Science doesn't know anything, not for certain. When anyone says scientists "know" something, it means the generally accepted theory (or one of the dominant explanations) makes the conclusion obvious. Not necessarily correct, just the natural result of what we already accept.
Anything science says is subject to change as a result of new research. We still say "scientists know" because the degree of certainty is high enough.
The existence of dark matter is the natural outcome of everything we know. And that includes high precision, repeatable measurements and observations. We keep building tools to observe and measure, and they keep pointing at dark matter. We keep observing and measuring, and can't find holes in what we know so far other than dark matter.
While science generally agrees, individuals are trying to come up with other ways to explain what we see. If one of these becomes convincing, it will be that better theory that you are looking for. And since we don't have one yet, people keep looking at the dominant explanation.
It is a problem being attacked in multiple ways, from multiple angles. We just don't hear news about random dude who invents an idea that gets shot down. But you can read science journals and attend meetings and talk to people in the field to see that this is actually happening. Or you can just read about the headlines as they come in, and accept that smart people wouldn't let something obviously wrong suck up so much research time if there were a better target. You don't keep the funding train rolling by doing research you know won't go anywhere
Shopping anonymously, without subsidies applied, would give incorrect pricing information, and I assume opponents more ammo to argue with. It was the right choice for the target audience, tho I usually load another site. There is no alternative site here, and if you want cost info you hand over the goods.
Anyone with a working brain actively resists changing their mind. People shown to be wrong are more likely to remain dedicated to the wrong facts. It takes someone with an open mind, or little emotional investment, to have their opinion changed by argument or facts. Or, if you grow to detest the source, like family or an ex. Changing political leanings is very hard, but if it all you read it can become first familiar, then recognizable, then obvious. You described what we expect of brains, not how they are used.
Punishment is established when the crime is, without regard to the criminal's ability to pay. No one legally can say thus person is rich, or a business, so has to pay more fines, or will be jailed for a fineable offense. There are examples of your complaints, but this is not one, and your solution is barely above mob justice. Think mob justice is what we need? Then your proposal has to ensure only guilty people get lynched, burned, dragged by a car, or beaten to death, because that's how mobs devolve eventually.
The article says "Koch-linked" but does not clarify by whom or how. One evidence is a mail to Koch, not from. Call it shitty journalism, but I don't think people remember which organisations are run by which interests.
I'm pretty sure the video explains why you have a huge chance of being completely full of shit, and whoever nodded you up is a sheeple. If you disagree, you will have to ask how much of your opinion is based on reason, or fall back on actual science.
Or, you could be a subtle yet unoriginal troll with an alt account, that schtick is old enough that I wouldn't believe an admission, so we are back to you're stupid.
Pay money, present problem, get solution. You're right, a consultant would not reach step 3. But it is essentially consulting.
The moral advantage business has is that it employs people. Screwing some in exchange for giving others needed jobs can balance out, in the long view. And since employment is a huge part of the economy, it follows that employers are favored in decisions. Which is why it looks like business owns congress.
As an employee, it is difficult to see the employer's side of most arguments. Example, "They should pay us more for what we do." Reality: If they paid you more the customers would go to a competitor and you would be unemployed. Which is preferable?
The true problem at the core is how large business gets, which is the inevitable result of economy of scale. With smaller business and more self employed, politicians would favor the people again, which the people could force if they wanted to.
But they don't. These employees made a choice to perpetuate the system because it somehow benefits them. So, it is hard to argue that a Congress that favors corporate interests does not benefit the employees who made that choice.
In daily conversation, I try to append words to "America" when possible, usually ", which was founded by terrorists, "
The conversation devolves into circular logic and revisionist history lessons, but an independent eavesdropper once found it insightful. Minds change oh so slowly.
We have had cool periods and warm periods, not caused by people. Do we know enough about why they happened that research is not needed? If so, that should be all the explanation anyone needs. If not, it sounds like it should be studied.
That is not locking in a conclusion, as we have had ice ages. This is what people referring to cyclical change mean, since the ice age is the primary evidence given for the idea that it must have warming followed by cooling, and repeating.
In context, though, what the bill is asking for is essentially nonsense. Link and text follows, though it is a PDF hatchet job that I don't feel like cleaning up. Scientists should really object that the request is nonsense. Knowing if Nebraska will be slightly cooler in 1000 years due to a theoretical cooling trend does not say what will actually happen. The word cyclical was apparently inserted by a denier nut job, and without the word this would be valid.
" Provide the Governor and other interested persons1with information and research on the impacts of cyclical climate2change in Nebraska, including impacts on physical, ecological, and3economic areas, and attempt to anticipate the unintended consequences4of climate adaptation and mitigation;5(9) Facilitate communication between stakeholders and the6state about cyclical climate change impacts and response strategies;7(10)(a) By September 1, 2014, prepare an initial report8on cyclical climate change in Nebraska which includes a synthesis and9assessment of the state of knowledge on: Historical climate10variability and change; climate projections; and possible impacts to11key sectors of the state such as agriculture, water, wildlife,12ecosystems, forests, and outdoor recreation. The report shall include13key points and a summary of the findings; and14(b) By December 1, 2014, review such initial report and15provide a final report to the Governor and electronically to the16Legislature which includes key points, overarching recommendations,17and options that emerge from the initial report; and18(8) (11) Perform such other climate-related assessment19and response functions as are desired by the Governor "
The thought experiment is about what peculiarity the black hole death holds, so give him a perfect radiation proof suit and try again. Or, try this question instead. After dying of radiation, what happens to the body? The context to this question, fundamentally, is whether a person would be shredded or squished, or just fall forever, or maybe hit a wall of fire and burn up. Dead or alive.
I was going to post, without citation, quotes of Andrew Ryan. Then I thought, "That is exactly what the parasite wants of me."
So I wait, to see which way the wind is blowing, and which side my bread is buttered on.
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I don't follow - SalesForce had $957M in revenue last quarter, and this is definitely news - it's not some small company that never made it to the front page of Slashdot.
Large companies hosting cloud services with paid accounts will always provide some sort of transition warning, because expensive lawsuits follow when they don't. You don't need to file a suit, just wait for someone else to - it's inevitable.
If you trust a small company to handle your data, you're asking for problems. If you're asking it to do so for free, which is how Manymoon started and Do.com continued, you're basically asking to be screwed over the barrel.
It looks like Catch.com was free, based on this quote "Users there are already lamenting the loss, begging Catch.com to reconsider, or release a paid version." So what really did you expect? Evernote was beating the hell out of Catch based on all free market measures, so the outcome there is pretty much guaranteed.
One of the companies was apparently Google. I guess we won't trust those idiots again.
Manymoon started out as free, which is probably where the 50k number came from. After being acquired, the plan was to keep giving it away while selling it to people who wanted to buy whatever premium services it added. How ridiculous is 50k companies/users on a free application which stayed near the top of Google Apps and LinkedIn apps lists?
The release announcement, when Manymoon became Do.com is worth a read for anyone who wants to register an informed opinion.
From all accounts, it was a decent way to get stuff done while on the go, even if "on the go" means being physically in the same place as other people, just not talking to them at the moment.
How very narrow minded of you. They probably are not getting good info from the majority of users, who downloaded a bunch of stuff. On that I can agree with you.
There were probably forums, which provided good info on user relationships if you can data mine it. The original uploaders, even if they used different accounts, could be tied together by IP address and other data, to form either single users with multiple accounts or suspected groups of cohorts. And of course forums may be a great way to link people who upload using anonymizing VPN or public hotspot, but comment or read on their home connection.
I'm not saying this particular site was of any size to gather useful data - it sounds like it may not have been. But if this were one of the larger sites in their heyday, the amount of data would be tremendously useful. Especially if it was designed to capture data instead of discarding all but what was needed.
Guaranteed they managed to gather a lot more than "anonymous IP addresses from a bunch of public WiFi sites". Well more than "negligible", but nowhere near "Pirate Bay".
Because people with less to lose than to gain wanted to throw off the yoke of their own oppressive government, and create from scratch a more perfect union. It's in the Declaration of Independence for a more thorough refresher.
You seem to think this is a David vs goliath scenario with obvious parallels. Given military funding, it is so much more unbalanced than the revolution was, so crushing is entirely possible.
Yet the other nations in the world would really freak out if we fought Antigua over $21 million that we could have prevented, so there is no gain in starting something. Antigua would have to start it, and they won't. So your reference is completely nonsensical.
That's why they are setting up a platform and inviting third parties to test the waters. They spent a decade getting here, in exchange for having their economy shit on, and won against the self proclaimed world police. If they didn't tweak as much as possible, they won't get their goal, which is simply allowing US residents to gamble online instead of in designated areas in country.
"So she is treated the same as if she was holding innocent children hostage at gunpoint."
No. Hostage takers don't have their possessions returned without some sort of due process, like arrest, trial, appeal, incarceration, and/or suicide by cop.
Completely unrelated scenarios, and no one with 3/4 of a brain can ever take you seriously again.
Does LinkedIn currently have access to a copy of every email you read from Gmail? Probably not, but they would with this extension.
Google parses your gmail, this would be Google processing your Outlook inbox on a Google server. Or me preprocessing all your mails and swearing that I'm not doing anything bad, even though its my revenue stream.
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Science doesn't know anything, not for certain. When anyone says scientists "know" something, it means the generally accepted theory (or one of the dominant explanations) makes the conclusion obvious. Not necessarily correct, just the natural result of what we already accept.
Anything science says is subject to change as a result of new research. We still say "scientists know" because the degree of certainty is high enough.
The existence of dark matter is the natural outcome of everything we know. And that includes high precision, repeatable measurements and observations. We keep building tools to observe and measure, and they keep pointing at dark matter. We keep observing and measuring, and can't find holes in what we know so far other than dark matter.
While science generally agrees, individuals are trying to come up with other ways to explain what we see. If one of these becomes convincing, it will be that better theory that you are looking for. And since we don't have one yet, people keep looking at the dominant explanation.
It is a problem being attacked in multiple ways, from multiple angles. We just don't hear news about random dude who invents an idea that gets shot down. But you can read science journals and attend meetings and talk to people in the field to see that this is actually happening. Or you can just read about the headlines as they come in, and accept that smart people wouldn't let something obviously wrong suck up so much research time if there were a better target. You don't keep the funding train rolling by doing research you know won't go anywhere
Shopping anonymously, without subsidies applied, would give incorrect pricing information, and I assume opponents more ammo to argue with. It was the right choice for the target audience, tho I usually load another site.
There is no alternative site here, and if you want cost info you hand over the goods.
Horseshit. People dont know how to use quote's right.
Like MISRA C, mentioned in the article? Did you read it before spouting off?
And you just became the poster child for learning assembly or dying in a fiery crash.
Anyone with a working brain actively resists changing their mind. People shown to be wrong are more likely to remain dedicated to the wrong facts.
It takes someone with an open mind, or little emotional investment, to have their opinion changed by argument or facts. Or, if you grow to detest the source, like family or an ex.
Changing political leanings is very hard, but if it all you read it can become first familiar, then recognizable, then obvious.
You described what we expect of brains, not how they are used.
Punishment is established when the crime is, without regard to the criminal's ability to pay. No one legally can say thus person is rich, or a business, so has to pay more fines, or will be jailed for a fineable offense.
There are examples of your complaints, but this is not one, and your solution is barely above mob justice.
Think mob justice is what we need? Then your proposal has to ensure only guilty people get lynched, burned, dragged by a car, or beaten to death, because that's how mobs devolve eventually.
The article says "Koch-linked" but does not clarify by whom or how. One evidence is a mail to Koch, not from. Call it shitty journalism, but I don't think people remember which organisations are run by which interests.
I too care, along with a lot of other people. Apathy is no explanation, and anyone using it fails to understand the topic.
Of couse, most people care for it because they are scared of the brown people. But that is not apathy.
I'm pretty sure the video explains why you have a huge chance of being completely full of shit, and whoever nodded you up is a sheeple.
If you disagree, you will have to ask how much of your opinion is based on reason, or fall back on actual science.
Or, you could be a subtle yet unoriginal troll with an alt account, that schtick is old enough that I wouldn't believe an admission, so we are back to you're stupid.
Pay money, present problem, get solution. You're right, a consultant would not reach step 3. But it is essentially consulting.
The moral advantage business has is that it employs people. Screwing some in exchange for giving others needed jobs can balance out, in the long view. And since employment is a huge part of the economy, it follows that employers are favored in decisions. Which is why it looks like business owns congress.
As an employee, it is difficult to see the employer's side of most arguments. Example, "They should pay us more for what we do." Reality: If they paid you more the customers would go to a competitor and you would be unemployed. Which is preferable?
The true problem at the core is how large business gets, which is the inevitable result of economy of scale. With smaller business and more self employed, politicians would favor the people again, which the people could force if they wanted to.
But they don't. These employees made a choice to perpetuate the system because it somehow benefits them. So, it is hard to argue that a Congress that favors corporate interests does not benefit the employees who made that choice.
If I vote third party, even run for office, and say exactly the same thing, would you have a different reply?
I ask because stating what appears true does not mean the speaker is inactive in those efforts, merely unsuccessful, and frustrated.
In daily conversation, I try to append words to "America" when possible, usually ", which was founded by terrorists, "
The conversation devolves into circular logic and revisionist history lessons, but an independent eavesdropper once found it insightful. Minds change oh so slowly.
We have had cool periods and warm periods, not caused by people. Do we know enough about why they happened that research is not needed? If so, that should be all the explanation anyone needs. If not, it sounds like it should be studied.
That is not locking in a conclusion, as we have had ice ages. This is what people referring to cyclical change mean, since the ice age is the primary evidence given for the idea that it must have warming followed by cooling, and repeating.
In context, though, what the bill is asking for is essentially nonsense. Link and text follows, though it is a PDF hatchet job that I don't feel like cleaning up. Scientists should really object that the request is nonsense. Knowing if Nebraska will be slightly cooler in 1000 years due to a theoretical cooling trend does not say what will actually happen. The word cyclical was apparently inserted by a denier nut job, and without the word this would be valid.
http://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=18336
" Provide the Governor and other interested persons1with information and research on the impacts of cyclical climate2change in Nebraska, including impacts on physical, ecological, and3economic areas, and attempt to anticipate the unintended consequences4of climate adaptation and mitigation;5(9) Facilitate communication between stakeholders and the6state about cyclical climate change impacts and response strategies;7(10)(a) By September 1, 2014, prepare an initial report8on cyclical climate change in Nebraska which includes a synthesis and9assessment of the state of knowledge on: Historical climate10variability and change; climate projections; and possible impacts to11key sectors of the state such as agriculture, water, wildlife,12ecosystems, forests, and outdoor recreation. The report shall include13key points and a summary of the findings; and14(b) By December 1, 2014, review such initial report and15provide a final report to the Governor and electronically to the16Legislature which includes key points, overarching recommendations,17and options that emerge from the initial report; and18(8) (11) Perform such other climate-related assessment19and response functions as are desired by the Governor "
The thought experiment is about what peculiarity the black hole death holds, so give him a perfect radiation proof suit and try again.
Or, try this question instead. After dying of radiation, what happens to the body? The context to this question, fundamentally, is whether a person would be shredded or squished, or just fall forever, or maybe hit a wall of fire and burn up. Dead or alive.
I was going to post, without citation, quotes of Andrew Ryan. Then I thought, "That is exactly what the parasite wants of me."
So I wait, to see which way the wind is blowing, and which side my bread is buttered on.
I don't follow - SalesForce had $957M in revenue last quarter, and this is definitely news - it's not some small company that never made it to the front page of Slashdot.
Large companies hosting cloud services with paid accounts will always provide some sort of transition warning, because expensive lawsuits follow when they don't. You don't need to file a suit, just wait for someone else to - it's inevitable.
If you trust a small company to handle your data, you're asking for problems. If you're asking it to do so for free, which is how Manymoon started and Do.com continued, you're basically asking to be screwed over the barrel.
It looks like Catch.com was free, based on this quote "Users there are already lamenting the loss, begging Catch.com to reconsider, or release a paid version." So what really did you expect? Evernote was beating the hell out of Catch based on all free market measures, so the outcome there is pretty much guaranteed.
One of the companies was apparently Google. I guess we won't trust those idiots again.
Manymoon started out as free, which is probably where the 50k number came from. After being acquired, the plan was to keep giving it away while selling it to people who wanted to buy whatever premium services it added. How ridiculous is 50k companies/users on a free application which stayed near the top of Google Apps and LinkedIn apps lists?
The release announcement, when Manymoon became Do.com is worth a read for anyone who wants to register an informed opinion.
From all accounts, it was a decent way to get stuff done while on the go, even if "on the go" means being physically in the same place as other people, just not talking to them at the moment.
How very narrow minded of you. They probably are not getting good info from the majority of users, who downloaded a bunch of stuff. On that I can agree with you.
There were probably forums, which provided good info on user relationships if you can data mine it. The original uploaders, even if they used different accounts, could be tied together by IP address and other data, to form either single users with multiple accounts or suspected groups of cohorts. And of course forums may be a great way to link people who upload using anonymizing VPN or public hotspot, but comment or read on their home connection.
I'm not saying this particular site was of any size to gather useful data - it sounds like it may not have been. But if this were one of the larger sites in their heyday, the amount of data would be tremendously useful. Especially if it was designed to capture data instead of discarding all but what was needed.
Guaranteed they managed to gather a lot more than "anonymous IP addresses from a bunch of public WiFi sites". Well more than "negligible", but nowhere near "Pirate Bay".
Because people with less to lose than to gain wanted to throw off the yoke of their own oppressive government, and create from scratch a more perfect union. It's in the Declaration of Independence for a more thorough refresher.
You seem to think this is a David vs goliath scenario with obvious parallels. Given military funding, it is so much more unbalanced than the revolution was, so crushing is entirely possible.
Yet the other nations in the world would really freak out if we fought Antigua over $21 million that we could have prevented, so there is no gain in starting something. Antigua would have to start it, and they won't. So your reference is completely nonsensical.
That's why they are setting up a platform and inviting third parties to test the waters.
They spent a decade getting here, in exchange for having their economy shit on, and won against the self proclaimed world police.
If they didn't tweak as much as possible, they won't get their goal, which is simply allowing US residents to gamble online instead of in designated areas in country.
They didn't just claim, they spent months gathering interviews, and got a solid court order. The wife aka journalist says they did have guns.
The guns claim was as solid as it gets. The warrant execution was the problem here.
"So she is treated the same as if she was holding innocent children hostage at gunpoint."
No. Hostage takers don't have their possessions returned without some sort of due process, like arrest, trial, appeal, incarceration, and/or suicide by cop.
Completely unrelated scenarios, and no one with 3/4 of a brain can ever take you seriously again.
Hard copy files including handwritten notes. Not computer files.
Does LinkedIn currently have access to a copy of every email you read from Gmail? Probably not, but they would with this extension.
Google parses your gmail, this would be Google processing your Outlook inbox on a Google server. Or me preprocessing all your mails and swearing that I'm not doing anything bad, even though its my revenue stream.