I don't know about that. Other animals cannot achieve even remotely the level of abstraction humans can. Yes humans are animals, but they are looking out for themselves as much as we are so why should we grant them arbitrary "human rights". They can define there own rights themselves and defend them if they so choose. Im not advocating mass exploitation of animals or anything, but the way nature works is one animal may need to consume another for survival. It just so happens humans are best at doing it.
There was quite some effort to say blacks were not as human as whites using some eugenics type argument. Funny thing about that is black people are more homo sapien than we are, as it turns out, because Whites and Asians have been found to be mixed with neanderthal.
Nope. Not required, just promoted as a good idea if you are an engineer. The term is loose. I don't know how old you are, but today people think "college graduate in engineering" = "engineer".
As far I a knew in the US you can have an engineering degree and need no license and get employed as an "engineer". I know there exists an engineering body that licenses people to sign off on plans and makes them accept legal responsibility, but the term is loose. I knew of people titled as engineers that had no licenses.
Ok. I mean read about it in like a few months time. Anymore mathematicians need computer science skills just to handle themselves, but a pure mathematician from 20 years ago would need a year or two to catch up.
Its like being called a "mathematician" versus a "topologist", "algebraist", "analyst", "graph theorist", or "geometer". They make you think one person has some knowledge the others dont have, but really they all are just mathematicians that each have a particular specialty just like maybe an undergraduate "software engineer" specialized in operating systems or computer graphics.
Dunno about that. Software engineer is just a hyped up term. If you can list yourself as that rather than a computer programmer it makes the layman think "Oh shit, hes an engineer we need to pay him a bit more". Its like being called a "mathematician" versus a "topologist", "algebraist", "analyst", "graph theorist", or "geometer". They make you think one person has some knowledge the others dont have, but really they all are just mathematicians that each have a particular specialty just like maybe an undergraduate "software engineer" specialized in operating systems or computer graphics. They could still probably do eachother's job if they had time to read up on it.
The main problem is that they don't pay teachers enough money. If they would pay them 80,000 a year you would see tons of qualified people come out of the woodworks and competition would rise swiftly. Right now non-college teachers are either A) Passionate people that chose to teach because they like to or B) People that didn't score high enough in undergrad to get into grad school or C) People that are too lazy to go to grad school. More often B and C than A.
Yeah. I tried Kava in Hawaii once. The effects were pretty much like alcohol but it tasted like pepper and dirt. Ive also tried Kratom before. It makes you sick if you drink too much but if you can stomach it for a period of time you get a buzz not unlike caffeine and opium. Ive never tried opium except for in the hospital so I am aware of what its "like". Anyway, things like St Johns Wort are prescribed in Germany for depression. Im just saying, herbs can be useful so its not a good idea to disregard them wholesale. That was the first type of medicine humans had.
Are you suggesting that ALL natural remedies don't work? My mouth and throat went numb from Kava Kava before, Coffee sure wakes me up, Yeast waste products gave me a buzz once, and Im sure some people have had an increased appetite from smoking a certain herb. As a matter of fact there are quite a few natural herbs that will do something helpful for a person suffering from certain ailments, but many of the herbs from Chinese medicine and many of the herbs that westerners shout about are about the same as placebo. Homeopathy is just an outright joke, I mean they are basically selling water, however I have been helped significantly in the past by a Chiropractor/ Sport Medicine MD before who actually did do "bone-setting" for ones vertebrae.
Scientists are more often going to be outright frauds then misunderstand or fail statistics. After all, scientists typically = science PhD and they need to have a brain for their discipline. Statistics is so essential to science that it is criminal to not understand it or at least understand enough you can either collaborate with a specialist or read up and learn. You realize that the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was proven "after the fact" by finding statistical significance in data acquired out in the field (i.e. American and UK smokers). Today no-one disputes that the correlation is actually causation, however half a century ago some people were arguing that you cannot prove cigarettes cause lung cancer without definitive clinical trials using a similar rigorous model you describe. As it turns out the dudes (Bradford Hill and Richard Doll) that performed the studies in the UK were both extremely good statisticians and they did an excellent job. Point is it is possible to find some statistical significance in data as long as you do it right. I would argue that perhaps people are biasing their results using either outright dishonesty or subconscious manipulations based on optimism for their bias.
Doesn't sound much different than my city, Houston, as far as having to commute and drive all over the god damn place. Ive heard Austin is quite a bit nicer to live in however.
Frankly, I would rather be able to take high speed trains or light rail around my city and the US than own a car. Cars are too much of a headache sometimes.
I think there would be too many checklists for every type of ailment, although I suppose some diagnostic websites manage to do it. Hell, that almost would remove the need for physicians as anything but a confirmation or surgery role. You could have nurses/medics and some sophisticated check list like a health diagnostic website has and relegate doctors to tricky cases, confirmation, and major surgery.
Thats not the only problem. Hospitals also try to charge you for more expensive tests like a CT scan when a simple X-ray or Ultrasound will do. The whole system is a joke, its not limited to squeezing pennies out of surgeons and doctors.
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See parent link. Dolphins kills porpoises en masse. Genocide schmenocide.
I don't know about that. Other animals cannot achieve even remotely the level of abstraction humans can. Yes humans are animals, but they are looking out for themselves as much as we are so why should we grant them arbitrary "human rights". They can define there own rights themselves and defend them if they so choose. Im not advocating mass exploitation of animals or anything, but the way nature works is one animal may need to consume another for survival. It just so happens humans are best at doing it.
Octopus have color changing abilities to communicate.
I suppose they mean we should not meddle with their environment. I smell a PETA-esque motivation behind this, and frankly it stinks.
There was quite some effort to say blacks were not as human as whites using some eugenics type argument. Funny thing about that is black people are more homo sapien than we are, as it turns out, because Whites and Asians have been found to be mixed with neanderthal.
By posting this on slashdot you are making a record of your dissent. It wouldn't be hard for the feds to find it and find you.
Same thing happens in communism. Really any concentration of power in the hands of politicians goes to their head and they abuse the shit out of it.
Nope. Not required, just promoted as a good idea if you are an engineer. The term is loose. I don't know how old you are, but today people think "college graduate in engineering" = "engineer".
As far I a knew in the US you can have an engineering degree and need no license and get employed as an "engineer". I know there exists an engineering body that licenses people to sign off on plans and makes them accept legal responsibility, but the term is loose. I knew of people titled as engineers that had no licenses.
Ok. I mean read about it in like a few months time. Anymore mathematicians need computer science skills just to handle themselves, but a pure mathematician from 20 years ago would need a year or two to catch up.
Its like being called a "mathematician" versus a "topologist", "algebraist", "analyst", "graph theorist", or "geometer". They make you think one person has some knowledge the others dont have, but really they all are just mathematicians that each have a particular specialty just like maybe an undergraduate "software engineer" specialized in operating systems or computer graphics.
Dunno about that. Software engineer is just a hyped up term. If you can list yourself as that rather than a computer programmer it makes the layman think "Oh shit, hes an engineer we need to pay him a bit more". Its like being called a "mathematician" versus a "topologist", "algebraist", "analyst", "graph theorist", or "geometer". They make you think one person has some knowledge the others dont have, but really they all are just mathematicians that each have a particular specialty just like maybe an undergraduate "software engineer" specialized in operating systems or computer graphics. They could still probably do eachother's job if they had time to read up on it.
There are plenty of other programs that are funded too much as it IMHO.
The main problem is that they don't pay teachers enough money. If they would pay them 80,000 a year you would see tons of qualified people come out of the woodworks and competition would rise swiftly. Right now non-college teachers are either A) Passionate people that chose to teach because they like to or B) People that didn't score high enough in undergrad to get into grad school or C) People that are too lazy to go to grad school. More often B and C than A.
.... buzz not unlike caffeine ....
Yeah. I tried Kava in Hawaii once. The effects were pretty much like alcohol but it tasted like pepper and dirt. Ive also tried Kratom before. It makes you sick if you drink too much but if you can stomach it for a period of time you get a buzz not unlike caffeine and opium. Ive never tried opium except for in the hospital so I am aware of what its "like". Anyway, things like St Johns Wort are prescribed in Germany for depression. Im just saying, herbs can be useful so its not a good idea to disregard them wholesale. That was the first type of medicine humans had.
Are you suggesting that ALL natural remedies don't work? My mouth and throat went numb from Kava Kava before, Coffee sure wakes me up, Yeast waste products gave me a buzz once, and Im sure some people have had an increased appetite from smoking a certain herb. As a matter of fact there are quite a few natural herbs that will do something helpful for a person suffering from certain ailments, but many of the herbs from Chinese medicine and many of the herbs that westerners shout about are about the same as placebo. Homeopathy is just an outright joke, I mean they are basically selling water, however I have been helped significantly in the past by a Chiropractor/ Sport Medicine MD before who actually did do "bone-setting" for ones vertebrae.
Scientists are more often going to be outright frauds then misunderstand or fail statistics. After all, scientists typically = science PhD and they need to have a brain for their discipline. Statistics is so essential to science that it is criminal to not understand it or at least understand enough you can either collaborate with a specialist or read up and learn. You realize that the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was proven "after the fact" by finding statistical significance in data acquired out in the field (i.e. American and UK smokers). Today no-one disputes that the correlation is actually causation, however half a century ago some people were arguing that you cannot prove cigarettes cause lung cancer without definitive clinical trials using a similar rigorous model you describe. As it turns out the dudes (Bradford Hill and Richard Doll) that performed the studies in the UK were both extremely good statisticians and they did an excellent job. Point is it is possible to find some statistical significance in data as long as you do it right. I would argue that perhaps people are biasing their results using either outright dishonesty or subconscious manipulations based on optimism for their bias.
Doesn't sound much different than my city, Houston, as far as having to commute and drive all over the god damn place. Ive heard Austin is quite a bit nicer to live in however.
Frankly, I would rather be able to take high speed trains or light rail around my city and the US than own a car. Cars are too much of a headache sometimes.
I think there would be too many checklists for every type of ailment, although I suppose some diagnostic websites manage to do it. Hell, that almost would remove the need for physicians as anything but a confirmation or surgery role. You could have nurses/medics and some sophisticated check list like a health diagnostic website has and relegate doctors to tricky cases, confirmation, and major surgery.
They also had Amphetamines.
Thats not the only problem. Hospitals also try to charge you for more expensive tests like a CT scan when a simple X-ray or Ultrasound will do. The whole system is a joke, its not limited to squeezing pennies out of surgeons and doctors.
Should sleepy Nazi Stoßtruppen have been allowed to fight during the Kristallnacht?