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Quote: Originally Posted by t-bonham@scc.net But that's true of the Metro Transit buses here in Minneapolis, Minnesota (especially during the winter), so it's not confined to lonely stretches of Alaska. Indeed, it's fairly common in many places for a business to be eager to pick up a paying customer. In the town where I live (granted, in Japan, not US) the buses often do this as well. It's a really rural area and the...

I imagine that in most of the cases, most of the pill isn't actually composed of the medicine. There's probably only very small amounts, mixed in with some sort of binder, and the binder is white.

You can't solve this problem with the information given. There are two unknowns, x and y, while there is only one equation. You'll have to specify either one or the other.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chronos I make no claims to be able to define that bijection, either. Sure, you may not explicitly claim it, but it is implicitly present in the argument for your claim that every subset of a countable set is itself countable (though it depends on what you mean by this; see below). Specifically, it sure looks like such a bijection can be defined, simply by sending the number n to the n-th English string which...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sunspace Say what? It maybe obscured the star, but putting a dot on it like it might on a wall? Oh, sure. It just takes 8 or more years to see it...

You can still find those double-edged blades? I have not seen them in ages. They probably cost a fortune now.

The array we're calling Lookup!A1:A10 sounds like it should be Lookup!A1:B10. You want to define the entire array: the column you're searching(A), and the column with the corresponding info(B)

Quote: Originally Posted by enipla Thanks Giles and Cheesesteak . That makes more sense. I've heard that the supply was inelastic. Never really got it. When a bbl. was at $150, where oil producers pumping and shipping as much as possible? In the US, possibly. OPEC raised its quotas overall between March '07 and August '08, but they remained well below each country's capacity. Most of the Gulf states were already producing...

If you present a set of common symptoms to ten doctors, you'll get all ten giving you the identical diagnosis. If you present a set of common financial conditions to ten analysts, you'll get all ten giving you identical explanations for the result. The stock market is comprised of millions of decisions, but a large percentages of those decisions are by a small set of very large investors, managing very large portfolios, with fairly...

Guys, I am trying to keep this thread in GQ as long as possible. Practically speaking, it does make some sense to say that whereas there are national laws there are no international laws. The difference is that internationally, there is no consistent or impartial enforcement of agreements. I think you can say that there is not much in the way of international law without implying that there is no law of any kind.