Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Laura - Jun 06, 2005 12:09:53 pm PDT #2958 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

I'm thinking that the % of assholes in professional sports is about the same as politics, or any other profession. At least I see a number of them that do really good things. Still, unreal.

Skipped to the end because so stupid busy. ~~~much~ma to all that need it.


Aims - Jun 06, 2005 12:10:48 pm PDT #2959 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

And I'd feel the same way if 2 Senators were fighting over who got to wear the BITCH pin.


Laura - Jun 06, 2005 12:15:58 pm PDT #2960 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Oh, I agree, and they often do act like idiots over such things. Frickin prima donnas.


Aims - Jun 06, 2005 12:16:26 pm PDT #2961 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

t kicks prima donnas


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 12:22:38 pm PDT #2962 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I dunno about math, but the English PRAXIS was pretty easy for me. And you just have to pass it.

Yes, but... it's a TEST! How can I live with myself if I don't do really well? Of course, this will mean remembering the difference between the associative and commutative properties. Which shouldn't be that difficult, it's just I have a block. I think associative is (a+b)+c = a+(b+c) and commutative is a+b = b+a. But I'm not sure.


Hil R. - Jun 06, 2005 12:29:57 pm PDT #2963 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think associative is (a+b)+c = a+(b+c) and commutative is a+b = b+a. But I'm not sure.

That's right. Associative is that you can change which numbers associate with each other first. Commutative is that the numbers can move around, like commuting from one side of the plus sign to the other. (At least, that's how I'm able to remember it.)


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 12:39:26 pm PDT #2964 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

And what about transitive? Is that a=b implies a+c=b+c?

ETA: Of course I could google it. But I like talking to you people!


-t - Jun 06, 2005 12:42:26 pm PDT #2965 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Transitive is a=b and b=c -> a=c (or with < or > replacing the =s)

Hil is very clever. All I can think of when I see "commutative principle" is "What's purple and commutes?"

Ans: An Abelian grape

And that may well summarize What I Learned in Abstract Algebra.


Tom Scola - Jun 06, 2005 12:43:42 pm PDT #2966 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Equality is transitive because a = b and b = c implies that a = c.


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 12:51:49 pm PDT #2967 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Okay, that's what I thought. So then what property is involved in the proof that a+z = b+z => a=b?