Sort of, it's called due dilligence and it exists because of the mice/men/plan thing.
"prove they can control this kind of well"
It's logically impossible to prove any action is safe before the action is performed no matter how many times it's been done in the past. The best that you can do is lower the proability of known problems occuring by regulating inherently dangerous actions, but with half the US population demanding that "government get out of the way of business" I'm not sure how you would sell such a rational approach to a large group of people who basically want to have their cake and eat it.
Is that the same David Wong that wrote the monkeysphere? - I came across it by accident a few years ago, it's one best essays on human nature that I've ever read.
Yes those panics were silly, but a Star Trek style replicator would create a gigantic social upheaval, physical tokens of value such as gold and cash would be essentially worthless. The only things left to trade would be time and talent. Now that I think about it, the "gigantic social upheaval" might be a GoodThing(TM)...
In Oz we call an unimplemented election promise a "non-core promise", John Howard coined the term. I live in Victoria and personally I really don't give a flying fuck if they do or don't spend a paltry $12M on ipads, I'm just gratefull we have bipartisan support for universal health care.
Religous changes in the distant past were brought about by force. I'm not saying all religious people shun science I'm saying all religions are based on blind faith and dogma.
War hero's are in a entirely different situation where they have a choice of dying, or dying and perhaps saving some of their mates. It's a spur of the moment choice when all looks lost. Suicide bombers and kamakaizi pilots make a concious choice to die before they get anywhere near a "battlefield".
""religious faith in an afterlife" is simply a cheap, and effective means of evoking this "quality" in a fighting force. That quality can be instilled any number of other ways."
Agreed but it's difficult to come up with any concrete examples.
Science doesn't claim to prove anything, it claims to have the best available explaination and does a good job of living up to that claim by continously updating it's explainations as contra-evience appears. Religion claims truth and since it's devinely ordained truth, contra-evidence cannot change it.
In other words science seeks truth, religion claims to have found it.
To be fair the OP specified "suicide" terroist, and it would seem to me a belief in the after life is pretty much a prerequisite for that level of sacrafice to a cause. Before anyone brings up kamakazi pilots remeber that the emporer WAS a god in the eyes of his subjects.
"Their religious leaders tell them that this injustice is the fault of people outside of their social group"
Take away the religious window dressing and it all boils down to the tribal instinct found in all humans. I would go as far as saying that now we have come to dominate our environment our tribal instincts have become the main evolutionary pressure on our species. Best we can hope for is that the common man learns to recognise when these instincts are being manipulated by priest and politicians but that is much easier said than done.
"If the student understands the material and can demonstrate that they understand the material"
Assignments are such a demonstration, you failed to demonstrate that you could do them.
"how is what I am saying untrue?"
It's not about truth, you have a problem with following VALID instructions and it's going to be a millstone around your neck until you realise that following VALID instructions is just another inconvienient fact of life.
Aussie here, totally agree the online banking is pretty good but historically speaking, (last 30yrs), a 7% home loan is relatively cheap. If there is one thing I would change it would be to ban all fees, let them compete on interest rates alone, it would make it easy for the consumer to compare and would eliminate the main source of disputes and complaints.
From an Aussie POV the claims sound like absolute bullshit to me. People might use PayPal to transfer a few bucks over the net but they're not going to put their life savings into it. Who the fuck do you call if there's a problem with PayPal, where are their bricks and mortar branches? The big four may be arrogant, slow and greedy but they are big because most Aussie's know they are the safest bet going.
"Here, I'll put it this way for you: if a student is acing his exams, but not turning in homework assignments, what sort of grade should that student receive in the course? The way things are now, that student is looking at something in the C or D range."
As someone who many moons ago taught at university level I'd say a C or D is mildly generous for someone who only completed half the set work. The course requirments are not hidden, you are told upfront what assignments and tests are worth. You simply chose to throw half those extra grades away. You may very well be intelligent but intentionally handicapping your grade is not intelligent behaviour, nor is it the school's fault you chose to do so.
"I know many people like myself: people who ignored their assignments in high school, and studied more interesting material. We all wound up getting poor grades, despite the fact that we were actually studying material that was more advanced than what we were supposed to be studying."
Yeah right, you got poor grades on the test because you were too intelligent to do your homework and too advanced to be bothered learning the basics. Sure lots of people teach themselves but when they do very few of them realise that their teacher is just as ignorant as their student.
"High school basically exists to ensure that people will be ready to do as they are told, nothing more."
Yes, you're told to learn and you're told to get along with your peers, would you employ an arrogant missfit who can't cheerfully follow simple instructions?
"This is the millennial generation, the so called "trophy kids""
This is nothing new or unique to this generation, it's called the "inexperience of youth", it's been going on for millenia and old farts like you and me have been complaining about it since the dead sea was just not felling very well.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates
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The heat from compression is created by friction between the molecules under compression and the thing that's compressing them.
"So if they tried their best it was ok?"
Sort of, it's called due dilligence and it exists because of the mice/men/plan thing.
"prove they can control this kind of well"
It's logically impossible to prove any action is safe before the action is performed no matter how many times it's been done in the past. The best that you can do is lower the proability of known problems occuring by regulating inherently dangerous actions, but with half the US population demanding that "government get out of the way of business" I'm not sure how you would sell such a rational approach to a large group of people who basically want to have their cake and eat it.
Is that the same David Wong that wrote the monkeysphere? - I came across it by accident a few years ago, it's one best essays on human nature that I've ever read.
Thanks for the tip. :)
"Because Telstra isn't competant enough to be able to keep track of the changes themselves"
I worked on telstra systems for 7yrs in the 90's and will corroberate that statement.
Yes those panics were silly, but a Star Trek style replicator would create a gigantic social upheaval, physical tokens of value such as gold and cash would be essentially worthless. The only things left to trade would be time and talent. Now that I think about it, the "gigantic social upheaval" might be a GoodThing(TM)...
In Oz we call an unimplemented election promise a "non-core promise", John Howard coined the term. I live in Victoria and personally I really don't give a flying fuck if they do or don't spend a paltry $12M on ipads, I'm just gratefull we have bipartisan support for universal health care.
Religous changes in the distant past were brought about by force. I'm not saying all religious people shun science I'm saying all religions are based on blind faith and dogma.
"I mean, Mom and Grannie use facebook, you know what I mean?"
Older women have a much higher labido than young women, and visa-versa for men.
"Throughout these experiments my current copulation rate with an idle cell phone would act as the control data."
Interesting eperiment but I think TFA is talking about sex with people.
Yes the system you used to post your comment was created by a singular fisherman, that's why it's called the "net". /sarcasm
I'd hazard a guess that your karma is in the cellar because your Gallileo complex prevents you from fully thinking thru what you are saying.
War hero's are in a entirely different situation where they have a choice of dying, or dying and perhaps saving some of their mates. It's a spur of the moment choice when all looks lost. Suicide bombers and kamakaizi pilots make a concious choice to die before they get anywhere near a "battlefield".
""religious faith in an afterlife" is simply a cheap, and effective means of evoking this "quality" in a fighting force. That quality can be instilled any number of other ways."
Agreed but it's difficult to come up with any concrete examples.
Science doesn't claim to prove anything, it claims to have the best available explaination and does a good job of living up to that claim by continously updating it's explainations as contra-evience appears. Religion claims truth and since it's devinely ordained truth, contra-evidence cannot change it.
In other words science seeks truth, religion claims to have found it.
To be fair the OP specified "suicide" terroist, and it would seem to me a belief in the after life is pretty much a prerequisite for that level of sacrafice to a cause. Before anyone brings up kamakazi pilots remeber that the emporer WAS a god in the eyes of his subjects.
Excellent post!
"Their religious leaders tell them that this injustice is the fault of people outside of their social group"
Take away the religious window dressing and it all boils down to the tribal instinct found in all humans. I would go as far as saying that now we have come to dominate our environment our tribal instincts have become the main evolutionary pressure on our species. Best we can hope for is that the common man learns to recognise when these instincts are being manipulated by priest and politicians but that is much easier said than done.
"the brick and mortar branches just call the home office and sit on hold like everyone else."
I think that claim is utter bullshit, I've never expereinced it with any of the big 4 banks since I left HS 35yrs ago.
"If the student understands the material and can demonstrate that they understand the material"
Assignments are such a demonstration, you failed to demonstrate that you could do them. "how is what I am saying untrue?"
It's not about truth, you have a problem with following VALID instructions and it's going to be a millstone around your neck until you realise that following VALID instructions is just another inconvienient fact of life.
Aussie here, totally agree the online banking is pretty good but historically speaking, (last 30yrs), a 7% home loan is relatively cheap. If there is one thing I would change it would be to ban all fees, let them compete on interest rates alone, it would make it easy for the consumer to compare and would eliminate the main source of disputes and complaints.
My exprience with the NAB is similar but some people just like to piss and moan about banks the same way they like to piss and moan about taxes.
From an Aussie POV the claims sound like absolute bullshit to me. People might use PayPal to transfer a few bucks over the net but they're not going to put their life savings into it. Who the fuck do you call if there's a problem with PayPal, where are their bricks and mortar branches? The big four may be arrogant, slow and greedy but they are big because most Aussie's know they are the safest bet going.
"Here, I'll put it this way for you: if a student is acing his exams, but not turning in homework assignments, what sort of grade should that student receive in the course? The way things are now, that student is looking at something in the C or D range."
As someone who many moons ago taught at university level I'd say a C or D is mildly generous for someone who only completed half the set work. The course requirments are not hidden, you are told upfront what assignments and tests are worth. You simply chose to throw half those extra grades away. You may very well be intelligent but intentionally handicapping your grade is not intelligent behaviour, nor is it the school's fault you chose to do so.
In other words, farmers pratice intelligent design, priest practice accidental design.
"I know many people like myself: people who ignored their assignments in high school, and studied more interesting material. We all wound up getting poor grades, despite the fact that we were actually studying material that was more advanced than what we were supposed to be studying."
Yeah right, you got poor grades on the test because you were too intelligent to do your homework and too advanced to be bothered learning the basics. Sure lots of people teach themselves but when they do very few of them realise that their teacher is just as ignorant as their student.
"High school basically exists to ensure that people will be ready to do as they are told, nothing more."
Yes, you're told to learn and you're told to get along with your peers, would you employ an arrogant missfit who can't cheerfully follow simple instructions?
"To be fair, your parents' income is almost certainly proportional to their intelligence."
Ahhhahahah hohoh hehehe, stop it your killing me.
"This is the millennial generation, the so called "trophy kids""
This is nothing new or unique to this generation, it's called the "inexperience of youth", it's been going on for millenia and old farts like you and me have been complaining about it since the dead sea was just not felling very well.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates