Posts by GrimJack

Time to close this one too.

While researching my answer above, I found this: A Samurai's Power Is In His Little Finger, Not His Samurai Sword

Why do bikers where leather?

Because chiffon wrinkles.

I am in the living room, browsing here, listening to "Make Them Laugh" on the t and v.

Here are a couple local tutorials and you might look here and, last but not least, you might try

How does one calculate this? The "60% strength of grip" I mean?

Well, I am unable to grab the original discussion as it was a PBS series and not so easily inserted into this format; so the technical version goes:

This study evaluated the flexor digitorum profundus quadriga effect by mimicking stiffness of one finger and observing its effect on the strengths of the other three fingers of the same hand. Thermoplastic wedges were used to simulate mild, moderate and severe stiffness of each finger and the individual strengths of each finger during power grip were measured using a digit-gripTM dynamometer in ten healthy adult volunteers. Middle, ring, and little fingers strength diminished significantly (P < 0.05) when each of the other fingers, including the index, was stiffened. Index finger strength was largely unaffected by simulated stiffness of the other fingers. The degree of simulated stiffness influenced the strength of the other fingers, but there was considerable intersubject variability, suggesting that the significance of the quadriga effect varies between individuals. An anatomical basis for our findings is suggested.

then

The doubling of the grip force induced complex changes of
the both normal and tangential digit forces (Figure 1). After
grip force doubled, the percentages of the individual finger’s
contribution to the grip force at all torque values changed
(Figure 2) although the changes were minimal at the zero
torque. The contribution of antagonist fingers (fingers
producing moments in the direction of the external torque)

I mean come on, a religion that tells its followers that if you kill people that dont believe in Sharia Law, that you goto heaven? WTF is that bullshit?

Also GrimJack this is a rant thread, i apologize if your only retort to a statment that wasnt a directed insult to you is to talk down on my grammer...

If this is a rant thread, say so in the subject or in the first post - don't try to weasel-word your way out. I did not take anything you said as an insult to me - I just said that you do not know how to insult.

Which particular Sharia are you referring to? There are 4 different 'Sharia Laws' for Sunni and the Shi'a have only one but it is different from any of the 4 for Sunni. Sharia is a body of law that only a small part of which is based on the Koran (Qur'an, Quran, Qor'an). In a way, it is similar to 'common law' in that it is the cumulative legal wisdom formed over the generations of balancing the forces of ruler, religion, and people formed in a much more hostile environment than found in Europe.

I fell in love with the drama of vacuum coffee brewers- the designs are a couple of hundred years old. Once you go for the glass brewer, then you gotta get the Klein bottle/mug.. Of course, a true klein bottle - as you can see, a klein bottle is just a Moebius strip folded from 2-d to 3-d - through the 5th dimention.

Heh,heh - then he slowed down

Time to close this one too.

I do like the pic, though!

Sigh! No one wants to play.

Nah, you got nothing:
you don't know common rules of grammar and/or punctuation;
you have no grasp of how to raise a point, support it, and come to a conclusion;
you can't even insult anyone very well.

You appear to be a loser without a platform; come back when you have something to say (or not). If you want an actual political discussion, fine - as Bush said "bring it on".

Neener, neener, neener.

The movie "Birds" by Hitchcock was based on an actual incident in a nearby beach-side town.

The birds are thought to have been poisoned by domaic acid; algae blooms produce the neurotoxin and it climbs the food chain.

Let me see - Bush gets into office and gets a book of hints labeled August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing, Bin Laden determined to strike in US.

So Bush ignores the warning.

But you say he kept us safe!!

I think you need to update your meds

I suppose trolling the internet might also help calm you down.

Here

My idea is too nurture young and aspiring talent and we too can be the leader like the bill gates of Redmond. This all lies in hard work, determination and less on luck. We too can emerge as the IT leader in the same way like bill gates did. Lets not just talk about the IT business leaders instead plan to defeat them.

Wrong business plan - BG swiped much of what he based his empire on. He was the son of a wealthy lawyer and knew what kinds of lies he needed to tell to create a monopoly.

+1 to Obama.
+2 to Bush for putting up with ignorant people who actually think the President is powerful enough to do anything without Congress' consent. *cough* Checks and balances *cough*

+3 to Bush for convincing a bunch of 'ignorant people' that nothing that happened during his administration was his fault.
Better do something about that cough.
Signing statement
Bush/Cheney theory of the Unitary Executive
have you considered reading about the last 8 years?

"You didn't check any boxes, which makes it tough to say much about you. How about a Punk? That's what you are."
Close enough.

If you check them all:
You are a Romantic Traveling Reinventer
2.10% of the 73021 people who have taken this quiz are like you.

I would love to see that tested :D

They gotta come up with something when industrial accidents happen - tests were performed, studies were done, life went on but with no pinky.

What happens if you accidentally put it in first gear?

The same thing as if you were to put it into reverse when trying to roll start forward - nothing; but it is pretty difficult to do as they are usually at opposite ends of the pattern - in my Corolla, it was 1st upper left and reverse lower right

Generally, we breathe thru one side of our nose. But, exactly after every 1 1/2 hr our breathing process changes to other side of the nose.

Where did you pick this up? It seems counter-intuitive.

And, right now, when I close my eyes and pay attention to my breathing, I feel can feel the air moving through both nostrils.

I am going to have to vote bogus on this.

The title is a literary allusion (gawd, I love it when I get all literate and intellectual).

I was perusing my list of blogs and found some interesting things but what really caught my eye was a link to the conservapedia.com. I had been there once a long time ago and had to laugh a little but this time, it is no laughing matter. This almost seems like a 'hit list' somewhat like the lists published on the 'pro-life' web-sites. Fortunately, they listed all the Republican Senators from states with Democratic governors so that no one would possibly think that it was a hit list. I noticed that they have added a list of lies to their description:
Socialized medicine - I remember when they used this bugaboo against Medicare.
Nationalizing the finance and auto industries - the link only points to some aliterate (a-literate as in neither literate nor illiterate) descriptions of socialism.
creating a socialist wealth redistribution system - this last link points to 'income redistribution' which paints a binary view of reality.

To be fair, I will link to their description of Socialism and then to my description of socialism.

I bet there are no negative attributes!?

Too much time on my hands
Too many blogs to read
Sometimes, I wish I could go shopping but I am a guy w/o a job and the same pair of shoes for years.

Obama updates his FaceBook Page:
“brb inauguration lol”

ahihihi - if you want to rack up a lot of posts with no effort - please go play posting games. Not complaining mind you just saying....

Watch those moves carefully! Those are nunchuck moves - I know because back in the '70s when I was everybody's favorite uncle, I used those very moves with little kids. I always ensured I had both ends of the kid under control before I let go of one end - they just loved that game but since no one had heard of nunchuck at that time, they thought they were playing chop sticks - heh,heh

Ene, If you have the fortitude to go back through his rants - his favorite image is:
Bend over and grab ankles
Now I am not implying anything about him but one wonders why it is on his mind so much??

I just took this test and found out (this should surprise no one here):
You are a Spiritual Extroverted Tree Hugger.

I can't really believe that he is serious but then I looked around on his site and don't know what to think.

We have a new president; watching Bush's helicopter receded into the horizon and listening to BHO calmly work his way past CJ Robert's fumble of the oath of office then his acceptance speech; I held my breath as he kept getting out of the potus-mobile to walk through the crowd.

It is a new season in America - Yes we can! (Can you believe the styles of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden - knee-high, stiletto-heeled boots!?)

I remember a while back there was some sort of difficulty where posters would get a message that said "This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between posts; please try again in 1 seconds" -- I got it again.

Does not happen often - just sayin'....

Wrong forum

You can roll-start your manual transmission car in reverse.
It constantly surprises me that people do not even see it as possible - I just helped a couple guys start their car, they were trying to push it forward but that was slightly uphill so they were going to turn it around; when I explained how easy rolling it backwards was, they were skeptical but it pop-started so fast I fell on my face (in my youth I would have rolled to my feet but being old and slow and laughing too hard, I needed help up).
I roll-started my old Corolla for 9 months by rolling it backwards because I could put my back to the door frame, push, and hop in to start it. The gear ratio in reverse is even lower than that in first so it actually starts easier in reverse.

Other ways to plot life

Did it really take you that long to figure this out?

A startling medical discovery:
Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than caffeine.

but a direct hit will put you back to sleep

I'm just trying to figure out if Flyin Dagger is having a conversation with himself or if some posts were deleted ;)

Maybe FD never found the "reply with quote" button

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17441.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0109/Obama_meets_with_liberal_columnists.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/14/bush-ceasefire/

That's the spirit.
Here's some more food to it."The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else."

Life is not a zero-sum game.

While looking for Cheech Wizard (see other thread), the vagaries of the internets lead me to this drummer Yuko Araki now in the group mi-gu. Don't know why I am inflicting this on you but I kind of like "Lazy" and some of the stuff she does with other groups - one of the other drummers looks like he is using a baseball bat to do his drumming.

Actually, still not sure I like it but it reminds me a llittle of Cibu Mato - just a passing fancy.

The series of rigorous experiments have been done already.

Yes - I was trying to find Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard who showed his side-kick 'time-dilation' by kicking him in the b*lls - hah! found it

Alright, let me just remind us all including me that we are not arguing about the thread but we are all arguing Einstein's theory and absolutely not my theory... whether its true or not it is actually his theory and not my theory, we can't argue with that.

Einstein's ToR says nothing directly about time travel so it is not his theory. The possibility of time travel is implied in ToR - ToR is not about time travel.

The genius Einstein made this theory and it was very fascinating and interesting that in that fully activated mind he formulated time travel, that time travel is possible.

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity published in 1905 theoretically speculated that traveling close to the speed of light (300,000,000 meters per second) would physically alter time by dilating it. & Einstein himself being completely aware that not all consequences of a scientific theory is valid, he passed [a]way in 1955 far from being convinced of time travel in factual occurrence.

Don't tell me that you are not interested because I know you are. There are no laws in physics that explains that time travel is impossible. Actually, there are several scientists at present who are finding ways to solve time travel and they are not stopping until.... I don't know when, but they are not stopping and it is absolutely okay if you will not give up too.

I was interested in time travel when I was a child; there are more fascinating things …

I only do my wash once a week, so 7 days is about right (but I bet that is not what you meant).

"An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of puchasing power is wages." - Corporate Titan Henry Ford, 1926.

Aia, I am glad I do not live in your world! How do you get out of bed in the mornings?

Everybody's suppositions are somewhat like against the theory of time travel possibility, just to define it more simpler. Everybody does not believe that time travel is really existing, almost everybody. But just everybody doesn't believe in time travel, that doesn't mean that time travel does not exist..

Just because everyone does not believe that TT is possible does not mean it is not possible

The things that only prevail right now are suppositions like: Is time travel possible? Yes, but we don't have evidence yet but we are seeking. Is time travel possible? No, but we don't have evidence too. Either ways, no matter what suppositions that you might give still you can't prove anything with it. Realistically speaking, we just can't rely on words. Right now, all of you just gave your ideas and its fine, everybody has its own ideas and you are always free to say what you want.

Sigh! So, if you accept TT is possible, have you considered the ramifications of TT?

Question 1: Standard - Can you go back in time and kill your grandfather?
Question 2: Standard - Where are all the TT tourists?
Question 3: Standard - Everett's Many-worlds interpretation of QT suggests that if you did go back in time and changed something, it would not affect the timeline from which you came but create a brand new universe which would never interact with the one from which you came.
Question 4: Intellectual - 2nd law of …

Then there is Mark O'Connor - he won the national fiddle contest so often that he stopped competing, he just goes for the workshops.

This time travel thing is absolutely possible... I can feel it... look, if you would just think of it... God is there, right? Yeah, I know all of you absolutely believe in God. Nothing is impossible with God. Believing in God is the most supreme belief that you would always do. Now, this is just time travel... compared to God, time travel is just nothing. Why could someone who believes in God but don't actually believe in time travel? Where time travel is nothing compared to God... just think about it... you will get what I mean... we don't lose hope...

You 'feel' it is possible? Hmm? Why don't you slip into an isolation tank (body temperature water with the salinity of The Great Salt Lake so you float, sound-proofed/light-proofed) and change your perceptions? Everything you 'know' and 'feel' is determined by what your body tells you so all you have to do is reverse the process and tell your body what to 'know' and there you are.

I do not believe in god; I do not believe in time-travel - what is the point of bringing belief into this? Science is based on knowledge not on belief; it is based on testability. So explain what part of Einstein's ToR leads you to believe that TT is possible. If you want some theory that may or may not support your proposition, it would behoove you to look to Feynman (this is a broad hint - Feynman's diagrams actually offer …

If you have not read All You Zombies[/U] by Bobby Heinlein - do so as quickly as possible - it is the end all and be all fo Time Travel stories. All the characters in the story are the same person; he is both his own mother and father - the bartender, the time traveler, the sargent of the guard and when he closed his eyes, he was terrified that the universe would go away. He knew who he was but - who are 'all you zombies'.

Oh! I kept finding body parts and thought the ghoul doc would want them but he does not. Dragged that crap all over the mall, sigh.

I am going to start walking around the wasteland - I am getting bored going from known point to known point.

Here is the positive side of the police state (sorry for the re-post but I love this vid). Here is a story about them: The Get Out Clause