How do you Exactly Approximate??

Let me quote from MSDN about System.Double:

"A mathematical or comparison operation that uses a floating-point number might not yield the same result if a decimal number is used because the floating-point number might not exactly approximate the decimal number."

I found this funny, go figure...

Citations of the day

By Henry Kissinger:

• Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

• If everybody is your enemy, then you are not paranoid.

• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

• Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Source: Wikipedia

Supermarket 2.0

A paraphrase of Web 2.0 to real life - GREAT!

Wine is better than Water

I just got this in my mailbox. I rarely read, let alone forward, this kind of mails. Yet, it came from a person I trust and who avoids sending stupidities (thanks Yuval!) and I really feel I ought to pay it forward...

"

As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom,
in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials,
scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter
of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli,
(E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words,
we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine
& beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor)
because alcohol has to go through a purification
process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk
stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable
information: I'm doing it as a public service.

"

I don't know what this guy is on - but I want some...

This is really hallucinating. If this thing is for real, I want to know what this guy takes - and want some for myself...

Oren Zarif is one of these people who claim to have exceptional, supernatural and X-Files-like powers. Apparently, he likes to get it really hard. According to YNET, he has contacted Mike Tyson, proposing a fight. Zarif , weighting 68 kgs, as far from being a boxer talent as one can be, claims to be able to box with his eyes closed. He proposes a one-on-one, with his eyes completely covered. If Zarif loses, he would pay Tyson 5M$. If he wins, Tyson will have to donate the same amount to the US government for the victims of global terror.

For my English readers, the letter sent to Tyson, in passable English, can be found here. Source - YNET.

WTF ?!?!?