Agreed. The issue with cryptocurrencies is any set of, ohhh, 2 or more masters level cryptographers can get together and create one. There's no reason to think these algorithmic widgets won't keep flowing off the assembly line until the whole investment class becomes a joke.
That being said, like everyone else, I sure wish I bought some bitcoins back in 2010!
agreed - this is exceptionally pathetic. I could probably fix it myself with a long sql statement that would take 30 min to write. But then some contractor would be out a 5 million change order.
I guess you missed:
The researchers found that the supplements restore the children's blood levels of amino acids to normal. As for their autism symptoms, Gleeson says, the “patients did not get any worse and their parents say they got better, but it’s anecdotal”.
Doesn't sound promising. Since normal brain development is a process that starts in utero, these amino acids are something that might require treatment to start immediately after birth to have any effect at all.
Somehow with all the folk experimentation that's gone on with autistic kids, which is not always a bad thing, I'd be very surprised if every possible combination of amino-acids hasn't already been tried out there by someone.
Anyhow, moral of the story: don't marry your cousins, or anyone else you may be closely related to.
A thought about "audiophilia". Men (and some women) love expensive toys. But I think the reason this particular area is so out-of-control is that there's no easily quantifiable metric of "sounds better". Whereas, with something like a Leica camera lens, you can shoot a resolution target yourself and see how well the lens resolves it across the visual field. With fast cars, you can see how fast they go or accelerate. Above a couple thousand, any individual piece of sound reproduction equipment, if properly installed and adjusted, will sounds as good as any other to someone who isn't psychotic. The other funny thing is some moron will pay $1000+ for, let's say, an SPDIF or HMDI cable...but that movie or album was produced with standard commercial equipment and cables from the likes of BSW, Markertek, etc. Wouldn't that make the bits already damaged by inferiority by the time they were mastered for CD or DVD!?
I think it should be controversial for its price...50 million to pump water deep from a lake and return it? Where can I sign up to be the prime contractor on such a system?
Can we say graft?
Yeah, your post is so on target. I was just in a suburban Chipotle near a hospital a couple weeks ago listening to a blonde bombshell talking to a doctor (still in scrubs) about her company's line of products. He clearly enjoyed the attention.
"a knee-jerk fear that the Scope's trial will happen all over again"
- you act as though someone made this all up in their free time as a fiction. You do realize this has continued to simmer since the time of Scopes, with for example a supreme court decision in 1968 (Epperson v. Arkansas). A battle has fulminated in Kansas since 1999, and finally, as of 2007, SEEMS to be settled.
continuing the Enlightenment project of supplanting all sources of Meaning (capitalization intended) with Scientific Meaning
Hello? Earth to poster? Are you suggesting high schools have banned all teaching of classical philosophy and religion because "Scientific Meaning" is the only source of meaning? At least in my day, my AP world history course covered the major religions, including Christianity, and what their belief system was/is.
Ben Stein is a pesky, pandering old hack.* His position is hardly noble, it is just sometimes he's taking because he knows it will sell. He probably secretly has as much contempt for the target audience member of that film as any "librul" does, if not more. But he sees them as ripe for the taking. Cha-ching goes the Ben Stein cash register, as he upbraids those dastardly secularists for being so "intolerant"!
If a small group of physicists suddenly started to have an alternate theory of gravity, that it was caused by millions of invisible elves that pull down on things...you'd expect them to be fired for their "dissenting" opinions too!
* apologies to Tom Shales
Has nobody else noted that, with the dollar falling, MS can more easily afford to lower prices in many other countries? Sorry, I haven't figured out if there's a way to search a thread for "dollar falling"
I'm not impressed at all. The whole thing is obviously an astroturf-styled PR move. The latest news about "blog posts leading to policy change" was a staged PR move. Reading Bruce Schneier's interview with "Kip" Hawley. He comes across as a flippant, arrogant a--hole. Good riddance to him when the administration of the Clown Emperor in Chief comes to an end.
Right on. The ideal place to observe this is the Belt Parkway, along with another form of nonsense where some guido or brotha or ricer slows down to 5MPH for 2 minutes to create a gap in front of his whip so that he can burn rubber to impress chicks.
Agreed...except I don't even find it funny for 5 minutes. Your summary about says it all, except I'd add that their acting is way too slick, way too "acting school" to lend even a little verisimilitude. They could try harder to try less hard!
"genius doesn't matter if it can't be communicated" it sure does...wtf are you smoking? we owe most of the modern world - computers, CD players, automotive engineering, airplane turbines, antibiotics etc. etc. to genius that has no hope of being communicated to the growing scientifically illiterate masses
but your post reflects a certain meme I'm beginning to see in the world now...a fear of true intelligence and a belief that only what can be "marketed" is even "real" since the "market" is the dominant socio-political organization. I think Spielberg dramatised a possible outcome of this kind of "anti-thinking" with the memorable Amazing Stories episode where all children were tested for intelligence and the brightest killed, this in a supposed negative utopia where technological advances that would come from such children are seen as dangerous. But that's all hogwash, of course it's actually the people with your purported "social intelligence" who are dangerous, like GW and his risible fake Texas accent. Social intelligence - yes...it appeals to middle American dumbf--ks...does he have a drop of real intelligence? Probably not.
As the other poster said...unfortunately stupidity is not going to go away. However you have one observation that is spot on: "vague false genetic memory of a time that existed only in their fantasies, when society was stable." This is so true. Even in Puritan New England...a Christian fundamentalist promised land if there ever was one, serious historians have documented every sin of the "modern" age. Mass murder? It's there. Teenage pregnancy? It's there too. Check out the PBS film "A Midwife's Tale" for a revealing look at life during that time.
it's been done before basically. My question, when is an academic in the humanities/lit crit area going to fight back with a hoax article in a scientific, medical or engineering publication.
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Agreed. The issue with cryptocurrencies is any set of, ohhh, 2 or more masters level cryptographers can get together and create one. There's no reason to think these algorithmic widgets won't keep flowing off the assembly line until the whole investment class becomes a joke. That being said, like everyone else, I sure wish I bought some bitcoins back in 2010!
agreed - this is exceptionally pathetic. I could probably fix it myself with a long sql statement that would take 30 min to write. But then some contractor would be out a 5 million change order.
I'm not sure the branding was always the problem. cf: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SD2005-5-port-Gigabit-Switch/dp/B0000C20XG/
I guess you missed: The researchers found that the supplements restore the children's blood levels of amino acids to normal. As for their autism symptoms, Gleeson says, the “patients did not get any worse and their parents say they got better, but it’s anecdotal”. Doesn't sound promising. Since normal brain development is a process that starts in utero, these amino acids are something that might require treatment to start immediately after birth to have any effect at all. Somehow with all the folk experimentation that's gone on with autistic kids, which is not always a bad thing, I'd be very surprised if every possible combination of amino-acids hasn't already been tried out there by someone. Anyhow, moral of the story: don't marry your cousins, or anyone else you may be closely related to.
A thought about "audiophilia". Men (and some women) love expensive toys. But I think the reason this particular area is so out-of-control is that there's no easily quantifiable metric of "sounds better". Whereas, with something like a Leica camera lens, you can shoot a resolution target yourself and see how well the lens resolves it across the visual field. With fast cars, you can see how fast they go or accelerate. Above a couple thousand, any individual piece of sound reproduction equipment, if properly installed and adjusted, will sounds as good as any other to someone who isn't psychotic. The other funny thing is some moron will pay $1000+ for, let's say, an SPDIF or HMDI cable...but that movie or album was produced with standard commercial equipment and cables from the likes of BSW, Markertek, etc. Wouldn't that make the bits already damaged by inferiority by the time they were mastered for CD or DVD!?
Add me to the chorus. I only use my domain for my email address, but I will move off Godaddy at the next opportunity. This is just crazy.
Good job! LMAO! The late lamented show "VIP" (yes, Pamela Anderson's) had many such scenes.
thanks for providing the exact figure... this pesky old dinosaur needs to retire
I think it should be controversial for its price...50 million to pump water deep from a lake and return it? Where can I sign up to be the prime contractor on such a system? Can we say graft?
you got video?
Yeah, your post is so on target. I was just in a suburban Chipotle near a hospital a couple weeks ago listening to a blonde bombshell talking to a doctor (still in scrubs) about her company's line of products. He clearly enjoyed the attention.
because I don't
"a knee-jerk fear that the Scope's trial will happen all over again"
- you act as though someone made this all up in their free time as a fiction. You do realize this has continued to simmer since the time of Scopes, with for example a supreme court decision in 1968 (Epperson v. Arkansas). A battle has fulminated in Kansas since 1999, and finally, as of 2007, SEEMS to be settled.
continuing the Enlightenment project of supplanting all sources of Meaning (capitalization intended) with Scientific Meaning
Hello? Earth to poster? Are you suggesting high schools have banned all teaching of classical philosophy and religion because "Scientific Meaning" is the only source of meaning? At least in my day, my AP world history course covered the major religions, including Christianity, and what their belief system was/is.
Ben Stein is a pesky, pandering old hack.* His position is hardly noble, it is just sometimes he's taking because he knows it will sell. He probably secretly has as much contempt for the target audience member of that film as any "librul" does, if not more. But he sees them as ripe for the taking. Cha-ching goes the Ben Stein cash register, as he upbraids those dastardly secularists for being so "intolerant"!
If a small group of physicists suddenly started to have an alternate theory of gravity, that it was caused by millions of invisible elves that pull down on things...you'd expect them to be fired for their "dissenting" opinions too!
* apologies to Tom Shales
Has nobody else noted that, with the dollar falling, MS can more easily afford to lower prices in many other countries?
Sorry, I haven't figured out if there's a way to search a thread for "dollar falling"
I'm not impressed at all. The whole thing is obviously an astroturf-styled PR move. The latest news about "blog posts leading to policy change" was a staged PR move. Reading Bruce Schneier's interview with "Kip" Hawley. He comes across as a flippant, arrogant a--hole. Good riddance to him when the administration of the Clown Emperor in Chief comes to an end.
Right on. The ideal place to observe this is the Belt Parkway, along with another form of nonsense where some guido or brotha or ricer slows down to 5MPH for 2 minutes to create a gap in front of his whip so that he can burn rubber to impress chicks.
Agreed. The OP looks like a FUD-spreader to me.
thanks...best post on the subject yet. Can anybody say: MiniDisc? Can anybody say 8mm video?
When will Congress pass a law allowing Americans to import life-saving operating systems from overseas? We should all get to pay $66 for that POS OS.
Agreed...except I don't even find it funny for 5 minutes. Your summary about says it all, except I'd add that their acting is way too slick, way too "acting school" to lend even a little verisimilitude. They could try harder to try less hard!
Thank you, great post! The XML zombies must be repudiated! See "The Myth of Self-Describing XML" by Eric Browne.
"genius doesn't matter if it can't be communicated"
it sure does...wtf are you smoking? we owe most of the modern world - computers, CD players, automotive engineering, airplane turbines, antibiotics etc. etc. to genius that has no hope of being communicated to the growing scientifically illiterate masses
but your post reflects a certain meme I'm beginning to see in the world now...a fear of true intelligence and a belief that only what can be "marketed" is even "real" since the "market" is the dominant socio-political organization. I think Spielberg dramatised a possible outcome of this kind of "anti-thinking" with the memorable Amazing Stories episode where all children were tested for intelligence and the brightest killed, this in a supposed negative utopia where technological advances that would come from such children are seen as dangerous. But that's all hogwash, of course it's actually the people with your purported "social intelligence" who are dangerous, like GW and his risible fake Texas accent. Social intelligence - yes...it appeals to middle American dumbf--ks...does he have a drop of real intelligence? Probably not.
As the other poster said...unfortunately stupidity is not going to go away. However you have one observation that is spot on: "vague false genetic memory of a time that existed only in their fantasies, when society was stable." This is so true. Even in Puritan New England...a Christian fundamentalist promised land if there ever was one, serious historians have documented every sin of the "modern" age. Mass murder? It's there. Teenage pregnancy? It's there too. Check out the PBS film "A Midwife's Tale" for a revealing look at life during that time.
it's been done before basically. My question, when is an academic in the humanities/lit crit area going to fight back with a hoax article in a scientific, medical or engineering publication.