Calling Einstein religious is like calling Al Gore a climatologist.
The great scientific thinkers did not compromise their rationality with religion. It was the best hypothesis at the time for explaining human thought, where the universe came from. It was really the only game in town. Descartes even thought we had souls.
Today, there is no excuse, the god hypothesis is failed. We know how the Universe formed and we know how our thoughts occur. The danger is when people, and even scientists, reject evidence when it does not align with their beliefs. There's a great example of this walking around the creation museum.
It's not the volume added from the ice sheet that creates the sea level rise solely, it's also the global temperature rise, which causes water to expand. Basic temperature, pressure, and volume.
And no, the constitution doesn't nullify anything Franklin has said. You may accuse someone of copyright infringement, but they are not guilty UNTIL they are proved to be guilty by due process. The DMCA makes due process look like a joke, allowing corporations like Universal Music to run rampant.
If due process and burden of proof gets in the way of making money then you're free to run your business somewhere that doesn't have those horrid obstacles. I hear North Korea is nice this time of year.
The DMCA only protects their copyrights by trespassing the very grounds of our justice system. It is not guilty until proven innocent, sir; it's innocent until proven guilty. Do not sacrifice this most valuable of ethics because you perceive it as reasonable. There is no reason to be found in the DMCA, and contorting our system of law for the whims of profit only undermines the liberty and security for us all.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
We don't have to explain ourselves to this person who believes science should only be pursued for its applications. Basic science paves the road for a wonderful engineering potential, but that's not why we do it.
We did it because SCIENCE IS FUCKING COOL.
Newton and Einstein didn't discover what they discovered out of some search for profit, they weren't Thomas Edison; they thought this science thing was the coolest shit ever and were invigorated by the challenges they offered. Please, on appeal to all scientists, put on your big smile and bend over backwards at fundraisers, but that's not why we do science.
The true intellectual places curiosity and discovery as a virtue unconditionally. It is not to be squelched because it fails to be immediately profitable or applicable.
The problem isn't that we don't teach them algebra soon enough, it's that we don't teach them how to think (read: at all). It's not that mathematics doesn't teach people how to think, it does. But only in some kind of sneaky way, and people are assumed to have great logical deduction abilities like it's some inherent intuitive concept. But it doesn't work that way.
Unless you attended a rich and large high school, chances are your exposure to any level of logic is nil. Why is it only philosophy majors are the ones forced to take informal logic (and not even very much at that)? The only way you actually get an adequate exposure to formal education in rational thinking is if you're a logician.
But really I'm just deluding myself, who wants a workforce that knows how to think?
Sounds like a Thomas Edison type of guy to me (Whiz kid? What, is he some kind of Tony Stark for "inventing" some interface device?). I'm intensely suspicious of anyone who supports religious beliefs. It demonstrates an error in logical thinking faculties.
Never trust an engineer that thinks the world is 6000 years old. And for the record, Edison was a douche bag.
3500 Cal in a pound of fat. This means a caloric deficit of ~500 Cal a day is sufficient to lose one pound of fat per week. Of course, this doesn't work out so simply, which is why the equation provided here is so nice.
A lot of the weight lost can be from water -- not just fat. But claims that you can lose 10 lbs. of fat in a week? Complete bullshit.
Man, it's a good thing these Dutch guys aren't in the US, or else the FBI would storm their houses with swat teams under charges of conspiring with file sharers.
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But then again, nothing says America like a getting bent over and fucked by an agency with your tax dollars.
You would be surprised. Increasingly, especially with unemployment, companies will use any excuse (rifled with logical errors) to justify a poor treatment of employees.
A few of the top justifications are, "Well it could be worse, you could not have a job.", "If you won't do it we'll just find someone who will, there's the door.", and the laughable, "We're paying you."
In the end, many employers look as though their employees are slaves, and the laws protecting them as threats to their freedom to generate profit.
The school district reports that the letters E, I, N, P, and S have been removed from the school curriculum after a parent complained her son was being exposed to gateway pornography.
I neither condoned copyright infringement or stealing. Read it again if you're not sure. -- And while we're talking about fallacies, how about strawmen?
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All that illegal learning kids are doing these days. How dare they steal all of that information you own that someone else discovered!
Calling Einstein religious is like calling Al Gore a climatologist.
The great scientific thinkers did not compromise their rationality with religion. It was the best hypothesis at the time for explaining human thought, where the universe came from. It was really the only game in town. Descartes even thought we had souls.
Today, there is no excuse, the god hypothesis is failed. We know how the Universe formed and we know how our thoughts occur. The danger is when people, and even scientists, reject evidence when it does not align with their beliefs. There's a great example of this walking around the creation museum.
http://youtu.be/z1xUiuZvUuw
It could be part of a scientific study. I could see benefits in trying to observe driver behavior without the drivers knowing.
But it's all speculation at this point, we should refrain from jumping to conclusions.
Pff, won't happen to me.
Well it's either that or increase atmospheric pressure. Alternatively we could build a giant water gun and shoot the stuff into space.
It's not the volume added from the ice sheet that creates the sea level rise solely, it's also the global temperature rise, which causes water to expand. Basic temperature, pressure, and volume.
That's not how the DMCA works. You need to provide literally no proof that the content is infringing your copyright. Such is the case of Megaupload: http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-video-reinstated-universal-says-you-cant-touch-us-111216/.
And no, the constitution doesn't nullify anything Franklin has said. You may accuse someone of copyright infringement, but they are not guilty UNTIL they are proved to be guilty by due process. The DMCA makes due process look like a joke, allowing corporations like Universal Music to run rampant.
If due process and burden of proof gets in the way of making money then you're free to run your business somewhere that doesn't have those horrid obstacles. I hear North Korea is nice this time of year.
The DMCA only protects their copyrights by trespassing the very grounds of our justice system. It is not guilty until proven innocent, sir; it's innocent until proven guilty. Do not sacrifice this most valuable of ethics because you perceive it as reasonable. There is no reason to be found in the DMCA, and contorting our system of law for the whims of profit only undermines the liberty and security for us all.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
We don't have to explain ourselves to this person who believes science should only be pursued for its applications. Basic science paves the road for a wonderful engineering potential, but that's not why we do it.
We did it because SCIENCE IS FUCKING COOL.
Newton and Einstein didn't discover what they discovered out of some search for profit, they weren't Thomas Edison; they thought this science thing was the coolest shit ever and were invigorated by the challenges they offered. Please, on appeal to all scientists, put on your big smile and bend over backwards at fundraisers, but that's not why we do science.
The true intellectual places curiosity and discovery as a virtue unconditionally. It is not to be squelched because it fails to be immediately profitable or applicable.
How did you manage to fix armed FBI storming your servers located in another country problem?
The problem isn't that we don't teach them algebra soon enough, it's that we don't teach them how to think (read: at all). It's not that mathematics doesn't teach people how to think, it does. But only in some kind of sneaky way, and people are assumed to have great logical deduction abilities like it's some inherent intuitive concept. But it doesn't work that way.
Unless you attended a rich and large high school, chances are your exposure to any level of logic is nil. Why is it only philosophy majors are the ones forced to take informal logic (and not even very much at that)? The only way you actually get an adequate exposure to formal education in rational thinking is if you're a logician.
But really I'm just deluding myself, who wants a workforce that knows how to think?
Sounds like a Thomas Edison type of guy to me (Whiz kid? What, is he some kind of Tony Stark for "inventing" some interface device?). I'm intensely suspicious of anyone who supports religious beliefs. It demonstrates an error in logical thinking faculties.
Never trust an engineer that thinks the world is 6000 years old. And for the record, Edison was a douche bag.
3500 Cal in a pound of fat. This means a caloric deficit of ~500 Cal a day is sufficient to lose one pound of fat per week. Of course, this doesn't work out so simply, which is why the equation provided here is so nice.
A lot of the weight lost can be from water -- not just fat. But claims that you can lose 10 lbs. of fat in a week? Complete bullshit.
On the bright side, they're still young and naive. You can't buy off idealists.
Man, it's a good thing these Dutch guys aren't in the US, or else the FBI would storm their houses with swat teams under charges of conspiring with file sharers.
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But then again, nothing says America like a getting bent over and fucked by an agency with your tax dollars.
We used to go to the moon. Now we just make moon pies so we can play we afford Lego space shuttles.
We can't even calculate all of the digits of pi! Whatever shall we do!
AHHHH!
Yeah, that's what musicians do. Start businesses.
Ozzy Osborne soda is the best.
Everyone knows that cancer already has a cure, just eat these all natural leaves.
They just bury all of the evidence. And doctors kill people with their drugs. It's all a conspiracy to make money!
You would be surprised. Increasingly, especially with unemployment, companies will use any excuse (rifled with logical errors) to justify a poor treatment of employees.
A few of the top justifications are, "Well it could be worse, you could not have a job.", "If you won't do it we'll just find someone who will, there's the door.", and the laughable, "We're paying you."
In the end, many employers look as though their employees are slaves, and the laws protecting them as threats to their freedom to generate profit.
The school district reports that the letters E, I, N, P, and S have been removed from the school curriculum after a parent complained her son was being exposed to gateway pornography.
I neither condoned copyright infringement or stealing. Read it again if you're not sure.
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And while we're talking about fallacies, how about strawmen?
Is that what I said?
Just because the majority says something is correct/true does not mean it actually is.
Whoo I'm gettin' logic in your politics!
I actually meant to say that the profits from x + p > x + n.
This is what I get for not sleeping. I can math, really. Promise.