So, if I've been interpreting assignment page limits to be single-spaced so far this semester, because of the amount of stuff I had to cover in previous assignments, can I switch to double-spaced because I don't have anything to say in this paper?

You were probably on shakier ground with the earlier ones, I'd say.

For the math geeks:

A new book profiles two forgotten math geniuses.

The latest entry is Mario Livio's "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved," a wide-ranging exploration of the phenomenon of symmetry, focused on, well, a seemingly unsolvable equation.

In a historic break with the past, Poland's newly elected government threw open its top secret Warsaw Pact military archives - including a 1979 map revealing the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between Nato and Warsaw Pact forces.

...a long line of nuclear mushroom clouds neatly stamped along the Vistula, where Soviet bloc commanders assumed that Nato tactical nuclear weapons would rain down to block reinforcements arriving from Russia.

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On the map, western Europe lay beneath a chilling overlay of large red mushroom clouds: Warsaw Pact nuclear strikes, using giant warheads to compensate for their relative lack of precision.

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IOWarN,

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

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You were probably on shakier ground with the earlier ones, I'd say.

This is what I figured, but there was literally no way to answer all the questions in the assignments with the given page limits, if they were double-spaced. Maybe I can get enough down that I'll 1.5 space this one, so it doesn't look too drastically different from my past stuff.

My friend DVDTracker, sent me an IM on AR15.com and asked, "OP, I wonder how difficult it is to shoot a lock off? I've seen it done on TV and in movies, but wonder if it is as easy as they show it to be. How about if I send you some funds to buy some locks. Will you shoot them and report back?"

The only answer was, "Sure! Why not?"

So, with funds supplied by www.LifeLibertyEtc.com, I set up an experiment.

The question is: How hard is it to shoot a lock off?

Lots of cool pictures.

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eta: The answer seems to be, "Use the shotgun."

When I was in college, the papers I submitted were hardly ever the required length. It didn't seem to affect my grade, though, because I covered all the material.

Trains make me sleepy. There is a serious risk of me falling asleep at my desk in the next few minutes. Serious.

That shotgun site is awesome. I'm sending it to my dad.

More math stuff:

Math, he said, is "the only subject in the curriculum where adults are proud to say they were lousy. From childhood on, kids have heard it from their parents."

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"the only subject in the curriculum where adults are proud to say they were lousy. From childhood on, kids have heard it from their parents."

Was there a study? I can't read the rest of the article, because it's TimesSelect, but what's so special about math that's not special about chemistry or French?