Believing in reality is not necessary for reality at all. One of the most important aspects of reality is, that it is real. No faith needed. A wall is just there, and even if you stop believing in the wall, you will still hit your head if you try to run through it.
The Gulf stream model was not very much revised. As far as I remember models about Global Warming (at least 20 years back), it was always stated that Global Warming will cause the Gulfstream to weaken or to change course, which in turn means Europe (especially West and North Europe) becoming colder in winter and getting on par with regions on the same geographical latitude in North America and North Asia.
It was actually predicted. Continuous global warming will weaken or stop the Gulf stream, and the Gulfstream is responsible for the quite mild European winters. It could be that now the Gulf stream shows the first sign of weakening, leading to a longer, colder winter in Europe.
Most claiming Christianity aren't. They just claim it because they attend church or got dunked in a baptismal pool at some time or another.
There is no Christianity in their life outside the church, but they tell themselves they are Christians and gain an unworthy sense of superiority by holding others up to their " standard", whatever that is.
No, the problem atheists suffer from is that they are a minority. If a minority insists on not conforming to the majority's views, it's considered obnoxious. If they would just adapt and change to the majority's world view, the problem would go away (for the majority). You normally don't dispute differing worldviews with people which have the same view than you anyway (and if you do, then it's mostly to confirm to each other, that you view them in the same way).
The only point in time when you are stumbling on atheists being different than you is when an atheist actually tells you that he thinks differently than you. Some people are disturbed by this and then call the atheist obnoxious and noisy.
Christians are far worse to me. If I get into an infight about religion, it's mostly with catholics, sometimes it's lutherans. I am a lutheran myself. I never had a dispute about religion with an atheist, but I know lots of them. Hey, I've grown up in one of the most atheist countries of the world, the former East Germany, where only a minority of the people adheres to any religion at all. Go figure.
Or if you can't, here's a hint: If someone complains about noisy and obnoxious people insisting on their beliefs, it's nearly always a member of the majority complaining about a minority. I tell you what: If they weren't standing up for their beliefs (which you call "obnoxious"), you would just steamroll them and claim them being non-existant. Their fault is just being different than you, and because you have grudgingly to accept their right to be different, you compensate by calling them noisy and obnoxious.
Perhaps you should stop assuming things about people.
(As a matter of fact, I live in a different country than my parents, and I am the father of two school children myself. Currently I am fighting a little bureaucratic fight with the school to finally get their religious association changed from "catholic" to "lutheran" in the school records. So much for prejudices.)
This would be the next study. This study just states: Parcels labeled Atheist are much more likely to arrive late or get completely lost if sent to the U.S. via USPS than unlabelled parces at all or Atheist labelled parcels to other destinations in Germany and within the EU.
Now we have to consider the most likely reasons for this findings and perform further studies to find out which of those reasons are real.
Many of the current posters seem to be in the denial state: Can't happen or is just a statistical fluke.
Most athiests are worse than christians about preaching their beliefs at any cost.
No. Most christians are. Or most insert least favourite ideology here.
It all boils down to confirmation bias. If a christian tells you he was in church on Sunday, you don't call it preaching. If an atheist tells you, he wasn't, it was preaching to you. If someone doesn't even mention where he was on Sunday, you just assume he's christian and not talking about his beliefs.
Ok, in 2010, there were 30,814 firearm related deaths, of those, 19,392 are considered suicide. If someone wants to play around with the numbers, here is the link, provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
Given that at least half of the homicides involving guns are the gun owner killing himself and a big part (about half of the other cases) of the other homicides are committed within the household or the near family of the gun owner, the gain-risk-ratio for guns is quite questionable. In about 75% of all cases, gun ownership was mainly causing tragedies.
You could still measure the age of the universe as counted by of the oscillations of photons. It would be no universal clock, but at least it gives a good estimate.
Christianity is with 2.1 billion followers by far the largest religion (hey, even Catholics outnumber every other non-christian religion!). Islam comes in second with 1.3 billion, Hinduism has 750 million followers, and the different buddhistic traditions are fourth with 375 million.
So you are saying that the U.S. was seeing every shadow as a ghost until they could turn on the light? You would have considered garbage bags to be chemical weapons then just because they smell.
But you can reduce his influence by designing systems more securely.
If your input field doesn't accept ); anymore, the probability of an user starting an SQL injection attack intentionally or involuntarily sinks drastically.
If you replace the door to the secure vault with a man trap, inadvertedly leaving the door open to the secure vault doesn't happen anymore, and so does tailgating.
You rightly identified the user as the weakest link, but your solution is disputed by Bruce Schneier.
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Believing in reality is not necessary for reality at all. One of the most important aspects of reality is, that it is real. No faith needed. A wall is just there, and even if you stop believing in the wall, you will still hit your head if you try to run through it.
The Gulf stream model was not very much revised. As far as I remember models about Global Warming (at least 20 years back), it was always stated that Global Warming will cause the Gulfstream to weaken or to change course, which in turn means Europe (especially West and North Europe) becoming colder in winter and getting on par with regions on the same geographical latitude in North America and North Asia.
Simple answer: The weakening of the Gulf stream, long predicted as a direct impact of AGW, which leads to longer and colder winters in Europe.
It's easy. Normal temperatures are called "long term average of the temperature or deviations thereof within the standard deviation".
No. It's not. It could be the (long predicted) weakening of the Gulf stream, which leads to colder and longer winters in Europe.
It was actually predicted. Continuous global warming will weaken or stop the Gulf stream, and the Gulfstream is responsible for the quite mild European winters. It could be that now the Gulf stream shows the first sign of weakening, leading to a longer, colder winter in Europe.
They actually did. The last five years were within their margins of error.
That's something you can do today with FPGAs anyway. No need to wait a few years.
Most claiming Christianity aren't. They just claim it because they attend church or got dunked in a baptismal pool at some time or another. There is no Christianity in their life outside the church, but they tell themselves they are Christians and gain an unworthy sense of superiority by holding others up to their " standard", whatever that is.
We are down to "no true scotsman" here.
It's not up to you to define who is a real christian, and who's not. That's part of the freedom of religion.
The only point in time when you are stumbling on atheists being different than you is when an atheist actually tells you that he thinks differently than you. Some people are disturbed by this and then call the atheist obnoxious and noisy.
Or if you can't, here's a hint: If someone complains about noisy and obnoxious people insisting on their beliefs, it's nearly always a member of the majority complaining about a minority. I tell you what: If they weren't standing up for their beliefs (which you call "obnoxious"), you would just steamroll them and claim them being non-existant. Their fault is just being different than you, and because you have grudgingly to accept their right to be different, you compensate by calling them noisy and obnoxious.
(As a matter of fact, I live in a different country than my parents, and I am the father of two school children myself. Currently I am fighting a little bureaucratic fight with the school to finally get their religious association changed from "catholic" to "lutheran" in the school records. So much for prejudices.)
And the czech borders were already overrun in 1938 and confirmed in Munich Sep 29 1938.
Now we have to consider the most likely reasons for this findings and perform further studies to find out which of those reasons are real.
Many of the current posters seem to be in the denial state: Can't happen or is just a statistical fluke.
Most athiests are worse than christians about preaching their beliefs at any cost.
No. Most christians are. Or most insert least favourite ideology here.
It all boils down to confirmation bias. If a christian tells you he was in church on Sunday, you don't call it preaching. If an atheist tells you, he wasn't, it was preaching to you. If someone doesn't even mention where he was on Sunday, you just assume he's christian and not talking about his beliefs.
Ok, in 2010, there were 30,814 firearm related deaths, of those, 19,392 are considered suicide. If someone wants to play around with the numbers, here is the link, provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
Given that at least half of the homicides involving guns are the gun owner killing himself and a big part (about half of the other cases) of the other homicides are committed within the household or the near family of the gun owner, the gain-risk-ratio for guns is quite questionable. In about 75% of all cases, gun ownership was mainly causing tragedies.
You could still measure the age of the universe as counted by of the oscillations of photons. It would be no universal clock, but at least it gives a good estimate.
Or to quote Philip K. Dick:
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
If you don't need a belief to support something, and others can still determine it's there, it's reality, not religion.
Christianity is with 2.1 billion followers by far the largest religion (hey, even Catholics outnumber every other non-christian religion!). Islam comes in second with 1.3 billion, Hinduism has 750 million followers, and the different buddhistic traditions are fourth with 375 million.
But it was Heinrich Hertz, not Paul Hertz (sorry, no english Wikipedia entry).
Radar was widely deployed in 1939, at the beginning of World War II. It didn't prevent Pearl Harbour.
So you are saying that the U.S. was seeing every shadow as a ghost until they could turn on the light? You would have considered garbage bags to be chemical weapons then just because they smell.
If your input field doesn't accept ); anymore, the probability of an user starting an SQL injection attack intentionally or involuntarily sinks drastically.
If you replace the door to the secure vault with a man trap, inadvertedly leaving the door open to the secure vault doesn't happen anymore, and so does tailgating.
You rightly identified the user as the weakest link, but your solution is disputed by Bruce Schneier.
But Pontiac was an Ottawa chief and not an Aztec.