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And everyone who needs the volume and availability. But thanks for trying.

I'm not an Electrical Engineer either, but I took a class on it once. The whole grid is locked together and it's changes in load that cause the frequency variations. The transformers have no effect on frequency (presumably a second order fixed effect, but that's irrelevant).

And here's the damn interview.

Umm, that's nice and all, but actually stock does not have to be sold through the stock exchange.

EULAs are surprisingly untested in contract law. But in legal systems based on English law, including most of the US, they are probably worth very little - Denning's red hand and all that. It's strongly debateable whether they form part of a contract at all.

I find the hostility to the ribbon genuinely mystifying. Excel is (for better or worse) my primary tool, day in, day out, and the ribbon is far more pleasant to use than its predecessor. The quirks of Excel are a far bigger problem than where to click on things.

Relevant.

Not quite. If you take one individual, and try to match him to thousands of others, the chance of a match is low. If you take thousands of people, the chance that some two of them match is quite high.

Normally if a contract contains something that is not legal, the whole contract can become void.

That is just wrong. Come on, a basic understanding of contract law is not difficult to acquire.

You forgot ponies for all.

It means giving due weight. If someone claims he is Caeser, you don't give him equal airtime with a psychologist. You simply don't broadcast him. For a more realistic example, see creationist "science".

I'm afraid you're quite a long way off base both in your analysis of how musical sounds are constructed and of how we culturally construct musical experience. A Western just temperament major scale has a very simple mathematical basis, and musical systems around the world can be derived from this, in more or less complex forms, but it is in no sense arbitrary. And this construction has been very well understood for a very, very long time, before the violence that is equal temperament was introduced.

Close is relative. A major third on in equal temperament beats horrible and as a violin player I hate it. One of my dreams is to come up with an intelligent tempering model system for digital pianos that will naturally adjust temperament as you play.

And you would have stopped it how, exactly?