Because, of course every “debunking” can be bullshit itself. In an endless succession of calling each other wrong, and relying on “facts”.
In the end you have two choices: 1. Find all the arguments, connect them by all their connections, and thereby find the base paradigms made. Then find if the base paradigms are correct by working back until you get to quantum physics and the big bang (or the closest point in time where nothing could have influenced it anymore). And if they hold, you can find any flaws in the logic of the arguments/connections. 2. Somewhere on that way, give up. Since you would have to devote your whole life to it.
Unfortunately, most people go a third, invalid (but useful) way: 3. They just listen until they give up, and then just look if it fits their very own inner model of the world. Regardless if it has anything to do with physical reality. (Most of the time, it doesn’t, even for very important points. Since we’re not perfect.) And then they call it bullshit if it doesn’t fit, or accept it into their model and from then on defend it as a “fact”, if it fits. (Note how this has nothing to do with actual physical facts.)
Luckily, in this case, it’s quite easy. Since it’s not that hard, to check if those gases we pump into the atmosphere reflect heat when coming from earth (but not when coming from the sun). And if they do that, the heat is trapped. Hence we have a greenhouse effect. Which obviously results in global warming. (Relative to a state without those gases.)
So what we need, is a simple experiment that everyone can do at home, to prove that those gases reflect sunlight when coming from earth (but not when coming from the sun). Does anyone have something like this? That would be really cool!
In German Donald Duck comics, their currency is “Taler”. And in Luxemburg we even still say “Daler” (Both times with the “a” spoken like in “master”) (We also have no “th”.)
I didn’t know that Dollar was just Daler/Taler spoken differently. But it fits. A bavarian would very likely say “Taler” like that.
Now if only I could make sense of the “Euro”. Is it a currency? Is it a continent? Is it the dumbest name for a currency ever?;)) (Imagine your currency being called “Americas”. Or even worse “States”. Or “USes”.;)
Bloch (worked with neutrons, worked on the Manhattan project)
That did strike me as odd... Haven’t we all, by definition, worked with neutrons?;) E.g. my food contains delicious neutrons (and protons, and electrons, and even some neutrinos. Oh, and definitely too many photons! *ouch*).
Personally I'd be gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and impressed to all hell if we found even the most primitive of prokaryote.
Yeah, because the likeliness of life on another planet evolving exactly like on ours, in practically zero. Despite certain (pseudo-)“scientists” (with arrogance and limited imagination) being unable to think otherwise.
I bet $100 that we won’t even recognize the first extraterrestrial life we’ll ever see. And I bet another $50 that we will even damage or kill some of them, e.g. by standing right on them, while searching for “life” in a drop of water right next to it... and giving up.
Uum, it’s the same fundamental flaw in logic, as giving more food to a country, that the land can support by itself. (Talking about long-term here. Not about short-term catastrophes.) Because the only effect that will have, in of course a growing population. Because people in poor countries tend to get more children, to cope with deaths. So you have to give even more. Or if you don’t, even more children will die of hunger.
So the intention of saving children from starvation, has turned into making it possible for even more children to get born, only to starve.:/
That’s why it’s much wiser, to teach a man how to fish, than to give him a fish. And it’s even wiser, to support education as a whole, and to give him the Internet, as a meta-resource for everything he could possibly learn. Including how to fish.
Yes, co-op is a great feature, that I would love to see coming back. Especially to PCs, where everybody has his own monitor.
But come on. After Quake 3 (especially pro mode), how can anything else, be it halo, unreal or half life, ever offer enough fast-paced action again? (Although there still is absolutely nothing that beats a round of CPMA as a target and run practice/warm-up.)
Well, I played it on the PC. And because I was used to fast, nasty aliens that would not wait a second... not the “standing around for a couple of seconds until you adjusted your thumbstick” kind, I found the enemies mind-numbingly dumb. As was most of the game.
Well, there are different people on this planet. I can tolerate their views. (But we’ll see of they can tolerate mine. Went pretty bad every time I mentioned Apple.)
Imagine the same deal, with something else that could legally be “IP”:
MS: Hey you can use the word “soft” and the number 7, if we get the word “click” and the number 1. Amazon: Done. MS: New! Microsoft Windows 7.1 — Now with a clickable mouse! Amazon: The new Kindle 7 softpack!
This is exactly the same as this deal. Just with other “IP”. Which shows you how fucked up that mentality to own ideas/information is. And this is the world we are heading for. Companies have quite literally already won lawsuits about “ownership” of everyday words, or even colors. (In Germany, the Deutsche Telekom offically owns the color magenta and the word “Telekom”, as was proven many times in court.)
Luckily, on the Internet we couldn’t care less. They would have to stop all EM communication to ever be able to control it all.
You’re forgetting that China has probably more special agents ready to meet the Google bosses in their sleep, that Google has employees. They can’t exactly do much against a huge armed state.
I still think one should fight what one thinks is wrong. But it doesn’t exactly make sense to lose one’s life in the process. Because as a dead person, you can’t change much, can you?
So how about you? Let’s go to China. Then you’ll get to openly say your opinion in front of some of their cops. And we’ll see if you are a “pussy”.;)
(I’m more for a invisible but effective job, than cowardly open attacks.:)
AAR AARR AARRARR AARRGNAH AARRGGG... ah, there it is. AARRGGG: Screamed right between sliding down a rope, and bleeding to death on the saber of an enemy pirate that you landed on.
Well, you know what they say: The better you know them, the better you can fight them. (Or manipulate them into destroying themselves.)
So I recommend getting “friends” with the ACTA crowd. At least until you can plant something really nasty. Like CP on their computers plus a cop raid. Or them working as a agent for North Korea. Etc. Or even better: Them being moles trying to destroy $hugeCompany with $hugePower.
You don’t have to be a giant to fight a giant. You only have to find another giant, and make them beat the shit out of each other. ^^
1 amp at one volt is one watt; a device using this tech the size of a phone battery could run an air conditioner if there were any way to keep the thing from melting.
That’s only reserved for sneaky Apple Slashvertisements! ^^
(Seriously, go search for articles containing “Apple”, “iPhone” or “iPad” on Slashdot. You won’t find a week without at least one, and up to 7 of ’em.)
Yes, because if a spinal disc is dislocated, or something else is dislocated, moving it bach to the right position actually fixes things! (The headache is in this case just a extension of the back pain.)
Everything for its purpose. And for these things, chiropractics is the the exact right thing. That’s its purpose. And it’s 1000 times better than taking pain medication all day long without fixing the actual problem. (But hey, some people would take pain medication and continue running their head against a wall.:/)
As soon as it gets away from what’s physically possible, it gets dumb. Like pressing this spot on your foot, to “cure your gastric ulcer”. It’s easy to spot, but hard to put in words. We all know it when we see it. At least if you know the rules of physics, logic and causality. (By the way, in the above example, the pure illusion [placebo] could let a ulcer go away, if that ulcer was caused by stress because of irrational fears. [= something irrational can be fixed with something irrational]. Doesn’t mean it has a real effect, though.;)
But what crazy person will actually play all those paths. By the way: I won’t be tens of thousands of paths. Because that would mean tens of thousands of script pages and of voice recordings being done. Something impossible in normal time scales.
Usually most paths end up joining again at a later point. Or they are ordered in a matrix of factors. E.g. one dimension being “good vs evil” and the other being “stealth vs rushing”. So in the end you end up with an illusion of much more than you actually have to design.
The holy grail of this, is a very high factor of emergence, from a (comparatively! not absolute!) very small set of rules and interface items.
But Heavy Rain definitely is a must play! Especially if one played Farenheit (Indigo Prophecy) before that.
Why pick names which have connotations of either juvenile behaviour or stealing from copyright musicians and Hollywood?
Because it’s a parody on stupid people like you (or people who buy into old-world bullshit like you) who don’t get it.
“Pirate” is obviously a fake word, since it stealing shit on the high seas has nothing to do with downloading. We use it as a joke.
And only old people still thing of games an “juvenile”. Hell, our grandparents play Wii, our parents play Gameboy since the early 90s. 50 year old people play online shooters.
The very point about those names, is to NOT play that retarded politics games of false social standards and judging someone by completely pointless properties, like their names. Frankly, we can live without that, and without people who still live in that retarded world. They would fuck up the party and its goals anyway. So they better stay with their old lying parties in their fantasy world, until they are extinct.
That rule fell for its own error in logic a looong time ago. The error was, that the ideal is efficiency! Simplifying it to “simplicity” is on oversimplification, causing loss of purpose. Because too simple means harder again. Because in that case, you actually lose efficiency.
Clippy is a perfect example. If one is really dumb (no offense), one will find Clippy useful. But every normal human being will loathe that thing.
The same happens to everything, if you apply KISS long enough. It’s only a matter of time. Which is why I went back to efficiency a long time ago.
Please stop parroting that old wives tale. It’s deprecated. Thank you.:)
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Because, of course every “debunking” can be bullshit itself. In an endless succession of calling each other wrong, and relying on “facts”.
In the end you have two choices:
1. Find all the arguments, connect them by all their connections, and thereby find the base paradigms made. Then find if the base paradigms are correct by working back until you get to quantum physics and the big bang (or the closest point in time where nothing could have influenced it anymore). And if they hold, you can find any flaws in the logic of the arguments/connections.
2. Somewhere on that way, give up. Since you would have to devote your whole life to it.
Unfortunately, most people go a third, invalid (but useful) way:
3. They just listen until they give up, and then just look if it fits their very own inner model of the world. Regardless if it has anything to do with physical reality. (Most of the time, it doesn’t, even for very important points. Since we’re not perfect.) And then they call it bullshit if it doesn’t fit, or accept it into their model and from then on defend it as a “fact”, if it fits. (Note how this has nothing to do with actual physical facts.)
Luckily, in this case, it’s quite easy. Since it’s not that hard, to check if those gases we pump into the atmosphere reflect heat when coming from earth (but not when coming from the sun). And if they do that, the heat is trapped. Hence we have a greenhouse effect. Which obviously results in global warming. (Relative to a state without those gases.)
So what we need, is a simple experiment that everyone can do at home, to prove that those gases reflect sunlight when coming from earth (but not when coming from the sun).
Does anyone have something like this? That would be really cool!
In German Donald Duck comics, their currency is “Taler”. And in Luxemburg we even still say “Daler” (Both times with the “a” spoken like in “master”) (We also have no “th”.)
I didn’t know that Dollar was just Daler/Taler spoken differently. But it fits. A bavarian would very likely say “Taler” like that.
Now if only I could make sense of the “Euro”. Is it a currency? Is it a continent? Is it the dumbest name for a currency ever? ;)) (Imagine your currency being called “Americas”. Or even worse “States”. Or “USes”. ;)
Bloch (worked with neutrons, worked on the Manhattan project)
That did strike me as odd... Haven’t we all, by definition, worked with neutrons? ;)
E.g. my food contains delicious neutrons (and protons, and electrons, and even some neutrinos. Oh, and definitely too many photons! *ouch*).
Personally I'd be gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and impressed to all hell if we found even the most primitive of prokaryote.
Yeah, because the likeliness of life on another planet evolving exactly like on ours, in practically zero.
Despite certain (pseudo-)“scientists” (with arrogance and limited imagination) being unable to think otherwise.
I bet $100 that we won’t even recognize the first extraterrestrial life we’ll ever see.
And I bet another $50 that we will even damage or kill some of them, e.g. by standing right on them, while searching for “life” in a drop of water right next to it... and giving up.
Or, as xkcd said it: http://xkcd.com/638/
Uum, it’s the same fundamental flaw in logic, as giving more food to a country, that the land can support by itself. (Talking about long-term here. Not about short-term catastrophes.)
Because the only effect that will have, in of course a growing population. Because people in poor countries tend to get more children, to cope with deaths. So you have to give even more.
Or if you don’t, even more children will die of hunger.
So the intention of saving children from starvation, has turned into making it possible for even more children to get born, only to starve. :/
That’s why it’s much wiser, to teach a man how to fish, than to give him a fish.
And it’s even wiser, to support education as a whole, and to give him the Internet, as a meta-resource for everything he could possibly learn. Including how to fish.
I want to move to 127.*.*.*: Loopback! ;)
Yes, co-op is a great feature, that I would love to see coming back. Especially to PCs, where everybody has his own monitor.
But come on. After Quake 3 (especially pro mode), how can anything else, be it halo, unreal or half life, ever offer enough fast-paced action again? (Although there still is absolutely nothing that beats a round of CPMA as a target and run practice/warm-up.)
Well, I played it on the PC. And because I was used to fast, nasty aliens that would not wait a second... not the “standing around for a couple of seconds until you adjusted your thumbstick” kind, I found the enemies mind-numbingly dumb. As was most of the game.
Well, there are different people on this planet. I can tolerate their views. (But we’ll see of they can tolerate mine. Went pretty bad every time I mentioned Apple.)
Well, tough shit, cause I invented invention itself! (Patent #3735928559.)
Oh, and green is house. Because I say so. Just as coocoo is tetracell white. Also because I say so. And I own you like a slave. Because I said so.
</delusional-“IP”-“owner”>
Imagine the same deal, with something else that could legally be “IP”:
MS: Hey you can use the word “soft” and the number 7, if we get the word “click” and the number 1.
Amazon: Done.
MS: New! Microsoft Windows 7.1 — Now with a clickable mouse!
Amazon: The new Kindle 7 softpack!
This is exactly the same as this deal. Just with other “IP”. Which shows you how fucked up that mentality to own ideas/information is. And this is the world we are heading for.
Companies have quite literally already won lawsuits about “ownership” of everyday words, or even colors. (In Germany, the Deutsche Telekom offically owns the color magenta and the word “Telekom”, as was proven many times in court.)
Luckily, on the Internet we couldn’t care less. They would have to stop all EM communication to ever be able to control it all.
What if the bug is IN your beer? ;)
You’re forgetting that China has probably more special agents ready to meet the Google bosses in their sleep, that Google has employees. They can’t exactly do much against a huge armed state.
I still think one should fight what one thinks is wrong. But it doesn’t exactly make sense to lose one’s life in the process. Because as a dead person, you can’t change much, can you?
So how about you? Let’s go to China. Then you’ll get to openly say your opinion in front of some of their cops. And we’ll see if you are a “pussy”. ;)
(I’m more for a invisible but effective job, than cowardly open attacks. :)
Can we make that official? ;)
I also suggest renaming America to PlasticFantastica ;)
(You are eligible to naming European countries. ;)
P.S.: <tag/> would be a tag that is closed in itself. So it would not include anyting before or after it. Not quite what you intended, I guess... ;)
But what if I already have an eye patch from being a real pirate?
I would be blind, you insensitive clod!
Let me look in the pirate dictionary...
AAR
AARR
AARRARR
AARRGNAH
AARRGGG... ah, there it is.
AARRGGG: Screamed right between sliding down a rope, and bleeding to death on the saber of an enemy pirate that you landed on.
Well, you know what they say: The better you know them, the better you can fight them. (Or manipulate them into destroying themselves.)
So I recommend getting “friends” with the ACTA crowd. At least until you can plant something really nasty. Like CP on their computers plus a cop raid. Or them working as a agent for North Korea. Etc. Or even better: Them being moles trying to destroy $hugeCompany with $hugePower.
You don’t have to be a giant to fight a giant. You only have to find another giant, and make them beat the shit out of each other. ^^
1 amp at one volt is one watt; a device using this tech the size of a phone battery could run an air conditioner if there were any way to keep the thing from melting.
That’s what the (huge) air conditioner is for! ;)
That’s only reserved for sneaky Apple Slashvertisements! ^^
(Seriously, go search for articles containing “Apple”, “iPhone” or “iPad” on Slashdot. You won’t find a week without at least one, and up to 7 of ’em.)
Yes, because if a spinal disc is dislocated, or something else is dislocated, moving it bach to the right position actually fixes things! (The headache is in this case just a extension of the back pain.)
Everything for its purpose. And for these things, chiropractics is the the exact right thing. That’s its purpose. And it’s 1000 times better than taking pain medication all day long without fixing the actual problem. (But hey, some people would take pain medication and continue running their head against a wall. :/)
As soon as it gets away from what’s physically possible, it gets dumb. Like pressing this spot on your foot, to “cure your gastric ulcer”. ;)
It’s easy to spot, but hard to put in words. We all know it when we see it. At least if you know the rules of physics, logic and causality.
(By the way, in the above example, the pure illusion [placebo] could let a ulcer go away, if that ulcer was caused by stress because of irrational fears. [= something irrational can be fixed with something irrational]. Doesn’t mean it has a real effect, though.
“I guess that would make us even.” ;)
But what crazy person will actually play all those paths. By the way: I won’t be tens of thousands of paths. Because that would mean tens of thousands of script pages and of voice recordings being done. Something impossible in normal time scales.
Usually most paths end up joining again at a later point. Or they are ordered in a matrix of factors. E.g. one dimension being “good vs evil” and the other being “stealth vs rushing”. So in the end you end up with an illusion of much more than you actually have to design.
The holy grail of this, is a very high factor of emergence, from a (comparatively! not absolute!) very small set of rules and interface items.
But Heavy Rain definitely is a must play! Especially if one played Farenheit (Indigo Prophecy) before that.
How about strategic games. I’d say Civilization is a really great game, especially for the older management type.
...a giant penis in space, lacking a giant vagina? ;)
“Tangling” of those two objects might be exactly what we need. ;)
Why pick names which have connotations of either juvenile behaviour or stealing from copyright musicians and Hollywood?
Because it’s a parody on stupid people like you (or people who buy into old-world bullshit like you) who don’t get it.
“Pirate” is obviously a fake word, since it stealing shit on the high seas has nothing to do with downloading. We use it as a joke.
And only old people still thing of games an “juvenile”. Hell, our grandparents play Wii, our parents play Gameboy since the early 90s. 50 year old people play online shooters.
The very point about those names, is to NOT play that retarded politics games of false social standards and judging someone by completely pointless properties, like their names.
Frankly, we can live without that, and without people who still live in that retarded world. They would fuck up the party and its goals anyway. So they better stay with their old lying parties in their fantasy world, until they are extinct.
But what if you are NOT stupid?
That rule fell for its own error in logic a looong time ago.
The error was, that the ideal is efficiency! Simplifying it to “simplicity” is on oversimplification, causing loss of purpose. Because too simple means harder again. Because in that case, you actually lose efficiency.
Clippy is a perfect example. If one is really dumb (no offense), one will find Clippy useful. But every normal human being will loathe that thing.
The same happens to everything, if you apply KISS long enough. It’s only a matter of time.
Which is why I went back to efficiency a long time ago.
Please stop parroting that old wives tale. It’s deprecated. Thank you. :)