This is just the god of the gaps argument in disguise. How come quantum mechanics cannot explain gravitation? Because G-d is moving things behind the scenes. And if quantum mechanics is ever fused with a gravitational theory, you'd find something else it doesn't explain, such as love, and then claim G-d must be the one to fill in the gap.
Are there gaps in the fossil record? Of course, but we find new fossils all the time. Years ago, no one knew where birds came from. So G-d had to do it. But then we started finding fossils of dinosaurs with feathers. In fact, science has even gotten so good that in some cases it can tell you the color of those feathers.
So go ahead and invent as many gaps as you like and spackle them over with G-d. Science will methodically plod on, sometimes revising theories, sometimes strengthening them, sometimes inventing new ones. One thing it won't ever do is claim something must be a certain way merely based on failures of the current theories to explain it.
"since theories are supposed to have the benefit of empirical data to back them up" Not necessarily. String theory is a case in point. It has no data to back it up (to my knowledge, anyhow). Yet we persist in developing it. Why? We do so because it seems to hold great promise in explanatory value. Why do we not treat creationism similarly? Because it seems to hold no promise in explanatory value. And many of its tenets are demonstrably false. I don't believe string theory has been disproven in any way. But periodically, variants of it are are discarded because of some fact just learned. Those facts tend not to disprove a variant, just make it unlikely to be correct because what would follow seems to be very odd. We don't treat creationism at this level because creationism does not admit any variants, unless you count other creationism myths (the world is a lotus flower growing out of some god's navel).
You got that right. I have a sister who is manic when not on her meds. She's maybe 5'4", 120 lbs. This woman got up one morning having the problem with the wall to wall carpeting in her bedroom. She tore up that carpeting with her bare hands, all of it...except for the tacks and the tack strips since that would require a tool. Took me the better part of day to remove all the tacks from the flooring underneath meant to keep the carpeting in place. Those silly carpet layers....
That's from the Klieg lights, think of them as Grow Lights used in some nurseries. Without the Klieg lights and their attendant TV cameras, the politician will shrink into the nothingness from whence he/she came.
Wipers on the turn signal aren't bad. I rather thought it was quite efficient. I turn the arm to turn my wipers on/off, I flick it with a finger up or down to use the signals.
Think utility knife where the blade sticks out on the end and it is retractable. Then you only need stick the edge out a 1/4", say, and cut without having to count your fingers afterwards.
You gave me an idea for a new startup company: Brain Music Toll Booths. We get this brain implant, see, and put it in the brain part that enjoys music. It tabulates how much you owe as you listen. Periodically, say, driving around the city, we have these chip readers like the EZ-PASS on the NYS Thruway. It automatically siphons the correct amount out of your bank account. Have no bank account? The device causes you to hear only white noise. We can test it out on Dr. Cyborg that theRegister used to feature, he'll try anything cyber.
No, taking a dump doesn't count...unless you insist on dancing during the operation. Then the Dance Police will know about it. They are everywhere you know. And if you sing while doing this too, well, fees could be doubled. And if you have a parade float in there during the operation, well...you don't want to know what they'll do to you then.
Obama on national TV in 2009, right after the inaugural: Hello American People. George Bush left me a clandestine cybercampaign to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and touching off a nuclear arms race in the MidEast. I am going to expand this clandestine cybercampaign in the hopes we won't have to use kinetic weapons to stop Iran. We expect to cause their centrifuges to explode, they'll never know what hit them....bwahahahahahaha!!!
Iran, right after Obama's TV speech: We are announcing increased security to prevent the U.S. from destroying our Sacred Centrifuges.
Yep, let Obama do everything in the open so he cannot be accused of being "corrupt". What kind of bunny world do you live in?
Related to "if you don't know what it does, don't touch it" is "don't trust anything if you cannot see where it keeps its brain" (Molly Weasley) So, I guess we cannot trust many "executives".
Hmmm...and thus the Distributed Cloud was born in the year 2016. Before that, cloud services were centralized and so were downtimes. Managers felt that this was a denial of service to the worker bees and in order to keep them happy, a distributed form of cloud service was necessary. In the new concept, individual PCs will perform cloud services for individual worker bees...at their OWN desk. Hailed as a remarkable productivity enhancer that made men stronger and women prettier, Management declared Victory with Honor and many awards were passed out. The Business World heaved a sigh of relief that the cloud scourge had been fixed. Techies merely heaved.
"everything relates to cause and effect" Go study quantum mechanics for awhile and say that. And many theories of the multiverse posit no beginning and no end. "Logic", then, fails to always take you to a creator. You are merely following the usual G-d of the Gaps argument: how come that gap exists? Ans: you cannot prove G-d does not fill it. The Q and A are a non-sequiteur. So go ahead and invent as many straw-gaps as you like and then use your reason to knock them down.
For fun exercise in logic, look at quantum logic sometime and come back and tell us what is a proposition.
And 20 years ago, that may have been possible. There is no way it can reproduce the entire techno-eco-system required to provide the military with everything it needs. To run efficiently, you need just-in-time manufacturing ability. To do that, you need to have a lot of buyers because otherwise you are constantly starting and stopping your manufacturing lines. The DoD might be big but they are not that big.
The GP had it correct, there is no way to efficiently build equipment exclusively for the U.S. military. And not using the latest and greatest doesn't really save you much money. The cost is in the production facilities and personnel, not in when you use that latest pile of Intel chips.
I agree with the notion, but we are trying to corral slime here. It won't be enough just to force a company to "produce something". First off, the troll will find a wiling Chinese or American "company" to "produce" "something". The company will be a token company or one with no scruples. The "something" will be a piece of shit but with enough crap in it so that it will be unclear to any judge or jury that it doesn't involve the patent. The "produce" will simply be they got some useful other idiot company to "buy" the first "company"'s product, probably no money changes hands.
We'll be wanting a more stringent set of criteria to meet. I'm not a lawyer or Business School Product, but there are probably a stringent set of hurdles that could provide what we need. At least it would cut down on the trolls, but it wouldn't eliminate them. Wherever there is money to be made, there is nothing a segment of humanity won't try to get the money without doing any real work.
Take your favorite mathematical unsolved problem, call it A.
If A is true, then what follows
If A is false, then what follows
By looking closely at what follows, you can get a sense for whether to pursue the truth of A is true or A is false. All you are doing is, saying if you accept A and B follows from this, and B turns out to be false, then A is false. Of course you are mixing proof theory with model theory, but don't let that stop you.
"I've ever heard of across the country avoids high i.q. as the hallmark of an independent thinker who uses their judgement."
This sounds like something you've pulled out of your butt. Any cops I've dealt with, especially the detectives, were quite bright. If any law enforcement agency had such a policy, local reporters would be all over it and that would be the end of that.
From what I gather, Apple does do some designs in such a way that it requires a lot of people to assemble just so other valued Chinese or foreign companies won't set up a mechanized line to knock out knock offs faster than Apple can produce originals. This means that to knock off an Apple product successfully, you'd need a lot of up front investment, something the knock off companies won't do.
Not quite, the report I heard on NPR was that the decision to impose the import tariff was made yesterday, but to be implemented starting in OCTOBER. So there's still plenty of time for China to stand up and wave their collective dick at the U.S. for having the temerity to call them on their dumping, and time for the U.S. to weenie out of it. And we can expect some sort of tariff in kind from them.
Uh...okay, I'll go first. Who is going to pay for these repositories and why should they do that? Who is going to vet the apps on them? Who is going to do system maintenance to preserve their virginal bunny world? Who is going to clean them up when something naughty gets loose? Who is going to receive a sueball when an app turns out to be Satan's New and Improved Bank Crank? Who is going to pay the lawyers to handle the sueball?
I presume you were talking about Jimmy Carter, he was no engineer. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he at least had an engineer's outlook. He was defeated because unemployment skyrocketed along with interest rates and inflation. The final straw was being a micromanager on the Iran raid to get the hostages back. He looked small and because he was personally managing it, he looked like he personally failed.
The day I knew the hostages would come back was when I saw Reagan getting into a car after the election but before he was inaugurated. A reporter shouted out if the Iranians would do better to keep them until they could deal with Reagan in office. Reagan, perfect timing, looked over his shoulder and said, "I wouldn't if I were them.". That more or less was the difference between Reagan and Carter. Reagan acted like a president, Carter acted like...well...an engineer.
Another thing that bothers me about many engineers I have met is that they view mathematics as something handed down by the gods. I don't know what percentage of engineers this is, but that percentage will defend to the death not to learn anything new if it requires they expand their mathematics toolbox. I sense fear in them, fear of mathematics. And if you are not willing to come to terms with mathematics you don't already know, I cannot think they are effective problem solvers...just rearrangers of deck chairs.
Small government? Small government gave us Love Canal, the Housing Crisis that only took down the entire U.S. economy and gave the world's economy the flu, Enron, the toxic sludge flood in West Virginia from the Martin County Coal Corp., L.A.'s air quality before the EPA forced them to clean it up, etc...the list is quite long.
Small government means no FDA to make sure your prescription isn't ground up beetles. It means no high fund to fix the interstate network's bridges (yep, those states are going to get right on top of that one). No NTSA to do post mortems on plane crashes because you can always trust the airlines with your safety. No SEC to make sure you aren't buying that swamp land masquerading as a gold fund.
Grandma doesn't get her SS check, you know the one, the one that prevents her from having to move in with you. Grandma also won't get her medicare, you'd pick up her medical expenses for her, right? While we're at it, lets turn the mentally ill out of their group homes, you have some extra room in yours, right?
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This is just the god of the gaps argument in disguise. How come quantum mechanics cannot explain gravitation? Because G-d is moving things behind the scenes. And if quantum mechanics is ever fused with a gravitational theory, you'd find something else it doesn't explain, such as love, and then claim G-d must be the one to fill in the gap.
Are there gaps in the fossil record? Of course, but we find new fossils all the time. Years ago, no one knew where birds came from. So G-d had to do it. But then we started finding fossils of dinosaurs with feathers. In fact, science has even gotten so good that in some cases it can tell you the color of those feathers.
So go ahead and invent as many gaps as you like and spackle them over with G-d. Science will methodically plod on, sometimes revising theories, sometimes strengthening them, sometimes inventing new ones. One thing it won't ever do is claim something must be a certain way merely based on failures of the current theories to explain it.
"since theories are supposed to have the benefit of empirical data to back them up" Not necessarily. String theory is a case in point. It has no data to back it up (to my knowledge, anyhow). Yet we persist in developing it. Why? We do so because it seems to hold great promise in explanatory value. Why do we not treat creationism similarly? Because it seems to hold no promise in explanatory value. And many of its tenets are demonstrably false. I don't believe string theory has been disproven in any way. But periodically, variants of it are are discarded because of some fact just learned. Those facts tend not to disprove a variant, just make it unlikely to be correct because what would follow seems to be very odd. We don't treat creationism at this level because creationism does not admit any variants, unless you count other creationism myths (the world is a lotus flower growing out of some god's navel).
You got that right. I have a sister who is manic when not on her meds. She's maybe 5'4", 120 lbs. This woman got up one morning having the problem with the wall to wall carpeting in her bedroom. She tore up that carpeting with her bare hands, all of it...except for the tacks and the tack strips since that would require a tool. Took me the better part of day to remove all the tacks from the flooring underneath meant to keep the carpeting in place. Those silly carpet layers....
That's from the Klieg lights, think of them as Grow Lights used in some nurseries. Without the Klieg lights and their attendant TV cameras, the politician will shrink into the nothingness from whence he/she came.
Wipers on the turn signal aren't bad. I rather thought it was quite efficient. I turn the arm to turn my wipers on/off, I flick it with a finger up or down to use the signals.
Think utility knife where the blade sticks out on the end and it is retractable. Then you only need stick the edge out a 1/4", say, and cut without having to count your fingers afterwards.
You gave me an idea for a new startup company: Brain Music Toll Booths. We get this brain implant, see, and put it in the brain part that enjoys music. It tabulates how much you owe as you listen. Periodically, say, driving around the city, we have these chip readers like the EZ-PASS on the NYS Thruway. It automatically siphons the correct amount out of your bank account. Have no bank account? The device causes you to hear only white noise. We can test it out on Dr. Cyborg that theRegister used to feature, he'll try anything cyber.
No, taking a dump doesn't count...unless you insist on dancing during the operation. Then the Dance Police will know about it. They are everywhere you know. And if you sing while doing this too, well, fees could be doubled. And if you have a parade float in there during the operation, well...you don't want to know what they'll do to you then.
Obama on national TV in 2009, right after the inaugural: Hello American People. George Bush left me a clandestine cybercampaign to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and touching off a nuclear arms race in the MidEast. I am going to expand this clandestine cybercampaign in the hopes we won't have to use kinetic weapons to stop Iran. We expect to cause their centrifuges to explode, they'll never know what hit them....bwahahahahahaha!!!
Iran, right after Obama's TV speech: We are announcing increased security to prevent the U.S. from destroying our Sacred Centrifuges.
Yep, let Obama do everything in the open so he cannot be accused of being "corrupt". What kind of bunny world do you live in?
Related to "if you don't know what it does, don't touch it" is "don't trust anything if you cannot see where it keeps its brain" (Molly Weasley) So, I guess we cannot trust many "executives".
Hmmm...and thus the Distributed Cloud was born in the year 2016. Before that, cloud services were centralized and so were downtimes. Managers felt that this was a denial of service to the worker bees and in order to keep them happy, a distributed form of cloud service was necessary. In the new concept, individual PCs will perform cloud services for individual worker bees...at their OWN desk. Hailed as a remarkable productivity enhancer that made men stronger and women prettier, Management declared Victory with Honor and many awards were passed out. The Business World heaved a sigh of relief that the cloud scourge had been fixed. Techies merely heaved.
Most Jews would spell it as I have done, learn some culture.
"everything relates to cause and effect" Go study quantum mechanics for awhile and say that. And many theories of the multiverse posit no beginning and no end. "Logic", then, fails to always take you to a creator. You are merely following the usual G-d of the Gaps argument: how come that gap exists? Ans: you cannot prove G-d does not fill it. The Q and A are a non-sequiteur. So go ahead and invent as many straw-gaps as you like and then use your reason to knock them down.
For fun exercise in logic, look at quantum logic sometime and come back and tell us what is a proposition.
Wow, just think, G-d could look like one of those super-models.
And 20 years ago, that may have been possible. There is no way it can reproduce the entire techno-eco-system required to provide the military with everything it needs. To run efficiently, you need just-in-time manufacturing ability. To do that, you need to have a lot of buyers because otherwise you are constantly starting and stopping your manufacturing lines. The DoD might be big but they are not that big.
The GP had it correct, there is no way to efficiently build equipment exclusively for the U.S. military. And not using the latest and greatest doesn't really save you much money. The cost is in the production facilities and personnel, not in when you use that latest pile of Intel chips.
I agree with the notion, but we are trying to corral slime here. It won't be enough just to force a company to "produce something". First off, the troll will find a wiling Chinese or American "company" to "produce" "something". The company will be a token company or one with no scruples. The "something" will be a piece of shit but with enough crap in it so that it will be unclear to any judge or jury that it doesn't involve the patent. The "produce" will simply be they got some useful other idiot company to "buy" the first "company"'s product, probably no money changes hands.
We'll be wanting a more stringent set of criteria to meet. I'm not a lawyer or Business School Product, but there are probably a stringent set of hurdles that could provide what we need. At least it would cut down on the trolls, but it wouldn't eliminate them. Wherever there is money to be made, there is nothing a segment of humanity won't try to get the money without doing any real work.
Take your favorite mathematical unsolved problem, call it A.
If A is true, then what follows
If A is false, then what follows
By looking closely at what follows, you can get a sense for whether to pursue the truth of A is true or A is false. All you are doing is, saying if you accept A and B follows from this, and B turns out to be false, then A is false. Of course you are mixing proof theory with model theory, but don't let that stop you.
And you say you took logic at college?
"I've ever heard of across the country avoids high i.q. as the hallmark of an independent thinker who uses their judgement."
This sounds like something you've pulled out of your butt. Any cops I've dealt with, especially the detectives, were quite bright. If any law enforcement agency had such a policy, local reporters would be all over it and that would be the end of that.
From what I gather, Apple does do some designs in such a way that it requires a lot of people to assemble just so other valued Chinese or foreign companies won't set up a mechanized line to knock out knock offs faster than Apple can produce originals. This means that to knock off an Apple product successfully, you'd need a lot of up front investment, something the knock off companies won't do.
Not quite, the report I heard on NPR was that the decision to impose the import tariff was made yesterday, but to be implemented starting in OCTOBER. So there's still plenty of time for China to stand up and wave their collective dick at the U.S. for having the temerity to call them on their dumping, and time for the U.S. to weenie out of it. And we can expect some sort of tariff in kind from them.
Uh...okay, I'll go first. Who is going to pay for these repositories and why should they do that? Who is going to vet the apps on them? Who is going to do system maintenance to preserve their virginal bunny world? Who is going to clean them up when something naughty gets loose? Who is going to receive a sueball when an app turns out to be Satan's New and Improved Bank Crank? Who is going to pay the lawyers to handle the sueball?
Are you really from this planet?
Apple is unlikely to root your bank account without your permission.
I presume you were talking about Jimmy Carter, he was no engineer. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he at least had an engineer's outlook. He was defeated because unemployment skyrocketed along with interest rates and inflation. The final straw was being a micromanager on the Iran raid to get the hostages back. He looked small and because he was personally managing it, he looked like he personally failed.
The day I knew the hostages would come back was when I saw Reagan getting into a car after the election but before he was inaugurated. A reporter shouted out if the Iranians would do better to keep them until they could deal with Reagan in office. Reagan, perfect timing, looked over his shoulder and said, "I wouldn't if I were them.". That more or less was the difference between Reagan and Carter. Reagan acted like a president, Carter acted like...well...an engineer.
Another thing that bothers me about many engineers I have met is that they view mathematics as something handed down by the gods. I don't know what percentage of engineers this is, but that percentage will defend to the death not to learn anything new if it requires they expand their mathematics toolbox. I sense fear in them, fear of mathematics. And if you are not willing to come to terms with mathematics you don't already know, I cannot think they are effective problem solvers...just rearrangers of deck chairs.
Delaware's also home to the bankruptcy scam judicial system, the one that trusted and still does SCO.
Small government? Small government gave us Love Canal, the Housing Crisis that only took down the entire U.S. economy and gave the world's economy the flu, Enron, the toxic sludge flood in West Virginia from the Martin County Coal Corp., L.A.'s air quality before the EPA forced them to clean it up, etc...the list is quite long.
Small government means no FDA to make sure your prescription isn't ground up beetles. It means no high fund to fix the interstate network's bridges (yep, those states are going to get right on top of that one). No NTSA to do post mortems on plane crashes because you can always trust the airlines with your safety. No SEC to make sure you aren't buying that swamp land masquerading as a gold fund.
Grandma doesn't get her SS check, you know the one, the one that prevents her from having to move in with you. Grandma also won't get her medicare, you'd pick up her medical expenses for her, right? While we're at it, lets turn the mentally ill out of their group homes, you have some extra room in yours, right?
The list goes on. Fucking grow up already.