I see. So you want to make it in the offender's best interest to kill the victim so they can't be positively identified. Well, I guess that's one way to stop children from being molested.
I didn't realize that watching TV was supposed to be a bonding experience, so I tried it. Me and Chirac put on The Joy Luck Club, and after crying our hearts out, agreed that the whole US/France feud was stupid and that we'd work together in the future
I leave slashdot for a week and come back, and actually read people that seem to not be talking out of their ass. Has Troll Tuesday been changed to Thoughtful Tuesday? This is all to much to grasp at once, I need a drink.
Holy crap Batman! Someone actually believes that learning institutions should be for learning. This is the most revolutionay concept since the concept of sliced bread!
Ah, another beautifully arrogant ignorant slashdotter that has the one true Panacea(tm).
Unless your name happens to be Gauss, Prince of Mathematics, then the current system of not segragating based on ability until Jr High/High School works quite well. And if your name is Gauss, then you can come up with some neat trick to speed up the drudgery. If you understand the material, good, then the next month is to practice the hell out of it. You may *think* you understand it enough, and want to move on, but for god's sake learn some fucking self control and keep doing it until you actually are *proficient* at it. All this "class isn't challenging me" crap is retarded. Take some iniative and challenge yourself if you're so god dammed smart.
Stalin and Mao didn't kill millions by themselves. They had accomplices that were acting "for the common good", and most of them I assume had good intentions. Liberals espouse the same ideas, in the form of universal health care and such, though clearly their actions are nowhere near those of the CCCP. Just because you have good intentions does in no way excuse the problems you cause.
>BTW, cancer is a symptom of cyanide vitamin deficiency. Have you been eating your buckwheat/lima beans/fruit seeds? Probably not. Anyway, pharm companies don't make any money off buckwheat and OTC vitamins vs chemo treatments.:)
Do you have any references/resources for info like this? I'm interested in the root causes of common illnesses, since it seems only "cures" are reported, no one really knows how to treat the actual disease, only to alleviate the symptoms.
The only method I've heard from people who actually memorize thousands of digits of pi are to remember blocks, I've never heard of them using mnemonic or other "cute" memorizing tricks.
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Just ignore those fools, they weren't impressed with my physics knowledge either, but once my Death Ray is complete they'll be sorry. Oh they'll be sorry./me rubs hands together greedily.
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This is just a minor correction - in the back of Griffiths QM it mentions that it is still an unsolved problem whether a particle has an indeterminate or determinate position before you observe it and collapse its wavefunction.
I don't understand what you mean when you say if you don't observe it the universe is deterministic - it's governed by wavefunctions of probabilities, so you'd know that A has X% chance of happening, B has Y%, etc..., but it wouldn't make it deterministic in the least
Entropy
Entropy: a state variable whose change is defined for a reversible process at T where Q is the heat absorbed.
Entropy: a measure of the amount of energy which is unavailable to do work.
Entropy: a measure of the disorder of a system.
Entropy: a measure of the multiplicity of a system.
The salt and pepper analogy is a very accuate example, and making ad homiem attacks about my knowledge of physics doesn't support your point at all.
The useful energy defn is proabably the only one really taught to engineers, since they shouldn't really care about the math/physics behind it.
I have no answers for why the universe started in a low entropy state, and I would agree with the antrhopic interpretation. I also think that questions like it are unanswerable by science, at least in my lifetime, but I'm not willing to make a blanket statement like "No heavier than air machine can fly." I was merely responding to why entropy always increases.
I do not understand what you mean by "even before there was life".
>Why does the entropy of any closed system always increase?
Because there are more states with a higher entropy, so it's simple probability. If you mix salt and pepper, the number of states where the mixture is about grey is astronomically higher than number with it mostly seperated. So it's *possible* for the mixing to reverse itself, just *highly* improbable.
My mistake. It seems I misintreprested the jerk to mean you were some know-it-all slashdotter, as opposed to actually being informed knows more, but I should've paid more attention to the fact that your sig is some mathematical formula formatting language.
Oh SR includes accelartion? Then Einstein must've gotten the first postulate wrong when he was talking about inertial frames. Well, can't expect too much from those patent clerks, glad to see those geniuses on slashdot blazing trails in modern physics.
>Wrong. Special relativity states that the laws of physics appear the same in all inertial frames.
Um, make up your mind, either you say he's wrong, or you agree that special relativity only is valid in inertial frames. And to be pedantic, the accepted term is fictional forces - I assume pseudo isn't used because it could cause confusion.
Bah, of course it's going to be extremely difficult to explain how colors have different sounds and days of the weeks have flavors, you've got them mixed up. Personally, I think that today is a bit too bassey for my tastes, though the sky was a lovely shade of green mouse and telephone ice cream.
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I see. So you want to make it in the offender's best interest to kill the victim so they can't be positively identified. Well, I guess that's one way to stop children from being molested.
Your link doesn't seem to be working. Might I recommend Naugty Asian Nymphos instead?
I didn't realize that watching TV was supposed to be a bonding experience, so I tried it. Me and Chirac put on The Joy Luck Club, and after crying our hearts out, agreed that the whole US/France feud was stupid and that we'd work together in the future
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I leave slashdot for a week and come back, and actually read people that seem to not be talking out of their ass. Has Troll Tuesday been changed to Thoughtful Tuesday? This is all to much to grasp at once, I need a drink.
Holy crap Batman! Someone actually believes that learning institutions should be for learning. This is the most revolutionay concept since the concept of sliced bread!
Ah, another beautifully arrogant ignorant slashdotter that has the one true Panacea(tm).
Unless your name happens to be Gauss, Prince of Mathematics, then the current system of not segragating based on ability until Jr High/High School works quite well. And if your name is Gauss, then you can come up with some neat trick to speed up the drudgery. If you understand the material, good, then the next month is to practice the hell out of it. You may *think* you understand it enough, and want to move on, but for god's sake learn some fucking self control and keep doing it until you actually are *proficient* at it. All this "class isn't challenging me" crap is retarded. Take some iniative and challenge yourself if you're so god dammed smart.
Stalin and Mao didn't kill millions by themselves. They had accomplices that were acting "for the common good", and most of them I assume had good intentions. Liberals espouse the same ideas, in the form of universal health care and such, though clearly their actions are nowhere near those of the CCCP. Just because you have good intentions does in no way excuse the problems you cause.
>BTW, cancer is a symptom of cyanide vitamin deficiency. Have you been eating your buckwheat/lima beans/fruit seeds? Probably not. Anyway, pharm companies don't make any money off buckwheat and OTC vitamins vs chemo treatments. :)
Do you have any references/resources for info like this? I'm interested in the root causes of common illnesses, since it seems only "cures" are reported, no one really knows how to treat the actual disease, only to alleviate the symptoms.
Damn you AC. I'd finally forgotten about JonKatz, and now you have to remind me. A pox on you.
Use the crackpot index for a precise quantitative description of how kooky some nutter is.
And for fun, the mistake on this page is that they try to use the Lorentz transform to find the distance between reference frames - which means nothing physically. Try to find the error on this page
Maybe YOU use Leibniz's methods, but you can have my fluxions and fluents when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.
The only method I've heard from people who actually memorize thousands of digits of pi are to remember blocks, I've never heard of them using mnemonic or other "cute" memorizing tricks.
Just ignore those fools, they weren't impressed with my physics knowledge either, but once my Death Ray is complete they'll be sorry. Oh they'll be sorry. /me rubs hands together greedily.
This is just a minor correction - in the back of Griffiths QM it mentions that it is still an unsolved problem whether a particle has an indeterminate or determinate position before you observe it and collapse its wavefunction.
I don't understand what you mean when you say if you don't observe it the universe is deterministic - it's governed by wavefunctions of probabilities, so you'd know that A has X% chance of happening, B has Y%, etc..., but it wouldn't make it deterministic in the least
Partly incorrect.
Entropy
Entropy: a state variable whose change is defined for a reversible process at T where Q is the heat absorbed.
Entropy: a measure of the amount of energy which is unavailable to do work.
Entropy: a measure of the disorder of a system.
Entropy: a measure of the multiplicity of a system.
The salt and pepper analogy is a very accuate example, and making ad homiem attacks about my knowledge of physics doesn't support your point at all.
The useful energy defn is proabably the only one really taught to engineers, since they shouldn't really care about the math/physics behind it.
I have no answers for why the universe started in a low entropy state, and I would agree with the antrhopic interpretation. I also think that questions like it are unanswerable by science, at least in my lifetime, but I'm not willing to make a blanket statement like "No heavier than air machine can fly." I was merely responding to why entropy always increases.
I do not understand what you mean by "even before there was life".
>Why does the entropy of any closed system always increase?
Because there are more states with a higher entropy, so it's simple probability. If you mix salt and pepper, the number of states where the mixture is about grey is astronomically higher than number with it mostly seperated. So it's *possible* for the mixing to reverse itself, just *highly* improbable.
James Dean said "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.", which is pretty much the same as your sig.
My mistake. It seems I misintreprested the jerk to mean you were some know-it-all slashdotter, as opposed to actually being informed knows more, but I should've paid more attention to the fact that your sig is some mathematical formula formatting language.
I rather have an incomplete solution based on truth than a complete one that was clearly based on lies (ie. organized religion)
>Put Newton's law in the form Newton did, and this becomes ore clear:
Ok, let's see,
The force is equal to the fluxions of the momentum with regard to the fluent of time.
Hmm..., I get force, momentum, and time, but wtf are a fluxion and a fluent? Aw, hell, screw this.
On a side note, your explaination of mass increase is quite good, Newton's 3rd law needs to be published as dp/dt more often.
Oh SR includes accelartion? Then Einstein must've gotten the first postulate wrong when he was talking about inertial frames. Well, can't expect too much from those patent clerks, glad to see those geniuses on slashdot blazing trails in modern physics.
>Wrong. Special relativity states that the laws of physics appear the same in all inertial frames.
Um, make up your mind, either you say he's wrong, or you agree that special relativity only is valid in inertial frames. And to be pedantic, the accepted term is fictional forces - I assume pseudo isn't used because it could cause confusion.
Bah, of course it's going to be extremely difficult to explain how colors have different sounds and days of the weeks have flavors, you've got them mixed up. Personally, I think that today is a bit too bassey for my tastes, though the sky was a lovely shade of green mouse and telephone ice cream.