I'd be pissed to if Trump (or anyone else) hijacked my work for their political campaign. I've been a huge fan of Neil Young's music for more that 40yrs, the Harvest album is a timeless classic that still sounds good on a cheap 70's record player with a fluffy needle. The new 'protest' album is garbage, sound quality won't make it better because the thing that is missing is the creativity and passion of his youth, and he knows it.
I think he tried to do something like the Eagles 'Paradise lost', unfortunately (unless you're an anti- GMO zealot) he missed the target. By pulling it from streaming and complaining about sound quality he's saying - I want my die-hard fans to think this is special and buy it without hearing it first.
Anyone undertaking these courses knows what they're signing up for (pseudo-science)
The people signing up for a course in homeopathy 'know' jack shit, they honestly cannot distinguish science from pseudoscience. These are the people that the education system failed to educate and now they are being misled at the university level. It may not be as violent as scientology but it is on the same level of intellectual immaturity and has no place in a modern university.
The problem with this kind of crap is two-fold, first it is downright dangerous to the patients health to encourage them to shun modern medicine, as many "alternative' practitioners explicitly and implicitly do. Secondly there is absolutely no doubt that evidence based meditation techniques such as mindfulness are good for your mental health but the utter nonsense surrounding such practices deters many of our best minds from investigating the subject. And where science fears to tread, superstition, mysticism, and the irrational behaviours they advocate will take hold.
As for the historical role of religion, it was once everything rolled into one, there was no such thing as science, law, and philosophy, these things were all under the umbrella of religion. Newton founded the chair of mathematics at cambridge, would you deny Newton's scientific credentials because he was first and foremost a respected theologian in his own lifetime? We've moved on, religion is dying all over the western world, but when people don't have a functioning bullshit detection kit they still 'know' jack shit and will behave irrationally and often against their own best interests.
Bullshit detection is the one skill that a modern education system should provide above all other skills, yet it consistently fails to do that for the majority of HS graduates. A good start to correcting this oversight would be to make Sagan's book compulsory reading for HS students, dissect and discuss the material with the same institutional enthusiasm shown for Shakespeare and Dickens.
They had a redundant MW link, it was trashed by the same storm that cut the cable, how much more should 50k people spend on redundant infrastructure panning for a freak double fail event that may never happen again? Sure it's a major inconvenience to be cut off from the world for a few days but it's hardly a national disaster.
In Australia, Uber has been quietly paying millions of dollars that drivers have incurred for operating an unlicensed cab.Taxi and limo drivers are r4esponsible for their own fines.
WMD salesman: "This is our most powerful bomb, it can vapourise 50% of the planet's surface".
Mad Dictator: "I'll take two".
- Appologies to Billy Connolly.
"The Trouble with Tribbles" - star trek episode dealing with the issue of population control. Start trek is fictional and not to everyone's taste, I grew up watching it in the 60's. As with any popular fiction you need to "suspend belief" to enjoy it, you need to enjoy it to understand its humanist commentary. You need to know something about mid 20th century politics to see that it is a very optimistic metaphor for what the UN could become in the far flung future.
Yes, life expands or contracts in response to the energy available to it, (within a narrow range). Our response (as a species) to energy from fossil fuels in the 20th century is not that different to the way yeast responds to sugar in a home brew kit. Unlike the yeast we have the capacity to foresee the consequences and do something about it, question is - do we have the political will? - Judging by the number of views on this (rare) attenborough speech, I don't think so.
MLK and Ghandi were men of conscience and sincere belief. Yep, and they are both good example of genuine SJW's who managed to change the world and operate in good faith while doing so, today the term SJW has become associated with obscure, petty minded, professional victims trying to boost their wallet and/or their ego. These people may get their 15 minutes of fame but they lack the strength of character required to change the world.
Pesticides and AGW are not mutually exclusive, neither issue is "speculative" in the sense they both have hard evidence for their claims. The interesting claim in TFA is that unlike most other lifeforms, bumblebees have stubbornly refused to move poleward with the climate. It's an odd observation, which is a good thing since most scientific discoveries are preceded by the words "that's odd".
Also society can, and does, tackle more than one issue simultaneously, fixing the pesticide issue would certainly boost populations but it will do nothing to encourage them to move with their food source.
Oblig car analogy, We have a flat tyre and broken fan belt, we won't get very far until we fix both problems.
The far left of the (traditional) political spectrum is communism. not socialism. It's easy to be confused since in the US media, 'socialist' (like terrorist) is a catch-all phrase that has been used to explain the evils of regimes as diverse as Nazi Germany and Red China. Both communism and fascism are a total(itarian) merge of state, religion, business, and the press into one entity - the (absolutely) powerful and corrupted state. Every other system has some degree of independence between those conflicting power centers, ie: the corruption is still there, but at least it's not absolute.
Not really, the US federal government spends $1.00 for every $0.60 it raises in revenue.
Government budgets are not household budgets, national debt does not operate like a giant credit card. The shortfall in revenue is made up by the US FED printing money and exchanging it for US treasury bonds, US treasury bonds are considered "safer than gold" by the market because they never default, they never default because they are paid in US dollars which they can always obtain from the FED simply by issuing more bonds.
Agree, very promising technology with lots of small scale uses right now. This is the first time I've heard of printing ships and I like the idea of printing buildings on site using recycled building materials.
Living bone awesome, they have their own independent neural network that can function without any help from the brain, (as does your gut). The neural network in your bones is responsible for the structural adaptations made in response to environmental stresses in individuals, it basically senses stresses in 3D and orchestrates bone building to compensate. It is light years ahead of our current materials science but not so much as to be totally implausible.
The funniest part was when the only (ex) senator to propose putting political sites on the current blocklist found his own anti-abortion websites were the only political sites on a "leaked" draft list.
It's actually relatively rare for Aussie politicians to sue people for what they say, Sir Humphrey would call it a "very courageous decision". There was however the recent case of our Federal treasurer who sued a major newspaper for printing the headline "Treasurer for sale". He won a partial victory, the article and headline together were deemed ok because a "reasonable person" would not conclude he was corrupt if they read it in toto. However, using the same logic, promotional posters that just displayed the headline were deemed defamatory. It was also shown via internal emails that the person responsible for the headline had a personal grudge against the treasurer, ie: intent to defame was established.
Disclaimer: Personally I dislike the federal treasurer on multiple levels and think he is guilty of many misleading headlines and public statements that have caused significant financial harm to millions over the last couple of years, but I consider myself a reasonable man and agree with the court's reasonable decision.
Free (political) speech is the traditional interpretation of relevant common law that dates back almost 1000yrs, it is not specifically codified in most commonwealth countries but I'm pretty sure the people who wrote the bill of rights were well aware of English common law and similar traditions in France. Speaker's corner in Hyde Park has been the icon for that tradition since the 1850's. Under the traditional interpretation you have a right to broadcast your opinion and you can poke fun at me via parody, but you don't have the right to deliberately misinform the public in order to defame me, nor do you have the right to follow me around and shout at me. For example, in most commonwealth countries the Phelps family would be classified as a "serial pest" and would quite likely spend some time in the lock up for harassment. It has nothing to do with the vile things they say, it's all about the time, place, and manner, they choose to say it.
Commonwealth countries also do not elect unqualified judges from the general population, they are appointed on merit and experience, not popularity.
I use a VPN daily, as do many people I know here in Melbourne. Malcolm Turnbull (the federal communications minister and first heir to the Aussie throne) recently stood on the steps of parliament and strongly recommended their use as a privacy tool, his words were broadcast and dissected ad-nauseam all over the national MSM for days on end. I'm in my 50's, and sure, our current far-right government is the worst pack of amoral bullshitters I have ever seen in parliament but the "anti-piracy" legislation does not ban VPN's and was never intended to do so.
Pro tip: Might want to get someone knowledgeable to check that the "blockage" you are experiencing is not due to a malware infection.
I can see a ships hull being printed in one piece but a lot of plane parts are made from drop forged metal because it's the only way they can be made both strong enough and light enough to fly, I assume jet engines have a lot of drop forged parts for similar reasons, 3D printers are not going to replace drop forges any day soon. Also the skin of an aircraft is not like the skin of a car, commercial aircraft use a laminated skin to make it more resistant to tearing when the skin is broken at high speed.
Asimov's intention was to demonstrate there is no such thing as a "recipe for life" for robots, humans, or any other life form. The 10 commandments and other real life attempts to provide a recipe for life are also full of holes, ambiguities, and corner cases that can only be resolved by human judgement. This is why courts have a judge and jury.
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I'd be pissed to if Trump (or anyone else) hijacked my work for their political campaign. I've been a huge fan of Neil Young's music for more that 40yrs, the Harvest album is a timeless classic that still sounds good on a cheap 70's record player with a fluffy needle. The new 'protest' album is garbage, sound quality won't make it better because the thing that is missing is the creativity and passion of his youth, and he knows it.
I think he tried to do something like the Eagles 'Paradise lost', unfortunately (unless you're an anti- GMO zealot) he missed the target. By pulling it from streaming and complaining about sound quality he's saying - I want my die-hard fans to think this is special and buy it without hearing it first.
Anyone undertaking these courses knows what they're signing up for (pseudo-science)
The people signing up for a course in homeopathy 'know' jack shit, they honestly cannot distinguish science from pseudoscience. These are the people that the education system failed to educate and now they are being misled at the university level. It may not be as violent as scientology but it is on the same level of intellectual immaturity and has no place in a modern university.
The problem with this kind of crap is two-fold, first it is downright dangerous to the patients health to encourage them to shun modern medicine, as many "alternative' practitioners explicitly and implicitly do. Secondly there is absolutely no doubt that evidence based meditation techniques such as mindfulness are good for your mental health but the utter nonsense surrounding such practices deters many of our best minds from investigating the subject. And where science fears to tread, superstition, mysticism, and the irrational behaviours they advocate will take hold.
As for the historical role of religion, it was once everything rolled into one, there was no such thing as science, law, and philosophy, these things were all under the umbrella of religion. Newton founded the chair of mathematics at cambridge, would you deny Newton's scientific credentials because he was first and foremost a respected theologian in his own lifetime? We've moved on, religion is dying all over the western world, but when people don't have a functioning bullshit detection kit they still 'know' jack shit and will behave irrationally and often against their own best interests.
Bullshit detection is the one skill that a modern education system should provide above all other skills, yet it consistently fails to do that for the majority of HS graduates. A good start to correcting this oversight would be to make Sagan's book compulsory reading for HS students, dissect and discuss the material with the same institutional enthusiasm shown for Shakespeare and Dickens.
And your point is...????
They had a redundant MW link, it was trashed by the same storm that cut the cable, how much more should 50k people spend on redundant infrastructure panning for a freak double fail event that may never happen again? Sure it's a major inconvenience to be cut off from the world for a few days but it's hardly a national disaster.
In Australia, Uber has been quietly paying millions of dollars that drivers have incurred for operating an unlicensed cab.Taxi and limo drivers are r4esponsible for their own fines.
Bit more complex than that, here's the Carbon 14 proxy data for solar activity since 800AD. Here's the attribution graph of known climate forcings that explains the current overall warming trend.
WMD salesman: "This is our most powerful bomb, it can vapourise 50% of the planet's surface".
Mad Dictator: "I'll take two".
- Appologies to Billy Connolly.
"The Trouble with Tribbles" - star trek episode dealing with the issue of population control. Start trek is fictional and not to everyone's taste, I grew up watching it in the 60's. As with any popular fiction you need to "suspend belief" to enjoy it, you need to enjoy it to understand its humanist commentary. You need to know something about mid 20th century politics to see that it is a very optimistic metaphor for what the UN could become in the far flung future.
Yes, life expands or contracts in response to the energy available to it, (within a narrow range). Our response (as a species) to energy from fossil fuels in the 20th century is not that different to the way yeast responds to sugar in a home brew kit. Unlike the yeast we have the capacity to foresee the consequences and do something about it, question is - do we have the political will? - Judging by the number of views on this (rare) attenborough speech, I don't think so.
MLK and Ghandi were men of conscience and sincere belief. Yep, and they are both good example of genuine SJW's who managed to change the world and operate in good faith while doing so, today the term SJW has become associated with obscure, petty minded, professional victims trying to boost their wallet and/or their ego. These people may get their 15 minutes of fame but they lack the strength of character required to change the world.
Pesticides and AGW are not mutually exclusive, neither issue is "speculative" in the sense they both have hard evidence for their claims. The interesting claim in TFA is that unlike most other lifeforms, bumblebees have stubbornly refused to move poleward with the climate. It's an odd observation, which is a good thing since most scientific discoveries are preceded by the words "that's odd".
Also society can, and does, tackle more than one issue simultaneously, fixing the pesticide issue would certainly boost populations but it will do nothing to encourage them to move with their food source.
Oblig car analogy, We have a flat tyre and broken fan belt, we won't get very far until we fix both problems.
The far left of the (traditional) political spectrum is communism. not socialism. It's easy to be confused since in the US media, 'socialist' (like terrorist) is a catch-all phrase that has been used to explain the evils of regimes as diverse as Nazi Germany and Red China. Both communism and fascism are a total(itarian) merge of state, religion, business, and the press into one entity - the (absolutely) powerful and corrupted state. Every other system has some degree of independence between those conflicting power centers, ie: the corruption is still there, but at least it's not absolute.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
we balance our budget and live within our means
Not really, the US federal government spends $1.00 for every $0.60 it raises in revenue.
Government budgets are not household budgets, national debt does not operate like a giant credit card. The shortfall in revenue is made up by the US FED printing money and exchanging it for US treasury bonds, US treasury bonds are considered "safer than gold" by the market because they never default, they never default because they are paid in US dollars which they can always obtain from the FED simply by issuing more bonds.
It would also kill the comments section.
Malcolm is no friend of the MAFIAA.
Agree, very promising technology with lots of small scale uses right now. This is the first time I've heard of printing ships and I like the idea of printing buildings on site using recycled building materials.
Living bone awesome, they have their own independent neural network that can function without any help from the brain, (as does your gut). The neural network in your bones is responsible for the structural adaptations made in response to environmental stresses in individuals, it basically senses stresses in 3D and orchestrates bone building to compensate. It is light years ahead of our current materials science but not so much as to be totally implausible.
The funniest part was when the only (ex) senator to propose putting political sites on the current blocklist found his own anti-abortion websites were the only political sites on a "leaked" draft list.
It's actually relatively rare for Aussie politicians to sue people for what they say, Sir Humphrey would call it a "very courageous decision". There was however the recent case of our Federal treasurer who sued a major newspaper for printing the headline "Treasurer for sale". He won a partial victory, the article and headline together were deemed ok because a "reasonable person" would not conclude he was corrupt if they read it in toto. However, using the same logic, promotional posters that just displayed the headline were deemed defamatory. It was also shown via internal emails that the person responsible for the headline had a personal grudge against the treasurer, ie: intent to defame was established.
Disclaimer: Personally I dislike the federal treasurer on multiple levels and think he is guilty of many misleading headlines and public statements that have caused significant financial harm to millions over the last couple of years, but I consider myself a reasonable man and agree with the court's reasonable decision.
Free (political) speech is the traditional interpretation of relevant common law that dates back almost 1000yrs, it is not specifically codified in most commonwealth countries but I'm pretty sure the people who wrote the bill of rights were well aware of English common law and similar traditions in France. Speaker's corner in Hyde Park has been the icon for that tradition since the 1850's. Under the traditional interpretation you have a right to broadcast your opinion and you can poke fun at me via parody, but you don't have the right to deliberately misinform the public in order to defame me, nor do you have the right to follow me around and shout at me. For example, in most commonwealth countries the Phelps family would be classified as a "serial pest" and would quite likely spend some time in the lock up for harassment. It has nothing to do with the vile things they say, it's all about the time, place, and manner, they choose to say it.
Commonwealth countries also do not elect unqualified judges from the general population, they are appointed on merit and experience, not popularity.
So you're saying, the road to world peace is paved with free entertainment?
Cheap, reliable, VPN's are everywhere, ya wanker!
I use a VPN daily, as do many people I know here in Melbourne. Malcolm Turnbull (the federal communications minister and first heir to the Aussie throne) recently stood on the steps of parliament and strongly recommended their use as a privacy tool, his words were broadcast and dissected ad-nauseam all over the national MSM for days on end. I'm in my 50's, and sure, our current far-right government is the worst pack of amoral bullshitters I have ever seen in parliament but the "anti-piracy" legislation does not ban VPN's and was never intended to do so.
Pro tip: Might want to get someone knowledgeable to check that the "blockage" you are experiencing is not due to a malware infection.
I can see a ships hull being printed in one piece but a lot of plane parts are made from drop forged metal because it's the only way they can be made both strong enough and light enough to fly, I assume jet engines have a lot of drop forged parts for similar reasons, 3D printers are not going to replace drop forges any day soon. Also the skin of an aircraft is not like the skin of a car, commercial aircraft use a laminated skin to make it more resistant to tearing when the skin is broken at high speed.
Asimov's intention was to demonstrate there is no such thing as a "recipe for life" for robots, humans, or any other life form. The 10 commandments and other real life attempts to provide a recipe for life are also full of holes, ambiguities, and corner cases that can only be resolved by human judgement. This is why courts have a judge and jury.
Similar background, but since 1991, totally agree with your post, many of the older teenagers who want to "write games" are artists, not coders.
Programming or playing a musical instrument is easy, doing it well enough to get paid is hard.