Be interesting to see how IBM's Watson would perform in the same test, I suspect (some) doctors would really, really, dislike those results. It must also be said that Watson is not intended to be a "diagnosis app", it is supposed to be a research assistant for human doctors.
Many people have difficulty "doing the right thing" while nobody is watching. This is why we invented God and body-cams, no behaviour change required, just make them believe they are being watched by someone more powerful than themselves and they will act accordingly.
Remember when "acid rain" was the #1 environmental problem? - No? - Neither does anyone else under 40 because Reagan and Thatcher pushed for (and won) a global cap + trade treaty on sulphur emissions. Besides, if climate treaties don't make a practical difference, why has the coal industry spent the last 30-40yrs doing everything it can to sabotage them?
That religious meme is mainly confined to evangelicals and southern baptists in the US. It's not their own dogma, it was deliberately fed to them by politicians. Many other Christian sects use the same passages to argue god gave us ownership of the natural world and therefore we are responsible for keeping it in working order. At no point does god say "Don't worry, if you screw up this planet I will replace it"..
Actually the Catholic church has been down with Science for many years. They don't perceive a contradiction between science and religion, modern catholics consider science a "tool to better understand creation". For example, it was a Catholic priest working in the vatican observatory who came up with the big bang theory, they have accepted evolution as "god's handiwork" since the 60's, they're still dragging their feet on birth control but I think they will arrive at the same place as protestants in the not too distant future.
Political parties have always thrived on loyalty at the expense of logic. It's the same in other democratic nations, albeit a little less extreme than the Tea Party.
Conspiracy - organising people to achieve a specific hidden goal. What you are describing is what Karl Popper called "The republic of Science". There is no "we" in Science to conspire, there's no central authority picking winners or handing out funds, there's just a endless list of groups and individuals with competing ideas and explanations. It doesn't surprise me at all that 3/4 of the papers submitted are never published, they can't all be interesting and many will be just plain wrong. These days people and groups can publish their own papers on the web, IMO it's easier than it's ever been for a wannabe Galileo to get a leg up.
Agree, climate denial is fueled and maintained by financially motivated propaganda, there have been several books written on the subject. In many cases today's climate propagandists are the same people who ran the propaganda campaign for the tobacco industry.
The Chinese also had a plan to deorbit over the ocean, loss of control has screwed that plan. As for Skylab, as an older Aussie I remember it quite well, it was a huge news story here, NASA were not confident they knew where it would land (even with full control), Melbourne and Perth were real possibilities but they were hoping for the ocean. At the end of the day it landed closer to Perth than the ocean.
The "free" in "free market" does not mean free of regulation, it means "open to all". eg: all markets, (free or otherwise), assume that property law exists and is enforced.
The Arab spring is really,really, simple to understand when you strip away the politics and religion, it was a direct result of millions of empty stomachs. The worst drought ever recorded in the 10K years humans have been farming the fertile crescent caused 2 million Syrian farmers to surrender their land to the dustbowl and move into the already overcrowded cities seeking work. That was 2009-2011, severe drought had also occurred in Russia and Oz cutting their harvest in half for several years (2005-2009), 2010-11 grain prices skyrocketed in the ME and NA. There was a series of food riots in major cities such as Cairo and Aleppo in the lead up to the uprisings. The guy who very publicly self immolated in Libya in 2011 was credited with "sparking" the uprising, he was not demanding democracy, he was one of millions demanding bread for his family.
Yes old fashioned nets kill dolphins. No, the dead dolphins are not canned and sold as Tuna. Old fashioned nest are now banned in many jurisdictions, modern nets allow most Dolphins and seals to escape, a large proportion of canned Tuna now comes from open water fish farms. Some companies source Tuna only from fishermen who use a feathered hook on a rod (a common practice here in Oz). Some governments will only allow rod fishing for Tuna, those companies who insist fishermen use rod or are forced by size and geography to operate in rod only jurisdictions will heavily advertise their "dolphin friendly" status (even though most of them fought against the introduction of the laws).
CONservation : It might confuse you to know that I am an old fashioned "liberal" who has fond memories of working on farms, fishing boats, and old growth sawmills, let me know when you have managed to locate my political pigeon hole on your simple minded left/right axis of human behaviour.
Most land based predators and birds teach their young how to hunt in a similar way, many creatures such as hawks and big cats catch and partially disable their prey before releasing in front of the kids so they can practice dealing with live prey (nature is cruel but we all have to eat). It's said that a baby seagull takes about 2yrs to learn from it's parents what it can and can't eat from a human rubbish tip. Most of these creatures communicate with each other with simple phrases, "danger", food", "help me", "fuck me", "fuck off", etc, their "language" does not have the flexibility of human language but it does have the ability to convey a simple message that is universally understood by every member of the species.
There are very few universally understood words or gestures in humans, displaying the palms of your hands to say "I mean no harm" is the only example I can think of but there are probably more. Humans, dolphins, apes, and a few other creatures are known to have "culture", there is variation in the social behaviour and vocalisations of groups. People have been trying to crack dolphin language for decades under the unspoken assumption that all dolphins speak the same dialect/language. Maybe dolphin language will turn out to be as flexible and culturally varied as humans but this article tells me we still don't have a clue what they are talking about.
# If nothing else, than to justify their own existence.
Justify? - politics is what occurs when two or more people communicate with each other, the hierarchical social structures found in all primate species is in our DNA, not our mind.
Modern mines here in Oz are pretty much run by robots already, eg: the giant open cut Argyle diamond mine is operated by just 12 people (up to the point where the raw diamonds are ready to be assessed by a jeweler's eye).We do some really dumb shit too, eg: we mine bauxite in the NT desert, put it on a boat and send it several thousand miles south to Victoria where the state government gave them a great deal on a coal fired generator to run their electric arc smelter. The aluminium is then loaded on a boat that sails back past the mine to the northern hemisphere markets.
Why don't they smelt it on site using solar power from the desert around the mine? - Because "jobs for victorians".
It is illegal to operate a hire car without a license and insurance, and in many places it is illegal to give money to beggars.The politicians in my location have allowed uber to devalue a taxi plate from $500K to $150K, they have legalized Uber are now imposing a $2 tax on every ride to buy the plates back at the devalued price. I would be very pissed at a government that sold me a regulated business and then allowed a bunch of racketeers to ignore the regulations and wipe out 2/3rds of the resale value of that business in just a few short years.
Uber's strategy is to pay drivers fines and spend heavily on advertising and lobbying until it has destroyed the local industry and rebuilt it to suit its own business plan, I believe their business plan has now expanded into selling overpriced cars on high interest loans to desperate and/or naive people who know nothing about the business they are buying into. If I was a government I would do like Macu - keep imposing fines until they run out of money or go away.
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Be interesting to see how IBM's Watson would perform in the same test, I suspect (some) doctors would really, really, dislike those results. It must also be said that Watson is not intended to be a "diagnosis app", it is supposed to be a research assistant for human doctors.
Many people have difficulty "doing the right thing" while nobody is watching. This is why we invented God and body-cams, no behaviour change required, just make them believe they are being watched by someone more powerful than themselves and they will act accordingly.
Yep, it's all about intent, who here would be surprised if 99% of KAT traffic turned out to be pirated material?
My cousin's best friend says you're a scammer.
Remember when "acid rain" was the #1 environmental problem? - No? - Neither does anyone else under 40 because Reagan and Thatcher pushed for (and won) a global cap + trade treaty on sulphur emissions. Besides, if climate treaties don't make a practical difference, why has the coal industry spent the last 30-40yrs doing everything it can to sabotage them?
That religious meme is mainly confined to evangelicals and southern baptists in the US. It's not their own dogma, it was deliberately fed to them by politicians. Many other Christian sects use the same passages to argue god gave us ownership of the natural world and therefore we are responsible for keeping it in working order. At no point does god say "Don't worry, if you screw up this planet I will replace it"..
Actually the Catholic church has been down with Science for many years. They don't perceive a contradiction between science and religion, modern catholics consider science a "tool to better understand creation". For example, it was a Catholic priest working in the vatican observatory who came up with the big bang theory, they have accepted evolution as "god's handiwork" since the 60's, they're still dragging their feet on birth control but I think they will arrive at the same place as protestants in the not too distant future.
Political parties have always thrived on loyalty at the expense of logic. It's the same in other democratic nations, albeit a little less extreme than the Tea Party.
Conspiracy - organising people to achieve a specific hidden goal. What you are describing is what Karl Popper called "The republic of Science". There is no "we" in Science to conspire, there's no central authority picking winners or handing out funds, there's just a endless list of groups and individuals with competing ideas and explanations. It doesn't surprise me at all that 3/4 of the papers submitted are never published, they can't all be interesting and many will be just plain wrong. These days people and groups can publish their own papers on the web, IMO it's easier than it's ever been for a wannabe Galileo to get a leg up.
PS:I figure you already know that..
Agree, climate denial is fueled and maintained by financially motivated propaganda, there have been several books written on the subject. In many cases today's climate propagandists are the same people who ran the propaganda campaign for the tobacco industry.
If your paper confirms climate change, you are more likely to get funding.
If your paper disproves it you get a Nobel prize.
The Chinese also had a plan to deorbit over the ocean, loss of control has screwed that plan. As for Skylab, as an older Aussie I remember it quite well, it was a huge news story here, NASA were not confident they knew where it would land (even with full control), Melbourne and Perth were real possibilities but they were hoping for the ocean. At the end of the day it landed closer to Perth than the ocean.
Christian extremists don't believe in psychology, they believe in demons.
more distortion
Metal fans consider that a feature, not a bug.
The "free" in "free market" does not mean free of regulation, it means "open to all". eg: all markets, (free or otherwise), assume that property law exists and is enforced.
Mine used an old cassette player, video was on a tv via a video recorder.
The Arab spring is really,really, simple to understand when you strip away the politics and religion, it was a direct result of millions of empty stomachs. The worst drought ever recorded in the 10K years humans have been farming the fertile crescent caused 2 million Syrian farmers to surrender their land to the dustbowl and move into the already overcrowded cities seeking work. That was 2009-2011, severe drought had also occurred in Russia and Oz cutting their harvest in half for several years (2005-2009), 2010-11 grain prices skyrocketed in the ME and NA. There was a series of food riots in major cities such as Cairo and Aleppo in the lead up to the uprisings. The guy who very publicly self immolated in Libya in 2011 was credited with "sparking" the uprising, he was not demanding democracy, he was one of millions demanding bread for his family.
"Free market" does not mean a market free from government regulation.
As with God, one has to ask what kind of morality would lead our descendants to (re)create the pointless cruelty and misery seen in the media.
Yes old fashioned nets kill dolphins. No, the dead dolphins are not canned and sold as Tuna. Old fashioned nest are now banned in many jurisdictions, modern nets allow most Dolphins and seals to escape, a large proportion of canned Tuna now comes from open water fish farms. Some companies source Tuna only from fishermen who use a feathered hook on a rod (a common practice here in Oz). Some governments will only allow rod fishing for Tuna, those companies who insist fishermen use rod or are forced by size and geography to operate in rod only jurisdictions will heavily advertise their "dolphin friendly" status (even though most of them fought against the introduction of the laws).
CONservation : It might confuse you to know that I am an old fashioned "liberal" who has fond memories of working on farms, fishing boats, and old growth sawmills, let me know when you have managed to locate my political pigeon hole on your simple minded left/right axis of human behaviour.
Most land based predators and birds teach their young how to hunt in a similar way, many creatures such as hawks and big cats catch and partially disable their prey before releasing in front of the kids so they can practice dealing with live prey (nature is cruel but we all have to eat). It's said that a baby seagull takes about 2yrs to learn from it's parents what it can and can't eat from a human rubbish tip. Most of these creatures communicate with each other with simple phrases, "danger", food", "help me", "fuck me", "fuck off", etc, their "language" does not have the flexibility of human language but it does have the ability to convey a simple message that is universally understood by every member of the species.
There are very few universally understood words or gestures in humans, displaying the palms of your hands to say "I mean no harm" is the only example I can think of but there are probably more. Humans, dolphins, apes, and a few other creatures are known to have "culture", there is variation in the social behaviour and vocalisations of groups. People have been trying to crack dolphin language for decades under the unspoken assumption that all dolphins speak the same dialect/language. Maybe dolphin language will turn out to be as flexible and culturally varied as humans but this article tells me we still don't have a clue what they are talking about.
# If nothing else, than to justify their own existence.
Justify? - politics is what occurs when two or more people communicate with each other, the hierarchical social structures found in all primate species is in our DNA, not our mind.
Modern mines here in Oz are pretty much run by robots already, eg: the giant open cut Argyle diamond mine is operated by just 12 people (up to the point where the raw diamonds are ready to be assessed by a jeweler's eye).We do some really dumb shit too, eg: we mine bauxite in the NT desert, put it on a boat and send it several thousand miles south to Victoria where the state government gave them a great deal on a coal fired generator to run their electric arc smelter. The aluminium is then loaded on a boat that sails back past the mine to the northern hemisphere markets.
Why don't they smelt it on site using solar power from the desert around the mine? - Because "jobs for victorians".
Any explanation?
Your low IQ?
It is illegal to operate a hire car without a license and insurance, and in many places it is illegal to give money to beggars.The politicians in my location have allowed uber to devalue a taxi plate from $500K to $150K, they have legalized Uber are now imposing a $2 tax on every ride to buy the plates back at the devalued price. I would be very pissed at a government that sold me a regulated business and then allowed a bunch of racketeers to ignore the regulations and wipe out 2/3rds of the resale value of that business in just a few short years.
Uber's strategy is to pay drivers fines and spend heavily on advertising and lobbying until it has destroyed the local industry and rebuilt it to suit its own business plan, I believe their business plan has now expanded into selling overpriced cars on high interest loans to desperate and/or naive people who know nothing about the business they are buying into. If I was a government I would do like Macu - keep imposing fines until they run out of money or go away.