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2011 Dec 9, 1:03am   1,316,896 views  9,718 comments

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553   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jun 5, 2:55pm  

curious2 says

If you have a source for that, I would be curious to read it. As far as I know, Einstein worked seriously at the patent office, where he was eminently qualified for his job, and did his other work on his own time.

Ist Hier:

When Einstein was asked how things functioned in the Patent Office, he replied that above all one must be able to express clearly and correctly the wording of the original patent from the description of the discovery and the patentee's claims. The work was not particularly exciting and apart from one or two exceptions it was rather soul destroying. In any case one had to sit every day for eight hours on a stool and in return for that one was given a decent wage.
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Einstein felt free; free of academic authority and rules, and thus the Patent Office was a comfortable place for Einstein the free-thinker to hatch his most beautiful theories.
Rudolf Kayser, Einstein's son in-law writes in his biography on Einstein, "He soon discovered that he could find time to devote to his own scientific studies if he did his work in less time. But discretion was necessary, for though authorities may find slow work satisfactory, the saving of time for personal pursuits is officially forbidden.
Worried, Einstein saw to it that the small sheets of paper on which he wrote and figured vanished into his desk - drawer as soon as he heard footsteps approaching behind his door. If he had been discovered, he would have been ridiculed as well as harmed. The Director [Friedrich Haller] would have laughed at him in addition to being angry; he was too great a positivist to think much of speculative science".
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It appears that Einstein used to write his notes on "small sheets of papers", because later one of the students at the University of Zurich described him entering class with
notes "the size of a visiting card on which he had scribbled what he wanted to tell us". On these papers Einstein very likely wrote his path breaking 1905 papers;
and these small sheets of papers the size of visiting cards could perfectly enter his desk-drawer without being discovered by Haller.


http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.3904.pdf

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554   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jun 5, 3:02pm  

(Switzerland is rumored to be Germany, on Steroids):

557   Dan8267   2015 Jul 9, 10:18pm  

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1kgmfPClsZc

Time to celebrate Maymo's birthday! Since Maymo loved getting 100 balls last year, we decided to up the ante and fill a DIY ball pit with 1000+ rainbow-colored balls (because gay marriage!). At first Maymo thinks it's just an ordinary day with us rearranging the furniture, but he perks up when he sees the box filled with 1000+ colorful balls. Maymo's reaction is hilarious and predictably cute, with the funny dog jumping into the ball pit, excitedly wagging his tail and playing until he is tuckered out.

563   zzyzzx   2015 Jul 16, 10:20am  

I actually took this picture:

565   Dan8267   2015 Aug 11, 10:23am  

Only a racist would find that funny, and one with a bad sense of humor. The pun is the lowest form of joke, and at best, only serves to enhance another joke.

566   indigenous   2015 Aug 11, 11:04am  

Bullshit, there is nothing racist about that comment. It is just that you mutts conflate having a viewpoint with racism.

567   HydroCabron   2015 Aug 11, 11:14am  

indigenous says

Bullshit, there is nothing racist about that comment.

Have to agree. This is nowhere near as offensive as Target pulling a couple of words off its signs.

568   Dan8267   2015 Aug 11, 1:11pm  

indigenous says

Bullshit, there is nothing racist about that comment. It is just that you mutts conflate having a viewpoint with racism.

My actual words were
Dan8267 says

Only a racist would find that funny, and one with a bad sense of humor.

Without a racist mind, there is nothing funny about the pun.

569   indigenous   2015 Aug 11, 4:01pm  

Dan8267 says

Without a racist mind, there is nothing funny about the pun.

Sure there is, it is funny because Obama is a lying politician. You know hope and change, I will be transparent, if you like your plan you can keep it, I will close down GITMO, etc etc

570   Dan8267   2015 Aug 11, 6:29pm  

indigenous says

Sure there is, it is funny because Obama is a lying politician.

And what does that have to do with Africa or skin color?

571   indigenous   2015 Aug 11, 8:01pm  

Dan8267 says

And what does that have to do with Africa or skin color?

It has to do with O being African, it has nothing to do with skin color.

574   Dan8267   2015 Aug 28, 12:11am  

You run into a window, too?

580   Dan8267   2015 Oct 2, 11:21am  

Blatant false advertisement.

Ooops, added an s to the domain name.

581   zzyzzx   2015 Dec 17, 11:19am  

"Let is snow"

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