| Let's say I offer you $X dollars to take a year off from whatever you are doing in life and live in Las Vegas, playing cards for 40 hours per week for 50 weeks. How large does X have to be for you to say "yes"? Pick a range:
[<$100,000]
[$100,000 - $200,000]
[$200,000 - $400,000]
[$400,000 - $800,000]
[$800,000 - $1,600,000]
[$1,600,000 - $3,200,000]
[$3,200,000 - $6,400,000]
[$6,400,000 - $12,800,000]
[>$12,800,000]
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| "So, I have been trying to do the parallel dating thing. I think
facebook is a giant inhibitor of such efforts. If it weren't for FB, I
could keep the dates universes disjoint. But now there is a common wall
where the girls can read each others messages. Terrible design!" - nameless friend
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| If you are like me, you have long wondered how to best handle an oncoming stampede of elephants in ancient warfare. Fortunately, the wikipedia article on war elephants teaches us two lessons from history:
In Hannibal's last battle (Zama, 202 BC), his elephant charge was ineffective because the Roman maniples simply made way for them to pass.
A reportedly effective anti-elephant weapon was the war pig. Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of a pig" (VIII, 1.27). A siege of Megara during the Wars of the Diadochi was reportedly broken when the Megarians poured oil
on a herd of pigs, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's
massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming
squealing pigs (Aelian, de Natura Animalium book XVI, ch. 36).
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| This got featured on YouTube a while back - very well done, reminds me of 24.02.
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