Let me see if I understand correctly, you have a fake captcha with a single correct answer and you decided to broadcast the answer with a link to your blog?
You are welcome to your opinion of him as a crackpot, you are also welcome to dismiss out of hand any theory he puts forth based on your opinion of him. The only problem I have is when you tell other people that his ideas are to be dismissed without inspection because you think he is a crackpot. Other than the fact that this theory explaining the losing of the comet's tail also includes the sun, I didn't see anything linking it to his other work. If the theory is wrong, let someone find some proof to explain some other reason the plasma tail disappeared or some flaw in his sample data; rather than resorting to name calling.
Isaac Newton, after he wrote his famous laws, basically spent years trying to get alchemy to work. I'm sure many of his peers, 'actual physicists', thought he was a crackpot for trying. Please view the merits of an idea based on the proof behind it and against it, not solely on if you like the person or agree with everything else they are saying.
I enjoy a quote about Newton's years spent in alchemy from a book by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett, paraphrasing saying that 'had there been any way of making alchemy work, Isaac Newton would likely have found it'.
What? You saw flying anvils on TLC? And something about DragonBall.
While I didn't completely understand the parent post, I will reply with "Not flying: falling, with style!"
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth; I was just agreeing with your example of crossing the road: guide dogs and print-to-speech solve two different problems dealing with lose of sight and blindness.
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology. Its the classic "outsmart your enemy with the bigger and better army, by using creative thinking"
I seem to recall Hannibal going against an est. 80k trained fully equiped Roman troops with 50k or less troops patchworked together from several armies at Cannae. Say, anyone remember who won?
You can't really pigeon hole creative thinkers because they refuse to be.
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Let me see if I understand correctly, you have a fake captcha with a single correct answer and you decided to broadcast the answer with a link to your blog?
You are welcome to your opinion of him as a crackpot, you are also welcome to dismiss out of hand any theory he puts forth based on your opinion of him. The only problem I have is when you tell other people that his ideas are to be dismissed without inspection because you think he is a crackpot. Other than the fact that this theory explaining the losing of the comet's tail also includes the sun, I didn't see anything linking it to his other work. If the theory is wrong, let someone find some proof to explain some other reason the plasma tail disappeared or some flaw in his sample data; rather than resorting to name calling.
Isaac Newton, after he wrote his famous laws, basically spent years trying to get alchemy to work. I'm sure many of his peers, 'actual physicists', thought he was a crackpot for trying. Please view the merits of an idea based on the proof behind it and against it, not solely on if you like the person or agree with everything else they are saying. I enjoy a quote about Newton's years spent in alchemy from a book by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett, paraphrasing saying that 'had there been any way of making alchemy work, Isaac Newton would likely have found it'.
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What? You saw flying anvils on TLC? And something about DragonBall. While I didn't completely understand the parent post, I will reply with "Not flying: falling, with style!"
Ok, it makes a lot more sense when you look closley at the words. I thought it said Canadian Tire Monkey at first.
Now, if you look closely, you can see the rare Canadian Tire Monkey in its native home. Ain't he a beaut?
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth; I was just agreeing with your example of crossing the road: guide dogs and print-to-speech solve two different problems dealing with lose of sight and blindness.
Plus, most guide dogs only read at a 5th grade reading level. Thats ok if you only want to read a newspaper, but some of those menus are hard.
Yes, I'd like to bid 3496 on the showcase, Bob.
What do you mean, I went over by a dollar?!?
Right guy, wrong battle.
"But by the battle of Cannae all Hannibal's elephants had died." from http://www.roman-empire.net/army/cannae.html
Still, extending this back to Nintendo, would that make the Wii controller their elephants?
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology. Its the classic "outsmart your enemy with the bigger and better army, by using creative thinking"
I seem to recall Hannibal going against an est. 80k trained fully equiped Roman troops with 50k or less troops patchworked together from several armies at Cannae. Say, anyone remember who won?
You can't really pigeon hole creative thinkers because they refuse to be.