Yeah, which record does this galaxy break? Is it the oldest one we've ever seen? I thought we'd seen some that are only 400 million years after the Big Bang, or am I getting confused with something else?
I like the question about whether I was a member of the Nazi Party of Germany between 1933 and 1945. I was so tempted to tick yes, but I actually wanted the visa...
Ignoring the discussion about whether that's even still true in the US, once you leave your own country you can't keep relying on your own laws, you've gotta put up with whatever laws the country you're in has. If you decided to make a big stand about it you'd probably find yourself not allowed into the country.
OFFICER BUBBLES IS AN PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A MAN WHO IS CLEARLY ONLY WEARING A UNIFORM TO TRY AND GAIN SOME RESPECT WHICH HE COULD NEVER GET THROUGH HIS PERSONALITY OR ACTIONS! THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HIM, OR PEOPLE LIKE HIM IN THE POLICE FORCE.
Come on, sue me too! You worthless little piece of scum. We both know that if it weren't for the uniform you'd be like a scared little kid hiding in the corner, so keep on hiding behind that lawsuit.
Alright, I tried adding non-capitalized insults to get around the lameness filter, but I'm not really creative enough to come up with enough of them, so I'm adding this to the bottom of the post to see if this works. Is this enough yet? Apparently so.
Science is not political. The oxygen atoms aren't partisan; they don't bond to hydrogen atoms if they're left wingers and carbon atoms if they're right wingers. Scientific facts will continue to be scientific facts no matter who is in government.
You are correct that policy is indeed political. You are also correct that there is no scientifically 'right' choice to be made, the direction you travel depends upon where you want to end up.
Good science however, helps politicians form good policies. Taking a simplistic example: accurate census data could tell you that you have enough hospitals, but not enough schools. If your policy is to build hospitals and not schools, because that's what your values say, then you are wrong, and without accurate science the politicians cannot make that kind of decision.
As people, scientists may have political views based upon what they know about science. I will agree with you that in terms of policy development scientists should be given no more of a voice than anyone else, but no-one should be able to prevent accurate scientific information from being made available to as many people as want it, just because it doesn't fit in with the policy d'jour.
Best approach seems to be to just leave the windows open.:-P
Some thieves are pretty dumb though. My Dad used to live in a pretty bad area. He had a crap car that he didn't care if anyone stole, and never left anything valuable in it. He always used to leave the doors unlocked in the hope that they wouldn't break anything to get in. Didn't work, every couple of months he'd find his window smashed and a couple of bucks worth of change gone. Sometimes they dropped their sunglasses.
Alright, I've thought about what I said in the response to your other post, and I've come up with a better way to explain it to you.
There are infinite nines in the series. There is not last nine, no matter how far you go down the line there is always another nine. always
That means that you can't have an 8, or a 7 or a 6 after all the nines, if there is a 'last' number at any point it ceases to be a recurring number and takes it finite value. 0.9999... followed by a million 9's has a value. If it is a billion nines it is still not 1. In those cases there is a hair's breadth difference between your decimal and 1. When you get 'up to' infinite nines, there is no last number you can point to and say "that's the value," it just keeps on going until you get all the way to 1.
It's clear that you don't understand infinity either. There is no hair's breadth between 0.999... and 1. That's the point.
Think about a box. You want to fill that box with smaller boxes, however each box you have is slightly smaller than the last one. Every time you think you have a tiny gap left, you stuff another box into it. Keep going forever and you'll fill up the whole box. That's like adding more and more nines until you've eventually 'filled up' to the whole one.
I will agree with you that numbers are figments of our collective imagination, however they are figments that do come with rules about how we use them.
As my high-school calculus always told us: the world could always use a new system of mathematics, but you have to start from scratch, you can take all of our rules and then add some more of your own.
Yeah, but the acclaim you'd get would nowhere near equal what you could get if you were a villain.
Think about it this way: some dude has a lot of money. If someone else tries to steal that money and you stop them, the dude may give you some of his money. If you just steal his money directly, you get all of it!
Exactly! So put all that transmission in there that is just something to go wrong, when the worst case scenario is that you have to keep it under 70 when you've got no battery charge left?
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That's a crucial bit of information there. This whole thing makes a lot more sense to me now.
Yeah, which record does this galaxy break? Is it the oldest one we've ever seen? I thought we'd seen some that are only 400 million years after the Big Bang, or am I getting confused with something else?
Oh, you're not the only one...
I didn't before, but thanks to your sig I do now!
I still don't know what he meant though... :(
Exactly; that any publicity is good publicity only works for artists.
You may not need a computer for the calculation, but you needed a computer to find that article!
I like the question about whether I was a member of the Nazi Party of Germany between 1933 and 1945. I was so tempted to tick yes, but I actually wanted the visa...
Ignoring the discussion about whether that's even still true in the US, once you leave your own country you can't keep relying on your own laws, you've gotta put up with whatever laws the country you're in has. If you decided to make a big stand about it you'd probably find yourself not allowed into the country.
Whenever I do that it just redirects me back to the idle. page :(
'Conspiracy to commit mischief'?
What the fuck is this, the third grade?
Ooh. Can I get in on that too?
OFFICER BUBBLES IS AN PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A MAN WHO IS CLEARLY ONLY WEARING A UNIFORM TO TRY AND GAIN SOME RESPECT WHICH HE COULD NEVER GET THROUGH HIS PERSONALITY OR ACTIONS! THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HIM, OR PEOPLE LIKE HIM IN THE POLICE FORCE.
Come on, sue me too! You worthless little piece of scum. We both know that if it weren't for the uniform you'd be like a scared little kid hiding in the corner, so keep on hiding behind that lawsuit.
Alright, I tried adding non-capitalized insults to get around the lameness filter, but I'm not really creative enough to come up with enough of them, so I'm adding this to the bottom of the post to see if this works. Is this enough yet? Apparently so.
Science is not political. The oxygen atoms aren't partisan; they don't bond to hydrogen atoms if they're left wingers and carbon atoms if they're right wingers. Scientific facts will continue to be scientific facts no matter who is in government.
You are correct that policy is indeed political. You are also correct that there is no scientifically 'right' choice to be made, the direction you travel depends upon where you want to end up.
Good science however, helps politicians form good policies. Taking a simplistic example: accurate census data could tell you that you have enough hospitals, but not enough schools. If your policy is to build hospitals and not schools, because that's what your values say, then you are wrong, and without accurate science the politicians cannot make that kind of decision.
As people, scientists may have political views based upon what they know about science. I will agree with you that in terms of policy development scientists should be given no more of a voice than anyone else, but no-one should be able to prevent accurate scientific information from being made available to as many people as want it, just because it doesn't fit in with the policy d'jour.
Best approach seems to be to just leave the windows open. :-P
Some thieves are pretty dumb though. My Dad used to live in a pretty bad area. He had a crap car that he didn't care if anyone stole, and never left anything valuable in it. He always used to leave the doors unlocked in the hope that they wouldn't break anything to get in. Didn't work, every couple of months he'd find his window smashed and a couple of bucks worth of change gone. Sometimes they dropped their sunglasses.
Seems like you can't wrap your head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things either...
Wow, those US tactics to discredit him really worked fast!
But... but without patents nobody would have had an incentive to invent anything! So it's a good thing we did have software patents back then.
Alright, I've thought about what I said in the response to your other post, and I've come up with a better way to explain it to you.
There are infinite nines in the series. There is not last nine, no matter how far you go down the line there is always another nine. always
That means that you can't have an 8, or a 7 or a 6 after all the nines, if there is a 'last' number at any point it ceases to be a recurring number and takes it finite value. 0.9999... followed by a million 9's has a value. If it is a billion nines it is still not 1. In those cases there is a hair's breadth difference between your decimal and 1. When you get 'up to' infinite nines, there is no last number you can point to and say "that's the value," it just keeps on going until you get all the way to 1.
It's clear that you don't understand infinity either. There is no hair's breadth between 0.999... and 1. That's the point.
Think about a box. You want to fill that box with smaller boxes, however each box you have is slightly smaller than the last one. Every time you think you have a tiny gap left, you stuff another box into it. Keep going forever and you'll fill up the whole box. That's like adding more and more nines until you've eventually 'filled up' to the whole one.
I will agree with you that numbers are figments of our collective imagination, however they are figments that do come with rules about how we use them.
As my high-school calculus always told us: the world could always use a new system of mathematics, but you have to start from scratch, you can take all of our rules and then add some more of your own.
* Actually the lawyer only gets ~$220,000. The rest goes to taxes. So gov't made-out big too.
Isn't it taxpayer money anyway? So the government basically just does a little extra paperwork.
Yeah, but the acclaim you'd get would nowhere near equal what you could get if you were a villain.
Think about it this way: some dude has a lot of money. If someone else tries to steal that money and you stop them, the dude may give you some of his money. If you just steal his money directly, you get all of it!
Exactly! So put all that transmission in there that is just something to go wrong, when the worst case scenario is that you have to keep it under 70 when you've got no battery charge left?
Depends how long it's been sitting out, and where it's been sitting.
I stand by what I said the first time I heard that study. If 100% of people following the rules lead to a traffic jam, the rules need to be changed.
Also, the name of the person who actually said it.
Getting completely offtopic here, but how does too much oil destroy engines?