Science means "Here is a model that predicts what will happen, hence useful", Creationism has no predicting ability whatsoever. It is useless in describing the world around us. That is not to say it does not have spiritual or moral value. They think the world "theory" has the same meaning in "I have a theory why she is bonking a stranger" to "The theory of gravity"

How about leave the system as it is, and 5% of all patent costs go to a fund who's sole purpose is to reveal prior art and offending patents. The targeted patents are based on some algorithm that will return the most to society. This fund should also be open to donations from geeks to big companies who has a say where their own money is spent. If Apple wants to fight a Google prior art I am good for that even if Apple is the devil's devil.

There will be a connection between the number of patents and the funds income. There still is intensive in applying for patents.

That's like saying petrol cars run on air. It's not just water, you also need Aluminium.

Maybe some schools should have it as a matter of safety. If your child is not immunized, you cannot come to this school because you put other children at risk. That way they will end up taking their kids to "open minded" schools. At these schools you will very soon discover some pretty grim statistics. Within a few years all these alternative schools will cease to exist. It is terrible that we treat kids as ginneapigs.

Troll bait title if I have ever seen one :-) Its a company retail outlet, it looks no different to the Sony store down the road. G

There is robots.txt

You don't want Google to link to you, update your robots.txt. It is so simple ?! Those that do will be indexed, those that don't wont and it is business as usual or lack there off.

And then the dust devils will come and wipe it off ... you'd have better luck with the moon on that one. Please lets not have sponsorship, the last thing we want is the rover doing cursive loops hopping it will come to something interesting, or have everything named after a cheap product. I'd much rather they honor somebody worthy and let some geek draw questionable stuff.

The reality is that everybody thinks they are above average driver. So if they get a score that is below average, they know they will pay more to offset the drivers who pay less. So they simply walk away. So ultimately exactly half of the drivers would get a worse deal in a perfect world. The insurance company will end up with better than average drivers only ... but these drivers will pay less insurance. The insurance company pays out less but earns less per driver. That is a one to one relationship, so the insurance company has no incentive to do this ... unless people naturally think they are better than average drivers or they think that can fool this application. Then people will flock and the app can be no more an app that has an image of two cog wheels that at the end of 200klms simply tells you that you have qualified for a discount. No different than what happens now that there is a myriad of insurance companies that "specialise" in different groups. You go to three companies and one specialises in people with mustaches and you get a discount at that one. Your sense of value is created by the other two and the third springs the trap. The reality is that there are only a couple of insurance companies and the rest are simply fronts.

This word "worth" means different things to different people. In fact it has different value at different times in the life of each person.

So in the end, for me a PHD in the middle of my life where I have other distractions is more than too hard, but I do enjoy learning, and in fact I am partaking in Algorithms. Then again I am not you. I expect most of the constructive replies to simply try and pin down the value of "worth"

That way we can prove once and for all that NASA never ...

Is this a case of the Osborne effect ?

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"

If people want that info, they will not use Google to find it. If Google wants these people to search through them, they will change their way.

Off course ... Google has always participated in the filter bubble, so this seems part of that

It about exploring your limits dammit, not about making Doom 12. Otherwise we are all going to drop dead, so what is the point of trying anyway ? I recon shoot for the next great POV shooter ... you may realise that the way to it is to work with a group, you may settle to editing the manual which will be more than I have ever done but you may find your niche.

I am trying to get back in, I got a degree before object orientated was big so I have to unlearn. I also have trouble remembering, but repetition is getting it into my head.

After much experimentation I recommend a combination of two sources

The New Boston and Learning Java

Why from Mars offcourse