Random Thought of the Day

March 3rd, 2017 at 4:02:30 PM permalink
odiousgambit
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Quote: kenarman
If that is true how come a rare steak is red inside the moment you cut it?


how do you know it wasn't some other color before you cut?
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March 3rd, 2017 at 7:42:19 PM permalink
kenarman
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Quote: odiousgambit
how do you know it wasn't some other color before you cut?


The same as the reason I believe a tree stills makes noise when it falls in the woods with no one is there.
"but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin
March 7th, 2017 at 8:10:01 AM permalink
Nareed
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Could we someday move Mars to Venus' orbit and vice versa?
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
March 7th, 2017 at 6:57:54 PM permalink
rxwine
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If it was up to me all or most new Federal legislation would be enacted on half of the US only.

After 5 years, the two halves of the US would be compared. One with the old way, and one with the new.

Caveat - The US wouldn't be strictly split, East vs West or North vs South, but apportioned to make similar demographics/economics/industry as even as possible rather than just land mass split.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
March 8th, 2017 at 10:56:43 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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Quote: rxwine
If it was up to me all or most new Federal legislation would be enacted on half of the US only.

After 5 years, the two halves of the US would be compared. One with the old way, and one with the new.

Caveat - The US wouldn't be strictly split, East vs West or North vs South, but apportioned to make similar demographics/economics/industry as even as possible rather than just land mass split.


I like this concept! It is what we do in medicine. Half get the new drug. Half the old. Whoever lives, wins.
March 8th, 2017 at 3:00:30 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Quote: SOOPOO
I like this concept! It is what we do in medicine. Half get the new drug. Half the old. Whoever lives, wins.
Legislation is rarely based on evidence, more often its based on fears, special interests and re-election considerations.

Speeding enforcement, cell phone utilization, youth offender boot camps, Dare programs, asset forfeiture programs all create crime.
March 8th, 2017 at 4:28:52 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Quote: SOOPOO
I like this concept! It is what we do in medicine. Half get the new drug. Half the old. Whoever lives, wins.
Not necessarily. Often they die with better numbers but without the drug they would have lived with bad numbers. So what did medicine do for them by lowering cholesterol when they die of suicide, assaultive behavior and "vulnerable" plaque which became vulnerable becaue of the drug.
March 9th, 2017 at 10:40:09 AM permalink
Nareed
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Why aren't telephone key pads and calculator/computer keypads arranged the same way?

Telephone:
123
456
789

Calculator/computer:

789
456
123
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March 9th, 2017 at 11:38:06 AM permalink
terapined
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Quote: Nareed
Why aren't telephone key pads and calculator/computer keypads arranged the same way?

Telephone:
123
456
789

Calculator/computer:

789
456
123


Maybe computers want a dual set up to satisfy everybody
On top I have
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
to the right I have
789
456
123
0
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
March 9th, 2017 at 12:06:12 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: terapined
Maybe computers want a dual set up to satisfy everybody
On top I have
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0


Computer keyboards from the start were copies of the typewriter QWERTY keyboard with some additional keys (the F keys on top, CTRL, ALT, ESC, etc.) That's why they have the number row on top. The other exception is the computer keyboard has "1" on top, as most typewriters lacked it (you were supposed to use lower-case "l" instead.)

Quote:
to the right I have
789
456
123
0


That's the keypad copied from calculators. The early home PCs (Apple, Tandy, Commodore and so on) didn't have one. I used to input massive amounts of accounting info, which requires tons of numbers, using the damned top row of numbers on an Apple ][e.

These days one could easily remove the top numbers row and add symbols, emoji or something more useful, though many laptops lack a keypad.
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