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Ahh, thanks for that. I haven't listened to any of them yet, but I am surprised by how few there are. There's only one Chopin-like piece, for instance. This causes me to worry: how…

To put that "billion dollars" in perspective, General Motors' current burn rate is apparently $6.9 billion a month. Ouch!

I don't really see anyone "egging him on". All I see is a bunch of people not taking him seriously.

That's why I specified cellulosic or algae-based ethanol.

Sure, a Tesla Roadster can do 0-60 mph in four seconds, but it doesn't _sound_ as cool as a Lamborghini when it does so. Seriously though, I would be very sad if internal combustio…

Apparently not included in the plan: building new power stations, or even any discussion of it. Anyone got any good numbers on questions like: if half of California's cars were swi…

I don't agree with your premise, here. You need to show any study that would demonstrate that women (a) really get fatter as they get older and (b) they get so much fatter that the…

Thanks for pointing that out. The response was better than the original article, except for this one bit: Because sexuality is so entangled with power in American culture, it's har…

Ummm, yeah, I get the feeling the author might be trying to justify something to himself, here.

OK, first things first: ew. Now we've got that out of the way, why is it that every writeup of some social science research must have at least one glaring factor that's been ignore…

Did I? Sorry, what was the point?

Flagged for politics, but in the meantime you'll excuse me if I, as it were, stick my dick in the mashed potatoes. I think it's a rather silly analysis. Firstly, for the whole prem…

But they won against the Czars.

Romney has a proven record of turning around sinking ships. Was that a deliberately mixed metaphor? Turn around a sinking ship and all you get is a wreck which faces in the other d…

A plurality of anecdotes sampled without bias? That's the problem: interesting data points become anecdotes while uninteresting data points don't, which is why you can't reconstruc…

Ummm, yes. Drat.

Y'know, that gives me an idea. Why not a foot-controlled mouse? That way I'd never have to take my hands off the keyboard. (quick googling) Oh, they already exist. Has anyone ever …

I'm still not convinced that it's possible to make the kind of super-long, defect-free nanotube cables that are going to be required. I'll be very happy if I'm proven wrong, but I …

Well, that's going straight into my top eight top nine top ten lists lists list.

More of a quantum chemist, though I realize this is a distinction most people who aren't theoretical solid-state physicists are unlikely to care about. Margaret Thatcher also had a…

Interesting, I had indeed not heard of it. And before you get all confused like I did, I should point out that this article is from 2003. Recent data: http://www.investmenttools.co…

I'm sure it's not necessary . You haven't said why you want to learn statistics. Is it just for fun, or do you have some eventual practical application in mind? Personally, I just …

Oh, so that's what it was. I read the entire article to try and figure out what NLP meant, and still didn't figure it out.

Interestingly, the only country I can think of off the top of my head with an engineer "in charge" is Iran. I don't think Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a great example of how a country…