When a person assists a criminal in breaking the law before the criminal gets arrested, we call him an accomplice. When a person assists a criminal in breaking the law after the criminal gets arrested, we call him a defense lawyer.
Notes from the World Toilet Association meeting: "It is regrettable that the matter of defecation is not given as much attention as food or housing," Sim Jae-duck, the association's South Korean head, told the meeting at its recently opened lavatory-shaped headquarters south of Seoul.
Funny, but this has to be a fake news report!
A new business was opening and one of the owner's friends wanted to send him flowers for the occasion. They arrived at the new business site and the owner read the card, "Rest in Peace".
The owner was angry and so call the florist to complain. After he had told the florist of the obvious mistake and how angry he was, the florist said, "Sir, I'm really sorry for the mistake, but rather than getting angry you should imagine this. Somewhere there is a funeral taking place today, and they have flowers with a note saying, 'Congratulations on your new location.'
The bigwigs with their big salaries actually make the company poor. They in turn take this money to buy another BMW, or hire an illegal to do the cleaning and cooking in their estate.
Human nature tends to live backwards: When we're young, we think we know it all. When we are old, we realize that we don't know enough. The secret to success is to reverse the situation.
Unfortunately the word 'think' stands in the way of success.
The purpose of letting companies have more money is so they can HIRE more. ---
I don't think companies were considered 'the rich'. Besides, these companies will spend that money on increasing their operations in China or such. Yes they will hire people, but not Americans.
Sometimes you just have to clear the display screen when you work with the Python command shell. This little function does that in both Windows or Linux:
def clear_screen():
"""
clear the screen in the command shell
works on windows (nt, xp, Vista) or linux
"""
import os
os.system(['clear','cls'][os.name == 'nt'])
# test module out
if __name__ == '__main__':
import time
print "some text on the screen for a few seconds"
# wait 2.5 seconds
time.sleep(2.5)
# now clear the screen
clear_screen()
# wait
time.sleep(1.5)
print "test completed"
raw_input("press enter to go on ")
You can save the whole module as clear_screen.py and import it into your program.
Here is a function that works both on Windows and Linux:
def clear_screen():
"""
clear the screen in the command shell
works on windows (nt, xp, Vista) or linux
"""
import os
os.system(['clear','cls'][os.name == 'nt'])
I still like the idea of bubbling the exhaust of a coal plant through beds of algae.
Burning coal produces a heap of toxic substances (SO2, arsenic, cadmium, selenium etc.) that accumulate in the water and would kill your algae real quick.
Besides, what would you do with tons and tons of slimy algae?
Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city's packed public transportation system.
A strange side effect of crowded public transportation, his and her busses and trains.
i know that you guys are only joking on this but is this possible in reality?
if one government can print the money of another country then they can legally steal the goods and services produced inside that country.
for instance what is stopping them from printing 1000 000 000 USD and buying up all the wheat produced in the US or all the oil in the OPEC since oil is traded in US currency?
Well, there are such things as serial numbers that trading banks and treasuries keep track off. Besides, most of those trades are done electronically, and not with a suitcase full of Dollar bills (fake or real)!
because then inflation will go mad. Thats what lead to hyperinflation in germany, which contribited to the wall street crash and the rise of naziism
The hyperinflation in Germany was caused by the accumulated cost (mostly debt) of WW1, and the huge reparations they had to pay when they lost. Let's hope the war on terrorism (WOT) goes better for the USA.
My friends and I are going to a small campus coffee shop later that serves the most delicious "black forest cherry torte" oy, oy, there goes my trim waist!
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. (Paris Hilton)
The professor recommended that we use DrPython in class. The free DrPython IDE lets you download a code completion plug in, set the default folder and many other things. Simply extract the zip file into your Python folder. You can download it from: (Windows and Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/drpython/
I downloaded eg. drpython165.zip and extracted it to C:\Python25\lib A note: you have to have the wxPython GUI toolkit installed first.
As luck would have it, I am learning Python in my bio course and came up with this. Hope it helps.
Python is a very elegant and higher level language, so you don't want to exactly think like you do with C++.
First I had to create a test data file:
# write the test data file
# alternating lines of ...
# county name
# population housing location
data = """Adams County
34340 15175 W
Attala County
19661 8639 E
Benton County
8026 3456 N
Bolivar County
40633 14939 N
Calhoun County
15069 6902 S"""
fout = open("county_test.txt", "w")
fout.write(data)
fout.close()
print "data file county_test.txt has been written"
Now i can read the data file back in and process it:
# create a dictionary from the data file
# dictionary pair = county_name: [population, housing, location]
# then process the county data
fin = open("county_test.txt", "r")
county_dic = {}
for item in fin:
# strip off trailing newline char
item = item.rstrip()
if item[0].isalpha():
county_name = item
else:
# create a list of the county's values
county_values = item.split()
# form the dictionary
county_dic[county_name] = county_values
print county_dic
"""
my output (prettied up a little) =
{
'Bolivar County': ['40633', '14939', 'N'],
'Adams County': ['34340', '15175', 'W'],
'Attala County': ['19661', '8639', 'E'],
'Calhoun County': ['15069', '6902', 'S'],
'Benton County': ['8026', '3456', 'N']
}
"""
def add_population(county_dic):
"""add population of all counties in data file"""
population_sum = 0
for key, val in county_dic.iteritems():
# list element …
still? My mother suffered that, got caned when she used her left hand and eventually had it tied behind her back for days to force her to use her right hand for everything.
My teachers tried to make me change from writing left handed as well, but not forcibly (they just wanted to see if it would improve my test scores, it didn't, that took glasses as the reasons my scores were dropping was that I couldn't read the questions from the blackboard).
Sorry to hear that jwenting! That is just awful to happen to a young person. Bigotry against left handed humans is so stupid!
