question for _________

[Didzo]

Has anyone ever insisted that you knew what the cause/solution of a solution was, but no one believed you? Later on, it turns out you were 100% right?

Nope.

[matter11]

With my recent discovery of how low Canada's tuition rates are, How much higher are taxes in Canada than in the states? I realize the programs we spend tax money on are different but how much more (if it is more) does the average Canadian give in exchange for free healthcare and cheap education? Does anyone know what tuition rates are for foreign students?

[HeK]

With my recent discovery of how low Canada's tuition rates are, How much higher are taxes in Canada than in the states? I realize the programs we spend tax money on are different but how much more (if it is more) does the average Canadian give in exchange for free healthcare and cheap education? Does anyone know what tuition rates are for foreign students?

I pay 40% income taxes, 12% sales taxes, and nearly $3k/year on real estate taxes.

My education wasn't cheap, at nearly $5k a year. I don't think the tuition rates are different for visiting students, but it varies between institutions.

[matter11]

I had a very small if not meaningless victory last night but it made me feel good.
It was me (a state school student), a duke math major, and 4 UPenn students hanging out when someone produces the 24 game. I have to say as nerdy as it is it's so much fun especially when inebriated. I beat them pretty badly. This one took us(me!) a long time to figure out. No cheating.

2,7,8,9

get to 24 using +,-,x,/,and ()

[Dr. Zaius]

I had a very small if not meaningless victory last night but it made me feel good.
It was me (a state school student), a duke math major, and 4 UPenn students hanging out when someone produces the 24 game. I have to say as nerdy as it is it's so much fun especially when inebriated. I beat them pretty badly. This one took us(me!) a long time to figure out. No cheating.

2,7,8,9

get to 24 using +,-,x,/,and ()

Never played before, but if the numbers can be arranged in any order

[spoiler] (2(7+9))-8[/spoiler]

about 30 seconds for me

[matter11]

Question for Luin:

Because I remember you posted about growing up raising cattle, Do you have any idea what happened here? (idk if it's real or not)

[Luinbariel]

Question for Luin:

Because I remember you posted about growing up raising cattle, Do you have any idea what happened here? (idk if it's real or not)

I'm gonna say that I don't think that's real. I've never once heard of anything happening like that.

I guess such a thing is physically possible as it would be with many other animals; my mom told me some stories of when she used to kill and clean chickens, and their bodies run around and do stupid shit for a surprisingly long time before they finally fall down and die after you cut off their heads. Looks like, if it were real, it could have had its face blown off with something and is still in the process of being dead.

Especially considering a the end it seems to be trying to walk or something and it can't quite do it.

But shit looks fake.

[[SiN] Merc]

[quote author=matter11 link=topic=5854.msg246929#msg246929 date=1339104413]
Question for Luin:

Because I remember you posted about growing up raising cattle, Do you have any idea what happened here? (idk if it's real or not)

I'm gonna say that I don't think that's real. I've never once heard of anything happening like that.

I guess such a thing is physically possible as it would be with many other animals; my mom told me some stories of when she used to kill and clean chickens, and their bodies run around and do stupid shit for a surprisingly long time before they finally fall down and die after you cut off their heads. Looks like, if it were real, it could have had its face blown off with something and is still in the process of being dead.

Especially considering a the end it seems to be trying to walk or something and it can't quite do it.

But shit looks fake.
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Seconding this. Never in my years of raising cattle have I ever even heard of something like that happening. I've heard it happening to chickens and seen that shit personally, but not cows. That, and if it was in its dying state, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be able to stand up; the nerves would make it convulse, causing it to flop on the ground instead. Just my two cents anyway.

[Luinbariel]

Merc link=topic=5854.msg246945#msg246945 date=1339112660]
[quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=5854.msg246930#msg246930 date=1339105009]
[quote author=matter11 link=topic=5854.msg246929#msg246929 date=1339104413]
Question for Luin:

Because I remember you posted about growing up raising cattle, Do you have any idea what happened here? (idk if it's real or not)

I'm gonna say that I don't think that's real. I've never once heard of anything happening like that.

I guess such a thing is physically possible as it would be with many other animals; my mom told me some stories of when she used to kill and clean chickens, and their bodies run around and do stupid shit for a surprisingly long time before they finally fall down and die after you cut off their heads. Looks like, if it were real, it could have had its face blown off with something and is still in the process of being dead.

Especially considering a the end it seems to be trying to walk or something and it can't quite do it.

But shit looks fake.
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Seconding this. Never in my years of raising cattle have I ever even heard of something like that happening. I've heard it happening to chickens and seen that shit personally, but not cows. That, and if it was in its dying state, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be able to stand up; the nerves would make it convulse, causing it to flop on the ground instead. Just my two cents anyway.
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Also its heart would probably be pumping blood everywhere.

[matter11]

[quote author=[SiN] Merc link=topic=5854.msg246945#msg246945 date=1339112660]
[quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=5854.msg246930#msg246930 date=1339105009]
[quote author=matter11 link=topic=5854.msg246929#msg246929 date=1339104413]
Question for Luin:

Because I remember you posted about growing up raising cattle, Do you have any idea what happened here? (idk if it's real or not)

I'm gonna say that I don't think that's real. I've never once heard of anything happening like that.

I guess such a thing is physically possible as it would be with many other animals; my mom told me some stories of when she used to kill and clean chickens, and their bodies run around and do stupid shit for a surprisingly long time before they finally fall down and die after you cut off their heads. Looks like, if it were real, it could have had its face blown off with something and is still in the process of being dead.

Especially considering a the end it seems to be trying to walk or something and it can't quite do it.

But shit looks fake.
[/quote]
Seconding this. Never in my years of raising cattle have I ever even heard of something like that happening. I've heard it happening to chickens and seen that shit personally, but not cows. That, and if it was in its dying state, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be able to stand up; the nerves would make it convulse, causing it to flop on the ground instead. Just my two cents anyway.
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Also its heart would probably be pumping blood everywhere.
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comments say it was hit by a train apparently

[Luinbariel]

I still highly doubt that.

Both my sister and brother in law have both worked for Via Rail in Canada. They'd be on the train a week at a time as a chef or cook. They've both seen cows get hit by trains at least once. Know what happens? They pretty much explode.

Trains DO NOT slow down for them, and when they are on the tracks, they are almost completely obliterated. Sometimes their carcass gets kind of caught up in the front of the train and they have to stop it and get it cleared away before the train can continue on. But I am extremely doubtful that it would just smack the cow in the face, rip its face off, and that the cow would just continue to stand there and look around like nothing happened. There is no blood dripping, which I still believe there would be. There still seems to be something missing in terms of its musculature/facial structure that should be there even if it had been somehow taken off by something.

[StolenToast]

I still highly doubt that.

Both my sister and brother in law have both worked for Via Rail in Canada. They'd be on the train a week at a time as a chef or cook. They've both seen cows get hit by trains at least once. Know what happens? They pretty much explode.

Trains DO NOT slow down for them, and when they are on the tracks, they are almost completely obliterated. Sometimes their carcass gets kind of caught up in the front of the train and they have to stop it and get it cleared away before the train can continue on. But I am extremely doubtful that it would just smack the cow in the face, rip its face off, and that the cow would just continue to stand there and look around like nothing happened. There is no blood dripping, which I still believe there would be. There still seems to be something missing in terms of its musculature/facial structure that should be there even if it had been somehow taken off by something.

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[Dr. Zaius]

i remember when i believed everything i read online

[at0m]

Pretty sure its a photoshop. I can tell from the pixels, and from having seen quite a few in my time.

[matter11]

for all- What are you giving/doing for father's day?

[k0ala]

2 hours of talking about the weather, small-engine repair, politics, and bullshit.

Phone call's all he wants, I don't even bother with a card anymore.

[Saxxy]

2 hours of talking about bullshit, small-engine repair, bullshit, and bullshit.

for reasons beyond my understanding, my lab sells coffee mugs that have some sort of evolutionary simulation thing on them, so I was thinking of buying one for my dad, and maybe another mug from one of the coffee shops that i go to

[Azure_Angel]

for all- What are you giving/doing for father's day?

a bullet to the head.

[Sogo]

for all- What are you giving/doing for father's day?

Picked him up the new Sherlock Holmes movie on DVD and a bag of his favorite licorice. That and actually remembering Father's day.

[at0m]

I'll call my mom, since my dad's dead and a card for him would just make her cry. Even calling might make her cry, so I dunno :/