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  1. Re:I'm sorry, but the buildings dont look good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65 (nytimes.com)

    Not a pretty building - but its big and classical.

    https://www.aoc.gov/capitol-bu...

    Something like this could be tweaked into something nicer without having to make the building look like they used spiral swirl and splashed paint on the drafting board/software.

  2. Law by Orgasmatron · · Score: 1 · on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments

    Most legislative and judicial houses are decorated with historic laws and lawgivers.* In that context, the 10 Commandments are not there so much for their religious value as they are for their historic value. In practice, I suspect that it is the overlap that is most important here, with the 10 Commandments being the most important law code in the religious tradition that, like it or not, was and is the most influential in the US.

    What historic lawgiving events are the satanists planning to depict? Yeah...

    Now, if Tulsa's Babylonian citizens and Mardukists get together to fund a display of Hammurabi or his code, I'll personally pitch in.

    * No, really.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Building#Sculptural_program
    http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/relief-portrait-plaques-lawgivers/about-relief-portrait-plaques-lawgivers

  3. Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... by Inspector+Lopez · · Score: 1 · on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building
    Your mathematics professor should take a refresher course in logic. Bill Gates paid for most of the building. Donald Trump didn't. See the difference?

    Although Bill Gates paid for more of Stanford's building than did Donald Trump, Gates did not pay for most of it. In fact, Gates wangled quite a deal --- for merely $7M out of about $60M he got his name on the bricks. Nice Trick! At least CMU is getting $20M, ...

    I'm campaigning to get some bricks named "Chestnut & Gibson" a couple of people who died while doing their jobs in DC. People like these never get things named for them. If Gates has the CMU building named for Chestnut & Gibson, then I'll be impressed.
  4. Re:I remember something like this in D.C. by TheSync · · Score: 1 · on Directed Sound

    In the US Capitol, "The half-dome shape of National Statuary Hall produces an acoustical effect whereby, in some spots, a speaker many yards away may be heard more clearly than one closer at hand. The modern-day echoes occur in different locations from those in the 19th century, when the floor and ceiling of the hall were different."

  5. Re:What have the Americans done for us ? by ericspinder · · Score: 1 · on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
    it doesn't take a genius to look up and go "you know if that building were twice as high...
    True, but tall buildings were impractical until Otis invented the safe elevator. Also, you don't have to go much farther than the U.S. Capitol to find some of the first uses of engineered supports, of course it was done in iron. The first steel-skeleton building was in NYC.

  6. John Hanson, first President of Congress by KMSelf · · Score: 1 · on Windows Refund Day update

    Interesting, never knew of this. Obligatory links: 1, 2.

    Note that Hanson was President of the United States in Congress Assembled", not "President of the United States", the current office.