Patriotism is a positive that only requires an "us": Our country good. You don't technically need other countries to compare yours with to be patriotic.
Racism is a negative that requires an "us" and "them": Their race bad. ("us" implied) or Our race is better than their race. etc
(true, you would technically be making a racist comment if there was only one race, but that's not the meaning of the term as it is used on this planet.)
I've enjoyed all of Simon Singh's books, but Fermat's Enigma really stands out. "Math's Greatest Riddle" stood for 350 years taking swings from many a great thinker. Singh makes the math easy to understand, but what's REALLY interesting is the people who made progress towards the proof. Like Sophie Germain who disguised herself as a man, "Monsieur Le Blanc" in order to become a mathematician.
Being a fat smoker doesn't send you to the doctor more often than thin nonsmokers, it kills you.
Before it kills you, it sends you to the doctor a helluvalot more often.
All those fat people going are adding unneccessary costs getting lipitor and visitng knee/back pain speiclaists.
As for the Social Security argument, (Costly) Medicine is getting better at keeping fatties alive well past retirement age.
Also, fatties are more likely to "suffer chronic disabling conditions" that prevent them from working, but not from drawing medicaid and other benefits.
They also suck up all the handicapped parking spaces. It makes me sick when my combat wounded double-amputee uncle can't find a parking space because Large Marge got her Temporary Tag for her (go figure) overtaxed knee and she can't bear to walk an extra 10 feet to the Frozen Custard Paradise at the strip mall.
I DO have sympathy for people trying to lose weight, but less sympathy for those who won't admit it affects others negatively.
Capatalism is evil, EVIL I say!
Everything should be free, FREE I say!
Who isn't tired of these richy-rich magazine websites, sitting on their yacht, floating down the the advertising gravy river?
They should be paying their members for their glorious LOL- and IMO-laden comments.
How about sharing some of the bottomless cash cow that is the Australian PC Magazine Market???
I mean (AUS)$20 a YEAR?? For that much money you could put little Umbeki through College in Chad!
Better yet, you could fund the average Aussie's bar tab for 5 minutes!
The only reason I decided not to launch PCPerth Magazine is because absolute power corrupts absolutely!!!
No doubt they got an exclusive bid because Rice is in Texas.
So far the "Texan scientists'" (say that outloud without laughing) first effort failed to produce quantum wire: Spilling oil on a lasso and shooting it.
Bush supported the measure after hearing that the wire would be strong enough to hang a taxidermied moose head in the oval office.
Now Microsoft can come out with Office 64, which no doubt will have a sticker on the shrink wrap exclaiming: *Now with 64-bit spell checker!*
It will have a host of "new features" that 99.999999999% of Office 95 users wouldn't clamor for.
Alas, due to their enhanced 64-bit nature, Office 64 documents can NOT be saved in ancient Office 2003 (or earlier) format, requiring everyone to upgrade.
I was pleasantly suprised to find that a book about a mathematical proof would be one of the most interesting books I've ever read.
It's really a series of biographies of mathematicians who contributed to the solution over the 350 years it went unsolved. Like Sophie Germain, who in the 18th century gained admittance to the misogynist Ecole Polytechnique by taking over the identity of a former male student. Her brilliance ultimately lead to her exposure, but by then the patriarchy could not deny her.
As an expert on physics (a.k.a someone who read A Brief History Of Time and came away understanding only 10% of it, yet feeling smarter somehow) I thought light ALWAYS travelled at the speed of light?
If they've found a way to manipulate that, then perhaps sending produce back in time IS possible! Set the clock to 1980 and I've got a banana peel with Bill Gates name on it!
Moore's Law would have to get revised considerably upward for the last 25 years I think!
I guess that means the scene we all WANTED to see was cut. Even PG-13 won't accommodate the subtitle, "Episode 3: Jar Jar and the Randy Rancor."
Meesa Wanna K-Y Jelly!!!
In my opinion, IBM got out of the PC making business years ago. Yeah, they are still in the PC (Proprietary Crapola) business.
Take my Netvista (please) at the office. It, like dozens of others, has had its motherboard burn up. Why didn't the network card work after they replaced it? Because it is a proprietary (extra long) network card which had not been stuck in their prioprietary, mutant, extended PCI slot.
I wish IBM was as passionate about offshoring its PC's as it is American IT jobs.
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Now we can finally get this "web operating system" thing I've heard so much about...
Can your browser OS run Vista on a VM?
If so, would it boot up before Windows 7 is released?
In the 80's a Ronald Ray Gun destroyed the Soviet Union without firing a shot.
Yeah, it's almost as if the First Amendment doesn't apply to Iran...
Yeah, but at least they don't have the Patriot Act!
(which from reading many a blog, I have learned is worse than death by firing squad)
there are "proofs" of the Riemann hypothesis on the arXiv every few weeks. Don't believe it 'til it's vetted.
Who needs proof!
Do like Al Gore and declare,
"The debate on the Riemann Hypothesis is OVER!"
A little known, slightly less ambitious project (more reasonable, really),
whose announcement was plagiarized by John F. Kennedy:
It is our goal... goal... goal... (echo)
Before the decade is out... out... out...
To send a carrier pigeon to West Staines and return him safely to Slough.
Your signatiure:
Patriotism is akin to racism.
Actually Jingoism is akin to racism
Patriotism is a akin to self-esteem.
Patriotism is a positive that only requires an "us":
Our country good.
You don't technically need other countries to compare yours with to be patriotic.
Racism is a negative that requires an "us" and "them":
Their race bad. ("us" implied)
or
Our race is better than their race.
etc
(true, you would technically be making a racist comment if there was only one race, but that's not the meaning of the term as it is used on this planet.)
Those people will hire people who are likely to promote the same viewpoint.
Yeah, 100% likely.
All this FOX bashing because they present a conservative viewpoint.
Yet no one has a single complaint that ALL the other hard news outlet NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR and ALL the major newspapers ARE LIBERAL.
Funny how liberals celebrate diversity, just not diversity of viewpoints.
Murdoch saw a huge gap in hard news coverage and filled it, good for him and good for American political discourse.
I want more than one viewpoint, more than one political party (more than two would be even better, but alas).
Do any of you?
"Tiny Satellite Set To Hunt Asteroids"
Canadian Scientists' next project?
"Giant Space Hockey Stick"
I've enjoyed all of Simon Singh's books, but Fermat's Enigma really stands out.
"Math's Greatest Riddle" stood for 350 years taking swings from many a great thinker.
Singh makes the math easy to understand,
but what's REALLY interesting is the people who made progress towards the proof.
Like Sophie Germain who disguised herself as a man, "Monsieur Le Blanc" in order to become a mathematician.
He also did a similar treatment for Physics in "The Big Bang".
Thanks to you fine slashdotters, I watched his entertaining talk on the book at the Perimeter Institute.
Being a fat smoker doesn't send you to the doctor more often than thin nonsmokers, it kills you.
Before it kills you, it sends you to the doctor a helluvalot more often.
All those fat people going are adding unneccessary costs getting lipitor and visitng knee/back pain speiclaists.
As for the Social Security argument, (Costly) Medicine is getting better at keeping fatties alive well past retirement age.
Also, fatties are more likely to "suffer chronic disabling conditions" that prevent them from working, but not from drawing medicaid and other benefits.
They also suck up all the handicapped parking spaces. It makes me sick when my combat wounded double-amputee uncle can't find a parking space because Large Marge got her Temporary Tag for her (go figure) overtaxed knee and she can't bear to walk an extra 10 feet to the Frozen Custard Paradise at the strip mall.
I DO have sympathy for people trying to lose weight, but less sympathy for those who won't admit it affects others negatively.
That was a joke. Read it again you Troll-assigning retard. LDS LSD? moron.
Capatalism is evil, EVIL I say!
Everything should be free, FREE I say!
Who isn't tired of these richy-rich magazine websites, sitting on their yacht, floating down the the advertising gravy river?
They should be paying their members for their glorious LOL- and IMO-laden comments.
How about sharing some of the bottomless cash cow that is the Australian PC Magazine Market???
I mean (AUS)$20 a YEAR?? For that much money you could put little Umbeki through College in Chad!
Better yet, you could fund the average Aussie's bar tab for 5 minutes!
The only reason I decided not to launch PCPerth Magazine is because absolute power corrupts absolutely!!!
Bastards.
Everyone should try LDS at least ONCE in their lives.
It'll really close your mind to possibilities you've already imagined.
No doubt they got an exclusive bid because Rice is in Texas.
So far the "Texan scientists'" (say that outloud without laughing) first effort failed to produce quantum wire:
Spilling oil on a lasso and shooting it.
Bush supported the measure after hearing that the wire would be strong enough to hang a taxidermied moose head in the oval office.
Now Microsoft can come out with Office 64, which no doubt will have a sticker on the shrink wrap exclaiming:
*Now with 64-bit spell checker!*
It will have a host of "new features" that 99.999999999% of Office 95 users wouldn't clamor for.
Alas, due to their enhanced 64-bit nature, Office 64 documents can NOT be saved in ancient Office 2003 (or earlier) format, requiring everyone to upgrade.
I was pleasantly suprised to find that a book about a mathematical proof would be one of the most interesting books I've ever read.
It's really a series of biographies of mathematicians who contributed to the solution over the 350 years it went unsolved.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038Like Sophie Germain, who in the 18th century gained admittance to the misogynist Ecole Polytechnique by taking over the identity of a former male student.
Her brilliance ultimately lead to her exposure, but by then the patriarchy could not deny her.
As an expert on physics (a.k.a someone who read A Brief History Of Time and came away understanding only 10% of it, yet feeling smarter somehow) I thought light ALWAYS travelled at the speed of light?
If they've found a way to manipulate that, then perhaps sending produce back in time IS possible! Set the clock to 1980 and I've got a banana peel with Bill Gates name on it!
Moore's Law would have to get revised considerably upward for the last 25 years I think!I guess that means the scene we all WANTED to see was cut. Even PG-13 won't accommodate the subtitle, "Episode 3: Jar Jar and the Randy Rancor." Meesa Wanna K-Y Jelly!!!
In my opinion, IBM got out of the PC making business years ago. Yeah, they are still in the PC (Proprietary Crapola) business.
Take my Netvista (please) at the office. It, like dozens of others, has had its motherboard burn up. Why didn't the network card work after they replaced it? Because it is a proprietary (extra long) network card which had not been stuck in their prioprietary, mutant, extended PCI slot.
I wish IBM was as passionate about offshoring its PC's as it is American IT jobs.