Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think it was bad; it might have been Latin.

'Selfless'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

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.


Connie Neil - Nov 02, 2005 11:45:18 am PST #804 of 10006
brillig

Utah judge with 3 wives fights for job

Yeah, he says the state and U.S. constitution doesn't say he can't have multiple wives.

Such is the ongoing merry-go-round of Life in Zion.


Jesse - Nov 02, 2005 11:48:41 am PST #805 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, he says the state and U.S. constitution doesn't say he can't have multiple wives.

It doesn't. He's not trying to legally marry more than one, just through the church.


Emily - Nov 02, 2005 11:52:35 am PST #806 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

No, no, it's "dig through LJ memories to find that thing that was funny one time" day.

Whew!


Hil R. - Nov 02, 2005 12:00:55 pm PST #807 of 10006
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I know I'm late with this, but I'm in favor of multiplication with the zeros. It reinforces the idea that what you're doing when you multiply (say) 52 times 43 is multiplying 2x43 and 50x43 and adding the results. Just leaving a blank space looks more arbitrary.


Allyson - Nov 02, 2005 12:02:47 pm PST #808 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

ita, were you the one who posted pics of michelle rodriguez without makeup? i can't find the pics and know they exist. damnit.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 12:03:17 pm PST #809 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think leaving blank spaces is more cunning, as the multiplication takes the numbers by surprise.


Vortex - Nov 02, 2005 12:03:39 pm PST #810 of 10006
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Bigamy is a third-degree felony in Utah punishable by up to five years in prison, but Steed's attorney, Rod Parker, said Utah's attorney general and the Washington County prosecutor have declined to prosecute his client.

seems to me that this settles the problem. I mean, if hehasn't been charged with or convicted of a crime, what business is it of the court's?


JenP - Nov 02, 2005 12:08:01 pm PST #811 of 10006

I learned with zeros as placeholders.

Apropos of nothing, wow, traffic in Philly sucks. SEPTA is on strike.


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 12:10:08 pm PST #812 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That wasn't me, Allyson, but now I'm intrigued. Can you give me more context?


libkitty - Nov 02, 2005 12:10:52 pm PST #813 of 10006
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Please explain why we need to spend 7.1 bil dollars on bird flu ,

I was going to write how the money being appropriated for work on bird flu is actually probably not even enough. How we're playing catch-up with supplies (vaccine, such as it is, and antivirals). How our public health system is already woefully unprepared even for a normal flu season. How epidemiologists have been saying for the last few years that we're due for another flu epidemic. How this flu is similar to the one that caused the huge 1918 epidemic, except not yet travelling person to person, but much more deadly (that is, if you get it, you're much more likely to die from it). How if enough research and prevention is done, they might possibly be able to keep the deaths down to the millions. Seriously, the more I read about this bird flu, the more scared I get. Everyone, wash your hands!

But then Betsy and Strega posted, so I guess I don't have to say anything, except:

but have to cut things like medicare and medicade.

Um, no answer for this part. In fact, one of the things that would help in case of bird flu, for everyone, not just the needy, is a robustly functioning public health system, of which medicare and medicaid play an important part.