Well, when Constantinople fell in 1453, it was primarily because the Pope at the time refused to lend aid. He was still irritated over the split with Rome and the Byzantine empire's unwillingness to come back into the fold, as it were, and so refused to send aid. It was promptly sacked by the Ottomans. So he could call a crusade against Turkey to make things right if he so chose. It would be amusing.
Oddly enough, the first of only 4 popes who resigned in the past 1000 years did so in the 11th century at the age of 33 (Benedict IX I think) did so because he wanted to get married.
That marriage then fell through...so he tried to become the pope again.
Can North Korea demand that YouTube take down any video clips of Kim Jung Il singing "I'm so Ronery" from Team America, as that is clearly an unauthorised reproduction of the Dear leader singing?
Dr. Bakker, what is the current status of the digging going on in southern Utah...do you expect to see new species found soon, or are they finding mostly duplicates of known species? Specifically, I'm really interested in the ceratopsids. I am fascinated by weird ones like Medusaceratops, and so I'm wondering if you think that they will find additional new specimens similar or even weirder than that one. Also, tell the naming committee to keep naming dinosaurs with very cool names. Medusaceratops is fantastic. Maybe...Shoggotheratops or Balrogeratops for the next one? Just a suggestion.
This may be slightly outside your field of expertise, but I'd like to ask anyways:
There's a huge argument right now about what caused the end-Permian event, with lots of scientists thinking it was the Siberian Traps as the main culprit. Even with the end-Cretaceous event being thought of as a result of of a bolide impact, there's some scientists who think that the Deccan traps had to play a role. Now, I've read a number of books, especially "When Life Almost Died" that shows what appears to me to be a fairly strong relationships between bolide impacts and extinctions, but which also show the great possibility of these large eruptions causing the extinctions. There are some scientists who think that there is an antipodal relationship between bolide impacts and "bulges" or "plumes" going through the earth and causing large eruptions on the other side of the planet over time, thus contributing to or causing extinctions. (I also find it very interesting that in general, when positing the Siberian traps as the cause of the end-Permian event, no one ever really talks about what might actually have caused such a massive series of eruptions..)
As far as I know, the research on this effect is pretty limited, but to me as a non-scientist, I can say the relationship appears to be more than coincidental. But a real scientist can't say that, of course. 1) What is your opinion on antipodal bolide events causing or contributing to mass extinctions? 2) Do you have any recent information on research that is being done in this area that you could point me to? Any links? Thanks.
I have a bunch, but yes, only one question per post. So:
Dr. Bakker, people are incredibly fascinated with dinosaurs, and with good reason. But there's a huge swath of very interesting creatures that lived life on earth prior to the end-Permian event. Lots of really interesting creatures like members of the labrynthodonts and sauropsids. Although children's imaginations and movies like Jurassic park focus on dinos and their immediate relatives, have you ever thought about promoting the diversity of creatures prior to the end-Permian in cultural ways? In other words, will we ever see a giant flesh-eating Anomalocaris in a movie? Can you make that happen please?
Drugs for staples? What kind of drug would a staple need? It's job is to hold reams of paper together securely. Unless the staple has ADHD I would think it could live a drug-free life.
Some people will go back, some people will not. The point is there does not seem to be any indication that this number was taken into account when the 4.9$ million number was estimated. Perhaps the first hour it's offline they "lose" 4.9$million, but the next hour it comes back on they make 8$million when they normally would have only made 4.9$million. There's no way to know.
All of the Mexicans immigrants know are hardworking and rarely take time off. If they were to adopt our values, they'd be much lazier. Statistically Mexicans work the hardest and the longest of all people.
The efficacy of this device is still up in the air and is being tested. It *may* actually work. There are lots of folks doing real scientific research in this area; the investigation into fusion is not pseudo-science.
Now now, it's not that bad. I rewatched it again recently, or at least part of it. While horrible, it's not insufferable.
For me the one thing that did repeatedly get on my nerves were the skewed camera angles. Every single frame is skewed 45 degrees in one way or the other.
You get free cards by printing them. You won't be able to play them in sanctioned tournaments, but you can play them with your friends, if they will let you.
And yet the top players rarely get screwed out of lands when they play. The top players finely tune their decks and play them repeatedly in playtesting to ensure that this happens rarely. You don't get to be a top-8 pro player by getting screwed out of lands.
There's randomness in Poker as well, of course, but as a judge pointed out in a recent case determining, for legal purposes, whether or not poker was a game of strategy or chance, there's something to be said when the top players in the world keep showing up again and again at the final tables in tournaments. It's because they are GOOD players, and minimize the disruption caused by randomness.
Magic is the same way. The top players build their decks to minimize being land-screwed, by thinning out their decks early, pulling out and playing lands with various cards that do these things to ensure that later int he game they will only draw good cards and not lands. All the top players do this.
This is only if you play competitively. There's nothing stopping you from printing your own cards and playing with your friends. The rules of game play are the same either way.
In addition, and most important, the "budget" issue goes away in multiplayer games. Your nifty 100$ planewalker or $5000 power 9 deck is pretty easily handled in a multiplayer game where the chances of a number of players having cards to deal with your crap is increased 3 (or more)fold
As in Magic the Gathering? The card game with 12,000+ individual cards? In my honest opinion, it's the greatest game ever made. It's incredibly complex, and yet still understandable.
It's always amazing to be playing at a multiplayer table with a bunch of other folks, each player with a field full of cards, sometimes hundreds of cards on the table (in complex games) and sometimes I have to step back from the table, stare at the board position, and pinch myself that I'm playing a game where yes, everything on the table makes sense.
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How many Popes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Well, when Constantinople fell in 1453, it was primarily because the Pope at the time refused to lend aid. He was still irritated over the split with Rome and the Byzantine empire's unwillingness to come back into the fold, as it were, and so refused to send aid. It was promptly sacked by the Ottomans. So he could call a crusade against Turkey to make things right if he so chose. It would be amusing.
Oddly enough, the first of only 4 popes who resigned in the past 1000 years did so in the 11th century at the age of 33 (Benedict IX I think) did so because he wanted to get married.
That marriage then fell through...so he tried to become the pope again.
The Pope recently twatted from the twooter his twits: https://twitter.com/Pontifex
Coccydynatrix. Fussock.
look here, you feculent steatopygous fussock, take your sesquipedalian words elsewhere.
Can North Korea demand that YouTube take down any video clips of Kim Jung Il singing "I'm so Ronery" from Team America, as that is clearly an unauthorised reproduction of the Dear leader singing?
Yeah! Silly North Koreans! Make your own darned cgi video of NY blowing up!
Dr. Bakker, what is the current status of the digging going on in southern Utah...do you expect to see new species found soon, or are they finding mostly duplicates of known species? Specifically, I'm really interested in the ceratopsids. I am fascinated by weird ones like Medusaceratops, and so I'm wondering if you think that they will find additional new specimens similar or even weirder than that one. Also, tell the naming committee to keep naming dinosaurs with very cool names. Medusaceratops is fantastic. Maybe...Shoggotheratops or Balrogeratops for the next one? Just a suggestion.
This may be slightly outside your field of expertise, but I'd like to ask anyways:
There's a huge argument right now about what caused the end-Permian event, with lots of scientists thinking it was the Siberian Traps as the main culprit. Even with the end-Cretaceous event being thought of as a result of of a bolide impact, there's some scientists who think that the Deccan traps had to play a role. Now, I've read a number of books, especially "When Life Almost Died" that shows what appears to me to be a fairly strong relationships between bolide impacts and extinctions, but which also show the great possibility of these large eruptions causing the extinctions. There are some scientists who think that there is an antipodal relationship between bolide impacts and "bulges" or "plumes" going through the earth and causing large eruptions on the other side of the planet over time, thus contributing to or causing extinctions. (I also find it very interesting that in general, when positing the Siberian traps as the cause of the end-Permian event, no one ever really talks about what might actually have caused such a massive series of eruptions..)
As far as I know, the research on this effect is pretty limited, but to me as a non-scientist, I can say the relationship appears to be more than coincidental. But a real scientist can't say that, of course.
1) What is your opinion on antipodal bolide events causing or contributing to mass extinctions?
2) Do you have any recent information on research that is being done in this area that you could point me to? Any links? Thanks.
I have a bunch, but yes, only one question per post. So:
Dr. Bakker, people are incredibly fascinated with dinosaurs, and with good reason. But there's a huge swath of very interesting creatures that lived life on earth prior to the end-Permian event. Lots of really interesting creatures like members of the labrynthodonts and sauropsids. Although children's imaginations and movies like Jurassic park focus on dinos and their immediate relatives, have you ever thought about promoting the diversity of creatures prior to the end-Permian in cultural ways? In other words, will we ever see a giant flesh-eating Anomalocaris in a movie? Can you make that happen please?
It's not just clicking. This UI travesty actually forces you to actually drag your mouse and then RELEASE the damn mouse button. Criminy.
Drugs for staples? What kind of drug would a staple need? It's job is to hold reams of paper together securely. Unless the staple has ADHD I would think it could live a drug-free life.
Your side lost. get over it.
Some people will go back, some people will not. The point is there does not seem to be any indication that this number was taken into account when the 4.9$ million number was estimated. Perhaps the first hour it's offline they "lose" 4.9$million, but the next hour it comes back on they make 8$million when they normally would have only made 4.9$million. There's no way to know.
Idiot.
All of the Mexicans immigrants know are hardworking and rarely take time off. If they were to adopt our values, they'd be much lazier. Statistically Mexicans work the hardest and the longest of all people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/siesta-what-siesta-mexican-work-longest-hours-in-world/2011/04/27/AF3O0yTF_story.html
Idiot.
The efficacy of this device is still up in the air and is being tested. It *may* actually work. There are lots of folks doing real scientific research in this area; the investigation into fusion is not pseudo-science.
Shut up, tea-tard. The rest of civilized society has had it with you and the rest of you gun-fetishists.
Now now, it's not that bad. I rewatched it again recently, or at least part of it. While horrible, it's not insufferable.
For me the one thing that did repeatedly get on my nerves were the skewed camera angles. Every single frame is skewed 45 degrees in one way or the other.
You get free cards by printing them. You won't be able to play them in sanctioned tournaments, but you can play them with your friends, if they will let you.
Stop living in a standard-only world.
You realize you don't have to buy magic cards to play magic?
And yet the top players rarely get screwed out of lands when they play. The top players finely tune their decks and play them repeatedly in playtesting to ensure that this happens rarely. You don't get to be a top-8 pro player by getting screwed out of lands.
There's randomness in Poker as well, of course, but as a judge pointed out in a recent case determining, for legal purposes, whether or not poker was a game of strategy or chance, there's something to be said when the top players in the world keep showing up again and again at the final tables in tournaments. It's because they are GOOD players, and minimize the disruption caused by randomness.
Magic is the same way. The top players build their decks to minimize being land-screwed, by thinning out their decks early, pulling out and playing lands with various cards that do these things to ensure that later int he game they will only draw good cards and not lands. All the top players do this.
This is only if you play competitively. There's nothing stopping you from printing your own cards and playing with your friends. The rules of game play are the same either way.
In addition, and most important, the "budget" issue goes away in multiplayer games. Your nifty 100$ planewalker or $5000 power 9 deck is pretty easily handled in a multiplayer game where the chances of a number of players having cards to deal with your crap is increased 3 (or more)fold
As in Magic the Gathering? The card game with 12,000+ individual cards? In my honest opinion, it's the greatest game ever made. It's incredibly complex, and yet still understandable.
It's always amazing to be playing at a multiplayer table with a bunch of other folks, each player with a field full of cards, sometimes hundreds of cards on the table (in complex games) and sometimes I have to step back from the table, stare at the board position, and pinch myself that I'm playing a game where yes, everything on the table makes sense.