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I'd be willing to bet that if a fundamentalist Christian did this to his wife, there would be no shortage of people on this board attributing it to his religion.

towards to sustainable energy source. Nuclear fuel isn't sustainable. There is a finite amount in the world, and it will be used up. It should last longer than the fossil fuels. Technically, all fuel sources will only last a finite amount of time. But the fact is that we have a LOT of fuel for nucl...

Drug addicts are at a higher risk for becoming worse in future, just as fundie scientists have been known to go off the deep end. Are you saying that companies should completely ignore risk factors, and only be allowed to look at present conditions? I'm curious if you have a source showing that whe...

Hmm... Nice work Kuroneko. Do you by any chance know what the name is for that method?

Do you have the actual function for that graph (as opposed to just the numbers). If so, you just have a differential equation: dv/dt = f(v) which you could solve by hand with laplace transforms, or with a TI-89 or maple If you just have the data, then I think that you can solve the problem with eige...

I think we're all lucky that he gave a real date.

Now we can all laugh at him when it's 2010 and the US still exists...

I don't see how the Republicans could "implode". It's a two party system, and if the Republicans did somehow "implode", another conservative party would immediately form in their absence. As for the CD, it's pretty darn tasteless (not to mention petty) to write songs making fun o...

Funnily enough, I made this exact argument in a recent grant application (35% support for some R&D we're doing on making our AI stuff easier to use). 'All the grunt coding jobs are being made obsolete anyway, it's your choice whether they all go to India etc and take the revenues out of the Bri...

At my high school, we were told it was important to get technical skills. Either through a technical college or university. It was hammered into us to get a qualification of some sort (Such as being a qualified plumber, electrician, Engineer, Boilermaker etc ). No particular stress on university. T...

I think the problem with college is that people confuse causation with correlation. Yes, there's a big correlation between getting a great job and going to a top college. But does going to a top college cause one to get a great job, or do intelligent and ambitious people just have the highest probab...

As the title says: does anyone here have experience of political activity and work, that is, working with/for a political party and being an active member Yeah, I'm a member of the College Republicans. In the US people usually support a specific candidate or work through some auxiliary organization...

Hmmm...

I wonder if there's some mathematical way to go around this, i.e. transmit signals in such a way that they can filter out the jamming. (I'm just sort of throwing this out, I don't have much of a background in signal analysis).

Ah yes, you're right, the null space of [1 -1] isn't just [1], it's [1 1]. Hmmmm... So for the null space to have the same basis of the column space the matrix would have to be n x n. If a column has a pivot then it is in the column space, otherwise it must be in the null space. So they can't have t...

I took a linear algebra final this morning, and one of the questions was "Can you have a matrix A where the basis's of the null space and the column space are the same?" I said on the test that they couldn't be the same because the vectors that form the basis of the column space all have p...

At least for the intelligent primitivists (think unabomber), stopping technology isn't so much about improving humanity's standard of living - but rather giving individuals more freedom/independence. In their minds, technology is evil because it cannot be utilized or maintained without large groups ...

Again, I think everyone's playing up his race (though it's true he wouldn't be as high profile if he wasn't non-white). But consider the alternatives. Who else among the GOP young seem as intelligent and qualified? Sarah Palin? Eric Cantor? Tim Pawlenty? Paul Ryan? Obviously Mitt Romney is very int...

I think it would imply that the speed of light is relative. Other than that, I think the world would be relatively similar to the one we inhabit today (unless it would impact bonding and orbitals and the like, in which case everything would be fucked up). A purely Newtonian universe would just colla...

I wonder how Wal-Mart makes people work these shifts. I'm guessing they either pay them more to work that day, or they simply pressure their workers to take those hours.

My honest prediction:

The GOP is going to become more socially conservative, but will move to the center on economics and foreign policy.

I expect either Huckabee or Jindal to win the Republican primary in 2012.

Post here if you know of any places that are looking for a Geophysicist. I know this is probably a little bit on the vague side, but I know that the demand for environmental professionals is still pretty strong in the NEPA contracting business (writing environmental impact statements on Yucca Mount...

Are teacher's wages really that pathetically low in the U.S.? No wonder your school system sucks, you're paying poverty level wages to people with at least one, usually two university degrees. Of course you don't get good teachers under those conditions. Part of the problem is that a totally cluele...

A year's tuition at a typical community college is about $4000 for in county students. Compare that to roughly $10,000 for a state university, or $20,000-40,000 for most private schools (although that's slightly misleading because private schools tend to offer a lot of scholarship). So for the cost ...

Even without reprocessing nuclear waste, Yucca Mountain is quite safe. (In fact, it was shown definitively in the Environmental Impact Statement that radiation levels would not exceed the legal threshold for 10,000 years. But some idiot judge made them change it to something on the order of a millio...

I hope he gets better.

I generally tell people that I'm a deist, and if they say that they don't know what that is, I tell them that it was the religion of Thomas Jefferson. Generally, that causes a lot less disagreement and friction with both religion people and atheists. Plus, sometimes it opens the door for serious and...