Schools should teach all pupils to be able to spot fallacies, and encourage them to castigate those who use them.
Fair enough. But let's not go too far with castigating, lest it become another logical fallacy known as ad hominem.
In a perfect world it would be enough to point out the flaws in the argument, not the argumenter. Alas, the argumenter's reputation, good or bad, can be relevant if we want avoid wasting time on those who are disingenuous or incompetent. But when addressing an argument, let's not make the error of ad hominem or the opposite error of argumentum ad verecundiam (argument to authority.) In short:
1. Refute the error. 2. Assert the truth. 3. Lather, rinse, repeat. 4. (...) 5. (must...resist...aw, fuck it) Profit!
Nope. The distance between Asia to every other places still remains exactly the same.
In a pedantic sense, yes.
In a practical sense (per the distance of shipping lanes) perhaps not. But I hardly think ice-free poles, and the accompanying global rise in temperatures and sea-levels, are worth the other consequences. And those include war, mass migration of refugees, shifting of zones of arable land, uncertain survivability of plants moved to different latitudes, and so on.
New EIA data shows USA inadvertently meets 1997 Kyoto protocol CO2 emission reductions without ever signing on thanks to a stagnant economy. Lowest level of CO2 emissions since 1994.
Pumping >0C water onto the remaining ice will accelerate the melting
Not in the winter. As a real world example, Canadians will pour water over outside skating rinks during the winter, and it refreshes the ice surface. No Zamboni needed. I read somewhere they heat the water as well. Can any of our Canadian friends let us know - if you are still talking to the crazy Americans?
If the ambient temperature is above freezing, then the ice will melt, whether you put water on it or not. If it is below freezing, then water applied to the ice surface will freeze. If it's windy, it just melts or freezes faster. "Wind chill" just refers to what the temperature feels like to us, not what it actually is.
Of course, artifical ice rinks have refrigeration units that chill the surface that the ice is applied to. So, they can survive even if the ambient temperature is above freezing. Good thing, too -- hockey arenas can get a bit warm when they're filled up with fans.
Looking at this thread again, I am inclined to concede graciously. You and I may very well share the same take on reality.
My point was that science is not infallible, but that it is the best tool we have for understanding the universe. And whatever counter-intuitive theories we come up with must be accepted if they fit the data. And that means that electrons are very well defined by our current theories, even if it means they can be in two places at once.
Oh, physics breaking things. I'm so scared. Wait, no I'm not. What have you got against "physics breaking things"? From what I've been able to figure out however is that nothing, electrons included, are all that well defined.
And that is where you fail. Science will never claim to know everything. But it is indisputably the best way to shrink-wrap the tightest boundary about what things we do know.
All of this sounds wonderful, but as usual there are some fairly sizeable catches to the promised performance improvement and as usual the press release doesn’t really touch on any of them. The biggest caveat is distance and indeed many such lab tests have measured the distance of their THz transmissions in centimetres, which is somewhat limiting.
A few teams are now starting to talk in terms of metres, but right now anything up to 10 metres can be a real stretch to achieve and even a big improvement over that still won’t cut it for Mobile communications. The idea of using THz for Satellite links is another highly contentious one because light cloud and rain could easily cause havoc.
Makes sense. The higher the frequency, the shorter the range due to attenuation (as another poster pointed out.) TFA talks about satellite links! Assuming they can get enough signal through water vapour, they'd probably need some hefty directional antennas.
This looks like a last-metre solution that could compete with Bluetooth. Anything longer than that is wishful thinking at this point.
Where I work, the average employee receives nearly two hundred thousand spam messages per day.
Something is off -- I'm on many public mailing lists, git logs and so on, yet I see ~600 rejects per day, and my email server has a few other users. So either your company is a juicy target for a specific kind of fraud, or your number was obtained by scientific rectal extraction.
This. OP is prevaricating. Nobody experiences spamming on an individual basis with that frequency.
the punishment is a way too excessive. Locking people up and throwing away the keys like this should be reserved for murderers, rapists, arsonists, robbers, burglars, politicians, Madoff types, and maybe a handful of others. This is just wasting jail space, costing us money, and destroying lives.
TFA is quite light on details, and let's remind ourselves that the trial hasn't happened yet. Nevertheless, he may very well be a "Madoff-type." If the defendant was complicit in perpetrating (e-)mail fraud, with the result that people were bilked out of money, then hard time is appropriate.
Dissent was never patriotic, it was just accepted as a by product of freedom. Now however PC hypocrisy seems to override all things.
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. - William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
If dissent at a time of war is to be ennobled as a principle of democracy, then surely dissent at a time of peace deserves the same treatment.
I suspect they are right: a truck that spends less total time on travel + waiting for left turns makes more deliveries, so there do not need to be as many trucks.
+1 interesting. You may be on to something.
AC does have a point, though. Which I missed when I read TFS.
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Schools should teach all pupils to be able to spot fallacies, and encourage them to castigate those who use them.
Fair enough. But let's not go too far with castigating, lest it become another logical fallacy known as ad hominem.
In a perfect world it would be enough to point out the flaws in the argument, not the argumenter. Alas, the argumenter's reputation, good or bad, can be relevant if we want avoid wasting time on those who are disingenuous or incompetent. But when addressing an argument, let's not make the error of ad hominem or the opposite error of argumentum ad verecundiam (argument to authority.) In short:
1. Refute the error.
2. Assert the truth.
3. Lather, rinse, repeat.
4. (...)
5. (must...resist...aw, fuck it) Profit!
That shortens the distance to Asia right?
Nope. The distance between Asia to every other places still remains exactly the same.
In a pedantic sense, yes.
In a practical sense (per the distance of shipping lanes) perhaps not. But I hardly think ice-free poles, and the accompanying global rise in temperatures and sea-levels, are worth the other consequences. And those include war, mass migration of refugees, shifting of zones of arable land, uncertain survivability of plants moved to different latitudes, and so on.
The U.S. already lowered carbon emissions enough to meet the Kyoto targets, years ago.
From the very beginning of the article you cited:
New EIA data shows USA inadvertently meets 1997 Kyoto protocol CO2 emission reductions without ever signing on thanks to a stagnant economy. Lowest level of CO2 emissions since 1994.
So, let's not gloat, m'kay?
Pumping >0C water onto the remaining ice will accelerate the melting
Not in the winter. As a real world example, Canadians will pour water over outside skating rinks during the winter, and it refreshes the ice surface. No Zamboni needed. I read somewhere they heat the water as well. Can any of our Canadian friends let us know - if you are still talking to the crazy Americans?
If the ambient temperature is above freezing, then the ice will melt, whether you put water on it or not. If it is below freezing, then water applied to the ice surface will freeze. If it's windy, it just melts or freezes faster. "Wind chill" just refers to what the temperature feels like to us, not what it actually is.
Of course, artifical ice rinks have refrigeration units that chill the surface that the ice is applied to. So, they can survive even if the ambient temperature is above freezing. Good thing, too -- hockey arenas can get a bit warm when they're filled up with fans.
Grandpa, get off Slashdot. It's time for your Metamucil.
Spoken by someone who probably thinks javascript is an awesome language.
Actually, no I don't. But it does have some awesome libraries, like d3.
To C or not to C ... that is the question.
And the answer would be true, regardless of the value of C. ;-P
MIPS ASM or GTFO
Grandpa, get off Slashdot. It's time for your Metamucil.
Fair enough. You can always write C code in C++. But at the risk of being flamed, IMHO both are high-level languages. C++ is just higher level.
I recall reading (maybe in Stanley Lippman's primer book) an exercise question that asked why the language is called C++ and not ++C. Worth pondering.
From the second link in the summary, to the scientific paper: dw = "dry weight".
Looking at this thread again, I am inclined to concede graciously. You and I may very well share the same take on reality.
My point was that science is not infallible, but that it is the best tool we have for understanding the universe. And whatever counter-intuitive theories we come up with must be accepted if they fit the data. And that means that electrons are very well defined by our current theories, even if it means they can be in two places at once.
Peace out.
Oh, physics breaking things. I'm so scared. Wait, no I'm not. What have you got against "physics breaking things"? From what I've been able to figure out however is that nothing, electrons included, are all that well defined.
And that is where you fail. Science will never claim to know everything. But it is indisputably the best way to shrink-wrap the tightest boundary about what things we do know.
That is all. [mic drop]
My post didn't mention Democrats and Republicans. It mentioned liberals and conservatives.
Up to the 1960s, the Democratic Party was conservative and the Republican Party were liberal. Ideologically they switched places during that decade.
Everyone has a colour, though. Except Goths.
Technically, [whiteface] goths have all colours. But the rest of your point stands.
Liberal: "Hey, let's try this new thing!"
Conservative: [sound of door being slammed] "Sorry, we're closed now."
-- Steve Martin
That's why I was asking. My question stands: how does not using Java hurt Oracle?
Prior art: Samsung.
Yup. I called it, earlier this week.
Boycott the fuckers! Do not use Java.
I use Java all the time, and I don't send a dime to Oracle. How is not using Java going to hurt them?
Butt aliens?
You mean ... Klingons?
Only the earthworks are visible. Seems somebody messed up on the units for the stones.
I'll just leave this here. Surprised it hasn't shown up sooner.
Once mocked by scientists, now an accepted part of Earth's history. Except by the "deniers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.history.com/shows/a...
My head asplode. Because Poe's Law.
From TFA:
All of this sounds wonderful, but as usual there are some fairly sizeable catches to the promised performance improvement and as usual the press release doesn’t really touch on any of them. The biggest caveat is distance and indeed many such lab tests have measured the distance of their THz transmissions in centimetres, which is somewhat limiting.
A few teams are now starting to talk in terms of metres, but right now anything up to 10 metres can be a real stretch to achieve and even a big improvement over that still won’t cut it for Mobile communications. The idea of using THz for Satellite links is another highly contentious one because light cloud and rain could easily cause havoc.
Makes sense. The higher the frequency, the shorter the range due to attenuation (as another poster pointed out.) TFA talks about satellite links! Assuming they can get enough signal through water vapour, they'd probably need some hefty directional antennas.
This looks like a last-metre solution that could compete with Bluetooth. Anything longer than that is wishful thinking at this point.
Where I work, the average employee receives nearly two hundred thousand spam messages per day.
Something is off -- I'm on many public mailing lists, git logs and so on, yet I see ~600 rejects per day, and my email server has a few other users. So either your company is a juicy target for a specific kind of fraud, or your number was obtained by scientific rectal extraction.
This. OP is prevaricating. Nobody experiences spamming on an individual basis with that frequency.
the punishment is a way too excessive.
Locking people up and throwing away the keys like this should be reserved for murderers, rapists, arsonists, robbers, burglars, politicians, Madoff types, and maybe a handful of others.
This is just wasting jail space, costing us money, and destroying lives.
TFA is quite light on details, and let's remind ourselves that the trial hasn't happened yet. Nevertheless, he may very well be a "Madoff-type." If the defendant was complicit in perpetrating (e-)mail fraud, with the result that people were bilked out of money, then hard time is appropriate.
Dissent was never patriotic, it was just accepted as a by product of freedom. Now however PC hypocrisy seems to override all things.
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. - William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
If dissent at a time of war is to be ennobled as a principle of democracy, then surely dissent at a time of peace deserves the same treatment.
I suspect they are right: a truck that spends less total time on travel + waiting for left turns makes more deliveries, so there do not need to be as many trucks.
+1 interesting. You may be on to something.
AC does have a point, though. Which I missed when I read TFS.