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I get the feeling that this twit has never flown on a high-capacity route like London-NYC or, yes, Singapore-Sydney before (and I bet he doesn't even have a clue where Singapore is). During peak periods, an airline can fill 747s full to the brim flying these routes. The question is how many A380s ar...

Astrophysicist. 2nd year graduate student at Princeton.

So after 1 1/2 year of unemployment, he told me last week that he finally got a job just to the north of DC. I shouldn't say in a public forum what job it is, but let's just say it took 6 months for him to get a security clearance and a mysterious man coming to interview all his friends. I didn't re...

Watching beauty & the geek is a guilty pleasure of mine. Maybe because I'm a geek trapped in a beautiful body :P I think a couple of the geeks on the show would be reasonably attractive if they put some effort into appearance and avoided acting like a total dork. My friend Joshua, on the other ...

I am a fan of football (soccer) in general, but I happened to see the highlights of the USA-England game, and I to be frank I was pretty unimpressed. A far larger proportion of the goals in women's football seem to come from silly mistakes that are uncommon in men's football at the top levels. For e...

A friend of mine, Joshua G., is on the new season of the Beauty and the Geek. The season premiere can be watched online... http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/beauty-and-the-geek He's probably the geekiest person I've ever met, and he might just make it as the new William Hung. And here is a cellphone vide...

Because yes, the Iranians and the Iraqis are totally buddy-buddy and would love to help them in their time of need to hide planes and bombs. They totally became best chums in a decade long war of annhiliation. Some 120 Iraqi aircraft did indeed flee to Iran soon after Operation Desert Storm got sta...

As had been mentioned, one good reason to get a credit card is that you are not responsible for fraud if it gets compromised, so I tend to use it instead of my debit card if I am making a purchase at a store that seems sketchy/dodgy. But my main purpose is to build up credit history, and it's no big...

That doesn't sound likely. Even in Western societies, the majority of rapes go unreported. In Middle-Eastern societies, Sharia law requires FOUR male witnesses to testify in order to support a woman's accusation, or else the woman would be accused of adultery and face punishment up to and including ...

There's a professor around here who has been barefoot for the past 25 years.

He also has long hair and a beard. Apparently he doesn't like going to the South because people come up to him thinking he's Jesus.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6740255.stm Russia's Ivanov steps out of shadows By Richard Galpin BBC News, Novosibirsk, Russia Officially Russia's presidential election campaign is not due to start until December, but in effect it has already begun. Top business leaders and politicians from many...

I'm hearing a lot of talk about innate talent, fine motor control, hand-eye coordination, etc. This sounds like physical skill. So somebody should explain to me once more why music and fine arts is not skilled labour. Perhaps I have a different definition of 'skilled labour', but that usually impli...

So, with these conditions in mind, why aren't music and fine arts taught as a form of skilled labour rather than university humanities courses? Fine arts and music are way beyond simply skilled labour. Anyone can learn some skilled labour job, but not everyone can become a good artist or musician. ...

I wouldn't go out of my way to find the beliefs of a store I patronise, but if they're going to feel free to advertise their beliefs in the open I would feel free to take my business elsewhere if they are not to my taste. I generally have no problem with public displays of religious belief, but not ...

More to the point, is it actually possible to induce homosexuality with chemicals?

Fine arts and music are way beyond simply skilled labour. Anyone can learn some skilled labour job, but not everyone can become a good artist or musician. You're going to have to explain that one for me. Why isn't art a skilled labor? Why can anyone learn a killed labor yet not art? What is the dif...

How familiar are students in science/technical fields with humanistic subjects? How about even just the social sciences (i.e., psychology)? When I talk to humanities grad students, I find it a lot easier for them to tell me about their studies ( e.g. modern Middle-Eastern history, 16th century Fren...

Half-Life 2 is somewhat old as well, isn't it? If you want to play anything resembling a newer game, that 128mb difference will determine whether or not you can play it at all. Half-Life 2 does not exist for the Mac. What few games that make their way to the Mac OS/X turn up 2-3 years after their P...

What really got to me was the tiny amount of food that the African family had to live on. Granted they live in what appears to be a refugee camp, but stiil....

Ghetto edit:

Oh, and a suggestion for the mascot:



Asbo the Chav

Reminds me of this. Are the 2012 Olympics volunteers going to be wearing the logo on their lapels as well?

Will we get to ride Hermione Granger though?

Is she legal yet?

Enforcer Talen wrote:In our briefings for counter insurgency, they said boots on the ground did more then driving around.

However, its a tad less safe, and you ideally have three times as many guys for it.

Well, most of the fatalities seem to be caused by vehicle-borne IEDs.

Well, any mention of PEAR around here is certainly enough to cause professors' eyes to roll to the back of their heads. However, my current advisor, who used to be in charge of university finances, tells me that the money was specifically donated by a benefactor to set up the lab, and presumably one...