And of course, if it saves just one child from starting a meth habit, it's worth it, right?
No. The child made its own choices. What ever happened to the old Bar Mitzvah doctrine with people being responsible for their own actions after the age of 13/14? Was there a lot wrong with that? Why does my society have to be picked apart piece by piece for the supposed benefit of these "adults in all but name"?
Also, aren't most judges also lawyers? From my understanding most judges take a dim view of non-lawyers trying to argue their own defense. I can imagine they would be quite hostile to someone who was a 'lawyer' but did not belong to whatever professional association the bar would turn into.
Exactly. The entire legal system is in the hands of an essentially private organisation, or clique. No oversight, no accountability, and practically total domination of our courts and legislatures. What does it take to get people to notice this sorry state of affairs? Do the bar association have to become incorporated?
Uhhhggh!! This thing is horrible! What's with the emboldened headings? Comment previews gobbling up space. Re:? The entire page juddering about with every click.
No thanks. Call me a luddite, but I like my pages nice and static if you please. If I need to read a subcomment, I open it in a new tab.
Please understand that attorney advertising was an ethical violation in all 50 states until the bizarre Supreme Court ruling that it was an issue of "commercial free speech," and understand that attorneys are overwhelmingly opposed to it and embarrassed by the ambulance chasers who have destroyed our profession.
Please.
The ambulance chasers are only one symptom of the omnipresent rot in the legal profession. That your industry has escaped much needed regulation and oversight is a testament to just how much undue power and influence lawyers have on our society, laws and governments.
In a country where anyone can, without qualification, defend themselves in court, the entire concept of a bar associations is a joke to begin with. They exist for one purpose; to line the pockets of their members. How many US bar associations really protested against Guantanamo? How many stand against illegal wiretapping? Shouldn't the legal profession be at the forefront in defending the attack on legal rights. Instead they're more likely to be found in positions of power, leading that same attack.
Your profession is pretty much rotten to the core. Personally, I would just get rid of bar associations and the like and subject the whole lot of you to the harsh winds of the free market and watch your tear yourselves apart. But that's never going to happen is it? You're the ones that end up drafting all the laws after all.
She doesn't know it because information will take several minutes to get there, but her state changes instantly.
Without getting bogged down in the specifics of your thought experiment: According to General Relativity, her state does not change "instantly". According to Quantum Mechanics, her state does change "instantly".
This is the essential problem in modern physics. General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are, as they stand, in contradiction with one another.
This kind of thread grabbing, where someone posts a fairly vacuous opening comment after a "funny" or otherwise throwaway popular first post, seems to be on the increase around here. The child poster is hoping to gain karma from the first +5 post, by being in between it and the +5 insightful comments s/he inspires from better posters. The mods seem to be working on automatic, or are being exceptionally lazy. Unfortunately, by the time anyone figures out what's going on, the opportunist's post has already spawned a discussion and obtained his points.
If the mods would wake up and mod the original opportunist offtopic, which he is in the context of that thread, I think we'd see a lot more thread diversity around here.
Many of us don't care about political correctness, and don't want even "reasonable" Anonymous in their midst. If Anonymous society is good and righteous, Anonymous might prove their loyalty by moving back to/b/. I don't need them. I don't want Anonymous changes in MY society. I don't want Anonymous to have leverage by increasing their population in MY country.
The experiment is the be all and end all of science. I think the reason that scientists get a lot of flack like the parent post nowadays is because there are so many pseudo-scientists around that claim to be using the scientific method but really aren't. Psychologists, sociologists, eugenicists, data miners, etc, etc. There's a lot of news articles these days claims that "scientists" have conducted an "experiment" supposedly proving some claim. Nine times out of ten, it turns out that cargo-cult scientists have performed another ritual with the appearance, but none of the substance of a proper experiment.
I've ranted long enough. The answer to your question is that scientists subject their theories to experimental verification/falsification. Peer review doesn't even enter into the equation. Freud was peer reviewed.
My impression of Australia has been that the place never really caught the post War wave or the sixties and is still fairly stuck in a bigoted and colonial mindset. I'm probably disparaging a lot of Australian slashdotters, but to be fair your domestic actions are speaking volumes to the rest of us.
Broken or flaky video files. Nothing is more irritating than an mpeg, etc error that causes an entire block to go black and smear itself all over the place until the next keyframe. I don't expect realtime correction, but it would be nice if I could patch the file rather than do another six hour encode.
Pretty much all assignments I gave (home, or just in class) ended up to be copy/pastes of wikipedia or another website.
Proving just how generic and banal your assignments and standards must have been. You could have asked them to do a survey/experiment/essay. Instead you probably asked them to "Write a report on Sweden". Let me ask you a question. If someone asked you for a report of Sweden, what would you actually end up doing?
We have to look at the real effects of the tradeoffs between the limits on protecting and exercising some of these rights. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
I'm guessing this latest gem is the long awaited update to the "Just a God damned Piece of Paper" argument.
But they need to drop the obsolete old boy protections for "journalists" with whom they have all kinds of "off the record" deals to protect their own secrets from informing the public, including the bribes that corporate mass media pay to keep both their sides of the secrecy rules in business.
Basically that's it. Journalists are treated as a privileged class in our society. I had a rant recently about how the media has taken up the baton of the second estate from an outdated clergy. They've become a secular second estate if you will, and acts like this, granting them privilege, serve to emphasize the fact that they've become a higher class of citizen than the rest of us. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
The best math always is. It's hard, gives you a headache, you lose sleep trying to figure it out. But once you do you are astonished at how elegant it is and how it all fits together so beautifully.
Wrong. So wrong.
Yes mathematics gives you a headache. Frequently you don't get it. Frequently you must spend weeks on a topic before getting it. Often it may elude you for years. Then you finally get it, and usually hard work and effort has absolutely nothing to do with that.
The sad fact is, people think mathematics is hard because most mathematicians are lousy at explaining it. It's not explained properly and as a result people struggle with it until they finally come across a resource or idea or epiphany that allows them to realize the in retrospect blindingly obvious idea that lay behind the whole topic. What to know why it seems so "elegant" and obvious in retrospect. It's because it is obvious, as long as you were taught it correctly.
Best example I can think of offhand is determinants? Remember those? I'll bet there's a lot of people here who went through the whole spiel with them over and over and all the while didn't have a clue what they were all about. Let me tell you what they are, or quote a better man than I on the subject. "The determinant of a matrix is an (oriented) volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are its columns." You see, that's what a determinant actually is, but most student are never taught that most essential fact. Once you get that, the rest is all just formulae around it. But most are just taught the formulae. Most of mathematics is taught like this. Form without essence. It's a tradgedy. The greater tragedy is people think all this incompetence is a result of mathematics being "hard". It's just hard to teach, not to learn.
Here's a link to a much longer rant which shows just how big a problem the teaching of mathematics has become in some quarters.
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No, I really mean it. Everybody.
So if I binge on 20 litres of Coca-Cola one weekend, my house is going to go off the scale on Coca leaf residue and I'm going to get raided?
Ah well. I needed to give the stuff up anyway.
See. You do understand why people are afraid of saying who they voted for.
I liked it when Slashdot got its tech stories before the mainstream news outlets.
Exactly. The entire legal system is in the hands of an essentially private organisation, or clique. No oversight, no accountability, and practically total domination of our courts and legislatures. What does it take to get people to notice this sorry state of affairs? Do the bar association have to become incorporated?
Uhhhggh!! This thing is horrible! What's with the emboldened headings? Comment previews gobbling up space. Re:? The entire page juddering about with every click.
No thanks. Call me a luddite, but I like my pages nice and static if you please. If I need to read a subcomment, I open it in a new tab.
The ambulance chasers are only one symptom of the omnipresent rot in the legal profession. That your industry has escaped much needed regulation and oversight is a testament to just how much undue power and influence lawyers have on our society, laws and governments.
In a country where anyone can, without qualification, defend themselves in court, the entire concept of a bar associations is a joke to begin with. They exist for one purpose; to line the pockets of their members. How many US bar associations really protested against Guantanamo? How many stand against illegal wiretapping? Shouldn't the legal profession be at the forefront in defending the attack on legal rights. Instead they're more likely to be found in positions of power, leading that same attack.
Your profession is pretty much rotten to the core. Personally, I would just get rid of bar associations and the like and subject the whole lot of you to the harsh winds of the free market and watch your tear yourselves apart. But that's never going to happen is it? You're the ones that end up drafting all the laws after all.
Without getting bogged down in the specifics of your thought experiment:
According to General Relativity, her state does not change "instantly".
According to Quantum Mechanics, her state does change "instantly".
This is the essential problem in modern physics. General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are, as they stand, in contradiction with one another.
This kind of thread grabbing, where someone posts a fairly vacuous opening comment after a "funny" or otherwise throwaway popular first post, seems to be on the increase around here. The child poster is hoping to gain karma from the first +5 post, by being in between it and the +5 insightful comments s/he inspires from better posters. The mods seem to be working on automatic, or are being exceptionally lazy. Unfortunately, by the time anyone figures out what's going on, the opportunist's post has already spawned a discussion and obtained his points.
If the mods would wake up and mod the original opportunist offtopic, which he is in the context of that thread, I think we'd see a lot more thread diversity around here.
Now it is truly frightening.
Scientists perform experiments.
The experiment is the be all and end all of science. I think the reason that scientists get a lot of flack like the parent post nowadays is because there are so many pseudo-scientists around that claim to be using the scientific method but really aren't. Psychologists, sociologists, eugenicists, data miners, etc, etc. There's a lot of news articles these days claims that "scientists" have conducted an "experiment" supposedly proving some claim. Nine times out of ten, it turns out that cargo-cult scientists have performed another ritual with the appearance, but none of the substance of a proper experiment.
I've ranted long enough. The answer to your question is that scientists subject their theories to experimental verification/falsification. Peer review doesn't even enter into the equation. Freud was peer reviewed.
Paper Power is Peeoplleeeeee!!!!
Can you say Healthcare? Education? Electricity? Water?
My impression of Australia has been that the place never really caught the post War wave or the sixties and is still fairly stuck in a bigoted and colonial mindset. I'm probably disparaging a lot of Australian slashdotters, but to be fair your domestic actions are speaking volumes to the rest of us.
Broken or flaky video files. Nothing is more irritating than an mpeg, etc error that causes an entire block to go black and smear itself all over the place until the next keyframe. I don't expect realtime correction, but it would be nice if I could patch the file rather than do another six hour encode.
No more Pork for you!!
- 1. Roll 2D6
- 2. Take the number rolled, and multiply it times the number of worm messages that have arrived in your inbox.
- 3. If your computer is actually infected, square the result.
- 4. Play a game of Solitare
- 5. Add your final score to the result
- 6. Divide the result by your Boss's vigilance.
- 7. Make a saving throw against discovery, and multiply the result by 1000
- 8. Round up to the nearest 100,000
- 9. Publish
- 10. Profit!
Lower bounds are trickier as they will require you to actually care about what you're doing.Have you been to England recently!?
Basically that's it. Journalists are treated as a privileged class in our society. I had a rant recently about how the media has taken up the baton of the second estate from an outdated clergy. They've become a secular second estate if you will, and acts like this, granting them privilege, serve to emphasize the fact that they've become a higher class of citizen than the rest of us. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
You, are a liar.
Yes mathematics gives you a headache. Frequently you don't get it. Frequently you must spend weeks on a topic before getting it. Often it may elude you for years. Then you finally get it, and usually hard work and effort has absolutely nothing to do with that.
The sad fact is, people think mathematics is hard because most mathematicians are lousy at explaining it. It's not explained properly and as a result people struggle with it until they finally come across a resource or idea or epiphany that allows them to realize the in retrospect blindingly obvious idea that lay behind the whole topic. What to know why it seems so "elegant" and obvious in retrospect. It's because it is obvious, as long as you were taught it correctly.
Best example I can think of offhand is determinants? Remember those? I'll bet there's a lot of people here who went through the whole spiel with them over and over and all the while didn't have a clue what they were all about. Let me tell you what they are, or quote a better man than I on the subject. "The determinant of a matrix is an (oriented) volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are its columns." You see, that's what a determinant actually is, but most student are never taught that most essential fact. Once you get that, the rest is all just formulae around it. But most are just taught the formulae. Most of mathematics is taught like this. Form without essence. It's a tradgedy. The greater tragedy is people think all this incompetence is a result of mathematics being "hard". It's just hard to teach, not to learn.
Here's a link to a much longer rant which shows just how big a problem the teaching of mathematics has become in some quarters.