Recent content by jhe1984

Didn't read all the posts, but if no one else has, I thought I'd add a passage from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, in which he discusses our perception of events and subsequent, almost simultaneous, reordering of these events to match what we understand as likely to have occurred in the...

ahh, I've found some helpful resources on other parts of this site. i'll start there, but feel free to chime in with any thoughts.

Maybe this was in the movie, but did you know that the second largest military force in Iraq is private military contractors? Their combined numbers are a few thousand larger than the UKs. Many are operating in combat support roles, but a suprisingly large amount carry assault rifles...

I live in Austin and I've always loved that joke. :smile:

Isn't a stock market chart a visual representation of this phenomena?

Yeah, I've got a few thoughts. Please clarify the parameters of the project. Can you use voting statistics for non-US countries? 1) Examine the relationships between GDP and voter turnout. The US, with the highest GDP, has a remarkably low voter turnout. Then you look at, well, Iraq or...

Hi, I'm about halfway through college and have just begun to realize that my understanding of mathematics is rather dismal. This may sound obvious but I know that I can do math because, in high school, once I finally understood a process (which I did in about average time) I could apply it...

Ivan's got me beat on the qualifications side, but for my part I do know that in the last geophysics class I took, they talked about how certain seismic waves traveled (albeit dampened) across the Earth's inside. Perhaps these disturbances could exarcebate already unstable seismic regions...

Sorry, I got HFCS confused with aspartame - nutrasweet - which is in diet cokes. How bad then is nutrasweet for me?? Here's link and "neuron excitation" article... http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm " How Aspartate (and Glutamate) Cause Damage Aspartate and...

So, for example, that Albert Einstein quote area is only for pf contributors?

I've been reading about High Fructose Corn Syrup in fruit drinks and some people are saying that it can be really bad, like exciting neurons to the point of frying and such. Is HFCS really bad for me and if so, how bad? Thanks.

How do I add those custom "signatures" that are in most people's replies, like quotes, or people they like, etc.?

Well, sadly, there are most certainly two set of books. The Congressional Budget process - what is typically thought of as "the Budget for ..." - is a set of 13 or 14 appropriations bills that come together to form the US Federal Budget for any particular FY. Thankfully, this is subject to a...

Can anyone tell me whether or not Emergency Spending bills, like the 109 Billion dollar bill currently in Congress, are included in the CBO (Congressional Budget OFfice) figures for annual US deficit? "...On May 4, the Congressional Budget Office revised its estimate of the deficit for the...

Just an observation: Every single one of Dan Brown's books involves a young intrepid professor being thrust into an adventure with a distressed and highly educated female. All of them.