I remember mentioning that before in this thread with regard to the weird news about a television actor who was fired for kicking a writer. One would have had to follow a link; however, to get to the Wikipedia entry for Shin-kicking.

I couldn't help myself, why the fuck would they do that? What's the point? Then it all came clear when I read the object is to throw the other guy to the ground, shin kicking is just part of the process.


Speaking of strange news...

According to the report, the 35-year-old man had fallen off his moped nine days before his visit to the ER. At first, he only seemed to have bruised his perineum, the area between the genitals and anus that’s commonly known as the “taint.” Before long, though, the man developed an erection that lasted far, far more than four hours. While the erection itself wasn’t painful and there were no other symptoms, he did have to deal with “mild discomfort on walking. ”Once at the ER, he was classified as having a Grade 4 erection,

0 – Penis does not enlarge.
1 – Penis is larger, but not hard.
2 – Penis is hard, but not hard enough for penetration.
3 – Penis is hard enough for penetration, but not completely hard.
4 – Penis is completely hard and fully rigid.

Yeah after 9 days it's wise to ask a pro. :rolleyes:

Ok, if this happens...I might have to see it in person.

Justin Bieber Challenges Tom Cruise To A UFC Cage Fight…Conor McGregor Wants To Host It

The perfect example of an adult who is still a child.

Which one? Justin , Tommy, Conor, or me?

If only we could have a meteor impact that octagon while they are all in it.

Well, I guess this is where we’re at in 2019 ‘Merica.

Any adult who is no longer a child knows that child. Even "Leave it to Beaver". is more adult.

One would expect him to pick on someone more like himself - ie henry.

Plymouth Live

The more I contemplate the actions of the great mass of humanity, the more I scratch my head in puzzlement or shrug my shoulders in weary resignation.

A little more practice and I shall be able to do both at the same time.

Maybe he has other shit upsetting him and this is just what finally triggered the meltdown - on the other hand, maybe sometimes a gnome is just a gnome

Perhaps he has had a bad experience with a gay little person...

Y'know whut, Ima just say it, get it out there, and over with:

Gay midget.

There.

Wait... he was upset about a gay gnome . . . that he had bought ??

I'd guess his wife or boyfriend brought it home.

When did gnomes start having sex?

When do they STOP?

Every gnome should have one. ;)

Did that Gnome out bunny the bunny?

These Border Patrol Agents look perfect for the job of calming distraught young-uns. :rolleyes:

They're filling those dolls with sand and sending them over to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande as training aids for border runners to practice swimming across the river with children strapped onto their backs. This is important because the children make good human shields so border runners won't get shot crossing the river.

They didn't mention that the dog also managed to chamber a round in the shotgun that was about to be transported.

(Maybe someone told the gunowner to load his shotgun on the truck and he misunderstood.)

Maybe a family member shot him and they lied to avoid questions.

In Mississippi, dogs are family members. But I know what you mean.

You're a conspiracy theorist's dream girl.

Who you calling a conspiracy theorist?

There's no such thing as conspiracy theorists. They're a hoax.

This was mentioned on the radio in the early hours of this morning and I wasn't sure if I'd heard it right.

I can't quite believe it. Perhaps not so much weird as utterly bizarre.

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A drone photo showing the size and scale of the replica Mayflower.

LINK


For a more cerebral approach to 17th Century US history, could I suggest this episode of Time Team from 2007?

I won't spoil it for you, but they made some spectacular discoveries.

But Jamestown was a commercial enterprise which stile from the natives and led to slavery, whereas Plymouth a couple years later was religious zealots who stole from the natives and issued scarlet letters.

Carruthers, you (and I) don't really appreciate the fashion of outrage and scandal to be gained from a diet of social media. This expression is bizarre because it's silly. There are some stories that are popularized this way that merit outrage and scandal, but this is not one of them.

In my experience, news like this, the shoutiest parts are are a distraction, sometimes/usually intentionally so, depending on the tweeter...

Consider the source, consider the medium.

How dare you not take my stupidity... er... uh, outrage, yeah that's it, outrage seriously. I'm going home in a snit.

Well played xoB.

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Thames Valley Police is investigating but a source close to the inquiry admitted that they have nothing to go on.

LINK

I'm confident they'll eventually flush out the thief.

We had a similar occurrence a few weeks ago but with flying ants.

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Link

The link is to a Daily Mail article so be prepared for astronomical amounts of hyperbole.

(See what I did there? ;))

So the flying ants are looking for love in all the high places.
I thought ants had a queen who got all the action, like bees.

Sometime today, a mouse fell out of the White House ceiling into the lap of an NBC reporter.

I knew there was a rat in the Oval Office, but, I didn't know about the mice in the Press Room...

He cannot get anything right. The mafia lets it be known. That mouse must be a rat. And it must be dead. Only then is the message properly received.

A 30-year-old man was gored by a bison [in June] at a Utah state park, then brought his 22-year-old date there and she was gored too

:eek::eek::eek:

Couldn't readily think of a thread in which to put this
 

It's called Sycamore.

No wonder he hasn't been around much lately...

IBM says they're bullshitting us.

IBM better hope so.

They were also bullshitting us in 1948 when they made a transistor? We all know transistors, implemented in machines back then, and today's transistors are not point contact transistors. So those three guys, who got the Nobel Prize, were lying?

Article says same about the Wright Bros.

They did fundamental research that proved fundamental scientific theories work. One of many major steps necessary before even application research can start. Nobody is yet close to application research to make a truly functional quantum computer. But we now know this new technology is proven; has a future; will be coming.

Just one of many products based in quantum physics that, in 50 years, will become dominant in our lives. But only in nations that do what Google, et al does. And not what GM, Sears/Kmart, GE, and other 'we want to make profit' companies do.

I'm not sure what's up with you right now, tw, but I won't be engaging.

Citation, please.

I triple dog dare ya.

The Transistor was invented by Bell Labs not IBM. Just so you know.

Well, that's a quote, not a citation, but it's more than I expected.:neutral:

Where is any implication that IBM developed the transistor? Apparently the esoteric point (ie objectives of fundamental research verses creating a useful products) was overlooked.

Google has done something that other once successful companies did and do no more - ie GM, Sears, Xerox, and GE. And the so many that are now gone because they stopped doing it - ie Kodak, CDC, Unisys, ship builders, TWA, Pullman, AT&T, Goodrich, Polaroid, and various steel manufacturers.

Gravdigr's citation makes a same point. That point was quoted.

With the exception of a break-up, those companies were so stupid as to believe they were supposed to be profitable.

They should have consulted The TW, they might still be in business. Stupid multibillion dollar, multinational corporations.:headshake

How do they know it's the right answer?

Ah, shit. Now we're gonna hafta wait ten thousand years...

Sometimes you can check something very quickly that can take a long time to figure out... a reverse-hash, for example.

Ungrind the Corned Beef? :drummer:
I give up what is reverse hash?

Ya smoke it and ya get straight.

LOL

That link says you can't reverse hash so a reverse hash is imaginary? :confused:

And backwards?:eek:

If you have information that's been hashed, let's say a password, it can't be reverse hashed; but, you can go about hashing every password imaginable (a.k.a. brute force attack) until you get a matching hash result. Then you'll have discovered the password that was hashed.

Starting with a known password, hashing it; then, putting different kinds of computers through the discovery process, you can see how long the different computers take to come up with matching hash results. You can verify the accuracy of the result since you know the password that was hashed to begin with.

You already know what the right answer is whether it takes 200 seconds for a quantum computer; or, would take 10,000 years for the fastest current supercomputer, doing so-called reverse hashing, to spit out a match.

Ah so. Thank you.

An example. Take the phrase "ABCD". It is described by the number 61626364. Divide that number by a prime. The resulting encryption might be 635323 and 33.

Did that encryption algorithm work? Trying to reserve the hash using brute force takes long. Reversing the hash to check it is fast.

635323 times 97 is 61626331. Add 33 to confirm 61626364.

In this case, a reverse hash can easily verify the hash.

Rumors from observation claim that every Freecell game is winnable. But it has not been proven. The brute force method is to play every possible game. But no reverse process can prove that conclusion.

Some solutions are easily confirmed by reversing the process. Others are not.
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IBM et al are not criticizing the Google machine (as so many assumed due to conclusions from soundbyte reasoning). They are criticizing a calculation that a conventional super computer could take 10,000 years to solve that problem. That conclusion assumed limited memory. With expanded memory, IBM, et al conclude the problem could be solved in 2.5 days. Using quantum computing, then not so much conventional memory is necessary.

Simple another step in the process of taking a theory, through fundamental research, into application research, and then into commercial products.