I used Airbnb to book an apartment for a week in Manhatten near Union Square. Perfect Experience, everything went smooth, loved it. Owner let us use her Transit card, even. Could not have gone better.
Read this and make your own conclusions regarding who supports Trump and what voting Republicans believe.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-super-tuesday-republican-exit-poll-analysis/story?id=37309493
Read this...
Humans are designed to be connected socially, so abandoning that feels strange. But, you can do that with the confidence that you will adapt and make new connections, because that is how we are wired. That doesn't mean you truly forget about or abandon your old friends, just that you strike...
At age 29 I packed up everything and went to a new city where I had visited a week before and found a job (after spending 6 months as a ski bum). I knew no-one. I was both nervous and thrilled (exhilarated?), because I knew this would be a unique experience, probably be the only time in my...
I'm not waffling in any way. Just read what I said. All your hocus-pocus rationalization stuff is off the mark. For the most part Trump's support is clear and simple.
We will just have to disagree on how racist this country really is and how narrow minded Trump supporters are. Do you think...
This concept that Trump supporters are somehow symbolically slapping the party by supporting Trump is pure nonsense. They support Trump because they like what he says. They support torture, think illegal immigrants are violent criminals, think we need a wall, etc etc etc.
If you want to...
Are you speaking in terms of choosing a lifestyle (outdoors, country, city, rugged, lazy, comfortable) or an intellectual discipline (gamer, student, writer, designer, researcher)? Or choose between passtimes (Hiking, mountain climbing, biking, )
You want to be a prospector? Fisherman? Guide...
In any sport requiring athletic precision you must be "In The Zone" to do well. People call it muscle memory, the unconscious, etc etc, but you need to get your conscious analysis out of the way of your training. As soon as you "consciously think about it", you lose it (short circuit the...
https://archive.org/details/animationandcartoons
Watch betty boop "minnie the moocher"
I love the looney toons. Some especially good offbeat ones are:
1949 Dough For The Do-Do
1950 Rabbit Of Seville
1938 Have You Got Any Castles
1946 Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The
1939 Daffy Duck And The...
Raw horsemeat
Whale -- Kind of like fishy steak.
BBQ chicken cartilage (triangular tips from chicken breast)
The usual selection of insects and fish eggs and other fishy weirdnesses
What the english call toast (bread soaked in fat)
Alligator po'boy (New Orleans)
Various Meaty Organs (unavoidable...
We live in a propaganda state, professionally managed by media moguls and marketing experts. For the most part people think what they are emotionally manipulated to think, through materialistic persuasion, the politics of fear, etc etc etc. It all started with the Committee for Public...
Wow --- no logic there at all. The original statement stands. Maybe there were more "divine creation believers" in the past, but that doesn't change how many there are now nor how scary that is.
My very strong opinions follow, I'm just saying it like I think it is:
My country is full of racist bigots who like what Trump says. Simple as that, really. No tolerance for other cultures, other religions, other races, even women.
The underclasses are afraid someone else will get a better...
Here is a link that describes a large health insurance program. (I think regence is the largest)
Regence has group plans, family plans, individual plans, medicare advantage plans, and many other sub categories related to primary care physicians, preferred providers, contract providers, and so...
Wonder why the public demands what it does (what it is told to demand). If you are interested, it started with the Committee for Public Information (Creel Commission) formed by Wilson to get us into WWI. It got a BIG boost by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Now we have Citizen's United...
That misses the whole point, that people who need the better coverage can't get it and your numbers don't show that. HSA's coupled with HDP's were created for people like you, and they work well. But, try having kids, getting old, getting a serious condition, etc, and your tune will change...
US health care rates poor for accessibility and not that good for plain quality. It is the clear winner for highest cost per capita. It's a travesty that US corporations make huge profits on poor health. It also incentivizes treating symptoms over curing causes. (BTW, I am in the US and have...
Don't engrave on the surface. Do something like this (use lasers) http://www.crystalawards.biz/crystal_spheres_balls/ (not with glass, though, since it flows)
Engrave inside multiple diamond spheres and bury in a desert in the middle of a continental shelf is about the best you will do on...
I have to list two. Sorry. Both are informative fun reading.
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester describes European Civilization leading up to Magellan's Voyage (when science conquers religion)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316545562/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Chaos: Making a New Science by...
I knew a guy for a while, turned out he thought global warming was the biggest scam ever perputrated on the human race. Told me about a few books he read that proved it is a hoax. He said "Show me a *book* that proves global warming is real!" Turned out he felt the Wistar conference proved...
It's funny because I could never study at the library. The silence was deafening and people trying to be quiet, thunderous. Too many cute distractions too.
What specific problems do you have studying at home?
Have you tried a coffehouse? Bookstore?
I watch cartoons, from South Park to Sponge Bob to Betty Boop, lots of old loony toons, and Anime. I guess I'll watch Deathnote based on the posts here.
Hopefully not many children watched Team America World Police!
Favorite Betty Boop is Minnie the Moocher (at internet archive)
... responsibly suppressing tangent jokes ...
I pretty much use the web to do my integrals, but I sure liked the construction paper idea. Luckily I never had a curve that would cause me to resort to such a tactic, but now it's in my toolbox.
Basically the US will continue to be controlled more and more by short term corporate interests. Corporate ownership of the media, ownership of congress, and raw economic power make that an easy prediction. I don't see how that can ever be curtailed (although people are trying...
I was communicating telepathically with the Earths' creators the other day and they mentioned how hard it was to create the Ancient Alien data. But not nearly so hard as faking the fossil record.
We seemed to have strayed from "Best Songs Ever". Do the posters really believe all these are songs worthy of that level of praise? Beginning to feel a lot like "Music I like Today". Just sayin'.
I don't understand what you were originally asking about, in that you inferred your requirement was different than earplugs.
That said:
Consumer grade active noise cancelling headphones have their place, but are not really all that quiet.
The highest rated earmuffs are around 33dB (NRR) (...
meditation, biofeedback techniques. Nothing that qualifies as "physics", that I am aware of, can simply produce "soundlessness" in the mind. There are books about mind, self, and thoughts that propose a relationship, but this is philopsophy, not physics...
Great cartoon!
What's the difference between an apple?
My favorite question is Steven Wright's
What would chairs look like if our knees bent the other way?
But some classical nonsense ones are:
Which is heavier, red or yellow?
Which is happier, a fork or a spoon?
Two people are walking to the...
Putting it simply --- Using the solutions manual is giving up. You don't want to get in the habit of giving up.
Using the solution manual is like working through the examples in the text. You think you learned it, but when you get to the homework you find out you don't have a clue. I call...
The answer I like is described by Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" which is available to read online.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827