The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread Question Thread!

[LucyDuke]

What does a beach look like during heavy winter?

Pretty much the same as it does during summer, 'round here, anyway. Maybe with snow.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What does a beach look like during heavy winter?

I once talked to a girl from singapore - she said she never saw snow ... The thought of that ... it's odd.

Winter of 2006 here

Spoiler :

I hope the pics work - they're on local sites.

 

[Taras Bulba]

What's climate like in Sochi, Russia?

I believe they are hosting the Olympics in like 2014 or something?

I heard its really tropical, and I've seen pictures, but it is a Russian city
I wanted to know from people who might actually KNOW rather than idiots posting random lies on the internet which I think I've run into

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Tell me some awesome places I should visit in London. I'm going to go to the normal tourist attractions, such as British Museum, Buckingham/Westminster Palace etc., but I want to know some awesome place that isn't so often mentioned as one of the must-see places in London.

 

[Love]

You have to see London Dungeon! And the idyllic towns just outside London!

 

[GinandTonic]

While at the british museum stop for a coffee in the great court but go up the stairs and have it on the, well I guess mezanine is the word, but it seems wrong when the half level is three stories up. Take a look into the reading room in the middle of the great court too.

Cocktails on the south bank (or whatever) has quite a view. The north bank looks better, so it's better to be on the south looking at the north. Perhaps you could work a St. Pauls - over the footbridge - whats in the turbine hall of the Tate Modern - walk east along the south bank past the globe and tower bridge - refeshments type itinary.

Commercial as it is now Camden Market is a must see. Avoid the, ahh, unofficial businessmen around the canal.

Curry in Bricklane, on the advice of your taxi driver. Best curry outside the subcontinent, and to a european toung perhaps just the best.

Take in the view over london from Hampstead heath then potter up to Hampstead Village for refreshments. If you are going to the zoo you could settle for the view from Primrose Hill a mile south, but the heath is special.

 

[Nylan]

Pretty much the same as it does during summer, 'round here, anyway. Maybe with snow.

No, not the same at all.

More tourists.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

What would happen if either of the US presidential nominees would die in middle of the election? Who would take their place? Runner-up?

 

[Hitti-Litti]

I don't know, but the one who takes the place of the dead would win the election by a landslide.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

And records of the dead one would sell like hotcakes!

 

[LucyDuke]

No, not the same at all.

More tourists.

Where?

I don't know, but the one who takes the place of the dead would win the election by a landslide.

No way! If McCain died...

 

[Taras Bulba]

No way! If McCain died...

It wouldn't matter much anyway

 

[Fifty]

Fifty, or any other person who knows philosophy or smthing.

What philosopher/guy came up with that argument about "existence". The fact that you can't prove something exists by using your senses?

I hope you understand what i'm talking about. This thing was even used in the matrix.

Somebody else probably answered this, but if not, here's my answer.

In short, when most people think about that sort of skepticism they think of Descartes, who had some famous arguments about the possibility that we are constantly being deceived by an evil demon.

The Greeks had skeptics of their own though, such as Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, and Cicero.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Somebody else probably answered this, but if not, here's my answer.

In short, when most people think about that sort of skepticism they think of Descartes, who had some famous arguments about the possibility that we are constantly being deceived by an evil demon.

The Greeks had skeptics of their own though, such as Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, and Cicero.

No one answered, that's why i PMed.

Thank you.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

 

[Hitti-Litti]

President frees all prisoners and creates a canoe tax.

 

[Olav]

Where I live we write the dates like this: day/month/year... In USA they write month/day/year. Why this difference? And is it other countries that write the dates like the latter method?

 

[jeps]

d/m/y is better. go up in value always.

 

[Marsden]

I think it's a hold over from the way the date was said.

Hi, what's today's date? It's March 15th.

Of course, someone could say 15th of March, but the first way is the most common response. Unless they just say the 15th, but most of the time when the month is mentioned they say it first, that I've heard.


Some places list the year first then the month and day.

 

[LucyDuke]

Yeah. Year/month/day makes more sense, and without any slashes is neatest. That way, March 2, 2003 and September 30, 1922 will still sort properly.

19220930
20030302

rather than

03022003
09301922

or

02032003
30091922

It makes the best sense.