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Why did the blind man fall into the well? He couldn't see that well.

To Numberphile fans and in the comment section of every single N.P. video: "I have a wonderful comment that this post is too small to contain." To every Youtube fan not out of their wits: "First!"

"Hope to see you again soon" she said smiling. Them bloody dentists....

To put it this way: I don't think there are many ways left to draw statistical data from sensible text, that is text that form meaningful words and phrases, that the intel community hasn't already studied in depth. They can tell if a garbled text is fake or genuine in that the ungarbled text was meaningful. If you want something truly random then patterns is a no-no. What people type on their keyboards would be full of patterns, over time.

The teacher asked me why I didn't bring a calculator to the maths class. Told her I prefer mental arithmetics. She said "alright then, what's the cube root of pi?". Told her "a million and a half". She said "that's madness", told her "see I told you it was mental".

Trike Force Cobra - The toddlers must defeat the evil moms and dads who are shoving broccoli down the small gullets. Damebusts - Defeat the enemy with British made bouncing bombs. (removed one and rearranged another. Letters that is, not bombs) Thin On A Spring - Sell as many el cheapo exercise contraptions by mail order as you can before the consumers spot the design flaws.

Pierre De Fermat - so I could corner him demanding the proof of his last theorem. Sam Cooke - So I could hear him live in concert. Nikola Tesla - So I could play with his remote controlled boat. The last Basque remembering where they came from and ask where they picked up their language Any of those who wrote in one of the undeciphered scripts EDIT coz I can't count: Gary and Punka Khoza, Ivan Kadey, Paul Giraud and Mike Lebesi from National Wake to learn what guts means.

Huge fan of Matt Parker, Numberphile and pretty much all things coming from Brady and Nothingham Uni. That link is on par with the bamboo calculator in terms of sillyness. Love it.

My impression on repairs and maintainance, after working in a bike repair shop for 3 years is the two are about the same. If you find one easy to repair then the other will be too, if one is a PITA then the other will be too. They don't need much maintainance anyway GIVEN they are proper quality. Low quality and trigger becomes slightly more reliable. No idea how many low quality twist grips I've seen falling apart as soon as they are out of the box or not installed on the bar. High quality and dont worry about any of that nonsense. I have twist grip on my bike just like the one you linked to and I'm well happy but I can see others prefering not having to readjust their grip after every gear shift. Last: I definitely agree with those who say try the bike before buying so online stores can be a bit iffy if they have a no return policy or general poor customer support.

Took a while before it dawned on me but finally: Your style reminds me of the drawing of F'murrr a.k.a- Richard Peyzaret who made my all time favourite comics. There is something in your lines that really made me think of his work. To all: Awesome artwork by you lot.

Birds Of Pay: (PG18) Get paid. Flying Sauce: Food fight at Area 51! Future Was: Go full speed on a head on collision course with time itself. Platon: As a soldier, you decide it's time to think things through. Martin Memorandum: Tex Murphy is taking on his hardest case to date: Who is Martin and who gave him that last name?

(Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation) You've got a bad calculation That's the word out on the town It gives a certain fascination But it can only bring you down You better turn yourself around Turn yourself around You're landing upside down Turn yourself around You've had parts break well that's tough luck You play too hard too much rough stuff Staged too slow, engine's cold That bad calculation made the struts fold Turn yourself around Turn yourself around Don't land upside down Turn yourself around

In the beginning Back in 1925 Man didn't know about a rocket launch show And all that jive The Chinese had their fireworks The chemists had the juice Noone knew what they was gonna do But Tsiolkovsky had the news He said Let there be sound. And there was sound Let there be light. And there was light Let there be smoke. And there was smoke Let there be a roar! And there was a roar Let there be rocket! And it came to pass That rocket launch was born All across the land every rocket man Was blowing up a storm The rocket men got famous Doin business on the moon In every barn there was gun cotton yarn and a green and grinning loon There was 15 million Kerbals Learning how to play And you could hear the crowd a-snickerin' And this is what they had to say Sound Light Smoke Roar Let there be rocket

World Of Tans: Crowd the beaches in this massive multiplayer online sunbathing simulator. Urban Chas - Riot Response: The sequel to Rural Chas - Total Apathy, this time Chas gets things going

Just thought I'd mention it since the depressing fact is quite a few, worldwide, do fly their drones in restricted airspace, causing problems for air traffic. With long range the risk increases.

If you combine altitude, long range or even ultra long range and restricted airspace you can hardly avoid entering restricted airspace unless your drone is professional grade with all the sensors and telemetry and the pilot has the necessary certifications and have all the aviation charts at hand. You can fully expect the gates of hell to open and all bad things coming after you if your drone causes an incident, like interfering with full size aircrafts or it crashes into something it REALLY shouldn't have crashed into.

Using the FM band, you can get some pretty impressive range. One guy had an rc plane flying from Canada (IIRC), across the atlantic, towards England (or was it Ireland?) where a 2nd crew took over and landed the plane. Video to be found on the web.

Do you mean "why do airplanes flying inside a dense atmosphere retain their orientation relative to the ground, as opposed to satellites orbiting outside the dense atmosphere?"

Another detour and this time over the useage, or rather misuseage, of words like "exact". A video that I watched, about a geometric solution to a problem, using only a compass and unmarked ruler, had words like "EXACT position", "EXACT speed", "EXACT course" etc in huge red letters across the monitor. Exact? With a compass and unmarked ruler? Would be a world shattering sensation if one could get exact results Then again, I tend to get real nitpicky about wordings when words are spelled in capital letters. Only Death of Discworld fame is allowed to use capitals like that. /detour

"Right one" only means it is just as complicated it has to be to give useable results but it will not give precice results. As such, I'm not even sure if "THE Right One" is known by any human. Then again "more or less", "give or take", we've been basing everything on the acceptance of those and we still managed to get to where we are today.

Think back at physics in secondary school or high school or whenever you had your first physics class. "Lisa leaves home every morning to go to school" the teacher says, and draws on the blackboard two dots with a straight line between them. The dots are Lisa's home and school and the line is the road. Now that works like a charm to explain low speeds like we experience every day but no Lisa anywhere is a point, no house or school is really a small dot on a blackboard and no road is a straight line a millimeter wide. It was all a model constructed to highlight a particular issue. So is the formula v = d/t. It is a model that should not be taken outside its field of application. Steel is correct. When you go relativistic, v = d/t breaks down to absurdities and you need a much more complicated model. EDIT: My point is: Every model in science, or economics, or any other field, have limited fields of application. Take the model out of its limitation and it's no longer a good model.

A consequence of that is that the entire idea of speed being distance over time as we know it from car speedometers etc should be discarded, or that clocks should be thrown in the trash bin. It all comes down to limitation of application and approximations (how close is close enough for practical purposes). If you only want to monitor the body temp over a single day (for whatever reason) then the model we used would be just fine to use and there would be no need to discard it. If you want more than a day, then you need a better model.

This all made me think about a lecture about maths and models in school way back. The backdrop was: A patient with severe fever taking fever reducing drugs while the body temp was monitored. The model for body temp over time worked like clockwork over a day or so but when we ran it over a week, the body temp landed at negative Kelvin. Models are great just don't go beyond the limitation of your model. Same with speed. Distance over time which most would agree is speed, is plain ludicrous and not correct in the slightest at very high speeds. Know the limitation of the model's validity. /topic detour

Missed this thread completely. Too bad but anyway and less of a meme and the ever so classic

This is where things get wonky for real, no pun intended. If I try that, then I get that the real part a is complex with a non-zero imaginary part and the imaginary part b is also complex. Then again, it is possible to factorize the Q(z) = P(z) - r since Q(z) is just another polynomial with the same number of roots as P(z).