The only humorous aspect of that crappy meme is that the people who try to look smart and spew their condescending shit are using a made up nomenclature that no real chemist would ever use and that does not adhere to IUPAC standards. If you want to do it right - water is considered a hydride of oxygen, therefor the name is Oxidane (as BH3, for example is Borane, SiH4 is Silane).
Since no chemist I worked with called Al2O3 aluminium oxide, but just "alox" in his lab jargon, we can just stick with "water" for H2O, I guess. The official IUPAC name is Oxidane, as it is considered a hydride of oxigen, not the other way round, while "water" as trivial name is accepted and actually preferred by IUPAC guidelines. This tired old dihydrogen monoxide meme doesn't make anyone look smart from a chemist's point of view. Rather like a halfeducated idiot.
The tread broke way before the switch. The switch caused the derailing. But it's you, so, well, I didn't expect any contribution by you that went farther than showing that you are an idiot.
I guess I went through another step between the two - when I realized what freakshow this is, I thought I could change anything. When I realized that it won't happen, I went into caring less mode. But yes, you are right, it is amazing how resilient the whole thing proves to be. Nature of life, I guess - evolution doesn't optimize towards the best, only towards anything that is just barely working good enough. That's what we are stuck with - and intelligence only shows you how hard "barely good enough" actually sucks compared to what could be. Probably not a beneficial trait in the long run, evolutionary speaking...
As usual, it is more complicated than that. The accident was a chain of events - the buffer deforms, the tread gets stressed, the tread breaks, the broken tread gets caught in a switch, causing the wagon with the broken tread to break out sideways, and, to make matters worse, the switch is immediately before a bridge, so the wagon with the broken tread and all after it slam into the bridge. Had it happened in a place far from a switch, the train would simply have derailed and been braked down by the gravel bed - you notice that the wagons before the one with the broken tread partially derailed too and got to a save stop. They changed the track designs as a consequence - no more switches right before bridges over the track.
If you got acces to high security information, and this information doesn't frighten you, does that mean that the american human rights violations are even worse as we know know?
And where do you take your moral absolutes from? The scariest people in all history are those who claim to have an absolute morality on their side. Mostly just by mindlessly regurgitating what someone fed to them,
And what particular strawman is demanding to stop everything you are doing? Ah, yeah, the god-emperor of strawmen you just build in your backyard, by the plans handed to you by whoever hands out the talking points these days. "There's the way we roll now, and there's crawling back into the caves", right? That passes for intelligent though these days? Well, if that is the case, we are truly and thoroughly fucked.
Is there something lost in translation here? That's what I am saying. I am only pissed off by people treating it as the Holy Word that can and shall not be changed, because it has been handed down from Heavens by The Exalted Founding Fathers. If a law doesn't work - change it. And if (that's a big if, because it is basically some nutcase interpretation) the constitution does not allow science funding but only military funding, well, it is a piece of shit only worthy to wipe your arse with. Might be time to change it then.
Thought we scientist were all part of a global conspiracy making up shit for the mythical FUNDING, so we can wallow in the cash? Did I miss a memo there?
You can as well not say if things will be better in Iraq in 10 years. Not considering the fact that this war was not the least bit about freedom, I kinda prefer if people who actually want freedom rise up for it themselves. Tends to lead to longer-lasting results. And yes, I completely agree with you there - the next ten years will be very interesting. Not only with focus on the middle east...
Fat load of progress you did in Iraq, sure. Getting a nuclear weapons program running is the only rational act - as shown by North Korea (whose regime does indeed suck, but that is a different matter), it is the only thing that keeps you from getting a friendly visit to bring you "freedom".
And you don't recognize that as problematic? This pretty much sums up the systemic flaw in our economy. Burn it now, everything available, and to hell with the next generation.
Ah.. here we go. Show your colors. It doesn't concern me, only the next generation, so fuck them for my personal gain. Thanks for showing off what passes as "ethics" in you circles, if you ever even heard of the concept.
He'll probably feature prominently in the history books when someone rewrites Gibbon's history of Rome's downfall to the topic of the downfall of the American Empire.
Yep. And the usual suspects whine about the 0.000125, while being perfectly fine with the rest. Tells you all you need to know about the state of society, doesn't it?
While mining might be a dangerous job, it is usually well paid and sure beats goat herding, doesn't it? The main thing would be to assure that the profits stay in the country, and that I seriously doubt...
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The only humorous aspect of that crappy meme is that the people who try to look smart and spew their condescending shit are using a made up nomenclature that no real chemist would ever use and that does not adhere to IUPAC standards. If you want to do it right - water is considered a hydride of oxygen, therefor the name is Oxidane (as BH3, for example is Borane, SiH4 is Silane).
Since no chemist I worked with called Al2O3 aluminium oxide, but just "alox" in his lab jargon, we can just stick with "water" for H2O, I guess. The official IUPAC name is Oxidane, as it is considered a hydride of oxigen, not the other way round, while "water" as trivial name is accepted and actually preferred by IUPAC guidelines. This tired old dihydrogen monoxide meme doesn't make anyone look smart from a chemist's point of view. Rather like a halfeducated idiot.
No one calls them by their long names, though - it's always stuff like PrP(C), tau, LRP...
The tread broke way before the switch. The switch caused the derailing. But it's you, so, well, I didn't expect any contribution by you that went farther than showing that you are an idiot.
I guess I went through another step between the two - when I realized what freakshow this is, I thought I could change anything. When I realized that it won't happen, I went into caring less mode. But yes, you are right, it is amazing how resilient the whole thing proves to be. Nature of life, I guess - evolution doesn't optimize towards the best, only towards anything that is just barely working good enough. That's what we are stuck with - and intelligence only shows you how hard "barely good enough" actually sucks compared to what could be. Probably not a beneficial trait in the long run, evolutionary speaking...
Slashdot is one of the more rational and skeptical sites on the Internet.
Have you any idea how much it scares me that this is true?
As usual, it is more complicated than that. The accident was a chain of events - the buffer deforms, the tread gets stressed, the tread breaks, the broken tread gets caught in a switch, causing the wagon with the broken tread to break out sideways, and, to make matters worse, the switch is immediately before a bridge, so the wagon with the broken tread and all after it slam into the bridge. Had it happened in a place far from a switch, the train would simply have derailed and been braked down by the gravel bed - you notice that the wagons before the one with the broken tread partially derailed too and got to a save stop. They changed the track designs as a consequence - no more switches right before bridges over the track.
Sorry, that was a misunderstanding. That should have been directed at DigiShaman.
If you got acces to high security information, and this information doesn't frighten you, does that mean that the american human rights violations are even worse as we know know?
And where do you take your moral absolutes from? The scariest people in all history are those who claim to have an absolute morality on their side. Mostly just by mindlessly regurgitating what someone fed to them,
What are you saying here? We should detain everyone with a certain brand of running shoes because that is indicative of them being war criminals?
And what particular strawman is demanding to stop everything you are doing? Ah, yeah, the god-emperor of strawmen you just build in your backyard, by the plans handed to you by whoever hands out the talking points these days. "There's the way we roll now, and there's crawling back into the caves", right? That passes for intelligent though these days? Well, if that is the case, we are truly and thoroughly fucked.
Is there something lost in translation here? That's what I am saying. I am only pissed off by people treating it as the Holy Word that can and shall not be changed, because it has been handed down from Heavens by The Exalted Founding Fathers. If a law doesn't work - change it. And if (that's a big if, because it is basically some nutcase interpretation) the constitution does not allow science funding but only military funding, well, it is a piece of shit only worthy to wipe your arse with. Might be time to change it then.
Thought we scientist were all part of a global conspiracy making up shit for the mythical FUNDING, so we can wallow in the cash? Did I miss a memo there?
You can as well not say if things will be better in Iraq in 10 years. Not considering the fact that this war was not the least bit about freedom, I kinda prefer if people who actually want freedom rise up for it themselves. Tends to lead to longer-lasting results. And yes, I completely agree with you there - the next ten years will be very interesting. Not only with focus on the middle east...
Fat load of progress you did in Iraq, sure. Getting a nuclear weapons program running is the only rational act - as shown by North Korea (whose regime does indeed suck, but that is a different matter), it is the only thing that keeps you from getting a friendly visit to bring you "freedom".
You know, reviewing as in checking if it actually does it job anymore or needs to be changed because it olds you back? Are you willfully obtuse here?
And you don't recognize that as problematic? This pretty much sums up the systemic flaw in our economy. Burn it now, everything available, and to hell with the next generation.
But, don't you see, not being able to blow up some bystanders with his crap-arse homemade shit infringes on his FREEDOM.
Ah.. here we go. Show your colors. It doesn't concern me, only the next generation, so fuck them for my personal gain. Thanks for showing off what passes as "ethics" in you circles, if you ever even heard of the concept.
He'll probably feature prominently in the history books when someone rewrites Gibbon's history of Rome's downfall to the topic of the downfall of the American Empire.
Yep. And the usual suspects whine about the 0.000125, while being perfectly fine with the rest. Tells you all you need to know about the state of society, doesn't it?
While mining might be a dangerous job, it is usually well paid and sure beats goat herding, doesn't it? The main thing would be to assure that the profits stay in the country, and that I seriously doubt...
Well played.
Wait, no shit, a streaming TV service would be an interesting move because it would allow users to stream TV? Never would have thought of that myself.