December 2009
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People say things like, "This is funny as hell". I know i may be taking it too serious but hell isnt very funny, but i just want to know how did people come up with these kind of phrases?
i gotcha…it’s like the saying "sick as a dog"- this person has NEVER owned a sick cat…
or "it’s always in the last place you look"- well…ugh…i guess it would be because who keeps looking after they find it?
or – "she eats like a bird"…birds eat about 5 times their weight everyday…soooooo…ummmm
my favorite is…when a kid acts up and mom or dad asks- "do you want a whippin’?"…i’m waiting for a kid to hollar back- "sure beat the hell out of me- i want it."
p.s. just how cold IS a witches tit?
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 4 comments.
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I’m a bit confused about what order words should appear in when they have nigori marks. For example, would ??? come before ???
The order is arranged by Japanese alphabet order and ??(daku on – has 2 dots) come before ??(daku ten – has small circle). For example: ???hara)???(bara)???(para). Bara comes right after hara and para comes right after bara. So ??? should come away ahead of ??.
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Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 3 comments.
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I know that in new-age gnosticism the gnostics view God as all other religions do. Though, there are different branches…
Can someone tell me which belief system regards the god of the world as imperfect?
Those gnostics that believe this are probably in the majority. The Essenes, Mandeans, Sethians and to an extent the New Cathar church, among others. Which is not that new and go by the Good Christians believe this. As an ancient Christian, we agree. The Christ Spirit revealed that his father was not our Father and we knew not his Father nor his God. He stated that we do the will of our Father the Devil. This should speak for itself.
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 4 comments.
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It is the beginning of the sharing of genetic material between individuals … with sexual reproduction being the far more advanced version of this process.
The advantage is that there is a new source of genetic material, which speeds up the bacteria’s ability to adapt to changing environments, spread into new environments, deal with pathogens (like viruses, toxins), etc. Without this new source of genetic material, the only source of genetic material is random mutation.
To put it another way … an essential part of evolution by natural selection is *variation*. Bacterial conjugation provides a second source of variation besides mutation.
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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The Theorem says… if a polynomial f(x) of degree n>1 has real coefficients and if z=a + bi with b not= 0 is a complex zero of f(x), then the conjugate of z=a-bi is also a zero of f(x)
You will find it easy to first prove this
LEMMA. If f(x) has real coefficients and if A is a complex number, then
conj(f(A)) = f(conj(A)).
Proof. Let f(x) = a_nx^n + a_(n-1)x^(n-1) + … + a_1x + a_0, where the a’s are real.
Now f(A) = a_nA^n + … + a_1A + a_0, and
conj(f(A)) = conj(a_nA^n) + … + conj(a_1A) + conj (a_0) =
a_n*conj(A^n) + … + a_1*conj(A) + a_0 =
a_n*(conj(A)^n) + … + a_1*conj(A) + a_0 = f(conj(A)).
Now back to your theorem. Let A = a + bi, and suppose A is a root of f(x). Then f(A) = 0. By the lemma, conj(f(A)) = conj(0) = 0, so f(conj(A)) = conj(f(A)) = 0.
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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How big of a vocabulary is needed to understand textbook reading?
this is for extra credit for a class that I am taking. The instructor told us the percentages of 50k, 200, 2500 words to understand a textbook page and the 13 words are for us to find.
13 of the most commonly used words:
1. Why
2. How
3. By
4. All
5. Will
6. It’s
7. Tell
8. Sleep
9. Let
10. Up
11. Use
12. Put
13. Say
I’m not sure about understanding 25% of the text… but these would certainly help!
Hope this helps 
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 3 comments.
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is there a present perfect subjunctive tense in English as well as Spanish, or is it only Spanish?
only en espanol… have you noticed that our language is more difficult to learn than the English?? that’s what I think … Chao
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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Try this http://www.dreammoods.com/
Not sure if that’s what you want, and you’ll never be able to get them fully understood, cause 1 thing can have many meanings.
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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I am trying to find support to win a weird argument. I’m looking for any kind of study that shows how many different words are used in a piece of literature.
I really don’t know, and have no desire to count, but that’s the type of thing people graduate college on. Go down to your local University’s Library, and I guarantee some English Major did a last minute thesis. Just check through the abstracts, and you should be able to find that pretty quickly.
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 6 comments.
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when dutch settlers came to south africa, they thought God gave them the right to overpower blacks, indians and asians etc.. what religion did these dutch follow? how else did it help lead up to apartheid?
The dutch settlers had absolutely nothing to do with apartheid. The dutch never thought that they had the right to overpower the blacks, Indians, Asians etc. They were trading people who set up a half way stop in SA. In the early days there were not many black people in SA. They migrated south as the dutch went north. The British arrived and the first wars were between the Dutch and the British. Also the French came and the Portuguese. So you can not put the blame of apartheid on the early settles. Remember they were there in the 1600’s and apartheid only came in around 1950’s onwards (Not sure of the exact date.) That is more than 300 years!!
Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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