What is the point of this harsh punishment? To discipline him? Cure him? Make him kill himself? What? The role of prison should be to get dangerous people off the streets. You can't stop them being dangerous people in future.
Except he did boast about being the greenest director of all time and about Avatar sending an environmental message. So no, not Michael Moore (though both make fiction), just James Cameron.
Well he engages in a kind-of noble savage fallacy + the obviously retarded "greed (business) is evil". Of course it's OK for James Cameron to hold these views since he has a private jet, 4 houses, a couple of yachts and his own helicopter. The rest of us, no, we're not allowed to cut down trees. My own personal opinion on this is we shouldn't, but that's not the point here. Anyway it's OK if James Cameron wants to build a 5th holiday home. It's just the usual tedious hypocrisy we get from people in the movies.
In both cases we lack the information needed to predict what's going to happen, so they're quite similar from a scientific point of view. If we extrapolate out short-term cycles, it's quite likely we've missed longer term ones (decadal, multi-decadal, centennial, millennial). For example there's a strong correlation between the PDO and warming/cooling. But we've only recently deployed a sensor network to gather data on it.
It may not be possible to predict them. There's such a thing as Structured Criticality. That is to say:
... a property of complex systems in which small events may trigger larger events due to subtle interdependencies between elements. This often gives rise to a form of stratified chaos where the general behaviour of the system can be modelled on one scale while smaller- and larger-scale behaviours remain unpredictable.
Scientists can predict the Earth's climate one hundred years from now (apparently). They should be able to predict when earthquakes will occur well, well in advance, like 100 years. It's a real mystery. I suspect all that's needed is a little political will.
Oh not those. I mean the committees and people who sign the orders and keep an eye on what the security services are up to. The secret courts are an absolute disgrace and affront to natural justice.
Interesting case in point. Today the UK arrested five suspects linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels. They did this with the direct assistance of MI5 and presumably French security services. It wouldn't surprise me if the intelligence source was located somewhere in the vicinity of GCHQ, the government "listening" service.
I'll be honest and say I'm fine with government surveillance. What's always worried me is both political control of these organs of the state and at the same time lack of political control. It's the age-old question of who polices the police. It has to be politicians answerable for their actions to the electorate, however these things by their very nature are hidden from the electorate, so there's no accountability. Committees of government and opposition controlling the security services seems to me to be the only solution. And that, by and large, is what we have.
The problem is the principle, which will almost certainly be extended once accepted in one case (sickle cell), regardless of what you think the merits of that specific case are.
It is still probably better to use anti malarial drugs on the chance that they catch malaria at some point than it is to guarantee a lifetime of sickle cell anemia.
I don't know of a single biologist, scientist or doctor qualified to make that kind of judgement.
Yes but there are other checks and balances on your errant Presidents, like the Judiciary (Constitution), Congress and the Senate. The separation of powers is a bit vaguer here. Though of course with the President's many "executive orders" you're fast catching up with us.
Possibly, yes. You see those four genes in combination that cause the disease may by themselves or in some other combination with other genes, produce some very useful variation.
Cattle is cattle because of artificial selection. The problem here isn't the artificiality of it, it's the lack of variation it implies that'll make the life of every pathogen and parasite under the sun an awful lot easier.
It's a question of statistics (as so many things are). If 90% aren't assholes it means 10% of them are. This should inform policy before you invite 10,000,000 of them to come and live in your country because there's no way to determine beforehand which of the 10,000,000 are in the 10% and which are in the 90.
The real reason they're dumping stocks is because of the oil price crash. The climate bollocks is just spin. And Slashdot is an idiot for publishing it.
That's funny. Your President is coming to the UK soon to strike fear into the UK population about voting to leave the European Union in our June referendum. Before you get all high and mighty about other people interfering in your elections please stop interfering in other country's business yourselves.
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What is the point of this harsh punishment? To discipline him? Cure him? Make him kill himself? What? The role of prison should be to get dangerous people off the streets. You can't stop them being dangerous people in future.
I was about to say precisely this. In fact I've just finished watching a wonderful talk by a fish palaeontologist on more or less this very subject.
It depends on why you cut down the tree.
Except he did boast about being the greenest director of all time and about Avatar sending an environmental message. So no, not Michael Moore (though both make fiction), just James Cameron.
Oh I don't know. I think it would make an excellent theme for a movie or four.
You'd have voted for HMS Pompous?
Well he engages in a kind-of noble savage fallacy + the obviously retarded "greed (business) is evil". Of course it's OK for James Cameron to hold these views since he has a private jet, 4 houses, a couple of yachts and his own helicopter. The rest of us, no, we're not allowed to cut down trees. My own personal opinion on this is we shouldn't, but that's not the point here. Anyway it's OK if James Cameron wants to build a 5th holiday home. It's just the usual tedious hypocrisy we get from people in the movies.
In both cases we lack the information needed to predict what's going to happen, so they're quite similar from a scientific point of view. If we extrapolate out short-term cycles, it's quite likely we've missed longer term ones (decadal, multi-decadal, centennial, millennial). For example there's a strong correlation between the PDO and warming/cooling. But we've only recently deployed a sensor network to gather data on it.
Scientists can predict the Earth's climate one hundred years from now (apparently). They should be able to predict when earthquakes will occur well, well in advance, like 100 years. It's a real mystery. I suspect all that's needed is a little political will.
Devices controlled minds.
Oh not those. I mean the committees and people who sign the orders and keep an eye on what the security services are up to. The secret courts are an absolute disgrace and affront to natural justice.
Interesting case in point. Today the UK arrested five suspects linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels. They did this with the direct assistance of MI5 and presumably French security services. It wouldn't surprise me if the intelligence source was located somewhere in the vicinity of GCHQ, the government "listening" service.
I'll be honest and say I'm fine with government surveillance. What's always worried me is both political control of these organs of the state and at the same time lack of political control. It's the age-old question of who polices the police. It has to be politicians answerable for their actions to the electorate, however these things by their very nature are hidden from the electorate, so there's no accountability. Committees of government and opposition controlling the security services seems to me to be the only solution. And that, by and large, is what we have.
The problem is the principle, which will almost certainly be extended once accepted in one case (sickle cell), regardless of what you think the merits of that specific case are.
I don't know of a single biologist, scientist or doctor qualified to make that kind of judgement.
Yes but there are other checks and balances on your errant Presidents, like the Judiciary (Constitution), Congress and the Senate. The separation of powers is a bit vaguer here. Though of course with the President's many "executive orders" you're fast catching up with us.
Hahaha. Come on. Do yourself a favour and stop being so stupid.
Possibly, yes. You see those four genes in combination that cause the disease may by themselves or in some other combination with other genes, produce some very useful variation.
Cattle is cattle because of artificial selection. The problem here isn't the artificiality of it, it's the lack of variation it implies that'll make the life of every pathogen and parasite under the sun an awful lot easier.
It's a question of statistics (as so many things are). If 90% aren't assholes it means 10% of them are. This should inform policy before you invite 10,000,000 of them to come and live in your country because there's no way to determine beforehand which of the 10,000,000 are in the 10% and which are in the 90.
Opportunity cost, dividends. You don't seem to get the whole investment thing.
The real reason they're dumping stocks is because of the oil price crash. The climate bollocks is just spin. And Slashdot is an idiot for publishing it.
When's Facebook going to make a start on that?
Of course he was invited. How do you think these things actually work?
That's funny. Your President is coming to the UK soon to strike fear into the UK population about voting to leave the European Union in our June referendum. Before you get all high and mighty about other people interfering in your elections please stop interfering in other country's business yourselves.