I think it would be a better idea if you had to pass some basic science (or whatever) test before you were able to chair a committee on science (or whatever).
But then I remember that congressmen are retarded people who got through life by pandering to the highest bidder
This clown is supposedly a Medical Doctor. So he had to at least be exposed to the some reasonably advanced concepts and memorize them. You've got to be pretty weird to go through all of that and denounce it as essentially heresy.
Representative Paul C. Broun, Jr. was elected in July of 2007 to serve the Tenth District of Georgia. Since his arrival in Congress, he has been appointed to the House Homeland Security Committee, the House Committee on Natural Resources, and currently serves as Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Dr. Broun grew up in Athens, Georgia where he attended Athens High School and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1967 with a B.S. in Chemistry. In 1971, he received his Medical Doctor degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. An internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a residency at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama followed.
He's probably just pandering to the crowd, but what a friggin slimeball.
What in the holy Hell was your noted experience? Are you one of those people who touched their tongue on a 9V battery and had to go to the ER because it got stuck or something?
Prepare to lose everything you pack in the container. Cargo ships will pack as many cargo containers into them as they can and whatever won't fit into the hold will be strapped to the deck. It is not unknown for cargo containers to be washed overboard during a storm. A shipment of rubber ducks that were washed overboard ended up helping scientists track ocean currents. See the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
Be prepared to get boarded you scurvy dog!
Come on, bad things can always happen. Container losses are not particularly common and he's not shipping the Mona Lisa.
Good thing pirates don't make you walk the plank these days. You'd be in a total twizzy.
Have you ever felt that you need to cut down on your Slashdot reading? Have people annoyed you by criticizing the time you spend on Slashdot? Have you ever felt guilty about reading Slashdot? Have you ever felt the need to read Slashdot first thing in the morning?
(If you answered 'yes' to 2 or more questions, or answered the last question with a yes, you are very likely addicted to Slashdot).
You just managed to describe a disease while trying not to...
Smoke triggering asthma symptoms isn't terribly rare. There well be a psychological component to it (and many, many other 'real' diseases as well), but asthma is definitely a disease.
You are dead wrong. Total lifetime costs for smokers is actually lower because they die earlier, and the end of life costs are similar anyway.
Nope. Smokers are expensive. They do die earlier but not soon enough (for the sake of this particular argument). They don't just keel over at 45, they limp along a couple more decades, pop into the ICU for a spell, then expire.
It doesn't have to. Science doesn't have to deal with fairy tales.
Auras
If you mean Auroras, we've got you covered. If you mean the fuzzy, ill defined fields that come up when you overexpose film or electronic sensors, well, we've got that covered as well.
the afterlife
What afterlife? Before it needs explaining, it needs existing.
the power of prayer?
What "power of prayer"? The non existent causal relationship between other people praying for someone and having an outcomes change? That doesn't happen. The ability of the plastic human mind to influence the rest of the body (to which it's intimately connected)? May I introduce you to the concept of neurobiology in all it's complexity and splendor?
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
– Lord John Dalberg Acton, Letter to Mandell Creighton (1887)
You're cherry picking a bit. The difference between (this specific form of) glaucoma rates between moderate (one cup) drinkers and less moderate (3+ cup drinkers) was not statistically significant. The difference between caffeine abstainers (those sad examples of humanity) and any caffeine addict was (barely) statistically significant.
However, all that says is that the the argument that "the association of caffeine intake and certain forms of glaucoma using this data set and these assumptions (the confounder regression)" is unlikely to be caused simply by chance. It says nothing else.
For that and a couple of other reasons, I would not go running out and switching to decaf.
No, it means that you should stop reading dumb clinical articles taken out of context on Slashdot.
This is just one of those hundreds of thousands of medical articles trawling the data for a correlation so somebody can chase after another grant. According to TFA, they reviewed records of almost 79000 people and came up with 360 cases of this particular form of glaucoma. Then they take the self reported caffeine intake, adjust for 'other confounders' (waves hands) and come up with a weak (Relative Risk 1.4) association that is barely statistically significant and likely not clinically significant at all.
Hrumphh. Not impressed
(Goes back to quaffing his Nuclear Waste level caffeinated beverage)
... They found the remains of a Rebel base, but they estimate that it has been deserted for some time. They are now conducting an extensive search of the surrounding systems.
No, that's not really true - cell phones can take great pictures. It's just that the situations in which they take really good pictures (compared with crappy pics) are pretty limited when compared to a modern DSLR with decent lenses. There are lots of good cell phone pics taken by good photographers. Photographers who understand the strengths and weakness of the tool that they are using, work toward maximizing the strengths and minimizing the weaknesses.
Shooting directly into the sun with a cell phone camera and expecting great results typically means that the photographer spent too much time staring at the sun during their formative years. Not a pretty sight in ether case.
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And how do you think population characteristics are passed between generations? magic?
God did it, according to our Republican Physician Overlords, whom we do not particularly welcome.
I think it would be a better idea if you had to pass some basic science (or whatever) test before you were able to chair a committee on science (or whatever).
But then I remember that congressmen are retarded people who got through life by pandering to the highest bidder
This clown is supposedly a Medical Doctor. So he had to at least be exposed to the some reasonably advanced concepts and memorize them. You've got to be pretty weird to go through all of that and denounce it as essentially heresy.
From his bio on his web site:
Representative Paul C. Broun, Jr. was elected in July of 2007 to serve the Tenth District of Georgia. Since his arrival in Congress, he has been appointed to the House Homeland Security Committee, the House Committee on Natural Resources, and currently serves as Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Dr. Broun grew up in Athens, Georgia where he attended Athens High School and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1967 with a B.S. in Chemistry. In 1971, he received his Medical Doctor degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. An internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a residency at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama followed.
He's probably just pandering to the crowd, but what a friggin slimeball.
Must be God's will. Nobody else could be that crazy.
It's an election year. ... I suspect he'd wear a pink tutu and sing songs from Little Mermaid if he thought he'd get more votes.
OK, I'm game. I'll pitch in $50 for his re election campaign if he'll do that. Even just the tutu.
He's going by boat. Not the Space Shuttle.
What in the holy Hell was your noted experience? Are you one of those people who touched their tongue on a 9V battery and had to go to the ER because it got stuck or something?
Prepare to lose everything you pack in the container. Cargo ships will pack as many cargo containers into them as they can and whatever won't fit into the hold will be strapped to the deck. It is not unknown for cargo containers to be washed overboard during a storm. A shipment of rubber ducks that were washed overboard ended up helping scientists track ocean currents. See the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
Be prepared to get boarded you scurvy dog!
Come on, bad things can always happen. Container losses are not particularly common and he's not shipping the Mona Lisa.
Good thing pirates don't make you walk the plank these days. You'd be in a total twizzy.
Movies. Microcode. Pizza Delivery.
(Notice that, in this particular utopian view, the service industry is in third place.)
Oh no. Not more cow orkers....
Have you ever felt that you need to cut down on your Slashdot reading?
Have people annoyed you by criticizing the time you spend on Slashdot?
Have you ever felt guilty about reading Slashdot?
Have you ever felt the need to read Slashdot first thing in the morning?
(If you answered 'yes' to 2 or more questions, or answered the last question with a yes, you are very likely addicted to Slashdot).
Pilfered from the CAGE questionnaire.
Bottoms Up!
You just managed to describe a disease while trying not to...
Smoke triggering asthma symptoms isn't terribly rare. There well be a psychological component to it (and many, many other 'real' diseases as well), but asthma is definitely a disease.
You are dead wrong. Total lifetime costs for smokers is actually lower because they die earlier, and the end of life costs are similar anyway.
Nope. Smokers are expensive. They do die earlier but not soon enough (for the sake of this particular argument). They don't just keel over at 45, they limp along a couple more decades, pop into the ICU for a spell, then expire.
Cool story, bro.
How does science explain psychics?
It doesn't have to. Science doesn't have to deal with fairy tales.
Auras
If you mean Auroras, we've got you covered. If you mean the fuzzy, ill defined fields that come up when you overexpose film or electronic sensors, well, we've got that covered as well.
the afterlife
What afterlife? Before it needs explaining, it needs existing.
the power of prayer?
What "power of prayer"? The non existent causal relationship between other people praying for someone and having an outcomes change? That doesn't happen. The ability of the plastic human mind to influence the rest of the body (to which it's intimately connected)? May I introduce you to the concept of neurobiology in all it's complexity and splendor?
In fifty years, the only tech person who will be remembered will be Bill Gates, the man who cured Malaria. aka The Gates Vaccine.
Windows? Apple? What are you talking about?
"Immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"
John Kenneth Galbraith
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
– Lord John Dalberg Acton, Letter to Mandell Creighton (1887)
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Does sex with oneself count or is there some sort of twisted recursive perversion that we're unaware of?
Seems more and more jobs are being replaced by technology. What happens as the population grows but jobs dissapear?
You give the robots an allowance.
I believe we are living in a safer world.
Or just a dumber one.
Nuclear weapons, nuclear powered submarines, nuclear powered aircraft carriers, nuclear powered spacecraft, F16's, F18's, F22's, C17's, B2's, B52s, B1B's, A10's, Tanks, EWACS, Up Armored trucks, Air to ground missiles, Ground to Air missiles. Missile to Missile missiles.
Do you all get the drift here?
You're cherry picking a bit. The difference between (this specific form of) glaucoma rates between moderate (one cup) drinkers and less moderate (3+ cup drinkers) was not statistically significant. The difference between caffeine abstainers (those sad examples of humanity) and any caffeine addict was (barely) statistically significant.
However, all that says is that the the argument that "the association of caffeine intake and certain forms of glaucoma using this data set and these assumptions (the confounder regression)" is unlikely to be caused simply by chance. It says nothing else.
For that and a couple of other reasons, I would not go running out and switching to decaf.
No, it means that you should stop reading dumb clinical articles taken out of context on Slashdot.
This is just one of those hundreds of thousands of medical articles trawling the data for a correlation so somebody can chase after another grant. According to TFA, they reviewed records of almost 79000 people and came up with 360 cases of this particular form of glaucoma. Then they take the self reported caffeine intake, adjust for 'other confounders' (waves hands) and come up with a weak (Relative Risk 1.4) association that is barely statistically significant and likely not clinically significant at all.
Hrumphh. Not impressed
(Goes back to quaffing his Nuclear Waste level caffeinated beverage)
... They found the remains of a Rebel base, but they estimate that it has been deserted for some time. They are now conducting an extensive search of the surrounding systems.
Sure they would have. Any aliens heading towards earth would have had decades of 'instructional videos' with they could use to decode our language.
You should get your sarcasm meter calibrated a bit more often.
No phone can take photos as well as a DSLR.
No, that's not really true - cell phones can take great pictures. It's just that the situations in which they take really good pictures (compared with crappy pics) are pretty limited when compared to a modern DSLR with decent lenses. There are lots of good cell phone pics taken by good photographers. Photographers who understand the strengths and weakness of the tool that they are using, work toward maximizing the strengths and minimizing the weaknesses.
Shooting directly into the sun with a cell phone camera and expecting great results typically means that the photographer spent too much time staring at the sun during their formative years. Not a pretty sight in ether case.