8.9 Earthquake in Japan

[donperkan]

Of course the web is full of crap but as you've demonstrated the truth is just a few clicks away. Thats why the internet is the best source of information. You don't have to be sceptical you just have to make a habit of reading from different sources.

 

[alec]

If I didn't hate people so much, I'd be the same. Mostly I try to stay out of it and do what I love -- draw, listen to music, design things, play/mod video games, etc. There is not enough time in life to spend worried about the fact that everyone dies and everything will crumble, and that we are continuously hastening both processes. As you can see, occaisionally I get sucked back into the emotional and intellectual quagmire of learning about our most recent transgressions. I genuinely enjoy interacting with people most of the time, on an individual or small group basis, but people as a collective meta-level entity are just horrible. Not something I want to spend my time in or thinking about.

I encourage anyone who hasn't done so to disconnect themselves from all forms of mass news media for at least six months. See if your outlook on life and your disposition improves.

Heh. You just turned into one of my favourite NMA'ers!

Of course the web is full of crap but as you've demonstrated the truth is just a few clicks away. Thats why the internet is the best source of information. You don't have to be sceptical you just have to make a habit of reading from different sources.

Your logic... I can not follow it... and I think no one can...

 

[Sduibek]

Your logic... I can not follow it... and I think no one can...

I can... I think they mean it's the best because you can find everything here, from the slimiest lie to the truthiest truth. So if you want to read something, chances are it's here. In many copies and languages and formats.

Heh. You just turned into one of my favourite NMA'ers!

Woo! highfive.gif

I encourage anyone who hasn't done so to disconnect themselves from all forms of mass news media for at least six months. See if your outlook on life and your disposition improves.

or if you come back a year later and discover that THERE'S BEEN A NUCLEAR DISASTER GUISE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Aw damn. Touche.jpg

I don't have a TV or newspaper subsciption (although I'd like one for reading during breakfast) anyway. I listen to the radio in the morning to wake up (because pop radio makes my blood boil, so it forces me out of bed), but besides that I get my news from the internet.
And as demonstrated, the internet is full of bullshit. So one needs to doublecheck any information he gets there.
I'm a physicist so I'm used to do that anyway, but I can see how that would cause problems for people from a non-scientific background, if one is not used to be critical about every piece of information.

Physicist? Nice. How's the job market these days? Neil Tysson DeGrasse (spelling?) said on Reddit that a Physicist will never have trouble finding work even in a recession, because their job is basically to find problems and fix them, which applies to literally everything.

 

[donperkan]

Your logic... I can not follow it... and I think no one can...

Your brain... i'm so sorry...

 

[Hassknecht]

Physicist? Nice. How's the job market these days? Neil Tysson DeGrasse (spelling?) said on Reddit that a Physicist will never have trouble finding work even in a recession, because their job is basically to find problems and fix them, which applies to literally everything.

It's pretty good. Almost 100% employment rate among the graduates from my university. And the few who don't have a job are mostly traveling the world to repair the damage studying has done
But yeah, job market will always be good for physicists. You won't get the biggest paychecks, but you don't study physics to earn a crapload of money.

 

[Sduibek]

Physicist? Nice. How's the job market these days? Neil Tysson DeGrasse (spelling?) said on Reddit that a Physicist will never have trouble finding work even in a recession, because their job is basically to find problems and fix them, which applies to literally everything.

It's pretty good. Almost 100% employment rate among the graduates from my university. And the few who don't have a job are mostly traveling the world to repair the damage studying has done
But yeah, job market will always be good for physicists. You won't get the biggest paychecks, but you don't study physics to earn a crapload of money.

Very nice!

I wish I canhaz the brains for Physics. I was originally planning for Engineering, then CS, but after hating Physics 121 and having to take no-credit (called Audit at this school) in Precalc Trig, TWICE, it looks like I'm more cut out for 'The Arts'.

Interestingly, I enjoy programming and don't suck at it. The world is a funny place.

 

[Hassknecht]

Physicist? Nice. How's the job market these days? Neil Tysson DeGrasse (spelling?) said on Reddit that a Physicist will never have trouble finding work even in a recession, because their job is basically to find problems and fix them, which applies to literally everything.

It's pretty good. Almost 100% employment rate among the graduates from my university. And the few who don't have a job are mostly traveling the world to repair the damage studying has done
But yeah, job market will always be good for physicists. You won't get the biggest paychecks, but you don't study physics to earn a crapload of money.

Very nice!

I wish I canhaz the brains for Physics. I was originally planning for Engineering, then CS, but after hating Physics 121 and having to take no-credit (called Audit at this school) in Precalc Trig, TWICE, it looks like I'm more cut out for 'The Arts'.

Interestingly, I enjoy programming and don't suck at it. The world is a funny place.

You can do my programming.
Or better, fix the Matlab bug that happens with 64bit Windows where you can't do a DDErequest more often than 63 times before having to restart Matlab so I can do my programming in peace

 

[Sduibek]

Have you tried the advanced research method of copypasta error message into Google?

 

[Hassknecht]

Have you tried the advanced research method of copypasta error message into Google?

Yes. Matlab stopped supporting DDE two versions ago, and their workaround is „Don't use DDE, use ActiveX/COM instead“, which would be fine if I were working with Excel. Unfortunately, the program I need Matlab to talk to doesn't do ActiveX, so I'm stuck with this. Oh well, I just have to restart Matlab after every other running of the script I made.

 

[Morbus]

Of course the web is full of crap but as you've demonstrated the truth is just a few clicks away. Thats why the internet is the best source of information. You don't have to be sceptical you just have to make a habit of reading from different sources.

Your logic... I can not follow it... and I think no one can...

I can.

Dude... seriously.

There's a saying that goes like "everything a man says before a "but" is irrelevant" and what donperkan said was "as you've demonstrated the truth is just a few clicks away, thats why the internet is the best source of information". Simple enough, eh?

 

[alec]

Huh. Yeah. Guess so.

 

[Sduibek]

Morbus you seem to like Firefox/Mozilla a lot. What's your take on the Bug 78414 situation?

 

[valcik]

If someone is interested, this is recently published official report of independent commission, analyzing the nuclear accident in Fukushima:
http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/naiic_report.pdf

edit:
According to the American scientists, there are some statistics about people being affected by Fukushima's nuclear accident:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/july/fukushima-health-impacts-071712.html

Because of inherent uncertainties in the emissions and the health-effects model, the researchers found a range of possible death tolls, from 15 to 1,300, with a best estimate of 130. A wide span of cancer morbidities was also predicted, anywhere from 24 to 2,500, with a best estimate of 180.