Don't have that particular one, but I do have a couple. They are handy.

@Jolly That's what I was getting at when I wrote "too many truths." I think we're saying the same thing. What you think is true ain't necessarily.

@Friday said in Not a review, but a recommendation: Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers. Improbably a good movie that young kids and old folks will enjoy. I’m not sure if it was a a bad movie with a few good beats or a good movie with a few bad beats. It was definitely interesting…

He ruined his own show over the years as he turned to political rants more and more during each show. It was purely his political platform by the last few years. It was his own fault the show slid so far to the left that much of his regular audience walked away. Let me edit that to 'ran' away. It got that bad. The new version was also very political, and the parts that weren't were meh. We have not tuned in for years. Don't intend to either.

[image: best-thai-coconut-milk-grilled-chicken-1500x1001.jpg] This is where Aldo gets it from! 555

@taiwan_girl said in For once, AOC might be right.: To me, they should divide each state into "squares" of equal population and that would be the district. IMO hexagons would be better.

@Larry Now read the actual question Mik posed.

@George-K said in Finally! A class-action that paid off for me: @Mik and @taiwan_girl if you didn't file a claim before November of 2020, you're not part of the class, and SOL. To have filed a valid claim under the Settlement, you must have lived in the State of Illinois for a period of at least 183 days (6 months). The deadline to file a claim form was November 23, 2020. If you did not file a claim by that date — even if you are an Illinois Facebook user, and meet the above above criteria—you are not a Class Action Member, and you will not receive a payout. Yup, I qualified! Yay!!!!

@Jolly Any economic difference? Money talks. Do you really think that if the US stops sanctions against Cuba, all of a sudden Russia (or China or DPRK) will suddenly think that is an okay to place military or weapons on Cuba? It is politics and money for the sanctions at this point in history.

@Sweet-Meteor said in Missed it by *that much.*: Why is the press always so negative on me? Because you said you were going to vote Republican?

Yup.

"I'm sorry." Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars, his lawyers say, citing a letter in which he told Daniels: “I am truly sorry.” The emailed letter, dated May 13, was included in a submission his lawyers made late Thursday in Manhattan federal court in advance of a June 2 sentencing. Avenatti, 51, should face no more than three years in prison for his latest conviction, or 4 1/2 years in all, because two convictions have destroyed his life, the lawyers said. “This sobering reality is as sufficient and powerful a punishment and deterrence as any. Worse, Mr. Avenatti’s extreme rise and fall played out on the most public of platforms, an experience he is unlikely to ever recover from reputationally,” they said. Last year, Avenatti was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to tarnish its reputation with claims that the sportswear giant was immersed in a college basketball recruiting scandal in which cash payouts were used to steer top-tier athletes to the best programs. Then he was convicted by a jury this year for pocketing up to $300,000 of an $800,000 payout to Daniels for her autobiography, spending some of the money on his firm’s payroll and personal expenses. Insisting on representing himself just before Daniels was to testify, Avenatti forced his lawyers to take a back seat as he confronted his former client over advances she received for her book, “Full Disclosure,” published in fall 2018. I assume that he still won't be running for President?

Yes, thanks awfully, Klaus. I don't envy you what you had to go through to fix this. I've had similar experiences, (although at fathoms below your level, god wot). Still, I know how you want to scream after hours of hair pulling. Thanks also to George for his guidance.

@George-K oh sorry, I thought Elongate was one of the earlier mini-scandals about share fixing

Futile is the word that comes to mind.

Good cooking takes time.

Sound logic.

@brenda said in The Russians did it indeed: Bots don't post frog pics or freshly baked bread pics. They also don't spell Minnesoooooota with enough o's. Maybe @brenda is a bot of Hobart’s?

Very wordy. I like my answer better SOLUTION: Let's try some smaller numbers and see what happens. Obviously if the house is all men or all women, the sex of the last person beamed up will be determined. If there are equal numbers of men and women, then by symmetry, the probability that the last person beamed up is a woman would be 1/2. So the simplest interesting case is, say, one man and two women. In that case, if the man is beamed up first (probability: 1/3), the last person beamed up will be a woman. Suppose a woman is beamed up first; if she is followed by a man (who is then beamed back down), we are down to the symmetric case where the probability of ending with a woman is 1/2. Finally, if a second woman follows the first (probability 2/3 x 1/2 = 1/3), the man will be last to be beamed up. Putting the cases together, we get probability 1/2 that the last person beamed up is a woman. Is it possible that 1/2 is the answer no matter how many men and women are present, as long as there's at least one of each? Looking more closely at the above analysis, it seems that the sex of the last person beamed up is determined by the next-to-last saucer — the one that reduces the house to one sex. To see why this is so, it is useful to imagine that the Xylofonian acquisition process operates the following way: Each time a flying saucer arrives, the current inhabitants of the house arrange themselves in a uniformly random permutation, from which they are beamed up left to right. For example, if the inhabitants at one saucer's arrival consist of males Amit and Boris and females Carol, Dina and Esme, and they arrange themselves "Dina, Esme, Boris, Carol, Amit," then the saucer will beam up Dina, Esme, and Boris, then will beam Boris back down again, and take off with just the females Dina and Esme. The remaining folks, Boris, Amit, and Carol, will now re-permute themselves in anticipation of the next saucer's arrival. We see that a saucer will be the next to last just when the permutation it encounters consists of all men followed by all women, or all women followed by all men. But no matter how many of each sex are in the house at this point, these two events are equally likely! Why? Because if we simply reverse the order of a such a permutation, we go from all-men-then-all-women to all-women-then-all-men, and vice versa. There's just one more observation to make: If both men and women are present initially, then one saucer will never do, thus there always will be a next-to-last saucer. When that comes — even though we do not know in advance which saucer it will be — it is equally likely to depart with the rest of the men, or the rest of the women.