Wow. This is the first time I've ever been modded "Flamebait". Apparently satire wasn't the mod's strong suit.
On a sidenote, it's an unusual psychological effect, that the more I think about my post being modded Flamebait, and the irrationality(in my opinion) of the moderator, the more I want to lower myself to that level, and lash out indiscriminately once I get mod points. I seriously hope that I don't give in to such an irrational reaction, and at the same time I open my mind to the possibility that perhaps it was something like this happening to the moderator that encouraged them to mod me as such.
Whew...a little too much OCD for this silliness...time to go alphabetize my receipts. Should I do it according to vendor, category of the goods, brand name, or specific product name...decisions, decisions...
In other experiments; last week my current haircut failed to cause Angelina Jolie to sleep with me. This is not really a failure on my part, rather, this experiment helps greatly to distinguish what haircut worn by the opposite sex, if any, powers Angelina's sexual drive. Rather, this is incredible and amazing scientific progress!! Champagne for everybody!!
Unfortunately, I think their sensitivity to peoples' privacy will prevent them from doing just what you suggested.
From TFA:
These people will be anonymous and will not have any medical information collected on them, because the project is developing a basic resource to provide information on genetic variation. The catalog that is developed will be used by researchers in many future studies of people with particular diseases.
From TFA:
The researchers hope to power the whole system using a combination of radio-frequency power and solar cells placed on the lens My opinion, solar cells are just absurd, as it would only work in well lit areas, along with the infamously poor surface-area-to-power ratio of solar cells, and the limited "real estate" on the lenses.
RF power would be interesting, but aside from the whole people-not-wanting-beams-of-any-kind-shot-into-their-eyes thing, they would have to invent a pretty revolutionary (for it's tinyness) rectenna system. Along with the fact that the delivery system, in order to be efficient, would have to continuously track the position of the lenses, so that it wasn't just beaming power to over 100 times the surface area of the lenses, in the general direction of the lenses.
I don't know of any capacitors/batteries that would be of practical use in these lenses, either, so power would have to be continuous. Or your display would be constantly flickering in and out.
It could just be that he wasn't using the primary definition of "religion". Merriam-Webster says it also means:
a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Inasmuch as individuals promote atheism to others using arguments that rely (immediately) on some faith (e.g. in the promoters, their trustworthiness, or their intellectual authority), and when the promotees then hold atheism particularly passionately (with ardor), it would seem that what they (the promoters) are doing is promoting atheism as a "religion" under this more general defintion of religion.
And of course "12" is composed of the digits 1 and 2.
1+1=2
1*2=2
2/1=2
1+2=1
2^1=2
What does this all add up to...?
9
But don't forgot...
9 + 1*2 = 11
Who has a UID with 9 as it's most common digit?! Bob-taro!!
Whose UID without the 9s = 6+8+8 = 22, That's TWO 2s. 22 divided by 2...you guessed it... 11.
That's right...9...11. 9/11!!!
Who had the most to gain from 9/11?! Bob-taro!!
Who brought down the towers?! Bob-taro!!
Who fired a cruise missile into the Pentagon!? Bob-taro!!
And to think, Bob-taro, you almost got away with it you sneaky sonuvabitch...
This along with the whole "Its velocity shows that it is falling into the Milky Way, not leaving it."
That means that before this their data showed it was never going to collide. Which means that new data may show that is never going to collide, again. Nothing in the universe (or our observations of it) is quite as certain as the conclusions drawn here on/.
Although your exaggerations do allow for a much more pronounced emotional impact on the reader, if you were interested in perspective (i.e. proper science) here's what your source's source has to say:
1. Coal fires are a natural occurrence albeit aggravated, and sometimes caused, by human mining.
2. In China, which has the by-far greatest collection of coal fires, "estimated" 20 - 200 million tons of coal burn every year in coal fires. That is an incredible range... 20 to 200...mmm... that's some good science. Assuming 200 million tons of coal, and all of it man-caused, you get "nearly" 1 whole percent of the carbon dioxide emissions "due to fossil fuels being burned".
As a side-note, "the world's Co2" weighs in at about 3x10^15 kg, or 3x10^12 tonnes, or 3,000,000 million tonnes, or 3,000 billion tonnes. All of human activity (fossil fuel burning and everything else) produces 27 billion tonnes of CO2 each year. That's right. ALL human activity contributes less than 1% to "the world's Co2" each year.
Please do not let Wikipedia think for you. The FSM did not bestow brains (the very image of His Compacted Noodlieness) upon us so that we might neglect our duties to rigorous science (or in this case, simple math).
The ads on Tom's Hardware are also very useful and directed, e.g. ads for the latest quad-core when the Tom's article I'm reading is benchmarking that exact proc, and I'm seeing how totally freaking sweet it is. I have those perfectly targeted ads to "blame" for 1/2 of my impulse purchases. And, in some kind of weird self-destructive way, I enjoy having those ads around...
I nominate "ungoogleable" to be the best word in this thread, and possibly the entire universe.
On a slightly related side-note, I chose to have my real name as my/. account name to bury all my past webternet shenanigans under dozens of pages of/. articles, and to make it appear as if Arthur Grumbine was only capable of being Insightful, Interesting, Informative, and Funny.
Of course, if they find this post...then they'll see my true form...
I've heard parody/satire/sarcasm can be considered insightful by some idiots. But the people I heard that from might have been saying that sarcastically...I just don't know anymore.
In more important news, scientists are baffled by the latest reports from the independent research group 3rd Space apparently claiming that there are only 8 spots on the human body where you can actually be hit by a projectile.
Get on the wire. Tell everyone how to shoot these bastards down.
P.U. WMN doesn't seem like the best acronym to get the ladies on board, but then again, judging by my own romantic life, ladies aren't going to dig us no matter how cool our acronyms are...
Me: How's about me you go to someplace private, where we can get a little PVP action going, if you know what I'm saying... Her: Oh, yeah, baby. That sounds really- (grabs mace from her purse and hits me with a liberal dose)... Me: Ow! Ow! Fuck that burns! But -ow!- that's still pretty -ow!- hot how -fuck!- self-reliant you are... did I mention I have a 3.0+ mbps connection?
That's funny. That the ratio of the whole has greater importance when it comes to human lives lost than the actual quantity of human lives lost. I guess, by your understanding, it would be a worse atrocity for someone to murder 1 Monegasque (native of Monaco - population 33,000) which is %0.003 of the population, than 2,642,620 Chinese, a mere %0.002 of the whole 1,321,310,000 population, a full %33 less of the population proportionally. Wow. That's amazing. I would love to see you try to explain that rationale to 2,642,620 Chinese people.
Congratulations on your ability to see things according to a perspective that rationalizes your stance. The degree to which you're able to do that is absolutely stunning. I applaud you for that.
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Wow. This is the first time I've ever been modded "Flamebait". Apparently satire wasn't the mod's strong suit.
On a sidenote, it's an unusual psychological effect, that the more I think about my post being modded Flamebait, and the irrationality(in my opinion) of the moderator, the more I want to lower myself to that level, and lash out indiscriminately once I get mod points. I seriously hope that I don't give in to such an irrational reaction, and at the same time I open my mind to the possibility that perhaps it was something like this happening to the moderator that encouraged them to mod me as such.
Whew...a little too much OCD for this silliness...time to go alphabetize my receipts. Should I do it according to vendor, category of the goods, brand name, or specific product name...decisions, decisions...
In other experiments; last week my current haircut failed to cause Angelina Jolie to sleep with me. This is not really a failure on my part, rather, this experiment helps greatly to distinguish what haircut worn by the opposite sex, if any, powers Angelina's sexual drive. Rather, this is incredible and amazing scientific progress!! Champagne for everybody!!
Can I have more funding, now?
From TFA: These people will be anonymous and will not have any medical information collected on them, because the project is developing a basic resource to provide information on genetic variation. The catalog that is developed will be used by researchers in many future studies of people with particular diseases.
If it wasn't for the 19 second wait period for replies, this message would just be - "me, too!" What else to write..oh well, times up
That's what she said...
The researchers hope to power the whole system using a combination of radio-frequency power and solar cells placed on the lens My opinion, solar cells are just absurd, as it would only work in well lit areas, along with the infamously poor surface-area-to-power ratio of solar cells, and the limited "real estate" on the lenses.
RF power would be interesting, but aside from the whole people-not-wanting-beams-of-any-kind-shot-into-their-eyes thing, they would have to invent a pretty revolutionary (for it's tinyness) rectenna system. Along with the fact that the delivery system, in order to be efficient, would have to continuously track the position of the lenses, so that it wasn't just beaming power to over 100 times the surface area of the lenses, in the general direction of the lenses.
I don't know of any capacitors/batteries that would be of practical use in these lenses, either, so power would have to be continuous. Or your display would be constantly flickering in and out.
"O"MG PONIES!!1!11! I believe...
It could just be that he wasn't using the primary definition of "religion". Merriam-Webster says it also means:
a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Inasmuch as individuals promote atheism to others using arguments that rely (immediately) on some faith (e.g. in the promoters, their trustworthiness, or their intellectual authority), and when the promotees then hold atheism particularly passionately (with ardor), it would seem that what they (the promoters) are doing is promoting atheism as a "religion" under this more general defintion of religion.
And of course "12" is composed of the digits 1 and 2.
1+1=2
1*2=2
2/1=2
1+2=1
2^1=2
What does this all add up to...?
9
But don't forgot...
9 + 1*2 = 11
Who has a UID with 9 as it's most common digit?! Bob-taro!!
Whose UID without the 9s = 6+8+8 = 22, That's TWO 2s. 22 divided by 2...you guessed it... 11.
That's right...9...11. 9/11!!!
Who had the most to gain from 9/11?! Bob-taro!!
Who brought down the towers?! Bob-taro!!
Who fired a cruise missile into the Pentagon!? Bob-taro!!
And to think, Bob-taro, you almost got away with it you sneaky sonuvabitch...
This along with the whole "Its velocity shows that it is falling into the Milky Way, not leaving it."
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That means that before this their data showed it was never going to collide. Which means that new data may show that is never going to collide, again. Nothing in the universe (or our observations of it) is quite as certain as the conclusions drawn here on
Is it just me or does it seem like AC-2 is probably AC-1's ex-husband?
"Today"?! How often do you feel the need to stare at a gaping anus?!?
Although your exaggerations do allow for a much more pronounced emotional impact on the reader, if you were interested in perspective (i.e. proper science) here's what your source's source has to say:
1. Coal fires are a natural occurrence albeit aggravated, and sometimes caused, by human mining.
2. In China, which has the by-far greatest collection of coal fires, "estimated" 20 - 200 million tons of coal burn every year in coal fires. That is an incredible range... 20 to 200...mmm... that's some good science. Assuming 200 million tons of coal, and all of it man-caused, you get "nearly" 1 whole percent of the carbon dioxide emissions "due to fossil fuels being burned".
As a side-note, "the world's Co2" weighs in at about 3x10^15 kg, or 3x10^12 tonnes, or 3,000,000 million tonnes, or 3,000 billion tonnes. All of human activity (fossil fuel burning and everything else) produces 27 billion tonnes of CO2 each year. That's right. ALL human activity contributes less than 1% to "the world's Co2" each year.
Please do not let Wikipedia think for you. The FSM did not bestow brains (the very image of His Compacted Noodlieness) upon us so that we might neglect our duties to rigorous science (or in this case, simple math).
The ads on Tom's Hardware are also very useful and directed, e.g. ads for the latest quad-core when the Tom's article I'm reading is benchmarking that exact proc, and I'm seeing how totally freaking sweet it is. I have those perfectly targeted ads to "blame" for 1/2 of my impulse purchases. And, in some kind of weird self-destructive way, I enjoy having those ads around...
I nominate "ungoogleable" to be the best word in this thread, and possibly the entire universe.
/. account name to bury all my past webternet shenanigans under dozens of pages of /. articles, and to make it appear as if Arthur Grumbine was only capable of being Insightful, Interesting, Informative, and Funny.
On a slightly related side-note, I chose to have my real name as my
Of course, if they find this post...then they'll see my true form...
Just we look back enviously on how those in the 1970's could just split an atom and have nearly limitless energy...
That's what she said...
I would totally mod you up if I had points. That's hilarious!! And sad... but mostly hilarious.
I've heard parody/satire/sarcasm can be considered insightful by some idiots. But the people I heard that from might have been saying that sarcastically...I just don't know anymore.
In more important news, scientists are baffled by the latest reports from the independent research group 3rd Space apparently claiming that there are only 8 spots on the human body where you can actually be hit by a projectile.
Get on the wire. Tell everyone how to shoot these bastards down.
P.U. WMN doesn't seem like the best acronym to get the ladies on board, but then again, judging by my own romantic life, ladies aren't going to dig us no matter how cool our acronyms are...
Me: How's about me you go to someplace private, where we can get a little PVP action going, if you know what I'm saying...
Her: Oh, yeah, baby. That sounds really- (grabs mace from her purse and hits me with a liberal dose)...
Me: Ow! Ow! Fuck that burns! But -ow!- that's still pretty -ow!- hot how -fuck!- self-reliant you are... did I mention I have a 3.0+ mbps connection?
$300,000 for a 2-bedroom home, you should be so lucky...
When I was young we had to pay $650,000 for 3 walls and a tarp for a roof, and we didn't even have a pro football team...
Oh wait...that's not when I was young. That's right now. Fucking Orange County.
That's funny. That the ratio of the whole has greater importance when it comes to human lives lost than the actual quantity of human lives lost. I guess, by your understanding, it would be a worse atrocity for someone to murder 1 Monegasque (native of Monaco - population 33,000) which is %0.003 of the population, than 2,642,620 Chinese, a mere %0.002 of the whole 1,321,310,000 population, a full %33 less of the population proportionally. Wow. That's amazing. I would love to see you try to explain that rationale to 2,642,620 Chinese people.
Congratulations on your ability to see things according to a perspective that rationalizes your stance. The degree to which you're able to do that is absolutely stunning. I applaud you for that.