2 again. I switched to Apple.

Ahh yes, Senator Franken's brilliant editorial on why allowing mobile carriers the ability to block certain types of network traffic will cause Comcast to block Netflix from its subscribers.

Your motorcycle has a clock?

Mine doesn't even have a fuel guage.

Goatse. Don't click

Correct. And in the case of catching a ball, we know that if the direction of a moving object remains the same relative to us, we are on a collision course. No need to do calculus in our heads.

When the laptops sit unused, the people patting themselves on the back for sending them will wash their hands of ever helping poor Africans again. You just watch.

is about to get an influx of supply.

Don't you think this is exactly the purpose they had in mind when they passed this law? To make it as costly as possible to do something the United States does not want them to do?

And since this is blocking future funding and not current funding, this is less like picking up your marbles and going home and more like simply refusing to come to any more marble games.

If only it were that simple... it is often more like:

LAWYER 1: We wrote a significant portion of the software, your honor. Half of our product was licensed to XYZ Corp. with a specific non-compete clause. A quarter of it was licensed to ZZ Corp. without a non-compete clause. Since ZZ Corp was later acquired by XYZ Corp., we do not feel the license we granted to ZZ Corp. overrides the conditions under the license we granted XYZ. And even if it does, it does not cover all of the software we licensed to XYZ.

JUDGE: *puzzled look* Uh, did _your_ client write this software?

LAWYER 2: Yes, your honor.

This might be helpful in determining if you want to stay up or wake up early for this:

http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

I too find music with words distracting when doing work that requires a lot of concentration (school work, coding, etc). I tend to listen to electronic music in those situations. My favs:

Boards of Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

Tycho
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOEg-iUK1U

Ulrich Schnauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s50jAWtCdQ

As much as I would be willing to bet that this will be used to try to prove global warming because there is an area that has colder than average weather.

And the difficulty of quantifying it is due not just the multitude of factors but the vagueness of the underlying concept as well. Which ultimately makes the question "How much welfare should we provide in society?" one that science can not answer. Science can only provide the facts upon which society can apply its values against.

While I can see many will knee-jerk themselves into an emphatic "YES" to scientific superiority in government, there should still be a place for philosophy and morality in politics as well. And in some cases, philosophy should trump science.

When you might ask? How about in terms of macroeconomics? It makes little scientific sense to provide welfare to people who will never be productive citizens ever again. Yet it goes against our values to not take care of our most vulnerable who are unable to care for themselves.

It also makes little scientific sense to protect individual rights to the extent that we do. My friends over in Europe and Asia often point out that the banning of hate speech has a demonstrable effect on reducing bigotry. Yet our non-scientific culture values free speech.

So, science should play a big role in determining the fundamental facts of a political discussion, but after that it is all about values and philosophy.

Exactly. So I was left to wonder what this pacifist professor saw in the quote that made it "show the reality of violence", rather than glorify and romanticize it.