Your answer is one of the most informative explanations for dating I've heard. Cars are still carbon dated at 10,000 years old, so it would show less subjectivity if you could admit that it does make major, repeatable mistakes in real-world testing.
"Scientists check and cross validate timelines in hundreds if not thousands of different ways such as this.
I would like to see where I could look up a few hundred of these examples. Perhaps my google-fu is still weak.. The only test I've had done came up saying the date was wrong, so I hope you can see why I show a very healthy lack of trust in any rhetoric surrounding this.
Also, pollen zones go back only 15,000 years (to say it verifies carbon dating is like verifying a broken watch works by checking it on the time it's stopped) and arctic cores are dated using radiocarbon and potassium-argon methods, not by counting as far as I've read. The thousands of layers on top compress the layers on the bottom into one layer, so the counting only goes back a few thousand layers.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff I could find written on these subjects was non-objective (either about global warming, christian apologetics, etc.) and little relevant data was there to be read.
If we've come to the point where we can permanently scar the earth with steel and asphalt, fling robots at other planets, and embed millions of miles of cables in the earth with just 10,000 years of recorded history, it is difficult to imagine that their entire 630,000 year civilization left less of a mark than 6 skeletons
It's almost as if these "scientists" and archaeologists were completely making up any crazy numbers they wanted (as long as it's less than 300 million and more than 10,000), and couldn't scientifically verify them using any current methods. Oh wait, that's exactly what they are doing. True science dies a little more every time drek like this is published.
Most non-competes I've signed were under the auspice of protecting company secrets, and allow the employees a greater breadth of trust. In order to protect company secrets, I can imagine this ruling may cause an explosion at the patent office which could stir the pot back the other way. We may finally get to know what the Colonel's 11 secret herbs and spices, we'll just all be legally barred from selling chicken prepared with them.
Oooh... Sounds like someone has a lot of faith placed in scientists who believe in the possibility of "rolled up dimensions" and are turning on a machine whose sole purpose is to do things they don't yet understand and can't predict, but hopefully (otherwise a lot of money down the tubes) are related to big-bang physics and solar-system-destroying forces.
Remind me to play you in poker sometime, because I'm sure you think it's infinitely impossible odds to beat any of your 2-of-a-kind's when I admittedly start the game with 2 Queens up my sleeve.
I'm not a COBOL/DB2 guy, but doesn't this problem just need a shotgun remedy:
NoBudget=1//change to 0 when Governator gives the OK.
if not NoBudget then
select currentwage as wage from workers
else
select 6.50 as wage from workers
end if
The assumption that Carbon Dating is correct screws up carbon dating. There is nothing on Earth over 10,000 years old that we can point to, with surety, and say "That item is n*10,000 years old" and then use it to test carbon dating. It's simply assumed that the halflife works the exact same as some shorter-term-halflife elements and ions that we do have records old enough to measure. We measure it against old guesses.
If you carbon date anything less than 10,000 years old (i.e. your car) the reading will come back as about 10,000 years old. So, basically, the only true scientific method you can really apply to carbon dating returns "wildy innaccurate" results, yet it is the established dogma of our time.
They need to come up with a word for groupthinked "science" theories: evolution, string theory, and carbon dating to name a few... like "scienrhetoric" or "philosotific". The whole "It's true because it's popular" is really getting out of hand in the 21st century.
Reliance on government? Overbloated bureaucracies? Unionized officials? How much mercury did you drink before you started to think that those are good things? Having 500,000 people on a payroll (paid by me!) doing the jobs of 50,000 people is a Bad Thing. The original intent of the plan was to get a balanced budget out of the multitudes of bureaus, but if the effect becomes a "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (GOVERNMENT)" then I say "Well done, Mr Governor"
From: TFA
Re: Changing blue-glowy bricks to grey bricks
When you pull all the color out of the environment and you make it too homogeneous across the game, essentially what you're doing is you're pulling away the player's reward of feeling like they've progressed because the area they're in now looks like the area they were in 30 to 45 minutes ago.
Ah yes... nothing gives a player a genuine sense of accomplishment like a pallette swap.
This comes from someone who thinks that the federal government can spend my money more effectively than I can? Or does this come from someone who thinks that 30% of the GDP goes toward treasury bonds?
Mark my words, the federal government could operate more effectively at 1/3rd of their current income than they do today.
Technically, it's closer to getting fined $14,000 for drinking coffee you found in the McDonald's dumpster.
The company wasn't going to get any money from you anyway, but you still managed a caffeine buzz and a thirst quenchings.
Meanwhile, dumpster diving means that you won't have to be asked "Do you want fries with that?" but it's questionable as to the quality of food you'll get, or whether you'll end up with a virus once you've finished getting what you're looking for.
Pass themselves a pay cut? Give the taxpayers a federal taxbreak for the summer, make money spent on loaned interest tax-deductible for homes and automobiles, increase tarrifs on imports and give tax incentives on exports. Make gas purchases tax-deductible. Come down on one or more of the blatant trusts sitting in our system.
They have the power to increase the net worth of all paychecks given to all American workers by up to 30%, yet you think they have no power over the economy? Yes, the federal government can afford (and deserves) to lose 8% of its income so the entire United States can increase 30% for one month. We didn't elect them to deal with easy issues or hurt us when we're doing well. We elected them to represent us in a system that can solve difficult issues about economy, security, and policy. Incompetence is not an excuse with their paychecks. If you believe there's nothing they can do, it's time to recall every one of the pathetic, corrupt bastards.
Maybe when the country is headed full-force into a recession, it's not time for a 5-week vacation when there are laws to be passed. It's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work. The United States isn't ok right now. It's fragile and crumbling. Those elected officials want to spend their August kicking up their shoes when unemployment is at an all-time high?
The Republicans are acting childish. It reminds me of what I would see in highschool when the teachers would strike -- but the Democrats are running away from the problems that need to be solved. It's their job, and it's not done yet, so they deserve no recess in August, no matter how long they've planned it. This isn't a retail job at Wal-mart where the company will be ok if one worker leaves for 6 weeks.
But after everything is said and done, after seeing at least 4 major laws passed that grossly violate the constitution in the last 2 weeks, it's almost a reprieve to see them out for a few weeks. The only reason I'm sure they don't use the constitution as toilet paper is because some of them would actually read if that were the case.
I would think using these drugs would only be cheating in sports if they build muscle mass past what can be achieved through exercise
That would be true except for one thing: Sports aren't a competition to see who can exercise the most. Points are only awarded for gametime performance, not for practices.
"Well, the Celtics are up by 3 points, but the Lakers are expected to pull ahead when the refs give them an extra 6 points for spending more time at the gym this week, and eating all their vegetables"
This confusion probably just stemmed from a miscommunication. India's Minister of State for Higher Education probably just called his tech center (which was outsourced to some overseas bidder) and couldn't understand the engineer because of the engineer's thick, American accent.
Formal, nonetheless engaging. The article did have a few "think of the poor" phrases that seemed a little obtuse (in comparison to the rest of the article, which was impeccable), as justice meted for violation of copyright laws should be, ideally, blind -- listening to what's right vs. wrong instead of who is right vs. wrong. Imagining the worst, it seems it could be confused from the original intent of the article: allowing defendants to competently defend themselves.
The article does raise a question for me, however, as a standard person that could get caught up in something like this. If I were to get a judge who turns a blind eye to these seemingly common sense parts of a due process, would there be anything I could do to demand that I be given the rights to a fair trial, or would such demands be seen as contempt of court? I'm assuming it'd be poor sport to tell the judge that he's not doing his job, and even if granted a retrial, wouldn't win me many points with his replacement.
tl;dr: what's the best way a man can proceed if he doesn't get a fair first trial?
When I was a child, my parents would scoff at a $50 pricetag on a game like Double Dragon. When they would finally break down and buy a game like Metroid, it was only once a year. (3 times a year for the spoiled kids) and so you had your videogame and you had 1 year alone with it to pour across every pixel, bomb every corner, crush every block, test every wall. If you found a new secret, you were king of the school at elementary the next day.
Nowadays, we have 60 videogames being released in the month of October, and most gamers have the resources to easily buy one or two a month, and we don't have the time or care to devote such meticulous attention to every mundane detail. With gamefaqs up, as well, it eliminates the promise of some secret that you, and only you, have managed to discover through your diligence. Overabundance of availability leaves us bombarded by a thousand choices while telling us that none of them truly deserve any sort of lasting engagement. (For the most part, some addictions have developed to some games which have preserved the attentions of several million people)
When the signals became more abundant, adventure games were the first to die.
The first line of your post should warrant you as unfit to vote, raise children, or attend school in the United States. Just reading it almost caused me to suffer a brain aneurism. Voltaire himself would take back his historic advocacy of free speech if he were here, reading your post. The founding fathers would blot out the first amendment in an unholy mixture of tears, ink, and blood simply to purge the future of this gross abomination of recorded [lack of] thought. Gah! Now I need to punch something!
In ancient Greece, olympians performed their competitions nude because it was believed that the physical development of the sexes caused disparities between athletic development. A study done this week in England, however, proves the Greeks just how wrong they were. When 12-year-old girls raced against kindergarten students, they were found to win at the same ratio as 12-year-old boys. "The boys won 100% of their races against the 5-year-olds, and the girls won 100% of their races against the 5-year-olds. With no observable difference in athletic ability, we believe this study will finally aid in breaking down a wall of athletic segregation that plagues our sports industries" the study reports.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. The dude's questions don't seem unreasonable, and you keep posting encouraging comments like "this is good stuff" and "these really give me great ideas" so of course he's going to continue providing feedback. He's probably thinking he's doing you a great service and he's the best forum poster in the whole world.
He's more coherent than 90% of the clients I've ever dealt with, and was willing to admit where he was wrong in some points. From my outlook, this man is a model poster and what you should really be encouraging in your community rather than freezing like a deer in headlights. Communities absolutely thrive on the [conceived] ability to alter the outcome of the product that has brought them together. Machiavelli wrote a book on just this type of thing.
If you need him to temper down his comments, simply remind him that you're a small shop and appreciate his patience as much as his input. Tell him that you don't check the board as often as you check your emails, and you would appreciate it if he were to continue this thread via email with you -- like telling someone to bypass your secretary with a direct line, it can be very flattering.
Some of us conspiracy theorists started implementing them when other slashdotters began disappearing in the middle of deep political/telecom discussions. It's obviously not perfect, but the idea is: if the government or our telecoms ever try to shut us down before we can hit the submit button on our rants, what we typed will stillThank you for choosing Comcast Cable as your #1 internet service provider!
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"Scientists check and cross validate timelines in hundreds if not thousands of different ways such as this.
I would like to see where I could look up a few hundred of these examples. Perhaps my google-fu is still weak.. The only test I've had done came up saying the date was wrong, so I hope you can see why I show a very healthy lack of trust in any rhetoric surrounding this.
Also, pollen zones go back only 15,000 years (to say it verifies carbon dating is like verifying a broken watch works by checking it on the time it's stopped) and arctic cores are dated using radiocarbon and potassium-argon methods, not by counting as far as I've read. The thousands of layers on top compress the layers on the bottom into one layer, so the counting only goes back a few thousand layers.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff I could find written on these subjects was non-objective (either about global warming, christian apologetics, etc.) and little relevant data was there to be read.
If we've come to the point where we can permanently scar the earth with steel and asphalt, fling robots at other planets, and embed millions of miles of cables in the earth with just 10,000 years of recorded history, it is difficult to imagine that their entire 630,000 year civilization left less of a mark than 6 skeletons
It's almost as if these "scientists" and archaeologists were completely making up any crazy numbers they wanted (as long as it's less than 300 million and more than 10,000), and couldn't scientifically verify them using any current methods. Oh wait, that's exactly what they are doing. True science dies a little more every time drek like this is published.
Most non-competes I've signed were under the auspice of protecting company secrets, and allow the employees a greater breadth of trust. In order to protect company secrets, I can imagine this ruling may cause an explosion at the patent office which could stir the pot back the other way. We may finally get to know what the Colonel's 11 secret herbs and spices, we'll just all be legally barred from selling chicken prepared with them.
I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation.
Oooh... Sounds like someone has a lot of faith placed in scientists who believe in the possibility of "rolled up dimensions" and are turning on a machine whose sole purpose is to do things they don't yet understand and can't predict, but hopefully (otherwise a lot of money down the tubes) are related to big-bang physics and solar-system-destroying forces.
Remind me to play you in poker sometime, because I'm sure you think it's infinitely impossible odds to beat any of your 2-of-a-kind's when I admittedly start the game with 2 Queens up my sleeve.
I'm not a COBOL/DB2 guy, but doesn't this problem just need a shotgun remedy:
//change to 0 when Governator gives the OK.
NoBudget=1
if not NoBudget then
select currentwage as wage from workers
else
select 6.50 as wage from workers
end if
The assumption that Carbon Dating is correct screws up carbon dating. There is nothing on Earth over 10,000 years old that we can point to, with surety, and say "That item is n*10,000 years old" and then use it to test carbon dating. It's simply assumed that the halflife works the exact same as some shorter-term-halflife elements and ions that we do have records old enough to measure. We measure it against old guesses.
If you carbon date anything less than 10,000 years old (i.e. your car) the reading will come back as about 10,000 years old. So, basically, the only true scientific method you can really apply to carbon dating returns "wildy innaccurate" results, yet it is the established dogma of our time.
They need to come up with a word for groupthinked "science" theories: evolution, string theory, and carbon dating to name a few... like "scienrhetoric" or "philosotific". The whole "It's true because it's popular" is really getting out of hand in the 21st century.
Reliance on government? Overbloated bureaucracies? Unionized officials? How much mercury did you drink before you started to think that those are good things? Having 500,000 people on a payroll (paid by me!) doing the jobs of 50,000 people is a Bad Thing. The original intent of the plan was to get a balanced budget out of the multitudes of bureaus, but if the effect becomes a "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (GOVERNMENT)" then I say "Well done, Mr Governor"
Re: Changing blue-glowy bricks to grey bricks
Ah yes... nothing gives a player a genuine sense of accomplishment like a pallette swap.
learn 2 think
This comes from someone who thinks that the federal government can spend my money more effectively than I can? Or does this come from someone who thinks that 30% of the GDP goes toward treasury bonds?
Mark my words, the federal government could operate more effectively at 1/3rd of their current income than they do today.
Technically, it's closer to getting fined $14,000 for drinking coffee you found in the McDonald's dumpster. The company wasn't going to get any money from you anyway, but you still managed a caffeine buzz and a thirst quenchings. Meanwhile, dumpster diving means that you won't have to be asked "Do you want fries with that?" but it's questionable as to the quality of food you'll get, or whether you'll end up with a virus once you've finished getting what you're looking for.
Pass themselves a pay cut? Give the taxpayers a federal taxbreak for the summer, make money spent on loaned interest tax-deductible for homes and automobiles, increase tarrifs on imports and give tax incentives on exports. Make gas purchases tax-deductible. Come down on one or more of the blatant trusts sitting in our system.
They have the power to increase the net worth of all paychecks given to all American workers by up to 30%, yet you think they have no power over the economy? Yes, the federal government can afford (and deserves) to lose 8% of its income so the entire United States can increase 30% for one month. We didn't elect them to deal with easy issues or hurt us when we're doing well. We elected them to represent us in a system that can solve difficult issues about economy, security, and policy. Incompetence is not an excuse with their paychecks. If you believe there's nothing they can do, it's time to recall every one of the pathetic, corrupt bastards.
Maybe when the country is headed full-force into a recession, it's not time for a 5-week vacation when there are laws to be passed. It's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work. The United States isn't ok right now. It's fragile and crumbling. Those elected officials want to spend their August kicking up their shoes when unemployment is at an all-time high?
The Republicans are acting childish. It reminds me of what I would see in highschool when the teachers would strike -- but the Democrats are running away from the problems that need to be solved. It's their job, and it's not done yet, so they deserve no recess in August, no matter how long they've planned it. This isn't a retail job at Wal-mart where the company will be ok if one worker leaves for 6 weeks.
But after everything is said and done, after seeing at least 4 major laws passed that grossly violate the constitution in the last 2 weeks, it's almost a reprieve to see them out for a few weeks. The only reason I'm sure they don't use the constitution as toilet paper is because some of them would actually read if that were the case.
I would think using these drugs would only be cheating in sports if they build muscle mass past what can be achieved through exercise
That would be true except for one thing: Sports aren't a competition to see who can exercise the most. Points are only awarded for gametime performance, not for practices.
"Well, the Celtics are up by 3 points, but the Lakers are expected to pull ahead when the refs give them an extra 6 points for spending more time at the gym this week, and eating all their vegetables"
Well, Al Gore did invent the Earth-cooling comet, after all. "For the good of the world!"
Indeed. In my day, when Netscape only took 45 seconds to open, it was a Christmas miracle.
This confusion probably just stemmed from a miscommunication. India's Minister of State for Higher Education probably just called his tech center (which was outsourced to some overseas bidder) and couldn't understand the engineer because of the engineer's thick, American accent.
Formal, nonetheless engaging. The article did have a few "think of the poor" phrases that seemed a little obtuse (in comparison to the rest of the article, which was impeccable), as justice meted for violation of copyright laws should be, ideally, blind -- listening to what's right vs. wrong instead of who is right vs. wrong. Imagining the worst, it seems it could be confused from the original intent of the article: allowing defendants to competently defend themselves.
The article does raise a question for me, however, as a standard person that could get caught up in something like this. If I were to get a judge who turns a blind eye to these seemingly common sense parts of a due process, would there be anything I could do to demand that I be given the rights to a fair trial, or would such demands be seen as contempt of court? I'm assuming it'd be poor sport to tell the judge that he's not doing his job, and even if granted a retrial, wouldn't win me many points with his replacement.
tl;dr: what's the best way a man can proceed if he doesn't get a fair first trial?
When I was a child, my parents would scoff at a $50 pricetag on a game like Double Dragon. When they would finally break down and buy a game like Metroid, it was only once a year. (3 times a year for the spoiled kids) and so you had your videogame and you had 1 year alone with it to pour across every pixel, bomb every corner, crush every block, test every wall. If you found a new secret, you were king of the school at elementary the next day.
Nowadays, we have 60 videogames being released in the month of October, and most gamers have the resources to easily buy one or two a month, and we don't have the time or care to devote such meticulous attention to every mundane detail. With gamefaqs up, as well, it eliminates the promise of some secret that you, and only you, have managed to discover through your diligence. Overabundance of availability leaves us bombarded by a thousand choices while telling us that none of them truly deserve any sort of lasting engagement. (For the most part, some addictions have developed to some games which have preserved the attentions of several million people)
When the signals became more abundant, adventure games were the first to die.
The first line of your post should warrant you as unfit to vote, raise children, or attend school in the United States. Just reading it almost caused me to suffer a brain aneurism. Voltaire himself would take back his historic advocacy of free speech if he were here, reading your post. The founding fathers would blot out the first amendment in an unholy mixture of tears, ink, and blood simply to purge the future of this gross abomination of recorded [lack of] thought. Gah! Now I need to punch something!
"Master Blaster owns Bartertown."
In ancient Greece, olympians performed their competitions nude because it was believed that the physical development of the sexes caused disparities between athletic development. A study done this week in England, however, proves the Greeks just how wrong they were. When 12-year-old girls raced against kindergarten students, they were found to win at the same ratio as 12-year-old boys. "The boys won 100% of their races against the 5-year-olds, and the girls won 100% of their races against the 5-year-olds. With no observable difference in athletic ability, we believe this study will finally aid in breaking down a wall of athletic segregation that plagues our sports industries" the study reports.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. The dude's questions don't seem unreasonable, and you keep posting encouraging comments like "this is good stuff" and "these really give me great ideas" so of course he's going to continue providing feedback. He's probably thinking he's doing you a great service and he's the best forum poster in the whole world.
He's more coherent than 90% of the clients I've ever dealt with, and was willing to admit where he was wrong in some points. From my outlook, this man is a model poster and what you should really be encouraging in your community rather than freezing like a deer in headlights. Communities absolutely thrive on the [conceived] ability to alter the outcome of the product that has brought them together. Machiavelli wrote a book on just this type of thing.
If you need him to temper down his comments, simply remind him that you're a small shop and appreciate his patience as much as his input. Tell him that you don't check the board as often as you check your emails, and you would appreciate it if he were to continue this thread via email with you -- like telling someone to bypass your secretary with a direct line, it can be very flattering.
In Soviet Russia You Burn Ham!
It's the 3rd-party Slashdot deadman switch.
Some of us conspiracy theorists started implementing them when other slashdotters began disappearing in the middle of deep political/telecom discussions. It's obviously not perfect, but the idea is: if the government or our telecoms ever try to shut us down before we can hit the submit button on our rants, what we typed will stillThank you for choosing Comcast Cable as your #1 internet service provider!