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This is so obvious... If you double the expiration date of a medicine, you cut the profit of the companies by half (sort of, of course - if you don't need to discard an expired medicine, you won't need to buy a new box if needed at least not that often). The pharmaceutical industry is evil, profiting on people's life and death at their own will. See the HIV for example (or even cancer): instead of searching more effectively for an actual cure, they just prefer to let people live thethered to their "cocktails" (which aren't cheap) for life. Profit, of course, so they can "spend the money of the profit on new researches"... yeah, sure.
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The software Visions of Chaos has a very interesting "ant simulator", you can set the amount of feromones and how long its trail lasts, amount of food, etc.. It takes some time until it gets funny but it's quite interesting to see the patterns they follow. There are times that the ants are sort of trapped in a line that goes nowhere and until another ant touches someone in that group while still with a bit of feromone enough for it to be followed they just get stuck there forever. There is also some very interesting fish x sharks simulator.
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"Also, any adjectives relating to gendered words (like the ‘bright’ in ‘bright sun’) must change to a feminine form."

That's not different from Portuguese (and perhaps Spanish and other latin languages) at all. To me the worst part of learning Arab would be to learn how to read all over again. And backwards.
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The longest I had patience to wait for a render was around 90 hours, and this was for a single image, this is why I've never tried animations. And this with already a 4Gb RAM and a Quadcore processor. I can imagine how it was during the 386/486 days and Fractint. Once I did a pretty deep zoom only to find that people were doing zooms way deeper than mine...

One of the things I like the most is to find and read about relations between simmetry, fractals, Fibonacci etc. and things that are part of our lives - living creatures, artworks, buildings, etc even not being a person interested in mathematics at all. That recent story about MRI's of fruits is amazing - who would know that seeds of a watermelon are placed like a spiral?
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The Mandelbulbs seem to be the latest trend lately in the Fractal World, just as the flame fractals and Apophysis were a couple of years ago until they were overused by these people at Deviant and their random renders (now every flame fractal looks the same - boring! With a few exceptions of course). As a Fractint fan... I still didn't find that much fun in these Mandelbulbs yet. I had more fun with the simulations of Vision of Chaos (the buckets, the ants looking for food leaving trails of pheromones and the fish vs. sharks are amazing), and its "Genetics" sections as well.
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Kids get their fear from their parents and it gets even worse like when Lisa said adults lie to them. And what if the kid has a fear of cats or mice or any other "funny" critter being used? I'd shit my pants if it was a lizard.
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MrMichael spotted it perfectly, mostly #3. If you have minimum computer skills to use a wifi, you should notice that you're not connecting "to the internet" in a connection like this one that was described quite easily.

Naming your wifi "default" (and let it open!) isn't the most clever thing either.
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