No, not everything can be falsified.
Take creationism for example. There's no way to falsify it. The fact that it cannot be falsified makes it an unscientific idea. You should have said that all scientific ideas can be falsified.
What's this contact syncing you guys are talking about? My iphone is always synced with my gmail account using activesync. If I add a contact on my iphone, it gets added to my gmail account instantly. Couldn't be easier!
Actually, it's a hundred percent accurate that this rose from the ashes of Halo. Peter Jackson said in an interview that after the Halo movie fell through he and Neil decided to do D-9 instead. If it wasn't for Halo, Peter Jackson may never have partnered up with Neil. And if it wasn't for Halo getting killed, this film may not have been made.
Dawkins came up with his brilliant meme idea as merely a way to express that evolution by means of natural selection can occur outside of biology. He wanted to show that evolution was a powerful way of understanding the world in all aspects, not just biology. He was a big promoter of genetic algorithms (computers using evolution to compute stuff) and has even entertained that idea that universes could be evolving in the multiverse, where maybe (in a purely thought-experiment type way) the universes that are best able to produce complexity (including life) reproduce, which could explain why complexity exists at all and why our physical laws are the way they are.
Actually, the DSi will be an mp3 player: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2331546,00.asp It will also take pictures with the built in camera. It's definitely adding capabilities beyond playing video games. I wouldn't be surprised if apps came out for playing videos down the road.
You're confusing 'is' with 'ought'. Just because the nearly universal practice of pirating can be explained by capitalist theory, it doesn't make it morally right.
This is similar to how the supporters of social darwinism misunderstood the lesson of natural selection. Just because nature chooses the fittest, it doesn't mean we 'ought' to do the same.
What about between six months and 5 years? Just keep the baby in a plastic bubble? I'll give my kid the recommended vaccines, you know, the ones that are proven to be safe and effective?
I never saw them go on Oprah, the most watched television show by mothers, telling mothers not to vaccinate their kids, or else they'd be responsible for giving their kids autism.
Unfortunately, not being vaccinated also affects rational people in the community. Some kids cannot get vaccines due to allergies, and there's a percentage of kids who do get vaccinated, but it is ineffective. These kids rely on other kids to be vaccinated, in order to reduce their chance of exposure. This is called her immunity. For herd immunity to be effective, it is believe that a 95% vaccination rate is required. The MMR vaccine has now fallen below that rate in the UK thanks to pseudo-scientists like Andrew Wakefield.
ooohhh, injection of doses of different things! Guess what, we also feed them doses of different things.
The fact is that there are more antigens (threats to their immune system) on the tip of their cute little nose than there are in a vaccine shot. This is the latest argument from the anti-vaccine wingnuts, "Too much too soon." It's a complete non-sequitur. They cannot define too much nor too soon and is not based on science at all. Of course, they only come to this latest tactic because their last ones have all failed: "It's the mercury stupid" or "MMR causes a bowel problem that leads to autism"
The right wing's form of anti-science tends to be evolution and global warming denial. They too think they have the 'true' science on their side, no different from lefties and their anti-vaxx and anti-synthetic chemicals propaganda.
But wouldn't you actually release the energy when the anti-matter and matter is recombined? This would release the combined energy of both types of matter.
It'd be great if someone more knowledgeable than me can explain how anti-matter can be turned into energy.
Why even posit the existence of God? Why not Gods? Or how about a giant quantum super computer? Let's follow the evidence to find out the 'hows' and 'whys', and not be looking for evidence to justify our ancient mythical beliefs.
What about the possibility that sightings were of natural phenomena? i.e. not made by the pentagon, or humans?
What about lights in the skies created by civilians?
Don't commit the false dichotomy fallacy of assuming there are two options, and if one is false, the other is automatically true. There can be other options!
Given that honestly witnessing such an event would be such an extraordinary thing, it just follows that a multitude of copy-cats would chime in with fake reports after hearing about it.
What about a third, more reasonable, explanation for UFO reports? People see things in the sky they don't understand. i.e. it's something natural, not an alien, yet because they think it's an alien, it becomes an extraordinary experience.
Every case that has enough data, ends up having a mundane explanation.
It's not impossible that we're being secretly monitored by aliens that don't want to be seen, yet are seen by drunks and paranoidians anyways. It's just that rational thinking people are skeptical. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and all that.
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No, not everything can be falsified. Take creationism for example. There's no way to falsify it. The fact that it cannot be falsified makes it an unscientific idea. You should have said that all scientific ideas can be falsified.
What's this contact syncing you guys are talking about? My iphone is always synced with my gmail account using activesync. If I add a contact on my iphone, it gets added to my gmail account instantly. Couldn't be easier!
Ninja Gaiden Sigma isn't really an exclusive. It's just a port of Ninja Gaiden with a couple extra features. Hardly worth buying a new console for.
But a good compiler would've seen it was useless code and removed it. God needs to upgrade to gcc 4.3.3
And how are space aliens supposed to enter the country legally?
Actually, it's a hundred percent accurate that this rose from the ashes of Halo. Peter Jackson said in an interview that after the Halo movie fell through he and Neil decided to do D-9 instead. If it wasn't for Halo, Peter Jackson may never have partnered up with Neil. And if it wasn't for Halo getting killed, this film may not have been made.
And here's my reference
The Day After Tomorrow was not entertaining. I'd rather watch a 2 hour presentation by Al Gore.
Dawkins came up with his brilliant meme idea as merely a way to express that evolution by means of natural selection can occur outside of biology. He wanted to show that evolution was a powerful way of understanding the world in all aspects, not just biology. He was a big promoter of genetic algorithms (computers using evolution to compute stuff) and has even entertained that idea that universes could be evolving in the multiverse, where maybe (in a purely thought-experiment type way) the universes that are best able to produce complexity (including life) reproduce, which could explain why complexity exists at all and why our physical laws are the way they are.
Actually, the DSi will be an mp3 player: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2331546,00.asp
It will also take pictures with the built in camera. It's definitely adding capabilities beyond playing video games. I wouldn't be surprised if apps came out for playing videos down the road.
I haven't read the book yet, but I highly recommend the PBS NOVA documentary based on it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/
You're confusing 'is' with 'ought'. Just because the nearly universal practice of pirating can be explained by capitalist theory, it doesn't make it morally right.
This is similar to how the supporters of social darwinism misunderstood the lesson of natural selection. Just because nature chooses the fittest, it doesn't mean we 'ought' to do the same.
Why is everyone talking about '3' DVDs?
There's a 4th one you know, it just came out yesterday, and I liked it a lot.
The writers strike supposedly didn't affect writers of animated shows and feature films.
What about between six months and 5 years? Just keep the baby in a plastic bubble? I'll give my kid the recommended vaccines, you know, the ones that are proven to be safe and effective?
I never saw them go on Oprah, the most watched television show by mothers, telling mothers not to vaccinate their kids, or else they'd be responsible for giving their kids autism.
Unfortunately, not being vaccinated also affects rational people in the community. Some kids cannot get vaccines due to allergies, and there's a percentage of kids who do get vaccinated, but it is ineffective. These kids rely on other kids to be vaccinated, in order to reduce their chance of exposure. This is called her immunity. For herd immunity to be effective, it is believe that a 95% vaccination rate is required. The MMR vaccine has now fallen below that rate in the UK thanks to pseudo-scientists like Andrew Wakefield.
ooohhh, injection of doses of different things! Guess what, we also feed them doses of different things.
The fact is that there are more antigens (threats to their immune system) on the tip of their cute little nose than there are in a vaccine shot. This is the latest argument from the anti-vaccine wingnuts, "Too much too soon." It's a complete non-sequitur. They cannot define too much nor too soon and is not based on science at all. Of course, they only come to this latest tactic because their last ones have all failed: "It's the mercury stupid" or "MMR causes a bowel problem that leads to autism"
Sugar does not cause hyperactivity!
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52516
The right wing's form of anti-science tends to be evolution and global warming denial. They too think they have the 'true' science on their side, no different from lefties and their anti-vaxx and anti-synthetic chemicals propaganda.
They mention that study in the book. You should read it, it's awesome.
They talk about how the placebo effect is stronger when the treatment is more drastic or unique. Very compelling stuff!
But wouldn't you actually release the energy when the anti-matter and matter is recombined? This would release the combined energy of both types of matter.
It'd be great if someone more knowledgeable than me can explain how anti-matter can be turned into energy.
Why even posit the existence of God? Why not Gods? Or how about a giant quantum super computer? Let's follow the evidence to find out the 'hows' and 'whys', and not be looking for evidence to justify our ancient mythical beliefs.
What about the possibility that sightings were of natural phenomena? i.e. not made by the pentagon, or humans?
What about lights in the skies created by civilians?
Don't commit the false dichotomy fallacy of assuming there are two options, and if one is false, the other is automatically true. There can be other options!
Given that honestly witnessing such an event would be such an extraordinary thing, it just follows that a multitude of copy-cats would chime in with fake reports after hearing about it.
What about a third, more reasonable, explanation for UFO reports? People see things in the sky they don't understand. i.e. it's something natural, not an alien, yet because they think it's an alien, it becomes an extraordinary experience.
Every case that has enough data, ends up having a mundane explanation.
It's not impossible that we're being secretly monitored by aliens that don't want to be seen, yet are seen by drunks and paranoidians anyways. It's just that rational thinking people are skeptical. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and all that.