Cap'n Refsmmat

It addresses the issue because it turns out that $data['_longTitle'] gives me the un-truncated version of the topic title, which is now used in tooltips in search listings.

It appears the data passed to the template is undocumented, but apparently _longTitle gives the right tooltip value...

Density is mass per unit volume, and photons have no mass. At least in the classical sense.

I haven't heard about this echo noise. Where did you learn about this?

Couldn't people be misled into opposing a policy, through misleading statements on the impact of that policy and how it will be implemented? e.g. "death panels"

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Perhaps they should be renamed "amidst-terms" to reflect that they occur amid the semester.

...bearing in mind that "IPS" is an account for the software manufacturer, to be used when we file support requests, and "capncrunch" is merely a second copy of me from when we converted to IPB. Chat staff are different from regular forum staff because the regular forum staff does not always lurk in the chatroom. So a few of the regular chatters are designated mods. They don't usually have to do any moderating -- in fact, almost never -- and I have logs of chatroom activity if there's a problem.

Most courses here have three evenly spaced exams, then a final at the end of the semester. My courses seem to place their exams all during the same week.

I think it's more accurate to state that quantity allows us to assess quality. We can stop obvious trolls before they move into political topics.

I have four midterm exams this week. It is on my to-do list for when I get time.

Or see if they just give you cheaper beer when you're too drunk to tell the difference.

Liquid nitrogen.

That's quite possible. Perhaps someone should perform a study in which attractive women go to pubs, order some drinks, and stash away samples of the drinks in vials before drinking, to detect if they've been spiked. Do it for long enough and you might get some hits.

This puts another question in my mind. If so many people report experiences with spiked drinks, why have researchers had such a hard time finding evidence of it? For example, The Telegraph article I link above shows that of 97 people admitted to hospitals because of alleged drink-spiking, not a single one had any evidence of such drugs in their bloodstream. What makes people think they've had spiked drinks when they haven't -- or what makes the drugs not show up in tests?

IIRC I read a study suggesting that the number of medically verified date rape druggings in the US was tiny -- maybe five. The rest of cases tend to be from excessive alcohol consumption. edit: Daily Mail article on the subject: http://www.dailymail...king-blame.html I'll try to find better sources soon. edit: another article, from ScienceDaily, about a separate study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071020113144.htm And The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6440589/Date-rape-drink-spiking-an-urban-legend.html

I've had enough of this.

The articles and comments made more recently by Solomon and coauthors indicate they don't see a connection between human causes and the recent sudden decline in stratospheric water vapor. This does not change what GISS stated years before about the slow, long-term increase, which is what we care about. See the full paper for further details. (The computer model they use was not custom-made for this experiment, but is a pre-existing model commonly accepted for climate calculations.)

It is worth noting that the provisions of that section will not, in fact, block access to any website. Should the .net registrar revoke scienceforums.net's registration, I can merely disseminate our IP address, 78.129.223.64, via a mass e-mail, and set up the webserver to handle that IP address correctly. Because the registrar is located domestically, 2324(e)(2) would not apply, and we could continue to receive advertising revenue to support our operations. Suppose the bill is passed and the government decides to take action against ThePirateBay, which notoriously resists any copyright enforcement attempts made against it. Their domain name is thepiratebay.org, and .org is a United States-based registry. (Run by, ironically enough, the Public Interest Registry.) The government would issue a court order to the PIR, and thepiratebay.org would fail to resolve any longer... ...until, of course, every major online news site points out that 194.71.107.15 takes you to ThePirateBay, and you can continue finding torrents of Avatar 3D to your heart's content. In short: Copyright infringement is a problem. But we happen to have designed the Internet so that stopping it is almost impossible.

So Hobbes said that infinite suffering is clearly not compatible with an omnibenevolent God -- at best, you should suffer for a finite length of time proportional to your sins. So, those who sinned will go to Hell, where they burn in a lake of fire or whatever. However, they do not stay there forever -- they burn up and die after a length of time, proportional to their sins. However, since some religious texts require an eternal Hell, Hobbes added a workaround: those in Hell would have children, and those children would live for a while in Hell and have their own children. Thus, Hell would be eternal, but there would be no infinite suffering for sinners.

I believe it was Thomas Hobbes who replaced everlasting suffering with finite suffering in a Hell that lasts forever, because Hobbes does not believe that eternal suffering can be compatible with a benevolent God, so he replaces it with finite suffering in a Hell constantly replenished with the spawn of the evil.

I don't think you're held together by a subatomic magnetic field, no. Chemical bonding doesn't work that way. (See link for details.)

That's the way it's designed. Once you view the list, the number of unread notifications goes to zero. It still keeps the history of notifications, so you can go back and check ones you didn't get to check. Apparently it's really hard to take a "someone quoted your post" notification and determine exactly when you view their reply.