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Title: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 03, 2011, 10:05:37 PM
This is hypothetical,...you don't have to be an American to get in on the fun.
If you were a candidate for President of the United States,...what would your official platform be ???
...Anything goes,...
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: anunitu on June 03, 2011, 11:16:57 PM
If I ran, I would prob come up with crazy stuff like some teabaggers, you know big time conspiresy stuff. Then when everyone kept seeing it on the media,I make my move and write a book, and get a reality show,and make Millions!!!!!
MUHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: dedndave on June 04, 2011, 01:00:08 AM
probably not a viable platform, but the first thing i'd do....
take back all the money that cheney and halliburton have swiped   :P
i am sure that running on that as a platform would get you "disappeared"
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 04, 2011, 05:41:00 PM
...I must confess,...I have sinister and ulterior (but, patriotic) motives,...
Just in case, I DO decide to run for President (...on Hutch's recommendation),...I need some innovative thinking,...

...The best I've come up with so far is:
FOOLS !!! IT'S COMPLETELY HOPELESS !!!
MOVE TO AUSTRALIA !!!

...So, ANUNITU and DAVE,...you won't object if I blantantly steal your stuff,... :eek
(both of which are light years ahead of anything I could possibly dream up)

...But, seriously,...what I really need are some EPIC mission impossible type conspiracy theories to make all the Republicans crazy,...
...I'm thinking along the lines of: putting all the corrupt Goldman-Sachs executives (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511) in charge of The Federal Reserve, The Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission,  The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)), CIA covert operations in all OPEC countries,...pool parties at Area 51,..and. of course, fundraising for my illustrious campaign,...
...And, maybe,...outsourcing all my Foreign Policy decisions to Charlie Sheen and/or Paris Hilton (or, her pets),...
...HOW COULD IT GET MUCH WORSE,...???
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: hutch-- on June 04, 2011, 11:35:59 PM
YEAH YEAH, Paris for Vice President, you need some good legs in the campaign.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 05, 2011, 04:50:35 PM
My platform...
First policy ... Self Preservation - make sure all are OK/happy within the borders (a hard task but you have to start somewhere)
Second policy ... A new foreign policy of assistance, without meddling, and for that matter invading!!  :green2
Third policy ... Free Beer with Paris on each bottle  :P This should go down well
:bg
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: zemtex on June 05, 2011, 06:24:21 PM
I would try to do something about the food industry in america. Over half the population is overweight. It have become such a big problem that airplanes need to count one person as two in order to avvoid an airplane stall.

I would restructure everything in the food industry, find ways to squeeze out fast food, enforce laws to ensure that healthy food is cheap and accessible.

OFF-TOPIC: I would ban elevators in all skyscrapers to force them to take the walk.  :bdg
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 06, 2011, 07:00:20 AM
Quote from: zemtex on June 05, 2011, 06:24:21 PM
.. It have become such a big problem that airplanes need to count one person as two .....
The plus side of this will be that we get a much larger seat that us 'lighter gravity challenged' folk will finally be able to sit comfortably in.
:bg
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: MichaelW on June 06, 2011, 05:09:17 PM
The food industry is essentially a symptom of the real problem. They couldn't make a profit from that junk if people were not stupid enough to eat it, in large quantities.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: hutch-- on June 06, 2011, 05:13:34 PM
Overweight people and poverty go hand in hand in most of the western world. More affluent people can usually afford to eat properly where folks on the bottom end of the pile often have little other choice than to eat trash. Being the target of advertising pressures does not help either. get a BIG MAC attack, greasy Kentucky Fried Chicken or anything full of trans fatty acids and you are on your way to being a balloon. We live in a generation where some parents will outlive their kids due to crap food.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 06, 2011, 07:28:06 PM
Nah.. The wiff and I are very strict on food and junk food is a 'luxury' here, very few and far between.
:)
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: DarkWolf on June 06, 2011, 07:39:35 PM
Quote from: baltoro on June 03, 2011, 10:05:37 PM
If you were a candidate for President of the United States,...what would your official platform be ???
...Anything goes,...

Annex Mexico as the 51 state.
They get their American Rights, we get cheap labor and keep them from jumping the fence.

Quote from: baltoro 
pool parties at Area 51

Sssh, that's are secret undeground fishing resort. Why do you think they paved over Groom Lake ?
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: anunitu on June 06, 2011, 08:25:18 PM
Quote from: zemtex on June 05, 2011, 06:24:21 PM
I would try to do something about the food industry in america. Over half the population is overweight. It have become such a big problem that airplanes need to count one person as two in order to avvoid an airplane stall.

I would restructure everything in the food industry, find ways to squeeze out fast food, enforce laws to ensure that healthy food is cheap and accessible.

OFF-TOPIC: I would ban elevators in all skyscrapers to force them to take the walk.  :bdg

The thing is concerninng the food, the contaminated food with e-coli going around will kill us off faster than we can gain weight.
I worry more about food safty than if it is good or bad in the sense of nutrition. Weight you can lose if you really want to, and I do take issue with the idea of regulating what people can or cannot consume. So many people seem to think the world would be so much better by banning things. Usually those things are the very problem things the people who want to ban them have a problem resisting. Prohabition wasn't passed by social moderate drinkers, it was passed by the folkes who CAN'T handle any consumption of
alcohol. 
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 06, 2011, 09:46:40 PM
There are so many possibilities here. :eek
I think that I would:

...But, don't worry,...I'm NOT running for President,...
...And, that. is a pragmatic issue,...I'd be assassinated with 2 milliseconds of taking office,...
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 07, 2011, 06:02:20 PM
I'm in.. I'm in (punches the air)..  Now that I'm a politician of good standing... Anybody looking for 'underhand favours'... everything has a price!

Ahhh!! the good life.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: jj2007 on June 07, 2011, 06:35:20 PM
Quote from: anunitu on June 06, 2011, 08:25:18 PMThe thing is concerninng the food, the contaminated food with e-coli going around will kill us off faster than we can gain weight.

I know whose reincarnation will kill you (http://www.propagandamatrix.com/prince.html)  :green2
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: DarkWolf on June 07, 2011, 07:50:24 PM
Quote from: vanjast on June 07, 2011, 06:02:20 PM
Anybody looking for 'underhand favours'... everything has a price!

Can we still annex Mexico ??
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 07, 2011, 08:33:13 PM
I think we will probably annex the WHOLE WORLD.
But, for absolute certainty,...we must annex all countries with proven petroleum reserves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves) greater than ours (this may aggravate EDGAR, though).
...Or, Dick Cheney will go berserk and srart shooting more of his drunk hunting buddies,...
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 08, 2011, 10:31:11 AM
It is possbile that solar, and other of alternative forms of energy, might just put the US military out of business..

Nah! that sounds stupid.. there must be a war somewhere that they can fight, or even make one up :)
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 08, 2011, 10:34:18 AM
Quote from: DarkWolf on June 07, 2011, 07:50:24 PM
Can we still annex Mexico ??
Do you really want to ??

Sounds like a dodgey deal to me. What you really want.. is accelerated Continental Drift along the borderline.
I should be a salesman.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: hutch-- on June 08, 2011, 12:49:58 PM
Van,

What about a global sunshine tax ? They could raise a fortune from the Sahara.  :bg
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: vanjast on June 08, 2011, 01:50:35 PM
Now we understand why africa is 'dirt' poor.. poor buggers have been taxed to death already.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 08, 2011, 10:20:32 PM
It is all clear to me after reading the preceeding posts.
Non-assembly programmers are imbeciles. They can't be trusted. They have no vision.
Everybody wants to be rich,...and, rich people don't want everybody to be rich because it would be very annoying to be normal.
The world is becoming dangerously militarized because they are too many people and looming shortages of strategic resources.
I think Steve Martin (http://twitter.com/#!/STEVEMARTINTOGO) is the man for the job. He's hilarious,...and, with the right intelligence can effortlessly confuse 98% of humanity, and, convince them it's patriotic.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: DarkWolf on June 21, 2011, 07:10:30 PM
Quote from: vanjast on June 08, 2011, 10:34:18 AM
Quote from: DarkWolf on June 07, 2011, 07:50:24 PM
Can we still annex Mexico ??
Do you really want to ??

Cheap Labor.
Natural Resources.
Get to be Americans and stay where they are.

DUH !! Of course I want to.
Quote
Sounds like a dodgey deal to me. What you really want.. is accelerated Continental Drift along the borderline.
I should be a salesman.

Why ? They'll just use rafts, canoes and airline cushions like the Cubans.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: oex on June 24, 2011, 12:32:06 AM
PS. Note my trick answer (It's even on a different day)
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: zemtex on June 24, 2011, 04:32:17 PM
Trick question of the day. (This one is easy)

What is 1 + 1 ?
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: dedndave on June 24, 2011, 05:21:04 PM
ummmmmm
3 ?

(11 binary = 3  :bg )
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: FORTRANS on June 24, 2011, 05:24:50 PM
Hi,

   A math problem.

Cheers,

Steve N.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: oex on June 24, 2011, 05:51:37 PM
Quote from: zemtex on June 24, 2011, 04:32:17 PM
What is 1 + 1 ?

100-2
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: Tedd on June 24, 2011, 10:20:57 PM
What is 1+1 ?

classical: 2
binary: 10
boolean: true
string: "11"
pessimist: not enough
optimist: one for me and one for you
argumentative: no it's not!
biologist: 3
chemist: helium
physicist: a two body problem
quantum physicist: something or nothing
engineer: adequate
banker: my commission
marketing: a great deal!
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: baltoro on June 24, 2011, 10:30:54 PM
:eek ...A little reverse psychology,... :eek
Here's the answer,...But, it's actually a trick question,...
You don't know if he's tweeting Martians,...or, what ???

Quote from: STEVE MARTINDon't you need a camel for that ???

DON'T GOOGLE IT !!! THAT'S CHEATING !!!
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: zemtex on June 25, 2011, 04:14:31 AM
1 + 1 is 2.

Let's Play the register-game, what will eax contain by the end

l1: mov eax, 10
    mov ecx, eax
    sub eax, ecx
    sub ecx, eax
    mov eax, ecx
    add ecx, eax
    add eax, ecx
    jmp l1
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: dedndave on June 25, 2011, 05:43:32 AM
QuoteLet's Play the register-game, what will eax contain by the end

another trick question, as there is no end
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: MichaelW on June 25, 2011, 05:52:03 AM
There is always an end.
Title: Re: Trick Question of the Day
Post by: hutch-- on June 25, 2011, 07:29:41 AM
 :P