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Why do magnetic business cards not act like N&S pole magnets ?
self | February 11, 2013 | knarf

Posted on 02/11/2013 8:21:41 AM PST by knarf

Playin' around with a couple of 'em and they don't do a "repel" thing


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: magneticcards; magnetism
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To: llevrok

Good ‘un - what I was trying to say was instead of the pole laying down or put down on a sheet N/S the were laid down vertical. OTOH Polish is not a race. LOL


41 posted on 02/11/2013 9:41:50 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: knarf

It’s also binary data.
North being 1 or “on” and South being 0 or “Off” or vice versa.


42 posted on 02/11/2013 9:42:48 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: SkyDancer
Kelly Bundy
43 posted on 02/11/2013 9:55:59 AM PST by bicyclerepair (Zombies Eat Brains. Half of FL is safe.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
“Yep, this is a 9-track, and it is EBCDIC encoded” And sure enough, with the right command the tape could be loaded and read!

Back in the day, computer terminals were Kleinschmidt teletype ASR 33s with a built in reader/punch for seven level paper tape. I got pretty good at reading the hole patterns. We even had a short program that would punch a leader where the holes made block letters so you could name and date your tapes with human readable text.

Regards,
GtG

44 posted on 02/11/2013 10:11:26 AM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: SkyDancer
OTOH Polish is not a race

That's not what my Dad used to say!!!

45 posted on 02/11/2013 10:13:08 AM PST by llevrok (Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
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To: llevrok

What? Yer dad was a Lithuanian or Latvian??? LOL


46 posted on 02/11/2013 10:18:44 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: xrmusn
Sounds similar to the episode of the Honeymooners where Ralph was chosen to appear on Name That Tune.

I'm guessing our two examples say something about our relative ages.

47 posted on 02/11/2013 11:04:08 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: envisio

“Slow day at work?”

Maybe, more likely cut class the day magnetism was covered in 8th grade science.

(your punishment will...to (k)narfle the garthok!)


48 posted on 02/11/2013 11:15:56 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: rmh47

I’m guessing our two examples say something about our relative ages
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
AH, but I do remember Ralph, Alice, Ed, Trixie, also Arch, Edith, Meathead, Gloria, G Jefferson etc, but funny how times have changed (we haven’t, times have <: <:)
The ‘new’ hero is somewhat tainted, going back to Tony Soprano, “The Shield” where ‘Vic Mackay a cop, ‘executed’ one of his squad members and was genuinely a ‘hateful’ character but he was the ‘hero’. “Breaking Bad” is another one, “Dexter” “Justified” is on the edge, and “Banshee” is ‘over the edge’. Just a few examples...

That said, I watched “High Noon” yesterday and had really forgotten the ending, where the ONLY “Man” in the town gave a look that would have frozen statues while glaring at the crowd, saying nothing, throwing his badge to the ground and ‘buggying off into the sunset with his bride’.
I was a ‘protected’ teenager and don’t recall when I first saw it but pretty sure I didn’t take the ending the way it should have been taken (at that time).


49 posted on 02/11/2013 12:34:54 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: cripplecreek

” Now I’m off to discover why the microwave tray turns one way till I turn the oven off and on again when the tray turns the other way.”

So it’s not just me. I’ve often been perplexed by that also.


50 posted on 02/11/2013 12:54:10 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: Sacajaweau
Years ago...I had a very large, strong ship magnet....and it demagnetized my card.

Bucky Balls are quite efficient card demagnitizers as well, or so I have found.

51 posted on 02/11/2013 1:45:45 PM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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