That was my problem with Brutal Legend. After playing the demo, I decided against picking it up because it can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up. Driving game, brawling game, RTS. Different controls for each type, different types of health for all types. Way more than I want to keep track of. I'll stick with something simple, like Oblivion...

Did I say "exclusively"? Did I say "more often"? Are you saying this DOES NOT happen?
Stop reading your own agenda into my post, please.

I merely stated "Government Grants" bacause that is the only type my spouse has experience with, and we are also talking about Government funded Climate research in this post.

Calm down before you get an aneurysm. I'm sure it happens in other areas too.

If I said "The sun shines on Earth" are you going to take that to mean I don't believe it shines on Mars?
Wow, I'm embarassed I had to spell this out to you all.

Did I say "exclusively"? Did I say "more often"? Are you saying this DOES NOT happen?
Stop reading your own agenda into my post, please.

I merely stated "Government Grants" bacause that is the only type my spouse has experience with, and we are also talking about Government funded Climate research in this post.

Calm down before you get an aneurysm. I'm sure it happens in other areas too.

If I said "The sun shines on Earth" are you going to take that to mean I don't believe it shines on Mars?

If you pay me tons of money, I will certify you so that your opinion will be valid too. I can also teach you how to audit your thetans and tell you about Xenu...

That's about the size of it, pal.

This isn't only happening in Climate science. My wife works in Mollecular Biology and has told me dozens of stories about PHD's fudging their results so that they can maintain their grants. Big Gov't gives them money to prove certain things for them, so inevitably, they need to prove those things to keep getting the money.

This happens wherever people's livelihood depends on Government Grants. Invariably, someone will end up committing fraud to keep getting the grants.

I love the irony in these CRU scientists refusing to release their data because "all they want to do is prove it wrong". Where would we be if Newton, Galileo, Einstein and others had felt that way. Methinks they doth protest too much. Besides, How the hell can you build a climate model without allowing for variations in the solar output??? How can you embed the data in the code. That is the number one rule for coders. Keep the code and data separate. If the data changes, the code can still run a new set of data. These huge gaps in logic keep me a skeptic.

By definition. Whose definition? What is it in fact? Does anyone have a definitive answer for that? If you subscribe to the "Many Worlds" view or believe that strings originate from outside our universe, or one of any number of other theories, you could believe that it may not be a closed system. Last I checked, no one had definitively cracked the answers to all the mysteries of the universe, so I'd say we don't know for sure.

I also need to point out that most definitions of Entropy refer to closed systems. We do not know yet whether the universe is a closed system or an open one. That would make a huge difference.

'Hilarious' is you creating more entropy with that post than most people do in an entire lifetime. You have an incomplete understanding of entropy as well as singularities. Including, not least of all, the English language. Anything that removes usable, ordered energy from the universe, contributes to entropy. Entropy is a decrease in something else, not an entity in its own right. You treat it like phlogiston. Heat is not the absence of cold. Cold is the absence of heat. As far as we know NOW, ordered matter and ordered energy tied up in a black hole are effectively unavailable. If it would cost more to extract them from a black hole than what we could extract from them after being extracted from the black hole, entropy is increased. Check your rectal entropy thermometer to make sure.

I think that Entropy is not purely about randomness, although that is a part of it. It is also energy in an "unusable" state. (Like where it would cost more energy to extract energy from it, so it is not worth wasting the energy to extract it in the first place) Since matter = energy, all the matter tied up in black holes is irretrievable and hence, unusable. At least as far as we know now. A lot of these depend on our current level of understanding, so I expect they will change as we learn more.

Well, at least until they find out they were off by 100X magnitude on some other measurement. That's the great thing about science, it's always changing based on new evidence and observations. The trick is to not get pigeon-holed into believing that any certain "current" opinion is absolute. The more we learn, the less, it seems, we knew.

Because most consumers marvel at the numbers on computers, even though they have no idea what they mean. Bigger numbers impress people. Funniest instance I have of someone being impressed with the numbers thay didn't understand was right after a buddy bought a new computer and he was bragging to me that it had a "Fat 32"! I hated to bring him down from that high point, but it was what was best for him.

Actually, all Palin comments should be marked as "offtopic". Whoever modded me down, actually made my point. Negative comments are modded "funny" but an attempt to draw attention to the "blathering masses" gets offtopic? Keith Olberman, was that you?

Could this be some sort of plant or microorganism colony that was "released" or "displaced" by the recent earthquake? Or did it get there way too fast to be related to that. Not up on my sea current speed charts lately.

Blobfest? Was Rendell in town again?

Oh. That Blob.