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POPSMongoose Pro Motivator For Sale on EBAY $10 !! WoW!! Am looking for any bike parts 3pce cranks, chainrings, frames, brakes, e.t.c will pay post, am in middle of several rebuilds! Also will pay good $ for Haro freestyle/fusion pfer around 96 model. mail me at arielcream@gmail.com thanks!
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POPSHaro Chainring with 175 ml crank Am looking for 3 peice cranks aill pay postage, email me at arielcream@gmail.com if you have , also looking for bmx parts and frames, and haro freestyle 96 model. thanks!!
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POPSFactcheck: No lie from Obama about Ayers "McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks" "Never very close," Foundation included prominent Republicans who support McCain, group's work "mainstream." Detailed documentation at link.
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POPSEthically Bankrupt Virtually all the mistakes have been caused by errors in regulation — not by "corporate greed," as liberal Democrats would have it. Corporations follow the signals and guidelines set by Washington. When those are faulty, bad things happen and taxpayers pay. Remember this, too, when Congress cranks up hearings and vilifies one CEO after another for "looting" their companies. It was Congress that created the subprime crisis. Any promises that it makes to solve it should be viewed with serious skepticism. Dirksen would have been impressed. By our count, that's about $2 trillion, or 14%, of a $14 trillion economy. How did it happen? One case after another has been made for intervention in the private economy, based on the principle that some private-sector financial institutions, such as Bear Stearns and AIG, are "too big to fail." If they did fail, it would lead to a financial market catastrophe — or what the Fed on Wednesday referred to as "disorderly failure."
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POPSWelcome to the new corrupt South Africa Oh, and add to that our future president, Jacob Zuma, who is still facing bribery and corruption charges and was found not guilty of raping an AIDS-infected lesbian. (he assured all South Africans that he was in no danger of contracting HIV because he had immediately afterwards taken a shower) Life in South Africa is about as surreal as it gets.
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POPSCongress' Facts Of Pride I am ashamed of the silent majority of the United Stated for sticking the heads in the sand. If the sand heads do not wake up we are all going to be socialist. It is time for 'Power To The People' Revolution time!
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POPSMuseum of unworkable devices-Physics Gallery Pictures of registered perpetual motion machines, and reasoning behind them. At the site there are details of the principles of physics that show the flaws in the reasoning behind perpetual motion machines.
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POPSFalse Journalistic Balance (On Oreskes, Schulte, ...) There are far too many false controversies in the American public discourse, which are not so elsewhere. There is a difference between Ethical statements, Factual statements, Convention statements and Taste statements. Many of the current debates are treated by the media as if they were Ethical, Convention or Taste statements, although they really are Factual statements. In other words, many policy debates, which should rely on readily available empirical information are treated as if they were matters of mere opinion. And all opinions are equal .
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POPSOne Laptop Per Child details There are photographs (and more OS details) at the source. We've been clipping about these computers for a while now, and they are finally getting distribution next month. Hooray!
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POPSOrigin of Deja Vu I can see why its considered a problem for our memory, but at the same time its a fun mind game to think through if you had really been there before.
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POPSWhy The Loudest are Often the Most Wrong This classic paper by Kruger and Dunning, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments , examines the psychological reasons for the unfortunately common correlation between ignorance and confidence. We argue that when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Instead, like Mr. Wheeler, they are left with the mistaken impression that they are doing just fine. As Miller (1993) perceptively observed in the quote that opens this article, and as Charles Darwin (1871) sagely noted over a century ago, "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." ( PDF here .)
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POPSDenialists & Logical Fallacies So familiar ... Time and time again you see someone exasperated by the crank who won't turn despite being shown again and again where their error is, and finally just call the guy an idiot. That's actually not an ad hominem. That might be totally true and highly relevant to the argument at hand. Sometimes people are just too stupid or too ignorant to realize when they've been soundly thrashed, and true cranks will stubbornly go on, and on and on...
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POPSUnified theory of the crank ... It explains the tendency of cranks not to care if other cranks (and denialists in general for that matter) have variations on their own crazy ideas, just as long as the other cranks are opposing the same perceived incorrect truth. Cranks and denialists aren't honest brokers in a debate, they stand outside of it and just shovel horse manure into it to try to sow confusion and doubt about real science. They don't care if some other crank or denialist comes along and challenges the prevailing theory by tossing cow manure, as long as what they're shoveling stinks. This clip makes me think of willhelm
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POPSPS3 Supercomputing cluster 4x faster than IBM's BlueGene/L The article goes a little further and says, A standard PC working alone would take a day to simulate 1 billionth of a second of protein folding. But scientists believe that 10,000 idle PS3s can be four times faster than IBM's BlueGene/L System, which cranks out 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
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