Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[nuuskur]

Rest in pieces :D :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

a " non-trivial " scenario for mistakes.

Isn't this the definition of Windows?

 

[WWGD]

Isn't this the definition of Windows?

Just cc'd minisoft at Redmond to suggest it as their motto:" windows: a scenario for *&^% ups."

 

[nuuskur]

Windows ME, a.k.a Windows More Errors.

 

[Astronuc]

Poles furious after Russia blames them for starting WWII
http://news.yahoo.com/poles-furious-russia-blames-them-starting-wwii-184742712.html

Putin probably needs to have a talk with Sergey Andreev, and find a replacement soon.

 

[HomogenousCow]

What happens if Donald Trump wins the election?
Will the US congress impeach him?
Will he immediately ban all trade with China?
Will he invade Mexico?
Will he ban the concept of Global Warming as it is (as he claims) a fabrication of the Chinese government?
Will the CIA assassinate him before he is sworn in?
Will he construct a one hundred story "Trump Tower" in DC?
Will he make a point to offend every sovereign nation on Earth once a day for his entire time in office?

 

[WWGD]

What happens if Donald Trump wins the election?
Will the US congress impeach him?
Will he immediately ban all trade with China?
Will he invade Mexico?
Will he ban the concept of Global Warming as it is (as he claims) a fabrication of the Chinese government?
Will the CIA assassinate him before he is sworn in?
Will he construct a one hundred story "Trump Tower" in DC?
Will he make a point to offend every sovereign nation on Earth once a day for his entire time in office?

Not sure, but the one who "would tell it like it is " sure comes off as pretty delicate when _others_ tell it like it is about him
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-loses-libel-lawsuit-232923

And the "maverick" non-politician who does not read the polls keeps quoting the bible as his favorite book, not being able to address followup questions : https://www.google.com/search?q=tru...=UTF-8#q=how+many+times+did+trump+cited+bible

 

[HomogenousCow]

I can't say I completely understand how US elections work, but why is he leading in the polls? How does negative media attention actually make you more popular in preliminary surveys? It seems highly ironic that people don't take this stuff seriously but end up complaining about how their presidents are incompetent.

 

[jim hardy]

I can't say I completely understand how US elections work, but why is he leading in the polls?

Americans have always liked political cartoons.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Americans have always liked political cartoons.

I have this persistent feeling Trump will soon be revealed to be a descendent of Moe Howard.

 

[OmCheeto]

Americans have always liked political cartoons.

Don't forget our love of Hollywood.

 

[nuuskur]

ugh..."when he was its**** president" Hurts my eyes, sry, I'll stop now :D

 

[jim hardy]

Don't forget our love of Hollywood.

Indeed. I was hoping for a Tony Soprano / Paul Vitti presidential ticket.
If we're going to have crooked politicians let's be honest about it.

A friend from France once remarked, during Watergate:
"You Americans' attitudes seem strange to us.
You expect honesty in your politicians but don't care how many chemicals and filler additives you eat.
We French expect corrupt public servants but you'd better not mess with our food."

Maybe they're on to something.

old jim

 

[zoobyshoe]

 

[nuuskur]

Blood moon tonight...and it looks like the sky won't be clear any time soon .. what a ripoff :(

same thing during the solar eclipse -.-

 

[WWGD]

" The Visit" movie, not to my taste. Just needed to break my routine, but could not find any movie that seemed appealing.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm appalled: I just found out one of my favorite authors has killed off one of his best characters.

 

[WWGD]

Saw this guy , in an outdoor yuppie bar, drinking wine with a straw. He also put some ice cubes in it. Maybe it is the new fashion. Maybe he ordered an ice Merlot or something of that sort..

 

[Borek]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...st-to-pollute-water-on-mars?intcid=mod-latest

Just hours after NASA revealed the discovery of water on the surface of Mars, a spokesman for Koch Industries said that the company would spend billions to become the red planet’s first major industrial polluter.

 

[HomogenousCow]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...st-to-pollute-water-on-mars?intcid=mod-latest

What does it mean to pollute an environment which (probably) doesn't support complex life though?

 

[Borek]

You may have missed the /humor/ part of the link.

 

[jim hardy]

Good thing it's too far away for a Viagra billboard.

 

[Lisa!]

It put an smile on my face after a tough day!

 

[OmCheeto]

It put an smile on my face after a tough day!

This put a smile on my face today, as your image may have saved someones life.

 

[WWGD]

Good thing it's too far away for a Viagra billboard.

Koch brothers put two rockets on the surface: a small, pudgy one with a NASA sign and a gigantic one , with a VIAGRA painted on it :).

 

[WWGD]

New strategy for getting more quarters for washing machine when paying: I "add change to the next quarter" . So if I need to pay, say, $4.33, I use a $5 bill and get $.67 in change, instead I pay $5.08 , so the change back is $0.75, i.e., 3 quarters.

 

[Enigman]

Snowden joins Twitter. Follows NSA, chats with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
https://twitter.com/Snowden

 

[WWGD]

Snowden joins Twitter. Follows NSA, chats with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
https://twitter.com/Snowden

So DeGrasse is Greener now in Twitter.

 

[DennisN]

 

[nuuskur]

Uhm, even if there is water, Mars is still more than a small hike away. There's no traffic either, hitchhiking won't work :<
The planet doesn't have any magnetic field, so the sun will destroy any and every life there could possibly be.

 

[OmCheeto]

Snowden joins Twitter. Follows NSA, chats with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
https://twitter.com/Snowden

Less than 24 hours later, and he already has more than a million followers.
Ha! He's still only following one thing/person: The NSA

 

[Astronuc]

And now for something completely different - in US politics - John Fetterman, the 6 foot 8 inch tattooed mayor of Braddock, Pa, who has a Master's degree from Harvard. He is running for US Senate. He is quite accomplished as mayor.

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-john-fetterman-528372803938

 

[DiracPool]

My random thought is...I wonder when Greg's automated "courtesy bump" is going to kick in and knock my quantum physics question back up to the top of the totem pole so I don't end up having the only question in the QM section that never got answered

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Hi, a known person in one of my previous companies asked me to come back and work as a front end developer in his company . I like user-defined XML character mappings and the project offers me good chances to visit and work on world wide 's large web sites of big corps. :D (I am not their creators but at least I have sneaked my head in there). I need advice :((
BTW, I saw my Gold Member gone!

 

[HomogenousCow]

First day of college starts on monday for me, excited. Not looking forward to the 12 hour flight though.

 

[Enigman]

Less than 24 hours later, and he already has more than a million followers.
Ha! He's still only following one thing/person: The NSA

He also apparently has 47 gigs worth of notifications on his email.
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/1...en-twitter-47GB-email-notifications-whoopsies

It seems like he got snowed in.

 

[zoobyshoe]

According to an episode of Mysteries at the Museum I'm currently watching, a Titan missile could devastate an area "900 square miles wide."

 

[Astronuc]

a Titan missile could devastate an area "900 square miles wide."

Probably with a large thermonuclear warhead, or several smaller warheads. π*(17 mi)² = 908 sq. miles.

I remember reading about hydrogen bombs in second grade. The energy involved really impressed me, as did the map showing the scale of destruction on a large city.

 

[WWGD]

First day of college starts on monday for me, excited. Not looking forward to the 12 hour flight though.

That's what I call a long commute ;).

 

[WWGD]

Last week I had the first day since April when I needed a sweater. Today:first day since April that I needed a coat, and had my first hot coffee since then (previously iced, of course). My hope for endless summer shattered again.

 

[WWGD]

Finally figured out why some people walking the streets were wearing surgical masks (obvious): they had the cold/flu and did not want to pass it on to others. I used to think it was the other way around, that these people thought the city was too polluted and they wanted to protect themselves from the pollution.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It is currently -45 F at the South Pole.

 

[nuuskur]

Is that warm? I don't understand how you people can make sense of Fahrenheits :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

Is that warm? I don't understand how you people can make sense of Fahrenheits :D

It's funny because -40 F is just about the same as -40 C. That being the case, you should be able to tell if -45 F is warm or cold.

 

[nuuskur]

oh, -40C, eh? Might have to close the window.

 

[WWGD]

It's funny because -40 F is just about the same as -40 C. That being the case, you should be able to tell if -45 F is warm or cold.

Let's see:

We have : C=(F-32)(5/9). So set F=(F-32)(5/9) , so (9/5)F=F-32 , so 9F=5F-160, so 4F=-160, so F=-40. You got it right on the dot.

 

[WWGD]

I clearly have not still mastered some of the socializing repertoire, like when and how to cut of a conversation when I am doing small talk. An art I have not mastered yet, not by far.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I heard from a friend of mine who were imprisoned months ago for shoplifting that he wasn't allowed to use the restroom while being forced to clean the floor.

 

[OmCheeto]

I heard from a friend of mine who were imprisoned months ago for shoplifting that he wasn't allowed to use the restroom while being forced to clean the floor.

Pfft! Having to use the restroom is a well known method of escape, during disciplinary floor scrubbing.

 

[jim hardy]

I don't understand how you people can make sense of Fahrenheits :D

and

We have : C=(F-32)(5/9). So set F=(F-32)(5/9) , so (9/5)F=F-32 , so 9F=5F-160, so 4F=-160, so F=-40. You got it right on the dot.

I lived most of my life in Florida, so when i first experienced water frozen outdoors it was quite a shock.

When i visited Canada and the radio announcers gave the temperature in Centigrade i was lost.. Who can divide by 9 in their head?
So i came up with this:
Given degC,
Double it,
Subtract 10%
add 32 and you get degF

eg
given -40C
doubles to -80
10% of -80 is -8
subtract -8 from -80 : -80 -(-8) = -72
add 32 = -40F.
Indeed Centigrade and Fahrenheit cross at -40,
which was the temperature at Quebec Winter Carnival. (Crazy Polar Bear Club chopped a hole in the ice and jumped in the water !)

Test of method at more comfortable temperature:
Given 25C
doubles to 50
subtract 10% gives 50 - 5 = 45
add 32 gives 77F ,
and
you can do that in your head while driving...

but i never figured out so easy a way to go F to C .