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you aren't allowed to submit a question without a tag. however, if mass-deletion of the only tag on a question happens at some point, then the untagged tag gets added

it makes it straightforward to later search for those tags

Matt Эллен

you know that little down arrow, on the left of a chat message? you can drag that to the chat box for quick quoting

ЯegDwight

Feb 7 '11 at 15:38, by RegDwight

Russell's paradox

In the foundations of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory created by Georg Cantor leads to a contradiction. The same paradox had been discovered a year before by Ernst Zermelo but he did not publish the idea, which remained known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen. Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing sets that are not member...

@MattЭллен men use keyboards. Dragging is for queens.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBձոգչ Seems to me it would make it just as easy to search for untagged messages if there was an untagged operator for search, and the rest of the system just didn't care about untaggedness

@ЯegDwight you misspelled "iPhones"

JSBձոգչ

"an untagged operator for search" <-- because that is completely intuitive and easily discoverable

user19161

1 min ago, by Matt Эллен

you know that little down arrow, on the left of a chat message? you can drag that to the chat box for quick quoting

user19161

1:25 PM

Ah, works wonders!

ЯegDwight

16 secs ago, by Will Hunting

1 min ago, by Matt Эллен

you know that little down arrow, on the left of a chat message? you can drag that to the chat box for quick quoting

user19161

Thanks @matt for teaching me a new trick!

ЯegDwight

Indeed it does.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBձոգչ well, it would be a button on the tag page that brings up the list of questions

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight Queens are in charge

user19161

1:26 PM

12 secs ago, by ЯegDwight

16 secs ago, by Will Hunting

1 min ago, by Matt Эллен

you know that little down arrow, on the left of a chat message? you can drag that to the chat box for quick quoting

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting you're welcome

ЯegDwight

Mar 2 '11 at 13:43, by Robusto

2 hours ago, by RegDwight

Feb 18 at 10:59, by Robusto

13 hours ago, by Robusto

27 secs ago, by RegDwight

2 hours ago, by RegDwight

yesterday, by RegDwight

Feb 7 at 15:38, by RegDwight

Russell's paradox

In the foundations of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory created by Georg Cantor leads to a contradiction. The same paradox had been discovered a year before by Ernst Zermelo but he did not publish the idea, which remained known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen. Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing sets that are not member...

JSBձոգչ

stop it

ЯegDwight

And we've come full circle again.

Matt Эллен

gee deezley

user19161

1:27 PM

@ЯegDwight Wait, did Russell have a moustache?

tchrist

The SO mods are really hopping today. Not-an-answers get three flags, a mod comment, and a mod deletion, all in the space of three minutes.

Matt Эллен

Jack Russell Terrier

The Jack Russell terrier is a small terrier that has its origins in fox hunting. It is principally white-bodied smooth, rough or broken-coated which is commonly confused with the Parson Russell terrier (the American Kennel Club (AKC) and affiliate variant) and the Russell terrier (a shorter legged, stockier variety, whose name within the Fédération Cynologique Internationale is "Jack Russell terrier"), with the term "Jack Russell" commonly misapplied to other small white terriers. The Jack Russell is a broad type, with a size range of , the Parson Russell is limited only to a middle range...

ЯegDwight

@WillHunting I think he had a crow.

tchrist

3 minutes after posting, that is.

Which is quite responsive.

ЯegDwight

@tchrist so that's why I'm still sitting on some 20 flags this late in the day.

tchrist

1:28 PM

I still have 21 left, but the day is young.

Up to 149 helpful.

You have to hit reload on not-an-answer pretty quickly.

They’re on it.

ЯegDwight

I just found one that's one day old.

tchrist

I found one of those earlier today.

Slackers.

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A: TCPDF last page footer height

cant help with you spacing problem but you help me a lot with your post here! I searched for a way to change the content of my footer depending on which page I currently am. The biggest problem was to figure out when the footer of the last page got generated! Because the internal attribute $num...

KitFox

Well, he's late, big surprise.

ЯegDwight

The best time to flag, for me, is between 10 and 11 a.m. Then the mods are collectively asleep.

tchrist

Zulu?

KitFox

1:31 PM

Anyone know why my jQuery checkbox checking is not behaving?

ЯegDwight

@tchrist that's the one I just flagged!

tchrist

Ah.

JSBձոգչ

^ reasons to move to Australia

ЯegDwight

RegDwight, Europe, GMT+1

4.5k 3 18 27

No Zulu.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox has it had too many E numbers?

ЯegDwight

1:32 PM

@JSBձոգչ reminds me of that lovely blog, Aussies in Sweden... that was fun.

KitFox

@JSBձոգչ rofl

Ach. Now he's here. Laters for realz.

user19161

@JSBձոգչ Your handwriting?

JSBձոգչ

@WillHunting no, on a blog i was just reading

Matt Эллен

@KitFox CU 4 reel

Bourbon is very expensive in Oz? hmmm.

ЯegDwight

Aussies in Sweden: you know you've been in Sweden too long when...

Cerberus

1:35 PM

@JSBձոգչ Like.

Matt Эллен

> silence is fun

I'm not Swedish

so this must be universally true

ЯegDwight

> hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay

JSBձոգչ

dirty, dirty swedes

Cerberus

Hugging in which situations?

ЯegDwight

Sexual situations.

Cerberus

1:40 PM

In what other situations do non-Swedes hug?

ЯegDwight

What's the deal with the gravatars in the rep leagues?

Cerberus

I do it to console or be consoled after a catastrophe.

ЯegDwight

@Cerberus with friends? Strangers? Bears? Beers?

Cerberus

Do you normally hug friends?

ЯegDwight

Sure.

I'm not a Swede.

Cerberus

1:41 PM

I don't.

user19161

I love Ikea.

user19161

Ikea has nice furniture and meatballs.

Cerberus

Some people insist on doing it when I haven't seen them for a long time.

But it's not exactly standard.

ЯegDwight

@WillHunting They are planning a whole city in Germany.

Matt Эллен

I hug friends

Cerberus

1:42 PM

When?

user19161

@ЯegDwight Ah, I guess I will see it in my next life, since I hope to be reborn there!

Matt Эллен

when I see them. close friends, though.

Cerberus

I see.

Matt Эллен

I don't hug the people I work with

Cerberus

There's also the man-hug, which is...I don't know, not exactly common either.

user19161

1:43 PM

I only hug my pillow.

Cerberus

Mostly when people are a bit drunk.

user19161

@Cerberus What is a manhug?

Cerberus

They involved shoulders touching and a pat on the back.

One shoulder touching, rather.

tchrist

@Cerberus Depends on the company you keep.

Cerberus

Then there is a the gay kiss.

It is annoying, but too common to ignore.

tchrist

1:45 PM

@WillHunting No h0m0pr0n in this chat.

@Cerberus It’s too wet to ignore.

user19161

@Cerberus OK, I kiss you!

tchrist

Who the hell thinks that it’s too cold to have a conversation at 17 degrees?

Or that you can’t eat ice cream no matter the temperature?

ЯegDwight

Not Swedes.

tchrist

None of those things would ever occur to me.

ЯegDwight

Well, which part of "Aussies in Sweden" do you not understand?

tchrist

1:47 PM

And I’m only half Danish.

Oh right, soft flaccid slackerwimps.

I sentence them to a winter on the Apostle Islands. Starting in late September.

Cerberus

@tchrist It's not wet. At least it's not that.

tchrist

It’s a national park on the north coast of Wisconsin.

@Cerberus Intrusiveness, or obsequiousness?

Cerberus

A peck on the cheek.

tchrist

Was Mike Myers ever an ELU mod?

@Cerberus Bad foreplay, then.

Cerberus

It's not even that either.

tchrist

1:50 PM

I thought was a Frenchish kiss.

Cerberus

Again, a different kiss.

ЯegDwight

@tchrist yes, pro-tem.

tchrist

What about the double-cheeked kiss?

Cerberus

Yeah, triple is now standard here. Very annoying.

Southern influences.

tchrist

I’d feel manhandled.

And not in a good way.

user19161

1:53 PM

I think kisses and hugs and handshakes don't serve any purpose.

user19161

They only spread bacteria!

tchrist

Germ transmission.

Cerberus

I'm talking men and women.

tchrist

jinx

JSBձոգչ

@WillHunting human contact is a noble purpose.

tchrist

1:53 PM

@Cerberus I’m a man, thus I would feel manhandled.

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Q: crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc

Some English words only differ in their vowels: crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc. Is there a name for them?

single-word-requests

Cerberus

I don't think there are any diseases here that you can catch from a peck on the cheek...

tchrist

Thanks to the super collider, John now has a 24 score.

Which will never be accepted.

Cerberus

@tchrist You don't kiss women on the cheek?

user19161

@JSBձոգչ It is contact of the heart that is noble. Contact of the body is merely a vehicle of expression of that. Sometimes the means to an end becomes the end itself, and the true end is forgotten.

tchrist

@Cerberus Not those ones, no. :)

Cerberus

1:54 PM

Which ones, then?

tchrist

Silly.

JSBձոգչ

@WillHunting bullshit. the heart and the body are one.

tchrist

I’m not a hunter-n-pecker. Go for the gusto, or don’t bother.

Cerberus

Here one kisses female friends on the cheek, always.

user19161

@JSBձոգչ See edit.

Cerberus

1:55 PM

Is this not standard in your country?

tchrist

Sybarites!

Still sybarites!

user19161

I usually say "I don't shake hands" when people wanna shake with me.

JSBձոգչ

@WillHunting i still oppose the Cartesian opposition between heart and body.

simchona

@cerb I wanted tea but the cafe required a code

user19161

@JSBձոգչ Cartesian is too deep for me, I only use it in coordinates.

JSBձոգչ

1:57 PM

@WillHunting what i mean is: there is no fundamental distinction between the body and the heart/soul/mind, so to make an opposition between what you do with your body and what you do with your heart is meaningless obfuscation

tchrist

No, you absolutely don’t go around kissing people here like that.

user19161

@tchrist Kiss!

Cerberus

@simchona What? What is this about?

tchrist

You would soon find yourself on the wrong end of a sexual harassment suit.

Cerberus

@JSBձոգչ Hmm is that orthodox?

JSBձոգչ

1:59 PM