I have never liked that analogy, because the world is far more full of sheep than it is of wolves.
That saying tends to come more from wealthy Republicans or their sympathisers.
Democracy is two sheep and wolf deciding what's for lunch. Naturally, the wolf doesn't like this situation and would prefer if the sheep never voted at all.
Frequently, the wolves like to change the perspective of the saying, and claim it's one rich man and two poor people deciding who pays for lunch. And to be honest, once they do that, it's not hard to equate rich man with wolf. Only a fool would equate the rich man with a sheep, surrounded by poor people/angry wolves.
That reason is far more likely to be for deterrent purposes. If you really cannot get out of your cold war frame of mind, you'll never understand events that happen in the 21st century. A country like North Korea *knows* it would be suicide to launch a first strike missile attack from within its own borders. Having those missiles might at least provide a moments hesitation when warmongers plot an invasion. If Iraq had actually had such weapons, the chickenhawks might not have been so gung ho.
The fact is, anyone who wants to attack the US would much rather do it anonymously. And if that means leaving a weapon out of their control for six weeks, that would be a small price to pay.
Reason being that I do see the idea of a missile launch from a place like NK as a possibility.
You need to understand something.
Future attacks will not come from missile launches where the country responsible for the launch can be annihilated.
Future attacks will most likely come from an unprotected shipping container in an American port. And America won't really care who is behind it. They'll just target whoever happens to be in their current black books, and "retaliate".
Haven't you heard? Out of state drivers licenses are not considered a valid proof of citizenship.
The actual text of SB 1070 says:
A PERSON IS PRESUMED TO NOT BE AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES IF THE PERSON PROVIDES TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR AGENCY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE.
2. A VALID ARIZONA NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE.
3. A VALID TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD OR OTHER FORM OF TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION.
4. IF THE ENTITY REQUIRES PROOF OF LEGAL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE ISSUANCE, ANY VALID UNITED STATES FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION.
It was the "Thud" experiment, (Rosenhan experiment) and should by rights be as famous as the Miligram experiment.
The reason it isn't, is that it exposes the so-called psychiatric profession for the charlatan act it is. And that's not a popular stand to take in a country where every swears by their therapist and pops xanax, zoloft, ritalin, whatever....
Anyone who reads (in "What do you care what other people think") about how his wifes TB was misdiagnosed, after he himself had done some research, would know never to completely trust the doctors.
Anyone remember that the aliens in Contact were gathering together large masses to fold local space as a way of staving off the increasing expansion of the universe? Sort of creating a future local pocket of resources for when everything else gets too far away? "It's good work."
Most of the population has had glandular fever at some point, and when some up and coming youngster gets kissed for the first time, chances are he/she will get it.
Do we charge these kids with wilfully spreading Infectious mononucleosis?
If I'm recording / ripping, then I'm making my own original source. And I would imagine a re-encode to a codec like divx would strip the info. So what's the point?
You know the way some right-wingers can't engage critical thinking skills when certain hotbutton words like "terrorism" or "security" are used? The same applies to certain segments of the left.
They know that protecting the Earth is a "good thing" [TM] and they are used to seeing government and big business ignore their concerns.
Some, will cynically believe that the end (a livable biosphere) justifies the means. They won't care whether the results are cooked or not. Whether it's good science, or not. Others though, have their own hot buttons which bypass rational thought. And questioning anthropomorphic global warming is one of those hot buttons. Unfortunately, you can't reason with them, any more than you could convince some tea-baggers that no one is coming for their guns/bible/commandments.
symbolset's breakdown above is stinging. It slams the report in its own words. If the subject of the report wasn't global warming, but rather something less contentious (and no hot buttons were involved) many of the people who accept this report would be criticising it themselves.
To sum up (in their own words, because they bear repeating) "The Panel was not concerned with the question of whether the conclusions of the published research were correct. "
"The Panel worked by examining representative publications by members of the Unit and subsequently by making two visits to the University and interviewing and questioning members of the Unit."
"We have not exhaustively reviewed the external criticism of the dendroclimatological work"
"These methods were very labour intensive and were somewhat subjective."
"it is very surprising that research in an area that depends so heavily on statistical methods has not been carried out in close collaboration with professional statisticians."
though I rarely see the usual mistakes being made by the slashdot community.
I tried explaining to a friend of mine why it was that, in 2004 his standard desktop configuration had a CPU clocking at 2Ghz, and the standard configuration of the machines available last christmas had CPU's clocking in at 2.4Ghz (in the same price range). He seemed to think it would be in the 8-10Ghz range by now.
But you all know this will never happen, right?
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I mean, the country can barely afford to feed and clothe itself right now, and is rapidly moving to the point where the mere interest on the debt owed, will be unpayable.
This is the biggest "look at the shiny shiny!" moment to come out of DC, since, well, since the last Great Distractor in Chief said we were going to Mars.
is that implant stuff won't ever have to be done in secret.
The government is collecting a SECRET massive database of everything you do! Right. Do you have a Loyalty card for this store?
When Nintendo Wii mark 3 requires an implant to control your virtual avatar, people will happily pay 30 bucks for it. Including the conspiracy nuts. Because conspiracies are fun, but not as much fun as a Nintendo Wii.
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has been in SciFi for sometime.
It would also tie in very nicely with the ideas in the show "Caprica" where a persons experiences (including thoughts, diaries, emails, etc...) can all be datamined to create a virtual copy of the person.
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I have never liked that analogy, because the world is far more full of sheep than it is of wolves.
That saying tends to come more from wealthy Republicans or their sympathisers.
Democracy is two sheep and wolf deciding what's for lunch. Naturally, the wolf doesn't like this situation and would prefer if the sheep never voted at all.
Frequently, the wolves like to change the perspective of the saying, and claim it's one rich man and two poor people deciding who pays for lunch.
And to be honest, once they do that, it's not hard to equate rich man with wolf. Only a fool would equate the rich man with a sheep, surrounded by poor people/angry wolves.
The Byte must flow. The Byte is life.
So the reason men get paid more is because man hours are worth more than woman hours.
That reason is far more likely to be for deterrent purposes.
If you really cannot get out of your cold war frame of mind, you'll never understand events that happen in the 21st century.
A country like North Korea *knows* it would be suicide to launch a first strike missile attack from within its own borders.
Having those missiles might at least provide a moments hesitation when warmongers plot an invasion. If Iraq had actually had such weapons, the chickenhawks might not have been so gung ho.
The fact is, anyone who wants to attack the US would much rather do it anonymously. And if that means leaving a weapon out of their control for six weeks, that would be a small price to pay.
Reason being that I do see the idea of a missile launch from a place like NK as a possibility.
You need to understand something.
Future attacks will not come from missile launches where the country responsible for the launch can be annihilated.
Future attacks will most likely come from an unprotected shipping container in an American port. And America won't really care who is behind it. They'll just target whoever happens to be in their current black books, and "retaliate".
nobody assumes I'm a terrorist.
Unless you drive through Arizona.
Haven't you heard? Out of state drivers licenses are not considered a valid proof of citizenship.
The actual text of SB 1070 says:
A PERSON IS PRESUMED TO NOT BE AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES IF THE PERSON PROVIDES TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR AGENCY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE.
2. A VALID ARIZONA NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE.
3. A VALID TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD OR OTHER FORM OF TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION.
4. IF THE ENTITY REQUIRES PROOF OF LEGAL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE ISSUANCE, ANY VALID UNITED STATES FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION.
See here, here and here.
It was the "Thud" experiment, (Rosenhan experiment) and should by rights be as famous as the Miligram experiment.
The reason it isn't, is that it exposes the so-called psychiatric profession for the charlatan act it is.
And that's not a popular stand to take in a country where every swears by their therapist and pops xanax, zoloft, ritalin, whatever....
Anyone who reads (in "What do you care what other people think") about how his wifes TB was misdiagnosed, after he himself had done some research, would know never to completely trust the doctors.
Anyone remember that the aliens in Contact were gathering together large masses to fold local space as a way of staving off the increasing expansion of the universe? Sort of creating a future local pocket of resources for when everything else gets too far away? "It's good work."
Or am I misremembering again?
Does that include kissing someone?
Most of the population has had glandular fever at some point, and when some up and coming youngster gets kissed for the first time, chances are he/she will get it.
Do we charge these kids with wilfully spreading Infectious mononucleosis?
Or do you just calm the fuck down?
Of course shagging a sheep with a sheep-skin condom would be ... ironic?
Seriously? Is it really that difficult for Americans to learn/use the concept of irony?
Again, ONLY if they are somehow convinced to use it.
If I'm recording / ripping, then I'm making my own original source. And I would imagine a re-encode to a codec like divx would strip the info. So what's the point?
Well, it all started because someone thought Watergate was a scandal about the nations water supply, and figured "gate" was synonymous with "scandal".
You know the way some right-wingers can't engage critical thinking skills when certain hotbutton words like "terrorism" or "security" are used?
The same applies to certain segments of the left.
They know that protecting the Earth is a "good thing" [TM] and they are used to seeing government and big business ignore their concerns.
Some, will cynically believe that the end (a livable biosphere) justifies the means. They won't care whether the results are cooked or not. Whether it's good science, or not.
Others though, have their own hot buttons which bypass rational thought. And questioning anthropomorphic global warming is one of those hot buttons. Unfortunately, you can't reason with them, any more than you could convince some tea-baggers that no one is coming for their guns/bible/commandments.
symbolset's breakdown above is stinging. It slams the report in its own words. If the subject of the report wasn't global warming, but rather something less contentious (and no hot buttons were involved) many of the people who accept this report would be criticising it themselves.
To sum up (in their own words, because they bear repeating)
"The Panel was not concerned with the question of whether the conclusions of the published research were correct. "
"The Panel worked by examining representative publications by members of the Unit and subsequently by making two visits to the University and interviewing and questioning members of the Unit."
"We have not exhaustively reviewed the external criticism of the dendroclimatological work"
"These methods were very labour intensive and were somewhat subjective."
"it is very surprising that research in an area that depends so heavily on statistical methods has not been carried out in close collaboration with professional statisticians."
We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes
Oh, so that's why Ted Stevens thinks it's a series of tubes! He was a contemporary of Bacon, right?
though I rarely see the usual mistakes being made by the slashdot community.
I tried explaining to a friend of mine why it was that, in 2004 his standard desktop configuration had a CPU clocking at 2Ghz, and the standard configuration of the machines available last christmas had CPU's clocking in at 2.4Ghz (in the same price range). He seemed to think it would be in the 8-10Ghz range by now.
Bonjour, je m'appelle Chris Hanson.
Pourquoi n'avez-vous pas un siège de plus ici?
I mean, the country can barely afford to feed and clothe itself right now, and is rapidly moving to the point where the mere interest on the debt owed, will be unpayable.
This is the biggest "look at the shiny shiny!" moment to come out of DC, since, well, since the last Great Distractor in Chief said we were going to Mars.
And yes, the connection was lost just before the device was removed
Wait a minute... Are they using Verizon on the Destiny?
I was wondering what new madness would finally force the Facebook herd to move to another pasture.
This looks like it.
All science in the world of research driven by political agendas and egotistical arrogance.
Right. ALL science. Let's deal in absolutes and generalisations, because that's how we get to the truth.
Wait, what?
is that implant stuff won't ever have to be done in secret.
The government is collecting a SECRET massive database of everything you do! Right. Do you have a Loyalty card for this store?
When Nintendo Wii mark 3 requires an implant to control your virtual avatar, people will happily pay 30 bucks for it.
Including the conspiracy nuts. Because conspiracies are fun, but not as much fun as a Nintendo Wii.
has been in SciFi for sometime.
It would also tie in very nicely with the ideas in the show "Caprica" where a persons experiences (including thoughts, diaries, emails, etc...) can all be datamined to create a virtual copy of the person.
The whole point appears to identify at-risk kids and make sure they get the support they need.
I didn't think there were any humans with this level of naiveté outside of a museum exhibit. A living specimen! In the 21st century!