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Stuart Bascombe - How Oil Puts the Planet on Tilt

Stuart Bascombe — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:09:21 +0000

Tectonic plates float on magma not oil. The oil is part of the contents of the plate.

matlabaraque - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

matlabaraque — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:52:43 +0000

I gave it a try ... Here's the top 50 - 1-Roger Federer 2 - Pete Sampras Ivan Lendl Jimmy Connors 5- Rod Laver 6- John McEnroe 7- André Agassi Bjorn Borg Rafael Nadal 10- John Newcombe Roy Emerson Ken Rosewall 13- Stefan Edberg Boris Becker 15- Mats Wilander Novak Djokovic 17- Guillermo Vilas Lleyton Hewitt Ilie Nastase Jim Courier Stan Smith Arthur Ashe 23- Andy Roddick Pancho Gonzales Jack Kramer Lew Hoad 27- Yvegueny Kafelnikov Gustavo Kuerten Mickael Chang Marat Safin 31- Juan Carlos Ferrero Vitas Gerulaitis 33-Goran Ivanisevic Patrick Rafter Michael Stich Andy Murray Jan Kodes Tony Roche 39-Thomas Muster Manuel Orantes Carlos Moya David Ferrer 43 -Roscoe Tanner Pat Cash Sergi Bruguera Yannick Noah 47- Johan Kriek Alex Corretja 49- Jonas Bjorkman 1710 50-Jan Okker Tim Gottfried Richard Krajicek

Matlabaraque - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

Matlabaraque — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:46:13 +0000

I love your description of very old champions like Jimmy Connors. It's a true contribution to the debate. I actually love this never-ending debate, however it seems to me important that emotions shoud not enter into account. For instance you can't blame Lendl for not being sympathetic. Or praise Edberg just for being fair play. You can't neither say that some periods were less competitive than others.. Tennis has always been popular enough to impose a great competition. Isn't Murray as a great champion as was Vitas Gerulaitis or Guillermo Vilas ? Facts and performance must lead the way. Then comes the discussion... What is more important ? The number of grand Slams ? The number of tournaments won ? The ranking ... etc... Can't players before the Open Era get a fair comparaison with recent players (especially those who were over both periods) ? Should the very ancient Davis Cup count ? Should the Olympics be part of this crazy calculation ? Come on folks, suggest a proper ranking ! Matlabaraque - France

tonyb - In Search of Ernest Rutherford's Money Quote

tonyb — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:00:18 +0000

whatever the quotes, rutherford was a great thinker-practitioner with a few classic quotes to his credit, in my book sitting right next to einstein

James - Maxwell: Oil to $300 by 2020

James — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:58:49 +0000

The US has a long term economic policy of letting all the other nations in the world drill until they reach the last drop, while we preserve our most valuable natural resource beneath our own territory. When the last drop of oil is purchased from the Middle East, our political interests will shift to the next greatest producing nation. We'll be involved in a skirmish every few years with whichever nation that happens to be just to scare oil prices up. Finally when every other country runs out, we'll be left standing with a monopoly on energy. You'll never again see a US president standing in a picture next to some guy wearing his laundry on his head.

Classified Sites - Twitter Digest: 2011-11-27

Classified Sites — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:53:31 +0000

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challenge coins — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:25:44 +0000

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Angel - Why No BBB API?

Angel — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:41:09 +0000

7 years later still nothing. However this plug-in you speak of may be reverse-engineerable to provide some sort of interface! Looking into it now.

Cory - Kyle Bass on Hardtalk: Full Interview

Cory — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:23:21 +0000

Not ignorant? How about every time she tosses Bass a pointed question and he slams it out of the park, instead of going a little longer, she simply moves on to the next question on her sheet?

Andy - Meet the Average American (Financial) Family

Andy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:13:19 +0000

Shock value perhaps and pulls several crucial family finanace's to one snap shot (retirement, saving, debt, cash flow). I do believe that most American have spent more time reiewing a menu while eating out this past week - and most weeks - than reviewing their finances. It's an old saw that (most) Americans will spend more time shopping for a shirt than their finances. This graff does decently show the lack of planning and responsibility of many fellow Americans.

Canuck - Television Kills You, Slowly

Canuck — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:33:13 +0000

It does matter if you exercise I used to bike at least 4 hours a day. I watched tv for a few hours and it made my gout worse. Even if you control your diet it won't matter. Best to limit tv as much as you can and if you need to watch it daily stick to 30 to 60 minutes.

MattTeeJay - Tiger Woods Won’t Win 19 Majors

MattTeeJay — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:53:30 +0000

This is fascinating to read a couple years later... The same still applies. He finally breaks his win streak but is beginning to hit a stride in absolutely falling apart in most the Majors he's contended in since his hiatus & subsequent swing change. He does not have 5 more major wins in him at this point. I question whether he even has 1 or 2 in him at all. His read on greens & putting stroke is nothing like it used to be. At the Masters this year, he literally forgot his golf swing, hosel-rocketing his 9 iron all but OOB on the final Par-3 of the course. He's had to change everything to keep up with his ailing body, even though he 'looks' normal, his swing & ESPECIALLY his mentality is nothing like it used to be. Tiger was a great golfer... likely to be considered the 2nd greatest to ever play the game. But Jack's record will never be broken. There. I said it.

Joel - Tracking the Great Canadian Real Estate Bubble

Joel — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:52:00 +0000

It looks like the news in 2006- “houses can only go up in price”, it’s almost the same as in Israel now. The housing prices our just too high for to buy. I think the same things that happened in America in 2008 housing bubble will hit the Israeli market soon.

Jim - Jeb Corlis -- PoV HD Wingsuit Flying

Jim — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:40:53 +0000

Wrong. Wingsuits, technically, can fly. read this http://www.xsens.com/en/movement-science/sports-s... kthx bye

Bryan - California's Super Storm

Bryan — Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:41:03 +0000

Although this is true, We havent ever had rainfall equivalent to the rainfall in 1862 since... well 1862! Actually, nothing even remotely close to what we got then. The dams and reservoirs give us a false feeling of safety. I would hate to be around to witness how they perform in a storm as big as the 1862 event given the floods we have had in the past 50 years with rainfall a fraction of what was seen 150 years ago. Scary thought.

Dave - Americans Have No Idea About Wealth Inequality in America

Dave — Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:44:26 +0000

If you inserted those demographics in for rich people, the income ratios would drastically change; you can't compare them that way on this scale. Nobody's discriminating against rich people in this study; it's simply showing American's perceptions of wealth distribution, the reality, and their ideals. Obviously their ideals far exceed what they think and drastically exceed the reality. The rich and powerful have funneled the money more and more to themselves from the common man, and it's created the two-income household and has been drawing us closer and closer to a slave state. We really have been getting the wool pulled over our eyes for the last several decades and we need to fight for our incomes and make the rich give back to the community that feeds them.

adrey-Okounkovski - Jim Simons Speaks: Just No to Google and Goldman Sachs

adrey-Okounkovski — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:41:53 +0000

Jim: "we need teachers... of high school mathematics", "pay these folks more." Me: Why don't you go do it? Why didn't you do it when you were at my age? Jim: Ha ha, ya taking abt my pure hypocrisy talk? "The last time I got fired, by the way", I learnt my lesson: Be your own boss! Make lots of money!

ivo - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

ivo — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:07:28 +0000

agree

ivo - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

ivo — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:05:35 +0000

agree 100%

colombian - World Population by Latitude/Longitude

colombian — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:45:29 +0000

is there a newer graph of this? i am looking for somenthing like this..

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Stuart Bascombe - How Oil Puts the Planet on Tilt

matlabaraque - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

Matlabaraque - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

tonyb - In Search of Ernest Rutherford's Money Quote

James - Maxwell: Oil to $300 by 2020

Classified Sites - Twitter Digest: 2011-11-27

challenge coins - Twitter Digest: 2011-11-27

Angel - Why No BBB API?

Cory - Kyle Bass on Hardtalk: Full Interview

Andy - Meet the Average American (Financial) Family

Canuck - Television Kills You, Slowly

MattTeeJay - Tiger Woods Won&rsquo;t Win 19 Majors

Joel - Tracking the Great Canadian Real Estate Bubble

Jim - Jeb Corlis -- PoV HD Wingsuit Flying

Bryan - California's Super Storm

Dave - Americans Have No Idea About Wealth Inequality in America

adrey-Okounkovski - Jim Simons Speaks: Just No to Google and Goldman Sachs

ivo - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

ivo - Best Tennis Player of All Time: Jimmy Connors. Really?

colombian - World Population by Latitude/Longitude

MattTeeJay - Tiger Woods Won’t Win 19 Majors