I'm sure there's some real science in there somewhere, but The Fine Article seems to have been written by someone whose knowledge of quantum entanglement comes entirely from New Age mysticism. They're not describing anything more exotic than the photoelectric effect, which was always the way people thought photosynthesis worked, and the suggestion that quantum entanglement might occur in a photosynthetic system (duh - it occurs everywhere in nature).
Whether or not there was an overreaction is irrelevant. There is no case - none - for giving airlines money if civil servants acted in good faith and believed that they were taking a necessary action to protect the public. Airspace can be shut down because of forces outside human contral - that's a reality of air travel and airlines need to be ready to deal with it.
Branson is making a weak, transparent grab for money and he deserves all the cynicism being directed at him.
It's not really that punishment doesn't work, but it's that when children, especially male children, are left to themselves, they recreate the social order of a hunter-gatherer group, where competition and brutality are valued. The child doesn't care about punishment from adults if he is rewarded by his peers.
Usually bullying is actually a manifestation of insecurity on the part of the bully.
There are skeptics and there are cult-like denialists. Denialism exists and it has to be fought because it is particularly damaging. Since the phenomenon is poorly-understood, we need to be able to discuss climate change and raise doubts and questions without the lunatic fringe dismissing the whole thing on the feeblest of pretexts.
People like climate change deniers, birthers, creationists, Holocaust deniers etc. don't want the truth, they want their fantasy. They know perfectly well that what they pretend to believe in is not true. That's the point - you have to defy reality and believe something untrue in order to join the club, and if you can believe something knowing it's not true, you can continue to believe it even after it's disproven.
As hopelessly unrealistic fantasies go, consequence-free infinite economic growth does sound good.
Okay, not evil, I can see the appeal. But not every software developer really gets the idea of 'option'. Personally I despise tabs and it astonishes me how difficult it can be to turn them off or how often it's not even possible. (I'm looking at you, Firefox!) A nice idea, maybe, but I don't get the missionary zeal with which tabbed windows are being forced on people who are happy with sticking to what they've been using for 25 years.
1. Extremes of intelligence (whatever that is) can be counter-productive. Some very smart people so rarely make mistakes that they become over-confident and when mistakes are made, they don't know how to respond or are even are not able to accept it.
2. Learning and unlearning are not the same, and learning something new is significantly more difficult if it involves unlearning something old. Letting go of flawed theories or bad information is probably a bigger part of what gets called intelligence than acquiring new ones.
A law is analogous, not to a single piece of software, but to a bug fix/new feature to a single, massive program that has been in continuous service for 800 years. Also picture the pointy-haired bosses implementing the code and the actual programmers only working in an advisory capacity.
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I'm sure there's some real science in there somewhere, but The Fine Article seems to have been written by someone whose knowledge of quantum entanglement comes entirely from New Age mysticism. They're not describing anything more exotic than the photoelectric effect, which was always the way people thought photosynthesis worked, and the suggestion that quantum entanglement might occur in a photosynthetic system (duh - it occurs everywhere in nature).
"There's also an improved Ribbon..." - contradiction in terms.
But svchost.exe *is* a virus; there just isn't a way to remove it. Almost as big a security breach as iexplore.exe.
Whether or not there was an overreaction is irrelevant. There is no case - none - for giving airlines money if civil servants acted in good faith and believed that they were taking a necessary action to protect the public. Airspace can be shut down because of forces outside human contral - that's a reality of air travel and airlines need to be ready to deal with it.
Branson is making a weak, transparent grab for money and he deserves all the cynicism being directed at him.
Cheney is such a horrible human being that it's surprising something hasn't leaked yet.
Pretty much everything the FBI did was entirely for show, so they could knowingly let the real perpetrator(s) continue to remain at large.
"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to Hollywood making crap."
There was something a little too convenient about the Doctor meeting a little girl who found him fascinating and then skipping ahead to when she's 18.
There's no reason that "most programming work" and "truly interesting work" would have anything in common.
Obviously. Haven't these people ever met anyone in power?
Yeah, right....
It's not really that punishment doesn't work, but it's that when children, especially male children, are left to themselves, they recreate the social order of a hunter-gatherer group, where competition and brutality are valued. The child doesn't care about punishment from adults if he is rewarded by his peers.
Usually bullying is actually a manifestation of insecurity on the part of the bully.
Yes, because the victim of bullying is the one with "missing social skills".
I'm sure there's something important in the details, but power laws always turn up in statistically independent events.
There are skeptics and there are cult-like denialists. Denialism exists and it has to be fought because it is particularly damaging. Since the phenomenon is poorly-understood, we need to be able to discuss climate change and raise doubts and questions without the lunatic fringe dismissing the whole thing on the feeblest of pretexts.
People like climate change deniers, birthers, creationists, Holocaust deniers etc. don't want the truth, they want their fantasy. They know perfectly well that what they pretend to believe in is not true. That's the point - you have to defy reality and believe something untrue in order to join the club, and if you can believe something knowing it's not true, you can continue to believe it even after it's disproven.
As hopelessly unrealistic fantasies go, consequence-free infinite economic growth does sound good.
That doesn't prevent *all* tabs, which was my point.
Wow. I suddenly understand genocidal dictators and/or ideologies much better.
Okay, not evil, I can see the appeal. But not every software developer really gets the idea of 'option'. Personally I despise tabs and it astonishes me how difficult it can be to turn them off or how often it's not even possible. (I'm looking at you, Firefox!) A nice idea, maybe, but I don't get the missionary zeal with which tabbed windows are being forced on people who are happy with sticking to what they've been using for 25 years.
It almost makes you wonder if there are other cases where less than full sentences taken out of context might be misconstrued.
1. Extremes of intelligence (whatever that is) can be counter-productive. Some very smart people so rarely make mistakes that they become over-confident and when mistakes are made, they don't know how to respond or are even are not able to accept it.
2. Learning and unlearning are not the same, and learning something new is significantly more difficult if it involves unlearning something old. Letting go of flawed theories or bad information is probably a bigger part of what gets called intelligence than acquiring new ones.
This is way beyond "poor taste". People (are supposed to) go to jail for harassment like this.
And W T F does it have to do with cars?
You mean Nature doesn't actually abhore vaccums?
Next you'll be telling us that religious texts are all metaphorical.
A law is analogous, not to a single piece of software, but to a bug fix/new feature to a single, massive program that has been in continuous service for 800 years. Also picture the pointy-haired bosses implementing the code and the actual programmers only working in an advisory capacity.
...because now that it's set a record, it will be full of tourists.