All you had to do was turn on some form of broadcast radio after about 1995 and listen for a little while. When the commercial break appeared you heard one mortgage mill after another hawking refis, credit lines, etc. Bad credit? No credit? No problem! Interest only mortgage. Balloon mortgage. Jumbo mortgage!
This went on for years and years.
I saw it coming. If you missed it you're a fool. Maybe we just have a lot of fools.
I don't listen to broadcast radio with commercial breaks.
"If you had to readjust the constant in Newton's law of gravity every time you got out of bed in the morning in order for it to agree with your scale, it wouldn't be much of a law But in finance they just keep on recalibrating and pretending that the models work."
Wait... you are saying the growing number on my bath scale isn't because the constant of gravity is growing?:-)
Fascinating thing about DNA was that any sequence could be transcribed in six different ways. Because three combinations of the four letters C,T,A,G, are required to encode each possible amino acid (codons) ie. |CTA|GGA|GAT|, they could be offset by zero, one or two letters as well as being reversed ie. |TAG|AGG|ATC|. Known as codons, there is also an end codon, which indicates the end-of-sequence.
Shouldn't the reversed sequence be |ATC|TCC|TAG| because A pairs with T and C with G?
The point of rules is that they should prevent immoral people from harming other people. If they instead enable immoral people to harm other people even worse, there's something wrong with the rules.
If the profit motive and existing copyright regime restricts access to information, then I see no difference between it and the censorship systems of the old Soviet Union and modern China.
There's a very important difference: If you are the author of an article hidden behind a paywall, then you don't have to fear being put in prison or worse because of it.
Maybe one could make a computer analogy: Even with a read-only hard disk your computer may behave very differently if different parts of the code on the hard disk are executed. An an extreme example, let it be a dual boot system where a single key press early on decides whether the Windows partition or the Linux partition is executed. Same hard disk content, radically different behaviour.
Well, here in Germany most online shops allow something called "Nachnahme" (I have no idea what it is called in English). Basically it means you pay to the postman on delivery. It costs something extra, but it has the big advantage that you don't pay before the product arrives.
It's going downhill. There's a clearly defined direction here. And I'm sure a human wouldn't go in circles in that case either (which would involve going uphill instead of downhill after some time).
The point is, if you are using SSL, you probably do so because you don't want someone in between to read your search terms. Now the referer contains your search terms (as part of the URL), therefore if the referer is sent to a non-SSL site, your search terms can be read in the clear.
It seems I've already read this several times in this thread... oh wait, seeing the same thing again is a sign of a glitch in the Matrix. So you are obviously right!:-)
Well, let's look at other fields. For example, I guess everyone would agree that the LCD screen was invented. Now the LCD screen is based on the observation (discovery) that liquid crystals change the polarization of light depending on the electric field, and on the observation (discovery) that certain substances only let pass light of a certain polarization. From those two facts it can be derived that the amount of light which passes through two polarisers with a liquid crystal in between depends in the electric field in that crystal, that is, on the electric voltage between electrodes on both sides. This observation has been combined with the known fact that we see light coming from pixel arrays as images, which also was discovered at some time, to make a pixel array of liquid crystals with polarisers to show an image; the whole function of that pixel array can be derived from the knowledge of the observed facts mentioned above. Therefore, has the LCD screen just been discovered?
I'm a philosopher---by education and in my current job, not self-proclaimed or as a dubious honorary title---and I can hardly imagine anything philosophers could ever universally agree upon.
I think all philosophers would universally agree that philosophy is worthwhile.:-)
Then try to let a billion people use the server at the same time, and you'll see that it won't work.
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In movies when starships go really fast, shouldn't the light inside the ship red and blue shift visibly as well?
Well, in all movies I know, the people in the ship tend to more with the ship, with only minor relative speed (given the size of the ships, any relativistic movement would end with that person immediately hitting against the wall and dying, anyway). Since the relative speed is non-relativistic, no noticeable red/blue shift is seen.
You can also consider it from an "outside" view where the ship is indeed moving with 0.5c from you. Consider light going from the front of the ship to some person inside, moving with the ship. From your viewpoint it's of course red-shifted. However that person is also moving with 0.5c in the same direction, that is, against the flight direction of the light. Since he flies towards the light source, he will see the approaching light blue-shifted, and this blue-shift will cancel out the red shift from emission.
Note that you don't even need relativity for that, the same is true for sound: You don't inside a moving car hear the motor in front of you in a lower pitch, but you do if you are standing behind the car driving away.
Facts are beautiful aren't that? Distortable into implying anything you want.
There will always be a 'The XXX corporations controlling most of the global economy', just like there will always be 'kills the most people in this group'.
And for reference, 'most' to me, is more than half.
The analogy would be "kills most of the people", not "kills the most people". That's a huge difference. Indeed, I would hope that the person or group of persons which kills most of the people (or even "just" 40% of them) does not exist..
I'll give you the "more than half", but more than 40% still quite a lot. And yes, the N corporations which control 40% of the economy will indeed always exist (assuming there exist corporations and an economy, of course), but the point is that the number N is that small. It's not as if there were only a few hundred corporations in the world.
What about your money? In principle the government could at any time declare that the bank notes you carry in your bag are no longer money (if you think this is a purely theoretical issue: The Russian government at one time did exactly this with the 100 rouble note in order to fight inflation). Yes, the physical item would still be in your pocket, but it would not be money any more, just a worthless piece of paper (except possibly for collector's value). So do you own that money?
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Few people saw the collapse coming? Really?
All you had to do was turn on some form of broadcast radio after about 1995 and listen for a little while. When the commercial break appeared you heard one mortgage mill after another hawking refis, credit lines, etc. Bad credit? No credit? No problem! Interest only mortgage. Balloon mortgage. Jumbo mortgage!
This went on for years and years.
I saw it coming. If you missed it you're a fool. Maybe we just have a lot of fools.
I don't listen to broadcast radio with commercial breaks.
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Wait ... you are saying the growing number on my bath scale isn't because the constant of gravity is growing? :-)
Shouldn't the reversed sequence be |ATC|TCC|TAG| because A pairs with T and C with G?
Lucrative lawsuits, maybe?
Why not do both?
"I was playing within the rules" is a lame excuse for being an asshole.
As an extreme example - when slavery was legal, was it immoral and wrong to keep slaves? Hell yes, regardless of rules.
Actually this is the perfect thread to trigger a Godwin.
However I don't actually have to do it to make the point, I think.
The point of rules is that they should prevent immoral people from harming other people. If they instead enable immoral people to harm other people even worse, there's something wrong with the rules.
There's a very important difference: If you are the author of an article hidden behind a paywall, then you don't have to fear being put in prison or worse because of it.
they should have done this 350 years ago.
Yeah, I also think they should have invented the internet 350 years ago, so they could put the papers online. :-)
I wish there were an edit button on /. 350, 350, 350, 350. Ok, my fingers seem to have that pattern down now.
Yeah, that training will surely pay out as soon as you want to type the number 305. :-)
From when is easy to answer: 1665. That's because at least one of the articles put online is from 1665, and before 1665 the journal didn't exist.
Maybe one could make a computer analogy: Even with a read-only hard disk your computer may behave very differently if different parts of the code on the hard disk are executed. An an extreme example, let it be a dual boot system where a single key press early on decides whether the Windows partition or the Linux partition is executed. Same hard disk content, radically different behaviour.
"Hello, is here the military? We need you to invade Russia to catch that guy misusing the do-not-call list from there."
Well, here in Germany most online shops allow something called "Nachnahme" (I have no idea what it is called in English). Basically it means you pay to the postman on delivery. It costs something extra, but it has the big advantage that you don't pay before the product arrives.
It's going downhill. There's a clearly defined direction here. And I'm sure a human wouldn't go in circles in that case either (which would involve going uphill instead of downhill after some time).
The point is, if you are using SSL, you probably do so because you don't want someone in between to read your search terms. Now the referer contains your search terms (as part of the URL), therefore if the referer is sent to a non-SSL site, your search terms can be read in the clear.
Clearly, this is just a glitch in The Matrix.
It seems I've already read this several times in this thread ... oh wait, seeing the same thing again is a sign of a glitch in the Matrix. So you are obviously right! :-)
No, it's just some ghosts. Call the ghost busters.
Well, let's look at other fields. For example, I guess everyone would agree that the LCD screen was invented. Now the LCD screen is based on the observation (discovery) that liquid crystals change the polarization of light depending on the electric field, and on the observation (discovery) that certain substances only let pass light of a certain polarization. From those two facts it can be derived that the amount of light which passes through two polarisers with a liquid crystal in between depends in the electric field in that crystal, that is, on the electric voltage between electrodes on both sides. This observation has been combined with the known fact that we see light coming from pixel arrays as images, which also was discovered at some time, to make a pixel array of liquid crystals with polarisers to show an image; the whole function of that pixel array can be derived from the knowledge of the observed facts mentioned above. Therefore, has the LCD screen just been discovered?
I think all philosophers would universally agree that philosophy is worthwhile. :-)
Then try to let a billion people use the server at the same time, and you'll see that it won't work.
Well, in all movies I know, the people in the ship tend to more with the ship, with only minor relative speed (given the size of the ships, any relativistic movement would end with that person immediately hitting against the wall and dying, anyway). Since the relative speed is non-relativistic, no noticeable red/blue shift is seen.
You can also consider it from an "outside" view where the ship is indeed moving with 0.5c from you. Consider light going from the front of the ship to some person inside, moving with the ship. From your viewpoint it's of course red-shifted. However that person is also moving with 0.5c in the same direction, that is, against the flight direction of the light. Since he flies towards the light source, he will see the approaching light blue-shifted, and this blue-shift will cancel out the red shift from emission.
Note that you don't even need relativity for that, the same is true for sound: You don't inside a moving car hear the motor in front of you in a lower pitch, but you do if you are standing behind the car driving away.
You forgot one option: Self-destruction.
Facts are beautiful aren't that? Distortable into implying anything you want.
There will always be a 'The XXX corporations controlling most of the global economy', just like there will always be 'kills the most people in this group'.
And for reference, 'most' to me, is more than half.
The analogy would be "kills most of the people", not "kills the most people". That's a huge difference. Indeed, I would hope that the person or group of persons which kills most of the people (or even "just" 40% of them) does not exist..
I'll give you the "more than half", but more than 40% still quite a lot. And yes, the N corporations which control 40% of the economy will indeed always exist (assuming there exist corporations and an economy, of course), but the point is that the number N is that small. It's not as if there were only a few hundred corporations in the world.
No, fort-y, like Fort Knox.
What about your money? In principle the government could at any time declare that the bank notes you carry in your bag are no longer money (if you think this is a purely theoretical issue: The Russian government at one time did exactly this with the 100 rouble note in order to fight inflation). Yes, the physical item would still be in your pocket, but it would not be money any more, just a worthless piece of paper (except possibly for collector's value). So do you own that money?