The ACCC is Australia's consumer watchdog agency, unlike previous watchdogs they have big enough teeth to do a proper job. They don't just go for small stuff and fraud they also go after the anti-competitive practices used by large corporations, eg: they stopped Apple from making exclusive deals with phone companies and basically told them to sell to everyone or don't sell at all.
Unless you really are dehydrated, which is why Gatorade marketing is aimed at "re-hydrating" people who don't know when it's time to sit down and drink some tap water. Doctors were using similar "salt" drinks (in powdered form) to prevent/treat dehydration long before someone put it in a fancy bottle.
For those who may not know. The first sign of dehydration is muscle aches (usually the legs), people who are running around expect muscle aches in the legs so may miss the warning signs. Sick kids are at a much higher risk of serious dehydration from prolonged bouts of vomiting, if your vomiting child complains about sore legs/arms, give them a "sports drink" with high potassium (or a banana), and take them to a real doctor immediately.
Disclaimer: IANA real doctor, not even an internet doctor, just a run of the mill grandad who's dealt with his fair share of vomiting children.
If the claim is a deliberate fiction she created, then in what way is she "helping" anyone? If the company is trying to bully her, then they just shot themselves in the foot by taking it to court.
The people who bought this law died in the middle ages. The law has valid uses, Arthur C Clarke used it when one of the tabloids printed headlines claiming he was a pedophile. Character assassination for political purposes is nothing new to the British tabloids. Sure, any law can be abused but this one is mainly used by people who have been screwed over by the tabloids for one reason or another.
English common law represents a thousand tears of experience administering justice, it would be unwise to throw chunks of it away based on a case that hasn't even gone to court yet.
There's also more to measuring storms than just counting tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones need specific sea surface and atmospheric condition to form, warming things up may not necessarily change their numbers or strength, For example if for some reason upper atmosphere turbulence (jet streams) increased more than surface level turbulence you would expect less cyclones since they cannot form when a jet stream "cuts the top off". However, simple thermodynamics says the atmosphere as a whole will become more turbulent as it warms. The idea in TFA is interesting and worth investigating but insurance records of storm damage are probably a better way to detect any meaningful change in storm damage.
Many climate scientists agree with Hassen's view that mid latitudes will see the largest increase in turbulence. This is because the polar caps are melting and driving cold air toward the equator, while at the same time (and for the same reason) the Hadley Cells (convection currents) are becoming more pronounced, driving hot dry air polewards. The mid latitudes is where they meet (steeper thermocline = more storms).
For the inevitable trolls, it doesn't matter what you believe, your insurance company has been including AGW as a risk factor in it's actuary tables for at least a decade now.
You can't buy integrity and nobody goes into (or stays out of) politics because of the paycheck. Besides every US Senator currently sitting was already a millionaire before being elected (not sure about the house of reps). Sure for a lot of them their $1M+ is locked up in real estate, but someone with that level of personal assets is not struggling to put food food on the table, he's more likely to be struggling to make do without a house maid in his second house.
The problem in the US senate is just an extreme case of the problem that plagues all democracies, a rich man has the "marketing" tools to reach people ears, a poor man doesn't. The goal of (relatively) modest wages for politicians and public servants was to keep money hungry people people out, the promise of a generous retirement was supposed to compensate for that. It does work as advertise, but not if you conflate "money hungry" and "power hungry".
As with most "great moments in history" it wasn't something that magically popped up in the constitution, it was a "tradition" they brought with them from Europe, in particular the UK and France. I too admire America's founding fathers, but the only thing they did here was to rewrite an existing tradition as a commandment (one that I happen to think is still relevant today).
Heh, I opened a FB account about 3yrs ago, used it once to talk to someone I know. Every second day since then I have received an "you have X friend requests" email.
Yes but prior to 3.0 windows was "acsii art", the windows were frames created with ascii characters. Everybody was writing these type of windowing frameworks in the late 80's. I even recall one where the code was presented in a series of Dr Dobbs articles.
Like back in the 50-60's when their scientists were questioning the wisdom of exploding nukes in the backyard? One particular scientist showed that plutonium was getting into sheep and children, he was not only censured by CSIRO managers but also the government MP's and the military, he went to the press and it got worse for him before it got better.
This particular scandal seems to revolve around a particular ladder climbing bully running one department rather than systemic corruption or government oppression. I'm not trying to excuse the behavior but these sort of scandals have going on at the CSIRO since it was first commissioned ~100yrs ago. I would be less trusting of the CSIRO as an organization if we never heard anything like this in the news.
Summary: Most of the CSIRO patents deserve to be patents, the bully will not survive regardless of what the head of the organization says today.
I am not trying to change anyone's mind, just trying to share ideas.
Share this (skip the first 2:30 if you don't want the anti-creationist rant). The idea that some special ingredient was missing until it landed here from outer space is fucking nonsense, the entire planet was made from "space rocks". The thing that is "special" about Earth is our liquid water oceans, ocean + time = life.
I haven't accomplished any great deeds in my life. I am just a guy.....trying to share my opinion.
I have a double maths/cs degree, yes it's an accomplishment, but so is cleaning the toilet. Ask me what accomplishment I'm most proud of and I will bore you to death with photos of my grand-kids. Hopefully they will outlive me but in the end everything is temporary and "pointless", we had to come up with religion for people who failed to find their own point
Indeed, TFS also seems to imply that people who are willing to change their minds (47%) are comparable to people who haven't made up their mind (%10). They are two separate groups, 10% have not formed an opinion, 47% have formed an opinion and are willing to change it if faced with credible contra-evidence I think the best you can conclude from those two statistics is that the remaining 43% don't need to think about the issues, having picked their team they will remain loyal and enthusiastic cheer leaders, no matter what the outcome.
To Summarize:
10% vote "none of the above"
47% admit they have imperfect knowledge and vote on their current understanding of the competing policies/proposals.
43% put loyalty above every other virtue and will always vote for their team
It's like the linking bullshit, we all know that if Murdoch wants to stop Google indexing his propaganda all he need do is fix his robots.txt. Same deal here, the process/facts are irrelevant when you are trying to paint the enemy as an irresponsible pornographer, a brazen thief, a despicable leach, or whatever bad news story he can dream up where Google are trampling all over his delicate sense of entitlement.
What you would notice is that you cannot point to the outside of the black hole since space is infinitely curved, meaning that all directions point toward the center (assuming there is such a thing as a singularity). Attempting to power away from the center will paradoxically get you to the center faster. On a big enough black hole you might not notice this for a while, (whatever "a while" means in that context).
I was 20ysr old when Saddam came to power. I don't agree that the means justified the end, but I do agree the world is a better place without "The Butcher of Baghdad" sitting in the middle of the middle east. If you haven't seen the video of his purge after his coup then you have missed one of the most chilling political advertisements of the last half century. Soon after that purge he became America's best mate and Rumsfeld sold him a vast arsenal under the "enemy of my enemy" principle, but about a decade later even Rummy couldn't stand the stench of the chemical attacks that the BBC uncovered.
It's a good thing that America "looks after its own" but it's foreign policy takes that ideology to the extreme. A lot of the serious trouble in the ME has snowballed from the "Iran hostage crisis", ie: At least two major wars are a direct result of America's need to "save face" and make a profit while doing so. The Yanks are not alone in this behavior but they are the dominant dog in any real fight.
Redundant is appropriate, by definition the raw data is redundant after it has been properly analyzed, by definition a published paper is a "proper" analysis. It may be wrong but if it's the only analysis then by definition it is the best analysis we have. Einstein's famous 1905 paper was 3 pages long and had zero references, it was quickly recognized as a work of uncommon genius by other physicists.
The first thing they teach you in statistics is to create a scatter plot and just eyeball it for a one of several standard curves that MIGHT fit, the next step is averages (or some other metric) to see if your guess holds up to scrutiny.
Thing is, eye-balling is not evidence and publishing only the calculated curve is normal practice. I don't have a Nature account so I can't easily confirm/deny the AC's claim that the raw data is unavailable (ironically because the AC did not publish his raw data). However since this looks like government funded research I think it's more likely the AC just eye-balled the paper and missed it.
Besides all that, a real scientist wouldn't bitch and moan if they couldn't find the raw data, they would just contact the author and ask politely, if that didn't work they would run their own experiments. At the end of the day the scientific way to overturn the results from one experiment is run one or more independent experiments that convincingly refute the original results.
To paraphrase one of the best science teachers to ever walk the earth - "The key to science is that if your beautifully presented, leather bound, iron-clad logic disagrees with experiments, it's wrong". - Feynman
Sort of, he was deliberately vague about WMD's, he wanted his neighbours (ie: Iran) to think twice before opposing him. It was pretty much the same foriegn policy that Israel has had for the last 50yrs. NK is a very different beast, it has been making hollow apocalyptic threats for decades, the difference today is that China is no longer defending them at all costs and nobody is appeasing them with 'aid' money.
IBM's Watson is capable of these tasks as demonstrated by the Jepordy stunt. Of course Watson is one of a kind and requires 20 tons of air conditioning equipment, but it is doable. The most interesting part of the stunt was when they gave Watson the ability to "hear" the human answers (both right and wrong), just that one bit of information basically wiped out all the wrong answers that arose from Watson not "understanding" the category.
Maths is all about simplification. Examples 1, 3 & 4 are poor answers because they haven't been fully "simplyfied" (which is more than just a character count), example 2 doesn't have enough context but it could be "correct" in the context of a lesson about decimal points. OTOH I doubt that was the logic behind the software's answer.
Mate, you're just plain wrong. You have been duped by Fox in the same way the adults in your childhood were duped by Pravda (or whatever it was). Like most predatory mammals humans spontaneously form hierarchical societies, deal with it or be confused and miserable for the rest of your life.
You have history upside down mate. Take a look at how we "peasants" were treated 50, 100, 500, 1000yrs ago. Despite all the shitty things that happen in the world today, it's a much more humane place than it has ever been.
Coincidentally I was looking at a Japanese flow chart this morning. It was describing the overall architecture of some proprietary admin software for use in data centers, the only (auto-translated) text that made any real sense to me was the box labeled "Cloud Factory".
Aussie here, if you don't know what RFP means then there is a very good chance you have no significant experience dealing with corporate/government clients. If you think that is an insult that warrants a verbal assult then you will probably never gain said experience.
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The ACCC is Australia's consumer watchdog agency, unlike previous watchdogs they have big enough teeth to do a proper job. They don't just go for small stuff and fraud they also go after the anti-competitive practices used by large corporations, eg: they stopped Apple from making exclusive deals with phone companies and basically told them to sell to everyone or don't sell at all.
The difference in salt is relatively unimportant.
Unless you really are dehydrated, which is why Gatorade marketing is aimed at "re-hydrating" people who don't know when it's time to sit down and drink some tap water. Doctors were using similar "salt" drinks (in powdered form) to prevent/treat dehydration long before someone put it in a fancy bottle.
For those who may not know. The first sign of dehydration is muscle aches (usually the legs), people who are running around expect muscle aches in the legs so may miss the warning signs. Sick kids are at a much higher risk of serious dehydration from prolonged bouts of vomiting, if your vomiting child complains about sore legs/arms, give them a "sports drink" with high potassium (or a banana), and take them to a real doctor immediately.
Disclaimer: IANA real doctor, not even an internet doctor, just a run of the mill grandad who's dealt with his fair share of vomiting children.
If the claim is a deliberate fiction she created, then in what way is she "helping" anyone? If the company is trying to bully her, then they just shot themselves in the foot by taking it to court.
The people who bought this law died in the middle ages. The law has valid uses, Arthur C Clarke used it when one of the tabloids printed headlines claiming he was a pedophile. Character assassination for political purposes is nothing new to the British tabloids. Sure, any law can be abused but this one is mainly used by people who have been screwed over by the tabloids for one reason or another.
English common law represents a thousand tears of experience administering justice, it would be unwise to throw chunks of it away based on a case that hasn't even gone to court yet.
There's also more to measuring storms than just counting tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones need specific sea surface and atmospheric condition to form, warming things up may not necessarily change their numbers or strength, For example if for some reason upper atmosphere turbulence (jet streams) increased more than surface level turbulence you would expect less cyclones since they cannot form when a jet stream "cuts the top off". However, simple thermodynamics says the atmosphere as a whole will become more turbulent as it warms. The idea in TFA is interesting and worth investigating but insurance records of storm damage are probably a better way to detect any meaningful change in storm damage.
Many climate scientists agree with Hassen's view that mid latitudes will see the largest increase in turbulence. This is because the polar caps are melting and driving cold air toward the equator, while at the same time (and for the same reason) the Hadley Cells (convection currents) are becoming more pronounced, driving hot dry air polewards. The mid latitudes is where they meet (steeper thermocline = more storms).
For the inevitable trolls, it doesn't matter what you believe, your insurance company has been including AGW as a risk factor in it's actuary tables for at least a decade now.
You can't buy integrity and nobody goes into (or stays out of) politics because of the paycheck. Besides every US Senator currently sitting was already a millionaire before being elected (not sure about the house of reps). Sure for a lot of them their $1M+ is locked up in real estate, but someone with that level of personal assets is not struggling to put food food on the table, he's more likely to be struggling to make do without a house maid in his second house.
The problem in the US senate is just an extreme case of the problem that plagues all democracies, a rich man has the "marketing" tools to reach people ears, a poor man doesn't. The goal of (relatively) modest wages for politicians and public servants was to keep money hungry people people out, the promise of a generous retirement was supposed to compensate for that. It does work as advertise, but not if you conflate "money hungry" and "power hungry".
As with most "great moments in history" it wasn't something that magically popped up in the constitution, it was a "tradition" they brought with them from Europe, in particular the UK and France. I too admire America's founding fathers, but the only thing they did here was to rewrite an existing tradition as a commandment (one that I happen to think is still relevant today).
Heh, I opened a FB account about 3yrs ago, used it once to talk to someone I know. Every second day since then I have received an "you have X friend requests" email.
Yes but prior to 3.0 windows was "acsii art", the windows were frames created with ascii characters. Everybody was writing these type of windowing frameworks in the late 80's. I even recall one where the code was presented in a series of Dr Dobbs articles.
Nope, we drive on the left, everyone else is upside down..
the good ol' days
Like back in the 50-60's when their scientists were questioning the wisdom of exploding nukes in the backyard? One particular scientist showed that plutonium was getting into sheep and children, he was not only censured by CSIRO managers but also the government MP's and the military, he went to the press and it got worse for him before it got better.
This particular scandal seems to revolve around a particular ladder climbing bully running one department rather than systemic corruption or government oppression. I'm not trying to excuse the behavior but these sort of scandals have going on at the CSIRO since it was first commissioned ~100yrs ago. I would be less trusting of the CSIRO as an organization if we never heard anything like this in the news.
Summary: Most of the CSIRO patents deserve to be patents, the bully will not survive regardless of what the head of the organization says today.
Huh? - everyone knows it's a gooseberry bush..........???.......BURN HIM!!!!
I am not trying to change anyone's mind, just trying to share ideas.
Share this (skip the first 2:30 if you don't want the anti-creationist rant). The idea that some special ingredient was missing until it landed here from outer space is fucking nonsense, the entire planet was made from "space rocks". The thing that is "special" about Earth is our liquid water oceans, ocean + time = life.
I haven't accomplished any great deeds in my life. I am just a guy.....trying to share my opinion.
I have a double maths/cs degree, yes it's an accomplishment, but so is cleaning the toilet. Ask me what accomplishment I'm most proud of and I will bore you to death with photos of my grand-kids. Hopefully they will outlive me but in the end everything is temporary and "pointless", we had to come up with religion for people who failed to find their own point
It is not liberal or conservative.
Indeed, TFS also seems to imply that people who are willing to change their minds (47%) are comparable to people who haven't made up their mind (%10). They are two separate groups, 10% have not formed an opinion, 47% have formed an opinion and are willing to change it if faced with credible contra-evidence I think the best you can conclude from those two statistics is that the remaining 43% don't need to think about the issues, having picked their team they will remain loyal and enthusiastic cheer leaders, no matter what the outcome.
To Summarize:
10% vote "none of the above"
47% admit they have imperfect knowledge and vote on their current understanding of the competing policies/proposals.
43% put loyalty above every other virtue and will always vote for their team
It's like the linking bullshit, we all know that if Murdoch wants to stop Google indexing his propaganda all he need do is fix his robots.txt. Same deal here, the process/facts are irrelevant when you are trying to paint the enemy as an irresponsible pornographer, a brazen thief, a despicable leach, or whatever bad news story he can dream up where Google are trampling all over his delicate sense of entitlement.
barely notice
What you would notice is that you cannot point to the outside of the black hole since space is infinitely curved, meaning that all directions point toward the center (assuming there is such a thing as a singularity). Attempting to power away from the center will paradoxically get you to the center faster. On a big enough black hole you might not notice this for a while, (whatever "a while" means in that context).
I was 20ysr old when Saddam came to power. I don't agree that the means justified the end, but I do agree the world is a better place without "The Butcher of Baghdad" sitting in the middle of the middle east. If you haven't seen the video of his purge after his coup then you have missed one of the most chilling political advertisements of the last half century. Soon after that purge he became America's best mate and Rumsfeld sold him a vast arsenal under the "enemy of my enemy" principle, but about a decade later even Rummy couldn't stand the stench of the chemical attacks that the BBC uncovered.
It's a good thing that America "looks after its own" but it's foreign policy takes that ideology to the extreme. A lot of the serious trouble in the ME has snowballed from the "Iran hostage crisis", ie: At least two major wars are a direct result of America's need to "save face" and make a profit while doing so. The Yanks are not alone in this behavior but they are the dominant dog in any real fight.
Redundant is appropriate, by definition the raw data is redundant after it has been properly analyzed, by definition a published paper is a "proper" analysis. It may be wrong but if it's the only analysis then by definition it is the best analysis we have. Einstein's famous 1905 paper was 3 pages long and had zero references, it was quickly recognized as a work of uncommon genius by other physicists.
The first thing they teach you in statistics is to create a scatter plot and just eyeball it for a one of several standard curves that MIGHT fit, the next step is averages (or some other metric) to see if your guess holds up to scrutiny. Thing is, eye-balling is not evidence and publishing only the calculated curve is normal practice. I don't have a Nature account so I can't easily confirm/deny the AC's claim that the raw data is unavailable (ironically because the AC did not publish his raw data). However since this looks like government funded research I think it's more likely the AC just eye-balled the paper and missed it.
Besides all that, a real scientist wouldn't bitch and moan if they couldn't find the raw data, they would just contact the author and ask politely, if that didn't work they would run their own experiments. At the end of the day the scientific way to overturn the results from one experiment is run one or more independent experiments that convincingly refute the original results.
To paraphrase one of the best science teachers to ever walk the earth - "The key to science is that if your beautifully presented, leather bound, iron-clad logic disagrees with experiments, it's wrong". - Feynman
Sort of, he was deliberately vague about WMD's, he wanted his neighbours (ie: Iran) to think twice before opposing him. It was pretty much the same foriegn policy that Israel has had for the last 50yrs. NK is a very different beast, it has been making hollow apocalyptic threats for decades, the difference today is that China is no longer defending them at all costs and nobody is appeasing them with 'aid' money.
IBM's Watson is capable of these tasks as demonstrated by the Jepordy stunt. Of course Watson is one of a kind and requires 20 tons of air conditioning equipment, but it is doable. The most interesting part of the stunt was when they gave Watson the ability to "hear" the human answers (both right and wrong), just that one bit of information basically wiped out all the wrong answers that arose from Watson not "understanding" the category.
Maths is all about simplification. Examples 1, 3 & 4 are poor answers because they haven't been fully "simplyfied" (which is more than just a character count), example 2 doesn't have enough context but it could be "correct" in the context of a lesson about decimal points. OTOH I doubt that was the logic behind the software's answer.
Mate, you're just plain wrong. You have been duped by Fox in the same way the adults in your childhood were duped by Pravda (or whatever it was). Like most predatory mammals humans spontaneously form hierarchical societies, deal with it or be confused and miserable for the rest of your life.
people have voted their rights away long ago
You have history upside down mate. Take a look at how we "peasants" were treated 50, 100, 500, 1000yrs ago. Despite all the shitty things that happen in the world today, it's a much more humane place than it has ever been.
Half an hour with an accountant once a year = "great lengths"?
Coincidentally I was looking at a Japanese flow chart this morning. It was describing the overall architecture of some proprietary admin software for use in data centers, the only (auto-translated) text that made any real sense to me was the box labeled "Cloud Factory".
Aussie here, if you don't know what RFP means then there is a very good chance you have no significant experience dealing with corporate/government clients. If you think that is an insult that warrants a verbal assult then you will probably never gain said experience.