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[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
the importation of tall, leggy blond graduate students for assumedly lascivious purposes, [/quote]

You do realize that not all Dutch women look like Rebecca Romijn, right?

Brazil is a clear winner on hot women, and you’ll actually find plenty of tall leggy blondes there (Gisele Bundchen is actually quite average for Brazilian standards) but the US is easily the second best. Especially Texas.

Yes, I said Texas. I might hate Texas politically, but if you want hot, tall, leggy blonde women in the US – that’s where you should be heading.

[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
I wonder how people think this may affect gas prices?[/quote]

Bolivia is not really a major source of oil or natural gas in the International Market.

It probably won’t make much of a difference, especially long-term, and particularly not here in the US.

It does make some difference politically, though… A communist regime in he making, in the 21st century? That has to be a surprise for many.

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[quote]ALDurr wrote:
No thanks, I rather let them live in their psycho fantasy world. [/quote]

I hear ya. I understand your frustration, and I hope I wasn’t overly harsh. I just wanted to educate the audience… I’m a teacher, it’s like a compulsion, what can I say… :slight_smile: I hope it’s a good one!

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[quote]hspder wrote:
BostonBarrister wrote:
the importation of tall, leggy blond graduate students for assumedly lascivious purposes,

You do realize that not all Dutch women look like Rebecca Romijn, right?
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Duh. That’s why you browse the inventory first. Gawd.

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[quote]hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
When we do, I use Einstein with a Lorentz Transformation, which gives the mass of the neutrino to be about 22eV. (You did mean rest mass?)

… which is completely and absolutely wrong – out of date by about half a century. I was afraid of that, and I was right.

Here’s the bare minimum answer that would qualify you as a decent Physics teacher, an answer you can actually easily find on the Internet; the fact that you didn’t bother to actually do some research was fairly expected but still frightening. As I said before, all teachers must also be students:

There are three flavors of neutrinos, each with a slightly different mass.

We don’t know the exact masses of any of them, for several reasons I won’t go into.

We have a ballpark number, though: the heaviest neutrino must be at least 0.05 electron volts, but no more than 0.3 electron volts. Which is far less than what you said.

I could go into more detail, but I’m not going to bother. Do some research. You might not be specifically paid to do it (like I am), but it is your ethical obligation to provide your students with current science, so start working on that for a change.

(by the way, Harris, you mentioned that neutrinos have no mass – that was what a lot of scientists thought for quite a long time, but it has been disproved; they do have an extremely small mass and no charge, and hence countless numbers of them, emanating from the Sun, pass THROUGH the Earth and everything on it every instant.)

Headhunter wrote:
My kids do find ‘Time Dilation, Length Contraction’ fascinating. We let v get closer and closer to c to calculate mass in terms of rest mass. I explain to them that you’d only see this change if v got quite close, say, .98c.

That is a cop-out answer, like I expected, and definitely not something I would consider worthy of a physics teacher. I’m pretty sure that anyone who read that and does not understand what Time Dilation is, and why it exists, still does not know. Which is, again, what I expected.

Well, I have made my point quite nicely and I won’t bother you again… You have my word. I just hope that what I’ve showed you above makes you think and focus on being better at your job, rather than spending so much time hating liberals. You need to first work on improving yourself, and only after that work on others.
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Well, at least I kinda knew something about physics. :slight_smile:

Don’t neutrinos supposedly make up the “dark matter” or cosmological constant that no one can quite figure out?

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[quote]
BostonBarrister wrote:
the importation of tall, leggy blond graduate students for assumedly lascivious purposes,

hspder wrote:
You do realize that not all Dutch women look like Rebecca Romijn, right? [/quote]

Yeah, I’ve been there – though only to Amsterdaam and the surrounding area, and only for a little while. They don’t hold a candle to Brazil overall – though I presumed neph wanted them for their brains and musical accents… :wink:

[quote]hspder wrote:
Brazil is a clear winner on hot women, and you’ll actually find plenty of tall leggy blondes there (Gisele Bundchen is actually quite average for Brazilian standards) but the US is easily the second best. Especially Texas.

Yes, I said Texas. I might hate Texas politically, but if you want hot, tall, leggy blonde women in the US – that’s where you should be heading.[/quote]

Definitely a lot of hot blondes from Texas. At Vanderbilt it seemed all the hot blonde undergrads I met while in law school were from Texas, and my only trip to Dallas just reaffirmed my impression that Texas grows cute, friendly blondes.

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
Well, at least I kinda knew something about physics. :)[/quote]

You know more than a physics teacher – that has to count for something!

Actually, the Standard Model asks for zero-mass neutrinos, and we haven’t quite figured out how to fit them in the grand scheme of things, now that we know that they do have a mass (albeit an extremely small one).

[quote]harris447 wrote:
Don’t neutrinos supposedly make up the “dark matter” or cosmological constant that no one can quite figure out?[/quote]

According to most recent theories (remember: Dark Matter is only hypothetical), ordinary neutrinos make only a small contribution to the density of dark matter. There’s a LOT more out there – we cannot account for most of the mass and energy in the Universe, to much excitement from theists.

Feel free to PM me if you want to know more – I don’t want to go into too much detail over here, since I’ve hijacked the thread far enough, and pretty soon people (besides BB) will start complaining. :slight_smile:

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[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Yeah, I didn’t think it would have much long-term effect either, though to the extent you think any of the current price reflects a risk premium due to the political instability of our suppliers, I thought it might add some short-run upward pressure. Which I guess is folded into your next point.[/quote]

I can honestly tell you that, much as with the house market, all old theories and models that we once used to predict the behavior of the oil market have been thrown out the window. So concepts like “risk premium” are much less important and relevant right now than they were even a decade ago.

It is interesting to see how one of the great economic realizations of the 21st century is that people rarely do what’s best for them, and act based on emotion (greed, fear, etc.) rather than reason. Seems obvious, but the fact is that most of the theory behind both Micro- and Macroeconomics was based on the notion that people would be rational. Now that we realize that has changed dramatically in the last few decades, everybody is scrambling to figure out how to better insert emotions into the equations.

The possibly greatest wildcard is actually the media… Their influence on people’s emotions (and the way they exploit them) has given then a lot of power, one that is still not taken enough into account.

Fortunately, the media has covered this Bolivian situation very lightly, and it is up the chain high enough that their effect is actually minimized.

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[quote]hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
When we do, I use Einstein with a Lorentz Transformation, which gives the mass of the neutrino to be about 22eV. (You did mean rest mass?)

… which is completely and absolutely wrong – out of date by about half a century. I was afraid of that, and I was right.

Here’s the bare minimum answer that would qualify you as a decent Physics teacher, an answer you can actually easily find on the Internet; the fact that you didn’t bother to actually do some research was fairly expected but still frightening. As I said before, all teachers must also be students:

There are three flavors of neutrinos, each with a slightly different mass.

We don’t know the exact masses of any of them, for several reasons I won’t go into.

We have a ballpark number, though: the heaviest neutrino must be at least 0.05 electron volts, but no more than 0.3 electron volts. Which is far less than what you said.

I could go into more detail, but I’m not going to bother. Do some research. You might not be specifically paid to do it (like I am), but it is your ethical obligation to provide your students with current science, so start working on that for a change.

(by the way, Harris, you mentioned that neutrinos have no mass – that was what a lot of scientists thought for quite a long time, but it has been disproved; they do have an extremely small mass and no charge, and hence countless numbers of them, emanating from the Sun, pass THROUGH the Earth and everything on it every instant.)

Headhunter wrote:
My kids do find ‘Time Dilation, Length Contraction’ fascinating. We let v get closer and closer to c to calculate mass in terms of rest mass. I explain to them that you’d only see this change if v got quite close, say, .98c.

That is a cop-out answer, like I expected, and definitely not something I would consider worthy of a physics teacher. I’m pretty sure that anyone who read that and does not understand what Time Dilation is, and why it exists, still does not know. Which is, again, what I expected.

Well, I have made my point quite nicely and I won’t bother you again… You have my word. I just hope that what I’ve showed you above makes you think and focus on being better at your job, rather than spending so much time hating liberals. You need to first work on improving yourself, and only after that work on others.
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Does anyone now doubt that this guy is a douche?
This is high school, and that is what is in our text. High school students learn Newtonian first. If he taught college, he’d know what the kids in high school are taught. You are exposed as the fraud you are.

How hard is it to take a picture of your phds? (1) Lay documents on table (2) take picture, covering name on each (3) post.

No one else would agree, but I nominate you for Troll of the Year. (At least Harris is honest in his loathing.)

I knew you’d never show any pics either.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
When we do, I use Einstein with a Lorentz Transformation, which gives the mass of the neutrino to be about 22eV. (You did mean rest mass?)

… which is completely and absolutely wrong – out of date by about half a century. I was afraid of that, and I was right.

Here’s the bare minimum answer that would qualify you as a decent Physics teacher, an answer you can actually easily find on the Internet; the fact that you didn’t bother to actually do some research was fairly expected but still frightening. As I said before, all teachers must also be students:

There are three flavors of neutrinos, each with a slightly different mass.

We don’t know the exact masses of any of them, for several reasons I won’t go into.

We have a ballpark number, though: the heaviest neutrino must be at least 0.05 electron volts, but no more than 0.3 electron volts. Which is far less than what you said.

I could go into more detail, but I’m not going to bother. Do some research. You might not be specifically paid to do it (like I am), but it is your ethical obligation to provide your students with current science, so start working on that for a change.

(by the way, Harris, you mentioned that neutrinos have no mass – that was what a lot of scientists thought for quite a long time, but it has been disproved; they do have an extremely small mass and no charge, and hence countless numbers of them, emanating from the Sun, pass THROUGH the Earth and everything on it every instant.)

Headhunter wrote:
My kids do find ‘Time Dilation, Length Contraction’ fascinating. We let v get closer and closer to c to calculate mass in terms of rest mass. I explain to them that you’d only see this change if v got quite close, say, .98c.

That is a cop-out answer, like I expected, and definitely not something I would consider worthy of a physics teacher. I’m pretty sure that anyone who read that and does not understand what Time Dilation is, and why it exists, still does not know. Which is, again, what I expected.

Well, I have made my point quite nicely and I won’t bother you again… You have my word. I just hope that what I’ve showed you above makes you think and focus on being better at your job, rather than spending so much time hating liberals. You need to first work on improving yourself, and only after that work on others.

Does anyone now doubt that this guy is a douche?
This is high school, and that is what is in our text. High school students learn Newtonian first. If he taught college, he’d know what the kids in high school are taught. You are exposed as the fraud you are.

How hard is it to take a picture of your phds? (1) Lay documents on table (2) take picture, covering name on each (3) post.

No one else would agree, but I nominate you for Troll of the Year. (At least Harris is honest in his loathing.)

I knew you’d never show any pics either.
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Soooo…you’re just gonna keep going with the “show me your diplomas” thing when it’s obvious to anyone with an IQ over 80 (so that excludes you) that the guy is who and what he says he is?

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
When we do, I use Einstein with a Lorentz Transformation, which gives the mass of the neutrino to be about 22eV. (You did mean rest mass?)

… which is completely and absolutely wrong – out of date by about half a century. I was afraid of that, and I was right.

Here’s the bare minimum answer that would qualify you as a decent Physics teacher, an answer you can actually easily find on the Internet; the fact that you didn’t bother to actually do some research was fairly expected but still frightening. As I said before, all teachers must also be students:

There are three flavors of neutrinos, each with a slightly different mass.

We don’t know the exact masses of any of them, for several reasons I won’t go into.

We have a ballpark number, though: the heaviest neutrino must be at least 0.05 electron volts, but no more than 0.3 electron volts. Which is far less than what you said.

I could go into more detail, but I’m not going to bother. Do some research. You might not be specifically paid to do it (like I am), but it is your ethical obligation to provide your students with current science, so start working on that for a change.

(by the way, Harris, you mentioned that neutrinos have no mass – that was what a lot of scientists thought for quite a long time, but it has been disproved; they do have an extremely small mass and no charge, and hence countless numbers of them, emanating from the Sun, pass THROUGH the Earth and everything on it every instant.)

Headhunter wrote:
My kids do find ‘Time Dilation, Length Contraction’ fascinating. We let v get closer and closer to c to calculate mass in terms of rest mass. I explain to them that you’d only see this change if v got quite close, say, .98c.

That is a cop-out answer, like I expected, and definitely not something I would consider worthy of a physics teacher. I’m pretty sure that anyone who read that and does not understand what Time Dilation is, and why it exists, still does not know. Which is, again, what I expected.

Well, I have made my point quite nicely and I won’t bother you again… You have my word. I just hope that what I’ve showed you above makes you think and focus on being better at your job, rather than spending so much time hating liberals. You need to first work on improving yourself, and only after that work on others.

Does anyone now doubt that this guy is a douche?
This is high school, and that is what is in our text. High school students learn Newtonian first. If he taught college, he’d know what the kids in high school are taught. You are exposed as the fraud you are.

How hard is it to take a picture of your phds? (1) Lay documents on table (2) take picture, covering name on each (3) post.

No one else would agree, but I nominate you for Troll of the Year. (At least Harris is honest in his loathing.)

I knew you’d never show any pics either.

Soooo…you’re just gonna keep going with the “show me your diplomas” thing when it’s obvious to anyone with an IQ over 80 (so that excludes you) that the guy is who and what he says he is?

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If he said he had a body that’d shame Arnold, would you believe him?

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
harris447 wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
When we do, I use Einstein with a Lorentz Transformation, which gives the mass of the neutrino to be about 22eV. (You did mean rest mass?)

… which is completely and absolutely wrong – out of date by about half a century. I was afraid of that, and I was right.

Here’s the bare minimum answer that would qualify you as a decent Physics teacher, an answer you can actually easily find on the Internet; the fact that you didn’t bother to actually do some research was fairly expected but still frightening. As I said before, all teachers must also be students:

There are three flavors of neutrinos, each with a slightly different mass.

We don’t know the exact masses of any of them, for several reasons I won’t go into.

We have a ballpark number, though: the heaviest neutrino must be at least 0.05 electron volts, but no more than 0.3 electron volts. Which is far less than what you said.

I could go into more detail, but I’m not going to bother. Do some research. You might not be specifically paid to do it (like I am), but it is your ethical obligation to provide your students with current science, so start working on that for a change.

(by the way, Harris, you mentioned that neutrinos have no mass – that was what a lot of scientists thought for quite a long time, but it has been disproved; they do have an extremely small mass and no charge, and hence countless numbers of them, emanating from the Sun, pass THROUGH the Earth and everything on it every instant.)

Headhunter wrote:
My kids do find ‘Time Dilation, Length Contraction’ fascinating. We let v get closer and closer to c to calculate mass in terms of rest mass. I explain to them that you’d only see this change if v got quite close, say, .98c.

That is a cop-out answer, like I expected, and definitely not something I would consider worthy of a physics teacher. I’m pretty sure that anyone who read that and does not understand what Time Dilation is, and why it exists, still does not know. Which is, again, what I expected.

Well, I have made my point quite nicely and I won’t bother you again… You have my word. I just hope that what I’ve showed you above makes you think and focus on being better at your job, rather than spending so much time hating liberals. You need to first work on improving yourself, and only after that work on others.

Does anyone now doubt that this guy is a douche?
This is high school, and that is what is in our text. High school students learn Newtonian first. If he taught college, he’d know what the kids in high school are taught. You are exposed as the fraud you are.

How hard is it to take a picture of your phds? (1) Lay documents on table (2) take picture, covering name on each (3) post.

No one else would agree, but I nominate you for Troll of the Year. (At least Harris is honest in his loathing.)

I knew you’d never show any pics either.

Soooo…you’re just gonna keep going with the “show me your diplomas” thing when it’s obvious to anyone with an IQ over 80 (so that excludes you) that the guy is who and what he says he is?

If he said he had a body that’d shame Arnold, would you believe him?

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Strawman argument. Try again.

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It shouldn’t be hard to search the Standford website faculty listings for an economics professor with his credentials.

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In most high falluting universities, the professors have a boatload of degrees and publications.

If you don’t, they don’t have any reason to bring you aboard.

There is also pressure on faculty to continue to produce interesting research and to get published in journals.

If he’s there at all then it is more than plausible…

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[quote]vroom wrote:
In most high falluting universities, the professors have a boatload of degrees and publications.

If you don’t, they don’t have any reason to bring you aboard.

There is also pressure on faculty to continue to produce interesting research and to get published in journals.

If he’s there at all then it is more than plausible…[/quote]

I don’t doubt him at all. Why come to this site and lie about that? His bench, his dead, sure. But Ph.Ds?

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[quote]doogie wrote:
I don’t doubt him at all. Why come to this site and lie about that? His bench, his dead, sure. But Ph.Ds?
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Precisely! Funny when you state it like that, but yeah.

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[quote]nephorm wrote:
ephrem wrote:
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Ah, but can you also order Dutch graduate students over the internet?

If you can, I want in.[/quote]

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Gentlemen,

I was asked to show that I teach hs physics. I produced the text, the topics, chapter, and how I would present these ideas. Since the questioner had called me a liar about this, I responded as you would: “Let’s see yours.” He demonstrated that he is not a teacher because a teacher would know what incoming students had been taught. He also said that I should be teaching, to hs students, topics as if they were advanced physics students at a university. None of what he says rings true.

Is he intelligent? Of course. Is he well-read? Sure. But he is passing himself off as more to give credence to his ideas. He wants to win arguments by waving his credentials in my face and calling me mentally ill. An honorable man would find that objectionable.

In my view, it is not enough to be intelligent and well-read. So was Adolf Hitler.

Look, if you want to turn the United States into the Netherlands with him, if you want to pay ‘an extra buck or two’ to an already greedy government, go ahead. Just don’t expect me or most Americans to go along.

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Don’t know if this would help end it, but even as one of Hspder’s frequent sparring mates, I personally don’t doubt his claims.

I know many academics who continually collect PhDs in lieu of a real job. (sorry, Hspder, couldn’t resist ;> )

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[quote]vroom wrote:
In most high falluting universities, the professors have a boatload of degrees and publications.

If you don’t, they don’t have any reason to bring you aboard.

There is also pressure on faculty to continue to produce interesting research and to get published in journals.

If he’s there at all then it is more than plausible…[/quote]

Do you realize what professors have to do just to keep their jobs? They have to publish original work in reputable journals. So this man claims to have earned 3 phds and to have also continually produced work in his original field. Do you realize how rare such an individual is? This is someone on the order of Leibniz or Goethe – a universal genius.

Unusual claims require unusual proof. Cauchy demanded that the great mathematicians produce proofs of their work. All I am asking is for one lousy photograph to back up his claims to greatness. What so fucking bad about that?

New thought: here’s a deal for all. Let him produce a photo of his 3 phds that passes muster with all of you. If he does, I will go away and NEVER post again in this forum. How’s that for a sweetheart deal? The libs can take it over, laugh about what a numbnuts I was, and post all their propaganda.

“I swear, with God as my witness and upon my immortal soul, to never post in this forum again IF he produces a photo that all of you accept.”
— Headhunter

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
nephorm wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
hspder wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
This is simply absurd bullshit. Put a picture up of your 3 phd’s (though I imagine that can be faked) on here, and I’ll admit I’m wrong. Very few people on this planet have the ability, time, and discipline to do anything near that.

I’m curious… why does this bother you so much? Assuming arguendo that he does have 3 PhDs, it doesn’t make him automatically correct on these kinds of topics, any more than a PhD in political science makes one right in politics all of the time. It might mean that you shouldn’t dismiss his arguments out of hand, however.

Because he’s a lib and full of shit. He also is an elitist, saying how he wouldn’t mind paying an extra buck or two a gallon, to subsidize mass transit. So, what about the people who would never use mass transit or who don’t make $125,000/year teaching at Stanford? He’s a typical limosine liberal who wishes he could turn our country into a version of Europe. True, he’s very bright, but he wants to impose his version of the ‘Good’ on this country and I don’t consider that good.

I suspect you know little to nothing about his private life, where he came from, or what he truly believes.

You know that I have no problems with you. However, I think you’re intimidated by him, and that’s why you’re lashing out in this ridiculous array of generalizations. Your arrogance on where this guy comes from (hysterical, being as this is the fucking INTERNET) is to hide the fact that you can’t keep up.

I’m not going to get personal, but I really, really disagree with you talking like this. Frankly, it makes you look like an ass.
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Good points. No question the guy is waaayy smarter than I am. Never said he wasn’t. But he’s wrong on this issue and I don’t care how many degrees he has or if he thinks that someone who disagrees with his ‘majesty’ is a psycho. I also object to him repeatedly calling me a liar when I have shown that I am not. I proved that I’m not a liar. Why won’t he? Oh, because its ‘too hard’ (his words) to take a picture with his name covered? BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!