So we must violate basic civil liberties with the anti-doping measures? Because there is no other way to be sure an athlete is not doped.
Here's your false dichotomy kids:
1. Participate in the superfreaklympics and deal with the hideous side-effects.
2. Sign up for sport concentration camp to make sure you're not doing anything with your own body or going off with friends and family without the dope-check ankle bracelet.
We're approaching 2 with out of competition testing - especially in cycling where athletes are guilty (by association even!) until proven innocent, awoken from bed with their spouses to have blood taken or piss in a cup, ruined if the doping authorities don't know where they are at ALL times and even pulled from their own child's funeral to be tested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_van_Impe.
Is an individual life really all that special? Is the quest for immortality the ultimate act of narcissism? Or is it simply the evolution of medical science?
I think the adverse psychological effects of aging are more from having to function with a broken body rather than being poisoned with experience. We all get depressed from time to time and statistically our mood could fluctuate from mania to deep depression given enough time - as t->infinity we could hit suicide. But is this mood fluctuation inevitable or just a neurological malfunction?
If it wasn't for this, the only actual way to enforce a sales tax would be to require the consumer to identify themselves to the retailer and have their purchase history reported to the state - and we really don't want to go there, do we? No, but I'm sure our elected officials do.
We can't do everything. Especially when there've been gangs of people building these devices in their garages for decades:
http://fusor.net/
If he built himself a radio should it be in the news too?
Of course String Theory makes testable predictions. Just like General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics make testable predictions.
The bad news is that they are the same predictions that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics make, many of which we've already tested, and is thus indistinguishable from them.
The good news is that String theory makes the same predictions as GR and QM while still being only one theory.
This is completely wrong.
First of all it is no surprise that it resembles QM because it is QM. It assumes QM and applies it to a vibrating string, brane, etc.. But there is no new theory because there's at least a handful of different ways to do this and they're all called string theory. GR on the other hand is not as obvious. They are able to get equations that resemble Einstein's equations, but GR does NOT just pop out of it.
Thank you for pointing this out. The coverage of this sport is also very low tech compared to other sports. You get noisy glitchy low definition video feeds from motorbikes and bad editing where the commentators are talking about one thing and the tv is showing something else. Compare this to NFL or NBA HDTV coverage for example.
In the beginning, you just had the riders out on their own wits to guide them, then they got radios and the coaches got to keep them updated, then the coaches got live TV feeds in their cars to keep themselves updated, and now apparently "it is now possible to track the position and speed of each rider in the Tour de France in real-time thanks to the EGNOS European satellite positioning system."
That's not exactly true. Even before radios the directors would follow in cars talking to the racers. Radios have just made it safer - you don't have as many agressive team cars battling for road. They haven't really been on their "own wits" since pre-war times when they frequently cheated by doing things like taking a train.
Errr, I'm going to assume that you're NOT a New Yorker. Because anyone who lives there can refute damn near everything you just said.
Wrong.
The high asthma rate is mostly due not to Manhattan itself but to the borough of NYC called Staten Island, which was used as a gargantuan landfill for generations. The landfill has since closed though and the problem is becoming less severe. However, another cause is believed to be the factories on the Jersey shore which blow all of their pollutans east over the southern boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.
That's only a hypothesis. And probably a wrong one. Plenty of people live near landfills and don't get high asthma rates. The rates are higher in upper manhattan anyway. The most luckly culprit is the sulfur-laden deisel exhaust reacting with the particulate matter. But the cause is still unknown.
The cyclist problem is one prevalent in many large cities in small geographical areas.
Yes.
However, in recent years many more New Yorkers have given up even owning a car due to parking problems and the issue is resolving itself for the most part.
And the streets are still lined with parked cars. Their opening doors are a common hazard to cyclists - especially since the bikes lanes are sandwiched between the parked cars and traffic. This problem is not resolving itself: http://www.transalt.org/
As for the point of excrement-less grass, have you ever even SEEN Central Park?
Almost every day. I'm mostly on the loop - the Southeast part of which is lined with horseshit.
Or Battery Park? Or any of the parks in any of the boroughs? Yes there's a great deal of trash but it's hardly the pig-stay you pretend to know it to be. The only incredibly filthy place I can think of is the subway, and that's usually manageable.
You must have an impaired sense of smell because everyone I know is aware of the filth.
And finally, as for your comment on the absence of a middle class... First off, you misused the word eviscerated; unless everyone in the middle class has been systematically disembowled that is.
Thanks for the insight.
And second, that's not true. The middle class has mostly moved from the city to the outlying surburbs on the other boroughs, and not from financial difficulty, but mostly from the desire to "escape the clutter of living in the city." As a single adult living in a city is great, but it's not always the ideal place to relax/raise a family in.
So you're agreeing. The suburbs are by definition not the city.
My previous post was a bit harsh, but my point is that the idea of NYC being a "green" city is ridiculous.
That article is full of errors, misinformation and fallacious arguments. Here are just a few of many reasons why NYC is not the utopia presented in that nonsense. NYC has the highest asthma rates in the country. Cyclists and pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles at a weekly rate. One is hard pressed to find any grass that doesn't have excrement and garbage all over it. And the "middle class" has been completely eviscerated in NYC - a family of 3 with an income under $100,000 per year have to live like refugees.
The experiment definitely looks ready for replication. If it works it will turn gravitational theory on its head. There is no theory in existence that can account for these results. Not general relativity, not quantum gravity, and not even these guys' non-standard theory will work. Something completely new will be needed.
Let's withold the jumping to conclusions shall we. This may explain it:
Why not highlight the fundamental principles?
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Why not highlight the fundamental science principles involved? For example, perhaps a myth violates conservation of energy - they could do a 30sec blip explaining it. In other words, after they do the debunking experiment they could summarize the scientific theory involved. Or they could just blow up effigies of famous scientists.
I'd like to be able to batch print piles of photos with the file creation dates printed on them also - preferably on the back. Does anyone have an easy solution?
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So we must violate basic civil liberties with the anti-doping measures? Because there is no other way to be sure an athlete is not doped.
Here's your false dichotomy kids: 1. Participate in the superfreaklympics and deal with the hideous side-effects. 2. Sign up for sport concentration camp to make sure you're not doing anything with your own body or going off with friends and family without the dope-check ankle bracelet.
We're approaching 2 with out of competition testing - especially in cycling where athletes are guilty (by association even!) until proven innocent, awoken from bed with their spouses to have blood taken or piss in a cup, ruined if the doping authorities don't know where they are at ALL times and even pulled from their own child's funeral to be tested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_van_Impe.
Is an individual life really all that special? Is the quest for immortality the ultimate act of narcissism? Or is it simply the evolution of medical science?
I think the adverse psychological effects of aging are more from having to function with a broken body rather than being poisoned with experience. We all get depressed from time to time and statistically our mood could fluctuate from mania to deep depression given enough time - as t->infinity we could hit suicide. But is this mood fluctuation inevitable or just a neurological malfunction?
It's also how a spoked wheel works so it was nothing new in terms of engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity
Tell that to the people of New Hampshire. They pretty much prove your argument to be bullshit.
"Nothing exists except atoms and the void, everything else is opinion" -Democritus
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5847/80/
http://www.ashlar.com/
http://www.pixels3d.com/
These programs have stunningly intuitive user interfaces.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1062
We can't do everything. Especially when there've been gangs of people building these devices in their garages for decades: http://fusor.net/ If he built himself a radio should it be in the news too?
Why are they still ridiculously expensive? More that $12,000 for a ring!
First of all it is no surprise that it resembles QM because it is QM. It assumes QM and applies it to a vibrating string, brane, etc.. But there is no new theory because there's at least a handful of different ways to do this and they're all called string theory. GR on the other hand is not as obvious. They are able to get equations that resemble Einstein's equations, but GR does NOT just pop out of it.
Thank you for pointing this out. The coverage of this sport is also very low tech compared to other sports. You get noisy glitchy low definition video feeds from motorbikes and bad editing where the commentators are talking about one thing and the tv is showing something else. Compare this to NFL or NBA HDTV coverage for example.
My previous post was a bit harsh, but my point is that the idea of NYC being a "green" city is ridiculous.
That article is full of errors, misinformation and fallacious arguments. Here are just a few of many reasons why NYC is not the utopia presented in that nonsense. NYC has the highest asthma rates in the country. Cyclists and pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles at a weekly rate. One is hard pressed to find any grass that doesn't have excrement and garbage all over it. And the "middle class" has been completely eviscerated in NYC - a family of 3 with an income under $100,000 per year have to live like refugees.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc?papernum=0204012
And this:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601193
Why not highlight the fundamental science principles involved? For example, perhaps a myth violates conservation of energy - they could do a 30sec blip explaining it. In other words, after they do the debunking experiment they could summarize the scientific theory involved. Or they could just blow up effigies of famous scientists.
I'd like to be able to batch print piles of photos with the file creation dates printed on them also - preferably on the back. Does anyone have an easy solution?