The US itself created those "economic waves" when it chose - yes, chose - to hugely overreact to the insanely-hyped threat of terrorism. You played right into the hands of whomever is responsible for the 11/09/01 events in NYC and elsewhere.
It's just not worth the hassle. There are places in America I'd still quite like to visit, but I'm not going to bother. Being made to endure the insanity of US airport "security" processes is not acceptable to me, and I'm not alone: Aside from all the other people who have decided a US vacation isn't worth the effort, go ask American tourism operators how they feel about it all.
I'm sick of all these stories about (and links to) dirty foreigners and their sites on Slashdot, instead of good God-fearin' red-blooded Australians and Aussie stories and sites.
"Network Engineer". (Technician.)
"Software Engineer". (Programmer.)
If they don't have an bona fide engineering degree from a legitimate university, or if they don't drive trains or maintain a ship's engines, then they already are in sales...every day they try to sell themselves as something they're not.
are you worried because Oz is pushing you off the stage? maybe if you were'nt all a pack of morbidly obese bible bashers you would still be relivent. how do you expect to rule the world when you cant even see your fucking feet becuase of the huge rolls of blubber in the way? its good that you still worship fairies and goblins on sundays coz you'll have someone to talk to when the rest of the world stops giving a rats arse about the United Fat God Botherers of America and has turned to the United States of Australia for leadership and culture instead. oooo no it's happening allready!!!! poor seppo wankers! lol.
Adhering to atheism simply because one dislikes religion is no more rational or enlightened than adhering to any one religion.
I am not religious and dislike religion because religion and religious tenets has absolutely zero basis in fact and reality, yet a huge chunk of humanity chooses to devotes a lot of time to religion, while education and science struggle against it.
Religious people desperately cling to the false hope that non-religious people "Hate us because they envy our God!", when in fact non-religious people despise the unwillingness of the religious to grow up and face reality.
Probably even more than a cabal of record companies. Record companies only target those they perceive as being incapable of defending themselves agsinst a concerted attack by the record companies' lawyers and money.
"Mossad". There's a difference. It's why so many non-Israeli Jews detest both Mossad and Israel. (Well, not necessarily Israel, but certainly the rabid Zionists that infest the place and give the rest of us a bad name.)
"So, you've just apprehended a bunch of Mossad agents in NYC while they were cheering and high-fiving as they watched those airliners hitting the Twin Towers? Quietly deport them and pretend the whole thing never happened.
This has been the standard American business method-and-practise for decades: "Give us whatever we demand, at whatever price we dictate, and buy all of this over-priced shit whether you want or need it or not. If you don't, we'll use every fucking bit of power and influence we possess to crush you."
In my experience, the OPer is correct in many cases, but perhaps not in general.
For instance, I doubt whether there are many deletions by female Wiki admins of science-related articles, although I concede I may be wrong about that.
Where women dominate is in the arts and entertainment categories: look at the edit-war histories there and you'll find most of the participants - especially admins - are female.
Wiki is a fantastic resource which is often abused to the point of rendering it worthless. It's a forum for personal vendettas, one in which those with the most time on their hands always win.
Bored housewives wield awesome power over, say, the TV and movie articles.
You cannot call yourself a scientist if you also describe yourself as religious.
Now, before the hordes of "christian scientists" wade in here, raving and frothing at the mouth, let me remind you that science is all about falsifiability, testability, observations, evidence, reproducable experimental results and facts.
Religion is instantly obliterated by those things.
The one thing that science is not about is faith, while faith is, of course, the principle requirement of religion.
Like it or not, Science and faith are mutually exclusive: Even to attempt to deny that automatically disqualifies you from claiming the title of "scientist".
Just like Paul White, a New Zealander who, in the early '90s, bought a used computer full of highly sensitive Citibank data, which included information detailing some major tax fraud, as well as stuff linked to the NZ Security Intelligence Service.
White was just a two-bit Computer Broker-wannabe who tried to gain financially from the situation by ransoming the data back to Citibank. Very soon after acquiring the data and offering it back to the bank for a price, he died in a highly mysterious car accident, one which still remains unexplained and uninvestigated.
Perhaps Americans should begin to describe themselves as being from the Land of the Not Reallt Free But Definitely a Little Less Totalitarian Than Other Nations, and the Home of the Slightly Less Cowardly Than Some Countries We Could Mention.
...I have a lot of respect for the majority of the cracking scene.
Misguided respect. The majority are kiddies of the lowest kind. The vast majority. Overwhelming majority, even. Very few within the "cracking scene" have any real skill. And if they had a little more, they'd be in far more lucrative legitimate positions. (And, no, there aren't lots of crackers earning a fortune working for the Russian mafia, contrary to all reports from the terminally-clueless. Sorry to burst your fantasy balloon.)
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Are none of you familiar with the inverse-square law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propagation
The US itself created those "economic waves" when it chose - yes, chose - to hugely overreact to the insanely-hyped threat of terrorism. You played right into the hands of whomever is responsible for the 11/09/01 events in NYC and elsewhere.
It's just not worth the hassle. There are places in America I'd still quite like to visit, but I'm not going to bother. Being made to endure the insanity of US airport "security" processes is not acceptable to me, and I'm not alone: Aside from all the other people who have decided a US vacation isn't worth the effort, go ask American tourism operators how they feel about it all.
prolly a eurotrash socialist.
Don't tell me -- I bet you tried to change an article to the way you wanted it but every one kept changing it back?
You didn't like how the truth about you and those gay whores kept coming out to haunt you?
I had to ask.
I'm sick of all these stories about (and links to) dirty foreigners and their sites on Slashdot, instead of good God-fearin' red-blooded Australians and Aussie stories and sites.
"Network Engineer". (Technician.) "Software Engineer". (Programmer.) If they don't have an bona fide engineering degree from a legitimate university, or if they don't drive trains or maintain a ship's engines, then they already are in sales...every day they try to sell themselves as something they're not.
are you worried because Oz is pushing you off the stage? maybe if you were'nt all a pack of morbidly obese bible bashers you would still be relivent. how do you expect to rule the world when you cant even see your fucking feet becuase of the huge rolls of blubber in the way? its good that you still worship fairies and goblins on sundays coz you'll have someone to talk to when the rest of the world stops giving a rats arse about the United Fat God Botherers of America and has turned to the United States of Australia for leadership and culture instead. oooo no it's happening allready!!!! poor seppo wankers! lol.
...at least they aren't wasting time and money on String "theory".
...It's good enough for the rest of us.
I am not religious and dislike religion because religion and religious tenets has absolutely zero basis in fact and reality, yet a huge chunk of humanity chooses to devotes a lot of time to religion, while education and science struggle against it. Religious people desperately cling to the false hope that non-religious people "Hate us because they envy our God!", when in fact non-religious people despise the unwillingness of the religious to grow up and face reality.
Probably even more than a cabal of record companies. Record companies only target those they perceive as being incapable of defending themselves agsinst a concerted attack by the record companies' lawyers and money.
"So, you've just apprehended a bunch of Mossad agents in NYC while they were cheering and high-fiving as they watched those airliners hitting the Twin Towers? Quietly deport them and pretend the whole thing never happened.
This has been the standard American business method-and-practise for decades: "Give us whatever we demand, at whatever price we dictate, and buy all of this over-priced shit whether you want or need it or not. If you don't, we'll use every fucking bit of power and influence we possess to crush you."
Is there anything it can't fix?
In my experience, the OPer is correct in many cases, but perhaps not in general. For instance, I doubt whether there are many deletions by female Wiki admins of science-related articles, although I concede I may be wrong about that. Where women dominate is in the arts and entertainment categories: look at the edit-war histories there and you'll find most of the participants - especially admins - are female. Wiki is a fantastic resource which is often abused to the point of rendering it worthless. It's a forum for personal vendettas, one in which those with the most time on their hands always win. Bored housewives wield awesome power over, say, the TV and movie articles.
The USA, where sexual activity is "obscene" but violence is heroic?
You cannot call yourself a scientist if you also describe yourself as religious.
Now, before the hordes of "christian scientists" wade in here, raving and frothing at the mouth, let me remind you that science is all about falsifiability, testability, observations, evidence, reproducable experimental results and facts .
Religion is instantly obliterated by those things.
The one thing that science is not about is faith, while faith is, of course, the principle requirement of religion.
Like it or not, Science and faith are mutually exclusive: Even to attempt to deny that automatically disqualifies you from claiming the title of "scientist".
Just like Paul White, a New Zealander who, in the early '90s, bought a used computer full of highly sensitive Citibank data, which included information detailing some major tax fraud, as well as stuff linked to the NZ Security Intelligence Service.
White was just a two-bit Computer Broker-wannabe who tried to gain financially from the situation by ransoming the data back to Citibank. Very soon after acquiring the data and offering it back to the bank for a price, he died in a highly mysterious car accident, one which still remains unexplained and uninvestigated.
Perhaps Americans should begin to describe themselves as being from the Land of the Not Reallt Free But Definitely a Little Less Totalitarian Than Other Nations, and the Home of the Slightly Less Cowardly Than Some Countries We Could Mention.
Misguided respect. The majority are kiddies of the lowest kind. The vast majority. Overwhelming majority, even. Very few within the "cracking scene" have any real skill. And if they had a little more, they'd be in far more lucrative legitimate positions. (And, no, there aren't lots of crackers earning a fortune working for the Russian mafia, contrary to all reports from the terminally-clueless. Sorry to burst your fantasy balloon.)
Shouldn't that be "In the face of contravening evidence, science will revise its hypotheses . Religion however revises the evidence"... ?
When the rest of the world eventually comes to your rescue, you'll be treated with kindness.
No, it isn't. Not at all, not even a little bit, not even slightly.
Good and valid Science is based upon Science, not faith; Science and faith are mutually-exclusive. That's completely self-evident.
Note that I said good and valid science, not faddish junk pseudo-"science".
If the observations and evidence don't support the conjecture, if it's not testable or falsifiable, then it must be discarded.
That's the way good and valid Science works.
Anything less, including faith, is not worth the time of anybody prepared to be reasonable and rational.