Yes, our theories were WAY off. No one predicted that these hot Jupiters were out there. Now they make up almost all of the planets we've detected to date. The point I was trying to make is that we can't detect solar systems like ours yet. Unless MAYBE it was in the alpha centaurus system and then MAYBE if it's Jupiter equivalent were to pass in front of one of the stars.
Please, tell me how many exosolar planets we've found with orbital periods greater than 365 days? How about 4000+ days like Jupiter?
Talking about how rare we are, without even another example, because we lack the ability, is just another theory that will fall - kinda like the planet formation theories that lacked the ability to predict "hot Jupiters". Now they have gone to the other extreme and theorized that EVERY solar system starts out with hot Jupiters. You know, because that is all we can presently detect.
How is that irrelevant? It's EXACTLY the "To a hammer, all looks like a nail" analogy I started with. Since that is all we have the ability to find at present, now all solar systems must start out that way?!?!?!?
This is the same mistake all the theorists made to start with, since all we had was our own solar system to base this upon. Now they have gone exactly the opposite way in their theories which is repeating the same mistake they initially made.
Yes, you adapt your theories based upon more and more observational data. But when you KNOW your observational data is limited to one subset of possible outcomes(which makes our own solar system damn near impossible to form) and you claim "victory", that's just very illogical to me.
"... Everything looks like a nail" situation to me. We've only really had the ability to discover LARGE planets around solar systems. Also, the shorter the orbit period, the easier it is to detect.
So logically, the planets we've found to date look NOTHING like those of our solar system. Jupiter's orbital period is 4332.71 days!!! And we are comparing that to the VAST majority of discovered planets(hot Jupiters) with orbital periods of less than 10 days?
Seems like this article belongs in the "Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?" thread if you ask me.
OK, what if you are explicitly slandering someone by their screen name instead? While it is an attack against an individual, it's basically an attack against someone's screen name. I suppose if their screen name is Joe_Blow_from_buttscratch_CA then it might be specific enough.
THAT is where the vast majority of all of our potential indiscretions lay.
I can't even watch the Olympics anymore thanks to NBC bastardizing it. It's like they swap out the NBC sports division with the staff from Lifetime.
Guess what NBC, I WANT to see the fucking prelim races for ALL of the track and Field events. Not just 1/10th of the final race/event with 10 hours of stories about the F'n athletes that don't even win.
DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! You've killed the Olympics NBC, and your network is in last place for a good reason. Isn't it time for Law and Order Peoria to make it's debut?!?!?!?
Before I ever started going after the profit margin on computer chips I'd take a look at the jewelry industry.
They have - https://diamondsclassaction.com/FAQ.htm#16
I also got that crucial class action crap and pitched it as well. Seeing as I paid like $100 for memory at the time, I doubt that the $5 I would have gotten back from that would have been worth it.
But you will NEVER be able to convince the bleeding hearts that there was not cheating, as long as a Republican wins. It's in their nature. It's OK for Daley to cheat in elections in Chicago, it's OK to vandalize buses set to get GOP voters out to the polls, etc...
I remember getting blasted when I told people that would happen. At the time of the HD-DVD demise announcement, I said it would be 2.5 years before we see a blu-ray player come down to the magical $99 mark. People laughed and said they would be $199 by this XMas, with some deals to be had at $150.
Looks like I was actually being TOO optimistic in my prediction.
1) Suspended, not fired 2) No mention of a political party 3) Only a small blurb, in a low circulation specialty mag.
The simple conclusion is that the offender leaned to the left. If (s)he were a right winger, (s)he would have been made an example of. Fired right away, and the national news would hev picked up on it in no time flat.
Only in the past 5 years have we grudgingly come to accept that there were limitations to the strategy of aerial bombardment, limitations that hampered our ability to fight and killed civilians on the ground. But that doesn't make this plane or its pilots evil or murderous.
You are right. MUCH better to sent a couple thousand foot soldiers in, supported by artillery that DOES kill indiscriminately, shooting anything and everything in sight, just to knock out one building.
That does sound like it would cause much fewer civilian deaths.
Do you have a link to the story about the Jewish soldier just unloading on kids playing soccer unprovoked? And do you also have a link to the other side of the story?
No, they haven't. Neither prayer nor any other supernatural or religious belief has ever been observed to be effecacious.
It doesn't have to work all the time, just the fact that the person perceives it as having worked once. It's akin to feeding wild animals. If you occasionally put out some food they like, they will make your place a regular stop in their daily travels. If you ALWAYS put out food for them, then they don't have to check on it every day. The occasional food source is actually in higher rotation in their normal travels(obviously if you are constantly putting out food, AND it's the only source of food, they will park themselves there).
Pretty much the same psychological effect can be seen in humans with respect to prayer. A prayer being "answered" occasionally is a very strong subconscious motivator.
I wish I could mod you up, but I haven't posted enough recently. I'm reading the responses to your post and am shocked that people simply don't get it.
Seems to me that the prevention stage is intended to limit the radicalization of opposing groups, not the elimination of the opposing groups. Sure, you can say that this is a 1st step towards that, but then I'll throw Gun control up in your faces. It's the 2nd amendment, but most here have no problems infringing upon that right.
The bias towards the left is soooo amazingly palpable that it turns a lot of viewers off. Ever wonder why Fox news has sooo many viewers compared to the rest? Because people are sick of hearing about how America sucks all the time. If there is a positive economic indicator, the MSM(CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, etc...) will twist it to somehow be negative and Bush's fault. When Clinton was in office, the MSM would grasp at anything to report as a positive economically. And that is just one example. Take the unquestioned "humans are the cause for global warming", "guns kill people, not other people", "religious right is responsible for all the ills in America", "America's wealthy are the cause for all the ills in the world thus making terrorist attack on civilians somehow justified", "macabre lovefest with anything Brittney, Lohan, Paris, pretty white girl/woman killed", etc... and the news is unwatchable.
It's actually very similar to the dumbing down of other networks like ESPN. ESPN is unwatchable anymore because rather than report the sports new, they have Stu Scott trying to "ghetto" up the news, and they would rather concentrate on the Patriots 90% of the time when discussing football, rather than talk about the other 31 teams in the league. Much like the MSM, there are protected teams/figures(regular news, it's Clinton and the Democrats), like the patriots, Indy, Brady, Peyton Manning, LT, etc...
I'm guessing you have lots of Microsoft stock, because the post was perfectly on topic. All of which tells me you have been slighted in some way and can't let it go. Might I suggest that you skip this topic as Halo 3 is a perfect legitimate target for criticism in the context of a "Year in Review", and you obviously can't handle this fact. Cut&Paste criticism or not.
Talking shit about a game 4 months old? I've seen people on here who haven't RTFA, but you didn't even read the fucking title of the article - 2007's Ten Biggest Gaming Letdowns.
Unfortunately, that is not as helpful as you think when I am driving around in my car. As if we thought music radio was bad enough with the corporate control, now we will only ever hear what the big labels want us to hear because I'm sure they will give "discounts" on the songs they want to push.
Who would have guessed that The Buggles got it wrong. Perhaps they jsut need to update their song to "Record Labels Killed the Radio Star". But then again, where would I ever hear it?
I thought I've seen it by now with the music industry. I realize I am not the target audience for them anymore because I'm an old fart, but I can't imagine where potential buyers are going to hear music they want to buy. MTV doesn't play videos, they'll come after you if you have the music on Myspace, etc... This is turning into pure comedy gold. Glad I have my set list of music I'm working at filling out, because I have no idea where I'd even begin to look to listen to anything new if this goes through.
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Yes, our theories were WAY off. No one predicted that these hot Jupiters were out there. Now they make up almost all of the planets we've detected to date. The point I was trying to make is that we can't detect solar systems like ours yet. Unless MAYBE it was in the alpha centaurus system and then MAYBE if it's Jupiter equivalent were to pass in front of one of the stars.
Please, tell me how many exosolar planets we've found with orbital periods greater than 365 days? How about 4000+ days like Jupiter?
Talking about how rare we are, without even another example, because we lack the ability, is just another theory that will fall - kinda like the planet formation theories that lacked the ability to predict "hot Jupiters". Now they have gone to the other extreme and theorized that EVERY solar system starts out with hot Jupiters. You know, because that is all we can presently detect.
How is that irrelevant? It's EXACTLY the "To a hammer, all looks like a nail" analogy I started with. Since that is all we have the ability to find at present, now all solar systems must start out that way?!?!?!?
This is the same mistake all the theorists made to start with, since all we had was our own solar system to base this upon. Now they have gone exactly the opposite way in their theories which is repeating the same mistake they initially made.
Yes, you adapt your theories based upon more and more observational data. But when you KNOW your observational data is limited to one subset of possible outcomes(which makes our own solar system damn near impossible to form) and you claim "victory", that's just very illogical to me.
"... Everything looks like a nail" situation to me. We've only really had the ability to discover LARGE planets around solar systems. Also, the shorter the orbit period, the easier it is to detect.
So logically, the planets we've found to date look NOTHING like those of our solar system. Jupiter's orbital period is 4332.71 days!!! And we are comparing that to the VAST majority of discovered planets(hot Jupiters) with orbital periods of less than 10 days?
Seems like this article belongs in the "Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?" thread if you ask me.
http://www.officedepot.com/promo.do?file=/promo/pages/0928_recycling.jsp
For a "nominal fee" you can drop it off there to be recycled.
That's easy. A ZPM, you silly person.
OK, what if you are explicitly slandering someone by their screen name instead? While it is an attack against an individual, it's basically an attack against someone's screen name. I suppose if their screen name is Joe_Blow_from_buttscratch_CA then it might be specific enough.
THAT is where the vast majority of all of our potential indiscretions lay.
I can't even watch the Olympics anymore thanks to NBC bastardizing it. It's like they swap out the NBC sports division with the staff from Lifetime.
Guess what NBC, I WANT to see the fucking prelim races for ALL of the track and Field events. Not just 1/10th of the final race/event with 10 hours of stories about the F'n athletes that don't even win.
DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! You've killed the Olympics NBC, and your network is in last place for a good reason. Isn't it time for Law and Order Peoria to make it's debut?!?!?!?
Before I ever started going after the profit margin on computer chips I'd take a look at the jewelry industry.
They have - https://diamondsclassaction.com/FAQ.htm#16I also got that crucial class action crap and pitched it as well. Seeing as I paid like $100 for memory at the time, I doubt that the $5 I would have gotten back from that would have been worth it.
But you will NEVER be able to convince the bleeding hearts that there was not cheating, as long as a Republican wins. It's in their nature. It's OK for Daley to cheat in elections in Chicago, it's OK to vandalize buses set to get GOP voters out to the polls, etc...
Remember, it's not fascism when they do it.
I remember getting blasted when I told people that would happen. At the time of the HD-DVD demise announcement, I said it would be 2.5 years before we see a blu-ray player come down to the magical $99 mark. People laughed and said they would be $199 by this XMas, with some deals to be had at $150.
Looks like I was actually being TOO optimistic in my prediction.
1) Suspended, not fired
2) No mention of a political party
3) Only a small blurb, in a low circulation specialty mag.
The simple conclusion is that the offender leaned to the left. If (s)he were a right winger, (s)he would have been made an example of. Fired right away, and the national news would hev picked up on it in no time flat.
Printer ink versus a gallon of gas?
You are right. MUCH better to sent a couple thousand foot soldiers in, supported by artillery that DOES kill indiscriminately, shooting anything and everything in sight, just to knock out one building.
That does sound like it would cause much fewer civilian deaths.
*cough* sarcasm *cough*
Do you have a link to the story about the Jewish soldier just unloading on kids playing soccer unprovoked? And do you also have a link to the other side of the story?
It doesn't have to work all the time, just the fact that the person perceives it as having worked once. It's akin to feeding wild animals. If you occasionally put out some food they like, they will make your place a regular stop in their daily travels. If you ALWAYS put out food for them, then they don't have to check on it every day. The occasional food source is actually in higher rotation in their normal travels(obviously if you are constantly putting out food, AND it's the only source of food, they will park themselves there).
Pretty much the same psychological effect can be seen in humans with respect to prayer. A prayer being "answered" occasionally is a very strong subconscious motivator.
Really, you mean one of these nebulous 5, 10, 20 years from now predictions actually hasn't come true? Amazing.
By now, I'd have thought that that with all the blown predictions like this, that it would only be a story if one actually came true.
I wish I could mod you up, but I haven't posted enough recently. I'm reading the responses to your post and am shocked that people simply don't get it.
Well done.
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Seems to me that the prevention stage is intended to limit the radicalization of opposing groups, not the elimination of the opposing groups. Sure, you can say that this is a 1st step towards that, but then I'll throw Gun control up in your faces. It's the 2nd amendment, but most here have no problems infringing upon that right.
Helps when you have the infrastructure to support such a plan. Too bad that most of the US does not.
The bias towards the left is soooo amazingly palpable that it turns a lot of viewers off. Ever wonder why Fox news has sooo many viewers compared to the rest? Because people are sick of hearing about how America sucks all the time. If there is a positive economic indicator, the MSM(CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, etc...) will twist it to somehow be negative and Bush's fault. When Clinton was in office, the MSM would grasp at anything to report as a positive economically. And that is just one example. Take the unquestioned "humans are the cause for global warming", "guns kill people, not other people", "religious right is responsible for all the ills in America", "America's wealthy are the cause for all the ills in the world thus making terrorist attack on civilians somehow justified", "macabre lovefest with anything Brittney, Lohan, Paris, pretty white girl/woman killed", etc... and the news is unwatchable.
It's actually very similar to the dumbing down of other networks like ESPN. ESPN is unwatchable anymore because rather than report the sports new, they have Stu Scott trying to "ghetto" up the news, and they would rather concentrate on the Patriots 90% of the time when discussing football, rather than talk about the other 31 teams in the league. Much like the MSM, there are protected teams/figures(regular news, it's Clinton and the Democrats), like the patriots, Indy, Brady, Peyton Manning, LT, etc...
Don't get me wrong, I see your point. It's just that it does not apply in a "Year in review" thread where Halo 3 is more than fair game.
I'm guessing you have lots of Microsoft stock, because the post was perfectly on topic. All of which tells me you have been slighted in some way and can't let it go. Might I suggest that you skip this topic as Halo 3 is a perfect legitimate target for criticism in the context of a "Year in Review", and you obviously can't handle this fact. Cut&Paste criticism or not.
Talking shit about a game 4 months old? I've seen people on here who haven't RTFA, but you didn't even read the fucking title of the article - 2007's Ten Biggest Gaming Letdowns.
Unfortunately, that is not as helpful as you think when I am driving around in my car. As if we thought music radio was bad enough with the corporate control, now we will only ever hear what the big labels want us to hear because I'm sure they will give "discounts" on the songs they want to push.
Who would have guessed that The Buggles got it wrong. Perhaps they jsut need to update their song to "Record Labels Killed the Radio Star". But then again, where would I ever hear it?
I thought I've seen it by now with the music industry. I realize I am not the target audience for them anymore because I'm an old fart, but I can't imagine where potential buyers are going to hear music they want to buy. MTV doesn't play videos, they'll come after you if you have the music on Myspace, etc... This is turning into pure comedy gold. Glad I have my set list of music I'm working at filling out, because I have no idea where I'd even begin to look to listen to anything new if this goes through.