All categories - 13 October 2007

im 21 and from ireland and would love to go to america for the summer, any ideas? :)

2007-10-13 03:31:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - United States

2007-10-13 03:31:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Physics

If I'm American and speak English does it mean I'm from London england ,or speak Spanish that I came from Spain. I'm so tired of the Mexicans calling themselves Spanish just because they speak it.history says Spain took over Mexico from Indians and made them speak spanish ,so why would you want to call your selves that witch made you lose you ways.

2007-10-13 03:30:57 · 17 answers · asked by sehoy 1 in Genealogy

I have a piece of woven tapestry material from a fabric store. Its not finished on any of the edges. I would like to make a tapestry that I can hang. How do I do this?

2007-10-13 03:30:53 · 2 answers · asked by wonderer152 2 in Other - Home & Garden

2007-10-13 03:30:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-10-13 03:30:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-10-13 03:30:21 · 9 answers · asked by Jay G 3 in Football (American)

When you search for music a drop box comes down under the search box containing previous searches that match what you are typing so far. I believe they call it Autocomplete or something like that. How do I get rid of that?

2007-10-13 03:29:58 · 10 answers · asked by D Fresh 2 in Software

If I told a neocon he was bleeding and offered a bandaid would they yell at me that I'm a commie or take the bandaid.

-- Evidence for Global Warming
Recent observations of warming support the theory that greenhouse gases are warming the world. Over the last century, the planet has experienced the largest increase in surface temperature in 1,300 years. The average surface temperature of the Earth rose 0.6 to 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.08°F to 1.62°F) between 1906 and 2006, and the rate of temperature increase nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Worldwide measurements of sea level show a rise of about 0.17 meters (0.56 feet) during the twentieth century. The world’s glaciers have steadily receded, and Arctic sea ice extent has steadily shrunk by 2.7 percent per decade since 1978.

2007-10-13 03:29:47 · 8 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Politics

I can tell you who loves you more than anyone else.His name is Jesus.and guess what I love you too.

2007-10-13 03:29:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Inadequacies of Science


I feel compelled to show the inadequacies of science, I will render it into a belief system as well.
I take this position because all of science is inductive. Conversely, if you think of a deductive argument you’ll see that the argument is valid because the conclusions are contained implicitly in the premises. Such as the argument;

Premise 1: Socrates is a man,
Premise 2: All men are mortal,
Conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

Validity is assured because there is not anything in the conclusion that is not already contained in the premises. But when one considers scientific (inductive) arguments, such as an argument to prove our premise that “all men are mortal”, it seems we do not have this type of validity. For in the case of inductive arguments we go from evidence to hypothesis as opposed to going from premise to conclusion. This means that there is more information in the hypothesis than what the evidence can warrant, whereas, in deductive arguments the information in the conclusion is less than or equal to that of the premises. Therefore, the evidence of mortality of a few individuals misleadingly establishes or supports the hypothesis that all men are mortal. Another example may be for one to say that all Hispanics speak Spanish. For that to be true that someone will have to witness every Hispanic that has lived, does live and will live to verify that statement. Yet, many believe that all Hispanics speak Spanish on the basis of the millions that do speak Spanish. However, I do not speak Spanish. Similarly the mortality of men is assumed in this same way. However, there could be someone out there right now who was born 2,000 years ago and has not yet died. Or the next baby born in Japan may never die.
Of course it could be argued that scientists do not proceed from evidence to hypothesis in an arbitrary manner. They “of course, can justify the move from observation (which is the evidence) on the basis of rules, so as to form the hypothesis by generalizing the observations made. Therefore, the move from evidence to hypothesis is justified on the basis of some kind of principle rules, say the scientific method. However, what are the justifications for using these rules?
The rules that are used are justified by assuming a uniformity of nature. This uniformity of nature can be stated in multiple ways. Unobserved instances will resemble observed ones. The future will resemble the past. Every event has a cause and like causes yield like effects. Thus the uniformity of nature is guaranteed by assuming the principle of causality and causation as depicted by David Hume (where Hume claims that causality and causation are not provable, and are not analytic truths, but are instead synthetic empirical truths of which cannot be verified empirically because these principles of causality and causation is what it is meant by a uniformity of nature).
Now here’s the crucial point. There is no ground for the belief in the uniformity of nature, because any such belief would have to be grounded in induction, of which in turn is grounded in the uniformity of nature. Thus any attempt to ground the belief that there is a uniformity of nature is circular. Supposing that there is no uniformity of nature, then I doubt that there even can be rules to use any way.
However, there are some that will say that science is not necessarily inductive. For example, Karl Popper rejected induction when developing his methodology of science. Popper argued that as long as such hypotheses are falsifiable, in the sense that there are possible observations that would disprove them, then the objectivity of science is assured. However, Popper’s falsificationism offers no account of our entitlement to believe in the truth of scientific theories, rather, they only warrant us to believe in their falsity, and so fail to solve the problem of induction. Popper himself stated that it is impossible to verify or even to confirm a universal scientific theory with any positive degree of probability. What we can do though is to disprove a universal theory. That is why we do not believe in the truth of a scientific theory, but their falsity instead. Is it true that scientists always reject their theories when faced with counter-evidence, as Popper says they should? And if the most we can ever do in science is to disprove theories, how do we know which theories to believe and act on? Popper says that we ought to act on those theories that survive severe testing, yet testing involves observing nature of which is the problem in question. Therefore, he fails to solve the problem of induction, thus induction remains the problem.
Another response to the problem of induction is offered by Bayesian confirmation theory. Bayesians argue that our beliefs come in degrees, and that such degrees of belief, when “rational, conform to the probability calculus”. They then argue that Baye’s theorem implies a rational strategy for updating our degrees of belief in response to new evidence. SADLY, in relation to the problem of induction, this strategy implies that our degree of belief in a scientific theory should be increased by observations which are probable, given the theory, but probable nonetheless because it is based on induction. It also leaves one asking when updating these degrees of belief, to what are they conforming to? They say they are getting closer and closer to the truth, but how do they know that they are getting closer to the truth when the truth is not known? So what are they getting closer to?
I also want to wager that most scientist and people for that matter are not familiar with the concept of idealism. Philosophical idealism is not the same as an attitude to be observed in life. It is rather a metaphysical theory about nature of reality and thus presupposes a distinction between appearance and reality, drawn in an other than common sense way. In general, it maintains that what is real is in someway confined to or at least related to the contents of our own minds (of which in turn is loaded with assumptions). What are the reasons; therefore, for thinking that reality is confined to the contents of our minds/ideas? It is because where the perceptions of qualities of things, such as color, taste, warmth, light, is circumstance dependent (i.e. relative to the context in which perception takes place, e.g. the illumination for the eyes) those qualities cannot be real properties of things. It is argued that this is applied to all perception. Since perception is a matter of having sensations or ideas, and since to be is to be perceived, only sensations or ideas can properly be said to be or to be real. The theory of perception, therefore, remains a part of the apparatus of empiricist thought, and is implied in David Hume’s doctrine.
Immanuel Kant held, however, that a mere subjective, idealism would not do in that it did not make it possible to distinguish properly what is objective from what is subjective. Kant thought that idealism must be transcendental, which he tried to define by saying that appearances are to be regarded as being on and all, representations only, not things in themselves, and that time and space are therefore only sensible forms of our intuition, not determinations given as existing by themselves, nor conditions of objects viewed as things in themselves (Critique of Pure Reason).
At any rate, all these forms of idealism have in common the view that there is no access to reality apart from what the mind provides us with, and further that the mind can provide and reveal to us ONLY its own contents (implying that the contents of the mind may or may not represent an external reality). Therefore, science must assume that an external reality exists, and that this reality actually corresponds to what the contents of our minds reveal to us.
Do you know what the funny thing is? It’s funny how science makes theories based on observations, and generalizes these observations to come to a universal theory, like all men die. So it seems that we should infer from pessimistic meta-induction that since all scientific theories have been wrong from Ptolemy to Steve Hawkins, that all current and future scientific theories are ‘probably’ going to be false too. Now I understand that there are those scientific buffs who understand that science is not the end all say all, but for those of you that keep ramming science down

2007-10-13 03:29:10 · 8 answers · asked by l_tone 2 in Physics

Everytime I download it I get a blocked message in the info bar saying it has blocked it. I have uninstalled & reinstalled several times but I still cant watch Youtube! This is all after downloading my latest updates for I.E. Any ideas??

2007-10-13 03:29:06 · 11 answers · asked by G&T 1 in YouTube

Global warming is here and Al Gores film puts it in perspective but do people really understand the damage they are doing? Understanding the problem is the first step, realisation that it is a problem is the second and doing something the third. What do you think?

2007-10-13 03:28:48 · 14 answers · asked by John B 4 in Current Events

Why?

2007-10-13 03:28:45 · 21 answers · asked by Ron L 4 in History

unexpectanty and I want to share it. In this real dream more real than life, I found myslef in the first part of Heaven and saw very green grass and hills and it was perfect, I was only given a glimplse and the next part of Heaven was where all the mansions were and it was perfect unlike anything I have ever seen and the next part of Heaven was a being sitting on a throne that was so bright I did not see his face, I asume that was God, and people were worshiping him. Thenb I saw Jesus walk down the huge stairs with a white robe on smilling and he had a neatly trimed beard like a goatie, how cute, and I found myslef singing at the toop of my voice in a beutiful voice worthy is the Lamb. Now I cannot sing and I do not want to try. I would rather listen to my worship music at home, and yet I found myslef singing in a gergous voice worhy is the Lamb out loud. I just thought I would share that with you. and then I woke up not long after that. Praise God. Have you had any supernatural

2007-10-13 03:28:42 · 12 answers · asked by Yeshua is the best 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-13 03:28:37 · 14 answers · asked by Scott J 1 in Football (American)

2007-10-13 03:28:09 · 14 answers · asked by brainlady 6 in Words & Wordplay

2007-10-13 03:28:05 · 3 answers · asked by Ian D 1 in United States

If you have a wireless router, but don't use the wireless features, can you turn the wireless completely off? mainly for security reasons, but for possible health damage

2007-10-13 03:27:51 · 2 answers · asked by iisjman07 4 in Computer Networking

i have an A- GPA, a 1270 on the old sat scale
and so far have completed 1 AP class.. this year taking 3 APs
i only have clubs for activities and 140 hrs volunteering
i am very lost.... someone help me!!!
what are some other schools i should look into??
i';m in new jersey and dont want to go too far

2007-10-13 03:27:39 · 4 answers · asked by sharewithmethesun 3 in Higher Education (University +)

i have very dry skin in winter and i love to take hot baths what can i put in the tub to help my dry skin

2007-10-13 03:27:22 · 13 answers · asked by Lewis A R 1 in Skin Conditions

for my phone.Is there any other way i could transfer music to my phone? Maybe someone know about some free software on the internet that i could download. i would be happy for someone help. Thanks!

2007-10-13 03:27:18 · 6 answers · asked by olivetree 1 in Software

I have a 30 year mortgage fixed @ 5.25%... I owe $211K on it. I currently have $530K invested in stock market. As far as risk tolerance in market, I am at higher level..... I am 42 with no other debt and make around $100K a year. What would you do?

2007-10-13 03:27:12 · 9 answers · asked by TriSec 3 in Personal Finance

I am going to be registering for baby gear soon. where can I find information of baby items. There are so many different types of bottles, how do I know which ones are best? What about strollers, they all look the same! I don't even know where to start!!

2007-10-13 03:26:58 · 9 answers · asked by momma_p_0216 2 in Pregnancy

I'm going to David's Bridal today with my bridesmaids to look at dresses for them. Should my fiance go with us? It's his wedding too, and I want him to be involved with the planning of it. Did your fiance go with you to look at bridesmaid dresses or is this something that only the girls should do?

2007-10-13 03:26:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Weddings

i just wanted to know what are the needs for ethnic group. what do they usually need and want.

2007-10-13 03:26:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Primary & Secondary Education

from 1- to 10 how.. sure are you

2007-10-13 03:26:34 · 4 answers · asked by dmitri m 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Is Buddhism a religion?

2007-10-13 03:26:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...that Marguerite would marry me?

2007-10-13 03:26:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I chip it away so i can burn logs in it,change it to an open fire ,at the moment it is just small whole to connect a gas fire.

Could i do it myself?.

2007-10-13 03:26:10 · 4 answers · asked by sexy hotrod 4 in Maintenance & Repairs