The Race to Insanity and Beyond!

[Kamog]

Why are croissants so crumbly? I can't eat one without dropping crumbs all over and it's embarrassing!

And why do they sound like the capital of the galactic empire that is one huge city covering the entire surface of the planet?

[Alneyan]

Kamog said:
Why are croissants so crumbly? I can't eat one without dropping crumbs all over and it's embarrassing!

It's a feature of regular croissants; non-crumbing croissants cost extra. A clever marketing ploy that.

And why do they sound like the capital of the galactic empire that is one huge city covering the entire surface of the planet?

Consider this city is Trantor rather than Coruscant, and this problem will dissapear. How is the "ant" of Coruscant pronounced? Is it as in a ant, or as in croissant?

Jack Simth said:
What's 1.5 * 0?

Jake, let's consider your problem for a while, instead of jumping to the apparently evident answer. You are speaking of an increase of 50%, ergo the number must be even: otherwise, we will end up with halves of people. Since you did not mention anything about rounding, it seems logical that only even numbers can fit in your formula.

A number is even if, when divided by 2, the result is a number like 1 or 2, without any decimal. However, 0/2 is still equal to 0, unlike all the other even numbers; ergo 0 is not even, and will not be appropriate for your formula. The lowest number that will fit is therefore 2.

Then we have 1.5 * 2 ; let's consider this new formula for a while. The 1 is obviously in strong opposition to the 5, as evidenced by the . Thus we can interpret this as 5-1=4, and we have 4 and 2. The answer is now obvious: I can pull rank on Life, the Universe and Everything. See how even maths have to abide to the Rule of the Number!

(Finding all the fallacies in the above post is left as an exercice for the reader)

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Coruscant" is pronounced somewhat like "korrussint". Or, in Dutch, "korrussent".

[Thermodyne]

Post #1 day 5

[narf poit chez BOOM]

RudyHuxtable said:

Hey Kerensky. Space Empires is most certainly NOT a turn based space strategy game. Get a clue, man. It's turn based space strategy game. Sheesh. The nerve of some people.

Hey, my head feels pretty spaced right now. Like it's spinning. Weee, lack of slepp is funn!

[Kamog]

Ink cartridges for ink jet printers are kind of expensive. Each one is supposed to last for 400 pages, but it doesn't seem like it actually does. The printer also uses up a lot of ink in the "cleaning" process. Plus, if you don't use up the cartridge within a certain number of months, the ink expires and you have to replace it with a new one. Doesn't seem to be very cost effective...

[bearclaw]

That's the whole idea. Printer manufactures discovered that they can make more money selling ink than they can selling printers. You only ever need to buy one printer (usually) but you could spend more on ink in it's lifetime than you did buying the printer.

[Atrocities]

Speaking of ink, I am out, and it cost me $50.00 to replace just the B&W cartrage. OMFG! This is such a rip off!

I don't have the funds to buy a color cartrage. The sad thing is I just bought cartrages last year around Sept and have only printed about 100 pages. WTF? (They don't last like they used to, and now they cost twice as much.)

You'd think with how much these cartrages cost now, that ink was a rare substance and controlled by OPEC.

[Will]

narf poit chez BOOM said:

Hey, my head feels pretty spaced right now. Like it's spinning. Weee, lack of slepp is funn!

Now THAT is what I call a lot of quotes.

[Jack Simth]

Will said:

Now THAT is what I call a lot of quotes.

How is that a lot of quotes?