I want teh kotor 3

Damn, I've been soundly rebuked. Oh well. Note to self: don't post while on Nyquil.

No, I'm saying the Vatican was acting like a bunch of totalitarian dip****s. I criticize them for it the same way I do Stalin or Mao. But Stalin and Mao are people. And the church has had far more popes than I am willing to name. I could have said "the USSR" and "China" but I prefer to criticize the head mother****ers themselves. Yes, but not all of the Popes engaged in it. Why not single out the particular head mother*****ers in this case? By name. Again, because the were a crapton of them. But if it really makes you happy, sure: Lucius 3 (inquisitions in general), Gregory 8 (3rd crusade, including the siege and therefore massacre of Acre), Urban 8 (Galileo)- can I stop? Do you get the drift?

No, I'm saying the Vatican was acting like a bunch of totalitarian dip****s. I criticize them for it the same way I do Stalin or Mao. But Stalin and Mao are people. And the church has had far more popes than I am willing to name. I could have said "the USSR" and "China" but I prefer to criticize the head mother****ers themselves.

No, I'm saying the Vatican was acting like a bunch of totalitarian dip****s. I criticize them for it the same way I do Stalin or Mao. EDIT: So yeah, basically a country.

Yeah, the Roman Catholic oppression of Florida was a dark time in history. No, but the Catholic shutdown of European science for a couple centuries was. So was the time they starting hunting Jews and witches in Spain. And the (multiple) times they supported wholesale slaughter of anyone and everyone in the Middle East. Need I go on?

I don't dismiss them. I just find it very hard to praise them for something as minor as this.

The past couple decades or so (although indeed characterized by a somewhat less bat**** church than previous eras) by no means erases the past. The sheer amount of crap the roman catholic church has brought upon us cannot be forgotten. EDIT: Just to be clear, I have absolutely nothing against Roman Catholics. I'm just not a big fan of the majority of what the church has done over its long history (Spanish Inquisition, Galileo, etc, banning of contraceptives, etc.), and I don't think that should be deemed irrelevant. EDIT 2: Also, I'm sick today, and feeling particularly misanthropic. This is undoubtedly making me sound exceptionally biased. I apologize. Blame it on the bacteria.

Yup. More hypocrisy. Yes, this is a positive change (for once). But given how much they've ****ed the world up for the last 1700 or so years, this is comparatively minor.

AC: Brotherhood. Meh. Worst of the 3.

Staying out.

It's not irrelevant at all - it's a very important property. It is the basis of lasers (basically putting multiple photons in the same spot), and it is also what allows us to form a BEC from photons. A photon is a boson and a Bose-Einstein condensate can only occur with particles which adhere to Bose statistics (that is: bosons). That is: ONLY particles which don't obey Pauli's Exclusion Principle can form BECs. What you're going to ask me next is: how on earth can atoms form a BEC then, since they're not like light, they're not bosons? Weeeeell... some atoms are fermions (Helium-3) and some ARE like light in a way - they are bosons (Helium-4). It depends entirely on their spin, which is the sum of the spin of the constituent particles (electrons, protons, neutrons etc all have half-spin). So bosonic atoms can form a BEC easily. But fermions can even form a BEC because they become coupled in pairs and thus become bosons as their spin becomes an integer when added together! The trick with atoms is you need temperatures as close to absolute zero as possible or the particles are too energetic and thus move too much and cannot occupy the same wavelength (I believe - I'm a bit rusty on waves). I thought it was the other way around. Not quite sure why; it makes much more sense w/ bosons... And this is why physics is without a doubt the most interesting thing ever...

LoF probably has posted, just not under his LoF account. Most definitely. EDIT: Has anyone supported NK?

Which approaches holy-****all levels of strange.

Nice. So apparently the fact that the exclusion principle doesn't apply to photons is irrelevant. That's... interesting, to say the least.

Happy turkey day people. Can't move. Too much food. EDIT: Eagerly anticipating tomorrow's leftovers.

Can we just carpetnuke these dip****s already? EDIT: Okay, that might be a little unrealistic. But a suitcase in Pyongang would do wonders for the country's people.

To be fair, people seem to really like Empire Strikes Back pretty well and it does the same thing (ie it doesn't resolve anything set up in the film). I didn't complain about lack of resolution. ESB has a climax. I dunno, in terms of climax, I think the revelation of the Deathly Hollows (which pretty much all of the wandering in the wilderness was leading to) followed immediately by the capture/escape worked fine. In ESB its the capture of Han/escape from Cloud City followed by the revelation of Luke-Vader's relationship. Same thing essentially, but reverse order. In both cases the denouement consists of the heroes going to lick their wounds while the villains stand triumphant In ESB it was the shootout escape and extensive lightsaber fight. That was the climax of ESB. The fight near the end of DH Pt 1 was pitiful. And if they had gone on for another 150 pages they would have walked right the **** into Minas Tirith. Which is, incidentally, the premise of part two.

Actually, I happened to like the ending. It had that contrast that I think really characterizes the first part. Also, this one was much truer to the book than the other 6 were... other than a few shifted scenarios (i.e. ) its lifted pretty much word for word. Oh, and dobby is a complete and total hardass. So's yaxley.

AC: Brotherhood. Overpriced DLC.

5% Strength, 71% Bloodlust, 33% Intelligence, 19% Spirit, 14% Vitality and 29% Agility! By combining magic with their ferocious killing techniques, Dragon Slayers are able to triumph against foes as terrifying and powerful as dragons. Dragon Slayers capture the souls of dragons that they have defeated so that they can summon these dragons to aid them in future battles. Although often dark warriors, they may sometimes use their powers for good, but in the end, they are really only fighting for the thrill of battle. Congratulations on reaching this high level class! Nice, I'm a raging psycho with fireballs.

Nice. And this comes from Penrose no less...

Yup. There was a line wrapping right the **** around the theater for those who didn't do internet ordering (which luckily I did). I had to go through 3 separate showings to find one with three open seats in a row.

Deathly Hallows. Holy ****. Best one yet... /nerdgasm

No one's talking about compression. For something to become a black hole, its radius must be less than or equal to the one prescribed by the relevant solution, in this case the Kerr-Newman. This is accomplished by compression. Compression and black hole formation are (for purposes of this discussion) one and the same. Not by anybody who knows physics, its not. Then you acknowledge it has no relevance or merit. I can cite things I don't understand, too. That doesn't make my interpretation of anything particularly valid. Again, one would be hard-pressed to find a legitimate scholarly article that considers it even remotely possible for the lhc to destroy the earth. Actually, it renders the article invalid on several accounts. First, if the author doesn't understand the difference between SR and GR, he should be writing about neither. Second, even if he does and just made a typo, it shows a lack of careful thought on his part. Third (and this is the biggie), I found it when I searched for "Einstein." There were no meaningful references to his work. Any attempt to provide any meaningful analysis of black holes must at least touch on either Einstein or one of the solutions to the EFE; without this, it is meaningless. Actually, this is quite relevant to the LHC; any discussion of its successes will inevitably be marred with the populace's unfortunate witch-hunt against it. There are no relevant facts to support your argument. The LHC is absolutely incapable of creating a black hole at all, to say nothing of one large enough to destroy the earth. I cannot controvert your unquestionable myths. Only ad-hominem in the sense that it is against one person, in this case you.

My condolences. It's not much, but at least it sounds like she didn't suffer long. Thanks. It seems that she was unconscious for most of it, which is I guess better than the alternative...