So... not active virus cells but something the body will recognize as a viral cell and react to?
As opposed to homeopathic claims where you don't have an actual active compound but, rather, the imprint of that compound that the body recognizes and reacts to.
The lengths this guy will go to, in the name of skepticism, really bugs me. Skeptics are open minded and Randi is not, at least not on this topic. In the area of homeopathy he is a critic, not a skeptic.
I remember watching a special on PBS a few years ago (I really wish I could remember it's name) where somebody was attempting to take up his challenge to provide some proof of homeopathy in a proper double-blind study. Of course, they didn't prove any of homeopathy's claims BUT there were still significant differences between the reactions to homeopathic remedies and the reactions to placebos.
What I got from that special was that it seemed like SOMETHING was happening there. It isn't well understood but people are still attempting to take those observations and use them to form hypotheses that can be tested. Neither the hardcore pro or anti side of the debate has been able to prove their point to any degree of credible certainty.
I keep hearing claims that homeopathy isn't science. Geez... that sure sounds like science to me. It may or may not go anywhere but, to me, the people who say that it isn't science aren't really paying attention.
The only people who are being unscientific (or non-skeptical) about it are those who insist on taking hardline positions on the topic.
My son's backpack, 4 years old at the time, was searched once because the matchbox cars looked suspicious under x-ray. Amusing as hell at first but they took their time. Almost missed our flight.
Think about it. They will travel along on a huge craft they cannot control, repeatedly pop into entirely different/unrelated environments, get mixed up in some local drama, eventually solve somebody elses problem (while supporting some underlying story arc) and then move on. Eventually the stock arc will come to a cliffhanger at the end of the season.
This might sound a little crazy but stick with me here:
If the daylight hours are changing such that you are not getting daylight at times that best match your schedule: change your schedule, not the clocks.
This is a good point. Apple Corp was initially started as a distribution channel that small or unknown artists could use to produce and release their higher risk products. The Beatles, owning said company, used it for their own projects as well.
Of course, the Beatles products are the only ones that had any persistant appeal. But Apple Corp is still marketing and distributing those products.
In that context, Apple Corp is a packager and distributor with a diminished, but still very profitable and valuable, catalog. If iTunes is also considered to be a distribution channel, and had the Apple logo on it, one could understand why Apple Corp felt to need to protect it's brand and trademark.
Get yourself a nice little corner desk at office depot or something. You should then be able to get a gate like this one at babies-r-us: http://tinyurl.com/4y3u8
It basically bolts to the wall on both ends and had a built in door, providing a barrier around your toys so the kid can't get to them and drool all over them...
And then you end up with walls and a door, but no privacy. It's just like being at work! Wheee!
Doesn't that just prove their case? Long before Apple Computer, there was Apple Corp. It had a trademarked name and logo in it's music business. It was well recognized and everybody knew what Apple meant.
Apple Computer violated their trademark, was called into court for it, and settled. Still, the mark is diminished. A bitter pill for Apple Corp to swallow, but the damage was done and at least Apple Computer was honoring their agreement.
Then they violated it again. What do you know, Apple Corp calls them into court again to defend what little they brand and name recognition they have left.
Saying that you think of Apple Computer when you hear the word Apple just proves the point. The trademark is diminished.
Even worse. From my interpretation, it still says that traficing the tools is illegal in any case. It's just their use that would be legal against public domain works. So you could use the tools, but it would still be illegal for anybody to give them to you.
Please. Those are not just "because I want it" reasons. I want the right to vote or marry or worship freely aren't simple selfish desires. They may come out on the surface as basic needs or desires but there's much deeper issues of human right and dignity involved. that gave these statements depth and imperitive that demands resisting an arbitrary structure that tries to deny them.
Comparing them to people copying protected works when there is no generally accepted right to free unrestricted access another human beings labor or works is just rediculous.
I wouldn't doubt that the entertainment industry is largely corrupt and monopolistic these days. Dangerously so, in fact. But taking a cavalier attitude to the law like this and actually placing them on the right side of the law on such issues is just stupid. They are generally wrong, but they are legally in the right on this issue. And all congress sees is a bunch of theiving kids whining because some of their largest contributors are trying to protect themselves and their interests.
I think there may be some misunderstanding here as to the nature of buddhism.
First of all, it wouldn't be truely accurate to call it a religion, at least not in a conventional sense. More of a philosophy or way of living, coincidentally named for the budha for having providing it's foundation and core teachings.
The nature of buddhism centers around learning through practice, meditation, and consistant right thinking to overcome the desires and compulsions that lead us to suffering.
To say that budhists are generally happies isn't the same as saying that, by having faith in something, one can be happy and relaxed even as all falls apart around you.
Buddhism doesn't take one out of the world nor does it abdicate responsability for it to a greater power. It actually sharpens ones focus on the things that need to be done by helping to control the emotional cruft that distracts us and drives us towards suffering.
To that end, being about the elimination of desire and it's resultant suffering, a successful buddhist would tend to be happier and calmer. That being an obvious hypothesis, the article meerly relates an attempt to apply the scientific method by testing the hypothesis.
Yes, newspapers accept advertising... so do search engines. Newspapers will even do things like put car advertisements in the automotive section... for search engines, this would be targeted advertising. Still clearly marked.
The complaint here is the equivelant of taking an unimportand article about a company and bumping it up to the front page because the company paid to be noticed, and taking the real important news and burying it back on page 6.
The purpose of newspapers is to present news, in order of importance and relevance. The purpose of serch engines is to mine a pool of web site information against search criteria, and return results ordered by some clear criteria, usually relevance...
Not, the search engines may not do a great job of meeting their criteria, just like the newspapers don't always do, but there's a presumption of an honest effort, free of bias. Paying them to bypass their own judgement to reorder the data portrayed, contrary to their advertised purpose or methodology, is misleading illegal.
Well, comparing this situation to Solaris isn't quite fair. Companies who write applications that only work on a specific version of Solaris are usually doing it wrong. Most version incompatabilities with Solaris software come from the developers using the wrong functions/interface into the kernel.
Sun has does a very good job of publishing the supported mechanisms for doign things under Solaris. Usually these are abstract, and are guaranteed to continue to work over os releases. It's when the developers get clever, and use the system calls and functions these wrappers use directly, rather than going through the supported interfaces, that problems come up over patch or os revisions.
In short, most Solaris software compatability problems come from sloppy application engineers. Most glibc compatability problems comes from the confused state of the library itself or distributors so bent on being so cutting edge that they don't really this of whether the stuff they're releasing actually works.
I'm confused here... is he really talking about patenting the command name? I gathered that ssh was just the short or common name of the Secure Shell product, and it was that short name that was pattented. The fact that the commands are based on the products short name is just good sense.
>Remember, even a new house has a load of legacy
>technology in it flush toilets, running water,
>central heat are all much older than the ISA slot
Well, this is a non argument. Flush toilets, while older than most anything else, are still the best thing available. The legacy hardware in this comparison would be the outhouse. I don't see many outhouses there days. If toilets were like PCs, each flush toilet would come with an optional lever that just opened a flap on the bottom and dumped your waste into the ground, in case you didn't feel like "flushing". That's legacy hardware.
Legacy hardware is that which is kept to acomodate out of date and outclassed hardware. Old hardware that still does the job better than anything else is just... hmm, pre-modern? Classic? Traditional?
Well... it does have a serial port. You could hook up an external modem up to that, hook the ethernet port up to your LAN, and have a dialup firewall server.
Wonder if they can port Gibraltar (that firewall on a single CD) to this. Add in some kind of VMU support and you can use that for configuration storage, like the floppy disk used in the current x86 version.;)
>1) You end up shifting the pollution to the power >generation stations
Hogwash... most of the polution from ICEs come from when they're warming up, or accelerating. Generators run all of the time, and require less polution to generate the energy to move vehicles than local energy plants in each unit.
>2 They have no range.
This is already improving dramativally. They're already quite usefull for short commutes (to/from work, running errands locally, etc.) You can't drive them out of state yet but for a 2 car family, replacing at least one car with an EV is not unreasonable. And you don't have to waste time as the gas station.
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So... not active virus cells but something the body will recognize as a viral cell and react to?
As opposed to homeopathic claims where you don't have an actual active compound but, rather, the imprint of that compound that the body recognizes and reacts to.
They seem like similar principles to me.
The lengths this guy will go to, in the name of skepticism, really bugs me. Skeptics are open minded and Randi is not, at least not on this topic. In the area of homeopathy he is a critic, not a skeptic.
I remember watching a special on PBS a few years ago (I really wish I could remember it's name) where somebody was attempting to take up his challenge to provide some proof of homeopathy in a proper double-blind study. Of course, they didn't prove any of homeopathy's claims BUT there were still significant differences between the reactions to homeopathic remedies and the reactions to placebos.
What I got from that special was that it seemed like SOMETHING was happening there. It isn't well understood but people are still attempting to take those observations and use them to form hypotheses that can be tested. Neither the hardcore pro or anti side of the debate has been able to prove their point to any degree of credible certainty.
I keep hearing claims that homeopathy isn't science. Geez... that sure sounds like science to me. It may or may not go anywhere but, to me, the people who say that it isn't science aren't really paying attention.
The only people who are being unscientific (or non-skeptical) about it are those who insist on taking hardline positions on the topic.
My son's backpack, 4 years old at the time, was searched once because the matchbox cars looked suspicious under x-ray. Amusing as hell at first but they took their time. Almost missed our flight.
From what I remember (and that's not saying much) debt incurred to pay off non-dischargable debt cannot itself be discharged.
>more of a BSG meets Atlantis than anything
I was more thinking Space:1999 meets Doctor Who.
Think about it. They will travel along on a huge craft they cannot control, repeatedly pop into entirely different/unrelated environments, get mixed up in some local drama, eventually solve somebody elses problem (while supporting some underlying story arc) and then move on. Eventually the stock arc will come to a cliffhanger at the end of the season.
>How much later do you want it to set?
Wait... you can change when the sun sets?
Then why the hell are we bothering to change our clocks?
I'm confused.
This might sound a little crazy but stick with me here:
If the daylight hours are changing such that you are not getting daylight at times that best match your schedule: change your schedule, not the clocks.
It's so crazy it could actually work...
This is a good point. Apple Corp was initially started as a distribution channel that small or unknown artists could use to produce and release their higher risk products. The Beatles, owning said company, used it for their own projects as well.
Of course, the Beatles products are the only ones that had any persistant appeal. But Apple Corp is still marketing and distributing those products.
In that context, Apple Corp is a packager and distributor with a diminished, but still very profitable and valuable, catalog. If iTunes is also considered to be a distribution channel, and had the Apple logo on it, one could understand why Apple Corp felt to need to protect it's brand and trademark.
Get yourself a nice little corner desk at office depot or something. You should then be able to get a gate like this one at babies-r-us: http://tinyurl.com/4y3u8
It basically bolts to the wall on both ends and had a built in door, providing a barrier around your toys so the kid can't get to them and drool all over them...
And then you end up with walls and a door, but no privacy. It's just like being at work! Wheee!
As if when I think "Apple," I think "Beatles."
Doesn't that just prove their case? Long before Apple Computer, there was Apple Corp. It had a trademarked name and logo in it's music business. It was well recognized and everybody knew what Apple meant.
Apple Computer violated their trademark, was called into court for it, and settled. Still, the mark is diminished. A bitter pill for Apple Corp to swallow, but the damage was done and at least Apple Computer was honoring their agreement.
Then they violated it again. What do you know, Apple Corp calls them into court again to defend what little they brand and name recognition they have left.
Saying that you think of Apple Computer when you hear the word Apple just proves the point. The trademark is diminished.
Seems pretty simple to me...
Even worse. From my interpretation, it still says that traficing the tools is illegal in any case. It's just their use that would be legal against public domain works. So you could use the tools, but it would still be illegal for anybody to give them to you.
Please. Those are not just "because I want it" reasons. I want the right to vote or marry or worship freely aren't simple selfish desires. They may come out on the surface as basic needs or desires but there's much deeper issues of human right and dignity involved. that gave these statements depth and imperitive that demands resisting an arbitrary structure that tries to deny them.
Comparing them to people copying protected works when there is no generally accepted right to free unrestricted access another human beings labor or works is just rediculous.
I wouldn't doubt that the entertainment industry is largely corrupt and monopolistic these days. Dangerously so, in fact. But taking a cavalier attitude to the law like this and actually placing them on the right side of the law on such issues is just stupid. They are generally wrong, but they are legally in the right on this issue. And all congress sees is a bunch of theiving kids whining because some of their largest contributors are trying to protect themselves and their interests.
I think there may be some misunderstanding here as to the nature of buddhism.
First of all, it wouldn't be truely accurate to call it a religion, at least not in a conventional sense. More of a philosophy or way of living, coincidentally named for the budha for having providing it's foundation and core teachings.
The nature of buddhism centers around learning through practice, meditation, and consistant right thinking to overcome the desires and compulsions that lead us to suffering.
To say that budhists are generally happies isn't the same as saying that, by having faith in something, one can be happy and relaxed even as all falls apart around you.
Buddhism doesn't take one out of the world nor does it abdicate responsability for it to a greater power. It actually sharpens ones focus on the things that need to be done by helping to control the emotional cruft that distracts us and drives us towards suffering.
To that end, being about the elimination of desire and it's resultant suffering, a successful buddhist would tend to be happier and calmer. That being an obvious hypothesis, the article meerly relates an attempt to apply the scientific method by testing the hypothesis.
Yes, newspapers accept advertising... so do search engines. Newspapers will even do things like put car advertisements in the automotive section... for search engines, this would be targeted advertising. Still clearly marked.
The complaint here is the equivelant of taking an unimportand article about a company and bumping it up to the front page because the company paid to be noticed, and taking the real important news and burying it back on page 6.
The purpose of newspapers is to present news, in order of importance and relevance. The purpose of serch engines is to mine a pool of web site information against search criteria, and return results ordered by some clear criteria, usually relevance...
Not, the search engines may not do a great job of meeting their criteria, just like the newspapers don't always do, but there's a presumption of an honest effort, free of bias. Paying them to bypass their own judgement to reorder the data portrayed, contrary to their advertised purpose or methodology, is misleading illegal.
Yes, it's that simple.
Well, comparing this situation to Solaris isn't quite fair. Companies who write applications that only work on a specific version of Solaris are usually doing it wrong. Most version incompatabilities with Solaris software come from the developers using the wrong functions/interface into the kernel.
Sun has does a very good job of publishing the supported mechanisms for doign things under Solaris. Usually these are abstract, and are guaranteed to continue to work over os releases. It's when the developers get clever, and use the system calls and functions these wrappers use directly, rather than going through the supported interfaces, that problems come up over patch or os revisions.
In short, most Solaris software compatability problems come from sloppy application engineers. Most glibc compatability problems comes from the confused state of the library itself or distributors so bent on being so cutting edge that they don't really this of whether the stuff they're releasing actually works.
I'm confused here... is he really talking about patenting the command name? I gathered that ssh was just the short or common name of the Secure Shell product, and it was that short name that was pattented. The fact that the commands are based on the products short name is just good sense.
That all seems quite legit to me.
>Remember, even a new house has a load of legacy
>technology in it flush toilets, running water,
>central heat are all much older than the ISA slot
Well, this is a non argument. Flush toilets, while older than most anything else, are still the best thing available. The legacy hardware in this comparison would be the outhouse. I don't see many outhouses there days. If toilets were like PCs, each flush toilet would come with an optional lever that just opened a flap on the bottom and dumped your waste into the ground, in case you didn't feel like "flushing". That's legacy hardware.
Legacy hardware is that which is kept to acomodate out of date and outclassed hardware. Old hardware that still does the job better than anything else is just... hmm, pre-modern? Classic? Traditional?
Well... it does have a serial port. You could hook up an external modem up to that, hook the ethernet port up to your LAN, and have a dialup firewall server.
;)
Wonder if they can port Gibraltar (that firewall on a single CD) to this. Add in some kind of VMU support and you can use that for configuration storage, like the floppy disk used in the current x86 version.
>1) You end up shifting the pollution to the power
>generation stations
Hogwash... most of the polution from ICEs come from when they're warming up, or accelerating. Generators run all of the time, and require less polution to generate the energy to move vehicles than local energy plants in each unit.
>2 They have no range.
This is already improving dramativally. They're already quite usefull for short commutes (to/from work, running errands locally, etc.) You can't drive them out of state yet but for a 2 car family, replacing at least one car with an EV is not unreasonable. And you don't have to waste time as the gas station.
Works under wine just great for me. Neat...