I discovered a couple of days ago that the English word "loot" is from the Hindi (originally Sanskrit) word for "rob".
I learned that the Mason-Dixon (sometimes incorrectly called the Mason-Dixie) line is all the way up here in freaking DELAWARE.
I wouldn't buy any of my trade accounts lunch, those fuckers can buy ME lunch after all the bullshit they put me through.
May, to give you more context, if your business getting stock on a product you'd done tens of thousands of pound in trade on depended on doing that, would you A. do it, or B. say close the account?
Sponsored by who?
Normally I'd be all flustered and anxious about it, but I just used the model and it worked perfectly!Pretty much any model that makes you prepare for a phone call, meeting etc. will make it go better. At a minimum, jot down the things you want to say before you pick up the phone. Best, of course, for any "business" matters is to maintain a log of all your communications, but that's a bit of a counsel of perfection.
Something others may not have known. A female fox is a Vixen, and a male fox is a Dog.Female foxes being called vixens isn't common knowledge? Didn't know the name for male foxes, however.
There's quite a lot about implanting magnets in the old tattoo thread, starting here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,7913.msg1000194.html#msg1000194) and spread over the next couple of pages.
Today, I learned that GameCube discs are smaller than a regular CD. I never had or really hung out with anyone who did, but my roommate has one (along with a Nintendo 64) and he left a game laying around in the common area. My mind was blown.
That disc size is pretty standard. I remember my first experience with one of them was a couple years before the gamecube came out, I think. Got a computer game on that size disc from some fast food kid's meal when the first x men movie came out which would have made me about six. Now I see them from time to time as driver discs.
Today I learned that my fiances family and my own have "known" each other for the last 500 years. We lived in the same areas in Europe, traveled to America at the same time on the same ship, served side by side in multiple wars and even died together. Yet we are the first in our family's long history to get married.
I did research in genealogy for both sides. Then went through different resources for side info.Today I learned that my fiances family and my own have "known" each other for the last 500 years. We lived in the same areas in Europe, traveled to America at the same time on the same ship, served side by side in multiple wars and even died together. Yet we are the first in our family's long history to get married.
This is beyond cool. How did you figure it out?
you can also get optical discs in different shapes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Compact_Disc)I can think of no possible reason for the one that reads "USB Stick" to do so. I mean, it's not like thumbdrives need drivers or anything, right? Isn't that the whole point of em?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Bootable_Business_Card.JPG/640px-Bootable_Business_Card.JPG)
(http://www.happydisc.com.cn/disc/shape%20cd%20replication1.JPG)
I can think of no possible reason for the one that reads "USB Stick" to do so. I mean, it's not like thumbdrives need drivers or anything, right? Isn't that the whole point of em?
you can also get optical discs in different shapes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Compact_Disc)
The barrels in which wines are aged matter so much and in such concrete and sciency ways, I had no idea
Things like the pore-size of the oak
whoa
put it in a glass of coke and watch it dissolve over the course of a week!Myth.
Wine Chemist is an actual no shit career field.
I don't know what the weather is like in Virginia but it's not wussy to decide not to force people to go out in life-threatening weather. Teachers often commute for an hour or more; in bad weather they have to set off even earlier. If the district waits until the weather is really bad, people will already have set out and will be in danger trying to get home again.
I don't know what the weather is like in Virginia but it's not wussy to decide not to force people to go out in life-threatening weather. Teachers often commute for an hour or more; in bad weather they have to set off even earlier. If the district waits until the weather is really bad, people will already have set out and will be in danger trying to get home again.
Is it only the low temperatures or did the NoVa area get hit with rain or snow or icy conditions? Lowe temperatures alone shouldn't cancel school unless it's deadly lows like in the plains states...
Yesterday I found out that garlic mouthwash is a thing and that there's a good reason for it.
For humans. It fights decay bacteria.
Rugby seems a little far north for the dead center...
I have the oddest urge to go to Deadhorse, Alaska.
Rugby seems a little far north for the dead center...
According to a listing by the U.S. Geological Survey (http://edc2.usgs.gov/pubslists/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.php#Distances), Rugby is actually approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the geographic center of North America (6 miles (9.7 km) west of Balta), and even this designation carries no official status.
No it isn't. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby,_North_Dakota)QuoteAccording to a listing by the U.S. Geological Survey (http://edc2.usgs.gov/pubslists/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.php#Distances), Rugby is actually approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the geographic center of North America (6 miles (9.7 km) west of Balta), and even this designation carries no official status.
Windows XP requires more storage than the human genome: http://www.tmsoft.com/article-genome.html (http://www.tmsoft.com/article-genome.html).I assume you're not writing the genetic code as a string of 1s and 0s directly onto a storage device, which is what the article is describing. Presumably that would require much less bits than storing it as an actual file that programs can read and write to. Even writing the genetic code as a string of ATCGs in a text document would require much more than 750MB.
Actually, I don't know where that article got the 750MB for the human genome - I'm just working on pricing up a computer system based on a requirement of 250GB per genome (we're looking at 10,000 genomes, so 2.5 Exabytes).
Actually, I don't know where that article got the 750MB for the human genome - I'm just working on pricing up a computer system based on a requirement of 250GB per genome (we're looking at 10,000 genomes, so 2.5 Exabytes).
The article compares the genome to Windows XP when it is configured and installed, but a better comparison would be with the installation CD for Windows XP.To sate my own curiosity, I've discovered that an original Windows XP disk contains considerably less than 750MB; no more than 600, in fact. The comparison will fall down anyway, because if you follow that analogy then inserting the installation disk in the drive would prompt it to start replicating the entire system, disk included, and it would install a different set of programs on each individual system and network the whole bunch into a massive machine whose primary function is to produce half of an installation disk that is then combined with another half a disk of another network of systems.
No it isn't. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby,_North_Dakota)QuoteAccording to a listing by the U.S. Geological Survey (http://edc2.usgs.gov/pubslists/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.php#Distances), Rugby is actually approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the geographic center of North America (6 miles (9.7 km) west of Balta), and even this designation carries no official status.
The last computer system I installed for work on genomes has two 250TB storage arrays, and a processing cluster with 256 cores and 16GB of main memory available for each (i.e. 4TB of main memory). When running flat out it draws 39A from the 240V mains; we had to have an extra air conditioning unit installed in the computer room before we could turn it on!
There has actually been a Supreme Court case where the decision was based on the Third Amendment, although it didn't have anything to do with quartering soldiers. In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, the court ruled that the Third Amendment shows that it was the Framer's Intent for executive powers to be limited even during wartime. The Federal Government had seized steel plants to assist in the Korean War.
Engblom v. Carey, which was decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, is the biggest case that directly involve the Third Amendment. In that case, New York state prison guards went on strike and were evicted from their on-site housing. National Guardsmen were brought in to guard the prisons and lived in those homes.
I'm just working on pricing up a computer system based on a requirement of 250GB per genome (we're looking at 10,000 genomes, so 2.5 Exabytes).Wouldn't that be "only" 2.5 Petabytes?
Oops! Yes...That's ok, Paul! Learning has occurred!
I don't have to trim my own ear hair!
The lines read in transcription:
ˇsumma am¯elu antaˇsubbˆub ¯ el ¯uri...q¯at etimmi q¯at m¯amˆıti... eli-ˇsu ibaˇ sˇsi alˆu lemnu ireddi-ˇ s´ u...
and may be literally translated:
“If a man has been suffering from antaˇsubbˆu, b¯ el ¯uri, q¯at etimmi or q¯at m¯amˆıti, and an al ˆ u lemnu then begins to in- flict him with ideas of persecution...”
Of the terms mentioned, the first antaˇsubbˆ u, is a Sume- rian loanword and has long been understood to mean “the falling disease,” that is, epilepsy characterized by major seizures. The term b¯ el ¯uri which follows means literally “the lord of the roof,” and was evidently the ancient term for an absence attack, the common rolling up of the eyes being caused, supposedly, by a demon lurking in such a position as the roof of a house. q¯at etimmi means “the hand (power or influence) of a ghost,” and although it may have had a wider significance, we have suggested (Kinnier Wilson & Reynolds, 1990) that it refers to nocturnal epilepsy. The word m¯amˆıti in q¯at m¯amˆıti literally means “oath,” but was used medically to denote conditions in- volving obsession or repeated action, as if the patient had sworn an oath to perform a certain action and could not be dissuaded from doing it. In the context of epilepsy, the term may readily be understood as referring to the au- tomatisms of epilepsy or postictal confusion. The words alˆu lemnu translate, nonspecifically, to “evil demon.”
I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City. I am a theatre major who has been to NYC three times. It is sad that I had to learn this via my musical theatre history class.
Although I also learned from the same class that Cohan was strongly anti-Union. In 1919, Cohan said that if Actor's Equity won the labor dispute they were in, he would quit show-business and run an elevator. A journalist retorted that to run an elevator Mr. Cohan would have to join a union.
I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City.
I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City.
Had my picture taken with it the only time I've been to a broadway show.
But had it gone a little differently...
Well, my last name would be Cohan. Of course, it wouldn't be me, but... you get the idea.
The barrels in which wines are aged matter so much and in such concrete and sciency ways, I had no idea
Things like the pore-size of the oak
whoa
Wine Chemist is an actual no shit career field.
It's just... heavy :x
Also, the plural of anecdote is data:
http://evidence-based-science.blogspot.se/2009/11/plural-of-anecdote-is-data.html
mind = blown
["Proof" that the sum of all positive integers is negative]
stop that.
you're reinforcing my perception that I'm dumb as a box of rocks.
Yesterday I learned that in a criminal case literally anything you say can be used against you. I was watching a DUI trial and one piece of evidence against the defendant was her answer when the cop asked her what time it was.
There is a widespread idea, for example, that drinking cold water is damaging to the stomach, which is tied to TCM ideas about heat and cold, though it might well have had a purely pragmatic basis when unboiled water was not safe to drink.
a Chinese woman might prefer not to have ice in her water jug, for instance
Yes, it was the humours I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name of. Thank you, that's helpful. Like any other cultural practice I won't assume it applies to all Chinese families I meet, but it's definitely helpful to be aware of the possibility that a Chinese woman might prefer not to have ice in her water jug, for instance (fetching jugs of water is a good first year student task!).
Today I learned that my garage door is so obsolete that I can't get parts for it, and that keeping spares is of limited value since a typical garage door mechanic won't work on something so far short of contemporary safety standards.
The second type of implied warranty is the warranty of good workmanlike construction. This warranty requires that a home or unit will be constructed in compliance with local or state building codes and with non-defective, high quality materials. Pursuant to the warranty of good workmanlike construction, the developer-builder warrants that the home or unit is free from latent defects of a substantial nature caused by a failure to construct the home in a skillful manner.
Today I learned that "gung ho" is from Chinese and that I've been wrong about its meaning for decades.
As Akima said else where the translation works out, but is still probably terrible Chinese.Yes, it is. "Work together" is just the meaning of the individual characters, it's not really proper Chinese at all. A more correct way to say "Let's work together!" would be 共同努力吧 (gòngtóngnǔlìba).
I've never heard the bit about Carlson's time with the 8th Route Army before.Well... That is probably because 8th Route Army was communist, and after the way nobody wanted to talk about that in the USA.
Today I learned that "gung ho" is from Chinese and that I've been wrong about its meaning for decades.
What did you think it meant/where it came from?
Oh, yesterday I learned how to assemble a computer!bwahaha
At least in theory. That is, from YouTube.
And more like "how you'd assemble a computer in 2008" which included the guy repeatedly pointing out he was installing a network card and not a modem.
Oh, yesterday I learned how to assemble a computer!bwahaha
At least in theory. That is, from YouTube.
And more like "how you'd assemble a computer in 2008" which included the guy repeatedly pointing out he was installing a network card and not a modem.
A couple UK scientists, wondering how Bactrian camels in the Gobi desert were supposedly able to sniff out water from 50 miles away, proposed that the animals were actually smelling geosmin carried by the wind from oases.
A survival trait so obviously useful to camels would likewise be advantageous to us. Long ago we were mainly nomads wandering in arid regions. It’s easy to imagine a parched band trudging mapless in the desert looking for the next watering hole. Then the breeze picks up, and what do they detect? Had they lacked the appropriate olfactory adaptation, nothing, with possibly disastrous consequences. As it was, if they were fortunate, they might smell the faint odor of moist earth, and with it the promise that they'd live another day.
Some learning for you today:
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I thought that was the safety spoon.The spoon is the bit falling off in the picture. For the spoon to fall away what you have to remove the clip, then the pin. Most grenades in movies do not have a clip because it's less dramatic then just pulling out the pin and throwing the grenade.
3 meanings to this civvie.
put out: to turn off (Put out that light!)
put out: provide sexual favor
put out: shows motivation and effort
Were you pronouncing it "fuck-aid"? :parrot:
Buddhist or not, the *natural* consequences of drinking, such as hangovers, staggering, and thinking that painting the walls lime green is a good idea are generally* the drinker's own fault.
* Assuming they chose to drink.
Hair of the dog? As in, have another drink? My body has an impulsive aversion to alcohol when hung over.
An ex threw up on me in bed. It wasn't very sexy, no.
How do you have easy hangovers? I get upset when people say that, mine are fucking horrible every single time. "Things I need to learn" how to stop hangovers when food and water just makes you feel sick.
The whole world runs on caffeine...except Mormons, I guess.And those of us who are off of caffeine for medical reasons (all my anxiety disorders). And it Fucking *sucks* The withdrawal was bad enough, but drinking decaf is like drinking NA beer… It looks the same, it smells the same, but it is at best, a placebo effect. The taste *always* sucks, compared to the real thing. I would maim someone for the ability to have a *real* coffee without freaking-out.
Am I the only person who can't really tell the difference between decaf and caffeinated coffee?No, you aren't. But I've worked in enough coffee places to the point where I can taste the difference, as well, as the one between different roasts, and to some extent, origins. It's a lot like tasting whisky, there are different types, places of origin, single-malt versus blended, and totally different tasting notes. My biggest problem with decaf is that it's almost *always* over-done, in terms of roasting. I'm not a big fan of dark roasts to begin with, I tend to prefer the light roasts or blended ones, but every decaf I've ever had, it was basically burnt. I don't know whether or not it's *needed* to always roast decaf as dark, but it's *not* the same, even compared to other dark roasts.
Reminds me of when Penn & Teller served hose water out of fancy water bottles and people thought each one tasted different, despite coming from the same hose.One of the best explanation of the placebo effect I've seen.
an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory.
Am I the only person who can't really tell the difference between decaf and caffeinated coffee?No, you aren't. But I've worked in enough coffee places to the point where I can taste the difference, as well, as the one between different roasts, and to some extent, origins. It's a lot like tasting whisky, there are different types, places of origin, single-malt versus blended, and totally different tasting notes. My biggest problem with decaf is that it's almost *always* over-done, in terms of roasting. I'm not a big fan of dark roasts to begin with, I tend to prefer the light roasts or blended ones, but every decaf I've ever had, it was basically burnt. I don't know whether or not it's *needed* to always roast decaf as dark, but it's *not* the same, even compared to other dark roasts.
To my utmost surprise, the complete phrase 'knowing is half the battle' is actually coined by GI Joe and not by a more, um, conventional source. At least, as far as I could find, the 'half the battle' part is derived from 'the first blow is half the battle' said by Oliver Goldsmith, and since then people have been using 'x is half the battle' for a lot of things, but 'knowing is half the battle' didn't consistently appear before this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pele5vptVgc).
I may be completely wrong here but doesn't HPV also cause warts?
I may be completely wrong here but doesn't HPV also cause warts?
Warts are caused by a viral infection, specifically by one of the many types of human papillomavirus (HPV).
I may be completely wrong here but doesn't HPV also cause warts?
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I just found out one of my ancestors is the George Washington. :psyduck:
According to my dad, I'm related to the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. I don't really believe that, though...
How on earth do you stop a car with pepper spray? Spray it directly into the air intake?Nope: air filters.
Today I learned that if a car is following yours with ill intent you can stop it with pepper spray.
I feel an experiment coming on.....
Do you know what was the year, make, and model of the following car? (So I can get the right type of filter from work)
Also, what kind of pepper spray did the instructor use?
Uhh, how could you do that experiment safely?
All I remember seeing at the time was people showing the cops to be just assholes, they did their duty IMHO.You say that as if they could not do both at the same time. The narrative with which the page you linked is running seems to be that as long as you warn people ahead of time that you are going to employ violence against them, or spray them with a not-intentionally-lethal (http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-18/news/mn-14572_1_pepper-spray-manufacturer) chemical weapon, that makes it OK.
I should really pay attention. I totally missed this incident back in 2011. :psyduck:
UC Davis (http://imgur.com/gallery/79Tc3)
All I remember seeing at the time was people showing the cops to be just assholes, they did their duty IMHO.
It's a food product, essentially.Why don't you try ingesting some and report back your findings.
All the same, I think he should ingest some pepper spray and report back... For science.
:)
All the same, I think he should ingest some pepper spray and report back... For science.
:)
... For sinus.
Because your sinuses will definitely be cleared.
a place in which something is formed or deposited; a site of origin/a place in which bacteria have multiplied or may multiply; a focus of infection.And now we all have!
Dark Crystal has gelflings, which are entirely different. And only girls have wings.
So today, I bought Skyrim for PC, and learned things have changed since the good old Roller Coaster Tycoon days. Have to make a Steam account, straight up download the game. I bought the discs because my internet is too shit to deal with in the first place. Harrumph. Ten plus hours left of download...Then what's the point of them selling the discs at all? :psyduck:
So today, I bought Skyrim for PC, and learned things have changed since the good old Roller Coaster Tycoon days. Have to make a Steam account, straight up download the game. I bought the discs because my internet is too shit to deal with in the first place. Harrumph. Ten plus hours left of download...Than what's the point of them selling the discs at all? :psyduck:
Some people (like me) prefer to have a hard copy on hand.
Wait, really? That's...completely stupid.
Yes, it does prompt you to download the game when you activate the game's key but if you run setup from the disc after activation it installs the whole game from the disc and only has to download patches. Great that we can keep talking about this three months later.
Today I learned that hospitals can easily reach Amtrak-like levels of disorganization.
I do hope Honda paid for that.
Today I learned what "commanded equivalency ratio" means. It's the ratio of the actual fuel-air mixture the engine controller wants to a stoichiometric ratio. Also learned that my dad's car runs the injector rails at over 2000 psi.
If you ever played Sonic The Hedgehog (the original, not the 2006 disastrous reboot) you might have got to the Labyrinth Zone boss.The barrel boss in level 3 of Carnival Zone in Sonic 3 was worse, because you pretty much had to find a guide to figure out how to get past it (time pressing up and down as it moved up and down).
Is 2015 too late to learn that you don't really have to kill him?
Because I just did and I'm salty as hell. I lost 12 lives to him on a playthrough 15 years ago, and stopped playing the original Sonic altogether.
I learned that Spain has a Constitutional Monarchy (like the UK) of the Bourbon dynasty (established after the Spanish War of Succession in 1714). I always thought they were a democratic republic of sorts. I also learned that the French Bourbon dynasty still exists (always thought they died out). The current pretender to the throne is Louis XX and he's 28.He's been pretending to be king for 28 years, he's 42.
I learned that Spain has a Constitutional Monarchy (like the UK) of the Bourbon dynasty (established after the Spanish War of Succession in 1714). I always thought they were a democratic republic of sorts. I also learned that the French Bourbon dynasty still exists (always thought they died out). The current pretender to the throne is Louis XX and he's 28.
It seems so obvious now but I just never knew. The division symbol is just a blank fraction. You replace the dots with numbers.(http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mad.gif)
(http://www.charbase.com/images/glyph/247)
When I divide I tend to use the bottom left format so I don't even see the other ways too often.
When I divide I tend to use the bottom left format so I don't even see the other ways too often.
Huh - didn't even know that one existed ... looks a bit like 3*Sqrt[42] ...
When I divide I tend to use the bottom left format so I don't even see the other ways too often.
Huh - didn't even know that one existed ... looks a bit like 3*Sqrt[42] ...
I know for the most part that's the method they use to teach long division in Primary School here.(click to show/hide)
wow, I finally understand the song "we didnt start the fire" by Billy Joel. I always thought it was about some deep meaning commentary on the human experience. Turns out its just a list of events from 1949 - 1964.People and events... but it goes WAY past 1964...
:venonat:
To be fair to my younger self some of the lyrics are movies or songs released in those years that reference history before the era.
wow, I finally understand the song "we didnt start the fire" by Billy Joel. I always thought it was about some deep meaning commentary on the human experience. Turns out its just a list of events from 1949 - 1964.People and events... but it goes WAY past 1964...
:venonat:
To be fair to my younger self some of the lyrics are movies or songs released in those years that reference history before the era.
Punk Rock is mentioned (late 70s) and the 'cola wars' (mid 80s).
The Australian Museum has an animal factsheet on Thylarctos plummetus (https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/) ...
:psyduck:
Thanks to this video by John Green I learned a new and possibly better way to tie my shoe instead of using double knots!
"What happened was that I brought a couple beers down to the beach but forgot a bottle-opener, so Sarah proceeded to use her two day-old wedding ring to open the bottles"
This is unacceptable - I shall not rest until I have mastered the wedding ring, for the glory and honour of the Fatherland!Imaginary pickelhaube intensifies!
This is unacceptable - I shall not rest until I have mastered the wedding ring, for the glory and honour of the Fatherland!Imaginary pickelhaube intensifies!
Hmmmmh - I possess my peoples' innate aptitude for opening beer-bottles with practically anything lying around (http://berlinerisch.com/blog/2018/05/04/dave-chapelle-in-berlin/) (actually, it's just visualizing the forces & a firm grip), but I've never heard of this one.There's a link on that page to "German maths witchcraft (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mev-q0xIOUo)", which is just the same as Chinese and Australian maths as far as I can tell (that is certainly how I was taught to do subtraction in junior school), with the exception of the thousands-separator and decimal point conventions. So not so much German magic of Nibilungs, as just ordinary outside the USA?
I just found out that Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia.Yes, we do, from our large population of feral camels (descendants of riding and pack animals employed in the bush in the 19th century, and turned loose when no longer required). Mainly they are just another part of our thriving live meat export trade to the Middle East.
You think that's strange? Australia also exports sand to Saudi Arabia. (https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/aussies-sell-sand-to-saudis/news-story/a20367e0e8c08d6f425ebf7f32c0d8d8)https://satwcomic.com/great-deal
You think that's strange? Australia also exports sand to Saudi Arabia. (https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/aussies-sell-sand-to-saudis/news-story/a20367e0e8c08d6f425ebf7f32c0d8d8)https://satwcomic.com/great-deal
I learned that there is still a "Prince Napoleon" and he's my age. Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon is Head of the Imperial House of France and has the title "His Imperial and Royal Highness Jean-Christophe, Prince Impérial (Prince Napoléon), Prince of Montfort, of Lucca and Piombino, and of Canino and Musignano, titular Prince of Elba, titular Prince Royal of Holland and of Westphalia, titular Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves, titular Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Duke of Reichstadt" and the Napoleon is his great-great-great-grand uncle.
Sometimes Reddit will send me random suggestions based off my searches/subscriptions. Well one of which is "Today I Learned" and the subject was rather interesting:
"In 1714, a Norwegian captain (Peter Tordenskjold) and an English captain had a 14-hour long ship fight. Afterwards, both ships were badly damaged and the Norwegian captain was running out of ammo. He sent an envoy to the English ship, asking if he could borrow some of their ammo. His request was denied, and the captains drank to each other's health, before the ships dispersed"
Well, I just learned about that today.
When he heard about the incident, king Frederick IV of Denmark asked for the admiralty to court-martial Wessel. He stood trial in November 1714, accused of disclosing vital military information about his lack of ammunition to the enemy, as well as endangering the ship of king Frederick IV by fighting a superior enemy force. The spirit with which he defended himself and the contempt he poured on his less courageous comrades took the fancy of Frederick IV. He successfully argued a section of the Danish naval code which mandated attacking fleeing enemy ships no matter the size, and was acquitted on 15 December 1714. He then went to the king asking for a promotion, and was raised to the rank of Captain on 28 December 1714.
So I remembered somewhat randomly today that at school, there was a yearly event where you could wear whatever you wanted instead of the uniform. And I always wondered why the heck it was called mufti day (https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/special-shows/the-mystery-hour/culture/what-is-mufti-in-a-mufti-day-13416/).
And thanks to the Intertubes, now I know.
that LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" has the same beats per minute as Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl."I thought their ratio were 2:1
The 1998 East Java ninja scare was an outbreak of mass hysteria in East Java, Indonesia, in which the local population believed they were being targeted by sorcerers known as ninja, who were blamed for mysterious killings of religious leaders by assassins dressed in black. As many as 150-300 “sorcerers” were killed between February and October, with the most deaths occurring between August and September.
DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE OTHER HOBBIES?
And LOL! I noticed this question, while googling for a link about German training of the Chinese army: "Why did China join World War II? (https://www.quora.com/Why-did-China-join-World-War-II)" I would reply "We didn't! WW2 joined us!"
This is unacceptable - I shall not rest until I have mastered the wedding ring, for the glory and honour of the Fatherland!Imaginary pickelhaube intensifies!
I've learned today that there's 7.8 billion humans on this planet.
DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE OTHER HOBBIES?
A crunching sound from cartilage is called "crepitus" and it's the same root as in "decrepit".
Most of the time in the US, modifications to a car are legal, subject to a DMV safety inspection. In California (and now a bunch of other places) modifications to the engine or exhaust system are not: they will cause your car to fail its 'smog test' even if they reduce smog. You're not allowed to change that thing that was approved by some committee with something that wasn't. For a while, this meant that converting cars to electric drive, eliminating all possibility of burning fuel and producing exhaust, would cause them to fail their smog inspections. But that's gotten better; now there's just a form that someone can fill out.
Wanna know what they still get tetchy about?
If you have to change anything about the way the seat belt or the seat itself is attached, your registration ceases to exist. People buy aftermarket bucket seats all the time but they don't change the seat mounting. People buy and install five-point harnesses occasionally, but when they do they don't remove the stock seat belt. When you cross that line, that car is no longer legally a product of the company that made it. Your Ford Fiesta isn't a Ford Fiesta any more. You have to get new registration, new plates, fill out a custom-car-builder's form, name the new make-and-model, get a builder's VIN issued by the state, etc etc etc.... and since there's no baseline data for your newly-built vehicle, you get future smog inspections under a special 'unknown' category that about two-thirds of production cars actually fail. When your insurance company wants to know what kind of car you have, you are not allowed to call it a Ford Fiesta. Insurance may be hard to find, and possibly even expensive.
All of which means, yes, that kind of modification is *technically* legal, but the car company, otherwise under strict liability for accidents and incidents, wants nothing more to do with it because if you designed and built your own attachments for the seat belt, or changed the linkage between the seat and the frame, then your safety is no longer subject to the protections they were expected to provide.
I've done this three times now. :-/
I learned that gorillas only have one blood type, while horses have over 400,000
Considering that they’re usually considered more valuable than humans, I’d presume so.
Wealthy douche nozzles.Considering that they’re usually considered more valuable than humans, I’d presume so.
Interesting. By whom!
To be fair, a hamburger is considered more valuable than a human in a capitalist society.To say that it's more valuable, lacks necessary nuance. The hamburger, to the consumer, has a more direct value, than the stranger bringing it to the consumer. Strangers, though, often have a greater value to the consumer, than any one hamburger, less directly. The stranger's presence aids the bringing of the hamburger, and more---of whatever other service---to the consumer. One stranger likely contributes more than one hamburgers' worth.
There's a TNG manga.My brain converted the acronym correctly, but also assumed it referred to Degrassi: The Next Generation, and now I want that manga.
A cat in a box can actually be in one of three determinate states: alive, dead, and bloody furious.That’s not an orthonormal basis set. The cat can be both alive and bloody furious. Given it’s a cat, it is probably capable of being both dead and bloody furious, too.
Now I have to wonder if Heisenberg had this incident in mind when he constructed his famous thought experiment.
When Erwin Schrödinger tubed his cat home after that infamous experiment, it stayed both dead and alive---superpositional resiliency being a markèd quality of boxed cats. He was damned sure it'd be bloody furious on the other end---even after collapsing it's superposition, irregarding whence---result: negative; leading to the development of the bottom or top cat distinction.
A box with a cat in the "bloody furious" state needs a label saying "this side towards enemy" on the lid.
Learned from a conversation with a friend today that bats are important
The Coelecanth is more closely related to cats than it is to other fish.
David: Even though a chimp is totally in every meaningful way, obviously it's a monkey, it's not a monkey. You know, it's a special place that's been made by biologists for pedants to reside so that any time someone refers to a chimpanzee as a monkey, like you did then, a pedant like me says, "Oh no, a chimpanzee isn't a monkey"; and I've started to hate myself for that.
Lee: Nice of you to join the rest of us.
Also in that category, while I'm on the topic, "blank isn't a colour."Yet Zero is a number. Isn't it?
Today is the day I learned that Damascus steel was nanotech.
Fuck that noise. It's been over 38° every day for weeks, there's no way I am keeping it at 28° in my apartment. I typically keep it between 18 and 20 all year. This is my home, this is where I go to be safe and comfortable.
I haven't touched C++ in a few years now and I wonder if I would even recognise it.
I'm finding out what modern C++ is capable of and just how much you can accomplish in a single line.Wait 'til you discover grep...
I'm finding out what modern C++ is capable of and just how much you can accomplish in a single line.
I'm finding out what modern C++ is capable of and just how much you can accomplish in a single line.Wait 'til you discover grep...
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The plains states are far less flat than people expect. Oklahoma has some really beautiful mountains in its southeast and northwestern parts. The states a bit further east (particularly Illinois) are much flatter, but even Illinois has some hills. If you ever get the chance, check out Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest.
I was today years old when I learned Pence's first name is Michael. Not sure how I avoided knowing that until now.
In general, male politicians here are often referred to by last name alone. With Pence specifically, "Mike Pence" does seem to be used sometimes, but he is often just referred to as "Pence."I was today years old when I learned Pence's first name is Michael. Not sure how I avoided knowing that until now.
I am genuinely intrigued. Do they always simply refer to him as Pence in US media?
Tbf, I didn't pay that close of attention to him.I was today years old when I learned Pence's first name is Michael. Not sure how I avoided knowing that until now.
I am genuinely intrigued. Do they always simply refer to him as Pence in US media?
I genuinely thought all media would have used the name "Mike Pence" on the first mention. Simply "Pence" or "Mr. Pence" thereafter, sure.Honestly, I was thinking more in conversation/social media and sometimes TV news/radio-- those last two with the possibility that if you're not tuned in at the beginning, you don't get it later on. The gender/name thing does come into play, I think, but yeah, if you were just/primarily seeking out articles on public figures, you'd probably come away knowing the first and last name, maybe throw in an initial.