I think the best part of this whole debacle is everyone has apparently believed this blogger about her first hand account of her memory of an event from several yeas ago when she was admittedly stoned without batting an eye. The problem isn't Wikipedia. The problem is terrible critical thinking skills. The fact that the edited article is about a literal minded person just makes the irony even more delicious.
That's a great long term strategy to take to our next planet(s): use up all available resources as quickly as possible. Sure is easier than figuring out how to live sustainably with what's availble.
Indeed. Students aren't even taught basic critical thinking skills to be able to identify crackpot conspiracy theories. I hope you're joking. But in case you're not, please explain why the Soviet Union (and over 30 other countires) congratulated us after tracking us to the moon and back. Were they participating in a conspiracy to make themselves look bad?
Also, I remember when Deep Blue was playing Kasparov, the IBM programmers had no idea why it was playing the way it was. It was coming up with strategies that the programmers did not anticipate.
And yet, I just read a study that most doctors and clinicians involved with breast cancer can not correctly identify the liklihood of having breast cancer if someone tests positive for it. Answers ranged from 10-90%. Correct answer is 10%. Being taught it in medical school is one thing, but applying it on the job is another apparently.
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I think the best part of this whole debacle is everyone has apparently believed this blogger about her first hand account of her memory of an event from several yeas ago when she was admittedly stoned without batting an eye. The problem isn't Wikipedia. The problem is terrible critical thinking skills. The fact that the edited article is about a literal minded person just makes the irony even more delicious.
Has anyone verified that this actually happened, or are we taking the words from a blog literally true? You know, the way Amelia Bedelia would.
Right. Because kids from a family too poor to afford a single computer will have tons of books to read. Good point.
Solar power and wind power will not sustain humanity for the length of the Earth's existence (nor will oil or coal).
Solar will keep on working right up until the sun dies on us in a few billion years. So yes. Yes it will.
Do you know what the word plethora means? I would hope that when someone uses the word plethora, that person would know what that word means!
That's a great long term strategy to take to our next planet(s): use up all available resources as quickly as possible. Sure is easier than figuring out how to live sustainably with what's availble.
I may be stupid
Well, you nailed that one.
Surely the number of congressmen computer literate enough to edit Wikipedia unassisted would be small enough to check by name.
Cool story, bro.
And because you don't hear about them, that means they don't happen, right?
if someone gives you a percentage they are trying to make it better or worse than it actually is.
And contrariwise, if they give you raw numbers, it's the opposite. That's logic!
Fix the glitch. Just like Milton's payroll issue.
That didn't end well, iirc.
What a joke this nation has become
Indeed. Students aren't even taught basic critical thinking skills to be able to identify crackpot conspiracy theories. I hope you're joking. But in case you're not, please explain why the Soviet Union (and over 30 other countires) congratulated us after tracking us to the moon and back. Were they participating in a conspiracy to make themselves look bad?
There are no bad guys. There are no good guys. Life is not a Hollywood movie.
I'd wager a guess a free country would be anywhere in the US outside of the 100-mile constitution-free zone around the borders
This also includes the coastline and international airports. So, maybe the interior of Alaska is free.
Nice strawman. So does the NIC have a legal mission to gather intelligence? Does forging certificates constitute legitimate intelligence collection?
Also, I remember when Deep Blue was playing Kasparov, the IBM programmers had no idea why it was playing the way it was. It was coming up with strategies that the programmers did not anticipate.
But you don't have dandruff!
Exactly!
And yet, I just read a study that most doctors and clinicians involved with breast cancer can not correctly identify the liklihood of having breast cancer if someone tests positive for it. Answers ranged from 10-90%. Correct answer is 10%. Being taught it in medical school is one thing, but applying it on the job is another apparently.
You mean you've never heard of the Millenium Falcon?
Why develop a new platform that will cost billions of dollars and many years of research and testing?
Maybe so it doesn't crash so much?
Metadata in phone calls includes caller, receiver, date, time, tower, panel number, etc, but not the conversation.
I know, I must be new here and everything, but it does in the first sentence of the fantastic summary, "and other video-capturing devices".
More importantly, without this trademark protection, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel would not be encouraged to produce more works!
It's the American way!