rotary *wings

Reminds me a bit of a Wankel Rotary engine.

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>> ^chilaxe:
More machines taking our jobs. One fast worker could take the place of the entire machine.


Satire? We want machines to take our unwanted jobs, that way more people can do something they want to do.

>> ^residue:
dare me to stick my finger in there?


Stick something else in there and the dare is on.

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After 5 seconds of watching this, that's exactly what I was thinking.

>> ^Crake:
Beautiful - now do 150.000km of nanotubes plz, so we can have that space elevator.

This is how the Matrix begins

>> ^chilaxe:
More machines taking our jobs. One fast worker could take the place of the entire machine.

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I was in second grade. My friend Sonia and I were on the bus heading to school. She and I were drawing a stick figure family in the condensation on the window. When we pulled up to the school, I erased it with my sleeve. The bus driver saw me wiping something off the window and starts screaming at me how I was writing swear words. Sonia and I looked at each other, confused. I said, "We were just drawing stick figures."

I shouldn't have said anything because the bus driver started frothing at the mouth, literally. She got spittle all over my face when she told me to get my butt to the principal right now. She wrenched my arm and dragged me off the bus. My feet didn't even touch the steps down.

Debbie Versch was the assistant principal and when she heard I was accused of writing swear words on a bus window, she called my father. Didn't even ask me if it was true. Didn't even consult Sonia. She just immediately called my father and asked if she could paddle me. He said yes.

So she tries to get me to turn around and place my hands on the arm of a chair. I flat out told her no. I didn't do anything wrong. She says how can I prove that. I say prove that I did it! She started getting red in the face. How dare a second grader talk to her like that, I guess..

She grabs me by the arm. The arm the bus driver grabbed. I would find bruises all over my upper arm at home. She starts paddling the crap out of my upper legs. I am now furious, at this point. I turn around in a rage and grab the paddle out of her hands. I throw it in her waste basket so hard it spills over. I turn to her and say, "FUCK YOU. I didn't do any FUCKING THING WRONG." I kick her in the shin and I run out the door, out the front of the school and, because I only lived two streets away--which makes me wonder why I had to ride a bus to school anyway--I run home.

Now, the best part of this story happens years later. My mother and I do a lot of volunteer work with Rotary. Debbie Versch and my mother and I happened to be on the same committee for planning events with a local guardian's home for children. Debbie remembers me and studiously avoids me. After a few weeks of this, I go up to her. "You know, I never did write any swear words on that bus window. You paddled me for no reason. Funny how you claim to care so much about children when you were so eager to beat them." She at least had the courtesy to blush and mumble a mostly incoherent apology. Lame revenge, some would say, but it sure made me feel better about it.

Is that a rotary phone wrist watch?

You're one of those guys who tossed their rotary phone for one of those fancy push-button ones, aren't you? I think all Sift commands should be executed in cursive and sent via the postal service to the site administrators.

>> ^NetRunner:

I'm thinking that's the wrong analogy. It's more like a restaurant that has been slowly losing money for years. They've let the building fall to pieces, with leaks in the roof, failing electrical wiring, and an old rotary phone. New management comes in, and rather than trying to cut back on hours, or drop the quality of the food to try to make ends meet, they take out a loan, fix the roof and wiring, buy new appliances, remodel the dining room, and hire themselves a good chef to spice up the menu, and then advertise their all-new status.
That's what we're looking to do. Invest in our future to try to turn around a downward losing spiral.


Well, I hope the US under Obama spend their money better than the UK. We love to get in contractors and decorators in to fix the restaurant to only end up paying them way too much and having the project of getting the restaurant up and running delay for way too long so you end up in a place where you have spent more than you expected and still do not have an income in sight whilst paying huge interests on the loan. Also, would not be shocked if the work is a bit shoddy so that the rain stills comes through the roof and wreck all the electrical wiring...
Then the guy who took out the loan and was in charge of the whole shebang shrugs and takes no responsibility over the mess.

Psychologic- No, I am saying that anyone working in the science field who believes in God(s) is not applying the scientific method to (at least) that part of their thought process. That makes them non-scientific. It makes it more likely that they do not follow the scientific method in their work, and it makes them non-scientists (at least in their private life). Just as a non-engineer can design something useful (just look at the rotary engine, designed in a dream by a 16 year old), a non-scientist may contribute to science, but their contribution deserves more scrutiny and more extensive peer review than normal since they have shown a propensity for ignoring "facts" in favor of "belief". The scientific method requires you do the opposite, ignore "belief" in favor of "fact", and only someone with a split personality (or completely insane) could truly do both, therefore there are NO theistic scientists. Thinking as a scientist precludes you from being a theist, or a true athiest. Science can only say it's incredibly unlikely that there's a God, not conclusively that it doesn't exist (yet).
Pseudo-scientists, like the one in the video, cannot be good theists OR good scientists, since their "science" is based in obvious falsehoods. That means what they call "science" is not scientific, and their theistic standing is questionable since they knowingly offer false answers (bearing false witness)and outright lie to further their agenda.
NOVA made most of these points last night in a 2 hour special about the school board trying to introduce Intelligent Design into schools, "Darwin on trial" I think. Sadly, it repeatedly made mention of the non-scientific science teachers involved (on both sides of the issue) but also showed simply the difference between a scientist and a non-scientist working on science.

TY for both of your comments on that post.

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>> ^Psychologic:
I think what he was saying (in the context of your statement) is that if you max out all of your credit cards during good times then you shouldn't choose to spend even more money during bad times.
Families generally have to reduce their spending when their income drops, especially if they were already spending more than they were making. The question is whether or not that applies to the US government.


I'm thinking that's the wrong analogy. It's more like a restaurant that has been slowly losing money for years. They've let the building fall to pieces, with leaks in the roof, failing electrical wiring, and an old rotary phone. New management comes in, and rather than trying to cut back on hours, or drop the quality of the food to try to make ends meet, they take out a loan, fix the roof and wiring, buy new appliances, remodel the dining room, and hire themselves a good chef to spice up the menu, and then advertise their all-new status.

That's what we're looking to do. Invest in our future to try to turn around a downward losing spiral.

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^Psychologic:
I think what he was saying (in the context of your statement) is that if you max out all of your credit cards during good times then you shouldn't choose to spend even more money during bad times.
Families generally have to reduce their spending when their income drops, especially if they were already spending more than they were making. The question is whether or not that applies to the US government.

I'm thinking that's the wrong analogy. It's more like a restaurant that has been slowly losing money for years. They've let the building fall to pieces, with leaks in the roof, failing electrical wiring, and an old rotary phone. New management comes in, and rather than trying to cut back on hours, or drop the quality of the food to try to make ends meet, they take out a loan, fix the roof and wiring, buy new appliances, remodel the dining room, and hire themselves a good chef to spice up the menu, and then advertise their all-new status.
That's what we're looking to do. Invest in our future to try to turn around a downward losing spiral.


The problem is our bank is China and they may cut us off before we even get started.