Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
1st May 2015, 02:09 AM
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Replies: 424
Views: 52,602
Really. I'm getting the impression that the...
Really. I'm getting the impression that the downhill slide began when a blob of of right-wing bad writers started an attempt to whine their way into winning an award that a discerning readership...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
20th April 2015, 03:12 AM
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Replies: 424
Views: 52,602
Connie Willis is refusing to present the Hugos...
Connie Willis is refusing to present the Hugos this year (http://azsf.net/cwblog/?p=116), for unambiguous reasons.
At this point I'm just hoping this becomes a big enough blow-up (in terms of people...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th April 2015, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 549
Views: 42,991
The wording is not as clear as it could be....
The wording is not as clear as it could be. Clearly, neither of them knows the date at the beginning, as each has only half the info, thus the first clue to me was a truism and stopped me right there.
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
15th March 2015, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 82
Views: 6,997
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
15th March 2015, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 82
Views: 6,997
Oh good grief. That's a landform deriving from...
Oh good grief. That's a landform deriving from palaeo-dunes - wind-formed sand striations that have been compacted and overgrown. It's what the entire Kalahari is made of. Does that buffoon think...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th March 2015, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,881
Hang around the underbelly of the Wikipedia...
Hang around the underbelly of the Wikipedia community for a bit and you will be amazed by how well all of this works. Turns out people are by and large much more interested in sharing accurate...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th March 2015, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,881
Wikipedia intends to be a tertiary source of...
Wikipedia intends to be a tertiary source of information, i.e. based on other, secondary sources. This produces both the notability criterion (if it's not been covered by other media, it has no...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th March 2015, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 10,160
Major sadface :(
He had been saying for some...
Major sadface :(
He had been saying for some time that he never expected to go on writing as long as he did after the Embuggerance was pronounced... productive and sparkling to the end.
Here's...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st March 2015, 01:24 AM
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Replies: 77
Views: 7,731
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
21st February 2015, 03:29 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,074
NSA and GCHQ hack into SIM encryption
In a fine display of international cooperation, American and British intelligence agencies have decided that everyone's cell phone conversations are their business, and went for the source by hacking...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
19th February 2015, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 72
Views: 13,729
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
19th February 2015, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 961
Good on you and your hamsters :) I assume it's...
Good on you and your hamsters :) I assume it's like what serious readers and writers are doing with language then - the more you expose yourself to complex examples, and pay attention, the better...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th February 2015, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,520
I listened to my last HD (Seagate, I believe)...
I listened to my last HD (Seagate, I believe) comitting suicide by relentless parking. For some obscure reason, that model's parking timeout was set to a hardcoded, nerve-wracking 4 seconds; and when...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
19th February 2015, 04:58 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 961
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
18th February 2015, 11:25 PM
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Replies: 72
Views: 13,729
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
16th February 2015, 03:50 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,575
Not my bailiwick, but: it certainly looks like...
Not my bailiwick, but: it certainly looks like pallasite, and the Seymchan meteorite seems to have been a big bruiser (massing more than a ton) so finding fragments like this on the market does not...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
2nd February 2015, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 90
Views: 6,966
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th January 2015, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,362
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
29th January 2015, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 4,433
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
27th January 2015, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 4,338
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
25th January 2015, 01:13 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 6,966
Conservation is always a schizophrenic...
Conservation is always a schizophrenic undertaking. It just stands out a little more in current NZ land management.
Conservation depends on selecting one ecosystem configuration, declaring that...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
23rd January 2015, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 857
Wasn't that the company raring to sue whatever...
Wasn't that the company raring to sue whatever national entity was going to dare implementing a ban on bee-lethal pesticides? Someone may have had some second thoughts about 'enhancing shareholder...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
18th January 2015, 01:12 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 6,850
Definitely a Dipteran larva. I'd say blackfly...
Definitely a Dipteran larva. I'd say blackfly larva (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blackfly+larva&iax=1&ia=images) (Simuliidae) rather than crane fly, because of the pronounced spiracles and the...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th January 2015, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 175
Views: 4,805
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th January 2015, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 76
Views: 2,312
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
4th January 2015, 01:12 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 13,921
Eh? For all practical purposes, that is a...
Eh? For all practical purposes, that is a greenhouse effect. Especially inasmuch gases only tend to be "excellent insulators" if you are talking about either convection (presumably not an issue...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
25th December 2014, 12:07 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 4,421
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
14th December 2014, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,296
If the anti-hero is also the underdog, that...
If the anti-hero is also the underdog, that helps. This way, sympathy loss and gain tend to offset each other. Jack Vance's Cugel is of this type - very questionable morals, but things generally...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th November 2014, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 208
Views: 18,615
Starting a thread with "social justice warrior"...
Starting a thread with "social justice warrior" in the title automatically exempts it from rational discussion, once you catch on to the fact that the term appears only to be used by proud sociopaths.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
23rd October 2014, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 134
Views: 4,991
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd October 2014, 01:09 AM
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Replies: 134
Views: 4,991
Whoever stands at the rim of the gravity well...
Whoever stands at the rim of the gravity well while you are at the bottom, is your daddy.
Assuming they do not come bearing cinderblocks... I think we'd see a huge upwelling of productiveness,...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th September 2014, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 3,971
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th September 2014, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 953
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
17th September 2014, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,288
Leaving aside all the usual...
Leaving aside all the usual your-informant-is-wrong/deluded-and-here-is-why fare, and assuming an independent rare event of approximately the same likelihood has actually happened every year on the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
15th September 2014, 12:04 AM
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Replies: 2,452
Views: 400,373
*shrug* Nothing much seems to have changed....
*shrug* Nothing much seems to have changed. Radford vs Stollznow still murky, Shermer pretty much established as a social creep (unless all these shifty womenz are out to get him just for the kicks,...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th September 2014, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,956
"The Cults of Psychiatry And Psychology"? I'm...
"The Cults of Psychiatry And Psychology"? I'm getting Scientology vibes here. This is likely not the trustworthy data you are looking for.
ETA: Ah, marplots unearthed the stinker.
Much as I...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
4th September 2014, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,618
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd September 2014, 10:24 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,388
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Forum: JREF
5th August 2014, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,378
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd August 2014, 04:34 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 7,682
Re OP: shouldn't surprise me at all. The god(s)...
Re OP: shouldn't surprise me at all. The god(s) concept has popped up in every single human society for many millenia. It's very probable that there's some deep structure here that drives a bias as...
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Forum: JREF
1st August 2014, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,378
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
31st July 2014, 10:19 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,200
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
23rd July 2014, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 5,584
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th July 2014, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 80
Views: 7,735
Because Monsanto and similar...
Because Monsanto and similar ****-the-consequences GMO applications represent a facet that is rather easy to (correctly) parse as "bad" by those with a certain amount of information. The next step -...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
11th July 2014, 03:21 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 4,412
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
25th June 2014, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,008
Death by Newbery Medal ...
Death by Newbery Medal (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathByNewberyMedal) is a mighty informative TVTropes article. Trust me, that dog is going down...
I've found among myself and...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st June 2014, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 6,251
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st June 2014, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 6,251
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th June 2014, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,265
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th June 2014, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,433
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