Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
And yes, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it!!!
Possibly with some minor philosophical discussions…..
Possibly with some good times…..
And possibly with some screaming!
Dedication
WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL
by Duchess01
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence
LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655
The Rules
TL;DR –
Wheatie’s Rules:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1
Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.
SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.
As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.
YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..
OTHER THAN THAT…….
The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.
Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.
SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).
We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.
If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.
We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.
In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
Bringing back some more old tunes from two years ago!
Original Wheatie Post:
https://www.theqtree.com/2021/02/22/dear-kmag-20210222-joe-biden-didnt-win/
This is a great one right here – beautiful electronica.
And one of my favorites…..
AHRRRRR, MATEY!
OK – one more LINUX MUSICAL MEME VIDEO for the road!
Call To Battle
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Day Year Week:
binary
adjective
- Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components; twofold.
- Of or relating to a system of numeration having 2 as its base.
- Of or relating to a system of encoding data using only 0’s and 1’s.
Perl 5 Definition:
Having to do with numbers represented in base 2. That means there’s basically two numbers: 0 and 1. Also used to describe a file of “nontext”, presumably because such a file makes full use of all the binary bits in its bytes. With the advent of Unicode, this distinction, already suspect, loses even more of its meaning. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#binary
Woke Definition:
[Gender] Binary – This is the idea that people are born either male or female, with no other ways to identify – a viewpoint that excludes non-binary and transgender people. How can you dismantle this? Add your preferred pronouns to your email signature. That way, you’re helping to normalise gender discussions while signalling that you aren’t making assumptions about how other people identify. Which could potentially be seen as a sort of clicktivism, but we won’t go into that here.
Used in a Whole Bunch of Sentences:
| Unfortunately the drive industry looks likely to continue marketing the decimal rather than the binary definition. |
| Is it enough to measure binary oscillations of semiquinone to characterize damping of period four oscillations of oxygen evolution? |
| Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation. |
| Twenty years earlier Gordan had proved the finite basis theorem for binary forms using a highly computational approach. |
| Dividing by two and then taking the remainder gives us a number’s last digit in binary notation. |
| Both the original design and the modern version of one-time pads are based on the binary alphabet. |
| Also, relativistic advance of periastron has been studied and confirmed in certain binary stars with elliptical orbits. |
| When performing binary addition, just like for addition in base ten, we need to reserve two spaces for our result. |
| Because the loss of territories was not a completely binary variable, we did not test for significant differences between groups. |
| We also discuss the implications of the methods in locating genes underlying complex binary traits by use of samples from natural populations. |
| The first equation that was estimated for each ethnic group included early substance use to estimate its binary effect on school completion. |
| More specifically, we ask the question whether the open conformation found in the binary complex is also accessible to the apo-enzyme. |
| This technique allows to image domains in binary or ternary mixtures of lipids in monolayers and bilayers. |
| The single-layer perceptron can be used with multi-value input and output in addition to binary data. |
| Identity and equality are two fundamental binary relations which relate expressions of a given type. |
| During balanced growth, cells undergoing binary fission must double the number of every kind of RNA and protein molecule every cell cycle. |
| The method elicits multiple binary choices for paired items in a choice set. |
| A particular concentration is on a binary structure present in many myths, focusing on the complementary elements. |
| The set includes the composed sequence obtained from the preliminary binary signal. |
| The first step in the process is a binary scanning of the hypsographic separation of the original map. |
Explained in a Video:
SOURCE: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/binary.html
Used in an Online Calculator:
https://www.calculator.net/binary-calculator.html
Used in an Sticker:
Used in a Meme:
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Have another great week!
W
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/02/20/no-more-mr-nice-con-n2619715
He’s got a point.
… as in the top of his head?
PHC should never mean “pin-head conservative”!!! 😉
He’s a number of years late for this realization.
He got such backlash from his dissing POTUS Trump, he is now backpedaling. It is ALL ABOUT CLICKS aka Money
When Schlichter links show, I scroll on.
Schlichter is, clicks, money AND full of shit. Latter, THE problem.
IMO, Mr. Schlichter is full of “schlick”, “schtick”, and “schit.”
That’s why he’s a clueless bubble-boy.
He would never have even thought to oppose Trump if he was not existing in a bubble of never-Trump garbage in the first place.
To be that far out of touch with his own audience is to disqualify himself as relevant.
In his defense, he does live in Southern California. So there’s that.
I love words. They mean things.
The original meaning of “nice:”
nice (adj.)late 13c., “foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless,” from Old French nice (12c.) “careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish,” from Latin nescius “ignorant, unaware,” literally “not-knowing,” from ne- “not” (from PIE root *ne- “not”) + stem of scire “to know” (see science). “The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj.” [Weekley] — from “timid, faint-hearted” (pre-1300); to “fussy, fastidious” (late 14c.); to “dainty, delicate” (c. 1400); to “precise, careful” (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to “agreeable, delightful” (1769); to “kind, thoughtful” (1830).
The original meaning of “mean:”
mean (adj.1)
Meaning “of common or low origin, inferior in rank or status” (of persons) is attested from early 14c. Sense of “ordinary, inferior in attainment or skill” is from late 14c. Also from late 14c. as “poor in quality, of little value,” though this sense survived longer in American than in England. James Stirling, in “Letters from the Slave States” [London, 1857], mentioning mean whites (poor whites in the South who do manual labor and are looked down on by the slaves) notes, ” ‘Mean’ is an Americanism for ‘poor,’ ‘shabby.’ They speak here of a ‘mean’ hotel, a ‘mean’ dinner, &c.”
The pejorative sense of “without dignity of mind, destitute of honor, low-minded” is from 1660s; the specific sense of “stingy, niggardly” is recorded by 1755; the weaker sense of “disobliging, pettily offensive” is from 1839, originally American English slang. All these developments of the English word were furthered by its coincidence in form with mean (adj.2) “middle, middling,” which also was used in disparaging senses, and OED notes that some usages of mean it cites “might be referred almost equally to the native and to the foreign adj.; the truth is probably that they are of mixed ancestry.”
Nice! And I mean it! 😂
Lol!
“Silly” has gone through changes, too…in the opposite direction.
Wow, yeah it has!
More seriously, the textualist and original intent schools of constitutional law have to account for the fact that the “plain reading” of the constitution today might not be the same as it was when written–due to semantic shifts like these. The problem isn’t as extreme for late 18th century English as for 13th, but it is there. (e.g., “well regulated” doesn’t mean OSHA is involved.)
Absolutely! This also applies to the Bible. Words meant different things back in those days, and can lead to misinterpretations of all kinds of things.
Oh, and “homely” (used to describe a woman’s looks)…didn’t used to be an awful thing.
Home being the safest, best, and warmest place one could be, that makes all kinds of sense.
The binary video is very interesting 00100001
This is upper-case Q: 01010001
The way she presents it is a bit distracting, because the shift at P is really just the 16 digit, and that is why A starts off odd but P starts off even (if you look at them as two “analogous” series, which they’re not.
This chart helps it all make sense that you’re basically counting 26 letters through the whole range.
“Nice,” thanks! The video presented the information very quickly, and I watched part of it several times to understand the concept. The chart is useful.
Looks like R Should be 101 0010 so the chart appears to have a typo 😉 since Z is listed as 101 1010 which is also what R is in the chart 🙂
Good catch!!!
🙂
burning stuff destroys evidence.
Just a courtesy to the accident inspectors who have likely been picked before hand to make sure nothing leads back to preps actually responsible for this mayhem. And in between the fire and the inspectors you can likely figure a few select first responders tampering with what physical evidence there is to examine. We are after all in the Biden Decrepit Age where nothing be fully trusted.
The Decrepit Age 😂! Terrible, but true!
Certainly is descriptive of our infra-structure. WE pay for the infra-structure in foreign countries but WE never get the re-build.
Poisoning the well of knowledge! So true.
YUP. There we go! Let’s see how well that ages. Good science should destroy that before Walensky even tries to open her mouth.
I want to apologize for posting misleading stuff found on Telegram yesterday (the old bridge).
That was the third time in recent days stuff off there has been not right, so I’m not going to re-post any more things from there.
Don’t apologize! Learn, and share your learning!
None of us are perfect, but we can help each other be the best we can be.
Be Best.
I miss her.
Amen!
If nothing else, it’s a good drill, reminder. Question what is presented. Something I work on.
Well I found that reddit debunking link after going through the replies to the original tweet. However the debunking link was tweeted by a ukrainian or ukrainian follower, which made me wonder if the original tweet had been seeded by them.
That is sometimes EXACTLY how discreditation works – straight out of the CIA playbook – and Ukraine is basically a subsidiary of CIA at this point.
One of the things I do on these debunkings is to observe if the essential point can still be pushed through, and then follow up with more, better, vetted and verified memes of that nature. THAT infuriates these fact-checkers, because their game then appears to be exactly what it is.
My comment was a reflection of me, only. Certainly nit RAC or anyone else. 🙂
So, except for The Lost Years of The Great Plague, the SUSE music videos come out after their big get-togethers. I believe this is from the last get-together eight months ago —
I like this one. She’s got a great voice and delivery!
Very good! (Both of them.) in these two they picked songs it is esy to sing a long with. Hubby was not happy because I can not sing worth beans. 🙃
LOL!!! 😂
Another one from the latest batch —
Good feature-packing, good music, but definitely lacking on song-writing polish, IMHO.
Look what came up in the net! This one’s not a fish!
They need a stationary camera for the non-epileptic / non-ADHD crowd.
It’s just so frustrating that it ruins whatever musical connection that might otherwise exist.
They are literally changing camera angles every 2 to 3 seconds.
From Bayou Renaissance Man, off of Gab —
😂
Lmao. Read it to my husband, he loved it! 😇
LOL! Oh, that’s a good one.
I read that to Hubby, telling him he should pass it on to a friend who likes jokes. He said I heard that one before, where do you think I heard it? I said John? he nodded…..
DARN and it is such a great joke..
Would you, or someone, mind spelling out how this is true?
I’m sure this will help 👇
right ??
IKR
🤓 😁 😬
Again, decimal is the odd one out. Binary is one bit at a time — 10 is 2. Octal is three bits at a time — 10 is 8. Hexadecimal is four bits at a time — 10 is 16.
On UNIX-based systems, file permissions are “rwxrwxrwx” — the first three are for the system, the second for the file’s group, and the third are for users. Because each set of permissions has three parts — rwx — then it can be coded by three bits. Accordingly, the fast way to set file access rights is by using octal — 777 is “rwxrwxrwx”, 447 is “r–r–rwx”, and 466 is “r–rw-rw-“.
hmmm never having taken a computer class this is starting to get more confusing. I did diligently read your Linux tutorials a while back & Partially understood them (at the time) 🙂
I only brought it up because it uses octal. Just remember there is a reason to know it some day and avoid that day as long as possible.
LOL! avoidance is my middle name being a practiced procrastinator…some problems just end up solving themselves!
I should point out that modern systems will let you just specify “r–rw-rw-” and not use octal at all. It’s the old farts that still do it the other way.
what do the letters stand for?
Read, Write, and eXecute. It’s a very simple, but powerful, way to keep the right people able to access the right stuff.
I believe I could learn to think in such terms…eventually. It helps to translate the words meaningfully for me though 🙂
ME 10!
Me 11.
[big snort]
grrrrrr squared
This got shuffled by WordPiss. Skip the octal and stick with the bits and it works better….
Thanks Smiley. I honestly don’t know the difference between 2 to the 0 & 2 to the 1 though…my math deficiencies & brain fragility are being exposed here 🙂
hey I feel ya !
never was real good with codes.
haven’t tried codes since 6th grade.
decoder rings never really helped much either IIRC.
be like…
Nice!
Hilarious.
Any number to the 0 power is 1.
That follows from the way you can multiply powers together by adding exponents, and divide them by subtracting them.
e.g., what is 2^4 multiplied by 2^3? Write it out longhand: 2^4 is 2x2x2x2 and 2^3 is 2x2x2, so if you multiply them together that’s just 2x2x2x2 x 2x2x2 or 2^7. But you can just add the 4 and the 4 and get 7. If you divide those numbers instead of multiplying, it’s 2x2x2x2 / 2x2x2 but you can cancel, and get just plain 2 (i.e., 2^1). So to divide you subtract the exponents: 4-3 = 1.
[Let me point out this only works if the numbers are the same base, in this case they are and that base is 2.]
So what is 2^0? Well, it’s what you get if you divide (for instance) 2^4 by 2^4 (subtracting 4 from 4 gives you zero…according to the rule above). But that’s just 1. And if you think about it, it’s 1 no matter what the base is, so anything to the 1st power is 1.
I think I understood this so I appreciate the explanation. However your final statement “so anything to the 1st power is 1.” shouldn’t that Actually read that anything to the Zeroth power is one? TY Any number to the 1st power would just be that number itself, I believe 🙂
Yes…geez, I messed that one up didn’t I?
Yes, any number to the first power is itself.
There was an episode in the original Star Treck where the script writer had Spock give some number as “one to the twelfth power.” Which of course is 1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1 = 1. Kind of silly.
LOL sounds like something that would be easy to catch for you. We saw an early episode of ST where Spock’s uniform is beige & he’s Yelling every statement, at least on the bridge. His more sedate persona was much easier to watch!
Oh, yes. That was probably the pilot episode, “The Cage” or the one they made from it.
Interesting story there. Roddenberry produced a 90 minute pilot and showed it to NBC execs. They though it would be too cerebral, BUT they did something they never did before; they gave him a second chance. Come in with another pilot.
The first pilot had a totally different crew, except for Spock. Christopher Pike was the captain, the first officer was Number One (played by the producer’s wife, Majel Barret, who later played Nurse Chapel), and so on.
The second pilot was “Where No Man Has Gone Before” with the “regular” Enterprise crew, but a lot of the uniforms and so on were different from the regular series. Spock was, IIRC a “yeller” in both of those. They hadn’t really figured his character out yet. (The only one who didn’t develop quickly in the first few episodes was Kirk; Shatner had him nailed from the get-go.)
The first pilot, the Cage, was chopped up and they made a “wrapper” story, where it turns out The Cage happened 13 years ago, and now, Spock hijacks the Enterprise (and abducts Pike). When he is on trial he essentially shows “The Cage” as his defense.
That turned into the two part episode “The Menagerie.”
It’s possible now to purchase or watch “The Cage” in its original form; maybe 30 seconds of it didn’t get used in “The Menagerie.”
That’s fascinating. I thought that about Spock’s character development too.
This episode, didn’t catch the name, had a male & female character getting super powers & glowing silver eyes & I think she helps Kirk kill him at the end, perhaps at the cost of her own life–from memory since we were just passing by this time.
I recall the Christopher Pike character as captain AND as a shell of a man in a contraption w/ a light for “yes” or “no”–I think someone turned it into a Hillary meme. Doesn’t Pike & a severely deformed female choose to willingly live under the control of aliens who allow them to appear beautiful & fully functional (as Data would declare to the Borg Queen later when “Number One” would also be a standard moniker for Riker) in a cage disguised as paradise?
Speaking of Majel Barret, GR’s wife, I believe she was in that episode w/ the yelling Spock but I didn’t hear her name or rank. She also was Deanna’s mother Luwuxanna Troi, who was hilarious in having the perpetual hots for Picard, & the voice of the computer too–fun!
Then you saw “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” (the second, less “cerebral” pilot, the one the TV watchers saw).
OK TY 🙂
Your last two paragraphs are indeed about “The Cage”/”Menagerie” which was the first pilot (and its recycling). “The Cage” was never broadcast as it originally was, not for many decades anyway.l
I’ve been meaning to eventually make my way through all of the original Star Trek series via a streaming service, like Netflix. I wonder if they would have The Cage in its original format or I would have to look in the library to find it–if I even remember, a Big If!
The remastered blurays come with The Cage.
For a while there, the cut scenes were only available in black and white, so when you watched it the colors would fade gradually to make the transition less jarring. But then they did find color copies so that’s most likely what you’ll see if you do manage to find a copy.
If they show a hand-drawing of a Talosian on the computer screen, that’s one of the things they cut making The Cage into The Menagerie.
Thx for that tip! You are a fount of knowledge in So Many arenas!!!
I was wondering if one of those videos in DP’s Wednesday post, showing numerous gas grenades lobbed into the crowd on January 6th, was the one that hit near you. Weren’t you involved in attempting to revive or save someone injured &/or traumatized (like a heart attack) from such an assault? I don’t think I ever fully read those posts about Q-Treepers’ 1/6 experiences, but might have to do so if these major video releases produce tangible results! Sorry if these are too impertinent of questions so don’t feel the need to answer 🙂
“Weren’t you involved in attempting to revive or save someone injured &/or traumatized (like a heart attack) from such an assault?” That was FG&C.
I saw one thumbnail that looked like it was near the stands for the inauguration. I was to the north of the stands, between the north wing and the steps.
Something to tell the kids & grandkids, &/or the nieces & nephews!
No doubt he will tell them about it.
I took a fair amount of video, especially of the march to the Capitol; but I didn’t do anything “special” other than (possibly) draw a grenade to keep me from filming the moment they let the crowd in on my side.
That’s still unreal. So glad you, WM, & a few others were eye-witnesses to what went down!
You got a picture of Yuko Lanham on scene. She’s interesting, because she’s surprisingly SWAMPY for a Japanese journalist.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13702200
“Number One” I think Roddenberry must have hated losing that character. (Spock became the combined First Officer and Science officer.) Because he brought that nickname back for Riker (though at least Riker had a real name; the original Number One was simply, Number One).
Fascinating, with a Spockian eyebrow raised 😉
This is using binary arithmetic. Instead of places meaning 1000, 100, 10, 1, as in base 10, the places mean 8, 4, 2, 1.
To count in binary, you have
1 1
2 10
3 11
4 100
5 101
6 110
7 111
8 1000
9 1001
10 1010 … and so on.
If you work with computers a lot, you have to deal with binary sometimes, though more often you deal with hexadecimal (base 16), and sometimes (on old gronk) octal (base 8). It helps to be able to convert on-the-fly. Binary digits are also known as “bits”, and eight of them is a “byte”.
For instance, an IP address range is commonly designated as “192.168.0.x/24”. The four numbers (given in decimal) are between 0 and 255, and can also be rendered as hex numbers between 00 and FF…..which map to binary of 00000000 to 11111111. The number after the slash is how many bits are “fixed” and cannot vary. So IP addresses traditionally use decimal and binary to talk about things that are actually easier in hex, just because they were done that way early on.
Thank you. I understood that partially, at least.
So 1 + 1 = 10 is sort of tricky, as in 1 + 1 = 2 but 2 in binary is actually 10…
then 10 + 1 = 11 is really 2 + 1 = 3, but 3 in binary is actually 11…
finally the 11 + 1 = 100 is just really 3 + 1 = 4 & 4 is actually 100 in binary.
I could only do that by looking at your 1-10 key, which I appreciate 🙂
So if I’m understanding your numbering system correctly this is the next 10 #s
11 is 1011
12 is 1100
13 is 1101
14 is 1110
15 is 1111
16 is 10000
17 is 10001
18 is 10010
19 is 10011
20 is 10100
I would need a cheat chart to keep translating that stuff 🙂 assuming this is even correct for binary 11-20 LOL
That looks pretty good (without thoroughly checking) — you’ve got a pretty intuitive grasp of it (which helps).
Grasping the Counting part Only! Thanks.
I remember being confused by anything other than base 10 when exposed to that concept in grade school, iirc. Maybe it’s actually good that I never studied computers 🙂
Back when we were kids, there was a big kerfuffle about kids being taught “new math” that meant that they couldn’t count change from a cash till. My mother, being a professor of mathematics, had recently had set theory with unions and intersections as a graduate level class when I hit it in elementary school.
The thing is, it was all designed to make kids proficient in database operations and work with computers, and it was being implemented by people who really didn’t understand it — so, of course, it was a government clusterfark. But it wasn’t a completely stupid idea.
I had some exposure to “new math” in grade school. I remember this way of checking math problems (at least some of them) that was called squiggling.
548 squiggled 5 + 4 + 8 = 17 squiggled 1 + 7 = 8
x 63 ” 6 + 3 = 9
1644 ” 1 + 6 + 4 + 4 = 15 ” 1 + 5 = 6
+3288 ” 3 + 2 + 8 +8 = 21 ” 2 + 1 = 3
4932 ” 4 + 9 + 3 + 2 = 18 ” 1 + 8 = 9
All those bolded 9’s should mean that the math checks out…but I never understood why this actually worked. It might also be called “casting out nines” I think…
edit those columns did Not hold up
8 x 9 = 72 which squiggles to 9 (7 + 2)
6 + 3 = 9
Oh, good Lord, that made my head hurt. I think that must be the new, “NEW MATH”.
I was referring to the new math of my day, where you had sets of fruits {apple, cherry, orange, banana, mango, peach} and colors {red, blue, white, orange, green, beige} and found the intersection at {orange}. In third grade. Which is pretty handy when it comes to writing SQL, but didn’t make a lick of sense in the late 1960s.
SQL?
I always meant to use tangible toys, like dinosaurs, army men, &/or legos/duplos in varying colors & shapes to Attempt to teach Josiah some basic math concepts (he hasn’t Actually completed 3rd grade math even though he Graduated from HS, sigh). He has a Severe learning disability in math, like in the 0.0001 percentile & just never wanted to apply himself in this arena At all. I think he needed more concrete items rather than abstract to approach a grasping of some of those concepts…sigh…
SQL made me think of this thing taught us in Junior High, SQ3R, which was Study, Question, Read, Recite, Review…I think.
SQL is “Structured Query Language” — which is no freakin’ help at all. It’s a made-up way to access databases, and it may very well be that this blog runs on “MySQL”, or “MariaDB” which is a different version of the same thing. If you want more info, I can help you drill down…..but it’s a very deep subject.
One of the textbooks my mom reviewed while on the textbook review committee was “Mathematics: A Human Endeavor” which built its way into math through billiards, puzzles, games, observations of nature, dice, illusions, and cartoons. I don’t know if she recommended it at work, but I really liked it.
The way teaching is done in schools these days seems to lead to the production of learning-hating sheep. Actual knowledge makes the world a more wondrous and joyous place.
If you input certain things to an SQL database system, it can interpret them as SQL commands (unless ‘sanitized’) —
Some people in the home schooling world recommend it but caution that, because it is outside the current math curriculum, the kid’s math scores might drop.
Questions for those who have used Jacobs’ Mathematics: A Human Endeavor —
https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/299810-questions-for-those-who-have-used-jacobs-mathematics-a-human-endeavor/
Real-world analogies would have helped me a lot with math. I did okay with geometry because we had a pool table and I loved the angles, sticks, and balls. The positioning of the cue on the ball and the force or delicacy used to direct the ball into the pocket. Algebra was so abstract to me.
Thanks for this. No need to dig deeper at this time but I Really appreciate the offer 🙂
This is very cool, but not easy (IMO). These must be old but very valuable results of early number theory.
Follow these links for the explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule
Thanks Wolf 🙂
Pick a number…
double that number…
add 6…
divide your answer in half…
subtract your original number…
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your answer is: 3
A slick trick – and the basis of many scams!
Yep.
I thought it pretty cool at first.
Then I realized that you subtract your original number which cancels each other out.
If you double (x2) and divide in half, but add 6 in between…
you are essentially dividing 6 in half…
which is 3
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It’s just a mathematical TRICK.
Still pretty cool, because a lot of ALGEBRA is based on it!
As you’ve noticed, there is a rhythm to it. The 1000’s and 1000000’s are at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536….where each number is double the one before. And you also notice that these numbers show up in all sorts of places with computers — you can get 64G or 128G of RAM; you can get thumbdrives of 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512G; they just phased-out 32-bit support in favor of 64-bit processors.
The reason that all these things coalesce around these numbers is because that’s what computers live and breathe — because that’s where the binary numbers roll over.
fascinating & appreciated insights!
The structures have a beauty all their own when I look at them. It makes me very happy if I can describe them so that others can see part of the beauty themselves.
speaking of beauty & math…
The beauty of mathematics is everywhere and in everything, from the way daisies blossom to the way proportions please the eye to the underlying fundamentals of existence and motion.
It is so obviously intertwined with existence that the Creator must have put it there, and our delight is but an echo of His.
Absolutely! God is an epic math genius & artist extraordinaire & we’ve not plumbed all His depths, nor will we Ever!!!
If there is one think that points to the existence of God, it is the intricate beauty and order of Math and science.
(Said as an Agnostic)
Amen! The heavens declare the glory of the Lord and the earth shows forth his handiwork!
Computers use binary everywhere for everything. If you’re running a 64-bit computer, it’s whompin’ 64-character-binary-numbers around all the time. Conversions to octal, decimal, or hex are done for the convenience of humans when they want to follow along — and, again, conversions to decimal are done so that humans can pretend to follow along while not really “getting it”.
Again, with IP addreses — if I use the dig command on this website, I get —
“;; ANSWER SECTION:
http://www.theqtree.com. 300 IN A 194.32.107.12”
That IP addy is in decimal. It’s really C2.20.6B.0C in hex.
We this isn’t the exact quote I wanted, but it’s in the vicinity 🙂
this one reminds me of some people in my real life 🙂
First one is 1 + 1 = 2, because 2 in binary is 10.
Second one is 2 + 1 = 3, because 3 in binary is 11.
Third one is 3 + 1 = 4, because 4 in binary is 100.
Once you get how the 1s add on, with every two 1s changing to a 1 in the NEXT available (zero) digit, and a 0 in the old digits that had ones, it all makes beautiful sense.
There is only one number (1) (plus zero), so the 1 moves to the next digit every other time you add 1. You can only add a 1 to the prior number in the right-hand digit, or delete 1s and put a 1 in the first available zero to the left. You never change digits like 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc.
When you see how the numbers add, it’s very cool, because base 2 is really the most “extreme” base of them all, except base infinity.
The other extreme is base infinity, where you just keep adding new symbols and never reaching the next digit, unless you just put a symbol there, which is never reached by counting when it’s not there. LMAO. Infinity is so cool.
Infinity = Eternity
Amen!!!
I want to say that I fully understood that but I cannot tell a lie! I do appreciate the patterns & “sort of” get it.
Infinity makes me think of the mystery of the Lord & His creation!
💟 missing wheatie 💟
As we all do….
Just trust that she’s in a better place, and that someday you’ll stop by to visit!
❤
I’ve been gone for a while.
Please tell me what happened to Wheatie.
Thank you.
Yes, then that’s been a long time then.
At the top of this page, (it’s there each Monday) there’s a poem by Duchess. At the bottom of the poem is a link to the poem. Go there and you will find another link to where the poem first appeared. That will take you to the day Q tree learned that Wheatie passed.
Essentially Wheatie wasn’t much about talking about her own self where it concerned her health. It took us near 6 months after much concern to learn she was no longer with us.
She passed? OMG that’s so sad.
I will follow your instructions regarding the link.
Thank you very much.
Oakland Goes Dark As Fire Rips Through California Substation Following A Series of Targeted Attacks Across US – Flights Grounded, 9000 Residents Are Plunged Into Darkness As Officials Launch Investigation
2/19
article link…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11770247/Oakland-Airport-halts-flights-power-outage-50-000-without-power-Bay-Area.html
got some serious saboteurs afoot running amok.
substation has to be terrorism.
duh
so many nasty coincidences !
Yeah nothing to see here move along…….
Just like the processing plant fires and mRna shots. Keep moving people, right into the death spiral. THAT TPTB CONTROL
Think these creeps are going to blame it on the Russians? I do.
Just blame it on the WIDE OPEN BORDERS THAT ALLOWED RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SABOTEURS TO CROSS WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTION!
Actually this is a great time to call your congress and Senate critters and raise hell about the open borders. Blame the food plant fires, train de-railment and attacks on our electric system on foreign Saboteurs.
You can even quote good old Klaus Schwab 😋 🙃
As of September 2022: List of 103 U.S. Food Manufacturing Facilities Destroyed Under Biden Admin
Dr Huff said there were about 130 on one podcast I listen to. start @ 4:30 Dr Huff explains the origin of his list and that the DHS has it. He also had a copy and IT WAS STOLEN WHILE HE WAS BEING HARASSED BY THE FBI…
MAP of food plants destroyed: the pins cover the USA.
…failing up….
TRAIN WRECK : All The Transportation Scandals On Pete Buttigieg’s Watch
article link…
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pete-buttigieg-train-wreck-scandal/
2/18
biden’swunderkind, padding the lackluster resumeyou forgot the link (or it doesn’t show on my screen) 🙂
it’s showing up there, at least on my screen…
but here it is again…
link…
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pete-buttigieg-train-wreck-scandal/
Thanks! I rechecked your comment above, but haven’t reloaded the page yet. I still don’t see the link in the original comment but it’s fine in this reply. Word Pissers at it again?
yep heatin up
Another Eagle’s take —
Aging rockers still know how to Rock!
We just watched the Beverly Hills Cop the other day & Thoroughly enjoyed the truck chase scene through Detroit, which we were viewing a bit differently now that Hubby is a trucker 😉
Weird, the link shows now after I reloaded the page…
I read the schlichter article (backpedaling much bucko?) and then clicked on
Why the Latest COVID Development Is Going to Make Millions Angry and Regretful
Very short and weird. At least he mentioned they lied about natural immunity. He mentions you can’t sue and people under 30 are dropping dead. The he says he regrets taking the vaccine BUT THERE IS NO FIRE in his article.
Yea, no fire at all. “Marking Time”, so to speak. Tasked to write something. He did.
From the linked article.
“Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.”
^^^ WTF. mRNA Injections delivering protection?
I see no upside to the damn mRNA vaccines. None.
This guy needs to read Wolf’s latest article.
They used VERY deceptive phraseology to cover up the fact that natural immunity is better.
Let’s say that the results say that natural immunity is better. What you can say to hide this, is….
“Natural immunity may reach or even exceed the protection of the vaccine.”
Very tricky. Also there’s a lot of trickery about metrics of immunity, but I’ll skip that for now.
Now – here is the worst part of it.
The vaccines not only have negative efficacy (meaning they make you more susceptible to the virus – they also REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF IMMUNITY that you get from having the disease, when you get it. So the vaccines are a cruel double whammy that set you back, immunologically.
Because of this, if you take the vaccine, then THEIR LIE becomes more true, and natural immunity FOR THE VACCINATED won’t help much – but neither will more shots.
Here is the corrected lie.
“Natural immunity may reach or even exceed the protection of the vaccine, but if you take the vaccine, it probably won’t. Natural immunity WILL exceed the vaccine, if you never take the vaccine.”
THAT is the really shocking truth.
They had to put in the disclaimer in order to get published. Feynman’s sister had a paper on solar cycles that was hilarious in the way she trolled the scientific gate keepers.
IMO, The Lancet has lost all credibility. Especially since the Gates Foundation has given it millions.
Schlicter’s terrified. See my response to Gail.
Actually it is a different author, Matt Vespa. (He looks oriental) And yes he may not want to look at what he has done to himself and his loved ones.
Aha! That makes a lot more sense! The writing style being so different, and the attitude, too.
No “fire,” but plenty of “FEAR.”
Which is what is quenching the fire, in my opinion.
It’s called “intellectualizing” in psychology parlance. It’s a way of “distancing” oneself from a highly emotional topic. That’s what Schlicter, and many other people are currently doing.
Thanks, I just do not operate that way. I am very slow to anger but watch out when you do anger me.
Well, I don’t either. But I recognize it.
Darn, you’ve uncovered one of my primary self-defense mechanisms in the special needs parenting arena…sigh…
“It’s called “intellectualizing” in psychology parlance. It’s a way of “distancing” oneself from a highly emotional topic.”
Specially educated people will not want to admit that they fell for a scam. This takes humility to admit but many do not have it.
My beautiful granddaughter is messed up but parents do not want to connect it to the jab. Christmas she was sick for days now she had rash all over her face and back. She only went to the Student nurse giving her a shot of steroid to clear up the problem. She went home for a week. No one took her to the doctor or investigated what the cause is was.
Why is it me uneducated no one wants to listen too because I know nothing. I am so frustrated not for myself but for my 20 year old granddaughter . Something is wrong somehow the jab did something to her even though she got it a year ago. No one wants to talk about it .
You know a lot more than they do. To paraphrase the High Sparrow from Game of Thrones, a lifetime of higher education has left them blind in one eye.
You might try putting together a folder with 4 or 5 carefully chosen articles, and seal it.
Then put a note on the outside, saying something like “After you have tried everything else, and none of it has worked, please open and read.”
I like this idea.
Thank you I might just do that 🙂
I am so sorry, singing, that is terrible. It makes me want to cry for you.
Not for me but for my granddaughter . I pray she is ok and not much damage is done.
I pray so, as well. And also for your worry. It’s so hard.
Thank you 🙂
🙂
so sorry you are dealing with these incomprehensible & unacknowledged horrors!
TODAY
duchess01:00pm – !!!
Catturd posted this video. Help for some in East Palestine, Ohio.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1627420652658655232/vid/1280×720/KNnmOHbYuOClBY5M.mp4?tag=16
That was lovely. Those poor people.
^^^ BEST part of my morning. Thanks for posting.
Ironic. At one point, I heard a train whistle.
Second best part, Christmas lights. Got some around here also. Love it. 🙂
That was wonderful to watch.
In some ways, it reminded me of the old TV show, “The Millionaire”.
Oops. I’m giving away my age.
Just want to make sure people get a chance to check out “Bonnie & Clyde of the Nucleus“, my latest attempt to explain what the shots are doing. Kalbo found it helpful!
mRNA Vaccines that Breach the Nucleus and Change the Genome – What are the Chances?
I urge everybody to read this. It is well worth your time. You will have answers for those who question.
Your analogy was very easy to understand & much appreciated. Sorry I didn’t say so on the post. I did share the link on Gab so hopefully a few people will stop by 🙂
Verse of the Day for Monday, February 20, 2023
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“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Duchess – has the “BABY LIVES MATTER” image stopped working for a while, or is it just today?
Here is a new image URL for it, where it was saved.
It’s been awhile, maybe two weeks.
Good. The original website may have either gone down or changed a setting to reduce bandwidth from “hot-linking”.
not for me, it’s shown up every day
??? Here is my link – it has been posting ok…
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