Quote from: TurquíaHiriente on September 11, 2016, 02:06:12 PM

Quote from: Desty on September 11, 2016, 02:00:51 PM

Quote from: TurquíaHiriente on September 11, 2016, 01:56:53 PM

But psychology is pseudoscience, so why bother?

Because if we don't look within, we will fail to see our flaws. If we don't know our flaws, we can't improve them consciously. If we know what's bothering us we might have a chance to fix it. The reasons for another person's actions might be unclear to you, but because someone has made a book about similar behaviour you might get an understanding of that person's motivation or thoughts is. Is that enough reasons for you? I can keep going.

I think I need more information to truly grasp what you're saying.

You think so

Please tell me more.

But psychology is pseudoscience, so why bother?

Broke 150M today. Thinking of upgrading from AspE to a Python for short-range trading. Either that or a Type 9.

Obviously I don't support Trump as a presidential candidate, but did you listen to the audio? They literally asked him about that specific building and whether there was any damage. It was a fine response. The rest of the article is typical character assassination -- ironically stopping fairly often to point out how reasoned and calm his demeanor was at the time.

tbh I'm kind of curious about the social justification for this

Do you just find a comfy spot, squat down, and shit? Do you carry TP around?

Met him and the co pilot IRL. They're nice people.

Skiles is just as important because he read out the procedures for landing in water. Although they lacked the time to close the hatches across the bottom to keep the plane afloat, it was a success.

The movie does an okay job of reinforcing that Skiles was an equal part of the successful landing, but it was disappointing to see him portrayed as somewhat inexperienced (he slowly reads off the preflight checklist and performs the dual engine failure checklist almost incompetently), despite being recognized by the NTSB as performing the job quicker than expected because he just finished training for the aircraft and new the procedures better than someone that had been out of training for a while (like Sully).

Clint Eastwood nailed it again. Except for the fact that the projector failed three times during the climax, this was a great film. It's easiest to compare to 'Flight', a similar, but fictional, airline-disaster movie; in Flight though, it's all about how skilled the pilot is despite affairs and substance abuse. Sully is about a regular Joe doing his job well. Nothing is over-dramaticized, and the flow of the story is compelling even though everybody already knows how it ends. Toms Hanks is amazing as usual, and the highlight of the film is how the crash is portrayed from multiple perspectives: the pilots, the crew/passengers, ATC, and then in simulation trials and a few alternative outcomes seen through nightmares. The only real downside is that the NTSB (the agency that investigates the crash) are turned into almost cartoonishly-evil government lackeys that accuse Captain Sullenberger of incompetence, despite their role of support in reality. Anna Gunn's (Breaking Bad's Skyler White) character is the worst of the panel.

Rating scales are arbitrary, and no film is perfect, but if 10 = must see and 0 = avoid at all costs, this is definitely a 10/10.

I don't deepthroat my toothbrush, so no.

really makes you think smh

Quote from: TurquíaHiriente on September 08, 2016, 03:37:16 PM

This guy won't be in it:

Spoiler

Damn IG-88 was cool.

You know he was actually a hivemind controlling four identical units?

I didn't. That makes him 4x as badass.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/sorry-tesla-you-cant-issue-yourself-an-auto-franchise-court-rules/

A state court has ruled that Tesla cannot issue itself a franchise to sell vehicles directly to consumers in Missouri, a blow to the electric carmaker that wanted to comport with the state's franchise requirement without having to sell cars through an independent dealership.

In a suit brought by the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association, a judge ruled that carmakers cannot issue themselves franchises, which means Tesla will have to stick to selling the vehicles online in Missouri if it wishes to continue its practice of not using a man-in-the-middle car dealership.

The dealers' suit said the state broke the law when it issued a dealer's license to Tesla of Palo Alto, California. That position was supported last week by Cole County Judge Daniel Green. The decision means Tesla can now only showcase its vehicles at its Kansas City and St. Louis locations. Under the ruling, buyers can't purchase them there. They have to go online.

Arizona, Connecticut, Michigan, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia also bar Tesla from direct sales and require carmakers to issue franchises to independent dealers, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Tesla said in a statement that the automaker "will take all appropriate steps in the courts to ensure that Missouri consumers continue to have the right to choose how they purchase their vehicles." Under Missouri law, carmakers are not allowed to directly compete with car dealerships that sell their vehicles.

Dealership lobbying has effectively prevented Tesla from dealing their own cars.

EmDrive is nonsense.

I wear contacts, but they make my eyes pretty dry.

I wear fireproof pajamas each day. It's pretty sweet.

College students in multiple states have already declared a state of emergency:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/climate-change-coming-your-coffee?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2Fmain+%28MotherJones.com+Main+Article+Feed%29

Coffea Arabica—which accounts for 70 percent of the coffee grown globally, including your morning joe—requires the cool year-round temperatures and ample rainfall found in tropical highlands. Robusta (Coffea Canephora)—source of the the low-grade joe that supplies the instant market—also requires a tropical climate, but can tolerate warmer, drier conditions.

Both coffee species are already under pressure from climate change, the reports finds, and as the planet warms and weather patterns shift, the globe's landmass suitable for coffee production is likely to shrink by half within three decades. And a key tool for maintaining coffee on a hotter planet is also under threat: Wild coffee plants, which "could prove vital in the development of new, drought- and disease-tolerant varieties at the very time when coffee farmers need them most," could be driven to extinction within 70 years, the report warns.

Fission or bust, folks.