The good thing is that even if all the individual scientists in the world don't use science to form their beliefs (they are after all, only human), they as a group can still use it to generate the ever closer approximation to reality, truth, etc..
Box!? There is not much point in even having a tinfoil hat if you don't actually wear it all the time.
Look, even if one takes the "tinfoil hat" as a metaphor (a metaphor for not accepting the interpretational schemes that are handed to you along with any factual data you are given), you still have to wear it all the time. Otherwise you loose control of your own perspective. Over time the way you catagorize things shifts (which by itself is fine), and it does so in ways that the information sources want it to (which can be very far from fine).
You see if you make a mistake as a company (morally or in business) then your best solution is to publicly own up to it and show that it's been taken serioulsy and steps have been taken to remedy it and prevent it from happening again.
Unless that plan is more expensive than one that will work almost as good. Then the "best" solution is the cheaper one.
For instance, what if there is another set of steps, and you can convince the public that these steps will "remedy it and prevent it", but they are actually a few pages of do-nothing bullshit that sounds really good but require no spending. Now, do you pick the non-bullshit set of steps that require the next three years of profits to follow, or the cheap set?
Which is most moral? Which is most in the shareholder's monetary interests?
My favorite idea is to dig tunnels and rooms. Then to easily make them airtight, inflate a balloon structure in the tunnel/cave so that it is flush with the walls, get in the balloon, and spackle whatever nice hard concrete type stuff you can make from moon rock on the inside.
You have just hit the nail on the head, intentionally of not. If, after an election which uses a system that does not include a recountable papertrail, someone comes along and makes a claim like that, you have no way of providing any proof that the very disturbing claim is false. The burden of proof for the claim of "weird anomolies" is low, very low, just some case in which exit polls didn't pick the vote count very well. The burden of proof for someone to prove that no intentional manipulation happened is a system of recounting the votes which, according to the hypothesis, does not exist. Thus, the argument to doubt the results stands, and nothing can dismiss it. That is a broken election system.
Do we actually believe that workers in India will not someday discover that if they managed their own companies, then they would not need the US at all?
Shit, you weren't supposed to tell them!!! Didn't you get the memo from the Department of Homeland Economic Security? You just blew the whole freaking plan.
Instead of watching which conductive paths are formed, one could have a few antenna on each finger giving off specific freqencies of e/m radiation that is then picked up by every other antenna. Should be possible to do pattern recognition on that data set and reconstruct the 3d articulation model of the hands inside the gloves.
During a particularly hecktic week in which I had basically zero minutes of awake time free, I happened to find myself in a lucid dream. Since I had gotten used to always having something on the schedual for each hour of the whole day, the habit of wondering what I was supposed to be doing came up. I thought: "O.k. what should I be doing? Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be sleeping until the alarm goes off. Well, I'm doing that, so I suppose I'm being as productive as I should be. Now what sort of fun can I have in here while this dream lasts."
Lucid dreaming doesn't mean your body isn't resting. It is like bonus time added to your mind's life.
have you ever tried reading someone else's assembly code?
I can just barely make sense of my own a few hours after I write it.
Personally, I try for absurd levels of overdocumentation as I go. That, and subroutines that have small, clear goals that can be read off from their names.
That article has a completely missleading title, and seems to try and repeat the same missleading meme even after it has mentioned the actual cause of the cancer, HPV. The quality of journalism continues to slip.
Yeah, being an periodic lucid dreamer, I would say it would be super cool if people could hook their dreams to other people's dreams then insert windows out to the external world and spend more time sleeping/dreaming.
I just hope you try to remember that some films and shows need long pauses and scenes to set up the proper mood. A recent example: Lost in Translation has some slow pacing, but that is essential to the feelings that it is trying to convey. Older examples: many things by Stanley Kubrick.
Also, when I was more into audio books I often found that I had to pause them so I could just sit and think about what I had just learned. Biological brains are not like PC's, if you don't allow time for the chemistry to work, if you just continue to throw in more raw data without interspersing some time to reflect, cogitate, and relate new material to old, then recall goes all to hell.
When I started going to school again, and found that my new department loves early morning classes, I knew I was in trouble. I would stumble to class late or not at all most days. One of the few thoughts I would have those mornings was "damn I need an mp3 player." I was right. Now if I can wake up long enough to get the 'phones in my ears, my brain is trained to move and get me to class. I may not be very awake for the first few minutes, but I make it there much better.
Self-brainwashing and conditioning can be a very good thing.
XOR has the truth table: a b aXORb 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
What you have described is: e i e?i 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Where ? is either &~, i.e. "e and not i", or "not if e then i". A "partially working" logical function is really just a fully working different logical function.
Why do people assume that passage of Revelation was talking about events which would happen in the United States of America? How arrogant. As if the precursors of the apocalypse can't possibly take place elsewhere? There is a whole freaking planet you know.
... a way for me to know if they have probable cause. And I'm sure you'll kick yourself for not thinking of something so simple... ready? They could tell me. Simple as "we stopped you because...", and I figure if they can't finish that simple sentence with a probably cause to suspect me of a crime then they have no reason to ask for my ID.
Now if they just want to chat, they can be polite and introduce themselves like a civilized person. I'll likely respond in kind.
Lots of cops get grief from people because lots of cops start out talking to people in "confront" mode.
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Look, even if one takes the "tinfoil hat" as a metaphor (a metaphor for not accepting the interpretational schemes that are handed to you along with any factual data you are given), you still have to wear it all the time. Otherwise you loose control of your own perspective. Over time the way you catagorize things shifts (which by itself is fine), and it does so in ways that the information sources want it to (which can be very far from fine).
For instance, what if there is another set of steps, and you can convince the public that these steps will "remedy it and prevent it", but they are actually a few pages of do-nothing bullshit that sounds really good but require no spending. Now, do you pick the non-bullshit set of steps that require the next three years of profits to follow, or the cheap set?
Which is most moral? Which is most in the shareholder's monetary interests?
During a particularly hecktic week in which I had basically zero minutes of awake time free, I happened to find myself in a lucid dream. Since I had gotten used to always having something on the schedual for each hour of the whole day, the habit of wondering what I was supposed to be doing came up. I thought: "O.k. what should I be doing? Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be sleeping until the alarm goes off. Well, I'm doing that, so I suppose I'm being as productive as I should be. Now what sort of fun can I have in here while this dream lasts."
Lucid dreaming doesn't mean your body isn't resting. It is like bonus time added to your mind's life.
Personally, I try for absurd levels of overdocumentation as I go. That, and subroutines that have small, clear goals that can be read off from their names.
Also, when I was more into audio books I often found that I had to pause them so I could just sit and think about what I had just learned. Biological brains are not like PC's, if you don't allow time for the chemistry to work, if you just continue to throw in more raw data without interspersing some time to reflect, cogitate, and relate new material to old, then recall goes all to hell.
Self-brainwashing and conditioning can be a very good thing.
XOR has the truth table:
a b aXORb
1 1 0
1 0 1
0 1 1
0 0 0
What you have described is:
e i e?i
1 1 0
1 0 1
0 1 0
0 0 0
Where ? is either &~, i.e. "e and not i", or "not if e then i". A "partially working" logical function is really just a fully working different logical function.
Now if they just want to chat, they can be polite and introduce themselves like a civilized person. I'll likely respond in kind.
Lots of cops get grief from people because lots of cops start out talking to people in "confront" mode.
Oh the other hand, walking down the street, even if there has been a crime "in the area" isn't.