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| Replies: 111 Views: 4,253 Re: 2008 US Presidential Poll Part 2
Current News:
"Police just arrested one group of people in Denver that had sharpshooter's guns and plans to kill Obama on Thursday!"
Oh how sick! Might as well vote for John McCain! |
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| Replies: 117 Views: 7,005 Re: American Thoughts
P. J. O'Rourke wrote:
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
Actually, he wrote that after visiting France. |
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| Replies: 157 Views: 7,303 Re: Global warming!!
Global Warming, I believe it when they open up the beaches on the South Pole for the tourists. |
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| Forum: Python 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 3 Views: 68 Re: py2app
Just taking hasty look, I would say no because py2app needs to include some files specific to the MAC OS. You don't have those on your Windows PC. |
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| Replies: 2 Views: 84 Re: comparing lists
At first blush i would say this might do:
# compare these two list set and convert
# w_b into [0.5, 0, 0.5, 0]
a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
w_a = [0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25]
b = ['a', 'c']
w_b = [0.5, 0.5] |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 4 Days Ago |
| Replies: 22 Views: 524 Re: Georgia
On Google map the whole place is simply blank! Why is this place so important? |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 4 Days Ago |
| Replies: 44 Views: 2,437 Re: Republican Humor
I have other W one:
"I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons in Iraq."
(from our champ's mouth during the 2nd presidential debate) |
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| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
This T. Boone Pickens must be quite one man! I have seen him on the financial channels, and was impressed with his foresight and exeptional common sense.
Let's face it, the US imports most of its... |
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| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
Only few very large atoms can release energy when splitting into smaller ones. Most commonly certain isotopes of uranium and plutonium. |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 412 Views: 20,587 Re: There is an elephant on the loo!
Theobroma cacao, the tree from which seeds chocolate is made has the highest number of insect pests of any tree species.
The average chocolate bar contains at least 6 insect legs. Bon appétit! |
| Forum: Python 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 10 Views: 262 Re: extra string
Proof that [::-1] works for spelling string in reverse:
s1 = "racecar"
s2 = "kayak"
print s1, s1[::-1]
print s2, s2[::-1]
:) |
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| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
Right, that's all the sun has to go on! Conditions have to be nasty enough to make some neutrons.
The most common universal product of fusion is actually iron. |
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| Replies: 28 Views: 592 Re: Olympic Games
Like to see tennis, everything else is too boring!
So what if they can swim, walk, run, jump, throw, bike, spit, row the distance of 50 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters, 500 meters, 1000 meters, 10000... |
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| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
You are talking 2 deuterium atoms for each helium atom. The sun has mostly hydrogen available, so it takes 4 hydrogen atoms for each helium atom. Not quite sure if man could ever copy that process... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
The typical 50 hp all electric car with very efficient battery and electric motor would spent about $0.30 per mile, if each kwh of electricity costs $0.10. |
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| Replies: 41 Views: 784 Re: Lets talk energy
1 g of hydrogen fused to helium will give you 174,000 kilowatt-hours of energy.
Let's assume average house consumes 30 kilowatt-hours/day. |
| Forum: Python 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 6 Views: 182 Re: module location
Functions sort() and sorted() reside in the core of the Python interpreter which is written in C and compiled. On Windows the Python core is for instance in the dynamic link library called... |
| Forum: Python 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 72 Views: 5,634 Re: Starting wxPython (GUI code)
The wx.lib.filebrowsebutton.FileBrowseButton() makes it easy to select/browse one file and show or play it:
# exploring wxPython's
# wx.lib.filebrowsebutton.FileBrowseButton()
# use it to get wave... |
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| Replies: 144 Views: 51,962 Re: Starting Python
I was working with patient information and came up with this list of instances that made it relatively easy to find specific information:
# creating and processing one list of class objects
import... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 26 Days Ago |
| Replies: 1,035 Views: 59,306 Re: Thoughts Of The Day.
In an ugly and unhappy world even the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
-- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Replies: 157 Views: 7,303 Re: Global warming!!
I am sure that Georgia's huge agriculture and forestry consumes more corbondioxide than is produced in the state. Something these scientifically uneducated judges and environmental whiners should... |
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| Replies: 8 Views: 309 Re: God Bless DaniWeb!
Congratulations Snee! God willing, I should reach this important milestone by year's end. |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge 26 Days Ago |
| Replies: 244 Views: 12,706 Re: What is your Favorite Quote?
"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."
-- Covert Bailey |
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| Replies: 14 Views: 526 Re: Who is your favorite avatar
I agree, Other's avatars are pretty artistic in their own right. The en brosse styling is cool. Colour discretion could be one bit more together. |
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