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>> ^rottenseed:

You know how hard it would be to take notes in that guy's class without having a pause button. I'm always equipped with a straight edge and this guy just whips through lines like it's nothing.


Get away, you don't need it that precise for notes!

>> ^grinter:

That is amazing.. how does he do this?


I cant tell if you are being serious. He uses dotted chalk of course.

It's natural that atheists proselytize, because atheism is a religion:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6034949/Atheism-Is-Protected-As-a-Religion-says-Court-

It has its own creation story:

"Thus, a century ago, [it was] Darwinism against Christian orthodoxy. To-day the tables are turned. The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory has itself become an orthodoxy, preached by its adherents with religious fervour, and doubted, they feel, only by a few muddlers imperfect in scientific faith."

Grene, Marjorie [Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Davis], "The Faith of Darwinism," Encounter, Vol. 74, November 1959, pp.48-56, p.49

with its own miracles:

"Time is, in fact, the hero of the plot... given so much time the 'impossible' becomes possible, the possible probable and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs miracles."
George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Physics and Chemistry of Life, 1955, p. 12.

In which its adherants have total faith:

I have faith and belief myself... I believe that nothing beyond those natural laws is needed. I have no evidence for this. It is simply what I have faith in and what I believe.

Isaac Asimov
Counting the Eons P.10

I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible: spontaneous generation arising to evolution

George Wald - Harvard Professor
Nobel Laureate

They believe it even in the face of contradicting evidence

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed but rather evolved.

Francis Crick Nobel Laureate
What Mad Pursuit p.138 1988

Much evidence can be adduced in favor of the Theory of Evolution from Biology, Biogeography, and Paleontology, but I still think that to the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

EJH Cornor, Cambridge
Contemporary Botanical Thought p.61

It provides a comprehensive belief system:

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideaology, a secular religion- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with its meaning and morality...

Michael Ruse Florida State University
National Post 5/13/00

Atheists know they are right no matter what:

No evidence would be sufficient to create a change in mind; that it is not a commitment to evidence, but a commitment to naturalism. ...Because there are no alternatives, we would almost have to accept natural selection as the explanation of life on this planet even if there were no evidence for it.

Steven Pinker MIT
How the mind works p.182

Even if they have to suppress the truth to prove it:

"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Lewontin, Richard C. [Professor of Zoology and Biology, Harvard University], "Billions and Billions of Demons", Review of "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," by Carl Sagan, New York Review, January 9, 1997. (Emphasis in original)

"In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling."

Erasmus Darwin, in a letter to his brother Charles, after reading his new book, "The Origin of Species," in Darwin, F., ed., "The Life of Charles Darwin," [1902], Senate: London, 1995, reprint, p215.

They are true believers:

of all choices, atheism requires the greatest faith, as it demands that ones limited store of human knowledge is sufficient to exclude the possibility of God.

francis collins human genome project

It won't be long before there are atheists churches and street preachers handing out tracks.

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This reminded me of your username:



Joseph Beuys: "Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt."

Beuys hat zum „Hasen" folgendes gesagt: „Der Hase hat direkt eine Beziehung zur Geburt. Eine Beziehung in die Erde. Nach unten. Für mich ist der Hase ein Symbol für die Inkarnation. Der Hase macht das ganz real, was der Mensch nur in Gedanken kann. Er gräbt sich ein, er gräbt sich einen Bau. Er inkarniert sich in die Erde. Und das allein ist wichtig. So kommt er bei mir vor."

Allgemein zur Kunst hat Beuys u.a. folgendes gesagt:
"In der Kunst ist absolut nichts zu verstehen, einfach nichts. (...) Wenn Kunst irgendetwas enthielte, was verstanden werden sollte, dann wäre sie überflüssig. Denn diese Aufgabe wird schon von der Wissenschaft wahrgenommen. Im Gebiet der Kunst sollen nur geheimnisvolle Bilder geschaffen werden ..."

Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986) deutscher Aktionskünstler, Bildhauer, Zeichner, Kunsttheoretiker und Pädagoge.

Beuys setzte sich in seinem umfangreichen Werk mit Fragen des Humanismus, der Sozialphilosophie und Anthroposophie auseinander. Dies führte zu seiner spezifischen Definition eines „erweiterten Kunstbegriffs" und zur Konzeption der „Sozialen Plastik" als Gesamtkunstwerk, in dem er Ende der 1970er Jahre ein kreatives Mitgestalten an der Gesellschaft und in der Politik forderte. Er gilt bis heute weltweit als einer der bedeutendsten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts.

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>> ^marbles:
The map is based on images from a 2002 study at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The notes in the study indicate that the map is based on NIMA/USGS data. This data is publicly (though not necessarily freely) available. This brings me back to my original comment on the map. If this is simply a projection based on topographic maps (as the notes from the study itself seem, to me, to imply), how is it honest for the video to say almost nobody could have known about the location of radar gaps?


You seem to be missing the point. Even if you were to somehow find out the location and range of the radar stations from NIMA/USGS, you still wouldn't know for sure where the gaps in coverage were. And you wouldn't know if there was other radar networks you were unaware of.

Even a so-called coverage map would only be an estimate. If my house was in a rural area, how would I know if I had cell phone service without actually having a cell phone to test it?

Seems like a lot of potentially fruitless work for a suicidal terrorist with box cutters to be planning for. Why bother messing with the transponder anyway? You've already succeeded if you actually managed to seize the plane using only box cutters. Seems like you wouldn't want to waste any extra time in the air and get to your target. But somehow the hijackers knew where the gaps were and coordinated the hijackings with precision.

I guess it's possible for air traffic controllers to be aware of locations where radar coverage is low and expect poor quality responses, but still this wouldn't necessarily be a consistent problem. And not something they would be focused on too much anyway as long as the plane was responding to commands.

The bottom line is none of this was investigated. So maybe the video is making a valid assumption based on what we do know. So how is it honest for you to say he's lying and hinge your whole criticism on one detail that you don't even know yourself to be false.

Unless you got something else?

>> ^marbles:

The map is based on images from a 2002 study at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

The notes in the study indicate that the map is based on NIMA/USGS data. This data is publicly (though not necessarily freely) available. This brings me back to my original comment on the map. If this is simply a projection based on topographic maps (as the notes from the study itself seem, to me, to imply), how is it honest for the video to say almost nobody could have known about the location of radar gaps?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
"This" is this video. I'll give you one example of dishonesty/ignorance (I'm not sure if they're stupid or lying in this case). As they're showing the map of radar gaps they claim that the locations of the gaps are widely unknown, even to air traffic controllers. If that's true, how is some random dude from Youtube able to show us a map of them? Either the map is made up or he's full of shit about it being a big secret.


Here's the quote:
How should Mohammed Atta and his associates have known the most intimate details of military and civilian radar coverage in the U.S. - details, widely unknown even to air traffic controllers in charge on 9/11? And how should they have known by minute, when their individual plane had reached such a 'radar gap'? Finally: Why didn't the 9/11 Commission even mention this issue?

The video lists the map source in the bottom right hand corner. The map is based on images from a 2002 study at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The study notes there is "no common integrated air picture" between the FAA and DoD and recommended actions to take to form a "seamless and common air picture".

pdf: http://i-cns.org/media/icns/2002/11/Session_E2-4_Bussolari.pdf
scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18663172/T8-B16-Misc-Work-Papers-Fdr-5202-Briefing-Slides-Surveillance-Implications-of-911-MIT-Lincoln-Lab

If you honestly have questions like this, then you should ask them instead of forming opinions from true ignorance.

Got anything else?

@rychan is correct to distinguish defocus from motion blur here. I had the opportunity to get lunch with this guy who is also working on this topic for adobe when he came down to give a talk about it. It's cool work for sure. The guy quickly talked about how he managed to get nasa to fund taking a picture of Earth from space using all ground based equipment by taking images of the reflection off the moon. He's definitely one of the wildest cats out there.

@vaire2ube Yea, that stuff is cool too. The best is that you can turn the lenses around to make floating holographs like these.

This is a classic paper on expertise if anyone is wanting an introduction.

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>> ^crotchflame:
BUT this came at the cost of a more serious threat of deflation and bank runs, which you can easily argue is much worse.

That's a false argument. You can't have deflation without first having inflation. And your argument is well we have to suffer inflation otherwise we might suffer deflation. That's illogical. Deflation is mostly good for us and bad for banks. Deflation would mean lower food and commodity prices. When a bubble pops, it's essentially canceling out that bubble's expansion of the monetary base. The realized inflation in prices is caught in an imbalance. If left to a natural correction, prices would fall and reach an equilibrium. But the government and central bank usually step in with a monetary solution to "stabilize" the economy. This is just horseshit excuse to keep the inflation from the bubble and pass on the cost to the tax payers.


Netrunner's already pointed this out, but this is special pleading. You say that prices go up and down in the market with a fixed currency, but that's not inflation because inflation is expansion of the money supply. You're saying that inflation only happens under a fiat system, therefore a fiat system is the only way we can have inflation. It's not very interesting. Inflation can only be measured as an aggregate of general prices, like the billion prices project. If all the prices are going up, that's inflation; down, that's deflation. Arguing which came first is a chicken and egg question.

The rest of what you say doesn't address the link I gave to why deflation is worse.