Under a Gibbous Moon

Especially with ALLCAPS.

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I can’t seem to post an updated comment on this so I will put up a new post. I watched a long version of the video here and there is one brief episode of speeding when there is no traffic in the way and no weaving between cars or anything that would make the off duty officer’s actions appropriate.

Anyway, the wiretapping charge got thrown out on the grounds that it wasn’t wiretapping you fucktards. I would really like to know what, if anything happened to the officer as a consequence of his retardation.

…this poor asian kid, with dreams of taking the field of mathematics by storm, attempted to divide by 0…

He has never been seen since. Mathematics can only lead to tragedy when used irresponsibly.

Apparently, this is going to become something of a regular series. Everytime I get a new email from NCC NOW, I can expect another trip into stupidity.

Could you find the greatest happiness of your life after being fired, going through a divorce, and learning you have a serious illness? Best-selling author of “How Starbucks Saved My Life” Michael Gates Gill did, and he shared his remarkable story at NCC

Starbucks you say…

Don’t be afraid to try a math problem. No one is going to die or get hurt if you get it wrong!

See, this is what happens if you spend to much time at Starbucks. A short list of disasters caused by wrong math:

• Conversion errors doomed the Mars Rover.
• Last year, a math error cost the state of Maryland 31 MILLION dollars.
• A fuel miscalculation caused Air Canada Flight 143 to run out of fuel mid flight.
• After construction plans were changed, no one bothered to rerun the math, killing 114 people.
• Another calculation error kept a Patriot missile from intercepting a Scud during the First Gulf War, killing 28 soldiers and wounding another 100.
• A failure in an inertial reference calculation caused an European Space Agency Ariane 5 to explode forty seconds after take off.
• Bad math in calculating concrete and ballast requirements led to the sinking of Sleipner A offshore oil platform
• The flood walls and levees in New Orleans were built and maintained using some shady math leading to catastrophic failure during Hurricane Katrina.

This is hardly and exhaustive list, but I would like to point out that math is serious business and it would seem this Michael Gates Gill is not familiar with what he’s talking about. Not a great person to have come and talk to your students.

Why indeed?