"Well, the Abrahamic God (of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is a hands-off kind of God,"
Do you mean the same good which people believe flooded the world, killing untold number of human ? Which smote Sodom and Gomorrah under the pretense there was absolutely nobody, not even a child, which was innocent ? Which ordered various Israeli tribe to kill all adult , including children, but keep nubile women for themselves ? Killing children by mauling them with bear ? The one which ordered a father to kill its kids as a test of faith ? Or as a result of a bet ruined the life of another ?
The god of the new testament is somewhat kinder if only by its absence. But the god of the old testament is as far as "hand off" as you can be.
I felt she went the correct way, protested, then the law was repelled by ballot. Now it is up to ubber. If they want to pretend doing civil right, good for them, but they WILL get the law punishment. Up to them to prove in appeal court it was a civil right matter or a civil protest. good luck on that one. Civil protest means that you are intentionally breaking the law and accept the consequence. Good for them. But it is still breaking the law.
" (read: without the authorities earning money from the practice)" no that is called breaking the law. You may not like the law, but it is the law.Work to have it repelled or Stuff up. Break the law ? Then get what's coming at you. How worked up would you be if companies started seeing EPA or FDA rules as "stuff the authorities made up for earning money from the practice" ? Like for example checking for salmonella in peanut butter and withdrawing it from circulation if contaminated ? Same difference, the dutch have law. respect them or GTFO.
"removing benefits only hurts those who arent working" wrong, many benefits also help those who are working, but are working job which do not pay much. Those mcdonald working guy which get food stamp ? What do you think food stamp are ? Then there are all the retired people which worked their WHOLE life crappy job and never got enough money to spare. Want to kill them early ? Those are also benefits (medicaid/medicare). By your standard why should you pay for schools if you have no children. See the idiocy of this ?
As for PP, it has been demonstrated time and time again that unwanted pregnancy lead to children having on average a more miserable life, and on average, more criminality, which you pay with far more expansive prison. A few cent of your tax goes toward PP, costing per person maybe a few dozen dollar total. A prisoner cost far far more and the damage they do to the economy too.
I am guessing you are a republican and almost certainly somebody out of touch on what are the TRUE benefits of maintaining people above a certain poverty level by givings them benefits. Hint : the damage they would do to the society and economy by trying anything just to survive without those benefits would be much higher.
If you have the choice between the devil which lies to you, and the perceived greater devil which lies to you and might make your situation more miserable (by removing benefits, by de-funding planned parenthood, by holding the government hostage and stopping its funding etc...etc...) then maybe people do not vote FOR democrats as much as they vote AGAINST republican. Just sayin'.
"having only been broadcasting electromagnetic signatures visible by an alien civilization for around 80 years"
Not really, none of our signal went beyond a few au for most signals, and a few hundred au for most others. The reason is simple most signal were not very directional, and propagated at some point in 1/r^2, even if it is a cone rather than hemispherical. So for big r the r^2 gets bigger and you get a signal amplitude which is below the intergalatic noise for that frequency.
There are about only 4 or so signals which had enough energy to go beyond the solar system. They were intentionally very directional and high powered directed toward M13. They totaled all together 2 hours IIRC.
But beside those 2 hours or so ? Nothing. An ET could be landed on alpha proxy and NOT hear us in any way shape or form.
Basically : we would not be able to detect ourselves. Nobody would when the signal amplitude is dwarfed by noise. So unless some ET is continuously sending ginormous amount of energy in a directed radio signal toward us, there is no chance we would catch them.
Chromatography or similar would be required. Human can delude themselves into seeing different taste. A chromatography much less so. Although it would be probably difficult as the terpene are in very small quantity, the pronounced different taste should lead to some differences.
You have got to remember theologist are also scholars. So that some scholars believe that jesus/mohamad/price rama existed or received divine documents or whatnot is not far fetched. but usually historian if they do their work correctly relying only on evidence will not (in their papers) describe the miracle or anything else supernatural as having a basis in reality even if they truly believe it. I say usually because sometimes they make books making a case for the miracle too (IIRC bart Ehrman for example). But mostly what you will get from historian is only "X existed" and no judgement call on the supernatural stuff.
So basically it is not a surprise to read the sentence which amde your brain "die a little". just think scholar in the more generic sense.
I am sure Chrissie sweetie would cream his pant at the idea of attooing or putting tag on tourist/visa visitor, but the idea is quite old : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it was done efficiently too.
"I'm sure foreign tourist will be amused when getting a bar code sticker slapped on their arm."
Yeah i am sure amused to be tracked all the time like cattle with a tag and not having a private moment. Being treated like an animals sound fun. Why don't you start first Chrissie sweetie. How about we attach a gps tag on your ankle. That sound fun right ?
The charlatan aforementioned certified it was oversensitiveness. Unfortunately the way the appeal works in this case , it was not a real tribunal but an instance where it was looked at the recourse of the woman to be declared handicapped. There is such a case no second expertise. So a doctor probably not even a psychologist or psychiatry, not aware of the research showing electrosensitivity is pure hypochondria, was bamboozled and certified her ill, so she get social allocation for 3 years. After that it get reevaluated. Sad but not surprising.
You are probably not responsible and involved, and thank you for the informative post, I am sorry but your "we are vetting ad" in view of big network serving malware, sounds more like trying to stem the flow of the blood while pretending one is not wounded.
"The only real market solution is to whitelist a certain number of ad networks" No the real only solution is to blacklist *all* ad network until they accept responsibility and utterly disable any scripting in their advertising, only serving sanitized text and sanitized image. And that is the minimum.
Color me skeptical. The cost of the fuel and launcher alone would be a few more zero. The only way they could do it at that cost, would be to have hundred of people "buried" in the same launch.
"The majority of those people who signed up voted and Ancillary Justice won one of the awards. "
Majority from a self selected group is far from being an indication of excellence. But if you think so, then If you expand and read around you will see that the popular estimate is far more mixed for ancillary justice. Do not take me wrong, it is a good novel, but it is a novel conservative in its execution, and as such it does not reflect excellence and innovation. If you had told me it was a novel from a white old guy back in the 70ies I would have nodded : that is how conservative it feel in its execution (note : literary execution and plot, I am not using conservative in a political sense). Maybe it was the best they could find that year though I did not look that up. But then again they could simply have voted "no award". Read around i am not the only one to think so, the critics about its execution, I am not the only one thinking that, and web site where you can see collated critic and fan vote certainly show a wide split. A good novel, but not one of excellence.
"The Hugo Awards, to give them their full title, are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955. The awards are run by and voted on by fans."
It award excellence it says nothing else. If those women/minorities/LGBT novel shine by excellence then the sad puppies are idiot puppies. If on the other hand those novel do NOT shine by excellence then there is a suspicion they are nominated for other reason, being promotion of author for other reason. In such case then the puppies are correct as this should be excellence which should be promoted. Not political stuff.
I have no idea whichever way the true reality is I can only give my own take : I can only say the 2014 award did not please me , anciliary justice for example, I found it more old school and not really "excellent" (so the critic of not conservative enough is funny from my POV , it was very conservative in its execution IMNSHO). Water on the shoulder was nice. But both I will have forgotten in a few years. In the end I would not care less for politic I want to see good SF and fantasy float up , being written by and about transgender lesbian women non white or white male. After all I liked Friday from Heinlein. The problem is that definitively this year politics took over from both side.
Note that the blurb does already state this does not happen for all user. coming in and stating "it does not happen to me" bring nothing to the conversation. At all. You did not even both posting a complete and detailed configuration or anything. This is the same type of post people hate "the game is working for me". Yeah no shit sherlock, it is working for SOME. What is interesting is why it is not working for other. And in which constellation. This is why people jumped on you. Imagine 2 people discussing about their cancer and you come in and state "hey but I am healthy". Same deal.
"Hillary is calculating, corrupt, and evil."
At that level of American (maybe even non american in some cases) politic pretty much all politician are corrupt and probably having sociopathic tendencies (evil if you prefer).
Those you cited do not make you metabolize MORE calories than you consume. In other word if you consume 4000 , some people may get 3000 out of it, some less some more, but never more than 4000. So in effect it STILL is about eating fare more than you need and taking the bad habits of it. That is where the thermodynamic comes in : you cannot get more calories (usage + metabolism) than what you eat. Furthermore I am seriously doubting that the majority of people have metabolism problem. Far more likely they do the same as I do : eat too much.
The paint repellent urine is not that it bounces back like a wile e coyote gag (how would it? You would have to make the urine and wall a near 100% elastic collision and as a liquid against a solid good luck) in fact video make it clear that he is only projecting the test liquid with force and it barely backs a bit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tacicbV4aI). No the things is that the urine is much easier washed up. It is highly hydrophobic, but ti does not change that the water will not have an elastic collision. In other word, it barely spring back. Pee from 1 foot away and you are safe.
Please tells us how many million of years statistically you would need to go from a barley growth factor, to a rice growth factor, and would even the intermediate protein be viable (active) or even if the surrounding gene would still be active.
Yes stuff mutate. That is how we got from bacteria to human over billion of year. The key here is that function of protein evolved too, and sometime mutation are deleterious, and sometime function changes. But if both are sufficiently different, the probability to go from one to the other over statistically human relevant time (e.g. hundreds of year) is trending toward zero. In some case like when researcher inserted fish gene into tomatoe, that probability becomes even low over geological time.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with your assessment that the probability we make something catastrophic is relatively low, but stating that the result could be gotten by random mutation in the wild, or even breeding is overstating it , downright to a lie in many case.
Look I am for GMO because I think the science is sound, and it is maybe as good a progress for the 21th century as the haber process was for the 20th century for food production, but repeating the often trotted "breeding/wild mutation is the same as GMO" is stupid. Even idiot religiously fearing GMO are not that idiot to swallow that you can breed in nature fish protein into tobaccoe plant by cross breeding or wild reproduction, or plant with philia so far away from each other with barley growth factor if the growth factor are so much different. So you should not tell a totally complete lie. Such naturally mutation can only slightly change protein and not suddenly put new protein from a completely different specie or even philia suddenly in the plant. You would need million maybe 10s of million of years to get such accumulated mutation (if ever in the fish protein case), and anybody can see that such very long term adaptation has a different impact on an ecosystem than immediate gene change. I am not saying this is a bad thing, just that comparing the two is stupid. There is a difference of time scale, and adaptation in both case, and as well as what you can reach as far as changes go.
Please just don't. Refrain in future. You are just making it more difficult for us to convince the GMO fearing when you spread such obvious bad comparison.
Normally you reserve good attire when there is client contact. Having formal attire for technician and engineer when there is no client contact is contra productive, you force people into a certain fashion which they might be uncomfortable with, for no good reason. That is a sure sign a hierarchy has lost sight of what is essential , and instead concentrate on rules which makes no sense , as to show they are doing "something". I expect no good future strategy from them from now onward.
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"Well, the Abrahamic God (of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is a hands-off kind of God,"
Do you mean the same good which people believe flooded the world, killing untold number of human ? Which smote Sodom and Gomorrah under the pretense there was absolutely nobody, not even a child, which was innocent ? Which ordered various Israeli tribe to kill all adult , including children, but keep nubile women for themselves ? Killing children by mauling them with bear ? The one which ordered a father to kill its kids as a test of faith ? Or as a result of a bet ruined the life of another ?
The god of the new testament is somewhat kinder if only by its absence. But the god of the old testament is as far as "hand off" as you can be.
I felt she went the correct way, protested, then the law was repelled by ballot. Now it is up to ubber. If they want to pretend doing civil right, good for them, but they WILL get the law punishment. Up to them to prove in appeal court it was a civil right matter or a civil protest. good luck on that one. Civil protest means that you are intentionally breaking the law and accept the consequence. Good for them. But it is still breaking the law.
" (read: without the authorities earning money from the practice)" no that is called breaking the law. You may not like the law, but it is the law.Work to have it repelled or Stuff up. Break the law ? Then get what's coming at you. How worked up would you be if companies started seeing EPA or FDA rules as "stuff the authorities made up for earning money from the practice" ? Like for example checking for salmonella in peanut butter and withdrawing it from circulation if contaminated ? Same difference, the dutch have law. respect them or GTFO.
"removing benefits only hurts those who arent working" wrong, many benefits also help those who are working, but are working job which do not pay much. Those mcdonald working guy which get food stamp ? What do you think food stamp are ? Then there are all the retired people which worked their WHOLE life crappy job and never got enough money to spare. Want to kill them early ? Those are also benefits (medicaid/medicare). By your standard why should you pay for schools if you have no children. See the idiocy of this ?
As for PP, it has been demonstrated time and time again that unwanted pregnancy lead to children having on average a more miserable life, and on average, more criminality, which you pay with far more expansive prison. A few cent of your tax goes toward PP, costing per person maybe a few dozen dollar total. A prisoner cost far far more and the damage they do to the economy too.
I am guessing you are a republican and almost certainly somebody out of touch on what are the TRUE benefits of maintaining people above a certain poverty level by givings them benefits. Hint : the damage they would do to the society and economy by trying anything just to survive without those benefits would be much higher.
If you have the choice between the devil which lies to you, and the perceived greater devil which lies to you and might make your situation more miserable (by removing benefits, by de-funding planned parenthood, by holding the government hostage and stopping its funding etc...etc...) then maybe people do not vote FOR democrats as much as they vote AGAINST republican. Just sayin'.
Only CT people still think that it was murder. There is no evidence of murder in both cases.
"having only been broadcasting electromagnetic signatures visible by an alien civilization for around 80 years"
Not really, none of our signal went beyond a few au for most signals, and a few hundred au for most others. The reason is simple most signal were not very directional, and propagated at some point in 1/r^2, even if it is a cone rather than hemispherical. So for big r the r^2 gets bigger and you get a signal amplitude which is below the intergalatic noise for that frequency.
There are about only 4 or so signals which had enough energy to go beyond the solar system. They were intentionally very directional and high powered directed toward M13. They totaled all together 2 hours IIRC.
But beside those 2 hours or so ? Nothing. An ET could be landed on alpha proxy and NOT hear us in any way shape or form.
Basically : we would not be able to detect ourselves. Nobody would when the signal amplitude is dwarfed by noise. So unless some ET is continuously sending ginormous amount of energy in a directed radio signal toward us, there is no chance we would catch them.
Chromatography or similar would be required. Human can delude themselves into seeing different taste. A chromatography much less so. Although it would be probably difficult as the terpene are in very small quantity, the pronounced different taste should lead to some differences.
You have got to remember theologist are also scholars. So that some scholars believe that jesus/mohamad/price rama existed or received divine documents or whatnot is not far fetched. but usually historian if they do their work correctly relying only on evidence will not (in their papers) describe the miracle or anything else supernatural as having a basis in reality even if they truly believe it. I say usually because sometimes they make books making a case for the miracle too (IIRC bart Ehrman for example). But mostly what you will get from historian is only "X existed" and no judgement call on the supernatural stuff.
So basically it is not a surprise to read the sentence which amde your brain "die a little". just think scholar in the more generic sense.
I am sure Chrissie sweetie would cream his pant at the idea of attooing or putting tag on tourist/visa visitor, but the idea is quite old : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it was done efficiently too.
/gowdinning the whole article.
"I'm sure foreign tourist will be amused when getting a bar code sticker slapped on their arm."
Yeah i am sure amused to be tracked all the time like cattle with a tag and not having a private moment. Being treated like an animals sound fun. Why don't you start first Chrissie sweetie. How about we attach a gps tag on your ankle. That sound fun right ?
"Have you ever heard of any committee anywhere voluntarily disbanding?" Yes, but unfortunately only ethical and integrity committee...
The charlatan aforementioned certified it was oversensitiveness. Unfortunately the way the appeal works in this case , it was not a real tribunal but an instance where it was looked at the recourse of the woman to be declared handicapped. There is such a case no second expertise. So a doctor probably not even a psychologist or psychiatry, not aware of the research showing electrosensitivity is pure hypochondria, was bamboozled and certified her ill, so she get social allocation for 3 years. After that it get reevaluated. Sad but not surprising.
Doubleclick isn't exactly your eastern europe shaddy site : http://www.theverge.com/2014/9...
You are probably not responsible and involved, and thank you for the informative post, I am sorry but your "we are vetting ad" in view of big network serving malware, sounds more like trying to stem the flow of the blood while pretending one is not wounded.
"The only real market solution is to whitelist a certain number of ad networks"
No the real only solution is to blacklist *all* ad network until they accept responsibility and utterly disable any scripting in their advertising, only serving sanitized text and sanitized image. And that is the minimum.
Color me skeptical. The cost of the fuel and launcher alone would be a few more zero. The only way they could do it at that cost, would be to have hundred of people "buried" in the same launch.
"The majority of those people who signed up voted and Ancillary Justice won one of the awards. "
Majority from a self selected group is far from being an indication of excellence. But if you think so, then If you expand and read around you will see that the popular estimate is far more mixed for ancillary justice. Do not take me wrong, it is a good novel, but it is a novel conservative in its execution, and as such it does not reflect excellence and innovation. If you had told me it was a novel from a white old guy back in the 70ies I would have nodded : that is how conservative it feel in its execution (note : literary execution and plot, I am not using conservative in a political sense). Maybe it was the best they could find that year though I did not look that up. But then again they could simply have voted "no award". Read around i am not the only one to think so, the critics about its execution, I am not the only one thinking that, and web site where you can see collated critic and fan vote certainly show a wide split. A good novel, but not one of excellence.
"The Hugo Awards, to give them their full title, are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955. The awards are run by and voted on by fans."
It award excellence it says nothing else. If those women/minorities/LGBT novel shine by excellence then the sad puppies are idiot puppies. If on the other hand those novel do NOT shine by excellence then there is a suspicion they are nominated for other reason, being promotion of author for other reason. In such case then the puppies are correct as this should be excellence which should be promoted. Not political stuff.
I have no idea whichever way the true reality is I can only give my own take : I can only say the 2014 award did not please me , anciliary justice for example, I found it more old school and not really "excellent" (so the critic of not conservative enough is funny from my POV , it was very conservative in its execution IMNSHO). Water on the shoulder was nice. But both I will have forgotten in a few years. In the end I would not care less for politic I want to see good SF and fantasy float up , being written by and about transgender lesbian women non white or white male. After all I liked Friday from Heinlein. The problem is that definitively this year politics took over from both side.
My final verdict : both side can go to hell.
Note that the blurb does already state this does not happen for all user. coming in and stating "it does not happen to me" bring nothing to the conversation. At all. You did not even both posting a complete and detailed configuration or anything. This is the same type of post people hate "the game is working for me". Yeah no shit sherlock, it is working for SOME. What is interesting is why it is not working for other. And in which constellation. This is why people jumped on you. Imagine 2 people discussing about their cancer and you come in and state "hey but I am healthy". Same deal.
"Hillary is calculating, corrupt, and evil."
At that level of American (maybe even non american in some cases) politic pretty much all politician are corrupt and probably having sociopathic tendencies (evil if you prefer).
Those you cited do not make you metabolize MORE calories than you consume. In other word if you consume 4000 , some people may get 3000 out of it, some less some more, but never more than 4000. So in effect it STILL is about eating fare more than you need and taking the bad habits of it. That is where the thermodynamic comes in : you cannot get more calories (usage + metabolism) than what you eat. Furthermore I am seriously doubting that the majority of people have metabolism problem. Far more likely they do the same as I do : eat too much.
That shows me they are far more likely to throw a fumble - 1 , and make it damn impossible to throw a critical :p.
The paint repellent urine is not that it bounces back like a wile e coyote gag (how would it? You would have to make the urine and wall a near 100% elastic collision and as a liquid against a solid good luck) in fact video make it clear that he is only projecting the test liquid with force and it barely backs a bit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tacicbV4aI). No the things is that the urine is much easier washed up. It is highly hydrophobic, but ti does not change that the water will not have an elastic collision. In other word, it barely spring back. Pee from 1 foot away and you are safe.
Please tells us how many million of years statistically you would need to go from a barley growth factor, to a rice growth factor, and would even the intermediate protein be viable (active) or even if the surrounding gene would still be active.
Yes stuff mutate. That is how we got from bacteria to human over billion of year. The key here is that function of protein evolved too, and sometime mutation are deleterious, and sometime function changes. But if both are sufficiently different, the probability to go from one to the other over statistically human relevant time (e.g. hundreds of year) is trending toward zero. In some case like when researcher inserted fish gene into tomatoe, that probability becomes even low over geological time.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with your assessment that the probability we make something catastrophic is relatively low, but stating that the result could be gotten by random mutation in the wild, or even breeding is overstating it , downright to a lie in many case.
Look I am for GMO because I think the science is sound, and it is maybe as good a progress for the 21th century as the haber process was for the 20th century for food production, but repeating the often trotted "breeding/wild mutation is the same as GMO" is stupid. Even idiot religiously fearing GMO are not that idiot to swallow that you can breed in nature fish protein into tobaccoe plant by cross breeding or wild reproduction, or plant with philia so far away from each other with barley growth factor if the growth factor are so much different. So you should not tell a totally complete lie. Such naturally mutation can only slightly change protein and not suddenly put new protein from a completely different specie or even philia suddenly in the plant. You would need million maybe 10s of million of years to get such accumulated mutation (if ever in the fish protein case), and anybody can see that such very long term adaptation has a different impact on an ecosystem than immediate gene change. I am not saying this is a bad thing, just that comparing the two is stupid. There is a difference of time scale, and adaptation in both case, and as well as what you can reach as far as changes go.
Please just don't. Refrain in future. You are just making it more difficult for us to convince the GMO fearing when you spread such obvious bad comparison.
Normally you reserve good attire when there is client contact. Having formal attire for technician and engineer when there is no client contact is contra productive, you force people into a certain fashion which they might be uncomfortable with, for no good reason. That is a sure sign a hierarchy has lost sight of what is essential , and instead concentrate on rules which makes no sense , as to show they are doing "something". I expect no good future strategy from them from now onward.