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Rant: Mom had a minor heart attack last Friday. Cath showed one coronary artery 99% blocked and another 90% blocked. Epic win: She had two stints implanted that fixed the problems. She's fine, in good spirits, and is coming home tomorrow. Rant: I didn't find out any of this until this morning...

This. So very much this. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

I had LASIK back in 2002, for severe nearsightedness. The procedure was painless (the valium helped with that, I'm sure), and aside from the "weird factor" of being completely conscious while someone was first cutting and then burning your eyeball, not terribly unpleasant. Back then, standard...

I use Waze all the time around Cleveland where I live, and lots of other places as I work (I drive about 35k miles per year as a consultant), and never had problems with it until recently... when I went to my college reunion in Buckhannon, WV. On that trip it completely wigged out... so I think...

I didn't know this was the case. Does that mean that NEA membership is mandatory for public school teachers, and American Federation of Teachers membership is optional? Or can you choose one or the other, or both?

I see. It's an issue of real number construction and the presence or absence of non-zero infinitesimals. But we've gone quite far afield now from the original topic, and I feel bad enough having inflicted Halforums to this discussion without adding number theory on top of it. Sent from my...

Like this: x = a 9 + x = 9 + a 9 + x - x = 9 + a - a 9 = 9 Therefore, x still equals a... which was never in doubt in the first place.

Problem with that method is that you remove x from the proof entirely in the third step, so you end up with an identity statement which doesn't prove anything. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

That's just it, though - the working proof doesn't do this. Well, okay, it does, but only as a side effect. It takes the more general proof and applies it to a specific value of a. Working proof: x = a <=> 10x = radixpointshift(a) Your "broken" proof: x = a <=> 10x = 9 + a The two methods...

MindDetective , the method you used to "break" the proof is incorrect. The initial setup doesn't multiply one side by ten and add nine to the other side and call it equivalent:

Awesome... James Marsden is back to narrating the audio versions. I'm sold!

Thank you for this - now I have the missing piece for setting up my HTPC. I've never used iOS so I can't comment on the iOS ports of these apps, but I have used the Android versions of these and found them to be excellent. Given the relative ease of coding for iOS vs coding for Andriod, I...

Man, fuck cancer. For everyone fighting it now or who has fought it and beaten it. Just got word that a very close family friend who was diagnosed with stage for breast cancer two years ago is being moved to hospice today. She was showing signs of improvement, the tumors were shrinking, then in...

Perhaps you did have a great set of teachers. I certainly don't perceive you to be of a low intellect. There were tons of classes, at the undergrad level especially, that I would have loved to take. Business courses, for one. But I couldn't fit them in because of the other inane courses I was...

I went to Virginia Tech for grad school, after completing a bachelor's in engineering from a small Methodist college in West Virginia. They didn't trust the quality off my classes in engineering, so they told me I had to take a few classes over (basically start over as a second semester junior)...

I'm pretty well convinced that the main reason for finishing college is to show that you can put up with four years of bullshit and still manage to complete the goal. Bonus for those that complete a master's degree (nine total years in my case - but I was one year from defending for a PhD when...

I've done this tons of times with good success. Let the milk/vinegar mixture sit for about ten minutes, then make sure it's well-mixed before you make the dough. Since it's a bit higher acidity than plain buttermilk, reduce the baking powder a bit and increase the baking soda a bit and it...

I'm no Romney stooge, but is it possible those quotes were taken out of context? He says "we'll balance THE budget" in one, then "hasn't balanced A budget" in the other. Perhaps he was referring to the President's lack of business experience? Or the fact that we've not had a budget passed and...

I know snark is the common language of Halforums, but I actually have hope that some understanding can be gained here - I'm simply asking what percentage of time taking the black kid over the white kid is "fair." Regarding the study you cited - did the State of Michigan outlaw affirmative...

My question, then, is what is a fair proportion of white vs. minority, assuming things are "roughly equal"? Do they go with the black kid 60% of the time? 80%? What percentage equals out the disadvantages faced by everyone in the minority demographic? How is this percentage determined? Because...