The Intelligent People's Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

is that the sound of one and clipping?

What?

I just realized that I might not be quite as intelligent as I thought I was: I can't subtract! For example,

86 - 49 = ?

To subtract would be to take 49 apples out of 86 apples and the answer would be the number of apples left. But instead of subtracting I keep adding to 49 apples until I have 86 apples and the answer is the number of apples I've added.

Does this make me an iddiot?

I don't really have that many apples. I wish I did, but I don't. Still - no matter how many apples I have - I always wish I had more. Yet I have so many apples that I feel guilty for wanting more. I wish apples didn't exist so I wouldn't have to worry about how many of them I have. Also, I feel sad for all the people who don't have any apples at all. How much less sorrow there would be if there weren't any apples! This is true of most things, not just apples. People would be much happier if nothing would exist.

What's the best way for an intelligent person to make money? I want to make some.

What if I want to make the kind of imaginary money that banks use?

Wait, is there a way I can edit the number that appears on the ATM machine?

Can I get more money on my account by withdrawing a negative sum?

Edited by Vompatti - October 22 2008 at 20:01

Can it print without ink?

Can you explain these 'household products' to me?

Instead of potato chips, I would try looking for ink in doilies and napkin rings.

Many years ago Newspaper ink was made from re-cycled engine oil, which is why your hands would be come blackened after reading the newspaper. Of course any coloured solution can be used as ink, many such substances can be found in the typical domestic habitat, the most obvious of which would be food colourings, but emulsions made from suspending ground powders in a suitable solvent (coffee grinds in water for example) would work equally as well.

As most school boys should know - non-coloured liquids found in the kitchen make excellent invisible inks, such as lemon juice or milk - all that's needed is the application of heat to make the invisible visible.

Removing the ink from books is trickier (though why would you want to commit such a crime? - shades of Fahrenheit 451 if you ask me

):

Originally posted by United States Patent 4076578

United States Patent 4076578 wrote:

]Waste paper, particularly newsprint, is treated to release adhering ink particles (e.g. pigment carbon) from the paper fibres, and the ink solids (and organic contaminants) are then preferentially collected on the surface of inserted non-soap solids which have an affinity for, and are of larger size than, the ink solids. The ink-coated solids can be removed from the system by suitable physical means such as hydrocyclones, screens or decantation.

What?

Someone please say something intelligent before I do!