I was right with you until you said "piracy is theft". No it is not. Tehre is a good reason neitehr the public see s it as theft, nor the it is legally a theft, the correct term is copyright ifnrigement, like it or not.
That said I am 100% with you for the rest of your insightful post.
But reading the link you provided shows that you foolishly mix up science's take one evidence with court's take one evidence and mix it "proof" with that. The usual vomit of definition goalpost moving that a small subset of religious people misuse. I suggest you go read this : go to wikipedia and read on "scientific evidence" , "karl popper" and so forth, then read the reference herein. Once you are finished maybe you will learn to do something else than vacuous specious argument on definition.
The sky existing is not evidence of a creator. At best it is only evidence of the universe existing, and that is no evidence of god existence, see critic of the Kalam cosmological argument. But seeing how you take the sky as evidence of god existing, that sound strangely like the exact same argument those watchtower guy tried with me. Is your next argument that we did not invent anything ? If yes I have bad news for you,a s we did made matter out of nothing, and invented stuff which do not exist in the universe in natural state (Laser come to mind).
if you ask evidence for the premise, all "non personal evidence" I know of and were presented to me either in christian/islam/atheist forum by religious boil down to "i accept my belief premise therefore god". When you scratch the surface they all can be summarized to a circular argument "I accept god to exists therefore god exists" or special pleading (god is special so he must be the creator) the oldest of all is kalam cosmoplogical argument or first mover. The otehr kind of evidence is the personal one which are actually more precisely called "personal anecdote" and are about as worthless as it can go in the evidence scale.
But hey go ahead, present your evidence, maybe you will present us something which hasn't been rehashed in the last 1000 years , isn't circular or special pleading. You will excuse me if I don't hold my breath.
Motorola has decided to not apply due to the ruling due to the restraining order in the US and potential retaliation from US courts. That is quite different, as there is no way in hell an US court can restrain the function of a german one.
The biggest source of ionizing radiation , is the background radiation (from a combo of the ground/environment (granite is different to say , chalk ground), sleeping near somebody, what you eat, the own atoms in your body which decay, medicine xray etc...). In the sky, except the UVA/UVB which should be pretty resonnable, it is mostly non ionizing EM.
The biggest source of ionizing radiation , is the background radiation (from a combo of the ground/environment (granite is different to say , chalk ground), sleeping near somebody, what you eat, the own atoms in your body which decay....). In the sky, except the UVA/UVB which should be pretty resonnable, it is mostly non ionizing UV,
The scripture could be false AND there could be a hell, you know the greek were actually right with Hades.
The problem is that most people think about religion as a binary thing because they consider MOSTLY only the majority religion of their own culture, and mostly ignore all others, including past religion not practiced anymore. CHristianity is not the only one with a hell, and there is NO evidence whatsoever that christianity is more right than any other religion.
So basically it could very well be that the grek were correct, or the roman, or the chinese, or the buddhist, or the aztec, the mayan, the viking, etc.... It is not a "there is a god , there is no god" binary BS, it is "there is no god, or it could be any of the 1000 religions on earth, with 1000 concept of afterlife , heaven, valhalla, nirvana etc...".
This is easy to explain , what we consider conventional is what has been done as a standard procedure for the last decade or two, maybe more. You do not consider people on poney express being the conventional method to bring mail to remote places, you do not consider anymore conventional transportation the buggeyman, and conventional home refrigeration is not anymore a cellar or ice cube delivered by men on a car drawn by horse.
The same way , conventional farming, aka the one which has been done for the last 50 years or since the haber revolution, *IS* for the better or worst farming with fertilizer. And organic farming, despite being a equated to a throw back to what I would call "antique farming" is not the conventional way.
I used to work in the airline industry as Check in developper and let me tell you this : the only reason there is boarding pass is because after they check you in, you are not at the gate but far away. So it is only an itnermediate doc given to the pax to be identified at the gate before being allowed to board. A Fake boarding pass will *ONLY* allow you to go from the check in and to the gate. That's it. It will not under any circumstance allow anybody to board a plane. All BP system I know of check the BN number against the name on the PNL (Pax name list) and BP have either the RFC (17 something) 2D bar code, single 1D bar code or a magnetic stripe to contain more info than a mere number. And those info are checked against the PNL while the machine register you board the plane. Sure I don't know them all, and there could be crappy one not checking anything in the US but I doubt it. It is really a basic check. So in essence a fake BP will only allow you to go the gates, and that's it.
I get a lot, and I truly mean that, a lot of video from US colleague, forums or whatnot which tells me "due to lack opf licence agreement the GEMA blahlbha" on youtube. I can't even watch the video SOUNDLESSLY, even the picture is not available jsut a fragging black screen with the GEMA text. Verdammte verfickte GEMA.
See, there is what we say, and what we really meant. Language can be flowery and beautiful, and when we say "people always think the grass is greener in other place" we don't *really* mean the garss is a shade of green different, but figuratively meant people think the living is better. The same way when we fee anger and curse while we can't open a bottle of beer, we do not think the bottle is sentient and refuse us to open, which WOULD be magical thinking (well most people anyway) in reality we curse because we suspect that the machine bottling the bottle botched the job, but since the bottler is not there so that we curse him, we just vent our anger. This is not magical thinking.
Magical thinking on the other hand would be when we TRULY believe that praying to a car to start *HELP* the engine start. Or when we *PRAY* (be it to a god or to a jug of milk, in both case giving the same results). All religion are based on magical thinking. There is no evidence whatsoever a god ever existed.
When very young I know I was nearly killed by a car which did not see me , while it was tying to park. Luckily I DID hear it and jumped back. Now if it had been a silent car.... ?
I mean, if somebody tells me "we will give you limited service for the next months for reason X,Y,Z" then that means essentially "we don't want you as client". Fine. There is always internet/other shops. Goodbye, best buy.
They dropped the ball completely on amny thigns (beside the fact we don't know anything as epilogue on what happens to the races/friends/etc...).
A MUCH better way to handle the 3 endings would have been: 1) you are paragon/renegade indicate which ending is openned (blue/green para ; red/green/renegade) 2) who you let alive as species and the battle readiness indicate whether you get the basic ending of your type (red/blue) or ALSO the green one. Or whatever.
But an ABC choice at the end ? That was.... Pityful.
It is not about showing your status to the bloody whole itnernet, it is about application *aggregating* that data and making it easy to get. It does not matter too much if you show your four square checkin, if it is not searchable. YOu are one among thousands. Nobody can manually search that many profile and pay dirt outside of chanec. But *aggregating* and offering the results is what makes the app creepy.
That said, in addition to the map being creepy, people do not value their privacy. I do. facebook and associated domain go directely to 127.0.0.1 in my host file. Good luck trying to track me with your "like " button.
Go in basal, granite mountain, like near limoge in France (massif central) and you get 5 to 10 times as much background radioactivity as in japan. Other country may even have more. That said I would like to see the calibration of that dosimeter. Color me skeptical , as in my life I had dosimeter go haywire on me.
From all those you cited, how many were involved in corruption affear ? And I can't remember if Jospin was in the contaminated blood affair (*), but I might have been.
(*) rather than pay some money to use a canadian AIDS test, some minister/politics decided to let a test be developped by French scientist, but in the mean time left the blood untested. Hundreds of people got AIDS as a results of an OP and getting contaminated blood. The msot scandalous part of this is at the end, they were not even condamned to real prison, they were just put "en sursis" can't remember the US equivalent, but it means you get in prison only if you get into a second infraction and then go in prison for both in total.
Had to browse at -1 to understand your complaint. I am an atheist and I conccur with you. That egregerious religious bashing when the story does not mention religion at all is beyond stupid and make all taking participation in it , look stupid.
Reserve that bashing of christianity for the next tenessee bill on "evolution is only a theory" or the next stupid things the current pope do, or the next priest diddling choir kids being shifted between parish. THis story OTOH is not about religion at all this is about exoplanet.
Message to all those people at -1 : religion is crass stupid enough to show itself for the retrarded iron age myth it is in another story. GTFO of this story.
It is the french POLITIC which should be reminded. The same way the US guys often sigh at the US political being in the pocket of corporation, we have similar problem here around.
In a few weeks the presidential election will start. What do you think Sarkozy is doing ? he is batting for a renewal of his job. He has to show he is doing something and as usual it is individual liberty which take a shot in the knee.
Whereas it is true that there are some legal precedent (downloading child pornography is punished by law, and as far as i can tell, even in the US, and nazi apologist or race hatred incitations is punishable by law), it would be difficult on the technological side (most of those site are on foreign soil).
I will tell you the BIGGEST replication of the BEM experiment which UTTERLY FAILED to find positive result : CASINO. Let me repeat that again : Casino. If Bem experiment represented a real phenomena and people could "remember" the future, then the roulette game would have people winning above statistic and the casino guy rising eyebrow. The fact that this does not happen and casino would long have rised a ruccus to know why specific people win more than statistic would be known. But it is not the case.
Bottom line is Bem experiment is only an anomalous result. Without replication it is JUST a mathematical statistical anomaly. Nothing more. You would need positive well done replication to start rising an eyebrow. And the fact that the house still wins, within statstical expected value.
ESP would break a lot of pground principle, laws, and theories, from conservation of energy, transmission of information, causality. The fact alone that people studying those stuff never detected anything as such, lead me to positively state : it is almost certain to a small o in the infinitesimal that ESP power are only in the imagination of people and in the touting of scam artist. We could have missed that, but by now the last 100 years or so studying that, the last 50 years or so more carefully applying the science method on it, brought NADA, unreplicable result, result which disappear with effect size. Bem is only the latest fad. And i will rightfully name it a fad : most ESP research goes with the taste of the decade. Look it up if you think I am joking. Instead of replicating and tying to deepen or explain, researcher move onto the next fad. There has never ever been any advancement in ESP research. EVER. . They are like the homeopathy scam at the same state they were : late 19th century trying to show that something exists, against all odd and principle we know, and failing miserably.
ESP is only a dream. Or scam. But nothing real. To a very small o. You might as well search for a etapot around jupiter or staturn orbit, or a dragon in my garage.
It is not that I don't trust you all guy, but I would rather read the german law than the (eventually biased) interpretation by some english blog/web site.
See , apparentely when the machine were given for approval, the dose was calculated by having the dose calculated for the whole body. As if the whole body was receiving it. So the dose density per tissue would be low. But the reality is that those scanner actually deposit most of their radiation dose not in the whole body but the skin surface. So the real dose would be 2 order of magnitude than what is touted by the machine maker , for the tissue concerned. And thus increasing the risk of cancer , specifically skin cancer, much more. I have seen estimate than about 3 to 6 person would die of skin cancer due to those detector every year. Naturally this is very small, compared to the hundred of million of passenger which probably go thru them, but it is an enormous amount compared to the number of people dying of terroristic attack today in the USA (about zero).
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I was right with you until you said "piracy is theft". No it is not. Tehre is a good reason neitehr the public see s it as theft, nor the it is legally a theft, the correct term is copyright ifnrigement, like it or not.
That said I am 100% with you for the rest of your insightful post.
But reading the link you provided shows that you foolishly mix up science's take one evidence with court's take one evidence and mix it "proof" with that. The usual vomit of definition goalpost moving that a small subset of religious people misuse. I suggest you go read this : go to wikipedia and read on "scientific evidence" , "karl popper" and so forth, then read the reference herein. Once you are finished maybe you will learn to do something else than vacuous specious argument on definition.
The sky existing is not evidence of a creator. At best it is only evidence of the universe existing, and that is no evidence of god existence, see critic of the Kalam cosmological argument. But seeing how you take the sky as evidence of god existing, that sound strangely like the exact same argument those watchtower guy tried with me. Is your next argument that we did not invent anything ? If yes I have bad news for you ,a s we did made matter out of nothing, and invented stuff which do not exist in the universe in natural state (Laser come to mind).
if you ask evidence for the premise, all "non personal evidence" I know of and were presented to me either in christian/islam/atheist forum by religious boil down to "i accept my belief premise therefore god". When you scratch the surface they all can be summarized to a circular argument "I accept god to exists therefore god exists" or special pleading (god is special so he must be the creator) the oldest of all is kalam cosmoplogical argument or first mover. The otehr kind of evidence is the personal one which are actually more precisely called "personal anecdote" and are about as worthless as it can go in the evidence scale.
But hey go ahead, present your evidence, maybe you will present us something which hasn't been rehashed in the last 1000 years , isn't circular or special pleading. You will excuse me if I don't hold my breath.
Motorola has decided to not apply due to the ruling due to the restraining order in the US and potential retaliation from US courts. That is quite different, as there is no way in hell an US court can restrain the function of a german one.
The biggest source of ionizing radiation , is the background radiation (from a combo of the ground/environment (granite is different to say , chalk ground), sleeping near somebody, what you eat, the own atoms in your body which decay, medicine xray etc...). In the sky, except the UVA/UVB which should be pretty resonnable, it is mostly non ionizing EM.
ETA: I shoulkd have previewed.
The biggest source of ionizing radiation , is the background radiation (from a combo of the ground/environment (granite is different to say , chalk ground), sleeping near somebody, what you eat, the own atoms in your body which decay....). In the sky, except the UVA/UVB which should be pretty resonnable, it is mostly non ionizing UV,
The scripture could be false AND there could be a hell, you know the greek were actually right with Hades.
The problem is that most people think about religion as a binary thing because they consider MOSTLY only the majority religion of their own culture, and mostly ignore all others, including past religion not practiced anymore. CHristianity is not the only one with a hell, and there is NO evidence whatsoever that christianity is more right than any other religion.
So basically it could very well be that the grek were correct, or the roman, or the chinese, or the buddhist, or the aztec, the mayan, the viking, etc.... It is not a "there is a god , there is no god" binary BS, it is "there is no god, or it could be any of the 1000 religions on earth, with 1000 concept of afterlife , heaven, valhalla, nirvana etc...".
This is easy to explain , what we consider conventional is what has been done as a standard procedure for the last decade or two, maybe more. You do not consider people on poney express being the conventional method to bring mail to remote places, you do not consider anymore conventional transportation the buggeyman, and conventional home refrigeration is not anymore a cellar or ice cube delivered by men on a car drawn by horse.
The same way , conventional farming, aka the one which has been done for the last 50 years or since the haber revolution, *IS* for the better or worst farming with fertilizer. And organic farming, despite being a equated to a throw back to what I would call "antique farming" is not the conventional way.
I used to work in the airline industry as Check in developper and let me tell you this : the only reason there is boarding pass is because after they check you in, you are not at the gate but far away. So it is only an itnermediate doc given to the pax to be identified at the gate before being allowed to board. A Fake boarding pass will *ONLY* allow you to go from the check in and to the gate. That's it. It will not under any circumstance allow anybody to board a plane. All BP system I know of check the BN number against the name on the PNL (Pax name list) and BP have either the RFC (17 something) 2D bar code, single 1D bar code or a magnetic stripe to contain more info than a mere number. And those info are checked against the PNL while the machine register you board the plane. Sure I don't know them all, and there could be crappy one not checking anything in the US but I doubt it. It is really a basic check. So in essence a fake BP will only allow you to go the gates, and that's it.
I get a lot, and I truly mean that, a lot of video from US colleague, forums or whatnot which tells me "due to lack opf licence agreement the GEMA blahlbha" on youtube. I can't even watch the video SOUNDLESSLY, even the picture is not available jsut a fragging black screen with the GEMA text. Verdammte verfickte GEMA.
See, there is what we say, and what we really meant. Language can be flowery and beautiful, and when we say "people always think the grass is greener in other place" we don't *really* mean the garss is a shade of green different, but figuratively meant people think the living is better.
The same way when we fee anger and curse while we can't open a bottle of beer, we do not think the bottle is sentient and refuse us to open, which WOULD be magical thinking (well most people anyway) in reality we curse because we suspect that the machine bottling the bottle botched the job, but since the bottler is not there so that we curse him, we just vent our anger. This is not magical thinking.
Magical thinking on the other hand would be when we TRULY believe that praying to a car to start *HELP* the engine start. Or when we *PRAY* (be it to a god or to a jug of milk, in both case giving the same results). All religion are based on magical thinking. There is no evidence whatsoever a god ever existed.
Ergo, you would lose your bet.
When very young I know I was nearly killed by a car which did not see me , while it was tying to park. Luckily I DID hear it and jumped back. Now if it had been a silent car.... ?
I mean, if somebody tells me "we will give you limited service for the next months for reason X,Y,Z" then that means essentially "we don't want you as client". Fine. There is always internet/other shops. Goodbye, best buy.
They dropped the ball completely on amny thigns (beside the fact we don't know anything as epilogue on what happens to the races/friends/etc...).
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A MUCH better way to handle the 3 endings would have been
1) you are paragon/renegade indicate which ending is openned (blue/green para ; red/green/renegade)
2) who you let alive as species and the battle readiness indicate whether you get the basic ending of your type (red/blue) or ALSO the green one. Or whatever.
But an ABC choice at the end ? That was.... Pityful.
It is not about showing your status to the bloody whole itnernet, it is about application *aggregating* that data and making it easy to get. It does not matter too much if you show your four square checkin, if it is not searchable. YOu are one among thousands. Nobody can manually search that many profile and pay dirt outside of chanec. But *aggregating* and offering the results is what makes the app creepy.
That said, in addition to the map being creepy, people do not value their privacy. I do. facebook and associated domain go directely to 127.0.0.1 in my host file. Good luck trying to track me with your "like " button.
You are 3 days early with april fool article. Because this is an April fool article, right ? ..... right ..... ?
Go in basal, granite mountain, like near limoge in France (massif central) and you get 5 to 10 times as much background radioactivity as in japan. Other country may even have more. That said I would like to see the calibration of that dosimeter. Color me skeptical , as in my life I had dosimeter go haywire on me.
From all those you cited, how many were involved in corruption affear ? And I can't remember if Jospin was in the contaminated blood affair (*), but I might have been.
(*) rather than pay some money to use a canadian AIDS test, some minister/politics decided to let a test be developped by French scientist, but in the mean time left the blood untested. Hundreds of people got AIDS as a results of an OP and getting contaminated blood. The msot scandalous part of this is at the end, they were not even condamned to real prison, they were just put "en sursis" can't remember the US equivalent, but it means you get in prison only if you get into a second infraction and then go in prison for both in total.
Had to browse at -1 to understand your complaint. I am an atheist and I conccur with you. That egregerious religious bashing when the story does not mention religion at all is beyond stupid and make all taking participation in it , look stupid.
Reserve that bashing of christianity for the next tenessee bill on "evolution is only a theory" or the next stupid things the current pope do, or the next priest diddling choir kids being shifted between parish. THis story OTOH is not about religion at all this is about exoplanet.
Message to all those people at -1 : religion is crass stupid enough to show itself for the retrarded iron age myth it is in another story. GTFO of this story.
It is the french POLITIC which should be reminded. The same way the US guys often sigh at the US political being in the pocket of corporation, we have similar problem here around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2012
In a few weeks the presidential election will start. What do you think Sarkozy is doing ? he is batting for a renewal of his job. He has to show he is doing something and as usual it is individual liberty which take a shot in the knee.
Whereas it is true that there are some legal precedent (downloading child pornography is punished by law, and as far as i can tell, even in the US, and nazi apologist or race hatred incitations is punishable by law), it would be difficult on the technological side (most of those site are on foreign soil).
I will tell you the BIGGEST replication of the BEM experiment which UTTERLY FAILED to find positive result : CASINO. Let me repeat that again : Casino. If Bem experiment represented a real phenomena and people could "remember" the future, then the roulette game would have people winning above statistic and the casino guy rising eyebrow. The fact that this does not happen and casino would long have rised a ruccus to know why specific people win more than statistic would be known. But it is not the case.
Bottom line is Bem experiment is only an anomalous result. Without replication it is JUST a mathematical statistical anomaly. Nothing more. You would need positive well done replication to start rising an eyebrow. And the fact that the house still wins, within statstical expected value.
ESP would break a lot of pground principle, laws, and theories, from conservation of energy, transmission of information, causality. The fact alone that people studying those stuff never detected anything as such, lead me to positively state : it is almost certain to a small o in the infinitesimal that ESP power are only in the imagination of people and in the touting of scam artist. We could have missed that, but by now the last 100 years or so studying that, the last 50 years or so more carefully applying the science method on it, brought NADA, unreplicable result, result which disappear with effect size. Bem is only the latest fad. And i will rightfully name it a fad : most ESP research goes with the taste of the decade. Look it up if you think I am joking. Instead of replicating and tying to deepen or explain, researcher move onto the next fad. There has never ever been any advancement in ESP research. EVER. . They are like the homeopathy scam at the same state they were : late 19th century trying to show that something exists, against all odd and principle we know, and failing miserably.
ESP is only a dream. Or scam. But nothing real. To a very small o. You might as well search for a etapot around jupiter or staturn orbit, or a dragon in my garage.
It is not that I don't trust you all guy, but I would rather read the german law than the (eventually biased) interpretation by some english blog/web site.
See , apparentely when the machine were given for approval, the dose was calculated by having the dose calculated for the whole body. As if the whole body was receiving it. So the dose density per tissue would be low. But the reality is that those scanner actually deposit most of their radiation dose not in the whole body but the skin surface. So the real dose would be 2 order of magnitude than what is touted by the machine maker , for the tissue concerned. And thus increasing the risk of cancer , specifically skin cancer, much more. I have seen estimate than about 3 to 6 person would die of skin cancer due to those detector every year. Naturally this is very small, compared to the hundred of million of passenger which probably go thru them, but it is an enormous amount compared to the number of people dying of terroristic attack today in the USA (about zero).