Things are changing, but it's a slow process, because prestige and contacts have a lot of inertia.
Perhaps you are why it is slow and that there is so much inertia?
Sure, you should obviously publish in a prestigious journal... but you should also be part of the advancing wave and help to make an open access journal more prestigious by publishing in it too. Unless you are happy with the status quo, you should work to change it. (easier said than done, I know.)
Yes. yes they do have to be in Vegas. Vegas built the infrastructure required to host such conferences and Detroit did not. So unless you propose spending money to build the infrastructure elsewhere, Vegas is where the conferences will have to be.
Seriously though, why complain about Vegas at all anyways? If you have to pay for travel, then one place is as good as another. Just because Vegas is also an entertainment area, that does not mean that part of the conference bill is to pay for the attendees entertainment.
The real problem is that Republicans think that cutting spending is the only way to fix the budget, despite the fact that taxes are at historic lows and austerity is actually a really shitty idea (see: europe).
Well, they (taxes that I pay) do not feel like they are at historic lows at my level. They are as high or higher than ever for me.
For myself, I absolutely DO believe that government spending needs to decrease. I am not qualified to say where or how, but surely they could defund some of the departments tasked with implementing an authoritarian society upon us.
How exactly is that a guarantee? It is nothing but words hosted on a Microsoft website. Those words could change tomorrow and a new era of computing would be introduced. One where nothing but Microsoft operating systems will run.
Hold on to your motherboards that were built under that policy because when the new motherboards come out, they will respect the new policy.
Is it really so easy to lead you to the guillotine? Wow.
. The horrifying thing revealed/verified to many people by these leaks is not that "a few bad apples sometimes do wrong in the fog of war," but that the US has created a system where it is perfectly normal and "legit" behavior to be flying around looking for folks to gun down.
And you are why the military is forced to keep secrets. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or what military members experience and are asked to do and yet you make a pronouncement like this. Really?
It is through their efforts that you can sit all nice and comfortable while making such asinine statements. If there is a problem, it is with the civilian control (politicians) of the military. I am pretty sure it was wrong to invade Iraq even if getting rid of Saddam and shaking up the entrenched power structure there was a good thing. It was not the military that made that choice though.
Casual murderers? Just shut the fuck up and crawl back under your rock.
You are modded funny but instead, I would say that you are insightful. What you are (unwittingly?) doing is motivating kids to change what they do not like and that they too can have some control over the world.
You are a moron. Yes, the planes will launch from Amphibious Assault Ships initially, that is after all how they will get from an American port to somewhere near your hometown in bumblefuck Fuckistan. But, those planes will NOT be ferrying 1000 - 2000 kilometers just to attack something. They will fly there and LAND there.
The Air Force hangs out at airports. The Marines hang out in your yard. The plane needs to be able to land and take off from your yard to be useful by the Marines.
They called me almost a year ago and asked me if I wanted 40mbit cable and they would offer it for the introductory rate of $120/month for 6 months (IIRC). I said no. I _would_ pay an arm and leg for more bandwidth, but not from Comcast. I am in the process of cancelling my current account now just because of their new copyright system. I would have been contractually obligated to stay if I had accepted their offer of more bandwidth.
Hm. I read the actual report (PDF) and it seems that veterans in general are not being classified as a threat. It seems to be saying that a small percentage of veterans may be targeted by extremist groups for recruitment. They then give an example of Timothy McVeigh. This seems reasonable and does not seem to cast suspicion on veterans as a whole which is what
I guess I should have posted a different summary. I apologize.
It is my assumption that without direct quotes from Mr. Henrich that much of the controversy and assumptions of "universality in psychology" are by Mr Ethan Watters rather than Mr. Henrich.
Of the psychology and anthropology related materials that I have read, it is to be implicitly understood that different cultures may give different results when tested concerning anything, even when matters of life and death are concerned. Since Mr Henrich appears to be a professional in the field, even though seemingly a rookie, it is not likely that he would make such a mistaken assumption. My direct quotes from Mr. Watters article are there to support my assumption.
I apologize for the incredibly poor grammar. I am not formally educated. (I is not a colluj gradjit):)
I have a Galaxy Note as well and I love it. Almost the perfect size. Small enough to fit into a pocket and large enough to mostly use the web browser in fully functional mode.
AFAIK, the camera does not work with Cyanogen Mod 10. Have they fixed that problem yet?
This is where they just don't get it. Music has never been in danger.
What you do not get is that when they are talking about danger and music, they are talking about danger and their CONTROL over music. Profits are what they hope for. Control is what they aim for. Digital distribution is removing their control over music.
Um, no. It is all analog all the way down. Ultimately, at some point, we perceive concentrations and crossovers of fields and waves as particles but the perception of particles is illusory. It is just convenient to refer to "collections" of particles and fields as particles.
When you can hear artifacts and distortions due to poor lossy encoding, it matters because it takes away from enjoying the music. In a noisy environment, it takes some heavy distortions to reduce the enjoyment of the music. Nevertheless, many many recordings are distorted enough to cause a detraction from the enjoyment. The simple solution is just to have lossless recordings available. If you want to reduce file size, then go ahead and use lossy compression methods that do not cross your personal threshold of enjoyment.
This is why we are only seeing pop acts like the Justin Beibers promoted compared to Kurt Cobains or acts that might define/push a genre outwards.
Umm... you DO realize that the RIAA and friends refused to promote Kurt right? It was MTV who played the video "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana (and "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails) that caused those two bands to become overnight sensations. It is also why MTV ended up not playing music videos (do they play music videos again yet?). The RIAA and friends realized they would lose control if there was another way for people to find out about music.
Someone should write an article about the distortions in the music industry due to RIAA and friends attempts at controlling everything.
I like your idea better than mine, which I am going to do anyways: Cancel my Comcast cable internet service. I do not have the cable TV service at all so that is an entire subscription gone.
Password Safe. I let it remember my passwords for me, and only have to remember the one to open the password safe.
I use so many different computers that such a thing is unreasonable to use. Stick it on a thumb drive? Many of the computers I log into do not allow "personal" media to be attached.
I currently have something on the order of 80 passwords and 60 usernames stored in my head at any one given time. I would LOVE to reduce it... but a "wallet" type program just will not ever fly.
I should have worded this differently. It was naive for Henrich to assume that the game would play out the same in a culture with differing values from the one originally studied. It was arrogant of him to assume that all researchers everywhere are making the same rookie assumptions that he is. Or maybe the article author decided to write it that way to make it seem like a story.
There is no cultural blindness here except possibly on the part of Henrich... and even then, it seems hard to believe. Let's take a look shall we?
In doing so, Henrich expected to confirm one of the foundational assumptions underlying such experiments, and indeed underpinning the entire fields of economics and psychology: that humans all share the same cognitive machinery—the same evolved rational and psychological hardwiring.
Who said that? Ethan Watters said it. Citations? Substantiation in ANY form? I see none.
With the help of a dozen other colleagues he led a study of 14 other small-scale societies, in locales from Tanzania to Indonesia. Differences abounded in the behavior of both players in the ultimatum game.
This is what would be expected by any sane person, especially a trained a professional. The result depends on the values and experiences of your life.
The research established Henrich as an up-and-coming scholar.
Ah, so he *IS* a rookie. Perhaps it actually is possible he made a rookie mistake of assuming everyone in his field assumed that the game results would be valid across all value systems. It is doubtful that any but Ethan Watters ever thought that though.
A MODERN LIBERAL ARTS education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad.
So again, we are back at Ethan Watters spouting off as if he is knowledgeable and that his opinions are universal. Hm.
If you take a broad look at the social science curriculum of the last few decades, it becomes a little more clear why modern graduates are so unmoored. [mental spew from Mr. Watters].
Oy. This guy is terrible. Please tell him to shut up.
Economists and psychologists, for their part, did an end run around the issue with the convenient assumption that their job was to study the human mind stripped of culture.
So this "controversy" is indeed clearly in Mr. Watter's own mind. He is clearly ascribing things to Mr. Henrich's research that are of his own imagination.
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Things are changing, but it's a slow process, because prestige and contacts have a lot of inertia.
Perhaps you are why it is slow and that there is so much inertia?
Sure, you should obviously publish in a prestigious journal... but you should also be part of the advancing wave and help to make an open access journal more prestigious by publishing in it too. Unless you are happy with the status quo, you should work to change it. (easier said than done, I know.)
Do conferences have to be in Vegas?
Yes. yes they do have to be in Vegas. Vegas built the infrastructure required to host such conferences and Detroit did not. So unless you propose spending money to build the infrastructure elsewhere, Vegas is where the conferences will have to be.
Seriously though, why complain about Vegas at all anyways? If you have to pay for travel, then one place is as good as another. Just because Vegas is also an entertainment area, that does not mean that part of the conference bill is to pay for the attendees entertainment.
By any chance, are you a Puritan?
The real problem is that Republicans think that cutting spending is the only way to fix the budget,
despite the fact that taxes are at historic lows and austerity is actually a really shitty idea (see: europe).
Well, they (taxes that I pay) do not feel like they are at historic lows at my level. They are as high or higher than ever for me.
For myself, I absolutely DO believe that government spending needs to decrease. I am not qualified to say where or how, but surely they could defund some of the departments tasked with implementing an authoritarian society upon us.
How exactly is that a guarantee? It is nothing but words hosted on a Microsoft website. Those words could change tomorrow and a new era of computing would be introduced. One where nothing but Microsoft operating systems will run.
Hold on to your motherboards that were built under that policy because when the new motherboards come out, they will respect the new policy.
Is it really so easy to lead you to the guillotine? Wow.
. The horrifying thing revealed/verified to many people by these leaks is not that "a few bad apples sometimes do wrong in the fog of war," but that the US has created a system where it is perfectly normal and "legit" behavior to be flying around looking for folks to gun down.
And you are why the military is forced to keep secrets. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or what military members experience and are asked to do and yet you make a pronouncement like this. Really?
It is through their efforts that you can sit all nice and comfortable while making such asinine statements. If there is a problem, it is with the civilian control (politicians) of the military. I am pretty sure it was wrong to invade Iraq even if getting rid of Saddam and shaking up the entrenched power structure there was a good thing. It was not the military that made that choice though.
Casual murderers? Just shut the fuck up and crawl back under your rock.
only 10 Bitcoin for a handjob!
With bitcoin over $30, that is a mighty expensive handjob. In most countries, full service is about the price of a good meal.
You are modded funny but instead, I would say that you are insightful. What you are (unwittingly?) doing is motivating kids to change what they do not like and that they too can have some control over the world.
Rather ingenious actually.
You are a moron. Yes, the planes will launch from Amphibious Assault Ships initially, that is after all how they will get from an American port to somewhere near your hometown in bumblefuck Fuckistan. But, those planes will NOT be ferrying 1000 - 2000 kilometers just to attack something. They will fly there and LAND there.
The Air Force hangs out at airports. The Marines hang out in your yard. The plane needs to be able to land and take off from your yard to be useful by the Marines.
They called me almost a year ago and asked me if I wanted 40mbit cable and they would offer it for the introductory rate of $120/month for 6 months (IIRC). I said no. I _would_ pay an arm and leg for more bandwidth, but not from Comcast. I am in the process of cancelling my current account now just because of their new copyright system. I would have been contractually obligated to stay if I had accepted their offer of more bandwidth.
Crap. I have the AT&T version. I will check and see if the camera issue is fixed in 10 though. I currently run vanilla CM9.1.
Hm. I read the actual report (PDF) and it seems that veterans in general are not being classified as a threat. It seems to be saying that a small percentage of veterans may be targeted by extremist groups for recruitment. They then give an example of Timothy McVeigh. This seems reasonable and does not seem to cast suspicion on veterans as a whole which is what
...the DHS views them as a threat.
seems to imply.
I guess I should have posted a different summary. I apologize.
It is my assumption that without direct quotes from Mr. Henrich that much of the controversy and assumptions of "universality in psychology" are by Mr Ethan Watters rather than Mr. Henrich.
Of the psychology and anthropology related materials that I have read, it is to be implicitly understood that different cultures may give different results when tested concerning anything, even when matters of life and death are concerned. Since Mr Henrich appears to be a professional in the field, even though seemingly a rookie, it is not likely that he would make such a mistaken assumption. My direct quotes from Mr. Watters article are there to support my assumption.
I apologize for the incredibly poor grammar. I am not formally educated. (I is not a colluj gradjit) :)
I have a Galaxy Note as well and I love it. Almost the perfect size. Small enough to fit into a pocket and large enough to mostly use the web browser in fully functional mode.
AFAIK, the camera does not work with Cyanogen Mod 10. Have they fixed that problem yet?
We would learn nothing about humans in space that we couldn't learn in Earth orbit.
I would not be so certain of that.
anyway, I'll make like a tree ....
and nut? ;)
Wish I had mod points for you. *sigh* I could not have said it better myself.
This is where they just don't get it. Music has never been in danger.
What you do not get is that when they are talking about danger and music, they are talking about danger and their CONTROL over music. Profits are what they hope for. Control is what they aim for. Digital distribution is removing their control over music.
Um, no. It is all analog all the way down. Ultimately, at some point, we perceive concentrations and crossovers of fields and waves as particles but the perception of particles is illusory. It is just convenient to refer to "collections" of particles and fields as particles.
When you can hear artifacts and distortions due to poor lossy encoding, it matters because it takes away from enjoying the music. In a noisy environment, it takes some heavy distortions to reduce the enjoyment of the music. Nevertheless, many many recordings are distorted enough to cause a detraction from the enjoyment. The simple solution is just to have lossless recordings available. If you want to reduce file size, then go ahead and use lossy compression methods that do not cross your personal threshold of enjoyment.
It is not about purity snobbishness.
This is why we are only seeing pop acts like the Justin Beibers promoted compared to Kurt Cobains or acts that might define/push a genre outwards.
Umm... you DO realize that the RIAA and friends refused to promote Kurt right? It was MTV who played the video "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana (and "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails) that caused those two bands to become overnight sensations. It is also why MTV ended up not playing music videos (do they play music videos again yet?). The RIAA and friends realized they would lose control if there was another way for people to find out about music.
Someone should write an article about the distortions in the music industry due to RIAA and friends attempts at controlling everything.
Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...
Veterans.
Seriously, you need to provide a citation or reference for this. It sounds like it should be true but that is not enough.
I like your idea better than mine, which I am going to do anyways: Cancel my Comcast cable internet service. I do not have the cable TV service at all so that is an entire subscription gone.
Password Safe. I let it remember my passwords for me, and only have to remember the one to open the password safe.
I use so many different computers that such a thing is unreasonable to use. Stick it on a thumb drive? Many of the computers I log into do not allow "personal" media to be attached.
I currently have something on the order of 80 passwords and 60 usernames stored in my head at any one given time. I would LOVE to reduce it... but a "wallet" type program just will not ever fly.
So where is my soma and luxuries?
I should have worded this differently. It was naive for Henrich to assume that the game would play out the same in a culture with differing values from the one originally studied. It was arrogant of him to assume that all researchers everywhere are making the same rookie assumptions that he is. Or maybe the article author decided to write it that way to make it seem like a story.
There is no cultural blindness here except possibly on the part of Henrich... and even then, it seems hard to believe. Let's take a look shall we?
In doing so, Henrich expected to confirm one of the foundational assumptions underlying such experiments, and indeed underpinning the entire fields of economics and psychology: that humans all share the same cognitive machinery—the same evolved rational and psychological hardwiring.
Who said that? Ethan Watters said it. Citations? Substantiation in ANY form? I see none.
With the help of a dozen other colleagues he led a study of 14 other small-scale societies, in locales from Tanzania to Indonesia. Differences abounded in the behavior of both players in the ultimatum game.
This is what would be expected by any sane person, especially a trained a professional. The result depends on the values and experiences of your life.
The research established Henrich as an up-and-coming scholar.
Ah, so he *IS* a rookie. Perhaps it actually is possible he made a rookie mistake of assuming everyone in his field assumed that the game results would be valid across all value systems. It is doubtful that any but Ethan Watters ever thought that though.
A MODERN LIBERAL ARTS education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad.
So again, we are back at Ethan Watters spouting off as if he is knowledgeable and that his opinions are universal. Hm.
If you take a broad look at the social science curriculum of the last few decades, it becomes a little more clear why modern graduates are so unmoored. [mental spew from Mr. Watters].
Oy. This guy is terrible. Please tell him to shut up.
Economists and psychologists, for their part, did an end run around the issue with the convenient assumption that their job was to study the human mind stripped of culture.
So this "controversy" is indeed clearly in Mr. Watter's own mind. He is clearly ascribing things to Mr. Henrich's research that are of his own imagination.