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[Cosmic Penguin]

Ah..... yes.... :blink:

:blink:

Noch ein Bier!

Following last month's weird discussion, I can report that the game now also features the ghost carrier Graf Zeppelin. :rofl:

Also a note for our Italian members - the game also feature the battleships Littorio and Roma plus 1 destroyer.

 

[jedidia]

Found this lying around, it made me laugh...

 

[Thunder Chicken]

In regards to that cat thing I posted a while back, I found this:

http://news.yahoo.com/this-is-why-cats-are-scared-of-cucumbers-and-why-120349402.html

Cucumbers frighten me too. Cucumbers are anti-food. I think they're one of those foods that actually requires more calories to chew and swallow than you actually get from eating it. People who eat just lettuce and cucumbers are miserable and will eventually die of starvation. I'd jump if someone placed one near me.

I'll have my rare steak and a baked potato with sour cream please. With a nice beer.

Related but unrelated, a good commercial from the wayback machine:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmCYf-LBd4"]Foster's Salad Commercial 1994 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ex-orbinaut]

I am pretty sure, almost everybody in this forum knows at least one German march...

Der Königgrätzer - YouTube

Yeah, funny how La Raspa kind of sounds like that...

It is not the only "Mexicanizado" German written "march" composition, either...

LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Following last month's weird discussion, I can report that the game now also features the ghost carrier Graf Zeppelin. :rofl:

Also a note for our Italian members - the game also feature the battleships Littorio and Roma plus 1 destroyer.

Ein anderer mehr Bier!

 

[Pipcard]

Astronaut Robert L. Gibson visited my university today.

 

[Urwumpe]

My mother gave me a really nerdy family legacy yesterday ... the slide rule that she and her older sister used at school (including graffitos on the case, kids never change).

And it is a really good slide rule (Aristo 903 scholar), never knew that she ever had one of those.

I had been looking around for a good slide rule already for years... the stuff on Ebay is largely overprized or crappy. And if you only need quick approximations, a slide rule is often faster than using a pocket calculator and more accurate and easier than mental math.

 

[jedidia]

So, out of nowhere one of our teachers today suddenly threw subnet masks at us, with most of the class barely knowing what an IP is. He talked 2 hours about converting decimal, binary and hexadecimals, bitwise operations and how the subnet mask is constructed, without ever mentioning what you actually use it for, and with barely catching a breath. There was much confusion.
Even I got confused by his explanations, and I knew what a subnet mask was before he started talking.
Seriously, most of the teachers in this school aren't worth my money :facepalm:

 

[Artlav]

Well, there is an old parable about students learning Ancient Greek. When asked why the Trojan war started, they give a blank face, but if asked to recite the Illyad they will easily do so in perfect speech.
Turns out they were taught the alphabet and syllables and memorized them, then taught words and memorized them, then given books and poems to read and recite and memorized them, all the while having no idea that any of this mean anything.
Someone at the very start forgot to say that these words and text have meaning, and not just something to remember.

So, why should anyone care if you understand what subnet masks are?
All that matters is you being able to recite the teacher's lecture back on the exam when given the right keyword.

 

[Urwumpe]

So, why should anyone care if you understand what subnet masks are?
All that matters is you being able to recite the teacher's lecture back on the exam when given the right keyword.

Well except that 90% of IPV4 would not make sense without subnets and subnet masks.

Luckily IPV6 got away from that madness.

 

[jedidia]

All that matters is you being able to recite the teacher's lecture back on the exam when given the right keyword.

Judging by the tests we had so far, no, that won't be nearly enough... by now the most important lesson we learned from that teacher was that he'll only cover half the topics in the book before the test because he has no decernable structure, neither in individual lessons nor overall. I got so confused during class today that I left the classroom, read up on the stuff he was talking about on google, then came back to solve the exercises.

 

[Artlav]

Well except that 90% of IPV4 would not make sense without subnets and subnet masks.

Whoops, forgot the /s

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Was talking to a guy in the lumber department at work tonight... his work phone rings, and he pulls it out. takes the call and answers with a totally deadpan "Land of eternal splinters..." :rofl:

 

[mojoey]

Was talking to a guy in the lumber department at work tonight... his work phone rings, and he pulls it out. takes the call and answers with a totally deadpan "Land of eternal splinters..." :rofl:

Ply you fools!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Cold War Coloring Book Taught A-10 Pilots to Kill Soviet Tanks

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Simulation of two planets colliding

https://i.imgur.com/8N2y1Nk.gifv

 

[Artlav]

Yep, like droplets of water.
Or, actually, magma.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Blorp. :lol:

 

[Andy44]

 

[Izack]

It begins.