It's the same reason every invention takes a while: man had to figure out a way for the wheel to get you laid or kill other people with them. St. Catherine may have got both ends of that one.
Vonnegut's fun, and any random Mark Twain is great (especially Huck Finn), but man do I love me some Umberto Eco. His novels establish themselves in the period of their setting and just drill down deep into the minutiae, so his books are great if that's your bag. The first I read was The Name Of The Rose, largely as a way to hate-fuck that awful, awful movie adaptation (don't watch it by the way, it's awful. And by "it" I mean Christian Slater.) I have no qualms recommending it, nor Foucault's Pendulum, which is like The Da Vinci Code for people not confused by fractions. The Island Of The Day Before is also a cracking read. I cannot speak to the merits of Baudolino, but it sits on my shelf, taunting me. He also has collected essays, which are fine for what they are. But the novels have the advantage that they are so damn long and dense you'll only need one book for the whole break.
As for me, I'm spending the holidays plowing through the Lemony Snicket cycle.
No, this is *actual* capitalism at work. Now, if these developers were to fail due to their greed and rank incompetence and receive an 800 billion dollar taxpayer-funded bailout...
The fact that the "Global Warming" (oh sorry, now it's "Climate Change" since Al Gore's P.R. folks sat around and came up with that as a more palatable term to use instead when speaking in public) crowd wants to call everyone else a "denialist" shows the amount of polarization on this topic.
Wow, you really are an uninformed asshole aren't you: Origin of popular usage of "climate change" instead of "global warming".
Given the number of true believers here (people I equate with the deniers on the skeptic side), I am wondering how long this post, all of which is factual and can be confirmed with relative ease, will be modded "troll". Seems to happen to all posts that are in any way skeptical.
One thing that could have been confirmed with relative ease is the name of the person who led the study — MullEr, not MullAr. Although given your description of him as part of the "mainstream side", maybe you are talking about a completely different person. Unless by "mainstream" you meant a scientist who goes where the facts lead him instead of his politics.
In case you aren't just being an ass, I'll avoid being one (just this once) and ask...
How does your list of ecological atrocities compare to that for the extraction of fossil fuels? Unless it is wildly out of balance (and it's not), the net gain comes from not injecting X amount of mega-million-years-old sequestered carbon per joule created into the atmosphere.
Guess what else? Congress defunded the closing of Gitmo. And while it was expected that Republicans would be their usual demogogical selves, at least it's comforting that we can still count on Congressional Democrats to be as craven as they have been since the whole GWOT bullshit started in the first place.
The only thing you can say in favor of Obama here is that he was no worse than Bush would have been.
Moot point, since Bush's terms were over. Now, if can you say that he was no worse than a hypothetical McCain administration...
Although to be fair, I am fairly certain that McCain also would have withdrawn our troops from Iraq. I'm just not completely sure that his withdrawal would not have been across the border with Iran.
Considering their attention-whoring targets are the likes of military funerals and Mr. Rogers, it would be a fucking honor to have made these douchebags' lives miserable enough to justify them picketing my funeral. Sic semper cuntannis.
I should probably check that before I post to slashdot, because they'll be cruel if I remember incorrectly. But, eh. I'll take my chances.
You lose! For exoplanets of mass insignificant compared to its parent star, the relation is
M(star) x Period^2 = Distance^3
So if the mass of the star were doubled, the period would decrease by a factor of 0.7071. And if the orbital radius doubled, the period would increase by a factor of 2.828.
On the plus side, that would alleviate the global warming situation, although to a degree of compensation much to our detriment.
Correct. Do you also understand what rain is made of? (Hint: it's not CO2). Maybe once you understand simple things like that you won't depend on your demonstrably limited knowledge of climate to post inane statements on the Internet.
tell him the paint is wet and he'll touch it to find out....
He should believe you on faith alone?
No, but if the guy telling you that the paint is wet is
standing there with a brush and bucket of the same color, and fresh splatters on his overalls;
and you heard some fat drug addict on the radio said that "Hitler was a painter! They want your light bulbs!";
and fuck, you never painted anything yourself but what does this brush-toting shit know about it;
and sure, you saw him touching the brush to the bench as you were walking up, but you just *feel* that no one has enough data to know about the bench since *you* don't;
plus, on Sunday your preacher said that only SkyDaddy Longbeard can paint a bench;
and THEN you touch the paint to see if it's wet, then YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. And an asshole to boot.
Signed, a Painter (but not of benches), who has received enough crackpot letters from armchair fuckfaces and religious shitheads to know the goddam score.
Oh my FSM don't send him straight to the Black Death. MTW is good once you know the ground, but opening it prematurely is the leading cause of spontaneous human combustion.
Take calculus. Once you're good at it take vector calculus. Once you're good at THAT chase down a book by Ivan Sokolnikoff called Tensor Analysis: Theory and Applications to Geometry and Mechanics of Continua. It's out of print, last I checked, but it's in most university libraries; iirc the call number it's QA 433.S64 (that book spent a LOT of time on my desk in grad school).
After that, read up on some differential geometry and wade into MTW. Good luck.
I had an eye-opening experience back when i bought my one apple product, an ipod nano (7 years or so ago), the 8GB model.
I had it loaded up with music, and after reinstalling, wanted to get my music back by syncing it with the newly installed itunes.
The result was a wiped ipod, as apple does not want me to own my data. Lession leaned.
PEBCAK.
1) Wipe iPod and enable for disk use.
2) Back up music library before reinstalling OS.
3) Drag music files back into iTunes.
4) Go on with life.
Unless you meant that the lesson learned was to back your shit up before reinstalling, you learned the wrong lesson.
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It's the same reason every invention takes a while: man had to figure out a way for the wheel to get you laid or kill other people with them. St. Catherine may have got both ends of that one.
Yes, but only because Eve was holding it wrong.
Well, be fair — we invaded to get their oil, not their books.
Vonnegut's fun, and any random Mark Twain is great (especially Huck Finn), but man do I love me some Umberto Eco. His novels establish themselves in the period of their setting and just drill down deep into the minutiae, so his books are great if that's your bag. The first I read was The Name Of The Rose, largely as a way to hate-fuck that awful, awful movie adaptation (don't watch it by the way, it's awful. And by "it" I mean Christian Slater.) I have no qualms recommending it, nor Foucault's Pendulum, which is like The Da Vinci Code for people not confused by fractions. The Island Of The Day Before is also a cracking read. I cannot speak to the merits of Baudolino, but it sits on my shelf, taunting me. He also has collected essays, which are fine for what they are. But the novels have the advantage that they are so damn long and dense you'll only need one book for the whole break.
As for me, I'm spending the holidays plowing through the Lemony Snicket cycle.
Wait, so Michelle Bachmann is a liberal now? Jesus fuck, the Republicans must have really gone far right then.
Regardless of outcome, a fucking grief counselor.
Ask and ye shall receive...
No, this is *actual* capitalism at work. Now, if these developers were to fail due to their greed and rank incompetence and receive an 800 billion dollar taxpayer-funded bailout...
Wow, you really are an uninformed asshole aren't you: Origin of popular usage of "climate change" instead of "global warming".
That's what politics is all about!
So does Slashdot, with the proper use and dosage of alternate pharmaceuticals...
One thing that could have been confirmed with relative ease is the name of the person who led the study — MullEr, not MullAr. Although given your description of him as part of the "mainstream side", maybe you are talking about a completely different person. Unless by "mainstream" you meant a scientist who goes where the facts lead him instead of his politics.
In case you aren't just being an ass, I'll avoid being one (just this once) and ask...
How does your list of ecological atrocities compare to that for the extraction of fossil fuels? Unless it is wildly out of balance (and it's not), the net gain comes from not injecting X amount of mega-million-years-old sequestered carbon per joule created into the atmosphere.
I hope they found his saddle so the Creation Museum can update their exhibits.
Guess what else? Congress defunded the closing of Gitmo. And while it was expected that Republicans would be their usual demogogical selves, at least it's comforting that we can still count on Congressional Democrats to be as craven as they have been since the whole GWOT bullshit started in the first place.
The only thing you can say in favor of Obama here is that he was no worse than Bush would have been.
Moot point, since Bush's terms were over. Now, if can you say that he was no worse than a hypothetical McCain administration...
Although to be fair, I am fairly certain that McCain also would have withdrawn our troops from Iraq. I'm just not completely sure that his withdrawal would not have been across the border with Iran.
I haven't read the article, but the idea sounds kosher.
Good night, tip your waitresses.
Considering their attention-whoring targets are the likes of military funerals and Mr. Rogers, it would be a fucking honor to have made these douchebags' lives miserable enough to justify them picketing my funeral. Sic semper cuntannis.
You lose! For exoplanets of mass insignificant compared to its parent star, the relation is
M(star) x Period^2 = Distance^3
So if the mass of the star were doubled, the period would decrease by a factor of 0.7071. And if the orbital radius doubled, the period would increase by a factor of 2.828.
On the plus side, that would alleviate the global warming situation, although to a degree of compensation much to our detriment.
That's what "Insightful" is for.
Correct. Do you also understand what rain is made of? (Hint: it's not CO2). Maybe once you understand simple things like that you won't depend on your demonstrably limited knowledge of climate to post inane statements on the Internet.
tell him the paint is wet and he'll touch it to find out....
He should believe you on faith alone?
No, but if the guy telling you that the paint is wet is
standing there with a brush and bucket of the same color, and fresh splatters on his overalls;
and you heard some fat drug addict on the radio said that "Hitler was a painter! They want your light bulbs!";
and fuck, you never painted anything yourself but what does this brush-toting shit know about it;
and sure, you saw him touching the brush to the bench as you were walking up, but you just *feel* that no one has enough data to know about the bench since *you* don't;
plus, on Sunday your preacher said that only SkyDaddy Longbeard can paint a bench;
and THEN you touch the paint to see if it's wet, then YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. And an asshole to boot.
Signed, a Painter (but not of benches), who has received enough crackpot letters from armchair fuckfaces and religious shitheads to know the goddam score.
FTFY. You're going to need a new axe-grinder.
Oh my FSM don't send him straight to the Black Death. MTW is good once you know the ground, but opening it prematurely is the leading cause of spontaneous human combustion.
.S64 (that book spent a LOT of time on my desk in grad school).
Take calculus. Once you're good at it take vector calculus. Once you're good at THAT chase down a book by Ivan Sokolnikoff called Tensor Analysis: Theory and Applications to Geometry and Mechanics of Continua. It's out of print, last I checked, but it's in most university libraries; iirc the call number it's QA 433
After that, read up on some differential geometry and wade into MTW. Good luck.
Umm...you're not very good with computers, are you?
PEBCAK.
1) Wipe iPod and enable for disk use.
2) Back up music library before reinstalling OS.
3) Drag music files back into iTunes.
4) Go on with life.
Unless you meant that the lesson learned was to back your shit up before reinstalling, you learned the wrong lesson.