No, of course it's not Apple's fault, they certainly didn't design this but bought it second hand...
This rooftop is a great symbol of what's wrong with Apple altogether: Design and form trump function. To the point where function is not even secondary anymore, it's negligible. An afterthought. But never something that may dare to get into the way of looks and making a fashion statement.
Face it, Apple products have become fashion products and technology is treated like some kind of necessary evil.
Because it usually applies to ancient buildings that crumble from the weight of decades and haven't seen any kind of renovation or refurbishment in about the same time. Not brand new ones that were built the same damn year.
Ok, I'm talking about scientific theories which are, by definition, scientific. I'm so sick of some idiots coming along with "oh, but it's only a theory" when they confuse having a hunch with it.
Maybe they should walk off a cliff to test the theory of gravity.
Concerning the towers and how they collapsed I cannot make a well founded argument. I'm neither a chemist, nor a structural engineer, nor a demolition expert. I'd first of all ask at least one of each group about their opinion. I'd ask them whether the stress from the impact and the fire can be enough to cause it. I'd ask them what alternative hypotheses they could think of. I'd propose that hypotheses to the others and ask them if this was possible from their point of view. And THEN I'd start digging, possibly involving more people who can offer more information.
There are actually three positions. One is to believe everything you're told because some authority says so. One is to reject everything you're told because you resent said authority. And one is to fact check what you're told because you don't give a fuck about whether or not something claims to have authority.
It is neither right to believe everything without proof nor to reject everything and believe the opposite without proof. If your reason to reject something is only that you don't want to believe it and instead wish to believe something else, you're essentially just pulling the lever of the stupidity machine in Zak McCracken.
Sorry, but learning has not really anything to do with evolution itself. Evolution doesn't happen to individuals, it happens to populations. And as we have learned from Men In Black, one person is smart, people are panicky, illogical animals.
Fact learning and rote learning is useless. Simple and plainly. we live in a world where you have EVERY fact you might want to know available to you, easily and quickly. Everyone has basically a tool in his pocket that lets him access the largest libraries. So it is more useless than it ever was to soak up data, pour it onto the test and forget it instantly afterwards, which has been the staple of "learning" for us for the past decades, if not centuries.
What we'd have to teach is rather how to get information, how to cross reference, how to verify and how to connect information that you collect that way. That is what's going to distinguish "learned" from "ignorant" in the future.
Android and iPhone is a bit like Democrat or Republican. Everyone's taking sides and everyone's trying to convince everyone that their side is right and the other is the spawn of the devil when essentially both sides are just out to fleece you, don't really care about you but only care about the well being of their shareholders.
The main difference is that with Android and iPhone, that's basically the idea behind it. With Dems and Reps, it's mostly sad.
When you look at the "conspiracy nuts" you will notice a pattern. It is usually people who feel that they are "left out", that they're not in an "in" circle in whatever way that may be defined. Usually, it means that they're left out of being one of the "knowing ones", the ones that share a secret or at least something that elevates them above the others, something that gives them an "edge", if only a perceived one.
And a conspiracy theory allows them to feel that they belong to the "knowing ones" for a change. Because they now know something, something "secret", that everyone else doesn't know. And they knew it first!
Funny enough, whether that's true or even possible doesn't really matter. What matters is that they know it, and they knew it before the "smart" people did.
This is a powerful motivator. Because it lets you feel superior. You "get" it, you understand, you are one of the knowing ones, and the others, those sheeple, they don't. They are clueless, they don't understand, they don't know.
If you're usually the clueless one who neither knows nor understands, this can motivate quite a bit. And it can motivate you to cling to it, no matter what. Because letting go would require you to admit that you've, as usual, been the clueless idiot.
The OP in this subthread was about the US being a Christian nation, which it is not. Yes, you can be a Christian in a secular country, there is no Christian law (that I'd know about at least) that requires you to only acknowledge governments that govern by the Bible (Mark 12:13-17 kinda implies that temporal governments and the secular, otherworldly kingdom Jesus promised are not linked and do not or even should not interfere with each other).
So yes, we do actually agree. Being Christian in the US works, the US being Christian does not.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
As much as I'm a fan of the Darwin Awards, common sense dictates we shouldn't allow that problem to merely sort itself out because innocent victims are often hurt and killed.
I think the term you're looking for is collateral damage.
Evolution isn't about who is right. It's about who is left.
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I'm not laughing at them, I'm laughing with them.
I'm laughing at their customers, though.
Same logic as with their products. Buy early, buy often...
No, of course it's not Apple's fault, they certainly didn't design this but bought it second hand...
This rooftop is a great symbol of what's wrong with Apple altogether: Design and form trump function. To the point where function is not even secondary anymore, it's negligible. An afterthought. But never something that may dare to get into the way of looks and making a fashion statement.
Face it, Apple products have become fashion products and technology is treated like some kind of necessary evil.
Because it usually applies to ancient buildings that crumble from the weight of decades and haven't seen any kind of renovation or refurbishment in about the same time. Not brand new ones that were built the same damn year.
tl;dr Version: If you do something a lot, you're gonna be better at it than someone who doesn't.
Here is a pretty good definition of what constitutes a scientific theory.
Please fit that controlled demolition "theory" in it. Then we'll talk about it's scientific value.
Ok, I'm talking about scientific theories which are, by definition, scientific. I'm so sick of some idiots coming along with "oh, but it's only a theory" when they confuse having a hunch with it.
Maybe they should walk off a cliff to test the theory of gravity.
Great! So anyone with a smartphone that can capture video is a filmmaker, did I get that right? Because, well, he can make a film?
Oh, he needs to have made one? Fine... *grabs cellphone, punches buttons*
Can I now circumvent the DMCA with impunity?
So we want people to be miserable for ... what exactly?
If it's unscientific, then how is it a theory?
Concerning the towers and how they collapsed I cannot make a well founded argument. I'm neither a chemist, nor a structural engineer, nor a demolition expert. I'd first of all ask at least one of each group about their opinion. I'd ask them whether the stress from the impact and the fire can be enough to cause it. I'd ask them what alternative hypotheses they could think of. I'd propose that hypotheses to the others and ask them if this was possible from their point of view. And THEN I'd start digging, possibly involving more people who can offer more information.
There are actually three positions. One is to believe everything you're told because some authority says so. One is to reject everything you're told because you resent said authority. And one is to fact check what you're told because you don't give a fuck about whether or not something claims to have authority.
It is neither right to believe everything without proof nor to reject everything and believe the opposite without proof. If your reason to reject something is only that you don't want to believe it and instead wish to believe something else, you're essentially just pulling the lever of the stupidity machine in Zak McCracken.
Sorry, but learning has not really anything to do with evolution itself. Evolution doesn't happen to individuals, it happens to populations. And as we have learned from Men In Black, one person is smart, people are panicky, illogical animals.
Cuckoldry and whoring has a certain tradition in that lineage. Proof? Genesis 38.
Fact learning and rote learning is useless. Simple and plainly. we live in a world where you have EVERY fact you might want to know available to you, easily and quickly. Everyone has basically a tool in his pocket that lets him access the largest libraries. So it is more useless than it ever was to soak up data, pour it onto the test and forget it instantly afterwards, which has been the staple of "learning" for us for the past decades, if not centuries.
What we'd have to teach is rather how to get information, how to cross reference, how to verify and how to connect information that you collect that way. That is what's going to distinguish "learned" from "ignorant" in the future.
Android and iPhone is a bit like Democrat or Republican. Everyone's taking sides and everyone's trying to convince everyone that their side is right and the other is the spawn of the devil when essentially both sides are just out to fleece you, don't really care about you but only care about the well being of their shareholders.
The main difference is that with Android and iPhone, that's basically the idea behind it. With Dems and Reps, it's mostly sad.
When you look at the "conspiracy nuts" you will notice a pattern. It is usually people who feel that they are "left out", that they're not in an "in" circle in whatever way that may be defined. Usually, it means that they're left out of being one of the "knowing ones", the ones that share a secret or at least something that elevates them above the others, something that gives them an "edge", if only a perceived one.
And a conspiracy theory allows them to feel that they belong to the "knowing ones" for a change. Because they now know something, something "secret", that everyone else doesn't know. And they knew it first!
Funny enough, whether that's true or even possible doesn't really matter. What matters is that they know it, and they knew it before the "smart" people did.
This is a powerful motivator. Because it lets you feel superior. You "get" it, you understand, you are one of the knowing ones, and the others, those sheeple, they don't. They are clueless, they don't understand, they don't know.
If you're usually the clueless one who neither knows nor understands, this can motivate quite a bit. And it can motivate you to cling to it, no matter what. Because letting go would require you to admit that you've, as usual, been the clueless idiot.
Maybe start by tossing teaching fairy tales as if they had something to do with reality.
Once you've done this, we'll take care of the details.
The OP in this subthread was about the US being a Christian nation, which it is not. Yes, you can be a Christian in a secular country, there is no Christian law (that I'd know about at least) that requires you to only acknowledge governments that govern by the Bible (Mark 12:13-17 kinda implies that temporal governments and the secular, otherworldly kingdom Jesus promised are not linked and do not or even should not interfere with each other).
So yes, we do actually agree. Being Christian in the US works, the US being Christian does not.
Damn right. My grandpa died in a concentration camp.
He was drunk and fell off a watchtower, but still.
Well, looking at public schools, I can't really dismiss their claim easily...
So... Our solution to the whole problem of polygamy and warfare was to simply keep the otherwise unmateable males occupied playing in their basements.
What exactly is bad about this?
/. puts you into cold turkey if you "used this resource too often". As I routinely do.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
As much as I'm a fan of the Darwin Awards, common sense dictates we shouldn't allow that problem to merely sort itself out because innocent victims are often hurt and killed.
I think the term you're looking for is collateral damage.
Evolution isn't about who is right. It's about who is left.
But I can't explain.