Nice sentiment, but what does it have to do with people flying hijacked airplanes into buildings? The world we live in is far different from Franklin's, and it requires a different world view. The wire tapping isn't about trading liberty for security (how has your freedom been reduced by the government listening to Bin Laden's telephone calls?), it's about monitoring the activities of our enemies. Would you have objected to the Allies listening in on calls to and from Axis leaders during WW2? Do you think Franklin would have?
First line prints out e as a list of its first 300 digits, second line forms 10 digit numbers from consecutive elements of the list, and the last line prints out the 10 digit numbers that are prime.
As an example, neither Newtonian's [sic] inverse square law nor Einstein's GR equations explain why things fall. They just describe the motion of massive bodies with respect to one another.
Wrong. Newton doesn't explain why things fall, but Einstein does: things fall because things change the shape of space.
On universities, 99% of computers run with nearly zero CPU load for most of the time. Now imagine, we install a "cluster server" on all networked computers.
Some universities, such as my own University of Texas at Austin, are doing just that.
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Since I'm taking a class on general relativity this semester, I'll weigh in with a quote of Albert Einstein.
What I'm really interested in is wheter God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
In other words, maybe nature is what it is because God created it that way, or maybe it is what it is because it has to be.
I dont think I ever respected Murray as an actor before - though I've thought him to be a fantastic comedian - but this movie showed that he actually had the ability to evoke complex emotion.
What, you've never seen Rushmore? Murray won several awards for his performance in that wonderful film.
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Nice sentiment, but what does it have to do with people flying hijacked airplanes into buildings? The world we live in is far different from Franklin's, and it requires a different world view. The wire tapping isn't about trading liberty for security (how has your freedom been reduced by the government listening to Bin Laden's telephone calls?), it's about monitoring the activities of our enemies. Would you have objected to the Allies listening in on calls to and from Axis leaders during WW2? Do you think Franklin would have?
the first problem is truly trivial:
h [digits]-9}];
digits = First[RealDigits[N[E,300]]];
numbers = Table[FromDigits[Take[digits,{n,n+9}]],{n,1,Lengt
primes = Select[numbers,PrimeQ[#]&]
First line prints out e as a list of its first 300 digits, second line forms 10 digit numbers from consecutive elements of the list, and the last line prints out the 10 digit numbers that are prime.
As an example, neither Newtonian's [sic] inverse square law nor Einstein's GR equations explain why things fall. They just describe the motion of massive bodies with respect to one another.
Wrong. Newton doesn't explain why things fall, but Einstein does: things fall because things change the shape of space.
Is a fair discussion really too much to ask for? I'm stunned that parent is being modded down as a troll.
On universities, 99% of computers run with nearly zero CPU load for most of the time. Now imagine, we install a "cluster server" on all networked computers.
Some universities, such as my own University of Texas at Austin, are doing just that.
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Since I'm taking a class on general relativity this semester, I'll weigh in with a quote of Albert Einstein.
In other words, maybe nature is what it is because God created it that way, or maybe it is what it is because it has to be.
I dont think I ever respected Murray as an actor before - though I've thought him to be a fantastic comedian - but this movie showed that he actually had the ability to evoke complex emotion.
What, you've never seen Rushmore? Murray won several awards for his performance in that wonderful film.
"Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance."
General George S. Patton
There's a big difference between the classical liberalism of the Founding Fathers and the modern liberalism of Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.