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If you say so, but I was trying to make a joke here to diffuse your statement. Since my rationale is that he shouldn't be listening to Irish people he shouldn't be listening to me either and whatnot. I'll try not to fix things with humor in the future.

sorry, forgot you're Irish, took your comment seriously.

Then my vote according to your options is don't post.
Even if it was persistent criticism instead of persistent half assed dismissals it would be a huge improvement, but the truth is if just stopped posting them at all nothing would be lost.

You got it prick.
Hawk,
outta here.

Hawk, don't listen to Faust. He's fucking Irish after all.

If he is going to throw his dollies out of the pram over someone giving him the answer he didn't want to hear, then he shouldn't have asked the question.

If that's what you want to do so be it, its a shame because when you're not shitting on everything for no good reason you are decent.

Then my vote according to your options is don't post.
Even if it was persistent criticism instead of persistent half assed dismissals it would be a huge improvement, but the truth is if just stopped posting them at all nothing would be lost.

I don't think you should leave. But maybe you could do with posting less dismissive one liners as the bulk of your posting.

I'm going  to give you encouragement and say you will do really well and make a lot... until the day you unknowingly sit down at a table filled with cardcounting overblown but fragile ego'd discordians who will fleece you for every penny you are worth.

[WAS]

It was a great starting point for new artists and writers as well, now its going to be even tougher for people to break into the comic book industry.

WAS

          yes it WAS. Now maybe some of those folks will put that opportunity back out there like Jim Lee & Co. did.

OR

          maybe they'll just hog all the limelight and continue to eat up all the contracts and write/ illustrate/ ink/edit 39 titles a month so they can have a chance at Hollywood picking them up. Which seems to be a fairly major factor in American comics (new limited titles) right now.

That only ended at wildstorm a few years ago, when DC bought them.

It was a great starting point for new artists and writers as well, now its going to be even tougher for people to break into the comic book industry.

Wildstorm are gone 

That felt really dark, beautifully written but very dark compared to your other pieces (or maybe it hit too close to home for me).

c) It has become increasingly clear over the past few months that PD is not the place for the discussion of new ideas from relatively anonymous pranksters and weirdos that it once was, but a clubhouse for a cabal of IRL buddies (and privileged exceptions) to trade inside jokes and retread old territory. If my tone toward Dok seems out of place, maybe it is because what is "in place" is a bit too rigidly enforced around here.

Enforced? Examples please.
Every forum has its own tone and dialect, this one is no difference, but if this place ever became an "exclusive" clubhouse, I'd wash my hands of it.
I see where you are coming from with that, especially in apple talk with many of the personal references made to IRL activities, but on the other hand I see plenty of stuff from NEW people around the world who aren't excluded and do get their ideas discussed just as well as anyone who has been here for years.

If he uses an alternative method of looking at QM I'd love to have a look at his stuff but I strongly doubt he would use amplitude configurations as an overall descriptor for what's going on.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/

Ah, that's what I thought, Its not an overall descriptor, I'd say you were just confused with his terminology (no offence). Its not amplitude configurations, its a mathematical descriptor model of what's going on.
Amplitude is only a part of that, and in this case he IS still using the virtual photon model, that maths is the exact same. The difference comes in to what he is classing as the amplitude is to describe if the photon is complex (square of minus one) or regular, this is the classic amplitude format peak to peak.
He's got a really cool way of looking at it. I'm going to have to poke around some more of his articles.

If he uses an alternative method of looking at QM I'd love to have a look at his stuff but I strongly doubt he would use amplitude configurations as an overall descriptor for what's going on.

Ok, for me amplitude doesn't mean an awful lot without units on it, Amplitude is just one small part of wave characteristics (peak to peak).
I have no idea what the amplitude configuration of the earth is.

I don't use words like wave/particle characteristics to describe quanta. It's entirely misleading. So I use amplitude because it holds no stupid connotations for me, because if I use the word particles I'm going to imagine little billiard balls bouncing around, and if I think about waves I'm going to imagine something that it is not as well. Amplitude works fine for a blob distributed in space that smears and flows and forms checkerboard patterns with other amplitudes in configuration. Not this "virtual photon" crap that I got taught back in undergrad. Not "/this/ electron here, /that/ electron there". Not "Schrodinger's cat is dead and alive."

tl;dr: quantum mechanics education is teh stupid. Sorry about that, spending too much time on Less Wrong.

Ehm, while I agree the ways of looking at stuff through qm are very much in a cumbersome infancy, the word amplitude does have a strong definition and it doesn't suit what you are describing. Amplitude is merely one characteristic of what's going on.
Its just not a good word for it, its saying a painting is nothing more then its dominant colour, if you catch my drift.

FAUST!!

          you gotta be psyched (or no?) about the new MARVELMAN reissue series out now, hey? That much more likely that the MIRACLEMAN stuff will be collected & back in print!!

Disney are finalising the legal side of it and they want to print is, as their trophy for taking marvel over. And theres the fact that Post watchmen anything with Alan Moore on the cover sells like hotcakes.