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   http://www.scribd.com/doc/8968014/The-Planned-Destruction-of-Christianity-in-Ireland

now don't forget to make two copies and send them to friends - though you might be lucky to still have two friends if you send them this stuff . . .

[Radical leftist GOP Candidate]

Moderate Republican Radical leftist GOP Candidate Dede Scozzofava has bowed out of the 23rd Congressional District elections from New York, after facing opposition from the radical right of the GOP [snip]

Fixed that to match the headline you quoted

How The Fuck can you be  a Radical leftist Republican ??? We'll ALL end up crying you know . . .  


edit to tighten loose vowel

[always]

"Us" is always contingent

[snips the "lock of hair over your eye" bit]

also, for some reason, Goth music has its roots in 80s disco, such as Depeche Mode and New Order.

and dies of laughing too much, though ofc it might have been of old age . . .

Depeche Mode and New Order DISCO???!!!??? Noooooooooo shrieks of pain and howls of disbelief - and we are gonna leave the world to you buggers LOL

"He'll come in a minute", she said, stirring her coffee with the other hand."

Oxford student pub ladies loo many years ago




edited for punctuation fail - yes it DOES fucking matter . . . 

But, you can't calculate PI. Name one thing it is a genuine measurement of.

But I don't NEED to calculate pi . . . its already been done:-

In the twentieth century there have been two important developments: 
the invention of electronic computers and the discovery of much more
powerful formulas for pi. For example, in 1910 the great Indian
mathematician Ramanujan discovered a formula that in 1985 was used to
compute pi to 17 million digits.

Other even better methods have been developed since, and computers are
getting ever more powerful. The current record is about 51 billion
decimal places.

-Doctor Wilkinson,  The Math Forum

Therefore the answer to your second point is that the search for the ultimate pi is a genuine measure of the obsessive nature of the mathematical fraternity and their desperate need to get out of their mothers' basements . . .

Mathematics is the language of the universe to humans in the same way that the highway code is the language of the road to an ant.

This could be taken in at least two ways
1] Maths rolls over people like trucks roll over ants - possibly my favourite as maths = not my fave
OR
2]When I said universal language I was jiving off the "belief" [yep, notice them scare quotes] that there is an underlying mathematical "reality" which can be accessed and shared across human linguistic barriers and potentially alien species boundaries. I'm not at all convinced that mathematics is universal in that sense - though re-reading my post I don't think I was sufficiently clear on that point

[calculated]

That concept does not exist in nature. It is an artifical concept that is only possible within the stucture of the system we created.

I thought you were trying to say that pi doesn't really exist because it has a decimal notation approximation and a base-13 approximation.

maybe I'm saying a lot of things. Maybe I'm also saying that there is no place you can point to that equals "pi". Eventually, you have to approximate. Pi is a metaphor for a relationship that only exists in the framework of a created language. 

Agreed, though I'm not convinced that it is completely accurate to define pi as being a metaphor - it seems to me that it is better to identify it as a genuine measurement - the issue lies in the very existence of Numbers and not in the ways in which we manipulate them, pi was calculated based on the mathematical framework which devolved from the creation of the concept of Number. Also something that has been niggling me since further up the thread is that IF mathematics is the language of the universe don't you think that its a bit weird that the universe only speaks to humans . . .

I just want to know who thinks it is "a little bit of both" and have them try to explain how that would work, because trying to think about the ramifications of that position it is making my head 'splodey . . .

here's an idea.  Why don't you get another scarecrow for inside your house to look at first scarecrow through the window.  They can have a staring contest.

Does a dumb cat count? 

The dumb cat is silent on the topic but could possibly be numerate . . .

If this works, it will make for some veeeerrry interesting discussions with feminists.

. . . why??? . . .

i'd be careful using words like "should" around here.

. . . allergies??? . . .

 yep, better than a paper bag . . . 

hmmmm, whatever floats your boat I guess . . .

http://www.thereeves.org/
turkish hack art anyone?



and Grats to the Canadian Sentinel a disturbingly rightwing blog which showed a pic of this "suicide blonde" with the tag
Geert Wilders, Leader, Party For Freedom
(Wish I had hair like that guy!)

honestly, I laughed until I hurled . . .

this glorious portrait shows the monumental effort he must go through to dye the roots of his hair dark :-




but my fave was this one that reduces him to just his hair - seems like really that is all the political substance the man has - and of course we now know that even that is just a fake . . .

make a cardboard hat that says LIAR and put it on the break room TV.

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