Offtopic: Is there any theory of solving hyperoperation equations generally, or any theoretical work on why some types of hyperoperation equations are solvable by their respective formula but some aren't?
No, engineers apply known applications to problems they have to solve. Which is why we want newly known applications. And why those of us with problems for which there are no known applications for solutions are interested in the possibility of new applications when the bottleneck at the point of understanding has been passed.
Lots of us "take math" who aren't mathematicians. The vast majority of us, in fact.
Link to something that says protesters were run over by tanks inside the square. I want to see the quality of such sources that you're willing to believe.
Because I don't remember ever reading or hearing any such thing from anyone credible. What I remember is the video of a protester standing down a column of tanks inside the square. Which tried to go around him. So he stepped to the side back in front of the tank. Which did not run him over.
If what you believe is contrary to what you had good reason to believe, that's your fault.
They're a Republican. And they're typical of Republicans.
FWIW, it's not a matter of what they "believe". No one can ever be sure what another person truly believes. Republicans are so absorbed lying about what they believe to insist on what others must do or don't that their actual beliefs are too hidden, perverted and inconsistent to bother with.
Because what counts is only what people do. Republicans vote for politicians, donate to politicians, who do such lying and harm, in direct contradiction of what they say they believe, that it's clear what the Republican beliefs are in effect.
Which is the only reason to care about their beliefs: their actual effect. Their beliefs are their own business. Their terrible effect on others (and themselves, then they drag us down with them) is abundantly clear.
Yes, the homosexual activists want to finish what the Nazis started. Right. You are so sick that you'll repeat any insanity so long as you think it could hurt the people who scare you.
Please post more crazy so we can see that the modern Republican Party is the beacon for America's hopelessly insane. You're the one who's asleep: your American Dream is a nightmare.
I know mathematicians study these mathematics for reasons entirely unrelated to any practical applications of them. And I know that most of the value in proofs and understanding is totally independent of any applications, as the applications' utility are typically of relatively brief lifetime while the math is eternal.
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are called "hailstone" sequences - is the math any use in weather or geology? Or any other?
No, it's obvious from what you said, and the sensibilities that experienced people can tell are behind it, that you are no African-American lesbian. You're a middle class White man.
Things are worse now than then for middle class White men. But since they live among everyone else being better off, they're also better now than they were then. It's so confusing being a middle class White man.
Bearing arms almost never defends any rights. It's almost always used to violate people's rights, except when shooting animals or targets and no rights other than the self-referential are at issue.
You gun fetishists watched Bush/Cheney shit on our Constitution for 8 solid years, and never used your guns to defend it. You proved that's just a load of macho BS. You showed that the delusion that guns defend our rights should be retired except as a fairy tale for demented children.
No, this isn't another "youranus" joke. It's obviously a bad investment in time, energy and money to drive all the way to Uranus and back with gas just for the relatively small amount of energy we'd get out of it back here. For a much smaller investment we could get enough to power the Earth back from deuterium mining on the Moon as the summary notes. Or, even better, we could put solar collectors across Lunar surface, then beam the energy back to the Earth through a small network of lunar/solar/Earth orbital satellites to floating sea platforms. The lunar energy projects would pay off within a decade, and replace practically all energy (and emissions, and mining, and their territorial conflicts) here on Earth.
But Uranus' gas "mines" are still an excellent resource. Once Earth's energy needs are satisfied, lunar/solar power would still provide enough to push human exploitation through the other planets. Lunar/solar power is an excellent way to get to Uranus, especially if we set a trail of collectors and transmitters along the way. But once there, solar energy density is so low that even very large collectors left to concentrate solar energy beamed to the Uranus neighborhood will be very low. To get beyond Uranus, and even around in the Jupiter-Saturn neighborhood, pulling energy from Uranus' gas would be a good way to go. Or rather from each gas giant.
By the time we get Earth's energy hooked up to lunar/solar and get out to the outer planets, I expect we'll have gas->radiation fusion tech that works well in the uninhabited vacuum of interplanetary space. Dropping fusion plants into gas giants' atmospheres to pump a network of "solar" transfer stations orbiting planets, moons and the Sun would complete a Solar System power network delivering energy throughout the system along the paths our machines, and perhaps eventually longterm colonizing humans, travel. Power from Uranus, and then Neptune, would be the best way to push our travel outwards from our planets into really distant places, and eventually to other stars.
Let's not turn "Uranus gas mining" into just a joke. We'll get to it. But let's get serious about lunar/solar power systems, and the satellite infrastructure to support it. We've had the tech to do it for over a decade, and the dire need to replace our sugenocidal legacy energy systems with it for even longer. Back to the moon for solar power; Uranus can wait.
"Liberals" (really "not quite evil bastards") have always resisted war on the basis of its inevitable civilian casualties. The US has avoided civilian casualties, even at the cost of missing out on really profitable wars, since the majority of Americans have resisted war's inevitable civilian casualties starting with WWI, but really after WWII: the wars in which many Americans actually saw some civilian casualties.
You, however, have never seen either war or its civilian casualties personally. Before you demand more, go see some. There's plenty in the world, including by American hands.
A reduction in unemployment will help fill the state coffers better than an increase in taxes.
So instead of California getting something like 8% of the Amazon sales in sales taxes, you'd rather CA got the income tax on the Amazon workers in CA. That would probably be something like 8% of their income. But what Amazon pays its workers is much less than the revenue each gets Amazon; probably a lot less than half. Even if you count the money CA saves in unemployment and related benefits, it's clear that CA's state coffers will fill better with the sales taxes than with income taxes instead.
What you're counting on is the discredited (and aptly named) Laffer curve. Claims that reducing taxes increase state revenue are disproven anywhere you look. Moreover, the tax exemption and other subsidy deals offered corporations to locate in a given place never work to either increase revenue (or thereby decrease the burden on the taxed employees), or even to keep the corporation located there once subsidies drop. Because taxation how we pay for the services consumed by these corporations, and failing to tax them distorts the economy into a game in which the corporation's actual activity is merely a prop for tax evasion.
The sales tax exemption for Internet purchases made sense while Internet sales struggled to establish themselves in the economy and the culture. Like most tax reductions or exemptions, it was a temporary exception. Because those sales taxes pay for the state's operations. The state has expenses for services that support the sellers, like the actual incorporation and all kinds of protections and infrastructure, and all kinds of protections for the buyers. When the transactions enabled by those services aren't taxed, the rest of the state's taxpayers must pay. And since California ran up even more debt under Schwarzenegger than it had when he was elected to reduce it, the expenses cost debt money, which is something like 150% of the original costs after interest is paid.
Sales taxes are the fairest and most reasonable tax. They scale with the benefit to the buyer and seller, and to the services that support each of them. They pay for us to live in a civilized society, instead of some corporate anarchy.
An electron's shape includes the path that it takes through the "electron cloud". And that path has to date never been plotted with any accuracy, only its overall probability densities in spacetime. It's a fractal (since time's dimension is not an integer), and so it depends in part on the size and shape of whatever measures it.
If cloud storage has better legal protection than local storage when crossing the border, then I want an app that backs up all my data and configs to the cloud and deletes it locally whenever my GPS says I'm near an airport or the border, then restores it after I'm across - or on demand, when I've passed border control.
Meanwhile, billions of people listen, everyone takes more dollars than ever before, and people (not corporations) pay more taxes than ever.
The message is that as tired as people are, they fear an alternative. And for good reason: the alternative is nearly certain to be worse - probably much, much worse.
Why don't you run for office and make it worth listening, buying into, paying taxes to? Even if just the school board. Stop whining with kindergarten doomsday talk and do something, however small, proportional to you own potential for making a difference.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
"Secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" is the definition of privacy. We have a right to privacy. It doesn't matter that the Constitution signers "couldn't have imagined" cloud computing. They imagined that they couldn't imagine new things, so they signed a Constitution that recognizes our right to privacy in specific terms of that right.
If we can't require the government at least obtain a judge's authorization on probable cause specifying what's to be searched and seized, we have no boundary between what's private and what the public can force. The 4th Amendment's line protecting the private from invasion by the public except when it's reasonable and limited is the fundamental right to a limited government. Give it up as we already largely have and we're living in tyranny.
You're right, I did it wrong. Though the msnbc.com results fooled me.
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Note that Falun Gong isn't suing China, it's suing Cisco. Not so futile to sue Cisco in the US.
The Alien Torts Law under which Falun Gong's DC human rights org is suing Cisco prohibits US companies like Cisco from violating international laws and "norms".
There are also US laws that Cisco would have violated if it had been accessory to false imprisonment, murder etc as specified in the complaint.
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If that's your solution, you're a terrible engineer.
Thanks for that explanation.
Offtopic: Is there any theory of solving hyperoperation equations generally, or any theoretical work on why some types of hyperoperation equations are solvable by their respective formula but some aren't?
No, engineers apply known applications to problems they have to solve. Which is why we want newly known applications. And why those of us with problems for which there are no known applications for solutions are interested in the possibility of new applications when the bottleneck at the point of understanding has been passed.
Lots of us "take math" who aren't mathematicians. The vast majority of us, in fact.
Link to something that says protesters were run over by tanks inside the square. I want to see the quality of such sources that you're willing to believe.
Because I don't remember ever reading or hearing any such thing from anyone credible. What I remember is the video of a protester standing down a column of tanks inside the square. Which tried to go around him. So he stepped to the side back in front of the tank. Which did not run him over.
If what you believe is contrary to what you had good reason to believe, that's your fault.
They're a Republican. And they're typical of Republicans.
FWIW, it's not a matter of what they "believe". No one can ever be sure what another person truly believes. Republicans are so absorbed lying about what they believe to insist on what others must do or don't that their actual beliefs are too hidden, perverted and inconsistent to bother with.
Because what counts is only what people do. Republicans vote for politicians, donate to politicians, who do such lying and harm, in direct contradiction of what they say they believe, that it's clear what the Republican beliefs are in effect.
Which is the only reason to care about their beliefs: their actual effect. Their beliefs are their own business. Their terrible effect on others (and themselves, then they drag us down with them) is abundantly clear.
Yet another Republican revealing they're the Nazi lover while arbitrarily calling anyone who scares them a Nazi.
Thanks for removing all doubt.
Yes, the homosexual activists want to finish what the Nazis started. Right. You are so sick that you'll repeat any insanity so long as you think it could hurt the people who scare you.
Please post more crazy so we can see that the modern Republican Party is the beacon for America's hopelessly insane. You're the one who's asleep: your American Dream is a nightmare.
I know mathematicians study these mathematics for reasons entirely unrelated to any practical applications of them. And I know that most of the value in proofs and understanding is totally independent of any applications, as the applications' utility are typically of relatively brief lifetime while the math is eternal.
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are called "hailstone" sequences - is the math any use in weather or geology? Or any other?
Where did you go?
No, it's obvious from what you said, and the sensibilities that experienced people can tell are behind it, that you are no African-American lesbian. You're a middle class White man.
Things are worse now than then for middle class White men. But since they live among everyone else being better off, they're also better now than they were then. It's so confusing being a middle class White man.
Bearing arms almost never defends any rights. It's almost always used to violate people's rights, except when shooting animals or targets and no rights other than the self-referential are at issue.
You gun fetishists watched Bush/Cheney shit on our Constitution for 8 solid years, and never used your guns to defend it. You proved that's just a load of macho BS. You showed that the delusion that guns defend our rights should be retired except as a fairy tale for demented children.
Code Pink, AFL/CIO and SEIU organized and funded the uprisings in this year's "Arab Spring"? Code Pink?
You Republicans are so insane that it's incredible that you even listen to each other. Insane.
Are you telling me that you've been in a war, directly and personally?
No, this isn't another "youranus" joke. It's obviously a bad investment in time, energy and money to drive all the way to Uranus and back with gas just for the relatively small amount of energy we'd get out of it back here. For a much smaller investment we could get enough to power the Earth back from deuterium mining on the Moon as the summary notes. Or, even better, we could put solar collectors across Lunar surface, then beam the energy back to the Earth through a small network of lunar/solar/Earth orbital satellites to floating sea platforms. The lunar energy projects would pay off within a decade, and replace practically all energy (and emissions, and mining, and their territorial conflicts) here on Earth.
But Uranus' gas "mines" are still an excellent resource. Once Earth's energy needs are satisfied, lunar/solar power would still provide enough to push human exploitation through the other planets. Lunar/solar power is an excellent way to get to Uranus, especially if we set a trail of collectors and transmitters along the way. But once there, solar energy density is so low that even very large collectors left to concentrate solar energy beamed to the Uranus neighborhood will be very low. To get beyond Uranus, and even around in the Jupiter-Saturn neighborhood, pulling energy from Uranus' gas would be a good way to go. Or rather from each gas giant.
By the time we get Earth's energy hooked up to lunar/solar and get out to the outer planets, I expect we'll have gas->radiation fusion tech that works well in the uninhabited vacuum of interplanetary space. Dropping fusion plants into gas giants' atmospheres to pump a network of "solar" transfer stations orbiting planets, moons and the Sun would complete a Solar System power network delivering energy throughout the system along the paths our machines, and perhaps eventually longterm colonizing humans, travel. Power from Uranus, and then Neptune, would be the best way to push our travel outwards from our planets into really distant places, and eventually to other stars.
Let's not turn "Uranus gas mining" into just a joke. We'll get to it. But let's get serious about lunar/solar power systems, and the satellite infrastructure to support it. We've had the tech to do it for over a decade, and the dire need to replace our sugenocidal legacy energy systems with it for even longer. Back to the moon for solar power; Uranus can wait.
"Liberals" (really "not quite evil bastards") have always resisted war on the basis of its inevitable civilian casualties. The US has avoided civilian casualties, even at the cost of missing out on really profitable wars, since the majority of Americans have resisted war's inevitable civilian casualties starting with WWI, but really after WWII: the wars in which many Americans actually saw some civilian casualties.
You, however, have never seen either war or its civilian casualties personally. Before you demand more, go see some. There's plenty in the world, including by American hands.
Yes, all facets - no matter how irresponsibly wrong.
No, I'm not referring to evolution.
So instead of California getting something like 8% of the Amazon sales in sales taxes, you'd rather CA got the income tax on the Amazon workers in CA. That would probably be something like 8% of their income. But what Amazon pays its workers is much less than the revenue each gets Amazon; probably a lot less than half. Even if you count the money CA saves in unemployment and related benefits, it's clear that CA's state coffers will fill better with the sales taxes than with income taxes instead.
What you're counting on is the discredited (and aptly named) Laffer curve. Claims that reducing taxes increase state revenue are disproven anywhere you look. Moreover, the tax exemption and other subsidy deals offered corporations to locate in a given place never work to either increase revenue (or thereby decrease the burden on the taxed employees), or even to keep the corporation located there once subsidies drop. Because taxation how we pay for the services consumed by these corporations, and failing to tax them distorts the economy into a game in which the corporation's actual activity is merely a prop for tax evasion.
The sales tax exemption for Internet purchases made sense while Internet sales struggled to establish themselves in the economy and the culture. Like most tax reductions or exemptions, it was a temporary exception. Because those sales taxes pay for the state's operations. The state has expenses for services that support the sellers, like the actual incorporation and all kinds of protections and infrastructure, and all kinds of protections for the buyers. When the transactions enabled by those services aren't taxed, the rest of the state's taxpayers must pay. And since California ran up even more debt under Schwarzenegger than it had when he was elected to reduce it, the expenses cost debt money, which is something like 150% of the original costs after interest is paid.
Sales taxes are the fairest and most reasonable tax. They scale with the benefit to the buyer and seller, and to the services that support each of them. They pay for us to live in a civilized society, instead of some corporate anarchy.
An electron's shape includes the path that it takes through the "electron cloud". And that path has to date never been plotted with any accuracy, only its overall probability densities in spacetime. It's a fractal (since time's dimension is not an integer), and so it depends in part on the size and shape of whatever measures it.
If cloud storage has better legal protection than local storage when crossing the border, then I want an app that backs up all my data and configs to the cloud and deletes it locally whenever my GPS says I'm near an airport or the border, then restores it after I'm across - or on demand, when I've passed border control.
Meanwhile, billions of people listen, everyone takes more dollars than ever before, and people (not corporations) pay more taxes than ever.
The message is that as tired as people are, they fear an alternative. And for good reason: the alternative is nearly certain to be worse - probably much, much worse.
Why don't you run for office and make it worth listening, buying into, paying taxes to? Even if just the school board. Stop whining with kindergarten doomsday talk and do something, however small, proportional to you own potential for making a difference.
"Secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" is the definition of privacy. We have a right to privacy. It doesn't matter that the Constitution signers "couldn't have imagined" cloud computing. They imagined that they couldn't imagine new things, so they signed a Constitution that recognizes our right to privacy in specific terms of that right.
If we can't require the government at least obtain a judge's authorization on probable cause specifying what's to be searched and seized, we have no boundary between what's private and what the public can force. The 4th Amendment's line protecting the private from invasion by the public except when it's reasonable and limited is the fundamental right to a limited government. Give it up as we already largely have and we're living in tyranny.
You're right, I did it wrong. Though the msnbc.com results fooled me.
Note that Falun Gong isn't suing China, it's suing Cisco. Not so futile to sue Cisco in the US.
The Alien Torts Law under which Falun Gong's DC human rights org is suing Cisco prohibits US companies like Cisco from violating international laws and "norms".
There are also US laws that Cisco would have violated if it had been accessory to false imprisonment, murder etc as specified in the complaint.