The dotcom boom ended 10 years ago today: This Day In Tech Events That Shaped the Wired World March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2010 5:17:46 am PST #15166 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2010 5:18:00 am PST #15167 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Also, string theory is right out.
It's not out yet. LHC might knock it out or breathe in new life though it can't provide any really compelling evidence for it, the energy levels are too low for that. String theory really isn't a competitor for general relativity, it just reconciles GR with quantum mechanics. General relativity breaks down at a quantum level like you'd have at the time of the big bang or in a black hole. Something is still missing.
Jesse - Mar 10, 2010 5:24:12 am PST #15168 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy shit, is my job annoying right now. Luckily, for the moment I can focus on Rhianna on my TV.
Tom Scola - Mar 10, 2010 5:24:14 am PST #15169 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
The problem is that we know that General Relativity is correct, it has been shown in observations to be correct to six decimal places.
However, we also know that Quantum Electrodynamics is correct, it has been shown in experiments to be correct to ten or eleven decimal places.
And the two theories are incompatible with each other. They both can't be right.
msbelle - Mar 10, 2010 5:24:50 am PST #15170 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I should also note that Brian Greene likes carrots.
I am wasting time today by looking at art on art.com .
Nora Deirdre - Mar 10, 2010 5:27:06 am PST #15171 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
And the two theories are incompatible with each other. They both can't be right.
This makes me think of the use of "quants" in the field of financial analysis, which is one reason the economy is in the tank.
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2010 5:29:12 am PST #15172 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
And the two theories are incompatible with each other. They both can't be right.
Yep, which is why everything breaks down in black holes and the big bang, you need both to explain it.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2010 5:38:07 am PST #15173 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A survey of the 1.9 million accounts on AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for people looking to cheat on their spouses, rounds up the most common occupations among the would-be infidelitous:
For Women:
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5. Engineers
Amy - Mar 10, 2010 5:39:01 am PST #15174 of 30001
Because books.
There's a website for people who are looking to cheat?!
I'm ... surprised that some things still surprise me.
Polter-Cow - Mar 10, 2010 5:40:57 am PST #15175 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
ION, today's xkcd made me snort my coffee and now my sinuses are caffeinated
Yeah, I wasn't sure where the hell it was going, so the punchline cracked my shit up.