Heh.. our school did chemistry before physics, so I got the first solid exposure to the "concept" in chemistry class. There's a lot of overlap, in any case.
Ion not an astrophysicist, but... I did like the way they explained angular momentum. I think everyone sort of knows what a black hole is by now; who hasn't had an x-ray? and mass is just high school chemistry, if not junior high.
Me too, and I'd characterize a good chunk of NJ the same. Though, not all NJ is like north-east NJ, which is an over industrialized hell hole. North-west and central jersey are actually quite nice (Princeton, anyone?), and a good chunk of the south as well (not all though.. Camden comes to mind)
That is, of course, possible.. but considering that Troy turned out to be a real place, some keep their hopes up. Even if it is discovered, I'm quite sure it wasn't powered by large, magic, glowing, floating quartz crystals or some of the other silly tropes out there.
Thank you. l was going to comment on the dishonestly of comparing two nations with wildly different populations (had the argument been based on percentage of population, that'd been different) , but you beat me to it.. and then some.
I converted a long while ago. It's the dog's bollocks! Seriously, it did sound funny the first time I'd heard it but I'm used to it now, in fact I prefer burgled over burglarized, which sounds too much to me like bowdlerized.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
Oh please, it's an economic problem, not a racial one. But then if you're a racist, I suppose all problems are racial ones.
Surprise, another accusationist who loves to toss around labels like "racist" and "bigot" at the tip of a hat. Really?
Objectively speaking with all emotion aside, your argument is a false dichotomy: in this case, you're separating what is essentially a unified problem into two as though they were unrelated: it is an economic problem, yes, *and* a racial one: it's considered a lot cheaper by many companies to hire people from outside the country, of other races, right now, particularly Indians. There's this meme out there than Indian people are just born good at IT. Eventually however, Indian workers will start demanding more pay, and history will repeat itself, with people from yet another country where the economy is not as good being brought in to replace them, and so on. Eventually there will be no one who will work cheap anymore, and finally parity will be achieved, but that could take decades, at least.
Well, so far, to my knowledge, no one has ever sued a meteorologist for incorrectly predicting the weather which resulted in an unexpected flood or snowstorm or some other weather related hazard, so it seems unlikely.. (and would tie up the courts considering their track record of inaccuracy). It would set a bad precedent.
Always has been. Over here, we call it, "political correctness". This is the nanny state taken to the extreme, the "we must protect our people from themselves" view. The only real answer is to be a centrist: neither particularly left nor right. As Ben Franklin said, "All things in moderation".
Aww, but those are waaay too baddass for these piddly little rocks way out in the farthest reaches of the solar system. They'd be better reserved for massive asteroids with the potential to hit Earth - the names would very apropos.
lol, true.. I have no idea about how Islam figures into this, but in Norse/Germanic mythology, Sunne was a goddess, and Mona was a god, so the north saw it differently than the Mediterranean lands. Which kind of makes sense, I suppose. The sun would be powerful, overbearing at times in the south, the moon more gentle in the night.. but in the far north, (this is all just conjecture on my part) whatever sun you could get would represent nourishment and warmth, whereas the moon was darker and very cold.
Gotta say it: citation? TFA says Obama supports this too.
Personally, I will miss Saturday deliveries, if I'm waiting on a package; otherwise, meh.. But aren't you progressive types supposed to be all about moving forward and whatnot? Like so many other posters here pointed out, more and more people pay their bills electronically, and the only people who will complain are the geriatric crowd. Now who's being conservative?;-p
I second this. Of all the many, many times we've lost power, most recently due to hurricane Sandy, we've never lost our landline. Ever. And we can't rely on purely on our cells because no tower is close enough to give good reception at our house. So yep, it's not a matter of growing a pair, it's a matter of using our brain.;)
Absolutely dead-on-balls correct. Bruce Lee founded Jeet Kune Do, where the whole idea is to be fluid and able to improvise. Bruce was THE MAN. He got into street gangs in China before moving to the states, so he has some street cred; he knew what it took to fight for real.
As someone who studied Kempo many many moons ago, I wholly agree with Bruce's outlook. What I was taught was extremely rigid, canned moves that might work if you were extremely lucky enough for an attacker to come at you in precisely the manner they trained you for, but if they deviated at all, if all you had to rely on were the moves you were taught (and you couldn't improvise on your own), you'd be toast. Though I'm not sure if this reflects more on Kempo itself, or the school I attended.
Though this leads me to wonder why we have this prevalent Chuck Norris meme, but not one for Bruce Lee?
So.. as your proof of this, you offer up one guy's blog?? His (apparently) objectivist argument is flawed, and even his own subscribers take him to task over the first article.
I'd argue that placebo does *not* mean "not better than stuff we know has no effect", because you have to consider patient bias - you are giving the patient something and telling him it's medicine (or could be medicine), and the fact is, that alone has had -a significant enough amount of the time- observed positive effects - certainly not 100% of the time or even 50% but often enough to warrant consideration. You're cutting the argument off there by simply denying that it can ("we know has no effect".. okay, not chemically, but not entirely either). You/he are saying it doesn't exist because it doesn't exist. I'm saying it exists because it's been observed to exist, and all this guy did was cherry-pick some bad cases he could use for his viewpoint.
If you really want to point to something that, "we know has no effect" that would be a control group who gets absolutely nothing for treatment, as a baseline. (But even then, disease can sometimes spontaneously go into remission, so a few tests is not a sufficient sampling, it would take years)
If it were so plain to see that placebo was bogus, the professional medical community at large would have dropped it years ago. It's not like homeopathy, which is a fringe belief cult of dilution not accepted by aforementioned community.. or rational people.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but a tactic I expect *some* retailers might employ is not to charge the surcharge now, while the topic is hot, and people are paying attention; but 18 months from now, they'll figure people have forgotten and that the heat is off, and quietly start slipping the surcharges in.
You misread my point of view..slightly. I did, after all, specify that "technically", no one died - that is, as a *direct* result of the attack, as in, blown to bits. That might alter the response as opposed to a direct nuclear strike. However, I also don't personally disagree with you the possibility of death caused indirectly by the attack, as in the examples you mentioned. The extent of that damage is an unknown variable. From a political perspective, and not taken anything as a given, it'd be a little more complex, I assure you. That's just the reality, not necessarily how I think it should be.
OTOH, you're a little too loose with the nukes.
Right? That would probably be the best attack tactic, from NK's point of view (notwithstanding the stupidity of baiting the US).
Technically, no one dies, no buildings are actually blown up, but it wrecks a good chunk of infrastructure and further damages the US economy, and all without requiring a particularly complicated guidance system. And it stokes fears of further, more dangerous attacks. But the UN security council might not sanction a military reprisal since people weren't actually targeted, so how would the US respond? I'd hate to have to make those decisions.
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Assumptions? They're not assumptions. They are a core part of his religion.
Whose religion? gmuslera's ? Check your sarcasm detector, it might be a little off..
Heh .. our school did chemistry before physics, so I got the first solid exposure to the "concept" in chemistry class. There's a lot of overlap, in any case.
Ion not an astrophysicist, but ... I did like the way they explained angular momentum. I think everyone sort of knows what a black hole is by now; who hasn't had an x-ray? and mass is just high school chemistry, if not junior high.
Me too, and I'd characterize a good chunk of NJ the same. Though, not all NJ is like north-east NJ, which is an over industrialized hell hole. North-west and central jersey are actually quite nice (Princeton, anyone?), and a good chunk of the south as well (not all though.. Camden comes to mind)
That is, of course, possible.. but considering that Troy turned out to be a real place, some keep their hopes up. Even if it is discovered, I'm quite sure it wasn't powered by large, magic, glowing, floating quartz crystals or some of the other silly tropes out there.
Thank you. l was going to comment on the dishonestly of comparing two nations with wildly different populations (had the argument been based on percentage of population, that'd been different) , but you beat me to it.. and then some.
I converted a long while ago. It's the dog's bollocks! Seriously, it did sound funny the first time I'd heard it but I'm used to it now, in fact I prefer burgled over burglarized, which sounds too much to me like bowdlerized.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
Oh please, it's an economic problem, not a racial one. But then if you're a racist, I suppose all problems are racial ones.
Surprise, another accusationist who loves to toss around labels like "racist" and "bigot" at the tip of a hat. Really?
Objectively speaking with all emotion aside, your argument is a false dichotomy: in this case, you're separating what is essentially a unified problem into two as though they were unrelated: it is an economic problem, yes, *and* a racial one: it's considered a lot cheaper by many companies to hire people from outside the country, of other races, right now, particularly Indians. There's this meme out there than Indian people are just born good at IT. Eventually however, Indian workers will start demanding more pay, and history will repeat itself, with people from yet another country where the economy is not as good being brought in to replace them, and so on. Eventually there will be no one who will work cheap anymore, and finally parity will be achieved, but that could take decades, at least.
I guess that makes the rest of us color-deaf. ;)
And nickel.
Well, so far, to my knowledge, no one has ever sued a meteorologist for incorrectly predicting the weather which resulted in an unexpected flood or snowstorm or some other weather related hazard, so it seems unlikely.. (and would tie up the courts considering their track record of inaccuracy). It would set a bad precedent.
Flash is too busy partying with Mark Wahlberg ..and Ted
Always has been. Over here, we call it, "political correctness". This is the nanny state taken to the extreme, the "we must protect our people from themselves" view. The only real answer is to be a centrist: neither particularly left nor right. As Ben Franklin said, "All things in moderation".
Aww, but those are waaay too baddass for these piddly little rocks way out in the farthest reaches of the solar system. They'd be better reserved for massive asteroids with the potential to hit Earth - the names would very apropos.
lol, true.. I have no idea about how Islam figures into this, but in Norse/Germanic mythology, Sunne was a goddess, and Mona was a god, so the north saw it differently than the Mediterranean lands. Which kind of makes sense, I suppose. The sun would be powerful, overbearing at times in the south, the moon more gentle in the night.. but in the far north, (this is all just conjecture on my part) whatever sun you could get would represent nourishment and warmth, whereas the moon was darker and very cold.
Gotta say it: citation? TFA says Obama supports this too. ;-p
Personally, I will miss Saturday deliveries, if I'm waiting on a package; otherwise, meh.. But aren't you progressive types supposed to be all about moving forward and whatnot? Like so many other posters here pointed out, more and more people pay their bills electronically, and the only people who will complain are the geriatric crowd. Now who's being conservative?
I second this. Of all the many, many times we've lost power, most recently due to hurricane Sandy, we've never lost our landline. Ever. And we can't rely on purely on our cells because no tower is close enough to give good reception at our house. So yep, it's not a matter of growing a pair, it's a matter of using our brain. ;)
You're overreaching by blaming capitalism itself for this, but the USPTO certainly should be reigned in, this is getting outta control.
Absolutely dead-on-balls correct. Bruce Lee founded Jeet Kune Do, where the whole idea is to be fluid and able to improvise. Bruce was THE MAN. He got into street gangs in China before moving to the states, so he has some street cred; he knew what it took to fight for real.
As someone who studied Kempo many many moons ago, I wholly agree with Bruce's outlook. What I was taught was extremely rigid, canned moves that might work if you were extremely lucky enough for an attacker to come at you in precisely the manner they trained you for, but if they deviated at all, if all you had to rely on were the moves you were taught (and you couldn't improvise on your own), you'd be toast. Though I'm not sure if this reflects more on Kempo itself, or the school I attended.
Though this leads me to wonder why we have this prevalent Chuck Norris meme, but not one for Bruce Lee?
Not all carrots are orange. . But for those that are, it's the beta-carotene.
There, I hoped I save Randi from a silly question.
So.. as your proof of this, you offer up one guy's blog?? His (apparently) objectivist argument is flawed, and even his own subscribers take him to task over the first article.
I'd argue that placebo does *not* mean "not better than stuff we know has no effect", because you have to consider patient bias - you are giving the patient something and telling him it's medicine (or could be medicine), and the fact is, that alone has had -a significant enough amount of the time- observed positive effects - certainly not 100% of the time or even 50% but often enough to warrant consideration. You're cutting the argument off there by simply denying that it can ("we know has no effect".. okay, not chemically, but not entirely either). You/he are saying it doesn't exist because it doesn't exist. I'm saying it exists because it's been observed to exist, and all this guy did was cherry-pick some bad cases he could use for his viewpoint.
If you really want to point to something that, "we know has no effect" that would be a control group who gets absolutely nothing for treatment, as a baseline. (But even then, disease can sometimes spontaneously go into remission, so a few tests is not a sufficient sampling, it would take years)
If it were so plain to see that placebo was bogus, the professional medical community at large would have dropped it years ago. It's not like homeopathy, which is a fringe belief cult of dilution not accepted by aforementioned community.. or rational people.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but a tactic I expect *some* retailers might employ is not to charge the surcharge now, while the topic is hot, and people are paying attention; but 18 months from now, they'll figure people have forgotten and that the heat is off, and quietly start slipping the surcharges in.
You misread my point of view..slightly. I did, after all, specify that "technically", no one died - that is, as a *direct* result of the attack, as in, blown to bits. That might alter the response as opposed to a direct nuclear strike. However, I also don't personally disagree with you the possibility of death caused indirectly by the attack, as in the examples you mentioned. The extent of that damage is an unknown variable. From a political perspective, and not taken anything as a given, it'd be a little more complex, I assure you. That's just the reality, not necessarily how I think it should be.
OTOH, you're a little too loose with the nukes.
Right? That would probably be the best attack tactic, from NK's point of view (notwithstanding the stupidity of baiting the US).
Technically, no one dies, no buildings are actually blown up, but it wrecks a good chunk of infrastructure and further damages the US economy, and all without requiring a particularly complicated guidance system. And it stokes fears of further, more dangerous attacks. But the UN security council might not sanction a military reprisal since people weren't actually targeted, so how would the US respond? I'd hate to have to make those decisions.
I'm pretty sure Wisconsin has a lot of gamers too. Heck, I like cheese!
A little too much, maybe.