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Whether the system is bright or dark depends on the electron spin state - the 'system' I talk about is an electron. If it is spin up lets say, it fluoresces intensely, while it is nearly perfectly dark when it is spin down. The system is 'randomized' by applying a rotation to the electron spin...

Ok, so we've established we can measure light intensity. Now I have a system where there are two intensity levels, bright and dark. I can do a randomizing procedure where I can make it so there's a 50/50 chance of being bright or dark on the next measurement, no matter if it was previously...

Is your argument that if light is involved in any step of the process, then it can't be physics? Do you believe in seeing things with your own eyes or not? Like how do you read forum posts? Seems like 'measuring light' to me. The only property of light that was used for the experimental data...

Well, obviously you don't understand what 'loophole' means in this context. Let's go with your looking-at-houses example. You look at a house, then look at another house, and sure enough they are 50 ft apart. You do this a bunch of times, people come in and verify it, that's all well and good...

Hi Furry, to answer your question, yes there are only two loopholes that can preserve a local, realist interpretation of reality in the face of violation of Bell's inequality. Those are locality and fair sampling, both were closed. Freedom-of-choice is the mega-loophole, but it can't be...

Honestly the first time I ran a heroic I thought I was queued for a normal and didn't realize until I got the bonus at the end. Really enjoying resto shaman after thinking sham was shit and playing lock to 100. Though it doesn't seem the ability squish hit rsham - I feel like I have a...

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Why wouldn't they keep adding to the garrison or have a it in the next expansion? There's so much that could be built on top of what they have now ... integrating it into guilds somehow, adding more variety of buildings, followers etc. etc. I don't understand why they would just throw away a...

Lava packs are that bad? Just wait until you hit the Suppression Rooms. What year is it again

4:30 am and I didn't want to wait ~15 min to click a world object anymore. Putting the casual in 'casual guild' I know

So about this 'world server'

Thinking of joining up since it appears I pre-ordered WoD while drunk at some point ... does the guild prefer shaman, rogue, or warlock?

The buildings issue has been a problem for Civ since time immemorial. It's actually improved in BE because trade routes boost production in your new cities massively - before it would take almost the same number of turns (barring some small improvements) to build your new city as the old. The...

I can see where some reviews were coming from with the lack of life in the game. In classic civ, you are reliving all of history, which is awesome. In Alpha Centauri, they did an absolutely awesome job of designing characters and a tech tree that set the atmosphere. 15 years later I can still...

Sounds great, at the very least it's a different game mode. Always nice to add more ways to play a game that's been out for almost 10 years. Between this and garrisons, it sounds like Blizz is throwing out little tastes of how niche game styles could work in an MMO like WoW. Maybe one of them...

Here's my EU key - looking forward to checking this out S32P-LPST-K3XJ-2K2Z-CDYN

I am opposed to this on general principles ... but I don't think it will hugely affect anything, especially if they are giving away a free 90 on WoD purchase anyway. $60 is fairly hefty, I don't see this being used often. Tons of new 90s will only reinvigorate the game, and besides it can't...

Hero classes, PvP/PvE bounties, sidekicking, guild battles, D2 gambling, sounds like TBC will be a great expansion and I'm missing the part in the Benediction design doc where it goes 'farm eye of shadow in Winterspring for roughly a month straight until you burn out and quit the game'

Not sure if this got linked since I just popped in here, but if you want to see the latest data on social mobility in America, you should read these two papers (at least the intros, which summarize the findings) http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty...ity_trends.pdf...

Tempo is really a chess term. Gaining tempo means that you are making plays efficiently, generally keeping the initiative and forcing the opponent to react to you rather than vice versa. If you have to make multiple inefficient plays to get a desired result or don't have a good play at a given...

Priests seem to be not so well represented from what I've been seeing anyway, so a slight buff to them might not be so bad. UTH is going to be very strong again ... even getting two 1/1 beasts with charge for two is value already. Not to mention that it will be much easier to combo with a...

Gotta say that the refereeing was not horrible this weekend. No games with outrageously blown calls. Good on them.

The girlfriend loves Castles of Burgundy, also Ticket to Ride is really simple for gfs/party, and Smallworld if you want a bit more strategy while still being really accessible. For computer games, Civilization V is also a favorite - she likes being able to explore the world build cities etc...

Garrisons sound pretty awesome. If a game had controllable territory where you could build your own garrison (or the like), form guilds/alliances with other players based around a deep, fleshed out version of that type of system (tons of buildings, bonuses based on geographical location/rare...

From Genjiro's comments, you'd think the Steelers went 10-6 and made the playoffs while the Vikings went 8-8 and third in their division. Running game + good defense makes the playoffs? Vikes have the best running game in the league and a defense better than Baltimore's...

Picked up a few games - really enjoying Bastion right now though. Game would have been worth full price.

As another former WoW player, I don't think really anything will get me to go back permanently. But you're basically removing the best part of WoW, the polished questing part where you see the gimmicks, the humor and the fun new areas (storyline if you care), in order to emphasize stuff that...

Coming from a player in a second-tier guild on the wrong faction, the gates sucked. Didn't get past basically the first stage of the questline or see any cool content, yet also didn't feel 'involved' by having the ability to grind cloth like a goddamn slave or try to deal with a horribly...

Completely agreed with you up to here. Competition is great and all ... but there certainly can be too much of it. We all hear the horror stories of eastern education systems, 12 hour days for the kids, suicides due to bad test scores, rampant cheating etc. There is a happy medium, but I don't...

So ... anyone have that 4chan post? 20 year old, Friday, black powder? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1325504 and not really related, but Kitz, the dude who took the pictures, went to my high school and is the man.

Good article about EA's PR tactics regarding Sim City http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...ory-went-away/

and sending the helicopter back in ... maybe to look for bombs, or suspect 3?

good show everyone, roll for loot

Sounded like the helicopter 'downlink' was being streamed and the cops were concerned about that, as opposed to the scanner I will admit I don't know the tech in use here, but I thought the police scanner is just a standard radio channel

So .... anyone have a link to the helicopter feed? :P

And remember that 50% of their bombs didn't even work ... I don't think we're dealing with pros here.

Can you cite this? I am seeing that there were two unexploded devices in addition to the two exploded ones, but the wording is kinda unclear. I take it to mean that there were two devices found, no others. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...231807060.html

Re: Dany I actually think this will feature more prominently in the show than the book. As we've seen with Robb, the show puts more emphasis on the happenings of the main characters than anything. The show will almost certainly have Dany doing something in every episode, maybe except for one...

Loving the show, but really not a fan of putting so much focus on Robb's wife. And at the cost of not including Jojen and Meera? Any speculation on how that is going to work out in the show? Osha just takes their whole role? They just randomly turn up?

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