In many ways, we're not so different than the Greeks trying to measure the speed of sound - without good clocks. The Standard Model may be the Taj Mahal of empericism. It has plenty of predictive power, based on lots and lots of observations, but is almost completely lacking in explanitory power. Weight of the electron? Value of the strong nuclear force? Meh, ask me a hard one. Modern physicists today are like people who work in a restaraunt but can never leave. "Damn", they say to each other, "it gets busy like that every day at 12:05. Watch, it'll do it again tomorrow." - such is the state of physics tday - all observation, no explanation, no true understanding why things are that way. Chemistry doesn't have that problem, they can pretty much explain ALL of chemistry from first principles. Of course the Plank distance and energy plus uncertanty put an absolute limit on observation, so, in some ways, we can never get out of the restaraunt.
Cosmologists are in the same boat, just at different scales. Untestable assumptions like "space is uniformly flat everywhere" and "the gravitational constant and the speed of light is the same everywhere and everywhen" lead us to conundrums like Dark Matter(TM) and Dark Energy(TM) just to put a label on the things we are ignorant about because the sums (and assumptions) don't add up.
TL;DR If you have an explanatory story where the math works, I, for one, don't care, and don't think it matters if your story amounts to "it's turtles all the way down". At least then we can start trying to dream up experiments and observations to prove or disprove it. But physics current OBSESSION with empericism has us painted into a corner where we don't have (and may never be able to have) the equipment to come up with defintive answers directed from observation rather than directed from theory.
Exactly. Same kind of CNC mills we've had for 40 years now. Same kind of mills the REAL gun manufacturers use. Just a little smaller and cheaper and easier to program.
That's only because TFA == TFS due to sheer laziness by the submitter and editor. Try looking at the paper (PDF warning) it's based on, which at least seems like an interesting (~50 page) read.
I'm getting this image of a heart surgeon listening to canned music on Comcast's help line. "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line for another three days and...".
There's a LOT more utility in this day and age teaching kids some coding that there is in teaching them how to construct a parallel line through a point using a compass and straightedge.
1) "infotainment" is not a word.
2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard.
After the Flood, around 4,300 years ago, the remnant of the land animals, including dinosaurs, came off the Ark and lived in the present world, along with people. Because of sin, the judgments of the Curse and the Flood have greatly changed earth. Post-Flood climatic change, lack of food, disease, and manâ(TM)s activities caused many types of animals to become extinct. The dinosaurs, like many other creatures, died out. Why the big mystery about dinosaurs?
C'mon guys. you just can't make that kind of shit up. There isn't enough weed on the planet for that. It must be divinely inspired.
so we maintain a public fund - state budget - which pays for them, and which everyone is forced to pay to according to their ability, which we call taxes
...which almost everyone is forced to pay according to their inability to avoid* them...
*In the form of paying for lawyers, accountants and legislators to facilitate avoiding them.
The rest of your post is right on the money. I stay awake a lot of nights wondering what the other side of that phase transition from capitalism will look like. Obviously, corporate feudalism replacing nationalism seems the most likely near term.
Should the above requirements be fulfilled to the satisfaction of Congress, it has agreed to follow
certain expedited legislative procedures as defined in Sections 151-154 of the Trade Act of 1974,
as amended. In effect, these rules require that Congress must act on the bill sent over by the White
House, and in other ways represent a significant departure from ordinary legislative procedures.
The major rules are listed below (see Appendix C for greater detail):
(1) mandatory introduction of the implementing bill in both houses of Congress and immediate
referral to the appropriate committees (House Ways and Means, Senate Finance, and others);
(2) automatic discharge from House and Senate Committees after a limited period of time;
(3) limited floor debate; and
(4) no amendment, meaning that each house must vote either up or down on the bill, which passes
with a simple majority.
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In many ways, we're not so different than the Greeks trying to measure the speed of sound - without good clocks. The Standard Model may be the Taj Mahal of empericism. It has plenty of predictive power, based on lots and lots of observations, but is almost completely lacking in explanitory power. Weight of the electron? Value of the strong nuclear force? Meh, ask me a hard one. Modern physicists today are like people who work in a restaraunt but can never leave. "Damn", they say to each other, "it gets busy like that every day at 12:05. Watch, it'll do it again tomorrow." - such is the state of physics tday - all observation, no explanation, no true understanding why things are that way. Chemistry doesn't have that problem, they can pretty much explain ALL of chemistry from first principles. Of course the Plank distance and energy plus uncertanty put an absolute limit on observation, so, in some ways, we can never get out of the restaraunt.
Cosmologists are in the same boat, just at different scales. Untestable assumptions like "space is uniformly flat everywhere" and "the gravitational constant and the speed of light is the same everywhere and everywhen" lead us to conundrums like Dark Matter(TM) and Dark Energy(TM) just to put a label on the things we are ignorant about because the sums (and assumptions) don't add up.
TL;DR If you have an explanatory story where the math works, I, for one, don't care, and don't think it matters if your story amounts to "it's turtles all the way down". At least then we can start trying to dream up experiments and observations to prove or disprove it. But physics current OBSESSION with empericism has us painted into a corner where we don't have (and may never be able to have) the equipment to come up with defintive answers directed from observation rather than directed from theory.
HA! systemd will leave you on the ash heap of history!
Exactly. It's just a cover story. We really captured and tortured^W enhanced interrogated this guy, 'cause we all know how effective that is.
find . -type f -exec egrep -iH "backdoor|back door" {} \;
easy peasy.
Exactly. Same kind of CNC mills we've had for 40 years now. Same kind of mills the REAL gun manufacturers use. Just a little smaller and cheaper and easier to program.
That's only because TFA == TFS due to sheer laziness by the submitter and editor. Try looking at the paper (PDF warning) it's based on, which at least seems like an interesting (~50 page) read.
2.8 x 2.8 m^2 is ~84 ft^2, which would be awesome for a solar cell.
I'm getting this image of a heart surgeon listening to canned music on Comcast's help line. "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line for another three days and...".
There's a LOT more utility in this day and age teaching kids some coding that there is in teaching them how to construct a parallel line through a point using a compass and straightedge.
1) "infotainment" is not a word.
2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard.
The latest Bond villain secret stronghold.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
How much Salshdot culture should you know before you buy Slashdot.org and start posting stories like this and fucking with the UI?
You can find out all kinds of stuff from Google.
C'mon guys. you just can't make that kind of shit up. There isn't enough weed on the planet for that. It must be divinely inspired.
*In the form of paying for lawyers, accountants and legislators to facilitate avoiding them.
The rest of your post is right on the money. I stay awake a lot of nights wondering what the other side of that phase transition from capitalism will look like. Obviously, corporate feudalism replacing nationalism seems the most likely near term.
My modem wasn't hairy to begin with.
From TFA: $2234 - with Windows 8.1, so... FAIL.
You're gonna LOVE Obamatrade:
"If you like your job, you can keep it".
For me, it's always been 9.8 m/s^2 underneath various laptops and phones I've owned.
The one (microscopically tiny) thing APK isn't batshit crazy about:
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Funny how they're against Big Gubment - unless it's supplying pork to their districts.
If companies act like evil fucks, customers will go elsewhere.
Remember back in the 70's & 80's when HP was one of the top 10 companies in the world (including the then invincible Japanese) to work for?