Those are reserved for the holy accounting of 31 day months as the Lord intended!
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In fairness, airlines do have reason to fear economists. Perhaps he was removed for job security.
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The idiots have won, because nobody is getting sacked over this kind of thing.
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Tsk tsk.
On the Internet, no-one knows youāre a dog etc., but as it happens half my family are those ābrownā Europeans of which you speak (shudder. Racism sucks so much.) Iāve been getting weird questions and assumptions from people my entire life.
But, because itās only half my family and I inherited the other halfās skin tone, Iāve also had to sit through explanations like yours my entire life. It depends on whether someone thinks Iām a light-skinned āone of thoseā or a darkish āone of those otherā. Which seems to mean I get told I couldnāt possibly understand twice as often.
So when I say the writing had something to do with it, Iām speaking from the experience of over four decades of dealing with travel in the US. The weirdness changed type and intensity after 9/11, but itās always been there. Iāve had to give customs officials (and assorted non-official nosy parkers) a quick rundown of my genealogy so often, I have a set speech.
If it were just the brown-ness, Mediterranean-descended travellers would be making headlines a lot more often.
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Stay safe! You are on the right track.
Also, maybe it was one of those secret prime numbers he was working on, and the FBI was justified in getting involved.
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There is evidence that innately human beings canāt perceive quantities greater than 3 - number systems were invented to make counting possible. This is part of the explanation of why many Indo-European languages have short numbers for 1-3 and a long one for 4 (e.g. quattuor, tettares).
At this rate the general public will soon be back to one, two, three, heap, many.
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Fox news viewers. To be fair they are TOLD to be afraid of everything, it is a fear based way of convincing the lesser educated to vote against their own interests. I agree it seems strange to rational folks, like the ones that know math. 
That canāt be right can it? I I I I I
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But that curve on the left was clearly part of a parabola. And any fule kno that parabolas iz ordnance, rite?
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Wonder if she went to the cabin crew and said, Look at that man over there. How he looks and what heās doing. Something doesnāt add up."
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Zenophobia means never reaching your destination.
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An economist using mathematics! Youāre calling that harmless?! Thatās a weapon of mass destruction thatās been used on a scale that dwarfs most everything else in the havoc its brought!
Ah, you meant for the flight
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There is no need for hyperbole.
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Seems to be true for dogs. Why would humans be any different?
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#notalldogs
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I must share a story. At work one day a few of us were making plans for lunch. The oik among us (Bob) was blabbering about racism. He implied he was a victim. He turned to Shaun and said, āBut you know all about that, being black.ā There was a pause. I turned to Shaun. Looked him over. I asked, āAre you black?ā He turned to me and replied, āUh ā¦ I donāt know. I donāt think so. But itās possible.ā We both shrugged. We turned to Bob. I said, āYouāre on your own for lunch.ā Shaun and I left.
To Bob, who is and who is not āblackā is critically important. To Shaun and I, who is and who is not āfriendā is critically important. I assume you have had similar experiences. You have my sympathy.
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I thought that an āalgorithmā was something likeā¦
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Yes, I didnāt put it very well. What I mean is, without actually being taught arithmetic, humans cannot compare the order of sets with 4 or more elements (except by a process of 1-1 comparison which itself is learnt.)
Jackdaws can do better. But then birds have better eyesight than primates, with 4 or more types of color receptor and a wider bandwidth.
Where we win is our ability to learn and transmit knowledge, so we can address the one by inventing arithmetic and passing it on, and the other by building instruments. However, reading articles like this, I become more and more doubtful about the ālearn and transmit knowledgeā in some cases.
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I may already have recounted this, I lose track. But:
One day a few of us were going from Hendon to Lords, and we took a taxi. In the group was the captain of the MCC Under-21 team and his Pakistani opposite number. On the way there the taxi driver started on a rant about how the Pakis were coming over here taking over everything, and three of us were exchanging eye signals of the ādo we stop him and get out, now?ā But we didnāt.
We got to St. Johnās Wood. And while we were paying, the taxi driver said to our Pakistani friend [in effect - I canāt remember the literal words] āSorry if I got a bit carried away there, but you see itās all right for people like you, you donāt have to live next to them.ā
Our Pakistani friend had to sit down because he was laughing so hard. But I think it adds to your point. Not only are racists racist, but if someone doesnāt conform to their stereotype they donāt even recognise them as belonging to it. On the one hand someone who canāt tell Italians from Arabs, on the other someone who canāt identify a Pakistani in Western clothes.
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Rhythm??? The manās flow is terrible. He should really stick to DJing.
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Only if they look too stringy.
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