Phi for All

Probably part of the Mexican border and illegal immigrants controversy. I've seen an email being circulated that is allegedly what Mexico's immigration laws are, and it specifies that you must be able to speak Spanish. For some reason, this angers many people.

Genecks, you make some good points and give some good advice. Persuader sounds smart enough to pick out what will enhance Persuader and what will keep Persuader from being a basement-dwelling tuna-eater who hates humanity. No offense, Genecks, I truly realize things have been pretty bleak for you. And you're spot on about focusing on what's good for you and what will help you get ahead. Drive and determination are the keys to getting what you want. But you must also remember that you live in a society full of people, and often times those people can make life a lot better for you. It's true that the vast majority of those people will not be your close friends. But the secret to people is that there is *something* about almost EVERYONE that you can like about them. You can get pretty good about finding those *somethings* pretty quickly. Those who have many *somethings* will be your friends, and the friends who also care the most and end up sharing the most activities with you will be your best friends. Beyond friends, you 'll have people you work with, and while many people dismiss co-workers as mandatory acquaintances, you're going to be spending quite a bit of time with them. Learn to emphasize what you like about them and make sure your dealings revolve around those points. People are a resource and can make life a whole lot better. Sure, there are a lot of jerks, but everyone acts like a jerk sometimes. Learn about the Fundamental Attribution Error and how to avoid it's evil clutches.

Oooooooh, grab one of them and say, "Can I study over at your place?" If it's not too personal, why you don't get along with your mother? It's usually every parent's dream that their kids hang out with friends like yours.

If you're smart enough to ask for help, you're smart enough for anything. And procrastination is... well, I'll tell you tomorrow. Friends are the best but if they aren't doing what you need to be doing then they'll understand that you need to be doing what you should be doing. If you're smart enough to figure *that* sentence out, you'll be graduating college when you're 19. Do the people you hang with have similar problems? What are their GPAs? Are they doing their homework *before* they screw around? Do they care as much about this as you do? Can you ask your grandparents if you can study at their place? Sometimes a different environment helps you focus. And if I know grandparents, they'll be honored you came to them for help. If you can't change your environment, you've got to change the way you use your environment. Your ability to adapt is one of the reasons why humans are at the top of the food chain despite not having big pointy teeth.

You've got plenty of time to fix things and more importantly you understand the need to fix things. You've got the guts not to stick your head in the sand and that tells me you're going to be OK. Do you think you study enough? What takes up most of your time? Do you have enough friends and family to support your desire to get a better GPA?

You continue to undermine what little credibility you have with the rest of the membership. This is a verbal warning to knock it off with the personal attacks. The OP was VERY clear about the nature of this thread. Please stick with the format and try to provide evidence-based arguments only. It would help if your remarks didn't show forgone conclusions, assumptions and fallacious logic as well.

So he'll be cross-eyed for *his* ID badge photo!

Have your buddies stopped laughing yet? Or were they horrified that the two-foot hurdle they egged you in to turned out to be so disfiguring?

Murphy's Law Corollary #817: Always make sure the bet is for enough money to pay for the plastic surgery. Murphy's Law Corollary #817a: Needing the plastic surgery means you lost the bet and can't pay for the plastic surgery. You're going to look terrible for the picture. If someone makes fun of your badge tell them you got the cuts and bruises dismembering the last person who made fun of your badge.

She's back and posting in Neuroscience.

Those are the ones from the Pentagon cameras. The gas station and hotel cameras wouldn't be trained on the security gate, they would have had a more wide angle view of the side of the Pentagon. This link did give me a better cut on the tapes than I've seen before. Scale is tough to determine and I couldn't see wings or a tail but you can definitely see the outline coming in from the side really low to the ground before impact. I can't find the link I saw with a map of where the gas station and hotel are situated but I remember thinking that video footage from those angles and distance away would show a really clear view. I'll continue the search.

If you're talking about the security tapes confiscated from the gas station and the hotel that would show that side of the Pentagon all day long, I don't see what there would be to exploit. Has there been any report from either the FBI or the military about what those surveillance tapes contain? Does it describe corpses sprawled out? Has there ever been a comment about what is seen on those tapes?

HHO sounds like laughter to me, and I hope this guy isn't joking. Would HHO technically be called hydrogen hydroxide?

I once heard it said that the best administrative personnel a business could hire are those who have more than a slight case of OCD. The attention to detail it brings to the job is just perfect in those circumstances. The point is, "normal" is an illusion and patterned brain functions are not necessarily all "damaged".

I couldn't get their demonstration video to play on either IE or Firefox. As for the power ratios, how successful could they be if they sold even one torch system to a metal shop and it failed to yield an efficient result? One complaint that it took too much electricity for electrolysis and it would start the collapse of their business. I'm going to fill out their contact form today and ask them to join SFN and explain their science to us.

This has bothered me most about the Pentagon event. With all the controversy, if the tapes show a plane hitting the Pentagon just release them! But it's been so long that if they release them now, anyone who believes in a coverup would think they were doctored anyway.

There is always a first, and these were pretty unique buildings in a unique situation. Buildings that heavy are unlikely to fall in any other way. It actually would have been stranger if they would have fallen slowly sideways. I would imagine masonry and steel responding to failure and stress could account for exploding sounds. None of these points really nag at me, they all have logical explanations. I can see how frustrating it is for conspiracy theorists to have their whole cloth snapped thread by thread. When you look at 9/11 as a tapestry of coincidences that all happened in order to bring about the complete destruction of the towers, it does seem a little unreal. I realize it's 1:1 now but what would you have said the odds were *before it happened* to have all this fall into place the way it did?

He didn't put his fingers *in* the flame, he put them around the tip of the torch near the flame to show it didn't heat up like acetylene torches do. Could this simply be a version of Brown's gas that's safer because it's created by the machine and not stored in a tank? Why is this guy submitting his work to all these government agencies if it's all a fraud? I'm with doG, if he's a scammer he's going to go down big time with such a high profile. All it takes is one shop that ponies up the $7K to call him a fraud. He's going so commercial you'd think any holes in his program would get noticed quickly. I really don't like the fact that he supposedly has five PhDs on his staff but says his torch generates "temperatures of up to 10,000° F, the temperature of our Sun's surface, which is currently the limits of our ability to measure." And the sublimation from gas to gas is dodgy. We should ask the guy to join and tell us all about the science behind his invention!

Haven't heard a thing. She must not be checking things at all since she has a limit of 150 PMs. Her box must be full of all of us asking how she's doing. She had taken a second job and wasn't going to be able to be here much. I'll try to send her an email today.

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee. Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch! Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy. (Macbeth, AWTEW, Henry 4.1)

I can't see much from the video. It looks like there is already smoke coming from the building at the beginning of the footage. Do you know if they are planning to release the security tapes confiscated from the hotel and the convenience store?

Hello, Hate Hotline? Queen Gertrude here. [swansont] doth protest too much, methinks. (Hamlet) [He is] a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality. (All's Well That Ends Well) This is fun!

What if we stand on the Pearl Street mall and hurl "tactless language" at each other. If we're questioned we say it's performance art. It might just give the Boulder City Council a permanent facial tic.