Well, this is were you really should study the originals papers. The obscure statement is that Weinberg's toy theory contained an exact copy of classical mechanics and hence a route to resolve the correspondence principle. Assuming his math is correct this is most noteworthy.
Two days ago the entry on a physicist, who I thought came accross something pretty profound, was deemed not noteworthy by Wikipedia. I was originally prompted to create a biographical stub on him because they have articles on two rugby players by the same name. But it seems Wikipedia has more in common with highschool than I realized: The jocks get more attention.
Anyhow, this dude from down under found a pretty astounding approach to the correspondence principle (i.e. how QM gives rise) to classical mechanics in a mathematical framework originally developed by Steven Weinberg. Something the latter astoundingly overlooked. The talkback page on this math can be found here. The article itself meanwhile has been deleted. Please note: Not because the math is wrong, but because the citation record has been deemed to be too low by the editors.
There's a blog post with links to his recovered papers (most follow up papers on this were actually lost for a while a never published). So if you have a physics background you can form your own opinion.
To me this is a pretty good example of how really interesting findings can simply be washed away in the avalanche of mediocre papers that get produced every day.
The post loses all credibility when throwing nuclear into the mix as well. Just reads as yet another Malthusian catastrophe forecast.
Especially in light of the fact that there are energy net positive technologies under development to get our nuclear wast problem under control. Nuclear and alternative energies could very well wean us of fossil fuel.
In 1996 an acquaintance asked me what the Web was supposed to be good for, and I told him it can give you an answer to pretty much every question. He rather patronizingly ridiculed this notion.
So I asked him to give me a question to answer via a web search. Thinking that the web was all about science, he thought he was clever by settling on something mundane: The question of what the tallest dog breed was.
This was before google, I think altavista was the newest search engine at the time. It took less than five minutes to find a FAQ on dog breeds, that specified that Irish Wolfhounds were the tallest, and gave a host of additional information way beyond what you'd be able to find in an encyclopedia.
I printed it out for him as memento. Was on of the most satisfying arguments I ever had, as this dude was rather arrogant and I could never really stand him.
So, at this time, fairly early on, before Google and Wikipedia, it was already clear that the Web gave you all the information at your fingertips that you ever wanted. Although, back then, even the person who coined this phrase wasn't yet aware of it.
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Still going to cost a lot of leg-work and nerves. The enforcers are counting on this to wear out the regular consumers. Since they have deep pockets and are committed to the fight it will be a long hard slog.
No, they'll settle for a mere $2000 when being threatened with a potential $5000. Because after all, the letters they sent out will try to make it sound like the $5000 is by far and above the most likely outcome of the case, making your mere $2000 seem like a steal in comparison.
I have no doubt in my mind that these lawsuits are coming up North to us... it's just a matter of time. I give it 6 months absolute dead tops.
Have to agree with the AC here. This is all about scare tactics. The law is by far not as bad as down South but it hands them a big enough stick to scare the crap out of recreational downloaders.
Given how large and diverse the group of Arabs is, an average Arab will feel about as much responsibility for these nutjobs as the average white guy feels responsibility for the KKK.
I don't know about you, but I don't run about apologizing for these asshats just because I share their skin color.
CAIR is an advocacy group so of course they don't see this as their mandate, it is as unrealistic as to expect AIPAC to account for the grievances of Palestinians (death tolls, properties lost etc.).
Not that this kind of dialog won't be necessary, at some point, on a road to true peace, but we are a long way away from that.
Personally, rather than climate contrarians (who's really against climate?), I like to call them Climate Change Denying Douchebags (CCDD). Bad maybe that's just me.
Lumping them all together the way you do is patently absurd. Let's take this statement:
I know it is a very small percentage of Arabs who show up drooling hate from their beards but until the majority stands up to those ruining their communities and reputations they will continue to engender distrust and hostility from others.
Let's apply the same standard to another ethnicity:
I know it is a very small percentage of white Southeners who show up drooling hateful racism, but until the majority stands up to those ruining their communities and reputations they will continue to engender distrust and hostility from others.
So you allow for smart arabs. Baby steps, but at least something.
Of course your logic can be equally applied to Israel i.e. only the hardliners remain in a country at perpetual war.
Your logic would actually make much more sense in that case. Much easier for an Israeli to leave (albeit still not easy, immigration even in fairly open countries like Canada is an uphill struggle. And I speak from experience having immigrated here under the best of circumstances with my employer securing me temporary work visas).
Pray tell, where do you think a Palestinian can immigrate to?
The arabs have did a good enough job lumping themselves into one group because of their similarity in attitudes and actions.
Odd then that they keep fighting amongst themselves. The utter devastation of Lebanon comes to mind, the ongoing conflict in Yemen and of course now Syria.
Really amazing how one arab is just like the other.
Everyone making the decisions pre-1948 are for the most part safely dead. Those directly effected by those decisions are also dead.
All the Palestinian kids being born around 1948 are most certainly not dead yet. I'd wager having known all their life nothing but refugee status kinda makes this less than ancient history to them.
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Well, this is were you really should study the originals papers. The obscure statement is that Weinberg's toy theory contained an exact copy of classical mechanics and hence a route to resolve the correspondence principle. Assuming his math is correct this is most noteworthy.
Two days ago the entry on a physicist, who I thought came accross something pretty profound, was deemed not noteworthy by Wikipedia. I was originally prompted to create a biographical stub on him because they have articles on two rugby players by the same name. But it seems Wikipedia has more in common with highschool than I realized: The jocks get more attention.
Anyhow, this dude from down under found a pretty astounding approach to the correspondence principle (i.e. how QM gives rise) to classical mechanics in a mathematical framework originally developed by Steven Weinberg. Something the latter astoundingly overlooked. The talkback page on this math can be found here. The article itself meanwhile has been deleted. Please note: Not because the math is wrong, but because the citation record has been deemed to be too low by the editors.
There's a blog post with links to his recovered papers (most follow up papers on this were actually lost for a while a never published). So if you have a physics background you can form your own opinion.
To me this is a pretty good example of how really interesting findings can simply be washed away in the avalanche of mediocre papers that get produced every day.
... and zero conscience.
Deserves to be looked up, and don't bother to hang on to the keys.
There are ethical hackers (heros really) like Aaron Swartz and then there is this kind of scum.
Paid a bloody fortune for it and subsidies US students with my tuition.
So I politely suggest that the poster may just go somewhere private and Cheney himself.
The post loses all credibility when throwing nuclear into the mix as well. Just reads as yet another Malthusian catastrophe forecast.
Especially in light of the fact that there are energy net positive technologies under development to get our nuclear wast problem under control. Nuclear and alternative energies could very well wean us of fossil fuel.
Oh, help yourself, I feel generous today :-)
In my experience, and judging from the comments here, this is a concept lost and unknown to most people these days.
And now get of my lawn!
Ah, the pre web days. Didn't have much exposure to it as I enrolled college in 1990. But I miss archie.
Just the other day I had to explain to a young engineer that there were Internet protocols pre-dating HTTP.
In 1996 an acquaintance asked me what the Web was supposed to be good for, and I told him it can give you an answer to pretty much every question. He rather patronizingly ridiculed this notion.
So I asked him to give me a question to answer via a web search. Thinking that the web was all about science, he thought he was clever by settling on something mundane: The question of what the tallest dog breed was.
This was before google, I think altavista was the newest search engine at the time. It took less than five minutes to find a FAQ on dog breeds, that specified that Irish Wolfhounds were the tallest, and gave a host of additional information way beyond what you'd be able to find in an encyclopedia.
I printed it out for him as memento. Was on of the most satisfying arguments I ever had, as this dude was rather arrogant and I could never really stand him.
So, at this time, fairly early on, before Google and Wikipedia, it was already clear that the Web gave you all the information at your fingertips that you ever wanted. Although, back then, even the person who coined this phrase wasn't yet aware of it.
Blogger belongs to Google not Wordpress. The latter is open source and its biggest corporate contributor and host of wordpress.com is not affiliated with Google.
John Katz would probably disagree with you as to the trolling back then.
Still going to cost a lot of leg-work and nerves. The enforcers are counting on this to wear out the regular consumers. Since they have deep pockets and are committed to the fight it will be a long hard slog.
AC wrote:
No, they'll settle for a mere $2000 when being threatened with a potential $5000. Because after all, the letters they sent out will try to make it sound like the $5000 is by far and above the most likely outcome of the case, making your mere $2000 seem like a steal in comparison.
I have no doubt in my mind that these lawsuits are coming up North to us... it's just a matter of time. I give it 6 months absolute dead tops.
Have to agree with the AC here. This is all about scare tactics. The law is by far not as bad as down South but it hands them a big enough stick to scare the crap out of recreational downloaders.
Harper already put an end to it. The copyright protection law passed as was absolutely clear would happen once the conservatives have a majority.
The MPAA is already gearing up to bring downloader lawsuits up North.
Betcha the torrent sites will be targeted as well.
Elections have consequences.
Another case in point, that speaking truth to power is usually costly for the Kassandras of the world.
Encouraging though that they did speak up.
Food for thought.
Given how large and diverse the group of Arabs is, an average Arab will feel about as much responsibility for these nutjobs as the average white guy feels responsibility for the KKK.
I don't know about you, but I don't run about apologizing for these asshats just because I share their skin color.
CAIR is an advocacy group so of course they don't see this as their mandate, it is as unrealistic as to expect AIPAC to account for the grievances of Palestinians (death tolls, properties lost etc.).
Not that this kind of dialog won't be necessary, at some point, on a road to true peace, but we are a long way away from that.
(Happy Thanksgiving BTW)
Personally, rather than climate contrarians (who's really against climate?), I like to call them Climate Change Denying Douchebags (CCDD). Bad maybe that's just me.
You realize that there are over 400 million arabs?
Lumping them all together the way you do is patently absurd. Let's take this statement:
Let's apply the same standard to another ethnicity:
This kind of stereotyping is never helpful.
So you allow for smart arabs. Baby steps, but at least something.
Of course your logic can be equally applied to Israel i.e. only the hardliners remain in a country at perpetual war.
Your logic would actually make much more sense in that case. Much easier for an Israeli to leave (albeit still not easy, immigration even in fairly open countries like Canada is an uphill struggle. And I speak from experience having immigrated here under the best of circumstances with my employer securing me temporary work visas).
Pray tell, where do you think a Palestinian can immigrate to?
Too bad that this attitude is apparently so ingrained, that even when living in America they are nothing but losers.
Seriously, do you even hear yourself when you write this? Substitute "arab" in what your writing with "blacks" and tell me how this sounds?
Odd then that they keep fighting amongst themselves. The utter devastation of Lebanon comes to mind, the ongoing conflict in Yemen and of course now Syria.
Really amazing how one arab is just like the other.
All the Palestinian kids being born around 1948 are most certainly not dead yet. I'd wager having known all their life nothing but refugee status kinda makes this less than ancient history to them.
The human mind is funny that way.
Yes, Israel was borne in conflict.
Kudos for the nice trick to lump all Arabs together.
But it wasn't the people who have been living in Palestine for centuries who started this, yet they bear the brunt of the consequences.
Impressive re-writing of history. Completely ignoring that there was a British protectorate called Palestine, with lots of Palestinians living within its borders.
Look at the map, at the wikipedia entry. Does the shape look familiar?
This is blatant hate propaganda vilifying a world religion. It is no more or less evil than abject anti-Semitism.
To have this moderated up is a new low for the /. crowd.