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juicyjay

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #75 on: December 12, 2011, 09:30:27 AM »
A Brief History of Time by Hawking is pure gold. I love his recent conclusion that god was not needed to crete the universe, and he can prove it lol. Religious people went nutssssssss. Aside from that, i've been reading The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe, and The Rum Diary by my favorite writer of all time, Hunter S. Thompson.
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dr.chimps

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #76 on: December 12, 2011, 09:36:35 AM »
Will Self's 'Walking to Hollywood.' Here's an author that's really not for everybody. 
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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #77 on: December 12, 2011, 09:41:24 AM »
Quote from: Tapeworm on December 08, 2010, 02:45:41 AM
Settle down, Kurt Saxon.
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Product Description
Noted martial combat writer Bradley Steiner managed to penetrate the inner sanctum of the world's busiest assassination bureaus in compiling this terrifying guide to death-for-sale. Covers edged weapons, handguns, improvised weapons, the garrote and crossbow, poisons, unarmed killing techniques and dim-mak, as well as the attributes of the professional assassin. For information purposes only!

This review is from: Death Dealer's Manual (Paperback)
This book is very thorough in it's description of how to kill another human.. Unlike most other books in the same genre, it does NOT describe obscure and fancy methods, therefore is not especially thick, and it doesn't have to be either.. It's written almost 20 years ago, so please consider the developements in firearms, since the text on handguns doesn't apply 100% today.. It does however describe such things as the correct use of the garotte, which is often badly handled, or outright wrong. All in all, I think this is simply the best book in the genre..


I had no clue that Bradley J. Steiner wrote anything but books on weight training.
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tbombz

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #78 on: December 12, 2011, 03:53:07 PM »
Quote from: juicyjay on December 12, 2011, 09:30:27 AM
A Brief History of Time by Hawking is pure gold. I love his recent conclusion that god was not needed to crete the universe, and he can prove it lol. Religious people went nutssssssss.
because he is a fucking moron who doesnt even understand the basic concepts in his own field of expertise.
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Raymondo

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #79 on: December 12, 2011, 04:05:33 PM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 12, 2011, 03:53:07 PM
because he is a fucking moron who doesnt even understand the basic concepts in his own field of expertise.

it seems you need to come to england and have a long talk with him to relieve him of his delusions
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tbombz

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #80 on: December 12, 2011, 04:07:41 PM »
Quote from: Raymondo on December 12, 2011, 04:05:33 PM
it seems you need to come to england and have a long talk with him to relieve him of his delusions
im quite sure he would backpeddle on some of his more egregious statements once i verbally bitch slapped him a little bit
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Raymondo

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #81 on: December 12, 2011, 04:11:07 PM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 12, 2011, 04:07:41 PM
im quite sure he would backpeddle on some of his more egregious statements once i verbally bitch slapped him a little bit

I can only imagine, someone like Hawking is nowhere near remotely of your intellectual caliber.
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Spicoli

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #82 on: December 12, 2011, 11:23:00 PM »
The wisest man I the one who admits he knows nothing.
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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #83 on: December 13, 2011, 08:10:20 AM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 12, 2011, 03:53:07 PM
because he is a fucking moron who doesnt even understand the basic concepts in his own field of expertise.

Please elaborate. I'm not arguing for or against your position. I'm just curios.
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Mr. Magoo

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #84 on: December 13, 2011, 08:13:52 AM »
Quote from: Spicoli on December 12, 2011, 11:23:00 PM
The wisest man I the one who admits he knows nothing.

oh brother, I see you read your first Plato dialogue

what are you, 12?

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #85 on: December 13, 2011, 08:20:54 AM »
Andy McNab...he's an ex SAS soldier that has a fictional series on an ex-soldier out.
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Mr. Magoo

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #86 on: December 13, 2011, 08:24:38 AM »
Fuck I don't know what books I've read lately, I read 1-2 per week

About to finish up the revised edition (to compare to original) of A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

last books include: White Noise (fiction), John Christman's Social and Political Philosophy book, as well as Jonathan Wolff's political philosophy book, a logic book, some John Stuart Mill (On liberty, subjection of women, utilitarianism, reread these from before), published lectures of John Rawls, etc

About to start (over the next 2-3 weeks) AC Grayling's intro to logic book, Sovereign Virtue by Dworkin (egalitarianism), some essays by Gerry Cohen, Law's Empire, and some HLA Hart as well as commentary of him and Dworkin's arguments against each other
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tbombz

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #87 on: December 13, 2011, 08:34:02 AM »
Quote from: lovemonkey on December 13, 2011, 08:10:20 AM
Please elaborate. I'm not arguing for or against your position. I'm just curios.
"asking what happened before the big bang is like asking whats north of the north pole" .. one of his many moronic statements
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lovemonkey

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #88 on: December 13, 2011, 08:39:21 AM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 13, 2011, 08:34:02 AM
"asking what happened before the big bang is like asking whats north of the north pole" .. one of his many moronic statements

Gotcha.
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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #89 on: December 13, 2011, 08:41:14 AM »
Quote from: lovemonkey on December 13, 2011, 08:39:21 AM
Gotcha.
are you still believing in massless particles?
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lovemonkey

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #90 on: December 13, 2011, 09:57:43 AM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 13, 2011, 08:41:14 AM
are you still believing in massless particles?

Yes. Please tell me where you find mass in this equation describing the total energy of a photon:

E=hc/λ

I'll be delighted to hear your answer.
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johnnynoname

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #91 on: December 13, 2011, 10:12:39 AM »
I'm reading a book about the all black guys tbombz has banged





It's a long book
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RustyTrenbolona

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #92 on: December 13, 2011, 10:38:09 AM »
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dr.chimps

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #93 on: December 13, 2011, 12:05:20 PM »
Quote from: cheftim on December 13, 2011, 10:20:19 AM
Just got about 15 new books the other day. Eleven Madison Park has been the only one I've been reading of the bunch so far and it's terrific!
Well, you must have looked over 000's of cookbooks in your time. What makes this one worth noting?
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kiwiol

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #94 on: December 13, 2011, 12:30:05 PM »
Quote from: Raymondo on December 12, 2011, 04:11:07 PM
I can only imagine, someone like Hawking is nowhere near remotely of your intellectual caliber.

tbombz is the biggest expert in the world...on black holes.
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lovemonkey

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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #95 on: December 13, 2011, 12:32:32 PM »
Quote from: kiwiol on December 13, 2011, 12:30:05 PM
tbombz is the biggest expert in the world...on black holes.

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Spicoli

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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #96 on: December 13, 2011, 01:02:32 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Magoo on December 13, 2011, 08:13:52 AM
oh brother, I see you read your first Plato dialogue

what are you, 12?

 ::)

I wish. Then I would be much closer to my girlfriends age.
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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #97 on: December 13, 2011, 07:17:38 PM »
Quote from: lovemonkey on December 13, 2011, 09:57:43 AM
Yes. Please tell me where you find mass in this equation describing the total energy of a photon:

E=hc/λ

I'll be delighted to hear your answer.
this should be common sense and easily understood,  a "massless" anything is by definition impossible.

 photons mass can not be measured.... with current technology.... 

but photons absolutely have mass.. they have, or more accurately, ARE energy...

and energy=mass and mass=energy...   
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Re: The Book Thread (cool people need not apply)
« Reply #98 on: December 13, 2011, 07:55:50 PM »
i dont read books, a good estimate for how many books ive read my whole life is 30
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Re: The book thread(cool people need not apply)
« Reply #99 on: December 13, 2011, 07:57:49 PM »
Quote from: tbombz on December 13, 2011, 08:34:02 AM
"asking what happened before the big bang is like asking whats north of the north pole" .. one of his many moronic statements

thats a legitimate question to ask from a philosophical and metaphysical point of view
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