What they showed is that *people with higher levels of education are *more* influenced by their poitical leanings* because they use their additional knowledge to justify those leanings.
You're almost there. They basically showed what you said is true in regards to right-wingers. They also looked at the use of nuclear power (which is traditionally regarded by left-wingers as bad). The more education the left-winger had, the less concerned about nuclear power use she was. Her opinion became more closely aligned with that of the scientific evidence. So, when a right winger becomes more educated, he becomes more entrenched in his beliefs. When a left-winger becomes more educated, she more closely aligns her belief with that of the scientists.
According to the [authors], this is not because the idea of imminent carbon-driven catastrophe is perhaps a bit scientifically suspect. Rather it is because people classed as "egalitarian communitarians" (roughly speaking, left-wingers) are always highly concerned about climate change, and become slightly more so as they acquire more science and numeracy. Unfortunately, however, "hierarchical individualists" (basically, right-wingers) are quite concerned about climate change when they're ignorant: but if they have any scientific, mathematic or technical education this causes them to become strongly sceptical.
So, what it is saying essentially, is that to effectively combat global warming we must educate left-wingers and keep right-wingers in the dark. Encourage the home-schoolers, and tell the god-fearin', gun totin', gay haters that academics really will turn them into a godless, muslim-loving, pot-smoking, tofu-eating, pagan-worshipping, Birkenstocks-wearing, tree-hugging, cross-dressing, PETA-supporting, anti-life, hybrid-car-driving, homosexual, lesbian who reads the New York Times.
The use of an UAV for stockpile monitoring sounds like a bit of hype to me. Stockpiles are constantly changing not only in size, but in shape as well. Hence, they need to be constantly monitored. Show me an UAV that can constantly monitor a stockpile in real time 24/7, then we'll talk.
...and wirelessly streamed data from the lead vehicle tells each car when to accelerate, break and turn.
It's not a typo. The lead car has special sensor to determine when a car is getting fatigued, and will call a 'break time' when it senses enough cars getting tired.
You obviously didn't RTFA, because if you would have, you would have noticed this sentence.
Kaspersky discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union asked the Lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Company had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems.
Why do you jump to the conclusion that if it is targeting Iran it must be a good thing? Do you ever question what you see in the media? What if it was written by programmers hired by wall streeters that were trying to gain an upper hand on the oil market, thereby basically stealing money from the Iranians and from you? Still a good thing? This is probably not the case, but that's just it: until we find out all of the details we need to keep our minds open and quizzical, and question who is feeding us what bullshit and why.
Propaganda is getting more and more sophisticated; it is coming at you from all directions. I'm not saying be paranoid, just to realize that most media that gets presented to you has a purpose. Once in a while see if you can divine that purpose.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with employers these days??
It's corporatocracy at its finest. With fewer and fewer jobs, and more and more wealth being concentrated in the hands of the few, it is not surprising to see our corporate masters starting to act like the feudal lords of old. We are there for their entertainment.
Because corporations are gathering power over our lives that used to belong only to the government, we need a bill of rights that covers interactions between corporations and individuals, their 'corporations are citizens too' bullshit notwithstanding.
I, for one, do not welcome our corporate overlords.
...the students pay for classes with whatever teachers need â" cutlery, art, advice â" but never with money.
What the hell do they have against cash? Cash is the most useful thing I own.
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Which leads to what I fear, that people like those in PETA will start a "machine rights" movement, where it may be illegal for me to shut off a machine I built myself!
*Gasp* I hate to break it to you, but it already is illegal to shut them off. They're called 'children'.
Evolution has been working on us for millions of years. It will probably take us hundreds or thousands before we get strong AI.
It also took evolution millions of years to get flight. You're comparing apples and oranges. Evolution has no intelligence directing its actions, whereas sometimes human activity does.
Dear Baden Powell
I am afraid I am not in the flight for "aerial navigation". I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aeronautical Society.
Yours truly Kelvin
This, a mere 13 years before the first airplane crossing of the English Channel.
Princeton University researchers are [speculating] on the [speculation] that astrobiologists and other scientists [speculate] to one day find life on other planets. Recent discoveries [...] have sparked [speculation] about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life on those worlds, but the [speculation] that life - from bacteria to sentient beings - has or will develop on other planets as on Earth might be based more on [speculation].
Even if Iran made a nuclear bomb, that would do nothing more than.. put them on equal footing with every country surrounding them who also has a nuclear bomb
Hear hear! The sooner they get a nuclear bomb, the sooner I'll quit hearing about how we might or might not go to war in Iran (we won't be going to war in Iran). The US going to war in Iran is just such a stupid fucking idea, but it seems like a good one to the neo-cons because Israel wants it.
Since when has violating the law deterred the actions of our government?
The Constitution has become a piece of paper that the government uses to wipe the asses of the corporations. All of our laws supposedly spring from this document, so why would they feel any different about these 'lesser' laws?
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What's your point?
That myths should not be taken literally.
What they showed is that *people with higher levels of education are *more* influenced by their poitical leanings* because they use their additional knowledge to justify those leanings.
You're almost there. They basically showed what you said is true in regards to right-wingers. They also looked at the use of nuclear power (which is traditionally regarded by left-wingers as bad). The more education the left-winger had, the less concerned about nuclear power use she was. Her opinion became more closely aligned with that of the scientific evidence. So, when a right winger becomes more educated, he becomes more entrenched in his beliefs. When a left-winger becomes more educated, she more closely aligns her belief with that of the scientists.
Inflammatory I know, but it's there in the study.
According to the [authors], this is not because the idea of imminent carbon-driven catastrophe is perhaps a bit scientifically suspect. Rather it is because people classed as "egalitarian communitarians" (roughly speaking, left-wingers) are always highly concerned about climate change, and become slightly more so as they acquire more science and numeracy. Unfortunately, however, "hierarchical individualists" (basically, right-wingers) are quite concerned about climate change when they're ignorant: but if they have any scientific, mathematic or technical education this causes them to become strongly sceptical.
So, what it is saying essentially, is that to effectively combat global warming we must educate left-wingers and keep right-wingers in the dark. Encourage the home-schoolers, and tell the god-fearin', gun totin', gay haters that academics really will turn them into a godless, muslim-loving, pot-smoking, tofu-eating, pagan-worshipping, Birkenstocks-wearing, tree-hugging, cross-dressing, PETA-supporting, anti-life, hybrid-car-driving, homosexual, lesbian who reads the New York Times.
The use of an UAV for stockpile monitoring sounds like a bit of hype to me. Stockpiles are constantly changing not only in size, but in shape as well. Hence, they need to be constantly monitored. Show me an UAV that can constantly monitor a stockpile in real time 24/7, then we'll talk.
...and wirelessly streamed data from the lead vehicle tells each car when to accelerate, break and turn.
It's not a typo. The lead car has special sensor to determine when a car is getting fatigued, and will call a 'break time' when it senses enough cars getting tired.
Kaspersky discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union asked the Lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Company had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems.
Why do you jump to the conclusion that if it is targeting Iran it must be a good thing? Do you ever question what you see in the media? What if it was written by programmers hired by wall streeters that were trying to gain an upper hand on the oil market, thereby basically stealing money from the Iranians and from you? Still a good thing? This is probably not the case, but that's just it: until we find out all of the details we need to keep our minds open and quizzical, and question who is feeding us what bullshit and why.
Propaganda is getting more and more sophisticated; it is coming at you from all directions. I'm not saying be paranoid, just to realize that most media that gets presented to you has a purpose. Once in a while see if you can divine that purpose.
Try some critical thinking.
Sorry, I don't have mod points so... MOD PARENT UP.
I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. I'd much rather be me living now, than The Buddha himself, as I still get to breathe, etc.
how does one regulate aging?
Convince Republicans that it involves gays marrying.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with employers these days??
It's corporatocracy at its finest. With fewer and fewer jobs, and more and more wealth being concentrated in the hands of the few, it is not surprising to see our corporate masters starting to act like the feudal lords of old. We are there for their entertainment.
Because corporations are gathering power over our lives that used to belong only to the government, we need a bill of rights that covers interactions between corporations and individuals, their 'corporations are citizens too' bullshit notwithstanding.
I, for one, do not welcome our corporate overlords.
...the students pay for classes with whatever teachers need â" cutlery, art, advice â" but never with money.
What the hell do they have against cash? Cash is the most useful thing I own.
Which leads to what I fear, that people like those in PETA will start a "machine rights" movement, where it may be illegal for me to shut off a machine I built myself!
*Gasp* I hate to break it to you, but it already is illegal to shut them off. They're called 'children'.
Evolution has been working on us for millions of years. It will probably take us hundreds or thousands before we get strong AI.
It also took evolution millions of years to get flight. You're comparing apples and oranges. Evolution has no intelligence directing its actions, whereas sometimes human activity does.
Dear Baden Powell
I am afraid I am not in the flight for "aerial navigation". I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aeronautical Society.
Yours truly Kelvin
This, a mere 13 years before the first airplane crossing of the English Channel.
...it humors to me to hear questions and any semi-serious question regarding it.
I judge you to be... human.
Sincerely Yours, Gold Man Sacs, et. al.
FTFY
Especially because a Slashdotting ain't what it used to be.
No real evidence has been shown, never mind a body. A case built on "evidence" like presented so far would be laughed out of even a kangaroo court!
It's next to impossible to prove a negative. I think you're a chatbot. Prove me wrong.
The previous financial collapses were caused by using the Black-Holes mathematical model. Black-Scholes just spruced that one up a bit.
Princeton University researchers are [speculating] on the [speculation] that astrobiologists and other scientists [speculate] to one day find life on other planets. Recent discoveries [...] have sparked [speculation] about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life on those worlds, but the [speculation] that life - from bacteria to sentient beings - has or will develop on other planets as on Earth might be based more on [speculation].
Even if Iran made a nuclear bomb, that would do nothing more than.. put them on equal footing with every country surrounding them who also has a nuclear bomb
Hear hear! The sooner they get a nuclear bomb, the sooner I'll quit hearing about how we might or might not go to war in Iran (we won't be going to war in Iran). The US going to war in Iran is just such a stupid fucking idea, but it seems like a good one to the neo-cons because Israel wants it.
Since when has violating the law deterred the actions of our government?
The Constitution has become a piece of paper that the government uses to wipe the asses of the corporations. All of our laws supposedly spring from this document, so why would they feel any different about these 'lesser' laws?
Why is this marked funny? It isn't funny.
Never underestimate a woman scored...
I have never underestimated scoring with a woman.
But making a company not screw customers and not scheme and violate basic civil and federal laws "would be communist."
Even *worse*! It'd be SOCIALISM!
They should call the 360 a "burning platform" to drum up some excitement for the possible future versions.
They could call it "Deepwater Horizon". That should drum up support!