It is an amazingly sad state of affairs, that the majority of the population have become so complacent in following the lies, that they no longer think for themselves.
It's much worse than that. The principal lesson of religious indoctrination is something they call faith. What is faith? Faith is the ability to believe things that don't make sense, or things that fly in the face of evidence and common sense. Faith is supposed to be a virtue. The stronger your faith (in other words the more ridiculous thing that you can convince yourself of) the more virtuous you are. People who can believe genuinely silly things like the world is about 7,000 years old, are considered to be the most impressively virtuous.
It doesn't take much effort to see just how dangerous this is. Once you have indoctrinated people with this mental poison they are vulnerable to all sorts of manipulation. It's like putting a rootkit in people's minds that allows infection by other absurd ideas. Sure most religions are mostly benign, god is love, don't covet, golden rule, etc., but once the mental rootkit is installed malignant viruses have a perfect way in. Crusades, jihads, bigotry, intolerance, fear, and ignorance find fertile ground to grow in a mind that has been compromised by the faith rootkit.
Most of the world's biggest problems require the presence of this mental rootkit to truly take hold. Global warming is a myth. Terrorism.
Bigotry. Capitalism.
There is a way to immunize people against the faith rootkit. It's called education. In particular a thorough education in the scientific method and formal logic. Religions know this. They know that science and reason are their mortal enemy. They know that evolutionary biology is particularly effective at showing that the Bible is more myth than history. They will fight to the very bitter end to undermine real education and replace it with indoctrination.
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Discovering the Higgs Boson would be a huge confirmation of the Standard Model, but it seems like the only reason popular culture cares about it is because of its stupid nickname. Can we just agree to stop calling it "The God Particle?"
Actually it's much more simple and innocent than than. The LHC was built to find the Higgs Boson. It's the biggest, most powerful, fastest, and most costly physics experiment EVAR! We (popular culture) love a success story. We love the drama of rumored success and possible abject failure. It's the drama that is exciting. Among the better educated non-physicists we are also aware that the existence of the HB would be a big confirmation of the current theory, and the absence will be a huge puzzle. How could we not be hanging on the edges of our seats. Give people a little credit.
The difference between impossible and prohibited is like the difference between a welded shut steel safe and a sticky note that says "don't look at this."
Mod parent "insightful" because he has a good if unpleasant point.
But there is a big difference in security threat between releasing copies of 6 month old written memos, and listening in on the telephone conversations of the PM in real time.
Lots of people grousing about how awful FTP is. I bet not one of you will ever write a piece of software that is still hugely popular and under active development 40 years later.
So, exactly how is BHO "head and shoulders above GWB"?
Because...... change!
Let me count the ways:
Complete sentences,
Nice speeches,
Polite,
Plays well with all the other infantile heads of state,
Got elected, and...
most important, he is neither McCain nor Palin. I'm deadly serious about that last part. I have never been convinced that McCain was mentally fit, after years of torture, to carry that nuclear football. I honestly would have been more likely to vote for Bush than for McCain. Don't get me started about Palin.
Really it comes down to this choice: iron fist fascism, or velvet glove fascism. I choose the velvet glove thank you very much.
The only thing that Obama did good was get elected. Every single person except real left wing die hards are cursing him.
I am a "real left diehard", and trust me I'm cursing him too. I also agree with you that the best thing he did was get elected. The other three genuinely good things he has done is not be Bush, not be McCain, and speak in complete sentences. While he's a marked improvement over the former resident of the White House, he still sucks. I can't imagine anyone who is a "real left diehard" that hasn't been really bothered at just how much Obama has been like his predecessor.
You see the real problem with Obama... well Bush and Clinton too, is that they all work for the same bosses. The genuinely rich, and the corporations own the white house, the congress, the courts, and most of the agencies too.
It is also worth considering that sieverts are a calculated unit. There is a not a direct conversion from becquerels to sieverts. Sieverts are a measure of dose equivalent.
[wikipedia]
The dose equivalent is a measure of biological effect for whole body irradiation. The dose equivalent is equal to the product of the absorbed dose and the Quality Factor.
The Quality Factor (Q) depends on the type of radiation:
X-ray, Gamma ray, or beta radiation: Q = 1
alpha particles: Q = 20
neutrons of unknown energy: Q = 10 (If the neutron energy is known, see more specific Q values at 10 CFR 20.1004 [1])
conventional units: dose equivalent (rems) is the productof dose (rads) and Q
SI units: dose equivalent (sieverts) is the product of dose (grays) and Q
Conversion
1 Sievert (Sv) = 100 rem
1 rem = 0.01 Sievert (Sv) [/wikipedia]
These Quality Factors are assumptions, not hard fact. For instance Q=20 for alpha particles assumes that the source is inside your body, but even that is a big leap. 1 rad of exposure from Cesium 137 in your body would be less of a big deal than 1 rad of exposure from Iodine 131 in your body. Even though both are beta emitters, the cesium would likely be distributed throughout your body, while the iodine concentrates in the thyroid gland.
It's too bad that this is soooo complicated, and that journalists are soooo incompetent at reporting information that is even modestly complicated. I bet that 99% of the press that has done stories about Fukushima would fail even understand the millisieverts per what unit of time question.
Did you forget that there are very specific and detailed laws that require public disclosure of campaign contributions? There is nothing anonymous or private about giving money to a political campaign. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't been paying attention to, well, much of anything for decades.
I feel I must object strongly to the repeated use of the word "intimidate" in the context of the Prop 8 campaign. I am not aware of a single case of any sort of "intimidation" other than boycotts or threats of boycotts. By your argument people who post bad reviews on Yelp are engaging in intimidation. A local San Francisco business who contributes money to a campaign to take an important right away from gay and lesbian people should expect that that public political act will result in gay and lesbian people boycotting that business.
Politics do not take place in a vacuum. Political contributions are by nature and by law public acts. Emails are not inherently public.
Professors at state universities are public employees, but are not public officials.
If these businesses really did get threatening letters they should take those letters to the police. If it turns out that the unions were doing this on an organized level it could potentially become a racketeering case, and would unquestionably be a serious crime. Well I suppose if the threat were "we aren't going to shop there" it wouldn't be a crime so I suppose the nature of the threat is key.
Here's the thing though, political contributions and signing electoral petitions are inherently public acts. It has to be that way in a democracy. In the California Prop 8 case no one was threatened with anything but a boycott. In that case it was entirely appropriate. If you ran a market in a predominantly black town and you made contributions to a campaign to reverse the 14th amendment it would be entirely appropriate for your neighbors to choose to boycott your shop. That is exactly what happened here. Yours is a very poor comparison, emails sent or received by a public employee are not typically subject to open document laws. Professors don't make public policy. Emails are not public documents like political contributions or signing petitions.
I can think of one excellent precedent to this kind of harassment. Last year the Attn. General in Virginia used open document laws to harass a climate scientist. Oh but that example wouldn't serve to illustrate your point, which as far as I could gather was, it's okay because those guys DID IT FIRST!!!
"Mom Susie hit me!"
"But he hit me first!!"
"Nu uh!"
"Uh huh!"
What ever happened to "hey - here's two pairs of boxing gloves - go behind the gym and work it out?"
That's just brilliant. A big bully is picking on the little kid so you tell them to go out back and fight!?! Where did you learn about justice? The witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? That was supposed to be funny not a lesson in practical jurisprudence.
This is slashdot, news for nerds, you know the little smart guys who got beat up as kids, not the big oafish bullies who did the beating. The anon coward, and the idiots who modded this up should all be banned from slashdot since they clearly are NOT real nerds.
Though perhaps I'm not being entirely fair. I forgot about that other type of nerd, the completely maladapted sociopaths that are smart but incapable of sympathy and as adults have entirely forgotten what it was like to be young and harassed.
This is called expert witness shopping. The guy performed ethically and SCO did a very standard thing. Most people who do expert witness work avoid being a "hired gun." A hired gun is an expert who can be told what to testify. Obviously having such a reputation will make it easy for opposing counsel to rip your credibility to shreds. So when a legal team needs a particular opinion, they hire several experts, none of whom are hired guns, and ask each of them to look at the issues and render an opinion. One of those opinions might be more helpful to the case that the others. That will be the expert that they put on the stand. This guy was hired, his opinion wasn't helpful, they paid him and moved on.
The key thing to remember here is that different experts legitimately have different opinions and there is nothing inherently unethical about this process.
BTW what is up with/.'s formatting? Lots of posts today are double spaced, including this one!
BCC was dead ages ago because nobody hardly ever learned to use it. It was dead before Facebook. It was dead before the large influx of spam. It was dead about the time Gopher came out.
That's funny because the most popular email client around, Outlook (cringe), still supports BCC. Gmail still has bcc. Yahoo still has bcc. For a dead technology it sure is implemented in tons of current software.
blah blah blah... But very reasonable people can have very reasonable disagreements on those numbers, with no one lying... yammer on etc.
The thing is, there is no reason behind any OPEC countries' estimate of their reserves. Up to the 1980s there might have been some rhyme or reason, but during the 1980s the OPEC countries all were selling oil at a rate that was connected to their total estimated reserves. Prior to this the estimates had been based on actual known reserves but by this time the OPEC nations had all nationalized their oil industries and outside verification became difficult. And every one of them revised their reserves up. Irag by a factor of 3, Saudi Arabia by about 50%, on average by almost a factor of 2! These revisions were not driven by new discoveries, they were driven by the greed of each nation and each nations' desire to increase their quota. But don't believe me, read and learn: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7149
Since the very suspicious upward revisions that happened during the 1980s each of these countries has continued to pump and sell oil, yet their estimated total reserves have remained unchanged. Major discoveries in about 1997 and 2003 actually were reflected in slight increases of estimated reserves in those years, but other that they estimates have remained unchanged. So how is it that they have sold billions of barrels of oil on the open market for decades but their reserves have remained exactly the same? Their reserves seem to only increase, never decrease. In the absence of new discoveries during a period of depletion of reserves, you would expect that the reserves would decline by the amount pumped and sold, but that hasn't happened. It is obvious that they started lying about true reserves in the 1980s and they never stopped. All the OPEC countries over-report their reserves. This is obvious and well known among people who pay attention.
It is a bit comforting that at least someone in the Saudi government has tried to tell us the truth through back channels. I wish our government would start acting like they don't have their heads up their collective asses.
Anyway this is why it is useless to rely on the reserve estimates of the OPEC countries. Look at production numbers, which cannot be so easily faked. We have been on a production plateau for almost a decade now. We may or may not have hit the peak yet but that hardly matters it is pretty clear that we are on the broad plateau of the peak and that we are very near or past the actual peak. In another 5 years, I predict that the days of $4/gallon gasoline will be looked upon as the good old days. Brace yourselves, it's going to be a bump ride!
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Facebook chat and picture hosting seem to be the two killer features that people (at least, people I talk to) seem to want.
That may be what they say they want, but the real killer feature that Facebook has is a critical mass of users with which to chat and share pictures. Frankly I don't see that changing any time soon. The young kids will surely find something cooler and better, but don't expect Grandpa or Aunt Suzy to jump ship any time soon. As far as this cranky old man is concerned, sharing thoughts and pictures with friends and family is all that "social networking" is good for. I wouldn't go to some new "better" site because I get there and everybody I wanted to share with will still be on Facebook.
On his youtube account he had one "favorite" video. I watched it, and it was clearly his work again. This one is even more bizarre! There is a US flag on a stick out in the desert. There is a song playing in which the refrain is "let the bodies hit the floor." A figure in a hoodie and a trashbag skirt walks past the camera and stands by the flag for a few minutes. Then he lights the flag on fire and walks off. In the video's description he wrote this
"If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.
There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown."
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It is an amazingly sad state of affairs, that the majority of the population have become so complacent in following the lies, that they no longer think for themselves.
It's much worse than that. The principal lesson of religious indoctrination is something they call faith. What is faith? Faith is the ability to believe things that don't make sense, or things that fly in the face of evidence and common sense. Faith is supposed to be a virtue. The stronger your faith (in other words the more ridiculous thing that you can convince yourself of) the more virtuous you are. People who can believe genuinely silly things like the world is about 7,000 years old, are considered to be the most impressively virtuous.
It doesn't take much effort to see just how dangerous this is. Once you have indoctrinated people with this mental poison they are vulnerable to all sorts of manipulation. It's like putting a rootkit in people's minds that allows infection by other absurd ideas. Sure most religions are mostly benign, god is love, don't covet, golden rule, etc., but once the mental rootkit is installed malignant viruses have a perfect way in. Crusades, jihads, bigotry, intolerance, fear, and ignorance find fertile ground to grow in a mind that has been compromised by the faith rootkit.
Most of the world's biggest problems require the presence of this mental rootkit to truly take hold. Global warming is a myth. Terrorism. Bigotry. Capitalism.
There is a way to immunize people against the faith rootkit. It's called education. In particular a thorough education in the scientific method and formal logic. Religions know this. They know that science and reason are their mortal enemy. They know that evolutionary biology is particularly effective at showing that the Bible is more myth than history. They will fight to the very bitter end to undermine real education and replace it with indoctrination.
Taking tax money meant for public education and using it to proselytize? No. Absolutely not.
Here is the problem, the weirdo fundies who push this sort of crap BELIEVE that evolution is proselytizing for evil atheism, and they vote.
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Discovering the Higgs Boson would be a huge confirmation of the Standard Model, but it seems like the only reason popular culture cares about it is because of its stupid nickname. Can we just agree to stop calling it "The God Particle?"
Actually it's much more simple and innocent than than. The LHC was built to find the Higgs Boson. It's the biggest, most powerful, fastest, and most costly physics experiment EVAR! We (popular culture) love a success story. We love the drama of rumored success and possible abject failure. It's the drama that is exciting. Among the better educated non-physicists we are also aware that the existence of the HB would be a big confirmation of the current theory, and the absence will be a huge puzzle. How could we not be hanging on the edges of our seats. Give people a little credit.
The difference between impossible and prohibited is like the difference between a welded shut steel safe and a sticky note that says "don't look at this."
Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from Star Trek technobabble.
Mod parent "insightful" because he has a good if unpleasant point.
But there is a big difference in security threat between releasing copies of 6 month old written memos, and listening in on the telephone conversations of the PM in real time.
Lots of people grousing about how awful FTP is. I bet not one of you will ever write a piece of software that is still hugely popular and under active development 40 years later.
So, exactly how is BHO "head and shoulders above GWB"?
Because...... change!
Let me count the ways:
Complete sentences,
Nice speeches,
Polite,
Plays well with all the other infantile heads of state,
Got elected, and...
most important, he is neither McCain nor Palin. I'm deadly serious about that last part. I have never been convinced that McCain was mentally fit, after years of torture, to carry that nuclear football. I honestly would have been more likely to vote for Bush than for McCain. Don't get me started about Palin.
Really it comes down to this choice: iron fist fascism, or velvet glove fascism. I choose the velvet glove thank you very much.
Anyone who thought those items were even slightly possible drank waaay too deeply from the ultra-liberal kool-aide.
Delusional...
It only requires courage and a determined will. No kool-aide needed.
Don't forget that instead of universal health care he got us a universal requirement to purchase private insurance.
The only thing that Obama did good was get elected. Every single person except real left wing die hards are cursing him.
I am a "real left diehard", and trust me I'm cursing him too. I also agree with you that the best thing he did was get elected. The other three genuinely good things he has done is not be Bush, not be McCain, and speak in complete sentences. While he's a marked improvement over the former resident of the White House, he still sucks. I can't imagine anyone who is a "real left diehard" that hasn't been really bothered at just how much Obama has been like his predecessor.
You see the real problem with Obama... well Bush and Clinton too, is that they all work for the same bosses. The genuinely rich, and the corporations own the white house, the congress, the courts, and most of the agencies too.
It is also worth considering that sieverts are a calculated unit. There is a not a direct conversion from becquerels to sieverts. Sieverts are a measure of dose equivalent.
[wikipedia]
The dose equivalent is a measure of biological effect for whole body irradiation. The dose equivalent is equal to the product of the absorbed dose and the Quality Factor.
The Quality Factor (Q) depends on the type of radiation:
X-ray, Gamma ray, or beta radiation: Q = 1
alpha particles: Q = 20
neutrons of unknown energy: Q = 10 (If the neutron energy is known, see more specific Q values at 10 CFR 20.1004 [1])
conventional units: dose equivalent (rems) is the productof dose (rads) and Q
SI units: dose equivalent (sieverts) is the product of dose (grays) and Q
Conversion
1 Sievert (Sv) = 100 rem
1 rem = 0.01 Sievert (Sv)
[/wikipedia]
These Quality Factors are assumptions, not hard fact. For instance Q=20 for alpha particles assumes that the source is inside your body, but even that is a big leap. 1 rad of exposure from Cesium 137 in your body would be less of a big deal than 1 rad of exposure from Iodine 131 in your body. Even though both are beta emitters, the cesium would likely be distributed throughout your body, while the iodine concentrates in the thyroid gland.
It's too bad that this is soooo complicated, and that journalists are soooo incompetent at reporting information that is even modestly complicated. I bet that 99% of the press that has done stories about Fukushima would fail even understand the millisieverts per what unit of time question.
Did you forget that there are very specific and detailed laws that require public disclosure of campaign contributions? There is nothing anonymous or private about giving money to a political campaign. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't been paying attention to, well, much of anything for decades.
I feel I must object strongly to the repeated use of the word "intimidate" in the context of the Prop 8 campaign. I am not aware of a single case of any sort of "intimidation" other than boycotts or threats of boycotts. By your argument people who post bad reviews on Yelp are engaging in intimidation. A local San Francisco business who contributes money to a campaign to take an important right away from gay and lesbian people should expect that that public political act will result in gay and lesbian people boycotting that business.
Politics do not take place in a vacuum. Political contributions are by nature and by law public acts. Emails are not inherently public.
Professors at state universities are public employees, but are not public officials.
If these businesses really did get threatening letters they should take those letters to the police. If it turns out that the unions were doing this on an organized level it could potentially become a racketeering case, and would unquestionably be a serious crime. Well I suppose if the threat were "we aren't going to shop there" it wouldn't be a crime so I suppose the nature of the threat is key.
Here's the thing though, political contributions and signing electoral petitions are inherently public acts. It has to be that way in a democracy. In the California Prop 8 case no one was threatened with anything but a boycott. In that case it was entirely appropriate. If you ran a market in a predominantly black town and you made contributions to a campaign to reverse the 14th amendment it would be entirely appropriate for your neighbors to choose to boycott your shop. That is exactly what happened here. Yours is a very poor comparison, emails sent or received by a public employee are not typically subject to open document laws. Professors don't make public policy. Emails are not public documents like political contributions or signing petitions.
I can think of one excellent precedent to this kind of harassment. Last year the Attn. General in Virginia used open document laws to harass a climate scientist. Oh but that example wouldn't serve to illustrate your point, which as far as I could gather was, it's okay because those guys DID IT FIRST!!!
"Mom Susie hit me!"
"But he hit me first!!"
"Nu uh!"
"Uh huh!"
OP talks about preparing for a natural disaster What you going to do, shoot the water as it swirls round your feet
No, I think he plans on using his guns to steal my emergency kit. The joke's on him though. All the food and water in there expired last year.
So young gay and lesbian kids are weak minded? I think we can tell who is really weak minded.
What ever happened to "hey - here's two pairs of boxing gloves - go behind the gym and work it out?"
That's just brilliant. A big bully is picking on the little kid so you tell them to go out back and fight!?! Where did you learn about justice? The witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? That was supposed to be funny not a lesson in practical jurisprudence.
This is slashdot, news for nerds, you know the little smart guys who got beat up as kids, not the big oafish bullies who did the beating. The anon coward, and the idiots who modded this up should all be banned from slashdot since they clearly are NOT real nerds.
Though perhaps I'm not being entirely fair. I forgot about that other type of nerd, the completely maladapted sociopaths that are smart but incapable of sympathy and as adults have entirely forgotten what it was like to be young and harassed.
This is called expert witness shopping. The guy performed ethically and SCO did a very standard thing. Most people who do expert witness work avoid being a "hired gun." A hired gun is an expert who can be told what to testify. Obviously having such a reputation will make it easy for opposing counsel to rip your credibility to shreds. So when a legal team needs a particular opinion, they hire several experts, none of whom are hired guns, and ask each of them to look at the issues and render an opinion. One of those opinions might be more helpful to the case that the others. That will be the expert that they put on the stand. This guy was hired, his opinion wasn't helpful, they paid him and moved on.
/.'s formatting? Lots of posts today are double spaced, including this one!
The key thing to remember here is that different experts legitimately have different opinions and there is nothing inherently unethical about this process.
BTW what is up with
BCC was dead ages ago because nobody hardly ever learned to use it. It was dead before Facebook. It was dead before the large influx of spam. It was dead about the time Gopher came out.
That's funny because the most popular email client around, Outlook (cringe), still supports BCC. Gmail still has bcc. Yahoo still has bcc. For a dead technology it sure is implemented in tons of current software.
blah blah blah... But very reasonable people can have very reasonable disagreements on those numbers, with no one lying... yammer on etc.
The thing is, there is no reason behind any OPEC countries' estimate of their reserves. Up to the 1980s there might have been some rhyme or reason, but during the 1980s the OPEC countries all were selling oil at a rate that was connected to their total estimated reserves. Prior to this the estimates had been based on actual known reserves but by this time the OPEC nations had all nationalized their oil industries and outside verification became difficult. And every one of them revised their reserves up. Irag by a factor of 3, Saudi Arabia by about 50%, on average by almost a factor of 2! These revisions were not driven by new discoveries, they were driven by the greed of each nation and each nations' desire to increase their quota. But don't believe me, read and learn: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7149
Since the very suspicious upward revisions that happened during the 1980s each of these countries has continued to pump and sell oil, yet their estimated total reserves have remained unchanged. Major discoveries in about 1997 and 2003 actually were reflected in slight increases of estimated reserves in those years, but other that they estimates have remained unchanged. So how is it that they have sold billions of barrels of oil on the open market for decades but their reserves have remained exactly the same? Their reserves seem to only increase, never decrease. In the absence of new discoveries during a period of depletion of reserves, you would expect that the reserves would decline by the amount pumped and sold, but that hasn't happened. It is obvious that they started lying about true reserves in the 1980s and they never stopped. All the OPEC countries over-report their reserves. This is obvious and well known among people who pay attention.
It is a bit comforting that at least someone in the Saudi government has tried to tell us the truth through back channels. I wish our government would start acting like they don't have their heads up their collective asses.
Anyway this is why it is useless to rely on the reserve estimates of the OPEC countries. Look at production numbers, which cannot be so easily faked. We have been on a production plateau for almost a decade now. We may or may not have hit the peak yet but that hardly matters it is pretty clear that we are on the broad plateau of the peak and that we are very near or past the actual peak. In another 5 years, I predict that the days of $4/gallon gasoline will be looked upon as the good old days. Brace yourselves, it's going to be a bump ride!
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Facebook chat and picture hosting seem to be the two killer features that people (at least, people I talk to) seem to want.
That may be what they say they want, but the real killer feature that Facebook has is a critical mass of users with which to chat and share pictures. Frankly I don't see that changing any time soon. The young kids will surely find something cooler and better, but don't expect Grandpa or Aunt Suzy to jump ship any time soon. As far as this cranky old man is concerned, sharing thoughts and pictures with friends and family is all that "social networking" is good for. I wouldn't go to some new "better" site because I get there and everybody I wanted to share with will still be on Facebook.
good point. thanks.
On his youtube account he had one "favorite" video. I watched it, and it was clearly his work again. This one is even more bizarre! There is a US flag on a stick out in the desert. There is a song playing in which the refrain is "let the bodies hit the floor." A figure in a hoodie and a trashbag skirt walks past the camera and stands by the flag for a few minutes. Then he lights the flag on fire and walks off. In the video's description he wrote this
"If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.
There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown."