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I don't want to get into a big debate on the subject, but I did a lot of research on the state of ethanol today for my job this summer, and here's the gist of what I found: Ethanol is pretty close to being profitable, but it's not there yet. In Brazil, where they have nothing better to do with half ...

Edit: I cannot wrap my head around why many of them are using Hedonistic Utility, when many of them are actually Preference Utilitarians. It seems like they are using different versions of utility for different situations. Nah. They're just acknowledging that (especially for animals) pleasure and p...

the vast majority of produce animals -are- raised humanely. the tapes the peta use showing horror stories of animals being abused are typically in the rare minority. but they try and pass it off as though it's how the majority of farms handle their animals. Really? How do you define humanely? When ...

constantine's a clever bastard, but doesn't have too much in the way of raw magical might. in original sins he had to enlist the aid of a vodoun in order to bind a hunger demon, so it's unlikely he'd be able to contain yog-sothoth by himself. though chances are he might be able to trick the demon i...

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Getting decapitated

Instant nothingness

But you can still blink your eyes for a few seconds post decapitation. How do we know that all the pain circuits aren't firing full-caliber?

I loved CAP's review of Sin City. The guy condemned it in such florid prose, you could tell he revelled in it. Plus, he put in little details (e.g. that Dwight was a journalist) that weren't in the movie, but ARE in the comics... implying that a certain good christian reads a lot of Frank Miller. :t...

The problem is not sociology, the problem is pomo. The reason why pomo is bad is explained very well in Valdy's post. But if you're still not convinced, allow me present the postmodernism generator , a tool that generates completely random and totally meaningless essays. Enjoy! Have a very nice day...

That's the impression I get from psychology programs. I took one psychology course, and the professor's understanding of mathematical modeling was rudimentary and trivial at best. Many psychologists are obsessed with "1 to 10" scales and just don't get that arbitrary quantification is not...

Hmm...I think I'll pick those up...now, if only I had money... They're my favorite Constantine, next to Gaiman's Constantine. I prefer Moore's Constantine because he's so epic. Later stories seemed to make him so petty and fucked up I sometimes wondered how he managed to get his pants on in the mor...

Galvatron wrote:I've often thought that I fit the definition of an Alienated Sociopath.

Be careful of the psych student's fallacy. As a general rule, you're too close to your own symptoms to make an accurate diagnosis.

I love me some Tyrian. I have it working in xp, but I can't get the music to play. Grr....

How is that a contradiction? I'm trying to lower the financial gap fir high-skill, high-talent people who are thinking about going into teaching and going into business. Offering them the immediate opportunity to raise their salary with good performance is an effective way of doing that, and it wou...

Bullshit. Eliminating the seniority system means that young, talented teachers will rise faster in the system than old clock-punchers. It will provide some incentive, I agree. What I was disagreeing with was Ossus's claim that merely getting rid of the seniority system would allow the public school...

I want to see it replaced with a system that rewards competence instead of seniority, which is MUCH better as a recruiting tool for quality teachers than a system which rewards seniority. Think about it: good teachers probably have skills that can be translated into other things, like business, whi...

Final boss of Halo 2. Because it's a fucking anti-climax. A couple minutes of running around, and then *bang bang* "Is that it"? Hell, you can trick him into killing himself. :roll: A proud Bungie tradition of wimpy bosses, dating back to Marathon 1's Pfhor cyborg. Hell, I haven't even pl...

Fine, can those of us who are related to teachers, who get paid less then the janitors, and administrators, and who supply class "disposables" and many classroom computers out of their own pocket, because the admins won't fund it. can we now charge the amount of money spent by teacher's a...

Besides, I'd much rather see him take on the Religious Right, but I don't even know what his views on the Religious Right are. He may think they're not so bad for all I know. Moore has been singing a one-note song ever since he began his career; for him, it's all about the evils of corporatism. All...

The business wing is numerically not very large, though you can count among its numbers virtually all the small business owners in America. It's disproportionately powerful because of how much money it has. At any rate, a party that appealed to the economic interests as well as the "moral valu...

Pretty much the whole cast from Planescape: Torment. Kain from Blood Omen. Got to respect that kind of badassitude. Pablo (I think that's his name) and Democratus from Anachronox. The first is an honest-to-god superhero. The second is a planet. That's right, an entire planet in your party. That game...

I just picked up the annotated and illistrated Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, book two in the annotated reprints of the complete works of Robert E. Howard. I have a copy also, though I've only had time to read a few stories. Definately awesome. For those who do not yet know the glory that is Kane, t...

Personally I think WW should try an original fucking idea. They've done nothing but BARELY rehash their old WoD system (change the names and thats about it). Bored now. That's not really what WW is trying to do with the NWOD. The goal was to strip away several editions worth of backstory, incoheren...

You know with the casting the first stone, why not just get a baby to throw a stone, then everyone can join in. because knowing baby's they will just put the damn thing in their mouth. Read Augustine sometime. Babies are terrible sinners, full of sloth and wrath and gluttony. Just look at those lit...

I think the laurels for single craziest ruler has to go to Emperor Elagabalus; most incestuous dynasty goes to one of the Ramses. He had close to 400 children with concubines from his massive harem; they formed their own intermarrying ruling class for a few generations. Eew.

From tomorrow's Nature Linky Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis SUSAN J. LOLLE*, JENNIFER L. VICTOR, JESSICA M. YOUNG & ROBERT E. PRUITT* Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907...

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Lobo. nuff said!

Excellent choice. I may have to change my vote...