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There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary notation, and those who don't.

 

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[glasater]

Cute! And I hope you have ten fingers instead of two:-)

[Jack is Back!]

10110 11001.01101 or WTF.

[Dave (in MA)]

01000001011011100010000001101111011011000110010001101001011001010010000001100010011101010111010000100000011001110110111101101111011001000110100101100101

[Kurt]

Ha, good one!

[Ignatz]

Interesting story at CNBC.
If inflation were measured the way it was prior to 1980 it would be at approximately 10%. Even using a more updated method it would be at 5.5% and rising.
No comment on which way is better.

[Thomas Collins]

Lucky 111s does have a nice ring to it.

[Thomas Collins]

TM is preparing us to think outside the box on deficit reduction techniques. His next thread, I predict, will start with a calculation of out year deficits in base billion. He's working on the extra numeric symbols now.

[Sue]

Does it involve math?

[GMAX]

This reminds on the null set.

[hit and run]

Obama rejects the false choice between a unary numeral system on the one hand and those who would push for a binary one on the other.

Obama is postnary.

[clarice]

First I have to master the decimal system.
Ooops. my sock drawer is calling out and saying it needs to be organized.

[Melinda Romanoff]

What about imaginary ones?

[Danube of Thought]

Great idea from Insty:

"The one fairness-tax he won’t propose, I feel sure, is my proposed 5-year 50% surtax on the earnings of former government officials. But that tax seems fair to me. After all, the private-sector is only willing to pay those inflated salaries because of the time the officials spent on the taxpayers’ dime. Why not let the taxpayers get some back? Fair is fair.

"I really hope that some Republican — or Democrat! — in Congress will attach this to the Obama tax increase package. As Roger Kimball notes, it won’t raise much revenue, but that doesn’t distinguish it from Obama’s other 'fairness' oriented taxes.

"My only question is whether a mere 50% is fair enough. Roger Kimball thinks we should go higher, to 75%, or 90%. In the interest of 'compromise,' I’m willing to go along. Just to show that I’m not one of E.J. Dionne’s crazed tax-hating 'fire eaters.' After all, from reading Dionne over the years, I know that there’s nothing more moderate than agreeing to a big tax increase for other people!"

[MarkO]

What about a tax strike? Fair is fair.

[DGS]

Off topic.

Jane,

When is the Tea Party in Boston this week? Who is going to be there?

[MarkO]

Let's get out ahead of this and call for a "fair and balanced" tax code. That should piss them off.

[Extraneus]

I like the balanced idea. Fair is a fighting word.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

When I see a bunch of numbers and words like binary, I get that deer in the headlights stare, so with that in mind, I'll say Glenn doesn't go far enough. We need to go back to Biblical principals and establish a type of Jubilee year worldwide. The Torah says leave the fields fallow for a year (something apparently farmers didn't learn until after the Dust Bowl in the '30s), I say forgive all debts for a year as the alternative.

[postedunderyourname]

Its the date?Math is just luciferians trading.It tries to justify lucifers creaion.Its easier to use like miracles or something.Part seas raise the dead.PUYN

[Woo Fung]

There are 2 kinds of people in this world, those who understand hexadecimal and those who don't.

[Jack is Back!]

Is tomorrow Bambi's "malaise" moment? If he starts with "fair share", "sacrifice", "balance" and other cryptic phrasing for "suck the blood out of the rich, those making $250K+" then it will ring very hollow.

[Gmax]

I feel kinda like when I am church and they start using Greek or Latin. I look around and all I see is Americans, no Romans or Greeks anywhere!

[hit and run]

Math is just luciferians trading.

That's what I was thinking! Uncanny,really.

[LibertyAtStake]

"10 people" captures the superficial appearance, but really, "2 people" captures the logical content better.

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"

[Gmax]

You think he puts on the sweater and tells us to suck it up and ride the high speed rail or buy a totally impractical electric car? I got money that says yes...

[Extraneus]

Never liked church unless it was in Latin.

Eccum spiri tu tu o, a one two three and away we go.

That's what me and my friends used to say before we were thrown out by the ushers.

[Extraneus]

Of course it's "I and my friends." Another embarrassing faux pas.

[bolitha]

I think it's my friends and I extraneus.

[Jim Ryan]

Hey, Leibniz? Thanks for the binary number system, pal.

[henry]

I just wish the budgeteers would stick with the real numbers.

[Ignatz]

--Of course it's "I and my friends." Another embarrassing faux pas.--

You should have become Orthodox; it's all Greek to me.

[Jack is Back!]

Trying to decide between Caddyshack on Golf Channel or watching O'Reilly and guests talking about Obama and all his secrets. I will leave it to TK to tell us if O'Reilly was worth missing and I'll stick with serious stuff like Caddyshack.

[sbw]

It's Caddyshack. There I was. Caddying for the Dally Lamma.

--

To really count in binary you have to be able to read hex: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 . . .

And old codgers would remember what a F03 [Fox-Oh-Three] stood for.

[Jane]

DGS,

It's on the common, near the statehouse at 4:00. Pawlenty is the speaker. Rocco and I are going in, and getting TC along the way. I'd like to kidnap Dave in MA too because he is on the way.

Are you planning on coming? If so email me so we can figure out where to meet.

AND THE REST OF YOU - GET OFF THE COUCH!

[Jack is Back!]

God, how I miss Rodney Dangerfield. He was the best dressed man I ever saw in the movies:)

[narciso]

LOL, JiB go with the gopher, although Ted Knight will remind you of O'Reilly

[Jack is Back!]

Just got through the "baby ruth" in the pool scene where Carl is posing as a Fukushima 50 and has a bite out of it as Judge Smails wife faints. The best parts are coming up.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Hey, Leibniz? Thanks for the binary number system, pal.

Don't forget his contribution to race relations.

you know: integration.

But Leibnitz got the idea from the Chinese.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

It's actually kind fo a relief that there's finally an old-codger trivia question I don't know offhand.

360 instruction set, though, right?

Where's my green card?

[Rob Crawford]

And old codgers would remember what a F03 [Fox-Oh-Three] stood for.

About half of the UPP for a Traveller character who's incredibly strung, clumsy as hell, and very, very short-winded.

[Cecil Turner]

360 instruction set, though, right?

I thought it was "I just fired an active radar homing missile (either AMRAAM or Phoenix), and ya'll might want to be careful out there" . . . but that didn't fit too well.

[(Another) Barbara]

AND THE REST OF YOU - GET OFF THE COUCH!

I'm goin', Ma. . . I'm GO-ING! Quit hassling me! (xoxo)

[sbw]

F03 was the abnormal termination code of IBM's OS360.

Extra points to the guy with the green card. Heh! To the guy who knew what a green card was. I have several in the basement, stored away. Collector's items.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

God, how I miss Rodney Dangerfield. He was the best dressed man I ever saw in the movies:)

OMG, twice in less than 24 hours I heard someone say they miss Rodney Dangerfield when I had not heard his name or thought about him in years. My d-i-l was talking about him this morning.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

And old codgers would remember what a F03 [Fox-Oh-Three] stood for.

SNAFU?

[MarkO]

OK. This is my 6 degrees of separation moment. I have played golf several times with the writer of Caddyshack.

You may worship me.

[Porchlight]

Wow, MarkO. Does that mean you are the ball?

[MarkO]

No, Porch, that's Danny. He had to be the ball.

[Porchlight]

Oh, I know. I just figured, since you played golf with the writer, maybe he told you to be the ball like Ty told Danny.

That is seriously cool.

[MarkO]

He told me I was ---- not good. Brian is a friend and we spent a good deal of time togeher in the late 80's and early 90's. He is a seriously funny man, but far too serious about golf. In those days, Billy was not a good player, but he has greatly improved.

I, not wanting to intrude, remain awful.

[Rocco]

Apologies if this has been posted already...Barack the Magic Suit, A Political Fairy Tale. H/T New Zeal

[Porchlight]

I know very little about golf (to my brother and dad's great dismay) but I've been a Caddyshack fan forever. It's a damn near perfect movie imho.

[MarkO]

Bill's part is almost entirely improvised. He was to have a bit part. I could watch it every day. I'm a sick puppy.

[maryrose]

Marko:I worship you.CNBC interviewed Bill Murray when he was playing Pebble Beach and asked him to do "Carl". It was hilarious. I love Bill Murray from SNL and his Todd and Lisa Loobner days. He and Gilda were magic.Watching" Caddyshack "or " Stripes"is mandatory whenever it is on.And "That's a Fact Jack!"

[Jim Ryan]

But Leibnitz got the idea from the Chinese.

The Chinese didn't see that what they had stumbled upon was a number system. He thought they had beat him to it, but he was wrong. So, he should get the credit for creating this number system. My 1996 article in Philosophy East & West covers this little episode in intellectual history in detail. Don't everyone rush out and read it at once or the librarian will have to make a waiting list.

Leibniz was an expert on Confucian moral philosophy, too. He wrote a book on it.

[MarkO]

It was an intersting time. I was part of a minor league baseball ownership group with Billy. Yes, I have stories. Yes, I will tell some of them. Mostly, I will say that Bill was wonderful to me.

[maryrose]

Ext:
Eccum Spiri tu tu o- You must have been an altar boy. I always wished I could be an altar girl.I used to help my brothers learn their Latin for the Confedior part of the Mass. Show of hands- How many took Latin in school?

[maryrose]

I also loved him in "Ghostbusters" and Scrooge.Does he live in Chicago or California?

[MarkO]

I think the line was "Will you help me sort me holy cards," but I don't think that's what your were talking about.

[Danube of Thought]

Woot! Woot! Woot!

A jury at the trial of a former U.N. weapons inspector were shown a video of him performing a sex act that was sent to an undercover detective posing as a 15-year-old girl.

Scott Ritter, 44, sat stoically in the Pennsylvania court as the video was shown and an explicit on line conversation between Ritter and undercover detective Ryan Venneman, posing as 'Emily', was read out in front of his two 18-year-old daughters.

Prosecutors said Ritter's on line chat with 15-year-old 'Emily' in February 2009 was actually the third such encounter since he quit his job as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq in 1998. He later became a vocal critic of the Bush administration's war in the country.

[Danube of Thought]

I love Bill Murray from SNL and his Todd and Lisa Loobner days

How quickly they forget Nick Rails:

"Freeeeeeeak OUT!!! Le freak, so chic, Freak OUT!!! Le freak, so chic, Freak oouu-oouu-oouu-oouu-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUT!!!!!!!"

[PAN back to show the bar car on a passenger train. Nick is wearing a white leisure suit over a blue tropical shirt. The customers clap obligingly as a couple emerge from the next car, stop behind Nick, and wait for him to move out of their way.]

Nick: Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the auto train lounge! I’m your h-- [notices couple waiting behind him] Excuse me. I’m your host, Nick Rails, and I’ll be the entertainment, like it or lump it, all the way to Orlando.

[piano flourish]

Nick:
"People all over the wor-r-rrrrrrld,
Get your caaaaarrrrrrr,
Drive it onto the auto traiiiinnnn...
The next stop that we maaaaaaaaaaaaake
Will be Florida-a-aaaa..."

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet]

Todd LaBounta Lisa got in trouble! Lisa got in trouble! Noogie Patrol!! [ grabs Lisa and pounds her noggin with noogies ]

[Frau Kalkül]

Speaking of Dangerfield: Hooray! Leibniz finally gets some respect. Newton and the Royal Society really stuck it to him and Voltaire piled on. Harrumph! Cunigunda, indeed...

Now, what's the deal with net neutrality? With Al Franken and Pelosi Galore backing it, how can anyone even think unemotionally about it

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I cannot believe you guy actually like Bill Murray. He always give me the creeps and he is so so ugly.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

gives - there's that pesky missing s again. Seems to only happen at the end of words.

[Threadkiller]

--"I will leave it to TK to tell us if O'Reilly was worth missing and I'll stick with serious stuff like Caddyshack."--

The rumors of my Fox viewership have been greatly exaggerated.

[Strawman Cometh]

A damn good question

[MJW]

Why can't VAX programmers tell Halloween from Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.

(I know that was mentioned by someone here a while ago, but its worth mentioning again, since its surely one of the best number base jokes of all time. Not that there's a lot of competition.)

[MJW]

Yes, I know those two it's should have had apostrophes. Unfortunately, I depleted my supply by accidentally using them in its where they didn't belong.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

MJW: LOL

[laptop battery]

Ha, good one!

[Thomas Collins]

My high school required two years of Latin, maryrose, and I ended up taking it for all four years of high school.

[Extraneus]

You must have been an altar boy.

Ha. No, I was never very popular with the priests or brothers. Had to deal with them through high school, though.

[Thomas Collins]

Despite yesterday's 3-2 loss to Tampa Bay, the Red Sox remain ahead of the pace set by the 1962 New York Mets. Those Mets were 1-10 after 11 games, and the 2011 Red Sox are currently 2-9. I am still confident that the Bosox will top the 40-120-1 record of Casey Stengel's 1962 Amazin' Mets.

Because this is a base 2 thread, I suppose I could say the Bosox already have 10 wins this year.

[jimmyk]

I suppose I could say the Bosox already have 10 wins this year.

Yes, but they are 10-1001.

[dataservices]

Bil is just a reflection.The magical suit was a movie that justified using luciferian powers,the force,to entertain itself with the planet everyone(green) wants to save.Like superman,who had to kill himself,the first american object in space.

[fdcol63]

I usually enjoy Bil Murray, but IMHO, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou totally sucked.

[fdcol63]

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[narciso]

You know, some people, should not comment on something, if they have no clue, of course who
is backing him, an associate of our 'good friend' Ali Soufan:

http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfreedman/2011/04/12/romney-to-trump-obama-doesnt-need-a-birth-certificate/

[fdcol63]

End bold

[Janet]

In this Stacey McCain post, I like how he calls Obama, "Obama Inc."

"David Axelrod got rich selling Obama Inc. to you chumps,..."

[narciso]

Yes, there were already touches of this, in
the Royal Tannenbaum, Wes Anderson gets over indulgent sometimes.

[narciso]

In the words of Flounder, 'this is going to be great';

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/04/13/2011-04-13_tim_pawlenty_to_cnns_piers_morgan_im_running_for_president_spokesman_walks_it_ba.html

[clarice]

So, let me get this straight...the binary system is Bill Murray?

[hit and run]

And Good Morning!

[rse]

Good morning hit.

It will take a joint effort at this point to get rid of bold.

[Jack is Back!]

Clarice,

When you come in go to LUN. Just to show how stupid the Dems are they are picking on the wrong man. The movie could be called "Debbie Does Dumb".

[maryrose]

DOT:
I do remember Nick Rails, what a fantastic character Bill created. Comic genius and recently SNL just does not seem to have that same spark.Too cynical and negative. I miss Hans and Franz and Will Ferrell, in any role he took on was spectacular.

[maryrose]

Any other Latin scholars among JOM members?

[OldTimer]

The mysterious BC and Barry's handler's determination to bury significant historical data that would ordinarily be used verify and enhance the qualifications of an American president is one issue, but it doesn't hold a candle to the ugly contempt Barry and his 'administrators' hold for the American public.

See LUN for an example this administration's typical Pavlovian dog approach. We are their inferiors. We must be corralled and taught to think correctly:

[narciso]

They're not funny anymore, maybe as bad as the 1980-1981 season,

[Captain Hate]

narc, that one link blows a hole in the USS Mittens before it even leaves the harbor.

[henry]

Maryrose, I took one term of Latin in college and got a D. I'll stick with math.

[maryrose]

henry:
Math was always my downfall. I loved languages and history and psychology.

[Janet]

Latin phrasing can sound so powerful. I love this - Post Tenebras Lux is Latin, meaning "after darkness, light.".
I have a story copied about a soldier that wrote "Post Tenebras Lux" on his helmet.

[henry]

Maryrose, I enjoyed every course I took, but preferred math and chemistry for one simple reason -- no term papers.

[maryrose]

OT:
It is scary that this administration is into propaganda and mind-melding. What are we, Venezuela?

[anduril]

Any other Latin scholars among JOM members?

I had 8 college level courses in Latin (enough for a Minor) and used it fairly extensively for coursework in my major, but that was quite a while ago. I'd never call myself a scholar in Latin. The fact is, I never really enjoyed the "Classical" Latin that was standard classroom fare.

Hey, David Klinghoffer has a nice article on something that's almost sure to come up re budget cutting: The Stem-Cell War. Remember? GOPers are staging a war on science! They want sick kids to die!

[maryrose]

henry:
I hear you. I had term papers out the wazoo!
I do not however possess a scientific mind. I was lucky to get though Anatomy and Botany.Don't even start on how tough Statistics was in Graduate school.

[centralcal]

Good morning all. Math and Latin in one thread? Whatever will I do?

Did you all see that Sidney Harmon (husband of Jane Harmon and new owner of Newsweek) died?