Actually, I think the particular rose colored glasses in this case are very subjective. Those halcyon days are when shit affected other people. When they start affecting the person, OUTRAGE.
Sounds like they slow down your route to let other people pass through in a different direction without major congestion. Tough decisions, because it sucks when you get shitted on.
I should also add that even a cost cutting organization can suffer from something similar to confirmation bias. Particularly when digging is so expensive and dowsers are so cheap. If the bias is that "dowsing works", then every time they dig and find out the dowser is correct, they think they just saved themselves a great deal of money.
Let me tell you, the guys testing this weren't around stuff that blew them up if they were wrong. The JREF has a great deal of information of the times when the US was flirting with a bomb detecting dowsing device. Luckily, it got canned.
Nope, but there are a few reasons for that. Being a local he might have an expertise at figuring out where the ground was turned up. He might not have realized that specifically however.
In the more general sense of dowsers, many claim to find water. Since you can dig just about anywhere and eventually find some water, it seems to be a way to help against fears that you spent all that money digging and didn't find a damn thing.
The congress person himself admits this implementation is flawed. It will be pulled back and worked on more.
On the subject of mission creep, the reason why this is a slippery slope fallacy is that the problems aren't actually linear. This doesn't require framework to push through legislation about blocking copyright infringing IPs/websites/whatever. The reason we see them as linear is we see certain things to be worse than other things. In reality, each is its own issue within itself.
Also, I agree with you that its easy to turn this sort of enforcement into a shell game. The whole idea seems to be pretty bogus. My point was that its not harder than blocking snail mail fraudsters, but in actuality its easier(though not as easy as blocking telephone fraudsters).
Finally, on the personal responsibility issue, while some people make stupid decisions its not healthy to allow fraud to run rampant in the system. You just can't have a major business transaction without relying on the fraud protection laws. Our system can't survive without it, that's why I suggest living in a cave if you don't think its of vital importance.
Yes, Airplane! is for the fine cultured palate. The comment wasn't meant to be funny, it was meant as social commentary regarding new technology. Now lets all spout out some Monty Python quotes and give each other handjobs with our pinkies curled.
I agree, lets just figure out which halcyon days we want to get to: 90s: No, the brady bill and the copyright fiascos 80s: The war on drugs 70s: Vietnam Draft, Opec Embargo and the government muscle moving into that, Kent State shootings 60s: Vietnam, Civil Rights Abuses 50s: Red Scare, McCarthyisim
You know, I'm having a hard time finding just when things were great. Maybe we need to revoke universal sufferage and reinstute the alien and sedition acts?
The thing about that slippery slope is that they already could do that without this framework in place. Its not a linear progression of ideas just because you think one thing is worse than the other. There is no slope.
How do you propose to bring someone in another country to a judge? You could argue that a judge should approve of the blocking.
Also, fraud very evidently falls into the sort of action that causes direct harm, so I don't know what you were getting at with the "show me that" stuff.
As far as the Internet being too hard, the ISPs certainly have some defense that the post offices don't, namely everyone has a "from" address. It makes it easier to stop than the post.
On the final note, all the education in the world can't stop fraud, the only thing that can is the complete abolishment of any trust. That'll just end you up living in a cave.
The slippery slope is a fallacy, but that doesn't mean these actions can't be harmful if they're taken the wrong way.
Its not being cynical to define what the man is doing as bunk. Most dowsers are not being decietful, they are under a combination of the ideomotor effect and confirmation bias. The very interesting thing about them is that they may have a genuine expertise at finding water through more mundane means, and the dowsing is the channel they show that through.
Actually a hallmark of dowsers is they tend not to purposefully lie. They certainly believe what they're saying due to the strength of the idoemotor effect and confirmation bias.
Seems pretty simple to me. The ions flow down their concentration gradients creating opposite charges in streams that were once regular seawater, through some sort of bridge that only allows Cl ions into one stream and Na ions into the other stream. Then the seawater that needs to be desalinized is connected, the ions can't escape the charged streams due to their bridges, but the ions from the seawater to be desalinized travel to the charged streams. After that, you dump the charged streams and start over again. About the only thing I'm not sure on is the last part, as I imagine the ions would flow due to the charge and not be permitted to flow due to their concentration gradient due to the nature of the bridges?
Anyway, the first part certainly is simple enough to understand from a physiology perspective. Hell, thats how the action potential works. Create an imbalance using energy(ATP in the body, sunlight in this example) and then use semipermeable membranes to create a charge.
Current is by definition the flow of charge. In the case of your muscles, there is an electrical current along the muscle cell membrane that is caused by a change in the amount of cations allowed into the cell.
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Actually, I think the particular rose colored glasses in this case are very subjective. Those halcyon days are when shit affected other people. When they start affecting the person, OUTRAGE.
Sounds like they slow down your route to let other people pass through in a different direction without major congestion. Tough decisions, because it sucks when you get shitted on.
I wonder if there's a place in this world where people say "Our drivers are awesome."
Relating this to the dowsing thread, are you sure what you were doing had any relation to the outcome?
Unless they're yellow!
I should also add that even a cost cutting organization can suffer from something similar to confirmation bias. Particularly when digging is so expensive and dowsers are so cheap. If the bias is that "dowsing works", then every time they dig and find out the dowser is correct, they think they just saved themselves a great deal of money.
Let me tell you, the guys testing this weren't around stuff that blew them up if they were wrong. The JREF has a great deal of information of the times when the US was flirting with a bomb detecting dowsing device. Luckily, it got canned.
Nope, but there are a few reasons for that. Being a local he might have an expertise at figuring out where the ground was turned up. He might not have realized that specifically however.
In the more general sense of dowsers, many claim to find water. Since you can dig just about anywhere and eventually find some water, it seems to be a way to help against fears that you spent all that money digging and didn't find a damn thing.
The congress person himself admits this implementation is flawed. It will be pulled back and worked on more.
On the subject of mission creep, the reason why this is a slippery slope fallacy is that the problems aren't actually linear. This doesn't require framework to push through legislation about blocking copyright infringing IPs/websites/whatever. The reason we see them as linear is we see certain things to be worse than other things. In reality, each is its own issue within itself.
Also, I agree with you that its easy to turn this sort of enforcement into a shell game. The whole idea seems to be pretty bogus. My point was that its not harder than blocking snail mail fraudsters, but in actuality its easier(though not as easy as blocking telephone fraudsters).
Finally, on the personal responsibility issue, while some people make stupid decisions its not healthy to allow fraud to run rampant in the system. You just can't have a major business transaction without relying on the fraud protection laws. Our system can't survive without it, that's why I suggest living in a cave if you don't think its of vital importance.
Yes, Airplane! is for the fine cultured palate. The comment wasn't meant to be funny, it was meant as social commentary regarding new technology. Now lets all spout out some Monty Python quotes and give each other handjobs with our pinkies curled.
I agree, lets just figure out which halcyon days we want to get to:
90s: No, the brady bill and the copyright fiascos
80s: The war on drugs
70s: Vietnam Draft, Opec Embargo and the government muscle moving into that, Kent State shootings
60s: Vietnam, Civil Rights Abuses
50s: Red Scare, McCarthyisim
You know, I'm having a hard time finding just when things were great. Maybe we need to revoke universal sufferage and reinstute the alien and sedition acts?
The thing about that slippery slope is that they already could do that without this framework in place. Its not a linear progression of ideas just because you think one thing is worse than the other. There is no slope.
How do you propose to bring someone in another country to a judge? You could argue that a judge should approve of the blocking.
Also, fraud very evidently falls into the sort of action that causes direct harm, so I don't know what you were getting at with the "show me that" stuff.
As far as the Internet being too hard, the ISPs certainly have some defense that the post offices don't, namely everyone has a "from" address. It makes it easier to stop than the post.
On the final note, all the education in the world can't stop fraud, the only thing that can is the complete abolishment of any trust. That'll just end you up living in a cave.
The slippery slope is a fallacy, but that doesn't mean these actions can't be harmful if they're taken the wrong way.
Like what, strategic bombing?
Many tests have been done, none have proven dowsing to exist.
Its not being cynical to define what the man is doing as bunk. Most dowsers are not being decietful, they are under a combination of the ideomotor effect and confirmation bias. The very interesting thing about them is that they may have a genuine expertise at finding water through more mundane means, and the dowsing is the channel they show that through.
Actually a hallmark of dowsers is they tend not to purposefully lie. They certainly believe what they're saying due to the strength of the idoemotor effect and confirmation bias.
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Welcome to the internet, how long will you be staying?
Seems pretty simple to me. The ions flow down their concentration gradients creating opposite charges in streams that were once regular seawater, through some sort of bridge that only allows Cl ions into one stream and Na ions into the other stream. Then the seawater that needs to be desalinized is connected, the ions can't escape the charged streams due to their bridges, but the ions from the seawater to be desalinized travel to the charged streams. After that, you dump the charged streams and start over again. About the only thing I'm not sure on is the last part, as I imagine the ions would flow due to the charge and not be permitted to flow due to their concentration gradient due to the nature of the bridges?
Anyway, the first part certainly is simple enough to understand from a physiology perspective. Hell, thats how the action potential works. Create an imbalance using energy(ATP in the body, sunlight in this example) and then use semipermeable membranes to create a charge.
Current is by definition the flow of charge. In the case of your muscles, there is an electrical current along the muscle cell membrane that is caused by a change in the amount of cations allowed into the cell.
My experience with Vista video driver crashes is it would crash, then come back, then crash again.
I went to high school with the Zune tattoo guy. He slathered his facebook page with information about his windows 7 launch party. They're out there.
Thank god the Torvolds thumbs up hasn't been posted. That shits something for the comments section, not a goddamn article. Fuck Digg.