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Screech and screech and screech all day long, but eventually you will have to shut up and start picking berries or stripping leaves from branches or picking termites out of mounds...or you will starve. And where do you think the poo comes from? The Higher Ed Crack Up Begins
I think we're already seeing the beginnings of a de facto divorce of universities, in which the STEM fields and other "practical" disciplines essentially split off from the humanities and social sciences, not to mention the more politicized departments. At this rate eventually many of our leading research universities will bifurcate into marginal fever swamps of radicalism whose majors will be unfit for employment at Starbucks, and a larger campus dedicated to science and technology education.I think Mr. Hayward is a bit too optimistic, but his prediction is certainly not irrational. My fear is that the STEM departments will become tainted with the stench of multiculturalism and the bottom feeding SJWs will infiltrate. But in the end, you do have to know how to perform complex mathematical calculations and have a solid understanding of some basic science to enter these majors. So regardless of the trend in academia, STEM is partially protected from the worst excesses of the Left's long march through our institutions simply because calculus and mechanics and fluid dynamics and statistics and analytical chemistry is HARD! And these people don's strike me as studious types. Complex designs on caramel machiattos doesn't take the place of differential equations.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Dude at March 20, 2018 10:56 AM (RYASC)
Posted by: Carpe Manana at March 20, 2018 10:56 AM (PbH71)
Chalk up another one for Trump.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 10:58 AM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 10:58 AM (ptqGC)
And also, physical chemistry II, which almost was an effective bulwark against me.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 10:58 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 10:59 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: RI Red - proud member, CRNSA at March 20, 2018 10:59 AM (JpdDz)
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 20, 2018 10:59 AM (xBSm0)
(Someone stumbling onto this site and thread for the first time would think we're all retards. Not that I care.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 20, 2018 10:59 AM (ClOmq)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (rBnYq)
He's drinking wine out of a box he made from a Gain detergent box. Said he got the idea "after eating a bunch of Tide pods."
Have no idea if he was kidding or not.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: ejochs at March 20, 2018 11:01 AM (z1MNB)
shooting. You all will be relieved to know that several Congresscritters
are on their way there now to talk about gun control.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (oMtOd)
Thank G-d! Isn't Steny Hoyer there already?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:01 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:02 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: joncelli, crawling through the burning wasteland of Monday at March 20, 2018 11:02 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 11:02 AM (0tfLf)
shooting. You all will be relieved to know that several Congresscritters
are on their way there now to talk about gun control.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (oMtOd)
I'm sure they'll point out that the school is a "Gun Free Zone" along with the very restrictive gun laws in Maryland.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 11:02 AM (uiwCw)
Most common students are far better off going to a 2 year school and getting educated in a hands-on field.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 20, 2018 11:03 AM (mpXpK)
Oh, just heard he is on his way.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:03 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:04 AM (nFwvY)
She was a sweet, smart conservative girl. Came home last year and we all met for dinner, and her smugness was off the charts. She proceeded to attempt to put all the adults at the table some knowledge. I *may* have put her some as well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:04 AM (ptqGC)
Sure, they'll protest dumbing down engineering and science courses, to an extent, but they'll also support crap like reparations, hiring quotas for other positions, and so forth.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 20, 2018 11:04 AM (Tnhbr)
Oh, just heard he is on his way.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:03 AM (oMtOd)
Oh, goody.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:05 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:05 AM (oMtOd)
He's drinking wine out of a box he made from a Gain detergent box. Said he got the idea "after eating a bunch of Tide pods."
Have no idea if he was kidding or not.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:00 AM (ptqGC)
My guess is that he's mocking the whole thing.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 20, 2018 11:06 AM (Tnhbr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 11:06 AM (4lzWT)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:06 AM (oMtOd)
Florida International University.
*mic/bridge drop*
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:06 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: BignJames at March 20, 2018 11:06 AM (0+nbW)
I could possibly help. I'm not the hiring authority, but we do have two positions about to open up that essentially just need basic problem solving skills (there will be formal requirements for things like college education and probably experience with data).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 20, 2018 10:55 AM (EvBgT)
I'm a historian by training and would like to be teaching or something like that, so what you are describing doesn't sound like a good fit for a life-long job. I would be interested in hearing more, though.
My spam-catcher/dead drop email seems to be defunct. Is there some way to contact you? I don't want to post my usual email here because it has my real name in it.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM (KXVP7)
So, coworker just said to me....
"How about those packages in Texas? Blowing up? I guess they can't have guns so they are going to use bombs now!"
I just grunted back.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM (vg8iE)
Stephen Hawking can best be summed up as a scientist who wrote a wildly popular book and then spent the rest of his life supporting shitty causes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM (fTKv+)
You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Posted by: Neil deGassey Tyson at March 20, 2018 11:08 AM (ctuyM)
You just have to know you're on enemy territory.
Posted by: sunny-dee at March 20, 2018 11:08 AM (QAOZh)
No, STEM isn't protected. The problem is that a lot of engineers and
scientist types think that because they are good with equations and a
controlled lab environment, that they can apply that to society. It's
an arrogance issue: they're smart enough to make socialism work. They
buy into the SJW crap because it makes them feel better about themselves
to think that they are "woke" and thus better than the masses.<
I know lots and lots of engineers and scientists. I know none who think this way. Thinking of everyone I have worked with over the last 30 years, the population of engineers and scientists I know skews heavily conservative. I'm not saying there are zero people like this in the world, just making an observation.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (OLCnA)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:05 AM (oMtOd)
One of our best, most reliable (for balanced news) TV stations has a new manager Not From Here. He came on yesterday at the end of the news hour to spew how brave, strong and incredible the Children of the Pods are. He's turning the entire news hour into CNN/MSNBC lite. It's sickening.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (ptqGC)
--People who make it through Math Majors but STILL go Hard Left.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (9TK8E)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:10 AM (flYWz)
The Carl Sagan path. Loved "Cosmos", but laughed out loud at his prediction that Saddam's oil well fires would plunge the Gulf into years without summers.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 20, 2018 11:10 AM (A2YbE)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:10 AM (flYWz)
I hear he was not a fan of "The Weather-Controllers" TM.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (sjdRT)
My experience has been the opposite. I think it's partially a generational thing.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (Tnhbr)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (7HtZB)
All I've ever known of Stephen Hawking was of a man gripped by a hideous disease who was locked into a wheelchair unable to move other than speak and there was a line about him in Legally Blonde in which a haughty Harvard Law school student claims that Hawkings got some theory from the student's fifth grade paper.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (m0lmR)
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Posted by: DeporaBOT at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (/LX46)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (flYWz)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (7HtZB)
Isn't this really the story of Barack Obama?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: R. DUKE at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (O2LSH)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Stephen Hawking's groom of the stool at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (xzqr4)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:04 AM (nFwvY)
Didn't he just theorize that shit came out of black holes? Or did they actually find/measure it?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (jjaLl)
"How about those packages in Texas? Blowing up? I guess they can't have guns so they are going to use bombs now!"
I just grunted back.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM
Just tell them what we really need is common sense bomb control.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (/LX46)
Posted by: Telly Prompter at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (r9UYA)
relieved to know that several Congresscritters are on their way there
now to talk about gun control.
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The shooting that was stopped by the guy with a gun being on site?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (JTMqu)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (oMtOd)
Yup, in the push to get women into STEM, the universities will hire women to head these departments. Seem to recall that some university already has hired a raging feminist idiot to head their Engineering program (Emory or Duke, maybe?) who is more concerned with injecting feminism into engineering than teaching engineering.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: R. DUKE at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM
You report, we decide.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (ctuyM)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: R. DUKE at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM (O2LSH)
"Ja!"
- - Adoplph Scheissfresser
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (jjaLl)
Shit does come out of black holes. That's a fact we all can attest to.
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (KXVP7)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (r9UYA)
Wut??
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (Tnhbr)<
Its possible. We have certainly tried to weed out incoming snowflakes in our younger STEM hires. I have done a lot of college recruiting. I can't honestly say I see a higher % of idiots now than I did 20 years ago. Maybe their idiocy manifests itself in different ways than it used to?
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (LiyEm)
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Google or whatever search engine of choice Jason Becker, was an AMAZING Guitarist who had just joined David Lee Roth's band to take over for Steve Vai & was diagnosed with ALS & he is now thew longest living person with ALS & still does put out music, that he has other people play for him. ALS is just HIDEOUS !
Posted by: DeporaBOT at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (nFwvY)
Armed Resource Officer aggressively engaged male student shooter, neutralizing gate threat in a timely manner, preventing additional injuries or fatalities.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (EyPfd)
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I'm a historian by training and would like to be teaching or something
like that, so what you are describing doesn't sound like a good fit for a
life-long job. I would be interested in hearing more, though.
Posted by: Grey Fox
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Keep
your eyes open for community colleges. They seem to smile upon
instructors with actual real-world experience and not just a lifetime in
academia.
Also, it's my understanding that lots of states offer
some sort of fast-track teaching credential (maybe even degree). You
might have to move or commute, but I bet there is somewhere that would
love to have you. Even better, figure out a way to tie it to a
mathematics degree from a community college and make yourself extra
valuable as someone who can teach two or three wildly different classes.
You may even be able to do the math degree online.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (JTMqu)
Oh, seize that insight - just proves you cannot legislate away violent people, they will always find a weapon.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (W+vEI)
Hope Solo
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:16 AM (LiyEm)
She was a sweet, smart conservative girl. Came home last year and we all met for dinner, and her smugness was off the charts. She proceeded to attempt to put all the adults at the table some knowledge. I *may* have put her some as well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Hope you put her in her place. These kids think that reading half a dozen books every semester and taking an open-book test makes them knowledgeable about everything under the sun.
I have a young advanced degree woman I have to deal with. I prefer to avoid her completely. Her ignorance and arrogance is off the chart.
Ignorance and arrogance is a bad combination when I'm around.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 11:16 AM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:16 AM (flYWz)
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow nor anything else shall stop our Congresscritters from their rounds to erase our rights.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (tVWQB)
school administrators, then I can overlook the existence of the
Department of Education for a short while longer.
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Irony is today daughter and SIL go before the administrators for their Individual Education Plan involving step-granddaughter. I am not optimistic.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (QLvwG)
Sure, they'll protest dumbing down engineering and science courses, to an extent, but they'll also support crap like reparations, hiring quotas for other positions, and so forth.
The thing with STEM subjects is errors in those fields tend to have immediate and fairly obvious consequences. Stuff works, or it doesn't, observations match theories or they don't. This guards STEM against the crazier stuff out there, though I don't think it makes them completely immune to it over time.
The problem is that the most important things in life, including a lot of the unexamined "common sense" assumptions that underlie science, don't fall into STEM fields of inquiry. That doesn't make them unimportant or easy to do well, just easier to get away with doing a bad job.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Upside Down at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (xPJvm)
One of the smartest men in the world, with a command of very complex scientific and mathematical sciences, but when he opened his mouth about politics, there was no doubt that he was also a fool.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (R9+0K)
"How about those packages in Texas? Blowing up? I guess they can't have guns so they are going to use bombs now!"
I just grunted back.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 20, 2018 11:07 AM
I see another one went off last night or early this morning at a FedEx facility in San Antonio.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (uiwCw)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Rob Crawford
To be fair, "they" predicted it would take decades to put them out ...
but no oil wells =/= caldera.
Posted by: Adriane the Fair Critic ... at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (AoK0a)
relieved to know that several Congresscritters are on their way there
now to talk about gun control.
Not Congresscritters, but media whores.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (0tfLf)
incoming snowflakes in our younger STEM hires. I have done a lot of
college recruiting. I can't honestly say I see a higher % of idiots now
than I did 20 years ago. Maybe their idiocy manifests itself in
different ways than it used to?
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (sjdRT)
Are they like the ones my younger brother interviewed? Expecting a 40 hour work-week with weekends off and all ay shift. ALL with a starting salary of $100K/yr. (And this was years ago)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (mpXpK)
How about a 2-3 year degree where you learn your skill and skip the unrelated stuff.
Make college more affordable, cycle students through faster, allowing more students to attend the existing schools.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: R. DUKE at March 20, 2018 11:12 AM
Judging from a cursory perusal of the top DDG results for 800-328-7448, it's an advertising home-base for a pr0n-site, and you will get spammed if you dial it.
Figures.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (ctuyM)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (nFwvY)
Thanks..
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (m0lmR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (KXVP7)
Oh, just bein' in this chair
Don't mean that I don't care
About your cutie pooch's sweet sweet love.
Posted by: Cambridge Steve Hawking at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (W+vEI)
I think KinderCare franchises are gearing up to administer the non-STEM portions of academia. From all indications, potty training needs to be back on the curriculum.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (UPWzt)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (5y11N)
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Maryland? I don't think that's a problem there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (JTMqu)
From what I've seen Hawking was some kind of 'swinger'. If someone thought about it, his ability to not perform, while his wife had actual ability to perform, there's only one word for what he was... cuck.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (gbWkA)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (7HtZB)
[Insert Hope Solo joke here]
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (UBzPO)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (tVWQB)
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Speaking of which, have you looked outside? It has started. I can hear the ice on the windows.
JJ, since your peeps control the weather, or so I hear, can you fix this for us? Thanks.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (bZ7mE)
Just look at Lysenkoism. Even the STEM fields aren't completely immune to the perversion of science for political aims.
When the Leftist sees reality not aligning with his politics, he assumes that reality is wrong.
Their ideology is in every way a mirror image of ours, down to the root. We believe that universal truths can be discovered via observation and experience, they believe that there is no universal truth.
Their ideology stands in opposition to the scientific method, as well as everything we believe in.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (R9+0K)
Yup. I like the schools where it's part-time concentrated classes on specific major/ part-time internships so that you graduate with entry-level experience in your field.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (LiyEm)
_____________________________________
How the MFM will report it:
A teenage student, disillusioned and confused in an age of white privilege and male hegemony, availed himself of the out of control gun culture promoted by Donald Trump and the NRA, thereby derailing any hopes he had for turning his life around and becoming a meaningful voice for The Resistance.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 11:21 AM (ATVNj)
This is the level of deep thinking intellect that our Democratic leaders bring to the table.
"
"Background checks just make common sense to make sure people can and will use a weapon thoughtfully and not dangerously," he told News4."
Can anyone unpack this, and tell me how this relates to reality?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 11:21 AM (EyPfd)
your eyes open for community colleges. They seem to smile upon
instructors with actual real-world experience and not just a lifetime in
academia.
Also, it's my understanding that lots of states offer
some sort of fast-track teaching credential (maybe even degree). You
might have to move or commute, but I bet there is somewhere that would
love to have you. Even better, figure out a way to tie it to a
mathematics degree from a community college and make yourself extra
valuable as someone who can teach two or three wildly different classes.
You may even be able to do the math degree online.
That is a thought or two. Substitute teaching might be a way to ease back into the classroom after 4 1/2 years of construction work, too.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:21 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 11:13 AM (jjaLl)
Shit does come out of black holes. That's a fact we all can attest to.
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:14 AM (7HtZB)
Kind of the opposite. The 'shit' that's been identified is the support that there are such things as black holes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 11:21 AM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 11:21 AM (gbWkA)
Are they like the ones my younger brother
interviewed? Expecting a 40 hour work-week with weekends off and all ay
shift. ALL with a starting salary of $100K/yr. (And this was years ago)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (mpXpK)<
That is a level of entitled idiocy I have never personally witnessed. Even PhD Chemical Engineers right out of school average in the low 90's.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (JTMqu)
No?
I guess you have never driven thru some of the suburbs outside of DC?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (5y11N)
Depends what you want to do in life. I was a business major but I took courses in a lot of unrelated things because at some levels that's how business works.
In my career I've had few conversations with customers, employees and suppliers regarding differential equations but many involving unrelated incidents regarding international relations, history, literature, etc.
The original idea of university was to educate people in a broad spectrum of things to create well rounded individuals. If you just want to learn a trade that's a completely different thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (flYWz)
Posted by: J. Sessions at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (r9UYA)
How about a 2-3 year degree where you learn your skill and skip the unrelated stuff.
Make college more affordable, cycle students through faster, allowing more students to attend the existing schools.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (PNcou)
which is what technical and community colleges do. Which many people, particularly the elites, sneer at.
I have a friend whose daughter number one spent large quantities of money to attend a very expensive four year college for three years, subsequently to drop out and work as a waitress. She didn't know what she wanted to do and after three years , still didn't know.
Daughter number two is almost all the way through year four of expensive college and doesn't know what she wants to do.
If student's had to pay for college themselves upfront or as they go(no loans) a lot of this crap would stop.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (m0lmR)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (7HtZB)
JJ, since your peeps control the weather, or so I hear, can you fix this for us? Thanks.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (oMtOd)<
How much are you supposed to get this time?
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: blaster at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (Z5y53)
of very complex scientific and mathematical sciences, but when
opened his mouth for him about politics, there was no doubt that he was also a
fool.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (R9+0K)
Couldn't resist...
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (jjaLl)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (tVWQB)
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Speaking of which, have you looked outside? It has started. I can hear the ice on the windows.
JJ, since your peeps control the weather, or so I hear, can you fix this for us? Thanks.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (oMtOd)
We control Climate. The "Kohanim" control weather.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (fTKv+)
We might get a foot and a half of snow tomorrow.
Where do I sign up for some of that sweet Global Warming?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (wYseH)
Shit.
Maryland has a HUGE MS-13 gang problem.
Kidnap
Rape
Torture
Murder.
All of it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (EyPfd)
your eyes open for community colleges. They seem to smile upon
instructors with actual real-world experience and not just a lifetime in
academia.
Also check out schools that teach at the local prisons. They always need teachers and it is a surprising interesting gig.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Obama waving from Martha's Vineyard at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (BR6SG)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:24 AM (flYWz)
430 I'm a historian by training and would like to be teaching or something like that, so what you are describing doesn't sound like a good fit for a life-long job. I would be interested in hearing more, though.
My spam-catcher/dead drop email seems to be defunct. Is there some way to contact you? I don't want to post my usual email here because it has my real name in it.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:03 AM (bZ7mE)
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yeah, if you're just looking for work, then it's something to do until you find what you actually want to do.
TheJamesMadison.aos at the gmails
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (9ZlHt)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 20, 2018 11:24 AM (9ZlHt)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 11:24 AM (QLvwG)
A total of 687 men from the Atlanta-class light cruiser died in the attack, including all five Sullivan brothers, whose name has since been given to two Navy warships, most recently the guided missile destroyer The Sullivans (DDG-6
. The first, which served during World War II and the Korean War, is now a museum ship in Buffalo, New York.
After sinking, Juneaus watery resting place remained unknown until two days ago on St. Patricks Day, when the crew of the Research Vessel Petrel, led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, located the wreck nearly 4,200 meters or a distance of 2.6 miles beneath the surface in the South Pacific.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:24 AM (5y11N)
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It's a problem of perspective, too. Every few months, 1 person in a nation of 320,000,000 people does something to 5 people, and the other 320,000,000 people become terrified and demand someone "do something" as the 24/7 news media talks about it for two weeks.
Because we're a nation of idiots, mostly.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:24 AM (JTMqu)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Lizzy
Smartest kid I ever taught* was actually recruited by a big aerospace contractor to do a year internship *before* college. They definitely wanted him, and wanted him to take classes in what would help him in his career. Interesting concept.
* Just unimaginably smart for his age.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: josephistan
He can always branch of into something else.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (TUUTu)
Where do I sign up for some of that sweet Global Warming?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (wYseH)
Yeah Sigh....Drinks may have to be t 8AM or another day? LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (sjdRT)
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Depends who you talk to, but I think around 5" here. Which I know is "summer" for you, but pretty unusual for us this time of year.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (oMtOd)
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Finding the lost ship of the Sullivans on St. Patrick's Day?
Wow.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (ATVNj)
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Another irony today (in a day filled with such) is my youngest kidlet has been interviewing. Female, civil engineer, scholar, worked her way through school, and now she is worried that all her hard work is just because she is a pretty girl.
Gah.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (MIKMs)
personally witnessed. Even PhD Chemical Engineers right out of school
average in the low 90's.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (sjdRT)
My brother has a PhD in Chemistry and he was doing interviews for the firm he works at in GA. He said most of the people he interviewed right out of college were like that. They had been brainwashed by the colleges.
Where I worked the average new hire Engineer straight out of college came in at around $40K (15 years ago).
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (mpXpK)
How about a 2-3 year degree where you learn your skill and skip the unrelated stuff.
Make college more affordable, cycle students through faster, allowing more students to attend the existing schools.
One problem is that some of those unrelated degrees are actually remedial classes for basic stuff they didn't learn in high school. When I was a teaching assistant back in grad school, World History 101 and 102 were as much about teaching the basics of writing and research as they were ensuring that the students wouldn't end up with a B.A. without knowing who Socrates was.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (mpXpK)
I dunno ' ...
... when I turned out - it seemed like I was supposed to be grateful to work six days a week and on-call 24/7 - for less than anybody that was asking me what to do. And for a couple years ... I guess I was.
But being the guy expected to have all the answers, solve all the problems, take shit from both labor and management, AND work salaried for the least amount of money got old.
Being expected to "pay my dues" sure started to look more like "fix all our problems that we don't understand, for cheap, because we say so".
So ... I don't begrudge the upstarts for getting a better deal. Wish I would have had the good sense to do the same.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (u8gOg)
Posted by: ejochs at March 20, 2018 11:01 AM (z1MNB)
Well, his last podcast was a warning against computers taking over the world. Basically a doom-mongering warning about technology by a guy who relied on technology for every single thing he did and said for about 40 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (BfOXk)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (r9UYA)
First time the bomber didn't hand place the bomb if it is the same person.
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:18 AM (LiyEm)
My Two cents on the bomber.
He's trying real hard to be random. Real hard. Like "Look, I'm Random!"
What does it mean?
I don't know.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (ymnmz)
Just recently received their newsletter/paper that described a new automotive tech program being run jointly by the college and GM. Student's are literally guaranteed a job when they graduate.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (m0lmR)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (tVWQB)
Hoping they use AMTRAK.
Posted by: auscolpyr at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (suO/a)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Seven Browsers, all different at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (roQNm)
Posted by: blaster at March 20, 2018 11:23 AM (Z5y53)
You can't make this shit up.
Oh, wait. Sure you can.
Welcome to modern Physics.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (BfOXk)
1. The end of 'big' college athletics. The 'Studies' universities would never put up with spending money on athletics and the basketball and football players, for the most part, would never go to a STEM school.
2. Initially, most large universities would go 'Studies'. But as they became more and more irrelevant, some would try to go STEM.
3. It would be very interesting to see which disciplines might try to argue that they are STEM, or which disciplines would argue they are a unique category that would also need to be separate.
4. Donations from Alumni and support from States would be interesting to watch. I suspect many of the 'Studies' universities would get support from left wing organizations but not so much from alumni. Money from states would depend a lot on where the schools were located.
In general, I suspect it would accelerate the march to anarchy in the 'Studies' schools and might save STEM schools from the same.
Posted by: JB1000 at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (16OL0)
student shooter, neutralizing gate threat in a timely manner, preventing
additional injuries or fatalities.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 11:15 AM (EyPfd)
In other words, what should have happened at Parkland, and didn't, because, cowardice. (Both personal and institutional.)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Stephen Hawking's groom of the stool at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (xzqr4)
Which I know is "summer" for you, but pretty unusual for us this time
of year.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (oMtOd)<
If I start driving my tractor right now, I could get there in a month or so. Probably won't need me to clear your snow by then.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Texas FBI at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (5y11N)
I'm drinking tonight. Feel like trying that dive bar in Paramus, near Lord and Taylor?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
Those teachers, and any administrators who were aware or who saw it and did nothing, should be fired immediately.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (JTMqu)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Eric Clapton at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (k1TUh)
self-promoter, and I suspect that his physics suffered accordingly."
yeah, I suspect that as well, but I'm not close to being able to examine his science. But Einstein had said he saw an intelligence behind the universe, though he thought a personal God was silly. He also thought atheism was basically a juvenile reaction to religion, thinking it is far beyond the human mind to understand such depths.
(that is paraphrased, but I think gets the essence)
To me Einstein could see the intelligence behind his realm of math and physics. But then why would there not also be an "intelligence" behind life and awareness? In a sense, why would our sense of self and family or community, not actually be the point of creating the realm of math and physics?
But indeed the "world" of pedo island and Whoreywood is the juvenile rebuke of our more religious forefathers. Acting Out is most of history. Rebelling against God goes back to the first bright and morning star.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:04 AM (nFwvY)
*announcer voice*: "In sad sports news today, baseball legend Lou Gehrig has passed away . . . from Lou Gehrig's disease."
Talk about long odds.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (BfOXk)
And also, physical chemistry II, which almost was an effective bulwark against me.
.
Hey now, stop the whitepatriarchydogwhistle talk. You know that those subjects are just arbitrary constructs to hold women down.
.
Just ask the folks who designed the Miami pedestrian bridge.
Posted by: FireNWater at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (TJHBY)
But at one point one of them said socialism would be the ideal system if it could be made to work.
I was too tired to explain why I think that's wrong but capitalism has done more good for the human race than socialism ever has, or ever will.
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: DocCreep at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (NXYW+)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
I'll call you later
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:25 AM (r9UYA)
"Spoke?" Not so much...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
Today, the #1 intended major of applicants is engineering. Not kidding. I went to the Division of Engineering; today that is the School of Engineering. The new buildings - and inhabitants - are still on the edge of the campus universe in every way.
BTW, I'm still working at my own company - granted at a more desultory pace.
Posted by: chuckR at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (9qifp)
Nice and sunny this morn, looks like the Weather Jews are being kind today.
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Consider it a mitzvah.
Posted by: Cirrus Silverberg at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (r9UYA)
At least he passed away before he could be incinerated by Venusian temperatures due to Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accords.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (sjdRT)
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Thanks, bro, but I think we'll be good. We won't even need to break out the snow blower for this one. I actually love snow but past March 15, not so much.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Rosie Palm at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (P6KKD)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (/LX46)
Posted by: IC at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (a0IVu)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
I'll call you later
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (5y11N)
What is this; pay-me-no-mind week? Not that I can get there anyway.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (rnAwa)
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It looks like a really cool military park, with several museum ships, but why does it have to be in Buffalo?
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:31 AM (7HtZB)
Hawkings was presumably brilliant as folks like DeGrasse Tyson say he
was. What, exactly, was his contribution? I'm not being a smartass-what
did he do?
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Part of his problem was not knowing when he wasn't saying smart stuff. Worse was doing it after accomplishing the real stuff.
It was just last year that he said something like Trump was going to increase volcanic activity and destroy the planet.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:31 AM (JTMqu)
Interesting!
Northeastern has a program w/internships.
Also, when my brother went to culinary school he chose one that offered a 2 year program, which alternated 1 semester concentrated classes (successive 3wk courses on one subject at a time), 1 semester internship. He loved it. Also, since cooking is a skill, it makes sense that a trade school type model worked well.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (LiyEm)
Everything will be better now.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (r9UYA)
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They better bring their own yellow tape. They can't borrow ours!
Posted by: The Windbreaker FBI at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (ATVNj)
Went to it many times when I lived in B-lo, it is cool.
It's right near where the Sabres play. We used to go down there before games and then walk over to the arena.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (Dn4Uq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
I'll call you later
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (5y11N)
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Shouldn't you two be doing this on Tinder or something?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:11 AM (7HtZB)
One of the things I saw on programs involving interviews of Hawking is that the end result does not take into account the hours/weeks of work to create that not-quite half hour or hour.
The finished product shows the interviewer asking a question, followed by Hawking in his chair and his voice box answering.
Things were submitted well in advance, and it took hours for him to letter by letter or oft-used-word by word for each two to three minute reply.
It certainly could have lent itself to input from others who cared for him, as anyone can press the same buttons.
I've no doubt many who watched the interviews with him never thought of the time-lapse being protrayed
Posted by: barbarausa at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (ru28e)
What is this; pay-me-no-mind week? Not that I can get there anyway.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
Hey you can sleep over
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (dKiJG)
On the Lexington discovery, many are still waiting for more imagery of the aircraft. The F4F-3 Wildcat F-5 of Lt. Gaylor, if Allen's team releases any images of the tail, just might in fact be Medal of Honor winner Butch O'Hare's plane F-13.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (flYWz)
Shall I send you the 9-12" we're expecting tomorrow?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (W+vEI)
I'm drinking tonight. Feel like trying that dive bar in Paramus, near Lord and Taylor?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
I'll call you later
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (5y11N)
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Shouldn't you two be doing this on Tinder or something?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (oMtOd)<
Bow Chicka Wow Wow!
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:34 AM (sjdRT)
I have a package arriving today, with tracking number.
USPS tracking shows status as delivered on my front porch.
Time stamp for that is an hour and 20 minutes in the future. My conclusion is scanning stuff as it goes on the truck at the post office as delivered so the stats for the month look better.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 20, 2018 11:34 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 20, 2018 11:34 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: The Russians at March 20, 2018 11:34 AM (ATVNj)
Went to it many times when I lived in B-lo, it is cool.
It's right near where the Sabres play. We used to go down there before games and then walk over to the arena.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (Dn4Uq)
Maybe I'll go see a Flyers/Sabres game & check it out some day.
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (7HtZB)
I am afraid that is changing for the worst with every generation. Of course a lot of it is a result of SJW demands.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (4lzWT)
What is this; pay-me-no-mind week? Not that I can get there anyway.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
Hey you can sleep over
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (5y11N)<
Wow. NSFW.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (sjdRT)
Re: The guy drinking wine on St. Patrick Day out a detergent box. That
is wrong. There is no drinking wine on St. Patrick Day! Irish whiskey
and beer only, please. Thank you!
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (gbWkA)
Husband was invited to the Hibernian Society banquet. Black tie, no wimmins. A bottle of Irish whiskey on each table.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (W+vEI)
The Paolo, he has that covered.
Posted by: The Paolo at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (7HtZB)
all our problems that we don't understand, for cheap, because we say
so".
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM
But look at all the character it built.
And, in the end, AoSHQ got the ScoggDog Scale(tm).
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (ctuyM)
So Hawking was into hawking ... his books? I'd always assumed there was a difference between his serious stuff and the later popular stuff, like the "universe came from nothing" book.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (/qEW2)
@RealDonaldTrump 5m
Yay farmers?
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (r9UYA)
If you believe that, I have a bridge for sale that you may be interested in.
Yes, it's in Florida...
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (di1hb)
It's escape causes black holes to slowly, at first, then faster as they get smaller, to disappear. It limits the lifespan of a black hole depending on how large it was when it was created. He came up with this when he was young and then would have spent his life working out the details wherever they led but ALS effected his work.
I also suspect that much of his later 'work" was more his keepers putting their words/ideas out as coming from him since that way they could have more influence in the world. Sad.
Posted by: geoffb at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (zOpu5)
Hey you can sleep over
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (5y11N)
Wow. NSFW.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (sjdRT)
I know, right?! And he's got a can of Bat Gas too!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: The other seven Ivy Leagues at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (wYseH)
How about a 2-3 year degree where you learn your skill and skip the unrelated stuff.
Oh, the screeching from the non-STEM hacks if you cause this to happen!
Muh rice bowl!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (UPWzt)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:28 AM (wYseH)
I'll call you later
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (5y11N)
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Shouldn't you two be doing this on Tinder or something?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:32 AM (oMtOd)
Grindr.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Zombie Ben Franklin at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (7HtZB)
@RealDonaldTrump 5m
Yay farmers?
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (r9UYA)
Hope he doesn't mean Farmers Insurance.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:33 AM (W+vEI)
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I know, Lizzy, and I'm sorry! We've learned not to even mention it to my daughter any more because all we get back is a terse "I don't want to talk about it," lol.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (/qEW2)
He can just ramble on...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (fTKv+)
Not sure what Hawking was famous for exactly... I guess he wrote a book that explained physics or space in layman's terms.... I do know that some genius plumber or mechanic proved him wrong though. Saw it in a short documentary.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (r+sAi)
I guess you have never driven thru some of the suburbs outside of DC?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (5y11N)
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That was very much a joke. My favorite part of Maryland was viewed in the rearview mirror.
What I found fascinating about DC was you could be on one block of nice, wealthy homes, and one block later right in the middle of the ghetto with homeless crackheads trying to wash your car windows. And somehow they weren't mixing. I never could figure that out.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (JTMqu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (k1TUh)
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GFY
Posted by: Zombie Ben Franklin at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (7HtZB)
Well, 90 percent were farmers.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (bZ7mE)
status that the Hospital wants and they can only have so many 2 year
degrees. Luckily it's not costing us anything but it's so dumb.
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The winnowing. Engineering has a huuuuge dropout rate, same with BSRN. Hard science and classwork.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (MIKMs)
and beer only, please. Thank you!
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 11:19 AM (gbWkA)
Husband was invited to the Hibernian Society banquet. Black tie, no wimmins. A bottle of Irish whiskey on each table.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (ptqGC)
Then there's the Hyborean banquet, where they release a wild boar into the hall and you have to kill it with spears if you want to eat.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:36 AM (fTKv+)<
Well, in his line of work, I'm not shocked.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (NWiLs)
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Whoops. I'm not really up to date on this stuff. Thank goodness.
Although I'm learning a lot right on this here thread.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (UPWzt)
@RealDonaldTrump 5m
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You don't have to be lonely....
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (gC2IV)
LOL...Sometimes you have to hit me with a 2 X 4
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (nFwvY)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
PATH --> Hoboken --> Ridgewood.
I'll pick you up at the station.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:37 AM (NWiLs)
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Whoops. I'm not really up to date on this stuff. Thank goodness.
Although I'm learning a lot right on this here thread.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:39 AM (oMtOd)
I know about a lot of things that I really wish I didn't.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:35 AM (ptqGC)
Despite having socialist undertones to it, "The Molly Maguires" is an outstanding movie that not many people know of.
Sean Connery and Richard Harris excel
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (fTKv+)
So they believe in something completely unknown because they see its effects, but scold those that believe in God, because they see His effects. And God has been written about for thousands of years.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (bT8Z4)
I think he means sweet farm subsidies. Especially ethanol. We'll see.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (wYseH)
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Okay, Insomniac, help us out. That's some kind of code, right?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM (fTKv+)
PATH --> Hoboken --> Ridgewood.
I'll pick you up at the station.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (wYseH)
Just over a cold, how to explain to wifey and I have to prepare the Morning News.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (fTKv+)
November 13th, 1942, the lead ship of the anti-aircraft cruiser class USS Atlanta herself was lost in a night engagement with the Japanese as they tried to retake Guadalcanal.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (flYWz)
Posted by: Rosie Palm at March 20, 2018 11:30 AM
Frictional physics = tribology
Pulsating fluid flow = fluid dynamics
Generally both are pursued as a specialty on the graduate level.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: The Paolo
*fans self*
Now tell be about your 'storm surge', hon!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (rnAwa)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:40 AM (wYseH)
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Okay, Insomniac, help us out. That's some kind of code, right?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (oMtOd)
The Station is a leather daddy bar in Hoboken.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (NWiLs)
Just over a cold, how to explain to wifey and I have to prepare the Morning News.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (fTKv+)<
Man up Sefton.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (sjdRT)
I think so as well. I also think that were he perfectly healthy in his life, no one would have ever heard of the name Stephen Hawking.
I also suspect that much of his later 'work" was more his keepers putting their words/ideas out as coming from him since that way they could have more influence in the world.
I think it would be a hilarious skit on SNL to have Hawking wheeled out onto a stage and him trying frustratedly to talk while his talk box spits out stuff that was programmed into it. I doubt he had much input at all into what he said at public appearances.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:43 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2018 11:43 AM (OLCnA)
It's always possible that in 100 years or so, some new thinkers will come up with an entirely different model explanation for our observations that works better than what we have now, and will look back at us the same way that we look back at Greek and Roman soothsayers. (okay even they were probably better than our current batch of pollsters)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 20, 2018 11:43 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2018 11:43 AM (OLCnA)
Regulate, like with a cloth?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:29 AM (sjdRT)
Unfortunately I can't post the long message I received about Danica from my friend yesterday because the blog hates that kind of thing. But I can say that Danica is apparently doing very, very well as a result of her new non-surgical treatment, so much so that she is able to leave the hospital off and on with her parents and little brother and enjoy life a tiny bit before going back.
Thank you for your prayers, Horde, and please keep it up. Someone is listening.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (BfOXk)
The fuzzy types can get the hell off my lawn!
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (NWiLs)
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Sounds legit.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (oMtOd)
What are the odds, huh?
Posted by: Lou Gehrig at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (QQ+il)
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people - SJW tech tools!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:17 AM (bZ7mE)
Just look at Lysenkoism. Even the STEM fields aren't completely immune to the perversion of science for political aims.
When the Leftist sees reality not aligning with his politics, he assumes that reality is wrong.
...
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 20, 2018 11:20 AM (R9+0K)"
Don't forget about "wreckers", "kulaks", and "enemies of the people".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (e11dj)
It looks like a really cool military park, with several museum ships, but why does it have to be in Buffalo?
The Great Lakes has a rich shipbuilding history
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (lKyWE)
received about Danica from my friend yesterday because the blog hates
that kind of thing. But I can say that Danica is apparently doing very,
very well as a result of her new non-surgical treatment, so much so
that she is able to leave the hospital off and on with her parents and
little brother and enjoy life a tiny bit before going back.
Thank you for your prayers, Horde, and please keep it up. Someone is listening.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (BfOXk)<
Thank you for the amazingly good news!!
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (sjdRT)
Just saw a thing on YouTube about white holes. Now I have to go find and watch.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (fTKv+)
See thread on this (w/ physicists comments more or less agreeing): https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=851059
Posted by: Doggie at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (B7wXY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (ptqGC)
We're getting Jooo snow at the moment with more threatened over the next 24+ hours.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (UPWzt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:41 AM (fTKv+)
Actual content?
You are spoiling them!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (oMtOd)
That's great. Nice to hear some good news.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (NWiLs)
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Sounds legit.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM (oMtOd)
Hobo Ken is a Barbie doll that didn't make the cut.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (fTKv+)
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:05 AM (oMtOd)
I thought I read recently that the original Gun Free School Act was sponsored by Joe Biden when he was in the Senate. Does anybody know about that? I'm curious but not curious enough to try to look it up.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (xjiRE)
types? Take away their calculators and hand them slide rules. They can
go back to calculators when they are gainfully employed in their fields.
The fuzzy types can get the hell off my lawn!
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 11:44 AM
No better way to learn about the precision of data.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (ctuyM)
Cry me a river
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (5y11N)
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Never heard of it. If anyone goes, please do me a favor and write my number on the bathroom stall.
Posted by: Shep! at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (O2RFr)
It won't be easy for them since math does not lend itself to irrational thinking, but they will persist until they win. The only way they won't succeed is if the normals put a stop to the nonsense and NEVER let down their guard.
NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.
Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (/A+Cl)
LOL yeah dark matter. That stuff that is undetectable, unobservatble, and never demonstrated, but must exist in order to prove certain theories. The leading edge of physics has devolved into the realms of late 18th century medicine and mapmaking: here there be dragons.
We're at the practical limits of what we can know through proper science and its become just fancy speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:48 AM (/LX46)
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Never heard of it. If anyone goes, please do me a favor and write my number on the bathroom stall.
Posted by: Shep! at March 20, 2018 11:47 AM (vg8iE)
Your number has been there for ages? what no calls?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:48 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:48 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 11:46 AM (fTKv+)
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Yes, that also sounds legit. I think you're wise to avoid getting mixed up with those guys on the other side of the river.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:48 AM (oMtOd)
Local Prog fish wrap writer has made friends with a Prog couple newly moved here from Boston.
They're virtue signalling like hell:
Visit one of the more dangerous hoods because DIVERSITY: Check
Attend local African American Baptist Church occasionally: Check
Wife joined in local Wymyns' March: Check
Joined all the local Prog groups (including something called Drinking Liberally): Check
Bless their hearts.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 11:48 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (r9UYA)
Great news
God be praised.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (39g3+)
They consume everything, and I mean everything. Social media accounts, news stories, yearbooks, criminal records, etc.
It's a hoot when some of these kids come in with sanitized or overstated resumes. We had a few who were quite the active radical leftists, perhaps communists in college. Rejected. Nobody wants that trouble. Even our left leaning HR fools.
Same for overstated resumes claiming all types of BS.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (VpIIl)
calculators and hand them slide rules. They can go back to calculators
when they are gainfully employed in their fields.
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LOL.
Another soninlaw, a nephew, and a daughter are all graduating this May in Engineering (mechanical, chemical and civil). I just looked on Amazon to try to find basic slide rules for grad gifts. Whoah, Nellie, a lot more than I remembered for basic slipstick.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (MIKMs)
Stevie played himself playing poker with Newton, Einstein and an android in a popular television series.
Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (2Mnv1)
We're getting Jooo snow at the moment with more threatened over the next 24+ hours.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 11:45 AM (UPWzt)
MDMA?
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (/LX46)
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Pi at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (gC2IV)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 11:50 AM (Dn4Uq)
Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2018 11:50 AM (8b+oT)
come up with an entirely different model explanation for our
observations that works better than what we have now, and will look back
at us the same way that we look back at Greek and Roman soothsayers.
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The family and I just watched a TV show discussing some sort of nettle, and talking at length about how scientists can't figure out how one plant can make one patch of skin itch after one contact.
Stay tuned for our new program, "Global Warming and How We're Going to Fix It!"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:50 AM (LV5XU)
I guess you have never driven thru some of the suburbs outside of DC?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:22 AM (5y11N)
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That was very much a joke. My favorite part of Maryland was viewed in the rearview mirror.
What I found fascinating about DC was you could be on one block of nice, wealthy homes, and one block later right in the middle of the ghetto with homeless crackheads trying to wash your car windows. And somehow they weren't mixing. I never could figure that out.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:38 AM (JTMqu)
Maryland outside of the DC and Baltimore areas is actually quite nice, especially out west toward WVA and PA. I wish those counties could secede. Near DC, places like Bethesda and Potomac are wealthy and everything else is sliding into slums. The less said about Bawlmer, the better.
Posted by: Cambridge Steve Hawking at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: JB1000 at March 20, 2018 11:27 AM (16OL0)
Except that "Big" college athletics is self supporting. Yes, it's true. All of the big universities with major athletic departments do so with the departments as a separate entity.
I'll use my own alma mater, Ohio State, as an example. The athletic department is organized as a separate department within the university complex, required to be self sustaining and taxed as a 501 c corporation. For quite a few years now, the athletic department , with a billion dollar budget, is fully self sustaining( football, basketball and to some extent, hockey revenues not only support those programs, but also support all the other varsity sports such as field hockey, swimming, volleyball, etc. ). Ohio State has made enough profit over the last few years that it has donated (yes, donated, because the athletic department is a separate budget from the university) to Ohio State University enough money to fund quite a few scholarships for the general student population.
Also, only 2% of all student athletes go on to the pros from college. About 5% of football players, about 3% of basketball. The other 95% go on to careers outside of playing sports. And there are quite a few who are in STEM fields.
Recent study showed that for the power five conferences, Business majors were #1, followed by Kinesiolgy and sports medicine, then Journalism. Engneering was sixth on the list.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM (m0lmR)
Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM (4ClVL)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 11:52 AM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Rob Crawford
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Nuclear Winter!
Thousands of American troops will be slain!
Posted by: NPR at March 20, 2018 11:52 AM (QxXRY)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 20, 2018 11:52 AM (9BLnV)
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I notice they moved to the area but only visited that part of town. Strange.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:52 AM (LV5XU)
Dark Matter to explain why there is more gravity than there should be.
Dark Energy to explain why expansion is accelerating.
these are cheat codes. something is being missed. my theory is that the universe is a gold making scheme. it's just a little too coincidental that the cosmos produces gold from baser elements.
Posted by: x at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (nFwvY)
Posted by: Rob Crawford
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Nuclear Winter!
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Bullshit.
Posted by: Red Adair at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (QxXRY)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (3M4WN)
Carl Sagan
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (LiyEm)
I read up on the Molly Maguires years ago and thought it'd make for a great movie. I saw the flick later and liked it.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (n+6mJ)
Just go away Willard. Far away.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Cambridge Steve Hawking at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM (RD7QR)
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Is it any wonder that city is what it is? I mean, they have the National Museum of Dentistry there. What kind of weirdo would ever want to visit that chamber of horrors?
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (oMtOd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Don't worry. We'll balance it out with some Dark Energy.
Which is also undetectable, unobservatble, and never demonstrated, but must exist in order to prove certain theories... So, um...
Who wants fudge!!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (KXVP7)
We're odd, we're mod, we don't believe in god!
OK, our protest chant needs work.
Posted by: Odd Numbers at March 20, 2018 11:53 AM (Dn4Uq)
Posted by: Rob Crawford
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Thousands of American troops will be slain!
Posted by: NPR
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Heh.
Posted by: Stormin' Norman at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (FJXGr)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (VpIIl)
calculators and hand them slide rules. They can go back to calculators
when they are gainfully employed in their fields.
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LOL.
Another soninlaw, a nephew, and a daughter are all graduating this May in Engineering (mechanical, chemical and civil). I just looked on Amazon to try to find basic slide rules for grad gifts. Whoah, Nellie, a lot more than I remembered for basic slipstick.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 11:49 AM (MIKMs)
I inherited a pair from my Dad, who went to school in the mid-'50s. I once even sat down to learn how to use them, then realized why I had a BA rather than a BS.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: chuckR at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (9qifp)
That's a big crabcake.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (3M4WN)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 20, 2018 11:55 AM (o7tuA)
Absolutely agree. Two words: New Math. It F'ed up my math classes for years.
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 11:55 AM (V+03K)
prediction that Saddam's oil well fires would plunge the Gulf into years
without summers.<<<
Reefer madness.
Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Six at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (NWiLs)
Is it any wonder that city is what it is? I mean, they have the National Museum of Dentistry there. What kind of weirdo would ever want to visit that chamber of horrors?
Posted by: bluebell
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NGU is NOT a weirdo.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (FJXGr)
Two students shot. Shooter killed.
Trump is right. The schools need to be hardened. Teachers or "resource officers," who cares?
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (5OEn4)
little too coincidental that the cosmos produces gold from baser
elements.
We denounce this heretic for his obviously true statements which we categorically deny!
Posted by: The Illuminati at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (VpIIl)
Fufk ofth, man!
Posted by: Mike Tyson at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (7HtZB)
NGU is NOT a weirdo.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (FJXGr)
Oh yeah I am
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (5y11N)
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That's a big crabcake.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (3M4WN)
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It's on US-14 just before the Sheetz.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (LV5XU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (FJXGr)
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You obviously haven't read the conversation upthread.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (oMtOd)
As proved recently by a police officer in a school stopping a school shooter:
http://tinyurl.com/y7s38xw9
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (39g3+)
example.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM
I heard on TV that the correct way to refer to the school is The Ohio State. What's up with that?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Fauxcahontas at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (Dn4Uq)
Posted by: Bud Abbott at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (5y11N)
I went to an air show there last year, but wasn't able to see the air museum
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (7HtZB)
LOL yeah dark matter. That stuff that is undetectable, unobservatble, and never demonstrated, but must exist in order to prove certain theories. The leading edge of physics has devolved into the realms of late 18th century medicine and mapmaking: here there be dragons.
We're at the practical limits of what we can know through proper science and its become just fancy speculation.
Sounds like a paradigm shift in the making.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (EyPfd)
example.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM
I heard on TV that the correct way to refer to the school is The Ohio State. What's up with that?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (ctuyM)
To annoy the ever living hell out of the rest of the country.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (/LX46)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:59 AM (LV5XU)
example.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 11:51 AM
I heard on TV that the correct way to refer to the school is The Ohio State. What's up with that?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (ctuyM)
To annoy the ever living hell out of the rest of the country.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (/LX46)
And you have to really make the "the" pop...
THE Ohio State
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 11:58 AM (/LX46)
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THE rest of THE country.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (LV5XU)
Absolutely agree. Two words: New Math. It F'ed up my math classes for years.
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 11:55 AM (V+03K)
Yeppers. When I taught SPED and the kids had trouble with New Math I would show them my "Math Magic" which was Old Math. They caught on quickly. May not help them back in Gen Ed. class. but in the real world it would.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (o7tuA)
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What happened to him?
resource officer shot him.... or at least at him... Not clear if he killed him or he decided to kill himself after being confronted by the officer
Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: test at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 11:43 AM (39g3+)
Is there any evidence Obama was actually thinking about what he was reading on his teleprompter?
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (nBr1j)
Seven scares me.
Posted by: Six at March 20, 2018 11:56 AM (NWiLs)
Why is that, six?
Posted by: Bud Abbott at March 20, 2018 11:57 AM (jjaLl)
Because 7 ate 9?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 12:01 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:01 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at March 20, 2018 12:01 PM (IcT7t)
Not clear if he killed him or he decided to kill himself after being
confronted by the officer
Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (O2RFr)
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Unpossible! Guns don't stop violence!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:01 PM (LV5XU)
Yes, Facebook security issues have been well-known for years - it's just the idea that *gasp* TRUMP!!! exploited those to allegedly win the presidency that has them freaking out.
Kinda like how Apple is worshipped despite their devices made in China via virtual slave labor. They can live with that knowledge because COOL tech! Now....if, say, it was discovered Jared Kushner had holdings in a Chines Apple device-making plant that made him millions the Lefty mob would be shocked, shocked to learn about Americans making money off the backs of poorly treated Chinese workers and demand Congressional hearings ASAP.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: 11 at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (EyPfd)
Europe), big precast sections - what seems to distinguish this walkway
is the rapid deployment, tragically too rapid. Its up to NTSB to figure
out what went wrong. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a
handsome bridge; Pier Luigi Nervi's bridges for example.
Posted by: chuckR at March 20, 2018 11:54 AM (9qifp)
There is nothing inherently wrong with cable-stayed bridges, and they now seem to be the design of choice for long, high bridges. But that design is massive overkill for a flippin' pedestrian overpass. Five tons per lineal foot!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (nBr1j)
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Him introducing himself was one of the high points in Smartest President Ever moments.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (LV5XU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (4lzWT)
Posted by: MSM at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (n+6mJ)
They had Facebook executives telling people they just gave the data to Obama's campaign years ago and crickets. But now, it's a crisis.
Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (lKmt3)
Indeed. I've caught a couple of the younger mice's friends and associates casting wanton glances at my... er, "older" sticks.
Hmmm.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (Dn4Uq)
people put stuff about themselves out in the public on FB ( Yeah me to )
and then get upset when it is shared?
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I don't facebook or use any other social media, but it's disturbingly clever to know that your data can be mined off of your "friend's" agreement.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:04 PM (LV5XU)
Hmmm.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (7LY+6)
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Okay, I think that needs to go to Tinder too.
Posted by: bluebell at March 20, 2018 12:04 PM (oMtOd)
Nope. In fact it was pretty clear he was not, because of how he pronounced unfamiliar words and would read anything on the screen no matter what it was... and become helpless once it was not on the screen.
Because he didn't know what the train of thought was or how to continue extemporaneously, he just had spent years developing a specific speaking style that he could fall into no matter what he was reading.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:04 PM (39g3+)
Wait, Carl Sagan was an alias?
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (Dn4Uq)
Alien.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 20, 2018 12:04 PM (o7tuA)
Indeed. Folks put stuff out in public, then are *gasp* amazed when others look and comment.
What is Facetwitmypage's product again?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:05 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:59 AM (LV5XU)
Sudden-onset lead poisoning?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:05 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Jerry Carroll at March 20, 2018 12:05 PM (SYCeT)
Show me a protest timed for 8:00AM on a Saturday, where kids would have to wake up on a weekend, and then give up a few hours, and then maybe there's some There there.
Wow, a "protest" that allowed kids to duck out of class, and the kids showed up? Yeah, that's impressive.
Posted by: RobM1981 at March 20, 2018 12:05 PM (VVBN7)
just gave the data to Obama's campaign years ago and crickets. But now,
it's a crisis.
Posted by: Maritime at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (lKmt3)
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I hope some of Trump's Midas touch gets to work and people begin asking how that wasn't a multi-billion dollar donation to Obama and the (D)s.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:05 PM (LV5XU)
Posted by: John Brennan at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (nBr1j)
I inherited a pair from my Dad, who went to school in the mid-'50s. I
once even sat down to learn how to use them, then realized why I had a
BA rather than a BS.
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Yeah, I'm a BritLitTwit, but to pass HS Physics had to show basic competence in calculations by slide. (Took Physics rather than Bio - no I'm not cutting animals up -- and Chem - no I'm not memorizing the atomic tables.)
Dayum, the basic $10 slide (in the early 70s) is now beyond what anyone can afford. Those basic HP calculators made a difference.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:07 PM (EyPfd)
The Russians should have hacked Obama's teleprompter. They could have had him talking like Elmer Fudd or Daffy Duck.
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (nBr1j)
Judging by his speeches I assume they did.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:07 PM (lKyWE)
I know lots and lots of engineers and
scientists. I know none who think this way. Thinking of everyone I have
worked with over the last 30 years, the population of engineers and
scientists I know skews heavily conservative. I'm not saying there are
zero people like this in the world, just making an observation.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 20, 2018 11:09 AM (sjdRT)"
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Yes but every software "coder" I've worked with is off the charts SJW. They don't really deal with reality. Even the guys making machines. Now the PLC guys are like engineers....well because they are.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 20, 2018 12:07 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:07 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: x
thanks, I contemplated saying dark energy instead of dark matter ... brain flipped a coin since I don't understand either really. lol
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (bT8Z4)
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So a guy with a gun who was on site and with no need to run to his car to retrieve a weapon saved a woman from certain death.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (LV5XU)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (sCN2W)
Posted by: Blue Moon at March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (o7tuA)
Yeah, that's what I've done for the boy. Common core crap tries to teach the tricks, but doesn't teach the basics, so the kids learn exactly nothing. So, my kid could do long division in 2nd grade. Because I taught him to. Finally got the teacher to agree that however he gets the answer is okay.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (7UW64)
But they should name the guy that stopped it and raise him to hero status.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (5OEn4)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns
Assaulted with a Rifle
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (FZYNt)
It has just begun to snow here.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (xjiRE)
I just think its hilarious Facebook is tanking and there's even talk of Zuckerberg stepping down all because a Trump aligned firm was able to purchase their data.
Where is the outrage about FB basically constructing the world's largest facial recognition database? My idiot DiL insists on IDing each and every photo of the two g'kids. They will curse her for that, eventually.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (UPWzt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (Dbv1R)
Maybe FIU has lots of fat chicks....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (wYseH)
WSJ doing their best to keep the fact an SRO shot and killed the asshole before he could do more damage by posting another Stormy article.
The narrative is being created the shooter "really was not going to kill anyone else". SO- really not a mass shooting event.
*makes jerking motion with hand*
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 12:10 PM (VpIIl)
end up with a B.A. without knowing who Socrates was.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 11:26 AM (bZ7mE)
He invented hemlock, right?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2018 12:10 PM (XWkhW)
I inherited a pair from my Dad, who went to school in the mid-'50s. I
once even sat down to learn how to use them, then realized why I had a
BA rather than a BS.
=====
Yeah, I'm a BritLitTwit, but to pass HS Physics had to show basic competence in calculations by slide. (Took Physics rather than Bio - no I'm not cutting animals up -- and Chem - no I'm not memorizing the atomic tables.)
Dayum, the basic $10 slide (in the early 70s) is now beyond what anyone can afford. Those basic HP calculators made a difference.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (MIKMs)
I also inherited his Sears "pocket" calculator (it's actually enormous). One of the first electronic calculators to go on the market. I've seen old ads -- they were ridiculously expensive but Dad loved new toys (I inherited that gene). It still works too. Wonder if it's worth anything.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 12:10 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:06 PM (nBr1j)
"Corpthe-men!" -- Barky
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:10 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 20, 2018 12:00 PM (nBr1j)"
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NONE.
Remember when he read the Irish PM's speech for a couple of minutes? He thanked himself and the USA for having him and would have read the whole thing except the Irish PM says, "I think you are reading my speech." IIRC, Obama, super genius, never read his speech because they couldn't load it fast enough.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (pw+jk)
The bleeding stopped.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
So he's stable?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (VpIIl)
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Just like Benghazi. There was no need to send help while it was occurring because help wouldn't have gotten there in time.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (LV5XU)
Went 'round and 'round w/skool idiots on this. "Tiles" and "estimates" and ... never a mathematically correct answer.
Twatwaffles in HS "maths" who can't solve for "X", but are willing to lecture me 'cause they've got edjumication degreez.
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:11 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (sCN2W)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (5y11N)
Posted by: Kick murder squads inc at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (Sp1NT)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Soona at March 20, 2018 12:13 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2018 12:13 PM (5y11N)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:02 PM (Dbv1R)
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Maybe FIU has
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 12:13 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 12:13 PM (VpIIl)
It has just begun to snow here.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (xjiRE)
God's sense of humor is infinitely vast and inscrutable.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 12:14 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:14 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: SarahW at March 20, 2018 12:14 PM (Sp1NT)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 12:12 PM (sCN2W)
I think I still have one of those.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:14 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 12:15 PM (ctuyM)
Before WE find out?
Possibly years.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:15 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Marcus T
pretty sure it's the NRA's fault
Posted by: Sheriff Israel at March 20, 2018 12:15 PM (FZYNt)
It has just begun to snow here.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 12:09 PM (xjiRE)
It's neat how they've been steadily raising the snow estimates for the last two days. Now they're predicting 10 inches. It's supposed to snow all day tomorrow.
I've still got 3 bags of salt ready to go.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:16 PM (8gDQu)
One of the first electronic calculators to go on the market. I've seen
old ads -- they were ridiculously expensive but Dad loved new toys (I
inherited that gene). It still works too. Wonder if it's worth anything.
Rent it out as a movie prop with a huge "You break it you buy it" payoff in the rental terms. They'll pay good money for period correct cereal boxes, so why not?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at March 20, 2018 12:16 PM (IcT7t)
Yes but every software "coder" I've worked with is
off the charts SJW. They don't really deal with reality. Even the guys
making machines. Now the PLC guys are like engineers....well because
they are.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 20, 2018 12:07 PM (pw+jk)
I would be one of the (few) exceptions to that rule. With that said, there are S/W engineers where I work that I seriously wonder who ties their shoes for them in the morning.
We had one come back from a business trip without the laptop and iPhone the company issued him for his overseas trip.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 12:17 PM (jxbfJ)
1- What handgun was used to put down the skel?
2- What caliber?
Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2018 12:17 PM (VpIIl)
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So you're saying Steve may be gardening with Mow deGrasse Tyson?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:17 PM (+y/Ru)
Hmmm...
Carry the three...
Move the decimal....
Hey, wait a minute!!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:17 PM (EyPfd)
In high school my physics teacher would use a slide rule for the lessons...he'd put the problems up on the board and run through them with his slide rule. What was astounding though is that he always solved the problems to six significant digits.
Which...wow. On a slide rule?!
By happenstance my best friend was dating this guy's teaching assistant, and turns out the teacher had memorized all of these problems including the answers. The slide rule stuff was all for show.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (tVWQB)
estimates for the last two days. Now they're predicting 10 inches.
It's supposed to snow all day tomorrow.
I've still got 3 bags of salt ready to go.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:16 PM (8gDQu)
Springtime in Alberta is when we get the most snow. But it's also warming up, and most of it melts pretty quickly. That's how the soil moisture gets recharged so that crops can grow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (Dbv1R)
James Burke for the TV kick murder prize.
Posted by: SarahW at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (Sp1NT)
Swamp drainage?
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (/LX46)
1- What handgun was used to put down the skel?
2- What caliber?
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3. Did it have a bayonet lug?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (+y/Ru)
Uh ... you really have to temper your suspicions. Hawkings was a brilliant physicist.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (8gDQu)
Needed like four AA batteries.
And weighed about a pound and a half.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (EyPfd)
with Physics Engineers if that's what you call them.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
As a chemistry major for two years, I found it odd that it was an arts degree. Switched to horticulture and got a BS, but learned the "hard science" as a chemistry major. (iirc)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (bT8Z4)
Grandma mouse worked for Sperry/Rand back in the day - had a "Rand" labled one...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: THE Bob Dole at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (Dbv1R)
We're going to be still hugging freezing for a few days - a couple of degrees over, mostly. I assume that the snow will all be gone by next week, though. And then it's off to the golf course!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:21 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 20, 2018 12:21 PM (/qEW2)
Pimp to hooker: "Wtf am we gonna do wit dis?"
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:21 PM (7LY+6)
a bunch of us philosophers and English-speakers
did NOT drop a fucking cheap shit pedestrian bridge onto traffic last week.
You'd better yell louder. People are beginning to notice.
Now get back in that cubicle and finish programming that video game.
"Engineer."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 20, 2018 12:21 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (MIKMs)
411 As someone suggested earlier, if we take the total of all mass shootings, and urban shootings, and subtract every shooting committed by an NRA member....
Hmmm...
Carry the three...
Move the decimal....
Hey, wait a minute!!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:17 PM (EyPfd)
...and divide by the number of NRA members who were shooters...
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (e1mEI)
If they can make math work out no matter how many universes they need for it to do that - why wasn't my answer to #5 5xy * 3 = z correct, Ms. Brown?
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (gbWkA)
I wish David Hogg would choose a useful field (if he were capable of
it), like MD and leave society alone. But he's got a whiff of power and
politics.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 12:19 PM (/qEW2)
That kid has an angry pissy face.
He's like Dolores Umbrage of the Ministry of Pissy Faced Magicians.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (ymnmz)
warming up, and most of it melts pretty quickly. That's how the soil
moisture gets recharged so that crops can grow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM
That's incredible. Can I borrow that?
Posted by: Justin Trudeau at March 20, 2018 12:23 PM (ctuyM)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291742/
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 12:23 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 12:24 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at March 20, 2018 12:24 PM (/qEW2)
did NOT drop a fucking cheap shit pedestrian bridge onto traffic last week."
True. Now how's that thatch hut working out?
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:24 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Trigglypuff at March 20, 2018 12:24 PM (vtcmf)
Has he ever denied the rumors that he used to bully Nikolas Cruz?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:24 PM (EyPfd)
Anyone want to bet what other tidbits are being witheld?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018 12:25 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018 12:25 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
So he's stable?Posted by: rickb223
when they get his temp down another 20 degrees, he'll be stable.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (Dn4Uq)
Alien.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Ableist. He could run circles around Stephen Hawking.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (+y/Ru)
states, for the theory to work, the universe had to have expanded
(inflated is their word) faster than the speed of light! AND since that
goes against Einstein, their work around is that their math works
because the universe can "inflate" faster than light, but things inside
the universe can't travel THROUGH the universe faster than light!
If
they can make math work out no matter how many universes they need for
it to do that - why wasn't my answer to #5 5xy * 3 = z correct, Ms.
Brown?
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (gbWkA)
I really don't see a problem with this. The speed of light is a fundamental property of the Universe, and as the nature and size of the Universe changes, so does the speed of light. But you have to be outside of the Universe, looking in, to be aware of the change.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018
Dreamer?
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (7qnb5)
Rust was my first employer as an engineer, and was a design-build firm specializing in paper mill builds. When you work on a paper mill site every day, you ignore the smell of the digesters.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (5OEn4)
Buh-bye!!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (jjaLl)
He certainly is not going to now after getting a hot lead injection.
The first thing people said when Parkland shooting happened (after shock and sadness) was "why weren't there cops in the school to stop this???
The left trotted out all these idiotic theories about bullet speed and how nobody ever would attack a man with an invincible AR-15 shooty stick but the question still resonates. This demonstrates how the cop helps stop shooters, no matter how many people the kid meant to gun down.
The obvious answer is the one the left does not want to even discuss.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (ctuyM)
what are the odds????!!!
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (RKQ/v)
I still love the part of the big bang theory that states, for the theory
to work, the universe had to have expanded (inflated is their word)
faster than the speed of light! AND since that goes against Einstein,
their work around is that their math works because the universe can
"inflate" faster than light, but things inside the universe can't travel
THROUGH the universe faster than light!
If they can make math
work out no matter how many universes they need for it to do that - why
wasn't my answer to #5 5xy * 3 = z correct, Ms. Brown?
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM (gbWkA)
Here I stand on the edge of Expansion
Looking outward, there is no mansion.
That way, we move, faster and faster
Going nowhere, because there is no there, there.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (ymnmz)
"Engineer."
=====
Still want to know what the loads are for the self-cleaning concrete.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: A White House in Chaos at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (cqRjR)
My grandfather never got beyond 9th grade but taught himself higher math: algebra, trig, and calculus. (He did NOT pass those genes to me.) He was not a violent man but after helping his grandkids with their homework, I think he was ready to strangle the assholes who came up with New Math.
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at March 20, 2018 12:27 PM (vtcmf)
He's like Dolores Umbrage of the Ministry of Pissy Faced Magicians.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:22 PM
He also has a triangular head and tiny baby arms.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 12:28 PM (7qnb5)
Posted by: Mrs. JTB at March 20, 2018 12:28 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Carlos Castaneda at March 20, 2018 12:28 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 20, 2018 12:03 PM (Dn4Uq)
Alien.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Ableist. He could run circles around Stephen Hawking.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Srsly? Snails could run circles around Hawking.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (5t9V6)
But not as brilliant as promoted. And some of his stuff... was silly. His attempts to get something to come from nothing were just absurd.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (39g3+)
He still should have been able to put his foot on the brake.
Anyone want to bet what other tidbits are being witheld?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018 12:25 PM (AM1GF)
All I care about is that everyone associated with that self-driving murder machine are held criminally liable and sued into total destitution ... and that all the idiots in the government who approved this lunacy are punished even more.
The idea that they unleashed these contraptions on the open roads so quickly and without any reason to do so is infuriating, to put it mildly.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (8gDQu)
Now get back in that cubicle and finish programming that video game.
"Engineer."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 20, 2018 12:21 PM (H5rtT)
Yeah, can't blame that on philosophers, and English teachers. Blame on the "diversity hire" engineers and the "diversity hire" construction managers who were placed in their jobs at the behest of the grievance studies majors.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (bB4HN)
Posted by: Under Fire
44 with convictions for attempted armed robbery and "unsworn falsifiction".
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (AM1GF)
415 Nicolas Sarkosy was arrested for secretly taking in 50 million from Gadhafi and his Libyan regime in 2007.
Swamp drainage?
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 12:18 PM (/LX46)
So Gadhafi stopped paying and the Euromob sent their aircraft enforcers to break his country?
Truely, the world is Vegas writ large!
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:30 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2018 12:30 PM (IqV8l)
No shit.
Bang up job, guys.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:30 PM (3M4WN)
Whimper.
/prettymucheveryphysicsdepartment
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:30 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM
The very definition of IntraUniverse Privilege!
Posted by: B. H. Soetoro at March 20, 2018 12:31 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Austin FBI at March 20, 2018 12:31 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (7HtZB)
Buh-bye!!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 12:26 PM (jjaLl)
They want defenseless people slaughtered so they can push their agenda.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (NWiLs)
I have never heard of it before. I'll look into it. Thanks.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (bZ7mE)
Elon Musk's vag just squeeked.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (r9UYA)
So that's what, 2 Biden 'trillion dollar' coins?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (ymnmz)
Let's give homeless people shotguns!!
http://tinyurl.com/yae6se2d
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (EyPfd)
That was all about pulling the cork of Libya and allowing millions of 3rd World African migrants to flood Europe.
Obama worked with the UN and the EU (and Google) to achieve this at the same time he was working to flood the US with 3rd Worlders from Central and South Americca.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:33 PM (3M4WN)
march through our institutions simply because calculus and mechanics and
fluid dynamics and statistics and analytical chemistry is HARD!
Not because they're hard, but the answers are real and absolute. And uncomfortable and hard to hide from. Yes, you can affirmative action your way thru a bridge, but people will notice.
Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2018 12:33 PM (2z74n)
Democrat Rep thanks Andrea Mitchell for advice to hire McCabe
With the possibility of a new special counsel and criminal charges you'd have to be a special kind of idiot to hire McCabe and risk being pulled into an investigation.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:33 PM (lKyWE)
"Make it work."
Make what work?
"It."
What is 'it'?
"Will you quit asking pertinent questions? I'm trying to posture here!"
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Says Use Misery Marinade for Your Next BBQ! at March 20, 2018 12:33 PM (hLRSq)
>>So Gadhafi stopped paying and the Euromob sent their aircraft enforcers to break his country?
That was all about pulling the cork of Libya and allowing millions of 3rd World African migrants to flood Europe.
Obama worked with the UN and the EU (and Google) to achieve this at
the same time he was working to flood the US with 3rd Worlders from
Central and South Americca.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:33 PM (3M4WN)
Occam's razor slicing like a hammer.
LOL
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (bB4HN)
..............
Jerry is having another flashback.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (39g3+)
He was certainly as brilliant as promoted. Sure, he made mistakes. Everyone does. Hawking never had a problem owning up to his errant theories.
I'm not sure what "something to come from nothing" you're talking about. Physics already accepts "something to come from nothing" all over the place in virtual particle pairs, which end up being the glue that holds all things together.
Look, Hawking annoyed the living shit out of me with his silly leftist twaddle but that doesn't take away from his brilliance as a physicist. The guy had serious emotional problems, which are the foundations of most Western leftists with IQs over 110.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (+y/Ru)
You mean bringing in Achmed and Mo'hammed to work covering the retirements of Hans 'n Franz wasn't a great idea?
Whodathunkit?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (7LY+6)
car was a convicted felon...and was under an assumed identity...
He was probably fapping at the time.
Couldn't stop.
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (xBSm0)
Let's give homeless people shotguns!!
http://tinyurl.com/yae6se2d
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Somebody watched "Hobo with a Shotgun" while getting really wasted, I gather...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (AM1GF)
Unless you have a teaching degree (or are interested in Colleges) I would try charter or Christian and classic Christian schools. The teachers at the local Classically based school in NJ really like it. It doesn't pay as much as a public school, of course. They, do, however have freedom in developing their curriculum and don't have to be apologetic about their faith
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (tpDAe)
or better yet don't put it in your mouth.
Posted by: Austin FBI
So no camel toe?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (5t9V6)
This is the left-right divide summed up in one sentence.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (CClpm)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (/LX46)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (bB4HN)
..............
Jerry is having another flashback.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (HgMAr)
TRAINS MAN! HIGH SPEED TRAINS ON MY SKIN!
Posted by: Jerry "kinda Garcia" Brown at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 11:59 AM (LV5XU)
Sudden-onset lead poisoning?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------
Muldoon could give us a medical code. Something like: "Acquisition of absence of life"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (QxXRY)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (8gDQu)
He talked like a fag and his shit was all retarded.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (yv6t0)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (3M4WN)
that self-driving murder machine are held criminally liable and sued
into total destitution ... and that all the idiots in the government who
approved this lunacy are punished even more.
The idea that they unleashed these contraptions on the open roads so
quickly and without any reason to do so is infuriating, to put it
mildly.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (8gDQu)
Sounds like the pedestrian in this case was jaywalking in traffic, and it might be the case that no driver in that Uber car, be it electronic, or be it Jackie Stewart, could have been able to see her in time to avoid a collision.
But there is no need for self-driving cars. None.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Aaaandrea Mitchell at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (vtcmf)
http://tinyurl.com/yae6se2d
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (EyPfd)
Sounds like a program Joe Biden could get behind.
Drug addicts + Shotguns = what possibly could go wrong.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (aVYsC)
you considered the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC? Niece
took courses there and enjoyed them immensely. Perhaps you could teach.
I have never heard of it before. I'll look into it. Thanks.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 12:32 PM (bZ7mE)
Wife and I were there last year, real nice place. She took a weaving class and I hung around looking at the beautiful scenery and having a few drinks. They even have a casino nearby.
Posted by: Jayhawkfan63 at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (cSc4o)
place in virtual particle pairs, which end up being the glue that holds
all things together.
We sawed the Universe in half.........
Posted by: Flex Seal at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (xBSm0)
There were design flaws maybe, one being lack of redundancy, another all that concrete on that top layer or the transom (? if that is the right word for the main structure). Then when they moved it they may have stressed the main cables when they had to cantilever the ends to fit it down the street, a last minute change.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (bT8Z4)
This is the left-right divide summed up in one sentence.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 12:35 PM (CClpm)
Good feelz don't keep your pedestrian bridge from catastrophic failure.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:37 PM (NWiLs)
What happened to him?
A victim of gun violence, right when he was turning his life around. And those of others!
Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2018 12:37 PM (2z74n)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 12:37 PM (Fl/3x)
Price tag has gone up to 96B.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2018 12:37 PM (bB4HN)
Jerry is having another flashback.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 12:34 PM (HgMAr)
TRAINS MAN! HIGH SPEED TRAINS ON MY SKIN!
Posted by: Jerry "kinda Garcia" Brown
-------------
Driving that train, high on cocaine...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 20, 2018 12:37 PM (w1zJX)
You of course are so fantastically rich and important that you have people for that, which is every braggart engineer's excuse for his mortgaged tract house.
It's a hell of a lot safer to study philosophy and teach yourself engineering
than it is to study applied arithmetic and make up your own philosophy.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 20, 2018 12:38 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 12:38 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: IC at March 20, 2018 12:38 PM (a0IVu)
So you cobbled together a sexbot. Big deal.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:39 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:39 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 12:39 PM (7qnb5)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:39 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:39 PM (3M4WN)
I could hear more ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (yv6t0)
If you had been 'round here for the past half decade, you'd know the answer.
But pass the bong, 'k?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (7LY+6)
Maybe you can help me figure some stuff out?
Posted by: Platypus at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (3M4WN)
And now he must burn for all eternity in a wheelchair-sized baby-pool of hellfire.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (fA1SL)
Jerry says electing the Ds to Congress and they'll give a trillion to Cali in the infrastructure bill to complete the bullet train. Isn't the entire bill suppose to be 1 Trillion?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2018 12:29 PM (bB4HN)
Giving California a trillion dollars will certainly drive democrats in states like Wisconsin to the polls
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (lKyWE)
But there is no need for self-driving cars. None.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Someone said it best yesterday.
You see someone come out their front door about a half a block up. As you proceed down the street, you see them walking towards the street. As you get closer, you see them disappear between two parked cars. Prior experience tells you to slow down. Suddenly, out pops the pedestrian between the two cars.
You saw all this a half block away.
The self driving car never saw them. Period.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (5t9V6)
Equine. The word is equine. Someone who studies them is an equinologist.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (gCJeK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Zombie Stephen Hawking at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (vtcmf)
redundancy, another all that concrete on that top layer or the transom
(? if that is the right word for the main structure). Then when they
moved it they may have stressed the main cables when they had to
cantilever the ends to fit it down the street, a last minute change.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (bT8Z4)
The design flaw is that it was much too massive, and much too over-designed, for a simple pedestrian overpass, of which there are thousands around the country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (Dbv1R)
But how's their philosophical difference? That's what matters...
El Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (roQNm)
Seven carved-jade Kardashian ass fetishes for seven New Faith of the Jade Kim's Ass brothers.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Duck with a cork screw penis at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (aVYsC)
Actually, I was checking out the blonde in the miniskirt sashaying down the sidewalk on the other side of the street.
Posted by: typical Moron driver at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (+INtM)
True.
Rope Bridge falls and nobody gets crushed.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (rBnYq)
And the strength of the erect penis compared with latter-era Baby Boomers?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (fTKv+)
hand strength as millennial women. So that's where we are.
You would think that all of that jazz handing and fapping would build some strength.
Posted by: Zombie Stephen Hawking at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (vtcmf)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (fA1SL)
Yeah, he's kind of a dick.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (NWiLs)
503 the bridge that collapsed was not a cable stay bridge. That was going to be a superficial part of the bridge to be added, but mostly for looks. The pipes (not cables) would have added some rigidity, and would have had pretty lights at night.
There were design flaws maybe, one being lack of redundancy, another all that concrete on that top layer or the transom (? if that is the right word for the main structure). Then when they moved it they may have stressed the main cables when they had to cantilever the ends to fit it down the street, a last minute change.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 12:36 PM (bT8Z4)
So everyone involved should be sentenced to the Peoples Soviet Construction Training Gulag, who's motto is "Ugly,Massive,Permanent."
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:44 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: IC at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (a0IVu)
See, even with all of our tech, carz are bad.
Ban carz!
/yourbetters
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (7LY+6)
It's On Us
@ItsOnUs
We are proud to announce the 2018 Biden Courage Awards in partnership with the @bidenfoundation.
On 04/18, @JoeBiden will join us in NYC for a night dedicated to the changemakers who combat campus sexual assault.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (gbWkA)
millennial man has the same hand strength as millennial women. So that's
where we are.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (rBnYq)
I'd say that data is backed up by the inability of millennials to throw a grenade 30 meters in basic training.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (uiwCw)
You will never make it as a writer. The words must flow.
You might try specialty welding.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (roQNm)
Why? Eddie Munster and Turtle are working on that now.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (uiwCw)
That's just sad.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (NWiLs)
True.
Rope Bridge falls and nobody gets crushed.
Posted by: garrett
They just get flung into the volcano.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (cAnNx)
True.
Rope Bridge falls and nobody gets crushed.
Posted by: garrett
They just get flung into the volcano.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (5t9V6)
Gotta keep the fire god appeased.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (NWiLs)
Real question as I have not seen it. Have any of his Physicist colleagues eulogized how great a physicist he was?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (roQNm)
Seven carved-jade Kardashian ass fetishes for seven New Faith of the Jade Kim's Ass brothers.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
Blessings on Her Cheeks of Vastness!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (fA1SL)
OK, throw it thirty feet, then. See if I care.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (fA1SL)
Ghey measurements make for limp wrists.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (5t9V6)
Do they bounce out if they are not a virgin?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (aVYsC)
Make sure you use fancy scented shampoo that night, ladies!
Posted by: Uncle Joe at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (+INtM)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (fA1SL)
Yeah, he's kind of a dick.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man
Ask Job.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:48 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (fA1SL)
I would have said yards, but in a military context they usually use meters.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (roQNm)
----------------------------------------
Otherwise known as "Joe Confronts His Accusers Night"
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (fA1SL)
Mary Katherine Ham reports that the average millennial man has the same hand strength as millennial women. So that's where we are.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (rBnYq)
Oh come on. Can women choke a chicken like men can?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (lKyWE)
I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk about Kim's Jade Ass.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (Bdeb0)
I'd say that data is backed up by the inability of millennials to throw a grenade 30 meters in basic training.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (uiwCw)
Maybe bring back those kraut stick grenades.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 12:42 PM (rBnYq)
To be fair, where we are is a place where news comes first from a Cambodian Knitting and Sowing Picture and Message Board..... And they are always right.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (/LX46)
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:41 PM (Bdeb0)
So you've given up Atheism for Lent and have progressed directly to being God-thus deciding on the eternal fate of people? That's quite a promotion. ;^) You do realize of course, that the possibility of salvation for everyone has been a theme in theology for quite some time including writings in the Eastern Orthodox Church and with some writers in the RCC including a book by a Jesuit priest-Gerald O'Collins in his book, "Salvation for All" (God's other people). I'm not weighing on this because it's not my interest-just saying g that investing all Christians with the same POV on eternal damnation is unfair to the breadth of thought within Christianity, although i realize you were attempting to make a funny while lambasting conservative Christians. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (ptqGC)
How about we raise the age of adulthood to 21?
This would include the ability to buy guns of any sort, and also to vote.
I used to consider myself a 2A absolutist, but I'd make an exception for this devil's bargain, because you know the leftists would hate the idea.
It is okay to take an enumerated right away from one group of people, but they'd blow a gasket at the idea of high school seniors and college age kids being denied the franchise.
It would be fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when trying to square that circle. Logically, it actually makes more sense since voting rights aren't even addressed in the BOR and can be extended or denied to groups by legislation (such as felons).
Just pick one age of majority and have all rights that accrue to adults in this country attached to it. Oh yeah, that would include getting financially emancipated from your parents, so no credit cards attached to your student loans your parents don't know about. There's other financial tools that prey on the inexperienced but legal college age crowd too, and they too would need a parents signature to begin eating at the future earning of our unprotected young.
Seems like a very Trumpian bargain to me.
Let's see the same leftists, elected and otherwise, shoot down an anti-gun bill because part of it would deny rights to people who've done nothing to deserve it.
What say youse guys?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (z79tQ)
You saw that, too, huh?
I wanted to punch something.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (CClpm)
A sheriff's deputy is in handcuffs and fired for punching a 12 year old girl in the face at a restaurant after petting a dog that was running loose. The girl is in the hospital and the dog was not shot.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7m3m2gf
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (flYWz)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM (fA1SL)
OK, throw it thirty feet, then. See if I care.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
98 feet. 30 metre is 98 feet & change.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:51 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:51 PM (fA1SL)
I'd say that data is backed up by the inability of millennials to throw a grenade 30 meters in basic training.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM (uiwCw)
That's just sad.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:46 PM (NWiLs)
LOL. John Elway couldn't throw a grenade 30 Meters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 12:49 PM (fA1SL)
Exactly. I don't know if I could throw a grenade 30 meters. But I do know that if I ever had to throw one, it would be from cover, or else I would throw, and the follow-through from the throw would be a face plant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (Dbv1R)
But who would design the Bobbitt Worm? That thing is fugly.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
(remove spaces, I can't use url shortners at work)
https://www.truthrevolt.org /news/army-redesigning-basic -training-new-recruits-undisciplined -cant-throw-grenades
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2018 12:47 PM
He checked all the left's boxes. Atheist, warmingclimatechange BS. Anti capitalism etc. etc. Now he's enjoying his own warming. Ashamedly. The pic did make me chuckle.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (7qnb5)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (z79tQ)
Like most everything else ... leave it to the States.
There's nothing in the Constitution on the matter other than;
2A - The Federal can't infringe on the right
10A - The Federal has no powers other than those strictly given
What state XYZ thinks about the gun laws in my state (Indiana) should be of no consequence.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (yv6t0)
It's heavy...what's it made of?
It's made of jade.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (Bdeb0)
>>516 Seven jade cookies for seven brothers.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (roQNm)
Seven carved-jade Kardashian ass fetishes for seven New Faith of the Jade Kim's Ass brothers.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
So I wonder who is the Kardashian Groom of the Stool?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
Is that the proper form of address for God-Emperor?
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (7HtZB)
Quest for the Jade A$$
They think it's a posterior a lost work of Incan art, but the plot twist at the end.. the Maguffin is really a jade donkey.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (flYWz)
A sheriff's deputy is in handcuffs and fired for punching a 12 year old girl in the face at a restaurant after petting a dog that was running loose. The girl is in the hospital and the dog was not shot.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7m3m2gf
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (flYWz)
I'm sure she gave him a hard look or made a furtive movement or took a squared-off fighting stance or was moving with a purpose. He would have been fully justified in shooting her right then and there, as she clearly put him in direct fear for his life.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (NWiLs)
Depends on the part of the country and the industry. Sillyclone Valley? Sure. Midwesterner working for a Fortune 50 company? Majority I know are conservatives.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (A2YbE)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (7LY+6)
>>516 Seven jade cookies for seven brothers.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:40 PM (roQNm)
Seven carved-jade Kardashian ass fetishes for seven New Faith of the Jade Kim's Ass brothers.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
So I wonder who is the Kardashian Groom of the Stool?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (ymnmz)
Somebody who's handy with a bulldozer.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (NWiLs)
Let's see the same leftists, elected and otherwise, shoot down an anti-gun bill because part of it would deny rights to people who've done nothing to deserve it.
What say youse guys?
Posted by: OneEyedJack
I've always said one age for majority. For EVERYTHING.
That includes fucking, kiddos. You ain't old enough to drink, you damn sure ain't old enough for a baby.
And no more abortions at 14. So yeah. One age for majority.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (5t9V6)
Exactly. I don't know if I could throw a grenade 30 meters.
The good news is the kill radius of a frag grenade is only about 5 meters
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: auscolpyr at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (suO/a)
Posted by: Duck with a cork screw penis at March 20, 2018 12:43 PM
You have no idea.
Posted by: The Hen with a Left-Hand Thread at March 20, 2018 12:56 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (e1mEI)
Soyboi millenials will be asking for some astroglide to go with them.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:56 PM (uiwCw)
582 Saudi prince just called Trump his majesty
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
Is that the proper form of address for God-Emperor?
Posted by: josephistan at March 20, 2018 12:54 PM (7HtZB)
But did he bow to Trump? Please tell me he bowed to Trump.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 12:56 PM (jxbfJ)
Beats being under a philosopher's span...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 12:55 PM (7LY+6)
Or a philosopher's jade ass, for that matter. And I think this thread has ground to a halt.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 12:57 PM (RD7QR)
If scientists are claiming things appear out of nowhere without being generated, then its gone way off the deep end. That's one of the most fundamental principles of science, logic, and commonsense: something cannot come from nothing, ex nihilo.
If your theory requires this... then your theory is as wrong as one that requires elves to show up and conjure it up out of dragon blood.
Things may appear to arise from nothing, but to claim they really do is like Aristotle claiming ants came from dust because that's what it looks like.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:57 PM (39g3+)
So the wise guy spoke up and asked the DI, "Does this mean we don't have to go to Vietnam?"
"NO," the DI said. "It means you still have to go, but we won't give you any grenades."
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 12:57 PM (roQNm)
575
Give AOP a break. Probably suffered during the Great English Measurement Purge. Students running around chanting metric tables and waving little red conversion books. Litre pumps springing up at petrol stations.
The horror, the horror.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
Plus Ultra high ranking member and time traveler confirmed.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (/LX46)
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: IrishEi at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (HiDrR)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
Heh. At least we know Trump didn't bow to him.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (ptqGC)
The bad news is that the radius that will just hurt really bad and not kill you is much bigger.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (3M4WN)
(there are comments about a lake of fire in Revelation, but that book is so weird that no 2 christians have ever been able to agree exactly what it means)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (+y/Ru)
...........
We didn't and that's the problem.
Posted by: Lincoln Chafee at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (ptqGC)
The bad news is that the radius that will just hurt really bad and not kill you is much bigger.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (39g3+)
15 meters
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (m0lmR)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 12:57 PM (RD7QR)
That is a heresy, brother.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (Bdeb0)
-
Kabuki?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:59 PM (EyPfd)
Hand grenade toss...
Is the requirement thirty meters/100 ft?
That's a pretty good toss.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 12:52 PM (EyPfd)
Colin Kapernick hasn't thrown shit for 30 yards in what? 2 years?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM (CAKgV)
Guess I shouldn't complain about the snow falling here now.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM (7qnb5)
English Measurement Purge. Students running around chanting metric
tables and waving little red conversion books. Litre pumps springing up
at petrol stations.
The horror, the horror.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (e1mEI)
they will have to pry my yardstick out of my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM
Hold my beer. I got this.
Posted by: M-79 at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (ctuyM)
: -D
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 12:45 PM
~~~~~
Try it without the space and "nose."
Posted by: IrishEi at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (HiDrR)
But I like space nose! He's the bestest of the superheros!
Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (bZ7mE)
* hacks at jade ass with a small silver pen-knife *
It's a fake! It's a phoney! It's soapstone!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM
Hacky sack grenades.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (7qnb5)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
.............
Good. Now I want to hear Enrique Nieto call him Jefe.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (CAKgV)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 01:02 PM (yv6t0)
(there are comments about a lake of fire in Revelation, but that book is so weird that no 2 christians have ever been able to agree exactly what it means)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (k1TUh)
The result of a overly stimulated and hyper active pineal gland.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:02 PM (/LX46)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (3M4WN)
Better still, a boomerang grenade, so that if you miss the target, it comes back, and you get to throw it again. Oh, wait...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:02 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (p6e8W)
Instructor, "You are supposed to use the ladder sight on the left hand side of the tube to properly elevate the launcher to get the correct range."
Me, "Okay." And then I aim the -203 just like an M-16. For the car window.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (flYWz)
There are several passages in the gospels that echo that, though. Matthew 25:41 for instance. It's hard to believe that the NT authors did not intend to convey some sense of physical agony.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (/qEW2)
Hold my beer. I got this.
Posted by: M-79 at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (ctuyM)
Settle down grandpa before you hurt yourself.
Posted by: M-203 at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:00 PM
~~~~~
I remember a Lit class wherein the prof told us that the frog in The Frog Prince was actually a penis. And when the princess threw it against the wall.....well, you can imagine.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 20, 2018 01:04 PM (HiDrR)
Posted by: M-203 at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (lKyWE)
How's retired life treating you? Getting AARP mailers yet?
Posted by: M320 at March 20, 2018 01:04 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (3M4WN)
Better still, a boomerang grenade, so that if you miss the target, it comes back, and you get to throw it again. Oh, wait...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Attention AoS Shoopers!
We need some engineers/design team on aisle 4!
Aisle 4 please.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (5t9V6)
I agree with Martin Luther"
Nailed it.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (7LY+6)
ISWYDT.
Nice.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
Quite refreshing after Obama bowing to the Saudi king.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (xjiRE)
If your theory requires this... then your theory is as wrong as one that requires elves to show up and conjure it up out of dragon blood.
Things may appear to arise from nothing, but to claim they really do is like Aristotle claiming ants came from dust because that's what it looks like.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 12:57 PM (39g3+)
People would be amazed by what is conventional wisdom in modern physics. Quantum Theory is quite a leap from what people normally think of the universe and things in it. Quantum provide meta-laws of physics, as opposed to our intuitive notion of laws of physics. This is what Einstein hated about Quantum Theory (even though he was one of the founders of Quantum Theory). In Quantum Theory, there isn't even "movement" in normal terms. Things just appear at measurements. They don't actual travel in between them but just flit from one measurement to another.
The idea of virtual particle pairs is required from Heisenberg uncertainty applied to the vacuum. At least, some sort of solution along those lines. hawking just applied the idea of virtual particles at the boundary of a black hole, which was genius stuff.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (7LY+6)
hand the live actual grenade, with the lever in place to the recruit,
step behind a blast proof wall and say "Ready when you are, Skippy"
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (EyPfd)
You gonna talk, or fish?
Posted by: just the punchline at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (yv6t0)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 20, 2018 01:06 PM (flYWz)
And this garbage says much more about the professors than the people who wrote the stories/literature, Projection anyone?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:07 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:07 PM (39g3+)
Seems like the D.I. should be able to pul the pin, hand the live actual grenade, with the lever in place to the recruit, step behind a blast proof wall and say "Ready when you are, Skippy"
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:03 PM (EyPfd)
No to much chance of fumbling it.When I was in basic the DI stood ready to throw your body on top of the grenade if you dropped it
Posted by: M-203 at March 20, 2018 01:07 PM (lKyWE)
That's why I love this place... I just learned the names of 3 grenade launchers.... Smart Military Blog FTW!!!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (jjaLl)
Indeed.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (7LY+6)
the frog in The Frog Prince was actually a penis.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 20, 2018 01:04 PM
"You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your Prince."
Posted by: Not quite what your Mama meant at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM (3M4WN)
All the money is going to into self-driving grenades, right now.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 20, 2018 12:53 PM (m0lmR)
...........
Uh oh. Now Mueller is going to doink around for another year or two.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (HgMAr)
Well of course, being a Red Shirt and all...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:09 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (yv6t0)
Yes the old "Theseus' ship" argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
So what? You'll get all your molecules recycled anyway, based on the fact that you have to eat and go to the bathroom.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 20, 2018 01:09 PM (/qEW2)
Or, they don't appear to travel between, since we don't understand enough and do not have the tools to properly observe anything sufficiently at that level.
Or we can just presume things are happening that violate all known laws of physics and natural behavior, because to do otherwise would require someone saying "I don't know what's happening" and nobody gets published or grants when they say that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 20, 2018 01:10 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: chuckR at March 20, 2018 01:11 PM (9qifp)
Well after the last guy, Trump probably does give off an imperial vibe by comparison.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:11 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (fA1SL)
As a conservative, I wouldn't be placing my hopes on ANY support arising from the STEM fields. Bill Gates and his greedy sociopathic pals put and end to that by convincing Congress to give them all the H1-B visa workers that they wanted. And trust me, most of the H1-B visa workers at places like Microsoft and Boeing DO NOT share our values by any stretch of the imagination. And, what's more, despite the fact that they have degrees in STEM fields, most of them can't balance their checkbook or change the oil in their car.
Posted by: CyberCipher at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (p6WoB)
Fair enough viewpoint.
let's take it for a test drive...
1. Afraid of drunk drivers
2. Afraid of internet stalkers
3. Afraid of food poisoning
4. Afraid of being hit by speeding drivers
5. Afraid of house exploding due to gas leak
6. Afraid of drowning in a pool
Damn...that may not work.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (EyPfd)
Me too.
The best one was centered on the increase in winds and wind speeds since they put the new wind farm in two counties over.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 01:13 PM (jjaLl)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 12:58 PM
Hacky sack grenades.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 01:01 PM (7qnb5)
Early 80s I read a report by some Army sponsored research group. Some of it kinda made sense, like using orange mini Christmas tree light to simulate cigarettes. Idea was to use them for deception.
One of the ideas floated was an anti-tank frisbee grenade. These guys claimed you could 100 mph tape a full can of Johnson's Paste Wax and fling it 50 meters or so and be reasonably accurate. So....just replace the can o' JPW with a self-forging projectile...
Never tried the JPW on a frisbee myself.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 20, 2018 01:13 PM (di1hb)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:13 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (3M4WN)
funny farmer.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:14 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:10 PM (39g3+)
No. It's not a matter of appearance. In Quantum Theory they DON'T actually travel over any path. This was the big thing with the double slit experiment.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:14 PM (8gDQu)
depictions of burning in fire were a creation by a corrupt clergy, meant
to frighten the peasantry into obedience.
Posted by: Tom Servo
the decades old Bible friends I reconnected with on FB, some moved toward that idea, though they were never the hellfire and brimstone types either. Even Satan himself burns out in his own hate and chosen separation from God.
The resurrection of the just/unjust speaks of the unjust dying a second death. But this concept that we will be there to rejoice in their eternal or even temporary torture was never really "scriptural". The joy is in the release from our bondage. We are not meant to suffer, even now, but right choices are not always easy.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 01:15 PM (bT8Z4)
I did a civil degree at UH in the mid 80's. That mess was just starting. ABET declared our degree too long and comprehensive at 143 hours and recommended cutting it back to 132 like A&M had.
We were also going to be required to take electives out of our college with music appreciation, some kind of humanities dreck and other such rot. They took away surveying and drafting. Quit requiring differential equations as a basic math class.
I think I got out in the nick of time.
Posted by: DanMan at March 20, 2018 01:16 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Sandra Floook at March 20, 2018 01:16 PM (7LY+6)
The best one was centered on the increase in winds and wind speeds since they put the new wind farm in two counties over.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (3M4WN)
Well, since a corn farm produces more corn, it stands to reason that a wind farm produces more wind.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 01:16 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2018 01:16 PM (r+sAi)
Shouldn't they have been aborted before they were even born? They are just a burden to society without ever contributing or being able to really enjoy life.
Plus Planned Parenthood could have made some bucks off their parts.
Posted by: Ripley at March 20, 2018 01:16 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:17 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:17 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:12 PM (3M4WN)
funny farmer.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:14 PM (z79tQ)
Well, the wind avoids the turbines, because they slow it down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:17 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2018 01:17 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: SSBN 656
M79
M203
Fred
Fred can throw the shit outta a grenade.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 01:18 PM (5t9V6)
That's an indefensible statement. All you can go by is appearance and measurement in science, you cannot make absolute statements like that. That's just bad science. They do not travel over any observable or understood path, that's the best you can do. They may, with future study and superior testing and observation, be shown to be moving in a manner we don't understand or be "teleporting" as some overzealous writers suggest. But this is the bleeding edge of physics, its out where the trains don't run. That's an area too hazy, theoretical, and unclear for anyone to be making dogmatic statements.
And we all know how that goes with science (global warming, for instance). Its just not being done right.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:18 PM (39g3+)
So some twit commented on the story of the Maryland school shooter that we need to fix the laws, because nobody should have to to school and be afraid of being shot.
Well you shouldn't be afraid of being mowed down by a car because people have their faces buried in their smartphones either.But I don't see anyone calling for strict regulations to control smartphone use.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 01:18 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM (vtcmf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM (7LY+6)
I don't care for the idea as it makes God out to be a liar.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: grammie winger -saved by grace, at March 20, 2018 01:20 PM (fD4nI)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 01:20 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 01:20 PM (V+03K)
homework, I think he was ready to strangle the assholes who came up with
New Math.
=====
Again with the immoderate chuckles. Walked out of a parents night at our high school and some poor mathy person was a broken man 'but that is not adding up to 100%'.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 01:21 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM (7LY+6)
2 answers
If the pin is big enough, all of them.
All of them, just one at a time.
add your own, without getting philosophical.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:21 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: MAGA at March 20, 2018 01:21 PM (dM3uW)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:21 PM (3M4WN)
Girl. It was followed by a guy who sounded almost the same, maybe half
an octave lower.
These are our "betters".
Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at March 20, 2018 01:22 PM (vtcmf)
Hey, ace! Time to get up!
Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM (vtcmf)
Sick Burn!
Posted by: Rip Van Winkle at March 20, 2018 01:22 PM (ymnmz)
This alleged adult sounded like an SNL version of an 8th grade Valley Girl. It was followed by a guy who sounded almost the same, maybe half an octave lower. I had to turn it off. It was too irritating.
Posted by: JTB at March 20, 2018 01:20 PM (V+03K)
And remember, they consider themselves our betters.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 01:22 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 20, 2018 01:22 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:22 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 20, 2018 01:05 PM (yv6t0)
__________________________________
The real value of the transporter was never utilized.
It is actually a healing and anti-aging machine.
If you are stabbed by a Romulan, just beam back to the starship and have the computer utilize the last data array for when you were healthy. It will automatically construct a healthy one of you without a stab wound.
Same with aging. Have the transporter assemble a younger one of you without the degraded DNA ends and the aging that occurs from it.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (ATVNj)
I think modern theologians have gotten past that argument actually.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:18 PM (39g3+)
No, Christopher. That's what the experiment actually showed. It was then up to the theorists to come up with a consistent explanation for it.
The same happened with the idea of light moving through the ether and the Michelson-Morley experiment, which helped lead to the Theory of Relativity. And the Theory of Relativity seemed even more anti-intuitive when it was initially proposed than quantum, I think. The idea that time is not constant ... very weird stuff. But we have built the modern world on the theories of quantum and relativity (even as we have yet to be able to reconcile the two - though Hawkings' work with virtual particles at the boundary of a black hole went further towards the two than we had ever come before).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (7LY+6)
You just lost Sheldon Cooper.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (vtcmf)
That's OK.
One of our local geniuses wants to see a new law that makes it illegal for kids to own handguns.
Same with insane people who have been locked up for mental problems.
No...I didn't tell her.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (LiyEm)
It is actually a healing and anti-aging machine. "
Explains why Shat was doing StarTrekky stuff in the 90's, then...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (7LY+6)
>It is actually a healing
I always wondered where those Genital Warts ended up?
Posted by: Caommander Riker at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (3M4WN)
Yeah no. It's a replicator. McCoy had it right. The Transporter kills you, and makes a distant replica that thinks it's you.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (ATVNj)
They did that in an episode. Turned Picard and others into a bunch of 12 year olds.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (cAnNx)
__________________________________
Exactly, compare what Shatner looks like now compared with is TJ Hooker co-stars.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (7LY+6)
If he stretches that face even one more time his ears will meet in the back and he'll be looking at the world like a fish.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 20, 2018 01:21 PM (MIKMs)
That's because the math was done by a woman!
Posted by: Norm MacDonald at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (NL6wI)
US health officials have seen a surge in the number of people using bug spray to get high.
In the last year the alarming trend has been reported in Mississippi, Tennessee and most recently Indiana.
Exposure to high concentrations of the active ingredients in bug spray creates what's been described as a zombie-like state with unpredictable behavior including convulsions, difficulty breathing and rage.
. . . .
In December a Tennessee man admitted to smoking 'wasp' - a mix of methamphetamine and bug spray - before breaking into a home and trying to cut himself at a family's dinner table.
Mississippi law enforcement officials warned of a dangerous drug called 'hot shots' last July - which requires crystallizing wasp spray with a battery before melting it down and injecting it intravenously.
'A person will stand at a jail cell door, slobber like a mad dog, wanting to fight. Everything is wrong, nothing is right for one minute, then calm down and be just like a normal human being and then go right back into a rage,' Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told NewsMS about the drug.
Bug poison and battery acid, what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 01:08 PM
When you're ready to move up in caliber a bit, don't let that sweet Mk. 48 ADCAP whisper sweet nothings in your ear.
Posted by: Mk. 14 at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 12:50 PM (tpDAe)
Categorically: Yes. I know! Yes. Yes. Somewhat.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (Bdeb0)
______________________________
Ooooh. . .
Posted by: Kevin Spacey at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:28 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Picard, Jr. at March 20, 2018 01:28 PM (vtcmf)
Sure, the heresy of universalism has been around for a long time. Its just not Biblically defensible.
So some twit commented on the story of the Maryland school shooter that we need to fix the laws, because nobody should have to to school and be afraid of being shot.
They want to sanctify the world through laws: if we just have enough laws and give the government enough power, then everything will be perfect!!
We don't live in that kind of world.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:28 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to
Yup. Twenty degrees below average high for this day of the year. Below average all winter long.
Imagine a scenario where Al Gore had had his way and we had no frackers to find new supplies, and we paid higher taxes for our sin of wanting to be warm in winter.
People would be actually DYING today.
We're supposed to think these people who hail Al Gore as some sort of latter-day prophet are normal? I sure don't.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:28 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (o2MD2)
They did that in an episode. Turned Picard and others into a bunch of 12 year olds.
My all time favorite episode
Posted by: Harry Reid at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (lKyWE)
When you think about it, that transporter room probably had more alien germs beamed up in each "energize" that it's filthier than a locker-room floor.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (Bdeb0)
don't know what's happening" and nobody gets published or grants when
they say that.
Posted by C Taylor
right, all our theories require us to imagine things like cats in a box, or some mental image. The concept that matter IS energy, or that time could be a variable ... we can attempt the math, but all those theories relativity) have some holes.
40 years ago I learned about the electron shells, and those are mind pictures. Now we have you-tube videos to show how small a quark is ... or how large the biggest star is ... but our brains can't really "see" what is happening. imo
But I'm glad many can do the really complex math and engineer really cool stuff, built off those models.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (bT8Z4)
The real value of the transporter was never utilized.
It is actually a healing and anti-aging machine. "
Explains why Shat was doing StarTrekky stuff in the 90's, then...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (7LY+6)
I always thought the real power of the transporter was that they could use them to transport all the pee and turds out of your body with all that messing biological stuff. Hence the unitard jumpsuits all over the place.
They would have special stations where you line up and bam its gone.
They could then transport all the matter to a holding tank, where they used it in the replicator process to make burgers and fries for the crew.
I mean, what else are you gonna do with it on a five year mission?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (mPeei)
The voice is different
But the breath is the same.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:29 PM (EyPfd)
I just had a flashback to an Onion article (back when they were funny) about the CIA unveiling new ghetto drugs. Poe's Law in action.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:19 PM
None, if they're Baptists.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (ctuyM)
Federation dumping stations?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (bJ0w+)
Uh, I would think it's real value would be to convert it to a directional transporter ray and use it to target/instantly transport inconvenient people. Imagine fighting a war where you could just transports enemy troops to the moon...or a black hole?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (W+vEI)
You just lost Sheldon Cooper.
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I took my train obsessed grandson to the zoo on Saturday where he rode the miniature train then to The Old Spaghetti Factorh where you can eat in a train car.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:30 PM (+y/Ru)
I mean, I've been bored. But I have never been that bored.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:28 PM (yQpMk)
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More like 75 years, but yeah. One of my favorite episodes of TNG BTW. James Doohan steals the damn show.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (vtcmf)
But there were lows one degree above average low, so warmening, h8ter!
/seriously. That was reported here in SE Texas.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: johnd01 at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (ukNFU)
Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2018 01:24 PM (LiyEm)
Well, the Enterprise did have a shuttle craft, and it got used a few times, IIRC. But the transporter was indeed a huge plot shortcut, and a source of suspense in its own right. I recall numerous episodes where the transporter crew valiantly struggled to get their people back.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (Dbv1R)
Go to exciting new planets and bang the local babe(s)?!?
Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, alien chick magnet at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: notsothoreau
Question for you... Is over-the-air (ota) television signal Line of Sight, also? I swear, when the trees in Valley Forge Park and around me swing left and right in heavy winds by ota reception goes to absolute shit.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (LOgQ4)
Explosives.
So you're sitting there in your bunker, minding your own business, taking pot shots at Federation ships.
And suddenly, the shimmering begins behind you.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (EyPfd)
Exposure to high concentrations of the active ingredients in bug spray creates what's been described as a zombie-like state with unpredictable behavior including convulsions, difficulty breathing and rage.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:27 PM (+y/Ru)
That sounds like a fun high.
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (xjiRE)
The Prosecution needs to move for a change of venue or I guarantee a hung jury.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to
Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it, well, except for the Rothchilds.
Posted by: Trayon White at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (wJnB/)
The real value of the transporter was never utilized.
I find it hard to believe that no one ever tried to beam their penis into Yeoman Rand
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (lKyWE)
People would be actually DYING today.
Yeah, all the left's grand solutions would be misery for the poorest and most vulnerable they claim to be for helping.
The real value of the transporter was never utilized.
Its the most terrifying weapon ever developed in science fiction, but they refused to use it as such.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2018 01:26 PM (cAnNx)
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That episode was made out of weapons grade cringe.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (5OEn4)
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (hMwEB)
Like being a kid again. No thanks.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (NWiLs)
During transport, it could remove a sperm from a man's body and surreptitiously implant it in a woman who is being transported.
Now, if Maury Povich is still on the air when we have transporters. . . .
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (ATVNj)
I mean, I've been bored. But I have never been that bored.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (Boy/L)
This is how you get fascism.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (/LX46)
---
Mary Katherine Ham reports that the average millennial man has the same
hand strength as millennial women. So that's where we are.
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I'd love to see how that compares to 12 year old boys. Not even in a cruel, hahaha way. Just in a scientific "oh no" sort of way.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (JTMqu)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: A White House in Chaos at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (99Ud2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (7LY+6)
Nice!
Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, alien chick magnet at March 20, 2018 01:34 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (yQpMk)
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Speaking of Hell . . . .
Moonbat Al Gore: Future Is Full Of 'Flying Rivers' And 'Rain Bombs', Middle-East To Be Inhabitable
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (+y/Ru)
Explosives.
So you're sitting there in your bunker, minding your own business, taking pot shots at Federation ships.
And suddenly, the shimmering begins behind you.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (EyPfd)
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They did that in an episode of Voyager to a Borg Sphere in the hope of getting some of their tech.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (aVYsC)
I didn't say I agreed with it. I posted it as a response to Zod who seems to think everyone who is a Christian thinks there is a lake of eternal burning fires for all Atheists.Even within Christianity and without endorsing universal salvation there is a a variety of opinions about what damnation consists of and whether it's eternal or not
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (tpDAe)
===
Many SS officers were formerly underpaid graduate students.
Posted by: Morton at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (IQI2h)
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (xjiRE)
Right up there with banging your head with a bfh.
And good for Minnesota for finally starting the wheels of justice for Ms. Damond. Hopefully the jury won't be full of Cali-type SJW's and let him off because, brown.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (PFy0L)
Posted by: Downcast at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (IhJ1W)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (4lzWT)
Jesuit
So not remotely orthodox. Real "thinkers" of the Church but now mostly about gay-stuff.
Jesus spent quite a bit of time teaching repentence, the idea that it wouldn't matter is odd for a Christian. However, we can never presume on the mercy or justice of God. I once heard a priest, one who I consider particularly holy, suggest that we can't know if God perhaps gives everyone an opportunity at the moment of death to choose. I think it was in response to the idea that the 9-11 terrorists were definitely eternally barred from the beatific vision. Avery Cardinal Dulles imagined that the gate is narrower than we imagine and that we want to be the sheep not the goats.
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (CAKgV)
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (hMwEB)
Pretty sure that was code for honeymoon sex with a new lady friend.
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (/LX46)
Sure.
/guysatJPLinthelate60's
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:36 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:37 PM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:37 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:37 PM (o2MD2)
The real value of the transporter was never utilized.
I find it hard to believe that no one ever tried to beam their penis into Yeoman Rand
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 20, 2018 01:33 PM (lKyWE)
That's what the holodeck was for.
Interesting fact about the holodeck, no one ever had to clean the holodeck. After particulary randy Friday nights where everyone "visited" the three breasted prostitutes from Rigel 7. They would just beam all the spunk to the replicator holding take for alfredo night in 10 forward.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:37 PM (ymnmz)
___________________________
Or reconfigure it so when you are reassembled, you have the schlong of a thoroughbred.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (ATVNj)
himself in on murder and manslaughter charges related to the July
shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. A warrant was issued Tuesday
for Noor's arrest on charges filed in Hennepin County District Court.
Noor was booked into Hennepin County jail at 11:16 a.m., according to
jail records, on a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension warrant for
third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Bail was set at
$500,000. Jail officials declined to release his booking photo. The
charging documents, which have been filed under seal, have not yet been
made public.
Posted by: johnd01 at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (ukNFU)
Well, that's a shocka. I figured for sure the DA's grand jury would find it to be a good shoot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (Dbv1R)
Gerald Collins didn't mention anything about "Gay stuff" in this book
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (Dbv1R)
I am pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (NWiLs)
Yeah, it was a cost cutting idea, one that became iconic. But nobody really thought through the real significance and implications of the thing until Next Generation and even then they just simply did not choose to use it in some ways that were pretty obvious.
The Transporter creates many more problems for writers than it ever solved. When you can literally just yank your character out of trouble deus ex machina style, a lot of the tension goes out of the story. Hence the perpetual breakdowns and "distortion fields" and nonsense to disable the transporter in story after story. So much so that no one sane would ever even consider using the thing for fear of ending up like the people in Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (39g3+)
Ace is doing an impersonation of Jeff Sessions.
And nailing it.
781
I am getting the disturbing sense that there was a shelving accident somewhere Ace's Sexbot finally arrived..
So Ace has a new sexbot that looks like Jeff Sessions?
Ewwww
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (vWMNq)
John 14:6 offers some suggestions on the limitations.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (EyPfd)
I preferred the personal touch.
*cuts to Kirk putting on his boots*
Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, alien chick magnet at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (B+qrE)
Posted by: MSM at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (n+6mJ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (ctuyM)
You're putting words in Zod's mouth, cleric, but if this calumny is the price I must pay to bring greater awareness to the New Faith, then I bear that jade cross with stoicism.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (JTMqu)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:37 PM (o2MD2)
When you're that rich and still ugly then you're either not trying or you're just damn UGLY.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (RD7QR)
__________________________
Or reconfigure it so when you are reassembled, you have the schlong of a thoroughbred.
This is why we can never have nice things!
Posted by: Vulcan Ambassador Sarek at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (ATVNj)
himself in on murder and manslaughter charges related to the July
shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. A warrant was issued Tuesday
for Noor's arrest on charges filed in Hennepin County District Court.
Noor was booked into Hennepin County jail at 11:16 a.m., according to
jail records, on a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension warrant for
third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Bail was set at
$500,000. Jail officials declined to release his booking photo. The
charging documents, which have been filed under seal, have not yet been
made public.
Posted by: johnd01 at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (ukNFU)
Well, that's a shocka. I figured for sure the DA's grand jury would find it to be a good shoot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (Dbv1R)
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I suspect this is turning into too much of an international incident for the DA to sweep under the rug. I'd need Aussie to confirm if this is a bigger (read as "not smothered to death") story in Australia, though.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (1wgRH)
779 I find it hard to believe that no one ever tried to beam their penis into Yeoman Rand"
___________________________
Or reconfigure it so when you are reassembled, you have the schlong of a thoroughbred.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (ATVNj)
I would make is so that peoples underwear appeared on the outside of their clothes. Or hold make the materialization of the hair, switch their ears There was really no humor in the 23rd or the 25th centuries
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (/LX46)
Didn't say repentance didn't matter. I just have no interest in debating damnation with someone making a joke about Steven Hawking in his "little burning wheelchair."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (B+qrE)
LOL.
More likely he's trapped under the top shelf and his phone is out of charge.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (vWMNq)
Apparently the fellow burst into the house naked, said the dog was looking at him weird, cut his own throat in front of the family, went upstairs and jumped out of a second story window.
I'm not sure if this is how you get facism, but it explains how you get Megan Barry.
Posted by: Oh, it gets better at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (wJnB/)
She never was all that attractive to begin with, but makeup and lighting can do wonders for daddy's little girl.
I didn't say I agreed with it. I posted it as a response to Zod who seems to think everyone who is a Christian thinks there is a lake of eternal burning fires for all Atheists.
Sure. But the problem is atheists only have a problem with hell for some people. Pretty much everyone hopes or likes the idea that people like Hitler are burning in hell. So its just a matter of where you draw the line, rather than hell being inherently indefensible and unthinkable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (rBnYq)
Bad form and bad juju.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (z79tQ)
"Ask me how I know you're a misogynist."
--- JJ Abrams, ruining all your favorite movies with sucky reboots
Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, alien chick magnet at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (W+vEI)
The heresy wasn't enough to put him beyond the pale?
"I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to father but through me". - John 14:6
Do you deny it? Apparently he does.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (yQpMk)
I didn't say I agreed with it. I posted it as a response to Zod who seems to think everyone who is a Christian thinks there is a lake of eternal burning fires for all Atheists.Even within Christianity and without endorsing universal salvation there is a a variety of opinions about what damnation consists of and whether it's eternal or notPosted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:35 PM (tpDAe)
Gotcha.Of course that's silly, I don't know anyone with any scholarship in theology who thinks that. The metaphore of the well lit path provided by revelation vs some other route is apt. I do think that those who reject God knowingly and of their own free will run a higher risk than others, although I think God (and the Church teaches) that our sin in that is not assigned to us if we have "issues." I would imagine that being abandoned by a parent, psycho-sexual dysfunction, mental illness, etc. would make the decision not one of the free will.
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (CAKgV)
Galaxy Quest FTW...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:43 PM (7LY+6)
signal Line of Sight, also? I swear, when the trees in Valley Forge
Park and around me swing left and right in heavy winds by ota reception
goes to absolute shit.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:32 PM (LOgQ4)
definitely line-of-sight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:43 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:43 PM (3M4WN)
The Transporter creates many more problems for
writers than it ever solved. When you can literally just yank your
character out of trouble deus ex machina style, a lot of the tension
goes out of the story. Hence the perpetual breakdowns and "distortion
fields" and nonsense to disable the transporter in story after story.
So much so that no one sane would ever even consider using the thing for
fear of ending up like the people in Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:39 PM (39g3+)
Wearing poor fashion choices?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:43 PM (ymnmz)
No, the fembot requires weed as a power source, which caught the attention of Sessions...woke him up from his gentle slumber.
Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, alien chick magnet at March 20, 2018 01:43 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM
Interesting. Would you have any additional information?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Catherine at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (ctuyM)
During the '80s in radio broadcasting, we called this "Wednesday."
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (CClpm)
Apparently the fellow burst into the house naked, said the dog was looking at him weird, cut his own throat in front of the family, went upstairs and jumped out of a second story window.
Posted by: Oh, it gets better at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (wJnB/)
LOL.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (8gDQu)
Or Marion Barry...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (7LY+6)
Nope, don't deny it. I find much of the religious debates here unprofitable-certainly the acrimonious ones, but I'm sure it gives Zod a little frisson of excitement to hear Christians lambasting each other. :^(
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (tpDAe)
Yeah or the "Picard Maneuver" where he came out of warp just next to a ship which disrupted their shields and systems, leaving them vulnerable to attack.
Its stuff like that which writers thing is hella clever and makes their main character seem cool, but actually just make the rest of the cast look like idiots.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:44 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)
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I wouldn't be shocked if there was some sort of plea bargain to bury this. Tanking the case would also be a bigger international mess in this case.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (tpDAe)
There is no debate. In addition to seeing C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate, Zod has also seen Steven Hawking is in a little burning wheelchair.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (2m/2K)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (CAKgV)
Just hire a Shadow Person to clean it for you. They'll work for next to nothing.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (3M4WN)
himself in on murder and manslaughter charges related to the July
shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. A warrant was issued Tuesday
for Noor's arrest on charges filed in Hennepin County District Court.
Noor was booked into Hennepin County jail at 11:16 a.m., according to
jail records, on a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension warrant for
third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Bail was set at
$500,000. Jail officials declined to release his booking photo. The
charging documents, which have been filed under seal, have not yet been
made public.
Posted by: johnd01 at March 20, 2018 01:31 PM (ukNFU)
Well, that's a shocka. I figured for sure the DA's grand jury would find it to be a good shoot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:38 PM (Dbv1R)
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I suspect this is turning into too much of an international incident for the DA to sweep under the rug. I'd need Aussie to confirm if this is a bigger (read as "not smothered to death") story in Australia, though.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM
My Aussie connection has been following this closely. They are pissed down there about this...and not in the good way.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (ATVNj)
Police surround Panera Bread near Princeton U in a stand off with armed man.
Must be good bread.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Mega at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (iM8ao)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (39g3+)
definitely line-of-sight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Thanks.
I'll have to write my Congressman and request they clear-cut Valley Forge Park. Might be the sanest letter he gets all day from a constituent.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (fA1SL)
Wood Chuck?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: Stephen Hawking at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (sCN2W)
"GENIUS! Then it takes over the Enterprise!"
--Every Next Gen writer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (39g3+)
I would go see that play.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (3M4WN)
Yeah, but if you claim that on your return, it's like an automatic audit.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (gCJeK)
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (+y/Ru)
They don't believe in it. It's a cudgel to lambast Christians for being big meanies, of course and to trot out "How could you believe in a loving God who sends people to hell for eternity for finite crimes?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (tpDAe)
Ship in a Bottle episode 138 of ST:TNG.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (yQpMk)
I wonder why neither side had an R&D effort. X-wing fighters and the little black ones used by the empire...pretty much unchanged and sounding just the same.
Boring.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (sCN2W)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (rBnYq)
Can the Holodeck create a Holodeck within itself
"GENIUS! Then it takes over the Enterprise!"
--Every Next Gen writer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:46 PM (39g3+)
Been done.
Professor Moriarity escapes the Holodeck.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (ymnmz)
Aw, Hell, I saw that movie. And you're spot on.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (tpDAe)
People have believed in far worse.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (CAKgV)
that is capable of creating a Holodeck within itself that is capable of
creating a Holodeck within itself. . . .
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM
No, because the first time someone inside the Holodeck said a bad word, it would become recurse-ive
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (7LY+6)
Boring.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (0tfLf)
Which was extra cool because, normally, you can't hear anything in space.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (sCN2W)
If the cops go in, that might become literal.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (4lzWT)
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM
My Aussie connection has been following this closely. They are pissed down there about this...and not in the good way.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (0tfLf)
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Gotcha. I'm guessing both the DA and the Police Union are going to push for a plea bargain, hoping that'll make this go away. It just might, if the cop gets jail time. If it's a slap on the wrist, then it'll just add gasoline to the fire.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (1wgRH)
'cept for the screaming...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM
I'm actually a little surprised albeit pleasantly that the GJ recommended charges. Quickdraw McNoor is one step closer to jail. I hate to say it, but the old Mayor Batty Hodges was in such a rush to hire Somali's that instead of the best candidates we have racial checkboxes and it cost that woman her life. Guy should have never been a cop.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (7qnb5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (Dbv1R)
Only if they wrote it down.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (aC6Sd)
I love seeing those "Mine is a God of mercy" bumper stickers.
Mercy, without expectations of following the rules, and punishment for not doing so is the same as Moses coming down from the mountain and saying..."And God has given us the Ten Suggestions"
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (EyPfd)
Only if they wrote it down.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (yQpMk)
Millenials can't read cursive.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (4lzWT)
I liked the other Passengers movie (from about 5 or 10 years back) much better.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM
Another great point!!!
Not to mention with the little robot dudes riding in back keep sounding off.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:50 PM (0tfLf)
Apparently not all that much, since they whipped up anther one in a few years.
Unrelated but one of my favorite movie flaws:
Batman Begins. Bruce Wayne refuses to exceute the criminal for his crimes... so he lights the building on fire, killing everyone inside INCLUDING THE CRIMINAL but saves the evil mastermind behind it all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (39g3+)
So, is he carrying a
Short -- .25 caliber?
Tall .38
Grande 9mm
Venti .40 Cal
Trenta or .45 FTW?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:45 PM (0tfLf)
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Lets not piss off the Aussies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (CClpm)
The little robot dudes that tweet and warble instead of using speech, even though its clearly demonstrated over and over that they have the ability to let robots speak.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Economically useless and malignantly aggrieved at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (5BVHO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (yQpMk)
So, is he carrying a
Short -- .25 caliber?
Tall .38
Grande 9mm
Venti .40 Cal
Trenta or .45 FTW?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (jxbfJ)
Eyewitnesses report he "wanted a sammich."
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (953wK)
Short -- .25 caliber?
Tall .38
Grande 9mm
Venti .40 Cal
Trenta or .45 FTW?"
Panera...not Starbucks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (ymnmz)
When you're that rich and still ugly then you're either not trying or you're just damn UGLY.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 01:41 PM (RD7QR)
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She's not rich. Her daddy was, but he didn't like her much, and only left her $800,000 of his many millions when he died (which she probably burned through in half a minute).
Candy Spelling is rich, but she doesn't like Tori much either, and likes her daughter's gold-digging, Z-list t.v. actor husband even less.
Both Tori and her no-good hubby are going to have to wait for Candy Spelling to shuffle off this mortal coil before they can expect to come into real money, and given how both Aaron and Candy Spelling felt about their wayward daughter, they may not get it even then.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (NWiLs)
went upstairs and jumped out of a second story window...
Anyone see the video of the guy on the left side working on the pedestrian bridge which collapsed in Florida? I was calculating the height and guessed at two story fall.
He had excellent technique going down. Instinctual almost. Like something he had done all his life.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (39g3+)
It's like Ahnold in Terminator. He spoke broken English with a heavy accent, but when he knocked that cop out and got on the police radio he perfectly mimicked the cop's voice and English and sounded like a normal American. Then back to the broken, heavily accented version.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: CN at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (5gaNQ)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM
Hmmmm ...
Posted by: Amazon TV at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (ctuyM)
Jedi had a woman use a ship go into super speed and blow up a bigger
ship, and for some reason the technology that's on tiny little
disposable ships like X-Wings wasn't used on any projectiles in the
entire universe as useful instruments of war.
The first Star Wars kind of falls apart when you realize that we had cruise missiles in the 80s that we could chuck down that exhaust port from hundreds of miles away.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Knothole ignorant at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (5BVHO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (39g3+)
On the high shelf. With Ace."
Sounds like the name of a new Amazon TV Series.
The Ewok in the High Castle
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (NWiLs)
They'll set up a perimeter at the adjoining Dunkin Donuts.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (W+vEI)
On the high shelf. With Ace.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 20, 2018 01:51 PM (CClpm)
A bit north of Wasilla, if you must know. It's where the Iditarod starts, and is technically the capitol of Alaska, although the legislature never allocated any money to move it, so they are still in that rathole Juneau.
TMI?
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (fA1SL)
"Ewok On Shelving" . . .
one of the Moody Blues' greatest hits.
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (953wK)
He will be sentenced on April 23 and faces 6 months in prison.
#freedank
Posted by: the real ch3 at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (IG5KL)
"My God is a God of mercy" seems to be the theological equivalent to "Hate has no home here" except that some of the people posting the latter have people they consider it's o.k. to hate and the "God is mercy" people have people they feel God should not be merciful too. I think the categories overlap sometimes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:42 PM (39g3+)
....
However the Lord sorts us out will be fair and just because whatever the Lord decides is the definition of fair and just.
Those that ponder whether the Lord will be fair suffer from the same delusional sin as Satan, that being one of pride that we can know and judge as the Lord does. It wasn't any less prevalent in the Garden as it is today's world.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (wJnB/)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:49 PM (NWiLs)
They'll set up a perimeter at the adjoining Dunkin Donuts.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (z79tQ)
Hopefully there's no PetsMart nearby.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:54 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (RD7QR)
Anyone see the video of the guy on the left side working on the
pedestrian bridge which collapsed in Florida? I was calculating the
height and guessed at two story fall.
He had excellent technique going down. Instinctual almost. Like something he had done all his life.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 01:52 PM (LOgQ4)
Not to laugh at his misfortune, but it was pretty funny how his hat hovered in the air 3 feet above his head before it fell to the ground too.
I pray he is OK.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (ymnmz)
R-O-L-L-I-N-G up a D&D elf
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (39g3+)
Elf? Like, elf on a shelf?
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (mf5HN)
Yeah in Wing Commander, set far in the future, you have missiles you can fire from your space ship... but they have no guidance systems. They're literally worse than the crappiest missiles created in the 1950s. They're just dumb rockets.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (953wK)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (RD7QR)
If it does I'm jumping in.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (NWiLs)
I would go see that play.
Posted by: garrett
If he cut his throat, he wouldn't make ten steps before he bled out.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (5t9V6)
Below a certain mass=size. Above that the other particle in the pair is still in the hole so it's turtles all the way down.
Posted by: DaveA at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (rBnYq)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:55 PM (953wK)
After the army grenade thing I guess we're calling that 1 kilocomment.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (8gDQu)
I would go see that play.
Posted by: garrett
If he cut his throat, he wouldn't make ten steps before he bled out.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (5t9V6)
Depends where he cut and how deeply I guess.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (NWiLs)
He's made some hilarious videos on the court proceedings. Perhaps "hilarious" is not quite the right word but he's very funny.
Right out of Orwell.
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (vWMNq)
Must be some epic "Morning Rant."
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (kaCWe)
Posted by: Mega at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (iM8ao)
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There was one published of him back when this happened. Scrawny little black dude. Looks like he'd be afraid of his own shadow. Probably was, which is how this shooting happened. Should never have been allowed to become a cop, and likely would not have, but for the left's insistence on quotas and "inclusion" and "fairness" and all that other nonsensical racist crapola.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (fqUgw)
realize that we had cruise missiles in the 80s that we could chuck down
that exhaust port from hundreds of miles away.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (oVJmc)
The first Star Wars happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (LZJOv)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: MacBeth at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (ctuyM)
Yep, he's being literally jailed over a joke.
Meanwhile, London has a spot called "Speaker's Corner" where the King's law and long tradition have held that you can say anything you want without any fear of consequence or legal repercussion.
The British government blocked someone from going there and talking because they didn't like what he had to say.
This is our future under the next Democrat president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (rBnYq)
Sounds like Shakespeare to me.Posted by: Burger Chef at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Redgrains at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (5BVHO)
Posted by: Shep! at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (vg8iE)
or is that "metercomment"?
I dunno.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (o2MD2)
I have photographic evidence.
Posted by: Hope Solo at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (jjaLl)
What you mean dumb rockets. I got internal guidance system, mothafucka! Thank you Bill!
Posted by: Fat Boy Little Man at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (n+6mJ)
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (aC6Sd)
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LOL. Think so? Here, hold my beer . . . . . . . . . .
Posted by: Hope Solo at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (fqUgw)
Are you all doing crack again?
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 01:58 PM (LZJOv)
Not me. Maybe I should start.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (LZJOv)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
Must be some epic "Morning Rant."
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (7uYFy)
It's relative. It's 10:00 am here. So, morning it is.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (7UW64)
Holy shit. Why are Cocaine and Opium illegal in the face of injecting WASP spray?
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (/LX46)
Jinx we much?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (7LY+6)
I wouldn't be surprised if Ace occasionally just sits around watching to see just exactly how long and weird a comment thread can get.
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (953wK)
I think modern theologians have gotten past that argument actually.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 01:23 PM (tpDAe)
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Perhaps that is because "modern theologians" are not so thoughtful!
The question about angels dancing on the head of a pin has not been found in any Scholastic work. It comes from Enlightened atheists making fun of Scholastics.
But it really is the sort of thing they often discussed.
If angels and demons are 'pure intellect,' spiritual beings, do they occupy space at all? They would have no mass, volume, etc., so presumably an infinite number could be on the pin.
But would they really BE there in the sense of being located there? How can an entity that does not occupy space be located anywhere? Thus, the answer would be zero.
I like questions like that.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (7LY+6)
because they are good with equations and a controlled lab environment,
that they can apply that to society.
Chomsky's programming stuff is actually good. Not widely useful and completely useless for people.
Posted by: DaveA at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (oVJmc)
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To be fair, though, "A New Hope" came out in 1977. Just how well known was the Tomahawk to the general public at the time. Was it even in service?
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: garrett
Beckett could write that play. Nell, Nagg, and the cutthroat guy.
Posted by: Zod at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (NWiLs)
NYTimes
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
The think he is using Kaboom in his bombs.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: maddogg
Come on, surely you've seen the 5 pixel by 5 pixel images of black holes? What better proof do you need?
We're talking 5 pixel by 5 pixel images of blackness. The acid test.
That science is settled sport.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: JAS at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (sCN2W)
NYTimes
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
The think he is using Kaboom in his bombs.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (ymnmz)
Cereal bomber.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (/LX46)
I suspect that is a sort of self-limiting deal, right there. Poison is, well, poisonous.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (7UW64)
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
It's perhaps bad form, but another commenter said something rather funny about it.
Cereal bomber; KABOOM!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (z79tQ)
Yeah everyone is always fighting the last war, the previous villain. The next one always takes the experts by surprise because they don't rely on common sense and observation, just past experience and analysis.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ahmed the Clock Boi at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (ctuyM)
There is nothing that will "send you to hell" that's good for you, your life, or your relationships in this life anyway. The "send you to hell" stuff is identical to the stuff you shouldn't do to have a happy, productive, loving life regardless. Sins are just the stuff the owner's manual says you shouldn't attempt or you'll ruin the mechanism and void the warranty.
Also, God doesn't "send you to hell" you send yourself, secondly, he doesn't "send you to hell" if you learn from your error. He doesn't reject you, you reject him.
The left tends to not have a real grasp on "free will" which is why they don't believe in personal responsibility. Most of the time, though, it comes down to psycho sexual dysfunction or lack of a will to control it.
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (CAKgV)
realize that we had cruise missiles in the 80s that we could chuck down
that exhaust port from hundreds of miles away.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (oVJmc)
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i don't think GPS is an option
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (PNcou)
"But you right-wingers are disgusting!"
Posted by: West at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (7Fa8Y)
Posted by: maddogg
Come on, surely you've seen the 5 pixel by 5 pixel images of black holes? What better proof do you need?
We're talking 5 pixel by 5 pixel images of blackness. The acid test.
That science is settled sport.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (LOgQ4)
Obviously you've never seen the back of my son's closet.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (7UW64)
NYTimes
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
Boy, you can't get anything past these geniuses, can you?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (uDcBt)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (fqUgw)
Don't expect this story to get around much.
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (NWiLs)
The "someone" was Martin Sellner and Tommy Robinson read the speech out last Sunday. Neither Antifa nor the Muslims that hang out at Speaker's Corner caused any trouble. Nor did the cops. Robinson made sure that they were all vastly outnumbered.
Lots of videos of it on youtube as well.
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
But it's high-fiber serial, so he's keeping Austin regular.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (GdWl+)
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM
My Word!!! The intellectual genius of the NYT!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (0tfLf)
Here we go.
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (LZJOv)
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
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Nothing gets by the NYT.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (+y/Ru)
KABOOM
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2018 02:01 PM (3M4WN)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 02:00 PM (ymnmz)
Ok, we actually are morons.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (0jtPF)
I think you are more of a philosopher than I am. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (tpDAe)
is Donald J. Trump. She signed a Non-Disclosure concerning what she
claims is a sexual relationship with President Man-Skank and is now
suing to break it.
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Oh no! Not another indication that the president is exactly like every straight man in the country!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (JTMqu)
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (n+6mJ)
I find it hard to believe that no one ever tried to beam their penis into Yeoman Rand<<<
Is transporter rape a thing now? Is this what they do on the new series?
Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (o2MD2)
You can see stars in orbit and calculate the mass they are orbiting. That's just as good as "seeing". Better, even.
Frankly, we have never actually "seen" most things that we readily accept and use to construct and work with things. And that's beside the fact that "seeing" is not nearly as real and concrete as you might like to think it is.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Todler at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2018 01:57 PM (o2MD2)
I have photographic evidence.
Posted by: Hope Solo
You?
Posted by: Stedman Graham
Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (5t9V6)
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (LZJOv)
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (aC6Sd)
Jinx we much?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 01:56 PM (7LY+6)
I wouldn't be surprised if Ace occasionally just sits around watching to see just exactly how long and weird a comment thread can get.
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (953wK)
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Yeah, I can imagine him sitting in his recliner, sipping Valu-rite from a hobo skull getting lols out of the OTs.
Posted by: Jackal at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (1wgRH)
Posted by: filbert at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (953wK)
For writers other than George Lucas, the idea of a self-guiding missile was hardly unknown. I mean Edgar Rice Burroughs predicted it in his mars books 50 years earlier. They already had torpedos that could steer themselves in WW2.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM
I thought he was lower-48ing for a bit?
Posted by: Ahmed the Clock Boi at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (ctuyM)
Wasp spray is just concentrated chrysanthemum juice (I know this from the poison control center---long story). WASP spray is something you'd use on episcopagans.
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (CAKgV)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 20, 2018 01:53 PM (oVJmc)
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Even if it was right below the main port?
Posted by: WisRich at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (G0vdT)
Yes; I understand that. I am not an Atheist. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2018 02:04 PM (tpDAe)
realize that we had cruise missiles in the 80s that we could chuck down
that exhaust port from hundreds of miles away.
But that story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
One that didn't have GPS, apparently. Lightsabers, yes, but not GPS.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 20, 2018 02:05 PM (GdWl+)
human sacrifice....
Posted by: Todler at March 20, 2018 02:03 PM (8D42x)
Will the corgis abandon the thread before the magic 1000?
Or will the temptation to say First! Drive them away.
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 20, 2018 02:05 PM (LZJOv)
Don't expect this story to get around much.
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2018 02:02 PM (aC6Sd)
But they will count it in the 4,026 shootings at school this year.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2018 02:05 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (GdWl+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (roQNm)
____________________
If they win, I'm going to have my next DL shot taken with a black plastic garbage bag over my head.
If the DMV objects, I'll tell them I'm a member of the new religion, People of the Trash. We have a sincerely held religious belief that this country is going straight into the can, and we further believe we have a moral imperative to assist in every way we can!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (roQNm)
One thousandth???
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 20, 2018 02:06 PM (ATVNj)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2018 02:07 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 20, 2018 01:48 PM (NWiLs)
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Huh?
Posted by: Huitzilopochtli, drinking the blood at March 20, 2018 02:07 PM (0jtPF)
NYTimes
"Serial Bomber" is suspected in explosions that have set Austin on edge.
Posted by: Seven Cubicals at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (roQNm)
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Kaboom?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 20, 2018 02:07 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 20, 2018 02:08 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2018 02:08 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 20, 2018 02:08 PM (tMFgx)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 20, 2018 02:08 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 20, 2018 02:09 PM (GdWl+)
If so, does it wear an asterisk?
We need a Ruling.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2018 02:10 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 20, 2018 02:10 PM (4lzWT)
For writers other than George Lucas, the idea of a self-guiding missile was hardly unknown. I mean Edgar Rice Burroughs predicted it in his mars books 50 years earlier. They already had torpedos that could steer themselves in WW2.
Germans were using radio guided bombs in 1943 that sank and crippled battleships.
Cruisers with guns were retired or converted to missile cruisers by 1960 in major navies.
One problem in Vietnam was that some of the first aircraft deployed were all missile bearing; cannons had to be retrofitted in some cases.
Posted by: Blue Hen at March 20, 2018 02:13 PM (Fa3cJ)
apparently the Most Recent Last Jedi had a woman use a ship go into super speed and blow up a bigger ship, and for some reason the technology that's on tiny little disposable ships like X-Wings wasn't used on any projectiles in the entire universe as useful instruments of war.
I wonder why neither side had an R&D effort. X-wing fighters and the little black ones used by the empire...pretty much unchanged and sounding just the same.
Boring.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2018 01:47 PM (0tfLf)
Plus, the evil arms dealers were selling both TIE fighters AND X-Wings. So who was building them?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2018 02:13 PM (eXA4G)
Women drivers; what havoc can't they wreak?
Posted by: Blue Hen at March 20, 2018 02:15 PM (Fa3cJ)
Holy shit. Why are Cocaine and Opium illegal in the face of injecting WASP spray?
Posted by: Monk at March 20, 2018 01:59 PM (/LX46)
There's a spray that will turn you into a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?
Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2018 02:17 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: H. Davis Wall at March 20, 2018 03:21 PM (v4K82)
If it weren't for affirmative action that is.
They will slowly loosen standards and tho it will appear okay, the graduates will not be fully qualified and will have prejudices that might affect their thinking.
I point out that during a panel someone stated that men are larger/heavier than women and they were walked out on for such "biased" words.
And just above this thread is students showing the lack of rational and reasonable thinking that most students receive by middle school at least at home and by reading current fiction and watching movies and programs.
Apparently they're not learning the value of life or that it is reasonable to criticize others for their ways if they tend to be counter to the safety and well being of others.
This is a pitiful response and I believe now more than ever that we cannot recover from it.
It has taken root and we will never be able to counter it within a generation and it would take more than 1 generation to do so. Thus we are already sliding down that slippery slope with no hold ons.
Posted by: jakee308 at March 20, 2018 03:31 PM (MioLM)
Posted by: H. Davis Wall at March 20, 2018 03:21 PM (v4K82)
To me, the REALLY scary thing is that the Florida walkway failure falls within the domain of the civil engineers. It is not uncommon for them to design with a safety factor of 3, 4, or even 5. Aeronautics (where I spent the past 40 years) has a MUCH more razor thin margin on safety factors (because EVERYTHING is weight critical). If they let these people design airplanes, you can rest assured that a very large number of them are going to start falling out of the sky. That's what we have to look forward to.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
Posted by: CyberCipher at March 20, 2018 03:39 PM (p6WoB)
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