danioli

Whatever needs to happen so I don't have to listen or watch English or American shows all the time, I'm OK with that, and I assume these are my tax dollars working for me.

I see a lot of negativity regarding "The French" (their TV programs, their culture, and OMG their communist government?!?) and I just hate it every time I see it. The demeaning attitudes are hurtful, and don't usually contribute anything.

Marcus had many children, many of whom died early. He was succeeded by his son Commodus, who's depiction in Gladiator is well known (and invariably inaccurate).

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the demo scene as a resource for aspiring game developers. Wild stuff.

I vaguely remember reading about a job that required Open Cascade, to do this (designing optics for automotive applications), if that's what you're seeking. Company was called DBM Reflex in Laval, QC I'm sure other tools (ie. game engines) will also allow you to model all types of optical effects.

Typo: 80286 (not 80826), and 80386 (80836), in the opening paragraphs.

Mike Duncan for President!

And an episode of In Our Time, every once in a while.

Wow.

It's not that I'm sceptical of climate science, it's just that the discussion is now... entrenched. The random person will not debate the wisdom of human-induced changes to the weather, but also will probably not understand the Milankovitch cycles, or know the ocean water levels rise and fall on geological timescales by about 130 meters?, that we know this because (IIRC) of Wallace (I think, in tandem with Darwin?) who also noted that the divergence between different variants of the same species across the islands of an an archipelago varied more with the depth of the water between islands, than with just the distance. What about the PET (Paleocene-Eocene transition)? I'm sure that climate scientists are doing their jobs, but that doesn't mean that there aren't many (including "activists") who are willing to debate the matter without this key. Why doesn't this ever come up? (both the cycles, and the lack of depth in the discussions) If it's as dire as some seem to imply, we should all switch to nuclear right now. And personally, I am even more sceptical when I hear talk of climate justice, but that is an entirely different issue.