The "funny" thing about HIV is that, if it killed instantly (days or weeks) people would be MUCH more apt to be careful and NOT GET IT it because it's completely preventable aside from rape, unknowingly getting it through blood transfusions (rare) etc.
If it killed within days or weeks, it wouldn't matter what people do, because an outbreak would be pretty much self-terminating.
This passage suggests the earth is a flat circle, not a round sphere.
Actually, it suggests that the earth is one-dimensional, since a circle only contains points with a fixed distance from the center. What you mean would be a disk, which contains all points with a distance less than or equal to the radius.
Of course, you're quoting from a source that has been trans(-muti-)lated (possibly several times), and the original connotation of the word has been lost completely.
Economics cannot do that: there is only one world economy, and national and local economies are too different to get comparable observations.
There's also only one world ecosystem (biology), one universe (sorry to all theoretical physicists - no experiments that mess with universal constants for you), etc. I'm pretty sure that for each and every science, you can find areas that aren't experimentally accessible, nor observational. That still doesn't make the entire field "non-science".
"Believe us. Experiments are impossible. It's too complex for humans to understand."... if I want to hear that, I go to church.
Economics obviously does not meet the criteria of an experimental science like physics or chemistry: you cannot perform repeatable experiments.
In that case, physics also isn't an experimental science since you can't really perform repeatable experiments in astrophysics. Oh, and neither is biology, since you can't really perform repeatable experiments on ecosystems.
Just because you can't perform large-scale experiments, or because the results of a single experiment have a degree of randomness (*cough*quantum physics*cough*), doesn't mean that experiments are impossible.
Since the AmigaOS lacked memory protection, a dodgy program could bring down the system, yes.
I don't think it's advisable to implement software-only memory protection if the underlying CPU doesn't support it in hardware. And afaik the 68k didn't.
I was thinking more of mental capabilities, not physical ones.
However, the female officers I've seen on patrol seem to be good-looking. I guess this reduces the chance of facing resistance when making an arrest, or gives them an extra second to give anyone who doesn't want to be handcuffed a swift kick to the nuts.
Pick ANY situation, and you'll have plenty of analysts predicting both ways - and the ones who turn out to be correct are invariably labelled insightful, when no doubt a lot of them are just lucky.
People who trumpet their opinions about the stock market in public can't have too much confidence in what they're saying. If you really know what the stock market will be doing in the future, you shut the hell up and adjust your investments accordingly. Then, there's no ???, just profit.
Hahaha! That's a good one - you almost had me there for a moment!
If you found that funny, you probably don't know just how low the entry requirements are for cops in the US. If you think they're low in Germany, be very, very scared when you go to the US.;)
Part of the training would be to tell them: If you cough or sneeze, and touch your mouth with your gloved hand, you then leave the production line immediately, taking any materials with you that could have been contaminated, destroy them, desinfect your hands, and put on fresh gloves.
If you have a process to keep things sterile, then you would not just have everyone handling the things wear gloves, but also surgical masks. It doesn't make much sense to have one without the other.
That would give valid appeals to how many tens of thousands of felony convictions?
Only for those who can prove that they worked in the manufacture or distribution of cotton swabs.
Also, if the courts rely on DNA analysis alone to prove guilt, there's more wrong that just faulty DNA tests. The only thing DNA analysis can do fairly reliably (excluding weird things like chimaeras) is disprove guilt.
The industrial revolution only took of because of cumulation of capital in private hands.
"Private hands" had held enormous amounts of capital for hundreds of years before the industrial revolution happened. Why didn't the industrial revolution happen earlier, then? Don't you think mechanization and the resulting enormous increase in productivity had anything to do with that?
I'm not saying I'd rather get t-boned on my drivers side door, but taking a 40 MPH hit from the rear is almost a guaranty of whip lash.
You're not going to take a 40 MPH delta-v hit from the rear when stopping at a traffic light, unless the person behind you was asleep at the wheel. And in that case, you have bigger problems than red light cameras, since such snoozers are going to slam into your car regardless of why you had to stop.
Most cars have crappy head supports, and most drivers and passengers never set their head supports to the appropriate level.
You like taxes on stupidity. I also like stupidity being somewhat painful. Not adjusting your head support to the right height (c'mon, that's not fscking rocket science) fits the bill just fine.
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Actually, there are plenty of Tibetans trying to cross the border into India, and there are plenty of people trying to get into Saudi Arabia or Dubai.
The "funny" thing about HIV is that, if it killed instantly (days or weeks) people would be MUCH more apt to be careful and NOT GET IT it because it's completely preventable aside from rape, unknowingly getting it through blood transfusions (rare) etc.
If it killed within days or weeks, it wouldn't matter what people do, because an outbreak would be pretty much self-terminating.
This passage suggests the earth is a flat circle, not a round sphere.
Actually, it suggests that the earth is one-dimensional, since a circle only contains points with a fixed distance from the center. What you mean would be a disk, which contains all points with a distance less than or equal to the radius.
Of course, you're quoting from a source that has been trans(-muti-)lated (possibly several times), and the original connotation of the word has been lost completely.
Economics cannot do that: there is only one world economy, and national and local economies are too different to get comparable observations.
There's also only one world ecosystem (biology), one universe (sorry to all theoretical physicists - no experiments that mess with universal constants for you), etc. I'm pretty sure that for each and every science, you can find areas that aren't experimentally accessible, nor observational. That still doesn't make the entire field "non-science".
"Believe us. Experiments are impossible. It's too complex for humans to understand." ... if I want to hear that, I go to church.
In that case, physics also isn't an experimental science since you can't really perform repeatable experiments in astrophysics. Oh, and neither is biology, since you can't really perform repeatable experiments on ecosystems.
Just because you can't perform large-scale experiments, or because the results of a single experiment have a degree of randomness (*cough*quantum physics*cough*), doesn't mean that experiments are impossible.
Well, half of us, anyway.
Yes. The other half is lucky, they can choke on the nitrous oxide that our atmosphere got turned into.
Since the AmigaOS lacked memory protection, a dodgy program could bring down the system, yes.
I don't think it's advisable to implement software-only memory protection if the underlying CPU doesn't support it in hardware. And afaik the 68k didn't.
Actually everyone knows that economics is a social science.
With everyone, you mean "everyone who adheres to the Austrian School"?
I was thinking more of mental capabilities, not physical ones.
However, the female officers I've seen on patrol seem to be good-looking. I guess this reduces the chance of facing resistance when making an arrest, or gives them an extra second to give anyone who doesn't want to be handcuffed a swift kick to the nuts.
People who trumpet their opinions about the stock market in public can't have too much confidence in what they're saying. If you really know what the stock market will be doing in the future, you shut the hell up and adjust your investments accordingly. Then, there's no ???, just profit.
Finally, we know what happened to the elusive Q-36 explosive space modulator! And there was a kaboom, too!
So how long till the authorities use this as an excuse to form a DNA database of all people?
I don't know, but I'm sure that this database would show that everyone's a clone of the same person.
If you found that funny, you probably don't know just how low the entry requirements are for cops in the US. If you think they're low in Germany, be very, very scared when you go to the US. ;)
If you run it through the image processing software they use on 24, you can actually make out the license plate number too.
Quick! Someone send these guys a speeding ticket!
Simply put: ADHD and assault rifles don't mix.
If you have a process to keep things sterile, then you would not just have everyone handling the things wear gloves, but also surgical masks. It doesn't make much sense to have one without the other.
That would give valid appeals to how many tens of thousands of felony convictions?
Only for those who can prove that they worked in the manufacture or distribution of cotton swabs.
Also, if the courts rely on DNA analysis alone to prove guilt, there's more wrong that just faulty DNA tests. The only thing DNA analysis can do fairly reliably (excluding weird things like chimaeras) is disprove guilt.
The police actively don't hire people that are too smart. Which scares the shit out of me.
You're talking about US police. The requirements for aspiring police officers in Germany are significantly higher.
Are you sure you're talking about the country where taking a leak in the wrong place is considered a sex offense?
"Legally"? That's easy. Just find the government-issued list of controlled substances.
"Private hands" had held enormous amounts of capital for hundreds of years before the industrial revolution happened. Why didn't the industrial revolution happen earlier, then? Don't you think mechanization and the resulting enormous increase in productivity had anything to do with that?
You're not going to take a 40 MPH delta-v hit from the rear when stopping at a traffic light, unless the person behind you was asleep at the wheel. And in that case, you have bigger problems than red light cameras, since such snoozers are going to slam into your car regardless of why you had to stop.
Most cars have crappy head supports, and most drivers and passengers never set their head supports to the appropriate level.
You like taxes on stupidity. I also like stupidity being somewhat painful. Not adjusting your head support to the right height (c'mon, that's not fscking rocket science) fits the bill just fine.
How? Only drug dealers bring their cellphones to school, didn't you know?
You can use some of them to poison your neighbors cat. If you're a sadistic psychopath, that could technically be considered recreational.
Guns are the first tool only of those too weak and too stupid to apply any other means to solving their problem.
You forgot "too poor".