Yeah, I'm not going to allow crazed gunmen to determine school policy in the classroom. That's a really, really weak reason to allow a class-disrupting device into the class. In the same situation, couldn't the teacher pull out their cell phone and make the same call? Oh but right, I'm sure in this scenario the teacher was gunned down already, her cell phone fell and broke, the gunmen cut the land-line to the school so the traditional phone on her desk doesn't work, yet all the other students in the room are fine. If only they had a phone!
It's not about "conceivable". It's about rational and reasonable.
Well, okay, at actual schools "rational" and "reasonable" are very rarely invited to policy meetings. That doesn't make your argument any better.
DNA molecules are put inside the lithographic channels, therein form structures which are smaller than the lithography itself. Seems straightforward to me... It's just a way to guide their self-organization. Think of it this way -- the tiniest lithographic mark you can make can be used to make one transistor gate. Or, in the same space, you can get the full complexity of one or more DNA molecules.
Neither one of which has stopped the wireless industry from rolling out no less than four different networks across large portions of the United States.
Yeah, remember that part where he said you have to view different businesses differently?
Wireless is very different than cable. Smacking oneself in the face with the obvious relevant ways is left as an exercise for the reader.
I remember over a decade ago hearing about research where they had demonstrated DNA-based computation. They'd used the molecules to perform some reasonably complex algorithm and got the correct answer. It was extremely fast, in part due to using a lot of parallelism. The only problem -- the 'answer' was somewhere in the beaker full of DNA goop and had to be chemically sorted out to actually see what happened. So, uh, not terribly practical.
Using lithography to put molecules where you want them to be sounds a lot better than a beaker of goop.:)
I guess my point is that perhaps snorting coke from rolled up money is not as common in Japan as it is here. Perhaps they don't have as many people that use cocaine, perhaps the people that do use cocaine tend to use straws/other similar device, shoot their cocaine, or smoke their cocaine.
Hehe. I'm imaging that in your story the puzzled Japanese men walk away, and that's when you notice they all have one long pinky nail.:)
Actually it is, because it becomes the ISPs problem when my VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc time out because some guy doing bulk transfers is eating into all the bandwidth. Running a network involves priority and shaping. You may not even notice the shaping, because you can handle 150-200ms latencies with FTP, but the services I mentioned above will notice. Frankly, its networking 101.
Okay, does Networking 101 involve knowing the difference between latency-sensitive and bandwidth-sensitive connections, and appropriately prioritizing them based on their actual usage, not a-priori decisions based on packet type?
E.g. VPN -- it may be latency sensitive and thus deserve priority if you're using the VPN for VNC or similar, or it may be as latency-insensitive and bandwidth-heavy as an ftp transfer, if what you're doing is an ftp transfer over VPN. In which case it causes as many problems for your VOIP users as any other file transfer, and giving it high priority will only make those issues worse.
VOIP on the other hand should always be low bandwidth (I don't know how low, but your land line works perfectly with a single 64kbs T0 virtual circuit), but latency sensitive, so giving it high priority should mean that its packets get through quickly, but don't actually delay anything else for any significant period of time.
Whereas streaming video is hypothetically latency sensitive, but very high bandwidth, so the solution there is not to prioritize the packets, but to have the client buffer up some data first, hopefully making it latency insensitive as long as the bandwidth stays fairly steady.
Basically what I'm proposing here is an idea from Operating Systems 101, where they have to solve a very similar problem. Some apps require responsiveness but don't need much cpu, others require lots of CPU time but don't really care how quickly they get scheduled for it as long as on average they get lots of cpu time. Scheduling the low-CPU apps first gives them the responsiveness they need, but by definition doesn't significantly hinder the cpu-intensive ones. But as soon as the app no longer fits that definition and starts eating up too much CPU, it gets bumped down in priority. That's the basic idea of the multi-level feedback queue. The best part is its dynamic and based on real usage -- you can even tell the OS what kind of app you are to get put into your preferred queue right away, but if that turns out to be a lie, you get shifted to the queue you belong in automagically.
Back when I took Networking 101, they never talked about any 'scheduler' ideas of any sophistication, and the QoS they did discuss was very simple and naive, seemingly from the basis that networking hardware wasn't up to the task. On the other hand they also talked about this kind of deep packet inspection as though it, too, was something that would be possible in the future but not yet.
So... Now that we can do the packet inspection, can we now associate the packets with a connection, and do prioritization based on actual usage, and actual utilization?
Which, by the way, is where the bullshit becomes really apparent wrt Comcast and how they actually do their shaping. They kill bittorrent et. al. at all times of day, regardless of actual network utilization at the time. Grandma Lolcat Lover causes more problems watching short videos during 'net prime time than a 20GB bittorrent at 5am. Comcast doesn't distinguish, because for them it's not about actually managing the network.
We already have regions of Texas and California near the border that isn't American anymore. Culturally, that part of the soil has been eroded away to Mexico
Shit, in some cases it sounds like we're damn close to geographically ceding the soil -- e.g. police immigration checkpoints on the northern side of Laredo, TX.
That's a pretty neat trick, getting the radiation to go everywhere 'outside' but not 'inside'. How's that work when the student has their back to the cell tower?
So a lot of kids at elementary school have cellphones. At that point question is "Should they be allowed in school or not" and thus "Is there any benefit from that?". The answer is, yes there is.
Should they be allowed in schools is one question, should they be allowed in class is another. The answer to the first one is yes, because it's obviously beneficial for parents and children to be able to communicate. The answer to the latter is no, because in general they serve no educational purpose, and a child who needs to call their parent can either wait until after class or ask the teacher's permission.
I think a lot of people automatically think "in class" when they hear "in school".
It was never a problem of any sort, not for teachers and not for students.
Sadly it's quite a problem over here, largely because of the ongoing war between students and their parents trying to strip all authority from school staff, and school staff trying to acquire absolute power in blanket fashion so they can claim to be fair and always thinking of the children.
E.g. if a student has a phone in class, and won't stop using it and disrupting class, and won't voluntarily hand it over to the teacher, the teacher has very few options as to what to do that won't get them in deep shit with the parents. Ergo, they try to get a universal ban on having phones in school, or blocking the phones so they're useless, and thus never have to confront an individual student over it.
I think that part near the end of LV2 where Erik had to jump over a shark was an indication that they don't think there's much left to do with the franchise.
Ah, and this post raises another important point: You can't assume you've found Mt. Doom just because there are Trolls around. You might say to yourself "Hey, where there's Trolls, there's Orcs, amiright?" but it's not that simple! Make sure you've seen honest-to-Sauron Orcs before you go tossing anything into volcanoes!
It is my understanding that rather than cocaine, amphetamines are the illicit stimulants of choice in Japan. Goes well with their work ethics, I would imagine.
Doesn't sound like anything a good marketing plan can't fix.
If it's good enough for the government spooks, its a good place to start for us.
I agree, which is why I always begin my problem solving by handing a suitcase full of money to a person who claims they can solve the problem, and then never checking or asking what the money was used for or what the person did to solve the problem.
If anything, this is more interesting in our ability to detect small amounts of things than a social statement.
Oh well I wouldn't be too sure that there aren't any social statements to be made. After all, they didn't detect cocaine in most Japanese money, so it's not like its the effect of some world-wide minuscule cocaine miasma, or at least its one that varies by location and thus presumably by quantity in the country.
So what this tells me about our societies is that Japan is an untapped market! Oh man! I'm on the next flight to Tokyo via L.A. Though I guess I'll have to practice my balloon-swallowing first.
Apparently you don't know of course, that anyone who resorts to name-calling has already automatically lost the argument.
LOL. No. You lost the argument when I pointed out that the solar wind contains oppositely charged particles resulting in no net current, and that an electric field does not propel opposite charges in the same direction and thus cannot cause the solar wind, and you had no rebuttal because you didn't even know this. Argument won, then I proceeded to make fun of you. At no point have I resorted to insults. I have used them because they're so amply deserved.
But whatever. I lost "the debate" because I insulted you. Now, in your victory, can you do the coup de etat of rebutting the argument as well? Do you understand how electromagnetism works in even the most basic way? Can you explain the reality of the ionized yet quasineutral solar wind with an electric field? Of course not.
Too bad that the object of this is for you to make fun of someone. I guess I was fooled into thinking that I was having a serious discussion.
My objective is to explain why the hypothesis given is wrong, encourage you to educate yourself, and enjoy myself. Having an actual enjoyable discussion where we work out the solutions to problems is impossible with someone who at every turn is going to insist things about plasmas, the solar wind, and how Coulomb's Law works that are simply not true is impossible. I don't want a debate, I want an exchange of ideas, but your idea of debate is to keep repeating the same erroneous postulates, and wonder out loud why I continue to disbelieve the conclusion. So, I also point out that you don't know anything in humorous (to me) fashion.
Really, go read a real physics book, go take a real physics class. Had you already done so, there's no way you'd be duped by this nonsense because you'd realize that so much of what they're saying is backwards. Really, you can figure enough out just by clicking the WP links I gave you, and maybe also visiting the ones on current and Coulomb's Law, but an actual eduction would do wonders for you if you really are inquisitive about physics. Instead, though, reading their book in a vacuum, their reasonable-if-you-don't-know-better arguments were all you had to go on and are now your dogma.
That's kind of sad really. I guess I'm sorry I made fun of you.
It just totally inexplicable to me, but apparently not to you, how scientists can totally ignore a force that is 36 orders of magnitude greater than gravity,
Well, yes, see, that's totally the point. When you can explain, in your own words, why the relative magnitudes of the forces doesn't necessarily matter when they bind to different properties, and why neutrally charged objects such as those in your room are not propelled by external electric fields (which you surely have around to test this hypothesis), and thus why gravity is dominating when it comes to keeping them attached to the ground, then it will be totally explicable to you.
[scientists ignore the electric force] on a quantum scale within and among the atoms.
Okay, and until you can explain, in your own words, the many, varied, and critical roles electromagnetism plays in sub-atomic and quantum theory, there's no fucking point in talking with you at all. You can't say something that ignorant with a straight face and expect me to think we were ever having a "serious discussion". Just cus they told you something that dumb in a book doesn't make it true. That you could pick up a real physics book and see the importance of electromagnetism "within and among the atoms" proves its false.
Belgium is NOT a republic, but a federal monarchy. As are most countries in the above list.
Yes, as was the point. I said nearly all democracies were republics, with 'one obvious exception' (I was thinking the U.K.) but there are actually quite a lot of governments that combine monarchy and democracy.
Okay this one was a doozy, I only have time for Greatest Hits.
That is patently false. In any plasma, charges separate in even the tiniest electric field which can and do exist over cosmic distances. But again is false, because if it were true there would be no solar wind. The solar wind is a massive movement of charge. In order to have such a massive movement of charge, there must be an electric field of huge proportions as well to drive this current.
The solar wind contains both protons and electrons, in equal measure because it is a plasma and that's the definition of a plasma, and represents no net transfer of charge! Hey Mr. Physics Genius, how do you get positiveandnegative charges moving in the same direction due to an electric field?! Cluephone ringing: They say you can't!
Seriously, it's like you don't even realize that the electric force has positive and negative charge carriers and can be both attractive and repulsive. Or anything about physics, really, as is made so obvious by constantly saying "electric" and not even acknowledging magnetism. At least start saying "electromagnetism', and your chance of at sounding like you're making sense for a few seconds will improve. It's clear you don't even understand the fundamentals of the electric force and currents, much less advanced theories of electromagnetism. The very thing you say dominates the universe, you have little to no clue about. It takes only basic high school physics to show what crap this is. I'm sorry you never took any. That's very sad. Sadder is that you think you're an expert on physics by not taking any physics, but reading some crappy book off the internet.
Take a class or something, seriously, then come back armed with knowledge.
Do you seriously propose, that 90% of all matter cannot be observed and measured in some form?
All the neutrinos that are passing through your body at this very instant without any effect at all say that yeah, it's possible that there's a lot of mass in the universe that is hard to detect. Dark Matter isn't magic undetectable matter, it's matter that we simply haven't detected directly yet. We are able to measure it, via its gravitational effect. Seriously, learn what it is that you're criticizing before you say how silly it is.
All astronomers should be very uncomfortable with the fact that they have to incorporate unseen and unmeasured objects such as dark matter and energy as well as black holes in their theories in order to explain the operation of the universe.
They are uncomfortable with Dark Matter, to be sure, and would love it if electricity could explain everything, but it doesn't. They know and are aware of it and have considered it, no matter what some retarded book told you. Black holes? Seriously, we've seen and measured them. Long before we actually found one, they were theorized, and then that theory panned out perfectly via observation. That's how the scientific method works. Whatever the fuck you're doing, it ain't science. It's ignorance combined with arrogance posing as intelligence, but it's a very poor disguise. Keep calling it a conspiracy that people who understand physics think your pet theory is b.s. It's hilarious.
None of this is original with me
No shit. I was mocking you. Like I said, I know all about you Electric Universe idiots, that's the only reason I'm replying because I already know what you're going to say so it's very easy to crush your pathetic arguments. And even though you're an idiot, you know what I meant by "publish". As in something peer-reviewed, not a.pdf for download. Time Cube Guy "publishes" in the same sense, and your theory doesn't hold up any better. That's not very impressive.
All the other pirates would know that the Kessel run is say, 13 parsecs and to contract space to 12 parsecs means you are really moving. Of course this would be lost on Luke (and you:p) being that you don't usually travel near the speed of light. Obi Wan gets it though. Always thought of this as one of the more well written pieces of character dialog in the film.
LOL. Yeah, except that even if the Millineum Falcon was traveling at 99.999999% of the speed of light, it would still take over 39 years from Han's frame of reference to finish the dilated 12-parsec run. And although Han being very old despite his looks is the premise of my Star Wars/Highlander crossover fan-fiction, I don't think that was supposed to be the implication in the movie.
Ships in Star Wars travel at pretty modest speeds most of the time, until they make the jump to "light speed" or "hyperspace", which obviously means going much faster than Light Speed to travel between star systems in what is depicted as a few days or weeks in space at most. It was obviously the Falcon's FTL capability that Han was bragging about, since they couldn't escape the Empire's fighters until after they made the jump.
Star Wars ships travel FTL. Relativity says that's impossible, results in causal paradoxes, etc. etc. If you tried using the Lorentz equations anyway, you'd get a negative length. Relativity cannot help "did the kessel run in 12 parsecs" make any sense.
The explanation from the novels or whatever quoted above that Han used a clever route to shorten the run makes physical sense, though it still doesn't make a lot of sense to quote the distance when bragging about speed. If you take a legal shortcut in a race, you still quote the amount of time it took, not how far you ran. "I ran The Marathon in 25.8 miles (pretend that's possible)... in 3 weeks".
A much better explanation is simply that Han was just blustering, making up crap to impress Luke and Ben thinking they wouldn't know any better (though I always got the impression Ben did).
An even better explanation is that the Star Wars script isn't perfect, not every little thing needs to be enshrined in cannon, and Lucas picked a unit that sounded "space-y" without really knowing or caring what it meant. That's the worst part of Star Wars/Trek/insert-thing fanatics, where every tiny thing including mistakes is a crucial detail that must be accepted fact in that universe. Says the nerd who just argued about one, I know.:)
I'm no expert, but doesn't "Republic" just mean there is a President in the federal government?
No, not necessarily. Now I think most Republics do have Presidents, but on the other hand I was wrong about nearly all Democracies being Republics, so take my guess with a grain of salt.:P Though I should point out that Australia was in the list of Monarchical Democracies given, so...
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Yes, that was it! I remember it was the traveling salesman problem. Pretty impressive for a brand new method of computation.
Yeah, I'm not going to allow crazed gunmen to determine school policy in the classroom. That's a really, really weak reason to allow a class-disrupting device into the class. In the same situation, couldn't the teacher pull out their cell phone and make the same call? Oh but right, I'm sure in this scenario the teacher was gunned down already, her cell phone fell and broke, the gunmen cut the land-line to the school so the traditional phone on her desk doesn't work, yet all the other students in the room are fine. If only they had a phone!
It's not about "conceivable". It's about rational and reasonable.
Well, okay, at actual schools "rational" and "reasonable" are very rarely invited to policy meetings. That doesn't make your argument any better.
DNA molecules are put inside the lithographic channels, therein form structures which are smaller than the lithography itself. Seems straightforward to me... It's just a way to guide their self-organization. Think of it this way -- the tiniest lithographic mark you can make can be used to make one transistor gate. Or, in the same space, you can get the full complexity of one or more DNA molecules.
Neither one of which has stopped the wireless industry from rolling out no less than four different networks across large portions of the United States.
Yeah, remember that part where he said you have to view different businesses differently?
Wireless is very different than cable. Smacking oneself in the face with the obvious relevant ways is left as an exercise for the reader.
I remember over a decade ago hearing about research where they had demonstrated DNA-based computation. They'd used the molecules to perform some reasonably complex algorithm and got the correct answer. It was extremely fast, in part due to using a lot of parallelism. The only problem -- the 'answer' was somewhere in the beaker full of DNA goop and had to be chemically sorted out to actually see what happened. So, uh, not terribly practical.
Using lithography to put molecules where you want them to be sounds a lot better than a beaker of goop. :)
I guess my point is that perhaps snorting coke from rolled up money is not as common in Japan as it is here. Perhaps they don't have as many people that use cocaine, perhaps the people that do use cocaine tend to use straws/other similar device, shoot their cocaine, or smoke their cocaine.
Hehe. I'm imaging that in your story the puzzled Japanese men walk away, and that's when you notice they all have one long pinky nail. :)
Actually it is, because it becomes the ISPs problem when my VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc time out because some guy doing bulk transfers is eating into all the bandwidth. Running a network involves priority and shaping. You may not even notice the shaping, because you can handle 150-200ms latencies with FTP, but the services I mentioned above will notice. Frankly, its networking 101.
Okay, does Networking 101 involve knowing the difference between latency-sensitive and bandwidth-sensitive connections, and appropriately prioritizing them based on their actual usage, not a-priori decisions based on packet type?
E.g. VPN -- it may be latency sensitive and thus deserve priority if you're using the VPN for VNC or similar, or it may be as latency-insensitive and bandwidth-heavy as an ftp transfer, if what you're doing is an ftp transfer over VPN. In which case it causes as many problems for your VOIP users as any other file transfer, and giving it high priority will only make those issues worse.
VOIP on the other hand should always be low bandwidth (I don't know how low, but your land line works perfectly with a single 64kbs T0 virtual circuit), but latency sensitive, so giving it high priority should mean that its packets get through quickly, but don't actually delay anything else for any significant period of time.
Whereas streaming video is hypothetically latency sensitive, but very high bandwidth, so the solution there is not to prioritize the packets, but to have the client buffer up some data first, hopefully making it latency insensitive as long as the bandwidth stays fairly steady.
Basically what I'm proposing here is an idea from Operating Systems 101, where they have to solve a very similar problem. Some apps require responsiveness but don't need much cpu, others require lots of CPU time but don't really care how quickly they get scheduled for it as long as on average they get lots of cpu time. Scheduling the low-CPU apps first gives them the responsiveness they need, but by definition doesn't significantly hinder the cpu-intensive ones. But as soon as the app no longer fits that definition and starts eating up too much CPU, it gets bumped down in priority. That's the basic idea of the multi-level feedback queue. The best part is its dynamic and based on real usage -- you can even tell the OS what kind of app you are to get put into your preferred queue right away, but if that turns out to be a lie, you get shifted to the queue you belong in automagically.
Back when I took Networking 101, they never talked about any 'scheduler' ideas of any sophistication, and the QoS they did discuss was very simple and naive, seemingly from the basis that networking hardware wasn't up to the task. On the other hand they also talked about this kind of deep packet inspection as though it, too, was something that would be possible in the future but not yet.
So... Now that we can do the packet inspection, can we now associate the packets with a connection, and do prioritization based on actual usage, and actual utilization?
Which, by the way, is where the bullshit becomes really apparent wrt Comcast and how they actually do their shaping. They kill bittorrent et. al. at all times of day, regardless of actual network utilization at the time. Grandma Lolcat Lover causes more problems watching short videos during 'net prime time than a 20GB bittorrent at 5am. Comcast doesn't distinguish, because for them it's not about actually managing the network.
We already have regions of Texas and California near the border that isn't American anymore. Culturally, that part of the soil has been eroded away to Mexico
Shit, in some cases it sounds like we're damn close to geographically ceding the soil -- e.g. police immigration checkpoints on the northern side of Laredo, TX.
That's a pretty neat trick, getting the radiation to go everywhere 'outside' but not 'inside'. How's that work when the student has their back to the cell tower?
So a lot of kids at elementary school have cellphones. At that point question is "Should they be allowed in school or not" and thus "Is there any benefit from that?". The answer is, yes there is.
Should they be allowed in schools is one question, should they be allowed in class is another. The answer to the first one is yes, because it's obviously beneficial for parents and children to be able to communicate. The answer to the latter is no, because in general they serve no educational purpose, and a child who needs to call their parent can either wait until after class or ask the teacher's permission.
I think a lot of people automatically think "in class" when they hear "in school".
It was never a problem of any sort, not for teachers and not for students.
Sadly it's quite a problem over here, largely because of the ongoing war between students and their parents trying to strip all authority from school staff, and school staff trying to acquire absolute power in blanket fashion so they can claim to be fair and always thinking of the children.
E.g. if a student has a phone in class, and won't stop using it and disrupting class, and won't voluntarily hand it over to the teacher, the teacher has very few options as to what to do that won't get them in deep shit with the parents. Ergo, they try to get a universal ban on having phones in school, or blocking the phones so they're useless, and thus never have to confront an individual student over it.
It's kinda messed up.
I am still waiting on my damn Lost Vikings 3.
I think that part near the end of LV2 where Erik had to jump over a shark was an indication that they don't think there's much left to do with the franchise.
Though on the other hand I made that up.
Ah, and this post raises another important point: You can't assume you've found Mt. Doom just because there are Trolls around. You might say to yourself "Hey, where there's Trolls, there's Orcs, amiright?" but it's not that simple! Make sure you've seen honest-to-Sauron Orcs before you go tossing anything into volcanoes!
Next up....Pirates and Ninjas! Then the triumvirate will be complete!
Off in the corner, unnoticed and unloved, a single drop of hydraulic fluid leaks from a robot's optical sensor.
And if you were a common European bird who was a fan of such a vehicle, that'd make you a sterling stirling Sterling starling.
It is my understanding that rather than cocaine, amphetamines are the illicit stimulants of choice in Japan. Goes well with their work ethics, I would imagine.
Doesn't sound like anything a good marketing plan can't fix.
If it's good enough for the government spooks, its a good place to start for us.
I agree, which is why I always begin my problem solving by handing a suitcase full of money to a person who claims they can solve the problem, and then never checking or asking what the money was used for or what the person did to solve the problem.
If anything, this is more interesting in our ability to detect small amounts of things than a social statement.
Oh well I wouldn't be too sure that there aren't any social statements to be made. After all, they didn't detect cocaine in most Japanese money, so it's not like its the effect of some world-wide minuscule cocaine miasma, or at least its one that varies by location and thus presumably by quantity in the country.
So what this tells me about our societies is that Japan is an untapped market! Oh man! I'm on the next flight to Tokyo via L.A. Though I guess I'll have to practice my balloon-swallowing first.
Why again did we have copyright in the first place?
Duh. So that when those mechanisms fail, they can sue you.
Apparently you don't know of course, that anyone who resorts to name-calling has already automatically lost the argument.
LOL. No. You lost the argument when I pointed out that the solar wind contains oppositely charged particles resulting in no net current, and that an electric field does not propel opposite charges in the same direction and thus cannot cause the solar wind, and you had no rebuttal because you didn't even know this. Argument won, then I proceeded to make fun of you. At no point have I resorted to insults. I have used them because they're so amply deserved.
But whatever. I lost "the debate" because I insulted you. Now, in your victory, can you do the coup de etat of rebutting the argument as well? Do you understand how electromagnetism works in even the most basic way? Can you explain the reality of the ionized yet quasineutral solar wind with an electric field? Of course not.
Too bad that the object of this is for you to make fun of someone. I guess I was fooled into thinking that I was having a serious discussion.
My objective is to explain why the hypothesis given is wrong, encourage you to educate yourself, and enjoy myself. Having an actual enjoyable discussion where we work out the solutions to problems is impossible with someone who at every turn is going to insist things about plasmas, the solar wind, and how Coulomb's Law works that are simply not true is impossible. I don't want a debate, I want an exchange of ideas, but your idea of debate is to keep repeating the same erroneous postulates, and wonder out loud why I continue to disbelieve the conclusion. So, I also point out that you don't know anything in humorous (to me) fashion.
Really, go read a real physics book, go take a real physics class. Had you already done so, there's no way you'd be duped by this nonsense because you'd realize that so much of what they're saying is backwards. Really, you can figure enough out just by clicking the WP links I gave you, and maybe also visiting the ones on current and Coulomb's Law, but an actual eduction would do wonders for you if you really are inquisitive about physics. Instead, though, reading their book in a vacuum, their reasonable-if-you-don't-know-better arguments were all you had to go on and are now your dogma.
That's kind of sad really. I guess I'm sorry I made fun of you.
It just totally inexplicable to me, but apparently not to you, how scientists can totally ignore a force that is 36 orders of magnitude greater than gravity,
Well, yes, see, that's totally the point. When you can explain, in your own words, why the relative magnitudes of the forces doesn't necessarily matter when they bind to different properties, and why neutrally charged objects such as those in your room are not propelled by external electric fields (which you surely have around to test this hypothesis), and thus why gravity is dominating when it comes to keeping them attached to the ground, then it will be totally explicable to you.
[scientists ignore the electric force] on a quantum scale within and among the atoms.
Okay, and until you can explain, in your own words, the many, varied, and critical roles electromagnetism plays in sub-atomic and quantum theory, there's no fucking point in talking with you at all. You can't say something that ignorant with a straight face and expect me to think we were ever having a "serious discussion". Just cus they told you something that dumb in a book doesn't make it true. That you could pick up a real physics book and see the importance of electromagnetism "within and among the atoms" proves its false.
So I recommend you do so.
Belgium is NOT a republic, but a federal monarchy. As are most countries in the above list.
Yes, as was the point. I said nearly all democracies were republics, with 'one obvious exception' (I was thinking the U.K.) but there are actually quite a lot of governments that combine monarchy and democracy.
Okay this one was a doozy, I only have time for Greatest Hits.
That is patently false. In any plasma, charges separate in even the tiniest electric field which can and do exist over cosmic distances. But again is false, because if it were true there would be no solar wind. The solar wind is a massive movement of charge. In order to have such a massive movement of charge, there must be an electric field of huge proportions as well to drive this current.
The solar wind contains both protons and electrons, in equal measure because it is a plasma and that's the definition of a plasma, and represents no net transfer of charge! Hey Mr. Physics Genius, how do you get positive and negative charges moving in the same direction due to an electric field?! Cluephone ringing: They say you can't!
Seriously, it's like you don't even realize that the electric force has positive and negative charge carriers and can be both attractive and repulsive. Or anything about physics, really, as is made so obvious by constantly saying "electric" and not even acknowledging magnetism. At least start saying "electromagnetism', and your chance of at sounding like you're making sense for a few seconds will improve. It's clear you don't even understand the fundamentals of the electric force and currents, much less advanced theories of electromagnetism. The very thing you say dominates the universe, you have little to no clue about. It takes only basic high school physics to show what crap this is. I'm sorry you never took any. That's very sad. Sadder is that you think you're an expert on physics by not taking any physics, but reading some crappy book off the internet.
Take a class or something, seriously, then come back armed with knowledge.
Do you seriously propose, that 90% of all matter cannot be observed and measured in some form?
All the neutrinos that are passing through your body at this very instant without any effect at all say that yeah, it's possible that there's a lot of mass in the universe that is hard to detect. Dark Matter isn't magic undetectable matter, it's matter that we simply haven't detected directly yet. We are able to measure it, via its gravitational effect. Seriously, learn what it is that you're criticizing before you say how silly it is.
All astronomers should be very uncomfortable with the fact that they have to incorporate unseen and unmeasured objects such as dark matter and energy as well as black holes in their theories in order to explain the operation of the universe.
They are uncomfortable with Dark Matter, to be sure, and would love it if electricity could explain everything, but it doesn't. They know and are aware of it and have considered it, no matter what some retarded book told you. Black holes? Seriously, we've seen and measured them. Long before we actually found one, they were theorized, and then that theory panned out perfectly via observation. That's how the scientific method works. Whatever the fuck you're doing, it ain't science. It's ignorance combined with arrogance posing as intelligence, but it's a very poor disguise. Keep calling it a conspiracy that people who understand physics think your pet theory is b.s. It's hilarious.
None of this is original with me
No shit. I was mocking you. Like I said, I know all about you Electric Universe idiots, that's the only reason I'm replying because I already know what you're going to say so it's very easy to crush your pathetic arguments. And even though you're an idiot, you know what I meant by "publish". As in something peer-reviewed, not a .pdf for download. Time Cube Guy "publishes" in the same sense, and your theory doesn't hold up any better. That's not very impressive.
At least you didn't pay money
All the other pirates would know that the Kessel run is say, 13 parsecs and to contract space to 12 parsecs means you are really moving. Of course this would be lost on Luke (and you :p) being that you don't usually travel near the speed of light. Obi Wan gets it though. Always thought of this as one of the more well written pieces of character dialog in the film.
LOL. Yeah, except that even if the Millineum Falcon was traveling at 99.999999% of the speed of light, it would still take over 39 years from Han's frame of reference to finish the dilated 12-parsec run. And although Han being very old despite his looks is the premise of my Star Wars/Highlander crossover fan-fiction, I don't think that was supposed to be the implication in the movie.
Ships in Star Wars travel at pretty modest speeds most of the time, until they make the jump to "light speed" or "hyperspace", which obviously means going much faster than Light Speed to travel between star systems in what is depicted as a few days or weeks in space at most. It was obviously the Falcon's FTL capability that Han was bragging about, since they couldn't escape the Empire's fighters until after they made the jump.
Star Wars ships travel FTL. Relativity says that's impossible, results in causal paradoxes, etc. etc. If you tried using the Lorentz equations anyway, you'd get a negative length. Relativity cannot help "did the kessel run in 12 parsecs" make any sense.
The explanation from the novels or whatever quoted above that Han used a clever route to shorten the run makes physical sense, though it still doesn't make a lot of sense to quote the distance when bragging about speed. If you take a legal shortcut in a race, you still quote the amount of time it took, not how far you ran. "I ran The Marathon in 25.8 miles (pretend that's possible)... in 3 weeks".
A much better explanation is simply that Han was just blustering, making up crap to impress Luke and Ben thinking they wouldn't know any better (though I always got the impression Ben did).
An even better explanation is that the Star Wars script isn't perfect, not every little thing needs to be enshrined in cannon, and Lucas picked a unit that sounded "space-y" without really knowing or caring what it meant. That's the worst part of Star Wars/Trek/insert-thing fanatics, where every tiny thing including mistakes is a crucial detail that must be accepted fact in that universe. Says the nerd who just argued about one, I know. :)
Wow, what a free-your-mind moment I had reading that.
I think the typical response is: "Whoa."
I'm no expert, but doesn't "Republic" just mean there is a President in the federal government?
No, not necessarily. Now I think most Republics do have Presidents, but on the other hand I was wrong about nearly all Democracies being Republics, so take my guess with a grain of salt. :P Though I should point out that Australia was in the list of Monarchical Democracies given, so...
I remember that scene from Transporter 3.