The thing I don't get is, how can a single particle comprised of just 3 quarks be comparable in mass to an entire atom (lithium atom) as stated in the summary? I realize lithium is low on the scale with only 3 protons, but still, even protons, being fermions, are comprised of 3 quarks each, as I understand it..seems counter intuitive. Does it depend on the combination of the types of quarks?
I didn't mod it down, but I can answer: probably because there's absolutely no call for calling someone a moron over a simple enough question, especially where something like QM is concerned, but even more because it assumes the OP should have knowledge of LaTex, as though everyone in the world should and anyone who doesn't is stupid.
Funny how the geeks never liked being called "nerd" and "dork" by the jocks in school, but in their own climate, quite a few of them dish it out just as bad. Now who's the bully? Honestly, unprovoked name-calling is just flat-out childish and mean spirited... thus, trollish.
By that war's end, 72% of the country were opposed. Plus then there was the draft; there has been no draft in decades. You could argue these polls were taken at the end, not the beginning of the war, but one could also argue that the "Iraq War" was not a new war at all; technically, the US was still at war with Iraq over Desert Storm; the terms of the cease fire were repeatedly violated by Hussein, the sanctions undermined by the UN; and our sustained military bases in Saudi Arabia fueling recruitment for Al Qaeda.
Not that any of that makes it a good idea after all.
But is this really going to raise awareness? To a great number of people, for right or wrong, he'll just look like a nutjob or a wise-ass. There could even be a little backlash. If people aren't already aware of the problems with the TSA, then I doubt this will make a difference.
According to a wiki perhaps, but I and others disagree. IRregardLESS is a double negative.
According to many sites (like this one), regardless is the correct version.
I only remember one short bout of intense pain, it lasted about 20 seconds..but that was some of the most intense pain I've ever felt. They gave me percocet at least.
In my case, probably the worst part of the whole thing was waking up about 3 nights later to discover my pillow was sopping wet. WTF? I was still wearing a night brace at the time, so a little drool wasn't unusual, but this was ridiculous. Imagine my surprise when I hit the light and saw my white pillow case was solid red, soaked in blood. The damn stitches didn't hold on one side and I had hemorrhaged all over it. Worse yet, it was a Sunday morning and the doc didn't want to get dragged back into the office to fix it, he kept telling me to suck on tea bags to help it coagulate, he thought it was a minor cut or something. That was the most disgusting taste I've ever experienced (blood and tea). After 6 hours of this crap, calling him back up, him saying to just use more tea bags(!), he finally capitulated, had me come in and realizing his mistake, stitched me back up under local.
Oh screw the machismo crap. I was 15 when I had to have all four removed simultaneously, (they would've screwed up 5 years of orthodontics) I don't recall even being given a choice.
I might've actually preferred local though; for one thing, I had already spent 5 years regularly visiting an orthodontist and a dentist for my severe maloclussion, (I used to make Bug Bunny look toothless by comparison) and nearly all of that was under nitro, not Novocaine. I was used to having hands and apparent devices of torture in my mouth. The interesting thing about gas is, it doesn't numb the pain as well as novocaine does, but you just don't care! I have to admit to some almost pleasant members of getting cavities filled..lol
In any case, the general anesthesia caused a weird reaction, when I woke up I felt, for lack of a better description, hungover and shaky, and for some reason I wanted to bawl my eyes out.. in fact, I did, a little. I still don't get why, I wasn't upset or scared, it just automatically triggered that response sans emotion, it was really weird and embarrassing.
That's not really the point he was making.
Lots of people go about their lives with absolutely no understanding of how things work. Even things they might use on a daily basis.
And if you try and explain how these things work they just cannot comprehend it. So for them, in some respects, these things are magic.
In general it's important to show which definition of magic people are using when they talking about the subject.
-) Something that can't be explained with current scientific knowledge (but maybe explainable in the future)
-) Something that, by its very nature, can never be explained scientifically
-) Something that the specific person cannot understand or comprehend.
I opted to not use any mod points on this discussion, as I wanted to jump into the fray. I liked your points.
Regarding #1, I think there are a good number of things which may fit that bill, though I concede they are improbable: telepathy, telekinesis, aliens that actually visiting our planet, etc.. nonetheless, the true spirit of science is to keep a somewhat open mind and never just slam the lid shut on something permanently. Dogma should be left to religion, it has no place in science. Anyone who starts thinking rigidly, speaking smugly and quoting current axioms as though they are immutable, well, they've already started down the road to hypocrisy. Pierre Pachet comes to mind, or Lord Kelvin.
#2 Again, I think improbable, but who can say with certainty there is nothing which cannot be proven or demonstrated empirically.. or that there never will be? That may be a question for philosophers.
#3 This may be more a case of semantics than anything. Or then again, maybe not. The one thing I do not believe in is the "supernatural" per se - what I mean is, anything that *is* is natural in that sense, whether or not we understand it, or can measure or detect it, or otherwise empirically acknowledge it. But even if it turns out that, say for the sake of argument, there is another form of energy out there- not one of the four classic forces, not even dark energy, but something behind so-called magick, be it spells that wiccans cast or ESP cards that someone reads remotely; it's not supernatural, and it doesn't violate cause and effect...we just might not see the cause or underlying mechanism as yet. If nothing else, quantum non-locality tells us there are still mysteries in the universe for us to solve.
On the other side of the coin, what I DO hate is when new agers or wiccans attempt to use known science -really badly I might add- to try to support their beliefs. Currently there is no such support whatsoever, and instead of authoritatively, pompously citing electromagnetism or dark energy as the source of their power, or blather on about "frequencies" when they clearly have no idea that a frequency is just a unit of measure, not an energy or substance- they should simply acknowledge that there is no empirical evidence for it, only anecdotal, and leave it at that.
I really can't complain that XP support is ending, it is quite old, but, it's still my favorite Windows of all time. I'm using 7 on a work laptop, and I'm not more fond of it, but less. I don't care for the subtle changes in the interface, the way they made it more convoluted to get to your network properties or to the various display settings- it seems less direct. Frankly it reminds me of Vista still a little too much in that respect. And oddly, Word totally broke on it, I had to reinstall it (Word, not the OS). No idea why, and event viewer and system logs told me nothing useful. I got the laptop (Dell) preconfigured/installed and slightly used though, maybe the previous owner did something wonky. I prefer to set up an OS myself.
So just what is it that's so much better about 7 over XP: is it the security, or under the hood performance..? Something else? Maybe I should invest in it before they force us to Windows 8 -now that just looks plain horrible to me.
I'm surprised you also didn't point out that the real Springfield, OR isn't occupied by 2-dimensional 4-fingered cartoons
Just once, for the pure hell of it, I'd like to see a cartoon with normal 5 fingered people. Just to be different, because I don't think anyone's ever done it. I guess animators charge by the finger. Maybe in the future, cartoon people will have just have pincers...especially if Burn's nuclear plant stays in business!
You had it right the first time. "It's" is a contraction of "it is", which is what you meant.
"Its" is the proper possessive case, or it simply means plural of "it".
So much for the academics..;)
If your employees are avoiding horsing around and slacking off only because otherwise you might discover and "hammer them", then you are in an extremely poor situation, and by your own argument your employees will only be motivated to hide those activities. Your job is to be a manager, and should you choose to accept that responsibility, that means that it is your lot in life to transform your employees into people who behave in useful ways at work through their own motivation. Your job is to make yourself superfluous - if things wouldn't work well enough on their own if you went to the hospital for a month, then you are doing a poor job.
The #1 thing to do with a mistake is to show the employee the consequences or potential consequences of the mistake - REAL reasons to avoid ever doing that again, and then to focus on making sure it doesn't happen again (if that is even possible). If there are no consequences or potential consequences, it isn't worth talking about anyway. Not making you or anyone else mad is, on it's own, not a good reason to do anything at all.
I can understand this point; the real measure of a true leader is to inspire people, not to instill fear. I forget who the quote is attributed to, but someone said a good leader motivates people to take on challenges they wouldn't ordinarily want to do, or something to that effect. However, if you manage so well that your department can cruise along fine for a month without you, it's likely the layer of management above you is going to see you as superfluous(as you said) and lay your ass off. It's stupid, but people take for granted that which appears to work automatically... the "well then how hard could it be?" mindset sets in. I can't agree it's healthy to your career to make yourself appear superfluous, ever.
You don't know that the OP is actually exacting punishment exactly as you laid out- all he said was, if they screw up due to negligence or horsing around, he drops a hammer on them. He didn't say that he doesn't at the same time explain why he's doing that, so why automatically assume he doesn't? Perhaps he does both but was focusing on the one thing for a point. There are some people who, without experiencing immediate consequences, will continue to misbehave or demonstrate apathy towards the good of the organization, from the top to the bottom.
Just throwing money and/or technology at a problem doesn't automagically fix it. The greatest tool we have is our brain, but we need to use it's full potential in making the most of our external manmade tools to get ahead.
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Now that would be seriously steampunk
The thing I don't get is, how can a single particle comprised of just 3 quarks be comparable in mass to an entire atom (lithium atom) as stated in the summary? I realize lithium is low on the scale with only 3 protons, but still, even protons, being fermions, are comprised of 3 quarks each, as I understand it..seems counter intuitive. Does it depend on the combination of the types of quarks?
I didn't mod it down, but I can answer: probably because there's absolutely no call for calling someone a moron over a simple enough question, especially where something like QM is concerned, but even more because it assumes the OP should have knowledge of LaTex, as though everyone in the world should and anyone who doesn't is stupid.
Funny how the geeks never liked being called "nerd" and "dork" by the jocks in school, but in their own climate, quite a few of them dish it out just as bad. Now who's the bully? Honestly, unprovoked name-calling is just flat-out childish and mean spirited... thus, trollish.
Just FYI.. the wikipedia link you linked to contradicts your viewpoint, if you also consider right wing as conservative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascism opposes multiple ideologies: conservatism, liberalism, and two major forms of socialism—communism and social democracy.[8]
shashdot? Step away from the beer bottle ..
I'm holding off until tractor trailers become fashionable.
And you were born without a sense of humor. I'm sure there is a government program that can help you.
I don't think Medicare currently covers that, but you can bet they're working on it.
Quite recently. A lot of minivan-driving soccer moms are maniacs on the road (but the upscale SUV-driving soccer moms are worse..)
I'm sure the Iranian government is outraged as his defection, and not secretly holding him in an north korean off-shore detainment centre.
There's a Q'urantanamo? ;)
Maybe not that unprecedented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War
By that war's end, 72% of the country were opposed. Plus then there was the draft; there has been no draft in decades. You could argue these polls were taken at the end, not the beginning of the war, but one could also argue that the "Iraq War" was not a new war at all; technically, the US was still at war with Iraq over Desert Storm; the terms of the cease fire were repeatedly violated by Hussein, the sanctions undermined by the UN; and our sustained military bases in Saudi Arabia fueling recruitment for Al Qaeda.
Not that any of that makes it a good idea after all.
But is this really going to raise awareness? To a great number of people, for right or wrong, he'll just look like a nutjob or a wise-ass. There could even be a little backlash. If people aren't already aware of the problems with the TSA, then I doubt this will make a difference.
So in an ironic twist, he'd be perfect TSA material.
lol, that's what I was thinking. Pot, kettle, black?
According to a wiki perhaps, but I and others disagree. IRregardLESS is a double negative.
According to many sites (like this one), regardless is the correct version.
China to US: All your base are belong to us!
I only remember one short bout of intense pain, it lasted about 20 seconds..but that was some of the most intense pain I've ever felt. They gave me percocet at least.
In my case, probably the worst part of the whole thing was waking up about 3 nights later to discover my pillow was sopping wet. WTF? I was still wearing a night brace at the time, so a little drool wasn't unusual, but this was ridiculous. Imagine my surprise when I hit the light and saw my white pillow case was solid red, soaked in blood. The damn stitches didn't hold on one side and I had hemorrhaged all over it. Worse yet, it was a Sunday morning and the doc didn't want to get dragged back into the office to fix it, he kept telling me to suck on tea bags to help it coagulate, he thought it was a minor cut or something. That was the most disgusting taste I've ever experienced (blood and tea). After 6 hours of this crap, calling him back up, him saying to just use more tea bags(!), he finally capitulated, had me come in and realizing his mistake, stitched me back up under local.
Oh screw the machismo crap. I was 15 when I had to have all four removed simultaneously, (they would've screwed up 5 years of orthodontics) I don't recall even being given a choice.
I might've actually preferred local though; for one thing, I had already spent 5 years regularly visiting an orthodontist and a dentist for my severe maloclussion, (I used to make Bug Bunny look toothless by comparison) and nearly all of that was under nitro, not Novocaine. I was used to having hands and apparent devices of torture in my mouth. The interesting thing about gas is, it doesn't numb the pain as well as novocaine does, but you just don't care! I have to admit to some almost pleasant members of getting cavities filled..lol
In any case, the general anesthesia caused a weird reaction, when I woke up I felt, for lack of a better description, hungover and shaky, and for some reason I wanted to bawl my eyes out.. in fact, I did, a little. I still don't get why, I wasn't upset or scared, it just automatically triggered that response sans emotion, it was really weird and embarrassing.
True.. and *generally* speaking, flexibility is inversely proportional to simplicity; it's just a matter of which choice one personally values more.
Sounds like Howard Wolowitz syndrome.. engineers, the little oompa loompas of science!
That's not really the point he was making. Lots of people go about their lives with absolutely no understanding of how things work. Even things they might use on a daily basis. And if you try and explain how these things work they just cannot comprehend it. So for them, in some respects, these things are magic. In general it's important to show which definition of magic people are using when they talking about the subject. -) Something that can't be explained with current scientific knowledge (but maybe explainable in the future) -) Something that, by its very nature, can never be explained scientifically -) Something that the specific person cannot understand or comprehend.
I opted to not use any mod points on this discussion, as I wanted to jump into the fray. I liked your points.
Regarding #1, I think there are a good number of things which may fit that bill, though I concede they are improbable: telepathy, telekinesis, aliens that actually visiting our planet, etc.. nonetheless, the true spirit of science is to keep a somewhat open mind and never just slam the lid shut on something permanently. Dogma should be left to religion, it has no place in science. Anyone who starts thinking rigidly, speaking smugly and quoting current axioms as though they are immutable, well, they've already started down the road to hypocrisy. Pierre Pachet comes to mind, or Lord Kelvin.
#2 Again, I think improbable, but who can say with certainty there is nothing which cannot be proven or demonstrated empirically.. or that there never will be? That may be a question for philosophers.
#3 This may be more a case of semantics than anything. Or then again, maybe not. The one thing I do not believe in is the "supernatural" per se - what I mean is, anything that *is* is natural in that sense, whether or not we understand it, or can measure or detect it, or otherwise empirically acknowledge it. But even if it turns out that, say for the sake of argument, there is another form of energy out there- not one of the four classic forces, not even dark energy, but something behind so-called magick, be it spells that wiccans cast or ESP cards that someone reads remotely; it's not supernatural, and it doesn't violate cause and effect...we just might not see the cause or underlying mechanism as yet. If nothing else, quantum non-locality tells us there are still mysteries in the universe for us to solve.
On the other side of the coin, what I DO hate is when new agers or wiccans attempt to use known science -really badly I might add- to try to support their beliefs. Currently there is no such support whatsoever, and instead of authoritatively, pompously citing electromagnetism or dark energy as the source of their power, or blather on about "frequencies" when they clearly have no idea that a frequency is just a unit of measure, not an energy or substance- they should simply acknowledge that there is no empirical evidence for it, only anecdotal, and leave it at that.
I really can't complain that XP support is ending, it is quite old, but, it's still my favorite Windows of all time. I'm using 7 on a work laptop, and I'm not more fond of it, but less. I don't care for the subtle changes in the interface, the way they made it more convoluted to get to your network properties or to the various display settings- it seems less direct. Frankly it reminds me of Vista still a little too much in that respect. And oddly, Word totally broke on it, I had to reinstall it (Word, not the OS). No idea why, and event viewer and system logs told me nothing useful. I got the laptop (Dell) preconfigured/installed and slightly used though, maybe the previous owner did something wonky. I prefer to set up an OS myself.
So just what is it that's so much better about 7 over XP: is it the security, or under the hood performance..? Something else? Maybe I should invest in it before they force us to Windows 8 -now that just looks plain horrible to me.
I'm surprised you also didn't point out that the real Springfield, OR isn't occupied by 2-dimensional 4-fingered cartoons
Just once, for the pure hell of it, I'd like to see a cartoon with normal 5 fingered people. Just to be different, because I don't think anyone's ever done it. I guess animators charge by the finger. Maybe in the future, cartoon people will have just have pincers...especially if Burn's nuclear plant stays in business!
You had it right the first time. "It's" is a contraction of "it is", which is what you meant. ;)
"Its" is the proper possessive case, or it simply means plural of "it".
So much for the academics..
Having never seen the original movie, I was unaware of this little bit of perky footage.. crap, now I might have to go actually see the stupid thing.
If your employees are avoiding horsing around and slacking off only because otherwise you might discover and "hammer them", then you are in an extremely poor situation, and by your own argument your employees will only be motivated to hide those activities. Your job is to be a manager, and should you choose to accept that responsibility, that means that it is your lot in life to transform your employees into people who behave in useful ways at work through their own motivation. Your job is to make yourself superfluous - if things wouldn't work well enough on their own if you went to the hospital for a month, then you are doing a poor job.
The #1 thing to do with a mistake is to show the employee the consequences or potential consequences of the mistake - REAL reasons to avoid ever doing that again, and then to focus on making sure it doesn't happen again (if that is even possible). If there are no consequences or potential consequences, it isn't worth talking about anyway. Not making you or anyone else mad is, on it's own, not a good reason to do anything at all.
I can understand this point; the real measure of a true leader is to inspire people, not to instill fear. I forget who the quote is attributed to, but someone said a good leader motivates people to take on challenges they wouldn't ordinarily want to do, or something to that effect. However, if you manage so well that your department can cruise along fine for a month without you, it's likely the layer of management above you is going to see you as superfluous(as you said) and lay your ass off. It's stupid, but people take for granted that which appears to work automatically... the "well then how hard could it be?" mindset sets in. I can't agree it's healthy to your career to make yourself appear superfluous, ever.
You don't know that the OP is actually exacting punishment exactly as you laid out- all he said was, if they screw up due to negligence or horsing around, he drops a hammer on them. He didn't say that he doesn't at the same time explain why he's doing that, so why automatically assume he doesn't? Perhaps he does both but was focusing on the one thing for a point. There are some people who, without experiencing immediate consequences, will continue to misbehave or demonstrate apathy towards the good of the organization, from the top to the bottom.
Just throwing money and/or technology at a problem doesn't automagically fix it. The greatest tool we have is our brain, but we need to use it's full potential in making the most of our external manmade tools to get ahead.