If you think that science never becomes doctrinaire, you haven't read Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Consider quantum physics today. Because physicists discover new particles, they think that validates their theory.
That of course is obvious bullshit when the theory says the universe you are in didn't exist until your grad students measured it.
If the logic falls apart, your theory is crap.
Discovery is not proof; it is mere discovery.
See how far that argument gets you against the popular, dare I say, doctrine of current quantum mechanics.
Columbus discovered America because it was there, not because he was sufficiently pious or sufficiently respectful of the queen or used his cabin boy in the requisite way of the sailor's Kama Sutra. Discoveries happen because the particles exist; not because of your belief in God or measurement.
And remember, Columbus thought he had discovered India.
Yes. We know god deliberately put those fossils there to fool us and entice us to doubt the preacher/mullah.
We know for a fact that climate cannot change because we know volcanic CO2 has no effect on the atmosphere (sarcasm) and we also cannot find any records whatsoever of other climate changes occurring in the fossil record (also sarcasm)
If this response were written by a true believer, it would not be a trolled post but since I wrote it, consider it a troll comment.
The problem with being "popular" is that you must water down your message.
If you want popular science, it needs to be easy to understand (which is not the same as being accurate) and cannot include any equations.
If you want a popular church, like one of those Texas mega-churches or a television ministry, you water down the restrictions on who can be a church member.
The Amish and Orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Christians and Muslims require a lot more out of their membership than the more popular denominations of those religions which have many more members.
The actual fact of popularity is catering to the lowest common denominator.
That is what you graph against increasing popularity.
But a graph is too much like an equation. Sorry.
That seems to imply that comments in meat space are NOT false reality.
Be careful with your assumptions and implications if you are looking for truth.
A lot of folks say the internet is full of assholes which seems to imply meat space is not full of assholes.
But the only people who really control discussion these days are the pig-headed dolts who won't give up a lost argument for anything, and the trolls, who aren't there for legitimate argument anyway.
That's exactly what keeps sites like slashdot exciting to visit very day, right?
So maybe PCBs are where Rap "music" comes from /* officially, music is supposed to be a melody and rhythm. Rap is pretty much just harmony and rhythm;-) */
I suspect in general the distance from the nucleus to every place else in the cell matters. That's why settling to the bottom is bad.
But volume compared to surface area is a major limiting factor for any biological thing.
And even for the fusion processes of suns. Once the hydrogen fire's pressure eases, the star collapses. Quickly.
It's also why it takes a lot longer to make 4 3d copies on a 3d printer than it does to copy 4 sheets of paper.
Discovering fake stuff on the internet is easy. Proving which miscreants posted it is hard.
The investigation sounds a lot like the one Wired wrote up about Google helping people get illegal drug sites high up in the PageRank.
They had recordings from helpdesk people on how to get around it.
Several recordings for (supposedly) different companies to help skirt the rules Google supposedly had in place.
I don't know why people believe stuff they read on the internet. Probably for the same reason they believe stuff sent out on television stations or hollered from pulpits or whispered from ear to ear across backyard fences. Gossip is popular but is only sometimes true.
What the newspapers needed are analysts, not engineers.
Analysts start with facts, not bullshit standard 'industry wisdom.'
to wit, first demolish 2 silly assumptions:
The New York Times has never been as popular as the Natl Enquirer and News of the World. That's a fact, So don't equate the NYT with the newspaper biz.
Second, most newspapers made money on their classified and display ads. Subscriptions are not for profit; they are only to show to advertisers to justify the cost. In other words, subscription numbers are just the number of eyeballs for sale.
Start from the real starting place and you might find a way out. Hiring engineers to put molded brushed aluminum rails around your product is about as useful as putting lipstick on a pig.
That is true. But imagine what would happen if the Chinese hackers were able to combine a computer virus and flu virus!?!?!?!
My oh my oh my.
We'd better increase the funding for DHS yet again.
Some of these research articles of late seem to have no respect for the basics of nature that the layman seems to have been taking for granted since the beginning.
If you're going to whine about an article, at least read it. The gears help it react faster than any sort of nerve impulse could.
And they also suggest at the end that the reason larva have gears but not adults is because larva molt.
They theorize that adults do not have gears because any sort of fracture is permanent and fractures seem likely over a period of sustained use.
To me, this level of detail in nature is strong evidence for creation rather than evolution.
That's because it's easy to imagine a Creator just appearing magically all at once but having life evolve itself over billions of years is just too weird.
I'm serious. That's really the belief.
A creator can self-evolve or self-appear, but nothing less is allowed to in their limited little pantheon of belief.
Of course, they also have to ignore the creation of death, disease, famine and Republicans.
In a browser, pretty much any browser, CTRL-+ (shift equals) makes everything bigger.
All the users I support, at work and in the family, love that feature.
They pretty much only need browsers so chromebooks work well.
interesting. its like how religious people are not delusional because they have other people that believe what they believe. by all other standards, they would be considered delusional.
To quote Budweiser/NFL: It's only weird if it doesn't work.
Actually, 6 of the 20 people executed in Salem MA were men. And one of them (Giles Corey) wasn't even convicted, he just refused to plead and at the time torturing to force a plea was legal.
Why would you think they can stop being hysterical?
It's not voluntary anymore than being an asshole is (and I don't see many assholes suddenly decide to stop being assholes).
in defense of the religions, people weren't actually killed _because_ of the delusions. Every homo sapiens social group that operates has a belief system of some sort and probably every single one of those is incorrect in serious ways.
And since every single social group has also killed and attacked other social groups, you don't get to blame their over-arching religion or philosophy, most of which are at odds with each other and even with themselves (being internally inconsistent). Every group has those. It's one of the ways any specific -group- is defined.
I know most folks like to blame history on socio-political issues but they are incorrect. Every group has a religion and philosophy just as every human has a spleen, a gall bladder and ligaments. Without ligaments, nothing gets done but we don't say ligaments _cause_ individual human actions.
Belief in a Creator God is a delusion but belief that religion causes the wars fought in its name is also a delusion.
Interestingly enough, I read an article about human lifespans and how it changed drastically about 30,000 years ago, giving us grandparents who were able to help spread knowledge across generations. Maybe if people were living twice as long, then humans were eating twice as many mammoths.
Rock Star developers don't _have_ to be assholes.
They do however have to answer questions truthfully and when an asshole boss asks for something stoopid and is told by the developer that the idea is stoopid, the dev gets tagged with the diva label by the asshole boss. That's how those labels get improperly applied.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, LinkedIn, and Intuit need to snap to it, then. If they started now they could get it in place in a few years, before the seas come rushing in. They've got the funds. Money, meet mouth.
But if they simply figure out how to reverse global warming, then the Barrage would not be needed.
I wonder if anyone at the companies is working on that?
Slashdot Mirror
If you think that science never becomes doctrinaire, you haven't read Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Consider quantum physics today. Because physicists discover new particles, they think that validates their theory.
That of course is obvious bullshit when the theory says the universe you are in didn't exist until your grad students measured it.
If the logic falls apart, your theory is crap.
Discovery is not proof; it is mere discovery.
See how far that argument gets you against the popular, dare I say, doctrine of current quantum mechanics.
Columbus discovered America because it was there, not because he was sufficiently pious or sufficiently respectful of the queen or used his cabin boy in the requisite way of the sailor's Kama Sutra. Discoveries happen because the particles exist; not because of your belief in God or measurement.
And remember, Columbus thought he had discovered India.
Yes. We know god deliberately put those fossils there to fool us and entice us to doubt the preacher/mullah.
We know for a fact that climate cannot change because we know volcanic CO2 has no effect on the atmosphere (sarcasm) and we also cannot find any records whatsoever of other climate changes occurring in the fossil record (also sarcasm)
If this response were written by a true believer, it would not be a trolled post but since I wrote it, consider it a troll comment.
The problem with being "popular" is that you must water down your message.
If you want popular science, it needs to be easy to understand (which is not the same as being accurate) and cannot include any equations.
If you want a popular church, like one of those Texas mega-churches or a television ministry, you water down the restrictions on who can be a church member.
The Amish and Orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Christians and Muslims require a lot more out of their membership than the more popular denominations of those religions which have many more members.
The actual fact of popularity is catering to the lowest common denominator.
That is what you graph against increasing popularity.
But a graph is too much like an equation. Sorry.
Comments on the internet are a false reality.
That seems to imply that comments in meat space are NOT false reality.
Be careful with your assumptions and implications if you are looking for truth.
A lot of folks say the internet is full of assholes which seems to imply meat space is not full of assholes.
But the only people who really control discussion these days are the pig-headed dolts who won't give up a lost argument for anything, and the trolls, who aren't there for legitimate argument anyway.
That's exactly what keeps sites like slashdot exciting to visit very day, right?
They added the "no experience necessary" clause so internal candidates can apply.
So maybe PCBs are where Rap "music" comes from
/* officially, music is supposed to be a melody and rhythm. Rap is pretty much just harmony and rhythm ;-) */
Why does gravity have the strength it has.
Ah grasshopper. Gravity has no strength at all. ;-)
It is the curvature of space which produces the illusion of strength.
I suspect in general the distance from the nucleus to every place else in the cell matters. That's why settling to the bottom is bad.
But volume compared to surface area is a major limiting factor for any biological thing.
And even for the fusion processes of suns. Once the hydrogen fire's pressure eases, the star collapses. Quickly.
It's also why it takes a lot longer to make 4 3d copies on a 3d printer than it does to copy 4 sheets of paper.
Well, yea but, how can we make this Obama's fault?
No idea. Let's ask Ted Cruz. He's full of ummmm, ideas.
Discovering fake stuff on the internet is easy. Proving which miscreants posted it is hard.
The investigation sounds a lot like the one Wired wrote up about Google helping people get illegal drug sites high up in the PageRank.
They had recordings from helpdesk people on how to get around it.
Several recordings for (supposedly) different companies to help skirt the rules Google supposedly had in place.
I don't know why people believe stuff they read on the internet. Probably for the same reason they believe stuff sent out on television stations or hollered from pulpits or whispered from ear to ear across backyard fences. Gossip is popular but is only sometimes true.
Believe what I say.
What the newspapers needed are analysts, not engineers.
Analysts start with facts, not bullshit standard 'industry wisdom.'
to wit, first demolish 2 silly assumptions:
The New York Times has never been as popular as the Natl Enquirer and News of the World. That's a fact, So don't equate the NYT with the newspaper biz.
Second, most newspapers made money on their classified and display ads. Subscriptions are not for profit; they are only to show to advertisers to justify the cost. In other words, subscription numbers are just the number of eyeballs for sale.
Start from the real starting place and you might find a way out. Hiring engineers to put molded brushed aluminum rails around your product is about as useful as putting lipstick on a pig.
That is true. But imagine what would happen if the Chinese hackers were able to combine a computer virus and flu virus!?!?!?!
My oh my oh my.
We'd better increase the funding for DHS yet again.
Some of these research articles of late seem to have no respect for the basics of nature that the layman seems to have been taking for granted since the beginning.
If you're going to whine about an article, at least read it. The gears help it react faster than any sort of nerve impulse could.
And they also suggest at the end that the reason larva have gears but not adults is because larva molt.
They theorize that adults do not have gears because any sort of fracture is permanent and fractures seem likely over a period of sustained use.
To me, this level of detail in nature is strong evidence for creation rather than evolution.
That's because it's easy to imagine a Creator just appearing magically all at once but having life evolve itself over billions of years is just too weird.
I'm serious. That's really the belief.
A creator can self-evolve or self-appear, but nothing less is allowed to in their limited little pantheon of belief.
Of course, they also have to ignore the creation of death, disease, famine and Republicans.
will they run my windows apps?
There are Windows apps?!? Does anyone actually use them?
In a browser, pretty much any browser, CTRL-+ (shift equals) makes everything bigger.
All the users I support, at work and in the family, love that feature.
They pretty much only need browsers so chromebooks work well.
interesting. its like how religious people are not delusional because they have other people that believe what they believe. by all other standards, they would be considered delusional.
To quote Budweiser/NFL: It's only weird if it doesn't work.
Actually, 6 of the 20 people executed in Salem MA were men. And one of them (Giles Corey) wasn't even convicted, he just refused to plead and at the time torturing to force a plea was legal.
Thank God torture isn't legal anymore, right W?
Why would you think they can stop being hysterical?
It's not voluntary anymore than being an asshole is (and I don't see many assholes suddenly decide to stop being assholes).
in defense of the religions, people weren't actually killed _because_ of the delusions. Every homo sapiens social group that operates has a belief system of some sort and probably every single one of those is incorrect in serious ways.
And since every single social group has also killed and attacked other social groups, you don't get to blame their over-arching religion or philosophy, most of which are at odds with each other and even with themselves (being internally inconsistent). Every group has those. It's one of the ways any specific -group- is defined.
I know most folks like to blame history on socio-political issues but they are incorrect. Every group has a religion and philosophy just as every human has a spleen, a gall bladder and ligaments. Without ligaments, nothing gets done but we don't say ligaments _cause_ individual human actions.
Belief in a Creator God is a delusion but belief that religion causes the wars fought in its name is also a delusion.
Interestingly enough, I read an article about human lifespans and how it changed drastically about 30,000 years ago, giving us grandparents who were able to help spread knowledge across generations. Maybe if people were living twice as long, then humans were eating twice as many mammoths.
Rock Star developers don't _have_ to be assholes.
They do however have to answer questions truthfully and when an asshole boss asks for something stoopid and is told by the developer that the idea is stoopid, the dev gets tagged with the diva label by the asshole boss. That's how those labels get improperly applied.
The cloud just gets more and more secure all the time. Maybe this is how Dilbert broke into the NSA servers and got all his company's data back.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, LinkedIn, and Intuit need to snap to it, then. If they started now they could get it in place in a few years, before the seas come rushing in. They've got the funds. Money, meet mouth.
But if they simply figure out how to reverse global warming, then the Barrage would not be needed.
I wonder if anyone at the companies is working on that?