The film I can understand, but Feynman? Seriously? I guess that's either really bad or really good. Really bad in that it's nearly inexcusable, but really good in that now he has the chance to learn about him for the first time.
If Randi takes time to study someone exhibiting telekinesis and determines that their brain is producing some quantum effect, plucking at the stuff of spacetime itself and creating gravitons, then he just explained it and there is no mystery. No $1M.
Explanations are not involved. You make a specific claim. They devise a test of that claim. If you pass the test you get the money. You don't have to offer any explanation of how you did it, you don't have to categorize it or give it a name, you just have to do it.
It's been well tested. Surprisingly I can't find the video on youtube, but a large group of professional dowsers were gathered. A network of ten pipes were laid down, only one of which would have water in it at any given time. All of the dowsers, before the test, were certain that they would have no trouble consistently finding the water. They all failed. They were not frauds, they truly believed in their power. Humans are easily fooled, even by themselves.
I eventually had my own direct experience with non-ordinary reality.
Why are you so sure you weren't fooled or simply mistaken? That's far far more likely than magic actually existing. But if it were genuine magic, the consequences are so enormous that relegating it to a mere anecdote is almost criminal.
If it's something you merely can't explain, making the leap to "magic" is no better than invoking a god to explain it.
With experienced players playing for big money, the only camera that could see their cards would have to be embedded in the table top. Expect when on television, players completely cup their hands over their cards when looking.
It means these coins are being hoarded. If it was real money this would be damaging the economy.
The government would like nothing more than for "real" money to be hoarded. That would mean they could simply print it again. That's one of the big reasons they like all this corporate profit trapped offshore. It's like free money to them.
As fr as I can tell they don't say how iPhone thefts there were in 2011. Apple sold a lot more phones in 2012 than in 2011, and before 2011 it's a tiny percentage overall. So it may be that "per capita" (per iPhoneita) thefts were well down.
I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.
I'd say there's part of the problem right there. Does he think there are magic fairies in the brakes? Regeneration can only make stop and start driving less bad. It obviously can't be an improvement over stopping less.
It might have cost them $5M in sales, but their profit on that is less than 2%, or less than $100,000. And even that assumes all those sales are lost and not simply delayed.
If that's true, than unless the vast majority of currency (ISK?) in the game is backed by plex (which is sounds like it's not) then it's absurd to compare it to real money.
Value is value. a "Titan ship" may be an inconvenient form of storage, and there is (demonstrably) inherent risk in it, but it still has value. And that risk and inconvenience influence the value. Without those issues it would be worth more. So if the market values it at $3,500 or so, then that's value, even if you or I would have no interest in possessing it.
Sure, but when his grandfather came over on the boat his name was Hamletus. Which oddly enough had earlier been shortened from Hamletus Cheese Pickles Onions on a Sesame Seed Bun.
trial balloons are sent up by lawmakers all the time, though. they test the waters (sopa, example) and then back off just enough and wait just enough so that they can try again.
Yep. One way to get something that's crazy is to first ask for something that way crazier than that. Then the crazy thing seems more reasonable.
To say nothing of the obligatory shrieking from CNN with a story about how touch screens are going to kill your baby with contact germs and chemicals. You know that's happening.
And then Best Buy could offer an anti-baterial coating for an extra $99.95. Just like those car dealers always want to sell you the rustproofing.
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The film I can understand, but Feynman? Seriously? I guess that's either really bad or really good. Really bad in that it's nearly inexcusable, but really good in that now he has the chance to learn about him for the first time.
Explanations are not involved. You make a specific claim. They devise a test of that claim. If you pass the test you get the money. You don't have to offer any explanation of how you did it, you don't have to categorize it or give it a name, you just have to do it.
It's been well tested. Surprisingly I can't find the video on youtube, but a large group of professional dowsers were gathered. A network of ten pipes were laid down, only one of which would have water in it at any given time. All of the dowsers, before the test, were certain that they would have no trouble consistently finding the water. They all failed. They were not frauds, they truly believed in their power. Humans are easily fooled, even by themselves.
Why are you so sure you weren't fooled or simply mistaken? That's far far more likely than magic actually existing. But if it were genuine magic, the consequences are so enormous that relegating it to a mere anecdote is almost criminal.
If it's something you merely can't explain, making the leap to "magic" is no better than invoking a god to explain it.
With experienced players playing for big money, the only camera that could see their cards would have to be embedded in the table top. Expect when on television, players completely cup their hands over their cards when looking.
The government would like nothing more than for "real" money to be hoarded. That would mean they could simply print it again. That's one of the big reasons they like all this corporate profit trapped offshore. It's like free money to them.
How's that working out?
Your perfect world contains spammers and jails? You should try to get a refund.
As fr as I can tell they don't say how iPhone thefts there were in 2011. Apple sold a lot more phones in 2012 than in 2011, and before 2011 it's a tiny percentage overall. So it may be that "per capita" (per iPhoneita) thefts were well down.
Pie is a euphemism.
I'd say there's part of the problem right there. Does he think there are magic fairies in the brakes? Regeneration can only make stop and start driving less bad. It obviously can't be an improvement over stopping less.
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Apps are not affected. Im running one right now. It's only the browser plugin. If the app didn't run I would be pissed off.
It might have cost them $5M in sales, but their profit on that is less than 2%, or less than $100,000. And even that assumes all those sales are lost and not simply delayed.
Dogbert is a character in the Dilbert comic.
Value is value. a "Titan ship" may be an inconvenient form of storage, and there is (demonstrably) inherent risk in it, but it still has value. And that risk and inconvenience influence the value. Without those issues it would be worth more. So if the market values it at $3,500 or so, then that's value, even if you or I would have no interest in possessing it.
But if I had only a single apostrophe wouldn't I have to add an apostrophe to make it plural?
So your theory then is that we're still here, therefore nothing is dangerous?
Which let me tell you makes it really tough to get a good night's sleep. How much is a room at this place anyway?
Sure, but when his grandfather came over on the boat his name was Hamletus. Which oddly enough had earlier been shortened from Hamletus Cheese Pickles Onions on a Sesame Seed Bun.
Yep. One way to get something that's crazy is to first ask for something that way crazier than that. Then the crazy thing seems more reasonable.
You can't hold much pee in a nutshell.
And then Best Buy could offer an anti-baterial coating for an extra $99.95. Just like those car dealers always want to sell you the rustproofing.
Maybe he's a serf.
By definition.