Uncategorized. « The HabitableZone

Recent posts

All Along the Watchtower ER July 1, 2025 9:13 pm (CurrentEvents)

Birthright Citizenship RobVG June 29, 2025 3:34 pm (CurrentEvents)

To be blunt, NASA is now dead RL June 27, 2025 11:56 am (Space/Science)

Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

NSIDC offline? ER June 12, 2025 12:19 pm (Space/Science)

Wouldn't it be nice BuckGalaxy June 11, 2025 3:13 pm (Off-Topic)

"How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy" by TB January 6, 2012 11:21 pm

Another article on college and the economy, by TB 2012-01-10 13:25:19
Good points, all. And there is a flip side. The founders of our country who got a higher ... by bowser 2012-01-07 10:03:55
An excellent analysis, by ER 2012-01-07 06:42:30
- "College taught me to think, how to learn..." by TB 2012-01-07 10:28:31
  - 1 Corinthians 13:11 St. Paul: "When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think ... by bowser 2012-01-07 12:01:06
    - Now that you've got this evil world all figured out... by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:32:49
      - I'm not sure what you meant by that, except that the idea the world isn't what children are taught bothers ... by bowser 2012-01-07 23:12:08
        
        Just attempting a bit of levity Bowser. n/t by RobVG 2012-01-07 23:48:11
  - One of my bosses told me the same thing your Dad told you. by ER 2012-01-07 11:44:03
    - In places I've worked, an Honorable Discharge looked pretty good on a resume, particularly in aerospace. by TB 2012-01-07 12:21:54
      - The loss of human capital, like the nuclear workers we referred to, is what really hurts. This is how ... by ER 2012-01-07 13:26:11
        
        To be fair, there are skills that outlive their usefulness over time as technology changes. by TB 2012-01-07 13:43:31
        
        That's the argument we usually use to reassure ourselves. But most jobs, even medieval peasant, require some skill. In our ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:58:27

More Pointless Philosophizing by ER January 6, 2012 6:02 pm

Where is Marcus Aurelius when you need him? by FrankC 2012-01-07 19:11:05
- Perhaps the "good emperor" is an outmoded concept. by Robert 2012-01-07 23:15:22
  - Why stop there? by ER 2012-01-08 11:11:13
    - I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. by TB 2012-01-09 10:24:10
      - Tom, as you yourself love to point out, "no one put a gun to their heads." You can't blame the regulators ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:50:14
      - You've got a point. The Democrats can't win without corporate support, and the suits in the suites aren't shy ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:41:55
        
        My philosophy says that you aren't going to get rid of human failings, such as greed, corruption, and power-lust, so ... by TB 2012-01-09 13:29:01
        
        Your view of history may be very realistic, but your expectations for it are adolescent fantasy. Businessmen do not want ... by ER 2012-01-09 14:49:25
        
        Polar bears in the South Pacific again. by TB 2012-01-09 16:55:04
        
        I stop in the mid 1800s because things only got worse between then and the beginning of the 20th century. ... by ER 2012-01-09 17:19:08
        
        Most of what you know about the "Gilded Age" is mythology. by TB 2012-01-09 20:36:39
        
        Like most Americans, you're provincial and apparently unaware of developments in the rest of the world. Those people ... by ER 2012-01-09 21:55:32
        
        Your first theory fell flat, so you came up with a different one. by TB 2012-01-09 22:58:25
        
        Post withdrawn. by ER 2012-01-10 06:06:56
    - Did you read my condemnation of party politics by FrankC 2012-01-09 00:30:07
      - I can't attribute the quote, it's not mine, but I can't remember who said it. "The Democrats don't have any ideas, ... by ER 2012-01-09 07:18:56
        
        Oh, the Democrats have ideas. Very specific ones. So does their opposition. by TB 2012-01-09 10:02:23
        
        Its like team sports. The teams are different, and they play very hard for the prize, but it really ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:34:41
Well we all know something... by RobVG 2012-01-06 20:37:58
- I'm surprised it hasn't hit yet. Here's my reasoning. Inflation destroys the value of cash, so people with savings ... by ER 2012-01-06 22:11:59
  - Usually the first thing that comes to mind is TARP and the stimulus by RobVG 2012-01-07 12:02:13
    - Most of that stuff is out of my pay grade. Whether or not 'tis better to let a business, ... by ER 2012-01-07 13:05:47
      - "A lot of problems just go away on their own”. by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:06:21
        
        I never had any illusions of ever using my house as a cash cow. If there is an economic crash, ... by visitor 2012-01-07 15:44:42
        
        Take heart.. by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:55:39
      - An analogy by RobVG 2012-01-07 13:56:21
        
        I don't dispute your figures, but I do have a question. Just who is all that money owed to? ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:23:22
        
        Last time I checked, the majority of US debt is held by US corporations and individuals. It'd be interesting to ... by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:12:01
        
        You can find ownership of Federal Securities in this PDF document, page 51 (internal document numbering). by TB 2012-01-07 19:50:13
        
        Look it up? by ER 2012-01-07 16:08:21
      - Corrected for inflation, the Federal government is spending more than the amount of the entire WWII debt every single year. by TB 2012-01-07 13:21:49
        
        That was my point too. If you borrow money or sell stock to build a factory, that factory will ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:01:36
        
        I'm well aware of how the mortgage industry created pretend money. It was aided and abetted by people who ... by TB 2012-01-07 14:48:22
        
        Shorter version: by TB 2012-01-07 14:49:28
        
        If you want to keep skunks honest, throw them in jail. by ER 2012-01-07 15:02:26
        
        They didn't do that either, did they? by TB 2012-01-07 18:12:53
        
        Start with this by RobVG 2012-01-07 18:59:24
        
        So what you're saying is they knew this crash was coming as early as June, 2008? by ER 2012-01-08 06:14:27
        
        I'm just saying that someone should have gone to jail. by RobVG 2012-01-08 11:04:05
        
        Information is power. Even if you don't illegally profit yourself from insider trading, you can use your inside knowledge, ... by ER 2012-01-08 11:38:52
        
        The struggles are what seem to get the publicity. n/t by RobVG 2012-01-08 12:34:07
        
        √ by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:23:37
Bowser's Rule: Things will never be better than they are right now. by bowser 2012-01-06 18:32:11
- "We are, by definition, at the center of the observable region." Or, we are suspended precisely at the intersection of past ... by ER 2012-01-06 18:53:24

Asimo learns by RobVG January 9, 2012 7:58 pm

I agree with you. And I wonder how your description of the process varies from what a human child ... by bowser 2012-01-09 21:58:16

Friendly Fire by ER January 9, 2012 9:40 am

"You know a philosophy is corrupt and self-serving not when it attacks its opponents’ principles, but when it is ready ... by TB 2012-01-09 09:46:32
- Tom, you're already thinking pre-emptively, preparing your excuses for the future. You know perfectly well the Republicans can't deliver on the ... by ER 2012-01-09 10:20:11
  - MSNBC decides what will be "news" and what won't. They don't have to be the source. by TB 2012-01-09 10:39:42
    - There's no Democratic knee-cutting going on here. Romney is the victim of this attack, and other Republicans are the ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:13:11

Apocalypse Now. by ER January 7, 2012 7:01 pm

Well.I just watched the debate and I am undecided on who might beat Obama but I can say who I ... by FrankC 2012-01-07 21:05:18
- I like Huntsman. I may not agree with his politics, (actually, he's quite conservative) but I sense he's an ... by visitor 2012-01-08 10:02:41
  - He doesn't turn me off by any means but he seems to have the Adlai Stevenson disease. I just doubt ... by FrankC 2012-01-08 13:45:09
    - "The Adlai Stevenson Disease" by ER 2012-01-08 18:30:22
      - Yes, but also perceived by many as weak and ineffectual. I think it is possible to portray the positive without the ... by FrankC 2012-01-08 19:57:51
        
        It may be unfair, but I've always felt many Americans to equate "intelligent and refined" with "weak and ineffectual". ... by ER 2012-01-09 07:01:26
  - PS. The post above, "I like Huntsman", was mine, not by "visitor". I just was not logged in. BTW, ... by ER 2012-01-08 10:07:04
    - After clicking the "Remember Me" box on the login screen, I haven't had to log on since. It didn't used ... by RobVG 2012-01-08 11:25:57
      - By George, you're right! by ER 2012-01-08 13:11:08
There's a large gap between the number of Christians who believe Christ will return "someday" (part of the basic faith) ... by TB 2012-01-07 20:20:42
- I never said these people are representative of Christians in general, or even that they make up a substantial fraction ... by ER 2012-01-07 21:12:00
  - They make your flesh crawl because that's part of your belief system. by TB 2012-01-07 22:18:14
    - Yeah, I'm perfectly aware that a bunch of crazy ragheads want to fly airliners into our office buildings, but they ... by ER 2012-01-08 06:08:49
      - You're blowing smoke again. by TB 2012-01-08 16:07:25
        
        Boy did you walk right into that one, in spite of all the warnings I gave you and all the ... by ER 2012-01-08 18:13:40
        
        Although you seem to forget the line of thought in a particular thread, I don't. by TB 2012-01-08 21:08:55
        
        Tom, you're the one who's selectively obsessing about the Gulag and Cultural Revolution. You're crawling into bed with religious ... by ER 2012-01-09 06:46:17
        
        Thinking about the sharks in the metaphor I mentioned is normal, not "selective obsession." by TB 2012-01-09 09:55:20
        
        Tom, I've never met either you or the President personally, or know anything about either of you, but if I ... by ER 2012-01-09 10:29:41
        
        You missed the point. by TB 2012-01-09 10:49:57
        
        Well, I've never made a secret of my religious affiliations, but I don't post under my own name either. You ... by ER 2012-01-09 11:49:34
      - "Yeah, I’m perfectly aware that a bunch of crazy ragheads want to fly airliners into our office buildings, but they don’t live here, and they are not the spiritual heart of the Tea Party." by RobVG 2012-01-08 12:24:52
        
        Maybe not all conservatives are bible-bangers, but not too many bible-bangers are liberals. Fundamentalist Christianity and political conservativism are ... by ER 2012-01-08 13:08:28
    - They make one's flesh crawl because of their belief system. It's absolutely terrifying to think there are people out ... by bowser 2012-01-07 23:34:07

Now this is a BIG surprise! by BuckGalaxy December 22, 2011 8:13 pm

skeptical update (and bounce test) by podrock 2012-01-08 17:02:57
- damn local news redirect to their home page....arrgggg...you'll have to cut and paste the url... by podrock 2012-01-08 17:04:38
  - Testing this link. by TB 2012-01-08 17:39:24
DeSoto's map of his journey in the southeast United States contains place name that sound as if they could be ... by podrock 2011-12-23 11:49:34
- The Spanish transliterated Indian languages so they sounded Spanish. Indian names for geographical entities are very common in Latin ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:39:18
- PS: There are some nice little gold deposits in that region of Georgia. by podrock 2011-12-23 12:11:21
When you think about it, with a huge Mayan civilization in Mexico, it is more surprising to me that there ... by TB 2011-12-22 22:13:58
- When I toured the Southwest, we visited some "Pueblo" ruins that contained features peculiar to Maya cities, specifically, a court ... by ER 2011-12-23 06:18:11
  - Have you read "1491"? by podrock 2011-12-23 12:12:05
    - I had heard of it, but knew little about it. I suspected it was either a do-gooder lament about how ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:54:41
- No respect for the border even then. At least the neo-moderne variety comes by it honestly. by bowser 2011-12-22 22:17:39

Obama's military plan by TB January 7, 2012 7:53 pm

That's a very shallow comparison, TB. You may as well say that Rumsfeld breathed in and out at least ... by bowser 2012-01-07 23:26:26

DARPA discovers improved radiation exposure treatment by TB January 7, 2012 12:55 pm

Hmmmm. I wonder if the type of radiation matters. I imagine that the type of ionizing radiation, alpha, beta or ... by ER 2012-01-07 15:58:05
- The DARPA website had basically the same news release. by TB 2012-01-07 22:42:42

Observation. by bowser January 6, 2012 8:49 pm

Be sure to give us their response. Then I'll give mine. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-01-07 00:40:46
If you want to know the party of Oregon candidates, start here. It took me twenty seconds to find this information. by TB 2012-01-06 22:31:19
- Republican attempts to hide their affiliation from the casual observer are just one more example of deceit and deception. One candidate ... by bowser 2012-01-07 12:59:29
  - I see. by TB 2012-01-07 13:09:34
    - Do you know the difference between not at all and not blatantly? The difference between hiding something and not ... by bowser 2012-01-07 14:05:32
      - If we're going to be slicing terminology to molecular thinness, there is no real difference in the "blatancy" of the ... by TB 2012-01-07 14:42:06
- By the way... by TB 2012-01-06 22:38:24
Portland is liberal. Staunchly. Do you think that a Republican candidate could get his views even considered by liberals if ... by RobVG 2012-01-06 21:06:07
- If a politician does not represent the views of his constituents, then maybe he shouldn't be running at all. ... by ER 2012-01-06 21:33:53
  - I think it would be fairly easy to discern the candidates party by the context of his website or "Poster" ... by RobVG 2012-01-07 00:04:54
    - And there is always Wikipedia. by ER 2012-01-07 07:09:21
      - Wikipedia can be unreliable, but it's pretty good about numbers and dates. by TB 2012-01-07 10:31:22

Page 802 of 936«1...800 801802803 804...936 »