Yes it's a noble peice of work, however it does not (and should not) prohibit the mailman from reading and/or recording what is on the OUTSIDE of a mail item.
Nice rant, now tell the class, how is recording what is on the outside of a package "interfering with corrospondence"? Why are the automated mail rooms that currently read and track mail items not "interfering with mail", when the guy on a motorscotter reads the back of your postcard before dropping it into your mail box he is being a nosey douche, he is not breaking international law nor is he working for the ministry of truth. The only thing sinister about the whole deal is that it is a giant waste of money and resources, the knowledge you posted a package from A to B, combined with the fact B is now a smoking crater is at best circumstantial evidence.
BTW: George Orwell was born in Bengal, and 1984 is a great work of FICTION.
Both are valid, people who have the mutation are called lactose tolerant, people who don't are called lactose intolerant (their the one's with a 'problem' so their the ones you read about). However I was actually refering to the mutation itself which is called lactose tolerance because that is the condition it bestows apon it's owner, lactose intolerance is the pre-mutated condition that was once universal. Having said that, fully agree it doesn't 'look right'.
It does, from anecdotal reports I've read, India seems to be the place to go for a dose of the plague. Unlike smallpox (and soon Polio), it's doubtfull that it will ever be eradicated with current methods since it's normally transmitted by fleas, but we do know how to control it when it pops up so yeah, a repeat of the black death is highly unlikely. Pathogeans that turn into pandemics with a high mortality rate are rare, from an evolutionary POV it doesn't make sense to kill off your host and worse still if you kill your host too quickly (eg:Ebola) you have very limited opportunities to spread to new hosts. Smallpox (the biblical plague) and polio only occur in humans, 'simply' cure every last human case on the planet and they are gone for ever. Coincidently India is also one of the last places on the planet where polio still occurs, mainly due to local religious beliefs. That in itself is an fantastic achivement (I can recall going to school with several polio victims in the 60's, they were the lucky ones, they could still waddle around without a wheel chair. ).
However there's an interesting moral conundrum with smallpox; As an achivement for all mankind the erradication of smallpox is right up there with the moon landing, and was a far more practical and noble use of our resources. It was made possible because a healthy 8yo boy was afforded all the rights of a lab rat by the man who discovered the vaccine. Yes it was a different planet in the 18th century, but the conundrum is timeless and can be expressed in star trek terms as - does "the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one"?
Once we have an answer to that connundrum we can decide whether or not the few pockets of anti-vaccine nutters should be forceably innoculated for certain communicable diseses. There existance provides a breeding ground from where new strains can evolve and launch themselves into the general population (re: recent whooping cough outbreaks in Australia). Fuck it, what am I saying? Unlike Jensen we KNOW modern vaccines work and we KNOW how to develop them without using humans as lab rats, I say round the ignorant fucker's up and jab 'em.
Scientists are not immune to confusion but they're generally more willing than most to own it.
The way the measure temps is laughable
I suggest that what you are doing is trying to understand the issue by reading people like Anthony Watts and their manafactured contraversies are confusing you. Here's a link to a very simple NASA experiment you can do yourself, it anhilates the ashpalt and concrete argument, Watts' recation to that debunking was to start issuing false DCMA take downs to hide it. Watts is just wrong and refuses to aknowledge it for political/financial reasons, however the database that Watts has is the best available survey of the current state of US wether stations, so he has contributed something positive. Unfortunately there is a lot of potential for error in his own survey so it's unlinkely it would be very useful as a way of measuring improvement (or otherwise) of the infrastructure.
This is not to say that the urban heat island effect is a fantasy, it's just that climate scientists discovered it decades ago because it's fucking obvious!!!! In fact the MET reseach center that was at the center of the climategate beat-up and accused of "tampering with the raw data" has spent over two decades maticuosly transcribing the raw data set (multiple times with different transcribers to cross-check) and looking for precisely these kinds of anomolies. Unlike Watts and his army of amature photographers they are world renowned experts in sources of observational error wrt to weather staions and they back that up by frequently publishing in top tier journals such as Nature and Science. It's extremely tedious work and is replicated by an independent team using different statistical methods at NASA. These are the two main historical temprature sets, the enourmous amount of work that goes into verifying them is why the rest of the scientific community trust and applaud them.
Which is exactly what the anti-scientists who manafacture these 'contrversies' want you to do, they paint scientists as both complete morons, omnipotent conspirators or grant leeches hoping you will buy one or the other demonization and join their army of useful idiots. The 50 or so stink-tanks in the US who generate most of these climate myths, they have powerfull supporters in congress such as senator Inhofe. They use the exact same play book that was used for decades to deny that smoking causes cancer, it's the same play book creationists use. Why is it the same play book? - Because some of these stink-tanks such as the heritage foundation are paid to do it by the three different groups of deniers. Winning heats and confusing minds, it's how these stink-tanks earn a living.
Now as for the supposed claim (didn't RTFA) that AGW has caused Moose populations to drop dramatically, if the orginal work was published in a peer-reviewed journal I'm inclinded to think the journalist added that bit of confusion all by himself. A hard core cynic might even think it was inserted to distract from the real cause of the Moose decline but it's much more likely that the journalist was just manafacturing his own little contraversy to grab eyeballs and/or appease sponsers. If you want good investigative journalisim that gets to the bottom of these 'climate contraversies' I highly recommend Peter Sinclair's youtube series climate crock of the week.
I notice you are using the past tense, ie: worked on/in. Although not in the medical industry the multi-national I work for only got rid of IE6 on their SOE image last year. The same is true for many companies, it wasn't until win7 arrived that they started in earnest to purge their internal applications that only worked on IE6. MS lost the standards wars, consequently moving away from IE6 has been a huge headache for the business world.
Note I'm not making excuse for people here just relating my observation that the commercial world kept wipping IE6 long after it's death certificate had been issued by MS, in many situations that was a perfectly reasonable business decision. Personally I think the situation in TFA is inexcusable regardless of what software they were using, how did it get so bad for so long that google ended up blocking it before the admins noticed anything? If the admins did notice then why was it still serving up malware, why wasn't it turned off? If this was 'real engineering', I suspect the people running it would now be facing criminal negligence charges.
He is most famous for Hawking radiation, ie: the discovery that black holes evaporate. I don't know of anyone who says something new every time they open their mouth?
There seems to be so much conflicting information out there as to what the cause is or how to reduce it, it seems hopeless
Yep, life is messy and it's often hard to find a candle in the dark, it's full of blatant self serving liars such as the one in the linked video who on the surface appear to be reasonable common sense folk, to deal with with this avalanche of intellectual dishonesty from proffesional propogandists, and avoid being drafted into their particular army of useful idiots, you can either...
1. Pick the side that best matches your politics/religion/fetish/wallet/eye-shadow/whatever and then firmly plant your fingers in your ears and start humming loudly.
2. Try to appease both sides from a seat on the fence. That's just the starting position, until you get past it, it's the equvalent of "who cares, lets just all be friends". If you actually care about the issue go back and re-choose from option 1 or 3 only.
3. Attempt to understand the issue to the point where you can routinely spot bullshit from both sides of the emotional divide, then draw your own conclusions. (see sig for further details).
If you picked option 1, you can stop reading now and use a dart board to negate your (valid) concerns. The third option is a bitch. The modern world is extrodinary evidence that it gives the best answers but stubornly refuses to deliver absolute certainty about anything. It also requires humility, time, work and critical thinking so from a practical stand point every one of us goes for option 2 in the majority of cases. (if you were redirected here from option 2 the only way out of an infinite loop is to admit you don't care enough to throw a dart)
As always if you don't understand a subject the best place to start looking is here. For a more nuanced understanding you need to look at what the scientific community are talking about. As a young man and HS drop out this is where I went wrong, I was interested in science and since the internet had not been invented, my next best option was the public library or the news stand.
All three sources of information on science conflate science with scams, speculation, and metaphysics. Even if you could somehow magically remove all the propoganda from amoral FUD factories trying to win hearts by confusing minds there is no way for an inexperienced amature-researcher to tell the difference between (say) Nature magazine and UFO monthly. So here is some advise from someone who desrted Uri Geller's army of useful idiots 32 years ago, and please feel free to use that grain of salt on it....
1. Find the primary source, if you can't, tag article as bullshit.
2. Compare the primary source to the article that lead you there, if they conflict, tag article as bullshit.
3. What is the track record of the primary source and is it peer-reviewed, ie: does it come from Nasa, the phycic hotline, or a random slashdot post such as this one?
4. Does other scientific literature from different primary sources confirm or debunk the claims?
5. Having done the above work in 1-4 you're now in a position where you actually have a reasonable understanding of the issue and you can pretty much ignore every thing other people say and make up your own mind confident in the knowledge you arrived at your position via reason.
6. Using the decision from 5 you can now apply it to any article discussing that particular 'talking point' and pretty much ignore them other than keeping an eye out for fundemental points you hadn't thought of (if that happens
This experiment seems to require them to measure what is in the biodome's atmosphere so I am assuming they are sealed off from the outside atmosphere. Thing is, nobody has ever managed to get a large sealed biodome to stay stable for more than about a year, without fresh air they turn into giant glasshouses full of rotting organic material. Perhaps this one will be different since there are no humans living in it but my prediction is it will rapidly collapse into a rather smelly single celled ecosystem. If OTOH it does work, it may turn out to be very useful for space exploration.
What really matters to those successful pirates is the insurance claim - they bought big insurance on their rust buckets, and reap the rewards when their ships sink
If you really believe that is how it works, you have obviously never tried to insure a car.
So you have never have, and never will, rent a house, hotel room, car, etc?
These days I play the freemium game 'world of tanks', there's no pressure to pay and they do a great job filtering out cheats. I do pay, but what I am getting (with or without paying) is a service, not a piece of personal property. Sure I put the free client on my machine to use that service but after that I just let it do it's stuff and enjoy the game. Now if you trash a physical piece of property you have rented the owner is likely to kick you out AND make you pay for the damage, (good) game service providers just kick you out. I for one fully support their right to run their service however the fuck they want to, if they can't keep cheats from destroying the game play then straight players like me will swap to a service that can.
The merit of the proposal has nothing to do with frogs. Demonising the enemy is what politicians do when they don't have a convincing argument, I strongly advise against emulating them if you don't want to become them. If your post, and the millions of others like it, are any indication of how the average american decides who to vote for, then it's self evident as to why american politics is so divisive and dishonest.
The only reason governments cut programs during a time of recession is that they can't get their shit together when things are good. Ideally a government should save more during the good times and spend more during the bad in order deflate bubbles and stimulate the economy respectively. As for bitcoin, the idea that it is a serious competitor to the euro is ludicrous, at best it's a competitor to casino based money laundering services.
They are often bringers of news, such as knocking on your door and informing you your loved one died in a car crash. Like a lot of police work it's a shitty and thankless task but someone has to do it.
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The government is entirely composed of perfect beings that would only use the backdoor against actual criminals.
Perfection is the enemy of progress, paranioa moreso.
Yes it's a noble peice of work, however it does not (and should not) prohibit the mailman from reading and/or recording what is on the OUTSIDE of a mail item.
Nice rant, now tell the class, how is recording what is on the outside of a package "interfering with corrospondence"? Why are the automated mail rooms that currently read and track mail items not "interfering with mail", when the guy on a motorscotter reads the back of your postcard before dropping it into your mail box he is being a nosey douche, he is not breaking international law nor is he working for the ministry of truth. The only thing sinister about the whole deal is that it is a giant waste of money and resources, the knowledge you posted a package from A to B, combined with the fact B is now a smoking crater is at best circumstantial evidence.
BTW: George Orwell was born in Bengal, and 1984 is a great work of FICTION.
Aren't you a clever little tea bagger, you got my point.
Like a horse and cart it didn't really need a road, those tall wheels made it an excellent off roader.
Bingo,we have a winner. Life is indeed a crap shoot.
Both are valid, people who have the mutation are called lactose tolerant, people who don't are called lactose intolerant (their the one's with a 'problem' so their the ones you read about). However I was actually refering to the mutation itself which is called lactose tolerance because that is the condition it bestows apon it's owner, lactose intolerance is the pre-mutated condition that was once universal. Having said that, fully agree it doesn't 'look right'.
/s "There existance", "Their existance"
It does, from anecdotal reports I've read, India seems to be the place to go for a dose of the plague. Unlike smallpox (and soon Polio), it's doubtfull that it will ever be eradicated with current methods since it's normally transmitted by fleas, but we do know how to control it when it pops up so yeah, a repeat of the black death is highly unlikely. Pathogeans that turn into pandemics with a high mortality rate are rare, from an evolutionary POV it doesn't make sense to kill off your host and worse still if you kill your host too quickly (eg:Ebola) you have very limited opportunities to spread to new hosts. Smallpox (the biblical plague) and polio only occur in humans, 'simply' cure every last human case on the planet and they are gone for ever. Coincidently India is also one of the last places on the planet where polio still occurs, mainly due to local religious beliefs. That in itself is an fantastic achivement (I can recall going to school with several polio victims in the 60's, they were the lucky ones, they could still waddle around without a wheel chair. ).
However there's an interesting moral conundrum with smallpox; As an achivement for all mankind the erradication of smallpox is right up there with the moon landing, and was a far more practical and noble use of our resources. It was made possible because a healthy 8yo boy was afforded all the rights of a lab rat by the man who discovered the vaccine. Yes it was a different planet in the 18th century, but the conundrum is timeless and can be expressed in star trek terms as - does "the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one"?
Once we have an answer to that connundrum we can decide whether or not the few pockets of anti-vaccine nutters should be forceably innoculated for certain communicable diseses. There existance provides a breeding ground from where new strains can evolve and launch themselves into the general population (re: recent whooping cough outbreaks in Australia). Fuck it, what am I saying? Unlike Jensen we KNOW modern vaccines work and we KNOW how to develop them without using humans as lab rats, I say round the ignorant fucker's up and jab 'em.
Lactose tolerance is the standard example of recent human evolution.
Thanks, unlike my speculation, that is informative. ;)
The way the measure temps is laughable
I suggest that what you are doing is trying to understand the issue by reading people like Anthony Watts and their manafactured contraversies are confusing you. Here's a link to a very simple NASA experiment you can do yourself, it anhilates the ashpalt and concrete argument, Watts' recation to that debunking was to start issuing false DCMA take downs to hide it. Watts is just wrong and refuses to aknowledge it for political/financial reasons, however the database that Watts has is the best available survey of the current state of US wether stations, so he has contributed something positive. Unfortunately there is a lot of potential for error in his own survey so it's unlinkely it would be very useful as a way of measuring improvement (or otherwise) of the infrastructure.
This is not to say that the urban heat island effect is a fantasy, it's just that climate scientists discovered it decades ago because it's fucking obvious!!!! In fact the MET reseach center that was at the center of the climategate beat-up and accused of "tampering with the raw data" has spent over two decades maticuosly transcribing the raw data set (multiple times with different transcribers to cross-check) and looking for precisely these kinds of anomolies. Unlike Watts and his army of amature photographers they are world renowned experts in sources of observational error wrt to weather staions and they back that up by frequently publishing in top tier journals such as Nature and Science. It's extremely tedious work and is replicated by an independent team using different statistical methods at NASA. These are the two main historical temprature sets, the enourmous amount of work that goes into verifying them is why the rest of the scientific community trust and applaud them.
I am fed up with these idiot scientists
The cure for that is to get your information from the horse's mouth
I blame scientists for this
Which is exactly what the anti-scientists who manafacture these 'contrversies' want you to do, they paint scientists as both complete morons, omnipotent conspirators or grant leeches hoping you will buy one or the other demonization and join their army of useful idiots. The 50 or so stink-tanks in the US who generate most of these climate myths, they have powerfull supporters in congress such as senator Inhofe. They use the exact same play book that was used for decades to deny that smoking causes cancer, it's the same play book creationists use. Why is it the same play book? - Because some of these stink-tanks such as the heritage foundation are paid to do it by the three different groups of deniers. Winning heats and confusing minds, it's how these stink-tanks earn a living.
Now as for the supposed claim (didn't RTFA) that AGW has caused Moose populations to drop dramatically, if the orginal work was published in a peer-reviewed journal I'm inclinded to think the journalist added that bit of confusion all by himself. A hard core cynic might even think it was inserted to distract from the real cause of the Moose decline but it's much more likely that the journalist was just manafacturing his own little contraversy to grab eyeballs and/or appease sponsers. If you want good investigative journalisim that gets to the bottom of these 'climate contraversies' I highly recommend Peter Sinclair's youtube series climate crock of the week.
I notice you are using the past tense, ie: worked on/in. Although not in the medical industry the multi-national I work for only got rid of IE6 on their SOE image last year. The same is true for many companies, it wasn't until win7 arrived that they started in earnest to purge their internal applications that only worked on IE6. MS lost the standards wars, consequently moving away from IE6 has been a huge headache for the business world.
Note I'm not making excuse for people here just relating my observation that the commercial world kept wipping IE6 long after it's death certificate had been issued by MS, in many situations that was a perfectly reasonable business decision. Personally I think the situation in TFA is inexcusable regardless of what software they were using, how did it get so bad for so long that google ended up blocking it before the admins noticed anything? If the admins did notice then why was it still serving up malware, why wasn't it turned off? If this was 'real engineering', I suspect the people running it would now be facing criminal negligence charges.
He is most famous for Hawking radiation, ie: the discovery that black holes evaporate. I don't know of anyone who says something new every time they open their mouth?
Cut pollution for the sake of cutting pollution.
Problem is, a large number of people don't consider CO2 to be a pollutant.
There seems to be so much conflicting information out there as to what the cause is or how to reduce it, it seems hopeless
Yep, life is messy and it's often hard to find a candle in the dark, it's full of blatant self serving liars such as the one in the linked video who on the surface appear to be reasonable common sense folk, to deal with with this avalanche of intellectual dishonesty from proffesional propogandists, and avoid being drafted into their particular army of useful idiots, you can either...
1. Pick the side that best matches your politics/religion/fetish/wallet/eye-shadow/whatever and then firmly plant your fingers in your ears and start humming loudly.
2. Try to appease both sides from a seat on the fence. That's just the starting position, until you get past it, it's the equvalent of "who cares, lets just all be friends". If you actually care about the issue go back and re-choose from option 1 or 3 only.
3. Attempt to understand the issue to the point where you can routinely spot bullshit from both sides of the emotional divide, then draw your own conclusions. (see sig for further details).
If you picked option 1, you can stop reading now and use a dart board to negate your (valid) concerns. The third option is a bitch. The modern world is extrodinary evidence that it gives the best answers but stubornly refuses to deliver absolute certainty about anything. It also requires humility, time, work and critical thinking so from a practical stand point every one of us goes for option 2 in the majority of cases. (if you were redirected here from option 2 the only way out of an infinite loop is to admit you don't care enough to throw a dart)
As always if you don't understand a subject the best place to start looking is here. For a more nuanced understanding you need to look at what the scientific community are talking about. As a young man and HS drop out this is where I went wrong, I was interested in science and since the internet had not been invented, my next best option was the public library or the news stand.
All three sources of information on science conflate science with scams, speculation, and metaphysics. Even if you could somehow magically remove all the propoganda from amoral FUD factories trying to win hearts by confusing minds there is no way for an inexperienced amature-researcher to tell the difference between (say) Nature magazine and UFO monthly. So here is some advise from someone who desrted Uri Geller's army of useful idiots 32 years ago, and please feel free to use that grain of salt on it....
1. Find the primary source, if you can't, tag article as bullshit.
2. Compare the primary source to the article that lead you there, if they conflict, tag article as bullshit.
3. What is the track record of the primary source and is it peer-reviewed, ie: does it come from Nasa, the phycic hotline, or a random slashdot post such as this one?
4. Does other scientific literature from different primary sources confirm or debunk the claims?
5. Having done the above work in 1-4 you're now in a position where you actually have a reasonable understanding of the issue and you can pretty much ignore every thing other people say and make up your own mind confident in the knowledge you arrived at your position via reason.
6. Using the decision from 5 you can now apply it to any article discussing that particular 'talking point' and pretty much ignore them other than keeping an eye out for fundemental points you hadn't thought of (if that happens
This experiment seems to require them to measure what is in the biodome's atmosphere so I am assuming they are sealed off from the outside atmosphere. Thing is, nobody has ever managed to get a large sealed biodome to stay stable for more than about a year, without fresh air they turn into giant glasshouses full of rotting organic material. Perhaps this one will be different since there are no humans living in it but my prediction is it will rapidly collapse into a rather smelly single celled ecosystem. If OTOH it does work, it may turn out to be very useful for space exploration.
Or those prone to go childish on this topic.
My irony meter just exploded.
What really matters to those successful pirates is the insurance claim - they bought big insurance on their rust buckets, and reap the rewards when their ships sink
If you really believe that is how it works, you have obviously never tried to insure a car.
I don't spend money on things I don't get to keep
So you have never have, and never will, rent a house, hotel room, car, etc?
These days I play the freemium game 'world of tanks', there's no pressure to pay and they do a great job filtering out cheats. I do pay, but what I am getting (with or without paying) is a service, not a piece of personal property. Sure I put the free client on my machine to use that service but after that I just let it do it's stuff and enjoy the game. Now if you trash a physical piece of property you have rented the owner is likely to kick you out AND make you pay for the damage, (good) game service providers just kick you out. I for one fully support their right to run their service however the fuck they want to, if they can't keep cheats from destroying the game play then straight players like me will swap to a service that can.
People have made millions collecting scrap metal, what's your point?
The merit of the proposal has nothing to do with frogs. Demonising the enemy is what politicians do when they don't have a convincing argument, I strongly advise against emulating them if you don't want to become them. If your post, and the millions of others like it, are any indication of how the average american decides who to vote for, then it's self evident as to why american politics is so divisive and dishonest.
The only reason governments cut programs during a time of recession is that they can't get their shit together when things are good. Ideally a government should save more during the good times and spend more during the bad in order deflate bubbles and stimulate the economy respectively. As for bitcoin, the idea that it is a serious competitor to the euro is ludicrous, at best it's a competitor to casino based money laundering services.
Other than the litter it was peaceful.
Yes, to me this demonstrates that the occupiers as a group have as much respect for their fellow citizens as your average CEO.
They all need strung up.
In other words, take the moral low ground off them and and start digging.
Again, they are not the bringers of news.
They are often bringers of news, such as knocking on your door and informing you your loved one died in a car crash. Like a lot of police work it's a shitty and thankless task but someone has to do it.