I'm over 50, I don't lament it, yes it was much more exciting from a child's POV, but with the 20/20 hindsight of an adult, it's clear that the Apollo project was driven by the fear of sputnik. Today NASA's goals appear to be driven by intellectual curiosity and the desire to explore, neither of those drivers attract as much money as fear.
They are expressing opinions that (they believe) justify the murders, they did not carry out the act themselves. Shutting down free speech to protect free speech is the act of an immature morality. When one side can't speak we get the kind of vile propaganda that occurred in Nazi germany and Rwanda, it ultimately led normal people to support and take part in those infamous genocides. Anonymous do not have the wisdom to be the arbiter of free speech, fortunately neither they or the (other) terrorists have that power.
Feed in past climate data and see if your climate model can predict the past or the present accurately.
This is done routinely, it's known as the model's "hindcasting skill", Michael Mann's website 'RealClimate' is a good source of general info on climate models, you should find out what they do before criticizing (lest someone accuse you of building a 'straw man argument').
It's difficult to criticise the model denier's use since they have never produced one, they just put out press releases containing nonsense such as "models can't reproduce 20th century climate", assign the opposite statement to that all American bogeyman 'Al Gore' and people like you lap it up.
The Roman's had welfare, each 'Roman' was entitled to ~30kg of grain from the emperor per month for their 'loyalty', it was distributed in the form of bread from local bakeries. This meant that the people in conquered lands quickly started signing up to be 'Romans'. Once they had conquered all of Europe the scheme could no longer keep up with demand and the empire simply fell apart.
Often the education ends up paying for itself in the long run. For example, the GI bill after World War II...
Most economists say that government funded adult education has an ROI of between 15-20% (as seen in tax recepts), those who consider it a taxpayer cost rather than a wise investment are ironically in dire need of an education.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, there is still plenty of room for reasonable doubt. The focus on geology is how they will find past life, dig up a chunk of Martian coal (plants), iron ore nodules (anaerobic microbes) limestone (plankton sea shells), quartz (sponge fossils), etc, and you have your extraordinary evidence. If there is microbial life on Mars today the geology experiments have shown it's very unlikely to be found on the surface. If there was life on the surface in the past it didn't last long enough to put down the scale of geology we find on Earth.
Seasonal variations in methane plumes are the strongest evidence for extant life on Mars but whatever produces the methane is deep underground where there's enough soil pressure to allow liquid water to exist. Current technology can't reach the source so it's still possible that the plumes are just unusual geologic phenomena with no life involved
Ok, there's a lot of nonsense on here about Hypocrisy...but I suspect he didn't even realize he was infringing
You're more trusting than I am. Grandma looks after 15 cats and writes the church newsletter, this guy runs a company that tracks down people on the internet and tales them to court for infringement. I (reasonably) suspect willful commercial infringement by someone who (IMO) has a broken moral compass and a natural talent for manipulating the justice system.
BTW - It's true, "we're all hypocrites in our own way", but this arsehole's extreme sense of entitlement still gets up my nose.
And no, before someone says it, that kind of article can't look like it's just another press release with too many buzzwords.
Are you joking, 95% of mass-media articles are rehashed/reprinted press releases from their sponsors, the other 5% are editorials extolling the virtues of the companies that provided the press release, that's how the news industry have always made their money - sponsors. However that does not give anyone the legal right to republish the full article from the media outlet, doing so is a clear case of infringement, actually it's willful infringement considering what he does for a living.
The proper thing to do would be the same as what is done here on Slashdot all the time, "fair use" (currently*) allows anyone to quote a few relevant lines and supply a link to the source.
* - If Rupert had his way, supplying a link to one of his rehashed press releases would require a payment to him
You missed the point, nobody is claiming anyone has "bought the results". TFS is asking a question, ie - would researchers do that research anyway if it was not funded by industry? - And the answer is no since researchers have to eat like everyone else and public institutions are unlikely to fully fund it.
I'm not claiming there is zero corruption in Science but if (reputable) scientific results were as easy to buy as many slashdotter's seem to believe then the Koch brothers would already own the IPCC.
The recent heatwave will have knocked plenty of people offline at the pole, the first hot day in a Melbourne summer is always chaos on the trains for similar reasons (hot metal expands). However this incident just appears to be iiNet's server room air-con that fell over, nothing to do with the weather.
In 1960's Australia people were expected to stand for "God save the queen" at the cinema. A B/W picture of the Queen would come on the screen just before the movie, the anthem would start playing, and the audience would all stand up in silence
At least they have a minister for science, here in Australia one of the first things our new PM did was to get rid of the position "minister of science" in his new cabinet, a position that has been supported by both sides for over 75yrs. He has spent the last year or so defunding institutions such as the CSIRO, in his ideology science is subservient to industry, in particular the mining industry, which is why he merged the science ministry into the industry portfolio, decommissioned the climate commission and rolled back the "carbon tax".
climaing extraordinary qualities of water like under certain conditions it becomes more healing, or retains a memory of environment it once previously was in
You're talking about homeopathy, which was dreamt up by a German crackpot a couple of centuries ago. Sadly if you go to your local health food store, you will find the shelves full of bottled water labeled as homeopathic remedies.
West of where? China and the US emit roughly the same amount in total tonnage, the US alone emits 3-4X that of China on a per-capita basis. The west is almost single handedly responsible for the current excess in the atmosphere since both China and India did not have large carbon footprints until recent decades.
In the end it comes down to the cost-benefit ratio
The DDOS attack is likely to have a ransom attached to it, so it boils down to two options; spend money on honest and reliable uptime protection, or submit to the attackers dishonest and fickle protection racket. I'm pretty sure the first option would be cheaper in the long run, sure it's a relatively expensive line item on an IT budget but not enough to seriously damage the total budget of a small bank.
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I'm over 50, I don't lament it, yes it was much more exciting from a child's POV, but with the 20/20 hindsight of an adult, it's clear that the Apollo project was driven by the fear of sputnik. Today NASA's goals appear to be driven by intellectual curiosity and the desire to explore, neither of those drivers attract as much money as fear.
Being a member of mensa indicates you failed the selection criteria for membership in mensa.
Compared to the console games available on PCs at the time, it might as well have been Pong.
I played Pong on an arcade machine circa 1970, it was awesome.
Nobody said it was funny. "comedy of errors" == "unbelievable fuck-up".
The collapse of the Ottoman empire occured 1000yrs after the crusades, the event is now referred to in history books as "WW1".
They are expressing opinions that (they believe) justify the murders, they did not carry out the act themselves. Shutting down free speech to protect free speech is the act of an immature morality. When one side can't speak we get the kind of vile propaganda that occurred in Nazi germany and Rwanda, it ultimately led normal people to support and take part in those infamous genocides. Anonymous do not have the wisdom to be the arbiter of free speech, fortunately neither they or the (other) terrorists have that power.
Feed in past climate data and see if your climate model can predict the past or the present accurately.
This is done routinely, it's known as the model's "hindcasting skill", Michael Mann's website 'RealClimate' is a good source of general info on climate models, you should find out what they do before criticizing (lest someone accuse you of building a 'straw man argument').
It's difficult to criticise the model denier's use since they have never produced one, they just put out press releases containing nonsense such as "models can't reproduce 20th century climate", assign the opposite statement to that all American bogeyman 'Al Gore' and people like you lap it up.
IIRC the original star trek series also had several stories criticizing various alien 'utopias'.
The Roman's had welfare, each 'Roman' was entitled to ~30kg of grain from the emperor per month for their 'loyalty', it was distributed in the form of bread from local bakeries. This meant that the people in conquered lands quickly started signing up to be 'Romans'. Once they had conquered all of Europe the scheme could no longer keep up with demand and the empire simply fell apart.
Non commercial Infringement is a civil dispute, smuggling is a crime.
Often the education ends up paying for itself in the long run. For example, the GI bill after World War II ...
Most economists say that government funded adult education has an ROI of between 15-20% (as seen in tax recepts), those who consider it a taxpayer cost rather than a wise investment are ironically in dire need of an education.
What would be the scientific benefit coming from discovering...[XYZ]
The scientific benefit is the discovery itself, whether it has any social/commercial benefits is a different question.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, there is still plenty of room for reasonable doubt. The focus on geology is how they will find past life, dig up a chunk of Martian coal (plants), iron ore nodules (anaerobic microbes) limestone (plankton sea shells), quartz (sponge fossils), etc, and you have your extraordinary evidence. If there is microbial life on Mars today the geology experiments have shown it's very unlikely to be found on the surface. If there was life on the surface in the past it didn't last long enough to put down the scale of geology we find on Earth.
Seasonal variations in methane plumes are the strongest evidence for extant life on Mars but whatever produces the methane is deep underground where there's enough soil pressure to allow liquid water to exist. Current technology can't reach the source so it's still possible that the plumes are just unusual geologic phenomena with no life involved
Ok, there's a lot of nonsense on here about Hypocrisy...but I suspect he didn't even realize he was infringing
You're more trusting than I am. Grandma looks after 15 cats and writes the church newsletter, this guy runs a company that tracks down people on the internet and tales them to court for infringement. I (reasonably) suspect willful commercial infringement by someone who (IMO) has a broken moral compass and a natural talent for manipulating the justice system.
BTW - It's true, "we're all hypocrites in our own way", but this arsehole's extreme sense of entitlement still gets up my nose.
And no, before someone says it, that kind of article can't look like it's just another press release with too many buzzwords.
Are you joking, 95% of mass-media articles are rehashed/reprinted press releases from their sponsors, the other 5% are editorials extolling the virtues of the companies that provided the press release, that's how the news industry have always made their money - sponsors. However that does not give anyone the legal right to republish the full article from the media outlet, doing so is a clear case of infringement, actually it's willful infringement considering what he does for a living.
The proper thing to do would be the same as what is done here on Slashdot all the time, "fair use" (currently*) allows anyone to quote a few relevant lines and supply a link to the source.
* - If Rupert had his way, supplying a link to one of his rehashed press releases would require a payment to him
You missed the point, nobody is claiming anyone has "bought the results". TFS is asking a question, ie - would researchers do that research anyway if it was not funded by industry? - And the answer is no since researchers have to eat like everyone else and public institutions are unlikely to fully fund it.
I'm not claiming there is zero corruption in Science but if (reputable) scientific results were as easy to buy as many slashdotter's seem to believe then the Koch brothers would already own the IPCC.
The recent heatwave will have knocked plenty of people offline at the pole, the first hot day in a Melbourne summer is always chaos on the trains for similar reasons (hot metal expands). However this incident just appears to be iiNet's server room air-con that fell over, nothing to do with the weather.
In 1960's Australia people were expected to stand for "God save the queen" at the cinema. A B/W picture of the Queen would come on the screen just before the movie, the anthem would start playing, and the audience would all stand up in silence
At least they have a minister for science, here in Australia one of the first things our new PM did was to get rid of the position "minister of science" in his new cabinet, a position that has been supported by both sides for over 75yrs. He has spent the last year or so defunding institutions such as the CSIRO, in his ideology science is subservient to industry, in particular the mining industry, which is why he merged the science ministry into the industry portfolio, decommissioned the climate commission and rolled back the "carbon tax".
climaing extraordinary qualities of water like under certain conditions it becomes more healing, or retains a memory of environment it once previously was in
You're talking about homeopathy, which was dreamt up by a German crackpot a couple of centuries ago. Sadly if you go to your local health food store, you will find the shelves full of bottled water labeled as homeopathic remedies.
the ENTIRE WEST, which emits less than China does
West of where? China and the US emit roughly the same amount in total tonnage, the US alone emits 3-4X that of China on a per-capita basis. The west is almost single handedly responsible for the current excess in the atmosphere since both China and India did not have large carbon footprints until recent decades.
And wondering why their business model isn't working
I doubt it, their business model is making them $quillions, I don't think they give a flying fuck if it works for you and I.
That, plus the price gouging that goes on, for example Aussie's famously pay 50-100% more for digital content than customers in the US and EU regions.
In the end it comes down to the cost-benefit ratio
The DDOS attack is likely to have a ransom attached to it, so it boils down to two options; spend money on honest and reliable uptime protection, or submit to the attackers dishonest and fickle protection racket. I'm pretty sure the first option would be cheaper in the long run, sure it's a relatively expensive line item on an IT budget but not enough to seriously damage the total budget of a small bank.
My toaster has an IQ of 4000, it should be smart enough to fix itself.