I see a real underreporting of stuff which is maybe worst (as another poster on the same thread level listed) on the EU and US side. Funnily it is a human right violation to imprison a chinese "freedom" fighter for life because he goes against the party line, but it isn't to imprison seemingly without process/judgement in a cuban prison. Yeah. Right.
You won't be doing any business with roughly 90% of the country of earth because most governement around this "old dirty ball" are anti democratic, repressive, like to censor , or do not respect all/some of the basic human right. So, now that you have decided that Firm cannot do business with country with immoral policies, and the mondial economy collapse, What did you win ? What did the local operessed people win ? I ain't saying to leave China and other repressive country doing their bad stuff without protesting, but stopping doing business with them will NOT help.
Furthermore why this buff against China ? There are other repressive govt with policy as bad or maybe worst as China. This remind me of the Buff that the various US govt had in the past against Cuba. This is probably a left over from Cold war and Mccarthism "boo to those red commie of cuba and china!".
Especially that frankly the USA is not the "human right's shiny knight in armor on the white horse" that you seem to think it is. I won't say it is as bad as CHina, but things like thise nice cuban prison make one think...
Firstly I do not think the average slashdotter is that "more intelligent". True they are better at some task, everything related to computer, but worst at other (I would point out socializign for example but that would be cruel and overgeneralizing. let us say litterature and grammtic and you will have to agree;)). By overspecialising in a task you might look brighter than the average at thzat task but that does not proove intelligence.
Furthermore the complaint about grammatic and spelling would be fairly OK IF and only IF slashdot was a web site visited by english speaking people only. But this is not the case. Many people here around do not have english as their primary or even secondary language. Thus from point 1 and 2 , slashdot is the wrong example.
The day most "english grammar dictator" (I would rather avoid the Godwin law and use the other term), descend from their podest/soap box and try to think in a foreign language, and post completly coherently in that foreign language, with perfect spelling and grammatic, I will bow to them down. But until then it is only a band of prick which do not understand the value of content versus form.
As for the language changing, with sms-speak, this is not my observation. When i was young there was OTHER type of special speak for the youth. Hyppie Speak. Reverse Speak later (in my country. just imagine reversing syllable, like : Women change into menwo). Well it does not seem that those have broken the language, did not they ? Those do not stick to litterature, and certainly you do not see them stickting in important works, like when you redact your PhD...
Cancellation means that you attract attention and maybe protest from Joe Q Public. Posponed indefinitly means you won't get as much heat on you, and still have the same results. De Facto, those are two of the same effect for a project (stopped and get no funding), just one is with a more "softer" on PR...
To take an HISTORICAL example in context, if you shop at the wrong shop (for example for Kosher food, or whatever prescribe your religion as special food) then you get shipped to the enxt concentration camp. And never get back from them. So you do not need to make a database about the religion of the people (illegal in many country) just do a database of their food shopping habits... Such database will give moer true info than a questionnaire where people have to disclose their religion : some people will not do it out of spite or paranoia, BUT their shopping habits give them up for what they are even if they do not want to...
26 death in two monthes. Big effing deal. There is more death per auto (unwanted death) per DAY. Heck those sort of suicide pact doesn't even begin to make a dent in the extrem majority of normal (lonely) suicide of 99+%. But, hey, it is internet so slashdoter are "concerned". And it is Japan, so prejudice come out of the wood. There are probably even more death from preventable things like AIDS or heart failure per DAY (again unwanted death) than internet pact suicide (wanted death).
Fact is, aside a few good which are 100% manifactured in china (like shoes, t shirt and so on), most good are only ASSEMBLED in china (computer electronic good etc...). So what is the difference ? Well foreign (US) company , build up the component all over the world, then chip to china for cheap assembly. So it might appear there is a huge deficit of import with China,since the good say made-in-china, but taking account that phenomenon the dificit might be overstated, since the component might come from the US, and the profit of the company goes back anyway to the US.
I went to their web site and many time they repeat the word "secure". Now granted this could be marketing bunk destined to pointy haired boss, but a passive RFID tag without private key cannot be qualified as secure even remotely. So I will stand on a leg and state that the GP is wrong and the Parent post is right, you cannot so easily copy the tag. Veri Chip Veri Guard Brochure
What is quite frightening is that they purport on site tracking up to 15 foot (5 meter!). This is WAAAY beyond the distance the RFID-CHip-are-ok-sleep-safely-it-won't-be-abused-p eople purport is short. For me 1 foot is short. With 5 meters/15 feet readability, then you can REALLY immagine implementing a reader everywhere and fully track a population (in a firm/company/city/country).
As long as it accepts an international participation, and the results are made public thru peer review, who cares whether this is in america, swityerland or east papouana ? Usually, physics won't care at all in which country the experiement take place as long as they can participate:). And yes, IAAPAQPBWAFMHTPIALE*. Controversy on "where experiement take place" are usually not triggered on science basis but on political basis and partisan issue, on whhich most physicist won't care. Take the example of ITER example...
*I Am A Physicist, Actually A Quantum Physicist, But Went Away From My Homeland To Participate In An Long Experiment.
So if you break the "Do and Don't" (see the web site of teh GP) of them temple, well though luck for official if they are using ticket, they won't be able to easily kick you out next time you come or filter you out. But I guess this can be easily done with a finger print : I can imagine the next time the pelerin comes up and the system helpfully offers a pop up which says "was too long. Did speak loudly." he will be refused entrance. This is the advantage of biometric over simple ticket.
Our electricity generation is away from carbon based economy since long. A lot of people are interrested in Hybrid, and I saw a lot of eletric only car back a FEW years ago (although sadly only a minority). So please, who is the more "addicted" to oil ?(to take your OWN president State of Union word).
And I won't even start on the other point which more or less amount to "forget the mud we have on our feet and point out at the dirt on other people feet". The only things I have to say is that, by now, more or elss all feet of the western world stink.
to make pig to grow human organ or human hormone like insulin. Banning all art of chimera make a great progress like this moot. Either the president was advancing an agenda against such progress (which is bad in itself) or he was making an uninformed pandering to its conservative base, thinking such banning is without consequence. Both direction are pretty bad ethically IMO.
or even photographic, or music. When you start saying "if you want to sell to the "folk" then do not make art" is the de facto most elitiste crap I heard. HECK, some of the most "artful" old painter or classic musician did not paint for the fun of painting, but because they needed the money. What make something art is not the way you do it. What make it art is the "recognition" the final product gets.
Yes I know this is only econnomically otivated, nobody cares about human right until their bottom line get lower, but...
...Citzen in countries imprisonning other people with "enemy combatant status" without lawyer indefinitly in a small island offland and refusing them geneva convention recognition (and the same country being suspected of torturing in east europa in contra of ANY human right convention) SHOULD try to clean up their own horseshit at their own barn before complaining that the neighbourgh's own barn stinks.
And I think this little fact is sorely missing in this discussion.
You can sir, have my place in the line, if you so think. Me on the other hand, I do not care if it is wrong morally, ethically, or whatnot, I want to avoid crossing the line as long as possible.
The GP probably means you can't measure the temp of the black hole itself (as a balck body) like you can do for stars, because no radiation from the black hole itself would come out. At best what you measure is the black body temp of the acretion disk or hawking radiation which is NOT the BB temp of a black hole.
Do you believe in purple invisible dragon ? Why Not ? Why believing in the existence of God and not a purple invisible Dragon and why believe in Alien ? Personally I tend to say, if the existence of an entity is not prooved, and it is not needed to explain any phenomena, then I take it as non existent by default. There is NO REASON at all to take it as existant for default or even presuppose its possible existence. The list include but is not limited to:
- Angel
- God
- Invisible Purple Dragon
- Same as above but black, blue, and green (not yellow. No inviusible dragon would be yellow)
- Unicorn
- Faerie
- Daemon
- Genie
- Uncorrupt Politics. Ooops strike this one off.
- Enorm Dinosaurus in small lake in england
- Saskash
- Yeti
- Chimera
- Santa
If you start to presupose the existence of ANY of those entity, then better be prepared to say why, and to offer proof. Else you are no better than a 3 year old believing that Santa Claus come every 24th-25th midnight.
Oh and before you start the argument of "many people believe", well many people used to believe in other gods, until the next one supplented them. "Million of people believing something 8000 years long can't be wrong" yes they can. Think slavery for example.
Firstly as somebody pointed out at the FIRST line and last lien it is writte "19 march 2005"... That is quite the start of the year. Second, as 4th position again some homeopathic non reproducible experiment, and cold fusion (13th). This rather sound like "unreproducible" research rather unexplicable stuff. I think jsut for a kicker I will have a look around to see what happenned as follow up from those... But since the only stuff we heard recently on homeopathy was the lancet(?) study, and since homeopath would jump on the gun for any study proving homeopathy works, I won't hold my breath. Probably again badly washed up test tube. I tell you, experiment on basophile are cursed:).
Quote : "There is no way to conclusively prove that no petroleum is of abiotic origin. Science is an ongoing search for truth, and theories are continually being altered or scrapped as new evidence appears. However, the assertion that all oil is abiotic requires extraordinary support, because it must overcome abundant evidence, already cited, to tie specific oil accumulations to specific biological origins through a chain of well-understood processes that have been demonstrated, in principle, under laboratory conditions."
To quote some argument : if petroleum was really formed deeply, it would have to go thru a part of the mantle with high pressure and temperature which would decompose it. And the proponent of all-abiogenesis origin of petroleum proposed no such meccanism up to now.
Furthermore oil exploitation firm sucessfully used the "biogenesis" origin of petroleum to predict and exploit new resource.
As for the field which were told to have abiogenesis origin , like the black lion one, here is a nice debunking article : The Oil Drum. A very nice quote : "What is disturbing is that these abiotic oil arguments are presented in the mainstream media (MSM, here CNBC) without any critical analysis. In the short interview format TV allows, Simmons was unable (or unwilling) rebut Smith's claim. Many fantastic and unbelievable claims are being put forward now as people scramble around to dispute oil depletion--abiotic oil is one of these. It is perhaps the most insidious of these false claims with its implicit promise that, to paraphrase Duffeyes, everything is OK because "God [the deep hot biosphere] will put more oil in the ground"."
Long Answer : They probably have (or should have) a "core" which is identical to any system, only the system dependant api, or itnerraction of that core renderer with the system, would change from IE mac to IE Win (read file, allocate memory, render window, call external program etc...). There is no way they would open their "IP" (the core) to the world.
Now it might be that the core is compeltly different from a system to the next. Then I will probably be the first to yell "what the hell were they thinking ???".
And in general the medical world. Why the hell you think the third world is calling bloody murder on AIDS or drug patent ? Because most of those drug, *not EVEN found or developped by private laboratory* are sold at prohibitive price despite that the production of chemical itself isn't as expensive. This is why soime country (India/Brazil) many time over blatantly broke and violated patents. As for Breast cancer i can remmember sometimes ago a scientist whining because some labor patented a diagnostic process and made it too expensive or illegal to make some research on rbeast cancer (if I recall corrrectly). So granted those example are NOT consumer electronic, but they concern a far more bigger part of the world and a far more important thing : Health.
And do not get me started on US/EU company patenting a remedy used locally (india, Africa) since a long time, and then forbid local people to continue using it because of the patent. 10 years some of those patent held on fought by the country of the originating stuff (I think that was the case of Neme...Somebody call me wrong here). I won't even start speaking of mosento patenting grain and forbidding farmer reusing seed.
I stopped watching tv altogether, gave it and my pvr to a friend. Now instead I watch DVD (on PC), go out, and generally feel better. You do not realize how much advertisement on tv is annoying, until all you consume is dvd ad-less films/series...
I lost my virginity at 12 and it was not at all my choice. Now we have two data point. Can we make any correlation on that ? One own experience does not allow any conclusion (isn't that the "post ergo" reasonement ??).
Now if we take STUDY they says us that A quarter of women and nearly a third of men have sex under the age of 16 (the age of sexual consent) but the average age at first sexual intercourse is 16 for both sexes Quote from
Study on sex in UK
This is UK, but I doubt the average US teenie is less interrested by sex so I take it in the US it is the same, since I could not readily find an equivalent study for US very quick.
Slashdot Mirror
I see a real underreporting of stuff which is maybe worst (as another poster on the same thread level listed) on the EU and US side. Funnily it is a human right violation to imprison a chinese "freedom" fighter for life because he goes against the party line, but it isn't to imprison seemingly without process/judgement in a cuban prison. Yeah. Right.
You won't be doing any business with roughly 90% of the country of earth because most governement around this "old dirty ball" are anti democratic, repressive, like to censor , or do not respect all/some of the basic human right. So, now that you have decided that Firm cannot do business with country with immoral policies, and the mondial economy collapse, What did you win ? What did the local operessed people win ? I ain't saying to leave China and other repressive country doing their bad stuff without protesting, but stopping doing business with them will NOT help.
Furthermore why this buff against China ? There are other repressive govt with policy as bad or maybe worst as China. This remind me of the Buff that the various US govt had in the past against Cuba. This is probably a left over from Cold war and Mccarthism "boo to those red commie of cuba and china!".
Especially that frankly the USA is not the "human right's shiny knight in armor on the white horse" that you seem to think it is. I won't say it is as bad as CHina, but things like thise nice cuban prison make one think...
Firstly I do not think the average slashdotter is that "more intelligent". True they are better at some task, everything related to computer, but worst at other (I would point out socializign for example but that would be cruel and overgeneralizing. let us say litterature and grammtic and you will have to agree ;)). By overspecialising in a task you might look brighter than the average at thzat task but that does not proove intelligence.
Furthermore the complaint about grammatic and spelling would be fairly OK IF and only IF slashdot was a web site visited by english speaking people only. But this is not the case. Many people here around do not have english as their primary or even secondary language. Thus from point 1 and 2 , slashdot is the wrong example.
The day most "english grammar dictator" (I would rather avoid the Godwin law and use the other term), descend from their podest/soap box and try to think in a foreign language, and post completly coherently in that foreign language, with perfect spelling and grammatic, I will bow to them down. But until then it is only a band of prick which do not understand the value of content versus form.
As for the language changing, with sms-speak, this is not my observation. When i was young there was OTHER type of special speak for the youth. Hyppie Speak. Reverse Speak later (in my country. just imagine reversing syllable, like : Women change into menwo). Well it does not seem that those have broken the language, did not they ? Those do not stick to litterature, and certainly you do not see them stickting in important works, like when you redact your PhD...
Cancellation means that you attract attention and maybe protest from Joe Q Public. Posponed indefinitly means you won't get as much heat on you, and still have the same results. De Facto, those are two of the same effect for a project (stopped and get no funding), just one is with a more "softer" on PR...
To take an HISTORICAL example in context, if you shop at the wrong shop (for example for Kosher food, or whatever prescribe your religion as special food) then you get shipped to the enxt concentration camp. And never get back from them. So you do not need to make a database about the religion of the people (illegal in many country) just do a database of their food shopping habits... Such database will give moer true info than a questionnaire where people have to disclose their religion : some people will not do it out of spite or paranoia, BUT their shopping habits give them up for what they are even if they do not want to...
26 death in two monthes. Big effing deal. There is more death per auto (unwanted death) per DAY. Heck those sort of suicide pact doesn't even begin to make a dent in the extrem majority of normal (lonely) suicide of 99+%. But, hey, it is internet so slashdoter are "concerned". And it is Japan, so prejudice come out of the wood. There are probably even more death from preventable things like AIDS or heart failure per DAY (again unwanted death) than internet pact suicide (wanted death).
Fact is, aside a few good which are 100% manifactured in china (like shoes, t shirt and so on), most good are only ASSEMBLED in china (computer electronic good etc...). So what is the difference ? Well foreign (US) company , build up the component all over the world, then chip to china for cheap assembly. So it might appear there is a huge deficit of import with China,since the good say made-in-china, but taking account that phenomenon the dificit might be overstated, since the component might come from the US, and the profit of the company goes back anyway to the US.
I went to their web site and many time they repeat the word "secure". Now granted this could be marketing bunk destined to pointy haired boss, but a passive RFID tag without private key cannot be qualified as secure even remotely. So I will stand on a leg and state that the GP is wrong and the Parent post is right, you cannot so easily copy the tag.
p eople purport is short. For me 1 foot is short. With 5 meters/15 feet readability, then you can REALLY immagine implementing a reader everywhere and fully track a population (in a firm/company/city/country).
Veri Chip
Veri Guard Brochure
What is quite frightening is that they purport on site tracking up to 15 foot (5 meter!). This is WAAAY beyond the distance the RFID-CHip-are-ok-sleep-safely-it-won't-be-abused-
As long as it accepts an international participation, and the results are made public thru peer review, who cares whether this is in america, swityerland or east papouana ? Usually, physics won't care at all in which country the experiement take place as long as they can participate :). And yes, IAAPAQPBWAFMHTPIALE*. Controversy on "where experiement take place" are usually not triggered on science basis but on political basis and partisan issue, on whhich most physicist won't care. Take the example of ITER example...
*I Am A Physicist, Actually A Quantum Physicist, But Went Away From My Homeland To Participate In An Long Experiment.
So if you break the "Do and Don't" (see the web site of teh GP) of them temple, well though luck for official if they are using ticket, they won't be able to easily kick you out next time you come or filter you out. But I guess this can be easily done with a finger print : I can imagine the next time the pelerin comes up and the system helpfully offers a pop up which says "was too long. Did speak loudly." he will be refused entrance. This is the advantage of biometric over simple ticket.
Our electricity generation is away from carbon based economy since long. A lot of people are interrested in Hybrid, and I saw a lot of eletric only car back a FEW years ago (although sadly only a minority). So please, who is the more "addicted" to oil ?(to take your OWN president State of Union word). And I won't even start on the other point which more or less amount to "forget the mud we have on our feet and point out at the dirt on other people feet". The only things I have to say is that, by now, more or elss all feet of the western world stink.
And I never heard of the german equivalent making such "hunt". If they do , well, they are really bad at making themselves in the news.
to make pig to grow human organ or human hormone like insulin. Banning all art of chimera make a great progress like this moot. Either the president was advancing an agenda against such progress (which is bad in itself) or he was making an uninformed pandering to its conservative base, thinking such banning is without consequence. Both direction are pretty bad ethically IMO.
or even photographic, or music. When you start saying "if you want to sell to the "folk" then do not make art" is the de facto most elitiste crap I heard. HECK, some of the most "artful" old painter or classic musician did not paint for the fun of painting, but because they needed the money. What make something art is not the way you do it. What make it art is the "recognition" the final product gets.
I would not recommend clicking the link for any reason. PS: there is a ruler in it, so yes one could tell it is (barely) on topic.
Yes I know this is only econnomically otivated, nobody cares about human right until their bottom line get lower, but...
...Citzen in countries imprisonning other people with "enemy combatant status" without lawyer indefinitly in a small island offland and refusing them geneva convention recognition (and the same country being suspected of torturing in east europa in contra of ANY human right convention) SHOULD try to clean up their own horseshit at their own barn before complaining that the neighbourgh's own barn stinks.
And I think this little fact is sorely missing in this discussion.
You can sir, have my place in the line, if you so think. Me on the other hand, I do not care if it is wrong morally, ethically, or whatnot, I want to avoid crossing the line as long as possible.
The GP probably means you can't measure the temp of the black hole itself (as a balck body) like you can do for stars, because no radiation from the black hole itself would come out. At best what you measure is the black body temp of the acretion disk or hawking radiation which is NOT the BB temp of a black hole.
Do you believe in purple invisible dragon ? Why Not ? Why believing in the existence of God and not a purple invisible Dragon and why believe in Alien ? Personally I tend to say, if the existence of an entity is not prooved, and it is not needed to explain any phenomena, then I take it as non existent by default. There is NO REASON at all to take it as existant for default or even presuppose its possible existence. The list include but is not limited to :
- Angel
- God
- Invisible Purple Dragon
- Same as above but black, blue, and green (not yellow. No inviusible dragon would be yellow)
- Unicorn
- Faerie
- Daemon
- Genie
- Uncorrupt Politics. Ooops strike this one off.
- Enorm Dinosaurus in small lake in england
- Saskash
- Yeti
- Chimera
- Santa
If you start to presupose the existence of ANY of those entity, then better be prepared to say why, and to offer proof. Else you are no better than a 3 year old believing that Santa Claus come every 24th-25th midnight.
Oh and before you start the argument of "many people believe", well many people used to believe in other gods, until the next one supplented them. "Million of people believing something 8000 years long can't be wrong" yes they can. Think slavery for example.
Firstly as somebody pointed out at the FIRST line and last lien it is writte "19 march 2005"... That is quite the start of the year. Second, as 4th position again some homeopathic non reproducible experiment, and cold fusion (13th). This rather sound like "unreproducible" research rather unexplicable stuff. I think jsut for a kicker I will have a look around to see what happenned as follow up from those... But since the only stuff we heard recently on homeopathy was the lancet(?) study, and since homeopath would jump on the gun for any study proving homeopathy works, I won't hold my breath. Probably again badly washed up test tube. I tell you, experiment on basophile are cursed :).
And for the abiogenesis origin of oil it is not there.
Abiogenesis origin of petroleum not likely
Quote : "There is no way to conclusively prove that no petroleum is of abiotic origin. Science is an ongoing search for truth, and theories are continually being altered or scrapped as new evidence appears. However, the assertion that all oil is abiotic requires extraordinary support, because it must overcome abundant evidence, already cited, to tie specific oil accumulations to specific biological origins through a chain of well-understood processes that have been demonstrated, in principle, under laboratory conditions."
To quote some argument : if petroleum was really formed deeply, it would have to go thru a part of the mantle with high pressure and temperature which would decompose it. And the proponent of all-abiogenesis origin of petroleum proposed no such meccanism up to now.
Furthermore oil exploitation firm sucessfully used the "biogenesis" origin of petroleum to predict and exploit new resource.
As for the field which were told to have abiogenesis origin , like the black lion one, here is a nice debunking article :
The Oil Drum.
A very nice quote : "What is disturbing is that these abiotic oil arguments are presented in the mainstream media (MSM, here CNBC) without any critical analysis. In the short interview format TV allows, Simmons was unable (or unwilling) rebut Smith's claim. Many fantastic and unbelievable claims are being put forward now as people scramble around to dispute oil depletion--abiotic oil is one of these. It is perhaps the most insidious of these false claims with its implicit promise that, to paraphrase Duffeyes, everything is OK because "God [the deep hot biosphere] will put more oil in the ground"."
Long Answer : They probably have (or should have) a "core" which is identical to any system, only the system dependant api, or itnerraction of that core renderer with the system, would change from IE mac to IE Win (read file, allocate memory, render window, call external program etc...). There is no way they would open their "IP" (the core) to the world.
Now it might be that the core is compeltly different from a system to the next. Then I will probably be the first to yell "what the hell were they thinking ???".
And in general the medical world. Why the hell you think the third world is calling bloody murder on AIDS or drug patent ? Because most of those drug, *not EVEN found or developped by private laboratory* are sold at prohibitive price despite that the production of chemical itself isn't as expensive. This is why soime country (India /Brazil) many time over blatantly broke and violated patents. As for Breast cancer i can remmember sometimes ago a scientist whining because some labor patented a diagnostic process and made it too expensive or illegal to make some research on rbeast cancer (if I recall corrrectly). So granted those example are NOT consumer electronic, but they concern a far more bigger part of the world and a far more important thing : Health.
And do not get me started on US/EU company patenting a remedy used locally (india, Africa) since a long time, and then forbid local people to continue using it because of the patent. 10 years some of those patent held on fought by the country of the originating stuff (I think that was the case of Neme...Somebody call me wrong here). I won't even start speaking of mosento patenting grain and forbidding farmer reusing seed.
I stopped watching tv altogether, gave it and my pvr to a friend. Now instead I watch DVD (on PC), go out, and generally feel better. You do not realize how much advertisement on tv is annoying, until all you consume is dvd ad-less films/series...
I lost my virginity at 12 and it was not at all my choice. Now we have two data point. Can we make any correlation on that ? One own experience does not allow any conclusion (isn't that the "post ergo" reasonement ??).
Now if we take STUDY they says us that A quarter of women and nearly a third of men have sex under the age of 16 (the age of sexual consent) but the average age at first sexual intercourse is 16 for both sexes
Quote from Study on sex in UK
This is UK, but I doubt the average US teenie is less interrested by sex so I take it in the US it is the same, since I could not readily find an equivalent study for US very quick.