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Good stuff WL

Riots are not caused by events. Riots are caused by rioters.

I have these posters around my house. Having the originals would be wild- they are worth more than the state I live in. I wonder what sort of art others here have/like. Van Gogh's Starry Night Van Gogh's Irises Hokusai's The Great Wave at Kanagawa Hokusai's Boy in Front of Fiji

< what!? Me? Legalize pot? No way! Where is my scotch?

No one here is exactly what they seem.

If at first you don't succeed, then you might want to stay away from sky-diving.

All of us have discovered things from time to time about life that are profound and important. Here we attempt to write them down. Please share your discoveries. I will start. Bisexual does not mean that you have sex twice a year.

This is a mystery far beyond relativity or quantum physics. I don't even think the mathematics to define the problem have even been invented. If men are from Mars, Women are from NGC 1300. Mars is a simple little world: NGC 1300 is a huge, complex galaxy.

WHAT’S TRENDING Wednesday, April 18, 9:42 pm http://now.msn.com/now/0417-austria-town.aspx Austrian village is f**king tired of you mocking its name 1 day ago The village of Fucking, Austria, has 104 residents, many of whom are really f**king tired of tourists stealing road signs with the village's name and being mocked for bearing the name of a 6th-century Bavarian nobleman named Focko (the village's name is derived from an 18th-century spelling). Mostly, the Fucking residents just want to be f**king left alone. Which is why the village is now mulling a name change. Fuckingers will vote this week whether to alter the hamlet's name, with some in favor of reverting to the 16th century spelling, replacing "ck" with a single or double "g." Others want to keep the name, either out of tradition or to keep the tourist money flowing.​

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boxers usually, gym shorts sometimes

There is a shadowy intelligence agency that I keep running across but know next to nothing about. Does anybody know anything about an intelligence group/agency out of the UK called Barrier? I think they are part of MI6 but something about that is just not right. From what I've seen, they're too independent. Sixers are NOT. Maybe they are a European collaboration? Maybe NATO... They have big time interests in counter-terrorism and proliferation issues.

I'd like to relax with that six-pack after work.

ridiculous FAST network technology powered by friendly magical gnomes.

Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network By Damon Poeter April 12, 2012 09:21am EST PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com...,2402931,00.asp Scientists at the Quantum Dynamics division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany announced Wednesday that they have built the very first, elementary quantum network comprised of a pair of entangled atoms that transmit information to each other via single photons. That and a couple of bucks will get you a cup of coffee, plus anything from a perfectly secure data exchange system to the massive scaling via distributed processing of the already mind-bogglingly powerful, if theoretical, potential of a standalone quantum computer. These are indeed heady days for the pioneers of quantum computing, with each news cycle seemingly bringing forth a major breakthrough in a subatomic frontier that appears poised to revolutionize how our calculating machines deliver us everything from satellite mapping to LOLcats. It's also a daunting time for those of us who have barely just sussed out the mechanics of old-fashioned, silicon-based computer chips–only to be confronted with this new science of computing, a full understanding of which requires one to be not just an advanced electrical engineer, but a quantum physicist to boot. All of which is to say that, yes, the bright individuals who are trying to harness the computational power of stuff so small and weird, it can only be described mathematically, are at it again. Years in the Making The accomplishment was the result of years of work, according to Scientific Computing. Lead researcher Prof. Gerhard Rempe and his colleagues had to figure out a means of exercising "perfect control" over all the components in their quantum network, which first meant getting the two atoms that make up the network's receptor nodes to somehow stay stationary, because a couple of free-floating atoms wouldn't be able to communicate with the photons relaying information between the two very efficiently. "This approach to quantum networking is particularly promising because it provides a clear perspective for scalability," Rempe told the journal. His colleague and leader of the experiment, Dr. Stephan Ritter, added, "We were able to prove that the quantum states can be transferred much better than possible with any classical network." The team was able to fix their atoms in optical cavities, basically a couple of highly reflective mirrors a short distance from each other, by means of fine-tuned laser beams. Why mirrors? Photons entering the cavity bounce around the mirrors "several thousand times," which actually enhances the atom-photon interaction and enables the network node atoms to absorb the photon-based data packets "coherently and with high efficiency," according to the scientists. The use of optical cavities for a quantum network was proposed by Prof. Ignacio Cirac, an MPQ directory and head of its Theory division. "In fact, we demonstrate the feasibility of the theoretical approach developed by Prof. Cirac," Ritter said. After trapping and stabilizing the atoms that would serve as the system's network nodes, the scientists had to get the atoms to emit single photons encoded with information in a controlled way and transfer that information onto a second photon. Then, to demonstrate an actual networking effect, the team connected two such systems "and quantum information was exchanged between them with high efficiency and fidelity," Scientific Computing reported. The two systems were connected by a roughly 180-foot-long fiber optic cable and hosted in separate labs about 60 feet apart from each other. So basically, walking down the hall and just telling the guys in the other lab what was on the photon would have been about as effective, but the point of the exercise was to show the network performing as designed and to worry about scaling it out to purposefulness later. Weird and Weirder Science Quantum networking is the practical application of experimental quantum cryptography, like the "blind quantum computing" demonstration by another team of researchers at the University of Vienna's Center for Quantum Science and Technology earlier this year, which involved transmitting an algorithm to a computer, running it, and receiving it back without the computer's operator being able to snoop on those operations. Like its cousin, quantum computing, quantum networking takes advantage of the fact that subatomic particles of matter can exist in multiple states–such as "on" and "off" to reference the binary process by which digital computing operates–at the same time. Again, this is exceedingly difficult stuff to wrap one's head around, but suffice to say that these properties enable the quantum bits, or qubits, that power quantum computers and the single-photon data packets developed for the MPQ team's quantum network to perform their duties much more powerfully and securely than the non-quantum parts used in currently available PC chips and network infrastructure devices. Of course, all of this is still very much in the realm of conjecture. Quantum computing is still highly theoretical, with demonstrations like the MPQ team's limited to laboratory settings. There are no practical quantum computers,just experimental ones. For one thing, scientists have yet to actually scale out their quantum computers and quantum networks to the point that they can actually out-perform their digital counterparts. For another, the cost of doing so appears to be, for the time being anyway, prohibitive. But clearly, a boffin poking around in the subatomic, algorithmic ether can dare to dream.

Plot bunny needs to have a litter under my computer.

< Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right > Stuck in the middle with you (Gary Johnson, Libertarian) I'm sorry but I can't tell the difference no more It's just a competition to find the biggest whore. It doesn't really matter who wins, We we all lose... Stuck in the middle of a broken two-party system that is completely out of control.

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It really depends. Short works tend to come off fast. Longer, novel length works take more. More planning, more attention to character, more attention to setting, more attention to details, more attention to continuity, more attention to research: more attention all the way around. Broken- emotionally charged stuff take months or even years to get out. Shadows of the Dragon- chapters took from two to three weeks. Operation Hammerhead- chapters are taking about a month.

politics fools to the left of me Jokers to the right Stuck in the middle with you...

Duke was a surprise to me. They are usually in it. I like the NCAA because you get to see the small schools that are bad-ass but never get TV time like Xavier (and a few others) that raise hell in the middle of the tourney but eventually get out muscled. Its fun to see the little schools upset those highly ranked schools from the power conferences. PS- I quit watching the SEC tourney. Everybody was playing so poorly, I got disgusted with it.

Doves Kingdom of Rust I hear a sound, a sound above my head Distant sound of thunder, moving out on the moor Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers I'll pack my bags Thinking of one of those hours With you, waiting for you My God, it takes an ocean of trust In the Kingdom of Rust I long to feel some beauty in my heart As I go searching, right to the start Hmmm The road back to Preston Was jutted out in snow As I went looking for that stolen heart For you, waiting for you My God, it takes an ocean of trust Takes an effort it does My god, it takes an ocean of trust It's in the Kingdom of Rust Oooow in the Kingdom of Rust I long to feel that wince in my heart As I went looking I couldn't stop Now I'm waiting for you Ooohh ............. I know it takes an ocean of trust In the Kingdom of Rust

There was very little drama in the NCAA tournament. Kentucky was picked number one last fall, picked to win the SEC, Won the SEC, won the SEC tournament and was favored to win the NCAA tournament. They just kept rolling on. Obviously they are a great team. The pressure on front-runners sorts out the contenders from the pretenders.