Well, it was common knowledge.

Kids these days...

Do you hate any other people group? Turks? Black people? Jews?

I thought AJAX was for cleaning toilets. Are we taking about becoming a janitor?

So you are in your 30s now? Then you are too old. They want graduates who will work 50+ hour weeks for low pay. Around age 28 a little red light starts flashing on their hands and they are replaced before they start wanting s career or work-life balance.

Actually you are kinda showing your age in your post. The kids abandoned facebook, there are too many old people on there. To be honest I've lost track myself... Do they still use Snapchat?

It's pretty obvious to all but the hopelessly deluded that this event had absolutely nothing to do with free speech. Not even those offering that justification actually believe it.

This wasn't an "open forum that may offend some people". It was an event specifically intended to belittle a minority group and to provoke violent action.

The organizers of the event couldn't be happier. To them, this is the best possible outcome. Two dead Muslims and "proof" that "they're nothing but violent sociopaths".

Let's not play pretend that this has anything to do with free speech. To say that it is, is simply dishonest. To actually believe it is completely delusional. It's a problem in either case.

something being actually thrust away from the device is the next likely explanation
Yes, exactly ... no idea what you want to say.
Obviously the drive generates "thrust" by "thrusting" something away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

They don't prove any such thing.
Of course they have, I suggest to google.
All they prove is that a bunch of questionable researchers claimed to measure a marginally significant effect
Your way of wording this is: libel.
What you consider marginal is your thing, others might disagree.
, and have been hyping the fuck out of it.
They don't. If they would you would know the names of the scientists and you and we would see them in TV regularly.
There actually is no hype.
Scientific openness is not equivalent credulously accepting the claims of every whacko and charlatain who makes a claim, just because it "hasn't been disproven".
How do you come to the idea that this is happening here?

We do know things about the world. Nothing is absolute in science, but some things come very, very close. Conservation of momentum is one of those.
Yes, it is. And the drive conserves momentum quite fine. Why do you claim it does not, when all the theories about how it works clearly state: it does???

BTW - cold fusion turned out to be a fraud, despite people clinging to the hope even today.

It did not turn out to be a fraud. It turned out to be a 'mistake', and that is even not sure as plenty of physicians are still or again working in that field.

Fraud is a word used in criminal contexts, it means a person is deliberately misleading other people to gain a profit, usually by causing damage to those people.

E.g. if I sell you at a metro station a ticket for 80 cents, which would normally cost 1,30 Euro ... you use the ticket and surprisingly it works, but as soon as a controller checks you, it turns out it is a children's ticket ... that is fraud.

Setting up a weird experiment and finding a strange effect and publishing everything about it: that is science. Even if it get debunked later.

None of that sound scientific approach is present here, so the cold fusion "debacle" was handled right on the scientific side. This thing here is not and nothing of the published results deserves much trust at this time.

You are mistaken. Everything regarding how to build an EM drive is published.
I would start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

which requires independent testing, and that's not being done.

Why do you claim such nonsense when the last weeks articles all tell us: the NASA is testing it?

Or is the NASA not independent enough for you?

The drive being suggested here does not use reaction mass at all, it pushes against space itself
No it does not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Scroll down to "Theory".

Even a propeller does not work by pushing against something and moving the boat/plane forward. It works by accelerating the medium around it and simply uses the momentum of that accelerated medium like a rocket uses its exhaust.

So until that is resolved, we might have braking issues. Definitely a hurdle for both the science, and actually building a spaceship, but extra thrust when you don't expect it in no way refutes the existence of the thrust.

That the initial predictions are proving to be incorrect, even while the device is indeed producing thrust, that isn't a sign that this is nothing. Rather, that is a sign that this might be bigger than we realize.

The expected success state is for the experiment to match prediction. The expected failure state was no thrust. That the predictions were wrong, and there was also thrust, that is actually what makes this such a huge thing.

There used to be. But then Citizens United opened the money floodgates.

So now there isn't one back room. There's a dozen. Each telling different candidates to drop out.

I also agree Walker looks like the front runner. He's still developing, but he starts from a very strong position. If he can avoid any major flubs that the media can run with, he has a real shot.

No, he really doesn't.

Add up all the "blue" states where no Republican that can survive the primary can win, and you get 254 electoral votes.

Add up all the "red" states where no Democrat that can survive the primary can win, and you get 149 electoral votes.

The Democratic candidate needs 1 large "toss-up" state, or two smaller "toss-up" states to win 270 votes. For example, VA will do it, and it's likely to go to the Democrat. Obama carried it twice and in the 2014 Republican wave election, the Democrat won the senate seat. (And governor, but the Republican candidate for governor had a pretty nasty scandal)

The Republican candidate needs every "toss-up" state, and needs to turn one "blue" state.

It's going to be extremely difficult for the Republican to win in 2016. Which is a big part of why the Republican primary race is such a clown car.

Pretty pictures and more analysis from right after the 2014 election: http://blog.chron.com/goplifer...