Just an insignificant comment, but why the fuck is everyone always saying "capitalism works because...".
Tell me how capitalism works. Tell me how it helps out the poor. Tell me why it's ok for wealth to be amassed in the top few percent of the population, while people die all over the fucking world because they can't eat. Tell me why it's ok to buy a "vote" in a free market with money, when most people don't even have enough money to pay the bills. Tell me why exploitation of cheap labor is a good thing. Explain to me why the people who support capitalism aren't the ones that suffer from it.
Please clear this up for me. And don't pick just one comment in here that you disagree with, and argue that. Explain the big picture, about how this "capitalism" works for everyone, about how it makes everyone's life better. Because I'm ok with being wrong, but I haven't heard a fucking thing that would make anyone else right.
Well, an unobserved electron would theoretically have no real mass, momentum, velocity, spin, etc. It would exist in a superposition of all it's possible states, I think. I guess the question is what is an observer? I think the "observer" in this case would be the apparatus used to measure the state of the electron. If you could use a photon to measure the state of the electron, then the photon would be the observer... (again, I think, i'd hope if i'm wrong somebody jumps in and says so). Then the interaction between the photon and the electron is what causes the collapse of the superposition. But the act of observation makes something uncertain, and therefore indeterministic. But if nothing's being observed, then would everything exists in a state of superposition, making determinism meaningless, because everything exists everywhere?
I think the point being that if something is unobserved, an object is the sum of all it's possible states until it is observed.
I think it's more along the lines of the fact that you're observing something means that there's an uncertainty either in it's momentum or position; wheter it be an electron, proton, atom or photon.
The fact that there's built-in uncertainty allows for that aforementioned particle to have either an unpredictable momentum, or an unpredictable position, thereby making it unpredictable and indeterministic.
Now, if the fundamental particles of the universe are all indeterministic, the universe itself therefore becomes indeterministic. I think thats how it goes.
and of course, the problem will be even more solved when the cloud of radioactive dirt shot up into the air by this explosion kills thousands more around the immediate area. fallout from nuclear testing in the 50's, 60's and 70's has killed 11,000 people of cancer in the united states alone; tens of thousands more have probably died all over the world.
radioactive fallout isn't anything to fuck with, and it's ridiculous to think that any problems can be solved by filling the atmosphere with radioactivity.
but don't worry, terrorists won't get ahold of nuclear bombs and detonate them in the middle of a city in retribution. don't worry about taking responsibility for our government, they'll take the blame when thousands of civilians are killed, and monetarily compensate whoever is left. and your tax dollars won't go to pay for the treatment of the thousands more who get cancer, or for the environmental cleanup from the area. nuclear bombs are bad news, regardless of why the fuck these paranoid assholes in govnerment/military feel as though we need them. what, thousand pound bombs are good enough? don't they kill enough people? you can't give the same penetrating ability to conventional weapons? this makes no fucking sense.
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Just an insignificant comment, but why the fuck is everyone always saying "capitalism works because ...".
Tell me how capitalism works. Tell me how it helps out the poor. Tell me why it's ok for wealth to be amassed in the top few percent of the population, while people die all over the fucking world because they can't eat. Tell me why it's ok to buy a "vote" in a free market with money, when most people don't even have enough money to pay the bills. Tell me why exploitation of cheap labor is a good thing. Explain to me why the people who support capitalism aren't the ones that suffer from it.
Please clear this up for me. And don't pick just one comment in here that you disagree with, and argue that. Explain the big picture, about how this "capitalism" works for everyone, about how it makes everyone's life better. Because I'm ok with being wrong, but I haven't heard a fucking thing that would make anyone else right.
Well, an unobserved electron would theoretically have no real mass, momentum, velocity, spin, etc. It would exist in a superposition of all it's possible states, I think. I guess the question is what is an observer? I think the "observer" in this case would be the apparatus used to measure the state of the electron. If you could use a photon to measure the state of the electron, then the photon would be the observer... (again, I think, i'd hope if i'm wrong somebody jumps in and says so). Then the interaction between the photon and the electron is what causes the collapse of the superposition.
But the act of observation makes something uncertain, and therefore indeterministic. But if nothing's being observed, then would everything exists in a state of superposition, making determinism meaningless, because everything exists everywhere?
I think the point being that if something is unobserved, an object is the sum of all it's possible states until it is observed.
I think it's more along the lines of the fact that you're observing something means that there's an uncertainty either in it's momentum or position; wheter it be an electron, proton, atom or photon.
The fact that there's built-in uncertainty allows for that aforementioned particle to have either an unpredictable momentum, or an unpredictable position, thereby making it unpredictable and indeterministic.
Now, if the fundamental particles of the universe are all indeterministic, the universe itself therefore becomes indeterministic. I think thats how it goes.
that'd be nice, but i guess setting the stage for the destruction of the world isn't as bad as fucking an intern, so we can't impeach him.
and of course, the problem will be even more solved when the cloud of radioactive dirt shot up into the air by this explosion kills thousands more around the immediate area. fallout from nuclear testing in the 50's, 60's and 70's has killed 11,000 people of cancer in the united states alone; tens of thousands more have probably died all over the world.
radioactive fallout isn't anything to fuck with, and it's ridiculous to think that any problems can be solved by filling the atmosphere with radioactivity.
but don't worry, terrorists won't get ahold of nuclear bombs and detonate them in the middle of a city in retribution. don't worry about taking responsibility for our government, they'll take the blame when thousands of civilians are killed, and monetarily compensate whoever is left. and your tax dollars won't go to pay for the treatment of the thousands more who get cancer, or for the environmental cleanup from the area. nuclear bombs are bad news, regardless of why the fuck these paranoid assholes in govnerment/military feel as though we need them. what, thousand pound bombs are good enough? don't they kill enough people? you can't give the same penetrating ability to conventional weapons? this makes no fucking sense.
but i thought any nation that was amassing weapons of mass destruction was terrorist?
oh no, you mean i can't accurately reproduce quantum effects in perl?!? fuck man, i just don't believe in anything anymore.