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And why should I believe that the scriptures aren't lying? Then how do you explain masochism?

You said: First of all your premise is false. People don't say that. And even if some people did, it's not a valid source to base a claim from. Therefore, your conclusions are logically invalid.

False premise

My dad teaches an IB program in a US high school. He really likes it and thinks it prepares dedicated students well for college. He likes better than the more widespread AP system that most US high schools use.

thoughts: everyone has different metabolisms, so its possible you are not easily addicted. However, people are also bad and judging whether or not they are addicted.

ouch. penis spines.

Those texts you can probably find on library.nu (for research purposes only, of course)

The two anecdotes cancel. Pppl don't change.

In Matlab, you have to initialize your arrays first, something like: x = zeroes(number_of_steps, 1) (creates an empty number_of_steps x 1 matrix) Then define x(1) = 1 & x(2) = 2 Then solve over a descrete set of time steps. You might need a conditional to compute the solution at each step, but I'm not sure.

Of course they do, but stating it the way you did seems to obscure root cause, as well as ignore tissue specificity.

No, the metabolic rate is NOT increased during a fever (AFAIK). The hypothalmus releases prostaglandin hormones and complicated signalling pathways reduce heat loss from the skin, restricting of blood vessels and cause muscle shivering to retain and generate body heat.

No. because of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_ascription_bias and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/

physics

Same can be said of the Fed, except that they don't even need money to create more of it.

see Godwin's Law.

Actually, the OP posted this in an unrelated thread. I moved it to this board as a joke.

The media is gonna screw over nuclear power on this one: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/03/choose-help-or-show-concern.html

He misses the point. The convention x sin doesn't make understanding trig any easier. The argument is that tau is both more intuitive and more useful than pi. Convention is a bad argument for a reasonable change (ok, other than it would be a costly change). I'm sure there are plenty of these conventions in every scientific (and other) disciplines. For example, labeling the direction of current opposite the flow of electrons in a current, misnaming of dozens of proteins in cell bio because they were named before the complete function was understood, etc.

It obviously depends on the school and the person's talents.

Well obviously we know in hindsight we're not good enough at making these predictions. I don't think there's any tractable strategy that could have mitigated all the damage. We're just not smart enough yet.

People usually regret asking me to take my shoes off after they smell my feet.

There's also the matter that clouds seem to have local effects, while the general warming trend is global.

I don't think having sexual fantasies is a requirement for a wet dream