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In terms of sensory deprivation tanks, Wikipedia says that it actually can relax you in the short term, and only causes anxiety after prolonged exposure (or lack thereof).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation

Not in the popularly accepted definitions.

I wouldn't be surprised. I started writing stories for fun when I broke up with a girl, and I'm still sticking with it. It's almost like these crushes supply a kind of necessary activation energy for some large projects.

Which is all well and good, except that the author doesn't. He explicitly states that he wouldn't try to raise a kid while in a dropout/simplist lifestyle.

He didn't advocate raising kids in a junkyard, he said he'd find a junkyard preferable to a clean prison with a TV. He never said either was a desirable scenario.

"I'd love to have a couple kids, but I won't do it without a physical location that's owned and paid for, and without someone besides myself to help out the mother, and without the means to dodge the institutions, whether through excellent legal help or through the institutions breaking down."

If you're going to namecall, at least do it based on fact.

I agree with you here; those are all valid reasons to get a shot. My issue was with the use of the death rates as justification, which is much less reasonable.

The main message of this article is to get out into the real world and figure out what your problem is before you try to solve it. Natural growth tends to avoid wasting time and money.

I'd much prefer percentages to the flat number of deaths in the article; it's much less misleading.

Assume your chance to contract swine flu is in the upper bound stated in the article, 35%. Multiply that by the pneumonia chance of one in a thousand, .1%. Finally, multiply again by chance of death from pneumonia (20%) and you get a minuscule .007% chance of swine flu death, or seven people out of a hundred thousand.

That's how a nerd decides not to get the swine flu vaccine.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".

>>We could, for instance, determine whether Superman could accelerate if He were surrounded by a nearly perfect vacuum.

Hasn't Superman already been observed flying in outer space? One would think a better vacuum would be hard to come by.

Would you mind describing your course load or some of your assignments? Mainly what I'm looking for is a frame of reference to steer me toward or away from this as a major.

Good idea. I was thinking about Missouri S&T, SEMO, and UMSL, but any other unusually good (or bad) programs people know about would be nice to hear of as well.

Thanks for the advice, but could you be more specific? What sort of small areas, and why do you prefer electrical engineering?