although 'modern' medicine offers some benefit, a lot of it is still 'guess your best' & experiment on the rest.
Some benefit? May I remind you that "Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was 47 years" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy)?
Compare that to the 77 years we enjoy today... But yeah, the fact that we live on average 30 years longer is just a detail.
just because 78% of the 16-18 drink large amount of soda and 93% of the 16-18 year old go to school doesn't mean there is any correlation between the two... That's not a bogus statistics example, that's just an example on how bad people (you in this case) understand what correlation is...
Correlation would be: 85% of the kids 16-18 attending school drink large amounts of soda, whereas only 40% of those who do not attend school drink large amounts of soda. That is an example of correlation.
A good bogus example would be: People who wear suits to work have on average a higher income then people who wear work clothes, there is therefore a correlation between how nicely you dress to go to work and your salary. Therefore the way you dress to work has an impact on your salary.
Please note that the correlation in itself is not the bogus part of the example, the bogus part is the conclusion made by myself. Statistic themselves are rarely bogus, and if they are they can clearly be shown to be bogus, the conclusions drawn are the problematic part.
1. I wouldn't point to France as a shining beacon of a socialist utopia. A year ago, people were rioting in the streets because the government let businesses fire people.
That's not the reason why they rioted.... The main reason was because the police were on their backs all the time...
2. The war in Iraq has nothing to do with out economic system.
And what about the huge exterior debt that your government piled up because of this war? Does that have "nothing to do with your economic system?"
3. You throw out a "failing" assessment of our economy without any qualifying sources to back up your assertion.
Just as many neo-friedmanians throw out the "failing" assessment about socialism... When all survey about longevity, living comfort, security, democracy, health etc... show that socialist (or more specifically "social-democratic") countries are at the top...
This is bullshit. This is not how you compare "costs". Windows ME was a crap operating system. Windows XP was plagued with incredibly serious holes till at least SP2. When you compare costs you have to compare 1) all costs, hidden or not, 2) Costs of opportunity.
1) Let's compare all costs.
On your basis, that's $450. What about Hidden costs? Anti-Virus, anti-spyware? How much did these cost? And no, when you compare costs the fact that Apple is or is not more secure doesn't matter, fact *IS* that an apple can live without anti-virus and anti-spyware software. Now, let's add the $50/year you need for security. That's 5 years, so $250 more.
Right now: that's $700, you already beat the apple costs.
2) Opportunity Costs.
What are the costs of having a computer that is not up-to-date for 4 years? What are the costs of having to heavily maintain your OS for 5 years with all the scans, reinstalls, difficulties that have come with using windows XP?
How much do you rate the experience of using windows XP compared to using at all times the latest of Mac OS X?
Your analysis is bullshit, cost wise, keeping up with the latest of Mac OS X is cheaper then Windows, with the added bonus of not having to maintain your computer all year long and being able to enjoy an up-to-date OS for the whole period.
This finite speed of gravitational interaction in general relativity may at first seem to lead to exactly the same sorts of problems with the aberration of gravity that Newton was originally concerned with. Following Laplace, Van Flandern claims that also in general relativity the speed of gravity must be at least 20 billion times that of light.[8]
But in general relativity (similar to the field theories above), gravitomagnetism effects cancel out the effects of aberration. As shown by Carlip, in the weak stationary field limit, the orbital results calculated by general relativity are the same as those of Newtonian gravity (with instantaneous action at a distance), despite the fact that the full theory gives a speed of gravity of c.[9] Although the calculations are considerably more complicated, one can show that general relativity does not suffer from abberation problems just as electromagnetic retarded Liénard-Wiechert potential theory does not. It is not very easy to construct a self-consistent gravity theory in which gravitational interaction propagates at a speed other than the speed of light, which complicates discussion of this possibility.
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That's exactly what the general theory of relativity proved would _NOT_ happen.
From wikipedia article: "The speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
Dispite all this, the U.S. economy does appear to be growing at a faster rate than Europe's
Nominal Growth or realt growth? (inlation corrected or not).
Does this "analysis" take into consideration the fact that the US accumulated huge exterior debt (and hence will have to pay interests on those)...
Did you take into account that the Euro/dollar exchange rate has steadily decreased (the Euro has appreciated)...
Did you take into account that most of the European population is more risk avers then the Americans, did you take that risk aversion into account in your analysis?
Are people happier in the US then in the EU?
You know, as an economist, I sometimes wonder why people have such Friedmanian views on the economy...
In the end, it doesn't matter if the US has a bigger economic growth then the EU, what matters is that _both_ economies do well. We're talking about how well people live here, not the level of two players in some game...
If economy (and hence the well being of the population) was just about having big numbers, do you really think there would be so much debate in the economic theory?
I mean if time machine relied on ZFS, that would mean current users using HFS+ couldn't use it... or they'd have to somehow convert HFS+ filesystems into ZFS...
Is that even possible without erasing everything on the disk?
The Standard Model does not predict the value of the Higgs boson mass. If the mass of the Higgs boson is between 115 and 180 GeV, then the Standard Model can be valid at energy scales all the way up to the Planck scale (1016 TeV). Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV-scale, based on unsatisfactory properties of the Standard Model. The highest possible mass scale allowed for the Higgs boson (or some other electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism) is around one TeV; beyond this point, the Standard Model becomes inconsistent without such a mechanism because unitarity is violated in certain scattering processes. Many models of Supersymmetry predict that the lightest Higgs boson (of several) will have a mass only slightly above the current experimental limits, at around 120 GeV or less.
And yes, they started small and grew bigger and bigger (although I recently read that they found a way to minatiurize the process dramatically by using plasma if I remember correctly).
It's often referred to as the God particle because of its significance in physics, it would explain why matter has mass.
It probably also has a lot to do with the fact that the existance of the Mass-Free Higgins Boson particle was theoretically predicted, but has never been observed (until now?). This elusiveness to be observed and hence proven it existed is probably the reason why it got this nickname...
Also, I don't think that just having a large touch screen is enough to "rival" against the iPhone, design, usability and prestige are what make Apple products so succesful.
Also, FTA: a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS device
They have a professional version of their mobile OS?
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although 'modern' medicine offers some benefit, a lot of it is still 'guess your best' & experiment on the rest.
Some benefit? May I remind you that "Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was 47 years" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy)?
Compare that to the 77 years we enjoy today... But yeah, the fact that we live on average 30 years longer is just a detail.
The tumor might develop cancer!
just because 78% of the 16-18 drink large amount of soda and 93% of the 16-18 year old go to school doesn't mean there is any correlation between the two... That's not a bogus statistics example, that's just an example on how bad people (you in this case) understand what correlation is...
Correlation would be: 85% of the kids 16-18 attending school drink large amounts of soda, whereas only 40% of those who do not attend school drink large amounts of soda. That is an example of correlation.
A good bogus example would be: People who wear suits to work have on average a higher income then people who wear work clothes, there is therefore a correlation between how nicely you dress to go to work and your salary. Therefore the way you dress to work has an impact on your salary.
Please note that the correlation in itself is not the bogus part of the example, the bogus part is the conclusion made by myself. Statistic themselves are rarely bogus, and if they are they can clearly be shown to be bogus, the conclusions drawn are the problematic part.
1. I wouldn't point to France as a shining beacon of a socialist utopia. A year ago, people were rioting in the streets because the government let businesses fire people.
That's not the reason why they rioted.... The main reason was because the police were on their backs all the time...
2. The war in Iraq has nothing to do with out economic system.
And what about the huge exterior debt that your government piled up because of this war? Does that have "nothing to do with your economic system?"
3. You throw out a "failing" assessment of our economy without any qualifying sources to back up your assertion.
Just as many neo-friedmanians throw out the "failing" assessment about socialism... When all survey about longevity, living comfort, security, democracy, health etc... show that socialist (or more specifically "social-democratic") countries are at the top...
yeah, that article is like soooo Myspace.
No Worries, Mate; I reckon its some Ozzies trying to come the raw prawn with ya!
This is bullshit. This is not how you compare "costs". Windows ME was a crap operating system. Windows XP was plagued with incredibly serious holes till at least SP2. When you compare costs you have to compare 1) all costs, hidden or not, 2) Costs of opportunity.
1) Let's compare all costs.
On your basis, that's $450. What about Hidden costs? Anti-Virus, anti-spyware? How much did these cost? And no, when you compare costs the fact that Apple is or is not more secure doesn't matter, fact *IS* that an apple can live without anti-virus and anti-spyware software. Now, let's add the $50/year you need for security. That's 5 years, so $250 more.
Right now: that's $700, you already beat the apple costs.
2) Opportunity Costs.
What are the costs of having a computer that is not up-to-date for 4 years? What are the costs of having to heavily maintain your OS for 5 years with all the scans, reinstalls, difficulties that have come with using windows XP?
How much do you rate the experience of using windows XP compared to using at all times the latest of Mac OS X?
Your analysis is bullshit, cost wise, keeping up with the latest of Mac OS X is cheaper then Windows, with the added bonus of not having to maintain your computer all year long and being able to enjoy an up-to-date OS for the whole period.
Just make it 10 possible answers... with 5 or 6 quite obviously wrong answers... for someone who studied...
Therefore the more "educated" the guess, the higher the probability of a reward...
2 days counting the strikes...
In Socialist Belgium, Security Strikes!
Yes.
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Aberration in general relativity?
This finite speed of gravitational interaction in general relativity may at first seem to lead to exactly the same sorts of problems with the aberration of gravity that Newton was originally concerned with. Following Laplace, Van Flandern claims that also in general relativity the speed of gravity must be at least 20 billion times that of light.[8]
But in general relativity (similar to the field theories above), gravitomagnetism effects cancel out the effects of aberration. As shown by Carlip, in the weak stationary field limit, the orbital results calculated by general relativity are the same as those of Newtonian gravity (with instantaneous action at a distance), despite the fact that the full theory gives a speed of gravity of c.[9] Although the calculations are considerably more complicated, one can show that general relativity does not suffer from abberation problems just as electromagnetic retarded Liénard-Wiechert potential theory does not. It is not very easy to construct a self-consistent gravity theory in which gravitational interaction propagates at a speed other than the speed of light, which complicates discussion of this possibility.
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Yeah, let's send some people watch the formation of black holes!
That's exactly what the general theory of relativity proved would _NOT_ happen. From wikipedia article: "The speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
That same question was what got Einstein started in the first place actually....
Dispite all this, the U.S. economy does appear to be growing at a faster rate than Europe's
Nominal Growth or realt growth? (inlation corrected or not).
Does this "analysis" take into consideration the fact that the US accumulated huge exterior debt (and hence will have to pay interests on those)...
Did you take into account that the Euro/dollar exchange rate has steadily decreased (the Euro has appreciated)...
Did you take into account that most of the European population is more risk avers then the Americans, did you take that risk aversion into account in your analysis?
Are people happier in the US then in the EU?
You know, as an economist, I sometimes wonder why people have such Friedmanian views on the economy...
In the end, it doesn't matter if the US has a bigger economic growth then the EU, what matters is that _both_ economies do well. We're talking about how well people live here, not the level of two players in some game...
If economy (and hence the well being of the population) was just about having big numbers, do you really think there would be so much debate in the economic theory?
I would do the Matt Harding Dance.
sorry for replying to myself...
But maybe this means we shouldn't be looking for water on Mars...
looks like the well in 300...
Makes sense...
I mean if time machine relied on ZFS, that would mean current users using HFS+ couldn't use it... or they'd have to somehow convert HFS+ filesystems into ZFS...
Is that even possible without erasing everything on the disk?
If my Crystal Ball is any indication, we're in for a surprise.
yeah, but Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process, a recent study shows.
I get the redundancy of these jokes is just a manner for slashdot to remember something else...
Exactly what I can't remember though.
It's basically a re branded version of Firefox 2.0...
From About: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
I thought the Higgs-Boson was mass free because of it's nature as the particule responsible for mass...
Upon reading wikipedia, I was wrong: link
The Standard Model does not predict the value of the Higgs boson mass. If the mass of the Higgs boson is between 115 and 180 GeV, then the Standard Model can be valid at energy scales all the way up to the Planck scale (1016 TeV). Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV-scale, based on unsatisfactory properties of the Standard Model. The highest possible mass scale allowed for the Higgs boson (or some other electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism) is around one TeV; beyond this point, the Standard Model becomes inconsistent without such a mechanism because unitarity is violated in certain scattering processes. Many models of Supersymmetry predict that the lightest Higgs boson (of several) will have a mass only slightly above the current experimental limits, at around 120 GeV or less.
Sorry.
They are particle accelerators...
And yes, they started small and grew bigger and bigger (although I recently read that they found a way to minatiurize the process dramatically by using plasma if I remember correctly).
"God"? What has god got to do with this?
It's often referred to as the God particle because of its significance in physics, it would explain why matter has mass.
It probably also has a lot to do with the fact that the existance of the Mass-Free Higgins Boson particle was theoretically predicted, but has never been observed (until now?). This elusiveness to be observed and hence proven it existed is probably the reason why it got this nickname...
And they talk about iPhone rivals?
Also, I don't think that just having a large touch screen is enough to "rival" against the iPhone, design, usability and prestige are what make Apple products so succesful.
Also, FTA: a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS device
They have a professional version of their mobile OS?