Or maybe this guy was going to die no matter what. This sort of thing happens. While our modern infrastructure is important and we should angst about major fuckups (especially if they involve TWC and friends), even the old unbreakable Bakelite phone / POTS system screwed up from time to time.
The other thing to realize about the current 911 system (at least in the US) is that it is a fairly robust, fairly smart system. In the 'old days' when we had to make sure that paths were clear of T. Rex and raptors, it was often hard to find an address because the caller didn't know where they were. "Rock lane! No Boulder Boulevard! No, Flintstone Freeway!" No we can just look at the map.
But stuff like this is going to fail, Murphy sees to that (genuflects). If somebody actually dies because of a 911 delay, their prognosis is pretty grim anyway.
Not really. It is so poorly and broadly worded such that it could be interpreted in either way. According to the Ars article, the bill's author has been rather vague about how he interprets it. But if you have a legislature and judiciary that strongly favors, say, a creationism interpretation of reality, it can certainly be bent to considering 'the other guys' has having a particular bent.
It's bad legislation (nothing new here). Not necessarily benign. Yes, Hanlon's Razor suggests incompetence but I personally feel that Occam's Razor suggests malice.
If you don't want science, then you shouldn't be allowed to benefit from anything created or influenced by it. Say goodbye to your phones, your computers... your massed produced clothes made by machines that use electricity, your fancy guns designed on a computer, your cars.. all of it. Go back to horses and shit soup over a fire while reading your bible and dying of the plague.
If you don't want God, you're gonna burn. Death to the Philistine!
I am totally impressed. You nailed it. Thousands of researchers have simply missed the point with their modeling (which even included previous climate cycles). It's all 'natural' and therefore OK.
Before I subscribe to your newsletter, can you please tell me how we are going to deal with all of those people displaced by this natural phenomenon? And what might be the risks and benefits of trying to intervene in this cycle until we get the human population down to some more reasonable number?
Take one set of data and produce two diametrically opposed answers and have them both correct? Sounds like rumor, gossip, and BS to me, not science. No wonder there are lies, damn lies, and statistics!
I'm very sorry but your approach does not lend itself to a book (or better yet, a series of books), supplements, a prime time guest appearance on Oprah, glossy magazine advertisements, special (and expensive) foods or really any other aspect of modern merchandising.
Please re work your proposal and come back to us when you've figured out how to make money off of it.
Ah yes, the 'noble savage' approach. While it can hardly be argued that our current civilization doesn't have profound problems the only way we could return to anything resembling a dispersed hunter-gatherer / small tribal society would for human population to drop by a couple of billion. That might be in store for us no matter what we're planning on happening but it isn't a practical road map (you first).
Also, he does a poor job of showing that the various human ills he ascribes to agricultural civilization were indeed caused by or worsened by grains and concentrated cities. There is rather a lack of data in prehistoric times about important parts of history.
Actually, that's not quite true. Having an extended family (ie, grandparents) has been noted in many cultures to afford a survival advantage. It allows for more education time, more time for other family members to get food and shelter and allows for skills to be honed and passed on. So humans may well be different in this respect although extended social groups are found in many animal genera.
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Bouillabaisse!
Nah, LP's don't hurt that much if you know what you're doing. An added bonus is that you can do them with the patient sitting up.
Just a little skin prick here and we're done......
Of course, then there is the post spinal headache, but heck can't have everything.
Nah, just Photoshop and a bit of an 'S' curve.
Sounds good! Where do I sign up?
Oh. Wait.
Or maybe this guy was going to die no matter what. This sort of thing happens. While our modern infrastructure is important and we should angst about major fuckups (especially if they involve TWC and friends), even the old unbreakable Bakelite phone / POTS system screwed up from time to time.
The other thing to realize about the current 911 system (at least in the US) is that it is a fairly robust, fairly smart system. In the 'old days' when we had to make sure that paths were clear of T. Rex and raptors, it was often hard to find an address because the caller didn't know where they were. "Rock lane! No Boulder Boulevard! No, Flintstone Freeway!" No we can just look at the map.
But stuff like this is going to fail, Murphy sees to that (genuflects). If somebody actually dies because of a 911 delay, their prognosis is pretty grim anyway.
Don't be evil? That packet left the switch awhile back....
Remind me NOT to send anything to you for repair.
Life. Damned Life. And statistics.
Of course, malice and incompetence are certainly not orthogonal concepts.
Not really. It is so poorly and broadly worded such that it could be interpreted in either way. According to the Ars article, the bill's author has been rather vague about how he interprets it. But if you have a legislature and judiciary that strongly favors, say, a creationism interpretation of reality, it can certainly be bent to considering 'the other guys' has having a particular bent.
It's bad legislation (nothing new here). Not necessarily benign. Yes, Hanlon's Razor suggests incompetence but I personally feel that Occam's Razor suggests malice.
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If you don't want science, then you shouldn't be allowed to benefit from anything created or influenced by it. Say goodbye to your phones, your computers... your massed produced clothes made by machines that use electricity, your fancy guns designed on a computer, your cars.. all of it. Go back to horses and shit soup over a fire while reading your bible and dying of the plague.
If you don't want God, you're gonna burn. Death to the Philistine!
Who wins in this game?
So let's say experiment confirms that light speed is constant but time varies. And then what ?
Although hardly earth shattering, it would explain high school.
Just remember, War is not about who's right. It's about who is left. (Heinlein)
Now, are you on our side. Or the other guy's?
Einstein was German, Jobs and Gates were aliens and Woz is, well, different.
I am totally impressed. You nailed it. Thousands of researchers have simply missed the point with their modeling (which even included previous climate cycles). It's all 'natural' and therefore OK.
Before I subscribe to your newsletter, can you please tell me how we are going to deal with all of those people displaced by this natural phenomenon? And what might be the risks and benefits of trying to intervene in this cycle until we get the human population down to some more reasonable number?
Or are you just mad, bro?
Take one set of data and produce two diametrically opposed answers and have them both correct? Sounds like rumor, gossip, and BS to me, not science.
No wonder there are lies, damn lies, and statistics!
Somebody missed the lecture on assumptions.
The opposite side of the same coin is that no one wants to be the lone white man in a room full of Chinese women.
What is the pretest probability of this being true?
Well, this method comes from physicists. So one can assume that whatever they used, it was perfectly spherical.
Problem solved.
'Simple'
You keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Nuke'em from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
And we have a winner, folks!
I'm very sorry but your approach does not lend itself to a book (or better yet, a series of books), supplements, a prime time guest appearance on Oprah, glossy magazine advertisements, special (and expensive) foods or really any other aspect of modern merchandising.
Please re work your proposal and come back to us when you've figured out how to make money off of it.
Ah yes, the 'noble savage' approach. While it can hardly be argued that our current civilization doesn't have profound problems the only way we could return to anything resembling a dispersed hunter-gatherer / small tribal society would for human population to drop by a couple of billion. That might be in store for us no matter what we're planning on happening but it isn't a practical road map (you first).
Also, he does a poor job of showing that the various human ills he ascribes to agricultural civilization were indeed caused by or worsened by grains and concentrated cities. There is rather a lack of data in prehistoric times about important parts of history.
Actually, that's not quite true. Having an extended family (ie, grandparents) has been noted in many cultures to afford a survival advantage. It allows for more education time, more time for other family members to get food and shelter and allows for skills to be honed and passed on. So humans may well be different in this respect although extended social groups are found in many animal genera.
Obviously not. They didn't have the metric system in the Paleolithic era.