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Which discipline has the highest proportion of Aspergersy types?The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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Not generally via defections. Several US aircraft made their way to the USSR during and after Vietnam. I think I read once that an Iranian defected to the Soviets and took his F-14 with him, but I haven't heard of US or other western pilots doing it.Originally posted by PLATO
Never heard of any that took airframes with them. I am sure that there were several over the years that went with all kinds of different paperwork though."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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Computer Science. It's all about ordered systems. Like the classic autistic kid will have an obsessive fascination with trains.Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
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To be fair, I like to bash biologists and I'm a biochemist.Originally posted by Odin
Physicists like to belittle and bash us biologists.
I respect physcists the most. Like I've often said, we bio people just have to play God. Physicists have to explain Him.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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I respect physics. With physicists on the other hand it really depends.....
*hides*
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I sometimes violate physics. Floating in the air is fun.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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Pipette of burette?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
The best part of these threads is they always try to engage us on home turf - talking about the usefulness/lack thereof of physics/math/CS - and fail miserably because they don't actually know anything about those disciplines.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Wasn't the point of them that they weren't taken out by a nuclear EMP, unlike other electronics?Originally posted by PLATO
Reminds me of the story of when the Mig 25 landed in Japan (I think it was Japan where the pilot defected?). Anyway, it was equiped with the best vacuum tubes anyone had ever seen. The coment that I really liked was one of the western engineers said the Russians had taken obsolete technology to new heights.
I don't know what the effects would be so I could be making that up.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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With transistors the entire problem of perfectionizing the durability of vacuum tubes was solved instantly. Not a bad idea I would think. Even asking if it would have been necessary would be tantamount to putting into question human progress as a whole. This thread is therefore stupid and I do not approve.Comment
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Yes, as an academic discipline. But again, I don't think that this necessarily translates into thinking we should have more of one than another or that one is more useful than another.Originally posted by nostromo
So I gather that you have more respect for the theoreticians than the experimenters?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Originally posted by BeBro
I respect physics. With physicists on the other hand it really depends..... *hides*
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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I know what pipettes and burettes are, but WTF is a P of B?Originally posted by Dauphin
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It's an obscure reference to Kuciwalker lecturing PH (a biochemist by training and by job) that he was wrong about the difference between a pipette and a burette.
Seemed a pot kettle black moment for him to say people come onto 'home turf' to lecture without understanding of the subject matter.
the f is a typo, it should have been 'or' not 'of'.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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