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Try saying "Crackpot Sockpuppet" three times, fast.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Actually, I quit recently found out that Anthropology is not the same a Archaeology. They always looked like that same word. But then I discovered, that all of my acquaintances, that I admired the most, were all Anthropologists.

I'm pretty sure I will never understand my fellow humans.

Nor chemistry, for that matter.

Come to think of it, all the anthro majors I've known have been pretty cool.

It's like they like all of us humans, because they have been trained to observe us from so far away, we look good o:).
 
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I own a chihuahua.

Chihuahua Property Law

1)If I like it, it's MINE.
2)If it's in my mouth, it's MINE.
3)If I had it a little while ago, it's MINE.
4)If I can take it from you, it's MINE.
5)If it's MINE, it must NEVER be YOURS.
6)If it just looks like mine, it's MINE.
7)If I saw it first, it's MINE.
8)If it's edible, it's MINE.
9)If you have something and put it down, it's MINE.
10)If I chew something up, all the pieces are MINE.
11)If I get tired of it, it's YOURS.
12)If I want it back, it's MINE.

http://jlschihuahuas.com/ChiPropertyLaws.html
 
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collinsmark said:
Anthropology definitely is a science.

Clearly this is incorrect. Physics is the one and only science after all.
 
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WannabeNewton said:
Clearly this is incorrect. Physics is the one and only science after all.

+1...
 
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WannabeNewton said:
Clearly this is incorrect. Physics is the one and only science after all.

Anthropology is just the continuation of physics by other means.
 
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Has anyone seen the new wave of troll comments on YouTube,quite disturbing,specially the links
 
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*first snow first snow first snow first snow*! :biggrin:

As a bonus, it's self shoveling!

bv50p.png
 
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Hi ArcanaNoir!

I miss snow. 70 degrees here today. The "fall" weather just is not coming. It's relentless.
 
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Aw, I missed it. 11/12/13 14:15:16 :-p
 
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Borg said:
Aw, I missed it. 11/12/13 14:15:16 :-p
Well, you'll have another chance in a month at 11/12/13 14:15:16.
 
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good god... I forgot that 99 * 2 = 198...

ya imam malo mozga...

that means; "I have a small brain" in Serbski.

:cry:
 
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OmCheeto said:
I forgot that 99 * 2 = 198...
Why would you remember it in the first place? It's just ##2(90+9)=180+18=198##.
 
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Actually there's a trick for multiplying numbers 1-9 to numbers like 9999, I discovered long ago...
(9999...*a)
So multiplying 9,999,999,999,999*9 (a=9)
The number has 13 9s (n=13)
So multiply the second number a with 9
ie. 9*9=81
Now put n-1 9s (ie 12) between tens and units of the product
So 89,999,999,999,991- the final answer should have n+1 numbers.
The only thing is keeping track of the 9s...
 
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Enigman said:
Actually there's a trick for multiplying numbers 1-9 to numbers like 9999, I discovered long ago...
(9999...*a)
So multiplying 9,999,999,999,999*9 (a=9)
The number has 13 9s (n=13)
So multiply the second number a with 9
ie. 9*9=81
Now put n-1 9s (ie 12) between tens and units of the product
So 89,999,999,999,991- the final answer should have n+1 numbers.
The only thing is keeping track of the 9s...


...

6537234568991*7... Do it.
 
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Gad said:
...

6537234568991*7... Do it.

Step 1 Select the computation.
Step 2 Right click.
Step 3 Click compute by wolframalpha
Step 4 Go to the tab just opened.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6537234568991*7&t=crmtb01&f=rc

45760641982937

:-p

Ed- btw I could do it mentally too since one of them is just a single digit number...took a course in Abacus learning long ago...same time I found the 9 trick.
 
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Enigman said:
Actually there's a trick for multiplying numbers 1-9 to numbers like 9999, I discovered long ago...
(9999...*a)
So multiplying 9,999,999,999,999*9 (a=9)
The number has 13 9s (n=13)
So multiply the second number a with 9
ie. 9*9=81
Now put n-1 9s (ie 12) between tens and units of the product
So 89,999,999,999,991- the final answer should have n+1 numbers.
The only thing is keeping track of the 9s...

just add 1 to get 10,000,000,000,000*9 = 90,000,000,000,000
Than substract 1*9. Easier? I think so
 
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JorisL said:
just add 1 to get 10,000,000,000,000*9 = 90,000,000,000,000
Than substract 1*9. Easier? I think so

I had a bad friend. ..I stopped considering her a friend of mine. I didn't have much experience in astronomical industry and I wanted to land a job there. I passed 3 rounds of interview until the fourth time after she had come meet with the prospective employer and discussed my abilities. Could she ever explain why I could have passed the previous interviews ? Is she better than me about psychology ? I am a magician and a real lawyer to be. :biggrin:
My main point is about how much she could understood me before she jumped into any conclusion about me. It is to evaluate and re-evaluate herself and the employees as well as the employer not me exactly.
 
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JorisL said:
just add 1 to get 10,000,000,000,000*9 = 90,000,000,000,000
Than substract 1*9. Easier? I think so

mmm...mines cooler and comes to me much more easily...all you need to know is the multiplication table of 9...
 
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I only need the multiplication table of 1. Which I can honestly say I know by heart (finally).
 
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JorisL said:
Than substract 1*9. Easier? I think so

Substract? Are you by any chance from germany or france? ;) I was living in germany for a while and it seems for unknown reasons a lot of people there say subtract with the extra 's'.
 
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Zarqon said:
Substract? Are you by any chance from germany or france? ;) I was living in germany for a while and it seems for unknown reasons a lot of people there say subtract with the extra 's'.

For some reason I was sure it is that way as well, for many years. And I am neither German nor French.
 
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Zarqon said:
Substract? Are you by any chance from germany or france? ;) I was living in germany for a while and it seems for unknown reasons a lot of people there say subtract with the extra 's'.

Weird. I had to look at the word for the longest time, wondering what you were talking about, until I saw the other 's'.
 
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I'm flemish, so I'm 'sandwiched' between germany and france
 
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Why is it that every time I read the Art of War I am invariably reminded of Sherlock Holmes?
Fuu rin kou zan in rai

EDIT: "Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt- Sun Tzu (Fuu-rin-ka-zan-in-rai)
(never understood how Japanese condenses the whole thing to such a short phrase...)
 
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Enigman said:
Both spellings it seems are acceptable being synonyms (and homonyms?). Though substract now being obsolete, subtract without the extra s is generally used.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substract
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/substract

That's awesome. I'm going to start using it. I'm trying to get into the habit of using archaic\obsolete terminology for things on a regular basis, like motorcar, pianoforte, ooh here I found a list:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/27-delightful-obsolete-words-its-high-time-we-revived

I'm also going to start answering the phone with "ahoy-hoy"

-Dave K
 
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wattt
 
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Substraction is obsolete. Arithmetic is now Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
 
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AlephZero said:
Substraction is obsolete.

And resistance is futile.
 
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Borek said:
And resistance is futile.

The inverse of resistance is conductance. So if resistance is futile, then what is the inverse of futility?

oops, we don't do philosophy :biggrin:
 
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I was telling my Russian lady friend the other day, that my house is a pig sty.

She repeated back; "Pig style?"

I decided living in the style of a pig was synonymous. :-p
 
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lisab said:
The inverse of resistance is conductance. So if resistance is futile, then what is the inverse of futility?

oops, we don't do philosophy :biggrin:

But I bet a bunch of people googled: antonym of futile

:biggrin:

Looking at http://thesaurus.com/browse/futile I don't see anything humorous. But the antonym of one of the synonyms is kind of, I don't know, silly?

Conductance is in the window.​

:confused:

I've heard of things being lost in translation, but never lost in transidiomlation.
 
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Enigman said:
"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt- Sun Tzu (Fuu-rin-ka-zan-in-rai)
(never understood how Japanese condenses the whole thing to such a short phrase...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fūrinkazan
Okay...Fuu is just wind, Rin is Forest, Kou is Fire, Zan is Mountain, In is Shadow and Rai is Lightning...
Fuu-Rin-Kou-Zan-In-Rai = Wind-Forest-Fire-Mountain-Shadow-Lightning
The Japanese general Takeda Shingen incorporated the Fuu-Rin-Kou-Zan part into his flag:
150px-Flag_of_Furinkazan.svg.png

-Things like this is why I like mangas: entertaining bits in everything from history to game theory to cool physics tricks.
 
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Enigman said:
Why is it that every time I read the Art of War I am invariably reminded of Sherlock Holmes? ...

Might I ask why a literary-inclined physics student wishes to be adept at warfare?

Yes, I may ask. So: Why does the Art of War interest you enough to read it multiple times?
 

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