All monitor have color correction and use different technology, then people perceive color sometimes differentely. The same for music. No matter the quality of your head phone or louspeaker, in the very end your tympanon your brain and the air and configuration of the room or headphone will change it. Frankly that's why so amny A/B test shows audiophile to be audiofool : they are fooling themselves into thinking a super expensive equipment with whatever response frequency will be better quality. The reality is that the crushing majority of the population is not able to tell quality difference in A/B test.
I expect nothing else from google, the notification to publication, the semi random removal and lack of judgement is exactly what I would do if I was google and wanted to protest against the law without showing my middle finger to the authority : simply do a very poor job out of it. In a way In understand it, I support the right to be forgotten out of many reason (before search engine we all enjoyed that right, and it is stupid that a small error without much consequence ruin your life. Big stuff like murder, rape, corruption, yes leave it in. But small fish ? Remove it don't be evil don't ruibn the life of people with small stuff which would have been forgotten if only a search engine did not exists). But the court should have been the one to decide case by case who should be removed and who should be not.
There was a study out there that actually men and women gather "trash talk" post both, but men do receive twice the rate. The difference ? Men most probably ignore being told they are "faggot" or long accepted it as being part of the game voice-over-game, but women seems to take offense far more quickly when they are told they are "bitches" or whatever other stuff. Make of that what you will, some colleague think women should toughen up, personally I think trolls/trashtalker should tone down, probably we have both irrealistic expectation.
20 years ago if you were caught giving a hand job to a guy in a corner, maybe youw ere drunk or whatnot, maybe it would ruin your life for a year or two but that would be over , unless somebody dedicated a good amount of time to search paper clip it would fall into forgetness. nowadays the slightiest stuff is kept forever. A society which does not forget is one which will not forgive minor transgression. Now that handjob will hunt you forever maybe even stopping you getting a good job. An unforgiving society is harsh and one I does not want to live in and apparently many others. Also remember freedom is not found at the middle road where everybody find everything acceptable, and reporting would be borring. Freedom lies on the side of the road, where the shadows are , but still on the lgeal side, and what is or what is not accepted by society lies. If you enforce an unforgiving society and one with 100% memory then you WILL lose freedom. In a way this is already hapenning in the US. I refuse to see that coming in europe. Long live teh right to be forgotten. I do not need it, but I will fight for that freedom for everybody.
" If the inventor really has figured something out, and I'll grant you that's unlikely, it would behoove him to keep a tight lid on it until he has pretty much the entire eastern seaboards worth of lawyers under his belt"
He pretend to have something and has been very public about it for years while stopping anybody to check for a hoax. The "independent" experiment as this one need size 7 scary quote. So on one hand he is not protecting his invention by doing a NORMAL patent (disclosing thus how to reproduce an ecat 100%) and he tried to make a useless patent same as other scammer do and withholding info(which you are not allowed to do to be protected). On the other hand he keep telling critics are snake clown and having no real independent experiment (all 4 authors are in relationship with rossi, and rossi keep a tight rein on controls).
Your attitude toward your partner (Men are 1.5x more likely to end up divorced when they care more about their partner's looks, and women are 1.6x more likely to end up divorced when they care more about their partner's wealth.)
What about men caring for their wife wealth and women caring for their husband looks ? What about homosexual couple ? Also a lot of the reason given seems to boild down to the following :
* if you know somebody for a long time before getting married your marriage is more stable (less bad surprise)
* if you or your spouse has a lot of wealth invested either in the ceremony or yourself, you are less likely to "split" away and lose wealth
In science you adapt your protocol, and you eliminate problem when you are told your protocol are not good enough. So when pointed out that IR camera was not a good way, when pointed out that THEY as having a relationship with Rossi were not truly independent, and that rossi loading / unloading the fuel was a possible cause of cheating, what did they do ? Did they adapt protocol ? Nope. More of the same.
So when you ignore scientist objection and try to ram your "this is not science because YOU the critic have no numbers" look into a mirror. What levi did is not science, he repeated the same systematic error in the first experiment.
The fact remain rossi is a *known* scammer, has been condemned by justice previously, pretend he has a source of energy, has been caught near the "rheostat" during previous experiments, was caught with isotopic natural "ashes" at the initial experiments, etc...etc... So sorry if we point out the obvious, Andrea "you are all snake clown" Rossi and levi are not doing science. I am starting to think Levi is either getting Senile , or is "on" the take.
Yes , yes , if you state that Nickel Hydrogen fusion is providing energy and no radiation (remember rossi is taking quasi no precaution) then you are breaking the known Ni H fusion process and making a new one. By the way Rossi was not aware of the isotopic process initially, and the sample "ashes" he gave had the normal isotopic ratio. Which made people call him rightfully a fraud, and other people try to come up a complex mechanism by which it could come. Funnily enough now that Rossi knows about isotopic ratio suddenly the new experiment (which is not an independent one for many reason) has different isotopic ratio. Why do i get the feeling if we dig a bit, somebody ordered from a isotope reseller different isotopic ratio for the end material ?
occam's razor is that just as with the first "independent" check this was actually not independent at all, was in Rossi lab with Rossi condition, and Rossi could have simply ordered some specific isotope and mixed it to make it looks like the ratio changed.
A true independent test is made in a lab own premise, with a machine they can watch and look for, and rossi not getting his finger on it at any point. THAT is an independent test. What we got is a second circus show. Oh sorry I meant "independent test". With big scary quotes.
Only scam test which want to sell you stuff makes them open ended. The reality is that the scale are relatively well defined from 50 to 150 IIRC where about 99.9% or so of the populaztion fit (3 standard deviation about). Anything beyond that is simply not defined at all. Not even with or without the qualifier "well".
That carl Sagan was a supporter of cannabis and used some himself is not news. SO "reveal a different side" is pure marketing BS, as this side was at least publicly known by 1999 for his bio. They only found a few "more" writing of sagan extolling MJl. No scoop here.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong"
I highlighted you what's the problem with the quote. It is big honking ad hominem. Judging an opinion on the age of whom did it is wrong. You have to look at the argument. And if the argument are based in ground science then so be it, unless you disprove the science the argument stands. It does not matter if the scientist is young or old.
Stops that stupid citation from Clarke please. Bring argument based on evidence or critique argument based on evidence of the opinion of a person, do not do it based on gender, age, skin color, religion, or whatever other argument you may find about the person.
Yes but it is the same language the same "ground" culture and politics common history, common perspective vs the world or past etc.... On the other hand going from France to , say, england is a huge difference in all of those. Different perspective. Different history. Uncommon languages, uncommon ground culture, uncommon view vis a vis politess or respect, uncommon religions heck (anglican church versus majority catholicism) , uncommon politic, "off with her head" versus "god save trhe queen".
Any American I know have to admit that whereas the difference between american state are there, they are nowhere near the difference between countries in the world even if you take something as local as europe.
Well if you want to get local custom difference , I am betting I would get as much difference from province sud France to the valenciennois where my family comes from, as between boston and chicago.
Look your country is big we get it. But the culture despite local differences is far more uniform than you would imagine if you compare to the rest of the world.
Once you add all your caveat you have a pretty piece of hardware which gives you number you cannot see the function is for, while good for hardware, most software in the real world do not work like that. Once you start unrolling the instructions, consider input and output, then sooner or later depending on how much effort you want to have, you won't be able to hide your program inside working. The simple fact is that contrary to your hardware argument, the software has to be executed by the CPU. Frankly you can hide far more stuff from the common mortal with hardware than you can with software.
Because discovery imply being unknown before. If you are already inhabiting the body (carabic, australia, americas) this is already known to you. So naturally discovery implies the perspective of somebody for which it was previously unknown. Combine that with the fact most of the history here around is seen from the european perspective at worst, eurasian at best, and it is immediately understandable why this is seen as a discovery.
Contagiousness is far more important. If yxou have a virus which is 100% lethal, who cares if it is 0% contagious (beside the infected) ? That is why H1N1 is less lethal but is far more disruptive and dangerous.
I can't speak for all country, but in France you are taught 1) that gravity constant used varies and we get the values at equators, pole, (iirc 9.78 to 9.83 while we used 9.81) and our lattitude, altitude
2) but afterward to make it simpler we always assume it is a constant because we do not have the math tool to integrate with g(r,theta, rho) over complex surface.
At no point we were taught that gravity is a constant. What we were taught is to use it as constant in simplified problems. That is a difference. I would wagger it is the samer in the country of the submitter, only he missed the important semantic difference.
If by brute force you mean a wrench , this is true. If by brute force you mean going over all possible key , this is false. One Time pad actually are not reversible by brute force, since essentially you do not know the key length , youa re going thru building by brute force *all* possible string of byte of a specific length which will contain all the text of the world of that length. OTP of unknown length are not breakable by force.
With what energy and what resource are they supposed to do that ? And how would america midwest react to a few dozen million people from subsahara coming to live ?
It is difficult to say with internet but I have the strong feeling that your post were a joke posted in sarcasm really.
The way it was told to me practically now what happens is that the modding community reverse engineer the java hooks and put modding in by overloading the methods in those hooks. Kill java, make it a bin and you almost certainly kill the modding community overnight, and let us be honest there are far too many people now not using vanilla anymore. Instantly you reduce the appeal of minecraft to a huge population, you kill servers, etc...
"When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly, causing sepsis, a life-threatening condition whereby the immune system overreacts, causing blood clotting, organ damage and inflammation."
Toxin are released by bacteria not virus, and antibiotic do diddly squat against virus, they are used against bacteria. For example Staphylococcus (when not resistant...) is killed antibiotic, and Clostridium botulinum release a toxin which can be deadly (look up botulism). On the other hand HIV laugh at your antibiotic, as well as any rhinovirus or any virus. Vitrus hijack our cells reproduction system to instead generate more virus. I won't even go into the difference among viruses. That summary is extremly poorly written. Especially when the article summary mention bacteria. Also it could not have killed to mention this use magnetofection (associating amino acid or protein with a magnetic nanoparticle and afterward direct it to or from a place).
I reject the idea that science is logical, purely rational, that it is detached and value-free, and that it is, for all these reasons, morally superior
Sure fight your strawman all you want. But you are rejecting an non existant science. Science is about self correcting process , reasonable, to discover more about our universe and its quirk. Science is not morallly superior, or moral at all. Science USER are the one which bring moral in. As for the spock image, well it is a movie. DUH. We atheist already threw away the old gods, we do not need new gods especially idols from movie and tv serie about an utopia.
the big challenge of atheism....
Repeat slowly after me: atheism is not about sicence, atheism is not about anything whatsoever as value or morality. atheism is solely about the belief of absence of gods. Some atheist are religious. Some do not care about evidence and are simply atheist out of lazyness. Some do ask themselves question and introspect. Some are terrible evil asshole some are good. Basically atheist are (tada!) human. All that link them is the absence of belief in gods nothing more nothing less.
Now you may be as me an agnostic atheist (null hypothesis is that there is no god, and the clan pretending there are gods have not brought any evidence to stop the null.... Still I am not gnostic atheist I do not know for SURE there is no gods, only no evidence of it). And you might as me try to use the rational process of science for many reason (self correcting, try to remove bias etc...) but that still does not make us less human. We are still bound by morals and emotions.
My final word : spock is not 100% rational ! you misunderstood the character of spock. Spock *ATTEMPT* to be 100% rational. But he is a mere half human and is sometiems driven by emotions. We saw him relieved for example that kirk was safe in movie/tv serie. We saw him getting angry. We saw him having emotions. Your diatribe would have been better put with a true 100% vulcan. So you even fail at common knowledge.
Middle east : many of those airline have a source of cheap oil. Emirate ? Qatar airline ? They get their fuel at discount. What you have to know is that one of the biggest airline cost is oil (if I recall correctly second is maintenance, third is flying personal then come ground personal). Other airline do not have that source. All that money sparred can then go into offering a better legroom or compartment place than similar airline which have to cram 1 or 2 more places.
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ALl of us born ebfore google remember it. Just because google come and suddenly nothing is forgotten, does not mean it is a good thing.
All monitor have color correction and use different technology, then people perceive color sometimes differentely. The same for music. No matter the quality of your head phone or louspeaker, in the very end your tympanon your brain and the air and configuration of the room or headphone will change it. Frankly that's why so amny A/B test shows audiophile to be audiofool : they are fooling themselves into thinking a super expensive equipment with whatever response frequency will be better quality. The reality is that the crushing majority of the population is not able to tell quality difference in A/B test.
" "not a good judgement" by Google. "
I expect nothing else from google, the notification to publication, the semi random removal and lack of judgement is exactly what I would do if I was google and wanted to protest against the law without showing my middle finger to the authority : simply do a very poor job out of it. In a way In understand it, I support the right to be forgotten out of many reason (before search engine we all enjoyed that right, and it is stupid that a small error without much consequence ruin your life. Big stuff like murder, rape, corruption, yes leave it in. But small fish ? Remove it don't be evil don't ruibn the life of people with small stuff which would have been forgotten if only a search engine did not exists). But the court should have been the one to decide case by case who should be removed and who should be not.
There was a study out there that actually men and women gather "trash talk" post both, but men do receive twice the rate. The difference ? Men most probably ignore being told they are "faggot" or long accepted it as being part of the game voice-over-game, but women seems to take offense far more quickly when they are told they are "bitches" or whatever other stuff. Make of that what you will, some colleague think women should toughen up, personally I think trolls/trashtalker should tone down, probably we have both irrealistic expectation.
20 years ago if you were caught giving a hand job to a guy in a corner, maybe youw ere drunk or whatnot, maybe it would ruin your life for a year or two but that would be over , unless somebody dedicated a good amount of time to search paper clip it would fall into forgetness. nowadays the slightiest stuff is kept forever. A society which does not forget is one which will not forgive minor transgression. Now that handjob will hunt you forever maybe even stopping you getting a good job. An unforgiving society is harsh and one I does not want to live in and apparently many others. Also remember freedom is not found at the middle road where everybody find everything acceptable, and reporting would be borring. Freedom lies on the side of the road, where the shadows are , but still on the lgeal side, and what is or what is not accepted by society lies. If you enforce an unforgiving society and one with 100% memory then you WILL lose freedom. In a way this is already hapenning in the US. I refuse to see that coming in europe. Long live teh right to be forgotten. I do not need it, but I will fight for that freedom for everybody.
" If the inventor really has figured something out, and I'll grant you that's unlikely, it would behoove him to keep a tight lid on it until he has pretty much the entire eastern seaboards worth of lawyers under his belt"
He pretend to have something and has been very public about it for years while stopping anybody to check for a hoax. The "independent" experiment as this one need size 7 scary quote. So on one hand he is not protecting his invention by doing a NORMAL patent (disclosing thus how to reproduce an ecat 100%) and he tried to make a useless patent same as other scammer do and withholding info(which you are not allowed to do to be protected). On the other hand he keep telling critics are snake clown and having no real independent experiment (all 4 authors are in relationship with rossi, and rossi keep a tight rein on controls).
On the scam side Steorn was more funny.
What about men caring for their wife wealth and women caring for their husband looks ? What about homosexual couple ? Also a lot of the reason given seems to boild down to the following :
* if you know somebody for a long time before getting married your marriage is more stable (less bad surprise)
* if you or your spouse has a lot of wealth invested either in the ceremony or yourself, you are less likely to "split" away and lose wealth
In science you adapt your protocol, and you eliminate problem when you are told your protocol are not good enough. So when pointed out that IR camera was not a good way, when pointed out that THEY as having a relationship with Rossi were not truly independent, and that rossi loading / unloading the fuel was a possible cause of cheating, what did they do ? Did they adapt protocol ? Nope. More of the same.
So when you ignore scientist objection and try to ram your "this is not science because YOU the critic have no numbers" look into a mirror. What levi did is not science, he repeated the same systematic error in the first experiment.
The fact remain rossi is a *known* scammer, has been condemned by justice previously, pretend he has a source of energy, has been caught near the "rheostat" during previous experiments, was caught with isotopic natural "ashes" at the initial experiments, etc...etc... So sorry if we point out the obvious, Andrea "you are all snake clown" Rossi and levi are not doing science. I am starting to think Levi is either getting Senile , or is "on" the take.
Yes , yes , if you state that Nickel Hydrogen fusion is providing energy and no radiation (remember rossi is taking quasi no precaution) then you are breaking the known Ni H fusion process and making a new one. By the way Rossi was not aware of the isotopic process initially, and the sample "ashes" he gave had the normal isotopic ratio. Which made people call him rightfully a fraud, and other people try to come up a complex mechanism by which it could come. Funnily enough now that Rossi knows about isotopic ratio suddenly the new experiment (which is not an independent one for many reason) has different isotopic ratio. Why do i get the feeling if we dig a bit, somebody ordered from a isotope reseller different isotopic ratio for the end material ?
occam's razor is that just as with the first "independent" check this was actually not independent at all, was in Rossi lab with Rossi condition, and Rossi could have simply ordered some specific isotope and mixed it to make it looks like the ratio changed.
A true independent test is made in a lab own premise, with a machine they can watch and look for, and rossi not getting his finger on it at any point. THAT is an independent test. What we got is a second circus show. Oh sorry I meant "independent test". With big scary quotes.
Only scam test which want to sell you stuff makes them open ended. The reality is that the scale are relatively well defined from 50 to 150 IIRC where about 99.9% or so of the populaztion fit (3 standard deviation about). Anything beyond that is simply not defined at all. Not even with or without the qualifier "well".
That carl Sagan was a supporter of cannabis and used some himself is not news. SO "reveal a different side" is pure marketing BS, as this side was at least publicly known by 1999 for his bio. They only found a few "more" writing of sagan extolling MJl. No scoop here.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong"
I highlighted you what's the problem with the quote. It is big honking ad hominem. Judging an opinion on the age of whom did it is wrong. You have to look at the argument. And if the argument are based in ground science then so be it, unless you disprove the science the argument stands. It does not matter if the scientist is young or old.
Stops that stupid citation from Clarke please. Bring argument based on evidence or critique argument based on evidence of the opinion of a person, do not do it based on gender, age, skin color, religion, or whatever other argument you may find about the person.
Yes but it is the same language the same "ground" culture and politics common history, common perspective vs the world or past etc.... On the other hand going from France to , say, england is a huge difference in all of those. Different perspective. Different history. Uncommon languages, uncommon ground culture, uncommon view vis a vis politess or respect, uncommon religions heck (anglican church versus majority catholicism) , uncommon politic, "off with her head" versus "god save trhe queen".
Any American I know have to admit that whereas the difference between american state are there, they are nowhere near the difference between countries in the world even if you take something as local as europe.
Well if you want to get local custom difference , I am betting I would get as much difference from province sud France to the valenciennois where my family comes from, as between boston and chicago.
Look your country is big we get it. But the culture despite local differences is far more uniform than you would imagine if you compare to the rest of the world.
Once you add all your caveat you have a pretty piece of hardware which gives you number you cannot see the function is for, while good for hardware, most software in the real world do not work like that. Once you start unrolling the instructions, consider input and output, then sooner or later depending on how much effort you want to have, you won't be able to hide your program inside working. The simple fact is that contrary to your hardware argument, the software has to be executed by the CPU. Frankly you can hide far more stuff from the common mortal with hardware than you can with software.
Because discovery imply being unknown before. If you are already inhabiting the body (carabic, australia, americas) this is already known to you. So naturally discovery implies the perspective of somebody for which it was previously unknown. Combine that with the fact most of the history here around is seen from the european perspective at worst, eurasian at best, and it is immediately understandable why this is seen as a discovery.
Contagiousness is far more important. If yxou have a virus which is 100% lethal, who cares if it is 0% contagious (beside the infected) ? That is why H1N1 is less lethal but is far more disruptive and dangerous.
I can't speak for all country, but in France you are taught 1) that gravity constant used varies and we get the values at equators, pole, (iirc 9.78 to 9.83 while we used 9.81) and our lattitude, altitude
2) but afterward to make it simpler we always assume it is a constant because we do not have the math tool to integrate with g(r,theta, rho) over complex surface.
At no point we were taught that gravity is a constant. What we were taught is to use it as constant in simplified problems. That is a difference. I would wagger it is the samer in the country of the submitter, only he missed the important semantic difference.
If by brute force you mean a wrench , this is true. If by brute force you mean going over all possible key , this is false. One Time pad actually are not reversible by brute force, since essentially you do not know the key length , youa re going thru building by brute force *all* possible string of byte of a specific length which will contain all the text of the world of that length. OTP of unknown length are not breakable by force.
With what energy and what resource are they supposed to do that ? And how would america midwest react to a few dozen million people from subsahara coming to live ? It is difficult to say with internet but I have the strong feeling that your post were a joke posted in sarcasm really.
The way it was told to me practically now what happens is that the modding community reverse engineer the java hooks and put modding in by overloading the methods in those hooks. Kill java, make it a bin and you almost certainly kill the modding community overnight, and let us be honest there are far too many people now not using vanilla anymore. Instantly you reduce the appeal of minecraft to a huge population, you kill servers, etc...
"When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly, causing sepsis, a life-threatening condition whereby the immune system overreacts, causing blood clotting, organ damage and inflammation."
Toxin are released by bacteria not virus, and antibiotic do diddly squat against virus, they are used against bacteria. For example Staphylococcus (when not resistant...) is killed antibiotic, and Clostridium botulinum release a toxin which can be deadly (look up botulism). On the other hand HIV laugh at your antibiotic, as well as any rhinovirus or any virus. Vitrus hijack our cells reproduction system to instead generate more virus. I won't even go into the difference among viruses. That summary is extremly poorly written. Especially when the article summary mention bacteria. Also it could not have killed to mention this use magnetofection (associating amino acid or protein with a magnetic nanoparticle and afterward direct it to or from a place).
Sure fight your strawman all you want. But you are rejecting an non existant science. Science is about self correcting process , reasonable, to discover more about our universe and its quirk. Science is not morallly superior, or moral at all. Science USER are the one which bring moral in. As for the spock image, well it is a movie. DUH. We atheist already threw away the old gods, we do not need new gods especially idols from movie and tv serie about an utopia.
Repeat slowly after me: atheism is not about sicence, atheism is not about anything whatsoever as value or morality. atheism is solely about the belief of absence of gods.
Some atheist are religious. Some do not care about evidence and are simply atheist out of lazyness. Some do ask themselves question and introspect. Some are terrible evil asshole some are good. Basically atheist are (tada!) human. All that link them is the absence of belief in gods nothing more nothing less.
Now you may be as me an agnostic atheist (null hypothesis is that there is no god, and the clan pretending there are gods have not brought any evidence to stop the null.... Still I am not gnostic atheist I do not know for SURE there is no gods, only no evidence of it). And you might as me try to use the rational process of science for many reason (self correcting, try to remove bias etc...) but that still does not make us less human. We are still bound by morals and emotions.
My final word : spock is not 100% rational ! you misunderstood the character of spock. Spock *ATTEMPT* to be 100% rational. But he is a mere half human and is sometiems driven by emotions. We saw him relieved for example that kirk was safe in movie/tv serie. We saw him getting angry. We saw him having emotions. Your diatribe would have been better put with a true 100% vulcan. So you even fail at common knowledge.
Middle east : many of those airline have a source of cheap oil. Emirate ? Qatar airline ? They get their fuel at discount. What you have to know is that one of the biggest airline cost is oil (if I recall correctly second is maintenance, third is flying personal then come ground personal). Other airline do not have that source. All that money sparred can then go into offering a better legroom or compartment place than similar airline which have to cram 1 or 2 more places.
As for far east airline, situation varies.
1) germany apparently forbid anything above 700 bq/Kg , whereas otehr country do it at 3000 Bq/Kg.
2) Average contamination in 2009 was 7000 Bq/Kg in the highiest contaminated area.
I wish the article could have told that.