Phi for All

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One Christmas Eve a long, long time ago, Santa was very cross. NOTHING was going right. Mrs Claus had burned all the cookies. The elves were complaining about not getting paid for the overtime they had put in. The reindeer had been drinking all afternoon and were dead drunk. To make matters worse, they had taken the sleigh out for a spin earlier in the day and had crashed it into a tree. Santa was furious. "I can't believe it! I've got to deliver millions of presents all over the world in just a few hours and all of my reindeer are drunk, the elves are on strike and I don't even have a Christmas tree! I sent that stupid Little Angel out HOURS ago to find a tree and he isn't even back yet! What am I going to do?" Just then, the Little Angel opened the front door and stepped in from the snowy night, dragging a Christmas tree. He says, "Hey, Jelly Belly! Where should I stick the tree this year?"

Yes, Pavlov's dog is now chasing Schrodinger's cat.

How about Reactivity of Behavior, the phenomenon whereby the object of observation is changed by the very fact that it is being observed? http://www.webref.org/psychology/r/reactivity_of_behavior.htm

There are foreign patents available. In fact, one route you might look into is getting someone to back you on a US patent in exchange for rights to foreign patents. That is assuming your biggest deal might be with NASA. I don't know if you have to be a US citizen to claim a patent in the US, but I don't think that is the case.

First off, you should write down the details of your idea, post them through the mail to yourself and leave them sealed with the postmark. This used to be called a poor man's copyright. It won't give you much beyond proof that you had this idea on a certain date, but it could be helpful if someone down the line says they had the same idea. This should be done quickly no matter what else you decide to do. Second, you can get an investor to spend the money it takes to get a utility patent and buld a prototype. DON'T get a design patent. Those are only good for wiping your... feet on. Anyone can change a bit of your design that doesn't affect the operation and get around your design patent. Your investor should be someone who knows you and your capabilities and should look at this as a risk based on potential only. You can work up an agreement that cuts them in for a percentage. The percentage should be based on how much risk they are willing to take. If they want a guarantee of repayment, 2-5% might be appropriate. If they are willing to fund you and write it all off if it doesn't succeed, maybe 15-25% is warranted. This is exciting! I wish you the best in this endeavor.

When Sayonara³ was just 10 years old, he was intensely interested in biology. One summer day he started his own experiment. He caught a large bull frog in a local pond. Sayonara³ carefully wrote down all the results of his experiment with the amphibian. Sayonara³ drew a line in the sand, placed the frog on the line, and prodded the frog with a small twig and shouted, "Jump, frog!" The frog jumped, and Sayonara³ measured the distance. "Normal frog jumps 6 feet," he wrote. Next, he brought the frog back to the starting point, took out a scalpel and sliced off the frog's right front leg. Again he prodded the frog and shouted, "Jump, frog!" The frog jumped 4 feet, and Sayonara³ dutifully recorded, "With one leg removed, the frog jumps 4 feet." Again the frog was brought back, the left front leg was removed, and again he prodded the frog, shouting "Jump, frog!". Sayonara³ reported, "With 2 legs removed, the frog jumps only 3 feet." The next time, Sayonara³ dissected the large right back leg. This time he recorded, "With 3 legs removed, the frog jumps slightly less than a foot." Finally, Sayonara³ cut off the frog's remaining leg, put it down and prodded the frog with the twig, shouting, "Jump, frog! Jump, frog! JUMP FROG!! JUMP FROG!!!" The frog didn't jump. Sayonara³ carefully wrote down in his notebook, "When all legs are removed, the frog becomes deaf."

In QM, as I understand it, everything exists in both particle and wave states. When you look at something, you fix it in its particle state. We know that a wave of probability functions exists for every particle because we can see evidence of its existence, but when we try to look directly at this wave state, it collapses into particles.

Are you talking about wave function and particle function? Where every particle also has a wave of probabilities which, when observed, collapse back into a particle? Prior to observation, the particle could exist anywhere the wave function is not zero. Once observed, it is "changed" by becoming rooted to one spot. Jakiri's right, I don't think that theory has a particular name. It's just part of quantum mechanics.

Santa ringing bell! My pants, full of coins he wants, jingle all the way.

Gilded goes into a bar and sees a fantastically gorgeous woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?" She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "NO! I won't sleep with you tonight!" Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Gilded is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations." To which Gilded replies, at the top of his lungs, "You want $200 dollars! Are you crazy?!"

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Phi, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?" "Outstanding," Phi replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techiniques like visualization and association. It made a huge difference for me." "That's great! What was the name of the clinic?" asked the other man. Phi went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then he suddenly smiled and he asked, "What do you call that red flower with the long stem and thorns?" "You mean a rose?" the other man offered. "Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife and asked, "Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic I went to last month?"

Well, we're definitely having material problems here. My origami boat folds in half due to wetness after about 40 pennies if we do them one at a time. If I place 70 in the boat before I put it in the water, it holds up fine. When I start placing more in, the sides slowly fold in due to the slight extra weight of dropping them in. I think if I put three cut plastic straws across the top to brace the sides (no glue needed), I think it would keep the sides from folding in and sinking the boat. Are the straws cheating?

I'm with blike, there are too many answers since "Your Home is Being Robbed" doesn't tell us enough. I would have to vote minimum required since I would not vote extreme on the burglar who is trying to leave because I came home early and surprised him. But if my family is at home and someone is forcing their way in, the minimum required would be whatever it took to dissuade them... IMMEDIATELY. I don't know if I could kill intentionally but I tend to think my reaction coupled with the pointy slashy things I have handy for defense could get lethal. If the intruder is also giving me verbal clues (I'M GONNA KILL YOU!) as well as the time to run downstairs, I would go for the 30-30 in the basement. It's a tough call. I couldn't live with myself for killing someone who only wanted my laptop, but I couldn't live with myself if I did nothing to protect someone who wanted to harm my family.

Perhaps we have such a problem with this issue in the US because we are looking for legal definitions about a cultural choice in a country where there are many different cultures. A culture with overpopulation problems might view abortion completely differently than one that reveres all life, even animals. For some it's a sin to eat a cow, for others to eat a pig, and for others neither holds any special significance. Should the Hindu condemn others for supporting McDonald's? Should a Jew knock my plate of bacon out of my hands? A Buddhist may consider any abortion a crime while the Hindu says you can do it if you are willing to risk the bad karma you are certain to bring upon yourself. Should one dictate to the other how things should be for all when they live in the same country? Morally, your upbringing should dictate how you perceive taking the life of a fetus at any stage of development. Legally, the courts have to make allowances that encompass all who live within a society. Unfortunately, the courts can't make an abortion law that is fair to all. So I say placing the limit on abortions at the halfway point in the pregnancy is about as fair as you could ever get.

Personally, I can't condone PBAs. But I feel it is critical to allow abortions up to a certain point, and using the benevolent parasite appeal seems the best approach towards giving the mother enough rights to protect what happens to her own body. If you grant the unborn child equal status (complete anti-abortion) there are too many complications that can arise. Is every mother who miscarries somehow guilty of negligent homicide? There needs to be some identifiable time period when abortion is an option and when it isn't. Again, personally, it would never be an issue for my wife and I. We have talked about it and would never choose abortion unless her life was threatened medically. But we are not everyone and a big part of choice is realizing that people and circumstances differ greatly and respecting that.

Is that someone from Inland Revenue?

Actually, in Finland they have: A = good B = OK C = Pass D = Basically Failed E = Do you want fries with that? F = Failed G = Gilded

Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were having one of their little father and son chats, lightsabers drawn and sparks flying. Vader pinned Luke against a bulkhead, glared into his face and said, "I know what you're getting for Christmas, Luke." Luke ducked under the pin and Vader's lightsaber bit deep into the steel. Luke jumped to a higher platform just out of Vader's reach. "How do you know!?" Luke yelled at him, "How could you possibly know what I'm getting for Christmas!?" Darth Vader seemed to grin through his mask and said, "The force is with me. I felt your presents."

I'm going to try this with my daughter tomorrow. I know a really slick origami fold for the boat so I won't have to use any glue.

Think of how dumb the average person is. Got it? OK, now think about the fact that half the entire population is dumber than that! *shudder* I think the key you're looking for Fellowes is to minimize the poisons you let into your body, stay in good shape and don't let your mind atrophy by letting others do your thinking for you. As Xandrabeast said, we use our whole brain, just not all at once. It's up to you to use the right parts.

Physics teacher: "swansont, where is your physics homework?" swansont: "I finished my homework last night, but this morning I accidentally determined its momentum precisely, so according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe."

A second lieutenant was walking past the non-commissioned officer housing units when he saw a little boy named swansont making something. As he got closer, he saw the boy was making a soldier of of some dog poop he'd found on the ground. The 2LT asked the boy, "Boy, what are you doing?" swansont replied, "I'm making an NCO, sir!" The 2LT grinned. Looking up, he saw the boy's father, an NCO, standing in the doorway. "Did you hear that, sergeant? He's making an NCO out of sh*t!" The sergeant came out of the house and asked his son, "Why are you making an NCO, son?" swansont looked up at his dad and proudly said, "Because I don't have enough sh*t to make an officer!"

Tesseract wanted to buy a Christmas gift for his new girlfriend but they hadn't been dating very long. He asked his girlfriend's younger sister to go shopping with him, and after careful consideration, they decided a pair of fur-trimmed gloves would be perfect, romantic but not too personal. Tesseract bought the gloves and the sister bought a pair of panties for herself. During the gift wrapping, the clerk mixed up the items and the sister got the box with the gloves and Tesseract got the box with the panties. Tesseract sent the gift to his sweetheart with the following note: "I chose these because I noticed that you don't usually wear any when we go out. If it hadn't been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with the buttons but she wears short ones that are easier to remove. These are a delicate shade, but the lady I bought them from showed me the pair she had been wearing for the past three weeks and they were hardly soiled. I had her try yours on for me and she looked really stylish. I wish I could be there to put them on for you the first time as I'm sure other hands will touch them before I have a chance to see you again. When you take them off, remember to blow in them before putting them away as they will naturally be a little damp from wearing. Just think how many times I will kiss them during the coming year! All my love, Tesseract P.S. The latest style is to wear them folded down with a little fur showing."