Posts by bumsfeld

The ultimate stupidity will be when government decides it is in our best interest and that of our "ailing planet" to require all products state their CARBON FOOTPRINT.

Maybe number of black footprint images covering the package, so that bag of charcoal would be totally covered.

Cheney was a professional draft dodger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney

Bush's dad got GW into the Texas National Guard Airforce. I understand he didn't even show up for the required physicals. However, he did fly around in the US.

Pork chop and freedom fries.

My bestes hobby:
Admiring pretty women!

So, all we need to do is to find out if there is one "unsafe for any fire" construction lawsuit on the books!

Let me recapitulate, sun's energy output increases, coral grows heavier, heavier island sinks, perfect logic, I shall buy a dozen of these arguments right now!

Liberals are destroying America

Hoho, very smart comment!

"Me-first" government at its worst.

Hoho, good comment!

Wonder how many folks hold up a gun store with the gun they just purchased?

Well, if my house will be beach front property in the near future, than global warming is good!

Me and 10000 of my best friends will sign immediately!

Has anybody smoked dried banana peels?

I agree with MidiMagic, the name calling is very immature! Most countries in Europe take about 50% taxes from you, and people have gotten used to it. For that we get free healthcare too!

I just bought 4gig flash card for 15 euro, works real good!

I like to see the following label on my pillow:
"Under Penalty of Law this Tag not to be Removed!"

Is there a lawsuit against the poor construction of the towers?

There are plenty of natives around that rob your stores and join gangs. On the other hand, who would keep your lawn looking nice, cook your food, wash your clothes, build your roads and houses?

This thread is about who is more dishonest.. not their immediate impact on your pocketbook.

I will always vote for the politician who lowers my tax burden.

In France we have the problem too. I only wish we could get Mexican workers. At least they are christians.

The first generation of guest or illegal workers work very hard, but their numerous offspring is not.

I am not very sure, if a hate inspiring thread like that belongs into the "Geeks' Lounge"?

The few who only watch are the envy of the many who have to work.

I think the trick here is that water expands as it warms up.

As for the contribution of melting ice, it would only be the ice on land that would raise the sea levels.

I am surprised that they teach physics in elementary school already.

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not, because you write so terribly.

Dear Mister Freedom Toast: "Written well enough for even stupid folks to discover sarcasm."

Anti-War activists and environmentalists will lie to get their way. Their ends "justify" their means.

Those who hate the President have told more lies than anyone else on the planet. Some of them are real whoppers. The sad part is that most of them believe the lies.

Of course the war has been started with nothing but lies!

I assume you mean floating point numbers. The way they are represented in most computer languages you can have small roundoff errors in the last bit. You have to compare them in narrow range, example:

pi1 = 355/113.0
print pi1  # 3.14159292035

pi2 = 3.14159
delta = 0.00003
# compare within narrow range
if (pi2 + delta) > pi1 > (pi2 - delta):
    print 'close enough'

Python also has high accuracy module decimal avoiding round off errors.

Humour, no way! All we have in France is some "dummkopf" that threatens Iran with bombing.

Well, used car salesperson getting me stuck with one lemon car is more immediate then politician getting my grandchildren stuck with trillions of dollars/euros in debt.

Two eggs sunny side up with some ham. Caffee latte.

I think we are missing the invasion by a outerspace intelligence that by poor choice lands in Washington DC, and consequently looks at us as just one pest to be exterminated.

Whatever does not fit into your neurons will go into your soul.

Splitting ones head of the corner of the kitchen cupboard whilst give ones dog a treat, is not beneficial to oneself.

Sorry to read that! Hope you are getting better!

Elephants sleep standing up.

Check the preample of:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BitwiseOperators

Note that argList[1] does not give list as result.
Try:
os.execv(mpathTotest, ["argument 2"])
or:
os.execv(self.mpathTotest, [argList[1]])

France gets most of their electricity from nuclear power plants. Safety has been dsigned in from the start. This whole industry sector has created a large number of good jobs.

China is bying huge amount of nuclear power plants from France. They must like the standardized and safe design.

I think the Dutch suffer from the same mistake that France made, they ignore their growing younger muslim population.

I am little late:
"Happy Birthday and Birthyear!"

Yes I do, the K is too German for my taste.

Lardmeister, a few words of advice:
Hate only spreads hate!

Exciting world we have! One always learns something new!

Python is portable across a large umber of Operating Systems, so when you use OS calls, the error returned is specific for the particular OS used and generated by that OS. It would be tough for the developers of Python to cross reference all these different error numbers.

Jeff,
if you want to know how he did it, just click temporarily on "REPLY W/QUOTE" and look at the text shown.

Baseball is hot in Japan and most of Central America too. Football looks like a harmless war and might be something more strictly North American.

You should start your wxPython program with something like that:

app = wx.App(0)
MyFrame(None, -1, 'frame title')
app.MainLoop()

or that:

class MyApp(wx.App):
    def OnInit(self):
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, 'frame title')
        frame.Show(True)
        self.SetTopWindow(frame)
        return True

app = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()

Digital picture of the right hand (palm) so you can see the line pattern.

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) is used in French nuclear reactors, and is very good in quenching gamma radiation due to the larger nucleus.

Steamed shrimp over linguini smothered with nice creamy basil and garlic souce. Also like to drink fresh extra roast coffee from Sumatra.

Remember you can only have limited amount of meals in your lifetime, so make them memorable!

Easily done by not putting the recursive call into the return function, use temporary variable, something like this:

def factorialp(n):
    if n < 1:
         return 1
    q = n*factorialp(n-1)
    print "%d! = %d" % (n, q)
    return q

factorialp(5)

"""
result -->
1! = 1
2! = 2
3! = 6
4! = 24
5! = 120
"""

Thank you muchly jasimp! Oh, I see, dark energy has never been knowingly observed, other then maybe in the spiritual world.

Once my hormones are flowing, body is more in demand.

One should be able to change gamma ray energy into alternate energy, similar to light striking solar panel. Gamma ray burst might overpower the device dependig on the design.

The Russians used to make batteries for satellites that used radioactive decay (gamma ray, xray, etc.) as source of energy.

Is dark energy simply invisible/undetectable with present day technology?

You mean something like that:

try:
    fin = open("missing.txt", 'r')
# optional error value what_error
except IOError, what_error:
    print what_error

"""
result -->
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'missing.txt'
"""

The simplest way is to use the dictionary:

# print the control characters of an ASCII table ...

controls_dic = {
1: 'SOH', 2: 'STX', 3: 'ETX', 4: 'EOT', 5: 'ENQ', 6: 'ACK', 7: 'BEL',
8: 'BS', 9: 'HT', 10: 'LF', 11: 'VT', 12: 'FF', 13: 'CR', 14: 'SO',
15: 'SI', 16: 'DLE', 17: 'DC1', 18: 'DC2', 19: 'DC3', 20: 'DC4', 21: 'NAK',
22: 'SYN', 23: 'ETB', 24: 'CAN', 25: 'EM', 26: 'SUB', 27: 'ESC', 28: 'FS',
29: 'GS', 30: 'RS', 31: 'US'}

for key in range(1, 32):
    print key, controls_dic[key]