The fucking thing looked fine in preview. Why in the HELL does it look fine when you preview it and then look like shit when posted?

This is really amateurish, slashdot. FIX YOUR GOD DAMNED CODE!

My apologies to fans, there's an unfucked version here, where preview actually matches what it looks like when you post it.

Get your act together, slashdot, and fix this ugly fucking mess. This should be an embarrassment to you, but I guess Dice is unable to express that emotion.

The next mcgrew journal will simply contain a link to a site that is less retarded. Yes, slashdot, I'm pissed off. FIX YOUR BROKEN CODE or I'm gone!!!!

For an NFL game, any seats but nose-bleed, that's low-ball.

I gave up my Seahawks season tickets and instead bought a huge TV for my basement "Man Cave", and a subscription to see the games I want to see.

Never again will I get raped by the live seat price, though Comcast (or whoever) will still rape me to a certain degree.

But with Comcast (amazingly) I don't get fucked up the ass as much as with the NFL at a "live tag team match" on the field.

- Jake

My answer is, i don't have a clue. that doesn't change what i said at all.

No law of thermodynamics defines "stealth" as "perfect undetectability". You do. I don't (nor does the rest of the world). Please come up with a real argument rather than this fallacy.

A planet doesn't make you undetectable. After all, I can just send a sensor around to get line of sight and now, you're detected.

You do on numerous occasions. I can quote them, if you'd like your nose rubbed in it.

Also, your heat radiation above stops being radiated only when something intercepts it. That means there's no real limit in any direction that is black sky. Even I get that. Interception of radiation by intervening bodies is not how I propose to get stealth in space.

That's because I already explained it. Gas expands and the motion of the molecules in the gas become highly correlated (basically the random motion of the relatively dense initial plume transforms into outwardly translation motion of the shell of a sphere or cylinder of the expanding plume at later time). That cools the gas off quickly right there. Meanwhile the increased surface area of the exhaust plume radiates heat out more efficiently.

Also, and this is a really obvious point I shouldn't have to make, the thermodynamics of an exhaust plume are vastly different than for the universe. It's a near point source which is dumping heat to a 3K heat sink while there's no outer edge to the universe to dump heat. Nor does the exhaust plume have gravitational collapse and the resulting stars and quasars to heat up the universe. And the exhaust plume expands rapidly in seconds while it took almost 14 billion years for the universe to expand to its current extent.

no its not part of being famous. Why the hate man?

Can only speak for myself and my experience it tasted bad. And i like natural stuff, i make my own sausage,Kielbasa,pickles, a lot of stuff. Its a lot of work but the payoff is great. Not going to lie though i love sweets i love processed syrup 1000%. I know a lot of work goes into making real maple syrup but i don't like. it life goes on

For example, Belgium, Spain, and Germany seemed to be hit pretty hard by H1N1 flu with higher "confirmed cases" per capita than the US.

It's worth noting that some if not most people who are infected with a normal flu are asymptomatic. The H1N1 flu apparently had an unusually high rate of asymptomatic infections. For example, this report implies infections were at least a factor of three higher than symptomatic infections due to the increased presence of antibodies.

What's the point of this grandstanding? A claim was made. Back it up. Name the country that is mentioned in this statement: "In contrast, in a third world country with a decent health care system, the infection rate was 1 in 1000."

Note that Europe didn't have significantly different infection rates than the US.

You do realize that there are public health services doing public education campaigns in the US? Your premises are wrong.

"Google sites like BlogSpot and YouTube four weeks after the firm ordered them taken down."

Um Google owns the Blogger site so ya they are hosting the images. So they are making money from the images because they draw more people and that means more ads placed, more ads clicked, more ads sold. Bit of a women hater hu?

Here's another example of the straw man. First, a straw man argument is an exaggeration of another's argument in order to defeat that position. The exaggeration here is that stealth is undetectability which is an impossible condition to achieve under any non-fictional context (aside from not existing in the first place, eg, a "snipe hunt").

Sure, you can't make a detectable object perfectly undetectable by definition. But that never has been what stealth is about as I've repeatedly said. It's about being much harder to detect so that various militarily-useful activities can be conducted such as sneaking up on some target and shooting it.

This is probably the best example of the ridiculousness of your argument. There is no such thing as a perfect detector - among other things it would need infinite area both to observe perfectly and to store the infinite amount of information it received. Thus, everyone has something they can't detect and hence, by your perversion of the meaning of "blind" above (and I'm not going to accept a definition shift of "blind", that's a lazy fallacy), everyone is blind. So as long as everyone is "blind", which is always the case, there is a way to be "invisible", making your argument pointless.

And I already explained how rocket exhaust can cool that fast. For someone who claims to have physics on their side, you aren't keeping up.

lol which is a lot better tasting :} man i remember the first and only time i ate real Canadian maple syrup,I spit it out is was so bad. Must be an acquired taste build up from childhood.

Its less expensive to allow them to hide their names then to have to enforce the TOS against people who would harass them. Its all about the $$$$$$$ boys and girls.

This is Slashdot.com not Reddit.com. :}