Somewhat Useful Facts Thread

[captain_obvious]

one flak hit and *POOOMF*...
up it goes!! (and not the good "up" either)

In the game chess the king may only move one space at a time.

[Senator]

When the King swaps with a Tower, in the move known as "Castling" it can move two spaces.

[captain_obvious]

When the King swaps with a Tower, in the move known as "Castling" it can move two spaces.

tw@
a bishop can only move diagonally
try that one for size sen ;) lol

[MLeo]

Or even 3 in case it swaps with the Queen's Tower. ;)
Although, I suppose it depends with how you count it.



When someone proposes payment in the form of rice, and particularly (sp) in the form of 1 grain on the first square of a chessboard, 2 on the second, 4 on the fourth, etc, etc.

DO NOT ACCEPT!  First of all, you don't have enough rice, second, you don't have anything to put it in something to get it to the person who wants said payment.

[Senator]

When someone proposes payment in the form of rice, and particularly (sp) in the form of 1 grain on the first square of a chessboard, 2 on the second, 4 on the fourth, etc, et
c.

64 duplications make little Martingale cry.

a bishop can only move diagonally
try that one for size sen  lol

Hm
Hmm
*scratches chin*
*rotates entire chessboard 45 degrees*
Seems to be moving pretty horizontally and vertically now to me. :mrgreen:

[MLeo]

Mathematics says: 18446744073709551615 grains of rice.

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4196 + 8392 + 16784 + .... Continue for another 49 times.

Or, 2⁶⁴ - 1


[EDIT] Thanks Senator for catching the off by 1 error.

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

but demanding the payment from others is a good idea. ;)

[limey BSc.]

Mathematics says: 18446744073709551615 grains of rice.

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4196 + 8392 + 16784 + .... Continue for another 49 times.

Or, 2⁶⁴ - 1


[EDIT] Thanks Senator for catching the off by 1 error.

You said 4 on the 4th, not the 3rd!

[MLeo]

Sorry about that than.
But, didn't you not find it odd that I jumped from second to fourth without going through third?

[captain_obvious]

but demanding the payment from others is a good idea. ;)

unless they murder you, which can painful..

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

Speak for you self. I am immortal.

[captain_obvious]

Speak for you self. I am immortal.

*decapitates 1DS*

NEGATRON!!!

the  oil for a fiat punto 1.2 16valve 5 speed gearbox should normally be changed at 192k miles..

that's quite a long time between changes...

[Senator]

To put that 5 Terrabyte disk post into perspective:

[JimmyB76]

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center."

- Condoleezza Rice



actually, almost everybody in Washington was at least concerned about the possibility... 
 - in 1999 through 2001, NORAD ran exercises on how U.S. Air Defenses would handle hijackers who seized planes and used them as missles...
 - in September 1994 a pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds, just short of the President's bedroom...
 - in April 1994 a disgruntled FedEx flight engineer boarded a DC-10 and invaded the cockpit, planning to crash the plane into a company building...
 - in December 1994 an Air France was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who were linked to al Qaeda - aiming to crash it into the Eiffel Tower...
 - Tom Clancy wrote two bestsellers about deliberately flying a fuel-laden jet into the Capitol building, killing the president and our top leadership (Debt of Honor, 1994; Executive Orders,1996)...



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[Kirk]

The new iPhone 3G does blend.

[Senator]

And that is apparently the biggest pool in the world:

[lint]

Yeah, you need a pool that size, Especially with that amount of people using it  :lol:

[Senator]

Sometimes you just don't have a pool big enough...

[lint]

Dangerously Over crowded, Fact.
A Giant human toilet, Fact

[JimmyB76]

Sometimes you just don't have a pool big enough...

thats disgusting...  it's like a huge human stew; i can only imagine how gross that water is... 



Another Judge Who Isn't Intellectually Viable

James Leon Holmes - appointed by Dubya as a judge for the Arkansas Eastern District in July 2004 - once compared the pro-choice movement to Nazi propaganda, likened the issue of abortion to slavery, wrote that "a wife is to subordinate herself to her husband," and argued that all abortions should be banned because "conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami."
Meanwhile, studies from 2000 and 2004 show that 25,000 to 32,000 pregnancies a year result from rape in the U.S.


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