{"id":19965,"date":"2016-02-15T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:03:29","slug":"open-thread2152015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/open-thread2152015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m hurrying, because I have to leave for a Urology appointment in a few minutes, and I\u2019ll be way behind when I return.  Yesterday loading the chair was a success.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:34 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Can you answer this math question from a practice test for the SAT?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

SAT study blogs<\/a> recommend spending only about 75 seconds on each math problem, so you should set a timer. <\/p>\n

Ready? <\/p>\n

Here it is<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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A typical image taken of the surface of Mars by a camera is 11.2 gigabits in size. A tracking station on Earth can receive data from the spacecraft at a data rate of 3 megabits per second for a maximum of 11 hours each day. If 1 gigabit equals 1,024 megabits, what is the maximum number of typical images that the tracking station could receive from the camera each day?
A) 3
B) 10
C) 56
D) 144 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

10 in under a minute.  What’s hard about that?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a> (Classic: 8\/2015): <\/font>This man cannot be president. <\/p>\n

I am not exaggerating what happened here.<\/p>\n

If a mother was going to give up her child for adoption, the conservative legislature–supported and signed by one Jeb Bush– she was required to PUBLISH HER ENTIRE SEXUAL HISTORY in a major newspaper.<\/p>\n

The idea behind it was… actually, I don’t know what the hell the idea was except to publically shame the woman.  (Publically shaming unwed mothers, by the way, is something JEB! actually loudly and proudly called on people to do<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

All I know is that it passed under our wacko bird GOP legislature.<\/p>\n

It was called the Scarlet Letter law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Strike Three claims to be the moderate.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican presidential candidates who battled for votes in New Hampshire last week, rousing the rabble with their usual talk of scary aliens at the border, were strangely silent about the closest international boundary. They did not warn of the Canadians who flood south by the millions each year to play and work, taking our Christmas-tree-selling jobs. They did not mention the Canadian scofflaws \u2014 nearly 100,000 in fiscal 2015 \u2014 who overstay their visas, the most of any nationality.<\/p>\n

Yeah! They already committed an act of war against us with their secret weapon, the TRUS pervert!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m hurrying, because I have to leave for a Urology appointment in a few minutes, and I\u2019ll be way behind when I return.  Yesterday loading the chair was a success. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:34 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: Can you answer […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}