As a historian and a writer, i never EVER use anything more than arithmetic or geometry. Not being able to do calculus has never ones been a problem in my education or work.
A writer? More likely a troll. But you got a lot of bites - good work.
I'm not shocked that the NSA is reading everyone's phone bill. Outraged, yes, but not shocked.
What is shocking to me is that it's USA Today that's lighting a fire under their ass. Fucking USA Today, which I thought stood for everything that was mediocre and un-thought-provoking in news reporting. My respect for them has gone through the roof lately.
But if youre zipping by an object that emits light, and its light doesnt travel in the same direction as you, its speed component in that direction is also slower than the speed of light, and you can catch up and see the object after you're past it.
No, the light will still appear to you to be going at the speed of light. This is the whole basis of special relativity: light goes at the speed of light relative to you no matter how fast you're going.
> pi cannot be expressed as a ratio of two whole > numbers, and its apparently endless string of > digits is sometimes expressed as 3.14159...
Does the author have a clue what he's talking about? The decimal representation of isn't "apparently" endless - it's actually endless, or else pi could be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers.
> Somebody used my credit card to purchase gas in a US gas station and "it did not fit my usage profile".... Customer protection or privacy invasion?
I've gotten a few of these, but time they called to ask, "Did you spend $800 at Banana Republic Online" and I got to tell them "Fuck, no!" before I was charged, I was pretty pleased with their service.
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Dogg did you really forget X11?
So far I've been (apparently) banned on RedState and been banned on FreeRepublic.
And I have the death sentence in twelve systems.
Try the veal.
As a historian and a writer, i never EVER use anything more than arithmetic or geometry. Not being able to do calculus has never ones been a problem in my education or work.
A writer? More likely a troll. But you got a lot of bites - good work.
Correlation does not mean causation... 'nuff said.
No, but correlation is correlated to causation...
Maybe you're unaware of this, then:0 5/58790
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2003/
It's been tried. The monkeys mostly pissed on the keyboard and then typed five pages of the letter S.
Go to Washington.
> Correlation does not imply causation.
No, but correlation is correlated to causation...
That shit is hilarious. Would that I had mod points...
Now we have another group to call **AA.
It's Gestapo, man. With an A.
I'm not shocked that the NSA is reading everyone's phone bill. Outraged, yes, but not shocked. What is shocking to me is that it's USA Today that's lighting a fire under their ass. Fucking USA Today, which I thought stood for everything that was mediocre and un-thought-provoking in news reporting. My respect for them has gone through the roof lately.
Parent is right on.
I mod this article -1 Troll.
Nah, he was laid off years ago.
Bill would let them? Shouldn't there be a borg icon?
From TFA:
> pi cannot be expressed as a ratio of two whole
> numbers, and its apparently endless string of
> digits is sometimes expressed as 3.14159...
Does the author have a clue what he's talking about? The decimal representation of isn't "apparently" endless - it's actually endless, or else pi could be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers.
He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking.
> Somebody used my credit card to purchase gas in a US gas station and "it did not fit my usage profile". ... Customer protection or privacy invasion?
I've gotten a few of these, but time they called to ask, "Did you spend $800 at Banana Republic Online" and I got to tell them "Fuck, no!" before I was charged, I was pretty pleased with their service.