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anyone can help me? I am not sure if there is an answer in the question. - dominic

Thank you all. I got it now. I understand the descrpition of the ratio like this. - dominic

That's freaky V! - Fee501st

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"Firstly, a group of five characters representing specific cultural icons (Mount Fuji, Tokyo Tower, Statue of Liberty, Silhouette of Japan and Statue of Moyai) have been vigorously opposed because they give the appearance of setting a precedent for encoding hundreds of other characters representing cultural or nationalistic icons, such as the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge, Mount Kilimanjaro, etc. etc. Some of us would have prefered to encode generic versions of these characters (e.g. Snow-Capped Mountain instead of Mount Fuji), but Google insisted that these characters had specific semantics that generic versions of the characters would not be able to represent, so in the end they were accepted as is." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Wonderful, Jim. - Private Sanjeev

So handsome!! - Kelly

I miss that chubby baby! - Jessie

Let the fight begin. :-D (take this as a thread to promote your respective countries. :-)) - Kol Tregaskes

Fall's the best time to visit LA, in my opinion. SF area is best in late spring. I've never been to Canada but would love to visit Vancouver and Montreal. As people are saying, what and where you go will depend on the time of year you're going. And, I imagine, when airlines run specials. The US is an incredibly geologically diverse country so there's a little bit of everything here. - Spidra Webster

what torque said - Jessie

happy birthday, jim - Jorgee Parra

"In today’s non-surprising news, new research shows that American Catholics are more in line with other Americans than the Catholic church on gay marriage." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Happy birthday! - Stephen Mack

Thanks everyone! - Jim Norris

Several news sources said the House proposed to cut the NIH budget by more than $1 billion, to $29.5 billion. However, the spending bill went through myriad amendments before being passed early Saturday morning, and these news sources are older than that. - Ruchira S. Datta

You sure about that? I'm sure there are conservative scientists and engineers who don't have too many qualms about accepting DOE or DOD dollars. - Victor Ganata

Inspired by Victor Ganata's https://friendfeed.com/aswang posts and the ensuing discussion. - Ruchira S. Datta

I'm on your spaceship! - Jim Norris

Jim, you are powerful! - Ruchira S. Datta

Y'know, in a functional country with proper civics classes in school, you'd think this wouldn't need a refresher article in the newspaper. Ideally, it'd be like explaining the 4th of July. - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Collective bargaining is SOSHULICOMMUNOISLAMOFASCISM! - Jim Norris

I think that'll be in the Glenn Beck primer on collective bargaining. - Andrew C (✓)

No, it's full of crap. The U.S. would incite a nationalist backlash attacking those countries. - Jim Norris

It worked for Poland cuz Poles & Solidarity already saw USSR as external oppressor of their nation - Jim Norris

And McCain would also stay 100 years in Iraq, bomb bomb Iran, attack Abkhazia & S Ossetia, nuke NK..? - Jim Norris

Yes, I'd like to get paid barely enough to cover my roof payments. Sign me up for that! - Scoble, Alex Scoble

What Jim N. just said. And I suspect there's a (deliberate?) conflation of marginal tax rate--the tax on each new dollar earned--and actual tax rate. Also, I'd guess, the same piling-up (that is: you add all the percentages together, even those percentages that nullify others) that can lead you to the "only two people actually do any work" conclusions. [Easy example: If you pay 10%... more... - Walt Crawford

Wasn't that the the standard on which the USA was founded? - Jeff P. Henderson

It does seem that these days, people aren't willing to grant equality of opportunity, much less equality of outcome. Human beings are ultimately creatures of hierarchy, I guess - Victor Ganata from iPhone

Interesting. My wife got LASIK 5 years ago, and it was a huge life-changer for her. No side effects and she's been lens-free ever since, with 20/15 vision and excellent night vision. Previous to the procedure she had 20/50 or worse and had great difficulty driving at night. But if 55% complain about side effects and 1/20 operations are botched, it's a risky elective procedure. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

I've never had laser eye surgery, but even I see these "starbursts" that I see discussed in this article. I thought everybody did until I started reading up on it. Apparently the "halos" and "starbursts" effects can also occur naturally. - Otto

"These developments drew headlines because they seemed to exemplify significant trends in the American economy. But look at America’s stock exchanges more closely, and there’s less to them than meets the eye. In truth, the stock market is becoming increasingly irrelevant — a trend that threatens the core principles of American capitalism." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Pick me! Pick me! - Kevin Fox from iPhone

hit me - Jim Norris

Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? - Jim Norris

Bad pun but worth reading. - Piaw Na

Well, yes, but considering the following, concluding paragraph reads "Overall, however, it's just hard to see that the dollar's international role makes all that much difference to US economic power. ", I thought that was him paying mostly lip service to the point about the US' debt being in USD. IOW, that it's a minor factor and therefore there are no factors to make the USD's status as an international currency a major asset for the US. - Andrew C (✓)

Now what? - Anne Bouey

That thing looks like a prop for next year's Haunted Fox Hollow! - Jim Norris

Actually it's a mold for making more Halloween props. Copies of my left hand to be specific. The first copy is currently drying, I'll be taking it out of the mold today and I will post it plus lots more photos from this class today. :) - Rachel Lea Fox

"According to Miller's teaching, the addition of hyphens and colons to one's name turns one from an ordinary, taxable human into a non-taxable “prepositional phrase.” They are distinguished from the names listed at birth in all capital letters (as on a birth certificate), which he claims turns one into a taxable Person (Corporation). (e.g., DAVID WYNN MILLER as opposed to :David-Wynn: Miller.).”[14]" - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

There's not much of a track record for successful cases using his ideas as a defense. - Anne Bouey

I still see uploaded pics, if that is what you mean - Alex Scrivener

Working for me now. Thanks FF team! - AJ Batac :)

What about Scrabble 2? :) - Stephen Mack

Crysis 2 - Ryan Kaisoglus

I've missed the hell out of you <3 - aden {Chickadee}

Is that a monkey in your hat or are we just happy to see you? - Jim Norris

Is she single? - Jim Norris

It's friggin' cold here in Silicon Valley too! It's 41F, (don't laugh) that is pretty cold for here. - Jeff P. Henderson

Oh, I thought you said furries. - Jim Norris

In a small town where the newspaper is the main source of event information, this could really eff everything up. - Kelly

Indeed! In fact, I've made a game of it every now and then. I'll get their paper and go through it with a pen and see how many mistakes I can find. If I ever get laid off, I should submit my corrected copies to them and offer to be their copy editor. :D - Hookuh Tinypants

"WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class taxpayers can keep their tax cuts, given the legislative and political realities facing Obama in the aftermath of last week's electoral defeat. "We have to deal with the world as we find it," Axelrod said during an unusually candid and reflective 90-minute interview in his office, steps away from the Oval Office. "The world of what it takes to get this done."" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Wow. What a jerk. - Piaw Na

"The Qattara Depression is composed of sand dunes and salt lakes in a teardrop-shaped formation with the point of the drop facing east and the broad deep area at the south west end. The large size of the Qattara Depression and the fact that it falls to a depth of 132 m below mean sea level has led to several proposals to create a massive hydroelectric project in northern Egypt rivaling the Aswan High Dam. The proposals all call for a large channel or tunnel being excavated from the Qattara due north about 80 km to the Mediterranean Sea or to the near-by Nile River. Water would flow from the channel into a series of hydro-electric penstocks which would release the water at 90 m below sea level. Because the Qattara is in a very hot dry region with very little cloud cover the water released at the 90 m level would spread out from the release point across the basin until evaporating from solar influx. Because the depression is so deep and broad, a great deal of water would be let in to... more... - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Salton Sea, anyone? - Gabe

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But can they afford all those rubies? - Jim Norris