It should be fairly trivial to prove whether mithridatization (not mithridization) played any role. The lifespan of a molly is quite short and they stopped the ritual a few years ago. Any mollies that still show resistance could only have obtained it genetically.
In any event I somewhat doubt mithridatization plays a part since the ritual occurred once a year. Typically that would result in 2 to 3 dosings per molly. Mithridatization takes many more applications and appears to work with venoms, not all poisons.
The correlation of high rates to the letter "A" in that example was caused by the belief that it had some effect. There was a correlation and it had a cause. The fact that the cause was ludicrous is beside the point.
An example of correlation not implying causation would be if somebody sampled all rates and discovered that the letter "B" had the highest rate due to nothing more than random chance.
I understand the point you and the parent are making but in this context it's invalid. There is a correlation and a cause... it appears higher rates do in fact vary by browser type and that's caused by the decisions of loan makers not random chance. Whether those decisions are in turn based on valid correlation is a different argument.
There's still causation there. If you looked at rates and noticed that through random chance interest rates were higher for people whose names started with "A" you'd have a point. In your example there is causation. The raising of rates was a conscious effort. The fact that it was based on poor methodology is beside the point.
The original article wasn't arguing whether there was correlation between browser use and trustworthiness to repay a loan, it was arguing that there was a correlation between rates and browser use. Whether the loan companies premise was valid is a different issue.
And it only took them one thousand eight hundred and some odd years to determine this to be the case. Kudo's to taking the time to get it right.
We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful.
—Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854[31]
You may not give a damn but I'm willing to bet the workers do. The problem is they're either not aware (very likely) or they're forced to choose between that and eating.
The fact that you're too much of a chicken shit to post your opinion with a name suggests that you do in fact give a damn, enough at least to not associate your own handle with your own oxygen wasting stupidity.
Interspecific (two different species) are very often but not always sterile. If it is indeed the case that homo sapiens contain Neanderhal DNA than either they're not really different species or they're one of the 'not often' case of interspecies cross breeding.
I'm not entirely sure why Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals wouldn't be considered subspecies of the same species rather than distinct species anyway so it's not surprising offspring aren't sterile.
And sure enough according to Wikipedia (which is by definition now never wrong), Neanderthals are considered a subspecies of modern human (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis).
Obama received $108,000 from 210 employees. Of those 210 donations, 41were more than $1000.
Mccain receved $64,000 from 95 employees, of those 95 donations 37 were more than $1000. The major difference in Obama and McCain contributions were the much larger mass of $100 to $500 dollar donations to Obama. They received pretty much the same amount from large donors.
McCain received quite a bit more money (about 3 to 1) from employees in the oil industry as a whole.... not that it really matters one way or another but your refuting of the gp was a bit off target.
I don' t think that will work so well. The C&C machines are on ISP's who are peered with major ISP's that are much more interested in money than the small amount of traffic coming from C&C. The individual zombie nodes are so distributed that the labor costs of properly determining whether a down stream client is infected, or is not being dealt with fast enough far outweighs the costs of shutting down the network to that client's ISP/owner.
If they shutdown some site for sending spam or a virus or what not that site is much more likely to just find a new ISP.
If this was costing ISP's money and there was a cost effective way to deal with it they would. It doesn't and there isn't so they don't.
It's doable in your environment precisely because your down stream clients have no alternative. If you cut their line they can't go to on-campus network company B and link up.
I wish they'd do the opposite. Admittedly getting results for many searches in 1.342 seconds is cool but occasionally I'd prefer much more specific results even if it takes minutes or longer. If they had a service that charged a few $/month that allowed for complex regex and context based searches I'd probably pay it without a seconds thought.
Did some scanning... that 'first discovery' bit seems to be conflating physorg, universetoday and other press releases. In some they say first pulsar by distributed project (technically but just barely correct), in some they say first scientific discover by einstein@home (correct) and in some they say first astronomical discovery by einstein@home (also correct).
Somewhere along the line through sloppy editing this evolved to "first scientific discovery by a distributed project". Not a claim made by anybody involved with the project.
In this case shooting the messenger is the appropriate response.
First off the claim in an associated release was the "first astronomical object" discovered, not first scientific discovery.
Secondly, even that's not correct. It's the first by a distributed project with an "@" in the name. Just because a project doesn't have @home or @thegym doesn't mean it's not distributed.
If they want to claim that this was the first pulsar found by a distributed project with @ in the name from Arecibo based data then they're probably correct.
It's a cool find and a great project, don't want to come of as *completely* jaded and glad Arecibo is getting good use.
An invitation by Klingon language expert Marc Okrand has been sent to Kronos, home planet of the Klingons, via radio telescope.
I'm willing to suspend belief as to whether Klingons exist, Kronos exists or whether anyone has reproduced authentic Klingon instruments but damn it I will not buy into sending signals via radio telescope. They're not transmitters.
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It should be fairly trivial to prove whether mithridatization (not mithridization) played any role. The lifespan of a molly is quite short and they stopped the ritual a few years ago. Any mollies that still show resistance could only have obtained it genetically.
In any event I somewhat doubt mithridatization plays a part since the ritual occurred once a year. Typically that would result in 2 to 3 dosings per molly. Mithridatization takes many more applications and appears to work with venoms, not all poisons.
The correlation of high rates to the letter "A" in that example was caused by the belief that it had some effect. There was a correlation and it had a cause. The fact that the cause was ludicrous is beside the point.
An example of correlation not implying causation would be if somebody sampled all rates and discovered that the letter "B" had the highest rate due to nothing more than random chance.
I understand the point you and the parent are making but in this context it's invalid. There is a correlation and a cause ... it appears higher rates do in fact vary by browser type and that's caused by the decisions of loan makers not random chance. Whether those decisions are in turn based on valid correlation is a different argument.
There's still causation there. If you looked at rates and noticed that through random chance interest rates were higher for people whose names started with "A" you'd have a point. In your example there is causation. The raising of rates was a conscious effort. The fact that it was based on poor methodology is beside the point.
The original article wasn't arguing whether there was correlation between browser use and trustworthiness to repay a loan, it was arguing that there was a correlation between rates and browser use. Whether the loan companies premise was valid is a different issue.
Blindly stating 'Correlation is not equal to causation' is not evidence against causation.
And it only took them one thousand eight hundred and some odd years to determine this to be the case. Kudo's to taking the time to get it right.
We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful.
—Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854[31]
You may not give a damn but I'm willing to bet the workers do. The problem is they're either not aware (very likely) or they're forced to choose between that and eating.
The fact that you're too much of a chicken shit to post your opinion with a name suggests that you do in fact give a damn, enough at least to not associate your own handle with your own oxygen wasting stupidity.
Actually what he said was 'Oook ook oook eek ook ook', they're just posting the translation.
Interspecific (two different species) are very often but not always sterile. If it is indeed the case that homo sapiens contain Neanderhal DNA than either they're not really different species or they're one of the 'not often' case of interspecies cross breeding.
I'm not entirely sure why Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals wouldn't be considered subspecies of the same species rather than distinct species anyway so it's not surprising offspring aren't sterile.
And sure enough according to Wikipedia (which is by definition now never wrong), Neanderthals are considered a subspecies of modern human (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis).
Not terribly insightful, Exxon is prohibited by law from donating money. Employees of Exxon donated more to Obama than McCain in the 2008 election.
According to http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.php?cid=N00009638&name=(all)&employ=Exxon&cycle=2008&state=&zip=&amt=a&sort=A&page=2
Obama received $108,000 from 210 employees. Of those 210 donations, 41were more than $1000.
Mccain receved $64,000 from 95 employees, of those 95 donations 37 were more than $1000. The major difference in Obama and McCain contributions were the much larger mass of $100 to $500 dollar donations to Obama. They received pretty much the same amount from large donors.
McCain received quite a bit more money (about 3 to 1) from employees in the oil industry as a whole .... not that it really matters one way or another but your refuting of the gp was a bit off target.
Sometimes when driving on I-40 I find myself thinking "Fuck, Texas".
Ok, so we have ad hominem straightened out ... now on to irony.
I don' t think that will work so well. The C&C machines are on ISP's who are peered with major ISP's that are much more interested in money than the small amount of traffic coming from C&C. The individual zombie nodes are so distributed that the labor costs of properly determining whether a down stream client is infected, or is not being dealt with fast enough far outweighs the costs of shutting down the network to that client's ISP/owner.
If they shutdown some site for sending spam or a virus or what not that site is much more likely to just find a new ISP.
If this was costing ISP's money and there was a cost effective way to deal with it they would. It doesn't and there isn't so they don't.
It's doable in your environment precisely because your down stream clients have no alternative. If you cut their line they can't go to on-campus network company B and link up.
Well now we know what to do with Charles Manson.
Yes, but it'll cost them a beer.
I wish they'd do the opposite. Admittedly getting results for many searches in 1.342 seconds is cool but occasionally I'd prefer much more specific results even if it takes minutes or longer. If they had a service that charged a few $/month that allowed for complex regex and context based searches I'd probably pay it without a seconds thought.
There's always more money in finding efficient ways to kill people than to find efficient ways to make everyone's lives better.
Luckily some of that stuff trickles down and we use it for the latter anyway.
I think they're limiting it to real solar systems, Alderaan doesn't count.
You could get really lucky and end up +5 Troll. I've only managed +1 Troll myself, I need practice. =p
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Pulling a +5 troll out of your deck has got to be pretty close to 'I win'.
Did some scanning ... that 'first discovery' bit seems to be conflating physorg, universetoday and other press releases. In some they say first pulsar by distributed project (technically but just barely correct), in some they say first scientific discover by einstein@home (correct) and in some they say first astronomical discovery by einstein@home (also correct).
Somewhere along the line through sloppy editing this evolved to "first scientific discovery by a distributed project". Not a claim made by anybody involved with the project.
In this case shooting the messenger is the appropriate response.
First off the claim in an associated release was the "first astronomical object" discovered, not first scientific discovery.
Secondly, even that's not correct. It's the first by a distributed project with an "@" in the name. Just because a project doesn't have @home or @thegym doesn't mean it's not distributed.
For example the PSC (Pulsar Search Collaboratory), which probably ought to be called psc@home or some such had an earlier hit.
http://www.universetoday.com/41006/high-school-student-discovers-strange-pulsar-like-object/
If they want to claim that this was the first pulsar found by a distributed project with @ in the name from Arecibo based data then they're probably correct.
It's a cool find and a great project, don't want to come of as *completely* jaded and glad Arecibo is getting good use.
An invitation by Klingon language expert Marc Okrand has been sent to Kronos, home planet of the Klingons, via radio telescope.
I'm willing to suspend belief as to whether Klingons exist, Kronos exists or whether anyone has reproduced authentic Klingon instruments but damn it I will not buy into sending signals via radio telescope. They're not transmitters.
Citation needed.
This is not the thread you're looking for.
Looks released to me.
http://www.linux.org/news/2010/08/01/0001.html
http://www.linux.org/news/2010/08/01/index.html
At hydroelectric dams all the birds and mammals rapidly evolve webbed feet and an astonishing ability to hold their breath.