A note on Jury Service. (edited)

[dballance]

46. It is a little hard to compare ARS Technia with DU.

I'm a tech geek from WAY back before there was an internet. So I'm pretty much a geek and I love ARS Technica, Slashdot and other sites.

It's a little more black and white on those forums than here on DU. One may certainly have an opinion about things on those forums but others will be quick to present empirical evidence to the contrary (well, not always. there is a lot of poop slinging). Empirical evidence is hard to dispute if one is a true scientist or one who holds the scientific method in high regard. As I do. One can set up tests of scientific theories about "hard" technologies much more easily on computers and hardware than tests of the minds of people and the hordes of people. Though the computer simulations of people and masses of peoples have come so far as to be truly frightening.

DU is a lot more fluid and not so rigid as the science of computers and technology. Where it is either a 1 or a 0 at any particular time in those fields; binary doesn't really apply to people. Perhaps the things we continue to discover about quantum mechanics and the sub-atomic particles that I never learned even existed when I was in school will eventually lead to models of the universe that explain the random nature of humans. Did I get deep there or what? LOL!