Fav Quotes Anyone?

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:50 am

awip2062 wrote:The nothing suddenly exploding is the part that has always confused me. :-/

If you are not familiar with Pratchett, he is a satirist most famous for his discworld series (discworld mirror of worlds is often something he throws around). He also totes the 'big bang theory' in his books as when two world turtles get together (as the world is a disc carried on the back of 4 elephants on the back of the space turtle Atuine)

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:32 pm

I know who Prachett is, but not what the content of he has written; beyond quotes from Oggy, that is.

There are North American cultures who believe(d) that North America is carried on the back of a turtle, thus they call it "Turtle Island".

Raiden · Post by **Raiden** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:40 pm

Sir Myghin wrote:In the beginning there was nothing, then it exploded.

Terry Pratchett on the big bang theory.

That's funny.

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:54 am

Hmmm . . . If there was nothing in the beginning, how could "it" explode when "it" didn't exist?

I hate it when people say things that make my brain hurt! lol

Raiden · Post by **Raiden** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:30 pm

That's funny too.

"What is the formula used to determine the area inside a pentadodecahedron"

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:20 pm

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:57 pm

ElfDude wrote:"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

^^^^

That sounds like today's politics as usual to me.

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:09 am

Raiden wrote:That's funny too.

"What is the formula used to determine the area inside a pentadodecahedron"

integration of two piecewise functions.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:11 am

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We
didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will
spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States, where men were free."

-- Ronald Reagan

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:22 am

"These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of politics
the American people have grown tired of."

-- Robert "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs (BHO's Press Secretary, on claims by
conservative news outlets that Barack Obama was educated at a radical
Islamic school as a child in Indonesia)

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:39 am

Walkinghairball wrote:
ElfDude wrote:"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

^^^^

That sounds like today's politics as usual to me.

It is illegal in this country to forcibly take money from a person, even if your intent is to give it to another person. If you're walking away from the ATM and I show up with a gun and say, "Give me your money", that makes me a thief. Even if I plan on giving the money to a friend who is down on his luck I'm still a thief. And yet we tolerate the federal government doing it to us every day. Every day they take money from people who earned it and give it to people who didn't earn it.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:28 pm

Sir Myghin wrote:
Raiden wrote:That's funny too.

"What is the formula used to determine the area inside a pentadodecahedron"
integration of two piecewise functions.

Interesting...I was thinking of just breaking it into a buncha triangles and finding the area of those then adding.

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:56 am

awip2062 wrote:
Sir Myghin wrote:
Raiden wrote:That's funny too.

"What is the formula used to determine the area inside a pentadodecahedron"
integration of two piecewise functions.
Interesting...I was thinking of just breaking it into a buncha triangles and finding the area of those then adding.

That works too, you could even just use 2 vertex coordinates, take half the magnitude of the cross product, many times and have the area of all the triangles.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:54 am

?When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the stereo. If all the
stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.?

-- Larry Lujack

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:16 am

Sir Myghin wrote:
awip2062 wrote:
Sir Myghin wrote: integration of two piecewise functions.
Interesting...I was thinking of just breaking it into a buncha triangles and finding the area of those then adding.
That works too, you could even just use 2 vertex coordinates, take half the magnitude of the cross product, many times and have the area of all the triangles.