I believe this is the group that pushed the defeated Prop 46 this year. This is a proposition that 1. increase the cap on malpractice sue from the current $250K to $1M and 2. required doctors and nurses undergo random drug test.
there is always the question 'but what caused that'? really? there is "always" this question only if you continue to think about the world in the same mindset.
you don't have to search for an answer in the world through Newtonian glasses. "caused" implies causation. causation implies a before, and an after. first there is the cause, then there is its effects. abstract ideas like before and after are looking at the world from a point of view of LINEAR time.
if you truly study relativity
If you truly study relativity, you'll see the words "causality" and "causal" used. It's not a strictly Newtonian idea. As long as there's no faster-than-light travel, "X happens before Y" is an invariant - it's true in all reference frames.
Only if the two events are time-like separated. That is, there does not exist a frame in which they are simultaneous. If two event are space-like separated, there is one frame in which they are simultaneous. Then there is a frame in which A occurs before B and another frame in which B occurs before A. The two events cannot be causally connected.
If two events are time-like separated, (basically means their spacial separation / time separation is less than speed of light), then their order of occurrence is fixed in all frame. Because in this case, it is in principle possible for A to causally effect B since any signal emitted at event A can travel to B at no faster than the speed of light, the causal relationship between A and B is the same in all frame.
tl;dr If A can cause B in one frame, A can cause B in all frames.
I almost feel like I am forced to use AdBlock by bad ad. Before I install AdBlock, I said to myself, sure online ads are bad, but that's how the "free" world works. Then I noticed some website wold take forever to load, but once I clicked "STOP" on my browser, the content page showed up. I am forced to conclude that the content I want has already been loaded, but some part of the page is trying and failing to connect an ad server somewhere. I don't mind online ad, really. I tune them out. But if it starts to degrade my web browsing experience, AdBlock to the rescue.
Thirdly, unless you've just moved to San Diego, you're quite aware of the 2003 and 2007 fires. These were (also) not the result of global warming.
I remember both of those cases well: classes are cancelled for a week, because they occurred during Fall semester in September/October. This one is in May. Having a longer fire season is exactly what the OP is stating.
China also won't join Russia because they don't want what Russian is proposing for Crimea, referendum for independent, become an international precedent for its many regions: Taiwan, Tibet, etc.
Why are we still in this Cold War mentality that the two formal communist countries are join at the hip. They have many diagonal interests, even during the Cold War.
I use WhatsApp. Two reasons. One, the message seamlessly integrates with insert photos, audio, and video. Traditional SMS does not support those media well. Two, it is very popular out of the US. I have a lot of personal contacts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Europe. It is nice to have everyone on the same platform. I have no idea about how much international SMS costs.
Recently (last two years), I have noticed that most of the messaging activities between my contacts and I have be gradually shifting from Whatsapp to, ironically, Facebook messenger. I paid 3 years license a few years back. It looks like I will not be renewing.
I have no problem with presenting creationism as an alternative, as long as you include ALL creation myths in the curriculum. It wouldn't be "teaching the controversy" unless you teach them all.
I mean, sure, we all really KNOW that the world began when Udu the Space Tortoise shat out the earth and His godly flatulence created the sun, but we have to let the kids decide for themselves.
I have no problem with what you are suggesting either. Just don't do it in a science classroom because none of these are science.
Please! Someone buy these idiots a history book. This is such a perfect example of people who think they're smart but they actually know jack shit about anything except pushing bits. The funny thing is, after the first arbitrary detention and execution of a dissident for "lesse majesty" or "treason against the crown" they'd all be up in arms and in jail. I really hope they're not all really this stupid and this is all just a way to get a reaction.
Just so happened that I read this today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
These guys think they are smart. That if other smart people are put in charge, their ability (if they actually possesses it) would be recognized and rewarded. But if their innovation disturbs the power of elites that they are proposing to put on top, whom they think will grand them reward for innovation, they are reading history (if they have read history) wrong.
Seriously. If you imagine that you will come out on top when your competition in a job interview is a noticeably lesser-able, but probably competent, son of the CEO, you got to examine your understanding of human society.
In fact, because he is a member of the National Academy of Science, he could publish paper on PNAS (Proceeding of the NAS) without much peer review (or find sympathetic scientists to review his paper). In the old day, there was an honor system with respect to publishing in PNAS that the author should get their paper properly peer-reviewed. Pauling submitted a series of very shoddy vitamin studies to the PNAS and as a result, he single handedly changed this policy and now makes publishing to PNAS a lot more rigorous.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/18/vitamin-c-and-cancer-has-linus-pauling-b/
But what did she do? What is the underlying science/technology? The NBC report got nothing. Click-through to Intel's website for the competition did not immediately yield any more information, except an inspirational paragraph about her:
With the rapid adoption of portable electronics, Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California, recognized the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices. She developed a tiny device that fits inside cell phone batteries, allowing them to fully charge within 20-30 seconds. Eesha’s invention also has potential applications for car batteries.
Will be doing some more Googling, but seriously, a link to the lab in which she worked or article/abstract published would be nice. Surely these are gifted kids, but I can't help but think the reporter really doesn't understand what she's done to write any thing more than a press release.
It is not going to stop that. But the additional work required to do that means only enthusiast (like yourself, perhaps?) will go out of his/her own way to own one. Creating sufficient friction for entrance is often enough to protect established players from competition. It also gives politicians an excuse to say: I am not against your freedom to buy a Tesla, I am just for a little more freedom for our local, lovable, car dealerships. FREEDOM!
or get and Android Phone. That is what I am going to do.
Never underestimate what people are willing to go through (on any device) to mask the cognitive dissonant that the latest precious they just bought does not justify its price or hype. The effort people go through to justify the sunk cost, both in economy and psychology.
They have to pay for the ex-Google Mappers somehow. It's either that or convince people to start renaming continents.
It seems someone at Apple is reading xkcd:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/
And all those distorted map image makes sense once you realized Apple is mapping our dreams, Inception style.
How so? The age of the universe was 13.7 billion years in 2006, now its 14.6 billion years old.
According to science, the universe has aged 900 million years in just six years.
Details of your statement aside, you have inadvertently alighted on the fundamental difference between science and religion: when new evidence comes in, science is obligated to change their theories to account for it, whereas religion is obligated to deny the evidence in order to preserve their beliefs.
Even more to the point, there are multiple methods of measuring the age of the universe. Some more precise than other; Some more accurate than other. They are not in huge contradiction with each other, certainly no where near the ridiculus claims religion is making.
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~dperley/univage/univage.html
People really needs to learn statistic and in addition to findings, reporter really need be able to report on the uncertainty of the findings.
I failed to google up the university's site. Reading similar reports in Chinese, it seems that Huai'An university is probably closer to what we call a trade school in the state. Students attends very career oriented majors: accounting, education, law, management and there is no research faculty (I wouldn't be surprise if most of the teacher does not hold PhD degrees).
Nothing like a forbidden/unavailable product that fires people up. In fact, a few of my friends are already discussing going to Oregan (no sale tax) to grab the new generation of iphone when it comes out and fly back to HK/China/TW with them to make enough profit to cover the said flight because Apple generally releases its phones later in Asia.
That's a great example of where trying to use plain language does more harm than good. On the other hand 'black hole' rather than 'completely gravitationally collapsed object' probably conveys the concept reasonably well.
Unfortunately science has a habit of using language, and then finding out it does a bad job of describing something, e.g. atoms, and neural networks, which are, despite the names not indivisible and not actually all that similar to neuron connections in the brain respectively.
Trying to reduce everything to a 6th grade reading level makes people think problems can actually be explained at a 6th grade level, and they can't. That this has crept into economic discourse has caused us no end of grief in trying to have honest fact based discussions about the current economic crisis for example.
The difference is as follow: in proper scientific papers and textbooks, the said gravitationally collapsed objects are actually called "blackhole". It is not a term exclusively for layman. Physicists are actually very good at naming important things (unlike in biology and medicine): black hole, dark matter, dark energy, red dwarf, photon, etc. Only when things become hardly distinguishable that physicists give them boring names: muon, tauon, pion, etc. Unless "god" actually can convey some distinguishing physical properties, it is not suited for a physics name.
The same reason when a cancer patient manage to live well pass the X months diagnosed by his physician, thanks god, instead of blaming the doctor, or better yet, learn some damn statistics.
Instead of thinking G+ as a Facebook clone/competition, I like to think of it as a replacement of iGoogle, Google's attempt at a personalized home page and portal to all Google's services, now the "social" element. Considering how bad iGoogle used to be, I would say G+ is a great success at replacing it. The interface is so much cleaner now.
if I tell my son to do something and he asks why, that is encouraged and a reason is given, things are explained. I don't subject to the "because I said so" mentality of parenting. Sometimes you let them do stupid things to learn and see the consequences. If a parent can't give a good reason for why something can or can't be done, perhaps that isn't a rule that needs to be enforced.
I really try to do this to, but it is so hard.
Me: Get in the car.
Child: Why?
M: Because we have to go to school?
C: Why?
M: Because you need to learn things and play with other kids, and Daddy has to go to work?
C: Why?
M: Well, social development is important and I have to make money so we have a house and food to eat?
C: Why?
M: Why what?
C: Why we need food to eat?
M: If we don't eat we will die.
C: Why?........
And this doesn't end. He will keep going until I either say, "I don't know" or "Just because. That's the way it is." I hate saying it, but I don't know how to break the cycle. I'm trying out other options such as, "I don't know, why do you think we will die if we don't eat?"
How about: I don't really know, but I have a good idea where to look for the answer. Then go hit the local library (grasp!!) for books on basic human biology.
First of all, the unboxing wasn't that bad. The box was taped, yes, but once I sliced it the box slid apart with no issues. The wrap around the Nexus 7 was not that hard to remove. The only way you can bugger that up is to not notice the directions. There's arrows, move this, then that, and it slides out. When I unpacked some iPads for work they were basically similar in their unpacking.
However, the part that got me about the packing is the sleeve. The box itself was fine. The box slid into a sleeve that had the artwork.
I was about ready to throw the goddamned thing against the wall. The sleeve was pressure fit so tightly that Hercu-Thumbs couldn't even slide it out. After fussing with it for a few minutes I went into a rage and tore that sonovabitch up. If I had to do it again I wouldn't even bother with sliding it off, I'd get a letter opener or something like it to take apart the sleeve at its seam.
Whoever thought of that packing design should be dragged out to the street and SHOT.
I did not find putting the box back to the sleeve too hard. Maybe every box is different?
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Use a fucking heat gun. Don't back your shit. Jesus, what kind of fucking rookies live in this world?
From TFA, he did use a heat gun when it failed again. That did not work. Then he used the oven again and drill some holes for air flow. That worked.
I believe this is the group that pushed the defeated Prop 46 this year. This is a proposition that 1. increase the cap on malpractice sue from the current $250K to $1M and 2. required doctors and nurses undergo random drug test.
http://ballotpedia.org/Califor...
there is always the question 'but what caused that'? really? there is "always" this question only if you continue to think about the world in the same mindset.
you don't have to search for an answer in the world through Newtonian glasses. "caused" implies causation. causation implies a before, and an after. first there is the cause, then there is its effects. abstract ideas like before and after are looking at the world from a point of view of LINEAR time.
if you truly study relativity
If you truly study relativity, you'll see the words "causality" and "causal" used. It's not a strictly Newtonian idea. As long as there's no faster-than-light travel, "X happens before Y" is an invariant - it's true in all reference frames.
Only if the two events are time-like separated. That is, there does not exist a frame in which they are simultaneous. If two event are space-like separated, there is one frame in which they are simultaneous. Then there is a frame in which A occurs before B and another frame in which B occurs before A. The two events cannot be causally connected.
If two events are time-like separated, (basically means their spacial separation / time separation is less than speed of light), then their order of occurrence is fixed in all frame. Because in this case, it is in principle possible for A to causally effect B since any signal emitted at event A can travel to B at no faster than the speed of light, the causal relationship between A and B is the same in all frame.
tl;dr If A can cause B in one frame, A can cause B in all frames.
I almost feel like I am forced to use AdBlock by bad ad. Before I install AdBlock, I said to myself, sure online ads are bad, but that's how the "free" world works. Then I noticed some website wold take forever to load, but once I clicked "STOP" on my browser, the content page showed up. I am forced to conclude that the content I want has already been loaded, but some part of the page is trying and failing to connect an ad server somewhere. I don't mind online ad, really. I tune them out. But if it starts to degrade my web browsing experience, AdBlock to the rescue.
Thirdly, unless you've just moved to San Diego, you're quite aware of the 2003 and 2007 fires. These were (also) not the result of global warming.
I remember both of those cases well: classes are cancelled for a week, because they occurred during Fall semester in September/October. This one is in May. Having a longer fire season is exactly what the OP is stating.
China also won't join Russia because they don't want what Russian is proposing for Crimea, referendum for independent, become an international precedent for its many regions: Taiwan, Tibet, etc.
Why are we still in this Cold War mentality that the two formal communist countries are join at the hip. They have many diagonal interests, even during the Cold War.
I use WhatsApp. Two reasons. One, the message seamlessly integrates with insert photos, audio, and video. Traditional SMS does not support those media well. Two, it is very popular out of the US. I have a lot of personal contacts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Europe. It is nice to have everyone on the same platform. I have no idea about how much international SMS costs.
Recently (last two years), I have noticed that most of the messaging activities between my contacts and I have be gradually shifting from Whatsapp to, ironically, Facebook messenger. I paid 3 years license a few years back. It looks like I will not be renewing.
I have no problem with presenting creationism as an alternative, as long as you include ALL creation myths in the curriculum. It wouldn't be "teaching the controversy" unless you teach them all.
I mean, sure, we all really KNOW that the world began when Udu the Space Tortoise shat out the earth and His godly flatulence created the sun, but we have to let the kids decide for themselves.
I have no problem with what you are suggesting either. Just don't do it in a science classroom because none of these are science.
Please! Someone buy these idiots a history book. This is such a perfect example of people who think they're smart but they actually know jack shit about anything except pushing bits. The funny thing is, after the first arbitrary detention and execution of a dissident for "lesse majesty" or "treason against the crown" they'd all be up in arms and in jail. I really hope they're not all really this stupid and this is all just a way to get a reaction.
Just so happened that I read this today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
These guys think they are smart. That if other smart people are put in charge, their ability (if they actually possesses it) would be recognized and rewarded. But if their innovation disturbs the power of elites that they are proposing to put on top, whom they think will grand them reward for innovation, they are reading history (if they have read history) wrong.
Seriously. If you imagine that you will come out on top when your competition in a job interview is a noticeably lesser-able, but probably competent, son of the CEO, you got to examine your understanding of human society.
In fact, because he is a member of the National Academy of Science, he could publish paper on PNAS (Proceeding of the NAS) without much peer review (or find sympathetic scientists to review his paper). In the old day, there was an honor system with respect to publishing in PNAS that the author should get their paper properly peer-reviewed. Pauling submitted a series of very shoddy vitamin studies to the PNAS and as a result, he single handedly changed this policy and now makes publishing to PNAS a lot more rigorous. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/18/vitamin-c-and-cancer-has-linus-pauling-b/
With the rapid adoption of portable electronics, Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California, recognized the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices. She developed a tiny device that fits inside cell phone batteries, allowing them to fully charge within 20-30 seconds. Eesha’s invention also has potential applications for car batteries.
Will be doing some more Googling, but seriously, a link to the lab in which she worked or article/abstract published would be nice. Surely these are gifted kids, but I can't help but think the reporter really doesn't understand what she's done to write any thing more than a press release.
It is not going to stop that. But the additional work required to do that means only enthusiast (like yourself, perhaps?) will go out of his/her own way to own one. Creating sufficient friction for entrance is often enough to protect established players from competition. It also gives politicians an excuse to say: I am not against your freedom to buy a Tesla, I am just for a little more freedom for our local, lovable, car dealerships. FREEDOM!
Touch screens go out of calibration, leading to opportunities for all sorts of shenanigans.
Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM
or get and Android Phone. That is what I am going to do.
Never underestimate what people are willing to go through (on any device) to mask the cognitive dissonant that the latest precious they just bought does not justify its price or hype. The effort people go through to justify the sunk cost, both in economy and psychology.
They have to pay for the ex-Google Mappers somehow. It's either that or convince people to start renaming continents.
It seems someone at Apple is reading xkcd: http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/
And all those distorted map image makes sense once you realized Apple is mapping our dreams, Inception style.
... what pot are the smoking when the set the price point ...
Something wrong with the 'y' key on your keyboard?
How so? The age of the universe was 13.7 billion years in 2006, now its 14.6 billion years old. According to science, the universe has aged 900 million years in just six years.
Details of your statement aside, you have inadvertently alighted on the fundamental difference between science and religion: when new evidence comes in, science is obligated to change their theories to account for it, whereas religion is obligated to deny the evidence in order to preserve their beliefs.
Even more to the point, there are multiple methods of measuring the age of the universe. Some more precise than other; Some more accurate than other. They are not in huge contradiction with each other, certainly no where near the ridiculus claims religion is making. http://astro.berkeley.edu/~dperley/univage/univage.html
People really needs to learn statistic and in addition to findings, reporter really need be able to report on the uncertainty of the findings.
I failed to google up the university's site. Reading similar reports in Chinese, it seems that Huai'An university is probably closer to what we call a trade school in the state. Students attends very career oriented majors: accounting, education, law, management and there is no research faculty (I wouldn't be surprise if most of the teacher does not hold PhD degrees).
that we manage to get an atheist state and a theocracy in bed with one other.
Nothing like a forbidden/unavailable product that fires people up. In fact, a few of my friends are already discussing going to Oregan (no sale tax) to grab the new generation of iphone when it comes out and fly back to HK/China/TW with them to make enough profit to cover the said flight because Apple generally releases its phones later in Asia.
That's a great example of where trying to use plain language does more harm than good. On the other hand 'black hole' rather than 'completely gravitationally collapsed object' probably conveys the concept reasonably well.
Unfortunately science has a habit of using language, and then finding out it does a bad job of describing something, e.g. atoms, and neural networks, which are, despite the names not indivisible and not actually all that similar to neuron connections in the brain respectively.
Trying to reduce everything to a 6th grade reading level makes people think problems can actually be explained at a 6th grade level, and they can't. That this has crept into economic discourse has caused us no end of grief in trying to have honest fact based discussions about the current economic crisis for example.
The difference is as follow: in proper scientific papers and textbooks, the said gravitationally collapsed objects are actually called "blackhole". It is not a term exclusively for layman. Physicists are actually very good at naming important things (unlike in biology and medicine): black hole, dark matter, dark energy, red dwarf, photon, etc. Only when things become hardly distinguishable that physicists give them boring names: muon, tauon, pion, etc. Unless "god" actually can convey some distinguishing physical properties, it is not suited for a physics name.
The same reason when a cancer patient manage to live well pass the X months diagnosed by his physician, thanks god, instead of blaming the doctor, or better yet, learn some damn statistics.
Instead of thinking G+ as a Facebook clone/competition, I like to think of it as a replacement of iGoogle, Google's attempt at a personalized home page and portal to all Google's services, now the "social" element. Considering how bad iGoogle used to be, I would say G+ is a great success at replacing it. The interface is so much cleaner now.
if I tell my son to do something and he asks why, that is encouraged and a reason is given, things are explained. I don't subject to the "because I said so" mentality of parenting. Sometimes you let them do stupid things to learn and see the consequences. If a parent can't give a good reason for why something can or can't be done, perhaps that isn't a rule that needs to be enforced.
I really try to do this to, but it is so hard.
Me: Get in the car. Child: Why? M: Because we have to go to school? C: Why? M: Because you need to learn things and play with other kids, and Daddy has to go to work? C: Why? M: Well, social development is important and I have to make money so we have a house and food to eat? C: Why? M: Why what? C: Why we need food to eat? M: If we don't eat we will die. C: Why? ........
And this doesn't end. He will keep going until I either say, "I don't know" or "Just because. That's the way it is." I hate saying it, but I don't know how to break the cycle. I'm trying out other options such as, "I don't know, why do you think we will die if we don't eat?"
How about: I don't really know, but I have a good idea where to look for the answer. Then go hit the local library (grasp!!) for books on basic human biology.
I have the Nexus 7.
First of all, the unboxing wasn't that bad. The box was taped, yes, but once I sliced it the box slid apart with no issues. The wrap around the Nexus 7 was not that hard to remove. The only way you can bugger that up is to not notice the directions. There's arrows, move this, then that, and it slides out. When I unpacked some iPads for work they were basically similar in their unpacking.
However, the part that got me about the packing is the sleeve. The box itself was fine. The box slid into a sleeve that had the artwork.
I was about ready to throw the goddamned thing against the wall. The sleeve was pressure fit so tightly that Hercu-Thumbs couldn't even slide it out. After fussing with it for a few minutes I went into a rage and tore that sonovabitch up. If I had to do it again I wouldn't even bother with sliding it off, I'd get a letter opener or something like it to take apart the sleeve at its seam.
Whoever thought of that packing design should be dragged out to the street and SHOT.
I did not find putting the box back to the sleeve too hard. Maybe every box is different?