Phi for All

I say we castroate blike.

This is actually a better signature than the one you've got.

While we're making demands, I want to know where you're getting those tongue depressors. The last batch you sent me were purple and green on one end and had kiddy jokes printed on them. Are those AMA approved?

We get paid per post, medical benefits (blike mails us free tongue depressors) and a bonus for slapping trolls. I can't quit my day job yet, but if I ban a few more people, I can afford to go someplace nice on holiday. Cuba maybe.

Geoffrey is the 7th higher spatial dimension, curled up and snoozing in Calibi-Yauville, for a total of 11.

Wings like a spoiler? No. They actually push downward to give better traction and road-hugging. Wings like an airplane? Yes. And at a certain speed your wheels might lose traction completely, saving gas but wrecking the vehicle.

I still say that #2 is not a possibility as long as it includes the words, "still be me". You are only you if your mother and father and the exact time of conception with the same sperm-egg combo are used. Change any of that and you have an entirely different person.

This is the kind of thing where you could get really good at it real fast. If you've never done a home-based business before, here is a good thread that discusses it: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=139114#post139114 If you could get a few people to let you set them up with a single remote, then give you a written testimonial you could give to others (or referrals, even better) it would really help. Here's a marketing tip: get some computer feed address labels (page of 30 to fit in your printer), then use a program like Word to print your company name (how about "Remote Control Freak"?), slogan (how about "One Remote Fits All"?) & phone so you can stick a label on the back of every remote you program for somebody. I have no idea how long it would take to program a uni remote. You should get one and do your own system to see how difficult it is. Your selling points should be trust and convenience. Your clients are folks who spent a ton-o-bucks on home entertainment equipment and are frustrated because they don't know how to set it up properly (configuration could be another service you offer). Remember that you'll get better as you go along, so it's like giving yourself a raise as you get experience.

This thread was removed once before due to this (from the site): "The first 15 participants who submit a completed questionnaire will be given a $10SGD incentive. This incentive is optional. You will be asked for your email address and we will contact you through email again for the incentive. However, incentive will not be given if no email address is specified." This was almost a week ago. I'm virtually positive the incentives (SGD? Spanish Gold Doubloons?), if they indeed existed in the first place, have run out. If anyone feels like filling out the form to help Cheery, please do so, but please do not give any email information, since only the first 15 participants were eligible for remuneration.

Do you mean the names of them? I don't think the higher seven have any non-mathematical names. No proof, just mathematical evidence that solves many problems if they do indeed exist.

OK, this one will require some research, but I think you have the rest of the requirements, which are: personality, smarts and initiative. Everyone I know has at least 5 different remote controls in their home, for TV, DVD, CD, stereo, you name it. I know they sell universal, all-in-one remotes that can be programmed with all the major brands, and some of the not-so-major ones. You can download manuals for many electronic devices from the internet. So you would knock on doors, pass out fliers, whatever, letting people know you will give them one remote control that does everything, along with the instructions to use it. The toughest part is trust, since you would be dealing with people's stuff, finding out what they own, etc. I have some ideas on this, if you're interested then PM me.

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The real tragedy is the fact that most family households have two income earners so they can afford their house payments and all the luxuries the television tells them they need. They work 100 hours between the husband and wife, then spend their money on fast food because they think they have no time to cook. They spend their time buying lots of cheap clothes that wear out quickly, instead of a few high quality pieces that are a pleasure to wear and last longer. They buy exercise equipment so they can work out in their basements, then try to park as close to the store as possible so they don't have to walk too far. They buy all the latest gadgets that make their home cozier, then complain that they don't get out enough. They sit in front of the television for hours and then wonder why they never have enough time for other things.

According to the 2004 election map, you North Carolinians had something to do with it. I'm not blaming you personally, since my state aslo went red, but you're pointing the finger at a mirror here. The Pope is breathing easier knowing that he is on the A list. And Bill Gates helps W cheat at MS Solitaire. He says the same thing about you. It gives me the willies when you refer to W as the leader of the free world. Stop it now or I will edit all your posts with have-a-nice-day smileys.

* hands Aardvark the sarcasm mop *

I found a bit on garlic as a non-western medicinal cure for infections including MRSA. Not sure if you've gone that route or believe in it. Sometimes I think western medicine tries to fix one part without thinking about how it affects the rest of the body. http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/12/30/garlic_ingient_wipes_out_hospital_superbugs_in_tests.htm Like Coquina, I lost a parent to infection. My father died at 84 from a massive systemic infection. On Thursday he was feeling fine. On Friday he had some tests run at a hospital. On Saturday he was back in the hospital feeling terrible and barely able to walk. We lost him Sunday morning. I don't know much about lawsuits, I've never been the litigious sort. But, also like Coquina, if you can link this to Monsanto and find them guilty of trying to make money without thinking about how it affects the rest of the population, I say nail 'em.

I agree that if you were asking your biology teacher about this from a biological POV, he should not be talking about "souls". There is no scientific evidence of the existence of a soul. If you were asking him from his personal POV, his answer is valid. I still feel it is wrong, from any standpoint. Even God would have had a reason to give your mother all those different eggs.

Since the communists will rise, water surfaces can be developed on the backs of the floating proletariat.

My wife's cousin in Germany works for a company that designs maglev trains. They need only 15 feet of throughway, they are raised above existing roadbeds so there can never be a train/auto accident, only the sections of track the train is on and the ones just ahead are energized, there is no wear and tear, no pollution and the only noise they make is the 250 mph woooosh as they fly by. I'd be the first to admit that it would be hard at first to give up my personal transportation, but if mass transit became prevalent and convenient, you could count me in. We're getting too insular as a society and the best way to relate to your fellow man is to actually be with him more often.

You have a number in a text file that is so big it takes up over 100 GB of hard drive? What are you going to do with this number? Are you going to use it for more calculations or are you just curious to see what the answer turned out to be?

So true. It is so easy to whip an American into a patriotic frenzy by implying weakness and invoking moral high-ground, topped off by a dollop of Almighty righteousness. Look back a few posts, you'll see an infamous UK liberal (as in having political or social views favoring reform and progress) basically saying, "We should keep an eye out for the interests of the world in general instead of just our own when declaring war in an age where nuclear global destruction is a real possibility." To which an American conservative (as in resistant to change) posted, "You mean when someone needs our help against evil we have to stop and think? " The spin doctors who leak stories to the press know that if they mention the corruption or abuse in Iraq, most US citizens will not think about the corruption and abuse we will bring to bear. We are willing to destroy human lives over corruption or abuse from Iraquis, but we drape the flag over our heads and stuff it into our ears when we hear about what Haliburton did, or what our military sanctioned at Abu Ghraib.

I think a great deal of rethinking is in order. Great strides are being made in many areas, but as usual, it's not enough. In architecture and construction, sustainable building designs are slowly becoming the norm, since costs are preventing a lot of building without such concerns. I see light at the end of the tunnel here. Road construction in the US is an abomination. We cater to convenience by letting people drive on uncured asphalt the day it's put down, insuring that we'll have to pave over it next year. I think a lot will have to change in the decades ahead with the whole oil/automobile/roads symbiosis. I hope some of the emerging countries bypass the US craze for individual transportation. Maglev trains are so much greener, and if they had the kind of development attention cars/roads enjoy, the convenience factor would increase as well. I get the feeling that the next big new energy source is just waiting in the wings. I hope it's something cheap and renewable like solar, and I hope the PTB figure out how to exploit it soon so we can stop dimming the light at the end of the tunnel with smoke and soot.

There were redesigns of US currency in 1996 and again in 2003, and they are costly, to say the least. Besides, I'm not sure there is anything that interesting or provacative about having the look stay basically the same. If you choose to view this as an image issue, there are two main schools of thought in advertising: 1. Keep your image (logo) fresh and current to keep the interest of a changing clientele, or 2. Stay with the classic look (with only minor alterations) for brand recognition. There are plenty of successful examples of both in the world today. I think the Fed is simply interested in having money that is widely recognized and easily distinguishable from that of other countries.

Scary.

I have no desire to hijack this thread, but I also have no desire to mix two volatile compounds like politics and religion again. I will therefore pose this question about a point in the OP: Does it affect the image of the dollar that it is printed by the US Treasury, then sold to the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, who loans it back to the government at interest? Does any other country's money get funneled through private channels this way?