@Loki said in An ACLU staff attorney....: @jon-nyc said in An ACLU staff attorney....: I’m not surprised, I think the ACLU even formally replaced its old mission. They need to update their website. https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-paper The word "peace" or its variants ("peaceful," "peaceably") etc., appear three times on that site. Two of them are referencing things that happened over 60 years ago. None of them address what's happening now. I guess that qualifier from the First Amendment isn't all that important to the ACLU.

::: I first noticed that primes above 50 appear an even number of times, and at least the higher primes below 50 appeared an odd number of times. Therefore I figured it had to be 48, 50, or 52. I then figured of the three 50 was the most likely answer and confirmed it with code. Then I thought there must be an easier way. So if you think of this as 100*(99!)^2 * 98*(97!)^2... 2*(1!)^2 you can reduce it to (some huge perfect square) * 100 * 98 * 96... * 2 Then you pull out a 2 from each factor and get 2^50*(50!). So yeah, exclude the 50! and you have a perfect square. :::

Reminds me of the package of peanuts I saw with the ‘May contain nuts’ warning.

I'd sentence that sucker to twenty years. Working on that church. Wake up in prison, go to work, come back. Six days a week. Sundays, you wake up in prison and you go to church to pray for forgiveness.

Communist!

The statues are pretty funny and well done. Can’t imagine the blackface uproar if they were done during the Obama years, though.

You beat me to it. I was ready to post something similar, and I knew just what colors, too.

Fully jaded people would say either choice is just as bad. The interesting part is that those that want to be in the middle and just want their return to normalcy are being forced to choose. Those on the left that believe Trump will win wont allow themselves to realize that their fear is that enough in the middle will go Trump’s way. Deciding that both choices are equally bad is a personal failure, but one that people seem to be contented with.

I suspect that a Trump will lose big time, but I have witnessed enough new data to come in of late that I’m not so sure that Nate’s models know how to deal with the uncertainty of the next 100 days. I’m a big fan of data but I’ve also seen it be so much less predictive of late than I thought possible.

It would be funny, if it wasn't true...

@Axtremus said in Humanoid Robot with AI to become Hollywood actress: Nah, after “acting,” the next qualitative jump for AI powered humanoid robot would be “directing.” It won't, and it will suck terribly. And you know what's fun? Your counter-argument is going to be all the proof I need for my own, which is that you don't even know what movies are. Wanna spin?

@Catseye3 said in The Cooper Colors: My father's version was simpler: "Drive like everyone around you is stupid." Bikers and cyclists learn it as "ride like no one can see you."

@Loki said in Meanwhile in Minnesoooooota: The one thing these people want is attention. It’s too bad ignoring them is not a viable option. I know I would. I don’t view it as an aggression toward me just a mental health issue that person is facing. The constant level of anger must make their lives nearly intolerable for them. Trolls want desperately to be fed. Agree

@Mik said in Coolest thing you’ll learn today: I knew that. Very cool. I saw that recently as well. But in the last year I also saw a documentary on the mystery of the statues and it is amazing that no one thought to look below the surface.

Yes, it seems to be the same solution indeed. In that solution, the partial sums of both clock-wise and anti-clockwise movement are used and I use only one direction (hence my list of partial sums is only singly-infinite, not doubly-infinite), but I think that's a superficial difference. Nice! But I do have an unfair advantage in this case: It's somewhat similar to things I do for a living (such as: proving termination or confluence of certain state transition systems in theoretical computer science).

Born before WW I

Jolly probably has recommendations for how to handle the coyotes, too.