Unfortunately, that rigorous empirical validation also told us that the glaciers on the Himalayas would be all melted by 2035... Actually it isn't, but it shows that the zealots on both sides are willing to bend the truth and fudge the details in an attempt to sway the masses. So it isn't natural for the masses to be a bit skeptical? If nothing else, it shows why you should stick to the rigorous empirical part and leave the FUD to the other side.
Like just about everything else in this world, science is about money. And how do you get money in science? By finding and/or hyping the next leap forward. Being successful in science is all about getting grants. You don't get tenure without bringing in grant money, you don't get grant money without publishing in the best journals, you don't publish in the best journals without finding the next leap.
Your typical PhD finishes school in their late 20's, probably with significant school loan debt. He or she then gets a postdoc where they can barely afford to live in the city with the prestigious school that they think they need to further their career. At the same, it's probably time to think about starting a family (especially if you are a woman). And as a postdoc, the pressure to publish is even greater in a more compressed time frame. There is so much pressure there financially, emotionally and mentally, that is it is no wonder that some people cave and take shortcuts and fudge results.
And then, if you do make it to a tenure track position, you don't do much science any more. Instead you spend all your time writing grants and churning through postdocs, who may or may not be fudging their results to get a recommendation to get a better position...
This was a political stunt to embarrass the Democrats. Republicans changed their votes at the last minute and pushed the measure through to force the debate. Democrats then backtracked and sent the measure to a committee, never to see the light of day.
As far as I know bacteria has always had live cultures in it. Go look at the side of the cup. Mine says "set with active cultures of L. acidophilus and B. bifidum". I know the Dannon claims live cultures of acidophilus for sure.
Um private companies are competing. Ever heard of NetZero. It's government allowed monopolies that block access and keep the prices higher than they should be that is the problem. Giving it away for free (at the taxpayers' expense) isn't going to make it cheaper or better...
Usually when the big telcos/ISP's say that muni-wifi is anti-competitive, I tend to laugh. Why would SF need to do this as a city? NetZero already offers free internet access. Is that access not deemed sufficient or fast enough by the city? Do less affluent people really need to watch TV over their computers?
One of the nice things about living in a major metropolitan area is that you can usually walk to the library or get there easily. I can see offering free access in the library, but to the whole city?
Just like everybody making viruses to attack windows machines makes the underlying operating system more robust and secure in the long run, pointing out the current limitations in OSS makes OSS more robust and secure in the future, assuming someone addresses the problems appropriately. If they really wanted to hurt OSS, they should run ad campaigns on how much cooler it is to be able to run any game or software that any of your friends is running. That's something that can't be said for a system with a tiny market share... Conversely, if you really want to hurt Windows, don't let your viruses trickle out, release them all at once so you can actually disrupt the network of systems and thereby impugn the theory that being on the dominant system implies reliability.
The point of SDI was not to militarize space, but rather to frighten the Russians into spending their resources inappropriately and ultimately bankrupt them. Missile defense does the same thing to the North Koreans and Iranians. If they think they need 10 warheads to get one through, then need to keep wasting their resources on building warheads even while they know they are about to collapse economically.
Ok, I've read all of the back and forth up to this point, but this parent post has to cross some line.
BTW, they were internment camps set up to isolate Japanese-Americans from the general population. Concentration camps were where the Nazis sent Jews and others they deemed undesirable to work as slaves and die. There's a big enough difference there.
It's too bad Bush can't seem to remember all of this stuff when he stands up on the stage. Or maybe he didn't write the answers... His answers seemed to me to be much more reasoned than Kerry's.
And does the fact that most all of Kerry's answer's were one-paragraph, no real substance spin indicate a condescending, young-adults-don't-care-about-the-facts or can't-follow-the-argument-anyway attitude on the part of the challenger? That's what I took from it.
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Unfortunately, that rigorous empirical validation also told us that the glaciers on the Himalayas would be all melted by 2035... Actually it isn't, but it shows that the zealots on both sides are willing to bend the truth and fudge the details in an attempt to sway the masses. So it isn't natural for the masses to be a bit skeptical? If nothing else, it shows why you should stick to the rigorous empirical part and leave the FUD to the other side.
Like just about everything else in this world, science is about money. And how do you get money in science? By finding and/or hyping the next leap forward. Being successful in science is all about getting grants. You don't get tenure without bringing in grant money, you don't get grant money without publishing in the best journals, you don't publish in the best journals without finding the next leap. Your typical PhD finishes school in their late 20's, probably with significant school loan debt. He or she then gets a postdoc where they can barely afford to live in the city with the prestigious school that they think they need to further their career. At the same, it's probably time to think about starting a family (especially if you are a woman). And as a postdoc, the pressure to publish is even greater in a more compressed time frame. There is so much pressure there financially, emotionally and mentally, that is it is no wonder that some people cave and take shortcuts and fudge results. And then, if you do make it to a tenure track position, you don't do much science any more. Instead you spend all your time writing grants and churning through postdocs, who may or may not be fudging their results to get a recommendation to get a better position...
This was a political stunt to embarrass the Democrats. Republicans changed their votes at the last minute and pushed the measure through to force the debate. Democrats then backtracked and sent the measure to a committee, never to see the light of day.
Why is this posted in science and not in politics?
As far as I know bacteria has always had live cultures in it. Go look at the side of the cup. Mine says "set with active cultures of L. acidophilus and B. bifidum". I know the Dannon claims live cultures of acidophilus for sure.
Ha! I know it's late because I just read the parent to say,"How much is your mother's electric bill?"
Cmon, do you really read that paper? This story is available from so many other places... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_sc/japan _giant_squid
Um private companies are competing. Ever heard of NetZero. It's government allowed monopolies that block access and keep the prices higher than they should be that is the problem. Giving it away for free (at the taxpayers' expense) isn't going to make it cheaper or better...
Usually when the big telcos/ISP's say that muni-wifi is anti-competitive, I tend to laugh. Why would SF need to do this as a city? NetZero already offers free internet access. Is that access not deemed sufficient or fast enough by the city? Do less affluent people really need to watch TV over their computers? One of the nice things about living in a major metropolitan area is that you can usually walk to the library or get there easily. I can see offering free access in the library, but to the whole city?
Just like everybody making viruses to attack windows machines makes the underlying operating system more robust and secure in the long run, pointing out the current limitations in OSS makes OSS more robust and secure in the future, assuming someone addresses the problems appropriately. If they really wanted to hurt OSS, they should run ad campaigns on how much cooler it is to be able to run any game or software that any of your friends is running. That's something that can't be said for a system with a tiny market share... Conversely, if you really want to hurt Windows, don't let your viruses trickle out, release them all at once so you can actually disrupt the network of systems and thereby impugn the theory that being on the dominant system implies reliability.
Flamebait? Which one of you euro-apologist socialists modded it that way? (There's some flamebait for you...)
Or is this some kind of joke? Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
Maybe they were afraid of Skynet.
The point of SDI was not to militarize space, but rather to frighten the Russians into spending their resources inappropriately and ultimately bankrupt them. Missile defense does the same thing to the North Koreans and Iranians. If they think they need 10 warheads to get one through, then need to keep wasting their resources on building warheads even while they know they are about to collapse economically.
is a great example of why people don't bother to RTFA anymore. This is as bad as the post last week that "Apple was backing away from firewire."
I didn't know anybody watched cbs anymore...
in a while. The picture and the definitions had me rolling. Everybody mod yourself up one point on me.
...where can I go to replicate the experience? Fark.com? Looking for suggestions...
Ok, I've read all of the back and forth up to this point, but this parent post has to cross some line. BTW, they were internment camps set up to isolate Japanese-Americans from the general population. Concentration camps were where the Nazis sent Jews and others they deemed undesirable to work as slaves and die. There's a big enough difference there.
I know I read the article, but I thought I linked through slashdot. I think it was in politics, but I could be wrong.
Just curious, how do you decide when to use a question mark and when not to?
I bet they're completely unbiased...
It already does all of the things you want it to and for a little extra money you can hook it up to the stereo through wifi.
...which is what I think you should have said since there was very little substance in most of Kerry's short answers.
It's too bad Bush can't seem to remember all of this stuff when he stands up on the stage. Or maybe he didn't write the answers... His answers seemed to me to be much more reasoned than Kerry's. And does the fact that most all of Kerry's answer's were one-paragraph, no real substance spin indicate a condescending, young-adults-don't-care-about-the-facts or can't-follow-the-argument-anyway attitude on the part of the challenger? That's what I took from it.