It is informative, and I hope you publish your results. Either in Nature, Science, or a random server on the Internet, I'm sure your thoughts and references will help further human knowledge.
Why is there a perpetual claim that religious belief negates scientific thought?
That's an easy one! All religious thought is based on "faith." Faith is the polar opposite of empiricism. Empiricism and Logic are the two pillars of Science, and without one, you have nonsense.
Scientific thought is guesswork when you include Faith in place of Empiricism. Guesswork is sometimes right, like a broken clock--that is the extent of it.
I sincerely hope China becomes a scientific powerhouse. Published science is the only game in which all of humanity wins.
However, China has poured great funding into scientific advancement, but, lacking free culture, has failed thus far. See this month's Seed Magazine for an analysis.
This complete cultural failure is the reason my emerging market investments completely avoid every Chinese company. When free speech prevails in China, the country will gain both my goodwill and my portfolio allocation ($$$$$$$$).
PS: I have no doubt that China will remain an industrial powerhouse. While our AI fails at many human brain abilities, the slave-labor of China gives it a power no economy has had since the USA's civil war ended.
Your father? Listen: Russia did not lose the space race. Humanity won it.
In the long run, science knows nothing of imaginary lines and cloth flags. The taxes and votes of my (USA) parents fueled the space race, as did the ingenuity and hope of every USSR engineer and economic contributor who motivated the West.
And when you zoom out, hundreds of years into the future, national affiliation doesn't matter. We all won. Thank you, your father, and every entity who contributed in any way to the advancement of Sol-3 (and, hopefully, considering the USA's moon base plan, Sol 3.1) intelligence as we know it.
Published Science is the only game known to man in which everyone wins.
That's not how it works at all. In a typical investment environment, shares in businesses are valued based on how much revenue a business is generating, its operating expenses, how much debt it has, and by the book value of its assets. Additionally, various methods are employed to predict by how much each of these numbers will change in the future. If these numbers are reasonable, there isn't really all the much to "POP" for an investment, except for a world-wide economic apocalypse.
In a bubble, every shmoe on the street is buying something, completely ignoring things like revenue, saying "this time it's different," or "this can never go down." This sort of thing seems to happen about once per generation--most people need to learn their lessons the hard way.
One bad investment--hell, even hundreds of bad investments--just can't send a typical market in to serious, long-term slide. You have to have a bubble to begin with for something to pop. Until your retarded, red-neck cousins start talking about day-trading at family reunions, you don't need to worry too much about stock bubbles.
Remember when cousin Jed, the one with with that nappy mullet, was talking about flipping houses at last year's thanksgiving dinner? That's a pretty good bubble indicator, right there.
scientific advances are proportional to the economical status of the land. And I'm not talking about the economical status of the elite of the country but about the MEDIUM economical status of the population.
Actually, some of the great science of the past was performed by men who were so rich they never had to work. And because they didn't have video games or television, they spent some of their time discovering the mysteries of the universe, instead. See the first experiments measuring the universal gravitational constant, for example.
The example I was thinking of was China. Perhaps I over-generalized. The culture of conformist obedience suppresses scientific thinking, but Stalin successfully insulated his scientists from this.
Well, the example I was thinking of was China. They are trying hard to gain scientific importance, but are failing.
The USSR was great at engineering, but did they develop any fundamental changes to scientific theory? Did they independently develop atomic theory to the point of developing the first atomic weapon? Or did they acquire much of that knowledge through espionage?
The USSRs rejection of religion no doubt had scientific advantages, too. And, like you said, the scientific elite in the USSR were mostly immune to the culture of conformist obedience forced on the rest of the citizenry.
I still argue that freedom of speech is essential to science, even if my examples were not perfect (in that, in one case, the scientists actually had freedom of speech).
Freedom of speech and science are directly related. Both islamic and stalinist countries violently suppress free speech, consequently having almost no scientific breakthrough.
The best scientific advancements come when someone declares "everything we know about this is wrong" and formulates, tests, and publishes some bold new idea. The tendency to question established "knowledge"--which is often backed by the church or the government--is never encouraged in non-free states.
If you want a great example of this in western history, look at Galileo.
Why do you have to separate everything in to "us" and "them?" It is our damn business because we are all humans, we all share a planet, and the long-term survival of our planet depends on us all cooperating.
Would you make personal sacrifices to help your family? fellow countrymen? Why should people in asia be any less worthy of your help? Invisible lines and a flag? Bah.
Alzheimer's, diabetes, arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease (which kicks in around age 25!) are all thought to be caused by an overactive immune system attacking YOU instead of some disease inside you.
There is strong scientific evidence that smoking helps stop at least one form of immune system disease--IBD. The mechanism is not known, so it is certainly conceivable that smoking helps other forms of the disease.
People don't die of lung cancer at 25, so the other posters should keep the smart ass comments to themselves.
What's your point? "Alzheimer's sucks?" Yeah, but I'm sure that's not news to any of the people you are chastising for making jokes. They are aware of that fact. The difference between them and you is that they opt for humor while you opt for a mopey, self-righteous pity party. My grandma is getting it, too, but I thought the "It's 2067" joke was hilarious.
You say that like it's a joke. I just got done traveling in France. Everyone there needs to learn some English in school. The common perception is that English IS the universal language, and the language of the EU. The French think everyone should learn English, and seem to agree honestly with the idea that if you already know English, there is no reason to learn another language.
One more thing to throw out there: There is substantial scientific evidence to suggest that the only way to learn something new is to forget something old--we have finite memory capacity. If you already know English, learning another language necessarily causes you to become less knowledgeable about something else.
First of all, in the USA, almost EVERYONE has good, healthy teeth.
Second, a if you earn $60k/year, you are making about 40% MORE than the median income. That makes you upper middle class. Sorry to ruin your pity party.
Third, if your employer doesn't offer dental insurance, you should strongly consider looking for a new job.
The secret to getting (re)elected in Ohio is to talk about children every time you see a camera or microphone.
Ohio politics are absolutely offensive to me. The top priority of our politicians should be protecting our rights, not doing our parenting for us.
I'm seriously considering getting the hell out of this purple state and heading for a real blue state. Unfortunately, even some blue states care more about "the children" than protecting our rights these days--see Hillary Clinton for a perfect example.
That's a standard feature these days. I want to know how many times I can overwrite the entire disk with/dev/random. If I did a "dd if=/dev/random of=/ioMemory size=[size of ioDrive]" how many times could I execute that command before the thing goes tits up?
What is the write limit for their device? It would be a damn shame to buy a $10,000 solid-state drive only to have it burn out after a month because you forgot to mount it with the "noatime" option.
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Indiana Jones news is on topic for /. because Han Shot First.
OK. I live in Columbus, Ohio--a metropolis. I can't see shit except the moon and about five stars.
Do I win something? What's my motivation for pointing this out?
Also, does anybody want to buy a Celestron Nextar SLT 130 telescope? I've seen as much of the moon as I care to view.
No, that's exactly what I'm saying. Questioning God's Will has terrible consequences in Islamic societies. Thanks for making my point.
YOU FAIL. The best science challenges everything and prevails. Pseudoscience challenges some things and loses. Go OD on vitamins, loser.
It is informative, and I hope you publish your results. Either in Nature, Science, or a random server on the Internet, I'm sure your thoughts and references will help further human knowledge.
Scientific thought is guesswork when you include Faith in place of Empiricism. Guesswork is sometimes right, like a broken clock--that is the extent of it.
I sincerely hope China becomes a scientific powerhouse. Published science is the only game in which all of humanity wins.
However, China has poured great funding into scientific advancement, but, lacking free culture, has failed thus far. See this month's Seed Magazine for an analysis.
This complete cultural failure is the reason my emerging market investments completely avoid every Chinese company. When free speech prevails in China, the country will gain both my goodwill and my portfolio allocation ($$$$$$$$).
PS: I have no doubt that China will remain an industrial powerhouse. While our AI fails at many human brain abilities, the slave-labor of China gives it a power no economy has had since the USA's civil war ended.
Your father? Listen: Russia did not lose the space race. Humanity won it.
In the long run, science knows nothing of imaginary lines and cloth flags. The taxes and votes of my (USA) parents fueled the space race, as did the ingenuity and hope of every USSR engineer and economic contributor who motivated the West.
And when you zoom out, hundreds of years into the future, national affiliation doesn't matter. We all won. Thank you, your father, and every entity who contributed in any way to the advancement of Sol-3 (and, hopefully, considering the USA's moon base plan, Sol 3.1) intelligence as we know it.
Published Science is the only game known to man in which everyone wins.
Four tech companies, again, can make bad investments without having any major impact on the thousands of publicly traded companies out there.
That's not how it works at all. In a typical investment environment, shares in businesses are valued based on how much revenue a business is generating, its operating expenses, how much debt it has, and by the book value of its assets. Additionally, various methods are employed to predict by how much each of these numbers will change in the future. If these numbers are reasonable, there isn't really all the much to "POP" for an investment, except for a world-wide economic apocalypse.
In a bubble, every shmoe on the street is buying something, completely ignoring things like revenue, saying "this time it's different," or "this can never go down." This sort of thing seems to happen about once per generation--most people need to learn their lessons the hard way.
One bad investment--hell, even hundreds of bad investments--just can't send a typical market in to serious, long-term slide. You have to have a bubble to begin with for something to pop. Until your retarded, red-neck cousins start talking about day-trading at family reunions, you don't need to worry too much about stock bubbles.
Remember when cousin Jed, the one with with that nappy mullet, was talking about flipping houses at last year's thanksgiving dinner? That's a pretty good bubble indicator, right there.
The example I was thinking of was China. Perhaps I over-generalized. The culture of conformist obedience suppresses scientific thinking, but Stalin successfully insulated his scientists from this.
Well, the example I was thinking of was China. They are trying hard to gain scientific importance, but are failing.
The USSR was great at engineering, but did they develop any fundamental changes to scientific theory? Did they independently develop atomic theory to the point of developing the first atomic weapon? Or did they acquire much of that knowledge through espionage?
The USSRs rejection of religion no doubt had scientific advantages, too. And, like you said, the scientific elite in the USSR were mostly immune to the culture of conformist obedience forced on the rest of the citizenry.
I still argue that freedom of speech is essential to science, even if my examples were not perfect (in that, in one case, the scientists actually had freedom of speech).
Freedom of speech and science are directly related. Both islamic and stalinist countries violently suppress free speech, consequently having almost no scientific breakthrough.
The best scientific advancements come when someone declares "everything we know about this is wrong" and formulates, tests, and publishes some bold new idea. The tendency to question established "knowledge"--which is often backed by the church or the government--is never encouraged in non-free states.
If you want a great example of this in western history, look at Galileo.
Content-free posts like that are the reason many people filter out AC. You're not helping.
A bubble is when EVERYONE buys unprofitable assets. That's a pretty important distinction you are overlooking.
Respect? That's your excuse?
There is no such thing as respect. It is a 100% subjective word in this context, and therefore meaningless. That's no defense for anything.
Why do you have to separate everything in to "us" and "them?" It is our damn business because we are all humans, we all share a planet, and the long-term survival of our planet depends on us all cooperating.
Would you make personal sacrifices to help your family? fellow countrymen? Why should people in asia be any less worthy of your help? Invisible lines and a flag? Bah.
Please mod this up.
Alzheimer's, diabetes, arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease (which kicks in around age 25!) are all thought to be caused by an overactive immune system attacking YOU instead of some disease inside you.
There is strong scientific evidence that smoking helps stop at least one form of immune system disease--IBD. The mechanism is not known, so it is certainly conceivable that smoking helps other forms of the disease.
People don't die of lung cancer at 25, so the other posters should keep the smart ass comments to themselves.
What's your point? "Alzheimer's sucks?" Yeah, but I'm sure that's not news to any of the people you are chastising for making jokes. They are aware of that fact. The difference between them and you is that they opt for humor while you opt for a mopey, self-righteous pity party. My grandma is getting it, too, but I thought the "It's 2067" joke was hilarious.
You say that like it's a joke. I just got done traveling in France. Everyone there needs to learn some English in school. The common perception is that English IS the universal language, and the language of the EU. The French think everyone should learn English, and seem to agree honestly with the idea that if you already know English, there is no reason to learn another language.
One more thing to throw out there: There is substantial scientific evidence to suggest that the only way to learn something new is to forget something old--we have finite memory capacity. If you already know English, learning another language necessarily causes you to become less knowledgeable about something else.
First of all, in the USA, almost EVERYONE has good, healthy teeth.
Second, a if you earn $60k/year, you are making about 40% MORE than the median income. That makes you upper middle class. Sorry to ruin your pity party.
Third, if your employer doesn't offer dental insurance, you should strongly consider looking for a new job.
The secret to getting (re)elected in Ohio is to talk about children every time you see a camera or microphone.
Ohio politics are absolutely offensive to me. The top priority of our politicians should be protecting our rights, not doing our parenting for us.
I'm seriously considering getting the hell out of this purple state and heading for a real blue state. Unfortunately, even some blue states care more about "the children" than protecting our rights these days--see Hillary Clinton for a perfect example.
That's a standard feature these days. I want to know how many times I can overwrite the entire disk with /dev/random. If I did a "dd if=/dev/random of=/ioMemory size=[size of ioDrive]" how many times could I execute that command before the thing goes tits up?
What is the write limit for their device? It would be a damn shame to buy a $10,000 solid-state drive only to have it burn out after a month because you forgot to mount it with the "noatime" option.