Comment Re:One Word ... (Score 3, Funny) 234
actually, one word is impossible due to the lameness filter
Maybe we can get the FCC to take that on next!
actually, one word is impossible due to the lameness filter
Maybe we can get the FCC to take that on next!
Up with service! Down with monopolies! Up with net neutrality! Down with regulation! Up with Pluto! Down with Kim Dotcom!
Wait a minute - Today's stories leave me feeling edgy and confused.
What jurisdiction does the IAU have outside this solar system anyway?
What jurisdiction do they have anywhere?
Bullshit. Papers directly supported by funding/grants should, and usually do, thank/credit the sources. But just because someone funded you for one thing doesn't mean you have to disclose that in every paper you write that is remotely related.
Papers directly supported by funding/grants usually don't thank/credit sources (or maybe it's just so small that I never noticed it?).
It's de rigueur, and honest funding sources expect you to credit them.
In my field it's usually a paragraph right before the references cited. Sometimes there is also a Conflict of Interest statement, which I think is required by certain journals.
It makes brains so big it takes two stories to cover them.
What's really funny is that some people think they are giving technology to the gummit in exchange for the right to probe some of us. As if they would need permission.
Also, it's easier to hold a shield while operating a javelin.
If they have mastered interstellar travel, then then there is no way that they will be behind us in any other aspect.
Hopefully they might have fewer Star Wars prequels.
Ya, no shit. As someone who is from downunder, holy CRAP America is in the dark ages when it comes to its banking and communications systems.
And if this works, we might try the metric system.
I think the disconnect is in expecting evolution to produce optimal solutions. Biology is full of make-do solutions.
Fitness of a species is not relevant. It's all about fitness of individual genes. Read The Selfish Gene.
On the contrary, for sexually reproducing species it doesn't matter how fit you and your genes are. Without a species, the genes are dead-enders.
Yeah, after thinking about it for a while I did exactly that. Came back to post about it, and found your post.
One map showed the 100th meridian as the divide between who gets 20"/year and who doesn't.
nteresting to note the map also looks like the city lights maps.
Interesting that they both show a sharp verticle divide right down the center of the country. When I first saw it on the light pollution maps it was so sharp that I wondered whether it was a time-of-photo artifact.
1) Buy movie rights.
2) Make movie.
3) Air in paid informercial time slot.
4) (TBD)
5) Profit!
Makes you wonder it the whole thing was just a scam to get at her estate all along.
In other news, the production companies are merging under the name "Streisand Corp, LLC".
HR wants 10 years experience in something that was invented 5 years ago.
If you have bigger-picture skills, you might be tempted to think for yourself.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
