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[fresh_42]

Stop the print! Now!

Must be the full moon.

It's not full yet.

New headline:

PF always at the front! First occurrence of FTL crackpots reported!
- Science community waiting for confirmation -​

 

[WWGD]

I was having an exchange with a Libertarian who had written several 1000-+-word entries addressing objections to Libertarian positions of different sorts. I asked him: If Libertarianism is such a great idea, why must you write so many essays defending different aspects of it? If it was such a great idea I would think it would sell itself , and it would not be necessary to go to such lengths to defend it.
He replied to that by...referring me to a 5000+-word essay addressing why it is necessary to defend it.

Reminds me of the commercial: Not going anywhere for a while...?

 

[collinsmark]

This thread has made it to over five thousand posts (5002). It's almost a palindrome count.

 

[WWGD]

This thread has made it to over five thousand posts (5002). It's almost a palindrome count.

Common, Mark, you're tempting me to post two non-sensical (i.e., my usual) posts here to have the
5005th spot.

 

[fresh_42]

5115

 

[WWGD]

5115

I was serving it to collinsmark. But it is 5005.

 

[Klystron]

5115

I was serving it to collinsmark. But it is 5005.

Good but short-sighted provided the thread continues to grow. 5335 5555

Arguing by Internet seems futile; though no doubt your Libertarian friend provides fodder for thought.

5115 does posses interesting symmetries.

 

[WWGD]

Unfortunately all the failed experiments are not food for his thought. Try something in a small population, scale it up see how it goes. I bet great leap forward sounded good before trying it... as did many others left- right-.

But, yes 5xx5 it is.

 

[fresh_42]

I was serving it to collinsmark. But it is 5005.

Next ones are at 5016, 5037, 5041, 5049, 5052.

 

[WWGD]

Next ones are at 5016, 5037, 5041, 5049, 5052.

Palindromes?

 

[fresh_42]

Si.

 

[WWGD]

No, Vato.

 

[fresh_42]

Sure they are, with the same right as 5005 is.

 

[WWGD]

Sure they are, with the same right as 5005 is.

But not the same left...

 

[fresh_42]

Mirror symmetry to the center, some of odd and some of even length.

 

[dlgoff]

Love those Kansas thunder storms.

 

[nitsuj]

Today I learned the creator and writer of Deadwood has dementia. And that we (fans of Deadwood) got the Deadwood movie in the "nick of time".

The New Yorker article / interview of David Milch

Side note wow the New Yorker writes at a high level, between their interviewer / writer and Milch I had to google a few words to get meaning beyond that implied by context.

How good of a "writer's mind" does Milch have? Here's stage two of three dementia impacted David Milch brain...

Singer: I’m sitting here listening to you, and you’re describing what you’re describing, and there is to me an immense irony: this is the same mind that I’ve known for as long as I’ve known you.

Milch: That’s a blessing of this conversation, and I’m concentrating and thinking as hard as I can. I’m asking for the grace and dignity of a lucid cogitation. I’m asking of my faculties, such as they are, in whatever diminution they are, to meet you fairly.

 

[Ibix]

Just bought something online and paid by card. The card expiry date field defaulted to January 2013.

Hmmm.

 

[fresh_42]

I never had a special look on the potatoes I bought. Unless recently. I apparently grabbed a sort which is incredibly wet inside. It was awful, so for the first time ever I had a look on the name to avoid future mistakes. It's called Synergy and they were from Egypt. Now that I know that half the Nile is inside their potatoes, which made me wonder, since they need their water themselves, I also have an idea what synergy meant: they crossed watermelons in!

 

[fresh_42]

I just found an old article: "On the Theory of Triads" (Kristiania 1921)
Fortunately it wasn't Chinese. But if you read those old texts, then $\otimes$ is really a relief in notation. Someone should tell physicists as they still stick with their coordinate notation.

 

[fresh_42]

Does anyone know where I can apply for a new ICD-10 entry, Algebrabstractaphobia F40.2?

 

[WWGD]

Didn't really expect this one: Sunshine, this woman sitting close to me at Sbux, asking me if I want to " Take it Outside". " You really want to do it, bro?" EDIT: She left, we did not rumble. I know I cannot win in a situation like this. Frankly seemed like a hidden camera thing.

 

[WWGD]

Guess it makes sense Oberlin (O-Berlin) is in Ohio ( O-hio), but not in O-Germany.
Then again, PMoscow is not in PRussia.

 

[fresh_42]

Guess it makes sense Oberlin (O-Berlin) is in Ohio ( O-hio), but not in O-Germany.
Then again, PMoscow is not in PRussia.

It isn't in O-Germany, but in O-Deutschland. PM cannot be spoken. But there is a Moskau in N-Switzerland.

 

[WWGD]

It isn't in O-Germany, but in O-Deutschland. PM cannot be spoken. But there is a Moskau in N-Switzerland.

As well as in Idah-O. Michelle PFeiffer should be leader of PRusssia.

 

[fresh_42]

As well as in Idah-O. Michelle PFeiffer should be leader of PRusssia.

There is indeed some kind of connection between Pfeiffer (with 3 f) and PRussia. Not quite PRussia, but it's mentality which counts here.

 

[fresh_42]

We live in a world where food is full of chemistry, but the cosmetics are full of avocado, honey and vitamins.

 

[Ibix]

We live in a world where food is full of chemistry, but the cosmetics are full of avocado, honey and vitamins.

My wife once told the girl in a cosmetics shop that she really wanted to buy the eye shadow she was looking at but, as a chemistry lecturer, if she was told one more time that there were no chemicals in it then she'd have to walk out.

 

[fresh_42]

My wife once told the girl in a cosmetics shop that she really wanted to buy the eye shadow she was looking at but, as a chemistry lecturer, if she was told one more time that there were no chemicals in it then she'd have to walk out.

That's why I changed 'chemicals' to 'chemistry' which stresses the synthetic aspect instead of just 'stuff'.

 

[fresh_42]

I always thought I had an idea how it came to Paris (TX), Athens (GA) or Берлин (RU, Ural). But what had happened here?

 

[fresh_42]

The nutrition fundamentalists become more and more annoying. I just bought apple juice (100%) and the company actually felt the need to print "vegan" on its label! I'm getting old. I don't understand this world anymore.

 

[BillTre]

The nutrition fundamentalists become more and more annoying. I just bought apple juice (100%) and the company actually felt the need to print "vegan" on its label! I'm getting old. I don't understand this world anymore.

I feel a lot of this is marketing (in the US anyway).
You are lucky it was not also labelled gluten free and caffeine free also.

 

[fresh_42]

I feel a lot of this is marketing (in the US anyway).
You are lucky it was not also labelled gluten free and caffeine free also.

The only adjective I was really interested in was sugarfree. Additional sugar of course, the natural fructose is o.k.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, met this guy today who is an Excel Intern at the end of his 1st year. How much can you learn with it?
And #$% forgot to ask him why I need to install the Analysis Pak every &^% time I use Excel instead of it remaining there.

 

[WWGD]

How do you tell them appart:

Your Great Great Great Grandfather, and your Great Great Grandfather who happens to be great?

 

[fresh_42]

Use another language.

 

[WWGD]

Like what?

 

[fresh_42]

Like what?

We say "ur-" for great, and grandfather is the same "groß-vater". Thus you can have a great (großartig) ururururururururururururururururgroßvater. And it's shorter And even shorter if you replace grandfather by "opa".

 

[WWGD]

. And it's shorter And even shorter if you replace grandfather by "opa".

He was not shorter, he was very tall.(Practicing being purposefully obtuse, which seems to come naturally easy).

 

[fresh_42]

He was not shorter, he was very tall.

Hard to believe: the greater people are the shorter they were! Or is it better to say the more greats here?

 

[WWGD]

He was the shortest tall guy. He was tall for his height.The other one was the world's tallest dwarf.

 

[BillTre]

We say "ur-" for great, and grandfather is the same "groß-vater". Thus you can have a great (großartig) ururururururururururururururururgroßvater. And it's shorter And even shorter if you replace grandfather by "opa".

Isn't Uropa a moon of Jupiter?

 

[fresh_42]

Isn't Uropa a moon of Jupiter?

I know where he is buried. If this is a moon of Jupiter we're in serious trouble!

 

[WWGD]

Isn't Uropa a moon of Jupiter?

My pa? Not quite.

 

[WWGD]

I often get access to the bathroom ASAP when I head there at Starbucks. Strangely I had to wait each of the 3 times I tried today. I study , do my own small-scale ML for those who take long. My profile so far: Those dressed with brand-name clothes/ sun glasses. I have a theory but just speculation.

 

[Bystander]

in was sugarfree.

..., which shall be read, "Artificial Sweetener Added" in the USA, and if you have my taste-buds, that means, "Tastes Like Gasoline, (do NOT buy)."

 

[fresh_42]

..., which shall be read, "Artificial Sweetener Added" in the USA, and if you have my taste-buds, that means, "Tastes Like Gasoline, (do NOT buy)."

I don't buy juices or soft drinks with artificial sweetener. Either I drink coke, aware of all the sugar, or I leave it. And in apple juice you do not need anything. Mother nature already sweetened it.

 

[BillTre]

Mother nature already sweetened it.

Actually, selective agricultural breeding.
No natural apples were likely used.

 

[fresh_42]

Actually, selective agricultural breeding.
No natural apples were likely used.

After approximately 5,000 years and a journey around the globe, there are probably no "natural" apples left anywhere.

 

[fresh_42]

The ESTA Paradoxon:

I just recognized that it is impossible for me to enter the US. They require a so called ESTA application. And here is why I cannot apply for a permission:
If I lie on the form, I will commit a crime and the application will be denied.
If I tell the truth, then the form does not accept my telephone number. It is too short and the US says it is invalid.

Next time I receive a call from the US I have to tell them that they dialed an invalid number ...

McCOY: The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.