As a French, I can tell you some of these translation are just awful, not even correct.
Académie Francaise just don't know what they are talking about..

My thought exactly, I was thinking of the French version "Motus" but same thing.

I've been using Both Winamp and VLC for years. I use VLC only for video.

Winamp has a better, smaller interface when it comes to listening to music (and yes I still use mp3, I don't use any streaming service like spotify as they never have what I listen too), you can keep the playlist snapped to the player, which persist between launches and remember where you were at. Oh and global hotkeys too.

Also, by using both, I don't fucked up my music playlist when I want to watch a video.

6min30 for a Tokamak design, record date is 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
some video of it: http://www-fusion-magnetique.c...

So 1000sec in 2012 is not a shock to me.

unfortunately the source is a dead link, see foot note 18 here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Here a 60sec burn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can't put my hand on other video I'd seen in the past, one of which was 7min. I keep searching, must still be there somewhere :)

I don't understand the difference between this record compare to current record of holding plasma, which is about 16min.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

18 years as a developer, I've never used such a shitty test..

Most people think radio-dating is only done by carbon, they don't understand that we use different element in different context..
They usually don't understand the principle of half-life and think we have to wait that time to measure it..
Typical creationist argument ;)

There is a very good Anime about Hikikomori : N.H.K.

As long as you are qualified to judge what you download and read, then you can choose to seed it.
If "approval" is not restricted to qualified people (like current peer review process) it's a open door to a big mess!

Massive approval != correct publication. (just look how many people use homeopathy...)

> Do you even understand what it means to "calibrate"? Do you understand what it means that they have to consider things such as sample contamination and so on?
> An accurate measurement of the ratio of C12 to C14 atoms does not mean you have an accurate measurement of the age of the item, because you do not know the starting ratio, and you have not validated the assumption that decay rates stays constant over long periods of time.

You seriously think they don't know about that?

> Why did you use "almost surely"? Why not "definitely"? What uncertainty are you accounting for with that phrasing?

Since I am not a expert in that field, I can't affirm this with certainty, and since you are the one with doubt, you should be the one learning on the subject, you obviously lake the necessary knowledge to understand what you criticize.

> Because those values are estimated based on models and not experimentally verified

Most are experimentally verified, even if you stat the contrary.

> An experiment that verifies the accuracy of long term age estimates requires multiples of the time period in question. When it comes to millions to billions of years, we do not and have the millions and billions of years of data to validate the estimates. In short, they're unprovable claims until we've performed some million/billion year experiments. Inconveniently, those results are outside of our lifetimes.

No. This is not necessary to do it that way. We have tons of evidences and experimental data to backup those claims, but you obviously refuse to admit that. Do some research, try to understand how the age of the universe is calculated, how each 'tool' works, what data are used, how they are verified, what experiments have been done. I think you don't understand there is not on one way used to calculate the age, but multiple ways which all converge to the same value. And with advance in science, this value is more and more accurate.

1. Carbon is one of many isotopes you can use for dating, some of them has short half-life which has been tested and proven. Even in your life time. The process itself is accurate, but a specific half-life can't give you age precision under that half-life.

2. Red shift is one tool which help us to measure the expansion of the universe, which help us to measure the age of the universe. This tool associated with many others allow us to do a pretty accurate measure. I was just pointing out to you other means of measure than radio-dating.

3. "Estimates are not verifications": this is why we give uncertainty range. The good value is almost surely in that range. At least all evidences and experiments point to it. Certainly not 6 000 years.. Actually, we have 'verified' that estimations, multiple times, refine its accuracy.

It's not because we use the word "estimation", the values are wrong or unknown.

My dear friends google...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Measurements_and_scales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_shift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

Best regards.

Well, not really.
There are others laws and you can work anything between 35 and 39 hours.
With some other contract types, you don't have hours rules, but days. My contract state I must work something like 220 days per year, my boss ask 40 hours per week. But in practice, as long as you do your job in time, you can work less hours. (but more in "rush periods")

Most CEO will try to make you do over-hours and not paid them to you, so in most case, you have a 35 hours contract and work near 40, if you don't or protest or anything, well, they made you quit.