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It always amazes me to see people jump on the Kyoto bandwagon.

The US SHOULD NOT sign the Kyoto protocol. Not only does it not hold most of the worst pollution producing countries in the world to ANY standard what-so-ever, but it also puts the US at a significant disadvantage compared to not only China but the EU.

To top it off, the Kyoto protocol is estimated to have negligable impact on global warming, even with Perfect compliance by all nations ratifying it.

One of the keys to transportation economy is the time value of money -- and that translates into velocity.

For example, one of the fallacies of asteroidal mining proponents is that you can afford to bring the stuff back to earth. The problem is the round-trip times start killing you due to interest costs on the capital equipment.

If you had nuclear rather than chemical propulsion that helps, but you still have problems with the shear mass of fission systems.

What you ideally want is aneutronic fusion of light atomic nuclei in a device that has a very high specific power. The worst you have to do is provide gamma ray shielding and you may actually be able to do round-trips to the asteroid belt in weeks.

Anyway, here is an excerpt from the relevant legislative language:

(4) "scientific research" means activities that discover
knowledge about natural phenomena, which, under existing statute,
cannot be held as intellectual property via patent;

(5) "scientific knowledge" means knowledge acquired or
discovered through scientific research;

(6) "development" means the acquisition of knowledge or
reduction to practice of an invention which does not exist in nature
and which has some practical value or which has value as intellectual
property under patent law or other statutes;

(7) "engineering break-even" means the production, by a fusion
energy device, of a fusion burn which consumes at least 5% of the
confined fusion fuel and which produces at least twice the energy
consumed by the fusion energy device during the burn;

(8) "commercial break-even" means the self-sustaining
operation of a fusion energy device by feeding its power output back
to its power input without the need for any outside input except its
fuel;

(9) "commonly available" is any fuel whose dollar (1991) per
ounce commercial price multiplied by the number of tons of plant and
equipment required to burn it per million watts sustained power
production is a quantity less than 10,000 dollar-tons per megawatt-ounce;

(10) "energetically aneutronic" means any fuel which, when
burned in a fusion energy system, produces neutron radiation carrying
away less than 10% of the produced energy;

(11) "environmentally aneutronic" means any fuel which, when
burned in a fusion energy system, produces neutron radiation carrying
away less than 1% of the produced energy;

...etc...

(6) The first Commercial Fusion Enterprise to demonstrate engineering break-even shall receive a $100,000,000 prize from the Fusion Energy Trust Fund, which is hereby established, and whose contents are to be invested in 30 year Treasury instruments and whose disbursements are to be administered by the National Academy of Engineering.

(7) The first Commercial Fusion Enterprise to demonstrate engineering break-even using an cycle burning an energetically aneutronic fuel shall receive a $100,000,000 prize from the fusion
Energy Trust Fund.

(8) The first Commercial Fusion Enterprise to demonstrate engineering break-even using an cycle burning an environmentally aneutronic fuel shall receive a $100,000,000 prize from the fusion
Energy Trust Fund.

(9) The fi

Although i've read good reviews of his work, only yesterday did i read some random Planetary comic that i accidentally found on emule.
I and was surprised by the creativity of the story itself.

I'm surprised that the parent didn't mention this work. Maybe i should look into the others

This being slashdot i'll post a link to the torrent for everyone to have a try, Planetary 0-20 plus extras
If you are not familiar with *.cdr or *.cbz, they are just renamed .rar and .zip files that contain images.
If you are running windows download CDisplay.
If you are running Mac OS just download FFview.
If your running *nix download Comical.

And remember: if you really like it, you will enjoy it even more, reading in the bathroom :-)
Just buy it.

Actually only 5 or 6 go through you per minute. And tinfoil will not protect you. For more information see my page for the Cosmic Ray Defelction Society of North Amreica, Inc. (krudzna ink) at...

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/ozone.ht ml ...for more important information on deadly cosmic rays.

Please visit the Cosmic Ray Defelction Society of North Amreica, Inc. (krudzna ink) at...

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/ozone.ht ml ...for more important information on deadly cosmic rays.

Sorry for the many broken links, but this is an old Geocities page, and I cannot get /find anyone at Yahoo that will let me back into the page to update it. Over 20 pages of wierd stuff.

Androbot had those things in production, and you could really buy one. Now they're something of a collectable.

In the current insane situation, the US government subsidizes oil companies enormously(spending hundreds of billions in the middle east) and nuclear companies(insuraning risk from accidents)-but very little is done to provide clear, incentives to research dramatically new forms of energy. As this link shows, the GOP leadership had the chance to address this issue at virtually no net cost and simply blew it.

In the current insane situation, the US government subsidizes oil companies enormously(spending hundreds of billions in the middle east) and nuclear companies(insuraning risk from accidents)-but very little is done to provide clear, incentives to research dramatically new forms of energy. As this link shows, the GOP leadership had the chance to address this issue at virtually no net cost and simply blew it.

You don't use Jim Crow tactics to further a free and fair election. You use them to suppress votes from people you suspect will vote against you. Ever work as an election judge? I have. If you show up at a polling place and you're not on the roll, you file a provisional ballot. Poll challengers, like William Rehnquist in 1962, are there to intimidate and harass. Don't pretend that you're upholding the law by breaking it.

There's a nice roundup here of Washington quotes concerning religion. One I like from the treaty of Tripoli (negotiated under Washington, signed by Adams):

"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

Though this trip was planned months in advance, it's still true that I'm leaving for Canada tomorrow, looking for a job!

...and if you think the goverment (federal, state or local) will ever pass a law granting law enforcement power to arrest someone for saying they speed, you are an idiot.

Stranger things have happened
In Sarasota, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.

Here is a mirror of the zip file that you can test locally.

Being a numeraholic, it's been great following all the different tracking sites. And it was interesting to discover that electoral-vote.com is the work of a relatively well-known geek. Now all of America is asking "What's a flash crowd?" :-) But is the value of the polls and the tracking sites much more than their entertainment value? What real difference would it have made if all the numbers had just been made up? And is the Electoral College a serious, democratic way of electing the leader of the free world? Especially in a country where the real election is run so incompetently that it isn't much more reliable than the opinion polls... To show you what I mean, I've made a kind of parody of the whole thing at http://www.geocities.com/dadge.geo/ElecColl.htm. What do you think? Have a fun evening, Adrian

If you can find a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court or, hell, even at the federal level, preventing a public school from teaching a unbiased comparative religions course I'll eat my hat.

That said, answer me this. How do you construct a school sponsored moment wherein kids can pray if they want to without in some manner distinguishing between those children who do and do not pray. To be different in elementary school/middle school is to be inferior. The kid who doesn't pray is being coerced by the system.

One big question: is intelligent design Christian creationism repackaged as weak science?

One short answer: Yes

Seriously, or maybe not, check out Kent Hovind's comments on creationism, VERY funny Christian extremist.

Some of my favorites:

-I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

-These continents are not lily pads floating around in a bath tub, folks. They are connected. The Earth has a solid crust to it.

How much money did these guy spend on the campaigns? How much money does it cost to fix baseball games these days?

Yeah I can believe the psychological impact on the electorate alone would be enough to swing the election to Kerry.

So now the question is, how does Kerry get all those cynical young guys to join the military to go off to the middle east and fight for USrael? Its not like they have fresh-off-the-farm guys like my father to volunteer for overseas conflicts anymore. Most of the GI generation's boomer children got economically sterilized so there isn't a pool of naive dutiful kids to sucker with Disney animations of pompous Muslim clerics goose stepping around.

They'll have to do something really dramatic to get them excited about fighting for "their country".

I know! How about killing a school full of children? Yeah, that's the ticket.

There were several incarnations of moria. One was an infinite maze based on a hash of the current location, others were more limited (I think all were based on hashes, though - no data storage of the maze). The date was mid-late-70's The first one was an overhead view D&D game, at some point it became a 1st person (limited) view. There was another notable game written in the mid-70's called empire, which was the inspiration for nettrek.

The two primary 1st person 3-D dungeon games on PLATO were oubliette and avatar. Oubliette was the inspiration for Robert Woodhead's Wizardry. The author of oubliette, Jim Schwaiger, also wrote a PC version called Micro-Oubliette, but Wizardry was much more well known. Avatar was the inspiration for Mike Kulas, founder of Volition, to do game programming.

Jim Bowery wrote what he believes is the 1st multi-player First Person Shooter game in early 1974, called spasim ("space sim" or "spasm").

Empire and avatar are going strong on the PLATO revival system (last I checked, the Federation was kicking butt in empire), and you can also check out the original airfight, and possibly airsim might be restored by now (Brand, you out there? Contact me!). Airfight was the inspiration for Bruce Artwick to produce the original Apple II and IBM PC flight simulators (subLogic and BAO, now Microsoft).

What do you say about your beard, psycho? That's all we care about. Get back to us when you've had the appropriate amount of psychotherapy.

Silas Warner does deserve limited credit for the first FPS game -- but not for Wolfenstein. See Spsim.

Rumor has it that it is being restored for Internet play on cyber1 as "0spasim". At least I've given them permission to restore the backup of 0spasim to that system, which is an emulation of the PLATO system upon a CDC Cyber 6400 emulation of one of Seymour Cray's original machines.

Quine, in his essay "The Scope of Logic" says the identity predicate x=y is inherent in the very idea of predicates.

Given the predicate P(x1,x2,x3,...xN), a "Quine identity" P(A=B) is the conjunction:

For all x2,x3,...xN ( P( A ,x2,x3,...xN) iff P( B ,x2,x3...xN) &
For all x1, x3,...xN ( P(x1, A ,x3,...xN) iff P(x1, B ,x3...xN) &
For all x1,x2, ...xN ( P(x1,x2, A ,...xN) iff P(x1,x2, B ...xN) &
...
For all x1,x2,x3,... ( P(x1,x2,x3,... A ) iff P(x1,x2,x3... B )

Tom Etter (yes, the author of Racter) posits three predicates about which nothing is presumed except that they are Quine identities:

Row(x=y)
Column(x=y)
Value(x=y)

Mathematics is now expressible with no further primitives.

FOR INSTANCE:

See The Expressive Power of Equality for a proof that three identities are sufficient to express Zermelo-Fraenkl set theory.

I actually was wondering if this was a troll while I was reading it... parts of it read like text generated by a Markov chains... syntactically correct but semantically nonsense. There used to be (still are?) crapflooders on IMDb whose reviews were very similar in comprehensibility to this.

But then I realised it's Baldrson, and the penny dropped. Most trolls are indistinguishable from idiots, but Baldrson is a genius who's indistinguishable from a troll. I think he comes from a parallel universe where his beard is considered normal.

Someone needs to get Baldrson and ESR alone in a room together. I'm intrigued to know whether they'd fight or make out. But what if the combined comedy facial hair reached critical mass? Is it worth the risk?

I actually was wondering if this was a troll while I was reading it... parts of it read like text generated by a Markov chains... syntactically correct but semantically nonsense. There used to be (still are?) crapflooders on IMDb whose reviews were very similar in comprehensibility to this.

But then I realised it's Baldrson, and the penny dropped. Most trolls are indistinguishable from idiots, but Baldrson is a genius who's indistinguishable from a troll. I think he comes from a parallel universe where his beard is considered normal.

Someone needs to get Baldrson and ESR alone in a room together. I'm intrigued to know whether they'd fight or make out. But what if the combined comedy facial hair reached critical mass? Is it worth the risk?

Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)

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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.

Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.

Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."

As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:

RMS: "I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance," he says. "It's about being able to question conventional wisdom," he asserts. "I believe in love, but not monogamy," he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

"I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your p

http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin7/Star_Trek_IV .htm

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=BL0zc.107743% 24Qc.4131568%40twister1.libero.it

10% of Taiwan supports Westernization. The other 90% supports all the interests of mainland China. The Taiwanese are scum. Ditto for the Koreans.

Here are some numbers to refute the claim that foreign schools are better because they out-spend us

First off, if you are wanting to teach, set aside time when you've learned the program to create some multimedia tutorials. Get camtasia studio and record tutorials, export them to flash. It's better and fast than writing a book with screenshots.

If you are wanting some linux movies, check out xvidcap.

It's a great idea to promote and use open source software. Some might say that those skills will have no marketability because the apps are open source and not industry standard. However, when teaching an art class and including computers, all you have to do is emphasize "Now this is free so you can use it at home. Photoshop is what most people in business use, but the same principles apply." Kids will remember that and they will pick up the right app if they are really interested in that field.

Save the money by using OSS and buy some really nice digital cameras for everyone to use. Have the kids go out and capture the world. They'll love it. Then bring the pictures into gimp, try different things from contrasts to layermasking, and painting. Create meaningful collages. If they learn the gimp, they'll pick up photoshop, and then freehand, etc. They'll be fine. I'd recommend gimp over photoshop elements any day.

Here are learning links I've found on blender. This is really a cool program to teach, but I know it will be difficult for some people to pick up. Teach them how to create a text object, write their name and render it with different light setups. Future filmmakers will really appreciate it I think.

http://www.bl3nder.com/tutorials/ http://www.ctr.co.at/swf/3ds_max_1_zb1_num_calc.ht m http://www.blenderama.com/index.php?id=276 http://www.vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials.html http://blendedmind.i8.com/tutorials.html#tutorials http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI / http://www.tutorialguide.net/software/blender/ http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Tutorials.243.0.html http://www.tltsu.ru/archive/blender/BlenderTutoria lPart3_.pdf http://project-blender.onlinehome.de/ http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/ http://www.ingiebee.com/Blendermania/tutorial_list .html http://renderosity.com/ http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0 4/30/217225 http://www.geocities.com/paulthepuzzles/aardvarks. html http://blender.excellentwhale.com/ http://www.selleri.org/Blender/ http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/index.html http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11202 6#112026 http://vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials.html http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section3d/blender/page

yes, it is real :-)

Kevin "Clerks" Smith wrote a script which got ditched

If anyone is interested in reading the Kevin Smith script, it's here and here is a picture of Brandon Routh who will be playing superman in the 2006 movie.

Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.

IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link:

"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."

Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards :)

Look closer and you'll see that the picture you link is actually that of Kamar Reyes.

This is Brandon Routh.

Come on, you can't just search for somebody with Google image and assume that it is them. Did you think the woman in the second picture was him as well?

In fact, google miss-identified the pictures in the source page (names were above the pictures, google assumes they are under.)

This is the real picture of Brandon Routh on that page.

Thats not Brandon, thats (KAMAR REYES) this is Brandon http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubga l/br2.jpg

If nobody watches gilmore girls then you might want to see what brandon looks like he has the dark look of superman but only time will tell if he is suited to the part.

The iPod Lite Project taking orders soon.

Made all the more funny by your sig...

It's a quote from Futurama episode,
Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV:

Bender: Listen up, 'cause I've got a climactic speech! You, cameraman, keep the camera rolling. You, director, gimmie my motivation.
Director: You're angry.
Bender: Perfect. [He turns to the camera.] Viewers of the world, do smoking and drinking on TV really make me cool? Of course they do. [He blows some cigar smoke.] How 'bout committing crimes and violence? Again, the answer is "yes." But do we really want our kids exposed to that kind of trash on TV? I say absolutely not! [He accidentally fires Farnsworth's laser and a laser bolt flies over Farnsworth's head, narrowly missing him. Bender clears his throat in embarrassment.] Uh...on the other hand, most - perhaps all the blame rests with the parents. That's right you! [He points his firearms at the Fathers Against Rude Television (FART) mob and they gasp and duck.] And so I ask you this one question: Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Hermes: (ashamed) We're just so busy.
Bender: Well make time.
Director: And...cut!
[Calculon applauds.]
[...]
Hermes: Well, I'd say we all learned a valuable lesson about TV there.
Cubert: What was it?
Farnsworth: Uh...that we should all take TV a little less seriously. And more importantly, turn it off once in a while.
Fry: Hear hear!
Leela: Yeah!
Bender: Damn right!
Dwight: So, should we turn it off now?
Farnsworth: Well, uh, that depends what's on.
[Fry flicks through the channels with the remote.]
Fry: Nothing good.
Farnsworth: Ah let's just keep watching.
[They all turn back to the screen and watch Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad.]

(source)

There is no equivalence between China and the West. The West should have the best computers and the best weapons. Western values (e.g. democracy, human rights, compassion, equality of women, etc.) are the finest human values in the world, and we have a vested interest in ensuring their survival -- and dominance. The hordes of immigrants fleeing to the USA (and the rest of the West) is a big clue.

On a side note, what percentage of the 100,000 entities in the battlefield simulation will be robots? The Department of Defense has been trying to increase the number of robotic/autonomous fighting vehicles in order to minimize the loss of human life on the battlefield.

Further, we must eventually ratchet up the number of entities to more than 10 million. The Chinese (including those in Taiwan province and Hong Kong) have a well known disregard for human life (e.g. the rape and murder of Tibetans). The Chinese would readily sacrifice 10,000,000 civilians (not merely soldiers) by using them as human blockades against American mechanized armor.

In Palm Beach County (home of Terry's Butterfly Ballot) there were 32000 errors out of 450000 votes. That's over 7% error rate. Note that typical error rate for non-butterfly punch cards is 4%, whereas optical-scan (aka pencil & bubbles) is well under 2%.

Fry: I just saw something incredibly cool. A big floating ball that lit up with every colour of the rainbow, plus some new ones that were so beautiful I fell to my knees and cried.

Amy: Was it out in front of Discount Shoe Outlet?

Fry: Yeah.

Amy: They have a college kid wear that to attract customers.

Fry: Well I don't care if it was some dork in a costume. For one brief moment I felt the heartbeat of creation. And it was one with my own.

Amy: Big deal.

Bender: We all feel like that all the time. You don't hear us gassin' on about it.

Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2359/ sounds/Homer/bees.wav
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F16.html

Can you hold off until I can get my name changed to John Hancock?

Can you hold off until I can get my name changed to Amanda Hugginkiss?

Well you had NAPLPS (more info & pics) which practically no one used (at least in the US) but did get some support from a few BBS packages and terminal programs.

Then there was RIP (aka RIPscript, pics) which got the most implementation, although the tools and actual BBS support were far behind what ANSI was capable of.

Then towards the end of the BBS era, you had Syncronet appear on the scene, which IIRC had ANSI and RIPScript support first, then added a custom terminal program with SVGA graphics. (not sure based on what presentation protocol, but I'm pretty sure it was proprietary) What's really interesting is it's been open sourced and is still in active development.

As a long time BBS operator (Xenogenesis BBS, Sysop HEX, 313 area, first running TAG software then Oblivion/2 which I'm listed as an author for although I never put out an "official release") I'd definately say ANSI was the standard. I still miss my Obv/2 setup and it's tight ANSI menu sets (all produced personally, I'd check out the scenes packs but made my own in TheDraw of course) and I'm hoping to put it up on the Internet someday from my backups.

Jonah Hex

But Usurper ruled the most !

In a field when there is a glut, they CAN be selective about degrees. Given two nearly identical resumes, they will go with the degree. That's just life. Software developement is a dying field and people are fighting for the end of the ship still above water.

Just as BartPE is not a full XP installation (due to both size and technical limitations), this MS Office plugin doesn't create a full Office suite, but rather a set of MS Office viewers.

Use Natasha's Microsoft Office 97 Standard SR-2 plugin:

It requires system files from a (licensed) Office 97 SR-2 CD, but uses the Microsoft 2003 Office Converter Pack to enable viewing of Word 2003, Excel 2003 and Powerpoint 2003 files.

So you can open these files on a disabled machine for rescue purposes (which is the primary use of BartPE, at least for me) but you can't create new documents.

"Can this technology used for making weapons?"

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You just have to learn to think like this guy
and turn yourself into a human one of these.

see Gui toolkits

GLUI would be a good one GLUI website

try it out

regards

John Jones
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http://www.johnjones.me.uk/

A mathematical treatment of population genetics in groups was given by W. D. Hamilton in "Innate Social Aptitudes of Man". In the last sentence of that paper, Hamilton, the originator of modern kin selection theory, states:

One hears that game theorists, trying to persuade people to play even two-person games like 'Prisoner's Dilemma', often encounter exasperated remarks like: 'There ought to be a law against such games!' Some of the main points of this paper can be summarized as an answer to this comment: that often, in real life, there is a law, and we can see why, and that sadly we also see the protean nature of this Dilemma, which, when suppressed at one level, gathers its strength at another.

It is indeed a dilemma but it isn't without a rigorous treatement within genetic theory.

Steve Sailer has written an an excellent review of the politically touchy issue of ethnic nepotism given from Hamilton's group selective perspective.

That's quite simple. Your understanding of how calculators do it seems to be wrong. Nothing that I know of creates a derived equation and uses that. They use numerical methods that make use of the original equation to compute the derivative.

The HP-48 calculator or Mathematica both do the thing that "nothing you know of" does. We could also discuss why the numerical approach may be incorrect.