Thomst: I feel for you. My mother developed Alzheimer's some years ago and died from it. If you have not read The 36 Hour Day, you may want to get it. Understanding your mother's humanity and growing lack of control over her own life are the most important things you can use to help her. I was very lucky in being of a mind not to try to change my mother's behavior, and instead to help her experience as complete a life as she could. My best wishes go with you.
I read the Hobbit and LOTR to my children when they were young (a total of 3 times) and both they and I found it to be the most engaging work of fiction I ever read to them. C. S. Lewis' Narnia books paled in comparison.
My mother had alzheimers and became progressively more paranoid until she was medicated with SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). It took a while to get the dosage right, but it was a great blessing to her to no longer be so upset about something over which she had no control. Perhaps there is hope, at least, for your father's emotional state.
Although you may find it hard to reduce today's average system to a Turing machine, most of the machines you find in practice are still just Turing machines. You can make machines depend on random behavior for their computation, but I'm not aware of any technology that requires this or requires simultaneity in order to performs its intended function.
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Thomst: I feel for you. My mother developed Alzheimer's some years ago and died from it. If you have not read The 36 Hour Day, you may want to get it. Understanding your mother's humanity and growing lack of control over her own life are the most important things you can use to help her. I was very lucky in being of a mind not to try to change my mother's behavior, and instead to help her experience as complete a life as she could. My best wishes go with you.
Perhaps you're reading it the wrong way.
I read the Hobbit and LOTR to my children when they were young (a total of 3 times) and both they and I found it to be the most engaging work of fiction I ever read to them. C. S. Lewis' Narnia books paled in comparison.
Derek:
My mother had alzheimers and became progressively more paranoid until she was
medicated with SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). It took a
while to get the dosage right, but it was a great blessing to her to no longer
be so upset about something over which she had no control. Perhaps
there is hope, at least, for your father's emotional state.
SSTP is *not* about levying new taxes.
It is about getting states to agree on a way to collect the taxes that are already owed.
People generally are not aware that they need to pay their state a *use* tax for goods purchased from other states, but used in their own state.
SSTP, if implemented correctly, will allow for the efficient collection of these taxes at the point of sale in interstate commerce.
Although you may find it hard to reduce today's average system to a Turing machine, most of the machines you find in practice are still just Turing machines. You can make machines depend on random behavior for their computation, but I'm not aware of any technology that requires this or requires simultaneity in order to performs its intended function.