What’s worse throwing bricks through windows and death threats, or throwing an egg at a window?

Which happened first? Considering the circumstances, was the retaliation violent or passive?

Which was an action that children do, and which was action that thugs do?

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Both sides are guilty of violence and threats; and neither side is justified. We need to have a civil debate about the issues, which means keeping emotions in check.

That being said, I find it hilarious that the right is so concerned about eggs, when they were defending the carrying of loaded weapons at the town hall meetings. Hmmm, an egg, or a loaded rifle. Which is more intimidating?

Death threats to some liberal politicians are illegal and wrong. They should and will be prosecuted. Those are a few nut cases that are not condoned by most conservatives.

Egging Tea Party activists is a coordinated effort to infringe on first amendments rights. Such actions are also illegal and wrong, but will not likely be as vigorously prosecuted, and seem to be applauded by most liberals. BTW. Throwing an egg at a moving vehicle is a felony in most places.

Both are very wrong,HOWEVER no one has still been able to connect the brick thrower or the gas line cutting to any tea party member,unlike Pelosi»s trouble all that can be said of him is that he attended one tea party event,that does not make him a tea partier,I would also like to point out another poster in here has a link to a site that is openly advertising for donations so they can assimilate into the tea party and cause them damage,so that just makes me wonder about anything the left says now.

The people who did that are f**king morons — they’re now being investigated by the FBI. (Would you like to have the FBI checking you out?? No one SANE wants that in this climate with international & Home-Grown terrorism)

Any of those actions you listed will get you arrested and booked. You’ll be busted for destroying property, which is a nice, fat felony. Those a*sholes who did that — if they get caught (and there’s an exceedingly good chance they will) are going to have to hire a lawyer and deal with f**king high legal bills that will set them back for years. Plus, it will follow them forever. Every single job they apply for asks this question on the application form:

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ARRESTED FOR A FELONY? For most jobs — if you answer yes, you might as well go home. Doing any of that stuff is right up there with career & financial suicide. And all for what.

Whats is worst is shooting thru a window or slashing the tires on vans used to get out the vote. Or sending Union goons into an election HQ to intimidate the workers. All things done by the Democrats in 2004.

Karnac the Magnificent

Have you ever tried to get dried eggs off of Stucco? It does not come off if it is dried. I will take the brick. I can repair the damage in about an hour. Painting the house is a real chore.

Most likely the flying bricks if they were to actually strike someone.

most death threats are just voices of anger.But if said on the internet?Not a smart thing to do.

Throwing eggs is just plain childish and does nothing but waste food.

Both are bad—and both of those cases have been shown as leftist activities. Some of these outspoken politicians should WAIT for the background of the individual to come to light before speaking. Foot in Mouth syndrome has taken them over.

Our great grandparents would have been British or French, and we would be blonde haired, blue eyed Germans if we all thought like passive liberals.

You want to go into politics, get ready to deal with it. The people are not Teddy Bears that will shower politicians with kisses. Politicians are dealing with our lives and if they screw up, its a big deal !

I think a bullet through ones window pretty much trumps bricks or eggs.

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Throwing cats out of windows

Imagine you’re in a tall building with a cat. The cat can survive a fall out of a low story window, but will die if thrown from a high floor. How can you figure out the longest drop that the cat can survive, using the least number of attempts?

Obviously, if you only have one cat, then you can only search linearly. First throw the cat from the first floor. If it survives, throw it from the second. Eventually, after being thrown from floor f, the cat will die. You then know that floor f-1 was the maximal safe floor.

But what if you have more than one cat? You can now try some sort of logarithmic search. Let’s say that the build has 100 floors and you have two identical cats. If you throw the first cat out of the 50th floor and it dies, then you only have to search 50 floors linearly. You can do even better if you choose a lower floor for your first attempt. Let’s say that you choose to tackle the problem 20 floors at a time and that the first fatal floor is #50. In that case, your first cat will survive flights from floors 20 and 40 before dying from floor 60. You just have to check floors 41 through 49 individually. That’s a total of 12 attempts, which is much better than the 50 you would need had you attempted to use binary elimination.

In general, what’s the best strategy and it’s worst-case complexity for an n-storied building with 2 cats? What about for n floors and m cats?

Assume that all cats are equivalent: they will all survive or die from a fall from a given window. Also, every attempt is independent: if a cat survives a fall, it is completely unharmed.

This isn’t homework, although I may have solved it for school assignment once. It’s just a whimsical problem that popped into my head today and I don’t remember the solution. Bonus points if anyone knows the name of this problem or of the solution algorithm.

Учебник Spotlight 6. Student’s Book. Страница 86

Module 9а. Food and Drink — Еда и питье

1. a) Listen and repeat. Which of these items are fruit/meat/vegetables/ drinks/dairy products? Which of them are similar in your language? — Про­слушай и повтори. Какие из этих предметов фрукты/мясо/овощи/напитки/ молочные продукты?

• fruit: apples, bananas — фрукты: яблоки, бананы
• meat: meat — мясо: мясо
• vegetables: carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes — овощи: морковь, картошка, лук, помидоры
• drinks: water, juice, milk, coffee — напитки: вода, сок, молоко, кофе
• dairy products: milk, cheese, yoghurt, ice-cream — молочные продукты: молоко, сыр, йогурт, мороженое

Комментарий: В указанные категории не входят eggs (яйца), bread (хлеб), pepper (перец), salt (соль), olive oil (оливковое масло), fish (рыба), honey (мед), cake (торт), biscuit (печенье), rice (рис), sugar (сахар)

b) Choose items from the picture and act out exchanges in pairs as in the example. — Выберите продукты с картинок и разыграйте диалоги в парах, как в примере

• A: Do you like fish? — Тебе нравится рыба?
• B: Yes, it’s delicious. /No, it’s horrible. — Да, она вкусная/ Нет, она ужасная.

• A: Do you like apples? — Тебе нравятся яблоки?
• B: Yes, they’re tasty. I also like oranges and bananas. Do you like fruits? — Да, они вкусные. Мне также нравятся апельсины и бананы. А тебе нравятся фрукты?
• A: No, I prefer meat, cheese, milk and yoghurt. Do you like yoghurt? — Нет, я предпочитаю мясо, сыр, молоко и йогурт. Тебе нравится йогурт?
• B: Yes, I do. Especially I like yoghurt with fruit pieces. — Да. Особенно я люблю йогурт с кусочками фруктов.
• A: Oh, yeah. You’ll never see yoghurt with meat pieces. Such a pity. — О да. Ты никогда не встретишь йогурт с кусочками мяса. А жаль.

2. Which of the words in Ex. 1 are: countable (we can count them)? uncountable (we can’t count them)? — Какие из слов в упр. 1: исчисляемые? неисчисляемые?

• milk — молоко —uncountable
• eggs — яйца —countable
• juice — сок —uncountable
• yoghurt — йогурт —uncountable
• water — вода —uncountable
• cheese — сыр — uncountable
• bread — хлеб —uncountable
• pepper — перец —uncountable
• salt — соль —uncountable
• olive oil — оливковое масло —uncountable
• meat — мясо —uncountable
• fish — рыба —uncountable
• potatoes — картофель —countable
• apples — яблоки —countable
• bananas — бананы —countable
• ice-cream — мороженое —uncountable
• honey — мёд —uncountable
• cake — торт —uncountable
• biscuit — печенье —countable
• tomatoes — помидоры —countable
• carrots — морковь —countable
• onions — лук —countable
• rice — рис —uncountable
• coffee — кофе —uncountable
• sugar — сахар —uncountable

Примечание: Давайте разберем, какие существительные могут считаться неисчисляемыми, а какие — исчисляемыми. Из самого названия понятно, что то, что можно посчитать (в штуках), является исчисляемым предметом. Различные жидкости, массы, сыпучие предметы нельзя посчитать в штуках (для этого используются другие меры веса и объема), если только у них нет индивидуальной упаковки.

Приведем примеры. Yoghurt — йогурт — является неисчисляемым предметом, а если мы говорим об индивидуальной упаковке, тогда йогурт становится исчисляемым. Сравните: вода (неисчисляемое) — бутылка воды (исчисляемое), торт (неисчисляемое) — кусочек торта (исчисляемое), хлеб (неисчисляемое) — буханка хлеба (исчисляемое) и т.д. Есть еще такие сложные слова как potatoes (картофель) — во множественном числе это слово исчисляемое, поскольку подразумевается несколько картофелин. А в единственном (potato) оно может быть как исчисляемым (одна картофелина), так и неисчисляемым, когда мы говорим о ней, как о еде (блюде).

3. a) Read the examples and the rules. — Прочитай примеры и правила

1. To make this dish you need some tomatoes, an egg and some olive oil. — Чтобы приготовить это блюдо, тебе нужны несколько помидоров, яйцо и немного оливкового масла.
2. We need to go to the supermarket; we haven’t got any eggs and we haven’t got much olive oil. We haven’t got many potatoes, either. — Нам нужно пойти в магазин; у нас нет яиц и у нас нет достаточно оливкового масла. У нас также не так много помидоров.
3. Are there any tomatoes in the fridge? — Есть помидоры в холодильнике?
4. I think we have a little milk and a few eggs. Do we need any olive oil? — Я думаю, у нас есть немного молока и несколько яиц. Нам нужно оливковое масло?

• We use some in the affirmative and any in the negative and the interrogative. — Мы используем some в утвердительных и any в отрицательных или вопросительных предложениях
• We use much (enough )/alittle (not much but enough) with uncountable nouns — Мы используем much (достаточно)/a little (не много, но достаточно) с неисчисляемыми существительными
• We use many (enough)/a few (not many but enough) with countable nouns. — Мы используем many (достаточно)/a few (не много, но достаточно) с исчисляемыми существительными
• We use a lot of with both countable and uncountable nouns. — Мы используем a lot of (много) и с исчисляемыми и с неисчисляемыми существительными (только в утвердительных предложениях).

Подробно об употреблении some/any можно прочитать в нашем грамматическом справочнике.

b) Look at the picture in Ex. 1 and ask and answer questions. — Посмотри на картинку в упр. 1, задай вопросы и ответь на них.

• A: Is there any milk? — Есть молоко?
• B: Yes, there’s some milk. — Да, есть немного молока.
• A: Is there any sugar? — Есть сахар?
• B: Not much. — Не много.
• A: Are there any tomatoes? — Есть помидоры?
• B: Not many. — Не много

• A: Are there any eggs? — Есть яйца?
• B: Yes, there’re some eggs. — Да, есть яйца.
• A: Are there any carrots in the fridge? — Есть морковка в холодильнике?
• B: Yes, there’re some. — Да, есть.
• A: Do you see bananas in the fridge? — Ты видишь бананы в холодильнике?
• B: Yes, I see many bananas in our fridge? — Да, я вижу много бананов.

• A: Is there any juice? — Есть сок?
• B: Yes, there is a little. — Да, есть немного.
• A: Is there any bread? — Есть хлеб?
• B: Yes, there is a lot of bread. — Да, есть много хлеба.
• A: Is there any cheese in the fridge? — Есть сок в холодильнике?
• B: No, there isn’t any. — Нет.
• A: Is there any sugar? — Есть сахар.
• B: We haven’t much sugar? — У нас нет много сахара.