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Haven’t we heard something like this before? Bloomberg’s campaign running aground, maybe?
Here’s something to scare you. What if the Democrats, with their arithmetic illiteracy, had won in 2016? Like Everett Dirksen said, a billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking real money.
$1,000,000 x 350,000,000 = $350,000,000,000,000 or $350 Trillion
or approx. 17.5 times the TOTAL debt of the United States has ever accrued.
Sure why not, then you won’t need Toilet Paper as currency, you can use real $1000 bills to wipe your backside.
As memory serves Germany tried that circa 1923 known as hyper inflation.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Who needs toilet paper when they’ve no food? They forgot the Natural Order of things:
Eat Now. Scheiss Later.
mhb23re
This explains why everyone living in the US is not already a millionaire.
But we are.
Well, only if we use her math.
This is actually a very accurate and common “belief” among the HIGHLY EDUCATED (sic) people in my upper. upper, upper, class community (it wasn’t that when I moved here … but the young tech-hipsters have fled the diseased side of the Oakland hills and bid up the prices of everything in my quiet bedroom community. The community -suburbia- they mocked for years and years).
They ACTUALLY believe if you just “unlock” and redistribute the wealth of the super-elites (they never count themselves as one of those) then … everyone can live comfortably. We’d all be wonderfully “equal” … or at least “no longer poor” … and they wouldn’t harbor so much liberal-GUILT over the amazing wealth they own themselves.
It’s true. They actually believe that. Just cut up the “pie” differently so EVERYONE gets a piece. They are extremely wealthy numbskulls.
Thinking is hard and that is why those on the left do not do it.
They live among us and what’s worse, they vote.
“Anyone who can’t use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote.” Robert Heinlein
And, yes, I learned to use a slide rule nearly 50 years ago and I still use one once in a while.
Slipstick Libby approves.
I still have my slide rule with leather case which I had acquired back in 1971 during my 4th year university. My first one bought new in 1967 for my first year broke somehow.
So the one I still have, some Quebecer had it. I assumed that because the slogan ‘Quebec Sait Faire’ is printed on it with a pen. Also printed on it is ‘Engineering UNB 1970-71’
I had a high school physics teacher that had a classroom sized one mounted on the black board. He would race us on our calculators. He won. He gave extra credit if you did his tests with one so I used my dad’s. It really gave me respect for the Apollo space program, and many other things when you realize what they did with what was the state of the art technology.
The DAY … in about 1977 … when I first sold everything I owned to buy a TI-30 hand-held calculator was (at the time) the GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE!! (It came just before I started shagging the cutest little minx I knew). I happily stowed my slide rule in my book backpack … and never looked back.
Yes. I know. I am a Christian, and should NOT have been shagging any girl who wasn’t married to me. I am weak. So very weak. Forgive me Lord. But I kinda blame you … for making girls so damn irresistibly appealing. So damn cute … to quote Tom Petty … “Watch her walk” … “mmmm mm mmmm!”
I used my slide rule until about halfway during the second term of my sophomore undergraduate year. I bought an HP-45 because it had rectangular to polar conversion, which was particularly useful when dealing with AC circuits.
My slide rule largely gathered dust since then until I wrote my Advanced amateur radio exam. I wasn’t allowed to use a calculator that had a memory on it, so I thought that my slide rule plus some scrap paper would do nicely. It must have worked because I passed.
I rapidly upgraded to an HP 29c … and then to a little hp 15c which I STILL use today. It’s sitting right in front of me. I use it for EVERYTHING … when I’m being too lazy to work it out in my head.
As my HS math teacher, Mr. Fee was fond of saying … “a pencil is a crutch for a crippled mind”. He would give us problems in class … a competition … to work out in our heads a string of mathematical calculations. Then he’d call on random people for the answer and SHAME you if you didn’t keep up with the 12 calculations you were supposed to work out.
OMG ! Mr. Fee was a sadistic, little prick who once told me I’d never amount to anything. Ha! He calculated that WRONG! He’d never make it a week in the public schools of today … some parent would have him removed for “abusing” the children. He didn’t abuse me … he just pissed me off. Meh. Just a prick being a prick. I had enough self-esteem to let it roll off my back.
During my senior undergrad year, I took an advanced strength of materials course. Two profs handled it, and the latter one was an irascible character and generations of students knew him for that. He would often make ball-park estimates for his calculations by rounding off some of the numbers and then doing then doing the arithmetic in his head.
I was in the front row and I remember him calling on me one day to do the calculation using my HP-45. I was a bit fumble-fingered and I had to correct myself. When I finished, he poked fun at me, saying that he got an approximate answer faster than I did, so I should throw away my calculator.
I did the same sort of thing while I was teaching, which annoyed some of my students.
In a post-script to that, he just happened to be among the active and retired faculty who attended my Ph. D. convocation. I took a moment to go over and thank him for having been one of my professors, even though he didn’t remember me.
The quality of our “leaders” is so low because there are no minimum standards.
For the most part, only thick-skinned psychopaths can tolerate the utter lunacy of the US government and increasingly …it’s citizenry.
There are still a few conservative who will take a run at it to try to do some drainage, but it’s a very thick fog.
We get the leadership we deserve. Let’s not forget that.
Use a slide rule for what? Most of us are not scientists, …. so we can’t vote?
I do not grok that thinking. Plus, I have a calculator.
A slide rule doesn’t need batteries. With it, one can multiply, divide, determine the value of trigonometric functions, find logarithms and square roots. With it, one can design a spacecraft that can go to the moon and the outer reaches of the solar system.
All that requires mental agility. Maybe Heinlein had a point as the average Canadian voter certainly didn’t demonstrate any during the last federal election and we definitely don’t see any in most of those who were elected.
BA the concept of the A-12/SR-71 was first formulated in 1959, after Gary Powers was shot down. 4 years later the first proto type flew. One hell of an accomplishment for pre-super computer era . that plane was also the first “stealth” aircraft, as it had the radar cross section equal to a Cessna 150, first body lift design, and had engines that produced about 75% of thrust at the input. All first time use tech, and all successful, all slide rule accomplishments:-)) Also there were quite a few Canadian engineers involved in the design of it!
I’ll bet that many of those Canadian engineers were formerly involved with the Avro Arrow, another plane designed using slide rules.
A pity. No, you shouldn’t be voting. And speak English.
I always thought, like Ramanujan, if you needed a slide rule, or calculator to do anything, you’re lacking math skills. But then again, that’s most of humanity.
To properly appreciate how a slide rule functions, one should understand how logarithms work–a definite mathematical skill.
It exceeds the entire wealth of planet earth. Apart from that, I thinks it’s a wonderful idea. But since we are into magic why not just make everyone a billionaire.
In all seriousness, this is how socialists think and its more than a problem with math, it demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding with where wealth comes from.
They just don’t seem to realize that if everyone had billion dollars, a billion dollars would be worthless.
Not one person commented because not one person read past the first sentence, would be my guess. But I am only right 250% of the time.
Be nice to see what their comments were if they were that dense to not notice.
They really are that rich!
C., you beat me to this joke. Lol.
The good Ms. Medina only accepts twitter followers as she she see fit. This is why none of her followers caught her bone headed tweet. They are timid yes-people sheep.
Dumb the schools down some more, I dare you.
The current coronavirus panic is revising the universal basic income idea. Some want $1,500 per individual per month. If you have kids you would get more money – up to $4,000 per month per family.
In Canada let us assume there are 10 million families (Internet says 9.4 million).
10,000,000 (families) x $4,000 (per month) x 12 (months) = $480 billion per year or about 25% of our GDP and more than the entire federal budget. I say go for it. I could use a $4,000 per month holiday. Canada will be long broke before I will.
If the governments hand out money like drunken politicians, you can brace yourself run away inflation and then all the retirees will be forked.
Someone check this woman for fish tank cleaner
But it has been done already so many times.
The Mexican peso,I have a 100,000 peso,the old peso from the 80s,around here somewhere.
Zimbabwe where a billion of their notes got you a loaf of bread,took a wheelbarrow to pack them.
Germany and their 1930s fake money.
Venezuela today,what was their bolivar trading at?
And the Canadien Dollar,worth everything you want it to be..
We will all be zillionaire before Justine’s Reign is over.
And the worst part,our bureaucrats are advocating massive inflation,because with “goods and services” taxes,government makes out like bandits,however briefly.
See “No tax increase” now pay your percentage of the massively increased cost..
And Canadians will vote the same parasites in again,cause healthcare is free,that national debt,those annual deficits are just an illusion..
The calculator problem is so obvious now,with no idea of the most basic mathematics,people accept what the screen states..
Very apparent in the Cult of Calamitous Climate,where Garbage In produces Gospel Out.
Yet a short review of the evidence should make the claimed precision impossible.
Error bars are an almost forgotten art.
Same with noise..if your signal is markedly smaller than the noise,you do not have information.
Haven’t we heard something like this before? Bloomberg’s campaign running aground, maybe?
Here’s something to scare you. What if the Democrats, with their arithmetic illiteracy, had won in 2016? Like Everett Dirksen said, a billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking real money.
$1,000,000 x 350,000,000 = $350,000,000,000,000 or $350 Trillion
or approx. 17.5 times the TOTAL debt of the United States has ever accrued.
Sure why not, then you won’t need Toilet Paper as currency, you can use real $1000 bills to wipe your backside.
As memory serves Germany tried that circa 1923 known as hyper inflation.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Smaller numbers – TP Panic maths
” 425 sheets per roll =
12,750 sheets per case =
20 Sheets per crap =
637.5 shits per case =
45.5 shits per day =
So a person that grabs 4 cases of TP
from Costco and has a family of four
quarantined for the required 14 days would
need to crap 182 times per day to use the
purchased amount of TP at 20 sheets per crap
Lets all calm down. ”
https://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/topic/128696-thought-this-would-make-people-laugh-at-this-hard-time/?tab=comments#comment-1403838
Also TP song at the beginning of the thread
Well you can just use one sheet per output (NSFW maybe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JofDuTmFpL8
C., you beat me to this joke. Lol.
Who needs toilet paper when they’ve no food? They forgot the Natural Order of things:
Eat Now. Scheiss Later.
mhb23re
This explains why everyone living in the US is not already a millionaire.
But we are.
Well, only if we use her math.
This is actually a very accurate and common “belief” among the HIGHLY EDUCATED (sic) people in my upper. upper, upper, class community (it wasn’t that when I moved here … but the young tech-hipsters have fled the diseased side of the Oakland hills and bid up the prices of everything in my quiet bedroom community. The community -suburbia- they mocked for years and years).
They ACTUALLY believe if you just “unlock” and redistribute the wealth of the super-elites (they never count themselves as one of those) then … everyone can live comfortably. We’d all be wonderfully “equal” … or at least “no longer poor” … and they wouldn’t harbor so much liberal-GUILT over the amazing wealth they own themselves.
It’s true. They actually believe that. Just cut up the “pie” differently so EVERYONE gets a piece. They are extremely wealthy numbskulls.
Thinking is hard and that is why those on the left do not do it.
They live among us and what’s worse, they vote.
“Anyone who can’t use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote.” Robert Heinlein
And, yes, I learned to use a slide rule nearly 50 years ago and I still use one once in a while.
Slipstick Libby approves.
I still have my slide rule with leather case which I had acquired back in 1971 during my 4th year university. My first one bought new in 1967 for my first year broke somehow.
So the one I still have, some Quebecer had it. I assumed that because the slogan ‘Quebec Sait Faire’ is printed on it with a pen. Also printed on it is ‘Engineering UNB 1970-71’
I had a high school physics teacher that had a classroom sized one mounted on the black board. He would race us on our calculators. He won. He gave extra credit if you did his tests with one so I used my dad’s. It really gave me respect for the Apollo space program, and many other things when you realize what they did with what was the state of the art technology.
The DAY … in about 1977 … when I first sold everything I owned to buy a TI-30 hand-held calculator was (at the time) the GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE!! (It came just before I started shagging the cutest little minx I knew). I happily stowed my slide rule in my book backpack … and never looked back.
Yes. I know. I am a Christian, and should NOT have been shagging any girl who wasn’t married to me. I am weak. So very weak. Forgive me Lord. But I kinda blame you … for making girls so damn irresistibly appealing. So damn cute … to quote Tom Petty … “Watch her walk” … “mmmm mm mmmm!”
https://youtu.be/cyMHz5CRcwI
I used my slide rule until about halfway during the second term of my sophomore undergraduate year. I bought an HP-45 because it had rectangular to polar conversion, which was particularly useful when dealing with AC circuits.
My slide rule largely gathered dust since then until I wrote my Advanced amateur radio exam. I wasn’t allowed to use a calculator that had a memory on it, so I thought that my slide rule plus some scrap paper would do nicely. It must have worked because I passed.
I rapidly upgraded to an HP 29c … and then to a little hp 15c which I STILL use today. It’s sitting right in front of me. I use it for EVERYTHING … when I’m being too lazy to work it out in my head.
As my HS math teacher, Mr. Fee was fond of saying … “a pencil is a crutch for a crippled mind”. He would give us problems in class … a competition … to work out in our heads a string of mathematical calculations. Then he’d call on random people for the answer and SHAME you if you didn’t keep up with the 12 calculations you were supposed to work out.
OMG ! Mr. Fee was a sadistic, little prick who once told me I’d never amount to anything. Ha! He calculated that WRONG! He’d never make it a week in the public schools of today … some parent would have him removed for “abusing” the children. He didn’t abuse me … he just pissed me off. Meh. Just a prick being a prick. I had enough self-esteem to let it roll off my back.
During my senior undergrad year, I took an advanced strength of materials course. Two profs handled it, and the latter one was an irascible character and generations of students knew him for that. He would often make ball-park estimates for his calculations by rounding off some of the numbers and then doing then doing the arithmetic in his head.
I was in the front row and I remember him calling on me one day to do the calculation using my HP-45. I was a bit fumble-fingered and I had to correct myself. When I finished, he poked fun at me, saying that he got an approximate answer faster than I did, so I should throw away my calculator.
I did the same sort of thing while I was teaching, which annoyed some of my students.
In a post-script to that, he just happened to be among the active and retired faculty who attended my Ph. D. convocation. I took a moment to go over and thank him for having been one of my professors, even though he didn’t remember me.
Anyone who can’t swing a hammer can’t lead. If you need to be reminded…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9IOX1orS1M
The quality of our “leaders” is so low because there are no minimum standards.
For the most part, only thick-skinned psychopaths can tolerate the utter lunacy of the US government and increasingly …it’s citizenry.
There are still a few conservative who will take a run at it to try to do some drainage, but it’s a very thick fog.
We get the leadership we deserve. Let’s not forget that.
Use a slide rule for what? Most of us are not scientists, …. so we can’t vote?
I do not grok that thinking. Plus, I have a calculator.
A slide rule doesn’t need batteries. With it, one can multiply, divide, determine the value of trigonometric functions, find logarithms and square roots. With it, one can design a spacecraft that can go to the moon and the outer reaches of the solar system.
All that requires mental agility. Maybe Heinlein had a point as the average Canadian voter certainly didn’t demonstrate any during the last federal election and we definitely don’t see any in most of those who were elected.
BA the concept of the A-12/SR-71 was first formulated in 1959, after Gary Powers was shot down. 4 years later the first proto type flew. One hell of an accomplishment for pre-super computer era . that plane was also the first “stealth” aircraft, as it had the radar cross section equal to a Cessna 150, first body lift design, and had engines that produced about 75% of thrust at the input. All first time use tech, and all successful, all slide rule accomplishments:-)) Also there were quite a few Canadian engineers involved in the design of it!
I’ll bet that many of those Canadian engineers were formerly involved with the Avro Arrow, another plane designed using slide rules.
A pity. No, you shouldn’t be voting. And speak English.
I always thought, like Ramanujan, if you needed a slide rule, or calculator to do anything, you’re lacking math skills. But then again, that’s most of humanity.
To properly appreciate how a slide rule functions, one should understand how logarithms work–a definite mathematical skill.
It exceeds the entire wealth of planet earth. Apart from that, I thinks it’s a wonderful idea. But since we are into magic why not just make everyone a billionaire.
In all seriousness, this is how socialists think and its more than a problem with math, it demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding with where wealth comes from.
They just don’t seem to realize that if everyone had billion dollars, a billion dollars would be worthless.
Not one person commented because not one person read past the first sentence, would be my guess. But I am only right 250% of the time.
Be nice to see what their comments were if they were that dense to not notice.
They really are that rich!
C., you beat me to this joke. Lol.
The good Ms. Medina only accepts twitter followers as she she see fit. This is why none of her followers caught her bone headed tweet. They are timid yes-people sheep.
Dumb the schools down some more, I dare you.
The current coronavirus panic is revising the universal basic income idea. Some want $1,500 per individual per month. If you have kids you would get more money – up to $4,000 per month per family.
In Canada let us assume there are 10 million families (Internet says 9.4 million).
10,000,000 (families) x $4,000 (per month) x 12 (months) = $480 billion per year or about 25% of our GDP and more than the entire federal budget. I say go for it. I could use a $4,000 per month holiday. Canada will be long broke before I will.
If the governments hand out money like drunken politicians, you can brace yourself run away inflation and then all the retirees will be forked.
Someone check this woman for fish tank cleaner
But it has been done already so many times.
The Mexican peso,I have a 100,000 peso,the old peso from the 80s,around here somewhere.
Zimbabwe where a billion of their notes got you a loaf of bread,took a wheelbarrow to pack them.
Germany and their 1930s fake money.
Venezuela today,what was their bolivar trading at?
And the Canadien Dollar,worth everything you want it to be..
We will all be zillionaire before Justine’s Reign is over.
And the worst part,our bureaucrats are advocating massive inflation,because with “goods and services” taxes,government makes out like bandits,however briefly.
See “No tax increase” now pay your percentage of the massively increased cost..
And Canadians will vote the same parasites in again,cause healthcare is free,that national debt,those annual deficits are just an illusion..
The calculator problem is so obvious now,with no idea of the most basic mathematics,people accept what the screen states..
Very apparent in the Cult of Calamitous Climate,where Garbage In produces Gospel Out.
Yet a short review of the evidence should make the claimed precision impossible.
Error bars are an almost forgotten art.
Same with noise..if your signal is markedly smaller than the noise,you do not have information.