So, a scientific theory must not only explain the phenomenon, but also be well supported by empirical evidence and experimentation and be falsifiable yet proven. A hypothesis, on the other hand, is only a proposed explanation for given observations.
Well, a hypothesis can exist as an untested proposition. However, to draw conclusions from evidence according to a hypothesis one must also disprove the null hypothesis. Statistically the null hypothesis must be less likely than the original hypothesis. Otherwise, your results may be tainted by confirmation bias.
Say you hypothesize that stepping on cracks results in breaking of your relatives' backs remotely. You could step on cracks and find evidence that back breakages are correlated. However, you did not disprove the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis would be that crack stepping does not cause back breakage. One or more alternate hypotheses may be proposed: Back breakages are caused by accidents unrelated to stepping on cracks.
The religious put forth: A god created the World and Diversity of life is supernatural. They may even find evidence that to them supports their claims -- However, far from even reaching the realm of Theory (peer testing, repeatable experiments) they have not even disproved the null hypothesis. EVOLUTION IS THE NULL HYPOTHESIS. The null hypothesis has far more supporting evidence than the religious hypothesis. Scientifically: Creationism can not be a Theory. Teaching Intelligent Design is COMPLETELY AT ODDS with the scientific method since It has been disproved by the null hypothesis.
Please take this to heart: If you want this world to survive, please stop pandering to these religious morons. It's very dangerous to do otherwise. You are part of the problem if you are not actively calling them on the carpet for their bullshit you encounter.
That is the best advice I can sincerely give. I would be less of a hard-ass about it if we had more than one planet colonized -- They don't care about space funding; We're all supposed to die according to them.
The Lord Almighty, in his infinite wisdom, decided that instead of creating two separate humans, the first marriage would instead be between incestuous genetic twins.
... so said the political dissident 70 years later who, in an effort to destabilize his Jewish persecutors, decided that telling girls the Mesiah had come, might get them do the same. However, despite full knowledge of the error, in a move to remain seeming legitimate to the masses of fools who follow them, the Vatican remains silent over the fact that the oxymoronic "virgin birth" was caused by a mistranslation.
I once demonstrated a similar smaller scale solar power collection system to the ants. Their minds were blown and soon after they declared war. Who knew building an operational Death Ray was in violation of the Treaty of Alderaan?
Yeah, it's like they're unaware we already have a nuclear reactor in the sky beaming wireless energy to the ground -- It's called The Sun. Now, with the first part of their problem completed, we just need to erect more and more efficient energy collectors on the ground.
Until the tin oxides/corrodes. What are they going to coat the tin with, to prevent that? (And can they put that protective coating on faster than oxygen can get at the single-atom layer of tin?)
/me strokes his whiskers remembering a more mischievous metallic kind.
Have no fear, your beloved organ is safe in your hands. This breakthrough has yet to be broken through -- And even still, it's a 1 atom thick layer: Aluminium case computers and phones would be a more technological threat to your pipe like love.
Ah the Poe's Law Troll, one of my favorites. However, I'll oblige.
You're not important enough for anyone to care about your private communications.
Until you are. Then you're fucked, even if it's a bullshit reason, like making anti-NSA political statements on the Internet, while also being an OS developer and having knowledge of unpatched OS exploit vectors, and developing your own cryptographic ciphers. Then you may find your router firmware mysteriously bricked by an exploit gone wrong -- You see, upon suspicion of odd things going on in my network (like 350 MB uploads in the middle of the night when no one was using the net to IP addresses owned by the US government) I cleansed my systems and replaced my router and its firmware, but caused it to still be fingerprinted as stock. That's called a canary, and my canary is dead. When I look at things from an intelligence perspective, It seems like I might be interesting to them, even though I'm a pacifist not a terrorist.
I'm not sure who wants into my systems or for what purpose. However, condoning such actions against citizens is abhorrent. If they showed up at my door step with a warrant I'd shake their hands and give 'em few cases of my homebrewed beer to take home and help them to everything they want to know -- That's what they should be doing. Now, I have to assume it's malicious attackers or enemy state actors. It's really not helpful to be at war with your allies... I don't think we should have to live in fear of whether or not the NSA style spying will be leveraged against citizens, or make the governments of our world illegitimate by violating citizens trusts and rights. Regardless if they are "legally" allowed, it means nothing if your populous abhors the action and despises the state for it. We should not have to wonder; We should know we can trust that our governments are not evil -- We should be able to prove it. We shouldn't allow them to do anything we don't know about. In the NSA's case they lie to their overseers. The threat such actions pose to national integrity and stability is far too a high a price to pay. The risk is too damn high.
I, for one, think it's hot that the NSA sees my sexts.
When the government retroactively declares your "sexts" to be offensive and illegal material they probably won't arrest you for it -- Unless they decide that they don't like you for some other reason. This is how police states operate. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you. They will not have the obligation to use the information they have to exonerate you. In fact, once they "like you" for a crime the states will employ the practice of Parallel Construction. And no matter how sexy, your sexting habits may be just the ticket to nail you for something else. In other words: We shouldn't help them fuck you. They should have to work for the taxes we pay.
If the NSA didn't do this, we'd already be dead. Everybody already knew the NSA does this, so it doesn't matter.
This line of reasoning is pure bullshit. We suspected, but we didn't have evidence, and given that Habeas Corpus is now eliminated upon mere accusation of threat it does matter more than ever before. Those who love their country are not so content to have it turned into the same things their soldiers fight against. The greatest risk is that the honorable will STOP fighting for those who are seen as dishonorable when countries become like the enemies the soldiers were trained to despise. The NSA actions, and the spying actions like them by countries world wide are threats to national security and national sovereignty of all the world's peoples.
Why does it matter what chromosomes your coder bears?
Maybe the women are more likely to tolerate being underpaid. If training more coders is an effort to keep wages down, it might make sense to train a class of people who have historically worked for lower wages.
Except that your revisionist historical bullshit is wrong. Women who work the same jobs for the same time as men are paid more than men, this has been true since at least the 70's. Never married women make more money than never married men. What happens when folks get married? KIDS. So, The husband may work a bit harder while the wife takes maternity leave to have a baby. Women are more likely to spend time off work with their kids. Then some deluded feminists with an agenda come along and tally up the pay of all women and all men, ignoring the choices that women and men have made were different. Then they go on about some wage gap myth that never existed in the first place.
Furthermore, your argument makes no sense. If women naturally worked harder for less pay, then it would be foolish for any business to hire a majority men. Contrary to what you're implying: WOMEN ARE NOT DUMB. Get it through your fool head: You are wrong about the wages. STOP listening to the "women are always victims" bullshit. It's wrong. Read a history book or ANY unbiased sampling of wage data for fuck's sake: Running a home and raising a kid used to be a full time job before all our modern conveniences came into existence. Men and women are different. They have different bodies and behaviors thanks to millions of years of evolution as a sexually dimorphic race. They make different life choices at different rates. We give them equal opportunity and they express their differences in the choices they make.
So will the same apply to nursing teachers if not enough male students enroll?
Know what? Most Janitors are men. Hey, Coal miners too. We should mandate 50% men and women in all fields of employ. You wanted to be a councelor? Sorry, we need more women coal miners. You wanted to be a programmer? Sorry, we need more male hair dressers.
TFA is bullshit. Equality isn't 50% men vs 50% women. Equality is equal opportunity, and proportional representation. If 30% of applicants are female, and 50% of accepted applicants are female, then that's not equality it's sexism. If you have the opportunity to do something -- Be a coal miner or hair dresser or romance novelist or computer programmer, etc -- and you decide NOT to do it, then we shouldn't force you to do it. It's a fact that humans are sexually dimorphic: Men have penises, women have vaginae and breasts and bear children. It's moronic to think that human brains are somehow immune to being affected by those same genes that make our bodies so different. In fact, we've observed differences in male and female brains. Neither one is better than the other. We should offer them the same set of choices -- The same opportunities; However, we shouldn't be surprised when the genders have preferences for or against different jobs. Men and women are different. Anyone who thinks otherwise can, and should, go fuck themselves.
IT and CS are kind of shitty jobs right now -- Those same fucks who are pushing for more female applicants regardless of if they want to enroll? Yeah, they're also the ones putting ads in the newspaper and turning down any qualified applicant for any reason they can only to say they meet the requirements so they can fill the jobs with the lower paid H1B visa employees they're lobbying for having more of. Penalize teachers because girls are being smart enough not to sign up for that shite? Fuck you Zuck and the elites you rode in on.
You don't know a single competent programmer who just started programming just because they wanted to. They started programming because they had the opportunity to, and the support.
Negative. I came from a poor family. No money. In elementary school I put an Apple IIe disk in upside down by accident. A BASIC prompt appeared and I started typing stuff into it. I discovered the LIST command and all the instructions went flying up the screen, for pages and pages. Eventually I learned how to edit those lines of code and by changing values here and there I learned how the functions were called. This was in the computer lab -- We were supposed to be playing some shitty games. My teacher had no clue what was going on with me, but I was quiet and that's all that mattered. I begged my neighbors for any kind of work to do for money, and purchased my own PC part by part. They come with instructions, and I knew how to read. By highschool where "Vocational Computer Applications" was finally taught I was already selling my software on Compuserve. Everyone online today has a web browser -- It's a scripting engine for JavaScript like the Apple IIe was for BASIC. Kids now have free online information and compilers. If you make it to Highschool without writing code first, you probably won't ever be a programmer. It's just too damn easy, and for folks who want to learn -- Nothing can stop them. Not even being surrounded by morons like you.
It would help if IT computer janitors weren't creepy nerds who refer to women as "females"
Rated insightful? Really?
IT and CS folks are different than each other. Neither are "creepy nerds". That stigma you're applying is probably related to your application of the equally ridiculous stigma aganist the term "female".
Women, young women, and girls are female; Men, young men, and boys are male. See how "male" or "female" applies to more folk than just "women"?
If you let your preconcieved notions cause you to rush in, fangs bared, wrongly assuming a hostile environment exists then your confirmation bias will get the best of you every damn time. Being on edge ready to strike out is a shitty way to make friends. Once the people (females and males alike) see you overreact like this in real life, they'll treat you like an outcast -- Which will validate your incorrect assumption that the environment was hostile towards you, and mask the truth: You are the one being hostile and fostering that environment.
I will come to your house, put a gun to your head, and force you to read Bitcoin stories much like Unknown Lamer does here. You must read them. This is not an option.
Oh yeah? We'll I'll send their mother a case of Tentacle Grape Soda with their name on it unless A.C. makes posts on every article they don't like.
Fighting for your country has important implications that must not be overlooked. A human piloting a machine is not at risk of death. If you don't have to risk your life to deal death then it's easier to do the killing. Furthermore, requiring people to fight people in war directly increases the cost of life to the side that would win. This ensures that war's price can not be ignored by indirect killing. The deaths are tragic and cause people on both sides to cry out for peaceful resolution rather than merciless death. Finally, if people are required to fight a war, then you can not fight a war the people will not fight themselves...
Dark times are dangerously near. The second amendment was never properly interpreted to mean what it should: The right to bear technology. IMO, only manned drones are acceptable.
The problem is that the people of all the worlds countries are not enemies of each other. It's strange then that the governments would make each other enemies. Whom are they fighting? Enemies? Or the perception that they are not needed anywhere but at home, and even then, not so much.
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So, a scientific theory must not only explain the phenomenon, but also be well supported by empirical evidence and experimentation and be falsifiable yet proven. A hypothesis, on the other hand, is only a proposed explanation for given observations.
Well, a hypothesis can exist as an untested proposition. However, to draw conclusions from evidence according to a hypothesis one must also disprove the null hypothesis. Statistically the null hypothesis must be less likely than the original hypothesis. Otherwise, your results may be tainted by confirmation bias.
Say you hypothesize that stepping on cracks results in breaking of your relatives' backs remotely. You could step on cracks and find evidence that back breakages are correlated. However, you did not disprove the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis would be that crack stepping does not cause back breakage. One or more alternate hypotheses may be proposed: Back breakages are caused by accidents unrelated to stepping on cracks.
The religious put forth: A god created the World and Diversity of life is supernatural. They may even find evidence that to them supports their claims -- However, far from even reaching the realm of Theory (peer testing, repeatable experiments) they have not even disproved the null hypothesis. EVOLUTION IS THE NULL HYPOTHESIS. The null hypothesis has far more supporting evidence than the religious hypothesis. Scientifically: Creationism can not be a Theory. Teaching Intelligent Design is COMPLETELY AT ODDS with the scientific method since It has been disproved by the null hypothesis.
Suggestions anyone ?
Please take this to heart: If you want this world to survive, please stop pandering to these religious morons.
It's very dangerous to do otherwise.
You are part of the problem if you are not actively calling them on the carpet for their bullshit you encounter.
That is the best advice I can sincerely give. I would be less of a hard-ass about it if we had more than one planet colonized -- They don't care about space funding; We're all supposed to die according to them.
The Lord Almighty, in his infinite wisdom, decided that instead of creating two separate humans, the first marriage would instead be between incestuous genetic twins.
... so said the political dissident 70 years later who, in an effort to destabilize his Jewish persecutors, decided that telling girls the Mesiah had come, might get them do the same. However, despite full knowledge of the error, in a move to remain seeming legitimate to the masses of fools who follow them, the Vatican remains silent over the fact that the oxymoronic "virgin birth" was caused by a mistranslation.
The pious must flow.
As usual, a Google search provides the answer.
I once demonstrated a similar smaller scale solar power collection system to the ants. Their minds were blown and soon after they declared war.
Who knew building an operational Death Ray was in violation of the Treaty of Alderaan?
Yeah, it's like they're unaware we already have a nuclear reactor in the sky beaming wireless energy to the ground -- It's called The Sun. Now, with the first part of their problem completed, we just need to erect more and more efficient energy collectors on the ground.
Any new form of government that brings back more boobies has got to be good!
So it is written, so let it be done.
Until the tin oxides/corrodes. What are they going to coat the tin with, to prevent that? (And can they put that protective coating on faster than oxygen can get at the single-atom layer of tin?)
Have no fear, your beloved organ is safe in your hands. This breakthrough has yet to be broken through -- And even still, it's a 1 atom thick layer: Aluminium case computers and phones would be a more technological threat to your pipe like love.
It will be them that starts the war, but us that finds and burns every black leather couch out there....
Rule 34 is one step ahead of you, mate.
Today, class, I will teach you the invaluable and rare skill of learning from the mistakes of others.
This technique learned from my mentor, though scandalous, is quite effective: Observe, as I remove my trousers...
Ah the Poe's Law Troll, one of my favorites. However, I'll oblige.
You're not important enough for anyone to care about your private communications.
Until you are. Then you're fucked, even if it's a bullshit reason, like making anti-NSA political statements on the Internet, while also being an OS developer and having knowledge of unpatched OS exploit vectors, and developing your own cryptographic ciphers. Then you may find your router firmware mysteriously bricked by an exploit gone wrong -- You see, upon suspicion of odd things going on in my network (like 350 MB uploads in the middle of the night when no one was using the net to IP addresses owned by the US government) I cleansed my systems and replaced my router and its firmware, but caused it to still be fingerprinted as stock. That's called a canary, and my canary is dead. When I look at things from an intelligence perspective, It seems like I might be interesting to them, even though I'm a pacifist not a terrorist.
I'm not sure who wants into my systems or for what purpose. However, condoning such actions against citizens is abhorrent. If they showed up at my door step with a warrant I'd shake their hands and give 'em few cases of my homebrewed beer to take home and help them to everything they want to know -- That's what they should be doing. Now, I have to assume it's malicious attackers or enemy state actors. It's really not helpful to be at war with your allies... I don't think we should have to live in fear of whether or not the NSA style spying will be leveraged against citizens, or make the governments of our world illegitimate by violating citizens trusts and rights. Regardless if they are "legally" allowed, it means nothing if your populous abhors the action and despises the state for it. We should not have to wonder; We should know we can trust that our governments are not evil -- We should be able to prove it. We shouldn't allow them to do anything we don't know about. In the NSA's case they lie to their overseers. The threat such actions pose to national integrity and stability is far too a high a price to pay. The risk is too damn high.
I, for one, think it's hot that the NSA sees my sexts.
When the government retroactively declares your "sexts" to be offensive and illegal material they probably won't arrest you for it -- Unless they decide that they don't like you for some other reason. This is how police states operate. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you. They will not have the obligation to use the information they have to exonerate you. In fact, once they "like you" for a crime the states will employ the practice of Parallel Construction. And no matter how sexy, your sexting habits may be just the ticket to nail you for something else. In other words: We shouldn't help them fuck you. They should have to work for the taxes we pay.
If the NSA didn't do this, we'd already be dead.
Everybody already knew the NSA does this, so it doesn't matter.
This line of reasoning is pure bullshit. We suspected, but we didn't have evidence, and given that Habeas Corpus is now eliminated upon mere accusation of threat it does matter more than ever before. Those who love their country are not so content to have it turned into the same things their soldiers fight against. The greatest risk is that the honorable will STOP fighting for those who are seen as dishonorable when countries become like the enemies the soldiers were trained to despise. The NSA actions, and the spying actions like them by countries world wide are threats to national security and national sovereignty of all the world's peoples.
Finally, the terrorist threat is pathetic, though they say it's nothing to sneeze at the flu kills six times more Ameri
Given the nature of the Kdenlive software itself, video editing, I think it would be foolish to rule out a mafiAA hit.
Why does it matter what chromosomes your coder bears?
Maybe the women are more likely to tolerate being underpaid. If training more coders is an effort to keep wages down, it might make sense to train a class of people who have historically worked for lower wages.
Except that your revisionist historical bullshit is wrong. Women who work the same jobs for the same time as men are paid more than men, this has been true since at least the 70's. Never married women make more money than never married men. What happens when folks get married? KIDS. So, The husband may work a bit harder while the wife takes maternity leave to have a baby. Women are more likely to spend time off work with their kids. Then some deluded feminists with an agenda come along and tally up the pay of all women and all men, ignoring the choices that women and men have made were different. Then they go on about some wage gap myth that never existed in the first place.
Furthermore, your argument makes no sense. If women naturally worked harder for less pay, then it would be foolish for any business to hire a majority men. Contrary to what you're implying: WOMEN ARE NOT DUMB. Get it through your fool head: You are wrong about the wages. STOP listening to the "women are always victims" bullshit. It's wrong. Read a history book or ANY unbiased sampling of wage data for fuck's sake: Running a home and raising a kid used to be a full time job before all our modern conveniences came into existence. Men and women are different. They have different bodies and behaviors thanks to millions of years of evolution as a sexually dimorphic race. They make different life choices at different rates. We give them equal opportunity and they express their differences in the choices they make.
So will the same apply to nursing teachers if not enough male students enroll?
Know what? Most Janitors are men. Hey, Coal miners too. We should mandate 50% men and women in all fields of employ. You wanted to be a councelor? Sorry, we need more women coal miners. You wanted to be a programmer? Sorry, we need more male hair dressers.
TFA is bullshit. Equality isn't 50% men vs 50% women. Equality is equal opportunity, and proportional representation. If 30% of applicants are female, and 50% of accepted applicants are female, then that's not equality it's sexism. If you have the opportunity to do something -- Be a coal miner or hair dresser or romance novelist or computer programmer, etc -- and you decide NOT to do it, then we shouldn't force you to do it. It's a fact that humans are sexually dimorphic: Men have penises, women have vaginae and breasts and bear children. It's moronic to think that human brains are somehow immune to being affected by those same genes that make our bodies so different. In fact, we've observed differences in male and female brains. Neither one is better than the other. We should offer them the same set of choices -- The same opportunities; However, we shouldn't be surprised when the genders have preferences for or against different jobs. Men and women are different. Anyone who thinks otherwise can, and should, go fuck themselves.
IT and CS are kind of shitty jobs right now -- Those same fucks who are pushing for more female applicants regardless of if they want to enroll? Yeah, they're also the ones putting ads in the newspaper and turning down any qualified applicant for any reason they can only to say they meet the requirements so they can fill the jobs with the lower paid H1B visa employees they're lobbying for having more of. Penalize teachers because girls are being smart enough not to sign up for that shite? Fuck you Zuck and the elites you rode in on.
You don't know a single competent programmer who just started programming just because they wanted to. They started programming because they had the opportunity to, and the support.
Negative. I came from a poor family. No money. In elementary school I put an Apple IIe disk in upside down by accident. A BASIC prompt appeared and I started typing stuff into it. I discovered the LIST command and all the instructions went flying up the screen, for pages and pages. Eventually I learned how to edit those lines of code and by changing values here and there I learned how the functions were called. This was in the computer lab -- We were supposed to be playing some shitty games. My teacher had no clue what was going on with me, but I was quiet and that's all that mattered. I begged my neighbors for any kind of work to do for money, and purchased my own PC part by part. They come with instructions, and I knew how to read. By highschool where "Vocational Computer Applications" was finally taught I was already selling my software on Compuserve. Everyone online today has a web browser -- It's a scripting engine for JavaScript like the Apple IIe was for BASIC. Kids now have free online information and compilers. If you make it to Highschool without writing code first, you probably won't ever be a programmer. It's just too damn easy, and for folks who want to learn -- Nothing can stop them. Not even being surrounded by morons like you.
It would help if IT computer janitors weren't creepy nerds who refer to women as "females"
Rated insightful? Really?
IT and CS folks are different than each other. Neither are "creepy nerds". That stigma you're applying is probably related to your application of the equally ridiculous stigma aganist the term "female".
Women, young women, and girls are female; Men, young men, and boys are male. See how "male" or "female" applies to more folk than just "women"?
If you let your preconcieved notions cause you to rush in, fangs bared, wrongly assuming a hostile environment exists then your confirmation bias will get the best of you every damn time. Being on edge ready to strike out is a shitty way to make friends. Once the people (females and males alike) see you overreact like this in real life, they'll treat you like an outcast -- Which will validate your incorrect assumption that the environment was hostile towards you, and mask the truth: You are the one being hostile and fostering that environment.
That which can be received unsecured, can be broadcast as such. Only a matter of time now before the displays feature zombie attack warnings.
Hey, let's mutate the shit out of our food. What could possibly go wrong?
Sounds a fuck load better than: Let's purposefully graft pesticide producing genes into our food...
I will come to your house, put a gun to your head, and force you to read Bitcoin stories much like Unknown Lamer does here. You must read them. This is not an option.
Oh yeah? We'll I'll send their mother a case of Tentacle Grape Soda
with their name on it unless A.C. makes posts on every article they don't like.
Especially if placed inside bean bags for weight distribution -- Like an elephant's.
But tying the wallets to certain individuals is what proves difficult.
If only string theory weren't so slippery.
Fighting for your country has important implications that must not be overlooked. A human piloting a machine is not at risk of death. If you don't have to risk your life to deal death then it's easier to do the killing. Furthermore, requiring people to fight people in war directly increases the cost of life to the side that would win. This ensures that war's price can not be ignored by indirect killing. The deaths are tragic and cause people on both sides to cry out for peaceful resolution rather than merciless death. Finally, if people are required to fight a war, then you can not fight a war the people will not fight themselves...
Dark times are dangerously near. The second amendment was never properly interpreted to mean what it should: The right to bear technology. IMO, only manned drones are acceptable.
The problem is that the people of all the worlds countries are not enemies of each other. It's strange then that the governments would make each other enemies. Whom are they fighting? Enemies? Or the perception that they are not needed anywhere but at home, and even then, not so much.