"You've done worse than let Haldeman slip away: you've got people feeling sorry for him. I didn't think that was possible. In a conspiracy like this, you build from the outer edges and go step by step. If you shoot too high and miss, everybody feels more secure."
The British were driven into the sea, but the Belgian king rather meekly capitulated, which exposed the left flank of the retreating Brits and the French. If you read Churchill's "Fight Them On The Beaches" speech (as reprinted in last weeks Guardian) he makes explicit reference to this
Yet at the last moment, when Belgium was already invaded, King Leopard called upon us to come to his aid, and even at the last moment we came. He and his brave, efficient Army, nearly half a million strong, guarded our left flank and thus kept open our only line of retreat to the sea. Suddenly, without prior consultation, with the least possible notice, without the advice of his Ministers and upon his own personal act, he sent a plenipotentiary to the German Command, surrendered his Army, and exposed our whole flank and means of retreat.
I asked the House a week ago to suspend its judgment because the facts were not clear, but I do not feel that any reason now exists why we should not form our own opinions upon this pitiful episode. The surrender of the Belgian Army compelled the British at the shortest notice to cover a flank to the sea more than 30 miles in length. Otherwise all would have been cut off, and all would have shared the fate to which King Leopold had condemned the finest Army his country had ever formed. So in doing this and in exposing this flank, as anyone who followed the operations on the map will see, contact was lost between the British and two out of the three corps forming the First French Army, who were still farther from the coast than we were, and it seemed impossible that any large number of Allied troops could reach the coast.
Oh yeah. My database just won't function without the 3D acceleration on my video card. Look, there are only about two or three things that need good 3D video drivers: Games and CAD spring to mind. For everything else, the rate at which data is blitted to the screen is simply not the rate determining step in the workflow.
Then I put it to you that if you consider the real vector space of 2x2 matrices spanned by I = {{1,0},{0,1}} and J = {{0,1},{-1,0}}, then you have a space that is isometrically isomorphic to the complex numbers, without ever having to invent a the square root of (-1), simply because J^2 = -I and a I + b J has the unique inverse (a I - b J) / (a^2+b^2)
So you don't really need complex numbers, but merely a more naturally occuring space identical to them;)
[Yes, yes, I know that complex numbers aren't reall a+ib but (a,b) with a suitable ring operations]
Muggings and street crime aren't a problem in America. In the vast majority of the geographic area, there are hardly any. It's only in inhabited areas that there are problems.
The Polonium available on United Nuclear's site can be purchased without a license because the level of radioactivity, 0.1 microcurie, doesn't pose a danger, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says.
Thanks slashdot, but if I wanted baseless scare mongering about the threat of nuclear material falling into the wrong hands, I'd join the Republican Party.
Shutting down the government showed people some things-- the biggest was that much of the government is superfluous, and that having a good amount of the government not working didn't effect much.
Actually, that's an insanely revisionist view. The reason shutting down the government was an unmitigated disaster for the Republicans (and killed the "Contract With^H^H^H^HOn America" stone dead, was that people did miss it.
They missed libraries, and museums, and all the tiny little things. If it was such a success, why did the Republicans back down so quickly, and how come Clinton was re-elected (the very thing it was designed to prevent?)
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If you think Melinda Doolittle is an untalented jerk, you need your ears syringed.
But yes, most of the rest of them do largely suck.
Except that 'anti' is the opposite of 'pro'.
So, that's a maximum of about 2% of US households. (Assuming, wrongly, that no household has two).
I think my point still stands.
Sure, you and your geeky mates have one, but that's not really the same thing now, is it?
There are more than 300,000,000 Americans, and at least 50,000,000 households in America you know.
How many Wii have been sold in the US? 50,000?
Watch IV and V, then stop. Watch VI if she *demands* to know what happens next.
Some of us rate functionality over minimalist excellence, especially in reference to things with which we are expected to earn our living.
Oh yeah. My database just won't function without the 3D acceleration on my video card.
Look, there are only about two or three things that need good 3D video drivers: Games and CAD spring to mind. For everything else, the rate at which data is blitted to the screen is simply not the rate determining step in the workflow.
Tell your facts to shut up.
They cannot compete with the sheer truthiness of revealed insight.
Then I put it to you that if you consider the real vector space of 2x2 matrices spanned by
;)
I = {{1,0},{0,1}} and J = {{0,1},{-1,0}}, then you have a space that is isometrically isomorphic to the complex numbers, without ever having to invent a the square root of (-1), simply because J^2 = -I and a I + b J has the unique inverse (a I - b J) / (a^2+b^2)
So you don't really need complex numbers, but merely a more naturally occuring space identical to them
[Yes, yes, I know that complex numbers aren't reall a+ib but (a,b) with a suitable ring operations]
Didn't Heisenberg himself formulate QM using matrices rather than complex numbers?
It's a pain in the arse, but it can be done.
Two poorly argued, anonymous comments mean that en.wikipedia self censorship is as bad as China? Sure, whatever.
Muggings and street crime aren't a problem in America.
In the vast majority of the geographic area, there are hardly any. It's only in inhabited areas that there are problems.
Thanks slashdot, but if I wanted baseless scare mongering about the threat of nuclear material falling into the wrong hands, I'd join the Republican Party.
In the Blogosphere, its never too early to shout "The Sky Is Falling!"
i s+falling".
http://www.google.com/search?q=blogspot+"the+sky+
It's called humour (or humor), go look it up.
They missed libraries, and museums, and all the tiny little things. If it was such a success, why did the Republicans back down so quickly, and how come Clinton was re-elected (the very thing it was designed to prevent?)