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two life insurance sales men purchase a woman's life insurance policy because she claims she is ill. They find out she is scamming them. Anyone know the name of the movie?

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two insurance sales men purchase a woman's life insurance policy (viatical) , to collect when she dies from a terminal illness. But they discover she is scamming them. She isn't sick, so they decide to kill her. Anyone know the name of the movie. I can't find it.

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Jerry

If so, How?

Jerry

Is the friction of dragging 1100 feet of chain weighing a total of 3000 lbs, less or more than the friction of dragging a single block of iron (approximately cubical) of the same weight?

I live on my boat and need to find an alternative to a mooring which is what most boats use if they intend to stay in one place for a long time. I move from Key West to Key Largo six months at a time. I can't make two moorings because someone would simply use the mooring I am not using. One can not claim property left on the sea floor.

The best mooring for my boat is a 3000 lb. block of iron. The problem is, I can't pick that up and put it on the deck while traveling between. To solve that problem, I want to use a length of chain as the weight. 1100 feet of 1/2 chain weights about 3000 lbs. I can use my chain windlass to bring the whole length into the chain locker. This brings the question.

Is the friction of dragging 1100 feet of chain weighing a total of 3000 lbs, less or more than the friction of dragging a single block of iron (approximately cubical) of the same weight?

It will be drug through soft soil saturated by sea water. But one can assume any surface for calculating friction as both the block and the chain would be drug across the same.

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Jerry

I write math software and need to display some graphical information in Microsoft Visual Basic. The help menus aren't very helpful in finding how to display dynamic graphic data as it is generated. I need to plot points inside a window.

Does anyone have a few keywords, functions or a word to look up in the help menu that might show me?

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Jerry

I want to network only two computers via point to point ethernet. I want to hook this up tonight and not go out to buy a router. Is there a network protocall which will allow point to point. TCP might do it. But I dont think so. NetBui (spelling?) maybe. Maybe another.

Does anyone know? Settings would be appreciated.

Jerry

I am not asking about chlorophyll or the process of photosynthesis. I understand 6H2O + 6CO2 + light energy -> C6H12O6+ 6O2 That info is available everywhere.

What I am asking is How Much light energy in watts or some other appropriate unit is required for production of each six molecules of O2?

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Jerry

Where could I find statistics separately, or comparing, the rate of accidental deaths taking place in one's home and rate of accidental death taking place on boats? It is OK if the links do not compare the stats. Perhaps one link for home deaths and another entirely for boating accidents.

The twin paradox of relativity is resolved by pointing out that there are three frames of reverence not two. The earth remains in one the whole time of the twin's ship's travels. But the space ship starts in one frame and then when it turns around it changes its frame of reference.

Refer to classic Twin Paradox at wikipedia

The standard explanation works so long as the ship turns around. What happens if the ship travels only one way and upon arriving, decelerates and again rejoins the frame of reference of the earth. Adjusting for simultaneous time with earth, the traveling twin has still aged only half the time as the twin on earth. Why is the slower time dilation assigned to the traveling twin, when the earth was speeding away from the ship as fast as the ship was speeding away from the earth.

If answering, be careful. Try not to be confused by the distance between the ship and the earth. Imagine simultaneous clocks on earth and at the ship's destination placed long ago.

It is easy to find an online translator from english to chinese characters.

Does anyone know a web site that translates english to chinese words in a phonetic english alphabet?

Pluripotent stem cells divide and divide all day long. Each daughter cell remains pluripotent (able to become any of the organ systems in the human body.) At some point this mass of identical cells decides to assign each of the cells an organ system. At this point each of the cells differentiates and can no longer become any other type of cell. Instead it goes on to become heart cells or the cells of some other specific organ system.

The difficulty is that all the cells are identical, why would they select different paths?

Has anyone figured this out yet? How specific is the understanding? I don't want to hear. "It has to do with the cells kinda' talkin' to each. Since cells can talk to each other, they figure it out."

The arpnet engineers solved a funtionaly identical problem 30 years ago. If you want to how they solved it link here

http://www.satellitemagnet.com/diff

Zip and Zap's rocket ship, "Studmuffin" is very fast. It travels at 99.9999994% the speed of light. It must be this fast because the two are planning a trip to the planet Zarkon which is exactly on the other side the galaxy. Zip and Zap are arguing about what direction Studmuffin should be aimed so that she arrives at Zarkon and they are arguing about how much space beer to bring for the trip. (The space beer is more important than it sounds.)

They both understand that since our star system and the star Zarkon orbits are on opposite sides of the galaxy and the same distance from the center, that Zarkon is traveling at the same speed as Earth but in the opposite direction. And since the trip will take some time, they have to be careful to aim Studmuffin at the right place.

Zap explains that their journey will take 30,000 years . .

(There are only three more paragraphs. Link here to finish) http://www.satellitemagnet.com/zipzap.html

I read a lot about identical or near identical proteins coding sequences found in different species.

But I have not read anything about short amino acid sequences (10 to 20 codens maybe) used repeatedly in multiple large or complex proteins (perhaps 300 codens or larger.)

If we found short animo acid sequences which are used repeatedly, we could begin to understand the useful but incredibly complex chemical properties which even short animo acid sequence display despite their much simpler chemical properties by themselves. This would be real advancement rather than just ogle at how they twist around themselves.

Does anyone know of such research. Please don't bother explaining the use of G, C, A, (U in RNA and T in DNA) or tri-nucleotide codens or the coden - amino acid translation process. or the twenty or so amino acids. I am familiar with those. I want to know if we are looking at repeating sub protein animo acid sequences or only at inter-species whole proteins.

I live on m y power boat. I am trying to measure the force my boat is pulling against my anchor in the wind. Since the force is many hundreds of pounds for my 55 thousand pound boat, I am trying to make the measurement indirectly with a 20 lb. fish scale by measuring the force required to deflect the line a few inches.

I will take all the complication out of the calculation and hope someone knows the mathematical relationship.

http://www.satellitemagnet.com/TopDrawer/rope.JPG click here for an illustration

imagine a 3 meter rope hanging from a hook high on the wall. imagine a 100 Newton weight at the bottom of the 3 meter rope. Imagine a pulley 2 meters from the top of the hook, directly in line with the rope. Imagine a force deflecting the rope between the hook, 1 meter above and the pulley 1 meter below. The force deflects the rope 0.5 meters. the 100 Newton weight rises a little but this makes no difference. It still pulls 100 Newtons.

I dont just mean a little bit and I don't just mean compared to nations like N Korea. I am talking about the percentage of US citizens incarcerated in the US is 7 times higher than the percentage incarcerated in every other western industrialzed nation.

Neither drugs nor violent crimes account for the discrepancy. If all drug related incarcerations were illiminated in the US and if all violent crimes were illiminated in all countries, the US would still incarcerate 3 to 4 times more of its citizens than other western industrialized nations. Sources below.

I can only think of two possible answers.

1) The people of the US are more wicked and have darker hearts than all the peoples of the rest of the world.

Or 2) Law enforcemnt theory in the US places an characteristically high and usualally rigorous degree of importance on punishment.

Jerry

http://www.satellitemagnet.com/research.html