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I really did not expect that to be so interesting.

I was actually fairly ambivalent on gun control until I moved to the UK. I lived there for 3 years and trying to explain American gun culture to a Brit is mostly what changed my mind.

As far as I can tell, ultrasonic atomizers run around 30 to 40 kHz and this should be similar (there might be important differences I'm not thinking of though). And a dog's range of hearing is generally considered to be up to around 45 kHz.

So, to answer your question, I have no idea.

I've been getting the same feeling - not sure what it is.

It seems odd to suggest that people shouldn't take life lessons from someone that happened to end their own life.

That said, I don't disagree on the video. On top of that, he doesn't seem to be connecting much of what he's saying to Wallace in any direct way. Based off of one quote that I googled and am now drawing too many conclusions from (link below), Wallace seemed to think that irony was a very valuable backlash to the 50's and 60's but that it ran its course.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/165289-irony-and-cynicism-were-just-what-the-u-s-hypocrisy-of

Well that just made my week.

I genuinely wish this video did made me disagree with Stephen. I want to get it. I really do, but I don't. In fact, I think she's kind of making his point - or at least a portion of it.

I actually like dancing though. I like it because I like getting stupid and have no interest in pretending it's anything more than that. I don't get interpretive dance and I don't get this as a response to Stephen's feelings on the subject and I'm sure this would not "make the man shudder."

I've actually ridden in the car and it is genuinely amazing. The surprising part is that the lack of body roll on hard turns is just as noticeable and impressive as the smooth ride over the bump strips.

We also took a lot of the technology and have rolled it into this:
http://www.boseride.com/

Oooo...cool. I work at Bose - cool to see the suspension system in the top 15.

And you guys are right, the hop is built into the control system for the suspension system. It's just a little subroutine activated by a switch in the dash. As far as I know, that is. The project was shut down long before I started at the company.

This is a great example of what I call the "good luck" school of Massachusetts civil engineering.

Am I the only one wondering how the hell the dog got stuck on the ice in the first place?

Does this mean that he just didn't know that half the country weren't millionaires?

Compared to his tax cuts, buying the young and Hispanic vote was a bargain.

Oh my God, YES!

Such fun stuff.

I think it's worth making the distinction here between predictable and deterministic. Determinism, of the outcome determined by initial conditions sort, isn't a testable position and therefore can't be ruled out entirely by experiment because you can't roll the universe back to the same state repeatedly and see what happens. Experiments testing Bell's inequality, for instance, can't rule out concepts like superdeterminism.