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by cbfrench 5y ago
My new life goal is to write an action film in which a rag-tag band of meteorologists takes on an arch-villain who seeks to change the weather to enrich himself and control the world. These meteorologists initially realize something is up b
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by cbfrench 5y ago
As it turns out, USPS doesn’t fall under the statutory definition of a uniformed service: “ (5) The term “uniformed services” means— (A) the armed forces; (B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; an
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Now I really want to imagine that at NOAA OLE HQ, there is a big bulletin board with a bunch of strings and newspaper clippings that demonstrates precisely how everything somehow interacts with the fisheries. They’re just waiting for their
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Although, unfortunately, I do believe their primary mission is to enforce laws regarding fisheries: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/office-law-enforcement So, unless your weather modification activities are also v
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by cbfrench 5y ago
>Why is the NOAA hosting this site? Because the NOAA has a Division of Security under the Dept. of Commerce umbrella: https://www.commerce.gov/osy/field-offices/national-oceanic-... The Western Regional Securit
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Also worth reading in a similar vein: https://elan.school/ It’s astonishing that no one involved with Élan ever went to prison.
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Anglican priest here. (I would guess the only one?) IIRC, I ended up here during one of my sporadic attempts to teach myself to code for fun. I stuck around for the diverse and interesting content plus the thoughtful and sane discussions. I
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by cbfrench 5y ago
This is the article I needed to read eleven years ago. I graduated as the valedictorian from a good liberal arts college and ended up in a top-ten PhD program in English lit. My undergrad dept. was very much an old-school one at the time: m
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I can second this. I’ve been fairly impressed with Idagio in the years I’ve been using it. My only real gripe with it is that it used to be much easier to glance through a composer’s works by genre when looking at the composer’s page. Now t
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by cbfrench 5y ago
I’m prepared to go ahead and grant him Universe Brain status. ;)
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by cbfrench 5y ago
Of course, Anthony Kenny countered Russell’s assertion by humorously noting, “ It is extraordinary that that accusation should be made by Russell, who in the book Principia Mathematica takes hundreds of pages to prove that two and two mak
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by cbfrench 5y ago
So, the world of ham radio is basically full of personal websites that all look like they came directly from 1998, many of which are routinely updated. You’ll have radio amateurs posting really sophisticated antenna and circuit designs on t
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by cbfrench 6y ago
I believe this is why some parts of Appalachia still celebrate “Old Christmas” on January 6, which is Epiphany for the rest of the Western church. To my knowledge, this doesn’t affect their observance of Easter, which conforms to the Gregor
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by cbfrench 6y ago
As an Anglican priest, I can confidently say that our expectation and hope runs rather the opposite direction, given the—ahem—somewhat questionable mental faculties of many who’ve served as Supreme Governour of the Church of England since t
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by cbfrench 6y ago
Or, to use a personal example: My pediatrician was Dr. Raper. To my recollection, the rather infelicitous nature of his last name never came up in conversation among his patients, although I’m sure the oddity of it crossed some minds...
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by cbfrench 6y ago
I have had to take the DISC inventory for one of my jobs, although it seems mostly derivative of antecedent personality inventories. I didn’t gain dramatically more insight into my own personality style from the DISC than I did from any oth
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by cbfrench 6y ago
> 2b. The other adjustment I have made is that I consider each scale to be a measure of how much ABILITY a person has developed and PRACTICING that trait. In other words, beyond natural predisposition, each person can grow considerably i
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by cbfrench 6y ago
I definitely second the recommendation to find a local star party. They are also good because they help temper expectations. Most people assume that what they’re going to see when they get a telescope will be similar to what they’ve seen in
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by cbfrench 6y ago
It’s up for conjecture how “pitilessly literal” the DBH translation is. As is the case with most translations, he imports his own agenda (particularly with regard to his universalist soteriology). It’s good, but it’s also not as “pitilessly
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by cbfrench 6y ago
“You mistake you! It is a frog.” remains one of my all-time favorite phrases.
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by cbfrench 6y ago
Very sad to hear. I’d always hoped to have the time to take Latin with him but never did. Requiescat in pace.
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by cbfrench 6y ago
Specifically, what freedoms are those? Where are they enumerated in the text of the Constitution, its amendments, or the corpus of constitutional jurisprudence? Citing “the freedoms guaranteed by The Constitution” is fairly meaningless in t
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by cbfrench 6y ago
Detonation footage begins just after 22:40 for those (like me) looking for the big boom.
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by cbfrench 7y ago
I’d say you can go back to Blake’s “dark satanic mills” for some of those critiques. The anti-industrialist strain of Romanticism is almost as old as industrialism itself.
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Do you mean “awful”?
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Part of the 96% comes, I think, from the fact that I did doctoral work in English lit, which gives me a better “feel” for those sorts of archaisms. I can’t say that I knew all of the words that cropped up in the test, but many of them sound
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by cbfrench 7y ago
96%. The two I missed were misclicks (e.g., I accidentally hit ‘no’ on ‘parboil.’) A number of those were intuition, though.