Scientists are only human beings, and they'll be prone to making the mistake of forgetting to adherely strictly to scientific methodology on the odd occasion but rarely in a professional context. There are professional scientists who investigate paranormal acitvity and they are pretty thorough - check out someone like Dr Richard Wiseman in the UK.
To say this is an example of something science can't yet explain sounds quite exciting but is really very ordinary - science could not explain the ultraviolet catastrophe until Planck postulated quantised energy states. Nothing magic, just needed investigation, which is what scientists will no doubt apply in this case.
Magic is a trick. This is the point. Magicians call themselves 'illusionists' - they can (very cleverly) fool you into believing all sorts of things. David Copperfield did not make the Statue of Liberty disappear but created the illusion that it had done so.
No you're just ignorant. I don't pay any attention to stereotypes - I leave those to people too small-minded to think about how people actually live. But dipping momentarily into your little world of stereotypes, jsut to placate you, it isn't a Jewish stereotypical trait to gamble. Jar Jar didn't dress anything like a stereotypical person from the Carribean. The Trade Federation people did not have slanted eyes. Maybe the British-accented Palpatine is a stereotypical British empire-builder eh?
Maybe I wasn't out to look for reflections on stereotypes in the real world, just like George wasn't trying to create such reflections. If people perceive themselves as stereotypes then good for them.
I find those comparisons laughable. I did not see Jar Jar and think "Oh he's just like some black guy". Who in their right mind could make that sort of link? If anyone knows a real person who acts or speaks like Jar Jar then I'll find that very amusing.
How in hell's name was Jar-Jar offensive!? Apart from the fact I found it offensive that George Lucas thought I might want to watch him on screen, of course.
Absolute power lies with the US, as always. It signed up to have its hands bound by the WTO. One assumes it can stick its middle finger up if it wants to.
My father has never used the Internet before and has just started browsing EBay for antique glass. I've printed out, in 48-point lettering, "EBay will never ask you for your password by email" and pinned it to the wall next to the PC. I'm thinking of replicating this for other tricks that some people try to pull.
Revenge was 1983 actually. At least it said so on the box. Sheep in Space was 1984. Magic days. I met Jeff when I was 7. He's pretty tall and I was dumbstruck at meeting this computing god, as he was to me, and all I could say was "You're tall aren't you?" to which he replied "Yes." Unforgettable.
Absolutely. And indeed Free Software is part of the capitalist process. We can buy and sell services, and code if we want, with Free Software. It's a complete misnomer to suggest that somehow capitalism is threatened by Free Software - I make money from using it very happily!
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Scientists are only human beings, and they'll be prone to making the mistake of forgetting to adherely strictly to scientific methodology on the odd occasion but rarely in a professional context.
There are professional scientists who investigate paranormal acitvity and they are pretty thorough - check out someone like Dr Richard Wiseman in the UK.
To say this is an example of something science can't yet explain sounds quite exciting but is really very ordinary - science could not explain the ultraviolet catastrophe until Planck postulated quantised energy states. Nothing magic, just needed investigation, which is what scientists will no doubt apply in this case.
Please do provide references! Scepticism is a natural and healthy thing.
Magic is a trick. This is the point. Magicians call themselves 'illusionists' - they can (very cleverly) fool you into believing all sorts of things.
David Copperfield did not make the Statue of Liberty disappear but created the illusion that it had done so.
No you're just ignorant. I don't pay any attention to stereotypes - I leave those to people too small-minded to think about how people actually live.
But dipping momentarily into your little world of stereotypes, jsut to placate you, it isn't a Jewish stereotypical trait to gamble. Jar Jar didn't dress anything like a stereotypical person from the Carribean. The Trade Federation people did not have slanted eyes.
Maybe the British-accented Palpatine is a stereotypical British empire-builder eh?
How can people see so much crap in so little?
They are renaming it.
The game's title now begins "We've been waiting for.."
Maybe I wasn't out to look for reflections on stereotypes in the real world, just like George wasn't trying to create such reflections.
If people perceive themselves as stereotypes then good for them.
I find those comparisons laughable. I did not see Jar Jar and think "Oh he's just like some black guy".
Who in their right mind could make that sort of link? If anyone knows a real person who acts or speaks like Jar Jar then I'll find that very amusing.
Yes Netscape 4.7 would be a lot faster as it is a less complex and smaller bit of software. However it also sucks rocks. :-)
How in hell's name was Jar-Jar offensive!?
Apart from the fact I found it offensive that George Lucas thought I might want to watch him on screen, of course.
Lucky them.
ESR has sex?!
How do you expect someone drinking that much coffee NOT to stay up the entire night?
Hah! Like the US was not afraid to use the bomb in the early 80s?
Absolute power lies with the US, as always.
It signed up to have its hands bound by the WTO.
One assumes it can stick its middle finger up if it wants to.
UABar. When it works.
Very very handy!
Give them time, give them time...
Not if I have anything to do with it!
My father has never used the Internet before and has just started browsing EBay for antique glass. I've printed out, in 48-point lettering, "EBay will never ask you for your password by email" and pinned it to the wall next to the PC.
I'm thinking of replicating this for other tricks that some people try to pull.
"By the way, CA doesn't have enough UnixWare licenses to cover all its Linux servers, Greenblatt said."
Shame eh?
It's not just that - they're suing their own customers! People who bought licences!
Who in hell's name is going to buy a licence now?
You're kidding. The 2D performance has gone up hugely in the last 5 years!
Revenge was 1983 actually. At least it said so on the box. Sheep in Space was 1984.
Magic days. I met Jeff when I was 7. He's pretty tall and I was dumbstruck at meeting this computing god, as he was to me, and all I could say was "You're tall aren't you?" to which he replied "Yes."
Unforgettable.
Absolutely. And indeed Free Software is part of the capitalist process. We can buy and sell services, and code if we want, with Free Software.
It's a complete misnomer to suggest that somehow capitalism is threatened by Free Software - I make money from using it very happily!
Except they don't.
But they KNOW you'd think this. They're not stupid.