I'm afraid you don't quite understand either. To say talk therapy works as good as medication for ANY person is incorrect. The chances that talk therapy will work as well as medication for a RANDOM person is more correct. There is a spectrum of disorder. For some, medication IS the only way.
So what should we do about people with pre-existing conditions? Kill them all? Let them suffer till they die? Only treat the rich? These people are poor and their son suffers. Your answer: It's your fault. Go back to school and get a better job. Sell your kidneys to pay for things till then. Better off, just wait till the kid is 18 and then tell him it's his problem and he's a lazy blood sucking leach on the family and society. While we are at it, let's go taunt the homeless and tell them to get a job.
Have you ever had to truly suffer with no way out? If not, then shut the hell up and grow up yourself.
I have a MS in geophysics and am finishing a PhD. Some of my observations:
1) Public education is very bad. I've taught intro classes, and most students can't write a paragraph, let alone an essay. They can't do simple algebra. They don't know how to study or reason.
2) We live in a society where science/engineering is tolerated but not encouraged. The amount of money earned for time spent in school is very low. There are few incentives, other than enjoyment, for higher education.
3) We live in a society that either prays on ignorance, or is distrustful and intimidated by education.
3) Most universities care as much about money as education.
4) Many of the best students start with a foreign education.
5) Some countries are creating quality higher education themselves (India for example).
6) The NSF is a shining star in an otherwise mediocre research environment.
7) If you really want pay-dirt, do research in something defense related.
8) The tenure system is a good idea.
9) Both high school and community colleges should be given enough money to attract MS and PhDs. There are enough of them.
Actually not. Most fossils are found where there was an abundance of life and a means for preservation. The coral under your home was probably built up over a long period of time by a rich variety of thriving ocean life (think coral reef). Some of the best fossil fields were made by some catastrophic mechanism. A flood concentrating dead bones and then covering them with sediment. Underwater debris flows covering up a bunch of critters, etc.
Finally, if one makes the very likely assumption that life has been more rare on Mars than here, one can say with some certainty that fossils will be more difficult to find on Mars than here.
If you are correct, the first step in colonization should be to drill to the Martian core and set of nuclear explosions. Yeah, that will work. Then we should make a movie about it.
Any sort of large bolide impact could throw VERY large fragments a huge distance. I think they would have to go much further away to prove it didn't come from somewhere else.
As for evidence of layering, yes they have found evidence. Cross bedding is layering formed by transport of sediment (sand, gravel, silt, etc.) resulting in a very characteristic layering (roughly looks like stacked up "U"s). Wind can also cause cross bedding, but forms with a difference that can be distinguished. They have stated that they found cross bedding, and think that it is fluvial (water) rather than aeolian (wind, probably dunes).
Even on Earth, fossils are rare. You could go to almost any sedimentary outcrop and not find a single fossil. That is why paleontologists have such a difficult time. Biases in the fossil record for where they can be found. As for signs of bacteria? I don't know, but my guess would be that is rare as well.
Their document reminded me of my half-ass excuses when I was a kid/teen. I can hear the conversation just like it was years ago between me and my Dad.
DAD: Your teachers tell me you've been lying at school. SCO: I did not. Besides, IBM started it. DAD: O.K. Explain yourself. SCO: IBM copied off me. And he smells funny. DAD: Did you see him copy? SCO: Well...... DAD: You didn't even see him? What the hell are you doing? You've been doing so good. Now you're back-sliding again! SCO: I could prove it if the stupid teacher would just let me look at his test. DAD: What makes you think you can just look at his test because you cry loud enough? Start acting your age! DAD: Your teacher said she asked you to explain things before she called me, and that was two weeks ago. SCO: I'm fourteen and a half!!! And andyway, well, there was the soccer game last week, and then this weekend Tommy got a new video game.... DAD: *SIGH* Just go get my belt.
This is braindead. Introducing a huge layer of complexity between the OS and hardware etc. Really the job of the BIOS should be to do as little as necessary and then hand things off to the OS. Does a BIOS truly need a TCP/IP stack? Perhaps it is time to put a bit more effort in to linuxBIOS.
I've been getting more and more spam lately, and finally set up Spamassassin+Vipul's Razor. I typically get > 20 spam a day. For the past 3 days, ALL spam have been sent to their death, and NO real email got misplaced. With settings that are more likely to let spam through than misplace a real email. That's pretty damn good.
This leads me to my question: What the heck are services like Hotmail etc. doing? Can they just not spare the CPU for that much mail? Would my girlfriend get millions of spam instead of the hundreds she does now? Do they purposefully suck unless you pay them? Somebody must know.
I have bipolar disorder, and you are quite wrong. It shows a strong inheritence (in may cases you can follow it through the family tree), and all the books I've read (and I've read many) say it has a strong genetic component. One of the very first things they asked me when diagnosing me with bipolar disorder was "Is anybody in your family already diagnosed with bipolar disorder?" In my case the answer was yes.
The moon is actually very large, especially in comparison to the size of the Earth (Earth = 6371, Moon ~1750, in comparison Pluto ~ 1130). Current thought is that the Moon formed by impact by an approximately Mars sized body early in planetary formation.
While the proposed definition says that a Planet must "orbit the sun and not another planet", I think that if this definition is accepted, we should be considered a "binary planet system" or something similar.
I saw a couple seminars about this several years ago. Why the news splash now? I think there are other deposits elsewhere as well. Also interesting is that methane is a green house gas, and that sure is a big sink that most people have not put in to their calculations. Wonder if we missed anything else?
Both Epson and HP are really pretty Linux friendly. They release info to the community, and I think Epson has actually written some Linux printer drivers, and released them open source. I chose an Epson printer after learning they are also very good about supporting their scanners with Linux.
I've purchased several printers and scanners from both HP and Epson over the years, and never felt like I was cheated or what have you. They've all worked under Linux without a hitch.
However, if you want absolute Linux compatibility, spring for a postscript printer. They will always work without a hitch, but are a tad spendy.
I'm not sure about the bouncing off of some celestial body thing (?), but you can usually pay a lawyer to hang on to a letter or some such for a certain period of time, and then send it for you. If you did this with say 10 lawyers or so through out the country/globe, I think the chances of your discovery getting out would be pretty good, regardless of your future good health, etc.
Although I guess its funner to say, encase your discovery in a meteor, and then send it in to a decaying orbit, to crash land on the White House lawn in a year or something, but I think the more regular and mundane ways are probably better.:-)
The article was referring to a gravitational anomaly caused by the ocean raising near the equator, not everywhere. The whole point was that it was "going up in one place and down in another". That's the way gravitational anomalies are formed. If the water is the same elevation all over, the gravity field would certainly change, but change by a scalar amount everywhere, hence no anomaly (neglecting the very long wavelength effect of the missing ice in the ice caps, which is where the water would have to come from). They thought it was from changing long period ocean flow patterns, causing the water surface to "go up in one place and down in another". NOT raising the whole level of the oceans.
True, a couple meters would certainly be over stating the matter. I was over exaggerating to be sure.
However, you are very wrong about the normal variablity of sea level. The level of the Earth's oceans are _not_ the same level all over the world. Due to gravitational anomalies, wind, rotation of the earth, etc., you could raise the level of the ocean in some places quite a bit and never see it in other areas. The greatest variablity comes from temperature differences. Average sea level change has been measured to be as much as 40 cm in some places, and we haven't been measuring for that long. It is very possible to get higher anomalies. The area around Florida gets annual changes of at least a couple cm.
So, I will retract my rather hasty "meters" in my quick response, but you will forgive me if I don't worry about change of a couple cm, as I would have to head for the hills on a very regular basis.
Perhaps you meant integrated over the whole globe perhaps?? That would be disturbing. However that was certainly not the type of anomaly the article was referring to.
Good point. I guess I'm a northern hemisphere bigot.
Are there actually any people south of the equator anyway?? I know there are some over in that place they call Europe, but actually _south_ of the equator? Come on! They probably just _look_ human, you know, like Martha Stuart.:-)
NO! If more people learn geophysics I'll never get a job!
As far as the movie B.S. goes, how about something like "Honey, at those temperatures and pressures, diamonds flow like plastic. I don't think those steel drill bits would do the trick."?
BUT, to get an idea of the size of the earth, if you were to draw a big circle on a piece of paper, the crust of the earth, the part we spend all our time on and haven't ever drilled through even half of it, would be over represented by the thickness of the line. (Crustal thickness on average is say 40 Km, the earth is 6371 Km in diameter, that's about.63%. By percent weight its even smaller (by alot)). A good 6000 km diameter of the earth is made of nickel-iron (DENSE!), and the mantle of the earth aint too light either.
And even if we don't ever get the weight back from space elevators, I bet the time integrated weight of all the space dust and meteors we sweep out of space over millions of years would offset it.
Anyway, I just don't think most Slashdotters understand the magnitude of the volumes and forces they are talking about. The tidal forces of the moon are much more significant, and even that's barely measurable integrated over very long time periods.
But what the hell. I'm a geophysics grad student, and am probably a little over anal about these things.:-)
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I'm afraid you don't quite understand either. To say talk therapy works as good as medication for ANY person is incorrect. The chances that talk therapy will work as well as medication for a RANDOM person is more correct. There is a spectrum of disorder. For some, medication IS the only way.
You are partially incorrect. I don't know about the stimulator thingy you are talking about, but vagal nerve stimulation IS used to treat parkinson's.
So what should we do about people with pre-existing conditions? Kill them all? Let them suffer till they die? Only treat the rich? These people are poor and their son suffers. Your answer: It's your fault. Go back to school and get a better job. Sell your kidneys to pay for things till then. Better off, just wait till the kid is 18 and then tell him it's his problem and he's a lazy blood sucking leach on the family and society. While we are at it, let's go taunt the homeless and tell them to get a job.
Have you ever had to truly suffer with no way out? If not, then shut the hell up and grow up yourself.
I have a MS in geophysics and am finishing a PhD. Some of my observations:
1) Public education is very bad. I've taught intro classes, and most students can't write a paragraph, let alone an essay. They can't do simple algebra. They don't know how to study or reason.
2) We live in a society where science/engineering is tolerated but not encouraged. The amount of money earned for time spent in school is very low. There are few incentives, other than enjoyment, for higher education.
3) We live in a society that either prays on ignorance, or is distrustful and intimidated by education.
3) Most universities care as much about money as education.
4) Many of the best students start with a foreign education.
5) Some countries are creating quality higher education themselves (India for example).
6) The NSF is a shining star in an otherwise mediocre research environment.
7) If you really want pay-dirt, do research in something defense related.
8) The tenure system is a good idea.
9) Both high school and community colleges should be given enough money to attract MS and PhDs. There are enough of them.
I don't think so. Titan has no active tectonics. No tectonics, no geothermal vents. No geothermal vents, butt ass cold.
Actually not. Most fossils are found where there was an abundance of life and a means for preservation. The coral under your home was probably built up over a long period of time by a rich variety of thriving ocean life (think coral reef). Some of the best fossil fields were made by some catastrophic mechanism. A flood concentrating dead bones and then covering them with sediment. Underwater debris flows covering up a bunch of critters, etc.
Finally, if one makes the very likely assumption that life has been more rare on Mars than here, one can say with some certainty that fossils will be more difficult to find on Mars than here.
If you are correct, the first step in colonization should be to drill to the Martian core and set of nuclear explosions. Yeah, that will work. Then we should make a movie about it.
Any sort of large bolide impact could throw VERY large fragments a huge distance. I think they would have to go much further away to prove it didn't come from somewhere else.
As for evidence of layering, yes they have found evidence. Cross bedding is layering formed by transport of sediment (sand, gravel, silt, etc.) resulting in a very characteristic layering (roughly looks like stacked up "U"s). Wind can also cause cross bedding, but forms with a difference that can be distinguished. They have stated that they found cross bedding, and think that it is fluvial (water) rather than aeolian (wind, probably dunes).
Even on Earth, fossils are rare. You could go to almost any sedimentary outcrop and not find a single fossil. That is why paleontologists have such a difficult time. Biases in the fossil record for where they can be found. As for signs of bacteria? I don't know, but my guess would be that is rare as well.
Their document reminded me of my half-ass excuses when I was a kid/teen. I can hear the conversation just like it was years ago between me and my Dad.
...... ....
DAD: Your teachers tell me you've been lying at school.
SCO: I did not. Besides, IBM started it.
DAD: O.K. Explain yourself.
SCO: IBM copied off me. And he smells funny.
DAD: Did you see him copy?
SCO: Well
DAD: You didn't even see him? What the hell are you doing? You've been doing so good. Now you're back-sliding again!
SCO: I could prove it if the stupid teacher would just let me look at his test.
DAD: What makes you think you can just look at his test because you cry loud enough? Start acting your age!
DAD: Your teacher said she asked you to explain things before she called me, and that was two weeks ago.
SCO: I'm fourteen and a half!!! And andyway, well, there was the soccer game last week, and then this weekend Tommy got a new video game
DAD: *SIGH* Just go get my belt.
This is braindead. Introducing a huge layer of complexity between the OS and hardware etc. Really the job of the BIOS should be to do as little as necessary and then hand things off to the OS. Does a BIOS truly need a TCP/IP stack? Perhaps it is time to put a bit more effort in to linuxBIOS.
I've been getting more and more spam lately, and finally set up Spamassassin+Vipul's Razor. I typically get > 20 spam a day. For the past 3 days, ALL spam have been sent to their death, and NO real email got misplaced. With settings that are more likely to let spam through than misplace a real email. That's pretty damn good.
This leads me to my question: What the heck are services like Hotmail etc. doing? Can they just not spare the CPU for that much mail? Would my girlfriend get millions of spam instead of the hundreds she does now? Do they purposefully suck unless you pay them? Somebody must know.
I have bipolar disorder, and you are quite wrong. It shows a strong inheritence (in may cases you can follow it through the family tree), and all the books I've read (and I've read many) say it has a strong genetic component. One of the very first things they asked me when diagnosing me with bipolar disorder was "Is anybody in your family already diagnosed with bipolar disorder?" In my case the answer was yes.
The moon is actually very large, especially in comparison to the size of the Earth (Earth = 6371, Moon ~1750, in comparison Pluto ~ 1130). Current thought is that the Moon formed by impact by an approximately Mars sized body early in planetary formation.
While the proposed definition says that a Planet must "orbit the sun and not another planet", I think that if this definition is accepted, we should be considered a "binary planet system" or something similar.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Ken Kesey recently died. Off topic, but ....
Sorry, had to be done ...
I saw a couple seminars about this several years ago. Why the news splash now? I think there are other deposits elsewhere as well. Also interesting is that methane is a green house gas, and that sure is a big sink that most people have not put in to their calculations. Wonder if we missed anything else?
Only reason I might be interested in the IMAX version. :-)
Both Epson and HP are really pretty Linux friendly. They release info to the community, and I think Epson has actually written some Linux printer drivers, and released them open source. I chose an Epson printer after learning they are also very good about supporting their scanners with Linux.
I've purchased several printers and scanners from both HP and Epson over the years, and never felt like I was cheated or what have you. They've all worked under Linux without a hitch.
However, if you want absolute Linux compatibility, spring for a postscript printer. They will always work without a hitch, but are a tad spendy.
I'm not sure about the bouncing off of some celestial body thing (?), but you can usually pay a lawyer to hang on to a letter or some such for a certain period of time, and then send it for you. If you did this with say 10 lawyers or so through out the country/globe, I think the chances of your discovery getting out would be pretty good, regardless of your future good health, etc.
:-)
Although I guess its funner to say, encase your discovery in a meteor, and then send it in to a decaying orbit, to crash land on the White House lawn in a year or something, but I think the more regular and mundane ways are probably better.
The article was referring to a gravitational anomaly caused by the ocean raising near the equator, not everywhere. The whole point was that it was "going up in one place and down in another". That's the way gravitational anomalies are formed. If the water is the same elevation all over, the gravity field would certainly change, but change by a scalar amount everywhere, hence no anomaly (neglecting the very long wavelength effect of the missing ice in the ice caps, which is where the water would have to come from). They thought it was from changing long period ocean flow patterns, causing the water surface to "go up in one place and down in another". NOT raising the whole level of the oceans.
True, a couple meters would certainly be over stating the matter. I was over exaggerating to be sure.
However, you are very wrong about the normal variablity of sea level. The level of the Earth's oceans are _not_ the same level all over the world. Due to gravitational anomalies, wind, rotation of the earth, etc., you could raise the level of the ocean in some places quite a bit and never see it in other areas. The greatest variablity comes from temperature differences. Average sea level change has been measured to be as much as 40 cm in some places, and we haven't been measuring for that long. It is very possible to get higher anomalies. The area around Florida gets annual changes of at least a couple cm.
So, I will retract my rather hasty "meters" in my quick response, but you will forgive me if I don't worry about change of a couple cm, as I would have to head for the hills on a very regular basis.
Perhaps you meant integrated over the whole globe perhaps?? That would be disturbing. However that was certainly not the type of anomaly the article was referring to.
Good point. I guess I'm a northern hemisphere bigot.
:-)
Are there actually any people south of the equator anyway?? I know there are some over in that place they call Europe, but actually _south_ of the equator? Come on! They probably just _look_ human, you know, like Martha Stuart.
NO! If more people learn geophysics I'll never get a job!
As far as the movie B.S. goes, how about something like "Honey, at those temperatures and pressures, diamonds flow like plastic. I don't think those steel drill bits would do the trick."?
Hmm... funny! :-)
.63%. By percent weight its even smaller (by alot)). A good 6000 km diameter of the earth is made of nickel-iron (DENSE!), and the mantle of the earth aint too light either.
:-)
BUT, to get an idea of the size of the earth, if you were to draw a big circle on a piece of paper, the crust of the earth, the part we spend all our time on and haven't ever drilled through even half of it, would be over represented by the thickness of the line. (Crustal thickness on average is say 40 Km, the earth is 6371 Km in diameter, that's about
And even if we don't ever get the weight back from space elevators, I bet the time integrated weight of all the space dust and meteors we sweep out of space over millions of years would offset it.
Anyway, I just don't think most Slashdotters understand the magnitude of the volumes and forces they are talking about. The tidal forces of the moon are much more significant, and even that's barely measurable integrated over very long time periods.
But what the hell. I'm a geophysics grad student, and am probably a little over anal about these things.