Wow they invented software that can read, who would have thunk that one up? Being able to read is not the same as being able to comprehend and drawing the right conclusion to what was read. Nor is it indicative of acknowledging that the writting directly in front of you might containt important information. When they can invent software that can ignore written instructions because they can't be bothered by it or fail to comprehend the simplest of instructions then I will be impressed.
I find it rather illogical that the number of friends one has links in anyway to stress or anxiety. I have 57 friends on my facebook and I don't feel stressed or anxious because of it. While I do have anxiety/depression it is well controlled with Prozac and I have had the symptoms long before facebook ever existed. Even still, those facebook messages do not have to be answered, nor does the ringing phone. I frequently hit ignore or let my voice mail pickup. The power of choice is truely amazing.
I have my own little pet theory, well..more like a philosophical belief really. It goes like this: God is merely the manifestation of mans perpensity to believe in something higher than them selves and will happily take on the form that is most comfortable to the individual. If we inject God into the question of how the universe and ultimately man and all life in the universe came to be, we then must ask our selves how God did it? Science therefore is the process in which we answer that question. Even if we universally accepted or rejected the existence of a being which is impossible to prove exists, the question still remains, how did it all come to be?
If we simply accept that God did it then we ask how. If we simply say that he is God and God can do as he pleases simply by willing it to be so. We arrive at a paradox and circular question and answer. If we accept this answer then everything that we know to be scientifically true is or can be false at the whims of an omnipotent being, thus causing much chaos and discontent for soon God will have many enemies amongst us mere mortals. However, since that which we know to be scientifically true has not changed so drastically merely our understanding of them we can safely conclude that there was and is a process by which all that is in the universe was created. If there is a process then there must be rules to govern that process, even if God defined those rules he/she/it must follow them, because to violate those rules will have far reaching and devestating consequences. Science therefore seeks to discover what those rules are and how they were applied to create the universe and everything in them.
Can we call them "potentially habitable planets" instead of going all the way to "habitable" that quickly? I think I'd like to make sure of certain things before being so definite -- for instance: water, temperature, oxygen levels, lack of poisonous gases making the oxygen-level issue moot, edible flora and/or fauna, radiation levels... hmmm, could be here awhile...
You are quite correct, they are potentially habitable. The article I read last night said that the science team that is finding these exoplanets are very causious about even calling them planets. Only a handful of the ones discovered so far are officailly called planets. Now if I can just find my matter anti-matter conversion kit I can get the hell off this rock.
So what, the cows and pigs will stop producing the greenhouse gases if we stop eating them? That's like saying slightly pregnant or marginally dead. I'm not saying that climate change is not happening just stating what should be an obvious observation, that cows and pigs will continue to produce greenhouse gases whether we eat them or not.
I suppose I could bring my self to eat an insect if I had not eaten in a few days and was desperate for something to eat. But to replace beef and pork with insects, no thank you, I would rather go vegetarian than be forced to eat a bug. I can just see our posterity at the dinner table, "Mmmmmm spaghetti and cockroaches my favorite!"
There is a threat to democracy, quick, suspend all civil liberties!
Correction there is a threat to the Republic not Democracy. Show me anywhere in the Constitution where you will find the word Democracy. Sure our officials are Democratically elected but that is as far as Democracy goes in the US.
Believe it or not I do get the gist of your post. It just irritates me when I hear the US refered to or implied as a Democracy when it is far from it. Especially when the sheeple in this country would rather believe a news report rather than find the facts for them selves. According to the date of the subpoena it is almost a month old so twitter has already complied with the order. Because revealing the existence of said subpoena before authorized to do so is of course a felony.
The burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim.
This.
As a scientist you should never discount an idea without first reviewing the facts. Facts are much more powerful than any first hand accounts of people who say they saw, felt, heard, or smelled something.
The typical ghost hunting equipment is a Video Camera, Flashlight, Thermal filter for the Camera, and Magnetic field detector.
However, I have never once seen any footage that couldn't have been explained by high school physics, or shown to be anything more than a hoax. And you likely won't either. If you are a skeptic, you should not be afraid to wander the dark hallways and should be able to determine that any odd readings are actually coming from a logical source that most people are too afraid to check into.
I remember watching one show, and they were absolutely surprised that this "one pipe" was giving off a lot of heat and this "other pipe" was giving off some weird Magnetic field. I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
Of course its weird. You mean to tell me that you don't find it weird that supossedly edcuated and rational people can't identify a heating pipe and electrical doncuit? I find that quite wierd and disturbing.
Since this is the BBC, they shot *none* of them in color but many of them in *colour*....
Potatoe Patatoe, if they don't stopp killing the Doctor there isn't going to be any more regenerations left. Admittedly I haven't been keeping up on the new Doctor Who episodes or even know if it's still running but he has one or two regenerations left.
Two things -
1. I don't even know how 2012 is considered a sci-fi at all.
2. If NASA indeed decides to use lasers, they should just go ahead and melt all of John Cusack's roles till date.
It more fiction than science thats for sure. Come on who in their right mind would design any kind of vehicle that won't start if the @#$! door isn't close? I hope they didn't give the principle designer a ticket aboard one of the arks, it would have serve the dumb bastard right for such a design flaw.
I'm sure if Julian Assange had the launch codes he would publish them. Not that it would do much good. I should hope that the powers that be have a system in place to change the codes in the unlikely even of a comprimise. And suspect number one in finding who leaked the codes would be the person holding the football. But here's another situation. Lauch codes comprimised but know one knows about it and are in the hands of islamic terrorists what feasible situation can anyone think of that would allow them to start WWIII with those comprimised codes? How many land based launch sites arre capable of independent launch? And what is the likelyhood of those said terrorist penetrating the security of said sites and launching a nuclear strike?
And just for the record it is zero, zero, zero destruct zero. But that is after entering: 1A, 1A 2B, 1A 2B 3.
Prosecutor Jessica Cooper defended her decision to charge Walker. 'The guy is a hacker,' says Cooper, adding that the Gmail account 'was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded [the emails] and used them in a very contentious way.'"
While I am not condoning this guy's actions I hardly think he qualifies as a hacker. In the article I read he used his wife's Password. Which means he already knew the password, probably because his wife had given it to him at some point because she...I don't know trusted him? Imagine that, trusting your spouse with your password who would have thunk it. Oh, and this prosecutor said he downloaded her E-mail. Which suggests that she uses and E-mail client to get herE-mail from Gmail. And if she is like the majority of users that use an E-mail client they opt to safe their username and password so that they don't have to entered it each time they want to get their E-mail. Which means that all he had to do was click a button. Yeah takes some real hacker skills to do all of that. Not that it would be terribly difficult to hack a windows password.
In a thousand years or so, fossil fuels will be gone. In a hundred thousand years the biosphere will be totally run down by human exploitation, unless we manage it end to end as a farm. In a billion years (or so) the suns output will have changed to move the habitable zone away from the Earth. In five billion years the sun will become a red giant and we will all be toast.
I don't know when we will lose the magnetic field but if it happens anywhere after a thousand years from now we should be able to build our own. If we can't then we are not much of an intelligent species and we will be heading for extinction anyway.
If the human race manages to survive another thousand years without vaporizing ourselves or pissing off some extraterrestrial race first.
I knew that there was a reason I didn't have a kindle other than the fact I can't afford to buy one. I can see if it was child pornography. If I buy a book, regardless of the format, that copy belongs to me and no one else. What Amazon has done is effectively committed grand larceny. They should be sued into chapter 11.
This isn't going to go down well with the God Squad.
They will get over it some day. And if they don't who cares? There is a reason for the separation of church and state in the constitution. Sometimes I wish there was a separation of church and science.
I'm trying to figure out the mental disorder necessary to actually buy this for your dog. Not only do you have to have the dreadfully increasing psychosis that makes people get confused between dogs and humans, but you also have to think this anthropamorphised animal would want to drink beer and not get drunk. Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder. Even if you accept peoples disorder that makes them think dogs are children, you would have to deal with the secondary disorder that they think their dog is an alcholic that needs something that looks and tastes like beer, but want's to 'protect' them by giving them some that is non-alcholic.
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Excuse me, but my d-o-g-s are the ones with the psychosis. They have absolutely no idea that they are d-o-g-s, the same with my c-a-t. Now if you will excuse me I have to take my anit-psychotic meds.
Note that the above statement has to do with animal sacrifice, not a statement of correctness. Bad spelling can hinder not only the speed at which a statement is read, but also the comprehension.
True bad spelling can hinder comprehension as can bad grammar.
Hewover; it is a wlel eshabstlied fcat taht we hmunas raed olny the frist and lsat lteter of ecah wrod. As lnogas the frsit and lsat letetr are in the croerct piotsoin the ranimieng lrettes can be in any odrer.
But in normal every day written conversaion, it is generally better to be grammatically correct and to spell the words correctly. Even so, a seemingly grammatically correct sentence with correct spelling can have an entierly different meaning to those who are not privy to the context of the message.
Definition of tact (according to google dictionary): Adroitness (cleverness or skill) and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
A layman's definition of tact: The ability to tell someone to go to Hell and make them feel good to be on their way.
Disclaimer:Nothing in these statements should be construed as to be insulting. The statements are the originator's own and should not neccessarily be taken seriously or literally. We now return you ro your regularly scheduled/. thread already in progress.
I can guarantee that any pictures of me from those satellites were not of me going shopping for Black Friday, since I was at work trying in vain to keep up with the bills. Who the hell has the time and money to go shopping for things for other people who aren't going to appreciate it and will probably take it back after the holidays?
Everyone's doing this wrong. the TSA will never stop their pat-downs while the public is afraid of being groped, and this anti-screening day supposedly set for tomorrow (sort of a carbon-based DDOS) isn't the solution either. You want to stop the intrusive behavior? Simple.
Grind on the screener's hands while moaning loudly and gyrating your hips. It may not change the official policy, but it will eventually make all the screeners quit.
Well, except maybe the pervy ones.
No, no, no, just go through the security line butt naked with your clothes in a trash bag that get put on the carry on x-ray conveyor. No need for a scanner or a pat down.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to down play the implications, but just how visible are these medical records servers on the internet?
Wow they invented software that can read, who would have thunk that one up? Being able to read is not the same as being able to comprehend and drawing the right conclusion to what was read. Nor is it indicative of acknowledging that the writting directly in front of you might containt important information. When they can invent software that can ignore written instructions because they can't be bothered by it or fail to comprehend the simplest of instructions then I will be impressed.
I find it rather illogical that the number of friends one has links in anyway to stress or anxiety. I have 57 friends on my facebook and I don't feel stressed or anxious because of it. While I do have anxiety/depression it is well controlled with Prozac and I have had the symptoms long before facebook ever existed. Even still, those facebook messages do not have to be answered, nor does the ringing phone. I frequently hit ignore or let my voice mail pickup. The power of choice is truely amazing.
Chalk one up for the stupid criminals file.
I have my own little pet theory, well..more like a philosophical belief really. It goes like this: God is merely the manifestation of mans perpensity to believe in something higher than them selves and will happily take on the form that is most comfortable to the individual. If we inject God into the question of how the universe and ultimately man and all life in the universe came to be, we then must ask our selves how God did it? Science therefore is the process in which we answer that question. Even if we universally accepted or rejected the existence of a being which is impossible to prove exists, the question still remains, how did it all come to be?
If we simply accept that God did it then we ask how. If we simply say that he is God and God can do as he pleases simply by willing it to be so. We arrive at a paradox and circular question and answer. If we accept this answer then everything that we know to be scientifically true is or can be false at the whims of an omnipotent being, thus causing much chaos and discontent for soon God will have many enemies amongst us mere mortals. However, since that which we know to be scientifically true has not changed so drastically merely our understanding of them we can safely conclude that there was and is a process by which all that is in the universe was created. If there is a process then there must be rules to govern that process, even if God defined those rules he/she/it must follow them, because to violate those rules will have far reaching and devestating consequences. Science therefore seeks to discover what those rules are and how they were applied to create the universe and everything in them.
Can we call them "potentially habitable planets" instead of going all the way to "habitable" that quickly? I think I'd like to make sure of certain things before being so definite -- for instance: water, temperature, oxygen levels, lack of poisonous gases making the oxygen-level issue moot, edible flora and/or fauna, radiation levels ... hmmm, could be here awhile ...
You are quite correct, they are potentially habitable. The article I read last night said that the science team that is finding these exoplanets are very causious about even calling them planets. Only a handful of the ones discovered so far are officailly called planets. Now if I can just find my matter anti-matter conversion kit I can get the hell off this rock.
I bet this really chafes the state department's ass. I love it even if wikileaks doesn't get the award.
So what, the cows and pigs will stop producing the greenhouse gases if we stop eating them? That's like saying slightly pregnant or marginally dead. I'm not saying that climate change is not happening just stating what should be an obvious observation, that cows and pigs will continue to produce greenhouse gases whether we eat them or not.
I suppose I could bring my self to eat an insect if I had not eaten in a few days and was desperate for something to eat. But to replace beef and pork with insects, no thank you, I would rather go vegetarian than be forced to eat a bug. I can just see our posterity at the dinner table, "Mmmmmm spaghetti and cockroaches my favorite!"
There is a threat to democracy, quick, suspend all civil liberties!
Correction there is a threat to the Republic not Democracy. Show me anywhere in the Constitution where you will find the word Democracy. Sure our officials are Democratically elected but that is as far as Democracy goes in the US.
Believe it or not I do get the gist of your post. It just irritates me when I hear the US refered to or implied as a Democracy when it is far from it. Especially when the sheeple in this country would rather believe a news report rather than find the facts for them selves. According to the date of the subpoena it is almost a month old so twitter has already complied with the order. Because revealing the existence of said subpoena before authorized to do so is of course a felony.
The burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim.
This.
As a scientist you should never discount an idea without first reviewing the facts. Facts are much more powerful than any first hand accounts of people who say they saw, felt, heard, or smelled something.
The typical ghost hunting equipment is a Video Camera, Flashlight, Thermal filter for the Camera, and Magnetic field detector.
However, I have never once seen any footage that couldn't have been explained by high school physics, or shown to be anything more than a hoax. And you likely won't either. If you are a skeptic, you should not be afraid to wander the dark hallways and should be able to determine that any odd readings are actually coming from a logical source that most people are too afraid to check into.
I remember watching one show, and they were absolutely surprised that this "one pipe" was giving off a lot of heat and this "other pipe" was giving off some weird Magnetic field. I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
Of course its weird. You mean to tell me that you don't find it weird that supossedly edcuated and rational people can't identify a heating pipe and electrical doncuit? I find that quite wierd and disturbing.
The BBC shot many of these series in color
Since this is the BBC, they shot *none* of them in color but many of them in *colour*....
Potatoe Patatoe, if they don't stopp killing the Doctor there isn't going to be any more regenerations left. Admittedly I haven't been keeping up on the new Doctor Who episodes or even know if it's still running but he has one or two regenerations left.
Two things - 1. I don't even know how 2012 is considered a sci-fi at all. 2. If NASA indeed decides to use lasers, they should just go ahead and melt all of John Cusack's roles till date.
It more fiction than science thats for sure. Come on who in their right mind would design any kind of vehicle that won't start if the @#$! door isn't close? I hope they didn't give the principle designer a ticket aboard one of the arks, it would have serve the dumb bastard right for such a design flaw.
So lets just post all the nuke launch codes to wikileaks too, how bout that? After all, there shouldnt be ANY secrets in the government!
Ok, here you go: 00000000.
What, you didn't know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
I'm sure if Julian Assange had the launch codes he would publish them. Not that it would do much good. I should hope that the powers that be have a system in place to change the codes in the unlikely even of a comprimise. And suspect number one in finding who leaked the codes would be the person holding the football. But here's another situation. Lauch codes comprimised but know one knows about it and are in the hands of islamic terrorists what feasible situation can anyone think of that would allow them to start WWIII with those comprimised codes? How many land based launch sites arre capable of independent launch? And what is the likelyhood of those said terrorist penetrating the security of said sites and launching a nuclear strike?
And just for the record it is zero, zero, zero destruct zero. But that is after entering: 1A, 1A 2B, 1A 2B 3.
Prosecutor Jessica Cooper defended her decision to charge Walker. 'The guy is a hacker,' says Cooper, adding that the Gmail account 'was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded [the emails] and used them in a very contentious way.'"
While I am not condoning this guy's actions I hardly think he qualifies as a hacker. In the article I read he used his wife's Password. Which means he already knew the password, probably because his wife had given it to him at some point because she...I don't know trusted him? Imagine that, trusting your spouse with your password who would have thunk it. Oh, and this prosecutor said he downloaded her E-mail. Which suggests that she uses and E-mail client to get herE-mail from Gmail. And if she is like the majority of users that use an E-mail client they opt to safe their username and password so that they don't have to entered it each time they want to get their E-mail. Which means that all he had to do was click a button. Yeah takes some real hacker skills to do all of that. Not that it would be terribly difficult to hack a windows password.
If the TSA wasn't aware of this flaw prior to this, we are even in more danger.
I guaranee they knew. I commend the pilot for exposing the flaws. The only way to get the incompetent to do any thing is to expose their incompetence.
In a thousand years or so, fossil fuels will be gone. In a hundred thousand years the biosphere will be totally run down by human exploitation, unless we manage it end to end as a farm. In a billion years (or so) the suns output will have changed to move the habitable zone away from the Earth. In five billion years the sun will become a red giant and we will all be toast.
I don't know when we will lose the magnetic field but if it happens anywhere after a thousand years from now we should be able to build our own. If we can't then we are not much of an intelligent species and we will be heading for extinction anyway.
If the human race manages to survive another thousand years without vaporizing ourselves or pissing off some extraterrestrial race first.
I knew that there was a reason I didn't have a kindle other than the fact I can't afford to buy one. I can see if it was child pornography. If I buy a book, regardless of the format, that copy belongs to me and no one else. What Amazon has done is effectively committed grand larceny. They should be sued into chapter 11.
This isn't going to go down well with the God Squad.
They will get over it some day. And if they don't who cares? There is a reason for the separation of church and state in the constitution. Sometimes I wish there was a separation of church and science.
I'm trying to figure out the mental disorder necessary to actually buy this for your dog. Not only do you have to have the dreadfully increasing psychosis that makes people get confused between dogs and humans, but you also have to think this anthropamorphised animal would want to drink beer and not get drunk. Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder. Even if you accept peoples disorder that makes them think dogs are children, you would have to deal with the secondary disorder that they think their dog is an alcholic that needs something that looks and tastes like beer, but want's to 'protect' them by giving them some that is non-alcholic. quote>
Excuse me, but my d-o-g-s are the ones with the psychosis. They have absolutely no idea that they are d-o-g-s, the same with my c-a-t. Now if you will excuse me I have to take my anit-psychotic meds.
Ewe are rite.
Note that the above statement has to do with animal sacrifice, not a statement of correctness. Bad spelling can hinder not only the speed at which a statement is read, but also the comprehension.
True bad spelling can hinder comprehension as can bad grammar.
Hewover; it is a wlel eshabstlied fcat taht we hmunas raed olny the frist and lsat lteter of ecah wrod. As lnogas the frsit and lsat letetr are in the croerct piotsoin the ranimieng lrettes can be in any odrer.
But in normal every day written conversaion, it is generally better to be grammatically correct and to spell the words correctly. Even so, a seemingly grammatically correct sentence with correct spelling can have an entierly different meaning to those who are not privy to the context of the message.
Definition of tact (according to google dictionary): Adroitness (cleverness or skill) and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
A layman's definition of tact: The ability to tell someone to go to Hell and make them feel good to be on their way.
Disclaimer: Nothing in these statements should be construed as to be insulting. The statements are the originator's own and should not neccessarily be taken seriously or literally. We now return you ro your regularly scheduled /. thread already in progress.
I can guarantee that any pictures of me from those satellites were not of me going shopping for Black Friday, since I was at work trying in vain to keep up with the bills. Who the hell has the time and money to go shopping for things for other people who aren't going to appreciate it and will probably take it back after the holidays?
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
Yes, yes it does. Intent is not sufficient to assure good communication. The Devil is in the details.
But as the gerat Msater Ydoa wuold say, "spllenig Mttaers not."
Everyone's doing this wrong. the TSA will never stop their pat-downs while the public is afraid of being groped, and this anti-screening day supposedly set for tomorrow (sort of a carbon-based DDOS) isn't the solution either. You want to stop the intrusive behavior? Simple. Grind on the screener's hands while moaning loudly and gyrating your hips. It may not change the official policy, but it will eventually make all the screeners quit. Well, except maybe the pervy ones.
No, no, no, just go through the security line butt naked with your clothes in a trash bag that get put on the carry on x-ray conveyor. No need for a scanner or a pat down.
The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money Didn't that happen recently in the Capitalist/Corporatist world?
No they just ran out of imagination so there was temporary reduction in producing imaginary currency with no real value.
Now why would the white house not hold up to its promises, that's just absurd? (insert sarcasm here)