Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right, But Three Lefts Do.
No, they don't. Three lefts will get you to the intersection just before the one where you were supposed to make a right. Make a little drawing if you don't see that.
What about this one ? It may not be miss universe anymore, it may not be the easiest person to live/work with (I work in another department of the same university and we actively hate anyone from her department), but she is a very fine physics professor.
if you buy a kilo of powdered sugar from an undercover cop, you've just committed a drug crime
Wrong. Under US law, cops cannot pull you to commit a crime. So, they cannot sell drugs or sex. They may leave a bait car for a thief to steal, but cannot put a "STEAL ME" sign on it.
Last month I saw a fantastic documentary on Arte, the French-German culture TV channel. The point of the documentary was that although the moon landing was real, Nixon had been so scared that it would fail, that he ordered to make a fake film about it. As this was decided pretty unexpectedly, they negotiated to use the London based film set for Kubrick's "2001".
They went on explaining that Kubrick as a perfectionist decided to shoot it himself, how the CIA got rid of the witnesses one by one in the seventies, and how eventually Kubrick died "unexpectedly" in 1999, just before he could make some revelations.
The whole documentary was backed with interviews with Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and TV footage from Nixon's White House. None of these interviews were dubbed. They only cut it the right way.
As a critical person, I sat on my chair all the time thinking : "This can't be true ! That'a amazing !". The great thing is they didn't deny the moon landing at all so it made all the rest seem plausible. Then after half an hour they revealed it was all manipulation. The moon hoax theory was a hoax itself. Really a great documentary.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
Not to forget that electrical engines are way less lossy than combustion engines, that friction losses are neglectible, that electrical production in a centralized location can use more efficient pollution filter and that electrical engined don't need to stay running at 1000 rpm when in traffic jams (which traffic jams anyway ?)
The Israelis may commit military actions which are of dubious morality (at best), but they've never sent in suicide bombers
Well what are the settlers if they are not suicide bombers ? Imagine someone bulldozes your house, under a false pretext, like "you knew a brother of the nephew of a bomber" and months later a fascist with a beard comes peacefully build an expensive house on the place you once lived, accompanied by 18 year old kids with machine guns "to protect them". This is just plain provocation. As a matter of fact, I don't even think killing a settler (adults anyway) is terrorism, the settler may not wear an uniform, he is just the centerpiece of occupation army. He should not be there, but I guess UN security council do not apply to Israel. Also, remember that all armed palestinian people are de facto terrorist, as there cannot be such a thing as a regular Palestinian army. It has been reported that palestinian policemen get shot the minute they end their service, because as gun carriers,they are considered terrorists.
And don't tell me that Ariel Sharon in september 2000 was not not a suicide bomber. What he did was outrageous provocation. He was considered, and rightfully so (he was for a while even sued in Belgium, a country with a 'universal competence law' voted to try criminals against humanity outside of belgian territory), as a war criminal. I was going to make a nazi analogon, but you will invoke Godwin on me so I will do the same with one of your more personal friends. Suppose Ossama bin Laden were to make a pilgrimage to his now holy place, Ground Zero, NY, USA, accompanied with 1700 of his thugs with AK47s for protection of his peaceful pilgrimage. Assume further that the mayor of NY were to have no problems with the event, because 911 made him look good (Yeah, I know he resigned). Would you call the widows and orphans that violently protest terrorists ? This was a coup by the right wing to sink the negotiations (Yeah I know they didn't go too well) and gain control.
Don't you tell me that the guy who killed Rabin in 1995 was not a suicide bomber
Don't you dare saying me that the assassin that machine gunned the unarmed people in 199x in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron was not a suicide bomber.
The differences between these suicide bombers and Palestinian suicide bombers are that Israelis suicide bombers don't die because they are stronger, partly because of your American money.
You pay more for your remote than I pay for my TV (a pretty decent one).
Look at the reality:
IT'S *NOT* WORTH IT.
People buying such something really needs to get a life. If you have too much money, buy better vacations, better houses, better studies, give it too the poor, but don't buy a stupid remote with it. Are American geeks not already fat enough ? Do they really need a boring toy to prevent them from standing up ?
You mean 300 kW. kWh is power integrated over time. Indeed it's not much : if I pay zillions $ for a turbine that will only approximately heat pizzas in one oven for about two weeks, you can bet it's not that much.
Well if you had followed economics 101, you would know that
Less demand ==> Lower prices High demand ==> Higher prices
is a pretty bad simplification. There is a great demand for cheap bread, but that doesn't mean cheap bread is expensive.
What offer vs. demand means is that you have two curves, the demand curve and the offer curve. The demand curve is a hyperbolic shaped x-demand/y-price curve: few people want to pay a high price for a good, many people want to pay a low price. The offer curve has the inverse behaviour : many suppliers want to supply high margin goods, few are willing to suppl low margin goods.
We live in a world where there is demand AND offer so the demand and offer curves are plotted on the same chart. As one is rising from 0, and the other is faling to 0, so they must cross at some equilibrium point, the one where the transactions do occur. In fact it is not a point, it is broader, if I enter in a shop and my Coke is.75 euro instead of.70 euro I will buy it anyway.
Fluctuations in offer or demand are translated to the correspondent curve going up or down, setting a new equilibrium point. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Those who had economics 201 are welcome to flame me away.
So when Phoenix 1.0 is finally released, we will be able to fight communism in covert operations, counter the plans of the evil Murdoch, get to save our clumsy friends and build bombs with a refrigerator or a flamethrower with a vibrator ?
Cool ! Phoenix Foundation really rules.
Side joke :
Q:how many 't's are there in "MacGuyver" ? A: 76 : "ta ta ta ta ta ta ta tatata tatata tatatata ta ta ta tatatata tatata tatata tatata tatata tata..."
3.06milliHz ! Wow ! That means about ten clocks an hour ! With the super deep P4 pipeline (20 deep IIRC), it means it will push some 200 "single clock instruction" in just an hour. But beware of pipeline stalls. They better have a solid branch prediction algorithm.
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What about this one ? It may not be miss universe anymore, it may not be the easiest person to live/work with (I work in another department of the same university and we actively hate anyone from her department), but she is a very fine physics professor.
fuck you, loser, I like their ranting and whining, I need it, that's why I said "your daily dose"
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Bringing you your daily dose of ranting and whining since 1983.
Actually the cartoons from 1990 were pretty neat.
You managed to write a two syllable word with two distinct spelling errors. Congrats.
Last month I saw a fantastic documentary on Arte, the French-German culture TV channel. The point of the documentary was that although the moon landing was real, Nixon had been so scared that it would fail, that he ordered to make a fake film about it. As this was decided pretty unexpectedly, they negotiated to use the London based film set for Kubrick's "2001".
They went on explaining that Kubrick as a perfectionist decided to shoot it himself, how the CIA got rid of the witnesses one by one in the seventies, and how eventually Kubrick died "unexpectedly" in 1999, just before he could make some revelations.
The whole documentary was backed with interviews with Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and TV footage from Nixon's White House. None of these interviews were dubbed. They only cut it the right way.
As a critical person, I sat on my chair all the time thinking : "This can't be true ! That'a amazing !". The great thing is they didn't deny the moon landing at all so it made all the rest seem plausible. Then after half an hour they revealed it was all manipulation. The moon hoax theory was a hoax itself. Really a great documentary.
You are so naive
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
Not to forget that electrical engines are way less lossy than combustion engines, that friction losses are neglectible, that electrical production in a centralized location can use more efficient pollution filter and that electrical engined don't need to stay running at 1000 rpm when in traffic jams (which traffic jams anyway ?)
And don't tell me that Ariel Sharon in september 2000 was not not a suicide bomber. What he did was outrageous provocation. He was considered, and rightfully so (he was for a while even sued in Belgium, a country with a 'universal competence law' voted to try criminals against humanity outside of belgian territory), as a war criminal. I was going to make a nazi analogon, but you will invoke Godwin on me so I will do the same with one of your more personal friends. Suppose Ossama bin Laden were to make a pilgrimage to his now holy place, Ground Zero, NY, USA, accompanied with 1700 of his thugs with AK47s for protection of his peaceful pilgrimage. Assume further that the mayor of NY were to have no problems with the event, because 911 made him look good (Yeah, I know he resigned). Would you call the widows and orphans that violently protest terrorists ? This was a coup by the right wing to sink the negotiations (Yeah I know they didn't go too well) and gain control.
Don't you tell me that the guy who killed Rabin in 1995 was not a suicide bomber
Don't you dare saying me that the assassin that machine gunned the unarmed people in 199x in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron was not a suicide bomber.
The differences between these suicide bombers and Palestinian suicide bombers are that Israelis suicide bombers don't die because they are stronger, partly because of your American money.
6)Invent own, original jokes.
You pay more for your remote than I pay for my TV (a pretty decent one).
:
Look at the reality
IT'S *NOT* WORTH IT.
People buying such something really needs to get a life. If you have too much money, buy better vacations, better houses, better studies, give it too the poor, but don't buy a stupid remote with it. Are American geeks not already fat enough ? Do they really need a boring toy to prevent them from standing up ?
OOG NO NEANDERTHAL ! OOG CRO MAGNON ! OOG HIT NEANDERTHAL IN THE HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE CD !!
stupid useless lameness filter stupid useless lameness filter
stupid useless lameness filter stupid useless lameness filter
stupid useless lameness filter stupid useless lameness filter
We could start with Sony Bono's lyrics. I heard they would be public domain in 2012^H^H24^H^H45^H^H98^H^H^H^H3012^H^H^H^Hnever
400$ a month ? Dude ! In Brussels, I pay about 50 euro$ a month for gas AND electricity. My rent is about 400 euro$. What do you live in ? a castle ?
Well if you had followed economics 101, you would know that
.75 euro instead of .70 euro I will buy it anyway.
Less demand ==> Lower prices
High demand ==> Higher prices
is a pretty bad simplification. There is a great demand for cheap bread, but that doesn't mean cheap bread is expensive.
What offer vs. demand means is that you have two curves, the demand curve and the offer curve. The demand curve is a hyperbolic shaped x-demand/y-price curve: few people want to pay a high price for a good, many people want to pay a low price. The offer curve has the inverse behaviour : many suppliers want to supply high margin goods, few are willing to suppl low margin goods.
We live in a world where there is demand AND offer so the demand and offer curves are plotted on the same chart. As one is rising from 0, and the other is faling to 0, so they must cross at some equilibrium point, the one where the transactions do occur. In fact it is not a point, it is broader, if I enter in a shop and my Coke is
Fluctuations in offer or demand are translated to the correspondent curve going up or down, setting a new equilibrium point. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Those who had economics 201 are welcome to flame me away.
... but couldn't people be nice to each other for a change ?
So when Phoenix 1.0 is finally released, we will be able to fight communism in covert operations, counter the plans of the evil Murdoch, get to save our clumsy friends and build bombs with a refrigerator or a flamethrower with a vibrator ?
Cool ! Phoenix Foundation really rules.
Side joke :
Q:how many 't's are there in "MacGuyver" ?
A: 76 : "ta ta ta ta ta ta ta
tatata
tatata
tatatata ta ta ta
tatatata tatata tatata tatata tatata tata..."
3.06milliHz ! Wow ! That means about ten clocks an hour ! With the super deep P4 pipeline (20 deep IIRC), it means it will push some 200 "single clock instruction" in just an hour. But beware of pipeline stalls. They better have a solid branch prediction algorithm.