Actually knot theory, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics (not to mention other fields) have deep connections. Knot theory is unreasonably effective.
Haven't you ever been curious about something? The urge to explore? The desire to contribute to expanding the knowledge of humanity? The desire to contribute to developing useful knowledge for an important field like mathematics? The possibility of arriving at that important result yourself? The possibility of doing something useful?
Not everyone shares those interests, especially for something as abstract as math in general, and searching for a particular form of prime number in particular.. There are probably other reasons as well.
This is actually one of the mass participation projects that I've considered contributing to over the years. I actually have contributed to folding@home.
For purposes of encryption the fact that it is prime number is relevant, the fact that it is a Mersenne prime isn't. It can be used just like any other prime number. (Assuming the encryption software is written with the capacity to accommodate such a large prime which I wouldn't take as a given.)
Bin Laden had in inheritance from his father who had run one of the most successful construction companies in the region if not on the planet. It was worth around $300,000,000 IIRC. He spent a lot of that on financing his various projects.
"Boxing in the Russians"? The Russians have been out of Afghanistan for a very long time. The main oil problem they have is the low cost of oil, and you can thank the Saudis for that.
Please stop talking in riddles. Who do you think that 9/11 goes back to if you "follow the money"? Who do you think was responsible for it?
Well then, you should welcome me to your club.. Your panic is duly noted. Wake up, white people!
Remember when I wrote that people in the UK and Europe were afraid of reporting, investigating, or prosecuting immigrants for fear of being called racists? You just demonstrated my point with your little race baiting comment.
The Yorkshire town where 1,400 girls have been sexually abused by Asian men is a byword for depravity – all because people wouldn’t rock the multicultural boat
This is the "military–industrial complex" Eisenhower warned about in action.
Not really, no. The MIC that Eisenhower warned about account for about 40% of GDP at the end of WW2. Since then it has fallen to about 4.5% of GDP. If the MIC were all powerful would it have lost that much economic power? No. The simple fact is that both the military and military spending have scaled to the need. There was huge need in WW2, after that it dropped. There have been occasional spikes, such as Viet Nam, and during the 80s, but the overall trend has been decline since the height of WW2. The end of the Cold War brought significant cutbacks as well.
The US spends twice as much for social welfare spending than it does for military spending.
The Military-Industrial Complex is mainly a boogeyman for rousing and scaring progressives.
Although I expect we'll end up back at the same place as the issue of the suicide bombers, go ahead. Who do you think "the money" traces back to? I assume you think it isn't Osama Bin Laden (before he lost his inheritance).
It is difficult in Britain, and Europe to prosecute members of immigrant populations even in the face of egregious, unbelievable behavior. Everyone is too afraid of being call racists. As a result there are a growing number of scandals involving enormous sex crimes in the UK, Sweden, Germany, and other countries. Governments and law enforcement are covering up, but news is leaking out, and there are some whistleblowers leaking documents.
The paper isn't crap, it is an ongoing problem, and not just in Britain.
As to the immigration plot by Labour, it is not a theory, it's news. The major papers in Britain covered it. It's documented and admitted.
Are you truly unaware of this things? I would be tempted to post links but I doubt you'd read them, and if you did the result would just be hand waving.
I guess I'll take this as evidence you don't bother to either read or understand much of what I post.
The Sharia patrols were occurring in Britain, you know, that place where immigrants are changing the face and culture of the nation because of a secret plot by the Labour party to change Britain? The Muslim extremists there were trying to impose their values on other communities by sending gangs of thugs to threaten people that were behaving in an "unIslamic" fashion.
The US isn't selling or giving the Muslim extremists in Britain weapons.
Talking out of my ass? Your ass is pure magic, a choir of nonsense.
I don't like this kind of stuff very much. It seems like this administration is willing to get us involved in every conflict on the globe... but not very much involved.
That is the result of the nature of the ongoing conflicts. They aren't big tank battles between the armies of two countries, they are gorilla warfare and terrorism. The Powell Doctrine isn't really applicable.
In some places all that is needed is intelligence assistance to the locals, an occasional drone strike or special forces raid. Tank brigades aren't helpful for that.
Either tamp down the problem before it takes root when Jihadis start infiltrating, or the problem may become much larger and require substantial assistance. Then it will take far more than what is being used now.
Killing the enemy is killing, not murder. They decided they wanted to make war on the US and it allies and now they are paying the price.
Your lines about "people who have gone insane with power" and "accountable to no one" are bullshit.
You don't like it? Vote for someone else. I'll let you in on a secret - pretty much anyone likely to win will do the same thing. The US isn't going to let them kill American citizens and allies without paying a price.
I will throw you a bone in that the elites of the US, UK, much of Europe are engaging in reckless policies that will fundamentally change the nations and societies involved, generally for the worse.
It's pretty sad when the people advocating and participating in the destruction of their own culture aren't self-aware enough to recognize it. John Cleese: London's no longer an English city
“Before any civil libertarians want to come up to me afterwards and get my autograph,” he explained at a Tuesday panel on national security hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, “let me tell you how we got around it: Bulk data and metadata [collection].”
Encryption is “a law enforcement issue more than an intelligence issue,” Hayden argued, “because, frankly, intelligence gets to break all sorts of rules, to cheat, to use other paths.”
Law enforcement and intelligence are different functions.
Of course the obvious answer here is that this isn't at all about stopping 'terrorists', it's about having complete and utter authoritarian, nigh-unto dictatorial control over the U.S. citizenry. I don't want to believe it but what else are we to believe?
Could you explain what you mean by having complete and utter authoritarian, nigh-unto dictatorial control over the U.S. citizenry? Obviously you think it is important, but could you show it in action? What are they using this "dictatorial control" to do? Are they making people take jobs they don't want? To vote for someone? To buy pie, or avoid sweets altogether? To get more exercise? I can't think of any examples of what this "dictatorial control" looks like in the US. There is another part - who is actually enforcing it? Please explain.
The Tree of Liberty has been rotting from the inside out for many many decades now, and we're seeing the end-stages of the disease that is killing Liberty and Justice in this country. At this rate it won't be long before we're considered just as bad if not worse than the Russian Federation, mainland China, or for all I know, Syria under the Assad regime.
Do you have any examples of this? Who are the secret police in the US? What are they keeping you from doing?
. . look at you with a confused look on their faces, and fearful that you're just some crazed person -- then they go post on Facebook about it, like good little robots.
If you can't provide any concrete answers they might be right. Details on the "dictatorial control" please!
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Lucky you! Mine didn't make the list AT ALL! Not even close.
I'm going to have to rethink my strategy if I want my password to become popular. :(
Actually knot theory, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics (not to mention other fields) have deep connections. Knot theory is unreasonably effective.
Just to whet the appetite for our readers .....
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Knot Theory
Mathematicians Link Knot Theory to Physics
Haven't you ever been curious about something? The urge to explore? The desire to contribute to expanding the knowledge of humanity? The desire to contribute to developing useful knowledge for an important field like mathematics? The possibility of arriving at that important result yourself? The possibility of doing something useful?
Not everyone shares those interests, especially for something as abstract as math in general, and searching for a particular form of prime number in particular.. There are probably other reasons as well.
This is actually one of the mass participation projects that I've considered contributing to over the years. I actually have contributed to folding@home.
For purposes of encryption the fact that it is prime number is relevant, the fact that it is a Mersenne prime isn't. It can be used just like any other prime number. (Assuming the encryption software is written with the capacity to accommodate such a large prime which I wouldn't take as a given.)
Bin Laden had in inheritance from his father who had run one of the most successful construction companies in the region if not on the planet. It was worth around $300,000,000 IIRC. He spent a lot of that on financing his various projects.
"Boxing in the Russians"? The Russians have been out of Afghanistan for a very long time. The main oil problem they have is the low cost of oil, and you can thank the Saudis for that.
Please stop talking in riddles. Who do you think that 9/11 goes back to if you "follow the money"? Who do you think was responsible for it?
Well then, you should welcome me to your club.. Your panic is duly noted. Wake up, white people!
Remember when I wrote that people in the UK and Europe were afraid of reporting, investigating, or prosecuting immigrants for fear of being called racists? You just demonstrated my point with your little race baiting comment.
Rotherham: In the face of such evil, who is the racist now?
The Yorkshire town where 1,400 girls have been sexually abused by Asian men is a byword for depravity – all because people wouldn’t rock the multicultural boat
Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
A 'new dimension' of sexual assault in Cologne
Germans outraged by mayor’s advice for women after raft of harassment
It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful
This is the "military–industrial complex" Eisenhower warned about in action.
Not really, no. The MIC that Eisenhower warned about account for about 40% of GDP at the end of WW2. Since then it has fallen to about 4.5% of GDP. If the MIC were all powerful would it have lost that much economic power? No. The simple fact is that both the military and military spending have scaled to the need. There was huge need in WW2, after that it dropped. There have been occasional spikes, such as Viet Nam, and during the 80s, but the overall trend has been decline since the height of WW2. The end of the Cold War brought significant cutbacks as well.
The US spends twice as much for social welfare spending than it does for military spending.
The Military-Industrial Complex is mainly a boogeyman for rousing and scaring progressives.
Although I expect we'll end up back at the same place as the issue of the suicide bombers, go ahead. Who do you think "the money" traces back to? I assume you think it isn't Osama Bin Laden (before he lost his inheritance).
That's what I thought. Well, given your "sensibilities" ...
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report
It is difficult in Britain, and Europe to prosecute members of immigrant populations even in the face of egregious, unbelievable behavior. Everyone is too afraid of being call racists. As a result there are a growing number of scandals involving enormous sex crimes in the UK, Sweden, Germany, and other countries. Governments and law enforcement are covering up, but news is leaking out, and there are some whistleblowers leaking documents.
The paper isn't crap, it is an ongoing problem, and not just in Britain.
As to the immigration plot by Labour, it is not a theory, it's news. The major papers in Britain covered it. It's documented and admitted.
Are you truly unaware of this things? I would be tempted to post links but I doubt you'd read them, and if you did the result would just be hand waving.
LOL! +1, insightful!! :)
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It is. Could you be more specific? My fingers aren't up to typing an entire seminar at the moment.
I guess I'll take this as evidence you don't bother to either read or understand much of what I post.
The Sharia patrols were occurring in Britain, you know, that place where immigrants are changing the face and culture of the nation because of a secret plot by the Labour party to change Britain? The Muslim extremists there were trying to impose their values on other communities by sending gangs of thugs to threaten people that were behaving in an "unIslamic" fashion.
The US isn't selling or giving the Muslim extremists in Britain weapons.
Talking out of my ass? Your ass is pure magic, a choir of nonsense.
I don't like this kind of stuff very much. It seems like this administration is willing to get us involved in every conflict on the globe... but not very much involved.
That is the result of the nature of the ongoing conflicts. They aren't big tank battles between the armies of two countries, they are gorilla warfare and terrorism. The Powell Doctrine isn't really applicable.
In some places all that is needed is intelligence assistance to the locals, an occasional drone strike or special forces raid. Tank brigades aren't helpful for that.
Either tamp down the problem before it takes root when Jihadis start infiltrating, or the problem may become much larger and require substantial assistance. Then it will take far more than what is being used now.
Killing the enemy is killing, not murder. They decided they wanted to make war on the US and it allies and now they are paying the price.
Your lines about "people who have gone insane with power" and "accountable to no one" are bullshit.
You don't like it? Vote for someone else. I'll let you in on a secret - pretty much anyone likely to win will do the same thing. The US isn't going to let them kill American citizens and allies without paying a price.
Debunking venerated myths or persons is also unwelcome: viz
Of course things being destroyed, and by design at that. What if they don't want "merging and assimilation"?
What if they don't want Sharia?
Muslim patrols could become more prevalent and more violent, warns anti-extremist
Don't make it like it's a bad thing?
One precludes the other? Only if you think preventing another Pearl Harbor or 9/11 infringes on arresting pick pockets and swindlers.
The path of your reasoning must resemble that of a hungry goat in a hilly pasture.
So not destroying a culture is now "cultural purity"? You don't really have any feel for subtleties, do you?
You made big claims about oppression this and that, but you couldn't back it up with anything. It was all hot air, just like this.
You're the abusive wind bag here, not me.
Have a nice day.
I will throw you a bone in that the elites of the US, UK, much of Europe are engaging in reckless policies that will fundamentally change the nations and societies involved, generally for the worse.
Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Legal Immigration: Lifeblood of the Left
It's pretty sad when the people advocating and participating in the destruction of their own culture aren't self-aware enough to recognize it.
John Cleese: London's no longer an English city
No worries, it reads the same either way. Besides, the all bold WITH SOME CAPS THROWN IN probably is a nice reflection of your state of mind.
In other words it is all bullshit. That's fine.
Lets give the quote:
Former NSA chief says U.S. can get around encryption with metadata, argues against backdoors
“Before any civil libertarians want to come up to me afterwards and get my autograph,” he explained at a Tuesday panel on national security hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, “let me tell you how we got around it: Bulk data and metadata [collection].”
Encryption is “a law enforcement issue more than an intelligence issue,” Hayden argued, “because, frankly, intelligence gets to break all sorts of rules, to cheat, to use other paths.”
Law enforcement and intelligence are different functions.
Of course the obvious answer here is that this isn't at all about stopping 'terrorists', it's about having complete and utter authoritarian, nigh-unto dictatorial control over the U.S. citizenry. I don't want to believe it but what else are we to believe?
Could you explain what you mean by having complete and utter authoritarian, nigh-unto dictatorial control over the U.S. citizenry? Obviously you think it is important, but could you show it in action? What are they using this "dictatorial control" to do? Are they making people take jobs they don't want? To vote for someone? To buy pie, or avoid sweets altogether? To get more exercise? I can't think of any examples of what this "dictatorial control" looks like in the US. There is another part - who is actually enforcing it? Please explain.
The Tree of Liberty has been rotting from the inside out for many many decades now, and we're seeing the end-stages of the disease that is killing Liberty and Justice in this country. At this rate it won't be long before we're considered just as bad if not worse than the Russian Federation, mainland China, or for all I know, Syria under the Assad regime.
Do you have any examples of this? Who are the secret police in the US? What are they keeping you from doing?
. . look at you with a confused look on their faces, and fearful that you're just some crazed person -- then they go post on Facebook about it, like good little robots.
If you can't provide any concrete answers they might be right. Details on the "dictatorial control" please!