You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.

Tracy ,'The Message'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gus - Apr 21, 2005 4:07:16 pm PDT #7856 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Hmm. There's a problem with clock time sort of working in base 60 and base 12, but we can convert -- one minute is .016667th of an hour. Then we're looking at:

ClockA: 12hours times 100 hundredths = 1200 hundredths of an hour = one half-day (real-time)

ClockB, in the same real-time half-day: 12hours times 100 hundredths plus 1.6667 hundredths [1 minute] = 1201.6667

So ClockB time is 101.6667% ClockA time.

So when do they show the same thing? When the time shown on Clock A is the same as that shown on Clock B, after x hundredths -- which is to say, since the hours are base 12, that the time on Clock A modulo 1200 (or 12 hours) equals the time on Clock B modulo 1200.

x mod 1200 = (1.016667x) mod 1200 or x mod 1200 - (1.016667x) mod 1200 = 0

x is in hundredths, so just divide by 1.6667 to get minutes.

What is there to worry about?

It is FUCKING APHORISM, PEOPLE!


Almare - Apr 21, 2005 4:07:21 pm PDT #7857 of 10001
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "

twitch

Clock A should be smashed with a large hammer to prove the Law of Conservation of Matter. Clock B should be thrown out a window to prove the Law of Gravity.

Odd question.... Helium filled balloons go up but never come down. They defy gravity. They mock gravity by slipping out of the hands of small children and gliding to the ozone. So far, there has yet to be an incident where a NASA space ship had to wipe pieces of birthday balloons off the windshield. Or are they just not telling us?


Cashmere - Apr 21, 2005 4:09:28 pm PDT #7858 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Ima find Dr. Karin Hart and kick her in her uplifted ass. She looks like some kind of Haley Mills Botox Demon. She's a psychologist feeding on the fact that women hate their bodies.


§ ita § - Apr 21, 2005 4:09:47 pm PDT #7859 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Emily sprained ma brain.

So what's the whole 'luring people into debt' thing, then, Gus? Or are people not supposed to buy houses?

Signed,
Would Love A Debt Free House Too


Betsy HP - Apr 21, 2005 4:09:52 pm PDT #7860 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Yo, Emily, the headline I just saw says "Pope Benedict Signals Continuity with John Paul". That means we can differentiate Benedict with respect to John Paul, right?


amych - Apr 21, 2005 4:11:19 pm PDT #7861 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

She's a psychologist feeding on the fact that women hate their bodies.

Plus? She invented what looks like a female jockstrap because she was afraid of her butt "attaching" too far down her thighs. I mean,... huh?


Hil R. - Apr 21, 2005 4:11:35 pm PDT #7862 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yo, Emily, the headline I just saw says "Pope Benedict Signals Continuity with John Paul". That means we can differentiate Benedict with respect to John Paul, right?

Nope. But if the headline was that we were able to differentiate, then we'd know that there was continuity.


DXMachina - Apr 21, 2005 4:12:38 pm PDT #7863 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

But if the headline was that we were able to differentiate, then we'd know that there was continuity.

How about we try to integrate instead?


Betsy HP - Apr 21, 2005 4:12:42 pm PDT #7864 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

::deflates::


amych - Apr 21, 2005 4:13:54 pm PDT #7865 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

::deflates::

Be careful. You don't want anything attaching in the wrong place.