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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.
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.
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."
"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?
my boss refused to give me the afternoon off for tired. I am going to take a stab at this "work" stuff. YAWN!
Here's more context (if folks want I'll post the whole thing):
It is no secret that our collective knowledge of math is a woeful mess. Any number of studies lament this country's mathematical duh-ness. In the late 1980's, John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, wrote the best-selling book "Innumeracy," which examined mathematical illiteracy and found it to be rampant.
Have we since improved? Not significantly, Professor Paulos says. "Fewer Americans are going into math," he said the other day. "A disproportionate number of math professors in this country are foreign-born."
Similar concerns are expressed by Alfred S. Posamentier, a mathematician who is dean of the School of Education at City College of New York. 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."
So, I think it's just a math guy's perception.
My mother did often say her math was lousy. Her arithmetic, on the other hand, was freaky good. And, really, in day to day life plus her job requirements, she was well set. It's mostly arithmetic.