obvioustroll

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by obvioustroll 15y ago
> All the CO2 currently sequestered in fossil fuels used to be part of our atmosphere. That's an interesting assertion. I'm not a biologist, but I suspect quite a lot of the carbon in hydrocarbons was locked into other carbon compounds
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by obvioustroll 15y ago
> I think it's easy: jobs as scientists in the U.S. suck relative to other jobs. Hmmm... I'm making 6 figures as an engineer. I really doubt my brother the heavy equipment operator can say the same.
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by obvioustroll 15y ago
You might want to review the history of industrial pollution in the US - and remember that it was all the miraculous promises of science that brought us TMI, Love Canal, mercury poisoning in fish, smog and everything else. To the average pe
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by obvioustroll 15y ago
I think you need to take another look at the connection between western intellectuals and communism. They defended it and, for decades, denied the abuses and murders committed in the Soviet Union and in communist China. http://en.wikipedi
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by obvioustroll 15y ago
That's all true - but we frequently pretend that it isn't. How often do we read or see someone push themselves forward as the Voice of Dispassionate Truth, when the reality they are as much a "true believer" as any other partisan? How ofte
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by obvioustroll 16y ago
Heh. Back when alternate email protocols were still common, it was my job to help support the "smtp gateway" product for a large corporation. I got to the point where I could forge emails by typing in SMTP by hand. This worked very well the
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
In other words, once again we are told that men are responsible for women's problems.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Isn't that true of everything that comes from scribd?
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
What, again? I remember thinking of this ~35 years ago, when I was 9.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
What the heck is that? Is it an old Halloween "easter egg"?
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Thanks. I didn't hear about them till June; hopefully the scopes will show up soon.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
I did say "emulate" not "replicate".
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
? The Celestron Firstscope has a tripod mount? Not as far as I know. Does it replace the altitude screw on the side? If you're referring to the Galileoscope, yeah, I know that.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
"Duplicate" was a poor choice of words, I'm trying to say that the point of the scope is to give kids the same experience that Galileo had. I mean, yes, they opted for a modern achromatic lens - they also chose plastic instead of wood - but
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
That's not the point - the point of this scope is to emulate the scope Galileo had. Anyway, the problem with tiny little reflecting scopes is that you need a table to set them up on. When you're out in a dark field looking at the stars, the
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Errr.. the whole point of this scope is to duplicate the optics that Galileo himself had to deal with. A web cam would be sort of self-defeating. In any case, cheap cameras give very poor results, but if you want to try one you can always d
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Has anyone received theirs yet? I ordered two to give away as prizes for my club's big annual star party - but I'm more than a little worried they won't arrive in time.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
I'm a comcast customer who uses opendns, and I could not reproduce this behavior.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
I've gotten two jobs that way. My first job out of school, and 7 years later when I was laid off. Most of my jobs, however, have come through personal contacts with other engineers.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Because the amount of attention he received made people think it was a scam?
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Isn't the EFF just guessing at what Apple found "objectionable"? I mean, Apple doesn't usually tell you....
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Monopoly power - PayPal has no direct competition.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Indirectly, yes, I think that was a problem - by buying PayPal and closing their own payment service ("BillPoint"?) they ensured PayPal never had to worry about competition again.
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
If the devs aren't hitting their targets, that's a problem. If they are hitting their targets, but you think they are capable of more then make the schedule more aggressive. However, I should point out that thinking for a living is a little
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by obvioustroll 17y ago
Is that such a bad thing? The larger the pay differential, the more likely the jobs will be sent overseas.