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[WWGD]

It is amazing how these people without any technical background make these ( clearly false) categorical claims, without caveats . I don't doubt I have made false claims myself but not while asking that someone be fired. And I mean, she asked for it in a very explicit way,not that I read between the lines or so.

 

[fresh_42]

It is amazing how these people without any technical background make these ( clearly false) categorical claims, without caveats . I don't doubt I have made false claims myself but not while asking that someone be fired. And I mean, she asked for it in a very explicit way,not that I read between the lines or so.

I have also experienced the case (more than once) when I was actually better informed than the one on the line (issues with the DSL router; bill).

 

[WWGD]

BOFH.

The political party is Partei here, and we simply call die Fete, das Fest, die Party. Maybe you should call a party a fete more often, or a fiesta!

But, do these words also mean in German, party in the other sense of the word, not just the political one?

 

[fresh_42]

But, do these words also mean in German, party in the other sense of the word, not just the political one?

the (political) party = Partei
the fiesta = die Party

Solved by Anglicism.

 

[WWGD]

Experiment with cheese went out ok. Hard to get melted cheese wrong. Experiment putting Splenda on Coke ( not sweet enough for me) did not turn out so well. Guess I should have thought about it a bit. First Splenda effervesced(is this a word?) just a bit, second one overflowed like crazy. Maybe it is the concentration level that caused the difference level?

 

[Bandersnatch]

I can* vaguely remember there being a serious PF discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of compulsory STEM education in school - or something in the vicinity of this topic.
But I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have it bookmarked somewhere, or maybe is blessed with superior search-fu powers?

*not to be taken literally - I might just be imagining it.

 

[WWGD]

I can* vaguely remember there being a serious PF discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of compulsory STEM education in school - or something in the vicinity of this topic.
But I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have it bookmarked somewhere, or maybe is blessed with superior search-fu powers?

*not to be taken literally - I might just be imagining it.

You may want to ask in the feedback forum in the lounge .

 

[Borg]

superior search-fu powers?

Try this in Google. It gives lots of hits.
"STEM education" site:physicsforums.com

 

[WWGD]

Still dealing with weird parsing: I'll pack a bag- Alpaca bag.

 

[WWGD]

Whatever happened to Zoobyshoe?(Wow, my phone autocorrected Zoobyshoe.)
I like the new lightning-like button in the new PF. Maybe it could have come with sound effects. Shazzam!

 

[WWGD]

Still trying to figure out if @Mark44 and 'Mark Forums Read' are the same person. Unusual , I guess native American last name, but, you never know.

 

[Mark44]

Still trying to figure out if @Mark44 and 'Mark Forums Read' are the same person. Unusual , I guess native American last name, but, you never know.

Sometimes I go by Mark4umsRead, but Mark44 is shorter.

 

[fresh_42]

Still trying to figure out if @Mark44 and 'Mark Forums Read' are the same person. Unusual , I guess native American last name, but, you never know.

By the way. Do you think we can get a proper thermodynamic treatment, or at least the differential equation of "Hot Threads"?

 

[WWGD]

I thought that was what the "Shazzam" icon was for.

 

[fresh_42]

Which one do you mean? You authored 3 hot threads on page one! So if anyone then you can tell the differential equation of the heat transfer going on in this list.

 

[WWGD]

Which one do you mean? You authored 3 hot threads on page one! So if anyone then you can tell the differential equation of the heat transfer going on in this list.

Strangely-enough, I can only see it on my phone, not on the PC.

 

[strangerep]

Hope Quasi is not hurt.

Apparently Quasi was doing his best to help

 

[fresh_42]

Apparently Quasi was doing his best to help

The picture is a fake. He saved the bees, not the lady.

 

[WWGD]

Mailbox cleaning day. I feel lighter after deleting 1705 messages. Thanks to searchbox and Ctrl+A it just took some 8 minutes, much more than it took me in earlier days. Incredible, after having done this almost monthly for a few years I still have some 19,000 messages.

 

[WWGD]

A joke my friend and I played with each other led to an interesting result. I We pretended to be each other in internet Mathsites and asked (seemingly) absurd questions. I pretended to be him and asked: What is the square root of $\mathbb R^3$. Someone believed I was asking if $\mathbb R^3$ was homeomorphic to a product $\mathbb X \times \mathbb X$ and gave an elaborate argument in response, something I was not expecting.

 

[WWGD]

It seems thanks to autocorrect, they were about to pass a law approving of Cannibalism ( Cannabis). Should be interesting.

 

[DrGreg]

It seems thanks to autocorrect, they were about to pass a law approving of Cannibalism

I find that hard to swallow.

 

[WWGD]

I find that hard to swallow.

A good red red wine should help.

 

[fresh_42]

A good red red wine should help.

If you already found bacon too fat ...

 

[WWGD]

If you already found bacon too fat ...

Bacon is never anything other than perfect.

 

[dlgoff]

Just after a thunderstorm at my little place:

 

[WWGD]

Ok, Bruce Armando is a cool name, but you still have to follow the rules.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[Bandersnatch]

Damn. The crackpots today are unusually belligerent. Must be the full moon.

 

[Ibix]

Damn. The crackpots today are unusually belligerent. Must be the full moon.

It's not full yet. Or are you claiming that the phases of the moon are just mainstream dogma?

 

[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]

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