1) make up a server in a country with very very lax laws (if you don't find one, just pay a poor third world country)
2) advertise that you can do all illegal stuff you want there, because by your OWn reasonment, an US citizen saving its illegal data in the other country server, the US justice departement would have to subponea the other country server. Subponea which can be ignored because the other country law say those data are legal
3) child porn, top secret docs, credit card lists, and whatever can be illegal in your country as data get stored there.
4) profit. Lot's of.
which should be linked in the summary, or made a bit more promeminent than a simple +5 informative. Compare to the other 10 or 20 +4/+5 jumping the gun and purporting the prosecutor made undue pressure, slippery slope, nazi comparison, bastard brazilian judge pressuring poor google without warrant and so on.
Black hole translate to "trou noir", which is as funny (or unfunny) as "black hole" is in english. I don't ever recall an astrophysicists in France which was annoyed, or amused. I would REALLY like to see a reference to this.And to the moderator, such an assertion would require at least a lnik or reference to be modded informative +5. Right now at best it is only +5 funny.
It ain't a question of bubble bursting, it is a matter of opinion, and for some a matter of lack of evidence. But even if you only consider it an opinion, I don't see why religion should get a free pass to get to say whatever they wish on death/origin, but other folk like atheist get lambasted because "they burst the bubble of those poor theist". Well tough luck. If it is only an opinion, both are as valid and can be told as loudly as the author want, on a soap box as high as they can make it. And incidentally, coddling too much the people don't help society/human as a whole to evolve better philosophies and societies.
And it doesn't seem to be entirely unheard of, that some company's internal IT department sets such outrageous prices for any service, that it would be cheaper to burn a large file on a CD and send it by _taxi_ to the other end of the country, than to use their network and their servers..
They asked for nearly 15.000 a MONTH to have a 24/7 linux server set up. And that wasn't a special origin server or whatnot, it was basically a normal PC with linux. And don't get me started on getting a network drive which cost only 1/3 as much per month. Most of the departments now have their own local servers (which is by the way illegal says the IT policy).
First the hacker attacked from the US, then there were web addres with trojan in europe and the US. Then attacked from all of those AND had web address with trojan based in Russia/ eastern europe, now it is asia and particularly china. I don't really think this is due to the chinese government being being it, but more that it is easier to set up a trojan web site in those countries, than in the US. And easier to cover your trace.
Because we all know that terrorist try to actively avoid canine search and airport security roaming all over the airport, as opposed to, say, passing successfully through the choke point where you have to go through x-ray and removing your belt, pants, shoe and underwear (soon to come). And naturally such said terrorist will go into the database and search for route of police to actively avoid them./Security Theater. It looks to me it is more designed for drug and other smuggling criminal activity than terrorist. But hey, the commie are there to get you ! Sorry , I meant witches. Hrm. terrorist.
Some computer can make very good prediction (we programmed them to check the weather for example and many other things). Does that means computer have free will ? no. What you call prediction is again a functionality of those neuron put together and reacting in a way, that with the input "current situation" they output "future situation". Like how good we are at guessing where a ball thrown in the air on a curve path will land. It ain't even a conscientious calculation.
Furthermore let us take down that problem the other way around. Let us take a neuron. You apply a potential to it. it changes its own potential, emit some neuro-transmitter. Has this single neuron free will ? I don't think anybody will pretend so. Add a few more neuron. The system get more complex. But still nobody would pretend there is a free will in it. Only our ways to calculate and predict how the system will react , will lower in details, emerging global property will be easier to predict. This is why this is a non-deterministic system. But nowwhere you will find "free" will. Even quantum uncertainty is a physical phenomenon/property of matter.
They are non-deterministic. The big difference, is that if you could have the computational power and the instrument to measure every bit of air the dice will travel, and the interaction with all surface, you could theoretically predict 100% of the time how the dice will fall. Just like some guy using a laser, speed measurement , and some statistic, could bet against a wheel in a casino and get better odds. I am not sure by any token that there is anything truly random, but rather complex enough that it can be called non-deterministic.
Furthermore , nobody say dice have free will. But that mostly is because dice are not complex in comparison to our brain, and most dice are smaller than our own ego.
On the lowest physical level there are only individual atoms the link they form with their neighbors, or not, forming molecules and electrodynamic interaction. A level higher we have molecule interacting each other forming protein, and various substance. A level higher we have neuron which discharge their neurotransmitter if they reach a certain level, neuro-transmitter which lead to lower or higher the level of other neurons. Up to now I described only physical process which don't per see have any "free will". Then comes a level higher with even more complexity where neuron form complex path and mass, and that is the brain. Show me an ounce of free will. All I see is a very complex system, which accept information from outside, and using chemical pathway, send output to the outside. There is no reason to imagine that for the same input, at the same state, the system would react otherwise , except if some physical phenomenon change subtely the potential of some neuron : aka brownian motion make more or less neurotransmitter reach their target site. Again a physical phenomenon. I contend that free will is an illusion. I contend that it should be called non-deterministic will. Or chaotic will. Or anything. But we aren't really "free" to chose. All those neuron with their potential and physical reaction do it.
It was not because of the thiomersal that the mother of with the autist daughter was awarded, but because the daughter had a rare form of mytochondrial disease, and the subsequent treatment and vaccine given to her worsened her condition. NOTHING to do with thiomersal per see. It pays to read the judgment before accusing other of not being informative.
Furthermore after 2001 , NO REDUCTION in autism was observed despite lessened to null use of thiomersal. And study were made it has no autism impact. How many more evidence you need ? Finally you are omitting a very important fact from your "ethyl mercury is toxic" meme. 1) how long does it take to metabolise from thiomersal to ethyl mercury 2) how does it relate to ethyl mercury half life in the body 3) how does it relate to the minimal quantity of thiomersal in vaccine ? 4) how is the quantity of ethyl mercury due to vaccine at ANY time in comparison to the dosis at which it starts affecting the body (and yes there are quantity which are perfectly tolerable, and even quantity of Eth-Hg which can be totally ignored). and more importantly 5) how does it relate to parents saying that within 24 hours their kids got autism !!!!
Like for example, if I drop a stone 1 meter above sea level, just outside a beach in plain air, I am 100% sure it will drop down. You won't hear anybody saying "gosh those scientist are speaking in absolute".
In the case of thiomersal, it was studied, and found no link whatsoever. Furthermore, if I am not wrong, it is taken out of many vaccine in the US (except Flu I think). From wiki : n the U.S., the European Union, and a few other affluent countries, the compound is being phased out from vaccines routinely given to children.[1] Packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials eliminates the need for bacteriostatics such as thiomersal.[2]
Granted, I can only remember my first vaccination when I was roughly in the lowest school class (5-6 years old or maybe 8 who knows my memory start to betray me....) but I remember that we had to go to a pharmacy, get some vaccine in a box, go back to the doctor and get it injected. I don't EVER remmember getting vaccination from anything BUT a single dose vial !
The point I want to say about this, is that even in the palce where thiomersal is not used anymore, autism stay at the same rate ! Unless you come up with a convoluted hypothese where the new process has the same negative effect, to me the combination of those studies AND the non effect after withdrawal of the product, certainly hint that scientist can be 100% sure in this case too !
But not in the country you might think of. I visited Texas back in Dec 2004-Jan 05 (duty travel in DFW, not tourism). When I entered shops, people smiled to me, asked me what I wanted. Then I spoke to them with my thoroughly thick french accent. The fucking majority then grimaced, some even went on to tell me that french people are assholes and support terrorism.
I let my colleague do the rest of the buying & interaction. Luckily the firm I visited did not offer such negative interaction... Nonetheless I certainly told my family, friends and colleague to chose other spot for vacation than the US, or learn to disguise their accent and speak perfect english.
I am a french (gasp!) and a parisian too (double gasp !) and I was treated as filth by anybody in authority too. I am here just saying that it looks like a pattern , and it don't really matter that youw ere a foreigner or not.
"don't judge a book by its cover". Judging a book by its freaking cover probably saved my skin a few time, because it gave me a few second split start when I started running away.
How do you define a race ? By his amount of melanin in his skin + a few facial feature/eye+hair pigment ? Well good luck on that. Without even counting variation due to solar exposure (called browning), you will find out that from the extrem with very high concentration of melanin and the lower bound where it is neigh absent, there are NO clear limit, only a continuous spectra. Where do you place the bound ? At which point you would say somebody is a "white" and somebody not ? Would the next person do the same ? Some people considered white around here would not be in south Georgia.
And even if you decided on such limit on a national level for census purpose or whatnot. Nowadays, why even keep an outdated concept which was made up from bullshit, and do not even bring anything interresting up ? What USEFULLNESS do you ahve to categorize people in race if tehre are no superiority or inferiority or any difference whatsoever ? And if there is a SINGLE difference, then there is no equality.
And those two points is why I say the concept of race is flawed.
Support of Batista in Cuba, support of iran's dictator (too half assed to google, check the bastard that the US supported in iran before the current regimes), panama, the various CIA op in south America... The lsit goes even longer if you count incursion in Asia.
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1) make up a server in a country with very very lax laws (if you don't find one, just pay a poor third world country)
2) advertise that you can do all illegal stuff you want there, because by your OWn reasonment, an US citizen saving its illegal data in the other country server, the US justice departement would have to subponea the other country server. Subponea which can be ignored because the other country law say those data are legal
3) child porn, top secret docs, credit card lists, and whatever can be illegal in your country as data get stored there.
4) profit. Lot's of.
which should be linked in the summary, or made a bit more promeminent than a simple +5 informative. Compare to the other 10 or 20 +4/+5 jumping the gun and purporting the prosecutor made undue pressure, slippery slope, nazi comparison, bastard brazilian judge pressuring poor google without warrant and so on.
it is hard to downright impossible to prove someone's innocence. just like it is hard to prove the non-existence of an entity like the FSM.
Black hole translate to "trou noir", which is as funny (or unfunny) as "black hole" is in english. I don't ever recall an astrophysicists in France which was annoyed, or amused. I would REALLY like to see a reference to this.And to the moderator, such an assertion would require at least a lnik or reference to be modded informative +5. Right now at best it is only +5 funny.
It ain't a question of bubble bursting, it is a matter of opinion, and for some a matter of lack of evidence. But even if you only consider it an opinion, I don't see why religion should get a free pass to get to say whatever they wish on death/origin, but other folk like atheist get lambasted because "they burst the bubble of those poor theist". Well tough luck. If it is only an opinion, both are as valid and can be told as loudly as the author want, on a soap box as high as they can make it. And incidentally, coddling too much the people don't help society/human as a whole to evolve better philosophies and societies.
Are you even backing up the correct people in Iraq right now ?
PS: that was 15000 euro
And it doesn't seem to be entirely unheard of, that some company's internal IT department sets such outrageous prices for any service, that it would be cheaper to burn a large file on a CD and send it by _taxi_ to the other end of the country, than to use their network and their servers..
They asked for nearly 15.000 a MONTH to have a 24/7 linux server set up. And that wasn't a special origin server or whatnot, it was basically a normal PC with linux. And don't get me started on getting a network drive which cost only 1/3 as much per month. Most of the departments now have their own local servers (which is by the way illegal says the IT policy).
First the hacker attacked from the US, then there were web addres with trojan in europe and the US. Then attacked from all of those AND had web address with trojan based in Russia/ eastern europe, now it is asia and particularly china. I don't really think this is due to the chinese government being being it, but more that it is easier to set up a trojan web site in those countries, than in the US. And easier to cover your trace.
Because we all know that terrorist try to actively avoid canine search and airport security roaming all over the airport, as opposed to, say, passing successfully through the choke point where you have to go through x-ray and removing your belt, pants, shoe and underwear (soon to come). And naturally such said terrorist will go into the database and search for route of police to actively avoid them. /Security Theater. It looks to me it is more designed for drug and other smuggling criminal activity than terrorist. But hey, the commie are there to get you ! Sorry , I meant witches. Hrm. terrorist.
Some computer can make very good prediction (we programmed them to check the weather for example and many other things). Does that means computer have free will ? no. What you call prediction is again a functionality of those neuron put together and reacting in a way, that with the input "current situation" they output "future situation". Like how good we are at guessing where a ball thrown in the air on a curve path will land. It ain't even a conscientious calculation.
Furthermore let us take down that problem the other way around. Let us take a neuron. You apply a potential to it. it changes its own potential, emit some neuro-transmitter. Has this single neuron free will ? I don't think anybody will pretend so. Add a few more neuron. The system get more complex. But still nobody would pretend there is a free will in it. Only our ways to calculate and predict how the system will react , will lower in details, emerging global property will be easier to predict. This is why this is a non-deterministic system. But nowwhere you will find "free" will. Even quantum uncertainty is a physical phenomenon/property of matter.
They are non-deterministic. The big difference, is that if you could have the computational power and the instrument to measure every bit of air the dice will travel, and the interaction with all surface, you could theoretically predict 100% of the time how the dice will fall. Just like some guy using a laser, speed measurement , and some statistic, could bet against a wheel in a casino and get better odds. I am not sure by any token that there is anything truly random, but rather complex enough that it can be called non-deterministic.
Furthermore , nobody say dice have free will. But that mostly is because dice are not complex in comparison to our brain, and most dice are smaller than our own ego.
On the lowest physical level there are only individual atoms the link they form with their neighbors, or not, forming molecules and electrodynamic interaction. A level higher we have molecule interacting each other forming protein, and various substance. A level higher we have neuron which discharge their neurotransmitter if they reach a certain level, neuro-transmitter which lead to lower or higher the level of other neurons. Up to now I described only physical process which don't per see have any "free will". Then comes a level higher with even more complexity where neuron form complex path and mass, and that is the brain. Show me an ounce of free will. All I see is a very complex system, which accept information from outside, and using chemical pathway, send output to the outside. There is no reason to imagine that for the same input, at the same state, the system would react otherwise , except if some physical phenomenon change subtely the potential of some neuron : aka brownian motion make more or less neurotransmitter reach their target site. Again a physical phenomenon. I contend that free will is an illusion. I contend that it should be called non-deterministic will. Or chaotic will. Or anything. But we aren't really "free" to chose. All those neuron with their potential and physical reaction do it.
It was not because of the thiomersal that the mother of with the autist daughter was awarded, but because the daughter had a rare form of mytochondrial disease, and the subsequent treatment and vaccine given to her worsened her condition. NOTHING to do with thiomersal per see. It pays to read the judgment before accusing other of not being informative.
Furthermore after 2001 , NO REDUCTION in autism was observed despite lessened to null use of thiomersal. And study were made it has no autism impact. How many more evidence you need ? Finally you are omitting a very important fact from your "ethyl mercury is toxic" meme. 1) how long does it take to metabolise from thiomersal to ethyl mercury 2) how does it relate to ethyl mercury half life in the body 3) how does it relate to the minimal quantity of thiomersal in vaccine ? 4) how is the quantity of ethyl mercury due to vaccine at ANY time in comparison to the dosis at which it starts affecting the body (and yes there are quantity which are perfectly tolerable, and even quantity of Eth-Hg which can be totally ignored). and more importantly 5) how does it relate to parents saying that within 24 hours their kids got autism !!!!
Like for example, if I drop a stone 1 meter above sea level, just outside a beach in plain air, I am 100% sure it will drop down. You won't hear anybody saying "gosh those scientist are speaking in absolute".
In the case of thiomersal, it was studied, and found no link whatsoever. Furthermore, if I am not wrong, it is taken out of many vaccine in the US (except Flu I think).
From wiki : n the U.S., the European Union, and a few other affluent countries, the compound is being phased out from vaccines routinely given to children.[1] Packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials eliminates the need for bacteriostatics such as thiomersal.[2]
Granted, I can only remember my first vaccination when I was roughly in the lowest school class (5-6 years old or maybe 8 who knows my memory start to betray me....) but I remember that we had to go to a pharmacy, get some vaccine in a box, go back to the doctor and get it injected. I don't EVER remmember getting vaccination from anything BUT a single dose vial !
The point I want to say about this, is that even in the palce where thiomersal is not used anymore, autism stay at the same rate ! Unless you come up with a convoluted hypothese where the new process has the same negative effect, to me the combination of those studies AND the non effect after withdrawal of the product, certainly hint that scientist can be 100% sure in this case too !
it seems she did take the door at random instead of always taking a dude door in her explanation
I would like to see that checked. Because if true, then INDEED she was wrong and all mathematician right.
But not in the country you might think of. I visited Texas back in Dec 2004-Jan 05 (duty travel in DFW, not tourism). When I entered shops, people smiled to me, asked me what I wanted. Then I spoke to them with my thoroughly thick french accent. The fucking majority then grimaced, some even went on to tell me that french people are assholes and support terrorism.
I let my colleague do the rest of the buying & interaction. Luckily the firm I visited did not offer such negative interaction... Nonetheless I certainly told my family, friends and colleague to chose other spot for vacation than the US, or learn to disguise their accent and speak perfect english.
I am a french (gasp!) and a parisian too (double gasp !) and I was treated as filth by anybody in authority too. I am here just saying that it looks like a pattern , and it don't really matter that youw ere a foreigner or not.
Like UK in the 70th they dropped some within the channel between France/UK.
scrap steel metal only very recently became really expansive (within the last two monthes).
look at the fourth column for scrap steel price. See how much it rose in the last 2-3 monthes and over last year.
"don't judge a book by its cover". Judging a book by its freaking cover probably saved my skin a few time, because it gave me a few second split start when I started running away.
How do you define a race ? By his amount of melanin in his skin + a few facial feature/eye+hair pigment ? Well good luck on that. Without even counting variation due to solar exposure (called browning), you will find out that from the extrem with very high concentration of melanin and the lower bound where it is neigh absent, there are NO clear limit, only a continuous spectra. Where do you place the bound ? At which point you would say somebody is a "white" and somebody not ? Would the next person do the same ? Some people considered white around here would not be in south Georgia.
And even if you decided on such limit on a national level for census purpose or whatnot. Nowadays, why even keep an outdated concept which was made up from bullshit, and do not even bring anything interresting up ? What USEFULLNESS do you ahve to categorize people in race if tehre are no superiority or inferiority or any difference whatsoever ? And if there is a SINGLE difference, then there is no equality.
And those two points is why I say the concept of race is flawed.
Support of Batista in Cuba, support of iran's dictator (too half assed to google, check the bastard that the US supported in iran before the current regimes), panama, the various CIA op in south America... The lsit goes even longer if you count incursion in Asia.
A point singularity would be forbidden by QM. It would have a radius however small it would be.
"though the parent's sig is annoying, hackneyed, stupid, redundant, and (did I already say this?) annoying."
I see the parents sig as a sort of darwinian filter on how careful one is the slashdot reader at clicking link.