Another behaviour that has totally puzzled me. For some reason i find the act of swearing at and blaming oneself as a little bit more unhinged then swearing at the computer, but since both behaviours are alien to me i'd be hard pressed to say which is more illogical.

Or maybe, just maybe, we're actually intelligent enough to know that inaminate objects do not, at least generally, respond to speech.

I find this highly interesting that so many people actually engage in this totally illogical behaviour which has thoroughly confused me each time i've seen it taking place.

Maybe it's just me, but i was thinking "39% of people are actually dumb enough to curse at an inanimate object? Guess that's NT's for you."

I think you left out age. All of which are commonly used to discriminate for jobs in mexico except for religion.

In my experience as a TA, ~10% will hit on you to try and up their grade, 2/3 of those will be of the opposite sex.

Never saw an instance of Extra Credit at the University i went to in Montreal, Canada.

What i did see quite a bit of was bonus questions on exams, usually along the lines of derive this formula from this one. Made for quite a few of my Stats marks being over 100.

Best was a philosphy teacher who had a standing policy that anyone who could stump him twice would get an instant 90% for a final grade. Only problem was it was useless for me, stumped him way more than twice and it would have been a drop in my grade to accept only 90%, though one other student did benefit that year.

What? Hulk is now a drag queen?

You do know that the US government has had lots of nutcases who can only see things as black and white (if you're not with us you're against us) who think it's their duty to bring about WW3 as foretold by the Nostradamus prophecies, and have huge 'secret socieities' dedicated to accomplishing that, hence their meddling in the middle east and the world to try and bring about the prophecies in their favour?

Doesn't matter what country you're in when you drink the kool-aid, it's still kool-aid.

Just be aware that the 'corruption' in Mexico is mainly due to stupidity and not maliciousness. One thing the mexicans have perfected is how to always stand in the middle of a path. Our highways are a testament to this where to exit or enter you need to criss-cross the stream of cars attempting to do the opposite of you.

Corruption is mainly because there are so many obstacles in place to actually get anything done that people will try and help those they know just because they can't bear to see anyone they know go through all the stupidity.

Of course, some of the corruption is akin to something you would call intelligence. Everybody knows that a piece of paper with a degree on it doesn't really signify anything about what the person knows and so you can either attend the school/university, etc... or just pay them a smaller fee than the tuition and save both of you the trouble of going through the act that the paper actually signifies anything.

So you are saying that having USB on an external connecter that you would have to lug around with you is better than having it built in? Or that adding HDMI out would add way to much to the cost and people don't want to spend some 5-20$ for an HDMI cable when they can just spend orders of magnitude more to buy an AirPlay?

Step away from the kool-aid.

That's too funny, egyptologists are practicing historical revision more than science, it's almost impossible to actually get the egyptians to consent to anybody doing science around the pyramids. At least they aren't destroying sites like mexican archeologists, or totally ignoring them like the chinese. Just remember, history and archeology have had very little to do with science over their long histories.

They most certainly do not see themselves as just Chinese, though they will put on that front in the face of other cultures. They bitch and complain about the other dialects, other provinces, the northerners who can't be considered chinese by the pure chinese, the yellows against the whites, hell, they still have great organizations based on family surnames. Never have i seen a 'culture' more divided than the chinese. You don't think that fear of intermingling they have was just born out of meeting whitey did you?

Ah, don't you know any better? You can't bring logic and pointing out someones ignorance to a bitch fest, it's just a party killer.

Bad quote there, i have no ethics or morality. I'm the kind of idiot that needs to know everything before making an attempt at defining something like ethics, morality, justice, etc...

But i see your point.

Only thing is, that the background radiation from nature is the environment that we've been evolving inside. Perhaps we evolved to use that background radiation, at the very least it would have to be taken into account, just like the experiment with the FPGA's. Making it akin to aether. Which while there was the michael-morley(sp?) experiment to debunk aether, the interesting thing about the experiment if you choose to read it, is that what they disproved was not aether, but something they choose to call aether.

Not saying aether exists, just that the debunking experiment was a poorly crafted piece of garbage, but probably acceptable in the early days of science before the common knowledge of methodologies and fallacies such as the straw-man.