Ekko_Tek

Ships that can cloak. Spy ships. That's what I'd like to see.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1407" id="3423133"] Quoting Jafo, reply 1406 Quoting Frogboy, reply 1404CO2 always goes up after temperatures go up. Yes....that's a chicken and egg situation....which comes first... Not really. Temperatures always go up first. That's the big problem with the CO2 AGW hypothesis.[/quote] Positive feedback loops...

"Thinking outside of the box" The box = standard, routine, dogmatic, predictable ways and means of approaching a problem. So it refers to having new insights, being creative, going beyond, lateral thinking, etc.

Hopefully the university tuition is at least free like many other EU countries with taxes that high...to pay those tax rates and have student loans would be crippling...

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="1381" id="3422615"]Sorry if that was too cryptic for some. Ekko is getting the drift, though. The 'state' doesn't support anything - only your fellow citizens support such things, either voluntarily or via compulsion.[/quote] Since it looks like Hungarians pay a whopping 50% income tax, I'd say give the guy a break on getting slightly cheaper solar panels.

I don't know what he meant either. My guess was something to do with welfare or subsidies or something...

[quote who="Jafo" reply="39" id="3422572"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 38I do like Canada lot! So do I.... but almost our sum-total of wildlife in a couple of weeks there was one squirrel. We DID manage a photo of a bear, though.....took it from a billboard....[/quote] Where were you?

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="1370" id="3422560"] Quoting Turchany, reply 1367What does this mean? Somehow, I'm not altogether surprised by this question.[/quote] Not everyone's native language is English...and idioms/colloquialisms with vague inferences makes it even harder.

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[quote who="Turchany" reply="1355" id="3422494"]uhm.. scientifical research is not economical stuff.[/quote] What do you mean? Economical as in cost effective? or as in "to do with money/the economy"? In both cases I'd strongly disagree but it's also the kind of sweeping generalization you could find supporting or counter examples for. Plus the (off) topic was "recent inventions/disoveries that improved our lives" and there's plenty of examples within scientific research.

Nice - I didn't realize Detonate Antimatter interrupted abilities either.

From the last patch: Psionic Scream (Discord Battleship) will now interrupt.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="1341" id="3422290"]Money, as an instrument of capitalism and wealth transfer over time, has created every single bit of prosperity and progress we enjoy in this world. EVERY SINGLE BIT. There is a reason that the dark ages started ending pretty much the day after modern banking was invented. [/quote] Thank god money and capitalism enabled us to create fire, invent the wheel, invent rope, musical instruments, the boat, clothing, knives and spears, the watermi

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="1332" id="3422266"] I'm pleased you're ready to leave the Koch Brothers out of it. [/quote] I'd have to start writing about them before leaving them out of it... [e digicons];)[/e]

@myfist0, No, snarky comments from colleagues are nowhere near the same league as what I mentioned. Judith Curry is still publishing, still testifying before governments, still has a thriving career. Snarky comments from colleagues are to be expected sometimes. Some of her criticisms could also be off-base for all I know. I totally support the fact that she is bringing them up though.

[quote who="myfist0" reply="1317" id="3422195"] I found this a good read for anyone that will bother to read past the 1st line and not go into a tirade. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101101/full/news.2010.577.html%20 [/quote] Thanks for that - was a good read. "So it is important to emphasize that nothing she encountered led her to question the science; she still has no doubt that

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="1307" id="3422015"] You really should just speak for yourself, Ekko, rather than put words in other people's mouths and make condescending generalizations which serve only to make explicit your arrogance and prejudice. Not that you care, but all the same.[/quote] I like how you try tone trolling me and then follow up with: [quote who="Daiwa" reply="1308" id="3422016"] You know, case, I know some really good remedial reading teach

[quote who="caseagainstfaith" reply="1302" id="3421985"]Are you one of those who buy into "Climategate"? If you are, well, I don't know what the flame policy is on this board, but, if you are a Climategate guy, consider yourself flamed.[/quote] This came up many pages ago. But suffice to say that yes, several people here take "Climategate" as fact (along with other knee-slappers like the Oregon Petition) while with a seemingly straight face believing that the global warming data h

[quote who="Kantok" reply="1274" id="3421833"]I said it was you trying to invalidate my points without having to address them by pretending to be the only one concerned about cold hard logical reality[/quote] I'm happy to address your points but until this post of yours you didn't have any points to address from our exchange other than trying to imply or suggest what I and/or others thought about a single storm season. [quote who="Kantok" reply="1274" id="3421833"]Like

[quote who="Kantok" reply="1268" id="3421695"]So how about we just admit you have no idea what my motivations are and I'll agree the same about you[/quote] [quote who="Kantok" reply="1268" id="3421695"]I'm sure that if this season had been especially active, well above the predicted amount, you and others wouldn't be jumping up and down about our "dire straits" and telling us how we have even less time than we thought and yadda yadda yadda, right?[/quote] So essent

[quote who="Kantok" reply="1265" id="3421686"]In reality, as far as these sort of predictions go, they missed by miles. AGAIN. [/quote] Actually, for the 2012 season the NOAA (as well as the roughly 1 dozen other organizations that prepare forecasts/predictions) under predicted the activity fairly significantly. Skill is determined in averages over decades though, not single year forecasts. Hopefully they'll get more accurate over time - it's definitely a complex thing to be a

To be more specific, for the 2013 season, the NOAA predicted 13-17 named storms (13 were actual) and 7-10 hurricanes (2 were actual). So?

[quote who="Kantok" reply="71" id="3421627"]Because of this the US constitution took extra measures to protect the rights of individuals.[/quote] I'd think all democratic constitutions take measures to protect the rights of individuals. The US is, I think, unique in the world in specifically mentioning/protecting the right to bear arms, but other than that there's nothing else vastly different than other democratic constitutions that I'm aware of. Each country will of cour

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="67" id="3421573"] Quoting Jafo, reply 9Meanwhile....much of the rest of the world gets by quite satisfactorily WITHOUT a mis-interpreted agendafied 'Constitution' and an armed populace scared of their own government. Most of the rest of the world did not fight for their freedom from Tyranny. Makes a big difference.[/quote] Really? In what way did the American Revolution make a big difference. Or rather, "a big difference" in wh

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="53" id="3420878"]Similar for the pharmaceutical industry: developing a new medicine costs hundreds of millions of dollars... that's a lot of money for just a chemical compound, where does all that money go?[/quote] I can't speak for the auto industry but for pharmaceuticals it is anything but "just a chemical compound". The hundreds of millions goes into pharmacognosy of trawling through plant compounds (in many cases, not all) for useful ones that