Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate

What does IIRC mean as used on this forum?Thanks much in advance.

Thank you.

Let me turn these around:

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It seems to me that there is good contrast between the two colours but it looks fuzzy to me.

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Does anyone know why that happens?

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Now I can answer.Yes, I do know why this happens. Your eyes are getting old, Dogmafood! It is time for tri-focals, ol' chap. I know because with my old, tired eyes everything looks fuzzy. My glasses make it all ok. Red on blue is not the greatest contrast on the color wheel but to my technology enhanced vision it looks passably fine.

If I don't have to do the work, yah, no problem. Actually, as a feature to Percy's eventual commercial product, that really is not a bad idea.

How do I get to the other pages of search results? I see the first page of results but no "Next" or a block of page numbers or like that?

We live in a probabilistic universe not a deterministic one. The answer to your question is a definite maybe for the sporting event and probably not for events further from that starting point.

But does it work? Does it, in fact, do absolutely nothing every time it is hit?Percy is quite good at this programming stuff. Just look around to see how awesome he is. I keep testing the "Do Nothing Button" to make sure he hasn't slipped up somewhere and, sure enough, on this site, the "Do Nothing Button" does exactly that.Can you claim the same competence and expertise?Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

And we have to keep testing. Percy is a programmer and you know how some of those savants can get. He may slip up some day, fall off the deep end, if we don't continually test his stuff. This way he stays like making a AHHhaa haa heh a

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Oh, never mind.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Oh, That's good! A "Do Nothing Button" that not only doesn't but doesn't with suspect intellect.

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The clear star that is yesterday will take you to places you never expected not to visit!

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A fly is not all that great.

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Organisational culture likes to have a shower in the morning.

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Percy's Krazy Fortune Kookies and Kwotes!Excellent, My Man! Excellent!Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

The two of you do realize those were 50 years ago? If you remember these y'all are really really old.We used to dance to those. God, I'm feeling old. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Oh, Y2K. What an overblown, overhyped non-event.All those months of code rewrites and ... nothing!

Then maybe we have a winner.The Y2K fallacy.Thank you, Tany.

At reduced prices, yes.There are always those willing to buy specific issues if, in their estimation, the price is low enough. There are also specified dealers that act as "market makers" for specific stocks and are required under contract with the exchange to trade under various circumstances.In a market wide sell off, like the 800 point (DOW) drop this last week, exchange traders will be holding "sell" orders that outweigh "buy" orders considerably and will offer to sell at lower and lower prices until enough buys are ordered to balance the sells.Reasons to buy in a falling market include covering a "short" position (which is a complex transaction I won't go into here) but mostly a dealer, more likely a large institutional investor like a mutual or retirement fund, will have analysed certain segments and companies and will have determined at what price the underlying issue becomes an attractive opportunity, not as a quick market play but as a long term value play.Remember that stocks are ownership in a company. If you can buy a piece of a strong profitable company at a reduced cost that is a good thing. Also, markets will recover eventually if the underlying economy remains strong, which our world economy is. There are some good profits to be made from the recovery of a sell-off.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Those in these categories should be in balanced or conservative strategies already.Balanced is 50-60% bonds/CDs with rest split between index and moderate risk mutual funds. Conservative is >60% bonds/CDs.Even still, panic is never an option. Recovery will come.Those younger and with the capacity need to be heavy into a spread of mutual funds from moderate to high risk with a constant monthly investment of as much as you can bear. Dollar cost averaging. This needs to be tattooed on every average Joe investor's head. You invest it ... you leave it.You can ride out the bumps, even the heavy ones.Dollar cost averaging is a most powerful ally. That constant investment buys more in a down market and when the recovery comes, as it inevitably will, is worth considerably more.

Trying to write Einstein equation.Can't get mu, lambda or pi into equation - displays as invalid equationG_{v}+g_{v}=\frac{8G}{c^4}T_{v}Will not resolve. take out the mu, pi and lambdaG_{v}+g_{v}=\frac{8G}{c^4}T_{v} -- Latex resolves just fine.Try putting only one mu inG_{v}+g_{v}=\frac{8G}{c^4}T_{v} Take out mu put in lambdaG_{v}+g_{v}=\frac{8G}{c^4}T_{v} Take out lambda put in pi (which copies in as greek uppercase P - Why?)G_{v}+g_{v}=\frac{8G}{c^4}T_{v} What did I miss?