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  5. Posted

    Sure, that sounds good. I'm not sure how easy a time we'd have with some questions on Noah, but sure! Noah doesn't seem very green or red, nor very blue. Maybe White/Black...

    4,-2,-4,7,0?

    BTW, mentioning Power At All Costs and outside Black (even in the negative) does remind me of some sacrificial red cards like Orcish Lumberjack, which sacrifices forests for 3 red or green mana.

  6. Posted

    19 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    The Moderator: That is supremely simple. ...

    I agree - it was more of a tossoff 'Can we behave? I'd like to get something out of this'.

    SO, for each character in the quiz we'd need a score for each color (positive for a good match, 0 for whatever, negative for a poor match). In format W,G,R,K,U, only with scores instead of letters and no colors, from -9 to +9... Note, each character should have overall the same ability to pull ahead, but they do not need to have the same totals. Not all characters need to have a knockout YES answer in any given question.

    Elliot: 9,0,-7,-9,0

    Ellen: 2,2,2,2,-7

    Tedd: -2,2,2,0,9

    Grace: 7,7,-3,-9,0

    Sarah: -3,2,5,3,0

    Nanase: 2,2,3,-4,2

    Justin: 5,-4,0,-3,6

    Susan: 3,-5,-5,-5,9

    How does that look? Keep in mind we can add some characters who might fit black a bit better...

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    OK, so bows are longer-ranged than I thought. The cannon has a 1 km effective range vs fighters, which are considerably harder to hit than a trireme (much smaller, much faster, and elevated to boot). Their maximum overall range is several km. Indeed, if they're using HEI shells, then the longer range might slow down the shells enough to get them to detonate properly despite the wooden target. Not that that should really be needed.

  9. Posted

    On 11/16/2016 at 1:35 PM, Vorlonagent said:

    The greek warships might win, if and only if they were totally bloody-minded about it and completely heedless of losses.  Sheer numbers can overwhelm advantages in technology and firepower.  The colonial powers were taught that lesson especially well in africa.

    A PT boat has very few spare crew and WW2 PT boats, IIRC, are rather open to arrow fire.  With a totally committed Greek fleet fighting normally (i.e. without undue fear), arrow volleys would take their toll on the human PT Boat crew even if only 1 in 1000 arrows ever hit the boat.

    In any real-world engagement, the PT boat would almost-certainly win from the sheer fear engendered by an opponent moving and turning so impossibly fast and dealing out such destruction with its cannon.

    Arrow fire? What's the maximum range on arrows? What's the maximum speed on a Trireme?

    Neither of these is particularly close to a comfortable range (1km) and maneuvering capabilities of a PT. If you stuck them in a box rather than the open sea, perhaps. 

    If they're free to maneuver and the PT ever gets within 150% of extreme arrow range of any of the ships, they've done it all wrong.

     

    As for effectiveness, poking several-centimeter holes in wooden targets is OK so long as one of the holes is below the water level. Also, use incendiary shells

  15. Posted

    > AVA became law in 2010.  The Obama administration had 3 years to prepare.

    It was designed to phase in over an extended period. Some things had to go first, others come in later. Hardly anything started right away.

    > The Chief Executive does not get to pick and choose what laws he enforces.

    This was not a matter of enforcement. The constitutionality of the law was at question in court.

  16. Posted

    > You may recall some aspects of the Affordable Care Act were due to kick in right before a difficult election and Obama just suspended them till it was more convenient

    That wasn't why - that happened in mid-2013 and again in early 2014. Federal elections happen late in even years. Like, you know, today.

    The reason was, things were not technically ready, and the only remedy that Congress was willing to do was cancel the entire law. This, after Congress delayed in appropriating certain funds that the ACA required for implementation, until too late to make the deadlines he pushed back. If it's illegal for Obama to not punish people for failure to participate in a system that couldn't be built in time partially because of unforeseen complexity and partially because of Congressional failure to appropriate funds that were required for compliance with the law in a timely fashion, then it seems like it should be just as illegal for Congress not to appropriate those funds.

    Also, if the action had actually caused harm to anyone at all, the suit would have not been thrown out and the Judiciary would have shown him just how not-above-them he is.

    > Constitutionally he was bound to uphold the law. 

    I have looked through my copy of the constitution and do not see any section regarding the president being obliged to defend the constitutionality of a law he believes unconstitutional in court, in the event it is challenged.

    > The US budget deficit is down from its obscene 2009 and 2010 levels and gridlock is why

    No, that's because the stimulus wound down. Those were some very exceptional years.

    > One can just as rightly say that it is Obama that is standing in the way of Congress' agenda.  Who you blame is much a function of partisanship as anything else

    Well, Mitch McConnell's primary goal was to make Obama fail as a president. I can't imagine why he wouldn't go along with that agenda item.

  18. Posted

    Ah. Thank you for this additional information, and sorry to mlooney for being annoyed at something reasonable and responding more to the amused tone than the content.

    With that in mind, s/offend you/still seem likely to cause problems/

  19. Posted

    Clarification - The code is released CC, and aside from the jvm and libraries, I wrote all of it. Does that help, or does the very notion of doing rights management on a project which invokes fair-use in a different aspect offend you?

  20. Posted

    Oh! I thought I posted this here, but it seems I didn't.

    So, I wrote a match-3 game with a My Little Pony theme.

    Here it is. java required; will comply with any reasonable security restrictions (doesn't store data, doesn't hit network).

    Also, it's built on a pretty general match-3 engine, and has a CC license, so anyone who wants to write a different match 3 game will have a significant head-start.

  21. Posted

    Don't feel bad - I noticed that Grace wasn't matching up right away but instead of making the correct conclusion, just rolled Tedd's dialogue into Sarah's frantic confusion. It didn't make much sense, so I came here, and now I know. On the other hand, I didn't have time to give it 2 readings when I first saw it, so maybe I would have worked it out given another minute.

  24. Posted

    On 10/2/2016 at 0:48 PM, ijuin said:

    It's basic Newton's Third Law--the wing is at a positive angle of attack relative to the air stream. This deflects the air downward as the wing moves forward, and the reaction force pushes the wing upward. Try it yourself by sticking your hand out the window of a moving car, held at an angle to the air stream--you will feel your hand being pushed vertically.

    Yes. This is almost precisely what I would have said.

  25. Posted

    On 9/27/2016 at 0:14 PM, malloyd said:

    The children's book airplane version of the Bernoulli effect is usually nonsense anyway, seemingly built around some fantasy in which adjacent packets separated at the leading edge somehow need to be neighbors again when leaving the trailing edge.

    I was an answer-checker on a physics textbook aimed at pre-med students and I told them that their Bernoulli explanation of lift was completely bogus. I do not know if they changed it. I suspect they did not.