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by Mike Holmes
Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

I think IntLibber's point, and yours, Dave, is that you have no media outlets that cater to your views very specifically. Know what, neither do I. You can't call me a hypocrite for wanting to share the wealth, because I'm not a liberal. It's a very typical tactic of the conservative side to label an...
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

Fox has some conservative commentators and Guests. ABC has John Stossel. CNN USED to have Glen Beck. That's about it. You must be kidding. Fox has "some" conservative commentators? But they're generally liberal? As for CNN... Lou Dobbs? That's just off the top of my head. Wall Street Journal? A ton...
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

And here I thought that all citizens in a democracy were possessed of equal rights. But they're the "enemy," so, I guess not. Seems pretty self-serving... but what do I know. As for the notion that Fox News is a source of liberal propaganda... well that's just patently incorrect. Or, wait, does the ...
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

To be fair, all I'm doing is trying to be fair. You're the one trying to ascribe an evolutionary problem to one half of the political spectrum.

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

Small margin is not equal to a monopoly, or a crisis.

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

So... Fox News is also in on the Monopoly? Rush Limbaugh, too, I suppose? Wall Street Journal? These are exceptions that prove the rule? Well they certainly would like people to think so (all while claiming simultaneously to be beating the other side in popularity, somehow). I think that the media i...
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:13 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Recirculation revisited
Replies: 37
Views: 25807

KitemanSA wrote:guilding the lily?
Is that a typo? Or a very subtle double-entendre?

:-)

If/when we see the experimental data, any chance that it'll give us enough info to decide if this is, in fact, a problem? Or don't we know enough about the data yet? Probably the latter, eh?

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

Zogby decides not to take a bet, which will profit them nothing if they win, and cost them if they lose, and that's proof that they feel that there are more ignorant libs then cons? Zogby does polls when there's money in it, like any business. I could argue that if they original poll wanted a compar...
by Mike Holmes
Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:58 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Recirculation revisited
Replies: 37
Views: 25807

The long-line cusp escapes, the "central" ones that go to infinity. I can't counter you, and say that these aren't already "capped" by the electric field, maybe you're right. I'm just saying that, if such a problem does exist, as Art Carlson seems to believe, that this might be a solution. I'll leav...
by Mike Holmes
Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

Ignorance knows no political affiliation. I could post the video of the woman who, at a town hall meeting with John McCain, had to be told by the same that no, Barack Obama is not a terrorist.

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:16 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Recirculation revisited
Replies: 37
Views: 25807

Sounds a little like my idea (somebody had it before me, I recall) of encasing the cube inside an octahedron with a field over each cusp. To the uneducated, at least. What I referred to as "Capping the holes." This, of course, would horrifically complicate any attempt to extrapolate from a simulatio...
by Mike Holmes
Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Be Careful Out There:
Replies: 71
Views: 24068

tombo wrote: "we have met the enemy and the enemy is us"
I believe that this quote is attributable to Walt Kelly's cartoon character, Pogo. A font of wisdom there, if ever there was one.

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Where is Bill Gates when you need him ?
Replies: 159
Views: 44053

Note to people who might consider the Lego reference to be somewhat... I dunno, childish?... Lego's tolerances on their parts are incredibly small. 2 µm I read? Think about how perfectly Legos fit together. That said, PDF is almost an indictment... OK, I jest, mostly because PDFs are misused. They'r...
by Mike Holmes
Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:09 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Why 10-25 times net power?
Replies: 114
Views: 53395

Funny that somebody mentioned that a particle accellerator was the opposite of what we're talking about in terms of energy capture. They can also be exactly what we're talking about, it turns out:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 114433.htm

11 Mev

Mike
by Mike Holmes
Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Where is Bill Gates when you need him ?
Replies: 159
Views: 44053

Hey, Scare, young women want those things. They couldn't, therefore, possibly be practical.

Mike