This is interesting — if ax 2 + bx + c = 0, then It’s called the citardauq formula — citardauq is quadratic spelled backward. It’s explained above by the inimitable James Tanton; here’s a Facebook discussion ; and see the second answer here regarding questions of numerical instability.
Source: The Citardauq Formula
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Never knew it had a “name”; did you?
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… … buy any drug?
I have a friend that has no medical insurance and prostate problems.
Why does he need a
“Gooferment permission slip” aka a prescription on a
Gooferment approved form from a
Gooferment approved bureaucrat aka a doctor to go to a
Gooferment approved store to be waited on by a
Gooferment approved bureaucrat aka a pharmacist to buy a
Gooferment approved product aka a “drug”?
And then everyone is surprised when medical care and drugs are so expensive.
Is someone afraid that he might buy his drug without Gooferment approval?
Argh!
What have we become but a Nanny state?
Argh! Argh!
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Copenhagen | In the world’s biggest covered-bond market, a Danish bank says it’s now ready to sell 10-year mortgage-backed notes at a negative coupon for the first time.
Source: Did you hear the one about the negative-coupon mortgage-backed bond?
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Does this make ANY economic sense at all? I’m baffled. As soon as they off me a “negative” interest rate, I think I’ll take it. They are going to pay you to take a mortgage? Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I do NOT understand the logic of this.
Maybe it’s a version of Three Card Monte I’ve never seen, but I’ve been around a long time?
If you understand it, please explain it to me, but use small words, I’m real old.
Remember the sources of my education! I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer who’d now a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income with:
* Law “degree” from watching Judge Judy;
* Medical “degree” from watching Doctor Phil;
* Building “degree” from watching “Holmes on Homes”;
* Investing “degree” from reading about Bernie Made-off;
* Finance “degree”from listening to Ric Edelman;
* sensitively managing Human Resources from watching Chef Ramsey; and
* creating loving / caring human relationships from studying the movie roles of Gunny Ronald Lee Ermey
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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died overnight in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told the Post Saturday.
Source: Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide
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Yeah, I’m a Conspiracy Theorist!
This is just too convenient.
Facebook memes have been floating since he was arrested again.
And, his pilot just died.
Too many “important” figures have taken his “Lolita Express” to let this be investigated. Clinton being #1 on the list, imho.
Watch this be consigned to the dustbin of “history” real quick.
Argh!
Yeah, I’m a Conspiracy Theorist! I’m the one who is crazy.
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Premiering on Thursday, Aug. 1, on SundanceTV, No One Saw a Thing (executive produced by Jason Blum) is a six-part documentary about the tiny rural enclave of Skidmore, Missouri, home to an incident that became so notorious they even made a TV movie about it (1991’s In Broad Daylight, starring Brian Dennehy, Cloris Leachman, Marcia Gay Harden and Chris Cooper): the July 10, 1981 slaying of Ken Rex McElroy, a “town bully” with 37 felonies to his name, and a hulking mutton-chopped 47-year-old who terrorized locals to no end, including shooting multiple people for no good reason. He was, by all accounts, the sort of monstrous bad guy one might find in an old Western.
Source: ‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Small Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the ‘Town Bully’
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Street justice?
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AP Photo/Andres Leighton Speaking with a retired police officer–a man raised by a preacher–about carrying in church, the retired officer commented that he just couldn’t do it. He just didn’t feel right with a firearm on in church.
Source: El Paso Survivor Says He Wished His Mother Had Brought Her Gun
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Folks, at the end of the day, carry your guns. Even if it’s to Walmart. There is no safe place in this world. Safe spaces are an illusion, a lie we tell ourselves to believe that we can shut the evil in the world out and create a Utopia, even if only on the tiny patch of ground beneath our feet.
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If you can, you should.
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AP Photo/Richard Drew Judge Andrew Napolitano is bringing the heat in a stinging column for the Washington Times , rebutting and refuting the arguments by gun control activists that they can simply ignore the text of the 2nd Amendment and Supreme Court decisions and enact whatever anti-gun laws they want.
Source: Napolitano: The 2nd Amendment Isn’t A Gift From The Government
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We have civil commitment laws on the books in states across the nation. If we believe that someone is truly a danger to themselves or others, isn’t that a more appropriate place to seek help rather than a court hearing where a judge only hears one side of the case before making a determination about whether or not someone poses a threat to themselves or others?
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Why not use the tools that already exist? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative and disarm the people so the Gooferment can do whatever it wants to “We, The Sheeple”!
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If his Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act (SMART Act) becomes law, your social media experience will be littered with authoritarian pop-ups imploring you to maintain 30-minute time limits and instead of easy-to-use scrolls, your feeds will turn into click-controlled social media rations. In short, your social media experience will become so annoying and static that you may, in fact, start using it less. So, Hawley will win, but you, and, especially, social media, will lose.
Source: Do We Need Laws to Help Curb our Social Media Addiction?
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Where in the Constitution does it make Gooferment the arbiter of how social media should work? Are “We, The Sheeple” just little children to be “protected” from their own choices. What’s next an “Eat Your Vegetables” Act? Argh!
https://buff.ly/33pbV0q #unconstitutional #Nannystatism #NOTSMART
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Molon Labe (or ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ) is a classical Greek phrase meaning “come and take [them],” attributed to King Leonidas of Sparta as a defiant response to the demand that his soldiers lay down their weapons. Gun-rights advocates have adopted the phrase as a challenge to perceived attempts by the government to confiscate firearms.
Source: The Meaning Behind Molon Labe, a Favored Gun Rights Slogan of Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin
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Μολὼν λαβέ
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
So too, when the Gooferment sends men to disarm the militia.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The politicians and bureaucrats, who think it can be done with the stoke of a pen, will find it can’t be done.
Look at New Zealand, gun owners just ignored the law.
The essence of any resistance is just non-cooperation.
If gun owners just refuse to cooperate with their own destruction, it will end quietly.
Can’t load the trains to the concentration camps if “We, The Sheeple” don’t comply.
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Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK wanted to know if staring at seagulls might dissuade them from abducting your dinner, so they headed to coastal towns in Cornwall.
The team put a bag of chips (that’s fries for us US folks) on the ground and monitored how long it took the gulls to approach the food. “On average, gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach the food with a human staring at them,” the university said in a release on Tuesday.
Source: Scientists suggest staring down seagulls to protect your snacks – CNET
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Hope they didn’t spend a lot on that study!
Laugh!
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