jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is less like "you are holding it wrong" and more like a hypothetical response of "don't drop it" prompted by complaints of screen fragility. Holding it wrong isn't an accident in the same way that hitt
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Under normal conditions, aluminum oxide forms a protective layer for the rest of the aluminum. This goes out the window for unusual sorts of corrosion (say, mercury).
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Who doesn't have unlimited SMS? I mean that seriously, nobody in any of my social circles uses whatsapp. I honestly don't have a solid grasp on who exactly their core market is.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> And to be honest, just seeing a file hosted on SourceForge casts doubts on the quality of the app. I couldn't agree more. Whenever a session of searching for a solution ultimately lands me on a sourceforge page, I feel a pit fo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Sapphire is often used for windows/viewports on pressure chambers. At least in that capacity, it functions much better than regular glass.
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They very well may have been free, I'm not sure. That same general sort of machine though at least.
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Difference being that the ending to Titanic was 'spoiled' for me before the screenplay was ever written.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Media overhypes a cautious plea for assistance made by scientists. Scientists receive their assistance, and announce that the discrepancy has been resolved. Media looks foolish, and claims the entire incident is indicative of flaws in the
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Vindicating yourself in a courtroom can be extremely expensive.
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I have to press the back button several times to get off of this site (after clicking on this site several times). Each time I press the back button, I am given no visual feedback from the site (unlike on wikipedia, where I am scrolled thr
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I know they at least use to have a few coin operated newspaper vending machines on street corners in Philadelphia. Not sure about elsewhere, I only ever noticed them in Philly.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In the broad sense, it is satirizing a sort of militaristic/jingoistic mentality. Specifically it does this by satirizing one particular manifestation of this mentality, its source material.
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> A subset of the fans of the book get mad because the violence and fascism seemed so much cooler in their heads. A film that does a great job of exploring this discrepancy (how we think violence is really cool... right up to the poin
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I suspect they were projecting the book onto the movie so strongly that it actually drown out the movie. That or they were just upset that the movie didn't feature the wildly unfilmable powered suits.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Have you seen the movie? Did you see Neil Patrick Harris's outfit in the movie? You would have to be clinically braindead to not pick up on the satire.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I've read the book, and seen the movie. Let me tell you, I can't say that anything more than a skimming of that book is necessary. It's about as one dimensional as sci-fi gets. Worse even than Scott Cards work, and I don&#
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In-movie propoganda reel from Starship Troopers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFuaYA-daw Note Neil Patrick Harris sharply dressed in a rather SS-officer-esque uniform. I'd say it's a tossup.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It would have some value to me, but not much in the grand scheme of things. I don't look at that directory and think "Welp, that was [X]-grand well spent" , because just getting that directory wasn't worth many thous
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I have heard it not necessarily often , but several times, from extended family members (there is one notable offender, my response to her is usually an exasperated comment about her not even having a job... holidays with the jlgreco fa
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is exactly what I am talking about. Why do you think that "much was given" to the engineers of the world, but not to others? Engineers may be blessed with talents in engineering, but novelists are blessed with the gift of
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well, my perspective may be biased since I naturally associate more with engineers, but it seems to me that engineers take a disproportionate amount of this sort of flack. It seems to me that the general public thinks that engineers have a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Add enough corruption and fat to those cancer research programs and they would happily consume all the wealth you could ever dream of throwing at them. Eventually you'll reach a point where you realize that instead of throwing those m
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Who uses aliases to prevent the deletion of directories? The directory of source code created during my education is not something that wealth was poured into. Wealth was poured into my brain , that directory is just a byproduct. If I, a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You are not paying them to waste time though. You are paying them to develop a very advanced (and valuable) skillset. You are paying to develop and mature your nation's scientific community and education system, to provide them acces
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There exists a strange notion that engineers have some form of responsibility that goes above and beyond what 'normal' people have. Anyone can do anything they like with their lives... unless they are an engineer, at which poin
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The broken windows parable is an argument against destruction to encourage the exchange of money. There is no analogous destruction in this case. > "Those earth engineers could be doing other things." I might as well point o
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"the vast majority of money spent on space exploration is spent on earth." The wealth, or money, represented by the physical spacecraft is a rounding error. The thing isn't made of gold bullion. Wealth was used to develop
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This is little more than "why are we spending money on electronic gadgets when cancer still needs to be cured" , an argument that has zero traction in this community. It doesn't suddenly start making sense when the topic is
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I fear that the "Great Filter" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_filter ) is less likely to be a big rock or hunk of ice whacking planets full of the uninspired, but rather the speed of light necessitating d

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