A scientific hypothesis is no more a wild-ass guess than a theory. If I say "I think you're controlled by miniature robots from Pluto that hang out in your cerebral cortex", that may be a hypothesis, but it is not a scientific hypothesis.
If there's a worse job than working a booth I can't think of it. Frankly, I'd rather scrub the staff washroom with a toothbrush than have to spend endless hours with disinterested people making mindless small talk, with clearly no intent of them ever using your product, or worse, interested people who still won't ever actually buy your product.
That may explain the UK, although honestly I doubt Charles has that much influence. But it doesn't explain the US or Canada, or anywhere else this utter bullshit gets passed off as "medicine". Some of these crap treatments are even covered under my job's health coverage. It's crazy and a waste of money, or more specifically premiums I pay.
That was my solution. I've got a cataract on my left eye (which will be removed very soon, yay!) as well as strabismus and in general am very short sighted. In the end I just went out and bought a 28" monitor. Other solutions seem kludgy and rendering can be quite awful.
No kidding. Even the Ghost Busters are banned in New York, even though all they've been trying to do is prevent the Keymaster of Gozer from joining with Zuul the Gatekeeper.
To my mind, the search for life would be better spent on ever better optical telescopes. We can already "sniff" the atmospheres of exoplanets to some extent, and we're probably within a few decades of being able to directly image significant features of Earth-sized planets, not to mention finding evidence of at least photosynthesizing life (which would almost certainly infer a complex biosphere on such a planet).
Exactly. I would imagine any species sufficiently advanced to do planetary and solar system engineering, probably has moved beyond EM communications. In fact, I really feel that the theory that advanced civilizations will only use radio for a fairly narrow period before moving to other means of communications really means SETI is doomed. That window is probably only a few hundred years, and considering that anything but a very directed high powered signal is likely to dissipate within a few light years of the planet of origin, it's the wrong approach. We could be surrounded by civilizations at our level of development within a few thousand light year window and never hear a single signal from them, and visa versa.
Another Canadian here. The above poster is an arse. The Canadian government under Harper muzzled scientists, literally sending scientists out with political minders to conferences. Above poster is clearly a bitter Tory looking to blame someone else for his party's defeat.
This is what happens when you allow sociopaths to run corporations. Sociopaths should, upon discovery, be forceably removed from society at gunpoint and sent to an island together where they can fuck each other, eat each other, or whatever it is these vile neurologically inhuman monsters do to each other. No sociopath should ever have control of even a single normal, empathic human being in even the tiniest way.,
Yes, I think the whole thing was an attempted Triple-E (embrace, extend, extinguish) against Google Drive and Dropbox. I'm sure they did pick up some users, but I doubt enough to make handing out 75tb to ever OneDrive user worth it.
As I understand it, Parliament has permitted this EU oversight to happen and further has attempted to integrate EU law into UK law. Is that not the situation as it stands?
Does OS/2 even have a 64 bit kernel? It was great in its day because it was the only major x86 operating system to operate in real mode, but that was over 20 years ago, and hardware has come a very long way in that time.
I booted Warp 4 in a VM guest about five years ago for fun, but I can't think of many practical applications now, or any particular reason to even create a modern variant.
The only nation I can think of off the top of my head that does not feel itself bound by agreements it has made with other members of the international community is North Korea.
Exactly. However flawed TOS could be at times (and the third season was, with a few exceptions, incredibly dismal), it really was Roddenberry and some of the best writers working in TV finding inventive ways to challenge society on significant issues, at least as they stood in the 1960s. It was progressive in a way a lot of TV series at the time couldn't be, because it could hide the moral behind green-skinned women and all the other trappings of a science fiction show.
I re-watched Errand of Mercy a few weeks ago, and I was struck by how this episode rather handily shredded even the Federation's self-mythologizing. The way the Organians basically demonstrated that the Federation, whatever it thought of its own moral superiority, was just as quick to demonize its enemies as its enemies were. When you put that in the context of the mid-60s, at the height of the Cold War, with the Klingons clearly supposed to be an allegorical representation of the Soviets, you see how the series made the point that the West, with all its advantages, and even with some justification that it was a superior society, still could eagerly partake of ignoble strategies, and if I dare push the allegory at the heart of that episode further, that the Superpowers' use of underdeveloped nations to wage their proxy wars was wrong.
That's pretty heavy stuff to put on a television set in the United States in 1967, and while it did align somewhat with the growing anti-Vietnam War movement, I still doubt you could have put a conventional TV show where the US was shown to be just as conniving and wantonly disinterested in the actual needs of a Third World country as the feared and evil Soviet Union.
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No, a few Muslims have said that. And the Bible is every bit as a vile.
I won't be silenced until Brainfuck gets the recognition it deserves!
A scientific hypothesis is no more a wild-ass guess than a theory. If I say "I think you're controlled by miniature robots from Pluto that hang out in your cerebral cortex", that may be a hypothesis, but it is not a scientific hypothesis.
This is America! People should be free to poison other people. Not to worry, the invisible hand of the market will fix it, or a guy with a gun.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
If there's a worse job than working a booth I can't think of it. Frankly, I'd rather scrub the staff washroom with a toothbrush than have to spend endless hours with disinterested people making mindless small talk, with clearly no intent of them ever using your product, or worse, interested people who still won't ever actually buy your product.
I'm a Ninja, you insensitive clod!
The point of a placebo is that it has no benefit. That's why it's at the heart of the double-blind methodology.
There is no benefit to homeopathy. It's pure bullshit, fraud and frankly I'd chuck anyone promoting it as a therapy in prison and fine them millions.
At least King Canute knew he couldn't hold back the tide.
This is likely why
That may explain the UK, although honestly I doubt Charles has that much influence. But it doesn't explain the US or Canada, or anywhere else this utter bullshit gets passed off as "medicine". Some of these crap treatments are even covered under my job's health coverage. It's crazy and a waste of money, or more specifically premiums I pay.
That was my solution. I've got a cataract on my left eye (which will be removed very soon, yay!) as well as strabismus and in general am very short sighted. In the end I just went out and bought a 28" monitor. Other solutions seem kludgy and rendering can be quite awful.
I can't figure out how this brand of witchcraft was ever seen suitable to refer patients to.
It's worked for the Mafia for decades.
No kidding. Even the Ghost Busters are banned in New York, even though all they've been trying to do is prevent the Keymaster of Gozer from joining with Zuul the Gatekeeper.
To my mind, the search for life would be better spent on ever better optical telescopes. We can already "sniff" the atmospheres of exoplanets to some extent, and we're probably within a few decades of being able to directly image significant features of Earth-sized planets, not to mention finding evidence of at least photosynthesizing life (which would almost certainly infer a complex biosphere on such a planet).
Exactly. I would imagine any species sufficiently advanced to do planetary and solar system engineering, probably has moved beyond EM communications. In fact, I really feel that the theory that advanced civilizations will only use radio for a fairly narrow period before moving to other means of communications really means SETI is doomed. That window is probably only a few hundred years, and considering that anything but a very directed high powered signal is likely to dissipate within a few light years of the planet of origin, it's the wrong approach. We could be surrounded by civilizations at our level of development within a few thousand light year window and never hear a single signal from them, and visa versa.
Because the Republican frontrunners are just such paragons of factual debate.
Another Canadian here. The above poster is an arse. The Canadian government under Harper muzzled scientists, literally sending scientists out with political minders to conferences. Above poster is clearly a bitter Tory looking to blame someone else for his party's defeat.
This is what happens when you allow sociopaths to run corporations. Sociopaths should, upon discovery, be forceably removed from society at gunpoint and sent to an island together where they can fuck each other, eat each other, or whatever it is these vile neurologically inhuman monsters do to each other. No sociopath should ever have control of even a single normal, empathic human being in even the tiniest way.,
Not to worry. Encryption is going to be illegal soon!
Yes, I think the whole thing was an attempted Triple-E (embrace, extend, extinguish) against Google Drive and Dropbox. I'm sure they did pick up some users, but I doubt enough to make handing out 75tb to ever OneDrive user worth it.
I ended up popping down some money to get 100gb of storage with Google. I'm at about 25gb at the moment, and it only costs me about $1 a month.
As I understand it, Parliament has permitted this EU oversight to happen and further has attempted to integrate EU law into UK law. Is that not the situation as it stands?
Does OS/2 even have a 64 bit kernel? It was great in its day because it was the only major x86 operating system to operate in real mode, but that was over 20 years ago, and hardware has come a very long way in that time.
I booted Warp 4 in a VM guest about five years ago for fun, but I can't think of many practical applications now, or any particular reason to even create a modern variant.
The only nation I can think of off the top of my head that does not feel itself bound by agreements it has made with other members of the international community is North Korea.
Exactly. However flawed TOS could be at times (and the third season was, with a few exceptions, incredibly dismal), it really was Roddenberry and some of the best writers working in TV finding inventive ways to challenge society on significant issues, at least as they stood in the 1960s. It was progressive in a way a lot of TV series at the time couldn't be, because it could hide the moral behind green-skinned women and all the other trappings of a science fiction show.
I re-watched Errand of Mercy a few weeks ago, and I was struck by how this episode rather handily shredded even the Federation's self-mythologizing. The way the Organians basically demonstrated that the Federation, whatever it thought of its own moral superiority, was just as quick to demonize its enemies as its enemies were. When you put that in the context of the mid-60s, at the height of the Cold War, with the Klingons clearly supposed to be an allegorical representation of the Soviets, you see how the series made the point that the West, with all its advantages, and even with some justification that it was a superior society, still could eagerly partake of ignoble strategies, and if I dare push the allegory at the heart of that episode further, that the Superpowers' use of underdeveloped nations to wage their proxy wars was wrong.
That's pretty heavy stuff to put on a television set in the United States in 1967, and while it did align somewhat with the growing anti-Vietnam War movement, I still doubt you could have put a conventional TV show where the US was shown to be just as conniving and wantonly disinterested in the actual needs of a Third World country as the feared and evil Soviet Union.