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I'm not sure what word you meant to use, but you typed 'intellectuals' by mistake.

A friend of mine runs lipsum.org and has shown me the generator code - it uses similar tricks to avoid the repetitions that show up, albiet rarely, in most lipsum generators. You v…

Prejudice needs defining as some people hold it to include the notion that it is unreasonable, rather than just pre-formed. Both definitions are found in most dictionaries. -- Myse…

We don't appear to have mastered resource management for our current population and life-span, yet. Perhaps we could pander to the (IMHO) emotionally immature "I want to live forev…

Bullshit - no better than chance at predicting personality traits, as demonstrated in repeated studies.

Any serious rebuttals? All I've seen so far seem to be based on nothing more substantial than head-in-the-sand guilt-avoidance.

I can't help but feel we have the media we deserve, if this is the scale of reaction to Monbiot's registry... sigh

Monbiot is a shining beacon of integrity, in very sharp contrast to most of his peers. Exceptionally detailed in citations, the ability to change his mind and fight furiously for a…

Ditto, but it comes with disadvantages. Apparently my concentration-face is the same as my I'm-really-bored-please-talk-to-me-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-say-face. I only listening…

http://jnorthrop.tumblr.com/post/10802288463/silk-fire-and-a...

My lay-understanding of the state of quantum computing is that it works, but only up until the point where you try to look at the answer. None of the advances we see month after mo…

Dear John, Whoosh! Not my problem. Love, the Government.

Every change Facebook has ever made has been met with wailing and gnashing of teeth, which blows over so quickly that it's usually a source of amusement for those who like the chan…

It's a public place - you probably should be somewhat less surprised and/or begrudging when it fills up with members of the public (and that's regardless of whether or not they are…

Beautifully explained.

Having never questioned an indoctrination, religious or otherwise, is naive at best - stupid is a perfectly reasonable description, IMHO.

Rolling your own framework to the standard and complexity of, say, Zend, would take an impractical amount of time. If that's the kind of thing you need, use Zend. If, however, you …

perhaps you could compel us with some detail?

It's easy to be nice when the world you live in is warm and fluffy.

As long as it's illegal to shoot people who place money over other things, the disease will never be cured.

http://www.heurekalab.com

No, your confusion shows that - unlike the boy and half the media - you do understand the physics behind it just fine.

+1 is failing miserably, as opposed to author's sense of perspective?

Are all venues as professional as you appear to be?

IMHO no, but I dare say that'll be the minority opinion. People don't like being reminded that they're replaceable.