The god to whom people pray is not the same as the god who "created" the universe, where created equals "supplied the initial conditions from which the universe began."
The one to whom people pray is imaginary. The one who supplied the initial conditions is assumed to exist. Either way, he isn't coming to meet you any time soon.
Ultimately human behavior is near-continuous series of yes/no decisions. Our brains iterate pretty deeply, but at some level it's ones and zeros. Though we may need more petaflops than angels on the head of a pin before we can scratch that itch. At any rate, the application of such a model will probably always doom it to failure.
How much do we really know about climate? Probably a lot less than we think. Scientists are always so sure they are right. And then a few decades pass and they realize they weren't. And then they repeat that same behavior.
I would say more than lack of evidence is lack of causation rather than correlation. Scientists appear to agree that at least in the short term the earth is a little warmer. What they can't say with any certainty is why. Anthropogenic warming is the desired cause as that is the only one we can do a damn thing about.
There already exists economic modeling. And it is no more impossible than climate modeling. Granted, human interaction becomes a factor when the general population is aware of the economic predictions, but I am talking theory, not necessarily practice.
Sometimes I just wonder if all this isn't just a grab at customer pockets.
Never underestimate a person's desire for the shiniest, newest thing.
Like you, I am happy - for now - with my Athlon XP 1500+ CPU paired with an Nvidia 128MB eGForce Ti video card. Old school, yet it handled nearly flawlessly all but the last level in Portal. Most people don't need the power of the last two years worth of hardware improvements. But remove price as a factor (i.e., you have more than enough money) or add status, and why the hell not get something bad-ass?
I wonder what would happen to the overall CPU picture is suddenly everyone stopped biting at the bleeding edge tech and waited for the inevitable price drop? Perhaps Intel and AMD begging the govt for a bailout? That would be funny.
I think they consider themselves a premium service to a niche market. Consider that at least 75% of the browsing public never gets much deeper than a Google image search for "cute puppies," or some such nonsense.
I think an even bigger issue with the immediately-out-of-date traffic report is that once the crash is cleared and the traffic at the front of the line starts moving they consider the problem resolved. They do not take into account the ripple effect sending echoing "shockwaves" of traffic stalls up and down the highway.
If you have 1 data point on the I5 going at 15 MPH, you can guess that traffic sux.
No, you don't. A valid sample size is crucial to reduce or eliminate outliers. In you case, the one guy with the GPS phone is on his donut spare coasting in the breakdown lane and you end up 20 minutes late to work because you took the back roads.
when corrected for prior history and socio-economic status
What does that mean? Is there a discrete theory which neatly fulfills that statement? Does it have any bias in it? Did you ever wonder why Pat Robertson thinks 2% of the population is gay and the GLBT crowd say 15% (or something like that)? Because stats are easily manipulated, and people very seldom fall into discrete, predictable categories.
Why are they more likely to have been in prison? Because they are black.
Your conclusion is also your starting premise. Take a logic class.
But we've created this system. We keep voting the same idiots to their near-lifetime congressional seats. Our lack of thorough history education has us repeating it over and over. Any time I hear such arguments I immediately think of the Wal-Mart South Park episode. Tear it down and we'll erect another monolith to replace it. Why? Because the collective "we" are, in fact, stupid. We're nervous, twitchy, and we operate poorly out of routine.
Do I think the current system is broken? In a way, but it is more misused than broken. Our politicians are too comfortable, and we are too stuck in our ways and blinded by ignorance. We have the power to change. Constitutional congresses, initiative and referendum, just plain voting. How about term limits on senators and congressman? How about we remind all four hundred something of them that they work for us and we vote the whole lot out this Nov. 4! It's my birthday on election day. What a present that would be!
Our data suggests that a greater number of Democrats than Republicans or Independents are excluded from voting under Indiana's voter identification laws.
But if a larger percentage of Democratic and poorer voters aren't working within the rules, then I don't see a problem. Either the rules don't work and need to be changed or the people aren't following them.
This is very similar to the hot-button topic of alleged racial inequality in prison. Without trying to come down on one side or another, if a certain group of people commits crime in a larger proportion than another, it stands to reason that a larger percentage of that group will be in jail.
Be careful to separate how people came to the point of committing crime and the actual commission of said crime. We cloud the issue by not clearly defining the two parts. Same with voter exclusion: look at the reasons why individuals are excluded, not the group which they represent.
Your system is entirely based upon the notion that people are reasonable. That is not the case. A person - singular - is reasonable. When we get together in large groups we become much more stupiderer.
As the good book says, "None of us is as dumb as all of us."
I just closed the PDF of his math paper where he does state his theory of what was played by George, John, Paul, and George Martin. Harrison played (in tab notation, from low E to high E): x0001x
Indeed, let's! That is the purpose of elections and term limits. They work for us. Let's fire them. And while we're at it, how about congressional and senatorial term limits?
'isms aside, I don't want the government taking my money and giving it to others. Sure, it happens already under our current tax system, but to a barely tolerable degree. Personally I would do away with the current system and replace it with a flat or usage style tax, perhaps not across the board, but maybe in more localized areas (e.g., raise gas taxes but eliminate my motor vehicle tax, so I pay for using it rather than owning it).
In theory (especially queue theory) I can almost say I like communism, but human nature makes it not viable on a larger scale. I prefer small but efficient federal and state governments, but I like local communal efforts. Maybe Obama was doing the right thing in his community organizing days, but I don't think the same thinking works on a national level. The federal and state governments should create incentives for local philanthropic efforts, rather than take more of my money just to filter through a slow, inefficient bureaucracy and then redistribute it to people who have no effect on my local economy. In fact, poorer people are more likely to buy China-made crap at the dollar store, so my money - which I would have spent on American goods - get reduced by 75% on its way through Washington and the rest buys goods manufactured in Asia. Brilliant.
Conservative democrats do not run the legislature. If the swing of the democratic party was conservative we would be choosing between McCain and Clinton. Otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly: Oust your incumbents. Senators and congressmen were not intended to be lifetime appointees. They need to be reminded of that!
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That is, "there," not "their." Don't I feel stoopid.
The god to whom people pray is not the same as the god who "created" the universe, where created equals "supplied the initial conditions from which the universe began."
The one to whom people pray is imaginary. The one who supplied the initial conditions is assumed to exist. Either way, he isn't coming to meet you any time soon.
Ultimately human behavior is near-continuous series of yes/no decisions. Our brains iterate pretty deeply, but at some level it's ones and zeros. Though we may need more petaflops than angels on the head of a pin before we can scratch that itch. At any rate, the application of such a model will probably always doom it to failure.
How much do we really know about climate? Probably a lot less than we think. Scientists are always so sure they are right. And then a few decades pass and they realize they weren't. And then they repeat that same behavior.
Pre-marital sex?
I would say more than lack of evidence is lack of causation rather than correlation. Scientists appear to agree that at least in the short term the earth is a little warmer. What they can't say with any certainty is why. Anthropogenic warming is the desired cause as that is the only one we can do a damn thing about.
There already exists economic modeling. And it is no more impossible than climate modeling. Granted, human interaction becomes a factor when the general population is aware of the economic predictions, but I am talking theory, not necessarily practice.
How about economic modeling?
Cute puppies from the Dark Web? I don't want any part of that.
I believe I was responding to a commenter who was talking about a P4 laptop. Not server-related. You are an idiot.
Never underestimate a person's desire for the shiniest, newest thing.
Like you, I am happy - for now - with my Athlon XP 1500+ CPU paired with an Nvidia 128MB eGForce Ti video card. Old school, yet it handled nearly flawlessly all but the last level in Portal. Most people don't need the power of the last two years worth of hardware improvements. But remove price as a factor (i.e., you have more than enough money) or add status, and why the hell not get something bad-ass?
I wonder what would happen to the overall CPU picture is suddenly everyone stopped biting at the bleeding edge tech and waited for the inevitable price drop? Perhaps Intel and AMD begging the govt for a bailout? That would be funny.
I think they consider themselves a premium service to a niche market. Consider that at least 75% of the browsing public never gets much deeper than a Google image search for "cute puppies," or some such nonsense.
Sounds an awful lot like "Party of Five" formerly on the Fox network (years ago).
I think an even bigger issue with the immediately-out-of-date traffic report is that once the crash is cleared and the traffic at the front of the line starts moving they consider the problem resolved. They do not take into account the ripple effect sending echoing "shockwaves" of traffic stalls up and down the highway.
No, you don't. A valid sample size is crucial to reduce or eliminate outliers. In you case, the one guy with the GPS phone is on his donut spare coasting in the breakdown lane and you end up 20 minutes late to work because you took the back roads.
It wasn't freudian. I like my mom, but not in that way. Submitting without proof reading is bad.
You sound like a conspiracy theorist.
when corrected for prior history and socio-economic status
What does that mean? Is there a discrete theory which neatly fulfills that statement? Does it have any bias in it? Did you ever wonder why Pat Robertson thinks 2% of the population is gay and the GLBT crowd say 15% (or something like that)? Because stats are easily manipulated, and people very seldom fall into discrete, predictable categories.
Your conclusion is also your starting premise. Take a logic class.
But we've created this system. We keep voting the same idiots to their near-lifetime congressional seats. Our lack of thorough history education has us repeating it over and over. Any time I hear such arguments I immediately think of the Wal-Mart South Park episode. Tear it down and we'll erect another monolith to replace it. Why? Because the collective "we" are, in fact, stupid. We're nervous, twitchy, and we operate poorly out of routine.
Do I think the current system is broken? In a way, but it is more misused than broken. Our politicians are too comfortable, and we are too stuck in our ways and blinded by ignorance. We have the power to change. Constitutional congresses, initiative and referendum, just plain voting. How about term limits on senators and congressman? How about we remind all four hundred something of them that they work for us and we vote the whole lot out this Nov. 4! It's my birthday on election day. What a present that would be!
But if a larger percentage of Democratic and poorer voters aren't working within the rules, then I don't see a problem. Either the rules don't work and need to be changed or the people aren't following them.
This is very similar to the hot-button topic of alleged racial inequality in prison. Without trying to come down on one side or another, if a certain group of people commits crime in a larger proportion than another, it stands to reason that a larger percentage of that group will be in jail.
Be careful to separate how people came to the point of committing crime and the actual commission of said crime. We cloud the issue by not clearly defining the two parts. Same with voter exclusion: look at the reasons why individuals are excluded, not the group which they represent.
Your system is entirely based upon the notion that people are reasonable. That is not the case. A person - singular - is reasonable. When we get together in large groups we become much more stupiderer.
As the good book says, "None of us is as dumb as all of us."
On a twelve string.
I just closed the PDF of his math paper where he does state his theory of what was played by George, John, Paul, and George Martin. Harrison played (in tab notation, from low E to high E): x0001x
they hosed up the experimental method right off the bat with the extremely limited scope of their test. 3 web pages?
Indeed, let's! That is the purpose of elections and term limits. They work for us. Let's fire them. And while we're at it, how about congressional and senatorial term limits?
'isms aside, I don't want the government taking my money and giving it to others. Sure, it happens already under our current tax system, but to a barely tolerable degree. Personally I would do away with the current system and replace it with a flat or usage style tax, perhaps not across the board, but maybe in more localized areas (e.g., raise gas taxes but eliminate my motor vehicle tax, so I pay for using it rather than owning it).
In theory (especially queue theory) I can almost say I like communism, but human nature makes it not viable on a larger scale. I prefer small but efficient federal and state governments, but I like local communal efforts. Maybe Obama was doing the right thing in his community organizing days, but I don't think the same thinking works on a national level. The federal and state governments should create incentives for local philanthropic efforts, rather than take more of my money just to filter through a slow, inefficient bureaucracy and then redistribute it to people who have no effect on my local economy. In fact, poorer people are more likely to buy China-made crap at the dollar store, so my money - which I would have spent on American goods - get reduced by 75% on its way through Washington and the rest buys goods manufactured in Asia. Brilliant.
Conservative democrats do not run the legislature. If the swing of the democratic party was conservative we would be choosing between McCain and Clinton. Otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly: Oust your incumbents. Senators and congressmen were not intended to be lifetime appointees. They need to be reminded of that!