And: 1) the story assumes that the phone is transmitting continuously; 2) the story assumes that all the energy emitted by the phone is "aimed" at the egg; 3) the story assumes that the egg absorbs all the RF "aimed" at it. 4) this calculation assumes that the egg doesn't re-emit any of the energy aimed at it
It's going to take a lot longer than 4.5 hours... it's going to take FO-RE-VAH
None of the people I've ever known who care for someone besides themselves, and who are willing to pay their share in supporting the commons, were riding in limousines. Such ordinary people as I've known certainly constitute the bulk of progressives, who'd rather not see the return of a Roman approach to governance.
This biased, uninformed, cartoonish rant is hardly "insightful". That it reached a "5" ranking is an empirical demonstration of rotten-in-Denmark.
> 3. Cable companies no longer have to share their lines. > Why should a company invest in implementing and maintaining any infrastructure when it gives them no competetive advantage?
Because most cable companies got a public monopoly to build their systems -- and thus deserve to pay something back into the system for that rather peachy benefit.
I think the outrage over genetically modified foods is reactionary and ungrounded
I think the outrage stems from the rush to implement GM solutions without adequately informing citizens and then asking them if they are willing to accept the risks. Noone wants to be an unwitting and unwilling lab rat for the benefit of a giant corporation.
Couple that with the heavy-handedness of companies attempting to secure patents on seeds that would potentially allow them to in effect control the food supply in perpetuity.
Sufficient cause for alarm, I think.
GM foods may indeed be perfectly safe. I, for one, would not bet the farm on it.
Throughout the history of time people have frozen their tastes at a certain period of time, and from thenceforth assured anyone and everyone that music had gone to hell in a handbasket
My tastes aren't frozen in some glorious past. And I started with Elvis. Now I listen to the Boards & Size & laptoppers & Aphex & crazy Noise shit.
I assure you that, except for some college stations, and even they're getting tame, this is one of the crappiest periods in FM history.
This IS the most fertile period ever in music. There's something unique out there for EVERYBODY. And IMHO the best stuff to be heard is WAYYYYYY off the majors.
Outrageous, shameful, on the part of the parents and of the principal.
But then the weight put on grades, which are highly subjective regardless of the academic field, has always been unfortunate. Part of the reason the +/- markings disappeared long ago.
A B traditionally indicated a solid comprehension but not mastery. Considering how many graduates in any field lack solid comprehension, and that 1 point can separate a B from an A, objectively they're virtually identical.
Most colleges are aware of the subjectivities of grading (and of the differences in size and quality of the schools supplying them) -- hence the addition of SAT's/ACTs to the admission process.
It was the principal's job to explain this to the parents and to defend his teacher. But his caving is an old, old story. When I was teaching, I had a principal tell me that after a teacher left the school, he went through her gradebooks and changed them all up 2 grades -- because she graded "too hard".
How can there be any such thing as liberal or conservative science?
All kinds of things are called 'water' that have something in them besides H2O.
If the new conclusions are consistent with scientific principles, then they are scientific. The end.
That may be mostly the case when it comes to the hard physical sciences, but when conclusions are drawn in the face of a great number of unknown variables -- as in the case of human behavior, for example -- you can hardly draw a scientistic theology out of them. Science *does not prove* anything.
I can see how the political left in this country has politicized science
Historically, that's just pure nonsense. So you're pissed off about your own fantasy. All kinds of bad science has been promulgated by biased researchers across the political spectrum.
It's possible to pursue quality scientific results in search of proofs of particular biases. The danger is that the resulting science is biased (incorrect) because it is driven by ideology rather than a search for what's correct -- blinded to some facts. Look at Nazi-era 'science', studying skulls to prove the superiority of the Aryan race.
Pushing people who don't - can't - won't care to the polls isn't much of a solution, only increasing the likelihood that a vote is random.
Giving people the option to inform themselves fully of their interests in an issue is part of a better solution. Guaranteeing them that they'll get what they vote for -- and nothing less or more -- is another.
Forcing people to do what they already find unpalatable is NOT going to convince them that government is worth bothering with.
I heard a school board member say, during negotiations, why should teachers get more money just because they've been there longer.
If you are thoughtful, conscientious and earn your wages, yet your value goes down as time goes by, that says a lot more about the organization you work for -- and the people who are running it -- than it does about you.
The best mechanics take very good care of their tools.
10 billion light years...
10^9 * 300,000,000 m/s* 365*24*3600 ~= 10^25 m
Damn that new math. When I was a physics major we expressed 10 billion (American) as 1 * 10^10.
I think Bill was perfectly type-cast as a smug, self-centered commandorial type who acts courageously in the spur of the moment to save the lives of those around him in the midst of flaming and exploding objects and strange creatures from the galactic void who often just happen to be imbedded with sparkly bits.
As for the warped sense of humor, I dinna think ya should overlook exposure to the environment. Enjoy rabbit world, Bill, it's been a pleasure.
Occam's Razor requires that all simpler possible explanations be eliminated first.
There are only two events. Is it a coincidence that they were both (based on the article) grazing incidences?
Unfortunately, scientists may not be able to find any more events that suggest the passage of strange quark matter through the Earth. In 1993 the US Geological Survey stopped collecting data from "unassociated events."
Is that a coincidence, or was a new weapon being tested?
Great list of articles, man. Thanks, and thanks for getting that history out there.
I always thought one of the great nuclear atrocities against ordinary American citizens was the H-bomb testing post WW2 where sailors were sent to scrub decks on test ships after the explosion... many wearing no protection whatever.
Anyone who says "we" didn't know about the danger only has to read the history of physics - and of the Manhattan project - particularly Los Alamos - to find out differently.
There's way too much history for anyone to deny that we -- the first and only country to drop a nuke on a city -- serve as a model for bad shit around the world. Our shit stinks.
MS is a goliath -- so was IBM when it introduced the PC. People didn't buy IBM machines, but what was important was that
they created a standard
which kept things from becoming a hardware tower-of-babble. And people in industries who don't know computers need a standard to begin with.
If everyone wasn't pulling in 42 different directions, not only with browsers but picture and sound formats and on and on, it'd be easier to support everything. Standards are made to be broken, but their upside is that they provide a common reference point to begin with.
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Worthless research. What constitutes maturity is not exactly well defined;...
For starters, it's when you don't blame the researchers for an immature link to a shitty article.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
They studied normal people, not academics.
And: 1) the story assumes that the phone is transmitting continuously;
... it's going to take FO-RE-VAH
2) the story assumes that all the energy emitted by the phone is "aimed" at the egg;
3) the story assumes that the egg absorbs all the RF "aimed" at it.
4) this calculation assumes that the egg doesn't re-emit any of the energy aimed at it
It's going to take a lot longer than 4.5 hours
None of the people I've ever known who care for someone besides themselves, and who are willing to pay their share in supporting the commons, were riding in limousines. Such ordinary people as I've known certainly constitute the bulk of progressives, who'd rather not see the return of a Roman approach to governance.
This biased, uninformed, cartoonish rant is hardly "insightful". That it reached a "5" ranking is an empirical demonstration of rotten-in-Denmark.
Hey, wait a minute. I just remembered. I sent morse code to Vega in 1960 by flashlight.
... then there goes all your dumb records.
The return should be back in 5 years
> 3. Cable companies no longer have to share their lines.
> Why should a company invest in implementing and maintaining any infrastructure when it gives them no competetive advantage?
Because most cable companies got a public monopoly to build their systems -- and thus deserve to pay something back into the system for that rather peachy benefit.
change the name of your country to "United States of Authoritarianism"
!! sic heil, gunter !!
Well, yes, at least Microsoft is concerned enough to only produce softwares full of toxic wastes.
I think the outrage over genetically modified foods is reactionary and ungrounded
I think the outrage stems from the rush to implement GM solutions without adequately informing citizens and then asking them if they are willing to accept the risks. Noone wants to be an unwitting and unwilling lab rat for the benefit of a giant corporation.
Couple that with the heavy-handedness of companies attempting to secure patents on seeds that would potentially allow them to in effect control the food supply in perpetuity.
Sufficient cause for alarm, I think.
GM foods may indeed be perfectly safe. I, for one, would not bet the farm on it.
Now *where* did I see that site about making rocket engines out of *duct tape* ?
My tastes aren't frozen in some glorious past. And I started with Elvis. Now I listen to the Boards & Size & laptoppers & Aphex & crazy Noise shit.
I assure you that, except for some college stations, and even they're getting tame, this is one of the crappiest periods in FM history.
This IS the most fertile period ever in music. There's something unique out there for EVERYBODY. And IMHO the best stuff to be heard is WAYYYYYY off the majors.
Just like it ever was.
Supplying nothing but an ad hominem attack like that tells us who the 'bit of a net kook' is.
Bile isn't much of an argument.
Outrageous, shameful, on the part of the parents and of the principal.
But then the weight put on grades, which are highly subjective regardless of the academic field, has always been unfortunate. Part of the reason the +/- markings disappeared long ago.
A B traditionally indicated a solid comprehension but not mastery. Considering how many graduates in any field lack solid comprehension, and that 1 point can separate a B from an A, objectively they're virtually identical.
Most colleges are aware of the subjectivities of grading (and of the differences in size and quality of the schools supplying them) -- hence the addition of SAT's/ACTs to the admission process.
It was the principal's job to explain this to the parents and to defend his teacher. But his caving is an old, old story. When I was teaching, I had a principal tell me that after a teacher left the school, he went through her gradebooks and changed them all up 2 grades -- because she graded "too hard".
Venture capitalists, art patrons, theatre 'angels' do not 'make'. They support.
the recording companies did bring us...
Another part of what they do .. Mass marketing. They risk some capital in hopes of a return.
Saying the record companies don't make the music is like saying that Boeing doesn't make airplanes, their employees do.
Artists are not employees. They contract with a company to produce, press, and market their music.
Artists and music can exist and has existed without the record companies. The reverse is not true.
How can there be any such thing as liberal or conservative science? All kinds of things are called 'water' that have something in them besides H2O. If the new conclusions are consistent with scientific principles, then they are scientific. The end. That may be mostly the case when it comes to the hard physical sciences, but when conclusions are drawn in the face of a great number of unknown variables -- as in the case of human behavior, for example -- you can hardly draw a scientistic theology out of them. Science *does not prove* anything. I can see how the political left in this country has politicized science Historically, that's just pure nonsense. So you're pissed off about your own fantasy. All kinds of bad science has been promulgated by biased researchers across the political spectrum. It's possible to pursue quality scientific results in search of proofs of particular biases. The danger is that the resulting science is biased (incorrect) because it is driven by ideology rather than a search for what's correct -- blinded to some facts. Look at Nazi-era 'science', studying skulls to prove the superiority of the Aryan race.
Duty? How Victorian.
Pushing people who don't - can't - won't care to the polls isn't much of a solution, only increasing the likelihood that a vote is random.
Giving people the option to inform themselves fully of their interests in an issue is part of a better solution. Guaranteeing them that they'll get what they vote for -- and nothing less or more -- is another.
Forcing people to do what they already find unpalatable is NOT going to convince them that government is worth bothering with.
I heard a school board member say, during negotiations, why should teachers get more money just because they've been there longer.
If you are thoughtful, conscientious and earn your wages, yet your value goes down as time goes by, that says a lot more about the organization you work for -- and the people who are running it -- than it does about you.
The best mechanics take very good care of their tools.
10 billion light years ...
10^9 * 300,000,000 m/s* 365*24*3600 ~= 10^25 m Damn that new math. When I was a physics major we expressed 10 billion (American) as 1 * 10^10.
You haven't been force fed pop music lately.
The answer is to Support Your Local Artists.
But you know that.
I think Bill was perfectly type-cast as a smug, self-centered commandorial type who acts courageously in the spur of the moment to save the lives of those around him in the midst of flaming and exploding objects and strange creatures from the galactic void who often just happen to be imbedded with sparkly bits.
As for the warped sense of humor, I dinna think ya should overlook exposure to the environment. Enjoy rabbit world, Bill, it's been a pleasure.
Occam's Razor requires that all simpler possible explanations be eliminated first.
There are only two events. Is it a coincidence that they were both (based on the article) grazing incidences?
Unfortunately, scientists may not be able to find any more events that suggest the passage of strange quark matter through the Earth. In 1993 the US Geological Survey stopped collecting data from "unassociated events."
Is that a coincidence, or was a new weapon being tested?
Before anyone jumps in with how artists who are unsigned or on small labels suck...
/., is there?
There isn't anyone *that* stupid tuning in to
Great list of articles, man. Thanks, and thanks for getting that history out there.
I always thought one of the great nuclear atrocities against ordinary American citizens was the H-bomb testing post WW2 where sailors were sent to scrub decks on test ships after the explosion... many wearing no protection whatever.
Anyone who says "we" didn't know about the danger only has to read the history of physics - and of the Manhattan project - particularly Los Alamos - to find out differently.
There's way too much history for anyone to deny that we -- the first and only country to drop a nuke on a city -- serve as a model for bad shit around the world. Our shit stinks.
MS is a goliath -- so was IBM when it introduced the PC. People didn't buy IBM machines, but what was important was that
they created a standard
which kept things from becoming a hardware tower-of-babble. And people in industries who don't know computers need a standard to begin with.
If everyone wasn't pulling in 42 different directions, not only with browsers but picture and sound formats and on and on, it'd be easier to support everything. Standards are made to be broken, but their upside is that they provide a common reference point to begin with.
And that is the moral of *that* story.
With decent CD's at 25c each, record to CD and throw it away ... or don't.
... or else my Yamaha burner is.
CDRW's are a bad joke