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A cougar is an older woman, usually in the midst of a mid-life crisis, that dates younger men to feel better about her crows feet and saggy tits. Once thought to be on the endangered species list, the cougar has bounced back from it's grim demise mainly due to today's advanced medical technology such as botox and vaginoplasty.
24 year old male: "That chick is way hot but when she laughs, she totally sounds like she smokes a carton a day"
Friend: "Yeah man, that's a cougar, can't you tell by her stretchmarks?"
Friend: "Yeah man, that's a cougar, can't you tell by her stretchmarks?"
von SmittenxKitten 8. November 2010
An older whore...erm, woman whom preys on the souls of younger men. Cougars usually consist of women between the ages of 32 and 45 who are usually found lurking around in the suburbs or down the street from your house getting ready for bed while you watch with a pair of binoculars or a telascope if you are a pirate.
DAYUM! That cougar was totally checking me out!
von IceCreamManFromHell 4. August 2010
a lady person at least 20 years of age (as of July), who pursues or has been with a boy person at least two years younger than her.
Not to be confused with a cradle-robber or pedo.
Not to be confused with a cradle-robber or pedo.
"Did you see that lady holding hands with that teenager? Whatta cougar.
von iknowacougar 28. Februar 2010
Older lady who hits on and or dates noticeably younger men.
My theory on cougars at clubs "On fridays they are released from the care home so that they can feast on the flesh of the young and stay alive for another few years"
von KyeRae 29. Juli 2009
An aging barfly.
MILF night? Nah, let's hunt cougar.
von gridiron62 2. November 2008
A woman who is 35+, sexually cunning, that prefers to hunt rather than be hunted.
There seems to be a lot of Cougars stalking prey at the beach today.
von Cougar bait 11. Februar 2006
(ˈkü-gər) A middle-aged lady (age 35-60) who hasn't yet met her match. She is secretly on the prowl for someone to unleash her sexual potential upon. She may be single or married; kids, grandkids, or no kids; but she believes that a younger male (25 or younger) can give her a good run for her money. Cougars usually have husbands who are either pregnant-looking, lazy, or abusive. They hunt for someone who can make them feel young and sexy again. Cougars are often white women, and their prey is often young muscular black men. They tend to believe that black men are more "endowed" than their white counterparts. Cougars love for their prey to be mature socially and physically. - See also: MILF
Cougar #1: "Oh, check out THAT sexy black hunk!"
Cougar #2: "Yeah girl, I would RAVEGE him!!"
Cougar #2: "Yeah girl, I would RAVEGE him!!"
von KamakazePhil 12. Februar 2011


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Breaking Bad #511: "Confessions"
Before we get to the episode, some of this week's commentary: Anna Gunn, the terrific actor who plays Skyler White on Breaking Bad, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times offering her perspective on the phenomenon known as "Skyler hate" (which we discussed a little in the comments here). Gunn's take is measured and convincing, though it may give too much credit to the emotional depth of the haters, who I am convinced are mainly misogynistic creeps with an inability or unwillingness to distinguish between fictional characters on TV dramas and the real-life people who create them. I'm not sure why anyone that shallow would bother with a show like Breaking Bad -- aren't there cheaper thrills out there? -- but Emily Nussbaum has observed that such "Bad Fans," who aren't rising to the moral challenges of the series, are represented within the show by the character of Todd ("a sociopath who took shooting a kid to be just another kick-ass element in his drug-world adventure"). I think last night's episode was a major confirmation of that theory, but we'll get to that in a moment.
I also agree with critic Maureen Ryan that Skyler is (or was, for the first few seasons) not as well-developed a character as she could have been. Still, the fact that Skyler was a wet blanket in the first couple seasons of the show is not something I hold against her or the writers. She was pregnant with a surprise late-in-life baby and had a special-needs teenager and a husband who is a decade older than her and barely making ends meet. Then she finds out he has late-stage cancer and hasn't bothered to tell her. Then he starts shutting her out and lying to her. And it gets worse from there. I often wished there was a little more flesh on Skyler, but I had no problem identifying with her anxiety and resentment and fear.
I'm not sure Ryan is correct in saying that "Skyler may well be the hero" or that Breaking Bad has, belatedly, "quietly inserted a heroine's journey -- or a believably nuanced woman with heroic qualities -- into an anti-hero drama." But that brings us, again, to last night's episode...
I had just read Nussbaum's tweets about Todd as "Bad Fan" when the episode began with...Todd, impressing his contract-killer friends with the tale of the Heisenberg train heist. And leaving out what is for most viewers the most memorable part of that whole caper -- the cold-blooded murder of the little boy, committed by Todd himself. Eric Thurm (of the Onion's AV Club), responding to Nussbaum, suggested that Jesse was the "Good Fan," who "finds it all repulsive and wants out/to be clean." And Todd made me realize that even in his more carefree days, Jesse never dined out on the stories of his escapades with Walt. He had a swagger at times, but he was never insensitive to the awful things he had seen and participated in, especially when children were endangered. We didn't see any more of Todd last night, but we did see an ominous spider catching Jesse's eye. And I have to assume that Todd's well-established sociopathic streak is going to be a factor in these final episodes.
As for Skyler-as-heroine, I'd say Skyler is fully Walt's accomplice now, joining in his delusional fantasy of keeping the money somehow, and willing to sell out her brother-in-law to make that happen. My questions about Walt's ingenious "confession" strategy: Why would Hank have pushed so hard to keep the DEA on Heisenberg's tail if he was directing that criminal enterprise all along? And, if Hank is a kingpin, where is his fortune?
The poisoning of Brock made a return after all, and I'm glad, but not completely satisfied. I don't buy Huell as a master of sleight-of-hand pickpocketing, as he would have to be to have taken the ricin cigarette from Jesse back in season 4. He's not exactly built for dexterity. And it's an awful lot of information for Jesse to put together in a few seconds: "My dope is gone...Huell must have made the switch...That means he also took the ricin cigarette which I thought I'd lost in my apartment after Walt found it in my Roomba, which means Walt must have planted it there to distract me from figuring out that he did indeed poison Brock." And if Walt really did somehow get to Brock -- found his class schedule and slipped him a poisoned juicebox or whatever -- it's strange for the show to leave that shrouded in mystery, when we've seen every step of his other evil schemes. We watched him making and wiring and setting and re-setting the bomb that killed Gus, but when he was enacting a complicated plan to poison Brock, we never saw it? Wouldn't that have had a pretty profound impact on how we viewed the character?
Still, we're there now, and Jesse's breaking point is pretty apocalyptic. Or so it seems. Was it Jesse who destroyed the Whites' house, leaving it in the state we got a glimpse of in #509? (I actually rewatched that opening scene, and the low lighting makes it hard to say whether we're looking at the aftermath of a major fire.) Also, a sure sign of Jesse's having broken bad: he was finally on the giving end of a beatdown, after having received so many. Now he is the one who punches.
Was it meaningful that baby Holly was not glimpsed and barely mentioned in this episode? Or just typical Breaking Bad neglect of what caring for an infant actually involves? In the restaurant scene, Skyler said something like "What about Walt Jr.?" and Marie's answer was something like, "Walt Jr. and Holly should be living with us." Is it significant that only Marie thought to mention the most vulnerable White of all? When Jesse started prepping the house for a conflagration, I found myself thinking, "Oh God, is Holly in there?" Then I realized, no, she's probably not home alone -- even though the show has never before acknowledged that leaving an infant home alone while both parents go to work is not a thing that people do.
Speaking of the restaurant scene: last week, when Hank and Skyler met in that diner, I was remarking to my husband on the terrible table service people always get in restaurants on TV. That whole time they sat there, nobody came over to take their order? Nobody even checked on them? No wonder tense TV meetings always take place in dining establishments. The privacy is unparalleled. So, it was gratifying to see a depiction of what it would actually be like to stage an awkward confrontation in a restaurant that employs people whose job it is to hover and try to get you to buy things.
What do you have to say about "Confessions"?
Update: Check out Alan Sepinwall's analysis, especially good on the subject of Jesse's inferences about Brock and how the show has (and hasn't) set them up.
About the Author
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Also worth reading: Tara Ariano (who knows from overinvested TV fans on the internet) at Previously.TV, on how Anna Gunn's op-ed was "for sure the classiest meal anyone ever served up to their trolls," and on her view (which I share) that "the people who create content for TV should focus on their work and assiduously ignore what fans have to say about it online."
I am not a fan of Skyler as a character on the show. Not because of how she is portrayed; I think Gunn is a terrific actress. Nor because of any misogyny. I think part of the reaction is due to a frustrating reaction to her behaviour. For example, the melodramatic walking into the pool as some kind of quasi-suicidal act and done in public no less!!! This is hardly the behaviour of a strong woman. The only time she exhibits mettle and strength was when she met with Hank and made the choice that she had, in fact, already made some time ago. She may not like who she has become, and that is indeed a tragedy but it is a consequence of her own choices. I thought that the scene last night when she was in the office and Walt came in spoke volumes. The sooner she comes to the realization of who she has become - the more we can sympathize with (and not judge) her.
Let's remember though that is is just a show and the characters are just that. There needn't be this personal attack on Gunn as an actress. Her character is what people love to hate.
George, your comment about Skylar's failing to be a strong woman jumps out in light of the explosion in discussions last week oriented around critiquing the phenomenon of the SFC (strong female character). Might be interesting to look at some of those (starting with the article that started the whole convo: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters ).
Interesting article. Gender and sex is such a complicated weave. Heroism is also not that easy to define. Nassim Taleb once said, "The only definition of an alpha male; if you try to be an alpha male you will never be one."
I think that goes for women too. I liked her ideas. The only analogy to this whole "strong woman" phenomenon, I can find is in the world of gaming. My daughter is a teenager and into gaming (Borderlands 2, Skyrim, Fallout, etc.). Interestingly, in early games they only came out with male leads. The producers found that young boys would not play a game where they had to play as the female lead (I think that Tomb Raider was an exception). Yet, girls would play as males. Boys vastly outnumber girls as far as gaming so it was a market decision. But in recent games, players have the options of selecting female characters to play and there is roughly the equivalent as far as ratios that the author of the article you posted suggests.
I agree that not showing how Walt poisoned Brock was a bit of a cheat, although you can see why the writers avoided it. By withholding that information, they were able to stage the big dramatic reveal with the lily of the valley plant at the end of Season Four. The show is always doing this with characters, most recently poor Hank realized that Walt had covered his medical treatment. This time the audience was left in the dark. I'm basically OK with this, although I'm more OK with the idea of Huell as a good pickpocket. I actually think it's kind of awesome, and am willing to suspend disbelief just to see more of that actor in action.
With respect to the Skyler issue, I am both more defensive of her in one regard than most commenters, but less defensive in another.
I'm less defensive about her affair with Ted. Maybe it is something deeply primal for a male, but I would have forgiven her anything more so than that - certainly I would've not blamed her morally leaving the marriage and sending Walt to jail. But an affair, even if motivated by the desire to drive Walt out of her life, seems too much a humiliation of him as opposed to a purely defensive measure.
Conversely, I don't view her recent actions as making her a true partner in crime. Perhaps because I'm an attorney, but my analysis of her situation is that however unwilling she was to lead a life of crime, and however trapped she justifiably felt, her actions now would leave her subject to jail time as a money-laundering co-conspirator if Walt becomes subject to prosecution. Thus, I think she is now solely trying to survive, rather than trying to actually align herself with Walt affirmatively. I don't think her current alliance with him is driven by affection, solely by survival. I think she has correctly analyzed that there is no way her life can survive if he goes down.
By sheer happenstance, an example of what I'm referring to is portrayed dramatically in Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen's latest, which is out in theaters now. Except that the character in Blue Jasmine loses everything, where Skyler would likely be prosecuted. I don't think she has any choice at this juncture except to follow along with whatever course of action would preserve Walt from prosecution. Her own survival depends on it
Cheer for the many gifts of Bryan Cranston.
He definitely has drugs figured out.

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The 7 Worst Fictional Towns In America
#5. Hill Valley (The Back to the Future Trilogy)
Local Government:
Talk about a lack of initiative! After the clock tower was struck by lightning in the '50s, the local government never bothered to repair the town's most conspicuous plot device, er, landmark.
The attempted murder of Doc Brown by a gang of Libyan terrorists probably puts Hill Valley' rate of terror-related crime above that of any other small town in America. And if you think small towns react rationally to terrorism, we would like to direct your attention to the empty ammunition racks at the Pikeville, KY WalMart any day after the terror alert level jumps from yellow to orange.
Also of note, a band of Libyan terrorists has plutonium, which we're pretty sure is bad news no matter where you live.
Crime and Punishment:We have to disregard Biff's futuristic casino-fueled dystopia, because by the end of the trilogy, it seems like Marty and Doc had pretty much prevented it from ever happening. However, even in the '50s, Biff was getting away with murder. Well, technically he was getting away with attempted vehicular homicide and aggravated sexual assault. First, he attempts to run Marty down with his car. When that fails, Biff tries to rape Marty's mother in the back of her car on prom night. Not only is Biff never prosecuted for either of these heinous acts, but George McFly goes so far as to hire Biff to do work around the house later in life, apparently adhering to the age-old rule of thumb: keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, give the guy who tried to rape your wife in high school a job that requires he have a key to your house.
#4. Springfield (The Simpsons)
Public Health:
It used to be that the horrendous Dr. Nick Riviera was the bad doctor and the giggly Dr. Hibbert was the town's resident healer. However, like all Simpson's characters, Hibbert has recently become a goofy, barely coherent caricature of himself. Whereas he used to chuckle at inappropriate times while still getting his work done, laughing is pretty much all he's been doing lately. Such lapses in focus can't be good for a community that lives in the shadow of a twin stack nuclear reactor. To see a symptom of the poor state of health in the town, one must only look at the horrific outbreak of jaundice that seems to have seized the uniformly yellow skinned citizenry.
While they can be a lot of fun to look in on, it doesn't seem like Springfield's citizens have a hell of a lot to watch on TV. By all indications, the only shows on the tube are a mouse killing and torturing a cat (which is apparently hilarious to the populace), a horrible talk show starring a children's clown and a baseball team that tends to suck. Oh, there's also Channel Ocho, but c'mon.
Getting Older:
We're not just talking about the terrible way that Grandpa Simpson is treated. Getting older seems to get pretty bad pretty fast around Springfield. In most towns, it takes until at least your 14th or 15th year to start feeling like your hometown has lost its magic. For Springfield, it only took nine seasons.


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Hi everyone, I'm trying to solve a variation of the subset sum problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem) in which all the integers that I'm using are strictly positive and (most importantly) I know in advance the number of integers that make up the sum. Does anyone know if there is any solution that takes advantage of the second fact? For example, for the set {7,2,5,1} and target sum = 7, both {7} and {2,5} are solutions but if I already know that my solution needs to use only 2 integers, then only {2,5} is a valid solution. Thanks in advance!
Garey and Johnson, page 223: given a finite set $A$ and a positive integer $s(a)$ for each $a$ in $A$, the question, is there a subset $A'$ of $A$ such that $$\sum_{a\in A'}s(a)=\sum_{a\in A-A'}s(a)$$ is NP-complete. It remains NP-complete even if we require $\\#(A')=\\#(A)/2$.
Of course, if you know that the number of integers making up the sum is small, e.g., 2, then the number of possible sets of that size is polynomial in the size of that problem, and just looking at all the subsets of that size is a polynomial time algorithm. The result above suggests that if the number of integers making up the sum is proportional to the total number of integers, so there are exponentially many subsets to try, then NP-completeness comes in.


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I need to do some panoramas and VTs and I've gotten a lot of conflicting info about lenses and
I was looking at the Tokina 11-71mm but then read something about lens hood problems on the 5D. Is that a 5D specific problem or a general problem?
Which Nodal Ninja would be most suitable?


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April 7, 2014
DENTON, Texas– Several North Texas student-athletes and a Mean Green staff member were recognized at the University Honor's Day last Friday.
Senior volleyball player Courtney Windham was named the outstanding female athlete award winner, while Zach Orr was named the outstanding male varsity athlete award recipient. This award is given to a senior athlete who excels on and off the field.
Windham, a communication studies major with a minor in social science, served as president of Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (S.A.A.C.) and received the 2013-14 C-USA Fall Spirit of Service award. The senior was named to two regular season all-tournament teams and finished the year hitting .313 and averaging 1.22 blocks per set.
Orr was named to the 2013 Conference USA Football All-Academic team and the Capital One Academic All-District VII squad after posting a 3.41 GPA in kinesiology. The senior linebacker was a first-team All-CUSA pick as he led North Texas in tackles for the third straight season with 114.
Six student-athletes were named to the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. This award section honors students who demonstrate collegiate leadership through the balance of both academic excellence and extracurricular involvement.
Franziska Sprinkmeyer, Kelsey Hodges, Allison Guderian, Haley Riley, Kylee Kittrell and Sarida Muslow all received this honor. Sprinkmeyer is a junior on the tennis team, while Hodges, Guderian and Riley are all soccer players. Kittrell is sophomore track athlete, and Muslow is a senior on the swimming and diving team.
Delia Covo, a 2013 graduate and former swimmer, was recognized after being appointed to a teaching position in San Antonio as part of the Teach for America program.
For more than half a century—since 1950—the University of North Texas has observed the tradition of coming together each academic year to honor our most accomplished and distinguished students, faculty, and staff. Honors Day is an important event in the life of the institution.


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6 Reasons Assholes Are Healthier (According to Science)
#3. Anger/Wrath Can be Good For Your Blood Pressure
Everyone deals with angry assholes in their life, whether it's a boss with rage issues, an angry spouse or an angry Internet commenter whipped into a caps locked fury because some Internet writer accidentally transposed some numbers when discussing the episode of Boy Meets World where Topanga and Cory finally bone (it's episode 67, by the way).
This man had a lot of restraint
When confronted with a rage-a-holic our most common response is to tell them to chill out. We may even joke about how their blood pressure will get out of control, or that they'll have a heart attack if they don't calm down. But science says we may be wrong about that. In fact, in the right situations, rage could actually help your blood pressure and general well-being.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon found that while anger may not be better than sitting in perfectly calm silence, in stressful situations, it was a much better alternative than our other tendency in those circumstances: fear.
As we hinted at with the cursing thing above, anger is most often a result of triggering the primal "fight or flight" response, which we developed for survival situations but that we tap into basically whenever we're confronted, frustrated or pissed off.
"A parsec is a gauge of length, not speed! I'll kill you!"
So when we get into some screaming match with the jerkoff in the next cubicle, some of us rage, others back down and fret about it for the rest of the day. Studies show choosing anger provided more positive effects on both blood pressure and mental health than responding in fear, which was shown to only be effective at increasing pants shitting and ass beatings.
To test how people react and their stress levels, researchers used the most emotionally reactive subject known to man: math. Participants were told to count backwards by seven from 9,095 and to count backwards by 13 from 6,233, an experiment that kind of pisses us off just hearing about it.
To make it even harder, the experimenter pointed out the participants mistakes and harassed them to make them go faster. Those who responded to the experimenter with angry facial reactions had lower stress than those who responded fearfully. Those who rose from their seats and beat the experimenter into unconsciousness were most likely met with raucous applause and a steady flow of gratitude sex, although no data is available to support that assumption.
Another study found that people who responded to the September 11th attacks with anger were more optimistic months down the road than people who responded with fear. Anger gives feelings of certainty and control and optimistic perceptions of risk instead of causing you to retreat to your remote cabin with a 10 year supply of window plastic and duct tape.
So even if you think Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" is a stupid song (which it totally is) it was apparently a healthier reaction than freaking out and hiding in the basement.
#2. Men Who Marry Much Younger Women--or Multiple Women--Live Longer
At Cracked we've already mentioned how getting married makes you live longer. You may imagine that people most similarly matched would get the most benefit. Happy couples with the same interests, expectations and around the same age would do better than people who basically live on different planets. Certainly they'd do better than those creepy old men who divorce their loyal wives and marry teenage supermodels, right?
According to research, men who marry much younger women live longer than men who marry a woman the same age, and a man who marries an older woman might as well drop dead at the altar. Men marrying a woman 15-17 years his junior have their chances of dying a premature death cut by one fifth, and if their spouse is seven to nine years younger they still have 11 percent less chance of death. The same doesn't hold true for men who marry an older woman. Unsurprisingly, they actually have a higher likelihood of dying early.
So how does marrying young help a man live longer? Scientists don't have an explanation, but suggest the correlation might run the other way--only the healthiest, most successful men will attract younger mates.
Oh, and while they're at it, they might want to pick up more than one. In cultures where polygamy is still allowed, guys who marry multiple women live 12 percent longer than monogamous men, even when you factor out those other factors (like socioeconomic status, etc). Again they're not sure why. It may have to do with the fact that they tend to father children until a later age, which keeps them active. Or, you know, it could also have something to do with the eight or 10 extra titties they have bobbing around the house.
#1. Type A Personalities Survive Heart Attacks Better, No More Likely to Get Them
Type A personalities, often referred to as "douchebags," are those hard driving, aggressive people who annoy the hell out of just about everyone in their vicinity. While many of us drag ourselves to work from 9-5 to support our life off the clock, type A's are the people who fling themselves out of bed every morning at 5:00 am, ready to pound another day into submission. And god help anyone who gets in their way.
They're also those people who hold up every line because they think they're the exception to every rule.
When confronted by this kind of dickish behavior we are comforted by the knowledge that one day that person will die of a stress induced heart attack and if they don't die, well, that's nothing their pacemaker and your microwave can't fix.
"Stress has only made me more powerful!"
It's not true, though. The sad fact is, Type A personalities are actually no more likely to get heart attacks than the rest of us. A University of Michigan study actually found no link between personality and heart disease. In the group they studied, genetics, not personality, determined how likely someone was to have heart problems.
There is a high risk of an ass beating though.
In fact, not only will a Type A's obnoxious personality not kill him, it might save him if he does have a heart attack. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Type A personalities were 60 percent more likely to survive after a heart attack than laid back people. They're also 80 percent more likely to stand over you while you're having a heart attack and gloat about how maybe if you showed a little more hustle then maybe you wouldn't be getting your ass handed to you by a little artery build up. Probably.
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August 1
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2003
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle
- selected by Nanobug
- 2004
- Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by Carl Jung
- selected by Kalki
This is a translation of the Latin phrase Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present." or sometimes "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2006
- And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh, oh — You were the first one.
Oh, oh — You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
~ The Buggles ~
- proposed by Jeff Q
- 2007
- People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ Ingmar Bergman (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick (born 1 August 1819)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches. ~ Herman Melville
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. ~ Herman Melville
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~ Herman Melville, in The Confidence-Man
- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
|Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?
|~ Herman Melville ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2013
|I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
|~ Herman Melville ~
~ Moby-Dick ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2014
|Nobody had more class than Melville. To do what he did in Moby-Dick, to tell a story and to risk putting so much material into it. If you could weigh a book, I don't know any book that would be more full. It's more full than War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov. It has Saint Elmo's fire, and great whales, and grand arguments between heroes, and secret passions. It risks wandering far, far out into the globe. Melville took on the whole world, saw it all in a vision, and risked everything in prose that sings. You have a sense from the very beginning that Melville had a vision in his mind of what this book was going to look like, and he trusted himself to follow it through all the way.
|~ Ken Kesey ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2015
|Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.
|~ Herman Melville ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2016
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick
- used 14 November 2009, proposed by MosheZadka
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
A man to thrive must keep alive.
- 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 0 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
~ The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
- first song played on MTV, (1 August 1981)
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 3 Jeff Q (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 00:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC) not as memorable as the chorus of the song, which has already been used.
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
- 3 Kalki 23:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
- 1 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Michael Badnarik
- 3 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- 0 Kalki 19:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC) because this is apparently a misattribution, at least in terms of authorship.
1 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I would rank this higher, but I don't believe this actually originates with Badnarik.
- PhR 18:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)NPOV prevents me from commenting on Badnarik. Check http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown right here.
- You seem to assert that this did not originate with Badnarik, which is fairly well evidenced, but you have numerically ranked this high, by our system in which the highest favor is 4, and the lowest is 0. ~ Kalki 19:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't mean to rank the quote at all, Kalki, so I just removed the ranking. Hope it's ok. --PhR 00:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle. ~ Michael Badnarik
- 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
The question is: How bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. I'm quite sure that I will never experience that war - because dissidents are always the first to be eliminated. ~ Michael Badnarik
- 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. ~ Michael Badnarik
- 4 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- 1 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:39, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
|We have got to choose between two results. With these four millions of Negroes, either you must have four millions of disfranchised, disarmed, untaught, landless, thriftless, non-producing, non-consuming, degraded men, or else you must have four millions of land-holding, industrious, arms-bearing, and voting population. Choose between the two! Which will you have?
|~ Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ~
- 4. Anti-slavery quote, explaining the difference between the benefits of free men versus the detriment of slavery. Speaker was born on Agusut 1. Source here. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC).


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SMC one victory away from perfect 30-0 season
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:09 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:09 p.m.
One more for perfection.
NJCAA Division I basketball rankings
Released Tuesday
1. Spartanburg Methodist College (29-0)
2. Coffeyville (Kansas) CC (28-1)
3. NW Florida St. College (25-2)
4. Iowa Western CC (28-2)
5. Hutchinson (Kansas) CC (27-2)
6. Salt Lake (Utah) CC (26-3)
7. East Georgia St. College (27-2)
8. Vincennes (Ind.) U. (27-2)
9. College of Central Florida (27-3)
10. North Idaho College (26-4)
Rest of top 25: Howard College, Northern Oklahoma, Central Arizona, Chipola, Palm Beach St., Chattahoochee Tech, Hagerstown, Motlow St., Kilgore, Pearl River, New Mexico JC, North Platte, Cochise, Barton, Arizona Western
Spartanburg Methodist, No. 1-ranked in NJCAA Division I and the nation's only remaining undefeated college basketball team, can finish a remarkable and unprecedented regular season at 7 tonight in Bridges Arena.
The home crowds have been big — and loud — since the middle of January, when SMC came back from a month-long holiday break to begin the second half of its season. In this final home game, it should be quite a scene.
"It's going to be a party," said SMC sophomore forward Jalen Nesbitt, from Chapman High School. "It's got to be a party."
The Pioneers (29-0) will take on the NCAA Division II Limestone College junior varsity team in the finale. That would appear to be an easy win for SMC, which disposed of the Anderson JV team by 58 points and the Southern Wesleyan JV team by 32.
Limestone could be a little different, however. The varsity Saints are tied for first place in Conference Carolinas.
"You never know with those JV games," SMC head coach Jeff Brookman said. "Teams will occasionally drop down varsity players that maybe haven't gotten as much time. You can't take anybody lightly. We'll be ready."
An undefeated season in junior college is not as unusual as you might think. It happened just last season, when South Plains College of Levelland, Texas, won the national championship, the Texans' second in five years.
But for SMC, a team that made it to the national tournament in Hutchinson, Kan., last season for the first time since 1999, this is big. The Pioneers, even before the Region 10 tournament, have secured a spot in the big JUCO dance.
SMC will enter the region tournament March 7 as the top seed and regardless of the outcome, will then go to the NJCAA tournament as a top-eight seed with a first-round bye in the 24-team, single-elimination event beginning March 18 in Kansas.
"I know we've already locked up a bid at Hutch," Brookman said. "But we want to go into that playing our best basketball. In order to do that, we'll have to play well on Wednesday and then two games in the region tournament."
They haven't all been easy. SMC has had some close ones. A three-game stretch in mid-to-late January had a four-point win at Clinton Junior College, a five-point win at home against Brunswick and a four-point win against USC Salkehatchie.
The Pioneers rallied at home from 15 points behind in the second half Feb. 7 to beat Clinton. Then, on the same day they were named No. 1, they went to overtime at USC Salkehatchie. SMC went to OT again Saturday in a 79-75 victory at home against Denmark Tech.
"You'd love to win every game by 30," Brookman said. "But we've had some close ones, some great tests, and I think that will help us going forward."
SMC has accomplished a 29-0 regular season with a roster made entirely of players from one state, the only top-20 team that can make that statement, and most of the key players are from the Upstate.
Nesbitt and Ronell Crockett (T.L. Hanna in Anderson) are tied for the SMC team lead in scoring at 13.8 points per game. DaQuan Jeffries (Broome) averages 9.8 points per game, while Travis Black (Spartanburg Christian) averages 8.0 points and 4.9 assists. Ben Johnson (Boiling Springs) is the team's sixth-leading scorer and top 3-point shooter (4.4 makes per game).
"We've worked hard," Crockett said. "We're proud of ourselves and our coaches. This school has never done this before and probably will never do it again."
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I live in a British late 1900s semi detached house that I assume would have had floorboards originally. However it seems that these have been replaced by Chipboard. This doesnt seem very sturdy and I was going to replace. What would be the best type of wood to use to replace the old chipboard?
Sub Floor
Sub floor material can depend on what type of floor is going to be installed on top of it, and the joist spacing.
Typically if the joists are 16" on center (OC) or less, you can use 5/8" tongue and groove plywood glued and screwed to the joists. larger joist spacing calls for 3/4" tongue and groove plywood, again glued and screwed to the joists.
If the flooring material of choice is a heavy tile, you'll want to use 3/4" tongue and groove plywood even with 16" OC joists.
Depending on what type of floor covering you've chosen, an underlayment may also be necessary.
If you are planning on installing carpet, no extra materials are required.
If you plan to install hardwood flooring, you can use felt or rosin paper as an underlayment (though not all installers use it).
If you are installing laminate flooring, you should use a foam underlayment.
If you are going to install tile, you'll want to use a concrete board or similar material on top of the sub floor.
If you want to install vinyl or fiberglass sheeting, you should use 1/4" Lauan as an underlayment.


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I went to Walmart and put my car's information (2000 Dodge Neon) into the electronic battery selector, and it told me to purchase a 26R-5N battery (which matches my current battery).
However, what do these numbers mean? From what I gather, the R indicates "reverse", meaning that the terminals are reversed. Some batteries online are listed as 26R with no 5N. Is that significant?


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9 Oct 2012 9:44 AM #1
What can we expect in Ext JS 4.2
Any information will be greatly appreciated
9 Oct 2012 2:55 PM #2
Unfortunately there is no public release date at this time.
10 Oct 2012 8:45 AM #3
not looking for dates but whats gonna come in
I understand providing a date is a huge commitment.
but i am sure that development or support team would know what to expect in the upcoming version
again i would not take it as an official statement or hold sencha in anyway for this answer.
but this will keep us excited and may help us design better keeping the future in context
or you may little bit talk about the roadmap. Supporting IE 6 or whatever that you think your fan base must know
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How would you recommend to proceed to learn css?
Is there a great book, or online tutorial?
How would you recommend to proceed to learn css?
Is there a great book, or online tutorial?
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this is the best repository i know css 101
and some thing that bother most of us is floating
as far as books are concern i love "Eric Meyer" way of doing stuff, but some other worth mentioning books i read
hope that will help you getting startted
These are some online tutorials that might help you a lot:
I like Stylin' with CSS, and SAMS's Teach Yourself HTML & CSS in 24 Hours is also good.
I did take a CSS course, but they taught out of the Lynda books.
I am a big fan of CSS: The Missing Manual. It allows you to either start from the beginning and read through to the end, or open the index and answer specific questions on what you're doing.
The best way to learn anything is to do it. Make some web pages with bad CSS ("Why is my text always falling off the side?!?") and then look up the solutions (I like the W3Schools pages a lot, too). There's nothing like working through some bad CSS to give you confidence in working with CSS.
I also agree with the sketchbook - I keep one at home and one at the office. If you know what you want your page to "look like" it will become much easier to write CSS that matches your layout.
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The Bible says "It is better to give than to receive." I have recently learned that it is also easier to give than to receive. On Sept. 29, I was honored with a benefit to support my fight against breast cancer. Words cannot describe how I felt on this day. Not only did I have the love and support of my husband, kids, family, friends and co-workers, I also had the love and support of our wonderful community.
The committee who made this benefit possible was made up of the kindest, most hard-working and amazing people that I know. In addition to the committee, I would also like to thank everyone who helped to organize this special event. Multiple people and community businesses donated food, gift baskets, door prizes and items for auction. I have seen firsthand that there are no limits to what people will do to help out, especially in our small town.
Seeing all those who gave their time to attend in my honor truly made my day. I am overwhelmed by the love and support shown to me and I hope I will always be the person deserving of this love and support.
My family and I thank each and every person who has touched our lives during this battle against breast cancer. The love and support that the people of Steubenville and surrounding communities have shown has been our strength.
Thank you, and God bless you.
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I understand
I'm related to David, he's my grandad.
translates as
Estoy relacionado con David, él es mi abuelo.
Why is estoy used and not soy?
It seems to me that the relationship is permanent and defining, so I would expect soy to be used.
As Javi mentioned, a better translation is:
When to use
That said: what about inlaws? That relationship is not necessarily permanent. Ask Kim Kardashian.
As comments state, permanence is not always the key to choose between ser and estar.
When combined with the past participle of a verb, "ser" creates a simple passive, "estar" expresses the state.
So e.g.:
This should explain why you need "estoy" in your example.
The explanation is simple. SER is "To be" and when this verb is used we usually are talking about ourselves. The most used form of the phrase you are explaining is "Soy el hijo de David" in which you can see the I am very well specified. ESTAR (also "To be") is mostly used as a verb of staying in, meaning, a continuous action and mostly used for others. Though "Estoy Emparentado con..." is a correct way of saying it, "Soy Pariente de..." is the most widely used. Might be related to the humans egocentric phenomenom and definetly states possession of the other in a way. Philosophically examining it. Now, we usually don't even use it that way either in spanish, we tend to say "David es mi padre" or "Es mi padre" because is more correct to mention the other before us which subconsciously shows humbleness.


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United States Constitution
United States Constitution
Amendment V
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Amendment XIX
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
U.S. Federal - selected statutes
- 42 USC Chapter 21 Civil Rights - Cornell
- 20 USC 1681 (also popular known as Title IX) - Cornell
- Title IX Fast Facts - National Center for Education Statistics
- Defense Department Rescinds Direct Combat Exclusion Rule (women in combat) (2013) - U.S. Department of Defense
- 42 USC Chapter 136, Subchapter III, Violence Against Women Act - Cornell
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 - Cornell
- The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 - EEOC website
- Questions and Answers about Pregnancy Discrimination Act - Code of Federal Reguations via Cornell
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women - Division for the Advancement of Women, U.N.
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women - U.N. Office at Geneva Library
- Human Rights of Women: A Collection of International and Regional Normative Instruments - UNESCO
- United Nations Library


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An Arizona woman was rescued from Black Hawk Lake Thursday afternoon, after the personal watercraft she was operating with her son, overturned and the two were separated from the craft by high winds.
Samantha Welch, 34, of Gilbert, Ariz., was pulled from the lake by staff from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources district office at Lake View.
"We had a call about an unoccupied PWC and that two people were in the lake yelling for help," said Diane Mahn, secretary at the office. "I called 911 and joined Pete (Hildreth) in his vehicle to go to the scene."
Hildreth, district wildlife supervisor, contacted fellow DNR staff Ryan O'Neill, DJ Vogeler and Kacie Partridge who launched a boat to assist.
Welch's son Connor, 12, successfully made it to shore and was looking for help.
A resident was attempting to launch a pontoon but the high winds made it difficult. Hildreth was able to get the boat launched and motor over to Welch, who was pulled from the lake.
Emergency crews arrived within 10 minutes. Welch was taken by relatives to Loring Hospital in Sac City for evaluation.
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January 20, 2013
WHEELING — The case of two Steubenville High School student-athletes charged with rape has many questioning the treatment of athletes inside the classroom and within the community, but longtime......
What a bunch of bull. I can remember players in college who had trouble reading and writing. And they Took basket weaving. And teachers in high school pass them so they can play. Just listen to them talk. Why do you think they have to dumb down offenses so they can play Quarter back.
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Shouldn't the
twoside option produce a wider margin at the binding/spine edge, rather than the other way around?
I'm using
Shouldn't the
I do not think there is anything illogical regarding the standard
Page layout is buried in tradition and history and you can read more about it at the canons of page construction.
Besides Bringhurst which was quoted by Brent in his excellent answer Tschichold also devotes a large portion of his writings in the study of page layouts. As you can see from the image below he is also advocating large outer margins. Another commonly forgotten reason, besides what is thought as good typography, is that you do not want to have a line width greater than 1-1.7 alphabets (for readability), so the size of your paper and the size of your default font also has an effect. The Koma class goes as far as to design margins based on the font size. (European books also tend to favour smaller margins).
Now the exceptions. Modern trend is to have the margins almost equal, plus anything from 3-6mm binding offset and the reason is screen reading. Here is a copy from a book, I like the design with narrower margins (but then it does not use any margin material such as sidenotes). On the other extreme Tufte books and the Tufte-book class uses a wide margin, and brings the design into the margin as Bringhurst suggests. Similarly the
Here is an actual "grid" based on Tschichold's principles,
As John Stuart Mill said "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality". Nobody stops you from experimenting.
There are two separate issues here: one is the layout of the text on the paper, the other is space left over for the binding.
For a long time, books (in the West; I'm not familiar with other regions) have been designed with a larger outer margin than inner. This is generally considered "prettier".
In the world of TeX, we are concerned with this sort of prettiness.
None of this stops you using the
To paraphrase Yoda, "there is no rationalise, only do and be pretty".
To do justice to Ayman's comments, I thought a quote from Bringhurst might add to the debate. Talking about margins, he says:
Bringhurst may well be the Yoda of typographical design, and I suspect my mentioning him here on TeX.SE may become a drinking game...
Light-hearted banter apart, if you haven't read this book, I can heartily recommend it.
Another book with some serious insights is Peter Wilson's "A Few Notes on Book Design" (perhaps the most self-effacing title I've come across!). My thanks to Lars Madsen for reminding me of this.
Another thought: people recognise the need for a place for the thumb, but want to cram lots into a page, so they make the inner margin narrow?
And here's another (short) piece that's just appeared on I Love Typography
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STEUBENVILLE - The family of a Steubenville High School student has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court against the the operator of an Internet blog site claiming their son has been defamed in connection with a rape investigation.
Cody Saltsman and his parents, James and Johna Saltsman, filed the lawsuit through their attorney, Shawn Blake, seeking an injunction to force Alexandria Goddard of Columbus, who runs the blog site prinniefied.com, to remove alleged false and defamatory statements from the blog site. The Saltsmans also are seeking monetary damages in excess of $25,000.
Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale and Malik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville have been charged with rape in connection with a sexual assault in August . Mays also faces a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. A hearing has been scheduled for Thursday in juvenile court to determine if Mays and Richmond will be charged as adults or the case will remain in juvenile court.
The lawsuit claims Goddard created several blogs on her Internet site regarding the sexual assault. The lawsuit also names 15 people as defendants by the fictitious names they created and registered on the blog.
The lawsuit states Goddard has control over her Internet site and can publish or remove any comments posted by registered users. Goddard has knowledge of the registered user's Internet protocol addresses, as well as their e-mail addresses, and can ban their postings, the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit contains postings that Blake claims are false and defamatory to the Saltsmans, including that Cody Saltsman was the "mastermind" and "orchestrator" of the sexual assault and also participated.
One posting from "HEARTSICK" states, "I think if the legal system does not get Cody, someone will take it upon themselves to 'get him.'"
The lawsuit states the false and defamatory statements were published with the intent to harm the Saltsmans' good names and reputations by falsely accusing them of criminal acts.
"Since their postings, the false and defamatory statements published by defendants regarding (the Saltsmans) have remained available to millions of Internet users, many of whom may have made copies of the false and defamatory statements and/or distributed them by electronic mail or other means and/or reposted them to other blogs, Internet forums and message boards, and (the Saltsmans) have no means of removing these false and defamatory statements from the Internet," the lawsuit states.
"The making of such false, defamatory and libelous statements by defendants was so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community," the lawsuit states.
Blake in his lawsuit is seeking an injunction to prevent Goddard and the other as yet unknown defendants from disseminating any false and defamatory statements regarding the Saltsmans. The lawsuit wants Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson, who was assigned the case, to issue an order for defendants to remove the alleged false and defamatory statements regarding the Saltsmans from the Internet.
The lawsuit also wants the court to issue an order forcing the defendants to post a retraction of all alleged false and defamatory statements published on Goddard's blog, and for Goddard and other defendants to write an apology to be published in the newspaper and on local television.
Goddard failed to respond to an e-mail requesting a comment on the lawsuit.
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My text says that Aristarchus (310 BC – ~230 BC) measured the "angle subtended by the Earth-Moon distance at the Sun" ($\theta$ in the figure below) to establish the relative Earth-Moon and Earth-Sun distances.
I understand that he must, in fact have used the Moon-Earth-Sun angle, and then subtracted that from 90° to arrive at $\theta$; but how did he establish the Moon-Earth-Sun angle? The reference points for all three objects is their centers, yet what Aristarchus must have in fact measured was the angle between the Moon and the Sun at the surface of the Earth.
Did Aristarchus take this discrepancy into account in his calculations? If so, how?


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Are you willing to pay as much or more for an ebook as you would for a paperback/hardcover book?
Most paperbacks run $7 - $8 and hardcovers start around twice that. There are lots of ebooks out there costing as much or more than those. Personally I can't see spending that much for a book when the cost to publish an ebook is only a fraction of what a "real" book costs.
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No way. I bought a kindle in January and have yet to put any books on it because I don't feel like $9.00 is worth it for a digital version of a book that I would only read once. I mean, why does it cost as much as a regular book when there is no paper or binding involved in creating it? I think I'll stick with using my Kindle for borrowing library "books."
Guess I'd have to say it depends on the book. I have a hardbound library of around 3,000 books. Have 1/2 that on my Kindle. Love both. Have all of Michener's books in hardcover, will buy all of them in ebook editions when they become available. Cost irrelevant to me.
There is a LONG ongoing debate on the Amazon's Kindle Discussion thread about the merits of both, and why ebooks cost so much in some people's opinion. (Not mine.)
BTW: The huge majority of ebooks that I have were free. Some good reading, some not so good. There's a never-ending supply of free kindle books. The discussion thread I mentioned above usually has a daily thread that lists the links to get the free books. Somewhere between (guessing) 50 & 150 books are referenced.
No. Not because it didn't cost the publisher as much, although that's a valid argument. My reasoning is that I can loan a paperback to everyone I know,and when I am done with it I can exchange it at a used book store for a modest fee for another book, which then also has a loan and exchange value. Or I can donate it if I prefer. It is a very good example of the value of a real object versus the value of a virtual object.
Yes, but only if the writer's cut of the proceeds is increased.
I believe that a minimum point of entry threshold price should be maintained. The problem with the idea that the price should be lower is that reading is actually on the decline, as such it is harder to be a professional writer. Most writers are not financially wealthy, they're working authors.
Nope. I understand that new books are going to cost more, but I refuse to pay more than 75% of discounted paper book price. And obviously, I prefer free ebooks. :)
I never pay full price for a real book except for Stephen King so my (qualified) answer would be yes...looking for the day when ebooks can be sold as Used/Good Condition :-)
I will also add that the nice thing about the E-Book format is that it allows authors (Professional or Amateur) to self-publish works for less money while taking home more of the proceeds.
Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper series to me is a good example of this while working with a small E-Book centric publisher. He also narrated and released his books on Podiobooks.com as a free audiobook before they were even available in print.
It effectively breaks the stranglehold of major publishing houses in many cases.
Simply put, no.
The cost to reproduce an ebook is close to zero and certainly much less than the cost to reproduce a printed book, be it paperback or hardcover. The cost to store ebooks in a warehouse is trivial (in fact, an entire library's worth of ebooks can be stored on a single hard drive) and the cost to deliver ebooks is almost nothing (compared with the cost to deliver physical books).
Also, what is the second hand value of an ebook? (This is actually a serious question.... is there a market for secondhand ebooks? Is it even legal to transfer an ebook to someone else? I honestly haven't considered this and simply do not know.)
I wouldn't mind a discounted ebook price with the purchase of a print book.
As others have said, that is a resounding No.
The book is already typed and edited when on the authors PC, so it isn't even needed for someone else to type the material. The cost is basically nil to produce the book. There isn't much advertising for books, so that isn't anything.
When the cost is almost zero to publish the book, I am not paying $10-$15 at times for a copy that only I am allowed to see. With hard covers, I expect to pay more because they will last. And as someone who used to buy one paper back, and one hard cover, I can say that I am willing to pay for my books. I am not receiving a book, I am not going to pay through the nose.
Plus, with ebooks, the publishers are basically just one big "Top 100 list" of books. The authors send the book in, pays an editor to look at it, and then pays a company for per-click sales. The rest should go directly to the author, and since the copies are no longer limited to the number of printings, there's no excuse.
Oh, and this issue actually comes up quite often for me, especially around the time to buy books for class. The ebooks at my college are sometimes more expensive than the printed books, which I find hilariously infuriating. I am expected to pay, at times, $200 for an ebook that is only good for one semester. An ebook that I can't sell back and is sometimes automatically deleted after the semester ends. I was told it was to prevent people from putting it online (like they wouldn't change it next semester anyways).
Granted not all of them are like that, some are only $40-$50 and you may get to keep those, of course the published book is the same cost or cheaper. Really sort of insulting.
Absolutely not. An eBook gives me some more features, but I lose quite a bit in not having a physical copy. With an inexhaustible supply of public domain and Creative Commons books, I just can't justify spending anywhere near the amount I pay on a physical copy.
I'm betting that self-publication will become more and more prevalent, and I'm doing what I can to promote it, by donating to authors of CC/etc. books that I have enjoyed, Peter Watts in particular. I would donate to Charles Stross for his "Accelerando," but there doesn't appear to be a way to do that.
In the meantime, I'll just keep reading what I can get on my Kindle (I certainly am not above purchasing $0.99 books on Amazon, quality issues aside) and borrowing print copies of 2-3 year old books from my university/local library, as well as purchasing used copies from half.com and local stores, until the eBook market becomes more reasonable.
@baqui63: Apparently you're not familiar with the cost of distributing an e-book then.
Not only do you need servers to distribute content, you need DRM servers, store servers, routers, switches, sans, etc... Then you have to buy room in a Datacenter, etc. You need to develop and maintain the software for distributing and maintaining the DRM unless you go with a 3rd party such as Amazon, where they take a portion of each sale to maintain all of the above...
Then there's the part where e-books are more frequently pirated, so the number of copies sold actually goes down by a significant margin.
While it may be cheaper to sell copies of an E-book, the reproduction and distribution costs are not anywhere near close to zero as you seem to assume.
Or, are you saying authors, editors, and publishers of books shouldn't be paid for their work?
Not a chance.
For new releases, if one does not wish to wait for paperback, it is vastly less expensive to purchase the Ebook. I also love the convenience of not having a pile of books sitting around. I love my Kindle and there were many very reasonable if not free ebooks that I have read that I would not have if they had not been so inexpensive.
@xavoc: The same servers can distrute tens of thousands of books at once, so that cost is shared amongst many. The cost of each individual book, that each user buys, is close to zero. If you sell 50,000 books at ... we'll go big, 6 megs each. That is 300 gigs. You sell each of those books for $5, and that $250,000 more than covers any cost for those books. Sell 500 different books for that much? See where I am going. The cost is low, no matter how much we trump it up. It is not justified to charge the same amount.
As for ebooks being pirated more, and therefore sales being down.. that is the same argument that record producers use and it doesn't work. I don't like pirating any book but I have because I don't pay $80+ for a 250 page fiction that is out of print. This isn't a lost sale to the author, as you are counting. Lost sales =/= sales that never would have happened. The people pirating are like the people who would get the book from the library. So it doesn't effect sales.
This is the conundrum I have with "A Song of Ice and Fire" right now. The Kindle edition is $29.99 for the first four books whereas the mass-market paperback is only $21.03 (currently.)
I'm reading the local library edition right now, but 800 pages is a long book to read in a short amount of time without constantly checking it out.
I think eventually I'll buy the paperback version, so I suppose my short answer to the question is No.
One of the key advantage I can see with ebooks comes with new releases. I hated when a new book of a popular series came out while I was growing up because there were 4 of us who had to wait our turn to read. With an ebook we could have all read at the same time. (Assuming of course we share one account.)
I imagine that since ebooks are still the latest new thing, publishers are keeping the prices inflated. Prices will usually be only as high as the market will bear. Once the novelty has worn off it will be adjusted to be closer to print price. I don't ever see publishers starting an ebook off at a paperbook price. However I do believe that it will only be a matter of time before ebooks are discounted as paperbacks are released.
I have seen a number of ebooks that are now available in large collections. The low cost of distribution is a great way to squeeze every last drop out of a book.
@geredeth: As someone who builds and maintains these systems, $250,000 won't pay for the hardware itself, let alone the necessary software, programmer, and system admins needed to maintain it., monthly server rack space, bandwidth, and author and editor and and and.
Hell a decent SAN is about $250,000. Throw in 10 servers at $9k each, probably $50k for backup, another $250k for firewall/switch/load balancer. This is without rack space, bandwidth, or a DR site. Then software costs of $2000 per server.
Then you have to develop the ereader software, drm, and continually update/improve it. Those users can also redone load the same book repeatedly for life to a device. Not to mention you have to create and maintain an ebolk standard for your software, engineer an updating mechanism to fix typos, etc.
Doing this with halfassed hardware/software gives half-assed reliability and fifth-asses uptime.
I am quite familiar with the cost of running a data center (it's part of my day job).
However, I'm not talking about the aggregate costs but rather the actual cost of replicating and delivering one single copy of one specific ebook vs the cost of replicating, storing until sold, and then delivering one single printed copy of that same book. Are you honestly trying to convince anyone that it costs MORE to make and deliver that one ebook than to make, store and deliver the same printed book?
As for payments to authors, editors and publishers, why should they change? Are you suggesting that this work is somehow more valuable when a book HASN'T been printed on paper?
As for your point about piracy, I'll grant that ebooks are more easily stolen. But if the solution to this problem is to overcharge the people that don't steal books, then they are likely to put themselves out of business (and deservedly so, IMHO). I don't have a solution for this but overcharging isn't it.
@baqui63: As for your point about piracy, I'll grant that ebooks are more easily stolen. But if the solution to this problem is to overcharge the people that don't steal books, then they are likely to put themselves out of business ....
In the print business, editing, layout, font, paper and cover become significant publishing costs. As is the promotion, storage, distribution and inventory management through-out the entire market chain, down to the bookshelf. If a book doesn't sell, copies are returned, credited, remaindered and stored against future demand & sales. It costs a lot.
Popular hard copies get traded, gifted, sold again at yard sales, thrift stores. They take on a life, post sale. Some publishers see that as piracy.
eBooks allow a long tail. No post distribution costs, incremental storage and distribution costs are small. DRMed copies don't get past on or resold.
Piracy is a myth. Market theory says there is a lower optimal price to maximize return and sales.
@xavoc: Okay, let's look broadly. That was $250k for one book. How about a publishing house that has.. oh, 200. If we keep the rate the same, since it will fluctuate more and less for different series.. $50,000,000 for those 200 series.
Also, once you have the hardware you have it. You don't need to keep buying it. While it certainly isn't a "one time cost" it is a cost that is very easily covering itself in the long run. As for building the DRM and the e-reader software... come now. We know that isn't the case. The software is already made, and the DRM is already there. You would just need to enter your info, and run it through the batch processing.
Not saying it isn't expensive, and I have worked with enough servers to know that they are a hefty investment, same with bandwidth when your talking about providing everything in house. However, again, the bulk of that cost is a one time cost every 5 years, max. Once everything is in place, it is all profit.
Absolutely not! Amazon and the publishers are really sticking it to us charging that much.
Not only that we also have to take into account that Amazon can take that ebook from us anytime they want and for any reason (they've done so before). In fact if they shut your Kindle down you also lose all of your ebooks.
It's really no different than the smartphone apps you get from them.
Would I like to pay as much for an ebook as I would for a paper copy? No. Would I like to pay more for an ebook than I do for a paper copy? No. Do I do it anyway? Yup.
I'm less likely to buy an ebook if it's more expensive than the paper copy, and I grumble every time I buy one for $10. But, I can also get free public domain books on my Kindle, or I can get very cheap books at the thrift store or the used bookstore by my work.
This is the one thing about digital distribution that i have yet to understand. Why is it not cheaper than real copies of items. Games, books, movies, all available at the click of a button without a case, shipping, a middle man. Nothing, yet they still want me to pay full price.
It's ridiculous.
@xavoc: "Or, are you saying authors, editors, and publishers of books shouldn't be paid for their work?"
Those costs are going to be the same no matter how it's published. It's the rest of publishing chain where your costs are going to diverge. Hell, just look at the costs involved with just the involved with the selling of a book. How much do you think it costs to lease a store in a mall? Times how many stores? How many servers does it take to distribute every ebook in existence? A couple?
That is just one area where your argument falls to pieces. While publishing an ebook is not "next to nothing", it is when compared to publishing physical books.
If I'm downloading something, book, game, whatever, I expect to pay less for it than I would for a physical copy.
No, I won't. The biggest issue, as noted above in not so many words, is the loss of the Right of First Sale. When you buy a physical book you keep the Right of First Sale. This means you can resell the book, loan the book, or give the book away as you see fit.
The ebook is a license for one person to read it. None of those rights apply. In addition to the decreased costs (noted above) there are fewer rights available with ebooks. So I should be paying less. Far less.
@xavoc: I have a file with 2400 books in it. It is 558mb. These books are approx. 300-1,100 pages each with the majority being about 500 pgs. That really screws with your theory about space. I can have a free website with 2gb of server space. Again, this is free. This would hold about 8,400 books.
Nobody has mentioned how there is no first edition or signed value to a ebook, have they? Also, for this cost argument, yes, after you have the hardware setup, it does cost next to nothing per book for an ebook vs hardcopy. Anybody arguing otherwise is trying to convince themselves. Hell, I could setup my home pc to be a server for hundreds and never touch the specs. Amazon already has the servers there, they just have to load the software and go.
"Popular hard copies get traded, gifted, sold again at yard sales, thrift stores. They take on a life, post sale. Some publishers see that as piracy." This mindset suggests that libraries are illegal. The protection of intellectual property rights is a valid concern, but there needs to be a re-examination of fair use in regards to IP. It's very difficult to share a family photograph or a film of a sports event without violating IP, all those ads on the bleachers are IP. And the logos all over sports cars and their drivers! The TV show or painting in the background at your kid's birthday is a violation if you post that photo on Facebook. So is singing Happy Birthday to her if her party is at a restaurant or park or if you post the video to YouTube(the song is copyrighted). The prevalence of visual and voice recording and electronic sharing of personal experiences while the commercial world hovers in the background has made the strict enforcement of IP impossible.
Nope because there is very little manufacturing cost, not zero due to server and front end costs but very low, and because sharing the book is much harder. I can lend a paperback to anyone I want. Also our library system actually checks out ebooks for free.
@pyxientx: That is because you don't know anything about hardware for content distribution systems. What works for on person will not support 10,000+...
@moondrake & @basqui63: "This mindset suggests that libraries are illegal. The protection of intellectual property rights is a valid concern, but there needs to be a re-examination of fair use in regards to IP."
Which was the exact point I tried squeezing into the 1000 character limit. Publishers are now looking at libraries and concocting complicated license programs to control eBook distribution, while ignoring the historical benefits. Libraries help make people aware of books, authors, topics. They help build sales, not steal sales.
DRM is a separate topic that @xavoc claims adds a huge cost to books. I call B.S. on that claim, but it is not the point I care to argue.
The benefit of eBook sales is that storage, archiving and distribution costs approach $0 as sales increase. Thus, the marginal cost really represents the writing and publishing investments.
Mini-Max theory shows that a lower price increases sales, till the cost represents fair value. It is just optimization.
Ugh this topic angers me. Ebooks should cost less than physical copies. Especially since you don't actually own an ebook, you're merely licensing it. Give me a break. If I buy a physical copy I can resell it. If I buy an ebook.... its not even mine to resell.
[edit: Keep it legal.] I would GLADLY pay money for ebooks if they were half the price of paperbacks.
"[edit: Keep it legal.] I would GLADLY..."
Not buying/licensing the book at all and finding other ways to read it is my solution.
Oh and something else that makes me VERY VERY angry Harper Collin's absolutely moronic Library Ebook rules (26 checkout limit): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Je90XRRrruM
Oh and Random House decided to TRIPLE the cost of ebooks for libraries: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/05/random-house-drastically-raises-the-price-of-e-books-for-librari/


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