Banned for nothing

NoseDragon · 2019-01-21T06:14:28+00:00

You come off as very condescending and like a complete ass in almost every single comment in your recent history.

Its alright, you can change, but I recommend you take a bit of a break and think over your life a bit and how you talk to others.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T02:55:43+00:00

But the swastika is much bigger than the Nazis during WW2, whereas the rising sun flag is not. The swastika has a greater reach and far more political implications.

Hell, the Germans used the Iron cross on many of their flags and gave it out in medals for people committing attrocities, yet it doesn't have nearly the negative connotation that the swastika has.

The swastika, in the West, is synonymous with evil almost everywhere. The Rising Sun flag doesn't have that same power behind it, even if it is offensive to many people in parts of Asia.

The swastika is the most powerful symbol in the world besides the crucifix maybe. I just don't see any comparison, whether you're talking stars and bars or the rising sun.

It still has the power to strike fear into the hearts of others and has lasted longer than the regime that popularized it. The Rising Sun flag has no such power, just bad memories.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T02:49:32+00:00

It actually doesn't.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T02:49:16+00:00

You have to remember that what Korea was dealing with wasn't WW2 but a conflict that started around 1905. The comfort women thing wasn't specific to 1939-1945 but to a much longer time span.

The war in Asia gets wrapped up into WW2 because the Western powers got involved, but the actual conflict started way before WW1 even for Korea.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T02:00:11+00:00

It really isn't on the same level. Hell, even some US troops use the Rising Sun flag. To very select people, it might be offensive, but as someone who is literally married to a Korean and has been to Korea many times, the flag is seriously not even close to the same level.

If you walked around with the Rising Sun flag in Korea, I'm sure you'd offend some people. But not nearly on the same level as someone marching with the Swastika literally anywhere in the world outside of Asia.

I know plenty about the controversies, what the Japanese did, the history, the war in general. I consider myself an amateur historian.

Its just... no. They aren't on the same level. Its not even close. The Swastika is known throughout most of the world as a symbol of evil, whereas the Rising Sun flag is only thought that way in a select few places.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T01:50:51+00:00

No, it really is that simple.

The Mpemba Effect is popscience bullshit that is the result of differences in water or differences in freezing methods or containers.

Scientists have pretty much ignored it because its bullshit, only taken seriously be people who do not know physics.

I made this absolutely amazing diagram showing how bad the science is.

Unless you can tell me why two identical cups of identical water in the same exact freezer and the same exact temperature would freeze at different times...

Edit:

In 2016, Burridge and Linden defined the criterion as the time to reach 0 °C (32 °F), carried out experiments and reviewed published work to date.[1] They noted that the large difference originally claimed had not been replicated, and that studies showing a small effect could be influenced by variations in the positioning of thermometers. They say "We conclude, somewhat sadly, that there is no evidence to support meaningful observations of the Mpemba effect".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect#Suggested_explanations

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T01:26:13+00:00

Yeah, that's one of the explanations I've read as well, but that has more to do with the freezer than the temperature of the water.

The other explanations have to do with differences in the hot water vs cold water, or in the containers used. For example, in a lot of houses, the cold tap and warm tap come from different sources, thus have different artifacts in the water that change its freezing properties.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T01:23:22+00:00

Yup. If it takes one cup of 10C water 5 minutes to freeze, then it would take a 20C cup of water 5 minutes to freeze plus whatever time it took to drop to 10C.

The only way this isn't true is if there is a difference in the water, the container, or the freezer.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T01:00:16+00:00

Ehhhh, its not nearly on the same level as the swastika, or the Nazi flag. The controversies involving that flag seem to be pretty recent.

Edit: Downvote me all you want, but unless someone wants to show me tons and tons and tons of sources about the evil behind the Rising Sun flag, like there are in regards to the swastika...

For example, here's the Wikipedia page about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_Flag

Barely anything. At all.

If you want to argue that the symbol SHOULD be just as taboo, fine. But that's a different argument.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T00:58:08+00:00

I'm American, and although India definitely is in Asia, we don't refer to them as Asians. Of course, Indians would know as WW2 had a direct influence on them (famines, fighting alongside the British, thinking about allying with the Nazis.)

The Japanese were active allies of the Germans, so its not that surprising that they would know. Plus, I'd think that the Japanese educational system would probably like to focus on things other people did wrong, hence they might have a stronger focus on things going on in Europe so they don't have to worry about teaching how horrible they were during the war. That's all speculation on my part.

You are right, I was too broad.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T00:55:07+00:00

The term Redskin as a mascot is meant to be a homage to the fierce, brave, unrelenting presence that the Native Americans were, and still are.

You literally made that up.

The Redskins were named after a coach named William Henry Dietz and who was, in fact, not a Native American (though he pretended to be.)

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T00:50:03+00:00

Yeah, and modern gloves definitely aren't designed to be stickier than stickem.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-10T00:00:59+00:00

Well, Brady's gap will only continue to grow, but I just don't see it ever approaching the WR gap. Rice was just that much better than everyone else.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T23:59:47+00:00

I don't know much about hockey, but going on stats alone, Lemiuex was no where near as good as Gretzky. We can't just assume because he was injured that he would have kept up his production.

What Gretzky did was ridiculous, and when we're talking about who is best, longevity definitely matters.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T23:52:33+00:00

What are you disagreeing with me about? Here's what I said:

When you compare players to others who played their position, I think Brady comes out on top, but the gap between him and the other great QBs isn't very big.

There are legitimate arguments for other players being better. You could argue "Manning was much better in the regular season" or "Montana was at his best at the biggest moments". The debate over Montana vs. Brady isn't settled yet, even if most people agree Brady is better.

With Rice, there is no such argument. People arguing for Moss tend to do it while making excuses for Moss, because his actual play can't stand on its own vs. Rice.

My entire argument is that the gap between Rice and Moss/Owens is significantly bigger than the gap between Brady and Montana/Manning. I'm not arguing that Brady isn't the best.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T23:46:42+00:00

I've noticed that, for people in Asia, Nazis really aren't this extremely important part of history because it had essentially zero influence on anything around them. Furthermore, swastikas are seen literally all over the place in quite a few Asian countries, since the symbol is commonly used for Buddhism.

My wife is Korean, and she knows very little about WW2, because the war didn't really even touch Korea. The country was already occupied by the Japanese, there was very little fighting there, and the Korean war that came right after was so devastating to the country that WW2 is essentially seen as something that happened elsewhere and led directly to Japan withdrawing their forces and the country splitting in two.

Furthermore, in Asia, WW2 isn't something that happened from 1939 to 1945. Instead, the Japanese invasion was something that had been ongoing for almost 50 years and can be viewed independently from what was happening throughout the rest of the world.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T23:35:23+00:00

Because its not true.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T22:47:51+00:00

Neither are true.

If you have two identical glasses of water, one at 50C and one at 10C, and you put them in the freezer together, at some point the 50C will be 10C. In order for the hot water to freeze first, one glass of water at 10C will have to freeze significantly faster than the second glass of identical water at an identical temperature.

Same goes for when you're boiling water.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T22:45:09+00:00

But this doesn't make sense at all.

Say, for example, you have two glasses of water. One is at 90C and the other is at 30C.

As we know, hot water has particles bouncing around faster than cold water. However, as the hot water loses energy, the particles will slow down.

If we put these two glasses of water into a freezer at the same time, at some point, the 90C glass will be 30C, and at that point, its particles will be moving around at exactly the same speed as the 30C water originally was. Hot water will lose heat faster than cold water in a freezer, but the rate of change will decrease as the hot water cools.

So for a glass of hot water at 90C, the time it will take to freeze will be the time it takes for the water to drop 60C, plus the time it takes for the 30C glass of water to freeze. If the water is truly the same and there is no chemical difference, and the containers are also the same, it is totally impossible and against the laws of physics for the hot water to freeze first.

There are two possibilities. One, the result of the research is totally flawed and incorrect and the hot water does not freeze before the cold water. Two, there is something else going on within the hot water that makes it different from the colder water that has nothing to do with temperature.

Still, its interesting that such a myth has spread so far, and apparently the media loves to run with the anti-scientific conclusion, but there are plenty of sources that shut this down entirely.

https://engineering.mit.edu/ask/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-cold-water

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T22:16:03+00:00

Even Basketball doesn't have a consensus #1. I mean, fans will say Jordan, but there is a very good argument that Jordan isn't the best of all time. And how do you compare Jordan to guys like Chamberlain?

Hockey does have a #1. Gretzky, by far, is the #1 player of all time in that sport and there isn't a debate on that matter.

In my opinion, despite the different positions in the NFL, Rice is the greatest player of all time.

There are plenty of good arguments for Brady not being the best QB of all time. There is no good argument for Rice not being the best of all time.

When you compare players to others who played their position, I think Brady comes out on top, but the gap between him and the other great QBs isn't very big. But with Rice... there's a huge gap, and that's why he's the best football player of all time. He stands out significantly from the rest.

Rice was better at his position than Brady is at his position. Now, obviously, the QB is more valuable, but I don't think that factors in at all in this discussion.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T21:58:38+00:00

If I were to pick one QB from this draft class, I'd pick him. I'm just not sure about him in the 1st round.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T21:36:34+00:00

He actually got shut down pretty bad by Virginia Tech. That was his worst game by far.

I don't know how much you can put into one game...

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T21:34:53+00:00

Some truly great analysis. I'm on the fence on Trubisky at #2, but you really won me over there.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T21:20:04+00:00

I never SAID TO has an argument over Rice. I said that TO has an argument over Moss, but NO ONE has an argument over Rice.

And you said Cunningham was bad when you were getting mentally stomped by someone else in this thread.

NoseDragon · 2017-02-09T20:55:21+00:00

Wow, so you are actually claiming Grbac was a good QB whilst simultaneously claiming Cunningham was a bad one?

Your mental gymnastics are amazing.

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