So the details dont matter? Yet over and over in science we find that they do. Newtonian physics is usually right, or close enough to right for practical purposes at least, so Einstein and Bohr and the rest are just being unreasonable in your opinion?
You would have to demonstrate that each and every filing was affected by the magnet precisely as expected. No strays, no filings moving a little faster or slower than they should be. Never happens.
âoeThe normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.â The committee claims that there is no such thing as âoenormalâ, and there are no existing âoenormalâ people (i.e., people existing in the average). For example, no one has 2.3 children.
Randi is a Fundamentalist Materialist. Just about as annoying as the other Fundamentalists, in his own way, though he certainly has a charming side as well. But you are right, objectivity? He has none, he has faith in materialism just as unquestioning as the faith others hold in supernaturalism.
He's been putting out this 'reward' offer for something demonstrably 'paranormal' many years. A counter-offer was also made, many years ago, for something demonstrably 'normal.' Neither reward has been claimed and likely neither ever will be.
Being better than OSX and Win8 is hardly much to brag about. Personally, I agree that it's pointless - because Gnome went off the rails at version 2, and if I was going to fork it I would go back to a 1.x series. But so what? Enough people found this useful to do it. So it's not pointless for them, and they have no obligation to care what you or I think of it.
Property rights are, and always have been determined by the strength of the person holding the property.
Might makes right? That is seriously your argument?
To the contrary, might can be very useful in securing ones rights, but might does not and cannot define right.
A person's property rights should only consist of what he produces, not on what he claims.
What he produces, and what he obtains from others in honest trade as well. Otherwise we should have no division of labor and no economy of scale and all be poorer as the result.
In lieu of that, then, I will ask: how often have you encountered a BSOD that wasn't caused by an incompetent third party, or some kind of hardware failure? Microsoft maintains an extremely complex operating system that provides decades of backwards compatibility (of note, a lot of their most idiotic design choices stem from this). Neither the Linux community nor Apple provide the same.
First case - plenty of times. MS seems to have some issues with race conditions and has for many years. Most BSODs today do track back to the causes you mention - but certainly not all, and historically that was much less true. I have seen GPFs occur even for example under DOS where those explanations were impossible or ruled out. Both linux and apple maintain extremely complicated systems with backward compatibility for code from circa 1968, MS isnt even the same ballpark in terms of backwards compatiblity.
We were not at war with Iran, so it wasnt treason, though Congress certainly should have kept him on a tighter leash. Simply selling arms to someone is not a war crime, although there were plenty of crimes committed in reference to East Timor and Carter may well have committed some of them. By comparison these criminals appear to be lesser lights and far from equals to Bush and Obomber. I basically agree with the rest of your message though.
Not only are they talking one community per state, they are counting each suburb as a different community, so it seems to me they are saying it will be years before it moves beyond the suburbs of capital cities. Which is a real shame because obviously this is a great ISP. Almost makes me wish I lived in Kansas City but... nah.
In 2002 they had residential 100mbit symmetrical connections for ~$50/month in Sweden. Still cant get anything near that in most of the US. But it's good to see google doing something about it, just a little frustrating that it's obviously going to be so long before this sort of thing is available where I live.
Private property rights are based on respect for the integrity of your fellow man, they are not a system of privilege (though of course it's granted that some of the same rhetoric is often borrowed and misuses by defenders of privilege.) As long as private property rights are properly understood, to apply only to the rights of quiet enjoyment and disposal of rivalrous goods you create or acquire in honest trade, there is no privilege involved, at least as I understand that word.
Would you pay (guesstimates) $1200 for an xbox or $700 for a cell phone.
If they would offer them on my terms and I felt it was worth the price, sure. Otherwise I would just do without.
I dont have a console, they are so far from 'on my terms' that their value to me is pretty near null. I dont have that much time for video games anymore, and my PC is capable of satisfying me. You would pretty much have to give me that xbox for free in order to convince me it's worth the price - yes there are probably some great games I would love, but this is a luxury and buying something where I know the former owner has built technical measures to avoid actually giving me *control* of my purchase is a pretty revolting idea. In fact now that I think about it I am not sure I would take that xbox for free. You'd probably have to sweeten the deal and pay me to allow it in my home.
I do have a cell phone, a couple of them, unlocked and fully owned. Neither has service at the moment. Carriers arent interested in offering me anything like what I need on my own phone, they want to force a subsidized phone on me that I dont want or need, along with a contract, etc. A mobile phone would be more useful here than the xbox, which is purely a luxury, but it's not an absolute necessity either. And the offers out there just arent tempting. Obnoxious, revolting, insulting, yes, but tempting no.
Keep in mind, you pay one way or the other. If they were prohibited from using deceptive tactics to hide the actual costs, people would make more rational purchasing decisions, and the industry might therefore produce what people want and need, rather than what the carriers want to sell.
Seriously, I dont use anything to block ads specifically. I just block cross-site scripts and similar nonsense. That tends to whack the particularly obnoxious ads, of course.
This website, at any rate, doesnt even load for me - nothing there. That might be their sign.
Even better question, there was at least one cop on the scene witnessing the assault, why did he not intervene to protect the citizen and arrest the miscreant?
DAs will not prosecute dirty cops because the department as a whole would then get them back by sabotaging other case - which proves the department as a whole is corrupt. This is not an exception situation, unfortunately, it is the norm. This is the same reason that the other copy on the scene would not dare to do his job, even if he wanted to he would be restrained by fear of retaliation from his 'brother' officers.
100 is the best possible test case for a base 10 system, obviously, but it isnt nearly as bad as you claim, even there. A hundredth of a quart is.32 ounces. Not the handiest number to manipulate, no, but "worse than if you were using metric?" Certainly less cumbersome than the 7.8125 in my example.
Suppose you need to split a litre 128 ways. What is the correct dose? 7.8125 millitres.
Now suppose you need to split a quart 128 ways. What is the correct dose? A quarter ounce.
It should be trivial to see that in this case the traditional unit is easier to manipulate. What should be only slightly harder to see is that this isnt an isolated case but an example of a statistically solid trend. There are just more factors to work with in 12 than there are in 10. Traditional measures are almost always easily manipulated using basic integer fraction arithmetic without needing to resort to anything more complicated, while decimal measures very often require complex floating point math or deliberate rounding errors to effectively handle the same everyday situations.
Yes, slashdot, and most US based sites do that. Even lots of US based *people* however, dont talk like that, and find it jarring and annoying. Your head, point, whoosh.
Every measurement system is essentially arbitrary. However if you think one can manipulate metric units with the same facility as traditional units (we dont use Imperial units over here and never have, thanks) in every situation you are mistaken. Traditional units are arranged around the factors of 12, while your (french) Imperial Metric system is arranged solely around 10. The factors of 10 are 1, 2, 5, 10. The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12. That's half again the factors, so obviously there are going to be a lot of cases where Imperial units will offer a more convenient factor. Yes, you can use floating point math instead of integer, and in some cases you should, but typically in daily life that is just unnecessary complexity for someone who isnt that into math to begin with, so it's not ideal at all.
The units themselves are different too. Imperial Metrics has very abitrary units defined based on things very few could ever measure. Traditional units are based around everyday items and things from over a thousand years ago, but surprisingly few have changed very much. Consider temperature. Sure, centigrade is great for some things. I lived in Europe for years so of course I am comfortable with it. But I prefer fahrenheit. Why? Simple. One fahrenheit degree is right about the threshold minimum temperature change I am capable of noticing. And from 0-100 pretty neatly encapsulates the range from the coldest to the hottest day of the year in decent climates. Not exact things, sure, but very relevant to everyday life. Which is what most people using the system care about.
What is hurting the traditional system most is simply an astonishing failure of our schools to teach basic math. In my grandfathers day even fewer may have understood higher math than do today, but most people in his day DID have a good grasp of functional math which fewer and fewer high school graduates can seem to keep up on these days. I am talking about basic fraction arithmetic. I've talked to high school teachers that dont understand it so it's no surprise the students are finding it harder and harder to work with. This significantly impairs their ability to use traditional measurements, although fundamentally poor math skills doesnt bode any better for the other system either.
Put me down as one more that never says that. It's 8 March, or the 8th of March, never ever "March 8" what is this a date or cribnotes for a parade drill?
I wont say more morning sunlight is a waste. I rather enjoy it.
But I get it by starting my day earlier. I dont try to coerce an entire time zone to take a trip to make-believe land and pretend it's later than it is.
Daylight savings time is just nonsense. Set the timezone and let it stay what it is. If your latitude is one where it makes sense to get up an hour earlier half the year (remember that many are NOT at such latitudes) then fine, get up an hour earlier. If you run a business, set seasonal hours. Open an hour early (and close an hour late) half the year if that makes sense, that's fine, just quit lying about what time it is, please.
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So the details dont matter? Yet over and over in science we find that they do. Newtonian physics is usually right, or close enough to right for practical purposes at least, so Einstein and Bohr and the rest are just being unreasonable in your opinion?
You would have to demonstrate that each and every filing was affected by the magnet precisely as expected. No strays, no filings moving a little faster or slower than they should be. Never happens.
This is what I was thinking of: http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/tag/pataphysics/
âoeThe normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.â The committee claims that there is no such thing as âoenormalâ, and there are no existing âoenormalâ people (i.e., people existing in the average). For example, no one has 2.3 children.
Randi is a Fundamentalist Materialist. Just about as annoying as the other Fundamentalists, in his own way, though he certainly has a charming side as well. But you are right, objectivity? He has none, he has faith in materialism just as unquestioning as the faith others hold in supernaturalism.
He's been putting out this 'reward' offer for something demonstrably 'paranormal' many years. A counter-offer was also made, many years ago, for something demonstrably 'normal.' Neither reward has been claimed and likely neither ever will be.
Being better than OSX and Win8 is hardly much to brag about. Personally, I agree that it's pointless - because Gnome went off the rails at version 2, and if I was going to fork it I would go back to a 1.x series. But so what? Enough people found this useful to do it. So it's not pointless for them, and they have no obligation to care what you or I think of it.
Your quote is insightful but you then go on to contradict it by asserting that we are all ape, and no human being.
In fact, we are a transitional stage, reaching up to the next level. Your cynical view encourages relapse instead of progress.
Might makes right? That is seriously your argument?
To the contrary, might can be very useful in securing ones rights, but might does not and cannot define right.
What he produces, and what he obtains from others in honest trade as well. Otherwise we should have no division of labor and no economy of scale and all be poorer as the result.
First case - plenty of times. MS seems to have some issues with race conditions and has for many years. Most BSODs today do track back to the causes you mention - but certainly not all, and historically that was much less true. I have seen GPFs occur even for example under DOS where those explanations were impossible or ruled out. Both linux and apple maintain extremely complicated systems with backward compatibility for code from circa 1968, MS isnt even the same ballpark in terms of backwards compatiblity.
Human.
We were not at war with Iran, so it wasnt treason, though Congress certainly should have kept him on a tighter leash. Simply selling arms to someone is not a war crime, although there were plenty of crimes committed in reference to East Timor and Carter may well have committed some of them. By comparison these criminals appear to be lesser lights and far from equals to Bush and Obomber. I basically agree with the rest of your message though.
Not only are they talking one community per state, they are counting each suburb as a different community, so it seems to me they are saying it will be years before it moves beyond the suburbs of capital cities. Which is a real shame because obviously this is a great ISP. Almost makes me wish I lived in Kansas City but... nah.
In 2002 they had residential 100mbit symmetrical connections for ~$50/month in Sweden. Still cant get anything near that in most of the US. But it's good to see google doing something about it, just a little frustrating that it's obviously going to be so long before this sort of thing is available where I live.
Private property rights are based on respect for the integrity of your fellow man, they are not a system of privilege (though of course it's granted that some of the same rhetoric is often borrowed and misuses by defenders of privilege.) As long as private property rights are properly understood, to apply only to the rights of quiet enjoyment and disposal of rivalrous goods you create or acquire in honest trade, there is no privilege involved, at least as I understand that word.
Or, to put it even more simply, DRM is about destroying private property rights and replacing them with a system of privilege.
If they would offer them on my terms and I felt it was worth the price, sure. Otherwise I would just do without.
I dont have a console, they are so far from 'on my terms' that their value to me is pretty near null. I dont have that much time for video games anymore, and my PC is capable of satisfying me. You would pretty much have to give me that xbox for free in order to convince me it's worth the price - yes there are probably some great games I would love, but this is a luxury and buying something where I know the former owner has built technical measures to avoid actually giving me *control* of my purchase is a pretty revolting idea. In fact now that I think about it I am not sure I would take that xbox for free. You'd probably have to sweeten the deal and pay me to allow it in my home.
I do have a cell phone, a couple of them, unlocked and fully owned. Neither has service at the moment. Carriers arent interested in offering me anything like what I need on my own phone, they want to force a subsidized phone on me that I dont want or need, along with a contract, etc. A mobile phone would be more useful here than the xbox, which is purely a luxury, but it's not an absolute necessity either. And the offers out there just arent tempting. Obnoxious, revolting, insulting, yes, but tempting no.
Keep in mind, you pay one way or the other. If they were prohibited from using deceptive tactics to hide the actual costs, people would make more rational purchasing decisions, and the industry might therefore produce what people want and need, rather than what the carriers want to sell.
Seriously, I dont use anything to block ads specifically. I just block cross-site scripts and similar nonsense. That tends to whack the particularly obnoxious ads, of course.
This website, at any rate, doesnt even load for me - nothing there. That might be their sign.
And they are only "in the cloud" because EA thought that would be a real neat way to enforce effective DRM, as well as push their upsells.
Even better question, there was at least one cop on the scene witnessing the assault, why did he not intervene to protect the citizen and arrest the miscreant?
DAs will not prosecute dirty cops because the department as a whole would then get them back by sabotaging other case - which proves the department as a whole is corrupt. This is not an exception situation, unfortunately, it is the norm. This is the same reason that the other copy on the scene would not dare to do his job, even if he wanted to he would be restrained by fear of retaliation from his 'brother' officers.
100 is the best possible test case for a base 10 system, obviously, but it isnt nearly as bad as you claim, even there. A hundredth of a quart is .32 ounces. Not the handiest number to manipulate, no, but "worse than if you were using metric?" Certainly less cumbersome than the 7.8125 in my example.
The time should be parsed as a unitary value, in which case it is indeed least to most significant.
Suppose you need to split a litre 128 ways. What is the correct dose? 7.8125 millitres.
Now suppose you need to split a quart 128 ways. What is the correct dose? A quarter ounce.
It should be trivial to see that in this case the traditional unit is easier to manipulate. What should be only slightly harder to see is that this isnt an isolated case but an example of a statistically solid trend. There are just more factors to work with in 12 than there are in 10. Traditional measures are almost always easily manipulated using basic integer fraction arithmetic without needing to resort to anything more complicated, while decimal measures very often require complex floating point math or deliberate rounding errors to effectively handle the same everyday situations.
Yes, slashdot, and most US based sites do that. Even lots of US based *people* however, dont talk like that, and find it jarring and annoying. Your head, point, whoosh.
Every measurement system is essentially arbitrary. However if you think one can manipulate metric units with the same facility as traditional units (we dont use Imperial units over here and never have, thanks) in every situation you are mistaken. Traditional units are arranged around the factors of 12, while your (french) Imperial Metric system is arranged solely around 10. The factors of 10 are 1, 2, 5, 10. The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12. That's half again the factors, so obviously there are going to be a lot of cases where Imperial units will offer a more convenient factor. Yes, you can use floating point math instead of integer, and in some cases you should, but typically in daily life that is just unnecessary complexity for someone who isnt that into math to begin with, so it's not ideal at all.
The units themselves are different too. Imperial Metrics has very abitrary units defined based on things very few could ever measure. Traditional units are based around everyday items and things from over a thousand years ago, but surprisingly few have changed very much. Consider temperature. Sure, centigrade is great for some things. I lived in Europe for years so of course I am comfortable with it. But I prefer fahrenheit. Why? Simple. One fahrenheit degree is right about the threshold minimum temperature change I am capable of noticing. And from 0-100 pretty neatly encapsulates the range from the coldest to the hottest day of the year in decent climates. Not exact things, sure, but very relevant to everyday life. Which is what most people using the system care about.
What is hurting the traditional system most is simply an astonishing failure of our schools to teach basic math. In my grandfathers day even fewer may have understood higher math than do today, but most people in his day DID have a good grasp of functional math which fewer and fewer high school graduates can seem to keep up on these days. I am talking about basic fraction arithmetic. I've talked to high school teachers that dont understand it so it's no surprise the students are finding it harder and harder to work with. This significantly impairs their ability to use traditional measurements, although fundamentally poor math skills doesnt bode any better for the other system either.
Put me down as one more that never says that. It's 8 March, or the 8th of March, never ever "March 8" what is this a date or cribnotes for a parade drill?
Makes much more sense to me to reverse that completely. 12:00:00 8th day 3rd month 2013 parses naturally. Your order only makes sense to a computer.
But clearly either is better than the typical practice in the US of jumbling the digits completely.
I wont say more morning sunlight is a waste. I rather enjoy it.
But I get it by starting my day earlier. I dont try to coerce an entire time zone to take a trip to make-believe land and pretend it's later than it is.
Daylight savings time is just nonsense. Set the timezone and let it stay what it is. If your latitude is one where it makes sense to get up an hour earlier half the year (remember that many are NOT at such latitudes) then fine, get up an hour earlier. If you run a business, set seasonal hours. Open an hour early (and close an hour late) half the year if that makes sense, that's fine, just quit lying about what time it is, please.