Here we go, endless posts about how it's all down to pure willpower and entirely the fault of the individual. Maybe we could try looking for more practical solutions and simply berating people this time?
Um, if you read the article, you would know that it is entirely the fault of the individual.
If you are not willing to swap fecal microbes, you won't be able to change your body weight as easily.
Thus, like most things in life (work, pleasing your spouse either physically or metaphorically), good things come to those who bend over and bear it.
Sadly, most people learn this little gem of wisdom too late in life. Cheating only harms the cheater. It may mildly harm those who employ these people, but it doesn't take long for others to see despite your piece of paper, you're just an idiot who knows nothing, when you cheat.
So I say, if that's what they want to do, let 'em. It'll bite them in the butt soon enough.
What?
This isn't true at all. Cheaters get better grades than many fair students. The cheaters then get better jobs and make more money, while the fair students may miss out. If this issue corrects itself, it can take decades, during which the fair students have missed out.
I also have a theory that cheaters that can't hack the workload as a regular worker just become managers to better hide the fact that they can't "do." Thus, these people are more likely to company leaders. This may be why you see such poor ethical behavior at the highest levels of any company.
The only way to even remotely try to fix this issue is to not give a degree to any cheater.
Start looking at how to adapt to climate change instead of some fantasy of avoiding it.
The way to adapt is by retiring the internal combustion engine.
Yes, then we can charge up our poisonous battery powered cars from coal.
But we are also supposed to stop burning coal, so I guess we will charge them from nuclear power.
But Congress shut down Yucca Mountain, so now nuclear power is not sustainable as we cannot safely store the radioactive waste. Instead, we should use wind, water, and solar power to charge them.
But wind, water, and molten-salt solar generators kill animals, require toxic emissions to mine the necessary rare earth metals, and don't generate sufficient power for the world's needs.
Thus, the only remaining solution is to reduce the earth's population back to a sustainable level: Will you volunteer?
No? Then I guess we'll both have to go back to the drawing board and think up a practical solution.
Actually, the orbits are 4-dimensional trajectories of various structures. In orthonormal basis, the spatial dimensions are usually referred as x, y and z, and the t is known as 'time'.
The GP's point was that satellite orbits are elliptical and thus can be specified with less than four dimensions.
Real political change is brought about by lobbies. If someone wants to do something about the state of things, he either founds a lobby or supports an existing lobby that champions his cause (and by "supports" I mean "gives cold hard cash to.").
There is no evidence for that. In fact, it's pretty clear that the primary concern of politicians is pleasing their voters. Politicians listen to lobbies only in areas where voters don't care.
The problem is that most voters simply don't know what to care about. Voters worry about irrelevant issues like abortion, gay marriage, inequality, and racism, while not worrying enough about the stuff that matters, like banking regulation, tax policy, nepotism, and crony capitalism.
No.
Lobbies buy ads that tell YOU what you should care about. You then vote for the politician that they put money into.
Most people do their political research by watching TV ads, so this approach works well.
When I have an issue with my CurrentC bill, should I expect fair service on a payment dispute from a corporation owned by the company that is screwing me over?
How about in the case of stolen CurrentC credentials?
I think Windows 7 is going to be the last Microsoft OS I'm going to buy. Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100+. Uhm, no thanks.
Especially since you can use the Safe Boot > Repair Computer > and this batch file to have "unlimited" time to "register"
Oh, you pay for the Linux and OS X, just not directly.
OS X is free on Apple hardware only, so you pay the Apple hardware tax.
Linux is free because it is open source, but that can have its own associated restrictions (associated with the time input required to it to a certain level of functionality, depending on your Linux expertise.)
So Windows is the only OS that directly charges you.
IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
The only people telling you that Ebola is hard to transmit are the ones that want you to stay calm so that you are easier to control.
Most viruses (even HIV) have low transmission rates (below 30%) when the virus is exposed into the body. Relative to other viruses, Ebola seems to have an exceptionally high transmission efficiency. So if you perform any protocol wrong, you will likely contract it.
If the CDC had descended on the hospital like a ton of bricks and the first inkling of Ebola they might have prevented most of that from happening then people would be complaining about Federal overreach.
Really?
If the CDC had clamped down on that hospital, the only people complaining would have been the hospital staff.
Instead, the CDC has lost most of the public's trust.
Ebola is a deadly virus. With deadly things, you are expected to be proactive, not reactive. Once you react, people are already dead.
Second, the boosters cannot be shut off. That's the big safety drawback of solid rockets - you light them, and they aren't going out until they're out of fuel.
*sigh* This is one of the biggest pieces of misinformation about solid rockets floating about out there, spread and repeated by shuttle detractors in a cargo cult like fashion until it's now regarded as a law of nature. What most people (including engineers who should know better) don't realize is that you don't need to shut them down in the first place- you just need them to produce net zero thrust. This is done via blowout panels in the front dome, and sometimes by blowing off the nozzle as well. And it's not like this is a new fangled technique either...
Actually, you can do even better!
It has been known for many decades that you can quench a burning propellant by subjecting it to a rapid pressure decrease. (The conductive flame structure cannot rapidly adapt the the decrease pressure and goes out.) Thus, blowout panels could actually be designed to quench the solid boosters. And this knowledge existed when the shuttle was designed.
But there is a finite price on human life and, like the ejection seats or parachutes on the shuttle or passenger airplanes, losing a few dozen astronauts is cheaper than accommodating safety systems.
We make it seem like it would be impossible to have these safety systems, but it isn't impossible. It would just be less efficient for the company or government... who only really cares how much your death costs them.
"It is difficult to keep a straight face and state that OSX is stable. Xcode crashes all the time, Qt software crashes all the time, visualization software works much better on Linux."
I play with the same tools - and I experience no instability like this on OS X. Xeon and Core Ix series hardware.
Agreed. Same here.
If you are having serious instability issues, you have something wrong locally with your machine.
Especially if it is crashing with that "classical" software.
Had NASA in the late 1950s had a huge pool of qualified female test pilots and no qualified males, they would have gone with women and added men later.
NASA most definitely would not have done that! You are totally taking history out of context.
The US was a high discriminatory society in the 1950's. Women had only been allowed to vote 30 years earlier and the Jim Crow laws were still in effect until 1965.
There is no way that anything other than a white male would have been approved by NASA at a time when the majority opinion was that a woman's place was in the kitchen and a black's place was in the back of the bus.
As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.
Do you not understand that after they eliminate the "large bills," the "criminals" will then start using the smaller bills?
The government will then eliminate those to improve your security, so that you are only left with electronically tracked options.
Nothing really works well when a life threatening disease is on the loose, but it is pretty clear that the virus has no room for human sensitivities and an approach to stopping it should not either.
The most pragmatic thing to do (if stopping the disease is the dominant priority) is to immediately impose draconian quarantines: 1. Have you been anywhere outside of the country? Then you get a 21-day quarantine. 2. Have you potentially been in contact with someone who might have ebola? Then you get a 21-day quarantine.
Would this this hurt the global the economy were all countries to enact it? Probably.
Will it stop the Ebola outbreak? Probably.
Right now, the politicians are trying to keep people calm while they cross their fingers and weigh their options. However, don't think that full, national-guard-imposed, shoot-on-sight quarantines are coming world wide if the virus keeps spreading outside of Africa.
You can sense the BS with all the public service announcements that Ebola is hard to catch because you have to come in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected symptomatic person and then touch a mucus membrane. (Under their breath, the doctors note that you should also stay three feet away from an infected person sneezing.) So now you have the potential for doorknobs, handles, etc. to be coated with Ebola-infected saliva that is viable for days, and you expect people to not every touch a mucus membrane (during allergy season) unless they have just washed their hands.
In short, you are naive or brainwashed if you are not worried right now. I am not saying panicked, but you should be worried.
It really is insulting to give a Nobel prize for an improvement to a revolutionary idea, and ignore the person who did the original work. Without Holonyak's original work there would be no basis for the improvement.
And where does the buck stop in this argument? Or should Nobels drift endlessly backwards to Newton, Leibniz, Aristotle, Plato... Thales of Miletus. Thales of Miletus? All Nobels go to him?
Well, considering that Holonyak developed the first visible light LED, the buck should probably stop with him.
Of course, we are talking about an organization that gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after he was elected president, so many already question their logic.
So, I can use one passport to go in and out of Cuba, Africa, Iraq, or wherever, and use the US passport for going in and out of the USA. How would they track that?
Dude, are you new here?
The NSA knows where you are going before you even decide to go there!
Funny that ebola has been in existence in the modern world since the 70s, yet only now this is coming to light. Oddly enough, this is perfectly timed with someone in the US getting infected.
"Shit, this is on OUR turf now!??! Better do something about it!"
There is a causal relation driving this correlation, but it's not the one you cynically postulate. Both the appearance of someone in the US with the disease and the attempt to create a vaccine have been caused by the scale of the latest outbreak.
All these snarky comments do highlight a point though (which I am sure will offend many): Why should any non-African nation even have to do anything-Ebola related ever?
The African countries have had 38 years to develop a vaccine, quarantine procedures, public education, and adequate medical infrastructure to handle an Ebola outbreak, but have not done so.
Now the rest of the world has to dig in to shut down this outbreak and work up a vaccine because Africa as a continent has shit away the majority of the last four decades on infighting, gang warfare and corruption.
For comparison, it's almost easier to boil water than to melt it from 0C ice to 0C water.
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post: * 334kJ/kg for water to melt it * 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C * 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water
You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!
Comments like yours along (and the GP's) with the +5 and +2 modifiers highlight why climate science is so confusing. It's a highly multivariate problem that is essentially beyond our ability to predict without asymptotic modeling. Many people of the people doing the modeling don't understand that and most of the public certainly does not. Instead, many "scientists" prefer to misapply physical concepts, cherry pick data, and make BS predictions to make their models look more predictive than their colleagues and get more funding. The public and politicians then latches onto whichever results fit with their own personal opinions.
Sadly, one can likely not appreciate the magnitude of how fucked that approach is unless they are also a scientist or mathematician with familiarity in modeling complex systems.
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Here we go, endless posts about how it's all down to pure willpower and entirely the fault of the individual. Maybe we could try looking for more practical solutions and simply berating people this time?
Um, if you read the article, you would know that it is entirely the fault of the individual.
If you are not willing to swap fecal microbes, you won't be able to change your body weight as easily.
Thus, like most things in life (work, pleasing your spouse either physically or metaphorically), good things come to those who bend over and bear it.
Sadly, most people learn this little gem of wisdom too late in life. Cheating only harms the cheater. It may mildly harm those who employ these people, but it doesn't take long for others to see despite your piece of paper, you're just an idiot who knows nothing, when you cheat.
So I say, if that's what they want to do, let 'em. It'll bite them in the butt soon enough.
What?
This isn't true at all. Cheaters get better grades than many fair students. The cheaters then get better jobs and make more money, while the fair students may miss out. If this issue corrects itself, it can take decades, during which the fair students have missed out.
I also have a theory that cheaters that can't hack the workload as a regular worker just become managers to better hide the fact that they can't "do." Thus, these people are more likely to company leaders. This may be why you see such poor ethical behavior at the highest levels of any company.
The only way to even remotely try to fix this issue is to not give a degree to any cheater.
Ipod(the old crappy ones)?
Ah yes, we remember the crappy ones. No wireless. less space than a nomad. Lame.
You call them crappy now, but they were insanely popular amongst non-/. folk when they came out.
Start looking at how to adapt to climate change instead of some fantasy of avoiding it.
The way to adapt is by retiring the internal combustion engine.
Yes, then we can charge up our poisonous battery powered cars from coal.
But we are also supposed to stop burning coal, so I guess we will charge them from nuclear power.
But Congress shut down Yucca Mountain, so now nuclear power is not sustainable as we cannot safely store the radioactive waste. Instead, we should use wind, water, and solar power to charge them.
But wind, water, and molten-salt solar generators kill animals, require toxic emissions to mine the necessary rare earth metals, and don't generate sufficient power for the world's needs.
Thus, the only remaining solution is to reduce the earth's population back to a sustainable level: Will you volunteer?
No? Then I guess we'll both have to go back to the drawing board and think up a practical solution.
always use an address like yourid+companyname-year@example.com
That is an awesome tip!
Thanks!
Actually, the orbits are 4-dimensional trajectories of various structures. In orthonormal basis, the spatial dimensions are usually referred as x, y and z, and the t is known as 'time'.
The GP's point was that satellite orbits are elliptical and thus can be specified with less than four dimensions.
There is no evidence for that. In fact, it's pretty clear that the primary concern of politicians is pleasing their voters. Politicians listen to lobbies only in areas where voters don't care.
The problem is that most voters simply don't know what to care about. Voters worry about irrelevant issues like abortion, gay marriage, inequality, and racism, while not worrying enough about the stuff that matters, like banking regulation, tax policy, nepotism, and crony capitalism.
No.
Lobbies buy ads that tell YOU what you should care about. You then vote for the politician that they put money into.
Most people do their political research by watching TV ads, so this approach works well.
What would it take to produce a seamless, idiot-proof, and completely secure and encrypted Tor for every layperson to pick up and use?
A lot, given that most people don't even encrypt or password protect their smartphones.
Government oversight would likely be required to enforce its usage!
When I have an issue with my CurrentC bill, should I expect fair service on a payment dispute from a corporation owned by the company that is screwing me over?
How about in the case of stolen CurrentC credentials?
Windows 7 64 bit
I think Windows 7 is going to be the last Microsoft OS I'm going to buy. Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100+. Uhm, no thanks.
Especially since you can use the Safe Boot > Repair Computer > and this batch file to have "unlimited" time to "register"
Oh, you pay for the Linux and OS X, just not directly.
OS X is free on Apple hardware only, so you pay the Apple hardware tax.
Linux is free because it is open source, but that can have its own associated restrictions (associated with the time input required to it to a certain level of functionality, depending on your Linux expertise.)
So Windows is the only OS that directly charges you.
I don't know why the OP thinks that the "legal framework" is an issue? The government has been ignoring legalities for over a decade now.
The lobbyists will decide when driverless cars will be legal.
My guess is that it will all be sorted out right after the mainstream US automakers (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) have their self-driving cars ready to go.
IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
The only people telling you that Ebola is hard to transmit are the ones that want you to stay calm so that you are easier to control.
Most viruses (even HIV) have low transmission rates (below 30%) when the virus is exposed into the body. Relative to other viruses, Ebola seems to have an exceptionally high transmission efficiency. So if you perform any protocol wrong, you will likely contract it.
If the CDC had descended on the hospital like a ton of bricks and the first inkling of Ebola they might have prevented most of that from happening then people would be complaining about Federal overreach.
Really?
If the CDC had clamped down on that hospital, the only people complaining would have been the hospital staff.
Instead, the CDC has lost most of the public's trust.
Ebola is a deadly virus. With deadly things, you are expected to be proactive, not reactive. Once you react, people are already dead.
*sigh* This is one of the biggest pieces of misinformation about solid rockets floating about out there, spread and repeated by shuttle detractors in a cargo cult like fashion until it's now regarded as a law of nature. What most people (including engineers who should know better) don't realize is that you don't need to shut them down in the first place- you just need them to produce net zero thrust. This is done via blowout panels in the front dome, and sometimes by blowing off the nozzle as well. And it's not like this is a new fangled technique either...
Actually, you can do even better!
It has been known for many decades that you can quench a burning propellant by subjecting it to a rapid pressure decrease. (The conductive flame structure cannot rapidly adapt the the decrease pressure and goes out.) Thus, blowout panels could actually be designed to quench the solid boosters. And this knowledge existed when the shuttle was designed.
But there is a finite price on human life and, like the ejection seats or parachutes on the shuttle or passenger airplanes, losing a few dozen astronauts is cheaper than accommodating safety systems.
We make it seem like it would be impossible to have these safety systems, but it isn't impossible. It would just be less efficient for the company or government... who only really cares how much your death costs them.
Do small men also burn more calories than small women?
I was surprised to not see that point considered in an article attempting to be credible.
"It is difficult to keep a straight face and state that OSX is stable. Xcode crashes all the time, Qt software crashes all the time, visualization software works much better on Linux."
I play with the same tools - and I experience no instability like this on OS X. Xeon and Core Ix series hardware.
Agreed. Same here.
If you are having serious instability issues, you have something wrong locally with your machine.
Especially if it is crashing with that "classical" software.
Had NASA in the late 1950s had a huge pool of qualified female test pilots and no qualified males, they would have gone with women and added men later.
NASA most definitely would not have done that! You are totally taking history out of context.
The US was a high discriminatory society in the 1950's. Women had only been allowed to vote 30 years earlier and the Jim Crow laws were still in effect until 1965.
There is no way that anything other than a white male would have been approved by NASA at a time when the majority opinion was that a woman's place was in the kitchen and a black's place was in the back of the bus.
However, most of us in the Northern Hemisphere will not be able to see the comet at all, experts say, no matter how big a telescope we've got.
What if my telescope is both bigger and more curved than most?
Will I then be able to see the comet around Mars?
And so is Apple.
Apple products are expensive, but generally have good design and performance.
Bose and Beats have good design, but have always been deemed to have poor performance by people who actually review them for their sound qualities.
I'm not hating... check the reviews.
As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.
Do you not understand that after they eliminate the "large bills," the "criminals" will then start using the smaller bills?
The government will then eliminate those to improve your security, so that you are only left with electronically tracked options.
Nothing really works well when a life threatening disease is on the loose, but it is pretty clear that the virus has no room for human sensitivities and an approach to stopping it should not either.
The most pragmatic thing to do (if stopping the disease is the dominant priority) is to immediately impose draconian quarantines:
1. Have you been anywhere outside of the country? Then you get a 21-day quarantine.
2. Have you potentially been in contact with someone who might have ebola? Then you get a 21-day quarantine.
Would this this hurt the global the economy were all countries to enact it? Probably.
Will it stop the Ebola outbreak? Probably.
Right now, the politicians are trying to keep people calm while they cross their fingers and weigh their options. However, don't think that full, national-guard-imposed, shoot-on-sight quarantines are coming world wide if the virus keeps spreading outside of Africa.
You can sense the BS with all the public service announcements that Ebola is hard to catch because you have to come in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected symptomatic person and then touch a mucus membrane. (Under their breath, the doctors note that you should also stay three feet away from an infected person sneezing.) So now you have the potential for doorknobs, handles, etc. to be coated with Ebola-infected saliva that is viable for days, and you expect people to not every touch a mucus membrane (during allergy season) unless they have just washed their hands.
In short, you are naive or brainwashed if you are not worried right now. I am not saying panicked, but you should be worried.
It really is insulting to give a Nobel prize for an improvement to a revolutionary idea, and ignore the person who did the original work. Without Holonyak's original work there would be no basis for the improvement.
And where does the buck stop in this argument? Or should Nobels drift endlessly backwards to Newton, Leibniz, Aristotle, Plato ... Thales of Miletus. Thales of Miletus? All Nobels go to him?
Well, considering that Holonyak developed the first visible light LED, the buck should probably stop with him.
Of course, we are talking about an organization that gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after he was elected president, so many already question their logic.
So, I can use one passport to go in and out of Cuba, Africa, Iraq, or wherever, and use the US passport for going in and out of the USA. How would they track that?
Dude, are you new here?
The NSA knows where you are going before you even decide to go there!
Funny that ebola has been in existence in the modern world since the 70s, yet only now this is coming to light. Oddly enough, this is perfectly timed with someone in the US getting infected.
"Shit, this is on OUR turf now!??! Better do something about it!"
There is a causal relation driving this correlation, but it's not the one you cynically postulate. Both the appearance of someone in the US with the disease and the attempt to create a vaccine have been caused by the scale of the latest outbreak.
All these snarky comments do highlight a point though (which I am sure will offend many): Why should any non-African nation even have to do anything-Ebola related ever?
The African countries have had 38 years to develop a vaccine, quarantine procedures, public education, and adequate medical infrastructure to handle an Ebola outbreak, but have not done so.
Now the rest of the world has to dig in to shut down this outbreak and work up a vaccine because Africa as a continent has shit away the majority of the last four decades on infighting, gang warfare and corruption.
For comparison, it's almost easier to boil water than to melt it from 0C ice to 0C water.
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post:
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
* 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water
You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!
Comments like yours along (and the GP's) with the +5 and +2 modifiers highlight why climate science is so confusing. It's a highly multivariate problem that is essentially beyond our ability to predict without asymptotic modeling. Many people of the people doing the modeling don't understand that and most of the public certainly does not. Instead, many "scientists" prefer to misapply physical concepts, cherry pick data, and make BS predictions to make their models look more predictive than their colleagues and get more funding. The public and politicians then latches onto whichever results fit with their own personal opinions.
Sadly, one can likely not appreciate the magnitude of how fucked that approach is unless they are also a scientist or mathematician with familiarity in modeling complex systems.