They're clearly not the world's experts on public policy. As I said, they seem to think that scientific funding must be a zero-sum game. They should be working to increase overall scientific funding instead of looking to divvy up a small slice of pie.
Hopefully, a new administration will come in with better priorities, and with a willingness to expect that those who benefit from the government's policies should pay their fair share. Yes, we'll have to wait at least 4 years, but . . .
I didn't see any "fear," "uncertainty," or "doubt" in my posting. Could you point out what other scientific panels feel that we *can't* go to the moon or Mars because of impact on other programs? Sure, if it's done wrong (and this is just the administration *to* do it wrong), it could impact them. But why not fight to keep the Mars and moon funding from impinging on their programs, without fighting the scientific idea of Mars and lunar exploration? Is there really a "scientific" justification being used, or merely a political one?
The counterargument to the APS's "report" shouldn't be "but we could solve the energy crisis," it should be "you're a bunch of self-serving, near-sighted idiots who seem to think that scientific funding *has to be* a zero-sum game. Do you realize that in the minds of many people, the bucks for probes is in part justfied by the Buck Rogers of manned space flight? Do you understand how much more fruitful it would be for planetologists to actually get to study the moon, Mars, etc. *in situ*? Do you realize that expanding the world economy into the solar system could have countless beneficial effects on all the sciences, on our standards of living, on our philosophical view of the universe? Or is protecting your research grant that much more important to you than the universe itself?"
First of all, no species has ever been shown to evolve into another species. No scientific experiment has ever proved this.
Actually, species have been OBSERVED evolving into other species. Bacterial species. You may have experienced the result yourself: antibiotic resistance.
The treatment was a classic hack - everyone KNEW that rabies was 99.999999999999% fatal, and that the handful of survivors had brain damage. This doc didn't just tell the family "sorry, there's nothing we can do but make her comfortable and hope she pulls through, and get ready to cope with the brain damage when she does." He did some quick research, came up with a theory for how he might treat her, and tried it - and it worked. This is the hacker ethic *saving lives*. I can't think of any story that belongs on/. more than this one. If I ever meet this doc, the first drink's on me.
You mean 'anaesthetic'? (There are two valid spellings for anesthetic; the "ae" from Latin tends to be simplified in American English, but not to be simplified in British English.)
You're talking about old Mac OS; we're living in the age of OS X (i.e., NeXTStep). OS X doesn't hide things from users unless they want them hidden. I wouldn't switch until I heard that Apple had picked up NeXTStep; then I started saving up for a Mac.
Leaving aside the question of whether Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist with expertise in ancient Greek agricultural and military matters, is necessarily the most authoritative writer on the subject of the US Civil War, and granting him that, it's not relevant to what the posting I responded to said. He's talking about current, northern attitudes toward the Civil War, and how they might have led to hostility against the series: but the most common contemorary Northern view of the Civil War is entirely that it was a war of liberation of the slaves (ahistorical as that view is). I think it's also useful for you to look at the context of modern pro-Confederate attitudes: those confederate battle flags on US state flags were added mostly in the 1950s, in implicit response to efforts on the part of the "Northern" federal government to push through desegregation. Before about 1980, State's rights arguments in the US, and ideas about how these relate to local "culture," nearly always end up revolving around issues of racialism. (You see it in the North, too, e.g. in Boston during the busing crisis, in which a lot of locals objecting to having black students bused into their neighborhoods, but masqueraded their racism with talk of "local control" and "neighborhood schools." Often the only difference between the neighborhoods concerned were the colors of their skin.)
They advertised the job as full-time regular, but then told you it was contractor, with a possibility of conversion to full-time regular. They've already told you an untruth; why should you trust anything they say to you know?
They're talking about JOBS. Where you get PAID. I've been a grad student - that stuff they gave me every week, there wasn't enough of that to be considered money.
If the methodology is sound, and the data collection practices are sound, and the data sources are sound, and you're dealing with a quantitative and not a qualitative judgment, bias doesn't enter into it. I don't know enough about this study to know if these conditions are true or not, but this is the way one responds to argumentum ad hominem.
We've got Barracuda running on our system. We have multiple thresholds - a hard no-one-sees-it-but-the-admin-if-he-checks threshold, a quarantine threshold, and a tagging threshold. No false positives on the first two thresholds, and single-digit false positive rate on the tagging threshold and false negative rate: but we didn't just take it out of the box, we've been doing a lot of bayesian training to perfect it.
If you have NO knowledge of Alexander Hamilton, you have no way of understanding what that inconsistency means, and thus cannot correct the problem. The problem isn't the author's "dinosaurness," it's your own inability to understand the limitations of an editorless system.
In any other administration, Condi Rice would seem less moderate than she does in this administration. Rice in State isn't the choice I'd make, but compared to Wolfowitz (now THAT would be a statement), she's acceptable. The scary thing is that Wolfowitz is being bandied about for NSA.
I believe that's Turing's bicycle that has the chain that keeps falling off if the wrong link coincides with the wrong spoke.
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Not a link, but *Seizing the Enigma*, by David Kahn (of "Codebreakers" fame), has a complete account of the decryption of Enigma, including the Polish decryption efforts. I think the Poles broke one Enigma variant, but couldn't get beyond that, and then of course they were occupied, though I think the "bombes" got out intact somehow.
So in other words, if they release a new sequel to MIB, and call it H2G2, that's ok, because the movie is not the book? A certain amount of continuity is necessary: Zaphod must have three arms and two heads, Marvin must be an electronic sulking machine, Vogons must be green, the mice must escape, and someone's arm must be bruised.
Note that Kirk and the Orion slave girl were never in the same shot at the same time; Kirk only "saw" the Orion slave girl (who wasn't an Orion slave girl, but an illusion-altered-40-something human survivor of a spaceship crash) putting the moves on Pike. It's slashdot, of course I have to be pedantic about Trek.
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They're clearly not the world's experts on public policy. As I said, they seem to think that scientific funding must be a zero-sum game. They should be working to increase overall scientific funding instead of looking to divvy up a small slice of pie.
Hopefully, a new administration will come in with better priorities, and with a willingness to expect that those who benefit from the government's policies should pay their fair share. Yes, we'll have to wait at least 4 years, but . . .
I didn't see any "fear," "uncertainty," or "doubt" in my posting. Could you point out what other scientific panels feel that we *can't* go to the moon or Mars because of impact on other programs? Sure, if it's done wrong (and this is just the administration *to* do it wrong), it could impact them. But why not fight to keep the Mars and moon funding from impinging on their programs, without fighting the scientific idea of Mars and lunar exploration? Is there really a "scientific" justification being used, or merely a political one?
The counterargument to the APS's "report" shouldn't be "but we could solve the energy crisis," it should be "you're a bunch of self-serving, near-sighted idiots who seem to think that scientific funding *has to be* a zero-sum game. Do you realize that in the minds of many people, the bucks for probes is in part justfied by the Buck Rogers of manned space flight? Do you understand how much more fruitful it would be for planetologists to actually get to study the moon, Mars, etc. *in situ*? Do you realize that expanding the world economy into the solar system could have countless beneficial effects on all the sciences, on our standards of living, on our philosophical view of the universe? Or is protecting your research grant that much more important to you than the universe itself?"
First of all, no species has ever been shown to evolve into another species. No scientific experiment has ever proved this.
Actually, species have been OBSERVED evolving into other species. Bacterial species. You may have experienced the result yourself: antibiotic resistance.
Ok, more than twice as many nines as is strictly accurate . . .
The treatment was a classic hack - everyone KNEW that rabies was 99.999999999999% fatal, and that the handful of survivors had brain damage. This doc didn't just tell the family "sorry, there's nothing we can do but make her comfortable and hope she pulls through, and get ready to cope with the brain damage when she does." He did some quick research, came up with a theory for how he might treat her, and tried it - and it worked. This is the hacker ethic *saving lives*. I can't think of any story that belongs on /. more than this one. If I ever meet this doc, the first drink's on me.
rabies anesthetic (and spell it right).
You mean 'anaesthetic'? (There are two valid spellings for anesthetic; the "ae" from Latin tends to be simplified in American English, but not to be simplified in British English.)
You're talking about old Mac OS; we're living in the age of OS X (i.e., NeXTStep). OS X doesn't hide things from users unless they want them hidden. I wouldn't switch until I heard that Apple had picked up NeXTStep; then I started saving up for a Mac.
Leaving aside the question of whether Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist with expertise in ancient Greek agricultural and military matters, is necessarily the most authoritative writer on the subject of the US Civil War, and granting him that, it's not relevant to what the posting I responded to said. He's talking about current, northern attitudes toward the Civil War, and how they might have led to hostility against the series: but the most common contemorary Northern view of the Civil War is entirely that it was a war of liberation of the slaves (ahistorical as that view is). I think it's also useful for you to look at the context of modern pro-Confederate attitudes: those confederate battle flags on US state flags were added mostly in the 1950s, in implicit response to efforts on the part of the "Northern" federal government to push through desegregation. Before about 1980, State's rights arguments in the US, and ideas about how these relate to local "culture," nearly always end up revolving around issues of racialism. (You see it in the North, too, e.g. in Boston during the busing crisis, in which a lot of locals objecting to having black students bused into their neighborhoods, but masqueraded their racism with talk of "local control" and "neighborhood schools." Often the only difference between the neighborhoods concerned were the colors of their skin.)
They advertised the job as full-time regular, but then told you it was contractor, with a possibility of conversion to full-time regular. They've already told you an untruth; why should you trust anything they say to you know?
Yeah, because Malcolm Reynolds and his fellow Independents were all fighting to keep their slaves. Don't be ridiculous.
So, then, you're saying that SpaceShipOne is 30+ years behind the times? Sometimes reinventing the wheel gives you a hovercraft.
They're talking about JOBS. Where you get PAID. I've been a grad student - that stuff they gave me every week, there wasn't enough of that to be considered money.
If the methodology is sound, and the data collection practices are sound, and the data sources are sound, and you're dealing with a quantitative and not a qualitative judgment, bias doesn't enter into it. I don't know enough about this study to know if these conditions are true or not, but this is the way one responds to argumentum ad hominem.
We've got Barracuda running on our system. We have multiple thresholds - a hard no-one-sees-it-but-the-admin-if-he-checks threshold, a quarantine threshold, and a tagging threshold. No false positives on the first two thresholds, and single-digit false positive rate on the tagging threshold and false negative rate: but we didn't just take it out of the box, we've been doing a lot of bayesian training to perfect it.
If you have NO knowledge of Alexander Hamilton, you have no way of understanding what that inconsistency means, and thus cannot correct the problem. The problem isn't the author's "dinosaurness," it's your own inability to understand the limitations of an editorless system.
In any other administration, Condi Rice would seem less moderate than she does in this administration. Rice in State isn't the choice I'd make, but compared to Wolfowitz (now THAT would be a statement), she's acceptable. The scary thing is that Wolfowitz is being bandied about for NSA.
I believe that's Turing's bicycle that has the chain that keeps falling off if the wrong link coincides with the wrong spoke.
Not a link, but *Seizing the Enigma*, by David Kahn (of "Codebreakers" fame), has a complete account of the decryption of Enigma, including the Polish decryption efforts. I think the Poles broke one Enigma variant, but couldn't get beyond that, and then of course they were occupied, though I think the "bombes" got out intact somehow.
Or, to translate this more simply, encryption based upon a one-time pad is not breakable without stealing the key.
So in other words, if they release a new sequel to MIB, and call it H2G2, that's ok, because the movie is not the book? A certain amount of continuity is necessary: Zaphod must have three arms and two heads, Marvin must be an electronic sulking machine, Vogons must be green, the mice must escape, and someone's arm must be bruised.
Damn, I forgot about Marta. You got me on that one.
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Should the votes be recounted because the Libertarians or Greens think they may win? No.
Should the votes be recounted because Kerry may have won, and not Bush? Er, I doubt it, but maybe.
Should the votes be recounted as a check on how well the new computerized systems tallied the votes? Definitely.
Damned straight!
Note that Kirk and the Orion slave girl were never in the same shot at the same time; Kirk only "saw" the Orion slave girl (who wasn't an Orion slave girl, but an illusion-altered-40-something human survivor of a spaceship crash) putting the moves on Pike. It's slashdot, of course I have to be pedantic about Trek.