we have the potential to do so much more and better understand our universe with the JWST
Wrong. We have the opportunity to do *different* things than we can with the Hubble. For example, unlike the JWST and ground-based scopes, the Hubble can see in the near-UV, which makes it possible to detect oxygen in nebulae, which is important for studying stellar evolution.
Yeah, it's a shame that observations of the Bullet Cluster provide strong evidence of dark matter. Unless, of course, you can come up with a better explanation... so far, none of the popular MOND theories can, so you have your work cut out for you.
Incidentally, I'm sure many people thought the idea of the atom was a hack. I mean, come on, an invisible particle we can't see, but is a building block for all matter in the universe? It's insane!! Unfortunately, personal aesthetics must take a backseat to evidence, and in this case, your personal feeligns about DM are largely trumped by the evidence which supports it's existence.
Oh, I see! You actually *like* the existing system! Meh, different strokes, I suppose... I prefer a system not rank with corruption, where the interests of the public don't take a backseat to those with the most cash to spend on their favorite politicians. But, hey, that's just me.
So? Make it an absolutely number, like, say 10,000 votes or something. A third party should be able to manage that.
Besides, what you're describing is mainly a bootstrapping problem. After the first couple elections, when the Dems and Reps can no longer blow ungodly amounts of money on campaigns, you might see things change. Maybe.
Point being, even *with* the current system, limiting capaign financing can only be a good thing.
And now you understand why pie-in-the-sky libertarian ideals don't actually work in the real world. See, in the real world, it's important to rein in monied influences in politics, lest they have a disproportionately large influence on the government, which is supposed to represent *all* people, not just those with the cash to make their voice heard.
Good until Lucas ruins it with the worst scene in the entirety of movie history. Whenever I think about it, I feel the urge to cry out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".
They go on to explain why they think the bullet cluster means we've "found" dark matter, but frankly the problem remains.
So? Unless you can come up with a feasible alternative explanation (and to my knowledge, there isn't one... I don't believe any of the popular MOND theories can explain the Bullet Cluster, though I may be wrong), the Bullet Cluster provides strong evidence for the existence of DM, whether or not you find the theory aesthetically pleasing or not.
Sounds great. so how are you going to get your mythTV box to record cable when they encrypt the firewire connection and nobody has cracked a cablecard tuner to work with it?
comcast detroit is ready to switch to all digital cable. your fancy QAM A180 tuner card will not get many channels and your high end NTSC tuner card will get nothing.
Dude... it's called analog capture off of a digital settop box. Use an IR blaster to control it, and voila, video. Sure, you're stuck with SD, but for most, that's good enough. Meanwhile, you can happily skip over the commercials, as once the content's recorded, it's yours to do with as you wish.
The flip side is it's the biggest sacrifice - the most selfless thing you'll ever do
Done right, it is. Unfortunately, I'm willing to bet the vast majority of parents out there don't fully understand that. Raising kids right means putting your kids first, above all your wants and needs and desires. It means sacrificing your freedom, your time, your money, all of it. Period.
Incidentally, my wife and I don't plan to have kids, primarily because neither of us feels we can make that kind of sacrifice.
Ok, but take sex out of the equation and consider your actual best friend.
I actually never put sex *into* the equation (though, don't get me wrong, it's a necessary aspect).
Outside of college, would you really want to live with them? I have very close, dear friends that I've known for 20 years. We are very much like family. However, after a few hours of them, I've had my fill for a little while.
Sounds like great friends. Or not.
Honestly, if you can't stand spending more than a few hours with your "very close, dear friends", then maybe consider the possibility that it is *you* who are the problem?
Besides, using the phrase "best friend" when referring to one's wife is merely a gross approximation of a relationship which really transcends mere friendship (in my case, anyway). 'course, to anyone who's never actually been part of a relationship like that, it probably sounds cliche. But that doesn't make it any less true.
Now, women are best friends who nag and don't quite understand your passions.
Find a more understanding woman.
Techies surely don't have as much in common with their wives as they do their other techie friends,
Wow, you are the prejudiced one. My techie wife finds my discussions about NDS code hacking, or my latest database issues quite interesting. Hell, she knows more than I do on a number of topics... 'course, she, like myself, is a CS grad, so that's hardly surprising.
But I wouldn't have been able to afford half of those life experiences if I had to pay for two.
That's what two incomes are for. In fact, together, we can afford far more than each of us could individually (after all, we share cabs, hotel rooms, etc, etc).
And I doubt any wife of mine would be as up for stuff like traipsing around the back alleys of Cairo late night either.
Then find a better woman! Honestly, virtually every comment of yours is based around some stereotype of women. Maybe, just maybe, you're dating the wrong ones.
Now, that's not to say my wife and I match perfectly. But she is by no means the brainless, timid, self-centered creature you apparently assume all women are.
Umm, she was not "reprimanded several times (for the same offense)", she was asked to stop directing students to her MySpace page, as they felt it wasn't sufficiently professional, and that she was becoming "too familiar" with the students. Further, while they didn't make clear the nature of the "remediation" they felt she needed, I got the distinct impression it was, again, related to her level of perceived professionalism. But does that warrant denying her a teaching degree? I'm not sure... I guess it depends on how "professional" you feel a teacher should be.
Anyway, thanks for posting the link, it does add additional context to the story (good to see *someone* is still interested in being, you know, a journalist).
Well, there is something to spending your life with your best friend. Life experiences tend to mean a lot more if you can share them with someone. And a good wife will understand if you want to have time to tinker on your own projects (well, mine does, anyway).
Kids, though... that I don't get ('course, neither does my wife).:)
You point out the definitions of xenophobia and racism, though I can't see why. Those aren't mutually exclusive beliefs, you know. I would argue many people are xenophobic racists... their xenophobia is simply fueled by racism. ie: I fear strangers/foreigners because their inherent inferiority makes them dangerous.
In fact, I'd say this fits the view of many Americans.
Microsoft has been busy rewriting their entire crufty codebase to a modern, unified platform.
Yeah... and creating a new set of ugly, crufty, rushed, poorly thought-out, half-implemented APIs that are broken in their own, special ways. Just ask anyone who's found a bug in their dataset implementation, only to discover that MS refuses to fix it because they're afraid of breaking backward compatibility. Hey, wait, that sounds familiar...
The way people have reinvented themselves up to now is by having children.
Oh, so *that's* how you reinvent yourself. See, I just figured that was an easy way to sacrifice your own needs and wants for 18-20 years, after which you get to try and make up for all the time you spent dedicated to your kids.
Yeah... I think I'll take the memory wipe, thanks.
Unfortunately, users like Windows.Forms a lot more than Swing.
Good god, why??? Windows.Forms is the most inconsistent, poorly written GUI library I've come across in a long time. I mean, they have a frickin ContainerControl object, yet things like Panel, which clearly *contain* things, *aren't* derived form ContainerControl. What about triggering events on a control (say, a click event on a Button)? Oh, wait... you *can't*. And don't even get me started on the clusterf*ck that is their validation framework (how do you trigger validation on an uninitialized control? Why, by focusing each control in your form one-by-one programatically and calling Validate() from their owner, of course...)
Honestly, the only thing Windows.Forms has going for it is a top-notch GUI designer... and even that is debatable (there was a time when speed was also an issue, but modern Swing is pretty snappy).
But don't for a second kid yourself and pretend like you're so high and mighty that you've never taken something on faith.
You really can't see the difference, can you? It's quite remarkable, actually.
Let me illustrate: I belief that rain falls up. You say it doesn't. You provide evidence it does not. There, my belief is falsified.
By contrast: I believe god create the universe. It is impossible for you to disprove this supposition.
How can you not see the *drastic* difference here?
I admire you for being so "open minded" about religious faith. But, honestly, to claim that belief in science and faith in religion is exactly the same is taking political correctness *WAY* too far.
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Alright, then what's your magical alternatives you feel I've excluded?
we have the potential to do so much more and better understand our universe with the JWST
Wrong. We have the opportunity to do *different* things than we can with the Hubble. For example, unlike the JWST and ground-based scopes, the Hubble can see in the near-UV, which makes it possible to detect oxygen in nebulae, which is important for studying stellar evolution.
So where's your published paper where you provide an alternative theory to explain galatic rotation?
Yeah, it's a shame that observations of the Bullet Cluster provide strong evidence of dark matter. Unless, of course, you can come up with a better explanation... so far, none of the popular MOND theories can, so you have your work cut out for you.
Incidentally, I'm sure many people thought the idea of the atom was a hack. I mean, come on, an invisible particle we can't see, but is a building block for all matter in the universe? It's insane!! Unfortunately, personal aesthetics must take a backseat to evidence, and in this case, your personal feeligns about DM are largely trumped by the evidence which supports it's existence.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, Dyson spheres would emit detectable blackbody radiation, therefore DM cannot be explained by such constructs.
Oh, I see! You actually *like* the existing system! Meh, different strokes, I suppose... I prefer a system not rank with corruption, where the interests of the public don't take a backseat to those with the most cash to spend on their favorite politicians. But, hey, that's just me.
So? Make it an absolutely number, like, say 10,000 votes or something. A third party should be able to manage that.
Besides, what you're describing is mainly a bootstrapping problem. After the first couple elections, when the Dems and Reps can no longer blow ungodly amounts of money on campaigns, you might see things change. Maybe.
Point being, even *with* the current system, limiting capaign financing can only be a good thing.
And now you understand why pie-in-the-sky libertarian ideals don't actually work in the real world. See, in the real world, it's important to rein in monied influences in politics, lest they have a disproportionately large influence on the government, which is supposed to represent *all* people, not just those with the cash to make their voice heard.
Umm... why? What does the first-past-the-post system have to do with party recognition based on vote percentages.
Good until Lucas ruins it with the worst scene in the entirety of movie history. Whenever I think about it, I feel the urge to cry out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".
They go on to explain why they think the bullet cluster means we've "found" dark matter, but frankly the problem remains.
So? Unless you can come up with a feasible alternative explanation (and to my knowledge, there isn't one... I don't believe any of the popular MOND theories can explain the Bullet Cluster, though I may be wrong), the Bullet Cluster provides strong evidence for the existence of DM, whether or not you find the theory aesthetically pleasing or not.
And yet you still can't disprove the math. Interesting...
Sounds great. so how are you going to get your mythTV box to record cable when they encrypt the firewire connection and nobody has cracked a cablecard tuner to work with it?
comcast detroit is ready to switch to all digital cable. your fancy QAM A180 tuner card will not get many channels and your high end NTSC tuner card will get nothing.
Dude... it's called analog capture off of a digital settop box. Use an IR blaster to control it, and voila, video. Sure, you're stuck with SD, but for most, that's good enough. Meanwhile, you can happily skip over the commercials, as once the content's recorded, it's yours to do with as you wish.
The flip side is it's the biggest sacrifice - the most selfless thing you'll ever do
Done right, it is. Unfortunately, I'm willing to bet the vast majority of parents out there don't fully understand that. Raising kids right means putting your kids first, above all your wants and needs and desires. It means sacrificing your freedom, your time, your money, all of it. Period.
Incidentally, my wife and I don't plan to have kids, primarily because neither of us feels we can make that kind of sacrifice.
Ok, but take sex out of the equation and consider your actual best friend.
I actually never put sex *into* the equation (though, don't get me wrong, it's a necessary aspect).
Outside of college, would you really want to live with them? I have very close, dear friends that I've known for 20 years. We are very much like family. However, after a few hours of them, I've had my fill for a little while.
Sounds like great friends. Or not.
Honestly, if you can't stand spending more than a few hours with your "very close, dear friends", then maybe consider the possibility that it is *you* who are the problem?
Besides, using the phrase "best friend" when referring to one's wife is merely a gross approximation of a relationship which really transcends mere friendship (in my case, anyway). 'course, to anyone who's never actually been part of a relationship like that, it probably sounds cliche. But that doesn't make it any less true.
Now, women are best friends who nag and don't quite understand your passions.
Find a more understanding woman.
Techies surely don't have as much in common with their wives as they do their other techie friends,
Wow, you are the prejudiced one. My techie wife finds my discussions about NDS code hacking, or my latest database issues quite interesting. Hell, she knows more than I do on a number of topics... 'course, she, like myself, is a CS grad, so that's hardly surprising.
But I wouldn't have been able to afford half of those life experiences if I had to pay for two.
That's what two incomes are for. In fact, together, we can afford far more than each of us could individually (after all, we share cabs, hotel rooms, etc, etc).
And I doubt any wife of mine would be as up for stuff like traipsing around the back alleys of Cairo late night either.
Then find a better woman! Honestly, virtually every comment of yours is based around some stereotype of women. Maybe, just maybe, you're dating the wrong ones.
Now, that's not to say my wife and I match perfectly. But she is by no means the brainless, timid, self-centered creature you apparently assume all women are.
Umm, she was not "reprimanded several times (for the same offense)", she was asked to stop directing students to her MySpace page, as they felt it wasn't sufficiently professional, and that she was becoming "too familiar" with the students. Further, while they didn't make clear the nature of the "remediation" they felt she needed, I got the distinct impression it was, again, related to her level of perceived professionalism. But does that warrant denying her a teaching degree? I'm not sure... I guess it depends on how "professional" you feel a teacher should be.
Anyway, thanks for posting the link, it does add additional context to the story (good to see *someone* is still interested in being, you know, a journalist).
Well, there is something to spending your life with your best friend. Life experiences tend to mean a lot more if you can share them with someone. And a good wife will understand if you want to have time to tinker on your own projects (well, mine does, anyway).
:)
Kids, though... that I don't get ('course, neither does my wife).
You point out the definitions of xenophobia and racism, though I can't see why. Those aren't mutually exclusive beliefs, you know. I would argue many people are xenophobic racists... their xenophobia is simply fueled by racism. ie: I fear strangers/foreigners because their inherent inferiority makes them dangerous.
In fact, I'd say this fits the view of many Americans.
Microsoft has been busy rewriting their entire crufty codebase to a modern, unified platform.
Yeah... and creating a new set of ugly, crufty, rushed, poorly thought-out, half-implemented APIs that are broken in their own, special ways. Just ask anyone who's found a bug in their dataset implementation, only to discover that MS refuses to fix it because they're afraid of breaking backward compatibility. Hey, wait, that sounds familiar...
The way people have reinvented themselves up to now is by having children.
Oh, so *that's* how you reinvent yourself. See, I just figured that was an easy way to sacrifice your own needs and wants for 18-20 years, after which you get to try and make up for all the time you spent dedicated to your kids.
Yeah... I think I'll take the memory wipe, thanks.
That's pretty easy to say when you've never had depression, which seems pretty obvious, given your blatant lack of understanding about the condition.
Unfortunately, users like Windows.Forms a lot more than Swing.
Good god, why??? Windows.Forms is the most inconsistent, poorly written GUI library I've come across in a long time. I mean, they have a frickin ContainerControl object, yet things like Panel, which clearly *contain* things, *aren't* derived form ContainerControl. What about triggering events on a control (say, a click event on a Button)? Oh, wait... you *can't*. And don't even get me started on the clusterf*ck that is their validation framework (how do you trigger validation on an uninitialized control? Why, by focusing each control in your form one-by-one programatically and calling Validate() from their owner, of course...)
Honestly, the only thing Windows.Forms has going for it is a top-notch GUI designer... and even that is debatable (there was a time when speed was also an issue, but modern Swing is pretty snappy).
But don't for a second kid yourself and pretend like you're so high and mighty that you've never taken something on faith.
You really can't see the difference, can you? It's quite remarkable, actually.
Let me illustrate: I belief that rain falls up. You say it doesn't. You provide evidence it does not. There, my belief is falsified.
By contrast: I believe god create the universe. It is impossible for you to disprove this supposition.
How can you not see the *drastic* difference here?
I admire you for being so "open minded" about religious faith. But, honestly, to claim that belief in science and faith in religion is exactly the same is taking political correctness *WAY* too far.
That's entirely true, but have you done so? If not, then you're still accepting those theories on faith.
Sorry, but that's just fucking ridiculous. By that logic, the reason I accept the theory that Europe and giant sea turtles exist is faith.
Vista, like most MS OSes, needs a full cycle or two to configure itself to its machine.
Wow... what kind of crack are you smoking? Windows is the *only* OS I've ever come across that needs a cycle or two to configure itself.