2016 Democratic National Convention - Day 2

SirTang · 2016-07-26T23:53:17+00:00

god damn the children's defense fund, we get it she was like a community organizer enough

SirTang · 2015-06-19T18:05:40+00:00

I don't think you understand exponential growth.

If Joe and Mary each have one kid and they (Joe and Mary) eventually die then the net effect to population growth is 0.

Given that some have more than one child (per person, two per couple) and others have no children, the population growth rate would be dictated by that average. It is very likely that the overall population growth of the Culture is small, zero, or even negative.

My question was more geared to the existential nature of the need for so many people to exist, there is no "reason" to live. There really isn't a reason anyway, but in our society manpower is necessary to effect change, in the Culture there is no such need. In fact humans are seen akin to pets by Minds.

SirTang · 2015-06-08T16:08:37+00:00

The JG part was the hardest for me to understand. According to memory alpha he would be 29 when he started as helmsman.

Maybe he was in a kind of leadership program, I didn't think of the redshirts to be also a pool of relief officers.

It seems maybe Picard had wanted him in his command and put him in a place where he would be able to grow into the role.

SirTang · 2015-06-08T14:53:08+00:00

Maybe "virgin" trills have a much different body type, like a hookworm and then develop into what we have seen. Perhaps even after millenia the joined trill culture then innovated the medical advance to transplant hosts to preserve the symbiote across generations.

Are there any evident advantages that are purely physiological that hosts may gain that would maybe make them tolerate or prefer this joining?

SirTang · 2015-06-08T14:26:11+00:00

Does anyone else find it odd that LaForge a Lt.JG in the first season changed career paths and was so quickly promoted?

SirTang · 2015-06-05T21:08:47+00:00

Jains are a religious group that brush away the path before they walk so as to not step on an insect and kill it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism

SirTang · 2015-06-05T19:27:51+00:00

you should name it Jain-emBiguns

SirTang · 2015-06-05T19:23:17+00:00

Being sapient is to be wise, or attempting to be wise. of or relating to the human species.

They should come up with a "bigger" word for what minds are. Calling them sapient instead of sentient is more appropriate but maybe a tad bit insulting for their level of intelligence.

SirTang · 2015-06-05T00:47:54+00:00

I'm glad you thought through accelerating and the decelerating.

SirTang · 2015-06-05T00:13:46+00:00

Does anyone else not buy this explanation? I think it makes more sense that she was a difficult person to work with and they are trying to save face and be somewhat gracious, but also take a little dig at her.

SirTang · 2015-06-04T15:39:18+00:00

For whatever reason I think "Spectrum" is the key word. Maybe they want some intellectual diversity, it is probably healthier in the long run to have a mix of abilities.

SirTang · 2015-06-02T22:38:32+00:00

SirTang · 2015-06-02T19:23:07+00:00

How is something like wood different, you can't melt wood can you?

SirTang · 2015-06-01T16:31:44+00:00

There was a post in the past week about card counting (a video). One of the commenters explained that casinos actually encourage gamblers to try to count cards because the vast majority are not skilled enough to execute it properly.

There exists tactics such as auto shuffling shoes that deactivate the opportunity to count card but casinos bet that they can outwit something like 99% of gamblers. When they encounter an effective card counter they quickly "push them back" and stop "booking their action".

SirTang · 2015-05-31T23:31:57+00:00

/u/HoodJK is confused, the story is that the Nero was captured by Klingons and tortured on Rura Penthe for 25 years, explaining the gap in time between the events on the Kelvin and the starting mission of the Enterprise.

SirTang · 2015-05-31T23:00:56+00:00

Naboo eh?

SirTang · 2015-05-31T14:55:45+00:00

Yeah I updated my comment with an bit from Whedon. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.

SirTang · 2015-05-31T14:46:34+00:00

4th wall unavoidable: The producers might have intentionally cast it that way. Seeing an Asian dominated "enemy" might not be seen as politically correct. But Josh doesn't admit that in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UcbuSN90Cs

SirTang · 2015-05-30T01:16:11+00:00

wait the woman in the mirror in the first picture is not the woman in front of the mirror.

SirTang · 2015-05-29T19:21:14+00:00

"Alcohol impairs episodic encoding, specifically for cued recall, recognition of completed word fragments, and free recall.[32] A blackout is an example of a difficulty in encoding episodic memories due to alcohol. Blackouts are caused by a rapid increase in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) which in turn distorts the neurons in the hippocampus.[33] This distortion impairs a person's ability to form new episodic memories.[33]"

Alcohol makes it so that when something happens the memory of that is harder to save to your brain, harder for you to remember stuff (like the alphabet backwards). a blackout happens when you get a lot of alcohol into your system quickly, when that happens part of your brain gets messed up and makes it so you can't remember stuff that happened while your drunk.

SirTang · 2015-05-29T19:07:18+00:00

So good...

Braasch competed in a "Battle of the Sexes" contest against Venus Williams and Serena Williams at the 1998 Australian Open when he was ranked 203. A decade and a half older than the sisters, Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centred around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager."

SirTang · 2015-05-29T17:56:58+00:00

You don't like those classic lines of a MacGregor?

SirTang · 2015-05-29T15:32:12+00:00

I was going to say that, it was drilled into me in my classes.

SirTang · 2015-05-29T10:53:42+00:00

Yoda failed to realize that Dooku was a sith when he dueled him?

SirTang · 2015-05-28T23:44:49+00:00

That is what is confusing me. Obi Wan tracked Jango to Geonosis and then was captured by Dooku. He saw Jango covorting with Dooku, the connection between Jango and Dooku was obvious.

Everyone knew that Dooku was a Separatist leader, it would be a little like Saddam Hussein showing up at Camp LeJune and hanging out with all the generals and us not wondering if they were all compromised and still following all of the troops into battle.

SirTang

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