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You mean something like this: http://sonty.go.ro/bookmarks.html ? greg, I hope you don't mind I didn't ask for a banner (and permission). If you have one send it over...

Think of it in this terms: what if they don't? what happens then?

I'm just thinking not to recognize their quality of being human. Let the RSPCA handle them. And who said anything about not being paid? They are being kept alive. Isn't that enough? If they want out we can introduce a posibility for suicide. The main thing is that you cannot reason with an...

yup, that steve squyres is absolutelly crazy. it's what i would expect from a true scientist. can anyone confirm if he's a physicist? ok, i checked, he's an astronomer. close enough...

All the people you mentioned are still useful. Even the most terible killer. Why kill them when you can painfully torture them? They would make a better example. You could make the "normal" murderers do some hard useless job like carrying a stone up and down some stairs. Death doesn't scare some...

2+1=21

It's good for the morale. It helps everybody sleep better at night, wake up in the morning, go to church and believe they are almost without sin. It also helps keeping the ants in line. Oh, and you believe them when they say they're civilized? Should I remind you the first thing I learned about...

Children's holiday, huh? Who are you kidding? It's the first time I see this Sinterklaas thing going on and I got to see 25 year old people painting thair faces, I learned to duck while the helpers were throwing candy at me and laughed my ass off at the rumours the helpers were telling...

How many times do you roll the dice? The number of times you roll the dice should be up there.

you mean to multiply that 9 times as the event has to occur 9 times. The fact that you'll get the right number is included in the 1/216. Let's say that for a certain round you need the number n, then you have the probability 1/6 to find it on each dice, so 1/216 in total, as you said. So my...

you can expand around 0, of course, or around any other point. The annoying thing is that in the end you have to make all those convergence calculations. you can even go into a Fourier expansion so you won't be integrating polynomials, but cos and sin. whatever. you can always find harder ways...

I guess you could expand it in a series and integrate each term, then pick up the pieces again. If the series wouldn't turn out to be infinite as in this case all will be swell.

Since everybody is putting their own country in the middle of the map. I guess everybody is trying to protect themselves from stupid greedy thieves. Back home I know of a lot of people we usually call "lamers". A lot of kids getting wind of stuff like hacking, cracking or carding. They find...

sorry, they sound the same, i have no idea about any of them so... I should have remembered that second word. what does BPS come from?

I seem to remember Brian Green also talking about a BCS theory in his Elegant Universe. It was a theory allowing predictions on the shape of the Calabi-Yau manifolds and I think it's related to this one in superconductivity and he was also calling it Beyond C(I don't remember) States.