And naturally, we should reject the opionions of an international group of scientists who specialize in the area in favor of the opinions of some slashdotters.
Big bang, climate, dark matter, evolution,..., vacinations - if you don't like what the evidence points to, just reject it. You won't lack company.
Much of the global warming skepticism has been fueled lately by the decade long pause in the global warming average.
There was a flat spot - even a dip - around the 1970s as well, and look what has happened since then. The denialism is fueled by something other than the data. People are cherry-picking the data to cast doubt on the obvious longer-turn trend. Ignorance also helps. On an utterly unrelated topic a co-worker once pointed out that the last point in a plot was lower than the second-last, and concluded that there was a downward trend.
"laser based" is irrelevant, except as a way to get the quantum effects.
And even if those effects are real, I'm guessing that 'quantum' is not able to provide stronger encryption, only to make it easier to *break* encryption.
Tell your boss to spend the money on a new yacht instead.
but at some point it will always be impossible to evolve without messing up at least some of the workflow and without making some people get used to different paradigms
Why is "evolving" necessary? Some of us want tools, not eye sores^w candy.
There's no inherent advantage in having a desktop that looks like Windows, a Mac, or a cell phone.
I ditched GNOME for MATE about two weeks ago. A few bugs (e.g., screensaver timer is off), but also fixes things that have been broken in GNOME for years (single left-click on window list to pop something up, vs. right click and pick a menu option).
Restoring my customizations was surprisingly easy - easier than restoring them after the last few GNOME upgrades.
Merely following the news makes it obvious that a lot of people in law enforcement (and "national security") think getting their man trumps conforming to the constitution. I suppose a lot of citizens ("law and order types") think the same way, but that's not how it's supposed to work. A country's Constitution is its rule book.
They could have saved themselves the trouble and just read the Wikipedia article. This has been known since at least 2007, according to one of the quotes there.
He's completely ignoring all the new jobs in the last 10-15 years that have been created over the years:
Also, he ignores the role of the philosophy that a corporation's first and only concern is maximizing shareholder value in battering the middle class with downsizing, offshoring, and squeezing every penny from the few remaining employees, and the role of the utterly corrupt banking and real estate businesses in causing the financial meltdown.
But then people who write editorials for the WSJ aren't going to call a spade a spade if it reflects poorly on unbridled capitalism.
These has never been a single reputable study by anyone anywhere that has shown GMO anything to be unhealthy.
Just curious, who is doing these studies and not funded by Monsanto?
Studies cost a lot of money, and usually no one but the manufacturer is willing to shell out for them. Which is why we spent decades being told that cigarettes aren't bad for you (nay, they're actually good for you!), and still get medicines that aren't pulled off the market until years after the manufacturer-funded studies show that they are harmful.
I don't know what the track record w.r.t. scams is so far, but it's just a matter of time until the con artists start trying to take the money and run.
I wholeheartedly agree. The fact that dressing casually is seen as non-conformist is from the perspective of people who value appearance over substance.
When people ask whether I would cut my hair for a job I tell them "maybe so, but I wouldn't want to work for anyone who asked me to".
I guess the idea is that if someone can keep her job despite not conforming, she must be really good at it.
Then there's the talking heads on the Sunday television shows, who can be wrong as often as they please and not suffer the slightest risk of losing their jobs.
Or the investment advisors. IIRC someone tracked Cramer's buy/sell advice for a year and found that he had a 49% track record - you would have done slightly better by flipping a coin.
Once those pesky real journalists that insist on facts and sources start digging into this, I'd expect the cataclysmic claims will be slowly walked back to something much less sinister, like almost all other claims of thwarted plots.
Are you serious? One of their agents saw that they had the intention!
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And naturally, we should reject the opionions of an international group of scientists who specialize in the area in favor of the opinions of some slashdotters.
Big bang, climate, dark matter, evolution, ..., vacinations - if you don't like what the evidence points to, just reject it. You won't lack company.
Much of the global warming skepticism has been fueled lately by the decade long pause in the global warming average.
There was a flat spot - even a dip - around the 1970s as well, and look what has happened since then.
The denialism is fueled by something other than the data. People are cherry-picking the data to cast doubt on the obvious longer-turn trend.
Ignorance also helps. On an utterly unrelated topic a co-worker once pointed out that the last point in a plot was lower than the second-last, and concluded that there was a downward trend.
"laser based" is irrelevant, except as a way to get the quantum effects.
And even if those effects are real, I'm guessing that 'quantum' is not able to provide stronger encryption, only to make it easier to *break* encryption.
Tell your boss to spend the money on a new yacht instead.
Do you have any fukken idea what probiotics are?
but at some point it will always be impossible to evolve without messing up at least some of the workflow and without making some people get used to different paradigms
Why is "evolving" necessary? Some of us want tools, not eye sores^w candy.
There's no inherent advantage in having a desktop that looks like Windows, a Mac, or a cell phone.
I ditched GNOME for MATE about two weeks ago. A few bugs (e.g., screensaver timer is off), but also fixes things that have been broken in GNOME for years (single left-click on window list to pop something up, vs. right click and pick a menu option).
Restoring my customizations was surprisingly easy - easier than restoring them after the last few GNOME upgrades.
No regrets whatsoever.
Merely following the news makes it obvious that a lot of people in law enforcement (and "national security") think getting their man trumps conforming to the constitution.
I suppose a lot of citizens ("law and order types") think the same way, but that's not how it's supposed to work. A country's Constitution is its rule book.
They could have saved themselves the trouble and just read the Wikipedia article. This has been known since at least 2007, according to one of the quotes there.
I thought it said "Unitarian".
Our economy is increasingly based on collecting, trading, and exploiting customer information, rather than actually making and selling a product.
When's the bubble going to burst?
This guy is a moron.
He's completely ignoring all the new jobs in the last 10-15 years that have been created over the years:
Also, he ignores the role of the philosophy that a corporation's first and only concern is maximizing shareholder value in battering the middle class with downsizing, offshoring, and squeezing every penny from the few remaining employees, and the role of the utterly corrupt banking and real estate businesses in causing the financial meltdown.
But then people who write editorials for the WSJ aren't going to call a spade a spade if it reflects poorly on unbridled capitalism.
These has never been a single reputable study by anyone anywhere that has shown GMO anything to be unhealthy.
Just curious, who is doing these studies and not funded by Monsanto?
Studies cost a lot of money, and usually no one but the manufacturer is willing to shell out for them. Which is why we spent decades being told that cigarettes aren't bad for you (nay, they're actually good for you!), and still get medicines that aren't pulled off the market until years after the manufacturer-funded studies show that they are harmful.
I don't know what the track record w.r.t. scams is so far, but it's just a matter of time until the con artists start trying to take the money and run.
Where there's money, there's crooks.
with the idea that you will travel back in time to meet yourself there
Wouldn't that violate the laws of conservation of matter and energy?
News at 11.
After the fact it was discovered that they had lots of clues. The problem is how to link them together when you've got so much in your files.
It's waiting for you to get on it.
I wholeheartedly agree. The fact that dressing casually is seen as non-conformist is from the perspective of people who value appearance over substance.
When people ask whether I would cut my hair for a job I tell them "maybe so, but I wouldn't want to work for anyone who asked me to".
The article is, after all, about image.
I guess the idea is that if someone can keep her job despite not conforming, she must be really good at it.
Then there's the talking heads on the Sunday television shows, who can be wrong as often as they please and not suffer the slightest risk of losing their jobs.
Or the investment advisors. IIRC someone tracked Cramer's buy/sell advice for a year and found that he had a 49% track record - you would have done slightly better by flipping a coin.
Those deep field photos always give me vertigo.
These are political reforms: it may look like something has changed, but it's business as usual.
Adding a new meaning to the term "security theater"...
Once those pesky real journalists that insist on facts and sources start digging into this, I'd expect the cataclysmic claims will be slowly walked back to something much less sinister, like almost all other claims of thwarted plots.
Are you serious? One of their agents saw that they had the intention!
Belief in atheism is a belief.
Atheism is a belief *about* religion, but that doesn't make it a religion.
I also have beliefs about planets, but those beliefs aren't planets...
Are they providing a sensible version of GNOME? I very want to shuck Ubuntu, and this would let me have my Steam games *and* a usable desktop system.
(I know there are GNOME alternatives, but I'm hoping for the easy way out.)