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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. :rofl:

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.

My current books I'm currently reading PW Singer's "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry". --- Aside, did ya'll know that there are over 10,000 privately hired military contractors often engaged in armed combat with US air support assets in security positions...

I've actually had a little experience with this... I am friends with a girl who lives on a ranch in a very small one stoplight town. A deer crashed into her glass door and injured its leg, so they helped it out and I think fed it and stuff. I even want to say that she told me that the deer...

This is kind of random, but I am wondering if this picture of US soldiers standing ready to receive the bodies of 5 American casualties in the GWOT (I'm not sure OIF or OEF) shows an explosion in the background. My question is "Is that cloud on the right side of the horizon an explosion (like...

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Nice catch. Unintentional, I promise. What about "component view" - what would be its opposite? Here's a rephrasing of the entire question: What is a good way to describe these two viewpoints: 1) seeing the trees but no forest and 2) seeing the forest but no trees...

But by far the best internet nothing-for-something deal is the One Red Paperclip guy - who is in the process of trading up from one red paperclip to ultimately a house. He's now gone from originally having one red paperclip to now having a recording contract - but he will only stop once he has...

I saw an ebay bid where a guy renounced his loyalty to the Detroit Lions (which he'd been a fan for like 30 years) and offered to instead cheer for whichever team the highest bidder chose - it included wearing jerseys on game days, watching all the games, etc. When I saw it, the bidding was...

Okay, I'm trying to come up with two descriptors to classify two different ways of (macroscopically) looking at something. Let's say a tree. Now, one way to look at is through a "cross-section" view - where you could see the rings, veins, etc. (My tree knowledge leaves a lot to be...

Yep. Two utilities within the NuStart Consortium. Had 'em for about a year now. Hopefully they'll pick up. I've only got a limited number of shares currently because 1) it doesn't seem like the nuclear power industry is a particularly nimble creature (with application and building...

It's really frustrating how candidates who run on a pro-environment platform (at least comparatively) at the same time bash nuclear energy and, whether they want to or not, only increase the fossil fuel-based market share - which they also rant against constantly. My family is in the oil...

We had to watch a documentary about nuclear energy (and how its dangers are perceived much higher than in reality) and I remember some very interesting facts in the film - though I've forgotten the science behind them (yall will have to help with that). In one experiment, this guy set outside...

Maybe a dumb question, but is there a 'season' for the bird flu? Is there some date or month after which, if nothing happens, we're all allowed to collectively breathe a sigh of relief (until next year)?

Wow, now that was a good one.

Here's one for ya: It's all rhetorical threats: Ahmadinejad has no reason to go to Europe (where he'd probably be denied a passport if this past). This is unlike the UN General Assembly, where his temporary passport to the US was hotly debated and ultimately permitted. But that issue...

22nd Amendment Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of...

Globalsecurity.org is a great source of generally very accurate info. The guy who runs it, John Pike I think his name is, is something of a security expert/specialist. Generally good objective data.

Yeah I could be down for a Duck Hunt challenge. I even have the autoaiming headset for NES.

But would not this lead to situations where one company with a minority interest in one consortium and a majority in another ultimately attempt to sabotage negotiations in the minority one, everything else being equal? It seems to me to be a lot like lions, who all hunt together and work...

What is the benefit of helping the US with the war on terror - which is much more than a semantic ribbon - if our country is still going to be prejudiced against you? The UAE since 9/11 has allowed the US to use its ports and military facilities to make the invasion of Iraq possible - which...

I've got a question on these large consortiums (of US and some French firms) that have been formed to work on nuclear constructions in the US. I wasn't sure where exactly to post, so please feel free to move. NuStart is an example of the type of consortium I'm wondering about. It appears to...

I meant major in the sense of a lot of ordnance dropped on the nuclear facilities (and perhaps relevant air defense systems). I do not believe at all that the US'd bomb Tehran (even gov't buildings) or any major metropolitian area - they'd lose what little support they had, even in the USG...

Oh and yes, I did just post my Xbox live rankings on the internet. I'm going to go cry now.

Well I do think we should post our Xbox live rankings: Team Snipers - 30 Team Slayer - 31 Team Hardcore - 18 (just starting that one) Mine aren't perfect, but I'm getting there.

In Europe, if you were to get on a computer and post in forums that the Holocaust never happened - could you be arrested? What if you had a webpage?

I'm not from Europe or Jewish, so I probably do not have the correct perspective, but what's up with this? Apparently you can't deny the Holocaust ever happen in certain countries - I did not know that. This guy is clearly a lousy historian, an arsehole, and most likely a narcissistic...

Or, is that the decryption process you're talking about? I try to look at it and it never opens..

Umm - it says I don't have sufficient priviledges to access the photo. Can you maybe post it in a different way or tell my computer to stop being insane?

Not to give into your nuclear blackmail, but I think you're essentially right. I too doubt any sort of large scale invasion: I simply don't think we've got the troop capacity, equipment readiness, etc to do it - unless it became absolutely urgent. We might differ on the likelihood of a major...

All of that said, if this week comes and goes with no Iranian solution, we should all pool our money and invest in crude oil. That way, when the sh*t hits the fan, PF will own a new plasma screen tv or two. :wink:

Well, it does seem likely that we'll know in a few days (possibly weeks) time. Tomorrow (or actually in a few hours, depending on your time zone), an Iranian delegation will arrive in Moscow to try and hash out a version of the Moscow nuclear solution (whereby Russia enriches the uranium and...

And since we know that it is rarely that news anchors ever think, it looks like the theory, in this particular case, has been invalidated.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The Bhutanese have a long history of opposing nuclear warfare. Their SK-35r's and 4-20 Buddha Blast missiles make for a robust counterstrike potential. Thus the Bhutanese have defeated major nuclear powers since time began. Theirs is a history written in...

I am curious as to why ya'll think nothing (militarily) will happen against Iran? Do you mean that no multilateral (US, UK, France, Germany) military action will take place against Iran or that no military action at all (unilateral or otherwise [including by Israel or US]) will take place...

Thanks Morbius! Just what I was curious about.

First, I vote that CNBC changes the name to Donny Douche. It'd at least be funnier. Second, I had a religion and psychology teacher who gave a good lecture one day about how the subjects that people find important to discuss, denounce, whatever, are also the subjects that they themselves are...