Yes it's a good thing that they think of these safety concerns, but in both cases ( atmosphere ignition and black hole swallowing) our scientific knowledge is such that we know more extreme events happen regularly and therefore there is no problem. In the former case asteroids impacting the earth or exploding in the air with many times the energy of a nuke, and in the later, collision of cosmic rays in the atmosphere.
Therefore these stories are in no way news worthy, and should not be published to worry the heads of those who aren't educated enough to see why it's not a problem.
Great quote. The obvious retort is that banning people from wearing masks in banks, is not the same as removing anonymity everywhere, ie banning all kinds of masks completely everywhere.
FWIW, The room (great great grandparent) had a wide range of experts covering, predictive modelling, environmental impact, mitigation, renewable energy, etc etc. But ye I agree if I go to church i expect to find theists.
The difference between the scientists and church of course though is that the scientist proove or disproove theories through experiment, while theists have blind faith.
If they have solid scientific evidence to refute the solid scientific evidence in support of global warming, then they should publish it. If they don't, then as scientists they should know better than to spout off without any proof of their claims.
Absolutely. I attended a lecture at the Tyndall centre, Manchester a few weeks ago. In a room full of climate change experts, in the UK centre for climate change research, nobody was even remotely sceptical about the realism of Global Warming.
In fact, the point that shocked me most was that some of them were quite content that it was already too late to mitagate the effects, by a token reduction in our emissions. Argueing that the global strategy should be to prepare for the change that will happen rather than waste money trying to stop it!
1. Realise before most of the population that climate change will have a significant affect on the earth 2. Investigate the likely effects 3. ???? 4. Profit
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The story has got the front page of the NewScientist this week (no doubt where the origional interest started), a publication i trust far more than and newspaper. In that article the scientist makes the (previously unpublished) claim that:
...[if noone can prove what it is] someone will have to verify the observation that Louis [the scientist] made whicheven he finds astonishing: that the cells replicate. In earlier unpublished papers, Louis says he cultured the red rain cells in unconventional nutrients, such as cedar wood oil, and showed that these DNA devoid mcrobes divide happily at a temperature of 300oC. Louis admits he left these claims out of his latest paper because he thought they would be considered "too exaordinary"(NewScientist 4th March 2006)
Non DNA based replication would seem like pretty good evidence for alien life.... if you believe him.
His latest paper to be published in the respectable Astrophysics and Space Science Can be found here. Dr Godfrey Louis website, with a pic of the particles and mirrors to this paper and links to other papers, here
Either way, the press release was typical oversold hype, but the tool SEEMS like it could be useful in low end design descisions
Nothing to see here
I absolutely agree, current academic research in the field is looking at the solution of 1e6 element problems in seconds in order that parameters can be changed in real time by someone with the skill of both an analyser and designer. 1e6 element would allow the design of the whole product, say a car, to be worked on in real time, by the aerodynamics, electical, comfort, safety, etc departments collaberatively. Which would appear to be a step on from this press release. For example see this paper written by a colleague of mine.
There must be some novelty in the work in order for it to be worthy of a PhD thesis...but this is not ground breaking so far as i can tell, and certainly not for the reason in the front page caption
I agree that making use of someone elses waste is a brilliant way to make money and be efficient. The trouble with nuclear material is that it is reasonably dangerous in modest quantaties as a dirty bomb can quickly make an area uninhabitable and cause large disruption. For this reason it is tightly guarded and held in only a few locations. It's just not practical to have the warming glow of nuclear waste powering everyones hot water bottles, etc.
If you build on a flood plane sooner or later you are going to get wet.
Especially with the prospect of sea level rise, it seems only logical to me to start again. Preferably somewhere above sea level. It would be a massive project, but then it may well be easier and cheaper than trying to recover. I doubt they will move though, they will just continue to throw more and more money at holding back the sea.
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey" Canute the Great, King of 'England' circa 1016, sat on his thrown on the beach telling the sea to retreat... sound familiar.
Of course Rape and Murder are not acceptable in civilised society anywhere. However NO at the minute is more akin to a medievel fuedal society. It is understandable....but in no way acceptable.
I've not got any hard figures, but i'd guess, given that about 20% of women will be raped during their life. Maybe 5% of men are easily capable of such an act. Thus in a lawless population of 20,000 in the stadium , some 500 men with the ability and inclination to rape exist. And may well take the opertunity to act on such a desire.
I don't like the numbers.... but i think they are about right.
Speaking as a Brit I find it astounding that the response to such a massive disaster has been so casual and disorganised. Why has it taken so long to get troops into the city? I could have got there myself by now!
I have to agree entirely with your sentiment, indeed i made an almost identical post a few months ago.
However, it doesn't stop my sneaking fealing that a large tranche of the population need someone to lead there thoughts on a weekly (or daily) basis in order to stop them having to think about it themselves. And subsequently coming up with alsorts of answers as to what is the right way to behave.
It further becomes apparent that i am not the first to think this...:)....and that for thousands of years civilisations have been creating systems so that the masses can be taught collectively to act in a certain way. These religions in order to be convinsing to the masses need to draw on the power of a supreme being to keep people inline. (I don't think saying "I'm cleverer than you, so all do what i say" is going to hack it). The downside being that if you create a monster story some people are going to take at as (say) gospel;) and get carried away, by detail and twisting the origional message to suit there own ends.
What i would dearly like to invent would be an athiest religion, but sadly i think the fundamental problems would be 1) a lack of 'fear of god' to get people to follow it and 2) a lack of any kind of improved hope that things will be any better in the future (or afterdeath) if they do follow it.
Until such a system is inplace i'm afraid the religious memes will run rampant in the mind of the masses, with inevitable casualties.
Which is of course the way real viruses work as well. Not many real viruses kill you straight out, as you don't have time to pass it on. Wheras something like HIV is much more akin to the latest computer virses
I totally agree, in the long term there is no serious alternative to a hydrogen economy, it is the obvious answer. So the sooner governments start indroducing green taxes and weening us off oil, the longer time we will have to get used to them, and develop infrastructure and technology. Also the sooner we can forget all about being friends with the iraqis,saudis,iranians,etc the better. Being tied to nations whos beliefs are so fundamentally different from your own can only lead to trouble (i know this probably goes for America and any other country, but particularly the islamic middle-east.)
I'm not sure if you realise the irony of your post or not. You are chastising those who voted tactically, and not pointing to the real problem that is the voting system. Single transferable vote (or Preference voting) is regarded as one of the fairest voting systems, solving the issue of who you would genuinely like to vote for, but also allowing you to make a choice between the main candidates if you to choose to do so. Seems daft to blame the voters for making the best of a bad voting system.
The last thing this nation needs is another drawn out court battle to decide the presidency. Kerry did the honorable thing considering his slim-none chances of pulling Ohio out.
Life will go on. It's a sad day for sure, but life will go on. We are all Americans, first and foremost.
The last thing the world (including america) needs is another 4 yrs of Bush. Kerry appears to have lost fair and square, so is sencible to concede early (ish).
Life will go on. It's a sad day for humanity, sure, but life will go on. (It will probably be more violent,polluted and corperate, but it will go on, except for those that are killed by an aggressive foriegn policy.)
We are all Humans, first and foremost. Any ethnic, religous or regional allegiance must always come second.
I'm not sure about any other Brits reading this, but i find it amazing that you have to 'wait in line' for any time at all. I've only had the opportunity to vote a few times (say 5) but on each occasion i walked straight in, cast my vote and walked straight out. Don't think i've ever seen a queue more than a couple of people long. I'm not sure if we have loads more polling stations or what, but i know that even fewer people in this country would vote if they had to wait in a queue for an hour. And with turnouts of 60% in the national and 30% in local elections that would seriously dent the mandate of the gouvrnment.
Perhaps the communication is limited only to adjacent cells?
Typically a Finite Element Analysis in parallel, analyses a problem by breaking it down into millions of elements. These can be an element of air/water (CFD), an element of metal (stress analysis), an element of soil (my own speciality), or combinations. At it's core FEA is basically the solution of a massive array of simultaneous equations
Taking the Weather analogy. Say you are processing a global model on 16 processors. Each would take charge of thousands of elements and would calculate all the flows of air/heat/moisture/water/etc within and between those elements. Communication between the processors is required at the edges of each processors domain, to know what is going on in the next domain.
As you can imagine this requires a lot of communication between processors for a solution to be converged upon. Remember back in high school when you had an array of 4 simultaneous equations to solve and how each time you eliminate a variable from one row you had to change all the others, well the communication involved in solving a billion equations gets quite large.
Organising the decomposition of the domain to optimise the inter processor communication is a field on it's own, needless to say though that a beowolf cluster of linux boxes, does a good (and very cheap) job of running the calculation, but is always limited by the speed of the communication between boxes. Whereas a custom machine can be built to reduce the latency of communication greatly. If you know pretty much what you are going to be processing then you can even set up the communication so it is much faster to 'local' processors to speed up communication more.
Anyway in short the answer to your question is, Yes (more or less)
I know this is a lot of people are hysteric about this issue, but i think it is about time it was broken down a bit.
I think there are two groups lumped together in the peado label, that are entirely seperate psychologically. There are those that favour sexually imature children upto the age of say 12ish. And those that are interested in sexually mature 'children' age 14-16/18 (pending on country).
The former group i believe are sexually devient no doubt due to some psychological trauma (or potentially some genetic inability to distinguish appropriate age of female partners), and should be identified and recieve psychotherapy of some sort. The later group i believe to some degree encompasses most adult males. From evidence of taste in other pornography, more general media and through cultural experiance, it is plain that girls of this 'jail bait' age are found attractive. Approaching the issue from an evolutionary standpoint it would also seem quite natural for a sexually mature male of any age to be interested in sexually mature females, no matter what age the pertaining law says is legal.
I believe at present that these two groups (and of course the grey area inbetween) are all lumped in to the same group. If society acknowledge openly the fact that sexually mature girls are attractive, then i believe less confusion would ensue and a large number of men who feal criminalised for finding girls under 18 (but over say 14) attractive would be a great deal releaved.And back to the point in hand how many of the 10k child porn blocks a day are for site containing images of sexual mature,underage,'children'
Caveat: I know i haven't mentioned the issue of child abuse to obtain the images and the rights and wrongs of such. This is deliberate in an attempt to try and cut through the hysteria.
Oh, and by the way, some schmuck will find a way to blow up planes with or without...
Exactly. In all these arguments it seems a forgon conclusion that a terrorist will try to blow people up. If the education and social interaction of the society where improved then the number of potential terrorists would be reduced. Hopefully to a level where the chances of a few of them meeting up were slim. The prevelance of extremist followers of all religions (Osama-Islam, Bush-Christianity, Sharon-Jewdehism) increases the threat of terrorism and violence greatly. I would not at all be surprised if i read tommorow that an extremist 'Christian' group blew up a mosque in the US. When was the last time you heard of an aethiest terrorist?
Eschelon will be flagging me straight to the top, don't think i could have fitted more keywords in if i'd tried, wonder what CHAPPS score i'll get after this post is added to the database;o)
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Yes it's a good thing that they think of these safety concerns, but in both cases ( atmosphere ignition and black hole swallowing) our scientific knowledge is such that we know more extreme events happen regularly and therefore there is no problem. In the former case asteroids impacting the earth or exploding in the air with many times the energy of a nuke, and in the later, collision of cosmic rays in the atmosphere. Therefore these stories are in no way news worthy, and should not be published to worry the heads of those who aren't educated enough to see why it's not a problem.
Great quote. The obvious retort is that banning people from wearing masks in banks, is not the same as removing anonymity everywhere, ie banning all kinds of masks completely everywhere.
FWIW, The room (great great grandparent) had a wide range of experts covering, predictive modelling, environmental impact, mitigation, renewable energy, etc etc. But ye I agree if I go to church i expect to find theists.
The difference between the scientists and church of course though is that the scientist proove or disproove theories through experiment, while theists have blind faith.
I can prove the 'negative' assumption that the global climate isn't warming, 'simply' by measuring it!
If they have solid scientific evidence to refute the solid scientific evidence in support of global warming, then they should publish it. If they don't, then as scientists they should know better than to spout off without any proof of their claims.
Absolutely. I attended a lecture at the Tyndall centre, Manchester a few weeks ago. In a room full of climate change experts, in the UK centre for climate change research, nobody was even remotely sceptical about the realism of Global Warming.
In fact, the point that shocked me most was that some of them were quite content that it was already too late to mitagate the effects, by a token reduction in our emissions. Argueing that the global strategy should be to prepare for the change that will happen rather than waste money trying to stop it!
1. Realise before most of the population that climate change will have a significant affect on the earth
2. Investigate the likely effects
3. ????
4. Profit
Non DNA based replication would seem like pretty good evidence for alien life.... if you believe him.
His latest paper to be published in the respectable Astrophysics and Space Science Can be found here. Dr Godfrey Louis website, with a pic of the particles and mirrors to this paper and links to other papers, here
Either way, the press release was typical oversold hype, but the tool SEEMS like it could be useful in low end design descisions
Nothing to see here
I absolutely agree, current academic research in the field is looking at the solution of 1e6 element problems in seconds in order that parameters can be changed in real time by someone with the skill of both an analyser and designer. 1e6 element would allow the design of the whole product, say a car, to be worked on in real time, by the aerodynamics, electical, comfort, safety, etc departments collaberatively. Which would appear to be a step on from this press release. For example see this paper written by a colleague of mine.
There must be some novelty in the work in order for it to be worthy of a PhD thesis...but this is not ground breaking so far as i can tell, and certainly not for the reason in the front page caption
I agree that making use of someone elses waste is a brilliant way to make money and be efficient. The trouble with nuclear material is that it is reasonably dangerous in modest quantaties as a dirty bomb can quickly make an area uninhabitable and cause large disruption. For this reason it is tightly guarded and held in only a few locations. It's just not practical to have the warming glow of nuclear waste powering everyones hot water bottles, etc.
Especially with the prospect of sea level rise, it seems only logical to me to start again. Preferably somewhere above sea level. It would be a massive project, but then it may well be easier and cheaper than trying to recover. I doubt they will move though, they will just continue to throw more and more money at holding back the sea.
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey" Canute the Great, King of 'England' circa 1016, sat on his thrown on the beach telling the sea to retreat... sound familiar.I've not got any hard figures, but i'd guess, given that about 20% of women will be raped during their life. Maybe 5% of men are easily capable of such an act. Thus in a lawless population of 20,000 in the stadium , some 500 men with the ability and inclination to rape exist. And may well take the opertunity to act on such a desire.
I don't like the numbers.... but i think they are about right.
Speaking as a Brit I find it astounding that the response to such a massive disaster has been so casual and disorganised. Why has it taken so long to get troops into the city? I could have got there myself by now!
However, it doesn't stop my sneaking fealing that a large tranche of the population need someone to lead there thoughts on a weekly (or daily) basis in order to stop them having to think about it themselves. And subsequently coming up with alsorts of answers as to what is the right way to behave.
It further becomes apparent that i am not the first to think this...:)....and that for thousands of years civilisations have been creating systems so that the masses can be taught collectively to act in a certain way. These religions in order to be convinsing to the masses need to draw on the power of a supreme being to keep people inline. (I don't think saying "I'm cleverer than you, so all do what i say" is going to hack it). The downside being that if you create a monster story some people are going to take at as (say) gospel ;) and get carried away, by detail and twisting the origional message to suit there own ends.
What i would dearly like to invent would be an athiest religion, but sadly i think the fundamental problems would be 1) a lack of 'fear of god' to get people to follow it and 2) a lack of any kind of improved hope that things will be any better in the future (or afterdeath) if they do follow it.
Until such a system is inplace i'm afraid the religious memes will run rampant in the mind of the masses, with inevitable casualties.
Which is of course the way real viruses work as well. Not many real viruses kill you straight out, as you don't have time to pass it on. Wheras something like HIV is much more akin to the latest computer virses
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Damn ascii art filter,means i have to type some random stuff here.
I totally agree, in the long term there is no serious alternative to a hydrogen economy, it is the obvious answer. So the sooner governments start indroducing green taxes and weening us off oil, the longer time we will have to get used to them, and develop infrastructure and technology. Also the sooner we can forget all about being friends with the iraqis,saudis,iranians,etc the better. Being tied to nations whos beliefs are so fundamentally different from your own can only lead to trouble (i know this probably goes for America and any other country, but particularly the islamic middle-east.)
I'm not sure if you realise the irony of your post or not. You are chastising those who voted tactically, and not pointing to the real problem that is the voting system. Single transferable vote (or Preference voting) is regarded as one of the fairest voting systems, solving the issue of who you would genuinely like to vote for, but also allowing you to make a choice between the main candidates if you to choose to do so. Seems daft to blame the voters for making the best of a bad voting system.
The last thing this nation needs is another drawn out court battle to decide the presidency. Kerry did the honorable thing considering his slim-none chances of pulling Ohio out.
Life will go on. It's a sad day for sure, but life will go on. We are all Americans, first and foremost.
The last thing the world (including america) needs is another 4 yrs of Bush. Kerry appears to have lost fair and square, so is sencible to concede early (ish).
Life will go on. It's a sad day for humanity, sure, but life will go on. (It will probably be more violent,polluted and corperate, but it will go on, except for those that are killed by an aggressive foriegn policy.)
We are all Humans, first and foremost. Any ethnic, religous or regional allegiance must always come second.
Simple only the intelligent people should decide :)
I'm not sure about any other Brits reading this, but i find it amazing that you have to 'wait in line' for any time at all. I've only had the opportunity to vote a few times (say 5) but on each occasion i walked straight in, cast my vote and walked straight out. Don't think i've ever seen a queue more than a couple of people long. I'm not sure if we have loads more polling stations or what, but i know that even fewer people in this country would vote if they had to wait in a queue for an hour. And with turnouts of 60% in the national and 30% in local elections that would seriously dent the mandate of the gouvrnment.
You think yours is fast? Mine can do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs
NB: I always had trouble at school differentiating between time and distance ;)
Perhaps the communication is limited only to adjacent cells?
Typically a Finite Element Analysis in parallel, analyses a problem by breaking it down into millions of elements. These can be an element of air/water (CFD), an element of metal (stress analysis), an element of soil (my own speciality), or combinations. At it's core FEA is basically the solution of a massive array of simultaneous equations
Taking the Weather analogy. Say you are processing a global model on 16 processors. Each would take charge of thousands of elements and would calculate all the flows of air/heat/moisture/water/etc within and between those elements. Communication between the processors is required at the edges of each processors domain, to know what is going on in the next domain.
As you can imagine this requires a lot of communication between processors for a solution to be converged upon. Remember back in high school when you had an array of 4 simultaneous equations to solve and how each time you eliminate a variable from one row you had to change all the others, well the communication involved in solving a billion equations gets quite large.
Organising the decomposition of the domain to optimise the inter processor communication is a field on it's own, needless to say though that a beowolf cluster of linux boxes, does a good (and very cheap) job of running the calculation, but is always limited by the speed of the communication between boxes. Whereas a custom machine can be built to reduce the latency of communication greatly. If you know pretty much what you are going to be processing then you can even set up the communication so it is much faster to 'local' processors to speed up communication more.
Anyway in short the answer to your question is, Yes (more or less)
So does the IWF have a group of 'smut surfers'?
I know this is a lot of people are hysteric about this issue, but i think it is about time it was broken down a bit.
I think there are two groups lumped together in the peado label, that are entirely seperate psychologically. There are those that favour sexually imature children upto the age of say 12ish. And those that are interested in sexually mature 'children' age 14-16/18 (pending on country).
The former group i believe are sexually devient no doubt due to some psychological trauma (or potentially some genetic inability to distinguish appropriate age of female partners), and should be identified and recieve psychotherapy of some sort. The later group i believe to some degree encompasses most adult males. From evidence of taste in other pornography, more general media and through cultural experiance, it is plain that girls of this 'jail bait' age are found attractive. Approaching the issue from an evolutionary standpoint it would also seem quite natural for a sexually mature male of any age to be interested in sexually mature females, no matter what age the pertaining law says is legal.
I believe at present that these two groups (and of course the grey area inbetween) are all lumped in to the same group. If society acknowledge openly the fact that sexually mature girls are attractive, then i believe less confusion would ensue and a large number of men who feal criminalised for finding girls under 18 (but over say 14) attractive would be a great deal releaved.And back to the point in hand how many of the 10k child porn blocks a day are for site containing images of sexual mature,underage,'children'
Caveat: I know i haven't mentioned the issue of child abuse to obtain the images and the rights and wrongs of such. This is deliberate in an attempt to try and cut through the hysteria.
No, I suspect [s]he just meant
Don't like your odds on it being a she :)
Oh, and by the way, some schmuck will find a way to blow up planes with or without...
Exactly. In all these arguments it seems a forgon conclusion that a terrorist will try to blow people up. If the education and social interaction of the society where improved then the number of potential terrorists would be reduced. Hopefully to a level where the chances of a few of them meeting up were slim. The prevelance of extremist followers of all religions (Osama-Islam, Bush-Christianity, Sharon-Jewdehism) increases the threat of terrorism and violence greatly. I would not at all be surprised if i read tommorow that an extremist 'Christian' group blew up a mosque in the US. When was the last time you heard of an aethiest terrorist?
Eschelon will be flagging me straight to the top, don't think i could have fitted more keywords in if i'd tried, wonder what CHAPPS score i'll get after this post is added to the database ;o)