I don't know, but I recently read that 50% of all birth defects involve the sexual organs, apparently it's not that uncommon for surgeons to have to decide soon after the child is born.
I'm a man with advanced features like "a brain" and "thought processes"
Me too, except we both don't have enough blood to run that and the other attachment at the same time. (apologies to Robin Williams).
But seriously, for the same reason I don't normally stick my face in the punch bowl at a party, I don't normally crawl under the table a stick my head up someones dress. The 'sins' of lust and gluttony are the same thing, and society will always be outraged and self-righteous about both.
This is statistics which is a core part of science, statistics is not about absolute certainty. There is a chance of the 11B figure being correct which depends on the assumptions made about future human behavior, the perennial question is: does a slightly different set of assumptions return a figure that's (say) under 1B?
If you stick to B&W you don't even need a red light bulb since the darkroom doesn't have to be pitch black. As long you pre-focus the enlarger on plain paper and keep the print paper covered until using it, something like indirect street/moonlight through a laundry window won't do any noticeable harm, but is just bright enough for (young eyes) to see what their doing. If you use 35mm the only kit you need to make prints is an enlarger. Not sure what they are worth these days but they were cheap enough in the 70's to be within the reach of a paper boy's salary. I started with "126" film, it had larger negatives so you could make wallet sized prints with an ordinary picture frame instead of an enlarger.
only good thing this BS has done: Make mainstream media aware of how much access (unaccountable) contractors like Booz/Allen have to gov't data..[snip]...He broke the law, I hope he goes to Federal Prison.
Agree, at 54 I'm old enough to recall when the US system was a credibly called the "best in the world", at the time we had a similar system here in Oz but that was 40yrs ago and the rest of the western world has moved on since then (the same argument the US is having is one Oz had when I was in HS). Funny thing is that the US and AU taxpayer's already spend a very similar (per capita) amount on health care, despite the fact that Oz does not have the economy of scale the US has, so what's all the additional private money in the US actually paying for? Why cover for an average family of 4 costs you ~10X what it does me to get similar cover and statistically superior health outcomes? - ( Our "death panels" would need to kill an extra 20K patients per year to match US statistics )
most efficient way possible has nothing to do with government Fact: efficiency is no priority for governments, only growing power is priority....
Dogma is a piss poor substitute for the rational argument you had going for a while, in the case of health care it is sucking your red/white/blue wallet dry.
Besides all that, IIRC the US government gave business exactly what they wanted, they forced people to buy their product. They ruled out the taxpayer funded UHC option very quickly, which if based on the Oz model should have cost what they already spend.
The lack of an impact crater has obviously confused innumerable people over the last 100yrs or so, many of them lack the skill to determine the most probable cause and distrust "experts", others see that as an opportunity for fun and/or profit.
As an example, I saw a doco once called "The sidewalk astronomer", basically the guy would set up a decent telescope on a city street (LA, IIRC) and invite people to have a free look at either the moon or the sun. The vast majority of people were appreciative of the gesture and more than a few were clearly awestruck by what they had just seen for the first time. However at one point a middle class, middle aged, woman walked up and started to lecture him for "lying to people", she claimed (paraphrased) "God did not put blemishes on the Sun", when he calmly invited her to look for herself she refused, got even more agitated and stormed off.
Go to any slashdot thread on AGW and you will find education just doesn't work with a small minority of people, I fell into the same trap as a young man in the 70's, for a couple of years I firmly believed people could bend spoons with their mind. Fortunately education did work for me and I was able to see that I had simply been conned by a clever magician and taken for a ride by publishers, as a result I'm never sure whether to laugh or cry at such monumental hubris when I see it in others.
BTW: My personal story above is a damming incitement of HS science in the 60's and 70's. I dropped out of HS (missed the final year) with excellent grades in what are now called "STEM" subjects but I had absolutely no idea that Science was a philosophy or that "The Enlightenment" was the implementation of that philosophy.
people are served best by other people trying to figure out how to serve people in the most efficient way possible by doing what people are actually interested in.
Yes, and that is what is called forming a government, the problem is not government itself the problem getting them to keep their eye on that goal. The "profit" from a well run public sewer/water works is that WE don't die, the profit from a well run UHC (such as the one here in Oz) is that it cost much less (1.5% of taxable income) and nobody goes bankrupt due to illness.
You are the root cause that created this problem
If you're not interested in that then fine but other people are and it has nothing to do with them trampling your rights and everything to do with "serve[ing] people in the most efficient way possible"..
King St in Melbourne is the same, lots of violent young drunks on a Friday/Saturday night, therefore lots of cameras. The more violent footage they get on the TV the more it's reputation sinks, the more it's reputation sinks the more cameras they install. It's the same thing as increasing the old fashioned foot patrol, at the end of the day the troublemakers just move to a new location.
They are more interested in the connections between people than what they are saying to each other over open communications channels. Whether it is "right" or "wrong" to map and disrupt/dismantle these groups depends on what groups they are looking for (and what groups you belong to). Hoover did it in the 40's, McCarthy did it in the 50's, Nixon's "plumbers" did it in the 70's. No matter where and when you may live, the strategic imperative to "know thy enemy" has always been with us and always will be because "the whole constitution, legal framework, and morality" are imperfect representations of human nature.
Exactly, the resources equation only makes sense if you consider your time as a resource. For example I use python to automate nightly builds, I don't care that it takes 4hrs to run instead of 2, I don't care where things are physically located I just assume it will page to disk if it needs to. However I do care how much time I spend polishing it vs how much time it saves doing manual builds.
This sort of confusion is what psuedo-skeptics are are taking advantage of when they claim an ice age was predicted in the 70's. Coal gives off (among other things), SO2, CO2 and soot. Sulfur causes cooling, acid rain, and deadly "pea soup fog", Soot causes warming, lowers albedo, and accelerates ice melt. CO2 causes warming and ocean acidification. Some of the soot and sulfur was cleaned up by various clean air acts in the 60's & 70's after the death toll from "pea soupers" in London and other European cities started getting difficult to ignore. Sulfur emissions (and acid rain) were dramatically 20 odd years ago when Regan instituted a cap and trade treaty on sulfur emissions, similar to those being proposed for CO2 (ironic, huh?).
Having said all that, climate scientists don't really talk about cooling or warming, they talk about +ve and -ve forcing and feedback, two forcings with different signs can indeed cancel each other out. To confuse matters further CO2 can be both a forcing (humans, volcanoes) and a feedback (melting permafrost, increased bushfires). Feedbacks have far more uncertainty associated with them than forcings. When everything is taken into account you can work out a figure called "climate sensitivity" (CS). The CS in models compares very well with the CS derived from geology and really hasn't changed that much since the 70's.
IBM and Fujitsu are now both running their own COBOL "universities" to deal with the problem. BTW if your paying (say) $3K a day for one of these vendor supplied contractors, then the contractor is only seeing ~$500 of that.
Hasn't the pro side already "denied" global warming enough to rename it "climate change"?
Actually the only evidence that anyone did any renaming comes from a memo from Frank Luntz to GW Bush (Page 142, point 1), the two terms have different meanings and scientists had been using them for decades before Luntz deliberately conflated them.
What does "deniers" mean?
The memo also serves as a great example of what it means to be a denier, ie: denying reality for fun and profit.
Furthermore, you don't need to know all the details about how things came into being to practice science
Good point. Feynman called the fundamental forces the "lowest layer of the onion", a point where our explanatory power stops and you are forced to accept that something exists without an explanation. I like to call these things "miracles". Perhaps we will explain these miracles one day and replace them with an even more fundamental set of miracles. Thing is, believing in the miracle of gravity does not require blind faith, nor does it require you to know how it came into being. I think consciousness is in the same category and the best "explanation" comes from Sagan (paraphrase): "Life is how the universe observes itself".
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I don't know, but I recently read that 50% of all birth defects involve the sexual organs, apparently it's not that uncommon for surgeons to have to decide soon after the child is born.
I'm a man with advanced features like "a brain" and "thought processes"
Me too, except we both don't have enough blood to run that and the other attachment at the same time. (apologies to Robin Williams).
But seriously, for the same reason I don't normally stick my face in the punch bowl at a party, I don't normally crawl under the table a stick my head up someones dress. The 'sins' of lust and gluttony are the same thing, and society will always be outraged and self-righteous about both.
This is statistics which is a core part of science, statistics is not about absolute certainty. There is a chance of the 11B figure being correct which depends on the assumptions made about future human behavior, the perennial question is: does a slightly different set of assumptions return a figure that's (say) under 1B?
If you stick to B&W you don't even need a red light bulb since the darkroom doesn't have to be pitch black. As long you pre-focus the enlarger on plain paper and keep the print paper covered until using it, something like indirect street/moonlight through a laundry window won't do any noticeable harm, but is just bright enough for (young eyes) to see what their doing. If you use 35mm the only kit you need to make prints is an enlarger. Not sure what they are worth these days but they were cheap enough in the 70's to be within the reach of a paper boy's salary. I started with "126" film, it had larger negatives so you could make wallet sized prints with an ordinary picture frame instead of an enlarger.
only good thing this BS has done: Make mainstream media aware of how much access (unaccountable) contractors like Booz/Allen have to gov't data..[snip]...He broke the law, I hope he goes to Federal Prison.
I see. No good deed should go unpunished, right?
Agree, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
fleeing to an enemy country
Speaking of "important details", the US and China are not at war.
So you support the government assassinating people for the sake of national pride?
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
Thanks, matching deeds to words will always garner my respect..
"- USA used to have that before the mob broke it"
Agree, at 54 I'm old enough to recall when the US system was a credibly called the "best in the world", at the time we had a similar system here in Oz but that was 40yrs ago and the rest of the western world has moved on since then (the same argument the US is having is one Oz had when I was in HS). Funny thing is that the US and AU taxpayer's already spend a very similar (per capita) amount on health care, despite the fact that Oz does not have the economy of scale the US has, so what's all the additional private money in the US actually paying for? Why cover for an average family of 4 costs you ~10X what it does me to get similar cover and statistically superior health outcomes? - ( Our "death panels" would need to kill an extra 20K patients per year to match US statistics )
most efficient way possible has nothing to do with government Fact: efficiency is no priority for governments, only growing power is priority....
Dogma is a piss poor substitute for the rational argument you had going for a while, in the case of health care it is sucking your red/white/blue wallet dry.
Besides all that, IIRC the US government gave business exactly what they wanted, they forced people to buy their product. They ruled out the taxpayer funded UHC option very quickly, which if based on the Oz model should have cost what they already spend.
The lack of an impact crater has obviously confused innumerable people over the last 100yrs or so, many of them lack the skill to determine the most probable cause and distrust "experts", others see that as an opportunity for fun and/or profit.
As an example, I saw a doco once called "The sidewalk astronomer", basically the guy would set up a decent telescope on a city street (LA, IIRC) and invite people to have a free look at either the moon or the sun. The vast majority of people were appreciative of the gesture and more than a few were clearly awestruck by what they had just seen for the first time. However at one point a middle class, middle aged, woman walked up and started to lecture him for "lying to people", she claimed (paraphrased) "God did not put blemishes on the Sun", when he calmly invited her to look for herself she refused, got even more agitated and stormed off.
Go to any slashdot thread on AGW and you will find education just doesn't work with a small minority of people, I fell into the same trap as a young man in the 70's, for a couple of years I firmly believed people could bend spoons with their mind. Fortunately education did work for me and I was able to see that I had simply been conned by a clever magician and taken for a ride by publishers, as a result I'm never sure whether to laugh or cry at such monumental hubris when I see it in others.
BTW: My personal story above is a damming incitement of HS science in the 60's and 70's. I dropped out of HS (missed the final year) with excellent grades in what are now called "STEM" subjects but I had absolutely no idea that Science was a philosophy or that "The Enlightenment" was the implementation of that philosophy.
The only analogues I have are NPR and PBS for "state owned"
BBC in the UK, ABC/SBS in Oz. Note that there is an important distinction between "state owned" and "state controlled".
people are served best by other people trying to figure out how to serve people in the most efficient way possible by doing what people are actually interested in.
Yes, and that is what is called forming a government, the problem is not government itself the problem getting them to keep their eye on that goal. The "profit" from a well run public sewer/water works is that WE don't die, the profit from a well run UHC (such as the one here in Oz) is that it cost much less (1.5% of taxable income) and nobody goes bankrupt due to illness.
You are the root cause that created this problem
If you're not interested in that then fine but other people are and it has nothing to do with them trampling your rights and everything to do with "serve[ing] people in the most efficient way possible"..
Old fashioned paper phone books probably still outnumber people.
King St in Melbourne is the same, lots of violent young drunks on a Friday/Saturday night, therefore lots of cameras. The more violent footage they get on the TV the more it's reputation sinks, the more it's reputation sinks the more cameras they install. It's the same thing as increasing the old fashioned foot patrol, at the end of the day the troublemakers just move to a new location.
They are more interested in the connections between people than what they are saying to each other over open communications channels. Whether it is "right" or "wrong" to map and disrupt/dismantle these groups depends on what groups they are looking for (and what groups you belong to). Hoover did it in the 40's, McCarthy did it in the 50's, Nixon's "plumbers" did it in the 70's. No matter where and when you may live, the strategic imperative to "know thy enemy" has always been with us and always will be because "the whole constitution, legal framework, and morality" are imperfect representations of human nature.
Exactly, the resources equation only makes sense if you consider your time as a resource. For example I use python to automate nightly builds, I don't care that it takes 4hrs to run instead of 2, I don't care where things are physically located I just assume it will page to disk if it needs to. However I do care how much time I spend polishing it vs how much time it saves doing manual builds.
Great little story. :)
If this is something really truly important that we must all make life altering decisions, then why is it such a closely guarded secret?
Yes, democracy requires an informed electorate. You have been deliberately and expertly misinformed, there was no "secret".
This sort of confusion is what psuedo-skeptics are are taking advantage of when they claim an ice age was predicted in the 70's. Coal gives off (among other things), SO2, CO2 and soot. Sulfur causes cooling, acid rain, and deadly "pea soup fog", Soot causes warming, lowers albedo, and accelerates ice melt. CO2 causes warming and ocean acidification. Some of the soot and sulfur was cleaned up by various clean air acts in the 60's & 70's after the death toll from "pea soupers" in London and other European cities started getting difficult to ignore. Sulfur emissions (and acid rain) were dramatically 20 odd years ago when Regan instituted a cap and trade treaty on sulfur emissions, similar to those being proposed for CO2 (ironic, huh?).
Having said all that, climate scientists don't really talk about cooling or warming, they talk about +ve and -ve forcing and feedback, two forcings with different signs can indeed cancel each other out. To confuse matters further CO2 can be both a forcing (humans, volcanoes) and a feedback (melting permafrost, increased bushfires). Feedbacks have far more uncertainty associated with them than forcings. When everything is taken into account you can work out a figure called "climate sensitivity" (CS). The CS in models compares very well with the CS derived from geology and really hasn't changed that much since the 70's.
All this is just a sample of the complexity that adds up to ripe pickings for people who have no problem deliberately misinforming the public for personal gain.
Inhofe and his crew are NIBYs?
Yahoo is bucking the trend, not setting it.
IBM and Fujitsu are now both running their own COBOL "universities" to deal with the problem. BTW if your paying (say) $3K a day for one of these vendor supplied contractors, then the contractor is only seeing ~$500 of that.
Hasn't the pro side already "denied" global warming enough to rename it "climate change"?
Actually the only evidence that anyone did any renaming comes from a memo from Frank Luntz to GW Bush (Page 142, point 1), the two terms have different meanings and scientists had been using them for decades before Luntz deliberately conflated them.
What does "deniers" mean?
The memo also serves as a great example of what it means to be a denier, ie: denying reality for fun and profit.
Furthermore, you don't need to know all the details about how things came into being to practice science
Good point. Feynman called the fundamental forces the "lowest layer of the onion", a point where our explanatory power stops and you are forced to accept that something exists without an explanation. I like to call these things "miracles". Perhaps we will explain these miracles one day and replace them with an even more fundamental set of miracles. Thing is, believing in the miracle of gravity does not require blind faith, nor does it require you to know how it came into being. I think consciousness is in the same category and the best "explanation" comes from Sagan (paraphrase): "Life is how the universe observes itself".