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Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2008 10:27:07 am PDT #678 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The Wikipedia article doesn't say one way or the other whether, e.g., age-of-consent laws were being respected or not.

It doesn't. A lot of what I'm half-remembering is from Jon Krakaur's "Under The Banner of Heaven". Like I said, I'm pretty sure that the age of consent and discarded boys [link] began with more recent leadership and wasn't the case at Short Creek.


brenda m - Apr 09, 2008 10:37:42 am PDT #679 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

You had dozens of clean, well fed, (and white, to be sure) children thrown into foster care.

Actually (and my knowledge here is sketchy at best, so grain of salt) from the women they were talking to it sounded like the fathers were more or less exiled but otherwise the families were more or less intact. Just from this broadcast, though.


P.M. Marc - Apr 09, 2008 10:38:49 am PDT #680 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

But it appears that wasn't so common then. There is considerable assertion that things didn't get really freaky until one leader died and his son took over.

One article linked to in Wikipedia's entry, interviewing some of the lawmen who were involved in the raid, contradicts that notion, as apparently you still had a fair number of seriously underaged "wives" in the situation.


brenda m - Apr 09, 2008 10:40:00 am PDT #681 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

ION, I need a two-headed dog. Or rather, my dog needs two headedness, since there are cats (!) in the yard to the left and workmen (!) in the yard to the right and it's apparently very hard to keep on top of the barkiness level in each direction.


Allyson - Apr 09, 2008 10:42:42 am PDT #682 of 10001
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

I need math help!

I need to find out how many pounds are in one cu ft of hydrogen.

One pound of H will occupy 10,160.2608 liters, or 358.806 cubic feet.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 09, 2008 10:46:14 am PDT #683 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I need to find out how many pounds are in one cu ft of hydrogen.

One pound of H will occupy 10,160.2608 liters, or 358.806 cubic feet.

Wouldn't that be 1/358.806 lbs. per cu ft? If one pound is 300+ of cu ft, then one cu ft is going to substantially smaller than a pound. Or am I missing something.


tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 10:47:39 am PDT #684 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

One pound of H will occupy 10,160.2608 liters, or 358.806 cubic feet.

You can just take the multiplicative inverse - ie: 1/358.806

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tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 10:50:17 am PDT #685 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ION, I need a two-headed dog.

Once upon a time, Soviet scientists transplanted a puppy's head onto another dog. No really, I've read multiple accounts of this. Here's Time Magazine's account: [link]


Dana - Apr 09, 2008 10:51:32 am PDT #686 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I'm not clicking on that.

In related news, my coworker has discovered the joys of rickrolling. Fortunately, my machine doesn't have a sound card.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 09, 2008 10:55:00 am PDT #687 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Once upon a time, Soviet scientists transplanted a puppy's head onto another dog. No really, I've read multiple accounts of this. Here's Time Magazine's account

So THAT'S what that Roky Erickson song is about (I'm guessing)!