[QUOTE=kladner;428573]From a side box:

The Earth's tidal forces on the Moon must cause tremors there. It seems the stresses would be a lot greater. However, I guess that without tectonic activity, there would be fewer faults to disturb.[/QUOTE]

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(natural_phenomenon)#Moonquake[/url]

In particular, the deep quakes.

[URL="http://qz.com/641738/this-rocket-executive-pissed-off-everyone-in-space-and-lost-his-job-the-next-day/"]This rocket executive pissed off everyone in space and lost his job the next day[/URL][LIST][*]Don’t piss off your contractors[*]Don’t piss off senators[*]Don’t piss off your client[*]Don’t admit you can’t compete[*]Don’t mock your competitors for things you can’t do[/LIST]

[url]http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_29677981/mystery-solved-uss-conestoga-lost-nearly-century-found[/url]

New Zealand has [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35890670"]decided to keep the Union Flag[/URL] as part of its national flag. No great surprise there.

Curiously enough, a [URL="http://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Hawaii"]territory which has never been part of The Empire[/URL] also has the Union Flag in its state flag.

FWIW, I don't give a damn whether anyone other than the UK uses the Union Flag. It's entirely a matter for the indigenous population IMAO.

[url]http://www.gizmag.com/twisted-light-slower/42489/[/url] makes sense but it's a cool thing to think about. in theory this could have implications for starlight that gets twisted and using it to predict the distance to the stars etc.

[QUOTE=xilman;429984]New Zealand has [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35890670"]decided to keep the Union Flag[/URL] as part of its national flag. No great surprise there.[/QUOTE]

Another defeat for the worldwide-commonwealth "jack off" movement, I see.

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[url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/7035908/Man-changes-surname-to-Null-and-bags-freebies.html]Revealed: Man changes surname to Null and manages to bag lots of FREE holidays, car rentals and goodies[/url] | The Sun

“[T]he word ‘Null’ doesn’t register with the computer’s programming, so computer systems assume he’s not a person. The glitch means that when receptionists enter ‘Null’ in the surname box the system automatically recognises the word as ‘an absence of data’.”

Sounds to me like some kind truly inane scripty-language 'helpful' typecasting may be at work ... as in "since no in their right mind would deliberately enter the string 'null' and mean it, we simply reserve-word that one to == (int)0. You're ever so welcome, lazy type-ists of the world!"

Reminds me of the old C 'null pointers need not be dull pointers!' joke ... and of this: [url]https://xkcd.com/327/[/url]

I spent a few hours today clearing out and digging over a flower bed that had become overgrown with weeds. Neither my stamina nor my health generally is what it was.

After resting and eating dinner I realised that I felt like an old man. Don't be silly, I told myself, where are you going to get one at this time of night?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;430487]Another defeat for the worldwide-commonwealth "jack off" movement, I see.

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[url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/7035908/Man-changes-surname-to-Null-and-bags-freebies.html]Revealed: Man changes surname to Null and manages to bag lots of FREE holidays, car rentals and goodies[/url] | The Sun

“[T]he word ‘Null’ doesn’t register with the computer’s programming, so computer systems assume he’s not a person. The glitch means that when receptionists enter ‘Null’ in the surname box the system automatically recognises the word as ‘an absence of data’.”

Sounds to me like some kind truly inane scripty-language 'helpful' typecasting may be at work ... as in "since no in their right mind would deliberately enter the string 'null' and mean it, we simply reserve-word that one to == (int)0. You're ever so welcome, lazy type-ists of the world!"

Reminds me of the old C 'null pointers need not be dull pointers!' joke ... and of this: [url]https://xkcd.com/327/[/url][/QUOTE]

[url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-do-i-correctly-pass-the-string-null-an-employees-proper-surname-to-a-so[/url]

add another potential cause to diabetes playbook ?
 

[url]http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-discovery-asprosin-hormone-potential-implications.html[/url]

[url]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/pastafarianism-is-satire-and-not-protected-religion-court-rules/[/url]

[url]http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/04/many-accurate-enough-chips-will-use.html[/url]