Just like the expectation of an American being a world-class cricket player (who is not an expatriate from a traditional 'cricket' country).
How about an American being a world-class football (soccer) player such as Tim Howard, goalkeeper for the most famous team in the world -- Manchester United of England.
In any case, anyone familiar with mathematics would immediately identify "That Indian Math Guy" as Ramanujan, with no disrespect intended.
This is how creole languages are created. The amazing thing is that regardless of the source languages, the grammatical structures of all creoles are remarkably similar.
I'm curious if there are any major differences in the molecular biology of the inhabitants of this newly discovered ecosystem and the outside world. For example, do the RNA codons encrypt the same amino acids as ours do, etc.
Hmmm. They cancel Farscape (their highest rated show) and order new thirteen episodes of the remake of the unlamented Battlestar Pond^H^H^H^HGalactica?
> Faith is just knowledge unlived. Once you > experience it, either > a) Your belief was wrong, or > b) It becomes fact.
Sounds like what happens during a psychotic break to me.
> Yes, unfortunately both sides continue to > mud-sling the propagranda that these two are > mutually-exclusive.
Sure, believing testimony without evidence is clearly equivalent to the scientific method of model building and eperiment.
"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true, or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by experience and experiment." (Dr.John Lilly)
The Order of the British Empire is the order of chivalry of the British democracy. Valuable service is the only criterion for the award, and the Order is now used to reward service in a wide range of useful activities. Citizens from other countries may also receive an honorary award, for services rendered to the United Kingdom and its people. There are more than 100,000 living members of the Order throughout the world.
Monopolies are not per se illegal under British Law. The top people at De Beers (world diamond monopoly based in London) cannot travel to the US because they are under indictment for illegal trade practices.
BTW he won't be Sir William since he is not a British subject. Neither is Speilberg Sir Steven. However, the difference between an honorary knighthood and a "real" one eludes me.
Yes. Using a properly laid out calculator rather than a qwerty keyboard is much easier for math exploration, etc. I'd like to have the power of J on a handheld but it doesn't run on PalmOS, just MS Windows CE (the last time I checked.)
Politicians survive by persuading the public to re-elect them. The RIAA has made a really good job recently of persuading politicians that most of there electorate are file sharers.
However, money usually buys more votes than issues. The riaa donates LOTS of money to congresscritters' reelection campaigns.
Read the article again. "Last year, California exceeded its allotment of 4.4 million acre feet by 20 percent...Nevada exceeded its own 300,000-acre-foot allotment by about 8 percent last year. <p> Let's see... 8% of 300,000 is 24000. 20% of 4.4 million is 880000, almost three times Nevada's entire allocation! <p> Allocations are usually exceeded when there is excess water. Unfortunately, Nevada is currently in the longest drought in recorded history. In any case, 24000 acre-feet is trivial compared to California's wastefulness.
Nevada's share of the Colorado River water is 1% set in the 1930's. Nevada has never used its entire allotment -- inefficient irrigation of California's Imperial Valley has been using (wasting) the excess. Nevada (and the Las Vegas Valley) has been experiencing the greatest rate of population increase of anywhere in the US. As Nevada's population grows, the allocation must be changed. <p> As for the "wasting of water" by the casinos, there is an aquifer (underground river) running under the Las Vegas strip. The aquifer water is quite hard and not very good for drinking. <p> Las Vegas means "The Meadows" and was settled because of its natural springs and underground water, a green oasis in the middle of the Mohave Desert. <p> Next time, learn the facts before you start blathering.
Since it is well known that genetic scientists cannot count correctly, I wounder if the numbers at the start of the article are accurate or surprising.
Motion picture accounting practices are designed to never show a NET profit regardless of how much GROSS profit the movie makes.
Stan Lee probably had net profit participation.
"In Hollywood you pay interest on the overhead and overhead on the interest."
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Sorry, but 5 games are beatable.
Live poker, but you have to ge really good. Those senior citizens are quite good.
Video poker. Some casinos have VP machines which return over 100% in the long run with correct play and maximum coins bet. However, it's a full time job to be in the long run.
Race books are beatable if you are very good and knowlegable.
Sports books can be beaten as well. The casinos took big hits on basketball over/under bets by a group of players using computerized analysis and prediction software.
Blackjack is beatable at least until they suspect you are counting cards at which point you'll be banned.
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Actually not, a Whoopee Card is a card with all the holes punched out. Used to jam various unit record machines.
How about an American being a world-class football (soccer) player such as Tim Howard, goalkeeper for the most famous team in the world -- Manchester United of England.
In any case, anyone familiar with mathematics would immediately identify "That Indian Math Guy" as Ramanujan, with no disrespect intended.
No matter where you start in any formal mathematical system there are always undefined terms.
> Hmmm... firstly, although mathematics is
> indeed a very precise language, it still fails >to define the number 1.
One is precisely defined as (0)
{ {} }
the set containing the null set (defined as zero) as its only member.
Two is {0,1)
{ {}, { {} } } , etc.
The question of the number of Mersenne primes is open. It might very well be finite.
This is how creole languages are created. The amazing thing is that regardless of the source languages, the grammatical structures of all creoles are remarkably similar.
I'm curious if there are any major differences in the molecular biology of the inhabitants of this newly discovered ecosystem and the outside world. For example, do the RNA codons encrypt the same amino acids as ours do, etc.
Hmmm. They cancel Farscape (their highest rated show) and order new thirteen episodes of the remake of the unlamented Battlestar Pond^H^H^H^HGalactica?
> Faith is just knowledge unlived. Once you
> experience it, either
> a) Your belief was wrong, or
> b) It becomes fact.
Sounds like what happens during a psychotic break to me.
> Yes, unfortunately both sides continue to
> mud-sling the propagranda that these two are
> mutually-exclusive.
Sure, believing testimony without evidence is clearly equivalent to the scientific method of model building and eperiment.
"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true, or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by experience and experiment." (Dr.John Lilly)
The Order of the British Empire is the order of chivalry of the British democracy. Valuable service is the only criterion for the award, and the Order is now used to reward service in a wide range of useful activities. Citizens from other countries may also receive an honorary award, for services rendered to the United Kingdom and its people. There are more than 100,000 living members of the Order throughout the world.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page498.asp
Monopolies are not per se illegal under British Law. The top people at De Beers (world diamond monopoly based in London) cannot travel to the US because they are under indictment for illegal trade practices.
BTW he won't be Sir William since he is not a British subject. Neither is Speilberg Sir Steven. However, the difference between an honorary knighthood and a "real" one eludes me.
Yes. Using a properly laid out calculator rather than a qwerty keyboard is much easier for math exploration, etc. I'd like to have the power of J on a handheld but it doesn't run on PalmOS, just MS Windows CE (the last time I checked.)
However, money usually buys more votes than issues. The riaa donates LOTS of money to congresscritters' reelection campaigns.
Read the article again. "Last year, California exceeded its allotment of 4.4 million acre feet by 20 percent...Nevada exceeded its own 300,000-acre-foot allotment by about 8 percent last year.
<p>
Let's see... 8% of 300,000 is 24000. 20% of 4.4 million is 880000, almost three times Nevada's entire allocation!
<p>
Allocations are usually exceeded when there is excess water. Unfortunately, Nevada is currently in the longest drought in recorded history. In any case, 24000 acre-feet is trivial compared to California's wastefulness.
Nevada's share of the Colorado River water is 1% set in the 1930's. Nevada has never used its entire allotment -- inefficient irrigation of California's Imperial Valley has been using (wasting) the excess. Nevada (and the Las Vegas Valley) has been experiencing the greatest rate of population increase of anywhere in the US. As Nevada's population grows, the allocation must be changed.
<p>
As for the "wasting of water" by the casinos, there is an aquifer (underground river) running under the Las Vegas strip. The aquifer water is quite hard and not very good for drinking.
<p>
Las Vegas means "The Meadows" and was settled because of its natural springs and underground water, a green oasis in the middle of the Mohave Desert.
<p>
Next time, learn the facts before you start blathering.
First paragraph of page 2
If proton decay occurs, then it is unlikey (albeit possible) that any atoms are truly stable.
Since it is well known that genetic scientists cannot count correctly, I wounder if the numbers at the start of the article are accurate or surprising.
The spice must flow!
Nah. M$ uses freeBSD, not Linux. True fact.
Motion picture accounting practices are designed to never show a NET profit regardless of how much GROSS profit the movie makes.
Stan Lee probably had net profit participation.
"In Hollywood you pay interest on the overhead and overhead on the interest."
Sorry, but 5 games are beatable.
Live poker, but you have to ge really good. Those senior citizens are quite good.
Video poker. Some casinos have VP machines which return over 100% in the long run with correct play and maximum coins bet. However, it's a full time job to be in the long run.
Race books are beatable if you are very good and knowlegable.
Sports books can be beaten as well. The casinos took big hits on basketball over/under bets by a group of players using computerized analysis and prediction software.
Blackjack is beatable at least until they suspect you are counting cards at which point you'll be banned.
Molecules (Scientific American Library Series, No 21)
by Peter William Atkins
Does current law imply that I can tape a copy of a TV show and then sell the copy?!?!?!
I thought that was illegal.
the difference between "Payola" and "product placement fees". Why is the first illegal and second one legal?