Even some of these you seemed to have singled out as incorrect, are more correct than incorrect.
For example, on the gymnastics one, you cut out: "Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. Every school, college and community will have a complete gymnasium." That part definitely has come to pass. Also, the general thrust of the whole thing was correct. Physical education in the current era has more emphasis than it did in 1900. You are sort of thumbing your nose at the idea that an emphasis on gymnastics will begin in the nursery as we live in an era where the government is promoting a Let's Move initiative for children.
For the fruit one, while most did not happen in a widespread, practical way one did. Practically all grapes bought these days are seedless. In addition, some of these, if not broadly adopted are also not unheard of. We can grow huge fruits if there was any practical reason to, for example, strawberries the size of apples. I'd also be willing to bet fruits are bigger than they used to be in 1900, but there isn't much of a point to grow them monstrously big.
To England in Two days sounds silly at first, but if you read the description of the craft it describes, "supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept between them and the water’s surface. This film, together with the small surface of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest possible degree" sounds a lot like a hovercraft. The passenger-grade hovercraft linked to can do 83 knots or about 95 miles per hour. New York to London is about 3500 miles. So, it would take 37 hours roughly to travel on this ship from New York to London, or in other words, two days. So, really, the prediction came true, it just didn't end up being a popular mode of transport since we have faster and easier ways to traverse the distance.
Oh no, Fikri is real...The problem is he's just on a Disneyworld vacation and put his bank accounts in Russia because he felt his own government was becoming unstable. He's talking to people in Syria due to the influence of the Arab Spring. The problem is a lot of perfectly normal activity can be spun as suspicious activity very easily and suddenly you end up in Gitmo for taking a vacation to Disneyworld.
I'm fairly certain the constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."
It doesn't say anything about publishing a book. A book is writing. Speech is out loud. Why can't you just read your book out loud? Then it would be "speech." Convenient, no, but that's the price of admission.
Really, what you said doesn't make any sense. An occupation is an assembly, just as a book is a form of speech. The constitution does not say "may only assemble for 8 hours" or "may only assemble during the day" or "may only assemble so long as nobody is annoyed," what it says is: "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble."
Darn, going too fast with the math and divided the kilograms instead of pounds.
We'd need about 72,727 acre's of rice to support the current need.
The area of land needed would be about 11% of Rhode Island (668,800 acres total), assuming Rhode Island could remotely support rice farming.
Human serum albumin is the most abundant protein in human blood plasma. The reference range for albumin concentrations in blood is 3.4 to 5.4 g/dL.
So...
500 tons = 453 592.37 kilograms
1 L blood = 44 grams proteins (0.044 kilograms)
That means we will need 10,308,918 liters (2,723,328 gallons) of blood to support the current need.
A blood donation typically takes a pint of blood.
Thus 21,786,624 donations are needed to make this amount of human serum albumin.
Traditional white rice farmers realize a yield of 4000 to 6000 pounds per acre.
Thus we'd need about 32,989 acre's of rice to support the current need.
The area of land needed would be about 5% of Rhode Island (668,800 acres total), assuming Rhode Island could remotely support rice farming.
You are looking at evolution wrongly. Yes, cells are very very complex and full of complex machinery. Things that are very complex however can begin with things that are very simple.
Once you have anything, even a very simple thing, that copies itself (with errors) all kinds of diversity will arise and natural selection will act on that diversity.
Plus, believing in Supreme Being(s) doesn't satisfactorily answer the question either; it just moves the question into Xenobiology.
I've heard so many stories like this lately. Isn't it about time that we pass a law that makes it unambiguously legal to record police officers in the course of their duty no matter what. It sounds like at least a step toward answering the age-old question Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?.
Social problem: disease caused by unclean water Technical problem: there's sewage in the river that we drink from. Social problem: people are dumping sewage into the river we drink from Technical solution: build adequate sewers.
My point was that technical and social problems are often intertwined so blanket statements like the parent comment are not universally true.
Until the second half of the 19th century London residents were still drinking water from the very same portions of the Thames that the open sewers were discharging into. Several outbreaks of Cholera in the mid 19th century, along with The Great Stink of 1858, when the stench of the Thames caused Parliament to recess, brought a cry for action. The link between drinking water tainted with sewage and the incidence of disease slowly dawned on the Victorians. Dr John Snow proved that all victims in a Soho area cholera outbreak drew water from the same Broad Street pump.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, chief engineer of the new Metropolitan Board of Works (1855), put into effect a plan, completed in 1875, which finally provided adequate sewers to serve the city. In addition, laws were put in effect which prevented companies supplying drinking water from drawing water from the most heavily tainted parts of the Thames and required them to provide some type of filtration.
What? Very well written?! The letter had some glaring errors.
One solution I believe we must do is take a look at our corrections system in Michigan.
You implement a solution. You consider a solution. You don't "do a solution."
We also spend the most money per prisoner annually than any other state in the union.
You spend more money than any other state. You spend the most out of all the states. You do not spend the *most than* any other state...sigh...
They get three square meals a day. Access to free health care. Internet. Cable television. Access to a library. A weight room. Computer lab. They can earn a degree. A roof over their heads. Clothing.
These could more properly be separated by a punctuation mark other than periods, though the sentence fragments are not completely horrible this way.
Everything we just listed we DO NOT provide to our school children.
The letter switches between "I" and "we."
I sympathize with the guy's message, but I wouldn't call the letter well-written.
Can't you use this as a null hypothesis for everything?
Gravity? Our null hypothesis is God wills things to fall. Earthquakes? Our null hypothesis is God wills the ground to shake. Tides? The tide goes in, the tide goes out. Never a miscommunication.
If you can use it for everything, I think it is a pretty good sign that something is illogical about this way of thinking.
Also, while I'm not positive on this, I believe WordPerfect introduced the grammar-check before Word. And even if it did not, WordPerfect's old grammer-check still beats Word's horrible grammar-check to this day.
What was wrong with Wordperfect 7? I loved that version.
Most of peoples complaints were that Wordperfect was slow to get on Win 3.1, which I likely didn't notice since I was pugging away on an 8088 and upgraded only to a blazingly fast 486 right at the tail end of Win 3.1 before Win 95. Computers were expensive back then!
Yeah, but do you remember WordPerfect? It was way way way better than Microsoft Word and always was. Some of it's features even modern word processors don't have. For example, it had a MakeItFit feature where it would make what you already wrote fit any amount of pages by making very small adjustments to font size, margins and line spacing to hit the desired page count. You can't imagine how much work that saved me in high school (both from going under and going over the requested length). What modern word processor has that feature?
WordPerfect deserved to win and Microsoft Word did not get it's dominant position through innovation or a superior product. It's more like closing the barn door after a competing farmer stole all your cows and torched your barn ten years ago, so you had to sell the farm.
I have the book, the Paradox of Choice, on my bookshelf and have read it cover to cover (not that it's a hard read). The principle argument of the guy who wrote it begins that we in the modern world have an amazing array of choices. I can't disagree with him there. He points out that when we go to the average grocery store there are, you know, 47 varieties of potato chip, that sort of stuff and that this choice can be bewildering. All true.
However, he says that this choice causes bad emotions and that we'd all be a lot better off if we just settled on the easiest choice to come along without second thought and without dwelling or regret. He seems to think this is a logical solution to the paradox of choice. But this seemed like a horrible, even nightmarish idea to me. Let me break it down into terms the average Slashdotter can understand though. Essentially, according to Barry Schwartz, the solution to the paradox of choice is to relinquish choice and choose the easiest thing and thus the solution to the paradox of choice is that we:
Oh, dear foreigner, how quaint; you assume that in the United States are laws are reasonably applied and rationally carried out. I am afraid to break it to you, but our justice system does neither of these. The laws that forbid polygamy don't have any such thing as tax structure as their logical basis. If anything, the basis outlawing such things is religious and perhaps even biological (if somewhat gray-area between bonobos and gorillas).
Once you are charged with a crime, you are guilty of that crime automatically (unless you are wealthy, a celebrity, an attractive blond woman, etc.). The law will be applied in whatever sense will result in such an outcome. You are then sent to Crime School, a hundred-thousand dollar-a-year tax-player-funded peer-learning teaching system where we as a society teach you how to terrorize and brutalize your neighbors, so when released you are likely to commit more crimes and keep our large class of lawyers and government workers dutifully employed.
If we really didn't like crime of course we would of course do the exact opposite of what we do. That is, we would put a criminal with a large amount of non-criminals in a healthy environment, and he would over time mirror their ethical actions.
My basic view on the New York Times is that it is best read the way the Soviets used to read Pravda: The purpose of reading it isn't to learn the truth, it's to learn what those in power want you to think.
That's not a useless exercise, but it's also not what it appears to be.
Well, you can tell by the way I post my reply,
I know my stuff for a geeky guy.
I come to Slashdot for my news.
I'm a techie dude; I just can't lose.
Now it's alright. It's okay. You may look the other way. But we can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man.
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Microsoft Reportedly Ends Windows Phone Development
Posted by TmTvlr on March 14, 05:33 PM 2014
from the breaking-news-from-the-future dept.
"Microsoft Corp. will cease introducing new versions of the Windows Phone and Windows Tablet amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to whatever Apple happens to be doing at the moment, according to a person familiar with the decision. The company will concentrate on integrating Windows Tablet software onto desktop computers such as those running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, said the person, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn’t been announced and won't be announced for three years. Windows Tablet software lets customers buy songs and movies, as well as pay a monthly fee to stream unlimited music."
When are we going to graduate from this democracy myth and start calling the US the plutocratic oligarchic republic that it is?
Translation: When are we going to realize that our current government is not run by the people for the people. Our government is run by the wealthy and powerful for the wealthy and powerful.
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Even some of these you seemed to have singled out as incorrect, are more correct than incorrect.
For example, on the gymnastics one, you cut out: "Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. Every school, college and community will have a complete gymnasium." That part definitely has come to pass. Also, the general thrust of the whole thing was correct. Physical education in the current era has more emphasis than it did in 1900. You are sort of thumbing your nose at the idea that an emphasis on gymnastics will begin in the nursery as we live in an era where the government is promoting a Let's Move initiative for children.
For the fruit one, while most did not happen in a widespread, practical way one did. Practically all grapes bought these days are seedless. In addition, some of these, if not broadly adopted are also not unheard of. We can grow huge fruits if there was any practical reason to, for example, strawberries the size of apples. I'd also be willing to bet fruits are bigger than they used to be in 1900, but there isn't much of a point to grow them monstrously big.
To England in Two days sounds silly at first, but if you read the description of the craft it describes, "supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept between them and the water’s surface. This film, together with the small surface of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest possible degree" sounds a lot like a hovercraft. The passenger-grade hovercraft linked to can do 83 knots or about 95 miles per hour. New York to London is about 3500 miles. So, it would take 37 hours roughly to travel on this ship from New York to London, or in other words, two days. So, really, the prediction came true, it just didn't end up being a popular mode of transport since we have faster and easier ways to traverse the distance.
He may also only be about 50 years off on the no-cars-in-cities prediction.
All in all these predictions were remarkably accurate and even a few of these "wrong" ones came pretty close.
I like them a lot, because I've made them into cider.
Epic Win!
I see he's pulled the wool over your eyes.
Oh no, Fikri is real...The problem is he's just on a Disneyworld vacation and put his bank accounts in Russia because he felt his own government was becoming unstable. He's talking to people in Syria due to the influence of the Arab Spring. The problem is a lot of perfectly normal activity can be spun as suspicious activity very easily and suddenly you end up in Gitmo for taking a vacation to Disneyworld.
It's The Umbrella Man effect.
Why are you so unsure about 1984 and so sure these random connections add up to something sinister?
Analogous to what you said:
I'm fairly certain the constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."
It doesn't say anything about publishing a book. A book is writing. Speech is out loud. Why can't you just read your book out loud? Then it would be "speech." Convenient, no, but that's the price of admission.
Really, what you said doesn't make any sense. An occupation is an assembly, just as a book is a form of speech. The constitution does not say "may only assemble for 8 hours" or "may only assemble during the day" or "may only assemble so long as nobody is annoyed," what it says is: "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble."
The Bill of Rights has no price of admission.
Darn, going too fast with the math and divided the kilograms instead of pounds.
We'd need about 72,727 acre's of rice to support the current need.
The area of land needed would be about 11% of Rhode Island (668,800 acres total), assuming Rhode Island could remotely support rice farming.
Human serum albumin is the most abundant protein in human blood plasma. The reference range for albumin concentrations in blood is 3.4 to 5.4 g/dL.
So...
500 tons = 453 592.37 kilograms
1 L blood = 44 grams proteins (0.044 kilograms)
That means we will need 10,308,918 liters (2,723,328 gallons) of blood to support the current need.
A blood donation typically takes a pint of blood.
Thus 21,786,624 donations are needed to make this amount of human serum albumin.
Traditional white rice farmers realize a yield of 4000 to 6000 pounds per acre.
Thus we'd need about 32,989 acre's of rice to support the current need.
The area of land needed would be about 5% of Rhode Island (668,800 acres total), assuming Rhode Island could remotely support rice farming.
It only takes one, right? What exactly is this supposed to suggest?
In the future, we will all be vampires.
You are looking at evolution wrongly. Yes, cells are very very complex and full of complex machinery. Things that are very complex however can begin with things that are very simple.
Once you have anything, even a very simple thing, that copies itself (with errors) all kinds of diversity will arise and natural selection will act on that diversity.
Plus, believing in Supreme Being(s) doesn't satisfactorily answer the question either; it just moves the question into Xenobiology.
Oops, wrong link. Correct link, Engage!
I've heard so many stories like this lately. Isn't it about time that we pass a law that makes it unambiguously legal to record police officers in the course of their duty no matter what. It sounds like at least a step toward answering the age-old question Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?.
It would ban the sale of any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers — unless you plan to eat it.
"Officer, I bought the dog planning to eat it, but it was so cute I changed my mind."
Social problem: disease caused by unclean water
Technical problem: there's sewage in the river that we drink from.
Social problem: people are dumping sewage into the river we drink from
Technical solution: build adequate sewers.
My point was that technical and social problems are often intertwined so blanket statements like the parent comment are not universally true.
That sounds good, but I don't think it is true. Let me give a short example (pasted from: http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london.html):
Until the second half of the 19th century London residents were still drinking water from the very same portions of the Thames that the open sewers were discharging into. Several outbreaks of Cholera in the mid 19th century, along with The Great Stink of 1858, when the stench of the Thames caused Parliament to recess, brought a cry for action. The link between drinking water tainted with sewage and the incidence of disease slowly dawned on the Victorians. Dr John Snow proved that all victims in a Soho area cholera outbreak drew water from the same Broad Street pump.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, chief engineer of the new Metropolitan Board of Works (1855), put into effect a plan, completed in 1875, which finally provided adequate sewers to serve the city. In addition, laws were put in effect which prevented companies supplying drinking water from drawing water from the most heavily tainted parts of the Thames and required them to provide some type of filtration.
Social problem. Technical solution.
What? Very well written?! The letter had some glaring errors.
One solution I believe we must do is take a look at our corrections system in Michigan.
You implement a solution. You consider a solution. You don't "do a solution."
We also spend the most money per prisoner annually than any other state in the union.
You spend more money than any other state. You spend the most out of all the states. You do not spend the *most than* any other state...sigh...
They get three square meals a day. Access to free health care. Internet. Cable television. Access to a library. A weight room. Computer lab. They can earn a degree. A roof over their heads. Clothing.
These could more properly be separated by a punctuation mark other than periods, though the sentence fragments are not completely horrible this way.
Everything we just listed we DO NOT provide to our school children.
The letter switches between "I" and "we."
I sympathize with the guy's message, but I wouldn't call the letter well-written.
Can't you use this as a null hypothesis for everything?
Gravity? Our null hypothesis is God wills things to fall.
Earthquakes? Our null hypothesis is God wills the ground to shake.
Tides? The tide goes in, the tide goes out. Never a miscommunication.
If you can use it for everything, I think it is a pretty good sign that something is illogical about this way of thinking.
You think a high school teacher in 1995 is going to count all the word or characters of all the papers he or she receives?
Also, while I'm not positive on this, I believe WordPerfect introduced the grammar-check before Word. And even if it did not, WordPerfect's old grammer-check still beats Word's horrible grammar-check to this day.
What was wrong with Wordperfect 7? I loved that version.
Most of peoples complaints were that Wordperfect was slow to get on Win 3.1, which I likely didn't notice since I was pugging away on an 8088 and upgraded only to a blazingly fast 486 right at the tail end of Win 3.1 before Win 95. Computers were expensive back then!
Wordperfect ran on both.
Yeah, but do you remember WordPerfect? It was way way way better than Microsoft Word and always was. Some of it's features even modern word processors don't have. For example, it had a MakeItFit feature where it would make what you already wrote fit any amount of pages by making very small adjustments to font size, margins and line spacing to hit the desired page count. You can't imagine how much work that saved me in high school (both from going under and going over the requested length). What modern word processor has that feature?
WordPerfect deserved to win and Microsoft Word did not get it's dominant position through innovation or a superior product. It's more like closing the barn door after a competing farmer stole all your cows and torched your barn ten years ago, so you had to sell the farm.
I have the book, the Paradox of Choice, on my bookshelf and have read it cover to cover (not that it's a hard read). The principle argument of the guy who wrote it begins that we in the modern world have an amazing array of choices. I can't disagree with him there. He points out that when we go to the average grocery store there are, you know, 47 varieties of potato chip, that sort of stuff and that this choice can be bewildering. All true.
However, he says that this choice causes bad emotions and that we'd all be a lot better off if we just settled on the easiest choice to come along without second thought and without dwelling or regret. He seems to think this is a logical solution to the paradox of choice. But this seemed like a horrible, even nightmarish idea to me. Let me break it down into terms the average Slashdotter can understand though. Essentially, according to Barry Schwartz, the solution to the paradox of choice is to relinquish choice and choose the easiest thing and thus the solution to the paradox of choice is that we:
Run Windows.
Oh, dear foreigner, how quaint; you assume that in the United States are laws are reasonably applied and rationally carried out. I am afraid to break it to you, but our justice system does neither of these. The laws that forbid polygamy don't have any such thing as tax structure as their logical basis. If anything, the basis outlawing such things is religious and perhaps even biological (if somewhat gray-area between bonobos and gorillas).
Once you are charged with a crime, you are guilty of that crime automatically (unless you are wealthy, a celebrity, an attractive blond woman, etc.). The law will be applied in whatever sense will result in such an outcome. You are then sent to Crime School, a hundred-thousand dollar-a-year tax-player-funded peer-learning teaching system where we as a society teach you how to terrorize and brutalize your neighbors, so when released you are likely to commit more crimes and keep our large class of lawyers and government workers dutifully employed.
If we really didn't like crime of course we would of course do the exact opposite of what we do. That is, we would put a criminal with a large amount of non-criminals in a healthy environment, and he would over time mirror their ethical actions.
My basic view on the New York Times is that it is best read the way the Soviets used to read Pravda: The purpose of reading it isn't to learn the truth, it's to learn what those in power want you to think.
That's not a useless exercise, but it's also not what it appears to be.
Well, you can tell by the way I post my reply,
I know my stuff for a geeky guy.
I come to Slashdot for my news.
I'm a techie dude; I just can't lose.
Now it's alright. It's okay. You may look the other way.
But we can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man.
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Microsoft Reportedly Ends Windows Phone Development
Posted by TmTvlr on March 14, 05:33 PM 2014
from the breaking-news-from-the-future dept.
"Microsoft Corp. will cease introducing new versions of the Windows Phone and Windows Tablet amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to whatever Apple happens to be doing at the moment, according to a person familiar with the decision. The company will concentrate on integrating Windows Tablet software onto desktop computers such as those running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, said the person, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn’t been announced and won't be announced for three years. Windows Tablet software lets customers buy songs and movies, as well as pay a monthly fee to stream unlimited music."
When are we going to graduate from this democracy myth and start calling the US the plutocratic oligarchic republic that it is?
Translation: When are we going to realize that our current government is not run by the people for the people. Our government is run by the wealthy and powerful for the wealthy and powerful.