The interpretation put on the ancient greek math and accepted as "gospel" by medieval scholars was shown to be deficient in the 1600's, the Greek math itself gave more accurate results for at least a century after Copernicus went to his grave. This was the beginning of the enlightenment which told us there's no way to prove any particular interpretation is correct, all you can really do is compare the scope and accuracy of the predictions between competing theories, (including the theory that "god done it").
Just because the equations match what's happening does not mean they describe what's going on.
Yes and physics has operated very well for the last hundred years based on that method. All that counts is that it can predict what will happen, ie: can it be tested. The more phenomena it can be applied to the better.
Do you seriously think what GP described is a Usian problem?
It's sounds like the AC's problem to me, if the "vast majority" of his bosses are 'vindictive arseholes' then either he's really unlucky, or there's something about him that brings out the 'vindictive arsehole' in people. My guess is that the AC is a young male and as such will generally have problems with any authority figure. OTOH he has a point, I'm not going to light up a joint in the bosses office any day soon.
That is basically the GP's point, a snow covered data centre is like an igloo, the heat generated by the servers/people inside can't escape so it becomes a lot warmer that the surrounding ice, but due to the large amount of ice it's thermal inertia ensures the walls don't melt. You need to get past the ice to dissipate the heat effectively. Old English pubs with 3 foot thick stone walls don't need heaters when full for exactly the same reason.
It doesn't matter what you call the system, if the gap between rich and poor is small (say a factor of 10) then people are generally happier. Obscene disparities in wealth do nothing but fuel revolutions. The "American dream" boils down to wanting to be mega-rich, they want the wealth gap because they believe they are "exceptional" and will one day leap across it in a single bound. The US would probably work a lot better for everyone if it simply stopped arguing with itself about money.
One of the major reasons why an American can pay up to 10X as much as an Australian for inferior health care, is that the American system is obsessed with finding and eliminating people who are "getting something for nothing". Not just the government but also the hospitals and private insurance companies. There's a veritable army of government and private accountants all spending $5 to save $0.50. Here in Oz the doctor bills the government directly. It's the doctors and hospital admins who are monitored for fraud by cheap automated statistical analysis.
Personally, I think a day/night cycle is needed for life to get started
The convection currents around deep sea volcanic "vents" do the same job. Panspermia and abiogenesis are not mutually exclusive, despite the "either or" argument manufactured by the mass media.
I think panspermia is a long shot, but given the length of time and the size of the universe it's almost certainly happened somewhere at sometime. Volcanos could also be a mechanism for single celled life to leave a planet. It's said that rocks as large as a houses were blasted into obit by Krakatoa and some types of lichen have survived on the outside of the ISS for more than a year. The landing on such an interplanetary flight would be very difficult to survive since the rock is likely to vaporise on impact. Even if it survived and landed on a habitable planet, the locally evolved life forms would more than likely out-compete it by simply eating it.
There are dozens of commandments in the old testament, more than a few on the correct treatment of slaves, women, cattle, and other "property". Strict Jews expect all of them to be known and obeyed. Christians narrow it down to ten, and George Carlin managed to get it down to two, but rule based morality (including western law) really all boils down to one golden rule found in virtually every religion - "do unto others".
Yes we do, the difference is we don't feel guilty about it. The bra is "working" on the same (unreliable) principle that a lie detector uses, if there is no stress from guilt/fear/whatever then the bra won't detect anything.The idea that someone needs an app to tell them "what mood their in" strikes me as more having a lot more comedic potential than commercial potential, although it maybe a big hit with the Japanese sub-culture that sees impractical inventions as some kind of performance art.
Yes, and coal cannot match a cities demand curve any better than solar or wind, the "resilience" the GP speaks of doesn't just magically appear with coal plants, there are gas turbines and hydro dams involved to store/boost the energy when the plants flat output curve does not match the wavy demand curve. The idea that an individual generator must produce a consistent 'baseload' output is nonsense. Supply must match the demand curve, and no method of power generation does that by itself, including coal and nuclear..
Why not do exactly that same as is already done for coal. The demand curve for a city is not flat like the output of a coal plant, during off-peak a coal plant is producing too much electricity and during peak it's not generating enough. They handle this by using the excess to pump water into a hydro dam, and using gas turbines to make up the shortfall during the peak.
Agree, my 4yo granddaughter "steals" mum's tablet at 4.30am and uses it to watch cartoons on youtube, I'm sure his dad will figure it out (if he can see it).
In general birds are more likely to fly into the window of a skyscraper than the blade on a large windmill. The most practical thing you can do to help birds is put a bell on your cat's collar.
I was taught Kelvin does not use the "degrees" qualifier but the others do, I thought it was some weird quirk of the English language so I never asked for an explanation.
The US/UK/AU/NZ/Canada are sometimes called the "five eyes", they have been running a spy "cartel" since the end of WW2, mainly for economic espionage. They managed to keep Turing's war time code breaking methods a shared secret for almost 25yrs after the war, those methods were not only a deciding military advantage in WW2, they also gave the cartel a huge political and economic advantage over everyone else from 1945 to at least the mid-70's.
who is REALLY in command? -[edit]- who really pulls the strings?
Ask yourself, who "pulls the strings" in a termite mound, now take a good look at big city full of hairless apes and compare it's form and function to a termite mound.
No they are not really interested in individuals other than they may be a key node in a human network. They are telling the truth when they say they want the meta-data. Meta-data will tell you how others have organised themselves and who the key individuals are in the network. They were doing the exact same thing to anti-war protesters when I was a teenager in the 70's. They don't care about the individual, they care about organised resistance. Knowing the "org chart" of you enemy is priceless information, however it does appear the NSA considers everyone on the planet a potential enemy.
If the truth be really known most of this mass spying is economic espionage, the "five eyes" have been engage in it since at least the end of WW2.
By today's definition virtually every soldier, sailor, and airman, who saw action during WW2 would be labelled a terrorist. It's not just an expression - war really is hell. For those who are thinking "I'm not a violent person, I could never be party to a war time atrocity", please google "the Stanford prison experiments" before replying. It's a rare man indeed who can stare down violent oppression with open palms, Mandela was a rare man but he was no MLK or Ghandi.
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The interpretation put on the ancient greek math and accepted as "gospel" by medieval scholars was shown to be deficient in the 1600's, the Greek math itself gave more accurate results for at least a century after Copernicus went to his grave. This was the beginning of the enlightenment which told us there's no way to prove any particular interpretation is correct, all you can really do is compare the scope and accuracy of the predictions between competing theories, (including the theory that "god done it").
Just because the equations match what's happening does not mean they describe what's going on.
Yes and physics has operated very well for the last hundred years based on that method. All that counts is that it can predict what will happen, ie: can it be tested. The more phenomena it can be applied to the better.
"I learned my lesson well. You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself". - John Fogerty
Do you seriously think what GP described is a Usian problem?
It's sounds like the AC's problem to me, if the "vast majority" of his bosses are 'vindictive arseholes' then either he's really unlucky, or there's something about him that brings out the 'vindictive arsehole' in people. My guess is that the AC is a young male and as such will generally have problems with any authority figure. OTOH he has a point, I'm not going to light up a joint in the bosses office any day soon.
That is basically the GP's point, a snow covered data centre is like an igloo, the heat generated by the servers/people inside can't escape so it becomes a lot warmer that the surrounding ice, but due to the large amount of ice it's thermal inertia ensures the walls don't melt. You need to get past the ice to dissipate the heat effectively. Old English pubs with 3 foot thick stone walls don't need heaters when full for exactly the same reason.
It doesn't matter what you call the system, if the gap between rich and poor is small (say a factor of 10) then people are generally happier. Obscene disparities in wealth do nothing but fuel revolutions. The "American dream" boils down to wanting to be mega-rich, they want the wealth gap because they believe they are "exceptional" and will one day leap across it in a single bound. The US would probably work a lot better for everyone if it simply stopped arguing with itself about money.
One of the major reasons why an American can pay up to 10X as much as an Australian for inferior health care, is that the American system is obsessed with finding and eliminating people who are "getting something for nothing". Not just the government but also the hospitals and private insurance companies. There's a veritable army of government and private accountants all spending $5 to save $0.50. Here in Oz the doctor bills the government directly. It's the doctors and hospital admins who are monitored for fraud by cheap automated statistical analysis.
Personally, I think a day/night cycle is needed for life to get started
The convection currents around deep sea volcanic "vents" do the same job. Panspermia and abiogenesis are not mutually exclusive, despite the "either or" argument manufactured by the mass media.
I think panspermia is a long shot, but given the length of time and the size of the universe it's almost certainly happened somewhere at sometime. Volcanos could also be a mechanism for single celled life to leave a planet. It's said that rocks as large as a houses were blasted into obit by Krakatoa and some types of lichen have survived on the outside of the ISS for more than a year. The landing on such an interplanetary flight would be very difficult to survive since the rock is likely to vaporise on impact. Even if it survived and landed on a habitable planet, the locally evolved life forms would more than likely out-compete it by simply eating it.
Devil's advocate: If there were no Devil then there would be no need for the ten commandments.
There are dozens of commandments in the old testament, more than a few on the correct treatment of slaves, women, cattle, and other "property". Strict Jews expect all of them to be known and obeyed. Christians narrow it down to ten, and George Carlin managed to get it down to two, but rule based morality (including western law) really all boils down to one golden rule found in virtually every religion - "do unto others".
Don't men suffer from overeating as well?
Yes we do, the difference is we don't feel guilty about it. The bra is "working" on the same (unreliable) principle that a lie detector uses, if there is no stress from guilt/fear/whatever then the bra won't detect anything.The idea that someone needs an app to tell them "what mood their in" strikes me as more having a lot more comedic potential than commercial potential, although it maybe a big hit with the Japanese sub-culture that sees impractical inventions as some kind of performance art.
My grandparents generation left Europe as a smouldering wasteland for their children to sort out.
Yes, and coal cannot match a cities demand curve any better than solar or wind, the "resilience" the GP speaks of doesn't just magically appear with coal plants, there are gas turbines and hydro dams involved to store/boost the energy when the plants flat output curve does not match the wavy demand curve. The idea that an individual generator must produce a consistent 'baseload' output is nonsense. Supply must match the demand curve, and no method of power generation does that by itself, including coal and nuclear..
and also the energy storage problem is solvable
Why not do exactly that same as is already done for coal. The demand curve for a city is not flat like the output of a coal plant, during off-peak a coal plant is producing too much electricity and during peak it's not generating enough. They handle this by using the excess to pump water into a hydro dam, and using gas turbines to make up the shortfall during the peak.
Agree, my 4yo granddaughter "steals" mum's tablet at 4.30am and uses it to watch cartoons on youtube, I'm sure his dad will figure it out (if he can see it).
BP killed the gulf of Mexico and they're still in business?
In general birds are more likely to fly into the window of a skyscraper than the blade on a large windmill. The most practical thing you can do to help birds is put a bell on your cat's collar.
They probably learnt something about their models, I haven't read it so I'm not sure why anyone would publish it in a journal?
I was taught Kelvin does not use the "degrees" qualifier but the others do, I thought it was some weird quirk of the English language so I never asked for an explanation.
The US/UK/AU/NZ/Canada are sometimes called the "five eyes", they have been running a spy "cartel" since the end of WW2, mainly for economic espionage. They managed to keep Turing's war time code breaking methods a shared secret for almost 25yrs after the war, those methods were not only a deciding military advantage in WW2, they also gave the cartel a huge political and economic advantage over everyone else from 1945 to at least the mid-70's.
who is REALLY in command? -[edit]- who really pulls the strings?
Ask yourself, who "pulls the strings" in a termite mound, now take a good look at big city full of hairless apes and compare it's form and function to a termite mound.
Ummm, just because you can be persecuted doesn't mean you are persecuted.
No they are not really interested in individuals other than they may be a key node in a human network. They are telling the truth when they say they want the meta-data. Meta-data will tell you how others have organised themselves and who the key individuals are in the network. They were doing the exact same thing to anti-war protesters when I was a teenager in the 70's. They don't care about the individual, they care about organised resistance. Knowing the "org chart" of you enemy is priceless information, however it does appear the NSA considers everyone on the planet a potential enemy.
If the truth be really known most of this mass spying is economic espionage, the "five eyes" have been engage in it since at least the end of WW2.
That's the thing with a list of rules, someone at some point has to interpret what they mean.
Reagan and Thatcher weren't that keen on removing the Berlin wall either.
By today's definition virtually every soldier, sailor, and airman, who saw action during WW2 would be labelled a terrorist. It's not just an expression - war really is hell. For those who are thinking "I'm not a violent person, I could never be party to a war time atrocity", please google "the Stanford prison experiments" before replying. It's a rare man indeed who can stare down violent oppression with open palms, Mandela was a rare man but he was no MLK or Ghandi.