Robert Lawson Brown

physicist (Ph.D. from Univ. of Virginia, 1978), photographer, programmer, known as Scire Gaea in Second Life™

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@elonmusknews30 A. House

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The Science Circle is an online virtual world dedicated to science education. See us on https://t.co/oQ2CARAZdD!

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The role of the scientist in a post-truth world https://t.co/UDp9dJFAEi

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There is no term limit for a US vice president. So how about we simply invert the ticket: Kamela Harris will be the President, and Joe Biden will be the vice president. That way, she can be the vigorious President we want, and yet have access to the advice of the most experienced person available. Plus, as VP, Biden gets to manage the Senate.

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Join us this Monday for an electrifying session of "Cool Stuff Found" with the charismatic Dave Hamilton from Mac Geek Gab! SVMUG Monthly Meeting April 15, 2024. We will be meeting via Zoom; details on the website https://t.co/G7rWfXF2zO

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What will the Apple Vision Pro do to our EYES? https://t.co/UUiuM8YNUK via @YouTube

I stumbled across this video by ophthalmologist Dr. Michael Chua. In it, he discusses the effects and possible uses of the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), given its unique capabilities. The video is very worthwhile.

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If you choose the cash payout, the lottery commission takes about 50% right off the top. The remaining cash value is taxed at the maximum Federal tax rate. However, many states do not apply State tax to the winnings, e.g. California. A rule of thumb is that the winner can take home one-third of the prize money. If you choose the annuity payout, you get the total amount spread over 25 years, and the tax reporting and payment will be your responsibility. Common wisdom is that if you are good at investment planning, you can do the best with the cash payout. It is widely believed that most winners tend to blow the money on bad investments, immediate purchases, handouts to relatives, etc.

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@JLB_43 I spent mine resetting two ovens, one microwave, one wall clock, ...

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@JLB_43 Each slide should have a title with three one-line bullet points or a title, image, and caption. The content comes from you by speaking, not reading.

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@stats_feed Bill Gates could convince the aliens to sign an iron-clad contract to supply him with all of their advanced technology in exchange for their own branded Facebook page. Remember what he did to IBM.

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First, I'd like you to learn how to write unambiguous expressions. Second, the order of operations rule taught in grade and high school does not consider the priority when two values are shown adjacent with no explicit operator. For example, "2x" or "2πR" in which the expression is treated as a single entity.

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If you gamble with someone else's money, that person has risked the loss and hence should receive the gains. It is a little twisted that this guy stole the money, but that just means he owes his girlfriend both the original 40K and all of the winnings. If she is feeling generous, she might give him some of the money for the job of facilitating the bet. But he has no right to anything.

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3 1 2 - Car 3 does not have a yield sign, so it should proceed straight thru presuming the others do not aggressively make it dangerous to do so. Cars 2 and 1 both have yield signs. If we assume they both reached the intersection simultaneously Car 1 is the right of 2, and so should go first. Otherwise, whichever of 1 or 2 came first to the intersection should go first.

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@JLB_43 To grill just for the joy of grilling.

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@PicturesFoIder I think "15 + 60 is 75"

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Hang on, guys, that looks suspiciously like the Guardian of Forever.

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@PicturesFoIder Mathematica(™) parses it to be 9.

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Am I the verified Robert Brown? I am the genuine Robert Brown that paid the eight dollars.

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@SpeakerMcCarthy @SarahHuckabee I can see the verified checkmark, so the OP tweet comes from the Speaker, but it is hard to believe he would say this. The governor's speech was fear, and the President's speech was progress.