Piltdown man was hardly fringe science. He was widely trumpeted as a crucial "missing link" -- in fact, constructed to fulfill just that role -- and accepted as a validating artifact for human evolution in a Darwinian model by the mainstream for many years.
If a hoax, or a fraud, or just an honest mistake is very successful, it escapes the margins which might justly be called "fringe science".
Lamarckian evolutionary theory (acquired traits) was a significant contender in the mainstream until the neo-Darwinian theory managed to amalgamate the gene theory with Darwinian evolutionary theory. At that point the Lamarackian model was abandoned by the mainstream, not because it was not a superior explanatory mechanism for a large body of data, but because it failed to fulfill the psychological need for consistency with and reducibility to a deterministic, atomic scientific materialism which was rapidly becoming the dominant metaphysic. It was only those who found this Enlightment-era metaphysic to be inconsistent with the data of their particular experience and expertise (such as QED or Jung) who veered towards Lamarckianism after the mid 1920s.
Lamarckianism is actually in resurgence now, as proteomics come to the fore, and the genetic import of cytoskeletal architecture becomes increasingly important, at a very practical level.
Sometimes I feel like Slashdot is trapped in a 1975 PBS documentary with Carl Sagan's red-eyed, cotton-mouthed drone taking the place of any sort of conscious awareness of reality.
Yeah, and given that there are 300,000,000 people in the U.S., at least one of them is almost *certain* to win the^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h get hit by this asteriod.
Oh come on, it's a measly 1km diameter rock. You could put a single 200MT warhead on an Ariadne booster and turn it into randomly oriented crumbs in one shot.
The fact is that your vote can be traced to you, and you can be compelled to vote a certain way. If you don't take a picture of the ballot with the correct results on it, I will break your legs. Your "secrecy" is a wild goose, a snipe.
Oh, but then it is free. System-3 was released by Caldera some time ago. It may not have been free at some point in the past, according to your version of events, but it certainly is now, which is all that really matters, isn't it?
Why in hell would you want video? Whiteboarding is actually useful. URL sharing (including Real or divx clips) is cool. But I don't *want* my boss to know that I'm bonking his secretary.
You've seen yellow air. All of your life. You've just never seen real air to compare it with.
I live in Minnesota. I've been to Philadelphia and NYC more than I would like, and, yes, the air is yellow. It also tastes like a mix of battery acid and phlegm.
I'm not sure that there is any point in replying to you, but in order to demonstrate my vast and awesome talent for the bleeding obvious, I will note that you can't "steal" something that is already *given* to you freely, no matter how hard you try.
Given that Nintendo is renowned for their child-friendly game design, and does not typically promote violence, perhaps they don't like the way Europe keeps sucking the world into total global conflict and genocide? Maybe they're still pissed about Marxism, or Nazism, or Fascism?
Consider: Nintendo doesn't these titles in Europe, it is true; but neither do they sell them in North Korea. Nor did they sell them in Idi Amin's Uganda! I'm beginning to sense a pattern here!
as benjamin franklin said, those who would exchange a hot beowulf cluster of natalie portmans to PROFIT all your base deserve neither!/me stands back to reap the +1 insightfuls
1) Cocaine for local, and lots of valium. Get
some mirrors, peel back the skin, and use a
hole saw or dremel depending on what kind of
access panel you want. Apply more cocaine.
Apply more valium. Get a paper clip hot with
a bunsen burner and cauterize the tumor.
2) Get the best night vision goggles you can,
and ceramic body armor, kevlar helmet. Don't
carry anything that looks remotely like a weapon.
Depending on prevailing rules of engagement, wear
a red cross. Use inconspicuous local vehicles,
the lower-tech the better. Cease moving when
you get a hint of a battle group nearby.
Try to stay close to heavy cover, such as
large rocks, substantial depressions in the earth.
if you aren't certain that it's safe, don't do it. i don't think you'll get a trustworthy education in power wiring from ask slashdot. if you're truly stuck with doing it yourself, move one device at a time to an entirely new power distribution point, one which you are comfortable managing, and dyke off the old one when you're done.
The obvious solution is to stop using the "Emergency" frequencies altogether. Give ever cop and fireman a cellphone, and the problem is solved, public funds are conserved, and the traffic becomes protected and routable with QoS guarantees.
Ah, but his *MINT*, that's where he spent all of his time when he wasn't off in Paris being waited on by Aristocratic coquettes calling him "mon cher papa".
Slashdot Mirror
Some semantics:
A theory is a systematization of ideas.
An hypothesis is a claim about the relation
between a theory and reality.
Reality is really real.
Fringe means "not popular with the in-crowd yet".
"Untestable" means you haven't figured out the
right experiment yet.
Piltdown man was hardly fringe science. He was
widely trumpeted as a crucial "missing link" --
in fact, constructed to fulfill just that role --
and accepted as a validating artifact for human
evolution in a Darwinian model by the mainstream
for many years.
If a hoax, or a fraud, or just an honest mistake
is very successful, it escapes the margins
which might justly be called "fringe science".
Lamarckian evolutionary theory (acquired traits)
was a significant contender in the mainstream
until the neo-Darwinian theory managed to amalgamate
the gene theory with Darwinian evolutionary
theory. At that point the Lamarackian model
was abandoned by the mainstream, not because
it was not a superior explanatory mechanism for
a large body of data, but because it failed to
fulfill the psychological need for consistency
with and reducibility to a deterministic, atomic
scientific materialism which was rapidly becoming
the dominant metaphysic. It was only those who
found this Enlightment-era metaphysic to be
inconsistent with the data of their particular
experience and expertise (such as QED or Jung)
who veered towards Lamarckianism after the mid
1920s.
Lamarckianism is actually in resurgence now,
as proteomics come to the fore, and the
genetic import of cytoskeletal architecture
becomes increasingly important, at a very practical
level.
Sometimes I feel like Slashdot is trapped in
a 1975 PBS documentary with Carl Sagan's red-eyed,
cotton-mouthed drone taking the place of
any sort of conscious awareness of reality.
Have done. As far as I can tell, VideoLAN is
the *only* stable and free vehicle for DiVX and
DVD on Mac OS X. On Windows, it is not, however,
stable.
Yeah, and given that there are 300,000,000 people
in the U.S., at least one of them is almost *certain*
to win the^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h get hit by this
asteriod.
One loser in the crowd ruins it for everyone:(
If we get missed in 2014, does the jackpot go up?
Oh come on, it's a measly 1km diameter rock.
You could put a single 200MT warhead on an
Ariadne booster and turn it into randomly
oriented crumbs in one shot.
Not a problem.
Run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
Go home and check out the listings on monster.com.
Life is too short to live in a cubicle.
A free flow of information would severely damage the
US's image in the US, as well as in the Islamic world.
I think you're disenfranchising a lot of people,
quite unfairly. For example, I don't have an I.D.,
so how can I vote?
Votes are not anonymous if you don't want them to be.
Take a photo of your ballot, with the correct results,
and I will pay you $20.
This whole fantasy of secrecy has to be broken
before we can institute a rational and fair
system.
The fact is that your vote can be traced to you,
and you can be compelled to vote a certain way.
If you don't take a picture of the ballot with
the correct results on it, I will break your
legs. Your "secrecy" is a wild goose, a snipe.
Fire the idiot who did that.
You have a moral decision to make: Which is the
greater evil, paying Warner Bros. for their product,
or waiting until the digital rip on Kazaa?
Oh, but then it is free. System-3 was released by
Caldera some time ago. It may not have been free
at some point in the past, according to your version
of events, but it certainly is now, which is all that
really matters, isn't it?
Power generation is much more efficient on a large
scale, but not distribution.
If you could eliminate global transmission losses,
you could power North America.
Why in hell would you want video? Whiteboarding
is actually useful. URL sharing (including Real
or divx clips) is cool. But I don't *want* my
boss to know that I'm bonking his secretary.
You've seen yellow air. All of your life.
You've just never seen real air to compare it with.
I live in Minnesota. I've been to Philadelphia
and NYC more than I would like, and, yes, the air
is yellow. It also tastes like a mix of battery
acid and phlegm.
> they feel "snappier", probably because the
> improved multitasking doesn't let one application
> bring everything else to a standstill
You must be running a different Jaguar than I am.
Can you say "spinning rainbow pizza wheel of death"?
> BSD 2.11 is not free. BSD 2.11 is not free.
That's not relevant. Any Unix taint in BSD 2.11
would have to overlap with this snippet in order
to make it relevant. There is no evidence of
this.
I'm not sure that there is any point in replying
to you, but in order to demonstrate my vast and
awesome talent for the bleeding obvious, I will
note that you can't "steal" something that is
already *given* to you freely, no matter how hard
you try.
Given that Nintendo is renowned for their child-friendly
game design, and does not typically promote violence,
perhaps they don't like the way Europe keeps sucking
the world into total global conflict and genocide?
Maybe they're still pissed about Marxism, or Nazism,
or Fascism?
Consider: Nintendo doesn't these titles in Europe,
it is true; but neither do they sell them in
North Korea. Nor did they sell them in Idi Amin's Uganda! I'm beginning to sense a pattern here!
hah! you misspelled "lards".
/me stands back to reap the +1 insightfuls
as benjamin franklin said,
those who would exchange a hot beowulf cluster
of natalie portmans to PROFIT all your base
deserve neither!
1) Cocaine for local, and lots of valium. Get
some mirrors, peel back the skin, and use a
hole saw or dremel depending on what kind of
access panel you want. Apply more cocaine.
Apply more valium. Get a paper clip hot with
a bunsen burner and cauterize the tumor.
2) Get the best night vision goggles you can,
and ceramic body armor, kevlar helmet. Don't
carry anything that looks remotely like a weapon.
Depending on prevailing rules of engagement, wear
a red cross. Use inconspicuous local vehicles,
the lower-tech the better. Cease moving when
you get a hint of a battle group nearby.
Try to stay close to heavy cover, such as
large rocks, substantial depressions in the earth.
3) Get a skinny mistress.
4) Join the secret service.
5) Invest in Enron.
if you aren't certain that it's safe, don't do it.
i don't think you'll get a trustworthy education in
power wiring from ask slashdot. if you're truly
stuck with doing it yourself, move one device at a
time to an entirely new power distribution point,
one which you are comfortable managing, and dyke off
the old one when you're done.
The obvious solution is to stop using the "Emergency" frequencies altogether.
Give ever cop and fireman a cellphone,
and the problem is solved, public funds
are conserved, and the traffic becomes
protected and routable with QoS guarantees.
Ah, but his *MINT*, that's where he spent all of
his time when he wasn't off in Paris being waited
on by Aristocratic coquettes calling him "mon cher
papa".