The 5% mortality rate and the very high infection rate? Say it infects 2x as many people because they couldn't prevent it from infecting them and the mortality rate is 20x higher than normal flu.
How is bailout any different than everyone collecting on their FDIC backed accounts? When the FDIC goes bankrupt, who do you think is going to cover those accounts?
There is a sense of entitlement which is prevelant on this forum - that for some reason people are entitled to everything anyone ever thought or put on "paper". It is irrelevant if the person/company spent time or money.
When was the last time you've seen a copyright expire? Hold your breath until you see another copyright expire and then get back to me.
That piece of inaccurate blogging is slander! He said something without having proof, and I for one think he should go to jail.
You wouldn't happen to be south korean would you?
I think you should go to jail for libeling him. In countries with sane libel laws, truth is a defense in libel. So even if he didn't have proof, if he is right, there should be no penalty.
It's true that public space is relatively free for all, but it's still not OK to set up a telescope on a public sidewalk and look into peoples' windows, and it's not OK to follow someone on public streets for hours and days...
The story had left out that google was using telescopes and following people. No wonder they were chased out.
Or that medical personal are mislabeling children with autism simply because parents want an excuse to give for why their children act like... er children.
Not that i'm for torture, but the Geneva Convention defines when you have to follow the convention. There are exceptions for non-signing states. If a non-signed states starts torturing your soldiers, you are allowed to do it to them.
See, you are over generalizing. Most religious people do not belong to cults that don't believe in medicine. Most religious people are not fundamentalists, extremists, or zealots.
Actually, i didn't generalize at all. I gave an example. Now I'll generalize: the more fairy tales people believe in the greater the chance of it leading to harm. So just because you can tell me most people don't drown swimming where there isn't a lifeguard doesn't mean it is not dangerous swimming in the ocean without a lifeguard present. You are just talking about a difference in scale.
in fact, psych wards until recently have been known as frightening places
I think you just stumbled upon my point. Science has a feature for assimilating better representations of reality--religion does not or at least it does not have a formalized deterministic way of assimilating change. If the religion says the earth is 6000 years old--it can't change.
Look at traditional Judaism. Check out the rules of things you aren't allowed to do on their sabbath. Including driving to worship--you better be walking to Temple.
instead of worrying about the ways other people try to enjoy life
I don't care except where they are determined to stop me from doing the things i want to do. Like when Texas decides to stop teaching real science in classrooms.
You can say that, but it doesn't make it true;-) Why exactly? How is it harmful? If you are happy, and, say volunteering and giving to charity, what is wrong with your life?
Well, for one the cancer in your testicle isn't getting cured by praying. Your pastor tells you that God will cure you and this is a test of faith. On one hand there is fairy tale and the other reality. Reality always wins in the end.
we do not have to listen to our doctors or pastors, and many choose not to.
Try, but only one of those will use psychological guilt trips and family to pressure you into thinking you don't have a choice. Only one of those will care if you get a second opinion.
What's the difference between a single plug and a string of plugs off the same circuit?
Most household circuits are running off 20A breakers anyway. Your whole office is probably off the same circuit. Normal plugs can handle 15A an the plugs with a horizontal cut in them by the one plug can handled 20A.
But you can plug devices in and read how much power they are using. Keep plugging until you get close to 1500 Watts.
You really want to graph your whole house by outlet. Then you can "optimize" from the data.
The precedent here is: if the institution doesn't like how a journal does business, it can restrict faculty from publishing at that journal.
Since there is open access, i think the faculty can try publishing at that journal. If that journal asks them to sign over their rights to the publication, they won't be able to.
So actually the journal is preventing them from publishing, not MIT. In fact depending on how open the paper is, can't the journals just reprint the paper?
Anything that gives you happiness by providing you with fairy tales is harmful in large doses. The fact that religion doesn't match up with reality is the problem.
Science can and must change in response to reality, where as religion is just arbitrary rules.
If you think anti-depressants are over-prescribed just think how much religion is over-prescribed.
That's not a GET and PUT limitation. That is a IE 6 limitation. That's a huge difference.
All you need to do is force upgrade people using IE6. Use one of the various browser exploits that exist for IE6, and upgrade their computer for them. In fact, don't bother sniffing for IE6, if they have IE6 your code will exploit them, upgrade their computer and reboot. You'll slowly be patching the entire internet.
That's arguing in a circle. The universe doesn't HAVE to exist at all, much less be hospitable. It is not trivial that both of these are true, no more than it would be trivial for me to find myself alive, having somehow dodged every bullet from a firing squad.
- Joe Blow won the lottery. - Joe Blow must have cheated because the chances of him winning the lottery without cheating are not trivial.
Argument from ignorance or argument from lack of imagination. Because you cannot foresee an answer it has to be God. But you end your logical probing at God.
Now you fall victim to the first cause fallacy. Who created and finely tuned God? The chances of him existing and being finely tuned into your Christian God are far smaller than the chances of the universe being as it is. It's non-trivial that God could exist in such a form, some earlier God must have created him. And so on, and so forth.
Explain to me how the fine tuning required for God to form anywhere is less than the fine tuning for life to form anywhere.
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A 2% mortality rate is not alarming to you? Are you fucking retarded? What happens when it infects 2 billion people?
Wouldn't it be ironic if you now got infected and died? Or like if it rained on your wedding day?
The 5% mortality rate and the very high infection rate? Say it infects 2x as many people because they couldn't prevent it from infecting them and the mortality rate is 20x higher than normal flu.
How is bailout any different than everyone collecting on their FDIC backed accounts? When the FDIC goes bankrupt, who do you think is going to cover those accounts?
When was the last time you've seen a copyright expire? Hold your breath until you see another copyright expire and then get back to me.
Did you read the warrant?
I can't wait to see the XKCD strip about that. Some blog bitch slapping an advisor until he resigns.
You wouldn't happen to be south korean would you?
I think you should go to jail for libeling him. In countries with sane libel laws, truth is a defense in libel. So even if he didn't have proof, if he is right, there should be no penalty.
Why don't you stand in front of a 200 Megawatt transmission and get back to us on that one?
The story had left out that google was using telescopes and following people. No wonder they were chased out.
Few? I guess you asked all of the non-verbal autistics what they wanted? Do you consider behavior analysis and modification to be "curing" ala ABA?
Really? Rush Limbaugh is that you?
Not that i'm for torture, but the Geneva Convention defines when you have to follow the convention. There are exceptions for non-signing states. If a non-signed states starts torturing your soldiers, you are allowed to do it to them.
Actually, i didn't generalize at all. I gave an example. Now I'll generalize: the more fairy tales people believe in the greater the chance of it leading to harm. So just because you can tell me most people don't drown swimming where there isn't a lifeguard doesn't mean it is not dangerous swimming in the ocean without a lifeguard present. You are just talking about a difference in scale.
I think you just stumbled upon my point. Science has a feature for assimilating better representations of reality--religion does not or at least it does not have a formalized deterministic way of assimilating change. If the religion says the earth is 6000 years old--it can't change.
Look at traditional Judaism. Check out the rules of things you aren't allowed to do on their sabbath. Including driving to worship--you better be walking to Temple.
I don't care except where they are determined to stop me from doing the things i want to do. Like when Texas decides to stop teaching real science in classrooms.
Well, for one the cancer in your testicle isn't getting cured by praying. Your pastor tells you that God will cure you and this is a test of faith. On one hand there is fairy tale and the other reality. Reality always wins in the end.
Try, but only one of those will use psychological guilt trips and family to pressure you into thinking you don't have a choice. Only one of those will care if you get a second opinion.
What's the difference between a single plug and a string of plugs off the same circuit?
Most household circuits are running off 20A breakers anyway. Your whole office is probably off the same circuit. Normal plugs can handle 15A an the plugs with a horizontal cut in them by the one plug can handled 20A.
But you can plug devices in and read how much power they are using. Keep plugging until you get close to 1500 Watts.
You really want to graph your whole house by outlet. Then you can "optimize" from the data.
Since there is open access, i think the faculty can try publishing at that journal. If that journal asks them to sign over their rights to the publication, they won't be able to.
So actually the journal is preventing them from publishing, not MIT. In fact depending on how open the paper is, can't the journals just reprint the paper?
Anything that gives you happiness by providing you with fairy tales is harmful in large doses. The fact that religion doesn't match up with reality is the problem.
Science can and must change in response to reality, where as religion is just arbitrary rules.
If you think anti-depressants are over-prescribed just think how much religion is over-prescribed.
ah, yes...i missed the last two links.
don't forget ruby and vi/emacs.
That's not a GET and PUT limitation. That is a IE 6 limitation. That's a huge difference.
All you need to do is force upgrade people using IE6. Use one of the various browser exploits that exist for IE6, and upgrade their computer for them. In fact, don't bother sniffing for IE6, if they have IE6 your code will exploit them, upgrade their computer and reboot. You'll slowly be patching the entire internet.
Except he never wished ill of the religious people, so it's hard to see how that is as bad as the hypothetical behavior he describes.
Gosh, that's because you're an idiot. We all wish you were an atheist.
Every reason you listed makes you out to be an egoist. Go back and cry to mommy so she makes you feel important.
Yes, Jesus wanted you to be an egoist. That's what his lessons were all about...
- Joe Blow won the lottery.
- Joe Blow must have cheated because the chances of him winning the lottery without cheating are not trivial.
Argument from ignorance or argument from lack of imagination. Because you cannot foresee an answer it has to be God. But you end your logical probing at God.
Now you fall victim to the first cause fallacy. Who created and finely tuned God? The chances of him existing and being finely tuned into your Christian God are far smaller than the chances of the universe being as it is. It's non-trivial that God could exist in such a form, some earlier God must have created him. And so on, and so forth.
Explain to me how the fine tuning required for God to form anywhere is less than the fine tuning for life to form anywhere.
ah. Thanks for the clarification. Besides being a poor latin student it was years and years ago. I barely remember: sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt.