Yes, mathematics and science ultimately come out of philosophy, but 98%* of philosophy is worthless drivel. With 17 and 18-year-olds you might have a reasonable discussion of, say, Plato's ideas, where he had valuable insights and where he was just talking crap. But with 8th-graders? Nuh-uh.
Fortunately, inductive and deductive logic alike are intuitively correct (because our brains evolved that way), so you can teach science and maths quite successfully without first spending years studying the torturous history of human thought.
You have to be careful with your selection, though, because a lot of what passes for SF these days is My Talking Pony stories and/or porn.
Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel has a nice discussion of acceleration and interplanetary distances. Arthur C Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise offers an introduction to material strengths and orbital mechanics. Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity juxtaposes gravity and centripetal acceleration.
They can't replace the tiles - the tiles are fitted to the shape of the Shuttle; every tile is different.
They have a patch kit, but in applying the patch they could weaken the tiles that they're patching. So it's a tradeoff. If they perform the repair and all goes well, then they're probably better off than before. But if something goes wrong during the repair, things could get a lot worse.
The National Association of Theater Owners supports Regal's 'zero-tolerance' prosecution standard: 'We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing.'
Then you should fire them and hire competent staff.
Zero tolerance is simply an abdication of responsibility and common sense.
Actually I'm australian and you might want to read up on what happens. Here ISPs can take any of your details and use them how you like. The government can ban any sites it wants to, based on any content, and it is up to ISPs to do so. Doesn't matter if it isn't technically possible, the ISPs must comply and if they fail they're shut down by constant recursive fines. This week it's government satire, next week it'll be criticism of the government, the week after that nobody will be able to mention the name "haneef" without their packets going missing in the ether.
And the worst bit is ISPs aren't legally allowed to say a damn thing about it, which is why you'll find they're so quite about it.
Every part of this is a lie. Well, okay, it's possible you might really be an Australian. Every other part is a lie.
I was head of tech support for a small Australian ISP for years. There are strict privacy regulations covering what you can and cannot (mostly cannot) do with user data. There are no regulations requiring ISPs to restrict access to web sites. Nor is there any technology in place to enforce such a thing at a national scale.
Websites hosted within Australia can be the target of a take down notice if they are rated X or RC (refused classification) by the OFLC (censors).
Websites hosted outside Australia can be rated by the OFLC as well. In this case, they cannot be the target of a take down notice because the ABA has no jurisdiction. Instead, the site is added to the lists provided by companies producing internet filtering software. Internet filtering software is installed by the user, and is not required by any part of the legislation.
From that page, here's a list of the actual responsibilities of ISPs:
Under the Codes, ISPs and ICHs have the following obligations:
(a) Take reasonable steps to make sure children do not become internet subscribers without the consent of an adult.
(b) Encourage subscribers who are commercial content providers to label content that might be unsuitable for children.
(c) Advise subscribers who are commercial content providers about their legal responsibilities in relation to content.
(d) Inform users about ways they can supervise and control their children's access to internet content.
(e) Help subscribers block unwanted and undesirable email.
(f) On becoming aware that an ICH is hosting prohibited content, advise them about the prohibited content.
(g) Provide Approved Filters for subscribers in Australia at a charge determined by the ISP.
(h) Take reasonable steps to inform subscribers of their procedural rights to complain to the ABA about online content.
The extent to which as an Australian ISP you are required to filter content? You have to tell your customers that content filtering software is available, and you have to sell such a program to your customers on request. (You can do that via a third-party; you don't have to stock the software yourself.)
The Australian government takes itself far too serious. Australia has some of the most draconian privacy / internet laws on the book and the populace does not doe much about it because it doesn't involve them directly (yet). Little by little freedoms are eroded.
Uh, dude, couple of points.
First, despite what the evidence found around Bondi Beach might suggest, New Zealand is not officially part of Australia.
Second, draconian privacy laws are a good thing. That would mean harsh penalties for companies breaching individuals' right to privacy. I don't think this is what you meant... But it's actually pretty accurate.
Third, on the internet laws... If you host a porn site in Australia, and someone complains, and the complaint is upheld, your site can be taken down. You are completely free to host the same content outside Australia. Australians are free to view the content wherever it's hosted. That, really, is about it.
(Until last November I was head of tech support at a small Aussie ISP, so I have some familiarity with the laws involved.)
You don't have to believe in Euclid's axioms to do geometry; you don't have to accept metaphysical naturalism to do scientific research.
All you have to do is follow the process.
And - the other point that makes mathematics and science completely different to religion - if you follow the process, it works. Observably, objectively, works.
I was at least partly serious. You raise some very real issues, but they are issues with Usenet, or with implementations of NNTP, rather than issues with NNTP itself.
I'm glad they're finally getting what Liberals have been shouting for decades.
If liberals have been shouting about global warming for decades, then those liberals are crazy, since there has been reliable evidence of global warming for less than a decade.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong, just pointing out what it means.
Are you insane? The only reason there even was a West Berlin is that the Soviets took over eastern Germany at the end of World War II. And the only reason West Berlin survived as a free city was the Berlin Airlift, organised and operated by Britain and - you guessed it - America. The Soviet Union under Stalin and his immediate successors was brutal and crazy. You can thank America for the simple fact that you are alive today.
The problem is not that Apache is slow, it's that it uses huge amounts of memory. If your database is running slow for some reason - say, during backups - requests will start to queue up, Apache will start more and more threads to handle those requests, and things will spiral rapidly out of control.
You can go on and on about how people are already free, and don't need anyone to make them so. Which is all well and good until the bad men with weapons come and you are all alone, prattling on about your rights. Rights only exist outside of theory when put into practice by communities willing to defend them.
Wrong.
Rights are innate. Anything that is not innate is not a right.
Thus, freedom of speech is a right, but freedom from hunger is not. You are born with the right to speak freely... although it takes a while before you can make any real use of this. But if there is not enough food to go around, you're going to be hungry.
Other people can encroach upon your rights, that's hardly a new discovery. The critical point of the Bill of Rights, and the thing that makes it so much more valuable than the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is that rather than pretending to delineate or grant you that which is innate, it instead expressly forbids the government from infringing your rights.
And your ideas about punishment and motivation are also outdated and ineffective. Those kind of violent actions merely justify others acting violently for their beliefs as well. They perpetuate violence, not reduce it. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," remember? You may be justified in acting violently in your own head and heart, but so are they.
We are talking, on the one hand, of a custom involving the murder of innocent women, and on the other hand, of a law requiring the punishment of murderers.
The two are not equal, or even equivalent. Even if you ignore the morality of the situation, from a purely utilitarian standpoint Napier was right and the Indians were wrong.
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
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Yes, mathematics and science ultimately come out of philosophy, but 98%* of philosophy is worthless drivel. With 17 and 18-year-olds you might have a reasonable discussion of, say, Plato's ideas, where he had valuable insights and where he was just talking crap. But with 8th-graders? Nuh-uh.
Fortunately, inductive and deductive logic alike are intuitively correct (because our brains evolved that way), so you can teach science and maths quite successfully without first spending years studying the torturous history of human thought.
* POOMA.
You have to be careful with your selection, though, because a lot of what passes for SF these days is My Talking Pony stories and/or porn.
Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel has a nice discussion of acceleration and interplanetary distances. Arthur C Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise offers an introduction to material strengths and orbital mechanics. Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity juxtaposes gravity and centripetal acceleration.
Lawyers? Hah. My monkeys will eat your legal documents and poop on your expensive shoes.
Fear the monkeys!
They can't replace the tiles - the tiles are fitted to the shape of the Shuttle; every tile is different.
They have a patch kit, but in applying the patch they could weaken the tiles that they're patching. So it's a tradeoff. If they perform the repair and all goes well, then they're probably better off than before. But if something goes wrong during the repair, things could get a lot worse.
No.
Zero tolerance is simply an abdication of responsibility and common sense.
A friend of mine runs ZeroIntelligence.net, which documents this sort of thing.
I was head of tech support for a small Australian ISP for years. There are strict privacy regulations covering what you can and cannot (mostly cannot) do with user data. There are no regulations requiring ISPs to restrict access to web sites. Nor is there any technology in place to enforce such a thing at a national scale.
Here's a good summary of what the laws actually say.
Websites hosted within Australia can be the target of a take down notice if they are rated X or RC (refused classification) by the OFLC (censors).
Websites hosted outside Australia can be rated by the OFLC as well. In this case, they cannot be the target of a take down notice because the ABA has no jurisdiction. Instead, the site is added to the lists provided by companies producing internet filtering software. Internet filtering software is installed by the user, and is not required by any part of the legislation.
From that page, here's a list of the actual responsibilities of ISPs:
The extent to which as an Australian ISP you are required to filter content? You have to tell your customers that content filtering software is available, and you have to sell such a program to your customers on request. (You can do that via a third-party; you don't have to stock the software yourself.)
First, despite what the evidence found around Bondi Beach might suggest, New Zealand is not officially part of Australia.
Second, draconian privacy laws are a good thing. That would mean harsh penalties for companies breaching individuals' right to privacy. I don't think this is what you meant... But it's actually pretty accurate.
Third, on the internet laws... If you host a porn site in Australia, and someone complains, and the complaint is upheld, your site can be taken down. You are completely free to host the same content outside Australia. Australians are free to view the content wherever it's hosted. That, really, is about it.
(Until last November I was head of tech support at a small Aussie ISP, so I have some familiarity with the laws involved.)
Completely wrong.
You don't have to believe in Euclid's axioms to do geometry; you don't have to accept metaphysical naturalism to do scientific research.
All you have to do is follow the process.
And - the other point that makes mathematics and science completely different to religion - if you follow the process, it works. Observably, objectively, works.
Kuhn was wrong. Oh, he was right about how scientists as individuals often behave. Completely wrong about science as a process, though.
I considered both of those, but typhoid is funnier.
I was at least partly serious. You raise some very real issues, but they are issues with Usenet, or with implementations of NNTP, rather than issues with NNTP itself.
Or rather, use NNTP. That's what it's designed for. RSS feeds are a hack.
I'm glad they're finally getting what Liberals have been shouting for decades.
If liberals have been shouting about global warming for decades, then those liberals are crazy, since there has been reliable evidence of global warming for less than a decade.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong, just pointing out what it means.
Are you insane? The only reason there even was a West Berlin is that the Soviets took over eastern Germany at the end of World War II. And the only reason West Berlin survived as a free city was the Berlin Airlift, organised and operated by Britain and - you guessed it - America. The Soviet Union under Stalin and his immediate successors was brutal and crazy. You can thank America for the simple fact that you are alive today.
Yes.
A newspaper got major details of a story wrong.
Newspapers get major details of every story wrong. See also: Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
Yes, that stops it killing your server, and instead it rejects requests. It does nothing to actually fix the problem.
The problem is not that Apache is slow, it's that it uses huge amounts of memory. If your database is running slow for some reason - say, during backups - requests will start to queue up, Apache will start more and more threads to handle those requests, and things will spiral rapidly out of control.
Lightppd doesn't have that problem.
Peanuts are legumes!
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The TV industry will never take us seriously now.
Rights are innate. Anything that is not innate is not a right.
Thus, freedom of speech is a right, but freedom from hunger is not. You are born with the right to speak freely... although it takes a while before you can make any real use of this. But if there is not enough food to go around, you're going to be hungry.
Other people can encroach upon your rights, that's hardly a new discovery. The critical point of the Bill of Rights, and the thing that makes it so much more valuable than the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is that rather than pretending to delineate or grant you that which is innate, it instead expressly forbids the government from infringing your rights. We are talking, on the one hand, of a custom involving the murder of innocent women, and on the other hand, of a law requiring the punishment of murderers.
The two are not equal, or even equivalent. Even if you ignore the morality of the situation, from a purely utilitarian standpoint Napier was right and the Indians were wrong.