Wish there is a color version of those procures.

@jolly said in Stop me/Start me: @axtremus said in Stop me/Start me: A lot of the fancy electronics really should be made optional. I much prefer vehicles that basically works and with few bells and whistles that breaks easily. Oh, but the carbon foootpriiint!!!! Having said that, I totally agree with you. A car that rarely breaks and lasts for a half-million miles is better for the planet (and the pocketbook) than the latest and greatest.

Follow the science!!

@jon-nyc said in I generally do not reference The Slimes: stop the subsidies now. +1

Official solution came out today: SOLUTION: The first issue to be addressed here is: When do two lattice points, say (a,b,c) and (d,e,f), have another lattice point on the line segment between them? A moment's thought will convince you that this happens when the numbers a - d, b - e, and c - f have a common divisor. The "easiest" common divisor for them to have is 2, and this will happen if a - d, b - e, and c - f are all even, i.e., if the two lattice points have the same parity coordinatewise. When that happens, the midpoint of the two lattice points, namely, the vector ((a + d)/2, (b + e)/2, (c + f)/2), will be a lattice point. But there are only 2^3 = 8 different parities available, so by the pigeonhole principle, we can't have more than eight points in our set L. Can we have eight? Yes, just let L consist of the corners of a unit cube

If y'all don't understand the ramifications of a dishonorable discharge, you might want to look it up.

@george-k said in ¼ of the way around the planet: @lufins-dad said in ¼ of the way around the planet: It’s their responsibility to make sure these type of screwups don’t occur. The French ambassador laughed. From his home in Paris.

That's some cool stuff. Looks wonderful.

@jolly said in Does Freedom Flourish Under Religion?: The claims that America’s founders were mostly deists and that America was founded to be a godless secular society are not true. Amusing to see someone alive in the 21st century still tilting at that old deist windmill. I thought that the deist credo no longer posed a threat to innocent Christian flocks and social morality. In any case, many if not most of the founders were deists and, God forbid, unitarians and assorted anti-trinitarians. None were godless as the epithet is used and thought of today. While they read and knew the Bible in its entirety they still based their republican thought on European political philosophers and Greece/Rome. Indeed, they actually had a pretty rock solid sense of history. I highly doubt they even thought of a secular society, wholly or in part - that sort of thinking would have to wait close to another century and an industrial revolution to occur. I note that Prager really doesn't know what to do with Jefferson. The author therefore goes to some effort to sideline T.J.. Entertaining. I can't imagine what Prager would have to do if Thomas Paine had been a signatory founder. Most inconvenient.

I mentioned it above - but I'm not kidding. Get a bidet - $ for $ the best money I spent this year on an unnecessary item.