And you see what religion does to people. A single core drill would be able to resolve the issue. But no, it's supposed to be holy, not holey! We can't do that!
Um, the same thing that art does to them? Or do you think it is OK to drill holes in the Mona Lisa?
And before you start going on about how "religions are different, scientists get to take small samples of artworks, etc" go look into how the Vatican reacted to requests to take samples for dating the Shroud of Turin. Surprise! - they allowed it as long as it wasn't destructive.
The universe itself may even have been "selected" through some process of cosmogenesis where universes that don't have what it takes, physical laws and constant appropriate to produce stars, black holes, daughter universes, see their lineage die off.
Lee Smolin now admits that this argument doesn't hold water, but that he just did it to come up with a hypothesis more testable than string theory...
That means American personal cars and homes produce between 1/4 and 1/5 of the world's CO2 emissions.
That can't be correct. Total human emissions of CO2 only account for about 3% of the world's CO2 emissions, so do you mean that American cars and homes account for between 1/4 and 1/5 of that 3%?
Where on earth did you get that number? Or are you just subtly regurgitating this fallacy by saying that since humans do not put out nearly as much carbon as the rest of the biosphere that our impact must be unimportant?
Gladiators, executions, and snuff films differ from pioneering in one major aspect: the pioneers choose to take the risk.
Small nit: Despite years of Hollywood movies to the contrary, Roman gladiators were professional athletes, usually hired for funeral games. They only died as the result of an accident. Some of them were even celebrities.
Suppose that she had been a he, had been white, had been the star quarterback and was expelled and charged as an adult for exactly the same act.
No one would say it was about race or anything else of that sort. Would that make it any less outrageous?
No, but there are a lot of statistics that suggest that this would never happen. If your hypothetical has actually happened, please provide a link. Otherwise, we have to work from known measurements.
Everyone who follows one of the abrahamic religions does that.
From your own link:
Though there are no verses in the New Testament that advocate the killing of non-believers.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (Matthew 5:43-44 KJV)
So true! When will CS conferences will require an open source demonstrator?
Some of the database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB) have a "reproducibility" program. You can submit your code and results to a volunteer review team and get a "reproducibility stamp" with your paper if they can duplicate your results.
Yes, the Representatives are not a single unit. So? They are 435 individual units, and every single one of those units stands for re-election every two years. The races are just as competitive as the electorate wants them to be. If you think you can explain the results away by gerrymandering, I'm not buying it. You can't wave away the validity of the results that easily. There have been huge changes in the House overnight in the past; notable 1994. That election it went from 258-176D to 230-204R. Gerrymandering is as old as the hills, but it didn't "work" that time.
And yet the GOP lost the popular vote in the house. Kind of hard to turn that into a 30 seat majority without a little ah "help", no?
The people telling us that we're heading for disaster are the ones with financial stake in it. The larger their possible financial gain, the louder they make the noise. You've gone on and taken what you've heard for granted without bothering to check the sources, telling yourself "He works in a dentist office and wears a doctor's coat. He must know teeth better than anyone. As long as I pay him enough to avoid dentures in my near future, we all win!"
The people that tell us we are not heading for disaster are the fossil fuel industries. Now, who has more money: Exxon Mobil or climate scientists funded by the NSF? Since you seem to have trouble with numbers, I'll do the math for you: a single fossil fuel company makes six times more annual profit than the entire national grant funding for all sciences.
You are right to ask the old question Qui bono?. I just can't figure out why you got the wrong answer. Maybe because you are an anonymous troll?
I don't know about a bionic leg, but I have a bionic lens in my left eye. I had to practice reading to strengthen the focusing muscles I hadn't used in ten years, but the actual workings are just like with a normal 20 year old eye. even though I'm 60..
I would imagine at first the leg would take a little getting used to, but after a while it will probably be natural to him. Except that leg looks pretty heavy.
Offtopic too, but I am also very interested...
I have a friend who claims (or rather his opthamologist claims) that the problem with these lenses is that your eye muscles are not strong enough to focus them properly after age 50 or so. That does not sound like your experience, so I am wondering how you did it?
Look at that Archimedes palimpsest. There we have a book made of parchment, in which Archimedes philosophised himself towards calculus. Scraped out at a later stage and reused... to write a prayer book. From the conquest of knowledge to the submission of free thought, on one piece of parchment.
It puts in mind that lizard, sitting in the sun on top of the remains of a launch platform built by a civilisation now long gone, thinking (or at least doing the lizard-equivalent of it) 'what a nice basking spot someone made me here'.
The book may have been common at the time it was made (950) but by the time of the reuse (1229), the Byzantine Empire was pretty much kaput. The date is from a period when the empire had lost Constantinople itself, so to claim that a book like that should be preserved when the containing society was under violent attack and disintegrating seems culturally myopic.
More damning to our modern culture is the following:
Sometime after 1938, one owner of the manuscript forged four Byzantine-style religious images in the manuscript in an effort to increase its value.
The effort needed to recover the underlying text for these pages was much more heroic. I'd say that in this case, moden greed was much more destructive than some poor sod trying to make peace with mortality under circumstances that most of can't even begin to imagine.
I wonder if the females were basing the salary figures off of a relative number based on their own salary? That would explain the bias from them, if they were subject to it in their own hiring.
I can't believe that they chopped down all those trees just to move it from the airport. It's not like LA has a lot of trees to begin with. Unlike Seattle... except that if the shuttle had been awarded to the Seattle Museum of Flight, they could have just rolled it across a treeless 6 lane road from Boeing field to the Museum's external display area - right next to the Concorde.
(I didn't realise that Forbes was considered a reliable source of climate data. In fact, after reading some of their business reporting, I'm not sure what they can be considered a reliable source of...)
If an individual causes disease to spread, that's between him and those who can be affected, but nothing more than that.
That would be... everybody! (Well except for a tiny number who are naturally immune.)
So since there are so many of us, and since we want to do this efficiently, we are going to freely associate and agree on a common course of action and delegate members of the group to police our wishes:
* None of us will allow you to come on our property with such a dangerous biohazard in your body. We will shoot you if you do. This is called "self- defense."
* If you carry this biohazard along a public street near any of us or our families, we will sue you for reckless endangerment. Your only defense will be to prove that this highly transmissible biohazard could not reasonably travel onto our property or into any public space that we might have a right to use without let or hindrance.
* None of us will agree to use any private service that you are allowed to use. The likely response of such private entities will be to set down rules similar to the ones here and exclude you. Most likely, to save them time and trouble, they will join us. You wouldn't want to infringe on the rights of private organizations or free association, now would you?
I fail to see how this web of contracts is in any way practically different from the mandate you abhor aside from the usual inefficiencies of distributed systems.
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And you see what religion does to people. A single core drill would be able to resolve the issue. But no, it's supposed to be holy, not holey! We can't do that!
Um, the same thing that art does to them? Or do you think it is OK to drill holes in the Mona Lisa?
And before you start going on about how "religions are different, scientists get to take small samples of artworks, etc" go look into how the Vatican reacted to requests to take samples for dating the Shroud of Turin. Surprise! - they allowed it as long as it wasn't destructive.
The universe itself may even have been "selected" through some process of cosmogenesis where universes that don't have what it takes, physical laws and constant appropriate to produce stars, black holes, daughter universes, see their lineage die off.
Lee Smolin now admits that this argument doesn't hold water, but that he just did it to come up with a hypothesis more testable than string theory...
Some related ideas:
Doubly Special Relativity.
Henry Stapp on Whitehead's Quantum Ontology
That means American personal cars and homes produce between 1/4 and 1/5 of the world's CO2 emissions.
That can't be correct. Total human emissions of CO2 only account for about 3% of the world's CO2 emissions, so do you mean that American cars and homes account for between 1/4 and 1/5 of that 3%?
Where on earth did you get that number? Or are you just subtly regurgitating this fallacy by saying that since humans do not put out nearly as much carbon as the rest of the biosphere that our impact must be unimportant?
Do you breathe? Do you drive a car? Do you make s'mores? If so, get in line because you are no more part of the solution than a "denier".
Of these three activities, only the second is not carbon neutral. And yes, I bike to work every day.
Gladiators, executions, and snuff films differ from pioneering in one major aspect: the pioneers choose to take the risk.
Small nit: Despite years of Hollywood movies to the contrary, Roman gladiators were professional athletes, usually hired for funeral games. They only died as the result of an accident. Some of them were even celebrities.
Suppose that she had been a he, had been white, had been the star quarterback and was expelled and charged as an adult for exactly the same act.
No one would say it was about race or anything else of that sort. Would that make it any less outrageous?
No, but there are a lot of statistics that suggest that this would never happen. If your hypothetical has actually happened, please provide a link. Otherwise, we have to work from known measurements.
You, sir, have a tin ear. The phrasing was so perfect, I nearly choked on my carbonated beverage.
Everyone who follows one of the abrahamic religions does that.
From your own link:
Though there are no verses in the New Testament that advocate the killing of non-believers.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (Matthew 5:43-44 KJV)
So true! When will CS conferences will require an open source demonstrator?
Some of the database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB) have a "reproducibility" program. You can submit your code and results to a volunteer review team and get a "reproducibility stamp" with your paper if they can duplicate your results.
I've seen a lot of partially-failed LED street lamps, which is how I know that the technology hasn't really been refined yet.
I've never seen a partially failed incandescent ;-)
What the fuck qualifies you to speak on behalf of the Uniyed States?
Because he can spell?
Personally, I bail when the content is a video. Give me back my plain text internet, please.
Videos are such a waste of time.
Totally. Next time you are in a noisy bar, try reading the TTS feed along the bottom of the TV. You will go slowly mad waiting for it.
Yes, the Representatives are not a single unit. So? They are 435 individual units, and every single one of those units stands for re-election every two years. The races are just as competitive as the electorate wants them to be. If you think you can explain the results away by gerrymandering, I'm not buying it. You can't wave away the validity of the results that easily. There have been huge changes in the House overnight in the past; notable 1994. That election it went from 258-176D to 230-204R. Gerrymandering is as old as the hills, but it didn't "work" that time.
And yet the GOP lost the popular vote in the house. Kind of hard to turn that into a 30 seat majority without a little ah "help", no?
You're missing the point.
The people telling us that we're heading for disaster are the ones with financial stake in it. The larger their possible financial gain, the louder they make the noise. You've gone on and taken what you've heard for granted without bothering to check the sources, telling yourself "He works in a dentist office and wears a doctor's coat. He must know teeth better than anyone. As long as I pay him enough to avoid dentures in my near future, we all win!"
The people that tell us we are not heading for disaster are the fossil fuel industries. Now, who has more money: Exxon Mobil or climate scientists funded by the NSF? Since you seem to have trouble with numbers, I'll do the math for you: a single fossil fuel company makes six times more annual profit than the entire national grant funding for all sciences.
You are right to ask the old question Qui bono?. I just can't figure out why you got the wrong answer. Maybe because you are an anonymous troll?
Plus, they may vote for more research funding if they understand it better.
I don't know about a bionic leg, but I have a bionic lens in my left eye. I had to practice reading to strengthen the focusing muscles I hadn't used in ten years, but the actual workings are just like with a normal 20 year old eye. even though I'm 60..
I would imagine at first the leg would take a little getting used to, but after a while it will probably be natural to him. Except that leg looks pretty heavy.
Offtopic too, but I am also very interested...
I have a friend who claims (or rather his opthamologist claims) that the problem with these lenses is that your eye muscles are not strong enough to focus them properly after age 50 or so. That does not sound like your experience, so I am wondering how you did it?
Look at that Archimedes palimpsest. There we have a book made of parchment, in which Archimedes philosophised himself towards calculus. Scraped out at a later stage and reused... to write a prayer book. From the conquest of knowledge to the submission of free thought, on one piece of parchment.
It puts in mind that lizard, sitting in the sun on top of the remains of a launch platform built by a civilisation now long gone, thinking (or at least doing the lizard-equivalent of it) 'what a nice basking spot someone made me here'.
The book may have been common at the time it was made (950) but by the time of the reuse (1229), the Byzantine Empire was pretty much kaput. The date is from a period when the empire had lost Constantinople itself, so to claim that a book like that should be preserved when the containing society was under violent attack and disintegrating seems culturally myopic.
More damning to our modern culture is the following:
Sometime after 1938, one owner of the manuscript forged four Byzantine-style religious images in the manuscript in an effort to increase its value.
The effort needed to recover the underlying text for these pages was much more heroic. I'd say that in this case, moden greed was much more destructive than some poor sod trying to make peace with mortality under circumstances that most of can't even begin to imagine.
Only two hurricanes in the Atlantic season so far. That's way down.
It's unfortunate one hit NYC, but you do take that risk when you live at sea level on the water.
Um, you do know that hurricane names are alphabetical, right? Getting all the way to S is rather unusual...
Mesopotamia was abandoned 5000 years ago because of climate change.
See, turns out the earth isn't a static system. And there's a thing called "biological succession".
Shift happens.
You do realise that the abandonment was caused human-induced desertification, right?
I wonder if the females were basing the salary figures off of a relative number based on their own salary? That would explain the bias from them, if they were subject to it in their own hiring.
Nope, they offered men more.
I can't believe that they chopped down all those trees just to move it from the airport. It's not like LA has a lot of trees to begin with. Unlike Seattle... except that if the shuttle had been awarded to the Seattle Museum of Flight, they could have just rolled it across a treeless 6 lane road from Boeing field to the Museum's external display area - right next to the Concorde.
See this explanation: above
(I didn't realise that Forbes was considered a reliable source of climate data. In fact, after reading some of their business reporting, I'm not sure what they can be considered a reliable source of...)
If an individual causes disease to spread, that's between him and those who can be affected, but nothing more than that.
That would be... everybody! (Well except for a tiny number who are naturally immune.)
So since there are so many of us, and since we want to do this efficiently, we are going to freely associate and agree on a common course of action and delegate members of the group to police our wishes:
* None of us will allow you to come on our property with such a dangerous biohazard in your body. We will shoot you if you do. This is called "self- defense."
* If you carry this biohazard along a public street near any of us or our families, we will sue you for reckless endangerment. Your only defense will be to prove that this highly transmissible biohazard could not reasonably travel onto our property or into any public space that we might have a right to use without let or hindrance.
* None of us will agree to use any private service that you are allowed to use. The likely response of such private entities will be to set down rules similar to the ones here and exclude you. Most likely, to save them time and trouble, they will join us. You wouldn't want to infringe on the rights of private organizations or free association, now would you?
I fail to see how this web of contracts is in any way practically different from the mandate you abhor aside from the usual inefficiencies of distributed systems.
Congrats, you're going to have the lowest operational Slashdot UID some day.
I doubt it. I intend to sell mine to cover my medical expenses ;-)