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Maximilien wrote: our "black friday" equivalent
We already have a Black Friday, and it's on the same day as the American one.
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Boxing Day originated in England hundreds of years ago. Wealthy people with servants would give them the day off on the 26th & would give them a Christmas "box" i.e. a sum of money. Another version has it that it refers to tradesmen or others who provide a service (e.g. garbage men) receiving a similar Christmas "box" or tip on the day after Christmas. One final version is that churches would collect money in an offering "box" for the poor in the period leading up to Christmas. They would distribute the alms collected in the box on the 26th in honour of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, whose feast day is the 26th.
Overall, a somewhat more honourable day than the current version where for some reason after spending 2+ months buying a bunch of useless stuff, people want to go out and spend a load more money on more stuff they really don't need but have to have because it's "cheap"!!!!
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It's what happens after spending too much time with relatives over the holidays. 
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Read the Wiki article.
But, from a Canadian's perspective, it helps keep us grounded. We grew up sharing what we had with those around us all year, and did they to us... It helps to build community spirit and establish new friendships.
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xkcd: Tree
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And most of the presents will require garbage collection!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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One of the advantages of living in Israel is that we have garbage collection even on Christmas 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Good luck with that on the 10th of Tishrei.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Rats! Foiled again! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Relatively smart...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Very good. 
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A very nice demonstration of time dilation. I've never quite seen it explained that way before.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Boggle?
Doppler shift is well known, doesnt every one understand it?
Not quite sure if this can explain space and time distortion approaching the speed of light though!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Doppler shift is well known, doesnt every one understand it?
Ok - go out on the street and see ho wmany peopleknow what you are atlking about.
In any case, when applied to light waves it is the lesser known Doppler-Fizeau effect[^] that is pertinent.
You're a f***ing curmudgeon, ye olde git.
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"People on the street" are generally maximally ignorant in every possible way. It's a miracle they manage to navigate modern life.
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OK, here is what I dont get:
The doppler effect, applied to light, causes red/blue shift. Blue shift if the object is moving away from the observer, and vice versa. So to us the uiniverse looks blue because it is all expanding. Blueshift - Wikipedia[^] "Doppler blueshift is caused by movement of a source towards the observer.
Theory of relativity: Theory of relativity - Wikipedia[^] "The speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the light source."
How do you explain that?
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The speed of light is always 186,000 mps regardless of where you are relative to another observer. The spectrum of the observed light appears shifted one way or the other; the speed remains the same.
This is no different to Doppler's train travelling at 60mph and all observers agree that that is the speed regardless of the pitch of the sound they hear at any given point on the train's path.
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More like 300,000,000 ms^-1
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It is the distortion of time with speed that is the head f***. Doppler shift doesnt come close IMO.
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk...
This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this.
Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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perhaps have a go installing whatever software is around to turn it into one of those free tv streaming boxes?
Or that free games site somebody mentioned a couple of days back?
Or, download the bitcoin mining thing?
Is seti still running it's screensaver search-for-aliens? - do that at the same time as the bitcoin mining - become rich and be the one to learn alien techno-secrets.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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