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to screw a light-bulb into the ceiling?
Relatively few.
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Oh that was bad, a complete waste of spacetime
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You have a warped sense of humor...maybe just slightly bent. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That's 'specially true when it's so general.
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Surely Albert would be clever enough to realise that dark-suckers[^] don't screw directly into the ceiling? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think you should be made to walk the Planck length for that.
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depends on mass of the bulb and how fast.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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After accidentally posting this one topic further up:
Oh the irony. Last year a radio station asked the following question and gave away 50000 bucks for the right answer.
Here is a link to their website, sorry, in German only: Link[^]
I heard it while driving to work. The lady they called did not know the answer. This was the question:
Quote: What was the holiday job of 17-year-old Albert Einstein at the Oktoberfest in Munich?
And the correct answer would have been:
Quote: For two weeks, Albert Einstein assisted as electrician on the Oktoberfest and screwed in hundreds of light bulbs.
Hundreds of bulbs? one Einstein? So I guess we really need relatively few Einsteins. A few thousandths Einstein per bulb.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: to screw a light-bulb into the ceiling?
Is this a trick question? I'd screw a lightbulb in a socket rather than directly in the ceiling, but maybe that's just me...
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I see what you did there... 
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E=M*c^2 . Here E = Number of Einsteins
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Very good! Always good to hear that there are now ways to repair an injury that was untreatable before. But:
Quote: The experimental procedure did not guarantee any restoration to Kris’s paralysis, but to him, the risk was worth taking.
What risk? It can't possibly get even worse.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: What risk? It can't possibly get even worse.
Exactly, the first thing I thought after reading that.
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Well, it could have potentially disrupted his autonomic nervous system leading to possible organ disruption or failure with death being a distinct possibility. If I were in a similar state, death wouldn't seem like much of a risk to regain some facet of control over my life.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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They're using embryonic stem cells, so a different genome which AFAIK puts it on par with a direct organ transplant in terms of needing immunosuppressors for life, and with them mixed in with the rest of his spine cthulu knows what a rejection would look like.
In similar circumstances it's a risk I'd probably take; but it could have failed to give any benefit and end up killing him faster than doing nothing would have.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: end up killing him faster than doing nothing would have
I am not sure that the time possibly gained by doing nothing is a mercy, nor that the time lost by possible complications would be a loss.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Christopher Reeve ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) contributed to stem cell research and there are some rather moving stories in the wiki article[^], the one about Robin Williams being particularly funny.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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First paralysed human treated with stem cells has now regained his upper body movement
I'm pretty sure the first paralyzed human died thousands of years ago, why would they dig him up to treat him with stem cells?
After all this time, the fact that he's now moving at all is pretty impressive, paralyzed or not.
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Yeah, they did this on rats many years back, surprised it took them this long to do it on a person.
However the source of the stem cells is a little delicate: "AST-OPC1 cells come from donated eggs that are fertilized in vitro (ie. in a petri dish"
Undeveloped babies. THat is a difficult topic!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Undeveloped babies. THat is a difficult topic!
No worse than eating chicken's eggs?
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Did you know you can't run through a campsite? You can only ran, because it's past tents.
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As forest I can tell, it's lucky you didn't stake your reputation on that post.
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Ran Forrest, ran!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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But who will play the direct object than?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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