Yeah, not only that, but also it says that many people without Alzheimer's turned out positive too... so they assumed those are going to develop Alzheimer's.
It produces false negatives, and it might be producing false-positives, but we won't know until 10 or 20 years later. But it still is 100% accurate. Nice math there. This trend of early publishing non peer reviewed material while making extraordinary claims, only to never hear from it again is starting to get really old.
Dude, you are trying to somehow justify the fact that you belief that there is a flying invisible troubled father figure in the sky. That is so ridiculous I can't do anything but laugh at you.
Exercise is great. Believing in supernatural bullshit is not. If you tell me that it just makes you feel good, and it's good exercise, awesome. If you tell me that it has something to do with some mythical energy in your body, that is just bullshit.
Yes, it does mean strong soul, but it was the pseudonym of Bonifacio Palacios, one of the greatest Argentinian poets of all time. It's also the name of the greatest metal band ever.
Ok, let me get that straight, it is ridiculous to assume that the universe doesn't have a creator, so we create a creator that doesn't have a creator, but we don't need to explain that because he is magical. Did I get that right? Is that what you actually believe?
It's a stupid spooky book created by some primitive and degenerate romans to try to control the population.
We don't need the Hubble telescope searching for god to prove them wrong. We already have a science that proves that there is no god: Psychology. Religion is nothing but a mental disorder.
No it is not. You can't hold all expressions to the same level of scientific rigor. If your kid tells you that there is a monster in his closet, you know that he says so because he is a kid and has a huge imagination, and disregard his claims without the need to conduct a scientific investigation to prove him wrong.
Same thing with religion, which is as childish as spooky monsters in your closet.
Absolutely. What I don't understand is why all the crackpots that believe in the invisible space-jew would actually care about aliens. Hell, the bible has been proved wrong so many fucking times we've lost count. Dinosaurs, for instance. They would just say "The devil created those aliens" or "god put those aliens there to test your faith", or some other bullshit, just like they do now with all the rest of the stuff they were wrong about.
You might question the specifics (For example, what species in particular do we come from, what methods are involved in evolution, or even if natural selection works at all the way it's been described). But there are NO DOUBTS about a very simple fact: Animals fuck, and their offspring is a combination of their DNA. After a long time, species change, new species are created, other disappear. That process eventually created us. That is the simple truth. And we can prove it any way. Just watch two dogs fuck, wait nine months, and tell me what you get. There you go, proof of evolution. Does your son look similar to you? bam! evolution. Kiwi is proof of evolution.
You might question the specifics, and they might even be wrong, but that doesn't deny the principle behind evolution. "You don't have enough fossils, therefore god created adam and eve" is just plain stupid.
Well, we all suffer from a lack of "spirituality" because there is no such thing as a spirit.
We are animals. We do not have souls or spirits. What you call "spirituality", I call childish superstition.
The guy that sued the school board was doing the right thing. I don't have kids, but if I did, I wouldn't allow anyone to try and teach them lies at school.
Well, There is no god, and just about everything that surrounds us is conclusive proof that there is no such thing as a god.
Regarding why anyone would deny evidence... that's what religious people do. The only way to believe in a magic flying jew that is his own father is to deny logic, science, and any kind of common sense.
There is a translation in the source article (it took me a while to find it). Damn blogs that masquerade the actual content.
Here is the translation:
Translation:
What you can see from the video is traffic jams, what you can hear is noise, and there is also invisible air pollution. At present, there are mainly 4 types of public transits in China: subway, light-rail train, BRT, and normal bus. They have advantages and disadvantages, for example, subway costs a lot and takes long time to build; BRT takes up road spaces and produces noises as well as pollution to the air. How to develop environmental-friendly public transportation? Straddling bus provides a solution. Let’s watch a demonstration.
The straddling bus combines the advantages of BRT, it is also a substitution for BRT and subway in the future. As you all know, the majority vehicle on the road is car, the shortest vehicle is also car. Normally our overpass is 4.5-5.5 m high. The highlight innovation of straddling bus is that it runs above car and under overpass. Its biggest strength is saving road spaces, efficient and high in capacity. It can reduce up to 25-30% traffic jams on main routes. Running at an average 40 km/h, it can take 1200 people at a time, which means 300 passengers per cart.
Another strength of straddling bus is its short construction life cycle: only 1 year to build 40 km. Whereas building 40-km subway will take 3 years at best. Also the straddling bus will not need the large parking lot that normal buses demand. It can park at its own stop without affecting the passage of cars. This is what the interior looks like: it has huge skylight that will eliminate passengers’ sense of depression when enter.
There are two parts in building the straddling bus. One is remodeling the road, the other is building station platforms. Two ways to remodel the road: we can go with laying rails on both sides of car lane, which save 30% energy; or we can paint two white lines on both sides and use auto-pilot technology in the bus, which will follow the lines and run stable.
There are also two ways in dealing with station platform. One is to load/unload through the sides; the other is using the built-in ladder so that passengers can go up and to the overpass through the ceiling door.
Straddling bus is completely powered by municipal electricity and solar energy system. In terms of electricity, the setting is called relay direct current electrification. The bus itself is electrical conductor, two rails built on top to allow the charging post to run along with the bus, the next charging post will be on the rails before the earlier one leaves, that is why we call it relay charging. It is new invention, not available yet in other places.
The set here is super capacitor, a device that can charge, discharge and store electricity quickly. The power it stores during the stop can support the bus till the next stop where another round of charging takes place, achieving zero toxic gas throughout the process.
About the ultrasonic waves put forth from the end of the bus, that is to keep those high cars or trucks away from entering the tunnel. Using laser ray to scan, cars get too close to the passage will activate the alarm on the bus end. Inside the bus, there are turning lights that indicate a the bus is intending to make a turn to warn the cars inside. Also radar scanning system is embedded on the walls to warn cars from getting too close to the bus wheels.
Nowadays many big cities have remodeled their traffic signaling system, to prioritize public buses, that is to say when a bus reaches a crossing, red light on the other side of the fork will turn on automatically to give buses the right of way. Our straddling bus can learn from this BRT method. The car can make the turn with the bus if that is the direction it wants to go too; if not, the red light will be on to stop the cars beneath while the bus take the turn.
The bus is 6 m in width and 4-4.5 m high. How will people get off the bus if
Check the thread. I already replied to another comment and posted my sources.
Anyway, I DON'T HAVE TO, because this is not news, and I'm not posting an article. This is just me posting an opinion on a site. We are discussing this issue. Also, the sources for my claim have been extensively posted on/. itself.
On one hand, they are trying to salvage old media, and on the other hand they are trying to kill efforts like Wikileaks.
It seems pretty obvious.
CNN can just say anything they want, even if it's completely inaccurate and has no sources to back it up. They can just say their source is secret, and nobody is even going to ask.
Wikileaks, OTOH, shows you the actual docs. That's why they are being persecuted as criminals.
Encyclopedia Britannica is written by an unknown number of employees under unknown circumstances, and they cite no sources clearly (In the best case, they just cite a bunch of sources that might or might not back up their claims, and there's no direct way to check them easily).
Wikipedia is edited by the general public, each edit can be easily identified and accredited to a single author, and all sources are directly linked to in most cases.
And yet, Encyclopedia Britannica is considered more credible than Wikipedia, even when it's been shown that it's far more inaccurate, not to mention outdated.
Old media has to die, but the almighty economic powers that run this world won't let it go without a fight.
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Yeah, not only that, but also it says that many people without Alzheimer's turned out positive too ... so they assumed those are going to develop Alzheimer's.
It produces false negatives, and it might be producing false-positives, but we won't know until 10 or 20 years later. But it still is 100% accurate. Nice math there. This trend of early publishing non peer reviewed material while making extraordinary claims, only to never hear from it again is starting to get really old.
Dude, you are trying to somehow justify the fact that you belief that there is a flying invisible troubled father figure in the sky. That is so ridiculous I can't do anything but laugh at you.
Exercise is great. Believing in supernatural bullshit is not. If you tell me that it just makes you feel good, and it's good exercise, awesome. If you tell me that it has something to do with some mythical energy in your body, that is just bullshit.
Wow, you are truly primitive.
Well, of course my post is derogatory. How do you expect me to refer to people that believe in an eternal space jew that was his own father?
Also, your understanding of science and of this thread is laughable.
On the other hand, my discussion is not religion vs. science or religion vs. anything else.
I don't see science as an antonym of religion. Science is Science. Religion is crackpotery.
My real question here is, how do you know this things?
You don't. You read them in a book that cites no sources. If you claim you know them because god talks to you, you should be put in the funny house.
And you know all of this exactly how?
Ah, you don't. You just made it up. Well, not even you, someone made it up for you.
I have a better suggestion:
It is bullshit.
What were you trying to accomplish exactly with that post, I don't know, but I think it backfired badly.
as a practitioner of tai chi
Ah, I see. Same stupidity, different bullshit.
Yes, it does mean strong soul, but it was the pseudonym of Bonifacio Palacios, one of the greatest Argentinian poets of all time. It's also the name of the greatest metal band ever.
Look it up.
Ok, let me get that straight, it is ridiculous to assume that the universe doesn't have a creator, so we create a creator that doesn't have a creator, but we don't need to explain that because he is magical. Did I get that right? Is that what you actually believe?
Ah, come on!
It's a stupid spooky book created by some primitive and degenerate romans to try to control the population.
We don't need the Hubble telescope searching for god to prove them wrong. We already have a science that proves that there is no god: Psychology. Religion is nothing but a mental disorder.
We don't need to do any of that, because we know who invented god, and we know historically how he was created.
Religion is a mental disease, and the only science that has anything to prove regarding religion is psychology.
No it is not. You can't hold all expressions to the same level of scientific rigor. If your kid tells you that there is a monster in his closet, you know that he says so because he is a kid and has a huge imagination, and disregard his claims without the need to conduct a scientific investigation to prove him wrong.
Same thing with religion, which is as childish as spooky monsters in your closet.
Except that never happened, at least not at that scale, at all. Just fantasy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)#Public_reaction
Absolutely. What I don't understand is why all the crackpots that believe in the invisible space-jew would actually care about aliens. Hell, the bible has been proved wrong so many fucking times we've lost count. Dinosaurs, for instance. They would just say "The devil created those aliens" or "god put those aliens there to test your faith", or some other bullshit, just like they do now with all the rest of the stuff they were wrong about.
No, it is not "just a theory".
You might question the specifics (For example, what species in particular do we come from, what methods are involved in evolution, or even if natural selection works at all the way it's been described). But there are NO DOUBTS about a very simple fact: Animals fuck, and their offspring is a combination of their DNA. After a long time, species change, new species are created, other disappear. That process eventually created us. That is the simple truth. And we can prove it any way. Just watch two dogs fuck, wait nine months, and tell me what you get. There you go, proof of evolution. Does your son look similar to you? bam! evolution. Kiwi is proof of evolution.
You might question the specifics, and they might even be wrong, but that doesn't deny the principle behind evolution. "You don't have enough fossils, therefore god created adam and eve" is just plain stupid.
Well, we all suffer from a lack of "spirituality" because there is no such thing as a spirit.
We are animals. We do not have souls or spirits. What you call "spirituality", I call childish superstition.
The guy that sued the school board was doing the right thing. I don't have kids, but if I did, I wouldn't allow anyone to try and teach them lies at school.
Except there is no such evidence, because there is no god.
Well, There is no god, and just about everything that surrounds us is conclusive proof that there is no such thing as a god.
Regarding why anyone would deny evidence ... that's what religious people do. The only way to believe in a magic flying jew that is his own father is to deny logic, science, and any kind of common sense.
Command Syntax of the ultimate computer languge: DoWhatIWant() DoItFaster(Function), eg. DoItFaster(DoWhatIWant()
It still won't work because you are missing a closing parenthesis at the end.
This is the original article: http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/31/straddling-bus-a-cheaper-greener-and-faster-alternative-to-commute/
Unlike the one posted on the story, that adds nothing (except for stealing ads money from the actual source).
It also includes a translation of the video.
There is a translation in the source article (it took me a while to find it). Damn blogs that masquerade the actual content.
Here is the translation:
Translation:
What you can see from the video is traffic jams, what you can hear is noise, and there is also invisible air pollution. At present, there are mainly 4 types of public transits in China: subway, light-rail train, BRT, and normal bus. They have advantages and disadvantages, for example, subway costs a lot and takes long time to build; BRT takes up road spaces and produces noises as well as pollution to the air. How to develop environmental-friendly public transportation? Straddling bus provides a solution. Let’s watch a demonstration.
The straddling bus combines the advantages of BRT, it is also a substitution for BRT and subway in the future. As you all know, the majority vehicle on the road is car, the shortest vehicle is also car. Normally our overpass is 4.5-5.5 m high. The highlight innovation of straddling bus is that it runs above car and under overpass. Its biggest strength is saving road spaces, efficient and high in capacity. It can reduce up to 25-30% traffic jams on main routes. Running at an average 40 km/h, it can take 1200 people at a time, which means 300 passengers per cart.
Another strength of straddling bus is its short construction life cycle: only 1 year to build 40 km. Whereas building 40-km subway will take 3 years at best. Also the straddling bus will not need the large parking lot that normal buses demand. It can park at its own stop without affecting the passage of cars. This is what the interior looks like: it has huge skylight that will eliminate passengers’ sense of depression when enter.
There are two parts in building the straddling bus. One is remodeling the road, the other is building station platforms. Two ways to remodel the road: we can go with laying rails on both sides of car lane, which save 30% energy; or we can paint two white lines on both sides and use auto-pilot technology in the bus, which will follow the lines and run stable.
There are also two ways in dealing with station platform. One is to load/unload through the sides; the other is using the built-in ladder so that passengers can go up and to the overpass through the ceiling door.
Straddling bus is completely powered by municipal electricity and solar energy system. In terms of electricity, the setting is called relay direct current electrification. The bus itself is electrical conductor, two rails built on top to allow the charging post to run along with the bus, the next charging post will be on the rails before the earlier one leaves, that is why we call it relay charging. It is new invention, not available yet in other places.
The set here is super capacitor, a device that can charge, discharge and store electricity quickly. The power it stores during the stop can support the bus till the next stop where another round of charging takes place, achieving zero toxic gas throughout the process.
About the ultrasonic waves put forth from the end of the bus, that is to keep those high cars or trucks away from entering the tunnel. Using laser ray to scan, cars get too close to the passage will activate the alarm on the bus end. Inside the bus, there are turning lights that indicate a the bus is intending to make a turn to warn the cars inside. Also radar scanning system is embedded on the walls to warn cars from getting too close to the bus wheels.
Nowadays many big cities have remodeled their traffic signaling system, to prioritize public buses, that is to say when a bus reaches a crossing, red light on the other side of the fork will turn on automatically to give buses the right of way. Our straddling bus can learn from this BRT method. The car can make the turn with the bus if that is the direction it wants to go too; if not, the red light will be on to stop the cars beneath while the bus take the turn.
The bus is 6 m in width and 4-4.5 m high. How will people get off the bus if
Check the thread. I already replied to another comment and posted my sources.
Anyway, I DON'T HAVE TO, because this is not news, and I'm not posting an article. This is just me posting an opinion on a site. We are discussing this issue. Also, the sources for my claim have been extensively posted on /. itself.
This article, and:
http://collateralmurder.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/
http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2010m6d20-Censored-news-Pentagon-attacks-Wikileaks-more-gulf-drilling-approved-Fed-fights-reform-more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/britannica-versus-wikipedia/
On one hand, they are trying to salvage old media, and on the other hand they are trying to kill efforts like Wikileaks.
It seems pretty obvious.
CNN can just say anything they want, even if it's completely inaccurate and has no sources to back it up. They can just say their source is secret, and nobody is even going to ask.
Wikileaks, OTOH, shows you the actual docs. That's why they are being persecuted as criminals.
Encyclopedia Britannica is written by an unknown number of employees under unknown circumstances, and they cite no sources clearly (In the best case, they just cite a bunch of sources that might or might not back up their claims, and there's no direct way to check them easily).
Wikipedia is edited by the general public, each edit can be easily identified and accredited to a single author, and all sources are directly linked to in most cases.
And yet, Encyclopedia Britannica is considered more credible than Wikipedia, even when it's been shown that it's far more inaccurate, not to mention outdated.
Old media has to die, but the almighty economic powers that run this world won't let it go without a fight.