But what if the guy slumped behind the wheel of the pickup was your dad? Or if his driverless vehicle slammed into your kids (in fact, the pickup did nearly hit Innes' minivan, containing Innes' kids)?
Is State Farm his insurance company, or the other guy's?
Well, State Farm's website says "State Farm® is a mutual company owned by our policyholders." So neither of the two men wholly owns State Farm.
TFA happens to mention that Pace* is a policy holder, and does not mention whether Innes* is also a policyholder. So to answer your question, Pace partially owns State Farm, and in some sense, it is "his insurance company", Innes may also be a policyholder, and therefore it may be "his" as well.
(*I'll let you figure out which one is 'the other guy', perhaps by reading TFA yourself)
I was expecting, and would be much more interested, in seeing documentation on how to build a telegraph using basic medieval technology (i.e. assuming the existence of metal tools, furnaces, and animal/water-powered machines)
I actually like the name LibreOffice more than OpenOffice. Also, a new name gives them a chance to shed the negative baggage that was associated with the OpenOffice name while still being able to point back to it for creditability.
I'm interested to see how the change the association with Microsoft's "Office Open XML" file format.
In other words, which gets more traction from the other--OOXML or OOo?
Sorry, I meant to say "I know that 1/9 = 0.111..."
I think the average (non-mathy) person sees 1/9 as a fraction (especially in the US where fractions are more common in commerce than elsewhere), and it isn't necessarily intuitive that if they divide 1 by 9 through long division they will get a result that demonstrates there will be a 0.111... with repeating decimal. At most, they'll plop it into their calculator but that just cuts off the digits.
How are we measuring the distance between the cat and mouse? Are we measuring from the centres of gravity? Or the skin surface? or the edge of the last hair? Are we measuring from the nucleus or the edge of the electron field of the outermost atom? If a static charge develops between their furs, does that count as having reached it? Or only if they exchange electrons?
Unfortunately, your proof is not valid. You are trying to prove something which you postulate in your first step. How do you know 1/9 equals 0.1111111.... ?
Pretty damn easily. Go do your long division, and you will clearly see that the one will repeat forever.
Right, and if you had included that step in your proof, it would have been more complete.
I know that 1/9 = 1.999..., but then I also know that 1 = 0.999..., because I've seen proofs for them already. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate this to people who aren't already well versed in mathematics.
When I signed the 3-year contract I'm 2.5 years into, the contract only had the name of the plan. Nowhere in the contract were the terms of this plan outlined (e.g. number of daytime hours, system access fee included/extra, free nights and weekends, what time nights start and end, etc.). However, the guy assured me that the System Access Fee was included in the plan. I even had him write out these details on the contract.
On my next bill, when I was charged the $9/month System Access Fee on top of the plan, I went back into the store and confronted them. The manager said that "System Access Fee included" was only on MY copy of the contract--not theirs--so it wasn't legit.
I didn't have the time, money, or patience to take them to court, so I instead signed onto the cheapest plan I could get until the contract expired and vowed to never do business with Bell Canada again.
Call them again and ask. You have to speak with the one guy in the call centre who knows how the systems work and isn't afraid to apply that knowledge.
Before I got a text messaging plan and I just had a voice-only plan (on my Blackberry, because it was the cheapest plan to wait out my contract), I was dinged $0.15 for each text I received (even though I have no control over this). The first few times I asked them to remove this, they said it wasn't possible for my phone.
Eventually, after calling tech support about some other issue, I mentioned this problem to the tech and he disabled text messages.
(Maybe they had made it easier for their techs to do this after people like me would call and waste ten minutes of their CSRs' time for each bill with a $0.15 charge...)
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I guess that explains why the disambiguation page on my mailbox didn't send all my bills to my neighbour like I hoped it would.
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Sure everyone will get along if you run everyone with a different opinion off or ban them.
In other words...
Wikipedia
Everybody get along
Everybody left
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So that's what happens when you feed the trolls...
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You ask "what about his kids in the back seat?"
But what if the guy slumped behind the wheel of the pickup was your dad? Or if his driverless vehicle slammed into your kids (in fact, the pickup did nearly hit Innes' minivan, containing Innes' kids)?
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Is State Farm his insurance company, or the other guy's?
Well, State Farm's website says "State Farm® is a mutual company owned by our policyholders." So neither of the two men wholly owns State Farm.
TFA happens to mention that Pace* is a policy holder, and does not mention whether Innes* is also a policyholder. So to answer your question, Pace partially owns State Farm, and in some sense, it is "his insurance company", Innes may also be a policyholder, and therefore it may be "his" as well.
(*I'll let you figure out which one is 'the other guy', perhaps by reading TFA yourself)
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I was expecting, and would be much more interested, in seeing documentation on how to build a telegraph using basic medieval technology (i.e. assuming the existence of metal tools, furnaces, and animal/water-powered machines)
Is 1684 close enough for you?
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...tiniest batteries on Earth, the largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of sand
Call the Guiness people--these might be the biggest smallest batteries out there!
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It says he was a leading expert in his field. I'm guessing the field was data compression.
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You forgot Iceland's Enya. (Lucky bastard--I wish I could!)
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If they just act without thinking, why not use machines instead?
Machines can't tell the difference between right and wrong (where "right" = agreeing with the state).
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Unfortunately, Ontario doesn't have anti-SLAPP legislation. Contact your MPP to fix this!
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So far as "bootless" goes, my old PDA is ready for use virtually instantaneously.
And so long as you never let the batteries fully discharge, your data will be there, too!
(Data loss was the main reason why I stopped using PDAs in the early 2000s)
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The SPI for balancing the US Federal budget is 10 years
A balanced US Federal budget is possible within around ten years from 2010, so long as you're not counting forward in time.
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I actually like the name LibreOffice more than OpenOffice. Also, a new name gives them a chance to shed the negative baggage that was associated with the OpenOffice name while still being able to point back to it for creditability.
I'm interested to see how the change the association with Microsoft's "Office Open XML" file format.
In other words, which gets more traction from the other--OOXML or OOo?
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i'm not sure how tacking an english word onto a Spanish one makes sense.
It's French, not Spanish.
Both of which are derived from Latin.
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That is the same energy as a 1e6 kg train moving at ~80 mph, so the comparison is not as daft as it would seem.
I hope the trains don't take as long to get to full speed!
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Sorry, I meant to say "I know that 1/9 = 0.111..."
I think the average (non-mathy) person sees 1/9 as a fraction (especially in the US where fractions are more common in commerce than elsewhere), and it isn't necessarily intuitive that if they divide 1 by 9 through long division they will get a result that demonstrates there will be a 0.111... with repeating decimal. At most, they'll plop it into their calculator but that just cuts off the digits.
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How are we measuring the distance between the cat and mouse? Are we measuring from the centres of gravity? Or the skin surface? or the edge of the last hair? Are we measuring from the nucleus or the edge of the electron field of the outermost atom? If a static charge develops between their furs, does that count as having reached it? Or only if they exchange electrons?
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Stay on topic! We're not trying to prove that 1 = 2, we're trying to prove that 1 = 0.999...
If you want to prove 1 = 0.999... using "a"s and "b"s, use this proof:
a = 1
b = 0.999...
a = b
1 = 0.999...
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Unfortunately, your proof is not valid. You are trying to prove something which you postulate in your first step. How do you know 1/9 equals 0.1111111.... ?
Pretty damn easily. Go do your long division, and you will clearly see that the one will repeat forever.
Right, and if you had included that step in your proof, it would have been more complete.
I know that 1/9 = 1.999..., but then I also know that 1 = 0.999..., because I've seen proofs for them already. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate this to people who aren't already well versed in mathematics.
- RG>
When I signed the 3-year contract I'm 2.5 years into, the contract only had the name of the plan. Nowhere in the contract were the terms of this plan outlined (e.g. number of daytime hours, system access fee included/extra, free nights and weekends, what time nights start and end, etc.). However, the guy assured me that the System Access Fee was included in the plan. I even had him write out these details on the contract.
On my next bill, when I was charged the $9/month System Access Fee on top of the plan, I went back into the store and confronted them. The manager said that "System Access Fee included" was only on MY copy of the contract--not theirs--so it wasn't legit.
I didn't have the time, money, or patience to take them to court, so I instead signed onto the cheapest plan I could get until the contract expired and vowed to never do business with Bell Canada again.
- RG>
Call them again and ask. You have to speak with the one guy in the call centre who knows how the systems work and isn't afraid to apply that knowledge.
Before I got a text messaging plan and I just had a voice-only plan (on my Blackberry, because it was the cheapest plan to wait out my contract), I was dinged $0.15 for each text I received (even though I have no control over this). The first few times I asked them to remove this, they said it wasn't possible for my phone.
Eventually, after calling tech support about some other issue, I mentioned this problem to the tech and he disabled text messages.
(Maybe they had made it easier for their techs to do this after people like me would call and waste ten minutes of their CSRs' time for each bill with a $0.15 charge...)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Among other similar copy-protection features on banknotes.
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1.It works with Slashdot comments, too.
2. For example, in line 3 of this comment, I make an extremely poignant and insightful comment:
4. And it's as if it was never there! Powerful stuff.
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The entire city is constantly jammed because two lanes streets are turned into a narrow one lane street
Sounds like Copenhagen before they started focusing on bicycles, public transit, and pedestrians (who are now, by far, in the majority).
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