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Talk:1106: ADD

2013-03-10T22:00:55Z

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We are lucky for the comic title, since otherwise I wouldn't be so sure this only apply to people with ADD ... in current world, there are so many things wanting your attention that they may overhelm even normal people (of course not so easily). --[[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:21, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree. You don't have to be ADD to relate.
Then again, doesn't everyone who isn't autistic have some amount of attention deficit? It seems like everyone fits under one label or the other these days.
--[[Special:Contributions/138.67.184.237|138.67.184.237]] 21:33, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

:Hey, I'm autistic and I have ADD. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 22:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

you're not allowed to have both? [[Special:Contributions/86.15.83.223|86.15.83.223]] 21:48, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Talk:1085: ContextBot

2013-03-10T21:17:50Z

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Just so you know it would be fairly easy to drop a stack of diamond while alt-tabbing because the default "drop" key is 'q'.
:But the Q key just drops one item, not the whole stack. To drop the whole stack you have to open your inventory, click on the stack then click outside the inventory dialog. (yeah I'm a Minecraft addict :D) -- [[Special:Contributions/41.196.193.193|41.196.193.193]]
::If you were 'holding' the stack with your cursor and left the inventory, it would also drop. Same if it was in the crafting slots. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 21:17, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Talk:1061: EST

2013-03-10T20:51:39Z

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"24 hours 4 minutes" because the period of rotation of the Earth is 24 hours MINUS four minutes.

EST = Eastern Standard Time (USA) or England Standard Time (UK); there's no easy way to disambiguate this since it is a common time zone for English speakers in the USA and UK.

"Run clocks backward" a possible reference to the leap second.

"0.9144" because 1 yard = 0.9144 meters

"triple 4 hours after every full moon" = add on an additional 12 hours every full moon, to make the time between full moons exactly 30 "days" (in real life it's 29.5 days). [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206|75.103.23.206]] 21:44, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I seem to recall that Narnia time ran usually much faster but sometimes much slower than real-world time. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 20:51, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

898: Chain of Command

2013-03-10T17:13:56Z

130.160.145.224: Removed irrelevant information

{{comic
| number = 898
| date = May 13, 2011
| title = Chain of Command
| image = chain of command.png
| imagesize =
| titletext = Themistocles said his infant son ruled all Greece -- "Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by whoever buys advertising time on Dora the Explorer.
}}

==Explanation==
{{w|Themistocles}} was an Ancient Greek politician and this comic and image text are about uncommon chains of command.

The President of the United States is at the top of the US Nuclear Chain of Command, but the Engineer is technically above him because the button would not work without the Engineer and the Engineer is in charge of configuring how the button works. The "Red Button" is usually a worst case scenario as it launches all nuclear capabilities.

In the image text is a similar joke placed at the top of the chain of command, this time in Ancient Greece. Since Themistocles' infant son ruled all of Greece, where did his infant son get any ideas?

==Transcript==
:[A flowchart shows the President at the top, with an arrow to the Secretary of Defense, and then fourteen arrows leading to a series of boxes labeled Unified Combat Commanders. On the side, a box with a dotted outline has a dotted arrow leading to the president. It's labeled "Engineer Who Installed the Red Button."]
:US NUCLEAR CHAIN OF COMMAND

{{comic discussion}}
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Talk:838: Incident

2013-03-10T16:19:05Z

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And so the entire list of naughty and nice children fits into a single A1 poster by Santa's computer. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:59, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

:Presumably it's a delta encoding; he writes down changes to the lists and then later writes them into his records and gets a new poster. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 16:19, 10 March 2013 (UTC)