Once the calculations and simulations are done, only then we will know for sure.
I couldn't agree LESS. Simulations don't prove anything. They are just imperfect models of the world to help our understanding. Proof would be to measure a REAL storm wave moving the bolder.
Until temperatures start rising again there will always be a bastion for the deniers that temperature increases are far below IPCC predictions and, for now, continue to increasingly deviate from predictions.
You can have all of the models and theories in the world but until you can show that your predictions are spot on your opposition will have lots of ammunition to shot at you with.
So a computer program said there'd be 225MPH winds? Until it can be verified whether these winds exist or not all it tells us is someone built a model that predicts this. Without verification of the hypotheses the science isn't complete enough to draw any solid conclusions.
You forked over the $32 to read the study? Yeah, sure you did.
The abstract said nothing about it being a double blind study or much else about methodology yet it asserts that as little as one "violence exposure" reduces telomere length the equivalent of living ten years? It doesn't even define "violence exposure" nor give any proposed mechanism why this would be the case (and why something like breaking your leg playing tennis wouldn't).
Maybe the study answers these questions, but I doubt it and it isn't worth $32 to me to find out since until it's replicated it's meaningless anyway.
This just smells like bad science. Not that it's impossible, but a claim like this is pretty extreme and I'd like to see it replicated several times before believing it.
I'd rather be graded by a robo grader than a real person. They are more consistent and aren't biased towards giving the students they like better grades. Yes they have their short comings but teachers do also.
I'm about as big a Penn and Teller fan as it's possible to be, but I agree that reverse engineering a trick and selling it is legit. It happens all the time in software. Perhaps the rules are different in magic, but I doubt it.
If I want a cell phone, I'll buy a cell phone. If I want an MP3 player, I'll buy an MP3 player. If I want a PDA I'll buy a PDA
The deal here is simple, sometimes putting stuff together is a tremendous boon, sometimes not. Sometimes it depends on how well it's done. Ikea's version may stink like all the rest has, but then again it may suceed where others have failed.
But I cannot be in the Republican party despite my strong lifelong opposition to abortion (and support of gun rights, strong military, etc) because of it perilous destructive nature on economic balance, fairness, the rule of law, etc. But is this position by the Democrats to allow the killing of not yet born children so important to hold on to?
This is fascinating. You put it almost exactly as i would but with a different twist! I can't be in the Democrat party even though I believe strongly in their social agenda "because of it perilous destructive nature on economic balance, fairness, the rule of law, etc." As someone with a strong economics background (I used to work as an Econometrician) I see the Democrat penchant for large government and heavy regulation as long term economic suicide.
but James Hansen, the Head of NASA's Goddard Institute coming out and saying that Oil CEOs should be tried for crimes against humanity for emitting CO2 very much hurts NASA's credibility on science.
The article stressed how the women in Saudi Arabia could "Work from home". It neglected to say that the almost have to since they aren't allowed in public without a male relative around.
Since the current funding isn't enough to ever make fusion I say we just fire them all and save the money. Then if/when Peak Oil hits and fusion is more economical compared to fossil fuels we can splurge.
Well, price rigging is an important issue. If it were gas that they were doing this with and your gas started costing $4+ a gallon you'd care more. Oh... wait....
"lack of a true plaintiff" means that while there may be a few people named as representatives of the class the lawyers have a much larger stake than any of the class members. In cases like this there are lots of plaintiff's with minimal damages (total awards amounted to less than $.10 per plantiff) and lawyers who stand to make huge money.
Sure, I can lodge an objection to this but even though it's woefully unfair it's not worth my time and it might be noted but it likely wouldn't be "heard". I'm just one out of a great many victims.
It's true that the courts must agree and it's also true that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 cut down on the abuses but this judgment shows that there's still a way to go to prevent it from being a system where the lawyers are the only winners.
No one expects the lawyers to work for free but the lack of a true plaintiff in class action suits creates a situation where the lawyers can strike a deal best for them and not the client.
What we need is the ability to class action sue lawyers for unfairly enriching themselves via class action suit...
Idiot Malthusians have predicted the imminent end of the world due to overpopulation for hundreds of years. Every time they go out on a limb and say the end will be by a given date, they are outed for the charlatans that they are.
It turns out the original study said "Everything will be great! Just like the previous 500 years technology will continue to do more with less and everyone in the world will be substantially better off. A true golden age is upon us".
Then when no one cared they decided to change it to gloom and doom so they could garner a little press.
Digital media is like love, in that you can give it away without ever running out of it.
Digital Media is also like love in that you can't eat it (insert 'witty' innuendo here). Media makers like to eat and giving it away free isn't conducive to the goal of feeding oneself.
After all, AT&T's shoddy network encouraged huge numbers to switch to other carriers the moment Apple allowed them to. In business having a poor product might allow you to gain in the short term but is a huge detriment in the long term.
But if the prosecutor is pretty sure they won't be able to convict and they throw him in jail it could be a pretty large wrongful incarceration claim. If the prosecutor doesn't think there's enough evidence chances are overwhelming that the judge won't either.
Besides, the case continues to be investigated and if you are worried about police bias the feds have involved as well. If there's a real chance Zimmerman can be successfully prosecuted reat assured they'll arrest him.
There aren't "well established facts" in this case. At least not that are known to the general public. Cases tried in the media tend to be enormously biased because they are about generating interest not about reliable evidence.
For instance, was Zimmerman's nose broken and the back of his head injured or not? We don't know but such evidence would obviously make a big difference in the case.
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Once the calculations and simulations are done, only then we will know for sure.
I couldn't agree LESS. Simulations don't prove anything. They are just imperfect models of the world to help our understanding. Proof would be to measure a REAL storm wave moving the bolder.
Until temperatures start rising again there will always be a bastion for the deniers that temperature increases are far below IPCC predictions and, for now, continue to increasingly deviate from predictions. You can have all of the models and theories in the world but until you can show that your predictions are spot on your opposition will have lots of ammunition to shot at you with.
So a computer program said there'd be 225MPH winds? Until it can be verified whether these winds exist or not all it tells us is someone built a model that predicts this. Without verification of the hypotheses the science isn't complete enough to draw any solid conclusions.
You forked over the $32 to read the study? Yeah, sure you did. The abstract said nothing about it being a double blind study or much else about methodology yet it asserts that as little as one "violence exposure" reduces telomere length the equivalent of living ten years? It doesn't even define "violence exposure" nor give any proposed mechanism why this would be the case (and why something like breaking your leg playing tennis wouldn't). Maybe the study answers these questions, but I doubt it and it isn't worth $32 to me to find out since until it's replicated it's meaningless anyway.
This just smells like bad science. Not that it's impossible, but a claim like this is pretty extreme and I'd like to see it replicated several times before believing it.
The eye patches, hooks for hands and tendency to say "Argh" a lot should have been a dead giveaway!
updating to the latest version and rebooting? That's what vendors always tell us to do the second anything doesn't work perfectly.
I'd rather be graded by a robo grader than a real person. They are more consistent and aren't biased towards giving the students they like better grades. Yes they have their short comings but teachers do also.
My thought exactly. It's a lot less energy to push electrons than to push newspaper trucks.
I'm about as big a Penn and Teller fan as it's possible to be, but I agree that reverse engineering a trick and selling it is legit. It happens all the time in software. Perhaps the rules are different in magic, but I doubt it.
If I want a cell phone, I'll buy a cell phone. If I want an MP3 player, I'll buy an MP3 player. If I want a PDA I'll buy a PDA
The deal here is simple, sometimes putting stuff together is a tremendous boon, sometimes not. Sometimes it depends on how well it's done. Ikea's version may stink like all the rest has, but then again it may suceed where others have failed.
But I cannot be in the Republican party despite my strong lifelong opposition to abortion (and support of gun rights, strong military, etc) because of it perilous destructive nature on economic balance, fairness, the rule of law, etc. But is this position by the Democrats to allow the killing of not yet born children so important to hold on to?
This is fascinating. You put it almost exactly as i would but with a different twist! I can't be in the Democrat party even though I believe strongly in their social agenda "because of it perilous destructive nature on economic balance, fairness, the rule of law, etc." As someone with a strong economics background (I used to work as an Econometrician) I see the Democrat penchant for large government and heavy regulation as long term economic suicide.
Thank you for a post that really made me think!
but James Hansen, the Head of NASA's Goddard Institute coming out and saying that Oil CEOs should be tried for crimes against humanity for emitting CO2 very much hurts NASA's credibility on science.
The article stressed how the women in Saudi Arabia could "Work from home". It neglected to say that the almost have to since they aren't allowed in public without a male relative around.
Since the current funding isn't enough to ever make fusion I say we just fire them all and save the money. Then if/when Peak Oil hits and fusion is more economical compared to fossil fuels we can splurge.
Isn't that the dynamo from Atlas Shrugged?
Well, price rigging is an important issue. If it were gas that they were doing this with and your gas started costing $4+ a gallon you'd care more. Oh... wait....
Sure, I can lodge an objection to this but even though it's woefully unfair it's not worth my time and it might be noted but it likely wouldn't be "heard". I'm just one out of a great many victims.
It's true that the courts must agree and it's also true that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 cut down on the abuses but this judgment shows that there's still a way to go to prevent it from being a system where the lawyers are the only winners.
No one expects the lawyers to work for free but the lack of a true plaintiff in class action suits creates a situation where the lawyers can strike a deal best for them and not the client. What we need is the ability to class action sue lawyers for unfairly enriching themselves via class action suit...
Idiot Malthusians have predicted the imminent end of the world due to overpopulation for hundreds of years. Every time they go out on a limb and say the end will be by a given date, they are outed for the charlatans that they are.
It turns out the original study said "Everything will be great! Just like the previous 500 years technology will continue to do more with less and everyone in the world will be substantially better off. A true golden age is upon us". Then when no one cared they decided to change it to gloom and doom so they could garner a little press.
Digital media is like love, in that you can give it away without ever running out of it.
Digital Media is also like love in that you can't eat it (insert 'witty' innuendo here). Media makers like to eat and giving it away free isn't conducive to the goal of feeding oneself.
After all, AT&T's shoddy network encouraged huge numbers to switch to other carriers the moment Apple allowed them to. In business having a poor product might allow you to gain in the short term but is a huge detriment in the long term.
But if the prosecutor is pretty sure they won't be able to convict and they throw him in jail it could be a pretty large wrongful incarceration claim. If the prosecutor doesn't think there's enough evidence chances are overwhelming that the judge won't either. Besides, the case continues to be investigated and if you are worried about police bias the feds have involved as well. If there's a real chance Zimmerman can be successfully prosecuted reat assured they'll arrest him.
There aren't "well established facts" in this case. At least not that are known to the general public. Cases tried in the media tend to be enormously biased because they are about generating interest not about reliable evidence. For instance, was Zimmerman's nose broken and the back of his head injured or not? We don't know but such evidence would obviously make a big difference in the case.
Wow... This is the first time I heard from customer service and they didn't just say "upgrade to the latest version and reboot"!