Phi for All

A yourdadonapogos / KFC / revprez hybrid, my worst nightmare. If you start preaching YEC you're out of here, pal!

And the existing Engineering forum can't cover that because...?

Sometimes infatuation is the goal and not the by-product. Why haven't you tried to get to know him better? Is he better in fantasy or in reality? Do you think you may already know the answer and feel it's better to leave it at infatuation? Infatuation is NEVER unfounded. It may be pointless or destructive or it may lead to friendship or deeper feelings but in any case it has a purpose, even if it's just a dreamy one.

These are secondhand accounts I've heard about, thus the "allegedly" in the title. I love your suggestion but I could NEVER be that evil... unless the checker gave me an attitude. Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of printer paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

Mike T, everyone is puzzled as to what this thread is supposed to be about. Are you speculating about the future, do you think this is happening now, or are you just painting your own vision of what life would be like? Once again, your use of absolutes and generalities to describe mere possibilities really puts people off discussing things with you. You see everything as one way and you have already drawn your conclusions. Why should we bother discussing this with you? This sounds more like a tract that should be printed and handed out downtown to workers rushing by on their lunch hour. Why do you come here if not to debate?

That's actually what we call IMM in the Mod forum, your "Omnipotent Omniscient Omnibenevolent Highness". The first time I saw her I went, "Oooh!"

I think naivite is remembered accurately in reverse proportion to our age. What are you, like, a hundred?

Anosmia, and those who have it are anosmic. I believe it covers smell and taste.

This is the guy from What the Bleep Do We Know?. I don't think he has enough of his studies verified or peer reviewed to merit more than pseudoscience at this point.

An elderly couple walked into a fast food restaurant. The old man ordered one hamburger, one order of French fries and one drink. He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half and placed one half in front of his wife. He then carefully counted out the French fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them. As he began to eat his few bites of hamburger, the people around them kept looking over and whispering. You could tell they were thinking, "That poor old couple - all they can afford is one meal for the two of them." As the man began to eat his fries a young man came to the table. He politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple. The old man said they were just fine and they were used to sharing everything. The surrounding people noticed the little old lady hadn't eaten a bite. She sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink. Again the young man came over and begged them to let him buy another meal for them. Again the old man said, "No, thank you, we are used to sharing everything." As the old man finished and was wiping his face neatly with the napkin, the young man looked at the little old lady who had yet to eat a single bite of food and asked "What is it you are waiting for?" She smiled widely and said, "The teeth."

One winter morning in Iowa a couple was listening to the radio while eating breakfast. They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows can get through." Norman's wife went out and moved her car. A week later while they were again eating breakfast, the radio announcer said, "We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows can get through." Norman's wife went out and moved her car again. The next week they were again having breakfast, ! When the radio announcer said, "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park..." Then the electric power went off. Norman's wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said, "Honey, I don't know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the snowplows can get through?" With the love and understanding in his voice that all men who are married to blondes exhibit, Norman said. "Sweetie, why don't you just leave it in the garage this time?

Ask her to describe the kind of guy she's attracted to. If it sounds kind of like you, when she asks about what attracts you to a woman, describe her.

How about if the new species created is subatomic and they go through several generations every second. They achieve sentience much sooner and become so smart they figure out about the macro-world, learn to increase their size (which also slows their metabolism to match ours). Now you don't need to fast forward and you don't need the historian. It could be the same scientist twenty years later!

Google diamagnetic levitation.

Welfare is available as a survival option before stealing. Once again you resort to Misleading Vividness. This is a strawman that doesn't even address what we were talking about, which was lowering labor costs and tax strategies. This shows me you're not interested in a discussion. You are on a soapbox and want to shout down detractors with canned arguments. The Consumer Confidence Index is put out by the Conference Board, a not-for-profit organization that assesses trends and conducts research on business and marketplaces worldwide. We weren't talking about a prosperous economy just then, but it's interesting that you don't think the economy is prosperous just now. We were talking about consumer debt as opposed to workers not being able to afford to buy goods, and I was pointing out that buying goods and services is what builds consumer debt. People take advantage of credit for a variety of reasons and many of them are valid. Where do you get your sources? Here is a report put out by The Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. It is called Corporate Taxes in the Bush Years and is very slanted against the current administration. In a study of 275 companies they found less than 30% that had been able to use loopholes to pay no taxes. What witchhunt did you find to cite 60%? I'm not a huge fan of mega-corporations, but it's not because of their strategies. I don't like the the fact that the bigger they grow the more they tend to stifle entrepreneurialism and I worry that prices will be affected adversely if only three or four monster mega-corps get to decide what's offered to me. That's an example of drilling down to a very specific concern. PLEASE put your shotgun away.

Absolutely. A 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo 997, a 10-year supply of petrol and a set of steak knives. Do I even need to say it?

And there is always a place for religious education, in church. There should also be places for a secular education, in public schools.

Bad, bad, BAD idea. This is exactly what creationists want and why they've repackaged their religious beliefs into ID "science". They have called it science and when science refutes it they now say there is a controversy and that both sides should be taught, IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOMS. How much time will this detract from teaching, oh say, SCIENCE?!? How much validity will be lent to ID by raising it to the same level? Science is about the observable and testable and religion is about the unobservable and faith. They shouldn't cancel each other out and they should not be used to support or negate one another.

Stalk her, write love poems in your own blood on Post-its and stick them on her locker. Are we back to reality now? Have we had a giggle? A nervous snicker perhaps? Good ('cause I was kidding about the blood part). You've done nothing wrong, but you either shocked her or made her face something she knew but wasn't ready to acknowledge. You shouldn't be afraid to approach her and tell her 1. You're not sorry you told her the truth 2. You respect the fact she doesn't feel the same way 3. You're willing to give her time to recover but you want your friendship back - definitely different, damaged perhaps, but honest and out in the open Friendships change and grow. You can get over being in love with her but you can't NOT love her. She's your best friend and she deserves to know that you value that more than anything else she may be to you. OK, I've done my Dear Abby for the day.

But since the lost tax revenue either means the rest of us have to pick it up or we do without other budget items (where would this administration make the cuts?), then I would like more of a guarantee. How about the tax money they save has to go towards schooling or specialty training, something geared towards getting them away from minimum wage? More money in the economy AND tremendously easier to get out of poverty. From Bill Maher:

I can't believe any of you had the balls to mention your own juggling after watching that. That was truly phenomenal. Now I understand the term "poetry in motion".

EXCELLENT!!! Please keep us posted on what the doctor says. Your information shouldn't be used to diagnose others with similar symptoms, but we want to know the outcome (because we care and we're curious) and your results with the specialist could encourage others to be brave and seek a cure. Well done!