The real question is whether these errors are due to researcher bias. Unfortunately climate data and predictions are apparently more motivated by political beliefs and biases than hard facts.
The Earth is getting warmer and our ice is melting, and that's not in dispute. If the warming trend continues, all of the ice will melt eventually, this is dictated by physics.
Your implication of overwhelming political bias in climate science is simply contrary to the facts. The fact that these researchers seem to have been biased is not relevant to the science as a whole.
The "think tanks" who criticize climate science don't do any actual science. They cherry pick data from scientific papers, and attempt to refute CO2 vs warming trends with typical logical fallacies, but they do no research, make no predictions, and advance no falsifiable claims.
Science is about making better predictions from the data. Climate scientists projected a 1-degree rise in temperature, and a 1-foot ocean level rise, many decades ago. Overall, they were pretty close. Anti science people said there was no such thing as global warming until recently when it became too clear to ignore.
These fears can be reinforced by religious beliefs that portend the end of the world. Because this psychological factor is so prevalent we need to be especially skeptical of predictions of future disasters.
So what does your idea of caution boil down to? Doing nothing? How can that be considered erring on the side of caution?
Your argument is nonsensical on its face. Belief in the inevitability of end of the world leads people to sit on their respective asses and do nothing about it, not for them to write specious science papers predicting the end of the world. The very opposite is true, there is a very strong correlation between belief that climate science is a hoax, and being a religious American.
45 meters off the water? I'm pretty sure you can't pump water that high, or if you could, the sled part of the vehicle would weigh so much, it wouldn't be very maneuverable.
It would also surely kill you if the hose went out.
when the New England states tried to open negotitations with the national government on seceding, the south was foremost in calling it treason. 50 years later they decided treason was perfectly fine.
This is some of the weirdest historical analysis I've ever seen. Given that the average lifespan was less than 80 years, and most people in power tend to be over the age of 30, I am not sure how you can say "they" changed their opinion.
Jefferson was a tinkerer who realized that every design could be improved. The same mind he dedicated to helping to create our novel system of government, he applied to physical science.
The problem is that sometimes the DRM was very very closely related to the hardware, in fact, some of those games banged the hardware so hard, later revisions of the hardware broke the games. For example, see the commodore 1541 drive, vs the 1541-II.
Commodore emulators still have to emulate the 1541 as a separate computer, because of the stupid hardware-banging copy protection. That's why games even load slow in the emulator, and if you turn on fast loading, it doesn't always work.
There's simply no way to remove the copy protection from commie games except on a case-by-case basis. There's no magic 1541 emulator that can do it.
First of all, TFA makes clear that the Iowan law only goes into effect if enough other states adopt it.
Secondly, the population of Iowa is 3 million.
The population of Texas is 24 million.
As a Democrat living in TX, my vote for president counts for nothing, because my state apportions all of its electors to the person who gets the most votes, and that's always the Republican.
In fact, the votes of over 3.5 million Democrats in Texas were thrown away last year, more than the entire population of Iowa (~3 million).
The reverse is true in NY and CA. Millions of people vote Republican, and are essentially disenfranchised. They have no voice in the election.
In your scenario, the Iowans who voted for the unpopular candidate had a voice. Aren't you just arguing for the status quo because it's familiar? Plenty of other countries decide elections based on the popular vote, and they do just fine.
Agreed. Don't forget about the "there is no such thing as race" epistemologists. It sounds like an innocuous enough idea, except that there are racial diseases, and knowing about our racial background could ultimately help us know how prone we are to those diseases, and thus help prevent them.
I don't know about anybody , but for me, 'in soviet russia' jokes usually fall into two categories for me: funny or annoying. This is the first one that just left me going "meh".
My point is, I think we can safely retire it, seeing as the joke is now so tired it's become bland. It's like the Who of Slashdot memes.
The RIAA today filed a cease-and-desist order against the Authors' Guild of America, claiming the AGA has violated its patent related to expressing dumbass legal theories in public. He noted that the patent clearly covers situations in which the dumbass in question asserts that everyone in America is somehow a criminal, for performing a common action.
"This is a clear violation of our IP, and I'm disappointed that a professional guild would behave this way," said Cary Sherman, President of the RIAA. "Only we are allowed to call all of our customers criminals," he went on to say.
Well, the parent wants IE to be removed from the OS, and TFA is about how Firefox execs don't want Firefox to be bundled either.
I don't get how moving the bundling down to the OEM is a better solution. Sounds like a guaranteed waste of bandwidth, man-hours, and electricity, to me.
How is a normal person going to download Firefox without IE? Gopher (yes I'm an old-timer)? FTP? Where do they get Gopher and FTP clients from, without a browser?
Sure, you and I could work around it by burning a disc on another computer. What about mom?
It isn't treason to deal with China ever since Nixon decided it wasn't. He deserves no credit for this, since he would have called anyone else who tried it a Commie. He agreed to very unfavorable terms, for both parties, knowing that he was legalizing slave labor for America. He was many things, but not stupid.
Nixon committed treason, imo, in this and other ways, but I don't think you can say the head of Wal Mart is committing treason when the government sanctions the deal. We theoretically elected all of these people, and your definition of treason is the law of the land that they enacted.
We can stop buying Chinese stuff, but it will be sort of like kicking heroin. It's gone on too long to be otherwise. No one would like it, even the strongest advocates of it today.
In fact, our economy is a big bubble. China has helped build the bubble by buying treasury notes. They need to keep buying them to sustain the bubble. Popping the bubble would be a lot more painful than you might think. It's much better to devise a long term strategy to gradually deflate it.
I see no evidence of same in our governments of the past 40 years. Republicans crow fiscal responsibility, but look at how much money they spend when they have the reins. Democrats talk sound fiscals, and sort of back it up, but the government could teach Arthur Anderson a thing or two when it comes to accounting. It isn't done with economic science, but with wishful thinking.
I'm not one to usually throw around the apathetic cop-out that they're all the same, just politicians. In this case, the sides do different things with similar results. Clinton theoretically balanced the budget, for example, but that's if you believe a lot of speculative, non peer-reviewed mathematics of the sort that goes on in Washington. It is true, however, that he ran a much smaller deficit than, say, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, or Nixon.
Money is all a Ponzi scheme, the trick is to make our Ponzi scheme work the best. Cutting off China isn't the best move by a long shot. We need to turn the spigot down more gradually, or some of us will die of withdrawal.
Far from being fuzzy logic, as some posters suggested above, this is more of the same, solid state computer.
I want wave forms. I don't want to have to do tons of calculus, in fact, calculus is the opposite of what I want, a lot of the time. What I want is an event-driven wave form simulator. There are millions of applications for such a beast, from neural nets to physics simulations.
I know what curves I want, mostly, it's combining them together that's tough. I want my computer to simulate the curves in real-time, allow me to add/multiply them together, and tell me when they reach a threshold.
Instead, I have to work out the time variable backwards, I have to figure out when the racket hits the ball, or when the pinball hits the flag.
I realize a hard drive isn't the place to store analog data, but some posters mentioned fuzzy logic, earlier, which of course this is not. That's a common misconception, though, I've found, even among some programmers, until you question them about it and they say, "duh."
I've often felt like writing a PDF viewer myself, not because I'm at all interested in the problem, but to see how many updates I'd have to release to get it to work. It's that part of the puzzle that intrigues me the most. I figure I could do it in under a thousand, give or take 990.
We may not be able to translate dolphin language, but we can tell it contains non-entropic information. In other words, we can at least tell that they have a language.
Information theory can tell us whether or not there's a message in the data, with a fairly high probability. That doesn't mean we can transcribe it.
My guess is that loud radio waves are a primitive form of communication. We already know that we can transmit information in better ways, and use the spectrum in better ways, and use less power to boot.
We just haven't done it. We're like a 16 year old kid barreling down the highway with the windows down and the music all the way up. I don't think it's very good security, really. It's basically security through obscurity for Earth. We're too far away for it to matter, we guess .
A sufficiently advanced civilization probably knows better, and has probes out here sending back quantum entangled messages instantly, about our local shit. At least, that's what I'd do, and I'm just a monkey.
You need some other hypothesis for just one naturally occurring tool-like rock, before you can theorize a bunch of them. As well as predictions and falsifications.
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The Earth is getting warmer and our ice is melting, and that's not in dispute. If the warming trend continues, all of the ice will melt eventually, this is dictated by physics.
Your implication of overwhelming political bias in climate science is simply contrary to the facts. The fact that these researchers seem to have been biased is not relevant to the science as a whole.
The "think tanks" who criticize climate science don't do any actual science. They cherry pick data from scientific papers, and attempt to refute CO2 vs warming trends with typical logical fallacies, but they do no research, make no predictions, and advance no falsifiable claims.
Science is about making better predictions from the data. Climate scientists projected a 1-degree rise in temperature, and a 1-foot ocean level rise, many decades ago. Overall, they were pretty close. Anti science people said there was no such thing as global warming until recently when it became too clear to ignore.
So what does your idea of caution boil down to? Doing nothing? How can that be considered erring on the side of caution?
Your argument is nonsensical on its face. Belief in the inevitability of end of the world leads people to sit on their respective asses and do nothing about it, not for them to write specious science papers predicting the end of the world. The very opposite is true, there is a very strong correlation between belief that climate science is a hoax, and being a religious American.
What do you mean I don't exist?
If you existed, you'd know exactly what he meant by that.
There, now you can disappear in a poof of logic.
45 meters off the water? I'm pretty sure you can't pump water that high, or if you could, the sled part of the vehicle would weigh so much, it wouldn't be very maneuverable.
It would also surely kill you if the hose went out.
when the New England states tried to open negotitations with the national government on seceding, the south was foremost in calling it treason. 50 years later they decided treason was perfectly fine.
This is some of the weirdest historical analysis I've ever seen. Given that the average lifespan was less than 80 years, and most people in power tend to be over the age of 30, I am not sure how you can say "they" changed their opinion.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljefferson.htm
Jefferson was a tinkerer who realized that every design could be improved. The same mind he dedicated to helping to create our novel system of government, he applied to physical science.
Turns out, there's something called a "skateboard." You can use it to travel as far as the Quickie Mart, with nothing but your feet to propel it.
In conclusion, skateboards and automobiles aren't the same thing, so probably not.
The problem is that sometimes the DRM was very very closely related to the hardware, in fact, some of those games banged the hardware so hard, later revisions of the hardware broke the games. For example, see the commodore 1541 drive, vs the 1541-II.
Commodore emulators still have to emulate the 1541 as a separate computer, because of the stupid hardware-banging copy protection. That's why games even load slow in the emulator, and if you turn on fast loading, it doesn't always work.
There's simply no way to remove the copy protection from commie games except on a case-by-case basis. There's no magic 1541 emulator that can do it.
First of all, TFA makes clear that the Iowan law only goes into effect if enough other states adopt it.
Secondly, the population of Iowa is 3 million.
The population of Texas is 24 million.
As a Democrat living in TX, my vote for president counts for nothing, because my state apportions all of its electors to the person who gets the most votes, and that's always the Republican.
In fact, the votes of over 3.5 million Democrats in Texas were thrown away last year, more than the entire population of Iowa (~3 million).
The reverse is true in NY and CA. Millions of people vote Republican, and are essentially disenfranchised. They have no voice in the election.
In your scenario, the Iowans who voted for the unpopular candidate had a voice. Aren't you just arguing for the status quo because it's familiar? Plenty of other countries decide elections based on the popular vote, and they do just fine.
Even in your scenario, the person who won the popular vote wins the election. I really don't see a problem with that.
Your argument essentially amounts to, "but, but, this would make the EC irrelevant!"
Yes, yes it would. That is the whole point .
Agreed. Don't forget about the "there is no such thing as race" epistemologists. It sounds like an innocuous enough idea, except that there are racial diseases, and knowing about our racial background could ultimately help us know how prone we are to those diseases, and thus help prevent them.
In Soviet Russia, joke retires YOU
The RIAA today filed a cease-and-desist order against the Authors' Guild of America, claiming the AGA has violated its patent related to expressing dumbass legal theories in public. He noted that the patent clearly covers situations in which the dumbass in question asserts that everyone in America is somehow a criminal, for performing a common action.
"This is a clear violation of our IP, and I'm disappointed that a professional guild would behave this way," said Cary Sherman, President of the RIAA. "Only we are allowed to call all of our customers criminals," he went on to say.
This joke was invented by Shampoo.
Well, the parent wants IE to be removed from the OS, and TFA is about how Firefox execs don't want Firefox to be bundled either.
I don't get how moving the bundling down to the OEM is a better solution. Sounds like a guaranteed waste of bandwidth, man-hours, and electricity, to me.
How is a normal person going to download Firefox without IE? Gopher (yes I'm an old-timer)? FTP? Where do they get Gopher and FTP clients from, without a browser?
Sure, you and I could work around it by burning a disc on another computer. What about mom?
It isn't treason to deal with China ever since Nixon decided it wasn't. He deserves no credit for this, since he would have called anyone else who tried it a Commie. He agreed to very unfavorable terms, for both parties, knowing that he was legalizing slave labor for America. He was many things, but not stupid.
Nixon committed treason, imo, in this and other ways, but I don't think you can say the head of Wal Mart is committing treason when the government sanctions the deal. We theoretically elected all of these people, and your definition of treason is the law of the land that they enacted.
We can stop buying Chinese stuff, but it will be sort of like kicking heroin. It's gone on too long to be otherwise. No one would like it, even the strongest advocates of it today.
In fact, our economy is a big bubble. China has helped build the bubble by buying treasury notes. They need to keep buying them to sustain the bubble. Popping the bubble would be a lot more painful than you might think. It's much better to devise a long term strategy to gradually deflate it.
I see no evidence of same in our governments of the past 40 years. Republicans crow fiscal responsibility, but look at how much money they spend when they have the reins. Democrats talk sound fiscals, and sort of back it up, but the government could teach Arthur Anderson a thing or two when it comes to accounting. It isn't done with economic science, but with wishful thinking.
I'm not one to usually throw around the apathetic cop-out that they're all the same, just politicians. In this case, the sides do different things with similar results. Clinton theoretically balanced the budget, for example, but that's if you believe a lot of speculative, non peer-reviewed mathematics of the sort that goes on in Washington. It is true, however, that he ran a much smaller deficit than, say, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, or Nixon.
Money is all a Ponzi scheme, the trick is to make our Ponzi scheme work the best. Cutting off China isn't the best move by a long shot. We need to turn the spigot down more gradually, or some of us will die of withdrawal.
Shampoo won a fucking competition????!!!
Far from being fuzzy logic, as some posters suggested above, this is more of the same, solid state computer.
I want wave forms. I don't want to have to do tons of calculus, in fact, calculus is the opposite of what I want, a lot of the time. What I want is an event-driven wave form simulator. There are millions of applications for such a beast, from neural nets to physics simulations.
I know what curves I want, mostly, it's combining them together that's tough. I want my computer to simulate the curves in real-time, allow me to add/multiply them together, and tell me when they reach a threshold.
Instead, I have to work out the time variable backwards, I have to figure out when the racket hits the ball, or when the pinball hits the flag.
I realize a hard drive isn't the place to store analog data, but some posters mentioned fuzzy logic, earlier, which of course this is not. That's a common misconception, though, I've found, even among some programmers, until you question them about it and they say, "duh."
I want the real thing.
I've often felt like writing a PDF viewer myself, not because I'm at all interested in the problem, but to see how many updates I'd have to release to get it to work. It's that part of the puzzle that intrigues me the most. I figure I could do it in under a thousand, give or take 990.
We may not be able to translate dolphin language, but we can tell it contains non-entropic information. In other words, we can at least tell that they have a language.
Information theory can tell us whether or not there's a message in the data, with a fairly high probability. That doesn't mean we can transcribe it.
My guess is that loud radio waves are a primitive form of communication. We already know that we can transmit information in better ways, and use the spectrum in better ways, and use less power to boot.
We just haven't done it. We're like a 16 year old kid barreling down the highway with the windows down and the music all the way up. I don't think it's very good security, really. It's basically security through obscurity for Earth. We're too far away for it to matter, we guess .
A sufficiently advanced civilization probably knows better, and has probes out here sending back quantum entangled messages instantly, about our local shit. At least, that's what I'd do, and I'm just a monkey.
You need some other hypothesis for just one naturally occurring tool-like rock, before you can theorize a bunch of them. As well as predictions and falsifications.
I don't think we necessarily have to implement the "final solution to the spammer problem" outlined in item 3.
1 & 2 would be a big leap forward. We already have laws, let's use them.
Let m be the probability of 1 tool like rock. The probability of n tool like rocks found together is therefore m^n, I think.
Of course, this is slashdot, so I'm definitely wrong.
I don't see how a Brad Pitt film is relevant.
Seems far more likely that space is just a really great buffer against the terrorists. I say we go after 'em before they get to Earth.