeah, you're basically on target.
It is also plastic: i.e. the neurons are free to associate with whatever electrodes they are most attracted to, just like in a biological brain. That means that the electrodes that are most active will receive the most connections, and thus the "wires" are self constructing according to "need" (or frequency of stimulation in a molecular biology sense).
Ahh, I see you're a materialist at heart. This is true of a fully human brain as well: an action potential is just a response to a molecular-mechanical stimulus that opens ion channels to change the polarity of the neuron. What makes a human "brain" controlled?
Truth is, there's nothing special about this robot. It basically uses rat neuron cells to propogate an electrical signal instead of full-length wires. But if you believe that, then you also believe there's nothing special about the human brain. It just responds to environmental stimuli in a predictable, yet seemingly complex way. Big deal.
Actually, if you keep a good notebook of your work that's dated and signed by yourself, and for extra precauction a "reader's signature" of a second, unrelated party, it doesn't matter if your publish your work, you can still prove that you have precedent and can challenge any patents lawsuits filed at a later time and take over the patent for yourself.
No need to file or publish as long as you keep good notes. Of course, if you thought it was a million dollar idea, why are you not patenting it? Also, you have up to 1 year after publishing work to file a patent on it. One year after publishing it's up for grabs. So if you think you only need a year to find out if it's a million dollar idea and not spend the pennies on patenting it, you can publish it. If you can't end up marketing it, at least you have increased the knowledge base of humanity, for which your name will forever be lauded and praised.
Millions of people have been wrong before. All I'm saying is, the mob does not necessarily have to be right simply because it's the mob.
Not that it matters, "wrong" or "right" this is Science Fiction and I'm glad the story is based on plot. Star Trek is about overcoming humanities problems, not overcoming technical problems.
And school children get vaccinations all the time. I work with animals, I have to be vaccinated against certain diseases so I don't pass them on to the animals. Healthcare workers are vaccinated against a lot of thing so they don't pass it on. If I were a nurse or doctor and had to examine 60 patients a day all with a cough, I would WANT the vaccine, who cares if it's mandatory?
What do medical qualifications have to do with the fact that the seasonal flu vaccine is produced according to a prediction about epitopes that may or may not be present on the newly mutated form of the virus? A flu shot does not mean you won't get the flu, it means your body will react to certain antigens it encounters due to previous exposure. That's no guarantee that the flu virus will mutate as predicted. These predictions are made a year in advance. Try predicting the weather a year in advance, maybe no one would get rained on?
The symptoms of the flu, such as cough and nasal drip, are the result of the activation of the immune system. Just because your immune system is recognizing antigen and mounting an immune response does not mean you have been infected with the flu virus. It simply means your immune system is being activated and as a result you will become immune to the flu.
You are most infected with the virus before you get a single symptom, because the symptoms are your body mounting a response to the virus. Just because you get a cough doesn't mean the flu-shot has the potential of infecting or killing you.
You know, China is a Republic. The elected officials are voted into office, and there are a vast array of parties, including a Democracy party that wants to reduce censorship etc. Most people in China like the government doing these things for them. It's better for the world and for themselves and their own children if they limit births to two kids. Citizens don't have to worry about virii and irrelevant websites on the reference resource known as the Internet. Most Chinese choose to live under these rules because it makes life easier for them, easier in that they have to make fewer decisions for themselves and thus worry less about their day to day lives.
I personally don't want my government like that. All I want is for my government to make it safe for me to live within its borders thanks to an army, and otherwise to get out of my way. I am perfectly capable of succeeding on my own with hard work, and the government reducing my choices is just them stymieing my potential. I thrive in choice. All I'm saying is, live and let live.
Probably because many of those block legitimate medically relevant websites used by the national science foundation.
The trouble is, a scientist myself, is that so much time is wasted waiting for bureaucracies that meet once a month to approve work that could be done in one day that there's lots of down time. No, they shouldn't look at porn, but I spend a lot of my time reading news websites... like slashdot.
Oh, and definitely don't pop them on your own! That will just clog/infect surrounding pores and permanently damage the pore that's clogged, resulting in more cysts overall. A dermatologist can remove the cystic fluids easily and carefully in ways you cannot on your own. I did not heed that advice when I was a teenager, I wish I had. Really, just get a good dermatologist, it can become a serious problem very quickly.
Yeah, sebum is the natural oily product of the sebaceous glands that surround hair follicles. Zits are formed when sebaceous glands are blocked, resulting in a build-up for sebum WITHIN the hair follicle and/or gland. This build-up can occur due to a bacterial infection, skin sloughing, or excess sebum itself, excess sebum being produced by the sudden increase of systemic testosterone in pubescent years, as a result of repeated and frequent sexual stimulation post-pubescent, or exogenous oils and saturated fats from processed foods and meats can be secreted and are highly likely to obstruct these very pores.
The sebaceous glands can recalibrate themselves eventually to this increased testosterone concentration, or the testosterone concentration can descrease with age or activity, or the elasticity of the skin can result in increase pore size, allowing greater flow. Massaging of the skin under hot water with soap could be a preventive measure in done regularly and at a young enough age. I would avoid harsh peroxides as they do not attack the underlying cause, even if caused by a bacterial infection it will probably not be entirely effective. The pores need to be cleansed, and peroxides are very effective at damaging DNA resulting in skin cancer later in life.
I am not an M.D., but a Ph.D. student, and I had horrible sebaceous cysts when I was a teenager. So I can commiserate with the issue. Too bad I didn't realize back then that daily fast food was the cause of my problems and not the 'yummy' solution to my psychological needs I thought it was. Now, fast-food makes me sick that I know what is in it and how my teenage years of indiscretion will probably result in a heart-attack in mid-life, not discounting 5 years of misery, physically and psychologically. I bicycle 6 miles a day, now, and cook all of my own foods at home and I love life and social occasions. It's a lot harder to make those kinds of choices as a teenager, though. Peer pressure and the mental cloud of hormones makes it difficult to think for yourself, even when you think you are.
It was just an on-the-spot example. Don't read too much into it. My main point, which was unfortunately a one-liner, was: "The longer the generational gap and the greater the population, the more easily a species falls out of equilibrium with its environment." as a response to what fittest actually means.
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My point isn't really the accuracy of the information, but that the information is sorted through and used by Politicians for their own whim. Hence why Al Gore uses 20 times the electricity in his home of the average American and it costs more than $30k for him to speak for an hour at a university.
Here you go, this has lots of citations: http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html Therein: -Science March 1, 1975 issue -1974 National Science Board announcement that an Ice Age of 10,000 years in length should be expected -The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."
Climate Science is a STUDY, much like Social Studies, Political "Science", and most (but not all) fields of Psychology. You cannot experiment on Climate on the timeframes or scales these "scientists" are suggesting. You cannot produce a hypothesis, alter variables, and confirm or deny your ideas.
... both points of view have been apparent for nearly a hundred years. Politicians and marketers just grab hold of whichever evidence they want to promote their own agenda. Sure it's possible, which is exactly why it's such a powerful weapon in the social manipulator's arsenal ... just like 9/11 denier's evidence is just plausible enough to make people believe it ... or how creationists can bend scientific discoveries just enough to gain a following.
Climate Studies, as it should be called, consists entirely of observation and computer modelling - a form of mathematics which is also not a science, but an art or "language".
In 1975, American Scientist, Nature, and New York Times were publishing story after story about the imminent New Ice Age that would plunge the world into subfreezing temperatures for the next 100 years. Suddenly, 20 years later and Global Warming is all we can talk about? I don't understand. No, I do understand
Sure we might be warming, just as much as we might have been cooling in the 70s. But what does it matter? We need renewable energy regardless of what the environment is doing.
Except that Google has a lot of other information on us already, too. Cross-referencing data sets provides true statistical power. Our ISPs do not have the same information that we voluntarily give Google. There's regulation against our ISPs stealing the information that gets passed through them. There's no stopping voluntarily giving Google control of our email, calendar, health records, DNS requests, marketing information, voicemail transcripts, blog articles ...
Sounds like someone's upset that they didn't get hired by Google... made up a story about being "too Google for Google". Now they can feel like a secret agent for Google while they work tech support for Dell.
I stand corrected.
Protein Kinase C is a key enzyme activated by many very different pathways involved in many different functions across the board. Blocking it will affect innumerable systems.
... Duh.
Saying Protein Kinase C is the key to neutralizing Parkinson's Diseases is like saying Money is the key to the Financial Crisis.
The clinical effects of Parkinson's Disease are the result of neuron death. You can't reverse the effects. Even if you induce neuronal growth, the brain will have to relearn the connections it needs to make, which took a lifetime to form. Forget about playing the piano again. You'll have to relearn to play (although you'll still have the conceptual knowledge).
Oh come on! Are you a product of parents of the 70s "free love" and "intellectual exploration" process? Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
Sure, people choose something they're interested in, but most rational people want to make money so that they can live a relaxing life instead of a disgruntled on like you seem to lead, as evidenced by your spite toward gaining wealth through investment, and the idea that politicians are dirty, filthy rich. I bet you vote for Change, too.
These studies are important not just because it shows us how best to earn an income but also because it shows us where our society's deficits are. If we need fewer science professionals, we obviously need something else for them to do, and I'm sure if I RTFA I'd see it mentions what we do need.
Regardless, supply of professionals in a certain area definitely affects income, which influences career choices. How many of you thought IT professionals would be so valuable you'd live a rich life, and now you're doing Exchange server tweaking for some corporate branch in the middle of nowhere. Can any of you honestly say that you chose an IT career because you love to tweak Exchange servers?
The American Dental Association has it right and very tightly controls the number of dental students schools can accept in order to keep demand for dentists high and salaries in the very comfortable range. I wish Science did that. It would increase the mystique of the field, like MDs currently have. All MDs do is tweak patients like they're an Exchange server. They gather complaints from the patient/user and look up in some book how to fix it if they don't already know how. The only thing that makes us NOT doctors is that we don't have the password/prescription-pad, because med schools are tightly regulated to keep salaries and demand high.
Why would you want to send an auto-SMS and waste a text message when you don't answer a call? Isn't it implied that if it goes directly to voicemail that I'm busy and I will call back? Are the people that call you really that paranoid that you don't like them that they need an SMS to tell them that you didn't answer your phone but you still want to be friends?
... honestly?
I mean, sure, it's great that the phone's OS allows that kind of open development and all, but
I also need to modify my above statement. Ectodermal cell differentiation occurs at day 16 in humans, after implantation, but still before most women would suspect a pregnancy.
I did not forget rape. That's what the morning after pill is for.
I am a PhD student of Neurobiology and I consider abortion murder. Who cares about a heart beat when the embryo's circulation is directly linked to that of the mother? On the contrary, the nervous system is formed in humans within three days, before any woman would even notice being pregnant. In fact, the ectodermal cells that are the undifferentiated neurons destined to become the nervous system are in place and begin their morphological formation before implantation into the uterine wall. All of this talk of trimesters and trigger points like the first heart beat in development are not reflected by biological development, rather they are simple terms we use for convenience.
I don't even understand why people feel there is a need for abortion. There are condoms and pills, plan B/morning after pill, and many other old fashion ways to not get pregnant. What purpose does abortion serve?
Wow! I hadn't heard of appulous until you mentioned it! Interesting resource.
It's acting more like a diode, really, than just a wire, but yeah, you're basically on target.
It is also plastic: i.e. the neurons are free to associate with whatever electrodes they are most attracted to, just like in a biological brain. That means that the electrodes that are most active will receive the most connections, and thus the "wires" are self constructing according to "need" (or frequency of stimulation in a molecular biology sense).
Ahh, I see you're a materialist at heart. This is true of a fully human brain as well: an action potential is just a response to a molecular-mechanical stimulus that opens ion channels to change the polarity of the neuron. What makes a human "brain" controlled?
Truth is, there's nothing special about this robot. It basically uses rat neuron cells to propogate an electrical signal instead of full-length wires. But if you believe that, then you also believe there's nothing special about the human brain. It just responds to environmental stimuli in a predictable, yet seemingly complex way. Big deal.
Actually, if you keep a good notebook of your work that's dated and signed by yourself, and for extra precauction a "reader's signature" of a second, unrelated party, it doesn't matter if your publish your work, you can still prove that you have precedent and can challenge any patents lawsuits filed at a later time and take over the patent for yourself.
No need to file or publish as long as you keep good notes. Of course, if you thought it was a million dollar idea, why are you not patenting it? Also, you have up to 1 year after publishing work to file a patent on it. One year after publishing it's up for grabs. So if you think you only need a year to find out if it's a million dollar idea and not spend the pennies on patenting it, you can publish it. If you can't end up marketing it, at least you have increased the knowledge base of humanity, for which your name will forever be lauded and praised.
Millions of people have been wrong before. All I'm saying is, the mob does not necessarily have to be right simply because it's the mob.
Not that it matters, "wrong" or "right" this is Science Fiction and I'm glad the story is based on plot. Star Trek is about overcoming humanities problems, not overcoming technical problems.
And school children get vaccinations all the time. I work with animals, I have to be vaccinated against certain diseases so I don't pass them on to the animals. Healthcare workers are vaccinated against a lot of thing so they don't pass it on. If I were a nurse or doctor and had to examine 60 patients a day all with a cough, I would WANT the vaccine, who cares if it's mandatory?
What do medical qualifications have to do with the fact that the seasonal flu vaccine is produced according to a prediction about epitopes that may or may not be present on the newly mutated form of the virus? A flu shot does not mean you won't get the flu, it means your body will react to certain antigens it encounters due to previous exposure. That's no guarantee that the flu virus will mutate as predicted. These predictions are made a year in advance. Try predicting the weather a year in advance, maybe no one would get rained on?
The symptoms of the flu, such as cough and nasal drip, are the result of the activation of the immune system. Just because your immune system is recognizing antigen and mounting an immune response does not mean you have been infected with the flu virus. It simply means your immune system is being activated and as a result you will become immune to the flu.
You are most infected with the virus before you get a single symptom, because the symptoms are your body mounting a response to the virus. Just because you get a cough doesn't mean the flu-shot has the potential of infecting or killing you.
You know, China is a Republic. The elected officials are voted into office, and there are a vast array of parties, including a Democracy party that wants to reduce censorship etc. Most people in China like the government doing these things for them. It's better for the world and for themselves and their own children if they limit births to two kids. Citizens don't have to worry about virii and irrelevant websites on the reference resource known as the Internet. Most Chinese choose to live under these rules because it makes life easier for them, easier in that they have to make fewer decisions for themselves and thus worry less about their day to day lives.
I personally don't want my government like that. All I want is for my government to make it safe for me to live within its borders thanks to an army, and otherwise to get out of my way. I am perfectly capable of succeeding on my own with hard work, and the government reducing my choices is just them stymieing my potential. I thrive in choice. All I'm saying is, live and let live.
Probably because many of those block legitimate medically relevant websites used by the national science foundation.
... like slashdot.
The trouble is, a scientist myself, is that so much time is wasted waiting for bureaucracies that meet once a month to approve work that could be done in one day that there's lots of down time. No, they shouldn't look at porn, but I spend a lot of my time reading news websites
Oh, and definitely don't pop them on your own! That will just clog/infect surrounding pores and permanently damage the pore that's clogged, resulting in more cysts overall. A dermatologist can remove the cystic fluids easily and carefully in ways you cannot on your own. I did not heed that advice when I was a teenager, I wish I had.
Really, just get a good dermatologist, it can become a serious problem very quickly.
Yeah, sebum is the natural oily product of the sebaceous glands that surround hair follicles. Zits are formed when sebaceous glands are blocked, resulting in a build-up for sebum WITHIN the hair follicle and/or gland. This build-up can occur due to a bacterial infection, skin sloughing, or excess sebum itself, excess sebum being produced by the sudden increase of systemic testosterone in pubescent years, as a result of repeated and frequent sexual stimulation post-pubescent, or exogenous oils and saturated fats from processed foods and meats can be secreted and are highly likely to obstruct these very pores.
The sebaceous glands can recalibrate themselves eventually to this increased testosterone concentration, or the testosterone concentration can descrease with age or activity, or the elasticity of the skin can result in increase pore size, allowing greater flow. Massaging of the skin under hot water with soap could be a preventive measure in done regularly and at a young enough age. I would avoid harsh peroxides as they do not attack the underlying cause, even if caused by a bacterial infection it will probably not be entirely effective. The pores need to be cleansed, and peroxides are very effective at damaging DNA resulting in skin cancer later in life.
I am not an M.D., but a Ph.D. student, and I had horrible sebaceous cysts when I was a teenager. So I can commiserate with the issue. Too bad I didn't realize back then that daily fast food was the cause of my problems and not the 'yummy' solution to my psychological needs I thought it was. Now, fast-food makes me sick that I know what is in it and how my teenage years of indiscretion will probably result in a heart-attack in mid-life, not discounting 5 years of misery, physically and psychologically. I bicycle 6 miles a day, now, and cook all of my own foods at home and I love life and social occasions. It's a lot harder to make those kinds of choices as a teenager, though. Peer pressure and the mental cloud of hormones makes it difficult to think for yourself, even when you think you are.
It was just an on-the-spot example. Don't read too much into it. My main point, which was unfortunately a one-liner, was: "The longer the generational gap and the greater the population, the more easily a species falls out of equilibrium with its environment." as a response to what fittest actually means.