 coldmoonPremium
join:2002-02-04
Broadway, NC
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Re: Things Mom never told us about NSA That's an old one - ball costs 5 cents and the bat is $1.05...
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 ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
kudos:3 | reply to StuartMW
said by StuartMW:If you tell me where I can buy a bat & ball for $1.10 I'll answer the question 
The $1.10 store? |
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 FutureMonAch Du LieberPremium,ExMod 2002-05
join:2000-10-05
Seaside, CA | Yeah one of them yellow plastic bats and whiffle balls 
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 Name GamePremium
join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
kudos:7 | reply to StuartMW
said by StuartMW:said by Name Game:A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. If you tell me where I can buy a bat & ball for $1.10 I'll answer the question Yur just saying that cause Mom liked you best..it's still your turn to do the dishes and you can't get out of that one.  |
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 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | reply to Name Game
Re: said by Name Game:What are you doing about it ?
What can you do about it?
Nothing. |
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Name GamePremium
join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
kudos:7 | said by DrModem:said by Name Game:What are you doing about it ?
What can you do about it? Nothing. I don't use AT&T ..how bout you ?
»www.eff.org/nsa/faq#38
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join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 Reviews:
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said by camaro92:Only thing us peon's can do is follow the trail to the senators, congressman who know about this and defend it by the cloak of national security and vote there asses out, I am sure there is plenty in D.C that are clueless about these programs but the important one's know.
Like that's ever worked.
56 of the 100 senators have been in office less than 10 years. 31 of those have been in office for less than 5 years.
246 of the 433 house members have been in office less than 10 years. 150 of those have been there less than 5 years, and 103 of those have been in LESS THAN TWO YEARS.
In other words, you basically get a new senate majority every 10 years, and you get a new house majority every 3-5 years.
Throwing people out as the cure assumes you are throwing the right people in behind them. Which is not the case, as the drumbeat goes on unchanging house after house, senate after senate, despite everyone getting thrown out consistently. |
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join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to Kilroy
Re: Things Mom never told us about NSA said by Kilroy:What is the government going to do when we finally secure the Internet with completely encrypted traffic?
It will make up new terrorists, to scare people and to make itself even more important for them...
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 SpyPremium
join:2001-09-22
NE | reply to StuartMW
said by StuartMW:Without reading the article I bet it involves rubber gloves and bending over 
Wow, that's the best truth i've seen written here in years.  |
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x + 1 + x = 1.1
2x + 1 = 1.1
2x = 0.1
x = 0.05
When the complexity increases beyond solve by inspection ... let's not forget the basic tool and encourage its usage.
Algebra
Scary to think how large the percentage of the general population can not express a word problem mathematically. |
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join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
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| said by tholly911:Scary to think how large the percentage of the general population can not express a word problem mathematically.
+1
The first thing I do when I see problems of this kind is write equations. Of course it gets a bit trickier when you have more than two unknowns. In those case I use matrices
PS: The irony is that I'm hopeless at mental arithmetic
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Name GamePremium
join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
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1 edit | Comes from not eating your vegetables
»www.brainpickings.org/index.php/···numbers/ |
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Name GamePremium
join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
kudos:7 | reply to Name Game
Re: Things Mom never told us about NSAHOPE 9 - WikiLeaks, Whistleblowers, and the War on the First Amendment
54 min video
A panel held at HOPE Number 9 in New York City, 13 July 2012.
»www.hopenumbernine.net/
"The Director of ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project will provide an overview of the Espionage Act and the other statutes that the government has employed to prosecute leakers and threaten publishers. Ben will discuss the ACLU's litigation on behalf of WikiLeaks supporters whose Twitter records have been subpoenaed and whose laptops have been seized by government agents, and will place the Obama administration's unprecedented campaign against leakers in legal and historical context."
Panelists are ACLU lawyers Ben Wizner, Catherine Crump, and John Reinstein.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-_Kl6mpYd4
Note: William Binney is in the audience during this talk.
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 camaro92Question everythingPremium
join:2008-04-05
Westfield, MA
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Re: said by DrModem:Throwing people out as the cure assumes you are throwing the right people in behind them.
Yea life's a bitch but I feel they all need 4 year terms just like the President, maybe that could light a fire under there asses so they won't get comfortable and not do a damn thing, but like you said it depends on the right candidate. |
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join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Term limits don't solve anything. It just speeds up the rotation.
Term limits mean when you actually do get a good person, they immediately get thrown out like everyone else.
The government is not actually the problem. The government is just a symptom. The people are the root of the problem.
The only thing that will actually change the government is the people as a whole changing their minds about what government they will tolerate. Until then we will continue to get the same government as we have been getting for decades, because deep down on the large scale, it's the government we want. |
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9
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Re: Things Mom never told us about NSA said by coldmoon:That's an old one - ball costs 5 cents and the bat is $1.05...
I knew as soon as I answered I was wrong, but couldn't express how I knew, and totally forgot how to frame the question algebraically. I kind of slid into the correction sideways: If the ball costs 10 cents, then the dollar for the bat is only 90 cents more ...
But I got the lake answer right!
quote:
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
For some reason I did not fall into the shortcut trap (... to divide the final answer by half. That leads you to twenty-four days.)
I don't know why the answer to this one seemed so obvious, having failed the other. Maybe a vague recollection of geometric progression? Or was that exponential growth? Anyway, I figured it out by avoiding the mental trap.
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Name GamePremium
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North Myrtle Beach, SC
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»www.youtube.com/watch?v=daro6K6m···bedded#! |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | Shame on you! Such a 'noughty' post!!! |
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Numbers are indeed fun. Very enjoyable video!!
A book I have enjoyed and can highly recommend is "Fermat's Last Theorem."
It provides a glimpse into advanced topics without having to fully understand them. |
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