String theory AND general relativity AND quantum physics are all at odds with each other, hence why we're searching for a "unified theory." On more than cursory inspection, science appears to be a form of voodoo. That doesn't mean it's wrong; it just means some of the stuff people believe is a little off track. The difference is that scientists are generally allowed to rewrite doctrine, except in cases of Lysenkoism where scientists are expected to produce results to prove state beliefs (see: global warming, pharmacy studies on generic/classical remedies, etc), in which case the results are either right or wrong by chance but they sure as hell aren't meaningful.
The police can snap your license plate on the way by and look you up in a database; but that won't get them very far because you're long gone. They may happen to be cruising behind you, with the passenger cop operating the computer; still, that means there must be a cop right there.
Different, indeed, is the prospect of police pulling you over "for a routine plate check," examining your plate, pinging the DMV database, and then sending you off clean. Different also is a network of automated systems to do just that to everyone, constantly, and then possibly send the police directly to you.
Yeah I wouldn't mind buying the device with ads for 2 years, where if I stop connecting to Amazon they start charging me monthly or something, to pay it off. Device sold by 2 years of served ads, and lucre on purchased ebooks. The trick would be getting a free one and never touching it, which is costly to Amazon; so of course if I'm not connecting to Amazon to get their ads, I should be billed.
Heavy weight on argumentation and philosophy is exactly what I'm trying to work out for a more modern, advantageous school curriculum. Of course, "Modern" school curriculum wants advancement to go the other way: argumentation and philosophy are things to be squashed, because they make controlling the masses harder. Could you imagine if people listened to politicians talk and just heard lots and lots of holes in logic?
Mayhaps, but I still think they are simply attention whoring and not actually doing anything that will cause any sort of change. I mean it's like watching a chihuahua bark at a tiger. The rats are actually more generally annoying.
Yes, in fact, I prefer things young. Like, meat. I like my ham to be well under a decade old; it has a funny taste to it after 70 years. Even 4 years old is a huge stretch for me. Or dogs, I'm not sure I'd go for a 12 year old dog, or a 25 year old one; maybe 1-2 years, 3 or 4 if I find a used one at a shelter somewhere. I am definitely not into the resale of children; I dislike children actually, but if I were to have one of my own it would have to be rather fresh, in fact brand new, probably make my own.
Well yes. Historically we can demonstrate a lot of things. That doesn't mean that everything you believe about it is true; just that we can prove some things.
You seem to lack the critical thinking skills to actually find the point.
They are the fodder for convincing the legal system that there are too many rights and that groups like this can cause harm to large interests, which of course is economically costly and thus causes harm to small interests.
Historically, we can demonstrate the existence of Jesus, due to the historical events of Pontius Pillate and Ceaser and other shit happening around that time lining up, and something about some annoying beggar-preacher that they executed.
Scientifically, we can demonstrate a lot of stuff. I've encountered a lot of science-followers, though: people who put the faith of God in science, somehow. It doesn't even actually make reasonable, rational sense.
This comes up a lot when I point out that I meditate. I meditate because it calms the mind: it teaches a form of mental focus that aids in clarity of thought, if nothing else. You can go through all kinds of spiritual things related to meditation, playing with energy sources, the like; but even when you try to strip all that stuff away, at the core there is still an impact from sitting down for 5 minutes a day and clearing your mind, consciously. It breaks you away from the consumerist rush, from the constant panic, from the stress, from everything. When you come out of it, it's easier to deal with all that pressure without irrationally panicking and trying to find "something" (anything!) in response.
But it's meditation, so these people immediately become a pitchfork witchhunt crew and start ganging up. Meditation is rooted in hokey non-science spirit superstition and is obviously a load of bullshit with no value and a complete waste of time!
Just like any true believer, there are many people who immediately shut their eyes and their minds to anything that vaguely sounds "un-scientific" the moment they encounter it. I'd call that "faith-based," or "willful ignorance." Maybe both. You're moving from one god to another (which, in my crude philosophical-spiritual system, is an anomaly: I dislike the theology attached to gods, and instead focus spiritually on the self. Why expect hand-outs from some deity, or blame your misfortune on some deity not smiling on you? It is the fault of chance at worst, but it is still up to you to survive such bad luck and to crawl out of the depths you've fallen to and make for yourself your own fortune).
They aren't just waiting for someone to tell them what to believe; they're actively refusing to validate it for themselves (understandable in cases where you can't, which given the amount of knowledge out there...) and, more importantly, attacking others for not sharing their beliefs (sound familiar?).
I didn't really READ the article, per se; it's just that I've seen enough of the media to intuitively know the contents from just a few short words about it. Scientific things are different: anything competently written I need a look at. Incompetent sensationalism has a strong pattern, one centered around "you don't know what this means, so I'll throw out some numbers and meaningless babble." That's why $750Bn bail-outs to banks that gave $150M in bonuses made so much of a huge deal: $750,000 Million vs $150 million. Radiation is easier: 100 microsieverts, 100 millisieverts, nobody even knows the difference so just prattle off numbers and say "ELEVATED RADIATION!" and people will assume living within 10 miles of it is like you fashioned a dildo out of hot Plutonium and shoved it right up your ass. In fact, when they see 150mSv in an article today and 8000uSv tomorrow, they'll go "HOLY SHIT 8000 IS BIGGER!" even though it's 8mSv.
Meanwhile, scam artists are still running major scams on Craigslist and in e-mail. Nobody has flooded out their sites with crap; this is because these people are criminals that want attention, not vigilante superheroes making the world a better place.
A millisiervet is a specfic amount. It is a measure of
dosage and since the chart is a chart of dosages, there is no
per anything.
Uh, the article says they measured 100mSv. If they measured only 100mSv, then by measuring it they absorbed the radiation; if there were only 100mSv there, then the area is now decontaminated.
That's not how it works. The Sievert is a measure of absolute exposure: in one day you are exposed to X sieverts background radiation. If you stand there for two days, you are exposed to 2X sieverts, not X sieverts. The sievert does not have a time term, and one must be given. If you've been exposed to 100mSv in a single second and you continue to stand there for an hour, you will be exposed to 360 Sv in an hour and experience death by radiation (8Sv total exposure is fatal even with immediate treatment).
100 millisieverts per...? A millisievert is a specific amount. If you are getting 100mS/sec you are probably in serious trouble; 100mS/day, you want to leave. Also WHERE outside the buildings? Just outside the door levels are high; 200 meters away, levels are dropping off by inverse cube law.
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can we stack the deck somehow to make brown work better now?
Nope, brown has been voted off the island. We all use fedex now.
Thats' why we don't use most of our farmland in the US. We've hit a wall: Too damn much food. Seriously man, cane sugar > beet/algae/HFCS sugar.
String theory AND general relativity AND quantum physics are all at odds with each other, hence why we're searching for a "unified theory." On more than cursory inspection, science appears to be a form of voodoo. That doesn't mean it's wrong; it just means some of the stuff people believe is a little off track. The difference is that scientists are generally allowed to rewrite doctrine, except in cases of Lysenkoism where scientists are expected to produce results to prove state beliefs (see: global warming, pharmacy studies on generic/classical remedies, etc), in which case the results are either right or wrong by chance but they sure as hell aren't meaningful.
The police can snap your license plate on the way by and look you up in a database; but that won't get them very far because you're long gone. They may happen to be cruising behind you, with the passenger cop operating the computer; still, that means there must be a cop right there.
Different, indeed, is the prospect of police pulling you over "for a routine plate check," examining your plate, pinging the DMV database, and then sending you off clean. Different also is a network of automated systems to do just that to everyone, constantly, and then possibly send the police directly to you.
Yeah I wouldn't mind buying the device with ads for 2 years, where if I stop connecting to Amazon they start charging me monthly or something, to pay it off. Device sold by 2 years of served ads, and lucre on purchased ebooks. The trick would be getting a free one and never touching it, which is costly to Amazon; so of course if I'm not connecting to Amazon to get their ads, I should be billed.
Papers. That's what a license plate is. Yes, it's printed on metal; but they can look it up to see who owns the car, etc.
Heavy weight on argumentation and philosophy is exactly what I'm trying to work out for a more modern, advantageous school curriculum. Of course, "Modern" school curriculum wants advancement to go the other way: argumentation and philosophy are things to be squashed, because they make controlling the masses harder. Could you imagine if people listened to politicians talk and just heard lots and lots of holes in logic?
DO NOT MODERNIZE.
Mayhaps, but I still think they are simply attention whoring and not actually doing anything that will cause any sort of change. I mean it's like watching a chihuahua bark at a tiger. The rats are actually more generally annoying.
What is the earliest record of a recorded date, anyway?
Yes, in fact, I prefer things young. Like, meat. I like my ham to be well under a decade old; it has a funny taste to it after 70 years. Even 4 years old is a huge stretch for me. Or dogs, I'm not sure I'd go for a 12 year old dog, or a 25 year old one; maybe 1-2 years, 3 or 4 if I find a used one at a shelter somewhere. I am definitely not into the resale of children; I dislike children actually, but if I were to have one of my own it would have to be rather fresh, in fact brand new, probably make my own.
Anything older than a decade is ancient!
Well yes. Historically we can demonstrate a lot of things. That doesn't mean that everything you believe about it is true; just that we can prove some things.
You seem to lack the critical thinking skills to actually find the point.
They are the fodder for convincing the legal system that there are too many rights and that groups like this can cause harm to large interests, which of course is economically costly and thus causes harm to small interests.
That does not mean science is not a faith.
Historically, we can demonstrate the existence of Jesus, due to the historical events of Pontius Pillate and Ceaser and other shit happening around that time lining up, and something about some annoying beggar-preacher that they executed.
Scientifically, we can demonstrate a lot of stuff. I've encountered a lot of science-followers, though: people who put the faith of God in science, somehow. It doesn't even actually make reasonable, rational sense.
This comes up a lot when I point out that I meditate. I meditate because it calms the mind: it teaches a form of mental focus that aids in clarity of thought, if nothing else. You can go through all kinds of spiritual things related to meditation, playing with energy sources, the like; but even when you try to strip all that stuff away, at the core there is still an impact from sitting down for 5 minutes a day and clearing your mind, consciously. It breaks you away from the consumerist rush, from the constant panic, from the stress, from everything. When you come out of it, it's easier to deal with all that pressure without irrationally panicking and trying to find "something" (anything!) in response.
But it's meditation, so these people immediately become a pitchfork witchhunt crew and start ganging up. Meditation is rooted in hokey non-science spirit superstition and is obviously a load of bullshit with no value and a complete waste of time!
Just like any true believer, there are many people who immediately shut their eyes and their minds to anything that vaguely sounds "un-scientific" the moment they encounter it. I'd call that "faith-based," or "willful ignorance." Maybe both. You're moving from one god to another (which, in my crude philosophical-spiritual system, is an anomaly: I dislike the theology attached to gods, and instead focus spiritually on the self. Why expect hand-outs from some deity, or blame your misfortune on some deity not smiling on you? It is the fault of chance at worst, but it is still up to you to survive such bad luck and to crawl out of the depths you've fallen to and make for yourself your own fortune).
They aren't just waiting for someone to tell them what to believe; they're actively refusing to validate it for themselves (understandable in cases where you can't, which given the amount of knowledge out there...) and, more importantly, attacking others for not sharing their beliefs (sound familiar?).
I didn't really READ the article, per se; it's just that I've seen enough of the media to intuitively know the contents from just a few short words about it. Scientific things are different: anything competently written I need a look at. Incompetent sensationalism has a strong pattern, one centered around "you don't know what this means, so I'll throw out some numbers and meaningless babble." That's why $750Bn bail-outs to banks that gave $150M in bonuses made so much of a huge deal: $750,000 Million vs $150 million. Radiation is easier: 100 microsieverts, 100 millisieverts, nobody even knows the difference so just prattle off numbers and say "ELEVATED RADIATION!" and people will assume living within 10 miles of it is like you fashioned a dildo out of hot Plutonium and shoved it right up your ass. In fact, when they see 150mSv in an article today and 8000uSv tomorrow, they'll go "HOLY SHIT 8000 IS BIGGER!" even though it's 8mSv.
and a 9 is 39 times more powerful than a 7.4.
Meanwhile, scam artists are still running major scams on Craigslist and in e-mail. Nobody has flooded out their sites with crap; this is because these people are criminals that want attention, not vigilante superheroes making the world a better place.
This explains all the cheap-to-develop Wiiware?
A millisiervet is a specfic amount. It is a measure of dosage and since the chart is a chart of dosages, there is no per anything.
Uh, the article says they measured 100mSv. If they measured only 100mSv, then by measuring it they absorbed the radiation; if there were only 100mSv there, then the area is now decontaminated.
That's not how it works. The Sievert is a measure of absolute exposure: in one day you are exposed to X sieverts background radiation. If you stand there for two days, you are exposed to 2X sieverts, not X sieverts. The sievert does not have a time term, and one must be given. If you've been exposed to 100mSv in a single second and you continue to stand there for an hour, you will be exposed to 360 Sv in an hour and experience death by radiation (8Sv total exposure is fatal even with immediate treatment).
and of course alpha radiation from outside your body is hahahaha my t-shirt is a hazard suit. So, really want to avoid inhaling dust here.
100 millisieverts per...? A millisievert is a specific amount. If you are getting 100mS/sec you are probably in serious trouble; 100mS/day, you want to leave. Also WHERE outside the buildings? Just outside the door levels are high; 200 meters away, levels are dropping off by inverse cube law.
If you "need" the Simpsons, something is wrong. We don't need media shovelware; culture is not from the media factory.
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