Science is about consensus, not challenging dogma?
If you look at Maguejo's theory, you will find that it is consistent with everything we knew before about relativity. It is not: "ZOMG! Einstein was WRONG!", rather "We noticed it is possible to extend relativity theory in a way which accommodates a variable speed of light, yet reproduces other known physics perfectly." Look up dilaton theories, for example.
Who decides whether or not a review is fake? It is well known that the Main Stream Reviewers are all a bunch of biased SJWs, and important information such as T-shirts being manufactured in Hillary Clinton's secret forced-labor camps in Benghazi for abducted conservative youth are being suppressed!
I read the German public news (Tagesschau), the BBC, Spanish "El Pais", Al-Jazeera for the middle east perspective and also CNN and Fox News for the American pitches (MSNBC not so much).
And from comparing all of these together, I believe I am qualified to say that CNN has a good quality to their journalism, at least the main articles.
Oddly, if you watch CNN International on TV in Europe, it's actually very good journalism. The U.S. version is a horrifying cesspool of vapid trash, and the worst part of it is that there are TVs everywhere in the U.S. You can't go to a bar without getting Fox News stuffed in your face, and you can't go to an airport without a panel blaring CNN being always within your line of sight.
From my experience, the best TV journalism right now is coming from Al Jazeera. Thanks to Al Gore, Al Jazeera English on the web is now blocked in the U.S., despite the fact that Al Jazeera America failed. This country is so fucked up.
Do individuals have the right to pick up people and offer them a ride for a fee, or does the government have the right do define a class of people with that right.
Just because you organize your taxi service over the internet doesn't mean your exempt for all other laws, regulations, or requirements for a taxi service. This applies to every other dot com whose business model is basically "Do a business that has been around for decades, but using the internet!" AirBNB? You need to follow the same rules as any other room rental agency. Amazon? People buying things over the internet still need to pay sales tax. Backpage.com? Soliciting prostitution is still soliciting prostitution.
Didn't you get the memo? We're in a post-reality world now.
This move by the left to censor various news outlets...
There is no effort to censor anybody. The purveyors of "fake news" are free to publish whatever they wish. If Google, or Facebook, decides that they will no longer index such sites as if they were reliable sources, that's not censorship.
The "fake news" could be substituted for "news we deem fake"
So I guess you're arguing here that reality is entirely a media construct? Because otherwise, if actual facts exist, then there is an easy, objective definition for "fake news": false information which is knowingly and deliberately reported in order to influence public opinion. There's an older word for it: "propaganda".
Just because you don't understand how it works doesn't mean it's instantly a "perpetual motion machine". I sincerely doubt it's creating energy from nothing.
No, it's creating momentum from nothing.
Seriously. Top scientists don't know how it works yet. What makes you think you have the answers?
No, any scientist with two neurons to rub together knows it doesn't work. Newton's Third Law makes me think I have the anwers.
It's incredibly wasteful, too. Yay, let's all use tons of electricity for no reason after we're dead. In just 120 years, we could have 7 billion people in freezers. Better hope there's no power outage.
Not only that, but reviving frozen dead people is just silly. It's easy (and fun) to just make new people instead.
It infuriates me to no end that people think it's hip or somehow cute to take a word, remove a vowel, and think it's somehow now some hip creative name for their stupid service or tool. Dataminr. I'd like to find who ever came up with that and let them meet the Analizr, I'll leave what that tool would do as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah, I can't wait for the first hip startup to name itself with an unpronounceable glyph.
The data is too sensitive and the potential for privacy violation is too high for the FBI or CIA to be given access, but it's perfectly fine for hedge funds, advertisers, newspapers, and, well, any other asshole with a checkbook?
Voting for Trump out of protest is like shooting your self in the foot to cure foot fungus.
No, voting for Trump is like burning down half your town to cure foot fungus. Sure, it will be weirdly satisfying, but you'll still have the foot fungus.
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Science is about consensus, not challenging dogma?
If you look at Maguejo's theory, you will find that it is consistent with everything we knew before about relativity. It is not: "ZOMG! Einstein was WRONG!", rather "We noticed it is possible to extend relativity theory in a way which accommodates a variable speed of light, yet reproduces other known physics perfectly." Look up dilaton theories, for example.
However we know we aren't the center of the universe (where the big bang happened)
In the Big Bang picture, the universe has no center, and the Big Bang did not happen in it. The Big Bang happened everywhere in space at once.
Temperature is a measure of the vibration rate of particles - it's not found in vacuums.
The early universe was not a vacuum. It was an extremely dense, high-temperature plasma.
In any case, vacuum can in fact have a temperature, due to virtual particle production.
Who decides whether or not a review is fake? It is well known that the Main Stream Reviewers are all a bunch of biased SJWs, and important information such as T-shirts being manufactured in Hillary Clinton's secret forced-labor camps in Benghazi for abducted conservative youth are being suppressed!
Also, they are coming for your guns.
No, it is not blocked. You really should have tried to access English Al Jazeera before writing that. I just visited the English site to check.
Well, I'll be damned. It's back. Yay!
I read the German public news (Tagesschau), the BBC, Spanish "El Pais", Al-Jazeera for the middle east perspective and also CNN and Fox News for the American pitches (MSNBC not so much).
And from comparing all of these together, I believe I am qualified to say that CNN has a good quality to their journalism, at least the main articles.
Oddly, if you watch CNN International on TV in Europe, it's actually very good journalism. The U.S. version is a horrifying cesspool of vapid trash, and the worst part of it is that there are TVs everywhere in the U.S. You can't go to a bar without getting Fox News stuffed in your face, and you can't go to an airport without a panel blaring CNN being always within your line of sight.
From my experience, the best TV journalism right now is coming from Al Jazeera. Thanks to Al Gore, Al Jazeera English on the web is now blocked in the U.S., despite the fact that Al Jazeera America failed. This country is so fucked up.
Do individuals have the right to pick up people and offer them a ride for a fee, or does the government have the right do define a class of people with that right.
The former.
Just because you organize your taxi service over the internet doesn't mean your exempt for all other laws, regulations, or requirements for a taxi service. This applies to every other dot com whose business model is basically "Do a business that has been around for decades, but using the internet!" AirBNB? You need to follow the same rules as any other room rental agency. Amazon? People buying things over the internet still need to pay sales tax. Backpage.com? Soliciting prostitution is still soliciting prostitution.
Didn't you get the memo? We're in a post-reality world now.
This move by the left to censor various news outlets...
There is no effort to censor anybody. The purveyors of "fake news" are free to publish whatever they wish. If Google, or Facebook, decides that they will no longer index such sites as if they were reliable sources, that's not censorship.
The "fake news" could be substituted for "news we deem fake"
So I guess you're arguing here that reality is entirely a media construct? Because otherwise, if actual facts exist, then there is an easy, objective definition for "fake news": false information which is knowingly and deliberately reported in order to influence public opinion. There's an older word for it: "propaganda".
What would a spacecraft operating an EM drive at peak efficiency look like?
Stationary.
Just because you don't understand how it works doesn't mean it's instantly a "perpetual motion machine". I sincerely doubt it's creating energy from nothing.
No, it's creating momentum from nothing.
Seriously. Top scientists don't know how it works yet. What makes you think you have the answers?
No, any scientist with two neurons to rub together knows it doesn't work. Newton's Third Law makes me think I have the anwers.
What's the usual format of an EM drive?
Half-assembled in a shed out back, because the fucking thing is total snake oil.
And look at the new swamp he's building.
It will be an amazing swamp, the best swamp!
... than the comments on this story for an example of the problem.
It's incredibly wasteful, too. Yay, let's all use tons of electricity for no reason after we're dead. In just 120 years, we could have 7 billion people in freezers. Better hope there's no power outage.
Not only that, but reviving frozen dead people is just silly. It's easy (and fun) to just make new people instead.
This makes about as much sense as Pope Benedict VIII speculating on global conditions today.
Hawking really needs to start shutting the fuck up. He's embarrassing himself.
Its a lot easier and I'm guessing more lucrative to take a common car like a Camry to a chop shop and break it into parts for resale than a McLaren.
Precisely. How the hell are you going to fence a Bugatti Veyron?
The flashier a car looks ... the more likely someone will steal it
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I know I'm not the only one who would prefer a "supercar" performance in a "Toyota Camry chassis" sedan.
In actual fact, the most frequently stolen vehicle is the Honda Accord. The Camry is #5.
owners will have to figure out how to enable it
No way could this end badly.
Those that would trade liberty for security get none and deserve neither.
Especially if they're posting every detail of their lives on an inherently public platform.
It infuriates me to no end that people think it's hip or somehow cute to take a word, remove a vowel, and think it's somehow now some hip creative name for their stupid service or tool. Dataminr. I'd like to find who ever came up with that and let them meet the Analizr, I'll leave what that tool would do as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah, I can't wait for the first hip startup to name itself with an unpronounceable glyph.
The data is too sensitive and the potential for privacy violation is too high for the FBI or CIA to be given access, but it's perfectly fine for hedge funds, advertisers, newspapers, and, well, any other asshole with a checkbook?
Really?
Me too.
Voting for Trump out of protest is like shooting your self in the foot to cure foot fungus.
No, voting for Trump is like burning down half your town to cure foot fungus. Sure, it will be weirdly satisfying, but you'll still have the foot fungus.