Multiple questions, there was also the meta about it, right? Not the poo question, the ad one too ya?
Eh, oh well. I got my gold badge today. But I'm actually kinda upset about the question closure thing. I think I might sulk, take my ball and bounce off this site.
I would rather see fewer high quality questions than more low quality questions. Perhaps what it really just comes down to is that Skepticism does not lend itself well to this Q&A format.
I think, honestly, it's too cold and formal for a lot of folks, they're thrown off. I understand what folks are going for here. Hope you guys find the right format.
@Dogmafrog Well, I hope you reconsider. I think you've grown into a good poster since your first few questions. I usually enjoy reading your answers now. They're pretty high quality, although a bit US-centric. ;)
I do the best I can. This site has so much potential, just glad to contribute.
I think it's set up quite well. I don't know if it's a function of the moderators or simply reflects the quality of people who choose to respond, but every response seems to be both knowledgeable and courteous. It seems to be a nice example of discussion being able to be held without disrespect. Well done.
Is wikipedia a valid stand alone source? I'm not approaching this from the "wikipedia is crap" angle. My point is -- Wikipedia changes. Yes, all web pages change, but wikipedia is intended to change. It changes more frequently than other sources, esp. journal references So a link that nicely...
@Fabian Atheism did one thing right: they had a cool name for their chatroom. How about we steal it back from them and rename this chatroom "Hub of Reason"? Sounds like a match made in heaven.
Like if you have two pretty decent answers that don't totally overlap and compliment each other, a moderator should be able to combine them into one, accepted answer, and both users get joint cred. Maybe some way to make the credit proportional, like the main answerer gets 10 pts per up vote and...
This question was closed immediately as not satisfying the site criteria. The single closer (Hi Joel!) expressed the thought that this might be spam, and I certainly considered that too. I think that's unlikely, given that the questioner made no encouraging statements about the product at all. Bu...
Are specific questions regarding law and the interpretation thereof on topic? I can see it both ways. On the one hand, there are some widespread, but incorrect beliefs about some laws which I think would be good to address. On the other hand, such questions will almost necessarily be regional, an...
There is a lot of clutter from anti-death penalty sites, which makes it hard to find all the research. They often cite statistics like those explained in this website, including the chart below that shows that murder rates in states without the death penalty are lower than those in states with t...
In trying to answer several questions, I find that I am often stymied by the fact that most of the specific information on the subjects that I am researching are locked up behind an expensive paywall ($50 for one paper that I was interested in looking at). How can we hope to provide credible answ...
@Adam-Davis : Start citing things. You clearly understand some of the topics, and are taking the time to write thorough answers. Take the extra 5 minutes to google citations.
@Borror0 Yeah, I don't know very much about them. Here in the states, they mostly get less mgh than my diesel, and cost twice as much. So I've never looked into buying one.
@RussellSteen I don't own a car and, if I can avoid to ever own one, I'll do just that. I read a lot about it because I was curious of where the technology was at a few years ago.
I recently voted down a user that likes to make unfounded claims or answers questions with monologues about something else (as I've mentioned to him in the comments). Then I discovered I had 4 down-votes in a very short timespan on questions and answers which the community thought was good, and t...
In fact, since we have a large amount of non-native English speakers we decided to stay away from uncommon terms, in the FAQ. Fabian had me remove veracity. /shake fist
got it and @Borror0 -- most of the people i know in the states don't know "veracity". people won't pull a dictionary to read the faq (if they read it at all)
I started in Basic
need speed
Then Assembly
need sanity
Then Pascal
need gui
Then Delphi
need work
Then Perl
need fun
Then ActionScript
need objects
Then C#
I skipped a few (php, COBOL, C, C++, Java) for clarity.
I would argue that the most important metric for browser security is the amount of exploitable bugs (and their severity) and the time they stay unpatched. You can find some statistics about that e.g. on the Secunia website (Statistics for IE8)
The encryption algorithms are usually not the weak p...
The Kinect is classified as a class 1 laser device (Review from Anandtech), which means the maximum emitted power of the laser is <25 μW. This amount of power, according to current knowledge, is safe. It should not be able to cause lasting damage, it doesn't necessarily mean it is not cap...
Is wikipedia a valid stand alone source? I'm not approaching this from the "wikipedia is crap" angle. My point is -- Wikipedia changes. Yes, all web pages change, but wikipedia is intended to change. It changes more frequently than other sources, esp. journal references So a link that nicely...
I started in Basic
need speed
Then Assembly
need sanity
Then Pascal
need gui
Then Delphi
need work
Then Perl
need fun
Then ActionScript
need objects
Then C#
I skipped a few (php, COBOL, C, C++, Java) for clarity.
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