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We're using [[RationalWiki:Vandal]] instead of blocking now. Reduces them to 1 edit per year or something. {{User:SusanG/sig/sig}} 09:06, 30 June 2008 (EDT)
 
We're using [[RationalWiki:Vandal]] instead of blocking now. Reduces them to 1 edit per year or something. {{User:SusanG/sig/sig}} 09:06, 30 June 2008 (EDT)
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Can I use the cloud you generated on my blog? It was awesome... and a pretty poignant reminder of how awful McCain is...-{{user:Caius/Options2}} 01:33, 31 October 2008 (EDT)

Revision as of 05:33, 31 October 2008

Maybe you could contribute to [cheese]? I think it will be an important article. Great to see you and welcome to RW 2.0. TK still bitches and moans all the time, but otherwise it is just like CP + reason. Flippin;-) 16:43, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

CP + reason? Isn't that sort of like "Matter + antimatter"? --Gulik 17:13, 24 May 2007 (CDT)
Well, not to hijack Sterile's page, it is, but it was the best I could come up with on short notice. Runners-up: "RW is to CP what a glass slipper is to a pig" and "Like CP, only less fanaticism and fewer closeted Nazis." I think you can see why my choice was--while bland--a little better. Flippin;-) 09:55, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

Contents

Genome

See my talk.--TimS 14:53, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Show me you're not so sterile and help

  • Why does everyone here refuse to follow their own rules? Why don't you accede to my reasonable demands? Why are you all so confused about how to follow rules? Make me a sysop! Bet you thought this was someone else. humanbe in 22:22, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

Go to guy

Hey, think you can take up Thimerosal over at Vaccine hysteria? Tmtoulouse 15:01, 22 June 2007 (CDT)

Speaking of histeria, do you have email? I do. Shoot me one. HeartGoldSwarm like a hive 17:16, 17 July 2007 (CDT)

vandal sign

Very nice, thanks. But now the resident vandal and club leader is the pinto bean. You should give it to him. Again, thanks for making it. Bohdan

hijacked articles timeline gifs

I know it must have been a lot of work to assemble these, but is there any chance they could all be edited a bit to have the same "time" axis? (ie, same number of days per pixel, whatever)? I was thinking of making the bigger one smaller, but the others aren't quite consistent, so I'm not sure which one I should use as a "baseline". Thanks, humanbe in 16:55, 1 October 2007 (EDT)

In a day or two--I'm a bit swamped. That did occur to me. VirileSterilepie chart? 17:27, 1 October 2007 (EDT)
Cool, thanks - I'll leave it be then and let you get to it when you've got time. humanbe in 17:47, 1 October 2007 (EDT)

Medotion

Congratulations, you now have sysop powerz. Please use themm mostly for good and not evil. Feel free to practice by blocking random targets, like me, and familiarizing your self with how the extra buttons work. So you are ready to defend against teh wandals!!!! humanUser talk:Human 23:58, 11 November 2007 (EST)

Kenpie

It might just be me but your Kenpie.gif might look funnier if you actually made it a bit more Pacmannish. Just a thought. Jollyfish.gifGenghis Marauding 13:28, 4 December 2007 (EST)

Sterile

Are you really? --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 14:03, 23 January 2008 (EST)

Of course not. I needed a name when joining CP, and there was a Band-aid nearby. It kinda typified the character of the place. I ought to rebrand myself at some point... Sterilexx 14:05, 23 January 2008 (EST)
You should have used some of "my password is radioactive"'s new password when hanging around with our more, uh, radioactive editors... my condolences... humanUser talk:Human 15:28, 23 January 2008 (EST)
My isotope is quite large stable. I resent what you're implying. --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 15:31, 23 January 2008 (EST)
What does "afikomen" mean, anyway? --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 15:36, 23 January 2008 (EST)
Before the big dinner held on Passover, a piece of matzah (special cracker) is hidden, so someone (usually the children) can try to find it. That piece is the afikomen. --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 15:43, 23 January 2008 (EST)
"Afikomen is a world class Jewish Books, Gifts, and Lifestyle Store." humanUser talk:Human 15:51, 23 January 2008 (EST)
Come again? --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 15:51, 23 January 2008 (EST)

Hmmm... Sterilexx 16:03, 23 January 2008 (EST)

It's the number one Google hit on the word. Esther egg crackers come later. humanUser talk:Human 16:06, 23 January 2008 (EST)
Of course. Jews can commercialize anything.  :) --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 21:19, 23 January 2008 (EST)

IRC

Care to join our little party? --Linus(plot evil tech) 13:35, 9 February 2008 (EST)

Ahms for the poor?

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] I must be a terrible person for feeling this way, but I feel left out now. Have pity on a weatherbeaten soul?  : ) --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 17:55, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

Ides of May

Sterile, as you requested I've been working with some PHP guys on the back doors in the WM software. If you can get the necessary art-work ready before the 13th then we can load the horses on about 2000 zombies that they have. What's realy brill is that all user-rights permissions will be toggled without warning when the datbase is unlocked, so in theory any available internet-connected computer can be used. NotBK will be celebrated in style! Jollyfish.gifGenghisIs the Pope a Catholic? 17:40, 8 May 2008 (EDT)

Check. Phase 3 is undergoing beta-testing and seems to be holding up well. humanUser talk:Human 20:16, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
This week-end we need to do a dry run. We don't want to use the zombies until the actual day so if you can spare some PCs to act as stooges we'd appreciate it. With my two desktops, three laptops, my wife's PC and three neighbour's laptops (I'm supposed to be fixing them) I can coopt nine, possibly 10 if I leave my office PC on over the weekend. They say 50 would be needed for a real test can we cobble together that number by Saturday night? Jollyfish.gifGenghisIs the Pope a Catholic? 03:26, 9 May 2008 (EDT)

Botulinus

Sterile, how many PC can you drum up for Sunday morning's dry run? We really need about 50. So far I've got just over 20 lined up. Jollyfish.gifGenghisIs the Pope a Catholic? 12:58, 9 May 2008 (EDT)

Questions

I have some questions that need answering, Sterile. --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 03:42, 12 May 2008 (EDT)

Another question

You're listed as a chemist, so could you answer a hypothetical question for me vaguely dealing with chemistry? Ignoring the complete impossiblility of it, what would happen to the human body if entropy ceased to exist? If it's too hard to imagine an entire universe without entropy, what about just entropy not existing inside the human body? ThunderkatzHo! 22:02, 19 June 2008 (EDT)

Wouldn't everything just explode? And make new universes? ħumanUser talk:Human 00:01, 20 June 2008 (EDT)
That's why I included that second part, to ignore entropy in the universe and focus only on the human body. But is it true that everything would explode in an entropy-free universe? ThunderkatzHo! 07:47, 20 June 2008 (EDT)

It's hard to imagine an entropy-free universe. Most processes are not reversible and hence cause energy to be spread out. Entropy just kinda "is."

Actually, if you think about it, the human body isn't a closed system. It's constantly exchanging matter and energy with the "universe" if the body is the "system." Your body must use food and oxygen, gives off heat, and generates waste (solid, in solution and gas).

In terms of humans, if you are no longer generating entropy, your body is at equilibrium. Another word for that is dead. If you took a body and made it a closed system (unable to exchange energy, and de facto matter--think of a well insulated box), you wouldn't be able to stop the energy from spreading out until the entropy was maximized (or at least it reached a local maximum. Shut a person in a box, and I guess the oxygen would oxidize what was left of your biomolecules, so you'd probably be some mix of CO2, leftover biomolecules, trace metals, and a ton of water.

But from a philsophical point of view, I don't think it's possible to "switch off" entropy. Systems just move until the microstates reflect as statistical a distribution as possible (using the "disorder analogy", which is, in a lot of ways, flawed). With time moving in one direction, you just can't "shut off" entropy. Sterilesnore! 09:26, 20 June 2008 (EDT)

Thanks. I asked so I could have a specific response to this piece of crap, which claims that there was no entropy before The Fall. Your info helps me counter future arguments the idiots might make and in general refute what the point. ThunderkatzHo! 10:35, 20 June 2008 (EDT)
Actually, I've heard the argument that if God exists, it's a problem, because God would have to die at some point because of entropy considerations. Finite God. Sterilesnore! 10:42, 20 June 2008 (EDT)

Vandals

We're using RationalWiki:Vandal instead of blocking now. Reduces them to 1 edit per year or something. SusanG  ContribsTalk 09:06, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

i can has wordle cloud?

Can I use the cloud you generated on my blog? It was awesome... and a pretty poignant reminder of how awful McCain is...-caius (spy) 01:33, 31 October 2008 (EDT)

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