sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sq rt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2) will work just as well. It knows to evaluate from right to left.
I stand corrected. We don't get much in the way of Blackadder reruns on this side of the pond and I remember it wrong. I saw the incorrect quote on a British news website however.
Being a carrier for cystic fibrosis is probably a defense against diarrhea, which makes it a defense against cholera and typhoid fever, as well as other diseases. Carriers of cystic fibrosis may have some disadvantages in life when it comes to sports, on the other hand, if cholera wipes out a medieval village, the few survivors may all be carriers, and perpetuate the gene into future generations, where the carriers may be at a disadvantage in daily life... until the next epidemic
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/cysfib.htmlhttp://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may98/niaid-06.htm
Yeah, the brand name "Aspirin" used to belong to Bayer. It became so widely used that in some countries the courts rules that anyone could use it for ASA. In short, Bayer's brand name became so successful that they lost control of it.
Here we have two errors, one, your misspelling of "doesn't" showing a lack of attention to detail, and two, your emphatic "period" at the end of an absolutist statement, generally a sign of a weak argument.
Personally, I've spent $24K on Adwords, selling diode lasers for machine vision and other laser applications, and I find it a success. Mind you I paid attention to the details. I studied and revised my hundred keywords and my couple dozen ads every month for example.
Look, with Google Adwords and a bit of Javascript on my sales contact pages I can tell what percentage of impressions get clicked on, and what percentage of those bother to visit the sales page. The information is pure gold, since it allows me to rephrase my magazine advertising based upon certain knowledge of what works.
In addition, if you have a commodity that can be sold dirctly off the web (my products are custom made unfortunately) you can exactly compute the cost/benefit of adwords.
One final observation. With ads running around $3K to $5K apiece in photonics magazines why would I risk one before I've tested the keywords and phrasing for a couple of months with Adwords.
p.s., about clickfraud, it hasn't been a problem for me. I once got a $10 refund from Google when they detected it, but regardless, I can tell my advertising is working. Perhaps you need a better product.
Yeah, the US Army Rangers' manual describes how to do it yourself, by exposing the wound to flies that will lay eggs. Of course since you don't get a carefully selected and bred species, you have to pluck out the maggots once it starts to hurt. Many species will eat dead flesh by preference, but move on to living flesh when they run out.
It looks like there is trouble with the company. Their share price has plunged from nearly $10 to almost as low as $5 in the last year. See the
stock price chart
Well I am glad to see that you qualified that with "often". That the brain is still developing has a powerful effect in distorting early memories, sure. But that is offset by the primacy of the memories. They have the advantage of "first post", or the first few posts, so to speak.
I have spoken to many people who remember nothing from before the age of 5 or 6. On the other hand there are a surprising number of adults who can describe, even name, songs, people, toys, places from the age of three or earlier (under accidentally controlled conditions. For instance, my family moved when I was 4, but I can describe the world that was around me before that, including my brother's birth when I was 2 1/2, and the daycare center I attended when I was 3)
Even earlier memories are still there, in every moment of our life. They just aren't the kinds of memories we recall remembering. They are just a part of us.
p.s. I don't count Salvador Dali, who claims to remember things from the womb, hehe.
Why do people do slashdottians sometimes do that? You got modded to -1, funny, Hehe. Well I have one last mod point to give away... wait, now you are up to 0, funny. Well you can have my last point anyway.
Mulroney is an English Canadian. Trudeau was half English. Paul Martin is English (well his mother Scottish and his father Franco Ontarian, which makes him half). Hmm, Kim Campell was English Canadian. Joe Clark was. Deifenbaker was. Nooooo, I see it now: you are a troll.
1. It was never deterimined who killed the SQ officer
Legally it doesn't matter who killed the SQ officer during a firefight between a SWAT team and armed murderous civilians. Incidentally both sides were using M16's and both sides (the Quebec police, not the Army that came in to solve the problem after) were illegally using militarized rounds, and unbelievably both sides were using rounds improperly acquired from the same lot number. This is why we will never know which side fired the bullet.
2. It does not take several weeks to allow non-combatants in a dispute opportunity to leave: there was no siege
I guess you weren't here. I was. The Mohawks were in many places, largely on their own land, with barricades, heavy machine guns, logistics from boats travelling at night, and even landed a plane to remove the 50 Cal at night.
3. The Mohawks were better trained and more disciplined than the Army, many of them having received training in the U.S
I don't think so. The Mohawks have a tradition of joining the Marines, no matter which side of the US/Canada border they come from. That doesn't mean they were in the Fleet, or STA or anything like that. They were obviously not experienced combat soldiers. They were overweight, showed signed of years of binge drinking, and I doubt any of them were ever officers. The Canadian troops they faced on the other hand included a unit from the "Van Dooze" (Royal 22nd regiment) by day and Joint Task Force Two, the Canadian equivalent of US special forces, by night. The JTF 2 terrorised your supposed better trained Mohawk Warriors by sneaking into their guarded camps at night and leaving notes, cutting wires etc. They terrorised the Afghanis more recently, if you recall, before capturing them.
Your comment about them being wimps is strange. There were many Mohawks women and children involved. You simply make no sense. Wounded Knee lasted 71 days and the Oka crisis lasted 78 days. Seems pretty similar. Why would an intellectual peanut like you think that the Canadian Forces should have gone in blasting US and Canadian civilians (yes many of the Mohawks were US citizens. Do you think the Canadian army, with years of peacekeeping experience in Crete, Bosnia, etc. was going to play Rambo with US citizens?) So when you say that it was a simpler situation than Wounded Knee you are just making things up as you go along.
We don't have a Bosnia here because the Canadian Forces handled the situation professionally. I've gone into the reservations many times since the crisis. Into both Kanawake (to play golf) and Oka. Do you think I could still do that if Canada's professional armed forces had done as you suggested?
It took one third the army to put down a native Indian uprising protesting development of a golf course expansion in O.K.A. in the mid-90s, and it took them some six weeks to get the job done. Idiots even, quite likely, They didn't shoot and kill one of their own, as you say.
The Mohawks in Oka (not O.K.A.) were protesting the building of a golf course on a gravesite, and they killed a Sûreté du Québec policeman, who would be the equivalent of a state trooper. The Canadian Army took several weeks to move in slowly and arrest the perpetrators. Slowly to make sure no women or children were killed (In the end they killed no one and the Mohawks killed no more; not one of their (the army's) own, as you say). They did this slowly also because and Mohawks has support, and weapons, from other Mohawks, across the border in the US of A. Weapons including a 50 caliber machine gun, and idealogically motivated Iroquois from the Warrior Society.
I recall that there have been many similar situations in U.S. history that ended less well: Wounded Knee and Waco come to mind.
You misrepresent the "notwithstanding clause" which allows provincial governments, not the federal government to ignore a federal ruling for a limited period of time.
Gad, HP was a great company. The HP 65 could factor an 8 digit number is 8 minutes or less (in 1977 I used to prove that my phone number 9320159 was prime). It could be programmed to play a perfect game of wythoff's nim (queenboard) on a 10^9 by 10^9 board in only 100 steps of memory.
My HP 48GX sucks by comparison. It is relatively harder to use.
The 67 was great too. Why HP never got around to putting a very simple high level language on their calculators around 1979 or 80 I will never know. I guess it was not Carly Fiorina's fault though.
We had pints of milk delivered to the door in the North of Scotland in the early 70's. That ended pretty soon after. My grandmother would sometimes skim the cream of the top of the pint.
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sqrt(2)^sqrt(2) ... with 32 terms is equal to 1.9999
check it empirically by entering this as a google search:
sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt( 2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^(sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)))))))))
You don't actually need all the brackets:
sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sq rt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2) will work just as well. It knows to evaluate from right to left.
I stand corrected. We don't get much in the way of Blackadder reruns on this side of the pond and I remember it wrong. I saw the incorrect quote on a British news website however.
"bad weather is God's way of telling us we should burn more Catholics." (Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder)
Being a carrier for cystic fibrosis is probably a defense against diarrhea, which makes it a defense against cholera and typhoid fever, as well as other diseases. Carriers of cystic fibrosis may have some disadvantages in life when it comes to sports, on the other hand, if cholera wipes out a medieval village, the few survivors may all be carriers, and perpetuate the gene into future generations, where the carriers may be at a disadvantage in daily life ... until the next epidemic
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/cysfib.html
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may98/niaid-06.htm
Thanks for the sarcasm, I deserved it. I had a hangover after a birthday bash when I wrote that. Always makes me snippy.
Yes, we have very large margins. I looked at your site (one typographical error on the main page, 'Signup me up!' should be "Sign me up!" hehe.)
Hehe, thanks. Typo you know, but that will teach me not to be rude.
Yeah, the brand name "Aspirin" used to belong to Bayer. It became so widely used that in some countries the courts rules that anyone could use it for ASA. In short, Bayer's brand name became so successful that they lost control of it.
Here we have two errors, one, your misspelling of "doesn't" showing a lack of attention to detail, and two, your emphatic "period" at the end of an absolutist statement, generally a sign of a weak argument.
Personally, I've spent $24K on Adwords, selling diode lasers for machine vision and other laser applications, and I find it a success. Mind you I paid attention to the details. I studied and revised my hundred keywords and my couple dozen ads every month for example.
Look, with Google Adwords and a bit of Javascript on my sales contact pages I can tell what percentage of impressions get clicked on, and what percentage of those bother to visit the sales page. The information is pure gold, since it allows me to rephrase my magazine advertising based upon certain knowledge of what works.
In addition, if you have a commodity that can be sold dirctly off the web (my products are custom made unfortunately) you can exactly compute the cost/benefit of adwords.
One final observation. With ads running around $3K to $5K apiece in photonics magazines why would I risk one before I've tested the keywords and phrasing for a couple of months with Adwords.
p.s., about clickfraud, it hasn't been a problem for me. I once got a $10 refund from Google when they detected it, but regardless, I can tell my advertising is working. Perhaps you need a better product.
How could CBS news put "drug addiction" for "drug interdiction"? Their proof reader must have transferred from Dan Rather's staff.
Computers switch to power saving mode when not in use. EPA regulations.
Yeah, the US Army Rangers' manual describes how to do it yourself, by exposing the wound to flies that will lay eggs. Of course since you don't get a carefully selected and bred species, you have to pluck out the maggots once it starts to hurt. Many species will eat dead flesh by preference, but move on to living flesh when they run out.
It looks like there is trouble with the company. Their share price has plunged from nearly $10 to almost as low as $5 in the last year. See the stock price chart
I have spoken to many people who remember nothing from before the age of 5 or 6. On the other hand there are a surprising number of adults who can describe, even name, songs, people, toys, places from the age of three or earlier (under accidentally controlled conditions. For instance, my family moved when I was 4, but I can describe the world that was around me before that, including my brother's birth when I was 2 1/2, and the daycare center I attended when I was 3)
Even earlier memories are still there, in every moment of our life. They just aren't the kinds of memories we recall remembering. They are just a part of us.
p.s. I don't count Salvador Dali, who claims to remember things from the womb, hehe.
It is an interesting fact. Thanks.
Okay, I see that I am a newbie! Now I can't mod cause I posted. Duh...
Why do people do slashdottians sometimes do that? You got modded to -1, funny, Hehe. Well I have one last mod point to give away ... wait, now you are up to 0, funny. Well you can have my last point anyway.
How do you know about the 1950's blockade? Most slashdotters weren't even born then? Just curious.
Mulroney is an English Canadian. Trudeau was half English. Paul Martin is English (well his mother Scottish and his father Franco Ontarian, which makes him half). Hmm, Kim Campell was English Canadian. Joe Clark was. Deifenbaker was. Nooooo, I see it now: you are a troll.
Legally it doesn't matter who killed the SQ officer during a firefight between a SWAT team and armed murderous civilians. Incidentally both sides were using M16's and both sides (the Quebec police, not the Army that came in to solve the problem after) were illegally using militarized rounds, and unbelievably both sides were using rounds improperly acquired from the same lot number. This is why we will never know which side fired the bullet.
2. It does not take several weeks to allow non-combatants in a dispute opportunity to leave: there was no siege
I guess you weren't here. I was. The Mohawks were in many places, largely on their own land, with barricades, heavy machine guns, logistics from boats travelling at night, and even landed a plane to remove the 50 Cal at night.
3. The Mohawks were better trained and more disciplined than the Army, many of them having received training in the U.S
I don't think so. The Mohawks have a tradition of joining the Marines, no matter which side of the US/Canada border they come from. That doesn't mean they were in the Fleet, or STA or anything like that. They were obviously not experienced combat soldiers. They were overweight, showed signed of years of binge drinking, and I doubt any of them were ever officers. The Canadian troops they faced on the other hand included a unit from the "Van Dooze" (Royal 22nd regiment) by day and Joint Task Force Two, the Canadian equivalent of US special forces, by night. The JTF 2 terrorised your supposed better trained Mohawk Warriors by sneaking into their guarded camps at night and leaving notes, cutting wires etc. They terrorised the Afghanis more recently, if you recall, before capturing them.
Your comment about them being wimps is strange. There were many Mohawks women and children involved. You simply make no sense. Wounded Knee lasted 71 days and the Oka crisis lasted 78 days. Seems pretty similar. Why would an intellectual peanut like you think that the Canadian Forces should have gone in blasting US and Canadian civilians (yes many of the Mohawks were US citizens. Do you think the Canadian army, with years of peacekeeping experience in Crete, Bosnia, etc. was going to play Rambo with US citizens?) So when you say that it was a simpler situation than Wounded Knee you are just making things up as you go along.
We don't have a Bosnia here because the Canadian Forces handled the situation professionally. I've gone into the reservations many times since the crisis. Into both Kanawake (to play golf) and Oka. Do you think I could still do that if Canada's professional armed forces had done as you suggested?
The Mohawks in Oka (not O.K.A.) were protesting the building of a golf course on a gravesite, and they killed a Sûreté du Québec policeman, who would be the equivalent of a state trooper. The Canadian Army took several weeks to move in slowly and arrest the perpetrators. Slowly to make sure no women or children were killed (In the end they killed no one and the Mohawks killed no more; not one of their (the army's) own, as you say). They did this slowly also because and Mohawks has support, and weapons, from other Mohawks, across the border in the US of A. Weapons including a 50 caliber machine gun, and idealogically motivated Iroquois from the Warrior Society.
I recall that there have been many similar situations in U.S. history that ended less well: Wounded Knee and Waco come to mind.
You misrepresent the "notwithstanding clause" which allows provincial governments, not the federal government to ignore a federal ruling for a limited period of time.
From my experience that is not true. I moved from Mozilla to Firefox. I think you made that up.
Late 1900's dude, not late 1700's. Think Lord Kelvin.
My HP 48GX sucks by comparison. It is relatively harder to use.
The 67 was great too. Why HP never got around to putting a very simple high level language on their calculators around 1979 or 80 I will never know. I guess it was not Carly Fiorina's fault though.
We had pints of milk delivered to the door in the North of Scotland in the early 70's. That ended pretty soon after. My grandmother would sometimes skim the cream of the top of the pint.