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by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 10:51 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The not viril virgin very verified thread on Virginia
Replies: 63
Views: 16948

Re: The not viril virgin very verified thread on Virginia

this goes from bad to worse the governor is a white supremacist the lieutenant governor, who would take over if the governor resigned, is alleged to have forced a woman to perform oral sex on him, and has accused the governor of having dug up the (2004) allegation to take the heat off himself (the g...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 4:16 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: exp(5) = [$]e^5[$]
Replies: 545
Views: 170597

Re: exp(5) = [$]e^5[$]

Does the ODE [$]du/dt = e^{u^2/2}[$] have a soluion in which interval? (e.g. as a first shot across boughs, maybe a symbolic solution in Maple?) bow not bough? ship's bow it's first order separable [$]du/dt = e^{u^2/2}[$] [$]e^{-u^2/2}du=dt[$] integrate both sides [$]\sqrt{\pi/2}\,\textrm{erf}\left...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 12:34 pm
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: News from the 'Border'
Replies: 256
Views: 89564

Re: News from the 'Border'

Comedy is no joking matter.

"From Carrickmacross to Crossmaglen /there are more rogues than honest men"

Vestry Book of Creggan 1765
indeed,
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 10:24 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: honest injun
Replies: 55
Views: 19874

Re: honest injun

I was going to lay off Elizabeth Warren because she fessed up and admitted that she was in fact white The WaPo has just uncovered this https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1092949964974628865 It's Elizabeth Warren’s registration card for the State Bar of Texas, revealing Warren identified as an...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 9:12 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Trump -- the last 100 days
Replies: 4584
Views: 479799

Re: Trump -- the last 100 days

more from the State of the Union. Hopefully the troops will be coming hom from the mid-east soon. Our brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years. In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American heroes have given their lives. More than 52,000 Americans have been badly w...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 9:07 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: South Korea, lackey of the yankee imperialist bastard
Replies: 75
Views: 6766

Re: South Korea, lackey of the yankee imperialist bastard

news about the second summit As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 15 months. If I had not been elected President of the United States, we ...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 8:10 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: is medicine a science ?
Replies: 218
Views: 59095

Re: is medicine a science ?

Gut feeling: study links depression to digestive bacteria
as people have said before, if you run enough correlations you'll come up with something. Maybe depression causes digestive bacteria.
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 7:27 am
Forum: Politics Forum
Topic: Trump -- the last 100 days
Replies: 4584
Views: 479799

Re: Trump -- the last 100 days

It was of course the (delayed) State of the Union speech last night, and there's a short clip here: Trump Gets Dems’ Applause: ‘No One Has Benefitted More from Our Thriving Economy than Women’ For some reason, an awful lot of the democrats were wearing white. https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/...
by ppauper
February 6th, 2019, 6:58 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stupid question of the day
Replies: 3181
Views: 400468

Re: Stupid question of the day

I am interested in Kissing numbers  (Newton number) for tree models Screen Shot 2019-02-05 at 10.13.53 PM.png assume all nodes in a binomial tree where touching each other in space and time, then we could calculate its kissing number, i suspect it to possibly be (this could be wrong, not checked mu...
by ppauper
February 5th, 2019, 9:27 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: America - Home of Bugs Bunny
Replies: 2094
Views: 180170

Re: America - Home of Bugs Bunny

if you're a single woman traveling alone, Marriott may assume that you're a hooker

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