a form of matter that could only be formed in the early universe It makes up 5x as much mass as ordinary mass in the universe It's transparent to light It's either transparent to heat or just so happens to give off almost exactly the same amount of heat as it absorbs It has a density somewhere around the same density of a neutron star It's not managed to devour/destroy any stars or otherwise clump together It's a fluid
and there just so happens to be none of it on earth...
Even the studies author writes in the conclusion:
The nature of dark matter is still largely unknown. For this reason, it is prudent to hedge our bets on what it might be
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. It's more like "Ok, since we haven't found dark matter yet... this is way out there but hey, why not?"
I found my parents' praise over my intelligence just pointless. I haven't continued the tradition with my children. Not that I don't praise them, just that I don't go out of my way to praise them over intelligence when it is irrelevant. My oldest is in school and more practical praise doesn't seem to give him any more interest in school tasks than I had.
I agree. I should also point out that, it's not like I don't tell my kid he's smart. I just don't go out of my way to do it. If he says something like "I can't do this! I can't figure it out!" then of course he gets "Yes you can, you're very smart!" but it's followed with "You just have to put the effort in." The key to success is application of your skills. Intelligence is a fulcrum that maximizes your effort. You need effort no matter what, intelligence just increases how much work gets done with that effort.
To be fair, the busywork they assign in school is beneath everyone; it's just trash.
Busywork = money That's all there is to it. You can be the smartest person on earth but if you don't have the gumption to get up in the morning and drag yourself to your boring job you'll just end up being a very smart person living in a cardboard box.
I'm doing the same with my kid. I grew up in the middle of all this. My parents basically told me I was a genius from the time I was a toddler. The result? I didn't even try. It was all beneath me. I got out of high-school with a C average. Luckily I actually was smart enough to do very well on the ACT after I realized maybe I'd screwed up my grades.
My kid gets praised for effort. Telling someone they are smart is no more beneficial than praising them for being handsome, or tall. It's something they have no control over and cannot improve. So why praise it? Praise something they can control, perseverance.
Not that I normally defend US military action... but come on. While the incidents themselves, if looked at without broader context, are nearly identical... you can't actually look at them without the broader context. Why was the US warship there in the first place? Iran was at war with Iraq, and had started to attack US oil tankers off shore. The US Military sent US Naval ships as escorts. Then Iran started actively attacking US warships. That ship had been under attack by Iranian gun boats just and hour earlier and that plane had taken off from a based that F14 attack craft were routinely operated out of.
Why did the Russians have anti-aircraft batteries in Ukraine? Oh that's right... they still claim they didn't. Because they're trying to over-throw the sovereign government in an attempt to prevent them from joining the EU.
The US ship was on a defense mission, and mistook the Iranian Civilian aircraft as one of the many Iranian warplanes that were about. The Russian battery was there to attack the legitimate government of the land it was currently occupying, and mistook the Civilian aircraft from an entirely different country for a warplane they were attacking... not defending against. Also, that warplane was no threat to that missile battery itself.
Most people that work 3rd shift in the united states get a shift premium as it is. Depending on the company there's usually an hourly bonus of a few dollars after a certain time of day. Most places I used to work at when I did factory work, it was around 6pm to 8pm to around 6am and you got up to an extra $3 an hour which was no small chunk of change in the 90s. If they didn't offer that, no one wanted the job because it really was awful. It has nothing to do with the time of day or the light... or anything like that. It made your life miserable due to everyone else not doing it. You'd have to modify your bedroom so you could sleep during the day. Who's taking your kids to school? Got a dr appointment? Gotta go when you're normally sleeping. Same with the bank, shopping, everything. Hell, even trying to get gas turned into a problem. There are certainly plenty of 24hr gas stations, but its not all of them and you could be certain the ones that were convenient for you were the ones closed at 4am.
Then there were the problems it caused at work... I was a welder. Run out of gas in the middle of your shift? You're going home. Get injured? You got 1 bleery eyed nurse and a Dr that couldn't do better than the 3rd shift position at a rural clinic. Want to order parts for tomorrows job? You have to leave a note for first shift to call it in because everywheres closed and by the time the orders in, even if it's next day aired, it won't be delivered for 2 days as far as you're concerned because you have to wait 12hrs for the order to get put in and UPS doesn't deliver at midnight.
The person getting ripped off my Amway and the like is not the person buying the products. Granted those products are overprice junk you could have gotten at walmart, but at least they get something out of it. The person getting ripped off is the salesperson. Amway nickle and dimes them into bankruptcy with classes, starter packs, yadda yadda.
There are only really 2 job sites, Monster and DICE.
Disagree. I've had decent luck with LinkedIn, and with Stack Overflow Careers.
I don't have experience with Stacks job site. As such, I imagine it's a very niche service. Which is fine... but I'm talking about Major job sites that could change things. That's limit to DICE and Monster from what I can tell.
But Linkedin? That sites dead... very very dead. I've personally oversaw the domain get blacklisted at 3 different companies now. They killed themselves with spam. They were sending so much of it that site admins finally just gave up and banned them outright. You can't design your service to download the users address book and email everyone on it by default. You get that sort of thing into a corporate environment with address books in the thousands of rows with all of those people cross spamming each other? It's basically malware now... but with a single domain sending the malware. Easiest solution is to just blacklist the domain.
Since we have DICE in this discussion, why don't you fix it? If DICE is our friend and helping us to get a job, you could very easily change the rules to make this more worker friendly. There are only really 2 job sites, Monster and DICE. Why doesn't DICE get together with Monster and agree on some changes.
#1. require salary info in the job posting. It's insulting and dishonest to allow employers to not even bother telling us what they're willing to pay until after the interview process. #2. require employers to assert that they don't use blacklists and no poaching agreements or risk losing access to your services.
Alternatively, maybe we the workers should setup our own employment site that does protect us and then refuse to use sites like DICE and Monster. We have the power, it's our laziness that allows them to continue abusing us.
Yea, so if you guys haven't figured it out yet, they've cracked however it is you're communicating. Time to ditch the laptops/cellphones and I hope you have a fail over channel.
Step 1. invent new process that *potentially* could thwart nosy droppers of eaves Step 2. Process is so expensive and difficult to implement, said agencies are likely to be the only users. Step 3. Post to slashdot.
People need to wake up and realize that privacy is dead, and ubiquitous violations of personal privacy will soon become the norm.
Your grandchildren will think you a bit 'off' for being of the opinion that privacy is a good thing.
Don't be silly. Privacy when talking at distances greater than 10 feet was something new that only occurred just recently in history. That may be dead for now, temporarily at least. But you're more than welcome to walk out into your backyard and chat.
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According to your own chart there were 6.6million whites arrested and 2.7million blacks arrested. In this country there are 197 million whites, 65 million blacks. Therefor white crime rate is 3.33% and the black crime rate is 4.15% (this is of course not counting repeat offenses, your chart doesn't give me a way to calculate that) That's using regular math from the FBI's stats. So African American's have a 0.8% increased risk of crime. So maybe it makes sense that they are at least slightly more prone to violence...
Hopefully prior to that, you would have gotten a weekly (if not daily) warning on your cell phone that your taillight is out. That would remove ignorance of the issue as an excuse, and it would help people like me who legitimately don't notice shit like that 90% of the time. The only time I'd notice a taillight out is if I was reversing in near-darkness for some reason.
...and it's people like you that will later argue that if the rest of us would just do our morning exercises like the law requires, we wouldn't need surveillance cameras in everyone's living room to remove ignorance as an excuse...
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Seriously? Who is modding me informative on this? lol
I believe its by 22 Olympic swimming pools to the power of 3 libraries of congress myself.
With the republicans in charge, you won't be the only scientific group that doesn't have any funding! You'll have lots of company.
Hillarious... but seriously... There is no difference between republicans and democrats:
http://www.scientificamerican....
So stop pretending there is.
So for those that don't measure pressure in Mt Everest's... It's 33% of sea level. So the turbine cuts the water pressure to 1/3rd
So it's strange that this matter may not be exotic?
It's also got the density of a neutron star and is a fluid so... Good luck
Color me skeptical but from what I'm reading...
a form of matter that could only be formed in the early universe
It makes up 5x as much mass as ordinary mass in the universe
It's transparent to light
It's either transparent to heat or just so happens to give off almost exactly the same amount of heat as it absorbs
It has a density somewhere around the same density of a neutron star
It's not managed to devour/destroy any stars or otherwise clump together
It's a fluid
and there just so happens to be none of it on earth...
Even the studies author writes in the conclusion:
The nature of dark matter is still largely unknown. For this reason, it is prudent to
hedge our bets on what it might be
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. It's more like "Ok, since we haven't found dark matter yet... this is way out there but hey, why not?"
By orders of magnitude, when we find new vulnerabilities, we share them
Number is irrelevant compared to severity, and you can be damn sure they keep the severe ones to themselves.
Assuming this wasn't a bold faced lie. Which it more than likely was.
Assume that this statement was made for some other carefully designed purpose.
I found my parents' praise over my intelligence just pointless. I haven't continued the tradition with my children. Not that I don't praise them, just that I don't go out of my way to praise them over intelligence when it is irrelevant. My oldest is in school and more practical praise doesn't seem to give him any more interest in school tasks than I had.
I agree. I should also point out that, it's not like I don't tell my kid he's smart. I just don't go out of my way to do it. If he says something like "I can't do this! I can't figure it out!" then of course he gets "Yes you can, you're very smart!" but it's followed with "You just have to put the effort in." The key to success is application of your skills. Intelligence is a fulcrum that maximizes your effort. You need effort no matter what, intelligence just increases how much work gets done with that effort.
It was all beneath me.
To be fair, the busywork they assign in school is beneath everyone; it's just trash.
Busywork = money
That's all there is to it. You can be the smartest person on earth but if you don't have the gumption to get up in the morning and drag yourself to your boring job you'll just end up being a very smart person living in a cardboard box.
Border Collies all the way. I have one... but they are smart like serial killers... so they have their downsides as well. :-p
Wow! What an awesome comment. You're so smart!
I'm also quite handsome!
I'm doing the same with my kid. I grew up in the middle of all this. My parents basically told me I was a genius from the time I was a toddler. The result? I didn't even try. It was all beneath me. I got out of high-school with a C average. Luckily I actually was smart enough to do very well on the ACT after I realized maybe I'd screwed up my grades.
My kid gets praised for effort. Telling someone they are smart is no more beneficial than praising them for being handsome, or tall. It's something they have no control over and cannot improve. So why praise it? Praise something they can control, perseverance.
Meanwhile:
http://abc7chicago.com/politic...
Quite ironic given the republicans argument for voter ID is democratic fraud. I wonder if anyone will go to prison?
btw, before anyone calls me a democrat, I hate both parties intensely.
Not that I normally defend US military action... but come on.
While the incidents themselves, if looked at without broader context, are nearly identical... you can't actually look at them without the broader context.
Why was the US warship there in the first place? Iran was at war with Iraq, and had started to attack US oil tankers off shore. The US Military sent US Naval ships as escorts. Then Iran started actively attacking US warships. That ship had been under attack by Iranian gun boats just and hour earlier and that plane had taken off from a based that F14 attack craft were routinely operated out of.
Why did the Russians have anti-aircraft batteries in Ukraine? Oh that's right... they still claim they didn't. Because they're trying to over-throw the sovereign government in an attempt to prevent them from joining the EU.
The US ship was on a defense mission, and mistook the Iranian Civilian aircraft as one of the many Iranian warplanes that were about. The Russian battery was there to attack the legitimate government of the land it was currently occupying, and mistook the Civilian aircraft from an entirely different country for a warplane they were attacking... not defending against. Also, that warplane was no threat to that missile battery itself.
Most people that work 3rd shift in the united states get a shift premium as it is. Depending on the company there's usually an hourly bonus of a few dollars after a certain time of day. Most places I used to work at when I did factory work, it was around 6pm to 8pm to around 6am and you got up to an extra $3 an hour which was no small chunk of change in the 90s. If they didn't offer that, no one wanted the job because it really was awful. It has nothing to do with the time of day or the light... or anything like that. It made your life miserable due to everyone else not doing it. You'd have to modify your bedroom so you could sleep during the day. Who's taking your kids to school? Got a dr appointment? Gotta go when you're normally sleeping. Same with the bank, shopping, everything. Hell, even trying to get gas turned into a problem. There are certainly plenty of 24hr gas stations, but its not all of them and you could be certain the ones that were convenient for you were the ones closed at 4am.
Then there were the problems it caused at work... I was a welder. Run out of gas in the middle of your shift? You're going home. Get injured? You got 1 bleery eyed nurse and a Dr that couldn't do better than the 3rd shift position at a rural clinic. Want to order parts for tomorrows job? You have to leave a note for first shift to call it in because everywheres closed and by the time the orders in, even if it's next day aired, it won't be delivered for 2 days as far as you're concerned because you have to wait 12hrs for the order to get put in and UPS doesn't deliver at midnight.
The person getting ripped off my Amway and the like is not the person buying the products. Granted those products are overprice junk you could have gotten at walmart, but at least they get something out of it. The person getting ripped off is the salesperson. Amway nickle and dimes them into bankruptcy with classes, starter packs, yadda yadda.
Disagree. I've had decent luck with LinkedIn, and with Stack Overflow Careers.
I don't have experience with Stacks job site. As such, I imagine it's a very niche service. Which is fine... but I'm talking about Major job sites that could change things. That's limit to DICE and Monster from what I can tell.
But Linkedin? That sites dead... very very dead. I've personally oversaw the domain get blacklisted at 3 different companies now. They killed themselves with spam. They were sending so much of it that site admins finally just gave up and banned them outright. You can't design your service to download the users address book and email everyone on it by default. You get that sort of thing into a corporate environment with address books in the thousands of rows with all of those people cross spamming each other? It's basically malware now... but with a single domain sending the malware. Easiest solution is to just blacklist the domain.
Since we have DICE in this discussion, why don't you fix it? If DICE is our friend and helping us to get a job, you could very easily change the rules to make this more worker friendly. There are only really 2 job sites, Monster and DICE. Why doesn't DICE get together with Monster and agree on some changes.
#1. require salary info in the job posting. It's insulting and dishonest to allow employers to not even bother telling us what they're willing to pay until after the interview process.
#2. require employers to assert that they don't use blacklists and no poaching agreements or risk losing access to your services.
Alternatively, maybe we the workers should setup our own employment site that does protect us and then refuse to use sites like DICE and Monster. We have the power, it's our laziness that allows them to continue abusing us.
And this is different from the IRS threatening audits for those that participate in multilevel marketing pyramid schemes how?
Mr Wilson wasn't trying to defraud anyone.
Yea, so if you guys haven't figured it out yet, they've cracked however it is you're communicating. Time to ditch the laptops/cellphones and I hope you have a fail over channel.
Step 1. invent new process that *potentially* could thwart nosy droppers of eaves
Step 2. Process is so expensive and difficult to implement, said agencies are likely to be the only users.
Step 3. Post to slashdot.
People need to wake up and realize that privacy is dead, and ubiquitous violations of personal privacy will soon become the norm.
Your grandchildren will think you a bit 'off' for being of the opinion that privacy is a good thing.
Don't be silly.
Privacy when talking at distances greater than 10 feet was something new that only occurred just recently in history. That may be dead for now, temporarily at least. But you're more than welcome to walk out into your backyard and chat.
This just in!
Also aiding Terrorists:
1. Air
2. Food
3. Water
4. Pillows
5. Gravity
6. The sun
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According to your own chart there were 6.6million whites arrested and 2.7million blacks arrested.
In this country there are 197 million whites, 65 million blacks.
Therefor white crime rate is 3.33% and the black crime rate is 4.15% (this is of course not counting repeat offenses, your chart doesn't give me a way to calculate that)
That's using regular math from the FBI's stats. So African American's have a 0.8% increased risk of crime. So maybe it makes sense that they are at least slightly more prone to violence...
until you factor in poverty rates:
http://kff.org/other/state-ind...
Blacks have triple the poverty rate of whites.
And concentrated crime in a community has a direct and measurable impact on violent crime:
http://blogs.jccc.edu/campusle...
Stereotype - a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Now stop surfing white supremacist websites that mascaraed as news articles.
Hopefully prior to that, you would have gotten a weekly (if not daily) warning on your cell phone that your taillight is out. That would remove ignorance of the issue as an excuse, and it would help people like me who legitimately don't notice shit like that 90% of the time. The only time I'd notice a taillight out is if I was reversing in near-darkness for some reason.
...and it's people like you that will later argue that if the rest of us would just do our morning exercises like the law requires, we wouldn't need surveillance cameras in everyone's living room to remove ignorance as an excuse...