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Well, we didn't win, in large part due to my misinterpreting the strength scoring. I had thought that all bridges would be tested to failure, the strongest bridge got 10 points, and the others got points based on the percentage they held compared to the winner (like in the height and length categori...

Are you sure that the tallest structure will win, or the shortest? A taller structure is actually a lot stronger when loaded the way a bridge is than a shorter structure. Are you talking about an arch structure, or the height of the trusses, or something else? The height scoring is based on the flo...

As part of my office's Christmas party on Friday, we're split into teams of three for a popsicle stick bridge-building contest. The bridges will be scored on height of span, length of span, and maximum load. The winner of each category gets 10 points, with the other teams getting points proportional...

Am I missing something, or did you link to the wrong page? It shows the Dow Jones steadily rising for the last two years... Correct. This is wealth. Or rather, it is the illusion of wealth. While the Dow has been a real bully beast recently, breaking all time records at least twice in a year, the v...

Oh wow, the US is so fucked now. Every chart I see is a near vertical fucking line. I bet T-bills are selling well. Hey, what's less useful than a greenback today? A greenback ten years from now. Am I missing something, or did you link to the wrong page? It shows the Dow Jones steadily rising for t...

Some 9/11 conspiracy nutbar is trying to get people to publically post the officers' home addresses:

+http://www.911blogger.com/node/11461

According to Screw Loose Change, the screaming guy was himself a Truther.

Progressive Conservative? :lol: Oh shit, I'm scared. The name itself sounds... well, oxymoronic... there are a couple bad names like that, for example Christian Democrats in Europe but PC is even more ridiculous. The idea behind the name was "social progressive but fiscally conservative"....

I can't stand the idea of "list" MPs. We already have enough problems with members who act like trained seals for their leader; a list MP really would be just a mindless voting machine. (Break with the party line? Sorry, you're off the list, and have no chance of winning back your seat, be...

The type table in Red/Blue was grossly inaccurate; it (along with the cartoon) made legions of kids believe that Ghost was strong against Psychic, among other things. Umm, Ghost IS SE vs Psychic. It wasn't in Red/Blue/Yellow, even though all the official materials claimed it was. In fact, the only ...

After careful consideration, I've concluded that the worst Canadians ever are definitely these guys.

How the hell did [Morgentaler] get third place on the list, I thought a greater percentage of Canadians were more open minded than the US. This wasn't a scientific poll, it was a self-selected sample. So as a test of Canadians' feelings overall, it has roughly the same validity as the "Greates...

In a sequel of sorts to the "Greatest Canadian" contest a few years back, a Canadian history magazine held a vote on who was the "Worst Canadian". The "winners" are: 1. Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister) 2. Chris Hannah (musician who got his fans to vote from him) 3. Henry...

The type table in Red/Blue was grossly inaccurate; it (along with the cartoon) made legions of kids believe that Ghost was strong against Psychic, among other things.

Thanks to everyone who offered advice. I ended up using a program called TextHarvest . In case anyone else here ever needs to do something similar, here's the script I wrote for this purpose: FullPage = SetFromFile $ActualIFN Field1 = Parse FullPage 'text before Field1 data' 'text after Field1 data'...

I'm struggling with getting some Web data into a usable format. I have a whole bunch of individual Web pages, with one record per file, and I want to extract the data to a single CSV (or Excel/Access) file. The structure of the HTML files looks something like this: <td width="25%"><span id...

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics (requires registration), by Steven Landsburg A couple exerpts: Consider Martin, a charming and generally prudent young man with a limited sexual history, who has been gently flirting with his coworker Joan. As last week's office party ap...

That makes no sense. The difference in population clearly makes percentage the proper measure to use. If someone said there were to say "The USA has 150 million YEC believers, while Arkansas only has 2 million, therefore Arkansans believe in YEC less than Americans overall," that would be ...

Ft. McMurray is responsible for two-thirds of Canada's global greenhouse gas emissions Are these guys incompetent, or outright lying? According to this site , the entirety of Canada's fossil fuel industry makes up less than 10% of the total. (on oil supplies) We're good for fifty years, America, an...

Genesis clearly states that Manitoba borders Quebec.

That poll's a really shitty comparison anyway, isn't it? Even just glancing at it it doesn't seem right to compare the percentages of a country with a province. Uh, why not? It's normal (at least in Canada) for polls to compare the various regions, with a figure for the country overall. PS. I check...

From the Globe & Mail New polls show that a larger share of Americans - 53 per cent - believe in evolution than do Ontario residents, only 51 per cent of whom believe that "human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years." Over all, 59 per cent of Canadians sa...

Darth Wong wrote:Unfortunately, the idea of banning political advertising by any group, particularly unions, would never fly.

That already is the de facto rule in federal elections. (Third-party advertising is technically allowed, but the spending limits are so low that it's virtually meaningless.)

Glocksman wrote:What's next, claiming he's a Nazi because he played one on TV?

Too late.

(Or is that what you were referring to?)

Unfortunately, I don't have Wi-Fi access at this point, so there's no way for me to battle online. Plus, my team is made for playing the RPG (lots of high-PP/low-power attacks, no stat-boosting moves, unoptimized EVs) and so isn't very good for link battles. I saved the friend code you gave, though,...

I've only got 5 badges so far, with over 60 hours of playtime. Like someone else posted earlier, I like to catch a full team early and then level them evenly. Torterra Luxray Crobat Medicham Gastrodon (eastern) Rapidash They're all around level 50, thanks to a long and frustrating, but ultimately su...