Well, I find my droid has problems hearing me correctly, and haven't seen siri in person to know if its any better. There isn't any magical "do the most logical thing based on what I say" app either. I don't like apple products, but this one sounds good.
Yep, you are exactly correct. Making up fake science, or using it selectively is politicization in true form. Scientization would be taking a politically contentious topic and limiting its policy to what is determined to be most effective by the scientific method. Luckily we already have that to some extent in the field of medicine, but we could do with more.
The world actually needs more "enterprisey" languages. If you want experimental, fun languages, your choices are actually very good, what with ruby, python, and a ton of functional languages. In terms of safe and good for scalable, risk-averse environments, there's pretty much just Java and C#. Java seems to have accumulated so much inertia, it doesn't add new features anymore. As for C#, the problems dealing with Microsoft are well-known to the slashdot community already.
A little more competition in that arena would do the industry some good.
Uninstall reader/acrobat as useless, install firefox with flashblock, adblock. Ta-da, infection almost certainly now depends on users being morons.
I personally would like a way to tell firefox to block cross-domain anything that's not a static image. That would quash a lot of the scripts that are problematic without the hassle of noscript.
I hate to break it to you, but the original paper in question actually cites stratospheric thermal isolation due to increased levels of CO2 as a possible cause of the lower temperatures. It doesn't go into any depth, because that's not what the paper is about, but that's not an idea that comes from nowhere.
No that's not what they're saying. They're saying they don't want to deal with artificial constraints on their self-proclaimed awesomeness. They're wrong in their belief that they are an artificially constraint super-hero waiting to happen. Cases like this are bad and symptomatic of an unhealthy structure of authority present in the academic ecosystem, but also not some sort of engineered conspiracy to keep the brilliance of the GP at bay.
There's no need to ascribe racism to an idea that's perfectly flawed on its own. It legitimatizes the argument by giving a trivially wrong rebuttal to reject. The core flaw here is not an attempt to classify people deeply by a shallow trait like race, but rather to assume a much more complex and malevolent plan than actually exists.
That is not a convincing response. Wherein the initial goal was the toppling of existing governments, the result being similar to other governmental collapses is not exactly surprising.
On the subject my core disagreement with libertarians: The idea of governments being a completely unnecessary construct predates Galt by several centuries. The most complete, thorough, and still valid rebuttal of that idea was published by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan. While it's a fairly specific thing to refute, I've never seen a libertarian response to the points that were made 350 years ago. There's never been a solid rebuking of the idea that libertarian/anarchistic governance lead to a war of all men against all others.
If only there were any evidence of that. Lifetime monogamy is not necessarily a healthy relationship. There are lots of reasons for that, not least of which being that people change, and not always positively. Moreover you are pretending the only transmission vector is sex, which is just absurd given how the pathogen actually spreads.
That's the point. Anarchy creates new smaller governments that are brutal, violent and inefficient. Welcome to humanity's self-organizing nature. The fundamental theorems of libertarianism have never been demonstrated at any level.
It's a ridiculous thought experiment about 10% of people seem to think needs to be implemented on a grand scale with supporting evidence culled only from a massively outdated school of economics. Libertarian philosophy is internally relatively consistent, but externally completely invalidated. The fact that the seminal writing of the libertarian movement is fiction should be a hint.
Capitalism does not create corruption, it minimizes overhead for corruption, but it doesn't create it. There just needs to be a death penalty for taking money from private interests while serving the public interest.
That'd be more of a reasonable objection if laws didn't get updated and repealed occasionally. Precedent is important in the fair application of law, but it isn't required for every ruling.
I've been in favor of this as a constitutional amendment for years. No law should stand for more than a generation without a reexamination of content, context, and applicability.
I just learned about this kind of injury recently. Apparently sea turtle rape of scuba divers is a not-as-uncommon-as-you-might-think issue, with drowning, compression/decompression sickness, and trauma being common effects, as sea turtles will force divers to the bottom of the ocean and hold them their for as much as an hour. Without being an expert myself, I'd wager cardio-respritory care would be needed in addition to trauma treatment.
This post is not intended to be humorous, this is an actual, serious issue I learned about with loggerhead turtles recently.
Complete nonsense. Rather than mod you down, I'd just like to point out that natural circumstance can and frequently does circumvent any level of planning or recklessness engaged in by people. You CAN be severely injured by a lightning strike from a clear sky. Not every injury can be blamed on a lack of responsibility,
Moreover, the importance of classifying injuries goes beyond insurance, and doctors can use these codes to help identify specialties that are applicable to a patient.
No, it's actually an accurate representation of public response towards scientific discovery. Flamebait, if you've forgotten the definition, is an intentionally flawed argument with the intent to draw antagonism. I don't personally see any of that characteristic in the article whose intent seems to be communicating via analogy.
That's a lot of nonsense. Chaos theory is, by its nature, not applicable to long term statistical assessments, such as climatology. That's why casinos work. Secondly, you blindly assert that climatology has a lot in common with paranormal investigation. That's not only unsupported, but reflects an inherent poor understanding of the philosophy of science. Paranormal investigation suffers from two major deficiencies of proper science. One is the parsimony, in that it never allows for reducing an explanation to a simpler model that generates the same data. That deficiency cannot be present in climate science because there are well established correlations being used, where if the explanation currently given for their relationship were removed, there is no reliable null-hypothesis for the same data. The second deficiency is one of hypothesis formulation. In parapsychology and similar "fields" you don't see instances of hypotheses being generated prior to acquiring the dataset for analysis. With climate science, there have been thousands of hypotheses generated, then tested by applying them to previously unexamined or unavailable climate data.
If you'll ignore the long-windedness of the above, the essential point is you are throwing random conjecture about the nature of the universe at scientists who have real data, scientific methodology, and simultaneously accusing them of being the ones using blind conjecture, without supplying evidence of that. It's reflects very poorly on any human being who cannot apply their own standards to themselves when supplying a simple argument.
That's true. I made a similar post further down the page. However, republican opposition to embryonic stem cells is still absurd. It comes to the assumption or belief or whatever you want to call it that something without a brain is somehow human. It's just another tally in the table of republicans don't understand or believe science and the act on that
preface: Rick Perry's public statements have lead me to believe he is a very ill-informed or decietful person with regards to his political views. That is not what this post is about.
Before anyone jumps the gun and goes for the "hippocrite" line, the stem cells used were adult, not embryonic as his party as absurdly become opposed to for poorly informed reasons. Just worth noting.
The similarity is they are striking a monolithic government in an illegal way. Just because one is brutal and violent doesn't removing the underlying similarity in the tactics. Individuals without organizational support enaging in private war against a government. The mentaility is similar, not identical.
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Half the reason I ever use google, is for esoteric search tools like I can find on labs. Is there anyone who provides these kinds of metadata tools?
Well, I find my droid has problems hearing me correctly, and haven't seen siri in person to know if its any better. There isn't any magical "do the most logical thing based on what I say" app either. I don't like apple products, but this one sounds good.
Yep, you are exactly correct. Making up fake science, or using it selectively is politicization in true form. Scientization would be taking a politically contentious topic and limiting its policy to what is determined to be most effective by the scientific method. Luckily we already have that to some extent in the field of medicine, but we could do with more.
The world actually needs more "enterprisey" languages. If you want experimental, fun languages, your choices are actually very good, what with ruby, python, and a ton of functional languages. In terms of safe and good for scalable, risk-averse environments, there's pretty much just Java and C#. Java seems to have accumulated so much inertia, it doesn't add new features anymore. As for C#, the problems dealing with Microsoft are well-known to the slashdot community already.
A little more competition in that arena would do the industry some good.
It's official, slashdot now has worse commenters than youtube.
Uninstall reader/acrobat as useless, install firefox with flashblock, adblock.
Ta-da, infection almost certainly now depends on users being morons.
I personally would like a way to tell firefox to block cross-domain anything that's not a static image. That would quash a lot of the scripts that are problematic without the hassle of noscript.
I hate to break it to you, but the original paper in question actually cites stratospheric thermal isolation due to increased levels of CO2 as a possible cause of the lower temperatures. It doesn't go into any depth, because that's not what the paper is about, but that's not an idea that comes from nowhere.
No that's not what they're saying. They're saying they don't want to deal with artificial constraints on their self-proclaimed awesomeness. They're wrong in their belief that they are an artificially constraint super-hero waiting to happen. Cases like this are bad and symptomatic of an unhealthy structure of authority present in the academic ecosystem, but also not some sort of engineered conspiracy to keep the brilliance of the GP at bay.
There's no need to ascribe racism to an idea that's perfectly flawed on its own. It legitimatizes the argument by giving a trivially wrong rebuttal to reject. The core flaw here is not an attempt to classify people deeply by a shallow trait like race, but rather to assume a much more complex and malevolent plan than actually exists.
That is not a convincing response. Wherein the initial goal was the toppling of existing governments, the result being similar to other governmental collapses is not exactly surprising.
On the subject my core disagreement with libertarians: The idea of governments being a completely unnecessary construct predates Galt by several centuries. The most complete, thorough, and still valid rebuttal of that idea was published by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan. While it's a fairly specific thing to refute, I've never seen a libertarian response to the points that were made 350 years ago. There's never been a solid rebuking of the idea that libertarian/anarchistic governance lead to a war of all men against all others.
If only there were any evidence of that. Lifetime monogamy is not necessarily a healthy relationship. There are lots of reasons for that, not least of which being that people change, and not always positively. Moreover you are pretending the only transmission vector is sex, which is just absurd given how the pathogen actually spreads.
That's the point. Anarchy creates new smaller governments that are brutal, violent and inefficient.
Welcome to humanity's self-organizing nature. The fundamental theorems of libertarianism have never been demonstrated at any level.
It's a ridiculous thought experiment about 10% of people seem to think needs to be implemented on a grand scale with supporting evidence culled only from a massively outdated school of economics. Libertarian philosophy is internally relatively consistent, but externally completely invalidated. The fact that the seminal writing of the libertarian movement is fiction should be a hint.
Capitalism does not create corruption, it minimizes overhead for corruption, but it doesn't create it. There just needs to be a death penalty for taking money from private interests while serving the public interest.
That'd be more of a reasonable objection if laws didn't get updated and repealed occasionally. Precedent is important in the fair application of law, but it isn't required for every ruling.
I've been in favor of this as a constitutional amendment for years. No law should stand for more than a generation without a reexamination of content, context, and applicability.
Is sol our sun?
Yes. Sol is the name for our sun. Luna is the term for our moon.
Sun and moon are generic terms, Sol, and Luna are proper nouns for the specific sun and specific moon. Any other really easy questions?
I just learned about this kind of injury recently. Apparently sea turtle rape of scuba divers is a not-as-uncommon-as-you-might-think issue, with drowning, compression/decompression sickness, and trauma being common effects, as sea turtles will force divers to the bottom of the ocean and hold them their for as much as an hour. Without being an expert myself, I'd wager cardio-respritory care would be needed in addition to trauma treatment.
This post is not intended to be humorous, this is an actual, serious issue I learned about with loggerhead turtles recently.
Complete nonsense. Rather than mod you down, I'd just like to point out that natural circumstance can and frequently does circumvent any level of planning or recklessness engaged in by people. You CAN be severely injured by a lightning strike from a clear sky. Not every injury can be blamed on a lack of responsibility,
Moreover, the importance of classifying injuries goes beyond insurance, and doctors can use these codes to help identify specialties that are applicable to a patient.
No, it's actually an accurate representation of public response towards scientific discovery. Flamebait, if you've forgotten the definition, is an intentionally flawed argument with the intent to draw antagonism. I don't personally see any of that characteristic in the article whose intent seems to be communicating via analogy.
That's a lot of nonsense. Chaos theory is, by its nature, not applicable to long term statistical assessments, such as climatology. That's why casinos work. Secondly, you blindly assert that climatology has a lot in common with paranormal investigation. That's not only unsupported, but reflects an inherent poor understanding of the philosophy of science. Paranormal investigation suffers from two major deficiencies of proper science. One is the parsimony, in that it never allows for reducing an explanation to a simpler model that generates the same data. That deficiency cannot be present in climate science because there are well established correlations being used, where if the explanation currently given for their relationship were removed, there is no reliable null-hypothesis for the same data. The second deficiency is one of hypothesis formulation. In parapsychology and similar "fields" you don't see instances of hypotheses being generated prior to acquiring the dataset for analysis. With climate science, there have been thousands of hypotheses generated, then tested by applying them to previously unexamined or unavailable climate data.
If you'll ignore the long-windedness of the above, the essential point is you are throwing random conjecture about the nature of the universe at scientists who have real data, scientific methodology, and simultaneously accusing them of being the ones using blind conjecture, without supplying evidence of that. It's reflects very poorly on any human being who cannot apply their own standards to themselves when supplying a simple argument.
Yes, but those aren't subject to the same taxes the U.S. government institutes on fossil fuels. The OP was being a libertarian whiner.
Yes, you should always buy from theives at retail prices. That will drive down demand for theft.
I can't believe this got modded up. What argument are you making against what actually happened instead of your persecution fantasies?
That's true. I made a similar post further down the page. However, republican opposition to embryonic stem cells is still absurd. It comes to the assumption or belief or whatever you want to call it that something without a brain is somehow human. It's just another tally in the table of republicans don't understand or believe science and the act on that
preface: Rick Perry's public statements have lead me to believe he is a very ill-informed or decietful person with regards to his political views. That is not what this post is about.
Before anyone jumps the gun and goes for the "hippocrite" line, the stem cells used were adult, not embryonic as his party as absurdly become opposed to for poorly informed reasons. Just worth noting.
The similarity is they are striking a monolithic government in an illegal way. Just because one is brutal and violent doesn't removing the underlying similarity in the tactics. Individuals without organizational support enaging in private war against a government. The mentaility is similar, not identical.