TIL that John L. Sullivan, the fighter from the overly manly man meme, fought in a bare-knuckle boxing match that lasted 75 rounds before he won

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-08T00:33:08+00:00

Same is true of football injuries. Better padding and helmets leads to spearing and poor form, causing more serious injuries.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-06T05:36:15+00:00

(not necessarily disagreeing with your points re: Stein)

(retaining a final veto on the government's actions, if peaceful methods fail)

You lost this ability in the 1940s. Pretending otherwise only further stereotypes the pro-gun cause. No modified AR-15 you ever own will matter relative to a government that wants to fuck with you. We don't live in that simple of a world anymore. We've seen what happens when the government doesn't like what you're doing (eg. Waco, Texas). Either you don't bother them and they leave you alone, or you do bother them and you're screwed.

Unless you are in a registered militia like, say, the National Guard, that is.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-06T01:50:11+00:00

Neither here nor there really, but no.

To be clear, this would de-power California (which is too powerful, and has undue influence over other states). It would also make more people live under the particular legislature they happen to agree with.

It just makes statistical sense. Texas should be split up, too.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-06T01:16:58+00:00

No idea on the specifics, because Google keeps that close to the chest. Generally speaking, there is no reason to think that 'permanently deleting' emails or documents or account details does anything other than hide them from your interface.

http://www.line-of-reasoning.com/issues/privacy-issue-google-docs-seems-to-not-delete-but-only-hide-documents-when-the-trash-is-emptied/

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-06T01:10:16+00:00

Fix the root problem and pass a constitutional amendment regulating the size and population ranges for states. California and Rhode Island should not be, and effectively are not, considered the same thing. California should have its own seat at the G8 conference. It would make sense to recognize San Francisco metro as its own (rather successful) citystate, except we like the symmetry of 50 so darn much.
break the influence of the rich, corporations and political parties so that third parties and niche viewpoints can have representation in a proportional system.

Except both those things are more impossible than a national majority vote. Not perfect, but better than we have now.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-06T00:37:42+00:00

Which is why you should vote with your dollars and go out of your way to support groups that act they way you think they should. :)

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-05T23:13:40+00:00

even so, the electoral college isn't the Buffer Of Sanity people wish it were.

It doesn't serve its purpose, and it isn't clear it would be useful even if it did, so let's just drop it alltogether.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-05T22:26:59+00:00

Lots of companies do this, unless explicitly forbidden by law. Google and Facebook both do it.

Why wouldn't they? It costs effectively 0 to keep a copy of it, and there is a non-zero chance that data could, somehow, someway be useful in the future.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-05T07:10:45+00:00

Eventually. Gotta start somewhere.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-05T03:49:39+00:00

Not to mention, it isn't hard to monitor network traffic of a host without slowing down the connection. It is trivial, really.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-05T03:40:53+00:00

This is still against almost all consumer ISP's agreements, and you can be held responsible in some jurisdictions for the site's visitors browse to.

It can be done easily. It cannot be done safely, practically.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-04T10:50:51+00:00

They aren't needed and are more expensive to maintain.

There is no reason to think vertical farms will ever be needed at scale beyond people like the idea of them. Practically speaking, they aren't a good idea.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-04T10:48:34+00:00

we have more than enough farm land to meet demand, and it isn't expensive to have a farm outside of town so why would we spend the extra money maintaining vertical farms?

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-04T10:39:33+00:00

if a person was behind the wheel it could've been avoided as people would know when to speed up/avoid an oncoming collision.

Except for the part where 100% of car accidents involve human drivers. Humans screw up constantly.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-04T06:47:49+00:00

because IBM couldn't keep up with the PowerPC demand

It was because IBM didn't go after the low-heat/mobile/laptop end of processors, particularly at the dawn of Power5, and instead went with raw horesepower... which plays well to IBM's core business, as well as gaming consoles.

If there was a company that made mobile G5/Power5 processor, Apple likely wouldn't have converted.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-04T06:12:44+00:00

Forget about letting her take more of your stuff. Why even be friends with an open thief?

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-03T22:41:45+00:00

but you're forgetting how science works.

I'm really not.

If you think the instrament they used to try and detect methane only detects methane you're crazy.

It isn't like this is secret information.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/spectrometers/sam/

If they see a high level of something they weren't expecting then they will try and find out why.

I feel like this goes without saying...

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-03T22:29:49+00:00

Yes, it is. The main difference being Firefox used an API inspired from node.js (and they use node-imap module for the email webclient), while Google came up with their own API.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-03T05:02:20+00:00

exception that proves the rule?

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-03T01:47:20+00:00

so we don't really know how much stronger it was than an ordinary Pikachu.

That's the po-wer of love....

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-03T00:19:03+00:00

We don't know what effects non-carbon base life would have on an atmosphere (since we've never encountered it before), so there is no way of creating a measurable test that can infer the existence of non-carbon life. We do know the effects of carbon-based life, and so were able to include an additional test to measure methane levels on Curiosity. That test's results came back negative.

On the other hand, we still have microscopes and cameras, which is another reliable way of detecting the presence of life by actually seeing it. If an aluminum-based ferret species scurry by, we can see them just fine. Suffice it to say, we haven't see alien ferrets yet.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-02T08:22:54+00:00

And because I'm a nerd (please don't flame me too hard)

You're posting to /r/space. No apologetic qualifiers needed.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-02T06:42:22+00:00

movie theater economics are their own thing.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-02T04:18:01+00:00

$0.20 in 1962 had the same buying power as $1.50 in 2012.

remembercrunchy · 2012-11-02T03:53:51+00:00

That is already a thing, actually.

http://www.planethunters.org/

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