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North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux
National Geographic is reporting that the migration of Earth's magnetic pole has accelerated again and is now racing in Russia's direction at a blazing 40 miles per year. This movement began in earnest around 1904 at about 9 miles per year and has been accelerating since. "Geologists think Earth has a magnetic field because the core is made up of a solid iron center surrounded by rapidly spinning liquid rock. This creates a 'dynamo' that drives our magnetic field. Scientists had long suspected that, since the molten core is constantly moving, changes in its magnetism might be affecting the surface location of magnetic north. Although the new research seems to back up this idea, Chulliat is not ready to say whether magnetic north will eventually cross into Russia. 'It's too difficult to forecast,' Chulliat said. Also, nobody knows when another change in the core might pop up elsewhere, sending magnetic north wandering in a new direction."
Russia is not that bad they just lunched D-12!!
> It's moving East, not South.
Hmmm.... *BRAIN STRAIN*.... ummm... wouldn't any direction from the north pole be south?
Aaaah... This is one of these unfunny geeky jokes that I'm not quite geeky enough to get.
OK OK I fell for it... jokes on me.
I feel like such a jock now?
Alright, who fired D.E.S.T.I.N.I.?
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Yes but it's okay we just need to realign the neutronium field with a 10 terraquad poloron burst.
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
So what you're saying is that you're ok with passing large chunks of legislation even tho no single person could possibly have the time to read over it and give it a little time to settle in as to what it means?
Yes, I am. Aren't you comfortable using an operating system that's too large for any one person to understand in its entirety?
We're long past the days when a single human being could understand all the details of our most complex systems. What a single person can do is learn the broad outlines, and look up detailed information as needed. It's called reductionism, and it's the foundation of all progress we've made since Aristotle.
Each word of that 3,000 page bill has been read thousands of times, even if not by the same person each time. What's wrong with that?
Of course, your response will be that we shouldn't need laws that are that complex in the first place. Well, what do you base that on? Your gut feeling? Modern society is complex. Maybe it needs nuanced and sophisticated laws.
Have you considered that the people harping about a "3,000 page bill" are the ones who passed the byzantine Medicare Part D system? That maybe they're exploiting the hysterical reaction some people have to the page count to serve their ulterior interests? Besides, you know what would be simpler than the current bill? Single payer.
Some put a supergate in the Solar system and seems like we did not kill all of ORI.
Your argument is based on a false dilemma: in your world, either the bill has been read in full by a *single* person, or it's completely unverified. You ignore the possibility that multiple collaborating people could read the bill and together verify its correctness. You're not arguing in good faith.
Socks in your stocking? There's an Xzibit joke in here somewhere.
I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.