As with climate change, the few real scientists who are skeptical seem to be from fields which have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand
So what? It is not like Navier-Stokes becomes solvable when applied to climate or weather.
Anyway, I have a counter example: Freeman Dyson. So there you have a guy who have been intimately involved in climate science and who don't by what Mann, Hansen, et. al. are saying. I hope that now you can also agree that comparing being skeptical on climate change and creationism is not fair.
Odd that this controversy isn't covered in the wikipedia article, it's well known to acedemics here in Springfield.
Consider covering it. After all, Wikipedia is everyone to edit.
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The impact of these farcical complaints in such a high profile sex-offence case is going to set back rape victims' rights by a decade or more. Expect to see the Sweedish Assange case trotted out in every sexual assault legislation debate for twenty years, as the foremost example of how rape allegations can be trivial and how rape victims' testimony is unreliable. I suspect quite a few "mens' rights" groups have made a song and dance over this already.
You make this sound this as if these "mens' right" groups do not have a case. I think this sad saga proves that rape allegations could be and are used as a tool of revenge by scorned women. The set back you are speaking of is basically the reintroduction presumption of innocence to rape cases. A set back, indeed.
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
As for the Feds, how long do you think it will be that they hold out? Guarantee you they still have the methods in place to tax this, regardless of the current legality.
North Carolina is one of about 20 states that tax illegal drugs. The cost varies by state and weight, as does the stamps’ appearance (Nebraska’s, with a skull surmounting a syringe and joint, looks like Grateful Dead tribute art). Penalties for non-payment also vary, from being classed as a misdemeanour in Georgia to 200% of the tax plus $10,000 or five years in prison in Louisiana.
My guess is that drug warriors made this scheme up to inflict yet another punishment for drug users. What they didn't see was that the stamp laws would open up the possibilities to gradual legalization.
I guess some times, just some times, unintended consequences are good for you.
It was a time when a young man could still dream of being a delivery boy in space, and maybe, just maybe it was possible...
Yes, in those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.
Damn. Don't leave out the jab at Star Trek. This is, after all, about sci-fi.
In those days men were REL men, women were REAL women, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before - and thus was the Empire forged.
[Y]ou have no idea how frustrating it is to spend many millions of dollars and several years of our life making a game, and then see statistics from our update servers that 15 to 20 people are playing pirated copies for every legitimately purchased copy.
So you are going to please all the whiners about the internet connection and stuff by dropping the game price from $40 to $2? Sounds like fair deal to me.
I'm replying myself. This is a gold mine of "professionalism". The next file I opened (LoggingService.cs) contained the following catch-block: catch { }
So they are eating the exception and don't even bother to write why in a comment.
1. Block any and all direct links to Newscorp owned sites in the search results.
2. Downrank any sites that link to Newscorp owned sites as irrelevant linking. (They have this for counteracting googlebombing.)
3. Systematically provide alternative sources for any search results that would have linked to Newscorp owned sites..
So eventually even a search for "Newscorp" brings up every one of their competitors websites bashing them for being stupid, old, ignorant and irrelevant.
I love this. Then all conservative zelots would go and use Bing. And as a good search engine must learn from its user base, Bing would eventually become a conservative search engine, marginalizing it for forever. It is a win-win really!
because virtualization only works for large companies with many, many servers
You're full of crap. At my company...
I quit reading here. What is it with you and your ilk? Can't you disagree politely.
Sorry about off topic but it really dispirits my reading, when I see otherwise (or so I presume as the quoted comment is now +4 Interesting) decent comment being so abusive.
okay, how about 54 incidents? And that's with about 25 seconds of searching.
You are not even wrong. First, it took much longer as you are linking to a page containing the list. Somebody else did the work and I bet that it took her more than 25 seconds. Second, the page is not a sample. It is a list of all such "incidents".
More over, your list of "54 incidents" is pathetic. For example, I would like you to defend this case as a blatant example of sexism in the Open Source Software Community.
Sorry about ranting about matters of taste but in this case it seems to be in topic. So here we go...
This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame).
Are you saying that this movie is as good/groundbreaking as Star Wars orThe Matrix? I am somewhat dubious.
I'm also, as Star Wars orThe Matrix are nice junk entertainment. If you want speak about science fiction classics, I would start out by mentioning Blade Runner and Alien. Of course, it is a matter of taste but to raise The Matrix to prestige is just barbarism.
And after this, you continue with the following blasphemy:
[Y]ou kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book).
What? So you think that the movie was lacking in depth. Then you just did not get it. The director, Verhoeven, was disgusted with the book. As a dutch liberal he probably felt that the the world view propagated in the book was too totalitarian. The movie is a counter-argument to the book. It tries to be a movie (or art in more general) produced by such a society described in the book. And very well in my opinion. If you don't believe me, watch it again. All the "would you like to know more" -stuff indicates that you are in fact watching a movie from that era what the movie is about.
The fact that the movie even tries to take part in a serious debate about the society in general is a plus. That it does it well, is a double plus. That it goes on and don't try to re-do the book but to continue the theme of the book is a such a fashion is double-double plus.
They said he's not a climate scientist, but he has an undergrad physics degree and a PhD in economics and he's seems to have spent most of his career writing position papers for economics think tanks! Heck, that should be enough to qualify him as a client scientist...oh wait. What I mean is, with those credentials he should be able to practice dentistry and set policy on...no, that's not it.
He's a...race car driver? No, that's not it either.
Let me think.
I know! He's an economist.
So now all I have to do is prove that climate science is a subset of economics and the "how dare they say he isn't a climate scientist" outrage will be justified.
They said you are not a psychologist*, but you have [your qualifications] and you seem to have spent most of your career writing [whatever you write]! Heck, that should be enough to qualify you as a psychologist...oh wait. What I mean is, with those credentials you should be able to practice dentistry and set policy on...no, that's not it.
You are a...race car driver? No, that's not it either.
Let me think.
I know! You are a [your job description].
So now all I have to do is prove that psychology is a subset of [your job description] and the "how dare they say your argument is just plain stupid and ad hominem" outrage will be justified.
* Psychology chosen arbitrarily; maybe political scientists or economists are better at judging papers and arguments based who is putting it forward.
If you want references from other, why you do not hold you self to same standards?
An ad hominem attack is no more valid in a scientific political discussion than any other discussion.
I'll have to beg your forgiveness; the "global warming isn't a threat / is not our fault" line has been embraced by the same slice of the body politic that claims DDT doesn't hurt baby eagles, smoking doesn't cause cancer, and you can cut taxes forever and still pay for a war.
Yeah, speaking about Ad Hominem.
A piece of advice, to pepper you smearing next time. To insult those who discuss about matters regarding global warming, use one of following lines:
It never really made sense to me how A) A student is supposed to afford these $9000 suites that we're supposed to be familiar with before we get a job that licenses it? B) I have to pay to develop for microsoft's OS.. Before now, students have familiarized themself with MS products by pirating them. Now that society has taken stronger stand on the pirating, MS can't anymore turn the blind eye on students. As for the price. The logic is as follows:
The Windows platform is only as valuable as the programs running on it
This means that the development of new software should be made as easy as possible
The software development made easy means IDE
MS want that the Windows platform has the best possible IDE
As we know competition in the market place is the best motor for the best products
Therefore MS is charging for VS, for not to kill Borland et al. from the market place, hence artificially generating competition and better IDEs
Note, how this logic (if correct) implicitly proves that MS belives that the monopoly is, in fact, bad for the consumers. It means that they don't even pretend to be here for the best of the consumer.
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As with climate change, the few real scientists who are skeptical seem to be from fields which have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand
So what? It is not like Navier-Stokes becomes solvable when applied to climate or weather.
Anyway, I have a counter example: Freeman Dyson. So there you have a guy who have been intimately involved in climate science and who don't by what Mann, Hansen, et. al. are saying. I hope that now you can also agree that comparing being skeptical on climate change and creationism is not fair.
Odd that this controversy isn't covered in the wikipedia article, it's well known to acedemics here in Springfield.
Consider covering it. After all, Wikipedia is everyone to edit.
The impact of these farcical complaints in such a high profile sex-offence case is going to set back rape victims' rights by a decade or more. Expect to see the Sweedish Assange case trotted out in every sexual assault legislation debate for twenty years, as the foremost example of how rape allegations can be trivial and how rape victims' testimony is unreliable. I suspect quite a few "mens' rights" groups have made a song and dance over this already.
You make this sound this as if these "mens' right" groups do not have a case. I think this sad saga proves that rape allegations could be and are used as a tool of revenge by scorned women. The set back you are speaking of is basically the reintroduction presumption of innocence to rape cases. A set back, indeed.
By the way, why the quotes around "mens' right"?
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
1,699 thousand.
Something suspiciously absent is any mentioning of license. I don't think it is necessary for me to describe why that's a problem.
See file LICENCE inside source package. It is 3-clause BSD licence.
Evidence for spatial variation of the fine structure constant
An evaluation from a practicing physicist would be appreciated.
As for the Feds, how long do you think it will be that they hold out? Guarantee you they still have the methods in place to tax this, regardless of the current legality.
They have. See this article. A quote:
North Carolina is one of about 20 states that tax illegal drugs. The cost varies by state and weight, as does the stamps’ appearance (Nebraska’s, with a skull surmounting a syringe and joint, looks like Grateful Dead tribute art). Penalties for non-payment also vary, from being classed as a misdemeanour in Georgia to 200% of the tax plus $10,000 or five years in prison in Louisiana.
My guess is that drug warriors made this scheme up to inflict yet another punishment for drug users. What they didn't see was that the stamp laws would open up the possibilities to gradual legalization.
I guess some times, just some times, unintended consequences are good for you.
I count four: *asterisks*, bold, Title Case, and ALL CAPITALS. Five if you count permutations of more than one (Bold Title Case).
You both missed the usage of peculiar words:
The TaxMan Cometh
Here are some links (provided to you via Arts and Letters Daily):
The Associated Press
Sci Am
Discover
James Randy
Roger Kimball
The Man's last essay. It's titeled Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire.
Just a quick reminder to anyone thinking of condeming these people here on Slashdot - are you at work right now, reading Slashdot?
No. I'm at home and I should be having sex with my wife.
It was a time when a young man could still dream of being a delivery boy in space, and maybe, just maybe it was possible...
Yes, in those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.
Damn. Don't leave out the jab at Star Trek. This is, after all, about sci-fi.
In those days men were REL men, women were REAL women, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before - and thus was the Empire forged.
[Y]ou have no idea how frustrating it is to spend many millions of dollars and several years of our life making a game, and then see statistics from our update servers that 15 to 20 people are playing pirated copies for every legitimately purchased copy.
So you are going to please all the whiners about the internet connection and stuff by dropping the game price from $40 to $2? Sounds like fair deal to me.
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Jari
E. Coli. Ok, it's not an animal but still. It ushered in the age of biotechnology and have not left since and take part in most of the research.
I'm replying myself. This is a gold mine of "professionalism". The next file I opened (LoggingService.cs) contained the following catch-block:
catch
{
}
So they are eating the exception and don't even bother to write why in a comment.
Very professional!!!
As opposed almost everyone fussing about "teh M$" and nuances of "freedom", I decided to take a look as see this professionalism.
The first, the first, line I read had a pre-processor no-no. Here:
#define ReleaseStr(pwz) if (pwz) { StrFree(pwz); }
You can read all about it here: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html#faq-39.4
Here's how it doesn't work:
if ( something )
ReleaseStr(pwz)
else
foobar;
So there. The code might look professional. It might but it doesn't mean that it is.
Well, I think a lot of Russians died in what was ultimately the defense of Western Europe.
True, but they didn't mean to. Stalin's plan was not to save Western Europe but to conquer it.
It is also true that a lot of Nazis died in what was ultimately the defense of Western Europe from Russia.
Easy solution for Google.
1. Block any and all direct links to Newscorp owned sites in the search results.
2. Downrank any sites that link to Newscorp owned sites as irrelevant linking. (They have this for counteracting googlebombing.)
3. Systematically provide alternative sources for any search results that would have linked to Newscorp owned sites. .
So eventually even a search for "Newscorp" brings up every one of their competitors websites bashing them for being stupid, old, ignorant and irrelevant.
I love this. Then all conservative zelots would go and use Bing. And as a good search engine must learn from its user base, Bing would eventually become a conservative search engine, marginalizing it for forever. It is a win-win really!
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Jari
because virtualization only works for large companies with many, many servers
You're full of crap. At my company ...
I quit reading here. What is it with you and your ilk? Can't you disagree politely.
Sorry about off topic but it really dispirits my reading, when I see otherwise (or so I presume as the quoted comment is now +4 Interesting) decent comment being so abusive.
I got a particular kick out of the phrase "otherwise distinguished physicists" in the summary.
Me too. But it was in the article. Maybe you should read it.
okay, how about 54 incidents? And that's with about 25 seconds of searching.
You are not even wrong. First, it took much longer as you are linking to a page containing the list. Somebody else did the work and I bet that it took her more than 25 seconds. Second, the page is not a sample. It is a list of all such "incidents".
More over, your list of "54 incidents" is pathetic. For example, I would like you to defend this case as a blatant example of sexism in the Open Source Software Community.
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Jari Mustonen
Sorry about ranting about matters of taste but in this case it seems to be in topic. So here we go...
This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame).
Are you saying that this movie is as good/groundbreaking as Star Wars orThe Matrix? I am somewhat dubious.
I'm also, as Star Wars orThe Matrix are nice junk entertainment. If you want speak about science fiction classics, I would start out by mentioning Blade Runner and Alien. Of course, it is a matter of taste but to raise The Matrix to prestige is just barbarism.
And after this, you continue with the following blasphemy:
[Y]ou kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book).
What? So you think that the movie was lacking in depth. Then you just did not get it. The director, Verhoeven, was disgusted with the book. As a dutch liberal he probably felt that the the world view propagated in the book was too totalitarian. The movie is a counter-argument to the book. It tries to be a movie (or art in more general) produced by such a society described in the book. And very well in my opinion. If you don't believe me, watch it again. All the "would you like to know more" -stuff indicates that you are in fact watching a movie from that era what the movie is about.
The fact that the movie even tries to take part in a serious debate about the society in general is a plus. That it does it well, is a double plus. That it goes on and don't try to re-do the book but to continue the theme of the book is a such a fashion is double-double plus.
--
Jari Mustonen
They said he's not a climate scientist, but he has an undergrad physics degree and a PhD in economics and he's seems to have spent most of his career writing position papers for economics think tanks! Heck, that should be enough to qualify him as a client scientist...oh wait. What I mean is, with those credentials he should be able to practice dentistry and set policy on...no, that's not it.
He's a...race car driver? No, that's not it either.
Let me think.
I know! He's an economist.
So now all I have to do is prove that climate science is a subset of economics and the "how dare they say he isn't a climate scientist" outrage will be justified.
They said you are not a psychologist*, but you have [your qualifications] and you seem to have spent most of your career writing [whatever you write]! Heck, that should be enough to qualify you as a psychologist...oh wait. What I mean is, with those credentials you should be able to practice dentistry and set policy on...no, that's not it.
You are a...race car driver? No, that's not it either.
Let me think.
I know! You are a [your job description].
So now all I have to do is prove that psychology is a subset of [your job description] and the "how dare they say your argument is just plain stupid and ad hominem" outrage will be justified.
* Psychology chosen arbitrarily; maybe political scientists or economists are better at judging papers and arguments based who is putting it forward.
If you want references from other, why you do not hold you self to same standards?
Yeah, speaking about Ad Hominem.
A piece of advice, to pepper you smearing next time. To insult those who discuss about matters regarding global warming, use one of following lines:
A) A student is supposed to afford these $9000 suites that we're supposed to be familiar with before we get a job that licenses it?
B) I have to pay to develop for microsoft's OS.. Before now, students have familiarized themself with MS products by pirating them. Now that society has taken stronger stand on the pirating, MS can't anymore turn the blind eye on students. As for the price. The logic is as follows:
Note, how this logic (if correct) implicitly proves that MS belives that the monopoly is, in fact, bad for the consumers. It means that they don't even pretend to be here for the best of the consumer.
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Jari Mustonen
Could someone paste the content of the document. I am from Finland, hence I am unable to read it.
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Jari Mustonen
PS. I feel like living in some kind of totalitarian state. Well, this is what we get for electing this jackass for our prime minister.