...have the excess wealth to worry about environmental concerns. Note the cleaner air and water in western societies. The US actually has more trees...
More trees != cleaner air and water
And that excess wealth doesn't seem to be too concerned with environmental issues...
That estimate seems very low. We probably couldn't restart the Shuttle programme for half a billion, and as it stands there are no rockets ready to lift anything to the moon.
IANARS but my out-of-the-blue unqualified know-nothing-about-it guesstimate would be around 4 billion dollars. Maybe that's too low too.
Comment #34698456 by Entrope (68843): "... So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity...."
Comment #34699254 by Entrope (68843): "I can't really go take a look. I like my job, and -- thanks probably to the indiscriminate behavior of Wikileaks -- I have been told not to go looking at the details or else I might not be able to continue doing my job."
So you haven't looked at the leaks, but you're sure that they reveal nothing of value. Approximately.
It's favoring change as opposed to being aversive to it (conservative), not to develop in stages. So yes, they don't call it progressive for nothing, but not because incremental development is their modus operandi.
...if given a series of n items that I can reproduce it with at least one polynomial function with largest term of cx^n-1 terms and an infinite number of polynomial functions with largest term of cx^n.
So basically one can create a function to describe the limited information you have but not really answer what the "real" answer is.
Continuing your analogy notice that the simplest (measured as the numbers of terms) is unique. In the same way the simplest complete description is preferred in science, cf. Occam's razor. I'm not an expert on string theory, so I don't know if it's unnecessarily complicated, but I suspect a lot of prominent scientists would be called out if it were.
There's nothing like a climate debate to revamp people's passion for scientific scepticism. Oddly it doesn't seem to happen with other topics. Let's recap:
Let me add further scepticism: Unless you cite a paper that you published in a peer-reviewed journal to back up your claim, you don't get to dismiss models that have been accepted in peer-reviewed journals.
Perhaps Prof. Burnhard would enlighten us lesser folk as to why these claims are idiotic. Or maybe one of the moderators who modded the post interesting.
I know! Joe Lieberman!...er...you said aside from right-wing Neocon wingnuts...um...at this point that's basically what he's become. So shoot, can't name one.
No, no. Joe Lieberman is totally a democrat. It's not like he torpedoed health care or anything.
I recently completed a round the world trip that included the US, Australia, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the cell phone experience in the US (which was mainly AT&T) was by far the worst. Dropped calls, no coverage in many places for no reason (certain block in NYC, on the freeway).
3G wasn't deployed in Africa when I was there, but for talking I would pick an African carrier over AT&T (or T-Mobile for that matter) any day.
"The well know Tai's method can in most cases be improved by fitting a quadratic curve under each section of the curve and then summing the respective areas below the quadratic curves. I call this method S. Impson's Rule."
After this I would publish improvements every three months, fitting higher and higher degree polynomials. Then: Profit!
The US is a Republic, based on the idea that we the people govern the country. It was our successful experimentation in self-government that proved to the world that self-government could be done successfully, and that spread the idea of individual liberty across the entire world. In doing so the US changed the political landscape of the entire world for the better. I'd say that is an accomplishment of which any American can rightfully be proud.
I agree that the people who accomplished this have something to be truly proud of. But you're not one of them. Instead, you're part of the group that have done nothing whilst your country has betrayed every ideal set by the founding fathers. Torture, ignoring the constitution, invading countries for no good reason. All done in the last 10 years, and the majority were cheering while it happened. You have very little to be proud of.
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Just to make things interesting, I binged it (has bing been verbed yet?). ...
Well, it's a verb, but it's past tense of binge (as in drinking).
The title of their page is Windows Phone home.
...have the excess wealth to worry about environmental concerns. Note the cleaner air and water in western societies. The US actually has more trees...
More trees != cleaner air and water
And that excess wealth doesn't seem to be too concerned with environmental issues...
That estimate seems very low. We probably couldn't restart the Shuttle programme for half a billion, and as it stands there are no rockets ready to lift anything to the moon.
IANARS but my out-of-the-blue unqualified know-nothing-about-it guesstimate would be around 4 billion dollars. Maybe that's too low too.
My bad, that would be:
"ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics."
But hardly "best educated population (on average)."
...best this, best that, best educated population (on average)...
*screeech*
OECD ranked the US dead last in reading, maths and science in 2009.
Net-boot done before. Cloud OS vaporware. Lame.
The Japanese versus Chinese "rules" give very different endgames, but the practice is to simply ignore that and pretend there is no problem.
That's because it would destroy the harmony of the game if you start discussing all the problems with the rules.
Comment #34698456 by Entrope (68843): "... So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity. ..."
Comment #34699254 by Entrope (68843): "I can't really go take a look. I like my job, and -- thanks probably to the indiscriminate behavior of Wikileaks -- I have been told not to go looking at the details or else I might not be able to continue doing my job."
So you haven't looked at the leaks, but you're sure that they reveal nothing of value. Approximately.
They don't call it "Progressive" for nothing.
It's favoring change as opposed to being aversive to it (conservative), not to develop in stages. So yes, they don't call it progressive for nothing, but not because incremental development is their modus operandi.
...if given a series of n items that I can reproduce it with at least one polynomial function with largest term of cx^n-1 terms and an infinite number of polynomial functions with largest term of cx^n.
Lagrange polynomial
So basically one can create a function to describe the limited information you have but not really answer what the "real" answer is.
Continuing your analogy notice that the simplest (measured as the numbers of terms) is unique. In the same way the simplest complete description is preferred in science, cf. Occam's razor. I'm not an expert on string theory, so I don't know if it's unnecessarily complicated, but I suspect a lot of prominent scientists would be called out if it were.
They are terrorists! We should “put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something”
There's nothing like a climate debate to revamp people's passion for scientific scepticism. Oddly it doesn't seem to happen with other topics. Let's recap:
Burnhard (1031106) calls ocean acidification a "ridiculous Green bandwagon" and lumps it in with other "idiotic claims". Modded interesting.
Rockoon (1252108) states that "All of those previous models are crap, but so too is this one most likely crap.". Modded insightful.
Mashiki (184564) lets us know that "Models are garbage, even hindcasted.". Modded interesting.
Let me add further scepticism: Unless you cite a paper that you published in a peer-reviewed journal to back up your claim, you don't get to dismiss models that have been accepted in peer-reviewed journals.
Perhaps Prof. Burnhard would enlighten us lesser folk as to why these claims are idiotic. Or maybe one of the moderators who modded the post interesting.
I know! Joe Lieberman!...er...you said aside from right-wing Neocon wingnuts...um...at this point that's basically what he's become. So shoot, can't name one.
No, no. Joe Lieberman is totally a democrat. It's not like he torpedoed health care or anything.
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
I recently completed a round the world trip that included the US, Australia, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the cell phone experience in the US (which was mainly AT&T) was by far the worst. Dropped calls, no coverage in many places for no reason (certain block in NYC, on the freeway).
3G wasn't deployed in Africa when I was there, but for talking I would pick an African carrier over AT&T (or T-Mobile for that matter) any day.
"The well know Tai's method can in most cases be improved by fitting a quadratic curve under each section of the curve and then summing the respective areas below the quadratic curves. I call this method S. Impson's Rule."
After this I would publish improvements every three months, fitting higher and higher degree polynomials. Then: Profit!
The US is a Republic, based on the idea that we the people govern the country. It was our successful experimentation in self-government that proved to the world that self-government could be done successfully, and that spread the idea of individual liberty across the entire world. In doing so the US changed the political landscape of the entire world for the better. I'd say that is an accomplishment of which any American can rightfully be proud.
I agree that the people who accomplished this have something to be truly proud of. But you're not one of them. Instead, you're part of the group that have done nothing whilst your country has betrayed every ideal set by the founding fathers. Torture, ignoring the constitution, invading countries for no good reason. All done in the last 10 years, and the majority were cheering while it happened. You have very little to be proud of.
Guess it's gonna be harder for Wikileaks to find a host for politically relevant, shocking revelations such as Nicolas Sarkozy chasing a rabbit around the office.
You don't understand. This revelation PUTS LIVES AT RISK.
You think obtaining secretary general Ban Ki-moon's credit card number spreads it faster?
Has he broken any laws you can name...
Most likely the Espionage Act of 1917. Not judging the merits of the case, but that's what immediately comes to mind.
You might be right, except for this little technicality: US federal law is limited to ... the US.
I think you mean "where are the leaks from China, from Germany, from Russia, etc, lately?". Check their previous leaks.
Welcome back, agent Kagura. I guess operatives such as yourself don't have time to rewrite previous comments. We understand.
Apparently disclosing the following counts as an act of terrorism according to a certain republican:
* US diplomats spying on UN
* Canadian diplomats asking ExxonMobil and BP to help "kill" U.S. global-warming policies to ensure that "the oil keeps a-flowing" into the U.S.
* Yemen goverment lying to its people on US bombings
* US pressing Germany to not pursue arrest warrants for 13 agents CIA agents. (arrest warrents that the cables describe as "From a judicial standpoint, the facts are clear, and the Munich prosecutor has acted correctly.")
This is stuff that people need to know.