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cosine

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  1. Our congress has something along similar lines, but it isn't used to remove pork (if anything it adds it). Basically both houses of congress have to agree to the same bill, so one house may agree to it, then the other house has to have its wrestle with it, and then it gets sent back to the other house. Anyway it gets wrestled with until both houses agree to the same bill. A Line Veto would enable Bush to strike off any of the compromises that he doesn't like, after they've already been passed by congress. So say a bill thats trying to reduce teen pregnancy might be passed that says it will increase funding to sexual health education while cutting funding to abortion clinics (not that the government funds anything like that in real life, this is hypothetical of course), then Bush could use the line veto to strike out the sexual health education part, and then where would we be. Haha that would be really cool to have, but we don't, and I don't think we'd ever get it either. The system sort of has pork barreling built into it. Its not all that bad though...
  2. I'm sure the court was justified, but I'm wondering if anyone knows on what grounds the court struck it down on.
  3. Social Security is a great program. While privatization has a role in the economy, it is not the only focus, but must be one of two foci around which our economy goes.
  4. People don't "have" social security. Its not "theirs" to invest, the social security that people pay now is used for the current generation. We're in a contract right now where we agree to pay for our elders, and when we're elders ourselves the younger generations will help us.
  5. LOLXORZ, was that like Bush's skeezy scheme to give the people's social security to investment firms?
  6. Mine is [math]a + b = b + a[/math] Too often we take commutativity for granted!
  7. Hey, do you guys get you mom something on valentine's day? I know there are some who do not participate in this tradition. Do you or not? I was suprised when I found out that my roommates didn't, and the concept was foreign to them, so perhaps its not as widespread as I had thought.
  8. Your teachers wanted to make it very easy to find your overall average.
  9. The pneumonic I've found most interesting is: Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid.
  10. 48cm first you can say the edge of the 36cm^2 square is 6, and the edge of the 25cm^2 square is 5. So that middle square is 1x1. So the top right square has edges of 7. So the width of the rectangle is 7+6 = 13, and from before the height is 6+5 = 11. So 13+13+11+11=48
  11. Haha yeah, though the arguement has been around alot longer than that even...
  12. I guess if you gave rubicks cubes to an infinite amount of monkeys, it'll be solved by someone...
  13. Religion is our explanations for what we can never check our reasoning about.
  14. Um what if you tried to distribute your body weight evenly over the scales?
  15. well the radius is the hypoteneuse of a 12, 14 right triangle, so... radius is the square root or 340. ... ah too tired to analyze anymore... hopefully future mathematicians can take off where I left off one day...(or I'll continue when I wake up)
  16. [math](-1)^{-4} + (-3)^{-2} = \tfrac{10}{9}[/math]
  17. cosine

    Whoo boy, 2004

    My gosh, I was just looking at politics threads from the September 2004 period... what a feisty bunch here! I thought it was crazy now, check it out then. Most of this I believe being attributable to the upcoming national election.
  18. I also don't think this is the same because you can logically follow the other side's point of view, where as to follow the sensations of ciggerettes may require personal experience, though I don't know if an chain-smoking experience is entirely neccessary.
  19. cosine

    Dating

    Quite true, thats what happened with my relationship with my last girlfriend. It's quite good! I've since been recently quite involved with this other girl... as may be seen by my recent dip in SFN activity. (Its worth it though, sorry guys)
  20. And I realize I just had a dream of a dream that I'm really living, so I'm still in that damn prison cell. What the heck was that explosion?
  21. I realized that my life depended on getting out of there.
  22. I'm sure there are some good books out there, but those are the exception! We can't take the risk! We must ban every book ever written! It is time to go back to oral tradition! (The absurdity of this I hope would lead to questions about if we were to allow the banning of some books, who decides what is banned and what isn't)
  23. In the same spirit, you could always work on math problems. Interesting ones, even if someone has solved them already. For instance I just met a problem recently called the knight's tour. Can you find a path around a chess board where a knight hits every square once and then ends where it started? And what about for different size boards? Or you could always take a crack at Fermat's Last Theorem, though don't expect results, just an occupation of your mind...
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