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13:01
Looking up yonks in google books goes to show how far OCR still has to go
searching 1850 to 1970 there are lots of youngs and yorks, very few yonks.
there was even one monks
of course, several Yonkers
Yonkers Bad Fur Day.
hello guys need help
can a sentence be closed with word 'instead'
Of course.
But you can also close it with a different word instead.
@RegDwigнt okay
an example?
@Saladin what do you think you just replied to? :P
13:13
oh lol
that practically kills two birds with one stone
impressive:)
Yeah, some people will kill one bird with two stones instead. But not me!
lol
u too good:)
the best of all forums on stackexchange for me is this site.
always helpful in a happy mood
@RegDwigнt how was ur day?
A bit stressful at first, but better now.
Also, the ECB has just lowered the interest rate again. So I guess I can buy even more LEGO now.
LEGO for some its fetish
Absolutely anything is fetish for some.
13:20
did the guy who invented this thing, got any prize for innovation or smart thinking?
Well he got a lot of money, also his son and grandson.
I think stupid computers take time away from such great things like making stuff beautiful with something as unique yet very simple as LEGOs
The product itself keeps getting prizes on various occasions.
what is its future?
!!lego 10243
Oh. @KitSox! Wake up!
13:22
Lame.
@RegDwigнt let me google this up
@Saladin they'll be bringing out some really crazy sets next year. Also, the Simpsons.
@Robusto angenehm, Reg.
@RegDwigнt are you married?
Lamé
From LEGO to marital status in just one comment. Only in this room!
13:23
hahaha
lmao
He’s looking for a compatible mate.
Und ich bin immer der Angenehme.
well i had to ask...
since I'm of view married men don't have time for LEGOs
Married men do when wives are away.
Married men's wives have no nerves for LEGO.
13:25
lol
marry a G33K!!
Though there are some woman builders, too.
they hot?
@RegDwigнt If I give them some money will they build me a woman?
Of course they are somewhat looked down upon, like woman composers.
13:26
@RegDwigнt For that they invented a podium.
Get your kids lego for xmas. then you'll have lots of time for lego, wife, family. having it all.
@Robusto if you give money to a woman she will build shoes. Also, she will not build shoes but instead buy them. How old are you?
Old enough to know better.
Lego shoes? so uncomfortable. I'll take them!
FFS, I just used "it" twice to refer to a woman.
13:27
Ha. That's German for you. Obviously you were thinking of young women.
@Robusto in my dialect all women are "it".
@RegDwigнt I was wondering about that Thought you roboticized her or something.
no non-maedchen.
wow LEGOS shoes
The It Girl is a series of novels created by bestselling novelist, Cecily von Ziegesar. The series is ghostwritten from the original idea by von Ziegesar. The series, aimed toward young adults, is a spin-off from the bestselling Gossip Girl series. Series * The It Girl - (2005) *Notorious - (2006) *Reckless - (2006) *Unforgettable - (2007) *Lucky - (2007) *Tempted - (2008) *Infamous - (2008) *Adored - (2009) *Devious - (2009) *Classic - (2010) Synopsis Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard School for girls to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York hor...
Lucky you.
13:28
HMMMMM
@Mitch Isn’t that a double negative?
@Robusto thanks for introducing some hot magic ..
@tchrist Is it not a non-positive?
from LEGOS to marriage to shoes to erotica writing...
Magic? I thought it was logic. consults arcana
13:29
...innit?
@Robusto I dunno, why would I be interested in girls who are horror clowns from space?
right @RegDwigнt
@Mitch Or is it something you say to a child: No, no mädchen!
Or all the mädchen, all the time.
@RegDwigнt If they're hot, what does it matter?
> Synopsis Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard School for girls to attend Waverly Academy
FFS, I don't even want to read on.
They lost me at Constance, really.
13:30
@RegDwigнt They have clone whores is space, is why.
..an elite boarding school...not like those half step above an asylum ones.
@RegDwigнt Try again with Bodensee.
@Robusto it does in Celcius.
oh... those -are- asylums.
@RegDwigнt they had me at girl really.
Oh, it says Billard School.
13:31
See, that's the problem with adolescent chick lit. The cover shows hot girls, but inside there are just nothing but talky, insecurity-ridden adolescents who could bore the varnish off a dining-room table.
I thought it said Billiard School.
@Robusto hot girls?
Billiard schools are much more entertaining than chick lit.
Feb 23 '11 at 14:13, by Robusto
@RegDwight — Wow, it already happened. And you did it in a single line. I bow in your direction.
@Mitch You aren't familiar with the concept?
13:32
Billiard lit not as good as chick schools.
And Waverly Academy is like Surf School, eh?
Waverly Hills Cop.
Oh there's the Sox.
!!lego 10243
You can try !!refresh if she's not responding.
Well she wasn't even in the room.
13:35
I can call vixen from the vasty deep.
Vixen is German for "jerk off".
Oh. Well. We're leaving now too, so she'll be gone for a while.
Awwww.
so we have a lego command now?
this is adorable
@KitSox does more things every day
@RegDwigнt Now why would you be thinking of Wixen instead of Füchsin, eh?
Wax on, wax off.
13:46
Because I can.
Just hope you’re working from home today.
Meanwhile, the Subcontinent beacons, and shan’t release me till the westering sun withers away behind the Continental Divide.
14:06
@RegDwigнt Wichsen.
14:17
@JSBձոգչ There are lego and legopart commands, although they require a numeric input, so it's not like you can really search or anything.
!!define rucksack
@KitFox rucksack a bag carried on the back or shoulder, supported by straps
!!define satchel
@KitFox satchel A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
!!define backpack
@KitFox backpack A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
14:29
hey all
Hello.
what is Ark B?
How can I change my name to an alias?
@JohanLarsson It's a ref to Hitchhiker's Guide.
!!wiki Ark B
Ark may refer to: Religion * Ark (synagogue), a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scroll * Ark of the Covenant, the consecrated container for the tablets of the Ten Commandments * Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses * Noah's Ark, according to Abrahamic religions, a large boat built by Noah to keep him safe, together with his family and a core breeding stock of the world’s animals * Veneration of Mary in Roman Catholicism, Mary is called the New Ark of the Covenant Film * Ark (2005 film), a 2005 computer-generated film directed by Kenny Hwang * Ark, a 1970 short film d...
14:34
That's not it.
@KaiEysselein You can change your name in your profile every 30 days, I think.
!!parentuser 98151
Oh. EL&U is your main account, so you should be able to change your name there and then you can sync it with your other network accounts.
14:46
muuuch better ... The entire world doesn't need to know my name
in EL&U someone posted a question and most answers were down voted ... is that normal or is it someone on a mission?
@KaiEysselein In that case, you'll want to sync your profiles.
@KaiEysselein It is possible to legitimately downvote answers. Which question?
@KitFox It was english.stackexchange.com/questions/134681/… but the downvotes were undone now.
Well, not all of them were downvoted, and they weren't reversed, just someone else upvoted.
Looked like someone went "hmm... don't like this one, this one ... uh ... this one ... hmm ... don't like that one either"
hehe
!!tell Johan wiki B-Ark
!!wiki B-Ark
!!refresh
Oh, I see how it is @KitSox. I see
15:18
This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The series is set in a fictionalised version of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and various versions of the Earth. The Galaxy "The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a very brief moment during the first radio series, when the main characters were transported outside the g...
Sorry, I had to make a quick exit.
15:34
I still haven't read the Guide.
you speak as if you have something better to do!
Ehh well I ehh...
raises left eyebrow, accusingly
makes himself small
16:38
@Robusto Really? always I thought they were Wixen.
@Cerberus hablando del Rey de Roma
17:00
Which Roman King are you talking about?
They haven't had Kings since ca. 500 BC...
And that's not Before Columbus!
The Mandate looks really cool, an epic space strategy and role-playing game.
I don't understand the desire to have ring-shaped star bases.
This is a common structure in sci-fi.
What's wrong with it?
It seems like the product of two-dimensional thinking, but I dunno. Maybe there is something useful about it.
It doesn't seem like a practical design.
It's like starfighters with wings.
There's no air in space, so you don't need airfoils.
So why a ring shape?
Basically any shape in space is random.
But there would theoretically be a sensible engineering explanation for that choice of design.
17:12
The only things to consider are accessibility for ships to dock somewhere, and minimising external surface area in order to protect against asteroids.
And perhaps a few other minor things.
Why are some buildings square, others circular?
A hollow ball with holes would seem the most logical shape for a large structure in space.
But many other shapes could be workable too.
spheres and rings are hard to construct
the logical shape for a space station is a central cube of some sort, with lots of long, narrow spindles where ships dock
Why are they hard to construct?
curvy things are harder to build than straight things
at least at present
Only on a small scale, in gravity, or when space is scarce...
As to spindles, ships would be vulnerable on those. As would the spindles themselves.
I guess they would be cheaper, though.
vulnerable to what?
this is a serious question
before you decide which views are "safe" we need to know what the dangers are
17:19
Impact from asteroids, debris, mismanoeuvring ships, weapons...
Possibly even radiation.
An exploding star at a certain distance, a huge gamma ray from some other source...
Imagine if a ship accidentally broke a spindle!
modularity is an advantage in that situation.
A ring would break apart. A spindle would just break off.
A ball can be armoured with very thick metal.
My space ball wouldn't break apart.
So can a box.
A box is perhaps only marginally less efficient in that way than a ball.
A ball would not break apart, but a ring would, and the ring is the thing I can't figure out.
It's poor design.
17:24
A ring can be seen as a compromise between a ball and a spindle. A long, thick, curled spindle.
Lots of space for ships to dock on.
It's all rather random anyway.
It's random in fiction, and I don't like that. Structures are not randomly generated.
But I'm writing and I have to decide if the guy is meeting the girl yet.
@KitFox Congrats :)
And yet the shapes of building are also often rather random from a technical point of view.
@MrHen Thanks.
Wow, my bitcoins have gained 13 % in value overnight.
I could get used to this.
17:40
@Cerberus I still haven't decided how I feel about bitcoins yet. Seems like most people who are stocking up on them are just treating them like fancy gold. :P
But the technology seems interesting :)
@MrHen Absolutely!
dubloons! Pirate booty!
@MrHen It seems more and more businesses are accepting bitcoins.
yesterday, by Cerberus
The largest food-delivery service in the country now allows you to pay with bitcoins! So you can order food online from 5000 restaurants with bitcoins.
@Cerberus Yeah, but that isn't really the same thing as stockpiling them.
Whether you want to use them or not is a different debate from "investing" in them. :)
It's not at all the same.
So I'm saying both stockpiling and the ability to spend them on real things are growing.
17:44
It will be hard to convince me it can become a major world currency until companies keep "cash" in bitcoin.
How do you mean?
Companies keep bitcoins in their wallets?
@Cerberus Sure. I don't deny they are useful. But I personally don't stockpile/invest in things like Gold. :)
I'm not exactly sure what you are arguing for or against here...
@Cerberus I imagine two things are still true: (a) every company accepting Bitcoins is pricing everything in USD and just uses an exchange rate for Bitcoins and (b) when they get paid in Bitcoins they immediately exchange them for USD. (Or whatever other world currency is appropriate.)
@Cerberus I'm not so much arguing. Just thinking out loud. :)
OK.
Ad a, yes, people are pricing things in bitcoins based on their local currencies.
But people also counted in guilders for several years after the introduction of the euro; now, however, this is rarely done any more. It takes a couple of years to get used to a new main currency.
Ad b, this is probably true for most companies. It will only change once employees are willing to accept salaries in bitcoins.
So we'd need a lot more places where you can spend bitcoins for them to become a main currency for anyone.
17:58
What about autonomous corporations? :)
Hello!
So it is bit like an Internet virus, or like Gibson's AIs in Neuromancer et seqq.?
Right! So what about it? That's like singularity economics, Economy 2.0 or something. At any rate points towards a tipping point into something like it, where networks of autonomous 'botcorps' can restructure/optimize the economy .
And yet corporations can only function if the rest of the economy is willing to deal with them, which can be controlled by laws.
18:02
Laws? Nothing can be controlled by laws.
!!what are your laws?
@KitFox 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Thank you.
And if society is sufficiently computerized, it may not in principle be possible to stop it without restricting general purpose computing.
Well, not stop it, no; but curtail it.
But I rather think draconian economic laws could more or less stop it without forbidding general computing.
BRB
18:30
Error 0 occured, I will call the maid (@Zirak)
19:06
A nice slide from a Samsung-presentation.
19:23
@mr.shiny It seems your mayor is now even on the Dutch news.
@Cerberus Sell now!
Why now?
@Cerberus random? like a cave? or like the floors go side to side instead of bottom to top?
no! don't take investment advice from Mitch! Buy more!
@Mitch Oops, they've lost 10 % since my last update.
@Mitch I mean square or circular or oblong or just a sprawling shape. The vertical properties are partly dictated by gravity, but the other two dimensions are largely arbitrary.
19:26
@KitFox What? it's easy 'gravity'. Any other shape, where do you get your standing space?
@Cerberus runs to bank
You're late.
@Cerberus OK. not entirely random, because there tend to be room-like things almost universally.
now the connections of rooms is kinda arbitrary. except maybe a bathroom near the bedrooms.
@MattЭллен Don't take investment advice at all! Buy and sell arbitrarily!
@Mitch I mean just the general external shape of the building.
buys and sells arbitrarily
19:31
buys twice as much arbitrary as Mitch
@Cerberus windows? they all have windows?
They're all kinda square.
Aaaand it has gained 2.3 % since my last report.
@MattЭллен buys twice as much as that
@Mitch Sure. But those are not the general shape.
@Cerberus that's a bit of a rollercoaster.
19:32
sells his Arbitrary to Mitch for a tidy profit
Yup.
@Cerberus ?? what's you message that buildings in Detroit and Amsterdam are pretty much the same or pretty much different?
@MattЭллен Does Mitch have a say in accepting the transaction?
@Cerberus He didn't know who he was buying from
@Cerberus how many do you have? Just 1? I want just 1 just for historical purposes.
19:33
it's all anonymous in the arbitrary market
@Mitch My message is that a ring shape for a space station is a bit arbitrary, so there aren't that many strong arguments for or against a specific shape, just as with buildings on earth: you can have a circular building or a square building, but the 2D shape is not terribly important functionally.
@MattЭллен So Mitch accepts arbitrary things from strangers. I see.
@MattЭллен It's all mine. I've hidden my production and retail services from each other in multiple layers so much that I have my people buying from other of my people. So you're all just playing with my money.
Oh... um... I think I've said too much.
@Mitch You may have 0.9.
@Cerberus only arbitrarily.
19:36
@Cerberus no, the ring shape is pretty well justified (in sci-fi). you spin the thing and so you get artificial gravity on the inside part of the ring.
In real life, that is way too much material for building (taking up into space) that's why the ISS is just a bunch of pods linked together by long thin trusses.
Hmmmm good thinking!
I mean, I've heard that reason mentioned, but I had forgotten about it.
I suppose if you rotate a differently shaped object, you don't get the same gravity throughout the structure?
(You would rotate any structure around its centre of gravity, obviously.)
the 'death star' shape (like a planet) is just a waste of material (and no gravity om the filled in interior and also impossible to withstand the weight of itself at that size). The dyson sphere is just a vacuum cleaner.
@Cerberus If it is big enough it is its own gravitatioal source (on the surface)
a rotating thing does not give you real gravity, but ends up good enough, you're just thrown against the inside wall (like a carnival ride).
@Cerberus Wait...is that you in the window?
@Cerberus He's awesome! I'm going to vote for him in 2014
@Mitch What if you don't need the gravity except in living quarters?
@Mitch Yes.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 claps hands Yay!
He is both graceful and intellectual.
were they discussing the latest video, where he's threatening to murder someone?
19:46
Yes, but I only read the headline.
I consider that just a lower-class expression that means little.
yeah I don't think he was serious. But he does sound like he's a psycho 6-year-old.
Can't something be done about him? I'd prefer not to be barraged with more headlines.
Is it barraged with or by?
Hey, I've installed a Windows/Office patch! Aren't you proud?
Help the Internet Archive repair the damage of this morning's fire! arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/…
someone set fire to the internet?
19:54
It was probably an accident, and it was the Internet Archive, which is not the entire Internet.
I've made a small donation.
20:19
I don't believe in accidents. It's all a conspiracy, at the highest echelons of power!
hmmm. apparently "in the highest echelons" is more common
posted on November 07, 2013 by sgdi

A man with the face of a goose Was trying his best to look spruce He’d combed back his quiff But his beak was so stiff He looked all uptight and not loose

 
1 hour later…
21:43
@Cerberus What? What about desk work? Lots of light industrial is helped by gravity. some things are helped by lack of gravity but not most.
@Cerberus now there's a map you've not seen before
I've seen it before.
where were you at the time?
I'm lying. I've never seen it before, but I just can't let you get away with making a bald presumption like that.
I've got a full head of hair, I'll have you know
Also, you're not Cerberus
21:50
'struth, strawberry blond, I'm told.
Although I don't believe it.
So you're in with the Tories?
I don't know British geography.
yeah, it looks that way
I think I'm on the crux of Tories, Horses and Crazy Accents
I like that Essex is just Essex
Better than Swindon.
OK. I hit my quota so ima play with the boys before I start trying to catch up.
Again.
CU
Ima try and write something
21:57
I'm still about 1700 words behind you. You better start running, boy.
;-)
cracks knuckles
stares intently at the screen
do it
Do it
Dooooo it
later
I mean, "I'll see you later" not "do it later"
bai
22:38
Well, that's 58 hours this week, and it isn’t even Friday yet.
At least Judy Garland escaped.
There’s only 5–6 problems with this situation.
One of which is that other students are not so forbidden, just little Skylar.
One wonders what the purse contained.
Bottle rockets? Energy drinks?
Is it a desgner brand? maybe they were worried it would be stolen
Maybe he was taking it everywhere, which is not allowed.
Oops.
Gotcha.
I mean, beep beep boop boop.
lol
silly robot
22:53
Is she acting up again?
thumps robot
pretending it can think like a human
My little son is in the bathroom shouting "I want to be naked!"
in a really funny voice.
And giggling, I think because it is echoing.
Skylar had a little purse, little purse, little purse, and everywhere that Skylar went the purse was sure to go. It followed him to school one day, school one day, school one day, it followed him to school one day which was against the rules.
22:54
@KitFox hehe
"I love this sea horse. And I love my mommy! And I LOVE TOOTING!" hysterical giggles
Kids are awesome.
And distracting.
It's funny because he told me last night that he loves Daddy better than me.
(Daddy's giving him a bath.)
Kids are like that. He wasn't trying to hurt my feelings.
He just wanted Daddy right then.
So it's funny that he's thinking about how much he loves Mommy right now.

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