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It has been suggested to me that my technical knowledge is no longer at a standard where I can sustain a debate or argument. It was suggested that I retrain. However, I retired almost 20 years ago so that really isn't an option. It got me wondering what I might do with very little training and fading knowledge. I am looking for suggestions. The best that I can come up with myself would be "pole dancer costume adjuster". However the remuneration would have to be very small otherwise I could not afford to take the job! So any ideas? All offers and suggestions considered!

What does everyone here think? What are the pros and cons of allowing your kids to watch hours upon hours of television? Does it help with their listening/writing/social skills in any way? Has there been any research on this? If so, what are they suggesting?

Does anyone know any documentary that deals with jews in america?

What does everyone here think? Share us your experiences.

I know i am not the most net savvy person but for some reason you tube has begun to demand I join google plus before i can rate a video and has eliminated the negative rep button. Is this true for everyone or am i missing something?

It seems that when shares of Nokia go down, Microsoft goes up. (Actually it seems like MS often goes up when everyone goes down, as if they directly benefit from the misery of others.) I've heard that most of Nokia's shares are owned by groups who have a greater stake in MS. If MS "needs" Nokia, and if MS can buy Nokia when their shares are low enough, then those who own both may find it helpful to sacrifice Nokia as long as MS benefits. This of course isn't fair to those who only own Nokia shares. Does that matter? Do the laws say that a company must make the most profit for its shareholders, or can it do whatever a majority of the shareholders want? Do the non-M…

I came across a phenomenon that seemed strangely familiar today. I was attempting to schedule a meeting amongst a few people from work today who are from a few different rungs on the corporate ladder. Aside from the obvious difficulties of finding a time when everybody's free that isn't a few years away, I had to contend with other meetings getting shuffled into my timeslot so I had to shuffle my meeting about (and since my meeting was somewhat important I got priority over some other meetings meaning they got shuffled). This seemed oddly familiar, then it hit me. A nuclear chain reaction! So, I have begun developing a theory of MSCR's (Meeting Shuffle Chain React…

here is a great video about the above topics and how they relate to each other..

In the old classic movie of charlie chaplin- the last dictator, the feurher mentions about sending the army of bactrians in world war 1. The bactrians infact is a race in iran country. In a rare book of nazis i read that adolph hitler germans linked their bactrian origins to sparta warrior race. The movie called sparta 300 of leonidas. The book has some photographs of german building structures which were perhaps made of white limestone with many sea gull structures on top. These were never shown on tv nazi documentaries. These structures seem as if placed in the air. Then i recall in the sparta movie that the iranians live on the mountains which are somehow connected…

I yesterday saw a weird dream very similar to the science fiction movie called 'dark city' in which the movie theme of planet run by dark cult people who thrive below the earth and move/manipulate by their super powers. In my dream too i reach a far corner of the city where many similar dark city men start to appear. They have a lab where they study the principles of buoyancy. Like the archimedes principles which he discovered saying 'an object mass when submerged in liquid, then it is acted upon with an upward force which is equivalent to the density of water displaced by the mass.' The dark people of the dream were dressed just like archimedes greek dress but just b…

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I'm happy to give credit due for virtue and valor to Newark Mayor Cory Booker who rushed into a burning house and led a woman inside to safety. Plus, the tweets about him are funny. Anyone seen any others? Superman Wears "Cory Booker" Pajamas. Booker claims he was nowhere near the N. Korean long-range missile that broke apart after launch. I don't believe him. Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Cory Booker Stories. When Chuck Norris has nightmares, Cory Booker turns on the light & sits with him until he falls back. Cory Booker takes his martini shaken, not stirred. After the incident, Smoke was treated for Cory Booker exposure.

Are you one of those who laugh at the "Doonsday Preppers (see the National Geographic channel prepper series) and dismiss them because "we have always had 'End Times' fanatics?" If so, you might consider that a real one could be coming that has nothing to do with religion.

Hi to all, I'm an italian biologist and I had to translate the abtract of my two thesis. Before sending them, I want to be sure that they are correct. Please take a look and kindly tell me if there is any error. Please report grammar, sintexical or phrase construction errors. If you want, you can also give me suggestions about how to write them. Thank you very much. Here they are: Abstract 1: Connexin43 gap junctions are necessary for skeletal muscle repair, which requires the proliferation and differentiation of satellite stem cells. The sphingolipid sphingosine-1-phosphate can bind to specific receptors. Its synthesis depends on the hydrolysis of sphingomyeli…

I was viewing a wonderful dream in which i had boarded a futuristic aeroplane whose upper intersection was made with transparent glass! The shape of the aircraft might be compared to a nasa colombia space shuttle and it made an angled inclination towards the sky while lift off flight. The space craft was on a flight of a designated program that while entering the space it would escape earths' time and pass through various phases where it would dock with other sub-human species travellers. I was seeing outside through the passing by stages and there were so many humanoids some as small height as midgets and some tall as high as giants! When the aeroplane landed the destina…

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Have you seen the sci-fi movie called 'inception'??? htttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception In it the theme is of entering a virtual level creation of a sub-conscious mind so powerful that it creates projections of identities. The person then dies to wake in another dream world level.

We all use slang in our language, it's part of how languages evolve, slang words become part of a language and slowly change that language. But there are also words or phrases that fall out of usage, words that no longer have meaning. Things like Drug Store Cowboy, does anyone remember what that means? Be fair, don't google it if you don't know what it means. Car hop? Soda jerk? How long before hacker become something no one knows what it means? How about sharing some of the words and phrases you remember that no long have real meaning in our society... Drug Store Cowboy Car Hop Soda Jerk Has to be more of them...

Would you rather have a really high libido or a really low libido? Which is most beneficial to have when living in the Western World? What does everyone think? Also, which is most beneficial to society as a whole? Certainly a lower libido would mean lower rape crimes, right?

1) A lion of mass 120 kg leaps at a hunter with a horizontal velocity of 12m/s. The hunter has an automatic rifle firing bullets of mass 15 g with a muzzle speed of 630m/s and he attempts to stop the lion in midair. How many bullets would the hunter have to fire into the lion to stop its horizontal motion? Assume the bullets stick inside the lion. I'm not sure if this was a textbook question or a question my professor conjured up, but I had to laugh!

Hi: First and foremost, I hope I'm not breaking any forum-rules by posting this message. When dealing with cold-hearted non-disable adult humans of society, I: 1. Have no problem stooping all the down to their disgustingly-low level 2. Refuse to be the bigger and better person I have a disability called "Asperger's Syndrome". While I maybe an adult, I'm still handicapped, and hence less should be expected of me than of non-disabled adult humans. The men-of-the-society-of-humans force a male of any age to treat a younger-minor-girl ["minor" meaning below 18 years of age] *better than a younger-minor-boy and provide the treatment solely based on the…

if you invent a printed puzzle, can you protect it? (for sake of example; the sudoku has never been thought of before, and i come up with it whilst doodling over breakfast) if so, how? i.e. what form of intellectual property does it come under? thank in advance for any answers

I am really interested in Science and would love to make new friends from the science community, friends whom i can talk to about certain subjects or even meet up to look at any existing projects or even come together on a few or all future work, Thank you

If any one out there is interested in a fun project plz get intouch with me, its a big one but very exciting

Hello everyone! There is something I'd like to discuss with you, and in the end, I'd like to ask for your help in a matter of great personal importance. By this time next year, I should be starting up grad school with astrobiology as my focus. The hardiness of life has always astounded me. Organisms which live in such harsh conditions as to be likened to aliens are endlessly exciting. How do they do this? What are the boundaries of where life can persist? Could it exist on Mars? Questions I someday hope to address as a research scientist one day. I've been driven to study life in the universe by my endless adoration of the universe. We all love space, and I find p…