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Serious / Re: FUUUTURE!!!
« on: December 12, 2014, 12:29:37 AM »
Aircraft in the Military has led to improvements in civilian aviation as well.

A laser weapon will not.

Shirley, you jest.

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The Flood / Re: Star Wars VII Character Names Revealed
« on: December 12, 2014, 12:01:45 AM »


Poe!

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The Flood / Re: ITT: Post the most cringeworthy thing you can find
« on: December 11, 2014, 10:38:12 PM »

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Gaming / Re: Just Cause 3 screenshots
« on: December 11, 2014, 09:24:15 PM »

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Serious / Re: The Meyers-Briggs Personality Test
« on: December 11, 2014, 05:40:34 PM »
Looks like we're all a bunch of INTJ losers up in here.

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The Flood / Re: Official Finals pics thread
« on: December 11, 2014, 11:21:20 AM »


yfw you get stoned and slack off before finals and got 100 on your math final in a class with a average of 36.
yfw it get bumped up to a 105 because of extra credit.
yfw you got a 103 as your final grade.

Are you in special ed?

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The Flood / Re: I'm a fucking idiot
« on: December 11, 2014, 08:57:35 AM »
Didn't study, at all, for my Chem final. . .I'm dumd

Chem is dumd, not you.

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The Flood / Re: I'm a fucking idiot
« on: December 11, 2014, 08:54:47 AM »
So somehow I wrote a 31 page thesis in twelve hours. I'm proofing it now and submitting it later today. It's actually not terrible, either.

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Gaming / Re: Biggest Gaming Controversy of 2014?
« on: December 11, 2014, 06:32:13 AM »
Gaming's a hobby, I prefer to stay away from the drama.

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The Flood / Re: I'm a fucking idiot
« on: December 11, 2014, 05:16:35 AM »
I know that  >.>

Procrastination is my forte.

This isn't even procrastination at this point...I'm literally cramming 6 credit hours worth of independent thesis work into one night. It shouldn't even be possible.

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Serious / Re: Political compass of philosophers (compared to ours)
« on: December 11, 2014, 03:38:36 AM »
ayyyyn rand lmao

Spoiler
I need sleep.

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The Flood / Re: I'm a fucking idiot
« on: December 11, 2014, 12:51:22 AM »
A mod moved it back to serious >_>

Good luck on that paper Turkey. I hope it turns out great :D

Thanks man. I'm 17 pages in, hoping to hit around 28 with appendices and all that.

It was never moved out of Serious, I just preempted it with some pictures. I honestly don't mind if it gets moved, I just post everything in Serious by habit.

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The Flood / I'm a fucking idiot
« on: December 11, 2014, 12:42:35 AM »
So this week is my last week of my undergraduate degree, and I put off writing my thesis until the last minute. And by 'put off', I mean literally did zero work for it. I defend it on Friday morning and it's due to my director tomorrow afternoon. My finals are done so I don't mind some essay writing (essays are easy as shit compared to senior engineering finals), but this is just really dumb.

Don't be a dumbass, kids.



Oh this isn't political enough to stay in Serious? Here's LeBron James wearing an Eric Garner shirt:



BIOLOGY


Literature!

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Serious / Re: I just watched the movie of Ender's Game
« on: December 10, 2014, 11:20:15 PM »
I just want to know the concept behind the weapon which destroyed the entire planet.

It creates a field that negates the strong nuclear force, causing electrons to split off from atoms, resulting in a chain reaction that affects any matter in relatively close proximity. It was originally used as a mining tool to reduce asteroids to dust to mine the ores as particulates, but was rigged into a weapon. It hasn't officially been converted from the mining device into the M.D. device in the series, but it's pretty obvious.

Wouldn't it completely atomize the entire asteroid, or I'm guessing there are different levels of power?

Yeah, they didn't realize the destructive power and almost got themselves killed testing it. But it's still useful, it didn't reduce everything to hydrogen, it just broke down bonds in molecules resulting in clumps of unbonded atoms floating around. It was basically a very dense cloud of iron dust that they could pick up.

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Serious / Re: I just watched the movie of Ender's Game
« on: December 10, 2014, 10:44:18 PM »
I just want to know the concept behind the weapon which destroyed the entire planet.

It creates a field that negates the strong nuclear force, causing electrons to split off from atoms, resulting in a chain reaction that affects any matter in relatively close proximity. It was originally used as a mining tool to reduce asteroids to dust to mine the ores as particulates, but was rigged into a weapon. It hasn't officially been converted from the mining device into the M.D. device in the series, but it's pretty obvious.

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The Flood / Re: Does .9999999 Repeating = 1?
« on: December 10, 2014, 09:15:23 PM »
Oh my sweet lord jesus christ please don't do this.
It's pretty much common knowledge that they aren't equal.


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The Flood / Re: Does .9999999 Repeating = 1?
« on: December 10, 2014, 09:11:18 PM »
Oh my sweet lord jesus christ please don't do this.

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The Flood / You know what the Hobbit is missing?
« on: December 10, 2014, 09:05:09 PM »


The Tolkien black dude.

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The Flood / Re: I'm mad
« on: December 10, 2014, 06:43:05 PM »


Let the baby soothe you

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The Flood / The constant struggle
« on: December 10, 2014, 06:41:53 PM »

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It'll be specific to your college, but in general computer science is more theoretical and software engineering/development is more practical. If you have a knack for coding, you'll do very well in SE; if you want to learn about systems, then you'll enjoy CS.

Computer science is to software engineering as pure math is to physics.

So for someone with little knowledge in programming (I've only wrote a hello world program in 2 languages) it'd be best to go into computer science to get the best understanding of theory, while software development is more of a narrowed/specialized path?  After graduating and a few years of working in the field I'd like to work independently.  Which would you suggest?

I'd talk to Isara or Cheat for specifics, but I would think that if you want a more general education go with CS, or if you know you want to write software, specifically, then go with SE/SD. My fiancee's dad is has a master's in CS and gets contract jobs writing for Intel. Pays really well, but for the most part it's grunt work.

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Serious / Re: Do you have any original ideas?
« on: December 10, 2014, 06:28:54 PM »
One time in grade school for a science fair I combined a cat scratching post, a spring ball toy, and a food dish. I thought that was pretty neat, and my cat liked it.


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It'll be specific to your college, but in general computer science is more theoretical and software engineering/development is more practical. If you have a knack for coding, you'll do very well in SE; if you want to learn about systems, then you'll enjoy CS.

Computer science is to software engineering as pure math is to physics.

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Serious / Re: Do you have any original ideas?
« on: December 10, 2014, 05:34:55 PM »
I independently came up w/ an interpretation of quantum mechanics(as in that was the way in which it made the most sense to me) that is analogous to Wojciech Zurek's quantum darwinism so while not totally original I had the basics in my brain before I read the paper.



Ah yes, Wabbajack Zurg's quantum druidism.

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Serious / Re: So that pastor that said all gay people should die...
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:37:52 PM »
Out of interest, what sort of Christian are you?

I'm hip to Luther's jive


I want his entire wardrobe. I wish British series weren't so short, because that show is amazing.

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Serious / Re: So that pastor that said all gay people should die...
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:34:00 PM »
Out of interest, what sort of Christian are you?

I'm hip to Luther's jive, though I attend a non-denominational church.

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Serious / So that pastor that said all gay people should die...
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:26:06 PM »
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/27569506/2014/12/07/tempe-pastor-remains-unapologetic-in-his-call-for-christians-to-kill-gay-people

On the thread we had here earlier, there were several comments complaining that you never hear about Christians condemning this stuff.

Well...

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TEMPE, Ariz. - Demonstrators gathered peacefully in Tempe Sunday morning to protests the controversial words from a pastor. Last week, he said that killing gays will free the world from AIDS. Sunday, before church, FOX 10 caught up with the pastor. He was unapologetic, but protestors and other clergy are saying he is twisting the word of god to perpetuate hate.

Pastor Steven Anderson stood outside of his Tempe church laughing with his parishioners. While just a few yards away, demonstrators protested his inflammatory words in a sermon last week.

In a viral video you can see on YouTube, Anderson advocates for the execution of gay people.

"If you execute the homos, you wouldn't have all these AIDS running rampant," said Anderson.

Just before service at the Faithful Word Baptists Church today, Anderson briefly spoke to reporters-- unapologetic about his words.

The Bible's Ten Commandments state "Thou shall not kill." Despite this, Anderson continued to defend his beliefs.
 "Well actually Jesus quoted that in the New Testament and said thou shall not murder, and it's not murder for the government to execute criminals," said Anderson. [Fuck this guy]

Protestors chanted outside the church -- some comparing the pastor to Hitler; many fearing Anderson's words will motivate the killing of gay people.

"He may not actually do it himself,” said Kenny Caron. “He may not tell someone to do it, but because the way he does it, anybody can go out and do it like I did it for him.”

At one point the pastor confronted the group, but both groups remained peaceful.

“By asking and putting it out there that you wish for certain people to be slaughtered, you are committing a sin,” said Maria Flores.

The pastor continued with his service surrounded by many parishioners openly carrying their guns, and the group outside continued with their protest, only armed with signs calling for "Love not Hate."

tl;dr dude's an asshole

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Serious / Re: Time Magazine selects "Person" of the Year: Ebola Fighters
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:20:06 PM »



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Gaming / Re: Far Cry 4
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:18:22 PM »
Take what Yahtzee says with a grain of salt. He tends to rush through games and then highlight it's biggest flaws.

FC4 is definitely very similar to FC3, but how is that bad? FC3 was damn-near perfect at what it set out to do.

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