"Fleischmann was a good scientist..." AND "...his research was not reproducible..."
Science is all about getting reproducible results, and a scientist who fails to do so is, by definition, not a good one.
"Libertarians are fond of pointing out that the whole "left-right" thing is an artificial constriction to one axis what is better measured by at least two axes".
Unfortunately, bullshit is not unconstitutional. There are some influential jurists and legal scholars who believe that the 1st amendment requires that the govt guarantee access - that free speech means nothing unless one has a medium for delivering it. The most notable among these is Lani Guinier who was nominated by Clinton for asst atorney general in charge of civil rights.
It's a lot closer to happening than a reasonable person might suspect.
"...because eventually, the government and the large companies that hold sway over it may soon realize the folly of our current patent system..."
Large companies will own the majority of useful patents ( when - on some rare occasion - some small company gets a good one, they will become a big company using the profits from the patent ) and will not want things to change. And governments will be influenced by the lobbyists hired by those companies.
ISPs in the US should still be protected by common carrier status. What this does is simply drive business from Canadian ISPs to US ( and elsewhere ) ISPs.
We do not dislike it because it is stupid, anti-scientific, etc. We dislike it because many of the most vocal followers are stupid, anti-scientific, etc AND they interfere with our lives. It's not the holding of opinions that bugs us, it's the actions.
I can get along fine with a Christian who minds his own business.
That's a very articulate post on the failures of communism.
But Marx believed that communism would happen inevitably, that nobody needed to try to make it happen. Lenin was the one who belived that it had to be helped along. ( "We are more proletariat than the proletariat." )
It's really not that different. Both governments believe that some of their citizens need to be protected from corrupting influnces ( a position that I do not agree with, BTW ). We here in the west, who are unduly obsessed with the silly idea of the innocence of childhood, protect one kind of citizen. They try to protect another kind.
" No, because a baking thermometer does not track progress. During baking the temp usually remains constant."
A baking thermometer is used differently than most thermometers. It does track progress. You stick it in a piece of cold meat, put the meat in the oven, and when the center of the meat reaches a certain temp - as indicated by the thermometer - it is done.
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Most wasteful...is that us or the Chinese?
How about top speed in level flight? Or power to weight ratio? Those allow forecasting.
I did the first time. But I'm smart enough to see that it means that 'bog--' gets chopped. :)
Maybe funny. At worst offtopic. But not flamebait.
What if I'm smart enough to instantly recognize that this test is bogus?
"Fleischmann was a good scientist..." AND "...his research was not reproducible..."
Science is all about getting reproducible results, and a scientist who fails to do so is, by definition, not a good one.
It's the most articulate post so far.
"Libertarians are fond of pointing out that the whole "left-right" thing is an artificial constriction to one axis what is better measured by at least two axes".
It's called the Nolan chart after David Nolan.
Unfortunately, bullshit is not unconstitutional.
There are some influential jurists and legal scholars who believe that the 1st amendment requires that the govt guarantee access - that free speech means nothing unless one has a medium for delivering it. The most notable among these is Lani Guinier who was nominated by Clinton for asst atorney general in charge of civil rights.
It's a lot closer to happening than a reasonable person might suspect.
"...because eventually, the government and the large companies that hold sway over it may soon realize the folly of our current patent system..." Large companies will own the majority of useful patents ( when - on some rare occasion - some small company gets a good one, they will become a big company using the profits from the patent ) and will not want things to change. And governments will be influenced by the lobbyists hired by those companies.
Don't most manufacturers of most any product try to influence reviews? Even to the extreme of bribery and/or psuedonyms?
ISPs in the US should still be protected by common carrier status. What this does is simply drive business from Canadian ISPs to US ( and elsewhere ) ISPs.
We do not dislike it because it is stupid, anti-scientific, etc. We dislike it because many of the most vocal followers are stupid, anti-scientific, etc AND they interfere with our lives. It's not the holding of opinions that bugs us, it's the actions.
I can get along fine with a Christian who minds his own business.
Contrary to intuition, Alhpa Centauri is actually cheaper than our sun.
Err...if you're patient.
...and in my experience, the 'one cause' fallacy is usually uttered by environmentalists.
That's a very articulate post on the failures of communism.
But Marx believed that communism would happen inevitably, that nobody needed to try to make it happen. Lenin was the one who belived that it had to be helped along. ( "We are more proletariat than the proletariat." )
You mean the one in which they showed sex between people who were not related?
It's really not that different. Both governments believe that some of their citizens need to be protected from corrupting influnces ( a position that I do not agree with, BTW ). We here in the west, who are unduly obsessed with the silly idea of the innocence of childhood, protect one kind of citizen. They try to protect another kind.
Our governments are really very similar.
Doesn't seem like a moron to me.
It's different because it might really work.
Does one haf to spel badly to subskribe to /.?
Last I heard, AMD was still working on DRM just like Intel. So what if they have 50+% of market. I don't see a substantial difference.
" No, because a baking thermometer does not track progress. During baking the temp usually remains constant." A baking thermometer is used differently than most thermometers. It does track progress. You stick it in a piece of cold meat, put the meat in the oven, and when the center of the meat reaches a certain temp - as indicated by the thermometer - it is done.
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