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2011-01-31 Africa North

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Posted by ryuge 2011-01-31 03:15|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 IMO, a military support based dictatorship is the most progressive form of government possible in the Muslim world.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-31 04:10|| 2011-01-31 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Progressive government in the Muslim world is an oxymoron.

Posted by phil_b 2011-01-31 05:04|| 2011-01-31 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 ...they hated Mubarak for the uneasy peace he maintained with Israel. Israel is our enemy, one said flatly, explaining why she wanted Mubarak to go. Another added, If people are free, theyre gonna destroy Israel. The country who controls the United States is Israel.

Before Israel is destroyed, there will be enough radioactive dust in the atmosphere that we won't have to worry about global warming for a long, long time.

Posted by Bobby 2011-01-31 06:17|| 2011-01-31 06:17|| Front Page Top

#4 How are water levels behind Aswan Dam these days?

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-31 08:11|| 2011-01-31 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Next you be telling me, phil_b, that "negative numbers are not real numbers".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-31 08:13|| 2011-01-31 08:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "negative numbers are not real numbers".

How can they be, g(r)omgoru, when they've got an i in them?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-31 09:01|| 2011-01-31 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 '-' is the mark of negative numbers

'i' is the mark of complex numbers

Posted by Shereter Poodle9774 2011-01-31 10:35|| 2011-01-31 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 But negative numbers have an 'i' - right between the 't' and 'v'.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-31 11:18|| 2011-01-31 11:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually the Square Root of negative real numbers are imaginary numbers and not real numbers.

Imaginary numbers also form part of complex numbers.

As I recall imaginary numbers are not real numbers - but real numbers are imaginary numbers. Which are often exprssed as a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the imaginary unit number (which as I recall is sqrt(-1).

Of course these imaginary numbers are not related at all to Climate Data, OBumble's job created (or saved) estimates, or CNN crowd estimates - those are fabricated numbers - an area of mathematics where no sane man has gone before.

(damn that was a long wayback journey to high school computer class....)

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-31 11:40|| 2011-01-31 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Must not be that long a wayback journey, if they HAD computers in your high school.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-31 12:50|| 2011-01-31 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 those are fabricated numbers - an area of mathematics where no sane man has gone before

Now I have to find a reason to quote that, Crazy Fool. :-)

Glenmore -- precisely. A small bit of math major silliness. Like the integral of ex.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-31 13:34|| 2011-01-31 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Glenmore - actually they didn't. We had a keypunch machine (and coding forms) and would have jobs run up at the local university's 360/40 overnight and have printout sent back. I just had an assignment to write some functions to perform complex number math - without using the builtin 'complex' data types or functions. First I had to research what a complex number was.

I was never any sort of math major - I just found complex numbers interesting. Which is the only reason I understood the i reference.

Feel free to quote that TW.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-31 14:01|| 2011-01-31 14:01|| Front Page Top

#13 GLOBAL JIHAD = the "North African Intifada" will in LT even devol into the NORTH AMERICAN = PAN-AMERICAN, ETC. INTIFADA...

Except that it will be supported by MILTERR-CONTROLLED NUKES-WMDS + OTHER.

* ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED, TOPIX > [IIRC Korea Herald?] ADMIRAL MULLEN: NORTH KOREA MAY HAVE NUCLEAR-CAPABLE ICBM WITHIN A DECADE, i.e. by 2020 + capable of effectively striking CONUS.

ISRAEL is repor worried = frightened about the "Jasmine" Protests in Tunisia + Egypt, etc. AS THEY SHOULD BE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-31 18:54|| na 2011-01-31 18:54|| Front Page Top

#14 I was never any sort of math major - I just found complex numbers interesting.

To be honest, Crazy Fool, I ended up in math because I found out the hard way I wasn't clever enough for computers. It was only later that I discovered I was a very high-functioning non-math person, too, and even later that I realized my calling was to be a dilettante. ;-)

JosephM, if there ever is a real American Intifada, they'll get their fannies walloped. We don't take kindly to that kind of behaviour in these parts.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-31 19:48|| 2011-01-31 19:48|| Front Page Top

#15 ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED, TOPIX > [IIRC Korea Herald?] ADMIRAL MULLEN: NORTH KOREA MAY HAVE NUCLEAR-CAPABLE ICBM WITHIN A DECADE

If the coal mines are filled with H20, where are you going to get the coal to launch them?

Posted by KBK 2011-01-31 20:43|| 2011-01-31 20:43|| Front Page Top

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