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The answer to the question above.

Let's just call it male intuition

Well, if it can't be read, the video will have problems. But at least by making a copy you'll have a copy since I know you are going to scratch the poor original even more What I was referring to above is about copy protection which make a lot of DVDs hard to copy. In this case, I don't think there's a problem since you are making a copy for yourslef

If the DVD is really bad, you may want to make a copy of it. If you have a DVD burner, let me know and I'll tell you how to copy it ... some of them are not that easy to copy.

As I said, when the US wins olympic gold in basketball

It also gets you a lot more peanuts and cookies on long flights

Actually, that's a rather inaccurate observation. She is one of the more level headed people I've seen on the web. You have to realize that the frustration demonstrated above is coming after pages and pages and pages (i.e. months) of "discussions" over virginity and sexual imorality with the likes of gevo who simply regurgitate the tired old "you are a virgin or a slut" categorization of "unmarried" people. Once again, I would highly encourage you to not jump to any conclusions too quickly

Interesting ... so I guess thanks to TB, we have reached a classic chicken and the egg problem on our hands, except in this case we are trying to make the chickens lay eggs that are not going to be as screwed up on the relative screwedupness scale as the original eggs ... yah I think I got it

Death penalty is a somewhat strange concept ... suppose the person you sentence to death was actually innocent. But suppose this person was going to commit some sins (as most do) before his actual death. Isn't it ironic that this person will end up in heaven in this case due to this "punishment" while he would have ended up in hell if he were to lead his normal life till it's natural end? Makes you think doesn't it

And you happen to know this just how exactly? You keep calling others liars and haters but in the end, all you say falls back on your claims that you speak the word of God. My lord warned me of false prophets in my sleep ... and you ... well, you sound a lot like one of them prophets. You are asking moderators to step in and control an argument that is fundamentally based on hoopla and hearsay. Word of God? Even I as an amazing moderator am in no position to claim to deliver such a word

Dude!!! That was one of the best double-meaning extractions ever around here! Althought I didn't intend it, I really approve of your thinking About the rest, I'll let the flower girl explain if she wants.

Azat you da man! Though I may have to make some adjustments in the brides maids list or something. You never know where else they may be listed But you have NO idea how much I laughed at the flower girl ... I don't know if it was coincidence or what but the appropriateness of that choice is BEYOND what I can put in words. LMAO at everything ... as far as a date, let's say when the US basketball team wins olympic gold

You had me at BBQ And Arpa jan, as long as I am invited, I don't care whose rump it is (but I know what you mean )

Heheheh .... I saw it on TV 2 days ago ... was a commercial for something but I didn't care enough to pay attention. The video is very well done!

Why not call it a "holy BBQ" ?

I was wondering about all those medals .... now it ALL makes sense

Thank you.

If I ever get married, I am definitely going to have several internet kiosks at the party ... maybe even one per table ... and definitely wireless access for all (BYOL - bring your own laptop).

Sure It's just one of those things that for some it's pretty much instant and to others it takes a loooooooooong time. The beauty of it is that for a computer, it would be pretty easy to learn the pattern and start to guess correctly after a while. But for a some humans, it might be impossible if they don't see it.

Here's the result from 10 runs: Not triangles: 0.750357 Not triangles: 0.749882 Not triangles: 0.749753 Not triangles: 0.750702 Not triangles: 0.749753 Not triangles: 0.750702 Not triangles: 0.750337 Not triangles: 0.750095 Not triangles: 0.750819 Not triangles: 0.749169 median: 0.7502 mean: 0.7502 Variance: 2.7630e-007 Std Dev: 5.2565e-004 I'd say it's convincingly 3/4.

aka Dambalan ahaahahaha poor Armat

Here's my quick and dirty C code for anyone interested. The beauty of such a method is that it takes less than 10 minutes to set up and run while thinking through the math took at least an hour for me. In the code, I pick two uniform random values a and b from [0 to 1). Then I compute the segment lengths a,b,c. Then compute the triangle inequality and check to see if it holds. I have to do the inequality calculation 3 times depending on whether a,b,or c is the longest piece. #include <iostream.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> int main() { srand(time(NULL)); long not_tri=0; double a,b,c, tri; for (long i=0; i<1000000; i++) { a=(double)(rand()%RAND_MAX)/RAND_MAX; b=(double)(rand()%RAND_MAX)/RAND_MAX; if (a>b) { c=1-a; a=a-b; } else { c=1-b; b=b-a; } tri=a-(b+c); if (b>a) tri=b-(a+c); if (c>b && c>a) tri=c-(a+b); if (tri>0) not_tri++; } cout << "Not triangles: " << (double)not_tri/1000000.0 << endl; return 0; }

I believe drugs and sports have gone hand in hand since there have been competitive sports. I don't believe for a second that the ancient olympians were "clean" ... what does that even mean anyway? At the very least, they had special diets that made them very different from regular people. It may be that now, through scientific techniques the methods have become far more complex and powerful ... but the essense of the techniques to gain every possible advantage is not something new I don't think.

arrogant? The dude has 8 medals!!! How can he be arrogant? He definitely has bragging rights

Sasun, I like your reasoning a lot. I have also verified it through simulation. For the case where the two break points are picked independently and uniformly from the range [0,L], the probability of the triangle inequality holding is 1/4.