michel123456

Kalosorises Maria.

"swelled heads" I learned a new vocabulary today. For your user name maybe it's a typo and you meant to say pragmatist? from pragmatism ?

Summer came with its joke, I don't know if you will find it funny but I did: Translation: THIS IS A GERMAN TOURIST GIRL TAKING A SUN BATH NO, NOT THIS ONE,SHE IS A GREEK GIRL, ... THE OTHER GIRL IN THE BACK.

Can you mix God with technology? The answer is Yes:

Be careful for your skin! (not joking)

Better use HB pencil (Architect's advice) I don't upload that way. I use a compatible* FTP program (WsFTP95LE) to upload the pictures to the address that my internet service provider gave me when registering. But you can also upload to any free service on the Net, like Photobucket for example. then copy-paste the address into the "insert image" button. *compatible but totally DOS

It's a scanned image. Scan, upload, insert. -------------------- Sorry, not exactly: It is a screenshot from a scanned image. For some peculiar reason the Forum software does not recognize(d) the .jpg format from my scan.

Cool optical illusions

------------------------ An American to Paris, France enters a café on the Champs-Élysées avenue and looks at the catalog. He asks the waiter: _Well, i see you have on your catalog "coffee 2 Euros" and on the other page "coffee 4 Euros". what's the difference between the two coffees? and the waiter answers; _2 Euros ------------------------------- Two Italians sit at the cafeteria. The waiter comes; _what would you like to drink sir? _a capuccino for me. _and for you sir? _Yes, good idea, a capuccino for me too. But please take attention the cup to be clean! -OH of course sir, we are a very respectable establishment! The waiter goes, obviously annoyed. After a few minutes, he comes back with a silver disk and 2 fuming cappucinos. He asks the 2 gentlemens: "the clean cup is for whom?"

A tourist go to Sevilla Spain to watch the corrida (bullfighting) The same evening he goes to a restaurant next the arena, he seats under the pergola and looks at the catalog for his preferred paella. At a moment he sees the waiter presenting a superb dish on a giant plate, fuming smelling wonderful, on the next table. He asks the waiter: "what is that?" _it is our specialty señor: bulls testicules. _hum, that looks great, where is it on the catalog? _It is not on the catalog, señor. It is made only upon special request. Oh, so I cannot order that today? _No, señor, that is not possible. _But can I order for tomorrow? _Yes señor, of course you can. _O.K. let's do that. .... The next day the tourist comes to the restaurant back and waits for his superb dish. Then comes the waiter with a tiny little plate with a small fuming portion of meat. _what is that? (asks the tourist) _Well señor, i am really sorry but today the bull won.

I try to keep straight with myself and I still get some neg points from time to time. You cannot please to everyone all the time. It never crossed my mind I could be wrong* Also I have caught myself trying to say very clever comments just to make me look smart. So that is not a mathematical "straight" line. *how do you call that, autoderision?

Because they like being good repped. BTW i like it. I'd like to believe i don't live for it, but I feel good with pos rep, and bad with neg rep. FYI I must have taken about minus 10 rep points overall, and not all in the beginning.

About the relation between time & reputation have a look at this thread. Ha. You have put a cat among the pigeons. I bet that a lot of people are here only because of the reputation system.

Sam, you don't deserve the neg rep you are actually bearing (minus 12) and I fully understand your point. Maybe you are a victim of this. I follow your posts regularly, you seem O.K. to me. I cannot push the up button because I disagree with you, I am really sorry for that. I really don't understand the reason why members use the rep button when they agree & disagree. It is clearly stupid. That should change. Personally, I push + when there is an outstanding informative post (or funny), and I vote neg when there are insults or improper behavior (like offering a member to leave the Forum). It should be clear to anyone that the pos. vote goes to the person and NOT only TO THE POST because the post gets buried into tons of other posts. As a result each member bears the fact that other people agree or disagree with him, not the fact that he is a good/bad person.

A burglar at the appartment's door. The sign writes "BEWARE DANGEROUS PARROT" The buglar smiles, breaks the lock and opens the door. He goes slowly in the dark through the corridor when he hears from the kitchen "Wake up Rex, attack!"

Welcome. That's a good presentation! Not "Hi I am new here"...

Very interesting question. See one of my preferred: The multiplication of bananas by umbrellas.

Hm. at the question "how fast is space-itself expanding"? the answer is: 2.3×10−18 inverse seconds. Ref: The Hubble constant has units of inverse time, i.e. ~ 2.3×10−18 s−1

So there is no limit to how fast space-itself can expand? Can space expand at infinite rate? And after some more thinking: The word "fast" refers to speed. Speed refers to an amount of space divided by an amount of time. Since space-itself is expanding, can we talk about the speed of expansion? Is this an expansion of 1 meter/sec? Or 500000 km/sec? Can one ask "how fast" does space-itself (the metric) expand?

Bolded mine Does that mean that when space expands, time expands too? so that the ratio space/time remains equal?

bohmian, not bohemian

Hi Cap'n that's been a while Q: why cant I see the number of a post when I am replying? In reply mode, the topics summary doesn't show the avatars (not a big concern to me) but also erases the post number, making it difficult to reference post#?? of another poster in the thread. Surprisingly, in Fast Reply mode there is no such omission.

Thanks. I finally found my old thread by other ways but it was not trivial. It would be easier to extend the time lapse of the "my content" list.

Hi Cap'n me again. How can i find a very old thread of mine? My search under "my content" stops at 04th of January 2011 (one year ago), is there a way I can increase that?