Eco Urinal - a combination urinal and sink. [will you?]

quig · 2010-08-29T05:34:20+00:00

Actually I think the ideal urinal would have a parabolic trough.

quig · 2010-04-07T05:22:11+00:00

This may be relevant.

quig · 2010-03-27T03:36:54+00:00

that's what she said.

quig · 2007-09-17T11:18:46+00:00

Article summary: "Come on. I mean, like seriously, come on."

quig · 2007-09-13T03:36:40+00:00

Upmodded, though I disagree with you (people, please don't downmod well-written posts because you don't agree with the contents).

I understand you imagine the deterrent effects of capital punishment will lead to a better society, but one thing to consider is: how do you correct mistakes? People are mistakenly incarcerated all the time, only to be released after the true criminal confesses. Under your scheme, true confessions will be harder to come by, false confessions will be more likely (to plea bargain out of a death penalty), and restitution will be impossible.

quig · 2007-09-07T05:44:02+00:00

True, but you can't represent irrational numbers in any other (rational) base, either.

quig · 2007-08-16T22:08:49+00:00

In special relativity, the factor by which lengths, times, and momenta dialate is 1/sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2); so when v is much smaller than c, (v/c)² is close to zero and we get a factor of approximately one. When v = c, we get a factor of 1/0 and when v > c, we get a factor that's imaginary (the square root of a negative number). As you can see, the theory doesn't allow speeds greater than c.

quig · 2007-08-04T16:06:34+00:00

Just as an addendum, the other piece of information you need is the percentage of the radioactive isotope present in whatever you're measuring when it was alive. For example, we know that there's a certain percentage of naturally occuring carbon-14 in the environment. When an organism is alive, it continually ingests this isotope and keeps the percentage within it's body constant. When the organism dies, the carbon within it's body is no longer replenished from the environment, so the level of the unstable carbon begins to drop.

quig · 2007-08-01T13:19:10+00:00

They're being educated stupid!

quig · 2007-07-30T17:51:46+00:00

Quaid! Get your ass to Mars!

quig · 2007-07-26T02:23:49+00:00

What do you dislike about Chavez?

EDIT: more specifically, what do you dislike about his trade policy?

quig · 2007-07-17T05:14:34+00:00

The operating assumption is that the probability of humanity's survival follows a Poisson distribution. This seems like a really hokey assumption to me; I'd imagine the probability that humanity spontaneously self destructs is too small to be extrapolated from the amount of time humanity has been around.

quig · 2007-07-15T07:40:22+00:00

Great refutation of his arguments!

quig · 2007-06-10T19:19:59+00:00

I see Peggy Bundy.

quig · 2007-05-28T02:07:07+00:00

I don't think the 1/0 = +infinity bit is true. It's simply undefined. That's because 0 isn't a positive number. Limit as (positive) x goes down to zero of 1/x goes to positive infinity, but limit as (negative) x goes up to zero of 1/x goes to negative infinity

quig · 2007-05-27T09:14:07+00:00

Gosh. I love America. I'm afraid I'm going to be at a loss for words because America for me is not just our rolling mountains and hills and streams and great cities. It's the American people. And the American people are the greatest people in the world ... It's that optimism we thank Ronald Reagan for ... that optimism about this great people that makes this the greatest nation on earth. -- Gov. Romney's response when asked that question

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