The problem with predictions is that if you make enough of them, whether vague or detailed, you'll find some of them came true. That is not surprising in and of itself, but some people take this as proof of something. But it's not proof, because they aren't looking at all the predictions that didn't come true, or weren't close. It's all about coincidence and the laws of probability -- things that are highly improbable by themselves can become highly probable with repetition or over time. So even if one of the greatest minds of the time predicted all these things for the future that came true, we cannot consider them in isolation -- we also have to consider all the things predicted that didn't come true.
Mr. Newton would have understood that as a scientist, and if he could be conjured up from the dead to utter a few words on this, he'd likely agree.
What amazes me is the things which weren't predicted. Even as recently as the 80s and early 90s, films of the future had flying cars (3 years, 5 days to go!), robots, space ships, etc.
Very few got the internet, or the pervalence of pocket computing and connectivity that we take for granted 20 years later.
Strange, I am a Canadian citizen who flew from Toronto, Canada to California in August and I was not fingerprinted at all. Perhaps it's only people who are from non-NAFTA countries?
You'd have cleared US immigration in Toronto, didn't you get scanned there?
This year, as a UK passport holder, I've travelled to India, Russia, Israel, Gaza, St Lucia, Indonsedia, Singapore, The U.S, UK, various european countries, and probably a couple of other places I've forgotten.
If you come up with a good website idea, then it'll probably let you do backend (java/c/python/sql/etc) stuff as well as UI/website stuff (obj-c, etc).
As for quick money...well...come up with some dumb or simple $1 iphone app that everyone will love.
Or you could play the lottery, more chance at winning, lower outlay
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals killed more than 95 per cent of animals in its care last year at a Virginia shelter, a shocking new report states....
Records from 2011 alone state that of the 1,992 cats and dogs received, 34 were transferred, and 24 were adopted. The remaining 1,911 were put down, the report states.
Read the rest at the link. If you want to know more get Penn and Teller's Bullshit! on DVD and watch the PETA episode.
Daily Mail, therefore inadmissible as evidence in reasonable debate.
I suppose technically it could be slander, given that he's not been found guilty by a jury of his peers.
He hasn't even been accused of rape. Just abduction, murder, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
In the court of public opinion he's already been tried and sentenced. His life is over, even if they find her alive and well and staying with a friend.
I note that Matthew Woods (who made the original facebook "joke") has now been jailed for 3 months.
"That's apparently not what happened. This guy posted the joke on his own wall; someone else took a screen grab of it and posted it on the April Jones page."
so no, he didn't write that joke on the Facebook page run by the people trying to find the little girl.
someone else did but with a screenshot of his personal page.
In that case the OP would presumably say the person who took the screenshot needs therapy (or broken legs)
As usual the police got the wrong guy. They did this because of intense media pressure. You'd think after the Daley debacle, and the slapping of the police over it, they'd be more useful.
However, I really don't see the difference between this and the "innocence of muslims".
Every police officer arresting some twat on facebook is one less looking for a 5 year old girl.
I agree. The street is a public place that I pay for through taxes. The park too. Anywhere that gets a government handout must not have smoking, indoors or outdoors.
high gas prices, but you have a social system that won't let people die on the streets
More than a couple of countries have a social system that's unsustainable. We'll see how much that system helps when the economy collapses under the burden.
If YOU smoke near me, it makes MY clothes and hair stink, and it gets into MY lungs and damages them.
First, as I mentioned elsewhere here, I don't smoke near non-smokers. I am well aware of how intolerant you people can be.
Secondly, I do not believe for a second all the BS I hear about second hand smoking. What a crock of shit that is and how to stretch an idea! No, you don't smoke in a car full of kids with the windows rolled up, because why would anyone?!? I wouldn't pee in my Mom's coffee either, because why would anyone?!?
I say again, I can't speak for other smokers, but *my* 'habit' will not affect you anywhere near as much as some of your 'habits' affect me.
So you wouldn't mind if I decide to carry a skunk and spray you every time you walked past me?
Smoking is of course fine in your own home, but in public places your right to smoke (should) end at my nose, hair, lung and clothes.
the airports know that it probably does reduce the number of people willing to fly by some amount, and since the airports are in it for the money they don't seem to be reinstalling a lot of these scanners even if they're not prevented from doing so by UK law. Unless the government decides to mandate putting them back in again, of course...
Manchester don't give a stuff. They're a ryanair class airport that somehow also has real airlines (including flights to New York and Washington)
Yes, you can try the UK, where they'll irradiate you with no option to opt out (Manchester for example).
Small detail: Backscatter x-ray scanners are banned in the EU. Those are mm-Wave scanners, which are as safe as your phone. Essentially, it's your privacy you should be worried about, not your health.
I found out this week that Manchester airport is finally planning on removing the backscatter xray machines, which have been illegal since December, however the UK government has so far ignored the EU regulation in the case of Manchester (my local airport)
The backscatter machines were still irradiating my fellow passengers on my last trip through MAN on September 14th. No opt out, but at T3 you only get assaulted if you set the metal detector off.
All the other examples are MMW though. I couldn't give a stuff about people eyeing up my junk.
The ultraparanoia around aircraft is nothing to do with the concentration of people you find within them. If you just want to blow up people, you can do that anywhere. The panic is because everybody can still remember the great big lesson about how aircraft can be hijacked for use as improvised missiles.
Step 1) Keep cockpit door locked Step 2) Land Step 3) Profit
Question is, will this new gate satisfy the TSA agents? No more nudie pics, no more gropings? Something tells me this gate doesn't detect metal and the gropings will continue.
If only there was some form of gate which could detect metal. Perhaps it could beep when you went through, and they could use a hand held detector to find out you're wearing steel toe-caps.
The obvious solution is to stop flying to / from the USA. Obviously it's difficult if you need to fly for work, but then again I suppose some people's principles do have a price.
Yes, you can try the UK, where they'll irradiate you with no option to opt out (Manchester for example). Or go for the grope in Amsterdam. How about Moscow? I believe Bangkok has them now too. I believe you need to sell your soul in Seoul too. Erez will be busy scanning you and that's not even an airport!
I've not done much travelling in the last few months, but Singapore's still safe, as is Jakarta, Delhi and Tel Aviv, but the corporate welfare program that are these scanners stretches across the world.
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The problem with predictions is that if you make enough of them, whether vague or detailed, you'll find some of them came true. That is not surprising in and of itself, but some people take this as proof of something. But it's not proof, because they aren't looking at all the predictions that didn't come true, or weren't close. It's all about coincidence and the laws of probability -- things that are highly improbable by themselves can become highly probable with repetition or over time. So even if one of the greatest minds of the time predicted all these things for the future that came true, we cannot consider them in isolation -- we also have to consider all the things predicted that didn't come true.
Mr. Newton would have understood that as a scientist, and if he could be conjured up from the dead to utter a few words on this, he'd likely agree.
What amazes me is the things which weren't predicted. Even as recently as the 80s and early 90s, films of the future had flying cars (3 years, 5 days to go!), robots, space ships, etc.
Very few got the internet, or the pervalence of pocket computing and connectivity that we take for granted 20 years later.
Strange, I am a Canadian citizen who flew from Toronto, Canada to California in August and I was not fingerprinted at all. Perhaps it's only people who are from non-NAFTA countries?
You'd have cleared US immigration in Toronto, didn't you get scanned there?
This year, as a UK passport holder, I've travelled to India, Russia, Israel, Gaza, St Lucia, Indonsedia, Singapore, The U.S, UK, various european countries, and probably a couple of other places I've forgotten.
Only the U.S. takes my fingerprints.
If you come up with a good website idea, then it'll probably let you do backend (java/c/python/sql/etc) stuff as well as UI/website stuff (obj-c, etc).
As for quick money...well...come up with some dumb or simple $1 iphone app that everyone will love.
Or you could play the lottery, more chance at winning, lower outlay
Nearly impossible, you're such the optimist.
Nothing is inpossible, not if you can imagine it! That's what being a scientist is all about
PETA 'killed more than 95 per cent of adoptable dogs and cats in its care last year' shocking new report says
Read the rest at the link. If you want to know more get Penn and Teller's Bullshit! on DVD and watch the PETA episode.
Daily Mail, therefore inadmissible as evidence in reasonable debate.
Let me guess, the D stands for Mother's Basement?
Like a sex dungeon?
Only if something distracts him just before he hits the ground. That's apparently how you miss the ground.
Like that missing suitcase?
I suppose technically it could be slander, given that he's not been found guilty by a jury of his peers.
He hasn't even been accused of rape. Just abduction, murder, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
In the court of public opinion he's already been tried and sentenced. His life is over, even if they find her alive and well and staying with a friend.
I note that Matthew Woods (who made the original facebook "joke") has now been jailed for 3 months.
Someone pointed out further up:
"That's apparently not what happened. This guy posted the joke on his own wall; someone else took a screen grab of it and posted it on the April Jones page."
so no, he didn't write that joke on the Facebook page run by the people trying to find the little girl.
someone else did but with a screenshot of his personal page.
In that case the OP would presumably say the person who took the screenshot needs therapy (or broken legs)
As usual the police got the wrong guy. They did this because of intense media pressure. You'd think after the Daley debacle, and the slapping of the police over it, they'd be more useful.
However, I really don't see the difference between this and the "innocence of muslims".
Every police officer arresting some twat on facebook is one less looking for a 5 year old girl.
I'm deeply offended - and off the police
That sounds like a terrorist threat, we are on our way. What is your IP address?
--MI5
::1
Is that "oh dear" enough to land a person to jail?
What is the Great Britain trying to prove?
That one can't make no joke no more?
I know - and almost everybody else know - that Great Britain is famous for its "stiff upper lip", but isn't this going way overboard ??
I suppose technically it could be slander, given that he's not been found guilty by a jury of his peers.
And nothing of value was lost
What happened to Tradewars?
I agree. The street is a public place that I pay for through taxes. The park too. Anywhere that gets a government handout must not have smoking, indoors or outdoors.
I find a printed itinery is fine for Delhi, thats with a uk passport. Islamabad's worse.
Tel aviv want a printout too. Moscow search on entry to the terminal at DME, I suppose the bomb a couple of years ago was responsible.
Explaining a netgear switch in Delhi was tough. My first trip through involved 2 Searches before checkin. they confiscated my gaffer tape too.
Cairo want printouts as well.
high gas prices, but you have a social system that won't let people die on the streets
More than a couple of countries have a social system that's unsustainable. We'll see how much that system helps when the economy collapses under the burden.
Like the U.S?
If YOU smoke near me, it makes MY clothes and hair stink, and it gets into MY lungs and damages them.
First, as I mentioned elsewhere here, I don't smoke near non-smokers. I am well aware of how intolerant you people can be.
Secondly, I do not believe for a second all the BS I hear about second hand smoking. What a crock of shit that is and how to stretch an idea! No, you don't smoke in a car full of kids with the windows rolled up, because why would anyone?!? I wouldn't pee in my Mom's coffee either, because why would anyone?!?
I say again, I can't speak for other smokers, but *my* 'habit' will not affect you anywhere near as much as some of your 'habits' affect me.
So you wouldn't mind if I decide to carry a skunk and spray you every time you walked past me?
Smoking is of course fine in your own home, but in public places your right to smoke (should) end at my nose, hair, lung and clothes.
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Consider this: the distance from San Diego, California, USA to Bangor, Maine, USA is greater than the distance from Stockholm, Sweden to Delhi, India.
Nowhere near.
San Diago to Bangor is 3,300 miles (5,200km)
Lagos, Portugal to Rovaniemi, Finland is 3,100 miles (5,000km)
You drive from San Diego to Bangor to get a loaf of bread? Why not just walk to the local corner store?
Seriously, if you live in a city, you don't need a car. Unless you *think* you need a car.
~ 38 years old and never owned a car. (Or bicycle.)
Noone lives in cities, far too busy.
Anyone who votes for Romney is an ignorant cunt.
Anyone who thinks Obama and Romney are actually different is an ignorant cunt. I think that's what you meant.
I think Obama's 2 cent titanium tax goes too far
On the other hand Romney's 2 cent titanium tax doesn't go to far enough
the airports know that it probably does reduce the number of people willing to fly by some amount, and since the airports are in it for the money they don't seem to be reinstalling a lot of these scanners even if they're not prevented from doing so by UK law. Unless the government decides to mandate putting them back in again, of course...
Manchester don't give a stuff. They're a ryanair class airport that somehow also has real airlines (including flights to New York and Washington)
Yes, you can try the UK, where they'll irradiate you with no option to opt out (Manchester for example).
Small detail: Backscatter x-ray scanners are banned in the EU. Those are mm-Wave scanners, which are as safe as your phone. Essentially, it's your privacy you should be worried about, not your health.
I found out this week that Manchester airport is finally planning on removing the backscatter xray machines, which have been illegal since December, however the UK government has so far ignored the EU regulation in the case of Manchester (my local airport)
The backscatter machines were still irradiating my fellow passengers on my last trip through MAN on September 14th. No opt out, but at T3 you only get assaulted if you set the metal detector off.
All the other examples are MMW though. I couldn't give a stuff about people eyeing up my junk.
The ultraparanoia around aircraft is nothing to do with the concentration of people you find within them. If you just want to blow up people, you can do that anywhere. The panic is because everybody can still remember the great big lesson about how aircraft can be hijacked for use as improvised missiles.
Step 1) Keep cockpit door locked
Step 2) Land
Step 3) Profit
Oh wait, that's no profit for Rapiscan and co.
Question is, will this new gate satisfy the TSA agents? No more nudie pics, no more gropings? Something tells me this gate doesn't detect metal and the gropings will continue.
If only there was some form of gate which could detect metal. Perhaps it could beep when you went through, and they could use a hand held detector to find out you're wearing steel toe-caps.
The obvious solution is to stop flying to / from the USA. Obviously it's difficult if you need to fly for work, but then again I suppose some people's principles do have a price.
Yes, you can try the UK, where they'll irradiate you with no option to opt out (Manchester for example). Or go for the grope in Amsterdam. How about Moscow? I believe Bangkok has them now too. I believe you need to sell your soul in Seoul too. Erez will be busy scanning you and that's not even an airport!
I've not done much travelling in the last few months, but Singapore's still safe, as is Jakarta, Delhi and Tel Aviv, but the corporate welfare program that are these scanners stretches across the world.
Anything would be better then getting karate chopped in the crotch by the poorly trained TSA guy, every time I fly and refuse the body scanner.
What makes you think this will be instead of the grope?
And if "anything" is better you'd be happy to get irradiated by the xray machine operated by a monkey that doesn't know how it works