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Hi Guyz!
Iam taking part in a online quiz competition and found some answers with google.For some questions though ,googling didnt help much.Tried searchin for images ,but couldnt crack it.
So,thought you guys could help me out. ;-)
Thanks.
1.Whats the connection between these two pictures.
2.Identify this brand of gun more famous in another context.
3.Related to the world of automobiles.What is this lady's claim to fame.
4. This spider is named for the unique marking on its rear segment which is shown in the picture. So, who is it named after? (Cryptic clue- Think of a nice sobriquet for Thomas Alva Edison's mom, though they may be more than one.)

Whats wrong with being a communist? 1.3 billion Chinese can't be wrong ...

Oh, and whats this about Muslims not being free? I know several Muslims who are very clear on the point that they don't need the US to fix their problems for them.

As far as many Muslims were concerned, Saddam was a problem, yes, but he was their problem. These people are pragmatists. Why the hell did you have to blunder your way through the country, killing thousands of women, children and hapless soldiers armed with nothing more than AK-47s and a few rocket propelled grenades?

Goddamn you Americans and your insistence that you know best! You can't even run a fair election on your own soil, yet you want to bring your breed of democracy to the rest of us! You're a bunch of hipocrites that are going to ruin the world for everyone else!

Well, I have something to say to you. Fuck you!

NO WONDER YOU HAVE 80% OF THE ARAB WORLD AFTER YOUR BLOOD!

Its arrogant idiots like you that are fucking everything up.

My evil plan to end OOP by patent lawsuits is ahead of schedule. Eeexcellent my sweeeeeties, BWWWWAAAAA Haa Haa haa he he ho ho!

As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is sinful

According to what? The Bible? Or what your hate-mongering preacher spoon-fed you?

If you are planning to hate gays based on the the Old Testament purity laws in Leviticus, then you'd better follow all of them, including no blood transfusions, no clothing of mixed fibers, eating kosher, and not clipping off the edges of your beard. Otherwise you're cherry picking which parts of the Bible to follow, and that's hypocritical. Furthermore, passages in the Bible indicate that adherence on the Levitican purity laws is contrary to Jesus's teachings

Killing babies, though... man. That's a moral issue, not a religious one. Even the most vocal proponent of "choice," which is just a euphamism for "death,"

I hear something like this and I think of a kid who cries when Bambi's mother dies and later munches on a hamburger. The cute deer gets the tear in your eye while you ignore the fact you're eating the entrails of probably 200-300 different cows for your mealtime. Your heart's in the right place, but you suffer from moral myopia -- you don't take into account the larger picture involved. Mourning the death of unwanted babies while sentimental, really does nothing to fight the world's suffering.

Tell you what, instead of sensationalistic bemoaning of the unborn children, why don't you work on the following causes first?

- According to estimates, there are 800 Million people who go hungry worldwide. 1 child dies every 7 seconds from hunger.

- Over one million children were homeless in nice warm months - like October and February.

- In Africa, 16 million children are homeless due to the AIDS epidemic there.

- over 3 million children were abused in 2001 . 1300 died from abuse, amounting to 3 per day.

So why don't you work on helping the kids people actually want first before harassing women facing a difficult choice?

Mrs. Roe is now wishing that she hadn't had an abortion.

Hmmm... wouldn't you have second thoughts if you'd become the nationwide target of assholes telling you how to live your life? That's succumbing to peer pressure, not a moral revelation.

Not only is it mindless killing, it is also a psychological burden to most would-have-been mothers.

Ummm... bullshit.

Lastly, unless it's your body that's carrying the baby, it's really none of your fucking business. It's the woman's body; the woman has the right to chose to have a kid -- when she's ready, and no sooner. If you can't respect that, then you have no right to have your grubby hands (much less your penis) in a woman's womb.

IRV is also a bad idea, albeit less bad than FPTP in some respects.

"Linux wil run on most, if not all desktop computers currently running Windows."

In fact, Linux runs on about 23 additional architectures that Microsoft can't even remotely support with their most-flexible embedded target.

• Diverse PDA / embedded / microcontroller / router devices:
  • Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. ARM family (StrongARM SA-1110, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610, ARM710, ARM720T, and ARM920T)
  • Analog Devices, Inc.'s Blackfin DSP
  • Axis Communications ETRAX series ("CRIS" = Code Reduced Instruction Set RISC architecture)
  • Elan SC520 and SC300
  • Fujitsu FR-V
  • Hitachi H8 series
  • Intel i960
  • Intel IA32-compatibles (Cyrix MediaGX, STMicroelectronics STPC, ZF Micro ZFx86)
  • Matsushita AM3x
  • MIPS-compatibles (Toshiba TMPRxxxx / TXnnnn, NEC VR series, Realtek 8181)
  • Motorola 680x0-based machines (Motorola VMEbus boards, ISICAD Prisma machines, and Motorola Dragonball & ColdFire CPUs, and Cisco 2500/3000/4000 series routers)
  • Motorola embedded PowerPC (including MPC / PowerQUICC I, II, III families)
  • NEC V850E
  • Renesas Technology (formerly Hitachi) SH3/SH4 (SuperH: link1 link2)
  • Samsung CalmRISC
  • Texas Instruments's DM64x and C54x DSP families
• Intel 8086 / 80286 .
• Intel IA32 family: i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors, as well as IA32 clones from AMD, Cyrix, VIA, IDT, Winchip, NexGen, Transmeta, VIA C3 Ezra "CentaurHauls", and others.
• Intel/HP IA64: Trillian/Itanium/Itanium2
• AMD x86-64 Hammer family (including AMD Opteron)
• Motorola 68020-68040 series (with MMU): m68k Mac, Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Medusa/Falcon, HP/Apollo Domain, HP9000/300, sun3, and Sinclair Q40.
• Motorola/IBM PowerPC family: Most PowerMac (including G3/G4/G5) / CHRP / PReP / POP, Amiga PowerUP System, and IBM PPC64 (AS/400, RS/6000).
• MIPS

"... despite putting in billions and billions and billions of dollars, the net return to owners from being in the entire airline industry, if you owned it all, and if you put up all this money, is less than zero."

well, duh, she is an iranian woman.

for further study on this important subject, i recommend Rudi Bakhtiar

good page here

I think so. See here for an example of Brain the dog from the Inspector gadgert cartoon series wearing a collar of such majesty. Maybe Inspector Gadget inspired a lot more than we realise!

Well, this cave contains 46 different species, 31 of which were previously unknown, and the cave was entirely closed off from the surface.

He originally used umlauts on the "U" instead of adding the extra "e", but Mr T. ate them

Note that when we combine a free market like the USA and a non-free market like Mexico, we damage the free market in the USA. For example, the influx of illegal aliens is created by horrible intervention by the Mexican government in the Mexican economy. This influx then destroys the normal market forces in the labor market for unskilled labor in the USA. Ultimately, the USA no longer has a free market.

Note that before the influx of illegal aliens, the free market worked fine in the USA. Unskilled laborers earned enough money to support their families.

Similar comments apply to H-1B workers from India, China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong), etc. They destroy the normal market forces in the market for high-tech labor.

Supporting free markets means that the USA engages in trade (which includes the exchange of labor like engineers, farmers, vegetable pickers, etc.) only with other free markets like that in Canada, Europe, Japan, etc. Supporting free markets means that we defend the border against the influx of illegal aliens and canceling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Supporting free markets means that H-1B engineers from Europe, Japan, and Canada are allowed into the USA. H-1B engineers from India and China are banned.

Supporting free markets means that we terminate unfettered trade with China and India until both societies commit to free market principles. They go hand in hand with democracy. Note the presence of Chinese soldiers in Tibet, and the large number of Taiwanese who have spied for Beijing.

If you hate what is happening to our nation, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.

president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce

...did those things spot any buggalos yet?

Ah, your screenshots tell you already have the "kludge" on your "boxen"... http://www.geocities.com/linzeecoble/p-magic.jpg

Check out the Movile Cave Project, a scientific project centering around a cave discovered by well drilling in Romania in 1986. The cave was significant because the life discovered in the water in the cave (which had no natural entrance and was so sealed off from the world) was based around a totally chemosynthetic ecosystem, where all energy came from chemicals produced and used by the creatures (no light involved - none available!). This small cave alone contained over 31 species that were new to science. It's pretty amazing what might be just under our feet...

DIY grappling dummy (Plus lot's of other homebrew equipment).

While waiting for Duke Nukem Forever - oops Elite 4 - you can find the old Elite programmes in the archive on Ian Bell's website or play the remake Elite:The new Kind.

What if many test suites are flawed

RTFS. The whole point of Sun's proposal is that there can be only one test suite. They want to release Java code including a test suite, so that whoever recieves that code can't redistribute it unless that test suite works. Not some random test suite, but the specific test code included by the original author.

Chitty Bang Specifications
(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ )

NATO Designation: GEN11
Classification: Automobile, VTOL 3 rotor aircraft, hovercraft
Primary Function: Joymobile, sentient magic being
Builder:
Ken Adam, Rowland Emmett - Production Designers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Movie
Alan Mann - Ford Racing Team
Fiirst Flight/Road Test: June 1967, UK
Power Plant: Ford 3000 V6 and automatic transmission
Fuel: Love
Thrust: Unknown
Length: 17 feet
Height: 5 feet
Wingspan: 10 feet
Rotor Diameter Vertical Lift Rotors(2)- 6 feet; Rear Propulsion Prop Diameter(1)- 6 feet
Speed: 100 Mph
Ceiling: 5000 Feet, est.
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 3500 lbs.
Range: Unknown; Recorded trip to Vulgaria from UK
Armament: Truly Scrumptious
(Source: http://chittygen11.com/index.html)

The incursions of barbaric pastoralists seem to do civilizations less harm in the long run than one might expect. Indeed, two dark ages and renaissances in Europe suggest a recurring pattern in which a renaissance follows an incursion by about 800 years. It may even be suggested that certain genes or traditions of pastoralists revitalize the conquered people with an ingredient of progress which tends to die out in a large panmictic population for the reasons already discussed. I have in mind altruism itself, or the part of the altruism which is perhaps better described as self-sacrificial daring. By the time of the renaissance it may be that the mixing of genes and cultures (or of cultures alone if these are the only vehicles, which I doubt) has continued long enough to bring the old mercantile thoughtfulness and the infused daring into conjunction in a few individuals who then find courage for all kinds of inventive innovation against the resistance of established thought and practice. Often, however, the cost in fitness of such altruism and sublimated pugnacity to the individuals concerned is by no means metaphorical, and the benefits to fitness, such as they are, go to a mass of individuals whose genetic correlation with the innovator must be slight indeed. Thus civilization probably slowly reduces its altruism of all kinds, including the kinds needed for cultural creativity (see also Eshel 1972).

The incursions of which he speaks are those of the Dorians leading to the Golden Age and of the Goths, leading to the Renaissance.

It appears that Western Civilization is in its final stages of Empire and has imported all manner of slaves to prop up its increasingly untenable practice of paying for the costs of protection of legal rights through taxation of productivity (income, capital gains, value added, sales, etc.)

The problem is this time around all of the barbarian pastoralists have been domesticated.

Should we ban polls for a period of time before the election? The answer is "no". Such a ban violates freedom of the press.

If we Americans are so simple minded as to do the following, then we deserve the negative consequences.

1. I vote based solely on what the polls say. For example, if my preferred candidate is winning, then I do not bother to vote.
2. I never vote for the 3rd party candidate because a vote for her is a vote for the opponent.

By the way, Taiwan does ban polls for a period before the election. Taiwan is also the place where the military and political parties own television stations, radio stations, and newspapers. Do we really want to model ourselves after backward Chinese society?

Sounds like a job for this guy...

Oh... I get it now...
Guess I'm just too young to remember such classic jokes...

Oh... I get it now...
Guess I'm just too young to remember such classic jokes...

It's just ridiculous that someone defends Bush. Anyone who wants to take the time can show that the problems are far, far worse than a Slashdot comment can possibly say. Check Google for Bush idiot Canada

Carolyn Parrish did not call Bush an idiot, apparently. She said Americans were a "coalition of idiots". And she is not sorry.

I guess that seemed like strong language to you. No, it is weak language. Look at the other links:

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien called Bush a "buffoon". Is that high enough in the Canadian government for you?

Jodine Chase, a media adviser to Ralph Klein's Alberta government apologized for referring to the US President as "that idiot" in a memo. According to the article, there is a new government policy in Canada: "These words cannot be used in reference to President Bush:

-moron
-idiot
-wanker
-idiot
-wanker
-dufus
-President of dumb
-Leader of the stupids
-that guy with Dick Cheney
-Commander-in-Comma"

Also see this in the same article: Francoise Ducros has resigned as Prime Minister Jean Chretien's director of communications after the media reported on a private conversation in which she called U.S. President George W. Bush a "moron."

Sorry, I don't have time to continue with the words the German and French government leaders use for Bush.

Call an AA chapter. Ask someone there if it's true that "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic".

Few Americans realize how really, really bad the present administration is. U.S. media writers are afraid they will lose their jobs. Those from other countries can tell the truth about what they see.

Ask someone at AA if alcoholics are abusive, as the Prime Minister of Canada said. See this: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration. Check the list of points 1 to 13.

Cobra: The Musical.

No, really.

Maybe they'll go on tour with Cobra The Musical?

And attempt to deflect alphapatriot that being laughed at because he isn't black as something other than racism.

The Coleco Handheld http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/5979 /lot2.jpg

"The vote" is one of the foundations of American society -- indeed, all of Western society. We canot allow people like the Chinese, who oppose Westernization, to tamper with a pillar of our society.

This James Watt !!! PS: ha ha that the fanboys auto-scored you +2 for insightful immediately after you posted. Dang, does Apple marketing give you guys a bounty or something?

Yes. See Wikipedia (Reds) (and other pages at the same site), Wikipedia Watch, English Wikipedia User Richardchilton, English Wikipedia User Secretlondon, etc.

Articles like "Measuring progress", "Genuine Progress Indicator" or "State services" are regularly sysop-vandalized or deleted, and activist groups like the "Legion of Trolls" or the "Wikipedia Red Faction" have been totally censored.

The evidence is just as "good" as that for the existence of WMD in Iraq. So where are they (and I don't mean small amounts of ammunition made before the invasion of Kuwait). The evidence probably even comes from the same source, a source that produced (and I don't mean "to bring forth") evidence for the US - Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. And that evidence was always convenient, mostly for the INC's claim to power in Iraq.

Because, when I read that statement, it is not an example of pragmatism, but an excuse for moral cowardice. While it may be pragmatic to ignore the internal policies of genocidal dictator, is it right? Is is a desirable policy for the US to take?

If you or I want to unseat or kill a thug like Saddam Hussein, we're morally free to do so. He's a tyrant and a murderer. We'd only be acting on behalf of his victims.

Badnarik's point (and mine) is that interventionism is bad policy for These United States. It's clearly not bad policy for individual Americans, or groups of Americans.

Interventionism in WWI brought us the devastation of the Versailles Treaty, which led directly to Adolph Hitler's rise to power. Interventionism led These United States directly into the quagmire of Viet Nam, and now Iraq.

Interventionism just isn't a good way to make international friends or influence people to not blow up our buildings with airliners.

Yes, but here's the important part: Approval Voting doesn't violate Arrow's fairness rules, it violates his initial premise of a fully-ranked numerical "preference order". If you allow the definition to include binary lists, it passes Arrow's criteria (IIA, Pareto, etc) and many others.

So we should be able to buy RPGs and Kalashnikovs and carry them around the streets? What about small nuclear devices? They're all arms, and there's no distinction in the Constitution as to what kind of arms.

Oh well, I guess I'm off to buy some mutated anthrax. For duck hunting...

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R = 4/pi - 1/2

Regarding analog watches, I have several of each (wind-up v. battery); further, I steadfastly refuse to wear a digital watch --- who wants to watch the seconds of your life tick away!

BTW - You can easily make a wall clock out of an old 78

We can't stop people from having kids. We can try and conserve natural resources, but eventually the number of people will be more than the planet can support.

Over-population is not quite the problem you think it is. In the United States, pop growth has slowed to a crawl, and most of our growth is due to immigration.

Developed countries the world over have slow (and declining) birthrates. Heck, Italy is trying to encourage their population to reproduce - they are suffering from net population decrease!

World population, based on current trends, is due to stabilize around 2075 at around 9 million people.

There are a number of reasons for this. Affluent people tend to have fewer kids, merely because they are a hassle. In the more impoverished nations, existing infrastructure is failing to provide for current needs, let alone future growth. For example, one of the largest mass poisonings ever in human history is taking place in Asia because of arsenic-laced drinking water.

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What truly amazes me is the sheer number of people who don't google whatever they're talking about before they say it. The volume of uninformed, stupid comments on the Internet that can be corrected with 10 minutes of googling and quick research is mind-boggling.

People with access to this kind of information should not be making the stupid comments they are. That they do, anyway, and don't get flogged on the streets is a mere testament to the fact that humanity does not yet value intelligence and critical thinking over stupidity.

I daresay we are entering a new era of humanity - the era of the informed but ignorant idiot. The information is there - cheap, easily available. Tools that our ancestors would have killed for - and we use it to pass along mundane drivel because "we feel" or "we think" rather than actually use that tool to anywhere near its true potential.

Sad. TV is used for network television and advertising, instead of mass education and information. News shows on TV are remarkably shallow and uninformative. The best bet are the "nature" shows, which are nice but curiously designed towards complacency.

We are in the middle of a mass extinction event brought about, no doubt, by people who chcose not to be informed, and make decisions based on ego and inadequate information.

We need to pay attention, people!

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Ok, here's another example. Rather than a knight's move away, measure even closer... diagonally. Obviously, this will be less resistance.

This page shows the solution as 2/pi... much greater than zero. So a knight's move away will be >2/pi.

http://www.geocities.com/presidentialintegrity2004 /

"To everyone else: why don't we ever talk about CP/M anymore these days?"

Because it was superceded by the GEM Desktop :D

Ok so youve seen the both the Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, and you note there are some similarities. But how similar are they? Well with this page will attempt show them scene by scene

That's sick!

Haven't you ever seen "I Dated A Robot"?

Apparently it's already been done...?

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]

Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]

Yugoslavia [geocities.com]

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. iaq

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]

Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]

Yugoslavia [geocities.com]

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. zr

because I wonder how many musicians today can actually read music

All of them.

Dave Brubeck can't [duke.edu]. Django Reinhardt couldn't [playjazzguitar.com]. Paco de Lucia can't [geocities.com] (he learned the notation when he wanted to record Falla's classical pieces and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, but it was laborious). Not all musicians need to know to read music, and not all musical cultures use western notation even when they write music (eg, India). ney

My ex-girlfriend wanted me to start dressing like a vampire after that, which I declined :P

Proof of why God isn't proven

(Apologies for the crappy geocities link.)