I love it when people say the burden to prove a hypothesis wrong is on them, especially when they never talk about the details they base their passionate name-calling on.
It's the prefect example to use to teach kids what science is not.
I should think that if the shrill proponents of GW were so certain of the proof they claim they have that is so unquestionable, they would talk about it, at least as often as they come to it's defense.
Since it is exceedingly rare that they bother to do so, I have to wonder what their passion is based on, it strikes me as suspiciously faith-based.
Then again, if it's just too complicated for the defenders of GW to actually discuss intelligently, well, there's always that.
Food is nourishment, and as such, exists because it is connected to an exceedingly complex ecosystem, of which we actually understand precious little about, yet are entirely dependent upon.
Unleashing modified tinkered plants into the US via inevitable errors and deception IS a recipe for disaster, it it the height of irresponsibility, and has the potential to be far more of a threat than mere atomic annihilation.
It isn't about what researchers think they know for sure, it's about how wrong they've been every step of the way, nobody seems to recall back in the early 90's the surprise in discovering that the genome of rice was more complex (well, three times larger at least) than the human genome.
Do you really want to trust the scientists with the ability to destroy every last vestige of the natural world in search for a way to feed far more people than is reasonable to even attempt to have living in it ?
Fascism just needs too many people believing that it's exclusively about big business and government, and not about the general public being docile, lazy, and stupid enough to fall for a redefinition of the word and history of it.
The fact that our Democratic Republic is transparent enough to know that this is what is going on makes ME love it even more.
I prefer it to the absurd delusion that is held in other nations that they somehow have a perfect government, based on self deception and ideals which ignore basic human organisational tendencies.
Teach the history, and you teach the human and technical connections that the knowledge of is essentially what delineates and expert from a mere technician.
NO subject should EVER be taught without the history of it taught right alongside it.
We have enough technicians and clinicians, what we need are more well-rounded scientists and real thinkers.
More real education, and less political do-nothing know-nothing money-grubbing fascism is what America and the world need now more than ever.
What we absolutely do not need more of is legions of technicians who's knowledge is over-specialized, over-fragmented, and kept that way purely because this type of ignorance masquerading as a special privileged class serves a political climate and political agendas.
If you are not resplendent in the history of your particular discipline, you are not and expert, and you have no true understanding of your field.
Don't fool yourself, rule by a corrupt committee is still corrupt. Especially if the public didn't even vote any of those ruling members in. Wait a minute, isn't there a name for that ?
It is exactly the same thing, in that breaking the law in order to sustain an illegal secrecy, and intentionally disinform the public go hand in hand.
The government consistently lying to the public in order to accomplish something that is not legal - is this the USA or the USSR ? It's the 80's all over again.
If by "reasonable" you mean exploitative and destructive to the public health, sure.
This sets a precedent that isn't good for anyone but big pharma, patent trolls and lawyers.
How any doctor can prescribe statins with a clear conscious eludes me.
Perhaps the mountain of industry generated, mostly fraudulent and deceptive "research" papers was compelling enough alone. Or perhaps the kickbacks for prescribing them helped influence them into simply drugging patients, as opposed to making more appropriate recommendations. That would require having enough time with a patient to actually learn something about them, and we all know HMO's will have none of that.
A more cynical person would conjecture that the "side effects" and "adverse effects" generated billions in profits alone, and who cares if people with insurance have strokes, they were covered, and received treatment, right ?
As medical costs continue their upward climb, and Americans accept docilely, their new group hallucination that passes for reality, who is going to be around to question the peer-review process that permitted these drugs to be widely dispensed to an unsuspecting and naive population ? Certainly not the army of clinicians that profit from their malpractice.
Science as the new religion is moving along swiftly, never have so many people understood so little and had so much faith in the things that keep them ill, ignorant, sick, and helpless feeling.
All least we can all feel "connected" to one-another in our Brave New World.
This is about huge American corporations seizing control from ALL small businesses, and driving them under, intentionally, methodically, without prejudice.
You can't get a decent chemistry set nowadays, chemicals I used to experiment with as a 12 year old child are now a felony to posses.
And NOT because of the potential of illicit drug production, Americans used to know basic chemistry; well enough to not rely on mega monopolistic corporate personas to make everything for them, with no real alternatives, save "competing" products from other mega-corporations.
This is the natural regression of the American political system which favors corporate influence over the people. The USA is really just a front for criminal corporate "enterprise".
I'd end this comment with a statement such as "END THE USA", except for the fact that it's already been ended.
People have attempted to explain to you why per capita is less relevant. Go back and re-read their comments. Also, keep in mind the US is not a tiny country geographically, like say, Germany, and has to deal with greater temperature extremes than Germany does.
Then, you can pull your head out of your fat "everybody can continue to develop EXCEPT the US" ass.
Nice, verbose, and circumventive, rant.
Not surprisingly, you've missed the point, and made a projective series of assumptions about my skill level, and experience, which, not surprisingly, is laughably off the mark.
Somehow I doubt you represent your own experience level anywhere near accurately, or else you would hardly be as defensive and childish in responding to a post that doesn't even apply to someone with your description of your fictitious experience level.
There is NOTHING "home built" about plugging in modules to a motherboard.
If you don't understand the components, and just plug crap in, you don't really KNOW a thing about the hardware.
People think they have a grasp of what a computer IS, based solely on buying sub assemblies marketed as "components", and concentrating on the firmware and software exclusively.
These are not what we called "geeks" in the 80's. We got out the solder and actually BUILT things.
What you end up with is smug people that know very little, that think of themselves as "geeks", redefine what a "geek" is, based on the inevitable dumbing-down of rampant consumerism and proprietary butt kissing and brand loyality.
This wouldn't normally be much of a problem, except that you don't actually "know" anything about your hardware, as you wonder why jobs migrate overseas and why Americans simply can not compete.
"Science" has NEVER been the pure and incorruptible ideal it's often represented tot he public as.
So far as how most non-scientists perceive technology and "science", one could legitimately argue that they are, to the general public, not much different than religion.
Because "taking a crap inside", and the water treatment infrastructure for over a billion people, is something to shoot for, with a population that earns on average 500 dollars a year.
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That's the way many people here like it.
Let's see the "evidence" then.
I love it when people say the burden to prove a hypothesis wrong is on them, especially when they never talk about the details they base their passionate name-calling on. It's the prefect example to use to teach kids what science is not. I should think that if the shrill proponents of GW were so certain of the proof they claim they have that is so unquestionable, they would talk about it, at least as often as they come to it's defense. Since it is exceedingly rare that they bother to do so, I have to wonder what their passion is based on, it strikes me as suspiciously faith-based. Then again, if it's just too complicated for the defenders of GW to actually discuss intelligently, well, there's always that.
Unleashing modified tinkered plants into the US via inevitable errors and deception IS a recipe for disaster, it it the height of irresponsibility, and has the potential to be far more of a threat than mere atomic annihilation.
It isn't about what researchers think they know for sure, it's about how wrong they've been every step of the way, nobody seems to recall back in the early 90's the surprise in discovering that the genome of rice was more complex (well, three times larger at least) than the human genome.
Do you really want to trust the scientists with the ability to destroy every last vestige of the natural world in search for a way to feed far more people than is reasonable to even attempt to have living in it ?
Fascism just needs too many people believing that it's exclusively about big business and government, and not about the general public being docile, lazy, and stupid enough to fall for a redefinition of the word and history of it.
an empire in decline, like theirs has been for a century. And that they'd even still exist, were it not for Canadian assistance during the war.
The fact that our Democratic Republic is transparent enough to know that this is what is going on makes ME love it even more.
I prefer it to the absurd delusion that is held in other nations that they somehow have a perfect government, based on self deception and ideals which ignore basic human organisational tendencies.
NO subject should EVER be taught without the history of it taught right alongside it.
We have enough technicians and clinicians, what we need are more well-rounded scientists and real thinkers.
More real education, and less political do-nothing know-nothing money-grubbing fascism is what America and the world need now more than ever.
What we absolutely do not need more of is legions of technicians who's knowledge is over-specialized, over-fragmented, and kept that way purely because this type of ignorance masquerading as a special privileged class serves a political climate and political agendas.
If you are not resplendent in the history of your particular discipline, you are not and expert, and you have no true understanding of your field.
Don't fool yourself, rule by a corrupt committee is still corrupt. Especially if the public didn't even vote any of those ruling members in. Wait a minute, isn't there a name for that ?
It is exactly the same thing, in that breaking the law in order to sustain an illegal secrecy, and intentionally disinform the public go hand in hand. The government consistently lying to the public in order to accomplish something that is not legal - is this the USA or the USSR ? It's the 80's all over again.
So, yeah, some school districts are better off without iPads, because they can't do ANYTHING right.
Other districts will excel, because they have realistic expectations, and properly managed systems.
It really is that simple, it isn't an issue of "is technology bad for Our Kids".
If by "reasonable" you mean exploitative and destructive to the public health, sure. This sets a precedent that isn't good for anyone but big pharma, patent trolls and lawyers.
Your computer is the new tv.
Turn the ******* thing off once in a while and LIVE your ******* lives.
Get off your lazy, fat, ignorant asses, and go to the library and read a ******* book.
Perhaps the mountain of industry generated, mostly fraudulent and deceptive "research" papers was compelling enough alone. Or perhaps the kickbacks for prescribing them helped influence them into simply drugging patients, as opposed to making more appropriate recommendations. That would require having enough time with a patient to actually learn something about them, and we all know HMO's will have none of that.
A more cynical person would conjecture that the "side effects" and "adverse effects" generated billions in profits alone, and who cares if people with insurance have strokes, they were covered, and received treatment, right ?
As medical costs continue their upward climb, and Americans accept docilely, their new group hallucination that passes for reality, who is going to be around to question the peer-review process that permitted these drugs to be widely dispensed to an unsuspecting and naive population ? Certainly not the army of clinicians that profit from their malpractice.
Science as the new religion is moving along swiftly, never have so many people understood so little and had so much faith in the things that keep them ill, ignorant, sick, and helpless feeling.
All least we can all feel "connected" to one-another in our Brave New World.
This is about huge American corporations seizing control from ALL small businesses, and driving them under, intentionally, methodically, without prejudice. You can't get a decent chemistry set nowadays, chemicals I used to experiment with as a 12 year old child are now a felony to posses. And NOT because of the potential of illicit drug production, Americans used to know basic chemistry; well enough to not rely on mega monopolistic corporate personas to make everything for them, with no real alternatives, save "competing" products from other mega-corporations. This is the natural regression of the American political system which favors corporate influence over the people. The USA is really just a front for criminal corporate "enterprise". I'd end this comment with a statement such as "END THE USA", except for the fact that it's already been ended.
"No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is"
People have attempted to explain to you why per capita is less relevant. Go back and re-read their comments. Also, keep in mind the US is not a tiny country geographically, like say, Germany, and has to deal with greater temperature extremes than Germany does. Then, you can pull your head out of your fat "everybody can continue to develop EXCEPT the US" ass.
Nice, verbose, and circumventive, rant. Not surprisingly, you've missed the point, and made a projective series of assumptions about my skill level, and experience, which, not surprisingly, is laughably off the mark. Somehow I doubt you represent your own experience level anywhere near accurately, or else you would hardly be as defensive and childish in responding to a post that doesn't even apply to someone with your description of your fictitious experience level.
There is NOTHING "home built" about plugging in modules to a motherboard. If you don't understand the components, and just plug crap in, you don't really KNOW a thing about the hardware. People think they have a grasp of what a computer IS, based solely on buying sub assemblies marketed as "components", and concentrating on the firmware and software exclusively. These are not what we called "geeks" in the 80's. We got out the solder and actually BUILT things. What you end up with is smug people that know very little, that think of themselves as "geeks", redefine what a "geek" is, based on the inevitable dumbing-down of rampant consumerism and proprietary butt kissing and brand loyality. This wouldn't normally be much of a problem, except that you don't actually "know" anything about your hardware, as you wonder why jobs migrate overseas and why Americans simply can not compete.
It "teaches" them to sit still and be good little consumers.
He can't, because most of what they "make" is pure garbage.
No kidding, you've just describe 99% of ALL "science".
"Science" has NEVER been the pure and incorruptible ideal it's often represented tot he public as. So far as how most non-scientists perceive technology and "science", one could legitimately argue that they are, to the general public, not much different than religion.
Because "taking a crap inside", and the water treatment infrastructure for over a billion people, is something to shoot for, with a population that earns on average 500 dollars a year.
Because The radiation form living in a mine-shaft is a real win-win proposition...