Is Google Chrome any better than Firefox?

brodie268 · 1 day

My only beef with Chrome is it's lack of support for several sites, particularly the java-encrypted Web CT site my university uses. Fucker crashes 50% of the time.

Otherwise, it brings me the internet satisfaction equivalent of a coming home to four freshly baked pies by a bang maid.

dugg08302010 · 2 days

Stay on topic, don't make jokes, and, above all else, do not be ironic or sarcastic in any statement you make. Journalists need to sell a story, and they're just waiting for you to give them something that will look good in big, bold font.

ronjack · 29 days

This post is probably ruining his life/self-esteem. Just sayin.

strawmanalertbitches · 1 month

I was in line at Wal-Mart (don't you dare judge me!) and the woman ahead of me was checking out. Her daughter was standing up in the cart with her hands on the railing. Her back was turned as she was paying and, in slow motion, the kid started flipping forward and over the railing. I was behind them so I couldn't do anything, but it was probably the most stressful half-second of my life. It was like watching a glass rolling off a table and there was nothing you could do about it.

Anyways, the kid flips over and lands directly on her hand. I mean, directly. She crumples and was either knocked out or stunned. The weird part was it was so quiet and quick that hardly anyone noticed, even the mother. She the register girl just put her hands up to her face and said "Oh my god" and started to move to the kid. The mom, now seeing what had happened, ran to the kid and scooped her up. The kid snaps to, and screams in that way that means something really bad happened. Like it looks that they're screaming but no sound comes out at first, but then it does and it was ear-splitting. The mother proceeds to just lambaste the register girl for not doing anything. She just leaves everything at the register, purse and all, and ran out of the store. The girl was all worked up and had to leave too.

It sucked.

tl;dr - A mother let her kid fall over the railing of a cart while checking otu at Wal-mart and bitched out the register person.

subwayboy · 1 month

No. An earthquake is defined by its motion. It has nothing to do with waves unless your a geophysicist mapping the subsurface.

subwayboy · 1 month

It has a fair amount of obliquity to it, though yes, not a worst-case scenario.... yet.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

Remember, these "renewable" resources are heavily dependent on rare-Earth metals and minerals. It's not spoken of as often because mining companies are generally smaller in operation, but the environment impact from mining is generally >>> oil drilling. Miners do not give a fuck about the environment.

I come from the viewpoint that the only current option is petroleum because there is nothing better right now, but I honestly feel the only real answer is going to be nuclear energy. Efficiency of reactors has gone through the roof, but the US has neglected to build a new state-of-the-art plant for about 30 years.

en-aye-ese-tee-why · 1 month

Crack one open and see what the rock really looks like. Polished rocks can reallllly hard to identify.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

I agree. That's why environmentalists and lobbyists are so important; they keep the pressure on. I'm just saying that fracking has potential if they can figure out safer ways to mobilize oil and gas.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

That's under the impression that the best scientists are working for the government. Remember, they're people too and want to make a good living so they'll go where the money is. And solar power is not a realistic solution for everyone. It's possible is some places, but not all and it certainly doesn't help with cars and transportation.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

We are, but understand it's not a fast process. Real life isn't a movie where everything switches suddenly. There simply isn't an energy source that is suitable for all places on Earth other than petroleum at this time in human history.

liquidnitrogen · 1 month

Update! Earthquake engineering came up today in a class and a prof gave me this bit of info.

The earthquake standard for preventing "catastrophic" damage is 0.3 horizontal Gs (as in g-force). 1 G is equal to the vertical force on our bodies at all times, so it isn't much but it isn't bad. Also, he said that for 7.5 magnitude quakes, which is what we expect in Utah along the Wasatch fault, the average will 0.5 G and the max is 1.2 G. So basically, strong earthquakes break building regardless of engineering, and buildings are only built to withstand the hundreds of little earthquakes rather than the one enormous one every couple thousand years. Also, if we actually wanted to protect against big quakes, everything would look like a bunker!

EFFENEH · 1 month

Deer, Howie and Zussman - the fathers of modern petrography! This is the petrography book, so if you want to learn this will help.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Rock-Forming-Minerals-2nd-Edition/dp/0582300940/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333687591&sr=8-1

Also, this is a great optical mineralogy book that is like 80 years old, but is still suuuuper relevant and awesome.

http://www.amazon.com/Optical-Mineralogy-Paul-Francis-Kerr/dp/0070342180/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333687673&sr=1-2

EC_Row · 1 month

Experience trumps GPA in geology. Unless you're going into big oil, which requires at least a Master's, employers want to know what you can do and what they don't have to train you in rather than GPA. Also, letters of recommendation: cannot, cannot, cannot be underestimated!

AmericanDerp · 1 month

It's creating void space in the bedrock below where earthquakes do not occur. However, earthquakes have always been a bi-product of economic mining and drilling anyways.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

So, drilling 13,000' into the Earth while bending the hole to horizontal while hitting a window just a few meters thick isn't science? Awe, you must be a humanities student...

AmericanDerp · 1 month

Seriously, you've got to look at the bigger picture. There is an energy crisis coming in the very near future, and the only people with the money and need to look into new science are the oil companies. Yes, they make a lot of money drilling oil and whatnot, but they also put so much into research and development. That fact gets forgotten so much. Sure, fracking has a lot of problems, but they are problems that are correctable.

tl;dr - Don't be short sighted.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

Fracking is amazing science. Faulty, yes, but amazing it is. It's got incredible problems, but it has so much potential.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

Why do you say that? Do you know what causes the earthquakes?

EDIT: Or all of the other environmental awfulness?

AmericanDerp · 1 month

Fracking is a new science and it isn't perfect, but it could mean a lot to the US in the future. We have next to nothing in conventional oil resources, but we have a ton of petroleum locked up in unconventional (fracking) reservoirs.

Just remember that for every Republic that opens his mouth about fracking on TV, there's hundreds of scientists working on trying to make it safely work. It just takes time.

AmericanDerp · 1 month

I'll get fried for posting this, but there are two sides to fracking. Yes, there is the money grubbing CEO standpoint theory where the oil companies will stop at nothing to make a buck.

But then there is the more realistic one where America has next to no oil reserves (Iran has like 90% of the global reserves) and we consume the most oil. Those two facts alone make the promise that fracking has worth the time and investment. Yes, it needs a shitload of further improvement, but don't forget it's a NEW science. It's brand new. 10 years ago no one looked at shales for oil and now it's America's greatest energy source.

Again, I know this is going to get downvoted, but people have been begging the oil companies for alternatives. This is, seriously, the best ( only) other option they have right now.

EDIT: Also, just throwing this out there, but mining collapses have been generating extremely strong earthquakes for hundreds of years. Once, in Utah, a mine collapsed and generated a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that was felt 200 miles away in Salt Lake City. True story.

callux · 1 month

This is going too far...

drumdum2 · 1 month

Those aren't just prograde metamorphic rocks; those are Appalachian orogenic rocks. You only get sillimanite when shit gets real!

the_swish · 1 month

It depends on how you define adulthood, but I like to think of it as the moment you stop viewing yourself as the center of the universe. Reading The Stranger for the first time kind of brought me down a little, made me start considering the possibility I might not be remembered when I die. It sounds cynical, but it is an important lesson to learn... even if you do go on to be famous.

liquidnitrogen · 1 month

I stand corrected! Didn't realize that subduction zone extended that far south. Thanks!

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