Posts by GrimJack

You voted for change. You are going to love your deserved change.
Here we go.

Heh,heh - for all the reasons to complain about Gupta, you chose what is probably the lamest.

Whereas, your choice of McCain/Palin was so superior - keep looking, I am sure you might find something worth complaining about when Obama actually becomes President.

could Sanjay Gupta be any worse than Joycelyn Elders, who was fired by Bill Clinton

She was fired because the f-ing conservatives could not believe that their children masturbated. One wonders why they have a problem with masturbation?

The only time travel that programming will support is uni-directional - you will be older when you are done. There is nothing in Einstein's General ToR work that implies time-travel and everything in Special ToR that explicates that time-travel is impossible. The Einstein-Rosen Bridge predicts wormholes because Albert could not stand the idea of a singularity in the center of a black hole - Wheeler discovered that the Einstein-Rosen bridge space-time structure was dynamically unstable in field-free space. They showed that if such a wormhole somehow opened, it would close up again before even a single photon could be transmitted through it, thereby preserving Einsteinian causality. This lead to Lorentzian wormholes and Euclidean wormholes but I digress.

I would look more towards Feynman - "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

More commentary:

Well, this may be the time to link to this just so we can understand just how far the 'conservatives' will go to try and blind us to the truth.

Sliced some ham to go with my stinky goat cheese and crackers; made some sparkling water to wash it down

Kool! I am working my way through the Mall now - what do I do with the bags of squishy parts?

Stuff near the top:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=315792676809488&secure=1&show=1&rss=1

I like this paragraph - Hansen and his ilk never seem to question whether the government should be involved in behavior modification. They believe so zealously in their cause — establishing an egalitarian society where conspicuous consumption is limited to the few who make the rules — that they have no misgivings about using the police power of the federal and state governments to beat society into shape.. Heh, heh - he never heard of 4-way stops, driving on the right (at least in the US), not stealing from your neighbors, not killing people and all those other forms of behavior modification that rely on the police power of the state.

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=17408

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=fabled-northwest-passage-open-for-b-2008-08-27

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/01/nasas-hansen-obama-use-global-warming-redistribute-wealth

Teh socialists are coming! Teh socialists are coming! Lud save us from us from the terrible socialists.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/12/most-embarrassing-global-warming-myths.html

I will reuse this link

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=313892396478678&secure=1&show=1&rss=1

I like the way they define all scientists who support 'climate change' as political sell-outs and all scientists who deny 'climate change' as hundreds of competent scientists dedicated to the truth - sigh!

http://www.memeorandum.com/081211/p16#a081211p16

Try this link, followed by this link, and then, when you think you grasp a little about modeling, try the model yourself. Any list of deniers must list anything by Imhofe (de rigeur)

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=17348

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=croplands-may-wither-as-global-warming-worsens

http://www.globalwarming.org/node/2795

And, of course, there is the old "they laughed …

Ace Flop! The silly conservative have barely finished blaming Clinton for everything and now are starting in on Obama and he is not even president yet.

When will you conservatives 'man up' and take responsibility? Everything is never your fault; if you can't find someone to blame, you try to redefine the labels so it is not your fault.

Pfffft!

I first bought F3 cuz I thought it would be (sorta) turn-based like 1 and 2 so I could play it on my laptop - did not get far. Moved it to my gaming machine and I love it!

So far I completed the first chapter of "Survivor's Guide", Arefu, and THEM! I found Vault 106 but did not find anything much there. Got 'Dog Meat' but he is almost more trouble than he is worth. I am such a 'goody 2-shoes' that a pack of Talon mercs attack me almost every time I pop up in the Wasteland.

I have a couple of 'pocket nukes' but have no idea what they are for.

Oh damn yes! Learned COBOL and BASIC as a youth and have never been the same. I have honestly tried to learn other languages but I was ruined. I was on programming teams that were both mixed and all men - the mixed teams worked best because they were complementary. Or so I think, it may just have been the teams. I do not have enough data to decide whether or not there is anything to the men vs women in IT controversies.

We are fully aware of it -- we just don't believe it. Global warming is a natural occurence that has occured many times in the earth's history. Al Gore is just a big joke.

You keep repeating this about Al Gore but offer no rebuttal to any of his points.

And to everyone else - YES! I love this topic, let's keep it alive.

Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted

Who is Harold Ambler?

I have kind of a different take on the concept of global warming. I believe that, yes, there is global climate change but not global warming. There is no global temperature. Temperatures fluctuate everywhere on the earth and there are periodic warming and cooling trends. Climate change is a different story but not necessarily a bad one. For example, Saudia Arabia was once a thriving forest full of animal life--a vast tropic forest--think Madagascar on a very large scale. That's where the oil came from.

The second law of thermodynamics states that everything tries to reach a state of equilibrium. The earth is a closed system and will keep everything in balance--temperatures, CO2 levels, etc.

er. Earth is not a closed system - it gets heat from the Sun and radiates heat out to the universe - CO2 is a product of a chemical reaction between Carbon and Oxygen, it is 'created and destroyed' constantly.

Every bit of carbon that exists now on the earth, has always existed--now it exists as people, animals, trees, oil, natural gas, and CO2. Eons ago, that same carbon existed as dinosaurs, mammoths, trees, etc.

Almost all the elements above Helium were created after the B-B in the heart of Novas and SuperNovas. Material is constantly being added to Earth via various forms of space debris (meteorites, comets, etc) and some of it is organic.

The earth will compensate for any changes. If the CO2 level rises beyond a comfortable level, the earth will grow …

Think the Big 3 Bailout's a Good Idea? Chrysler's history suggests it is

You ain't seen nothing yet. But this is part of the promise change

Yep! Nope!

Yes, back to Bush's SEC

Really? That's not even mention of ideas, but more of a popularity contest.
"If if comes from Pravda, it must be true."? :icon_razz:[/nevermind]

Whatever the hell this means, you should stick with a plan and not just 'core dump' whatever pops into you head.

How about The Krugman Recipe for Depression? Oh, I know -- Amity Shlaes is less popular with the America left than Krugman, so I guess that means by default that Krugman cannot be criticised by her. :icon_rolleyes:

Linky

Let me line up some more folks for your ad hominems: Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006

Will address this one as time permits.

A typical hotshoe flash puts out a very fast "pulse" of light. But how fast is fast? To freeze all motion in a hummingbird's wings, you need a duration as short as 1/5,000 to 1/20,000 of a second (50-200 microseconds). Here is a short film, The first person to film a flying hummingbird in free flight had to waste hundreds of rolls of film acclimating the bird to the sound of a mechanical camera running film at above 1000 frames a second (imagine the sound of film you hear when a president is talking, sped way up).

Ooh! Kool - Leslie bet me you'd see that I had just added a level to my ad hominem attack, I was sure you wouldn't. I bought breakfast this morning.

To be honest, I have not had the time to work my way through Anderson's arguments; I won't have time to get to Schlaes' arguments any time soon either (heck, I do not even have time to do a decent ad hominem on Schlaes) - I can't get the kleinbartlet .pdf to load so - ditto.

I just got a copy of Fallout3 and so I only have a few minutes every so often to pop in here to poke you - at least your black to blue ratio is getting higher. (I also have another session open with 24 more blogs to work my way through - so far about 12 of them seem interesting enough to add to my reading list).

Keep on my case, I will eventually get my arguments together.

Where by merlin's beard would evolution have started from dear grumpier, nothing comes from nothing if nothing existed what would have evolved

It was not anywhere near Merlin's beard - this is where it was:

The oscillator representation is used for the non-perturbative description of vacuum particle creation in a strong time-dependent electric field in the framework of scalar QED. It is shown that the method can be more effective for the derivation of the quantum kinetic equation (KE) in comparison with the Bogoliubov method of time-dependent canonical transformations. This KE is used for the investigation of vacuum creation in periodical linear and circular polarized electric fields and also in the case of the presence of a constant magnetic field, including the back reaction problem. In particular, these examples are applied for a model illustration of some features of vacuum creation of electron-positron plasma within the planned experiments on the X-ray free electron lasers.

Seems there is another thread for this same topic.

If so, link to it; but at least read the last couple post to find out that it was closed for being too long for any newcomer to read it all or it was decided to take the argument to another level.

This thread looked like it was going to die - here is some life support:

evolutionary biologists and other members of the Coalition of the Sane have done the following very well:

1. Calling creationists f*cking morons (because they are).
2. Arguing that a better understanding of how life evolved is good in and of itself, and can imbue us with a certain sense of wonder.
3. Refuting specific creationist claims.

These are necessary, but not sufficient. What we rarely do is make an affirmative, positive argument for evolution (as opposed to against creationism). I proposed one particular argument: we can't do applied medical genomics at all without using evolutionary theory and tools. There are many other examples that can be made (I merely chose this one because I know it rather well).

The other thing we evolutionary biologists don't do enough of, and this stems from the previous point, is make an emotional and moral case for the study of evolution. Last night, I concluded my talk with a quote from Dover, PA creationist school board member William Buckingham, who declared, "Two thousand years ago someone died on a cross. Can't someone take a stand for him?"

My response was, "In the last two minutes, someone died from a bacterial infection. We take a stand for him." [ 1 ]

William L Anderson
vs
Paul Krugman

I rest my case

Would it be possible for you to list a few of these folks that you think are conservatives that are screwing things up? A good hunk of conservatives would call Bush a lefty. I'm trying to recall any conservative charge coming out of Washington since the Contract with America.

Where are the DW archives?? I would like to see your posts on Bush over the last 8 years.

If your little finger were cut off, you would lose about 60% of the strength of your grip.

<<I know you are listening>>

This probably belongs here but what the heck.

Turkey gizzard and heart - drinking a Bourbon and Coke

Okay, thanks for the inane link to a midget trying to bite the ankle of his betters (jeez, he even dragged in that stupid clock right 2x per day shite -- worse than a stopped clock is one that is off by a minute - it is right only once every 12,000 years).

Here, I will link for your side just to keep the argument going:

It is the Conservative who lives to make the Liberal defend their reasoning, their facts, their evidence, their cost-benefit analysis and most critically of all, the underlying, unexamined and quite often silly assumptions as to human nature and best outcomes.

Happy New Year!!!!
"God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk."

"God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk."

Just having a job would make me happy(er).

I found my love; she's a geek like me; we just got a cat; we are watching Garrison Keiler; Happy New Year!!!

I found this over at Think Progress:

One of the distinguishing characteristics of modern American conservatism is that it believes in a curious concept of “color blindness.” In this view, racism is bad. But absent truly egregious behavior, it’s not something you’d really get all that upset about nor is it something you should be really attuned do. But so-called “political correctness” — meaning something like anti-racism that’s gone too far — is a really serious problem. Any hint of political correctness is worth getting upset about. And the views of actual members of racial minorities as to what is and isn’t racist should be completely discounted. Rather than saying that the prudent and decent white person will steer a mile clear of racist activity — sending out “Barack the Magic Negro” CDs, for example — the best course of action is to deliberately drive straight at the line and then get really upset at anyone who says you’ve crossed it.

Sometimes, she wakes up and nags me about food, killing things, ooh pretty thing, killing things. Love is not: me cat-sized and Morgan Grim-sized - I would live only until she got bored.

What is Conservatism? One British Answer

Interesting!
I have problems with 5 (ftw??), 8 (hunh?), 12 (Bush showed us just how stupid this can be), 14(?), 16 (er, needs further refinement re: llp, corps, etc), 19 (crap - so can conservatism), 20 (er,hunh?).

Link wars

what a buncha glurge!

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Well, Looks like I did not know Jack about corruption:

BUSH'S REGULATORY POLICIES

Here is a sample of why it cost more:

The gap caused some inspectors to complain that they lacked adequate gear to monitor workplace chemicals and other hazards. Efficiency became a key agency buzzword and, to help improve it, Foulke arranged for OSHA to hire Randy Kimlin, an acquaintance from South Carolina, as a $112-an-hour consultant beginning in 2006.

The work was lucrative for Kimlin, a former employee of Union Carbide -- a firm that frequently clashed with OSHA -- and a former president of a Greenville-based chemical firm. For his part-time advice over a 22-month period beginning in May 2006, OSHA paid Kimlin $513,403, a salary higher than that received by Vice President Cheney, any member of Congress and Foulke himself during that period.

Kimlin was paid an additional $97,730 in reimbursements for nearly weekly flights back to South Carolina and for a hotel room on Capitol Hill, all granted under a subcontract with Washington-based TATC Consulting that was awarded without competition.

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No, I do not understand that! I express my opinions, make my points and point to places for support. That is not the same thing as posting only links to this really weird guy who talks to Bob - he sounds like that other guy you pointed to who was talking to a hitchhiker (or maybe was a hitchhiker, whatever).

Dr. Zaius is a fictional character in the SF novel "Planet of the apes" by P.Boulle, but then again I haven't carefully looked at your site before replying...

That explains why your post makes no sense. Why reply to a post about a particular site w/o looking at the site first?

The Conservative Elevator Story

See, Conservatives still can't define themselves without bringing in Liberals. Every time Conservatives get into power and screw things up - Conservatives disown them and say "they aren't Conservative - REAL conservatives would have made things better" and besides it was Clinton that did it or Clinton did it first or the Liberals did it. Not us, We are Conservative - we do no wrong.

Sorry.

Point numero uno - Obama is not even president yet and the 2nd paragraph is "So much for hope and change."

2 - "Good question, Bob. In America today, conservatives believe, government is cruel, corrupt, unjust; and it just costs too much. And we conservatives just can't stand there and do nothing
" The conservatives in Washington have made the government cruel, corrupt, unjust, and expensive - we are still reeling from 8 years of Conservative 'do nothing'.

3 - Liberals created this monster, Bob. Liberals believe that compulsory government programs are the way to help the poor and comfort the afflicted. But they are wrong. Government is not compassion. Government is force. You cannot solve social problems by force. It is the conservative Gov under Bush that tortures people, incarcerates them w/o due process, perverts the Justice system, et c. Conservatives created the monster and blames the Liberals.

Ralph (since he is talking to Bob, I will call him Ralph), Ralph is flailing around trying to define himself by denigrating others; Ralph …

I think they are very lucky -- Canada will not allow extradition if the prisoner is facing a death penalty trial. It would have become real messy!

1970 years? We are already living in it!

Sorry, I don't get it?

The "Auto Dealers Association" started as a user-protection organization. There were a lot of scammers who were selling cars via Ponzi schemes - selling cars for $1100 that cost $1500 - and various other methods. Since the invention of the Internets, this has become more of a 'protective' association.

The 'santa' had planned to flee to Cananda - he had thousands of dollars taped to his legs and corset(?) and a ticket but he accidently burned himself so badly he could not stand the pain and killed himself. His car was booby-trapped so he could kill more. Now is when I wished I believed in hell.

I kept slipping past this site - finally I looked now I am stuck.

Do you ever apply this same scrutiny to your own sources? [/rhetorical]

Yes, I do. I actually look around for more than one opinion, I think about what I say, and I generally post links. I choose links that explain and often do not fully support what I think. Sometimes, I choose links that I know will wind you up - we have fun here.

Someone just pointed me to this site for old 80s video games - I mean this is Old School in all caps!

They even offer DigDug - I sold a book I was reading just so I could get a couple more quarters to play (I never did get to finish that book).

OMG! Elavator Action! too and Gauntlet -- QIX! Robotron (I used to play it as Llamatron on my Amiga) Spy Hunter, Tapper, sigh - memories of lost quarters.