Thank you Wikileaks, you could have at least waited until winter was over so I could actually afford to heat my house.
You people still use oil for heating!? Don't you idiots know we are running out? There are any number of alternatives: gas and electric (heat pumps) come readily to mind. For pity sake save what little oil is left for transport and other things that cannot so easily use alternatives. Around here, people stopped using oil heaters 30 years ago.
What can be done to stop people squandering such scarce resources? Come the revolution the home-oil-burners will be lined up against the wall with the SUV drivers.
the cognitive dissonace of thinking you're the master race, while nursing a massive inferiority complex viz-a-viz the West.
Not a classy post. Remember the Chinese have fresh unpleasant memories of a neighboring nation that really did consider themselves the master race, at least in the region, killing millions of "inferior" Chinese civilians. That other nation has since learned both pride and humility, and taken its place in the developed world community.
This makes a huge difference to straight out paying another country for resources. That money is gone for good (unless you make them buy your weapons and other goods with it, then you get a bit of it back).
Economics is more complex. If the money, which is US dollars, never came back, you would not have a problem. You would have got the oil "for free", see? Its when the money comes back to buy US products and services that you have to give up resources, but thats the same as buying or extracting domestically, and stimulates the economy the same way. OK, the Arabs could just buy bonds and want interest instead of buying goods, but you have the same problem with domestic spending.
Here in Finland many children have got narcolepsy (for life!) as a "side effect" from the H1N1 vaccine..
No they have not. Vaccinations were suspended on fear of a possible link. But no evidence has been found. Just another false alarm that get far more media attention than the subsequent negative findings. A classic example of hysterical anti-vaccine, anti-science rumour-mongering here.
Are you confusing wind speed with blade speed? Blades move much faster than the wind. My local ones: 35m blades @ 22rpm max, so 290km/hr at the blade tips. OK km, not miles. Worlds biggest is 126m diameter at 12rpm, so about the same speed.
so he's screwed and has to get a cheap commercial Windows box.
There are other alternatives. Last I checked, you could get a cheap business-oriented PC which lacks the bloatware of consumer models. You can also get a white-box PC with OEM-priced windows included, from the local computer shop.
Medicine is a science, and as such would use the formal scientific definition of the word proof.
Which is different from a mathematical proof. Anyway, since when was medicine a science? They have no idea how half the drugs work, and educated guesses about the others.
after all, women are notoriously more sane than men,
True. It's funny how nobody rants about "closing the gender gap" in prisons or mental hospitals, where men far outnumber women. Men out number women in most extremes, high or low, but only one end is view as some injustice of society that can be somehow forcibly closed. Lets have some affirmative action to get more women in prison shall we? The imbalance obviously proves that lots of female criminals are going unpunished, since genders are equal, by force of moral law.
Once something is proved, it can never be questioned again,
No. Simple example: all those "rock solid" geometry rules you learn in primary school were proven in ancient Greece. Now it turns out that space is not Euclidean, so Pythagoras' rule is not quite true. See, there is no such thing as complete proof in the real world, only in a defined formal system. Even if your proof is based on solid maths and holds for a few thousand years, it can still come undone.
"Proof" here means evidence of a certain level of safety or confidence. Do not confuse it with a mathematical proof. A mathematical proof may be 100%, but is only applies within a particular formal construct, not the real world. Or you might as well say you cannot prove anything, because all proofs rely on unproven axioms.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened. The human genome is full of "Religiosity Genes". How else do you explain such widespread belief in mutually contradictory religions and religious factions, including in otherwise intelligent rational beings?
Nonsense. Nobody is saying that Catholicism is a Mendellian trait. Just that there are inheritable personality aspects that make on more likely to stay in a religion if you are born into it, or even to join a religious group in the right circumstances. Homosexuality is complex too. It would not be shocking to suggest that effeminate men are more likely to be gay and vice versa. This can be related to hormone levels in the womb during brain development. Which is far more inheritable than a matter of "choice". Anyway, what is choice but a product of our genes and environment? "Free will" just means we cannot see the mechanism that produced it.
Atheism has grown in the past couple decades more so than any other point in history.
A short-term effect possibly caused by education, the Flynn Effect, and more freedom of thought and expression. Genetics and evolution are far slower, but much more powerful. Let's see education grow you wings or the ability to digest cellulose!
Actually, there is. In the sense of a standard reference frame that anyone in the universe can agree on. And Earth and Betelgeuse are moving slow enough compared to that frame that relativistic effects are insignificant compared to the accuracy of distance estimates.
Penzias and Wilson won a noble prize for discovering it. I'm surprised you did not hear.
I don't think we should confuse the notorious Victorian Police with the West Australian Police. Very different organisations.
Not so different as you might hope. e.g. when Andrew Petrelis was going to testify against a local colourful identity, police unrelated obtained his "protected" location from the police database, and he died mysteriously. The high-profile drug boss is still free many years later. Must have many friends in high places.
Pleistocene park,... Doesn't quite have the same ring as "Jurassic" though.
No matter. Go ahead and call it Jurassic. The dinosaurs in the book/movie were from the Cretaceous period, but that obviously did not have the same ring either.
will be called "Manny", after our Ice Age mammoth movie star.
Much cooler if it was named after Manny, the big hairy guy from Black Books.
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Try applying that logic to each state. Think how much better off everyone would be if you banned interstate trade!
It is nonsense of course.
Thank you Wikileaks, you could have at least waited until winter was over so I could actually afford to heat my house.
You people still use oil for heating!? Don't you idiots know we are running out? There are any number of alternatives: gas and electric (heat pumps) come readily to mind. For pity sake save what little oil is left for transport and other things that cannot so easily use alternatives. Around here, people stopped using oil heaters 30 years ago.
What can be done to stop people squandering such scarce resources? Come the revolution the home-oil-burners will be lined up against the wall with the SUV drivers.
the cognitive dissonace of thinking you're the master race, while nursing a massive inferiority complex viz-a-viz the West.
Not a classy post. Remember the Chinese have fresh unpleasant memories of a neighboring nation that really did consider themselves the master race, at least in the region, killing millions of "inferior" Chinese civilians. That other nation has since learned both pride and humility, and taken its place in the developed world community.
This makes a huge difference to straight out paying another country for resources. That money is gone for good (unless you make them buy your weapons and other goods with it, then you get a bit of it back).
Economics is more complex. If the money, which is US dollars, never came back, you would not have a problem. You would have got the oil "for free", see?
Its when the money comes back to buy US products and services that you have to give up resources, but thats the same as buying or extracting domestically, and stimulates the economy the same way. OK, the Arabs could just buy bonds and want interest instead of buying goods, but you have the same problem with domestic spending.
Vaccines are only effective BEFORE someone is infected,
For flu maybe. But rabies vaccine for example works after you are infected, as the infection moves slowly.
Here in Finland many children have got narcolepsy (for life!) as a "side effect" from the H1N1 vaccine. .
No they have not. Vaccinations were suspended on fear of a possible link. But no evidence has been found. Just another false alarm that get far more media attention than the subsequent negative findings.
A classic example of hysterical anti-vaccine, anti-science rumour-mongering here.
Are you confusing wind speed with blade speed? Blades move much faster than the wind.
My local ones: 35m blades @ 22rpm max, so 290km/hr at the blade tips. OK km, not miles.
Worlds biggest is 126m diameter at 12rpm, so about the same speed.
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http://www.verveenergy.com.au/mainContent/sustainableEnergy/OurPortfolio/Albany_Wind_Farm.html
so he's screwed and has to get a cheap commercial Windows box.
There are other alternatives. Last I checked, you could get a cheap business-oriented PC which lacks the bloatware of consumer models.
You can also get a white-box PC with OEM-priced windows included, from the local computer shop.
It is absolutely disgusting that people can build a new skyscraper in New York without any 'Environmental impact studies" on migratory birds,
If the building spin at 300mph, you will probably need a permit, even in NYC.
Medicine is a science, and as such would use the formal scientific definition of the word proof.
Which is different from a mathematical proof. Anyway, since when was medicine a science? They have no idea how half the drugs work, and educated guesses about the others.
after all, women are notoriously more sane than men,
True. It's funny how nobody rants about "closing the gender gap" in prisons or mental hospitals, where men far outnumber women.
Men out number women in most extremes, high or low, but only one end is view as some injustice of society that can be somehow forcibly closed.
Lets have some affirmative action to get more women in prison shall we? The imbalance obviously proves that lots of female criminals are going unpunished, since genders are equal, by force of moral law.
Once something is proved, it can never be questioned again,
No. Simple example: all those "rock solid" geometry rules you learn in primary school were proven in ancient Greece.
Now it turns out that space is not Euclidean, so Pythagoras' rule is not quite true. See, there is no such thing as complete proof in the real world, only in a defined formal system. Even if your proof is based on solid maths and holds for a few thousand years, it can still come undone.
The numbers were audited by the same professional accountants and actuarys who calculated Microsoft's losses from software piracy.
(BTW, the "millions" is from _all_ diseases, most of which are preventable.)
"Proof" here means evidence of a certain level of safety or confidence. Do not confuse it with a mathematical proof.
A mathematical proof may be 100%, but is only applies within a particular formal construct, not the real world. Or you might as well say you cannot prove anything, because all proofs rely on unproven axioms.
There's not much you can do about MORONS, one way or another, they may kill themselves.
Yep, anyone who leaves the city without maps, sextant and chronometer deserves what they get.
It's little better in Australia, where "serious" federal-funded universities have courses in Chiropractic. The UK is worse.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
The human genome is full of "Religiosity Genes". How else do you explain such widespread belief in mutually contradictory religions and religious factions, including in otherwise intelligent rational beings?
Nonsense. Nobody is saying that Catholicism is a Mendellian trait.
Just that there are inheritable personality aspects that make on more likely to stay in a religion if you are born into it, or even to join a religious group in the right circumstances.
Homosexuality is complex too. It would not be shocking to suggest that effeminate men are more likely to be gay and vice versa. This can be related to hormone levels in the womb during brain development. Which is far more inheritable than a matter of "choice".
Anyway, what is choice but a product of our genes and environment? "Free will" just means we cannot see the mechanism that produced it.
Atheism has grown in the past couple decades more so than any other point in history.
A short-term effect possibly caused by education, the Flynn Effect, and more freedom of thought and expression.
Genetics and evolution are far slower, but much more powerful. Let's see education grow you wings or the ability to digest cellulose!
But does it make phone calls? Or is 3G crippled like on the iPad?
You mean, they are no longer using tanks to roll down protests at the Tianman Square?
Never did. That is a myth. Protesters were killed the old-fashioned way, just like in Ohio.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm
There is no universal time clock,
Actually, there is. In the sense of a standard reference frame that anyone in the universe can agree on. And Earth and Betelgeuse are moving slow enough compared to that frame that relativistic effects are insignificant compared to the accuracy of distance estimates.
Penzias and Wilson won a noble prize for discovering it. I'm surprised you did not hear.
I don't think we should confuse the notorious Victorian Police with the West Australian Police. Very different organisations.
Not so different as you might hope. e.g. when Andrew Petrelis was going to testify against a local colourful identity, police unrelated obtained his "protected" location from the police database, and he died mysteriously. The high-profile drug boss is still free many years later. Must have many friends in high places.
Honestly, I need that Uzi and my AK47 for duck hunting. It's coming right at us!
Pleistocene park, ... Doesn't quite have the same ring as "Jurassic" though.
No matter. Go ahead and call it Jurassic. The dinosaurs in the book/movie were from the Cretaceous period, but that obviously did not have the same ring either.
will be called "Manny", after our Ice Age mammoth movie star.
Much cooler if it was named after Manny, the big hairy guy from Black Books.