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Best Giraffe posted:why the gently caress would they think anyone would attack oklahoma? stupid inbred hicks think they're important enough to suicide bomb lmao Have I got (really old) news for you!
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A lot of Algebra was invented in the Middle East. Those crafty A-rabs were playing the long game all along!
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May 8, 2016 16:11
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Mathematicians did 0.8181 recurring.
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May 8, 2016 16:12
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sincx posted:Algebra is actually supposed to be al gebra (well, technically, al jabr الجبر), from the book Al-kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa’l-muqābala الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing) by the Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī around the year 820. The word means "reunion of broken parts," which is the basic concept behind algebra. I knew we didn't kill osama
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See, this seems like an irritating but actually fine example of a system working more or less the way it is supposed to. Somebody saw something weird, reported it discretely, and the air people investigated the situation and found no wrongdoing. Nobody was ethnically profiled by the airline staff, and taking that angle ought to be beneath a publication like the Washington Post, it's needless race-baiting. That said, he said he was treated respectfully and that's honestly a much better outcome than I'd have expected. EDIT: It's not even a good outrage story! 8-Bit Scholar fucked around with this message at 16:22 on May 8, 2016 |
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May 8, 2016 16:16
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except it's not weird you idiot bitch
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May 8, 2016 16:18
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8-Bit Scholar posted:beneath a publication like the Washington Post fuckin lmao
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May 8, 2016 16:19
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Shouldn't look like a muslim if you wanna fly a plane imo. TRUMP
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May 8, 2016 16:19
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Blue Train posted:except it's not weird you idiot bitch To an average person, somebody drawing a bunch of math formulas and poo poo and apparently being very unwilling to engage in small talk fits a pretty broad standard of "weird". The lady's reaction is silly, but quite understandable give how paranoid American society is. EDIT: In a perfect world blah blah blah
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May 8, 2016 16:23
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thats an argument for the average person being retarded not that doing math in public is weird
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May 8, 2016 16:40
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8-Bit Scholar posted:To an average person, somebody drawing a bunch of math formulas and poo poo and apparently being very unwilling to engage in small talk fits a pretty broad standard of "weird". Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 8, 2016 |
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May 8, 2016 16:40
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Doing math on a plane is a lot like masturbating on a plane. I mean, sure you can do it if you're really committed, but it's not really the optimal environment for it.
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May 8, 2016 17:00
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Blue Train posted:thats an argument for the average person being retarded not that doing math in public is weird
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May 8, 2016 17:03
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A public mathturbator ??
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May 8, 2016 17:13
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Even if he was writing in Arabic he didn't do anything weird just by writing. The situation was resolved well enough, albeit very slowly. The underlying unsettling part is how many people live in fear to the point that a dark complexion and private focus are seen as threatening. Smdh America, come on!
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May 8, 2016 17:22
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RobattoJesus posted:Doing math on a plane is a lot like masturbating on a plane. I mean, sure you can do it if you're really committed, but it's not really the optimal environment for it. planes aren't an optimal environment for anything other than spreading disease and listening to babies cry
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Toadvine posted:The underlying unsettling part is how many people live in fear to the point that a dark complexion and private focus are seen as threatening. Smdh America, come on! the fourth estate is a very good propaganda apparatus and our poo poo schools ensure that people are ripe for manipulation
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BattleMaster posted:planes aren't an optimal environment for anything other than spreading disease and listening to babies cry the thinner air makes autoerotic asphyxiation SO MUCH better
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May 8, 2016 17:26
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BattleMaster posted:planes aren't an optimal environment for anything other than spreading disease and listening to babies cry Agreed. Just sedate everyone and throw them in the baggage area imho.
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May 8, 2016 17:28
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RobattoJesus posted:Agreed. Just sedate everyone and throw them in the baggage area imho. you joke but what airlines want ideally is basically an airborne slave ship, theyd def do this if they could work out sedative doses that had a sufficiently low likelihood of killing the passengers
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May 8, 2016 17:34
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I think it was one of those little dirtbag euro airlines that tried to get approval for a plane with no seats. They got denied i think
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May 8, 2016 18:13
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tenspott posted:Have I got (really old) news for you! he was white, that is no longer terrorism. see bush v gore 2000
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May 8, 2016 18:23
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RobattoJesus posted:Doing math on a plane is a lot like masturbating on a plane. I mean, sure you can do it if you're really committed, but it's not really the optimal environment for it. Dude there has been more than one flight where you have to get poo poo done for work in those few hours the plane is in the air.
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May 8, 2016 18:30
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Helical Nightmares posted:Dude there has been more than one flight where you have to
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May 8, 2016 18:39
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May 8, 2016 18:44
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the real crime here is perpetuating the myth that economists do any real math.
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May 8, 2016 18:45
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the olive-skinned man was scratching funny symbols on paper he wasn't even on an iPad or using Facebook! let me tell you all something, terrorists are notorious for writing poo poo down in a notebook before instigating their devastating attacks
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May 8, 2016 18:52
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This whole situation could have been avoided if the sperglord had just said, "Hey, I'm working on a really important mathematical formula. I don't want to be rude, but I have to get this work done and I can't really chat right now."
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May 8, 2016 19:04
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tenspott posted:This whole situation could have been avoided if the sperglord had just said, "Hey sexy a mama that's a spicy meatballa"
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May 8, 2016 19:05
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tenspott posted:This whole situation could have been avoided if the sperglord had just said, "Hey, I'm working on a really important mathematical formula. I don't want to be rude, but I have to get this work done and I can't really chat right now." god if that's not loving terrorist talk, i don't know what is seriously though, i have no idea what a terrorist would say
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May 8, 2016 19:06
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RaySmuckles posted:god if that's not loving terrorist talk, i don't know what is What are words when your eyes and your heart already tell you all you need to know
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8-Bit Scholar posted:To an average person, somebody drawing a bunch of math formulas and poo poo and apparently being very unwilling to engage in small talk fits a pretty broad standard of "weird". The lady's reaction is silly, but quite understandable give how paranoid American society is. That's actually a good argument for why it's a dumb policy, I can think of plenty racist paranoid americans that would cause a scene over something completely innocous as a not white person doing work of on a plane and those people should be ignored or ejected from the plane not grind the whole the whole process to a stop. People with connecting flights got hosed, anyone flying shortly before a meeting or presentation got hosed, etc, all because she's a racist idiot and the planes have a dumb policy that encourages that kind of person. We go through like a bajillion hours of pointless airport security and the likelyness of some dude actually taking over your plane is incredibly non-existent, there's really no reason to add a neighborhood watch as some sort of racist busybody last line of defense to the process. Unless you actually hear people discussing their plans to hijack and or tamper with the plane just shut up and enjoy the miracle of flight.
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Also where are you guys getting the idea that it's uncommon to work on a plane because honestly I'd say person working on spreadsheets/presentations/reading academic papers etc makes up like a good chunk of almost any flight I've been on. Plenty of people travel for work.
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ArbitraryC posted:Also where are you guys getting the idea that it's uncommon to work on a plane because honestly I'd say person working on spreadsheets/presentations/reading academic papers etc makes up like a good chunk of almost any flight I've been on. Plenty of people travel for work. yeah but on paper? what is this 1918?
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ArbitraryC posted:Also where are you guys getting the idea that it's uncommon to work on a plane because honestly I'd say person working on spreadsheets/presentations/reading academic papers etc makes up like a good chunk of almost any flight I've been on. Plenty of people travel for work. Maybe in whatever capitalist nightmare you work in but here in Scandinavia I can bill my travel time and sleep on the plane.
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tenspott posted:This whole situation could have been avoided if the sperglord had just said, "Hey, I'm working on a really important mathematical formula. I don't want to be rude, but I have to get this work done and I can't really chat right now." The whole situation could have been avoided if we weren't in a constant state of fear of terrorism.
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RaySmuckles posted:yeah but on paper? what is this 1918?
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ArbitraryC posted:That's still basically the easiest place to do higher level math. Lot of those symbols are a bit of a pain to type and/or the software that you could do equations like ode's in are more for solving known equations than spitballing formulas on the fly. actually on tv the geniuses all do high level math in their head while they hallucinate unrelated formulas whirling around their head
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8-Bit Scholar posted:...Nobody was ethnically profiled by the airline staff... Sure, he was instead ethnically profiled by an idiot member of the public. Who lives in such fear that basic math causes her issues.
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ArbitraryC posted:That's still basically the easiest place to do higher level math. Lot of those symbols are a bit of a pain to type and/or the software that you could do equations like ode's in are more for solving known equations than spitballing formulas on the fly. The article says he was doing "a differential equation to be exact" Siri can probably help you solve those.
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