You cannot prove any theory without axioms (assumptions). You can, however, test a myriad of different scenarios which are all interconnected and ensure that a single theory adequately describes the data you take. As a theory, it provides predictions which can be falsified. When the physical range of a theory's predictive power extends beyond our ability to construct experiments then you pretty much have to find another job. But at no time have we proven anything. We have tested in as many cases we can think of for ways in which our theories fail. So in short yes we have to test our theories outside of earth (there are ways of doing this by observing phenomena throughout the universe of which the CMB is a perfect example).
As far as I am aware of your statement has not been shown to be true. It is often stated as truth by reasonable people who think about it for a short time but the evidence is that smaller Earthquakes before a larger one appear to be uncorrelated (again as far as I am aware). If you have evidence of such a correlation I would be grateful for a link to it.
I too have fond memories of renting video games and VHS tapes throughout my childhood. Unlike you, apparently, I hate Blockbuster. They ruined that. The rental places which used to have interesting titles and japanese import games were displaced by the behemoth that was Blockbuster. They brought nothing good to the equation other than brand recognition. Prices went up, selection went down, and rental policies became more complicated and anti-consumer. I welcome the end to the era dominated by Blockbuster. Now next to my house a new independent rental shop is doing great business and the Blockbuster down the street is closing its doors. Finally the people realized that what Blockbuster was selling wasn't worth buying.
I don't know why this joker can't just have a few grad students roaming the room proctoring the exam like every other institution does.
Many institutions of higher learning do not have graduate students for this and some which do, do not allow them to work beyond what their weekly duties are (blame graduate student unions).
a "one strike and you're really, honestly out" policy and your problem is solved.
This solution creates its own horrible problem: you cannot kick a student out of a class, even if caught cheating, unless you go through the proper channels. For all the universities I have been at this means weeks if not months of dealing with a bureaucracy that has no interest in being fast and is worried more about being sued by the student's family than having academic rigor.
Ping is only available in the iTunes Store proper, so you cannot 'like' a song, artist or album unless you are browsing the store. I don't have loads of time in the day to browse the store to build up likes for all the things I currently own, so whatever they get is only going to be based on newly purchased items. That may be good for their marketing team but it is lame as a social space.
I think it would be very useful to cross correlate the acquisitions with Goolgers who had started firms and left Google only to have their firm (an thus their work) bought back by Google. I can't think of specific examples right now but know there are some. Regardless your assertion needs to take such things into account. It is a GREAT company which is willing to let its employees work 10% time on anything they like then take that work and start a new firm. It is perfectly rational for such a company to then buy back that firm if it sees something it likes.
I appreciate your effort in placing the article in a broader context. However, you skirted the main question: Does Cablevisión have the proper license to operate as an ISP in Argentina? While you have made it clear that your government can be corrupt and used to the benefit of your elected officials, you have not made it clear that they are not actually enforcing the laws. Having a license to operate an ISP is a reasonable measure any government would require. It helps to ensure they are abiding by common consumer protection laws and operating within their license spectrum/right of way. Finally, using derogatory terms, such as you have, in a political argument does not lend weight to your point of view but makes me suspect that you have an interest in the situation.
Just as all college tuition rises to absorb the available scholarship...
Do you have any stats to back up this assertion? The vast majority of scholarships are federally funded or come from endowments (in my experience). If you have actual studies showing something different than I would be happy to see them. However, I find it very unlikely that students paying tuition compare with federal funding of education.
By and large I agree with you, however, you have benefited greatly from a society which chooses to educate children. So while I don't see why you should pay MORE to educate the children of the US I believe you should pay an equal share because the benefit is for society not just the parents.
The problem is the method by which we theories mass is imparted onto a particle: the Higgs mechanism. The idea is that there is a pervasive field which all massive particles couple to which gives these particles mass. The problem with a particle and its anti-particle having different masses is that the pervasive field cannot 'see' charge (C) otherwise the field would have effects which would have been observed already. The problem cannot be washed away by switching P or T as it the field would have induced other effects which are not observed.
Dark matter is nothing like the aether. First and foremost dark matter is known to have a dramatically density distribution throughout galaxies, clusters, and the universe. The aether is pervasive, constant and defines a frame of reference. I you want to talk about something being aether like it would be CMB radiation which appears to define a unique reference frame, is isotropic, and homogeneous. Dark energy could be interpreted as aether like as well. However ALL of these fail to be similar to aether in one important sense: they do not provide a topology on which light or other wave propagate which was a major component of aether theories.
Business owners are not there to 'fight the good fight' they are there to make money pure and simple. THIS should be the reason that our government gives in ignoring the ASCAP: the ASCAP is trying to inhibit small business owners from employing other small businesses (bands) to the benefit of both. Making arguments on the basis of the benefit to humanity or society isn't going to get us or the small business owner anywhere.
If you want to publish in a high profile journal do not shoot yourself in the foot by posting it to any abstract service before submitting and being published in said journal. Generally speaking the high impact journals want their journal to be the breaking news source not arxiv nor do they want old news.
There are rational reasons for the restrictions of some drugs. Anti-biotics being one. If you allow the public to self diagnose their aliments then sure some small group of people who would have otherwise been sick longer will get better more quickly, that is until you start building up an army of resistant microbes at which point many people become at a much higher risk. Sorry but there are things that, when you only look at one person, seem to make sense but when looked at from a broader perspective can have catastrophic consequences.
Obligated to investigate crimes yes. I am certain NOT predicting earthquakes is NOT a crime in Italy or any country as no one has been thus far able to predict any large earthquake from a series of smaller quakes.
Thus your explanation falls short and would lead to an idiotically congested legal system. Case in point: I report to the authorities that you are not predicting the outcome of the Italian legal system. Do said authorities now have to waste their time investigating or do they conclude that I am not reporting a crime I am being annoying?
What are you talking about? Obama didn't veto the NASA budget, he redirected the focus of NASA. The parent's post is saying, correctly, that if Congress wants NASA to go back to the Moon they have an easy solution: write a line item in the budget dedicating X-billions of dollars to returning to the Moon. The US does not have line item veto and Obama isn't going to veto the general budget.
Sorry to be pedantic about this but the complete miss-use of the term 'renewable energy source' is getting out of hand. Geothermal is most certainly NOT renewable. Current neutrino models and measurements, using just expected composition within the Earth indicate there is no source of energy within the Earth, there is latent energy. Geothermal is a green source of energy in that it does not pollute and doesn't have a large impact on the surrounding environment when tapped.
Ad serving networks have been plagued by serving up malware to unsuspecting users for some time. When such a thing happens on a well respected site, for instance the a major news site, many here, rightfully, get angry at the site for not policing the advertising being served to their users. If Apple is willing to ensure that no such malware will be served to my device and that the ads will comply with certain standards then I am all for it. If, however, Apple does no oversight and lets any crap onto my device then you have a point. Choice is a Good Thing, but I strongly suspect most owners of Apple products would CHOOSE not to have intrusive or abusive ads.
The UC has to raise tuition over time because the funding from the state has decreased and it costs more to keep good research Professors at the University teaching and (something that can be cut) pay administrators. But overall the UC costs have risen and the tuition is compensating for that rise.
It is also worth noting that as the government reduces its funding of university research and private organizations take up the slack the overhead chargeable by universities is greatly affected. That is private funds often come with restrictions as to how much the university can take from the top, universities have long benefited greatly by their researchers bringing in funding and taking a LARGE percentage from it to supplement their funds.
I have no idea what research you are doing but in my field undergrads are clearly there to learn and you spend far more time helping them do simple tasks than you benefit from their work. Graduate students on the other hand are paid virtually nothing (20k/year) for 50 hrs/week work.
If you'll note the article is by PC Magazine which is not associated with gawker as far as I am aware. So how is this link-baiting? I certainly think it isn't news and there is HUGE difference between BANNING Gizmodo and not giving them a free pass with news credentials but I don't see how you are correct in your assertion that this is link-baiting.
I agree with others who have posted here that a truly unlimited plan is way over charging the average user or is going to be much more expensive than what we currently have just to make it 'reasonable' for the average user. That being said the current trend is absolutely ridiculous. How can AT&T justify having a pay per byte plan where the paid for data does not roll over and if you go over any amount you get double charged even if it is the last day of your billing cycle?
Personally I would like to see two plans: 1) truly unlimited with a monthly fee of about 50 and 2) a truly pay per byte at something like 7.5 cent/MB ($15 for 200 MB), these bytes have an expiration of 1 year. Both plans you can do with the data pipes as you wish: tethering, streaming, etc.. This gives everyone the flexibility they want.
The reason they often do not provide a link to the press release is that their 'story' has been taken virtually verbatim from the press release. I have pointed this out to a few mainstream media editors and they insist that by changing a few pronouns here and there it is somehow completely different.
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You cannot prove any theory without axioms (assumptions). You can, however, test a myriad of different scenarios which are all interconnected and ensure that a single theory adequately describes the data you take. As a theory, it provides predictions which can be falsified. When the physical range of a theory's predictive power extends beyond our ability to construct experiments then you pretty much have to find another job. But at no time have we proven anything. We have tested in as many cases we can think of for ways in which our theories fail. So in short yes we have to test our theories outside of earth (there are ways of doing this by observing phenomena throughout the universe of which the CMB is a perfect example).
Parent is correct also please allow us to mod editors down for not catching blatant factual flaws.
As far as I am aware of your statement has not been shown to be true. It is often stated as truth by reasonable people who think about it for a short time but the evidence is that smaller Earthquakes before a larger one appear to be uncorrelated (again as far as I am aware). If you have evidence of such a correlation I would be grateful for a link to it.
I too have fond memories of renting video games and VHS tapes throughout my childhood. Unlike you, apparently, I hate Blockbuster. They ruined that. The rental places which used to have interesting titles and japanese import games were displaced by the behemoth that was Blockbuster. They brought nothing good to the equation other than brand recognition. Prices went up, selection went down, and rental policies became more complicated and anti-consumer. I welcome the end to the era dominated by Blockbuster. Now next to my house a new independent rental shop is doing great business and the Blockbuster down the street is closing its doors. Finally the people realized that what Blockbuster was selling wasn't worth buying.
Many institutions of higher learning do not have graduate students for this and some which do, do not allow them to work beyond what their weekly duties are (blame graduate student unions).
This solution creates its own horrible problem: you cannot kick a student out of a class, even if caught cheating, unless you go through the proper channels. For all the universities I have been at this means weeks if not months of dealing with a bureaucracy that has no interest in being fast and is worried more about being sued by the student's family than having academic rigor.
Ping is only available in the iTunes Store proper, so you cannot 'like' a song, artist or album unless you are browsing the store. I don't have loads of time in the day to browse the store to build up likes for all the things I currently own, so whatever they get is only going to be based on newly purchased items. That may be good for their marketing team but it is lame as a social space.
I think it would be very useful to cross correlate the acquisitions with Goolgers who had started firms and left Google only to have their firm (an thus their work) bought back by Google. I can't think of specific examples right now but know there are some. Regardless your assertion needs to take such things into account. It is a GREAT company which is willing to let its employees work 10% time on anything they like then take that work and start a new firm. It is perfectly rational for such a company to then buy back that firm if it sees something it likes.
I appreciate your effort in placing the article in a broader context. However, you skirted the main question: Does Cablevisión have the proper license to operate as an ISP in Argentina? While you have made it clear that your government can be corrupt and used to the benefit of your elected officials, you have not made it clear that they are not actually enforcing the laws. Having a license to operate an ISP is a reasonable measure any government would require. It helps to ensure they are abiding by common consumer protection laws and operating within their license spectrum/right of way. Finally, using derogatory terms, such as you have, in a political argument does not lend weight to your point of view but makes me suspect that you have an interest in the situation.
Do you have any stats to back up this assertion? The vast majority of scholarships are federally funded or come from endowments (in my experience). If you have actual studies showing something different than I would be happy to see them. However, I find it very unlikely that students paying tuition compare with federal funding of education.
By and large I agree with you, however, you have benefited greatly from a society which chooses to educate children. So while I don't see why you should pay MORE to educate the children of the US I believe you should pay an equal share because the benefit is for society not just the parents.
The problem is the method by which we theories mass is imparted onto a particle: the Higgs mechanism. The idea is that there is a pervasive field which all massive particles couple to which gives these particles mass. The problem with a particle and its anti-particle having different masses is that the pervasive field cannot 'see' charge (C) otherwise the field would have effects which would have been observed already. The problem cannot be washed away by switching P or T as it the field would have induced other effects which are not observed.
Dark matter is nothing like the aether. First and foremost dark matter is known to have a dramatically density distribution throughout galaxies, clusters, and the universe. The aether is pervasive, constant and defines a frame of reference. I you want to talk about something being aether like it would be CMB radiation which appears to define a unique reference frame, is isotropic, and homogeneous. Dark energy could be interpreted as aether like as well. However ALL of these fail to be similar to aether in one important sense: they do not provide a topology on which light or other wave propagate which was a major component of aether theories.
Business owners are not there to 'fight the good fight' they are there to make money pure and simple. THIS should be the reason that our government gives in ignoring the ASCAP: the ASCAP is trying to inhibit small business owners from employing other small businesses (bands) to the benefit of both. Making arguments on the basis of the benefit to humanity or society isn't going to get us or the small business owner anywhere.
If you want to publish in a high profile journal do not shoot yourself in the foot by posting it to any abstract service before submitting and being published in said journal. Generally speaking the high impact journals want their journal to be the breaking news source not arxiv nor do they want old news.
There are rational reasons for the restrictions of some drugs. Anti-biotics being one. If you allow the public to self diagnose their aliments then sure some small group of people who would have otherwise been sick longer will get better more quickly, that is until you start building up an army of resistant microbes at which point many people become at a much higher risk. Sorry but there are things that, when you only look at one person, seem to make sense but when looked at from a broader perspective can have catastrophic consequences.
Obligated to investigate crimes yes. I am certain NOT predicting earthquakes is NOT a crime in Italy or any country as no one has been thus far able to predict any large earthquake from a series of smaller quakes.
Thus your explanation falls short and would lead to an idiotically congested legal system. Case in point: I report to the authorities that you are not predicting the outcome of the Italian legal system. Do said authorities now have to waste their time investigating or do they conclude that I am not reporting a crime I am being annoying?
What are you talking about? Obama didn't veto the NASA budget, he redirected the focus of NASA. The parent's post is saying, correctly, that if Congress wants NASA to go back to the Moon they have an easy solution: write a line item in the budget dedicating X-billions of dollars to returning to the Moon. The US does not have line item veto and Obama isn't going to veto the general budget.
Putting in a filter that only allows basic static HTML would be a simple, effective, and much needed method to obtain what I describe.
Sorry to be pedantic about this but the complete miss-use of the term 'renewable energy source' is getting out of hand. Geothermal is most certainly NOT renewable. Current neutrino models and measurements, using just expected composition within the Earth indicate there is no source of energy within the Earth, there is latent energy. Geothermal is a green source of energy in that it does not pollute and doesn't have a large impact on the surrounding environment when tapped.
Ad serving networks have been plagued by serving up malware to unsuspecting users for some time. When such a thing happens on a well respected site, for instance the a major news site, many here, rightfully, get angry at the site for not policing the advertising being served to their users. If Apple is willing to ensure that no such malware will be served to my device and that the ads will comply with certain standards then I am all for it. If, however, Apple does no oversight and lets any crap onto my device then you have a point. Choice is a Good Thing, but I strongly suspect most owners of Apple products would CHOOSE not to have intrusive or abusive ads.
The UC has to raise tuition over time because the funding from the state has decreased and it costs more to keep good research Professors at the University teaching and (something that can be cut) pay administrators. But overall the UC costs have risen and the tuition is compensating for that rise.
It is also worth noting that as the government reduces its funding of university research and private organizations take up the slack the overhead chargeable by universities is greatly affected. That is private funds often come with restrictions as to how much the university can take from the top, universities have long benefited greatly by their researchers bringing in funding and taking a LARGE percentage from it to supplement their funds.
I have no idea what research you are doing but in my field undergrads are clearly there to learn and you spend far more time helping them do simple tasks than you benefit from their work. Graduate students on the other hand are paid virtually nothing (20k/year) for 50 hrs/week work.
If you'll note the article is by PC Magazine which is not associated with gawker as far as I am aware. So how is this link-baiting? I certainly think it isn't news and there is HUGE difference between BANNING Gizmodo and not giving them a free pass with news credentials but I don't see how you are correct in your assertion that this is link-baiting.
I agree with others who have posted here that a truly unlimited plan is way over charging the average user or is going to be much more expensive than what we currently have just to make it 'reasonable' for the average user. That being said the current trend is absolutely ridiculous. How can AT&T justify having a pay per byte plan where the paid for data does not roll over and if you go over any amount you get double charged even if it is the last day of your billing cycle?
Personally I would like to see two plans: 1) truly unlimited with a monthly fee of about 50 and 2) a truly pay per byte at something like 7.5 cent/MB ($15 for 200 MB), these bytes have an expiration of 1 year. Both plans you can do with the data pipes as you wish: tethering, streaming, etc.. This gives everyone the flexibility they want.
The reason they often do not provide a link to the press release is that their 'story' has been taken virtually verbatim from the press release. I have pointed this out to a few mainstream media editors and they insist that by changing a few pronouns here and there it is somehow completely different.