2. Education has a second-rate image as a profession. Americans think that teachers should work "for the love of it". These same people think that a tepid middle relief pitcher should get 3 megabux a year 'cause its important for the home team. There is no star system for teachers. All are yoked in syzygy into rigid pay scales that do not reward performance. Well, Americans are getting what they pay for.
Well, it's a helluva lot easier to become a teacher than it is to become a tepid middle relief pitcher or any other professional athlete because a pro athlete cannot bullshit his way through a career. Their talent is obvious which is why they make so much money. Now if Nobel laureates started teaching grade school..
The reason why stupid Americans don't value education as much as they should is because people don't like being told they're stupid and condescended to by others who are arrogant, too proud of themselves and whining that their country doesn't worship them.
For the record, this is not a well established fact. There have been several studies that show that IQ is mostly genetics (and this seems to be the general belief -- that it's mostly (or at least largely), but not completely, genetics), there have been studies that show that things like education and good nutrition as a child help it, that mental exercise helps build it, etc.
Yes. It is a "belief" not an objective fact. For every study showing intelligence is innate there is another showing the opposite. It is easy to show anything when it is based on ill-defined terms such as "intelligence". Anybody that thinks an IQ test measures how intelligent a person is is suspect; the usefulness of these tests is to measure handicap not absolute aptitude. Another relevant fact is that normal healthy people can can learn to ace IQ tests by practising the types of questions that are on them. What is also interesting is that there are only a small number of businesses selling the majority of these tests and when you look into the way they "validate" them you'll see that it amounts to a circular argument hidden within statistics.
So if an argument is based on the assumption that an IQ test is a measure of how smart someone is then that argument is invalid.
Yes it's worth doing, but why would a time traveler show up there and not at historical events? So when no real time travelers show up what does it mean? Here are some possibilities:
1. It's not possible or just a conceptually incoherent idea.
2. It is possible but we will never achieve it.
3. Those that achieve it are so advanced that they can visit us without us ever knowing.
In my opinion time travel is conceptually incoherent.
If there are events that happen without cause (i.e., fundamentally random events) then running the clock backwards will not be merely a replay of the same events in reverse. The random events are noise that always tend to increase entropy. Time will always flow in one direction. This means that there is no way to get back.
Now, as far as we can tell all quantum mechanical events are causeless (i.e., fundamentally random). Anyway, if there are not causeless events then we get either an infinite regress of preceeding causes or closed causal loops.
So do not expect that you will meet any real time travelers.
It wasn't Tim Russert it was Chris Mathews on the show Hardball that Zel Miller wished he could challenge to a duel before abruptly ending the interview. Or did he do that to Tim Russert as well?
What do you guys who claim that HD porn reveals too much detail (i.e., pimples, sores, blemishes, scars, etc...) think you see when you actually have sex with a real person? You guys are making it clear that you're virgins. Well, HD porn will give you a better idea what it's like; It can be disgusting. So the argument that it won't do well is ridiculous because people go to prostitutes.
Not only does it exercise the brain, it permanently alters it physically and makes it better in every way. Teaching is brain surgery; learn something difficult and get a new brain.
3) "Republicans" and "Democrats" may as well be the same thing as far as sense and sanity go. Both groups are led by crackpot morons. I have my reservations about Libertarians too. What's that leave? Socialists? Communists? Nazis? Yea... that's a lot better...
How about plain old voters? You don't have to be a member of a party. Let's drop the group mentality and show some real concern for the rights of individuals.
... by moving it to the appropriate Lagrange point and later (when carbon nanotubes can be spun into long enough threads) using it to build our space elevator to the moon.
This is not as crazy as it may seem; it's do-able.
The value of a theory involves much more than just the ability to predict the results of experiments; it should help you understand the experiments. A child can predict results by asking someone that understands and then regurgitate the answers, but that doesn't mean that they know anything about which they speak.
For example, ancient astronomers impressed people for centuries with their ability to predict eclipses using the ptolemeic model. Everytime they got an unexpected result they just added a patch. But Ptolemy's theory was wrong. The heavens do not revolve around the earth in epicycles.
Good to a first approx., but the more accurate equation is not linear with coefficients equal to 1. Each term does not have the same weight and there is a lot of non-linear feedback. For example, people can change from one type to another. But it does not matter because the average American cannot understand any equations anyway, nor can they imagine a world different from what the mainstream media describes.
But the more accurate equation is not linear with coefficients equal to 1. Each term does not have the same weight and there is a lot of non-linear feedback. For example, people can change from one type to another. But it does not matter because the average American cannot understand any equations anyway, nor can they imagine a world different from what the mainstream media describes.
'He is also quite arrogant. He had to gall to send the original coders checks in the amount of 50 dollars as "compensation" for their work -- you can see such a check on a certain professor's door.'
Which professor is that? Tell us so his door can get slashdotted.
is that complex phenomena (which pass statistical tests for randomness) can come from simple rules. This is the foundation of the whole book, and Wolfram seems to believe that he's the first to notice it. He is not. Plenty of mathematicians have noticed this in the past, particularly with aperiodic tilings. For example, simple local tiling rules can lead to globally complex non-repeating patterns in a way very similar to his CA patterns. Yet he never mentions this vast body of research in his book. I wonder why.
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If it's a strong immune response that kills the "young and healthy" then is the solution to suppress the immune system when infected?
The reason why stupid Americans don't value education as much as they should is because people don't like being told they're stupid and condescended to by others who are arrogant, too proud of themselves and whining that their country doesn't worship them.
Nobody likes a smartass.
So if an argument is based on the assumption that an IQ test is a measure of how smart someone is then that argument is invalid.
Yes it's worth doing, but why would a time traveler show up there and not at historical events? So when no real time travelers show up what does it mean? Here are some possibilities:
1. It's not possible or just a conceptually incoherent idea.
2. It is possible but we will never achieve it.
3. Those that achieve it are so advanced that they can visit us without us ever knowing.
In my opinion time travel is conceptually incoherent.
If there are events that happen without cause (i.e., fundamentally random events) then running the clock backwards will not be merely a replay of the same events in reverse. The random events are noise that always tend to increase entropy. Time will always flow in one direction. This means that there is no way to get back.
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101088/
Now, as far as we can tell all quantum mechanical events are causeless (i.e., fundamentally random). Anyway, if there are not causeless events then we get either an infinite regress of preceeding causes or closed causal loops.
So do not expect that you will meet any real time travelers.
Search under massage + escort. Bingo.
If this becomes popular I'm sure a "sin eraser patch/mod" will be as well.
1. The Physics Channel 2. The Mathematics Channel 3. The Philosophy Channel 4. The Cycling Channel 5. The Martial Arts Channel 6-280. Porn
Our vehicles aren't the only things that run on oil. Where do you think your electric company gets it's energy from?
It wasn't Tim Russert it was Chris Mathews on the show Hardball that Zel Miller wished he could challenge to a duel before abruptly ending the interview. Or did he do that to Tim Russert as well?
Do you know that?
What do you guys who claim that HD porn reveals too much detail (i.e., pimples, sores, blemishes, scars, etc...) think you see when you actually have sex with a real person? You guys are making it clear that you're virgins. Well, HD porn will give you a better idea what it's like; It can be disgusting. So the argument that it won't do well is ridiculous because people go to prostitutes.
That is, can one pull out the cpu and/or graphics card, or are they soldered to the board as in in previous imacs/emacs?
Not only does it exercise the brain, it permanently alters it physically and makes it better in every way. Teaching is brain surgery; learn something difficult and get a new brain.
How about plain old voters? You don't have to be a member of a party. Let's drop the group mentality and show some real concern for the rights of individuals.
Yes. When the inside of the prison becomes indistinguishible from the outside - i.e., a complete collapse of government into anarchy and chaos.
Senseless Use of Acronyms
... by moving it to the appropriate Lagrange point and later (when carbon nanotubes can be spun into long enough threads) using it to build our space elevator to the moon.
This is not as crazy as it may seem; it's do-able.
The value of a theory involves much more than just the ability to predict the results of experiments; it should help you understand the experiments. A child can predict results by asking someone that understands and then regurgitate the answers, but that doesn't mean that they know anything about which they speak.
For example, ancient astronomers impressed people for centuries with their ability to predict eclipses using the ptolemeic model. Everytime they got an unexpected result they just added a patch. But Ptolemy's theory was wrong. The heavens do not revolve around the earth in epicycles.
Good to a first approx., but the more accurate equation is not linear with coefficients equal to 1. Each term does not have the same weight and there is a lot of non-linear feedback. For example, people can change from one type to another. But it does not matter because the average American cannot understand any equations anyway, nor can they imagine a world different from what the mainstream media describes.
But the more accurate equation is not linear with coefficients equal to 1. Each term does not have the same weight and there is a lot of non-linear feedback. For example, people can change from one type to another. But it does not matter because the average American cannot understand any equations anyway, nor can they imagine a world different from what the mainstream media describes.
'He is also quite arrogant. He had to gall to send the original coders checks in the amount of 50 dollars as "compensation" for their work -- you can see such a check on a certain professor's door.' Which professor is that? Tell us so his door can get slashdotted.
is that complex phenomena (which pass statistical tests for randomness) can come from simple rules. This is the foundation of the whole book, and Wolfram seems to believe that he's the first to notice it. He is not. Plenty of mathematicians have noticed this in the past, particularly with aperiodic tilings. For example, simple local tiling rules can lead to globally complex non-repeating patterns in a way very similar to his CA patterns. Yet he never mentions this vast body of research in his book. I wonder why.
These guys are condensed matter physicists. Anybody that goes by the title "quantum physicist" is likely a crank. I'm a quantum mechanician.
Is that not fraud since sets with only component video inputs are not HDCP compliant?