I'm 48 and as the song goes "have done all the dumb things", but that alone isn't going to stop me screwing up in the future. The ability to learn from ones mistakes is what "character" is all about. However you are correct, many "adults" (of all political colours) are obsesed with ideological trivia and the "crusaders" who accompany them (eg: the creator of the "sex offenders list" who put the hard word on page boys).
IMHO: When all's said and done world politics resembles a never ending series of gangland reunion parties.
Well spotted, I dropped out of high school in '76 and followed my raging hormones wherever they wanted to go. Later in life I went to an Australian Uni. (88-91), in between I spent 10yrs raising a family the hard way. When dealing with people always remember educated != smart != sane.
"Because the skeptics have to prove an arguement, rather than the "Scientists" have to prove their findings beyond doubt....Sorry, buddy, I live in reality, where scientific claims have to be backed up with proof instead of mass acceptance"
You may "live in reality" but your mind shows no sign of such constraints.
To anyone formally/self educated in the philosophy and practice of science, your posts are simply demonstrating you do not know the meaning of the words "skepticisim" and "science" and seem clueless as to how they relate to each other, the inescapable conclusion is you do not have the skills to practice either. (Hint: Proof is for mathemeticians, and "mass acceptance" is an intergral part of the scientific method that leads to terms such as "science says...", "established science", ect. "The scientific method" == "formalised skepticisim")
"50 years ago we were talking about global cooling....the most outlandish predictions talk about a change of 5 degrees...."
Also if you are going to paraphrase ancient "talking points" at least try and get the temprature and timeframe right. Your post is so wrong it's almost funny but the joke is ruined by the fact that a large chunk of the population would see nothing wrong with your line of reasoning and many more would unknowingly dishonour the memory of Sagan by calling you a "skeptic".
This whole thing is simply idiotic, it seems obvious someone is out to "get her" and has convinced enough people to start cranking the wheels of "the complaint process". If it's fair game to investigate this womans life then what about the person(s) who put in the complaint, do they have alternative motivations? - Religion, revenge, nappy-wearing-jelousy?
A system of formal complaints that can screw up your life must be accountable, if formal complaints are to be taken seriously then abuse of the system needs to be puni$hed.
"a small workshop producing tail fins and other mortar bomb components"
And when the EU or the UN suggests the US should wind down the small arms trade through international treaties, the NRA comes along waving the constitution like Mosses coming down the mount./gun_nut_flamebait
Thanks, I don't speak french and even though I have lived in Oz for nearly five decades had never heard the term "dog-whistle politics". I like it, it's very descriptive of what "seasoned" politicians do for a living and can be applied to all sorts of situations.
OT: Howard's latest whistle is "Hick's supporters", the issue is an Australian citizen pleaded guilty to a restrospective crime after five years in gitmo and the Australian goverment says that is a GoodThing(TM).
"Very few Slashdotters, as far as I can tell, actually endorse piracy outright."
My family name has it's roots connected to a guy who donated 22 viking boats to William the conqurer and acompanied him into the battle of Hastings. From my point of view (and I don't think I'm alone here), it depends on who the pirates are, and what they are plundering from whom.
If it's the *IAA then I think most people here oppose thier legalised piray for the reasons you mention, a cartel of "censors" corrupting the political process is a BadThing(TM). Personally I spend less on movies and music than I do on toilet paper and I am simply disintrested when it comes to downloading movies or music, but that's related to age and a preference for other forms of entertainment more than any moral or legal judgement.
"we're not a bunch of corporate hating communist hippies"
Here I have to disagree, again it depends on "who" the corporation or "communist" is, and what it is they are doing to whom. As for "hippies" I was born in '59 and my definition is quite a bit different to the mass media sterotype, just as they don't want to live in my world - I don't want to live in their world, but it's an interseting and pleasant place to visit.
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
"Do yourselves a favour and try some Marmite." - and be labeled a traitor, never!
Clockwork Orange was broadcast on SBS last year, but I agree we have many people who don't understand the principle of "free speech". This includes the federal parliment who (also last year) banned a state MP's euthinasia site, the day the ban came into effect the MP in question relocated it to a NZ host.
Far too many years ago I left school at 16, one of the first jobs I had was picking tulip bulbs, a mind numbingly boring job. One day the guy who drove the truck that picked up the crates from the field suddenly quit. The farmer came down to field I was working and asked the pickers if anyone could drive a truck, I shot upright and started lying through my teeth and walking towards him. He walked me over to the truck and got in with me in the drivers seat. After I had spent a few minutes bunny hoping the truck and failing to actually to get it mobile, he said something like - "If your man enough to fess up now, I will teach you to drive the truck", I did and he kept his promise.
The fact that MIT has an excellent global reputation is evidence enough she can not only do the "driving", but can do it well enough that nobody thought to double-check her claims./oblig. car (truck) analogy
Getting fired is a pretty minimal punishment. Lots of people who commit fraud go to jail.
I belive she "fell on her sword", and that is the "proper" thing to do in such embarassing circumstances ( Wolfowitz would do the same if he had an honorable bone in his body ). It would be a different matter had she knowingly put poeple or assets in danger (eg: doctor, accountant, pilot), but AFAIK she did the opposite. Insinuating that someone should go to jail for demonstratably harmless bullshit they wrote on a resume 30-fucking-years ago is so outrageous that some might wonder what similar deed you may be hiding? As for ethics - if you take them out of context they become dogma. Society itself does not use the same set of mores they did 30yrs ago, back then I was "living in sin", worse still I was freinds with an openly gay guy.
BTW: The woman I was living with became my wife for 20yrs, the gay guy got into hard drugs and died of a heroine overdose, the tulip bulb season ended and I got a "respectable" job hacking down 350yr old trees in a temperate rainforest.
Great anti-science troll, you managed to mix peer-reviewed science and politically inspired urban myths with a gross underestimate the age of magnectic healing scams. It's sheer trollish brilliance, none of it is on topic or adds anything new. Little wonder it was modded incitefull....wait...insightfull...WTF?
Apart from more tubes for the interwebs, I would imagine that 18mm is also long enough to make carbon fibre products that are lighter and stronger than what is currently available. I wonder if an America's Cup or F1 winner will one day be built from nanotubes?
I entirely agree, there are good reasons to assume other "universes" have the same physical laws. But it is also possible that "reality" inside the hole is goverened by unknown laws, for example: maybe there is no singularity just more "boundless" space without a "center".
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I'm 48 and as the song goes "have done all the dumb things", but that alone isn't going to stop me screwing up in the future. The ability to learn from ones mistakes is what "character" is all about. However you are correct, many "adults" (of all political colours) are obsesed with ideological trivia and the "crusaders" who accompany them (eg: the creator of the "sex offenders list" who put the hard word on page boys).
IMHO: When all's said and done world politics resembles a never ending series of gangland reunion parties.
Well spotted, I dropped out of high school in '76 and followed my raging hormones wherever they wanted to go. Later in life I went to an Australian Uni. (88-91), in between I spent 10yrs raising a family the hard way. When dealing with people always remember educated != smart != sane.
"Because the skeptics have to prove an arguement, rather than the "Scientists" have to prove their findings beyond doubt....Sorry, buddy, I live in reality, where scientific claims have to be backed up with proof instead of mass acceptance"
You may "live in reality" but your mind shows no sign of such constraints.
To anyone formally/self educated in the philosophy and practice of science, your posts are simply demonstrating you do not know the meaning of the words "skepticisim" and "science" and seem clueless as to how they relate to each other, the inescapable conclusion is you do not have the skills to practice either. (Hint: Proof is for mathemeticians, and "mass acceptance" is an intergral part of the scientific method that leads to terms such as "science says...", "established science", ect. "The scientific method" == "formalised skepticisim")
After consulting a reputable dictionary and then spending the next decade or so learning what it is that you are trying to discredit, you may want to try debunking this conservative but well known body of evidence. If a decade is too long then talk to some of the scientists about SPECIFICS.
"50 years ago we were talking about global cooling....the most outlandish predictions talk about a change of 5 degrees...."
Also if you are going to paraphrase ancient "talking points" at least try and get the temprature and timeframe right. Your post is so wrong it's almost funny but the joke is ruined by the fact that a large chunk of the population would see nothing wrong with your line of reasoning and many more would unknowingly dishonour the memory of Sagan by calling you a "skeptic".
"And maybe we can finally hold some of the loudest mouthpieces for global warming until they finally either shut up or prove their rantings."
I love this vague statement, it's so typical of the psuedo-skeptics who don't have a coherent argument, let alone a point.
This whole thing is simply idiotic, it seems obvious someone is out to "get her" and has convinced enough people to start cranking the wheels of "the complaint process". If it's fair game to investigate this womans life then what about the person(s) who put in the complaint, do they have alternative motivations? - Religion, revenge, nappy-wearing-jelousy?
A system of formal complaints that can screw up your life must be accountable, if formal complaints are to be taken seriously then abuse of the system needs to be puni$hed.
"Software development is merely providing instruction sets to instruments"
:)
...but to compete in virtually any medium-large bussiness, IT is essential.
This "instrument" calls bullshit.
"Nobody NEEDS to buy MicroSoft products in order to do business."
Having said that, I agree with your main point.
It's brilliant. Sun can collect money for starving coders like the mafiaa collecy money for starving artists, what could possibly go wrong?
Nope, I knew what it was but didn't know it had a name.
"a small workshop producing tail fins and other mortar bomb components"
/gun_nut_flamebait
And when the EU or the UN suggests the US should wind down the small arms trade through international treaties, the NRA comes along waving the constitution like Mosses coming down the mount.
Thanks, I don't speak french and even though I have lived in Oz for nearly five decades had never heard the term "dog-whistle politics". I like it, it's very descriptive of what "seasoned" politicians do for a living and can be applied to all sorts of situations.
OT: Howard's latest whistle is "Hick's supporters", the issue is an Australian citizen pleaded guilty to a restrospective crime after five years in gitmo and the Australian goverment says that is a GoodThing(TM).
...dummy /sarcasm
"So at what age do they teach the virtues of Prostitution and how it's a shameless occupation (*sarcasim*)?"
We all whore ourselves for money, the trick is to get paid well for something you enjoy.
I wosh I hadn't frittered away my mod points, well said.
"Very few Slashdotters, as far as I can tell, actually endorse piracy outright."
My family name has it's roots connected to a guy who donated 22 viking boats to William the conqurer and acompanied him into the battle of Hastings. From my point of view (and I don't think I'm alone here), it depends on who the pirates are, and what they are plundering from whom.
If it's the *IAA then I think most people here oppose thier legalised piray for the reasons you mention, a cartel of "censors" corrupting the political process is a BadThing(TM). Personally I spend less on movies and music than I do on toilet paper and I am simply disintrested when it comes to downloading movies or music, but that's related to age and a preference for other forms of entertainment more than any moral or legal judgement.
"we're not a bunch of corporate hating communist hippies"
Here I have to disagree, again it depends on "who" the corporation or "communist" is, and what it is they are doing to whom. As for "hippies" I was born in '59 and my definition is quite a bit different to the mass media sterotype, just as they don't want to live in my world - I don't want to live in their world, but it's an interseting and pleasant place to visit.
Oh well, pass the marmite if you must.
Yep, no bill-o-rights either, I don't know how we have managed to keep the Nazi's from taking over?
"I think anyone who's ever gone to bed hungry would totally appreciate that."
Anyone who has been to jail would appreciate you don't have to "eat babies" to get there.
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
"Do yourselves a favour and try some Marmite." - and be labeled a traitor, never!
It's called XXXX because Queenslanders could not decide wether to call it "beer" or "piss".
Clockwork Orange was broadcast on SBS last year, but I agree we have many people who don't understand the principle of "free speech". This includes the federal parliment who (also last year) banned a state MP's euthinasia site, the day the ban came into effect the MP in question relocated it to a NZ host.
Cue the "who stole my cheese" video.
Far too many years ago I left school at 16, one of the first jobs I had was picking tulip bulbs, a mind numbingly boring job. One day the guy who drove the truck that picked up the crates from the field suddenly quit. The farmer came down to field I was working and asked the pickers if anyone could drive a truck, I shot upright and started lying through my teeth and walking towards him. He walked me over to the truck and got in with me in the drivers seat. After I had spent a few minutes bunny hoping the truck and failing to actually to get it mobile, he said something like - "If your man enough to fess up now, I will teach you to drive the truck", I did and he kept his promise.
/oblig. car (truck) analogy
The fact that MIT has an excellent global reputation is evidence enough she can not only do the "driving", but can do it well enough that nobody thought to double-check her claims.
Getting fired is a pretty minimal punishment. Lots of people who commit fraud go to jail.
I belive she "fell on her sword", and that is the "proper" thing to do in such embarassing circumstances ( Wolfowitz would do the same if he had an honorable bone in his body ). It would be a different matter had she knowingly put poeple or assets in danger (eg: doctor, accountant, pilot), but AFAIK she did the opposite. Insinuating that someone should go to jail for demonstratably harmless bullshit they wrote on a resume 30-fucking-years ago is so outrageous that some might wonder what similar deed you may be hiding? As for ethics - if you take them out of context they become dogma. Society itself does not use the same set of mores they did 30yrs ago, back then I was "living in sin", worse still I was freinds with an openly gay guy.
BTW: The woman I was living with became my wife for 20yrs, the gay guy got into hard drugs and died of a heroine overdose, the tulip bulb season ended and I got a "respectable" job hacking down 350yr old trees in a temperate rainforest.
Great anti-science troll, you managed to mix peer-reviewed science and politically inspired urban myths with a gross underestimate the age of magnectic healing scams. It's sheer trollish brilliance, none of it is on topic or adds anything new. Little wonder it was modded incitefull....wait...insightfull...WTF?
Apart from more tubes for the interwebs, I would imagine that 18mm is also long enough to make carbon fibre products that are lighter and stronger than what is currently available. I wonder if an America's Cup or F1 winner will one day be built from nanotubes?
I entirely agree, there are good reasons to assume other "universes" have the same physical laws. But it is also possible that "reality" inside the hole is goverened by unknown laws, for example: maybe there is no singularity just more "boundless" space without a "center".