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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #270 on: April 05, 2012, 08:19:20 PM »
What has four wheels, a 400+ pound battery and takes owners 26.6 years to break even?  Answer: Chevy Volt



If BGAB fixated on a person to the degree he fixates on the Volt, they'd have to get a restraining order.

What, exactly, dear friend, is your purpose in continuing to harp on it? What is your message exactly?

Confession to being sponsored by VW?  ;D

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #271 on: April 06, 2012, 04:51:25 PM »
  "Possible Clues Found to Why HIV Vaccine Showed Modest Protection" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120404210003.htm

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #273 on: April 07, 2012, 05:37:03 PM »
What has four wheels, a 400+ pound battery and takes owners 26.6 years to break even?  Answer: Chevy Volt



If BGAB fixated on a person to the degree he fixates on the Volt, they'd have to get a restraining order.

What, exactly, dear friend, is your purpose in continuing to harp on it? What is your message exactly?

Actually, it's pretty simple; BGAB is doing what he usually does, which is just parroting whatever he reads/hears in the right-wing echo chamber with zero originality or imagination - one of the things which make his posts more boring than anything else lately.

Turns out- shockingly!- that this isn't just a BGAB thing about the Volt -see this NY Times article.

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A reporter for Fox News had been prowling the auto show, asking nasty questions about the Volt. For months, the conservative propaganda machine — including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Neil Cavuto, the Fox News business editor — had been mocking the Volt, and linking it to President Obama, who has long touted the promise of electric cars. Cavuto, who has called the Volt “roller skates with a plug,” was rumored to be going on the air that very night with yet another Volt hatchet job.

What is the connection between President Obama and the Volt? There is none. The car was the brainchild of Bob Lutz, a legendary auto executive who is about as liberal as the Koch brothers. The tax credit — which is part of the reason conservatives hate the car — became law during the Bush administration."

So yeah, BGAB is just trying to copy what he's seeing the right-wing blogs/talk radio/Fox talk about. He has nothing imaginative to contribute. Even his obsessions are just copied.

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #274 on: April 10, 2012, 07:23:44 AM »
So glad, I am an Idependent!

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #275 on: April 10, 2012, 03:23:00 PM »
We'll have to make a thread for everyone of BGAB side-tracking rantings.

Maybe there should be a Creationism v. Evolution thread for him to post on too.

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #276 on: April 10, 2012, 04:23:22 PM »
^ I saw that and asked myself if he really has no idea that most of the US defense bidget is a de facto subsidy for the oil industry, seeing as we keep the Persian Gulf secure with hundreds of billions of taxpayer $$$.

back on topic:    http://io9.com/5900585/how-one-mathematicians-angry-blog-post-led-to-9000-scientists-starting-a-revolution

Damn, I hope this works!  :)

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #277 on: April 11, 2012, 06:52:06 AM »
^ I saw that and asked myself if he really has no idea that most of the US defense bidget is a de facto subsidy for the oil industry, seeing as we keep the Persian Gulf secure with hundreds of billions of taxpayer $$$.

back on topic:    http://io9.com/5900585/how-one-mathematicians-angry-blog-post-led-to-9000-scientists-starting-a-revolution

Damn, I hope this works!  :)


Me too! The cost of those articles is frakking absurd, it's so hard when you're a student trying to research anything when it's all behind paywalls. Eat lunch today or buy a journal article. It's counter productive for science, I hope this works out!

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #278 on: April 11, 2012, 02:03:34 PM »
^ I saw that and asked myself if he really has no idea that most of the US defense bidget is a de facto subsidy for the oil industry, seeing as we keep the Persian Gulf secure with hundreds of billions of taxpayer $$$.

back on topic:    http://io9.com/5900585/how-one-mathematicians-angry-blog-post-led-to-9000-scientists-starting-a-revolution

Damn, I hope this works!  :)


Me too! The cost of those articles is frakking absurd, it's so hard when you're a student trying to research anything when it's all behind paywalls. Eat lunch today or buy a journal article. It's counter productive for science, I hope this works out!

how much are they typically?

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #279 on: April 11, 2012, 07:57:38 PM »
how much are they typically?

Depending on the article and which journal it's published in, a one-off access fee for a single paper can be anywhere from $10-$40 USD, often they'll have subscription fees also, they're usually around the $200+ mark and allow you to access multiple papers.


I'd be happy if Google Scholar became a free peer-reviewed service, that would open things right up.

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #280 on: April 11, 2012, 08:01:10 PM »
guess how much of the money returns to the authors?

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #281 on: April 12, 2012, 03:51:32 AM »
guess how much of the money returns to the authors?

$0

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #282 on: April 12, 2012, 04:48:26 PM »
guess how much of the money returns to the authors?

$0

same with the rights to the paper

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Re: from the Science Desk
« Reply #284 on: April 18, 2012, 07:20:50 PM »
If my brain had knees, this would've made them buckle:     http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/04/12/where-do-space-and-time-come-from-new-theory-offers-answers-if-only-physicists-can-figure-it-out/


 :o  ???

I'm going to have to re-read that in the morning!!!! :D
Its almost as hard to comprehend as space has no end...