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[Keith_McClary]

Is it reasonably under control?

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[WWGD]

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Seems to have somewhat stabilized since 2004, but it did seem pretty bad back then.

 

[dlgoff]

Seems to have somewhat stabilized since 2004, but it did seem pretty bad back then.

IIRC The testing we did was in 2009

 

[WWGD]

IIRC The testing we did was in 2009

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

 

[dlgoff]

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

I think I'll pass.

 

[fresh_42]

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

One thing is for sure: we cannot speak of spare ribs anymore in that case.

 

[Keith_McClary]

The wild pigs are the legacy of a failed attempt to diversify meat production with wild boars.

The porcine pests were imported from Europe in the 1980s and 1990s for livestock or "penned game" for hunters.

Many boars escaped their pens and mated with pigs, said Aschim, and they're now causing damage wherever they go.

 

[WWGD]

Is this behavior unique to Pigs/Boars? I have heard of feral cats, but AFAIK, it is a minor, local thing, not packs of wild cats traveling along whole countries?

 

[fresh_42]

Is this behavior unique to Pigs/Boars?

Nope. It is called Columbian exchange.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. It is called Columbian exchange.

Pablo Escobars roaming wildly?

 

[fresh_42]

Pablo Escobars roaming wildly?

Rather fruits and bees, and potatoes on the other side of the pond.

Edit: Is it Columbus exchange? I mean Columbus didn't exchange. Not even his incapabilty to navigate.

 

[WWGD]

Rather fruits and bees, and potatoes on the other side of the pond.

I was thinking more of packs of wild animals running around. Sort of like those in spring break ;).

 

[WWGD]

At any rate, one of my dreams was to have an animal made out of spare ribs you could eat and each time you took one, another rib would grow to replace it.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I mean Columbus didn't exchange.

important plants had already been introduced in Europe by Columbus when he returned from his first voyage in1493, e.g. corn (Zea mays), whose presence in Italy is documented from 1495. The first spontaneously-growing neophyte reportedin Italy is Amaranthus retroflexus. A dried sample of this species, conserved in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, Gherardo Cibo’sherbarium, testifies to the fact that this annual herb already grew spontaneously in 1532; owing to the speed at which it spreads, it has since become one of the most harmful agricultural weeds in Italy

 

[WWGD]

important plants had already been introduced in Europe by Columbus when he returned from his first voyage in1493, e.g. corn (Zea mays), whose presence in Italy is documented from 1495. The first spontaneously-growing neophyte reportedin Italy is Amaranthus retroflexus. A dried sample of this species, conserved in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, Gherardo Cibo’sherbarium, testifies to the fact that this annual herb already grew spontaneously in 1532; owing to the speed at which it spreads, it has since become one of the most harmful agricultural weeds in Italy

As long as coffee is available in all continents, all is OK , as far as I'm concerned.

 

[WWGD]

Still brutal , the quarantine, for coffee-shop hangers like myself. Seems Starbucks has become a take out-only chain.

 

[WWGD]

Re random, just learned the accents on Czech letters are called diacritics. But I am too lazy to find out the name of the slashed lines in some Polish words.

 

[WWGD]

Site for filling surveys for pay seemed like a fun way of making money until I computed it came down to around $2.50 per hour on average. I think I will pass.

 

[Borg]

Interviews...

 

[Ibix]

Interviews...

I sympathise. The only thing worse than having a job interview is running one, IMO.

 

[WWGD]

No, I believe it's spelled subdued, not subdude. A subdude is someone not good-enough to be a dude, I believe.

 

[nuuskur]

Clearly, every dude is its own subdude

 

[fresh_42]

Clearly, every dude is its own subdude

I am often overdude.

 

[WWGD]

Clearly, every dude is its own subdude

Depends on the choice of embedding.

 

[WWGD]

Will out my goid clothes ob and go shower now that Belinda is free and worth $65 billion.

 

[WWGD]

People who's names give them a head start in IT: Dev ( India) and Wotech ( Poland).

 

[WWGD]

" Why are vectors used in Physics"

Because new ones are not available?

 

[fresh_42]

" Why are vectors used in Physics"

Because new ones are not available?

The new ones go into the video game industry for their vector graphics. They pay better.

 

[nuuskur]

So I was, out of curiosity, looking into what particle physicists do and right out the gate, where or how the hell do they (have the time to) acquire all the necessary math to understand things like tensors, vector fields, covariant derivative and yadayada.. How?! HOW?!

Here's the next wonder of the world - a grad student studying particle physics!

 

[WWGD]

So I was, out of curiosity, looking into what particle physicists do and right out the gate, where or how the hell do they (have the time to) acquire all the necessary math to understand things like tensors, vector fields, covariant derivative and yadayada.. How?! HOW?!

Here's the next wonder of the world - a grad student studying particle physics!

I knew a physics grad student in HEPTH.

 

[WWGD]

I'm getting paranoid about someone reading all my notifications; bottom of my notifications always says " Mark read". Is that Mark44 reading them all?

 

[fresh_42]

I'm getting paranoid about someone reading all my notifications; bottom of my notifications always says " Mark read". Is that Mark44 reading them all?

Principally, yes. However, it is not Mark but Mach. Also not 44, but 2. Furthermore, there was a typo and it had to be ready, not read. Moreover, it's not the notifications, rather than the projected speed at which they are planned to be deleted.

 

[WWGD]

Principally, yes. However, it is not Mark but Mach. Also not 44, but 2. Furthermore, there was a typo and it had to be ready, not read. Moreover, it's not the notifications, rather than the projected speed at which they are planned to be deleted.

Mark McMach? Or Marky Mark?

 

[WWGD]

Principally, yes. However, it is not Mark but Mach. Also not 44, but 2. Furthermore, there was a typo and it had to be ready, not read. Moreover, it's not the notifications, rather than the projected speed at which they are planned to be deleted.

I always wondered if people who had theorems or other names would refer to them. Would Cauchy refer to " We conclude by my Theorem"? Would Mach say he flew at " Me 2"( Mach 2)?

 

[DrGreg]

I always wondered if people who had theorems or other names would refer to them. Would Cauchy refer to " We conclude by my Theorem"? Would Mach say he flew at " Me 2"( Mach 2)?

Rindler referred to a space using Rindler coordinates as "the uniformly accelerated lattice" or "rocket coordinates", although he did acknowledge that the space "is occasionally referred to as Rindler space".