It then took almost another 2Byrs for oxygen to build up to the point where colegen could be produced to stick cells together. In other words multicellular life didn't get going until ~ 0.5B years ago and is expected to last another 0.5Byrs. That's quite a narrow window for multicellular life when you consider the Sun is expected to burn and remain stable for at least 8Byrs in total.
you'll be able to pay it off when you get a $125K/yr job as a social media consultant in NYC"
In Australia that's exactly how you pay off your government "loan". After you graduate and get a job, repayments are taken out as tax but only when your income is above a certain level. Besides that you only pay about 1/4 of the actual fees, the government pays the rest.
At the end of the day an educated populace will build a better more prosperous society, but the more educated people there are, the less that education is worth in the job market. However this is not what happens, what happens is society does get better, but knowledge is used to build more knowledge, until one day we find we need 15yrs of education to be competitive in the job market. For example think of the job opportunities in 17th century London for someone who could read and write at today's 5th grade level.
I'm an Aussie. I met a guy from Chicago in Amsterdam, it was his first trip overseas, he said to me "what's wrong with Dutch milk, why does it go off in a few days", I still haven't stopped laughing.
The history of common law is an interesting subject. The laws are a humungous set of books held in a library, no human is anywhere near old enough to have to read all of it. A lot of the early stuff is basically field notes from traveling judges who went from village to village making it up as they went (a primitive and often violent version of Judge Judy).
This has been the gameplan all along. The stated reasons given to the american taxpayer for the internet (given to the big telcos by Clinton admin) were free information and instantaneous communications.
The US government provided material support for a vast machine that would enable planet wide communication of ideas between all free men. Oh the horror!
Look closely at what has come to be -- another place for merchants to peddle their garbage. And facebook. The ad companies (like google) work with facebook and sell the data to the NSA.
I think your post is garbage but that does change the fact that it's an example of "free information and instantaneous communications", as advertised and promoted by Clinton/Gore.
Stalin and the East German Stasi couldn't ever have dreamed of something like this.
All that demonstrates is that dictators do not need the internet to make your life a misery. Would it surprise you to learn that more than a few of the people in the gulags though that "if Stalin knew what was going on" he would rescue them? The root of this problematic behavior was demonstrated by the "stanford prison experiments", turns out there is a master and slave in all of us just waiting for the right circumstances to show themselves. Thing is, the people most susceptible to this behavior are the ones who think they are the most immune, eg: those who believe god (or Stalin) is on their side.
The internet is effectively the first comprehensive spying machine.
A hammer can be used to build civilizations or smash heads, the internet only remembers what you tell it, in both cases the user is in the driver's seat. I simply don't believe Clinton/Gore had an evil "game plan" anymore than K&R did when they gave the world the language used to build the internet.
Summary: I suspect you are an old school slashdot troll, but what is it with conspiracy nuts that makes them think that what the spooks are doing today was planned by some small group generations ago? - Too many Dan Brown books? Pissed off at father figures? Ecuadorian cabin fever?
Conflicted Pychology: A spy who tells everyone he can that spying is evil.
Is Julian simply projecting his repressed guilt onto "the man" with that quote?
Personally I think the contradiction is fascinating, we all trivially spy on others and yet we all get upset when we catch someone doing it to us.
I agree with the GP, it's all in the word "sloppy". AJ is to RT as BBC is to Daily Mail. At the less sloppy AJ/BBC end of the scale bias shows up as accurate but incomplete information, at the other end you get stories about Obama's birth certificate.
The biggest threat to our species is that our invention of civilization could degrade the biosphere to a point it can no longer support us, this has occurred many times in the past with isolated civilizations, (Easter Island is just the most obvious example). Humanity is now one big planet wide civilization that is isolated from other habitable planets. The invention of a global civilization has triggered a new geological era that will be seen as a distinct line in future rocks, it will mark the "sixth great extinction" that we are currently witnessing until the planet itself is consumed by the Sun.
Ironically civilization is also our best hope for survival as it allows us to deliberately adapt our environment to suit ourselves on a scale that no other species can come close to. Which outcome will prevail will be determined in pretty much the same way as a school of bait fish "decide" to all turn in the same direction at the same time.
I sometimes describe myself as a "greenie", to me the term advocates that the way to avoid the destructive potential of civilization is to have more civilization. You cannot possibly manage the environmental asset (such as a major river) when it's chopped up into aggressive little fiefdoms, each with their own provincial POV and warplanes. That doesn't mean I want a world government, it means I want these fiefdoms to come together to manage our natural in a sustainable (dare I say progressive) manner, rather than fight over the cow until it no longer gives milk, then fighting over the carcass.
Summary: Yes, I've been asking for "world peace" since the 70's. Yes, I'm human and therefore part of the problem. It's still nice to dream that humanity could one day move beyond the self-destructive aspects of it's tribal behavior while still retaining healthy competition. Just imagine how rich our oceans would be if "the west" put as much co-operation and effort into keeping it's fish stocks secure as it does in keeping it's borders secure. The enemies of this vision are not the military itself, the "enemy" is our own ignorance, ignorance alone provides tolerance for leaders who deny reality for personal gain. For example, for a few years now AGW has been at the top of the pentagon's list of serious threats to national security (mainly due to the expected mass migrations in Asia and S. America). At the same time Senator Inhofe (and others) insist on burying their "cooler heads" up their arse. I respect the fact he is trying to save the coal industry that currently underpins his state's economy, that is well within his job description. However IMHO he (and his sponsors) should be tried for treason due to the knowingly corrupt methods they use to advance their parochial cause and disrupt the scientific process of gathering knowledge about the issue.
1 + 2 != 3. In 1 you talk about allele frequencies, in 2 you talk about random allele changes. Two different things that do not sum to your conclusion.
Mathematically what you are describing is called a "random walk", evolution is a "directed random walk", selection pressures determine the "direction". The question you are not asking yourself is, how do the random changes listed in point 2 cause a statistically significant change in population frequencies, why isn't that biological "noise" smoothed out in the population statistics? - The answer is selection.
Best Aussie movie since Smiley starring Chips Rafferty. Took my (under 10) kids and their 3 cousins to see it when it was released (school holidays). I thought it would be a silly kids movie and I could have a quiet nap, half way through and I was telling the kids to shut-up because they were distracting me, great soundtrack too (if you can still find it).
But what is missing with this 5 in 5 plan is practicality.
Yes, but patent trolls are not the problem, the government can simply dismiss them with the stroke of a pen.
There is a much more fundamental difference that you hinted at. Oppenheimer and friends had some idea of how the bomb would work, there was a specific proposal the success of which was predicted by the physical theories of the time. Hitler was guarding secrets on prior research on the idea, I'm pretty sure he wasn't publishing them in patent applications and scientific journals. From what I can see without RTFA, there is no such obvious research path here, no grand idea, there's just a goal and a pile of money. The money will definitely encourage research on batteries, but without a clear path to their end goal they are likely to get a fragmented research effort. Basically they appear to be paying people to search for a golden goose where others have already looked,gathering them all together in one place around a stack of money will help but that's where any similarity to the Manhattan project stops.
Speaking of Rambus, I wondered what happened to them so I looked it up..."January 24, 2012 - The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp has been declared invalid.". At the end of the (long) day most patent trolls suffer the same fate as internet trolls, after they've been hammered by common-sense, people simply ignore them.
I think Kubrick was every bit as "influential on humanity" as Lucas, just at different times. Kubrick was more thought provoking whereas Star Wars was more entertaining, so it's a bit apples and oranges (nice to have both). If we are looking for an artistic comparison to Star Wars, Harry Potter is a good candidate.
Yeah but the nobel prize and beer house was just propoganda from the german beer barons, we all know it was a Tasmanian who discovered the formula for splitting beer atoms.
Whole entire tracts of culture and industry are cut off by monopolistic IP laws.
No, they are cut off because Disney have a great big vault in the basement, there's no law stopping them from donating all that "lost" culture to the national archives or whatever.
Because they haven't coloured it in yet, seriously the images are composed of specific wavelengths, the 'negative" is a grey scale of the intensity, the different wavelength negatives are stacked to form the raw B&W image in the link. Different colour sets are used to highlight different features, bonus points are awarded if it's also a pretty picture.
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It then took almost another 2Byrs for oxygen to build up to the point where colegen could be produced to stick cells together. In other words multicellular life didn't get going until ~ 0.5B years ago and is expected to last another 0.5Byrs. That's quite a narrow window for multicellular life when you consider the Sun is expected to burn and remain stable for at least 8Byrs in total.
The vast majority of programs match this situation
I fear your sample may be biased, most of the commercial applications I've worked on in the last 20yrs talk to other applications, not people.
you'll be able to pay it off when you get a $125K/yr job as a social media consultant in NYC"
In Australia that's exactly how you pay off your government "loan". After you graduate and get a job, repayments are taken out as tax but only when your income is above a certain level. Besides that you only pay about 1/4 of the actual fees, the government pays the rest.
At the end of the day an educated populace will build a better more prosperous society, but the more educated people there are, the less that education is worth in the job market. However this is not what happens, what happens is society does get better, but knowledge is used to build more knowledge, until one day we find we need 15yrs of education to be competitive in the job market. For example think of the job opportunities in 17th century London for someone who could read and write at today's 5th grade level.
Whats the point of candy that won't melt in your mouth?
I take it you don't have noisy children...
I'm an Aussie. I met a guy from Chicago in Amsterdam, it was his first trip overseas, he said to me "what's wrong with Dutch milk, why does it go off in a few days", I still haven't stopped laughing.
Umm no, you're describing of our friends in Saudi Arabia, not our enemies in Iran.
The history of common law is an interesting subject. The laws are a humungous set of books held in a library, no human is anywhere near old enough to have to read all of it. A lot of the early stuff is basically field notes from traveling judges who went from village to village making it up as they went (a primitive and often violent version of Judge Judy).
This has been the gameplan all along. The stated reasons given to the american taxpayer for the internet (given to the big telcos by Clinton admin) were free information and instantaneous communications.
The US government provided material support for a vast machine that would enable planet wide communication of ideas between all free men. Oh the horror!
Look closely at what has come to be -- another place for merchants to peddle their garbage. And facebook. The ad companies (like google) work with facebook and sell the data to the NSA.
I think your post is garbage but that does change the fact that it's an example of "free information and instantaneous communications", as advertised and promoted by Clinton/Gore.
Stalin and the East German Stasi couldn't ever have dreamed of something like this.
All that demonstrates is that dictators do not need the internet to make your life a misery. Would it surprise you to learn that more than a few of the people in the gulags though that "if Stalin knew what was going on" he would rescue them? The root of this problematic behavior was demonstrated by the "stanford prison experiments", turns out there is a master and slave in all of us just waiting for the right circumstances to show themselves. Thing is, the people most susceptible to this behavior are the ones who think they are the most immune, eg: those who believe god (or Stalin) is on their side.
The internet is effectively the first comprehensive spying machine.
A hammer can be used to build civilizations or smash heads, the internet only remembers what you tell it, in both cases the user is in the driver's seat. I simply don't believe Clinton/Gore had an evil "game plan" anymore than K&R did when they gave the world the language used to build the internet.
Summary: I suspect you are an old school slashdot troll, but what is it with conspiracy nuts that makes them think that what the spooks are doing today was planned by some small group generations ago? - Too many Dan Brown books? Pissed off at father figures? Ecuadorian cabin fever?
Conflicted Pychology: A spy who tells everyone he can that spying is evil.
Is Julian simply projecting his repressed guilt onto "the man" with that quote?
Personally I think the contradiction is fascinating, we all trivially spy on others and yet we all get upset when we catch someone doing it to us.
I agree with the GP, it's all in the word "sloppy". AJ is to RT as BBC is to Daily Mail. At the less sloppy AJ/BBC end of the scale bias shows up as accurate but incomplete information, at the other end you get stories about Obama's birth certificate.
The biggest threat to our species is that our invention of civilization could degrade the biosphere to a point it can no longer support us, this has occurred many times in the past with isolated civilizations, (Easter Island is just the most obvious example). Humanity is now one big planet wide civilization that is isolated from other habitable planets. The invention of a global civilization has triggered a new geological era that will be seen as a distinct line in future rocks, it will mark the "sixth great extinction" that we are currently witnessing until the planet itself is consumed by the Sun.
Ironically civilization is also our best hope for survival as it allows us to deliberately adapt our environment to suit ourselves on a scale that no other species can come close to. Which outcome will prevail will be determined in pretty much the same way as a school of bait fish "decide" to all turn in the same direction at the same time.
I sometimes describe myself as a "greenie", to me the term advocates that the way to avoid the destructive potential of civilization is to have more civilization. You cannot possibly manage the environmental asset (such as a major river) when it's chopped up into aggressive little fiefdoms, each with their own provincial POV and warplanes. That doesn't mean I want a world government, it means I want these fiefdoms to come together to manage our natural in a sustainable (dare I say progressive) manner, rather than fight over the cow until it no longer gives milk, then fighting over the carcass.
Summary: Yes, I've been asking for "world peace" since the 70's. Yes, I'm human and therefore part of the problem. It's still nice to dream that humanity could one day move beyond the self-destructive aspects of it's tribal behavior while still retaining healthy competition. Just imagine how rich our oceans would be if "the west" put as much co-operation and effort into keeping it's fish stocks secure as it does in keeping it's borders secure. The enemies of this vision are not the military itself, the "enemy" is our own ignorance, ignorance alone provides tolerance for leaders who deny reality for personal gain. For example, for a few years now AGW has been at the top of the pentagon's list of serious threats to national security (mainly due to the expected mass migrations in Asia and S. America). At the same time Senator Inhofe (and others) insist on burying their "cooler heads" up their arse. I respect the fact he is trying to save the coal industry that currently underpins his state's economy, that is well within his job description. However IMHO he (and his sponsors) should be tried for treason due to the knowingly corrupt methods they use to advance their parochial cause and disrupt the scientific process of gathering knowledge about the issue.
1 + 2 != 3. In 1 you talk about allele frequencies, in 2 you talk about random allele changes. Two different things that do not sum to your conclusion.
Mathematically what you are describing is called a "random walk", evolution is a "directed random walk", selection pressures determine the "direction". The question you are not asking yourself is, how do the random changes listed in point 2 cause a statistically significant change in population frequencies, why isn't that biological "noise" smoothed out in the population statistics? - The answer is selection.
Best Aussie movie since Smiley starring Chips Rafferty. Took my (under 10) kids and their 3 cousins to see it when it was released (school holidays). I thought it would be a silly kids movie and I could have a quiet nap, half way through and I was telling the kids to shut-up because they were distracting me, great soundtrack too (if you can still find it).
But what is missing with this 5 in 5 plan is practicality.
Yes, but patent trolls are not the problem, the government can simply dismiss them with the stroke of a pen.
There is a much more fundamental difference that you hinted at. Oppenheimer and friends had some idea of how the bomb would work, there was a specific proposal the success of which was predicted by the physical theories of the time. Hitler was guarding secrets on prior research on the idea, I'm pretty sure he wasn't publishing them in patent applications and scientific journals. From what I can see without RTFA, there is no such obvious research path here, no grand idea, there's just a goal and a pile of money. The money will definitely encourage research on batteries, but without a clear path to their end goal they are likely to get a fragmented research effort. Basically they appear to be paying people to search for a golden goose where others have already looked,gathering them all together in one place around a stack of money will help but that's where any similarity to the Manhattan project stops.
Speaking of Rambus, I wondered what happened to them so I looked it up..."January 24, 2012 - The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp has been declared invalid.". At the end of the (long) day most patent trolls suffer the same fate as internet trolls, after they've been hammered by common-sense, people simply ignore them.
John Lennon wrote a message for you. It will be alright, and if your lucky you may one day find you have a bunch of grandkids to lose.
grand-scale epics: Harry Potter and every Disney feature length animation ever made..
I think Kubrick was every bit as "influential on humanity" as Lucas, just at different times. Kubrick was more thought provoking whereas Star Wars was more entertaining, so it's a bit apples and oranges (nice to have both). If we are looking for an artistic comparison to Star Wars, Harry Potter is a good candidate.
I'm a grandfather of 3, I'm outraged that Jackson Pollack is on that list.
Yeah but the nobel prize and beer house was just propoganda from the german beer barons, we all know it was a Tasmanian who discovered the formula for splitting beer atoms.
Thatnks. Could not have said it better myself.
New teens/young adults replace older people with more knowldge = slashdot turns to shit. Welcome to getting older.
Slashdot has always been full of shit, getting older just means you can recognise it a lot faster.
The source IS the specification, everything else is merely a convenient description of it.
Whole entire tracts of culture and industry are cut off by monopolistic IP laws.
No, they are cut off because Disney have a great big vault in the basement, there's no law stopping them from donating all that "lost" culture to the national archives or whatever.
Because they haven't coloured it in yet, seriously the images are composed of specific wavelengths, the 'negative" is a grey scale of the intensity, the different wavelength negatives are stacked to form the raw B&W image in the link. Different colour sets are used to highlight different features, bonus points are awarded if it's also a pretty picture.
Someone piss on your cornflakes today?