i believe the Guardian is twisting words here and drawing its own conclusions. it's only the claymath institute that would receive a notification about such a decision.
Dr Perelman showing up at the Guardian office for a little press briefing is comparable to Angelina Jolie serving the poor in Africa without telling anyone. there are some people who thrive on publicity, some who abhor it.
the submitter seems to have misplaced the incredulity. the important thing is that other mathematicians are amazed that someone would throw around important parts of the proof, not wait for credit and leave it to others to write it up. then again, knowing perelman they are not incredulous.
in mathematics, the trend has mostly been to keep the insights of a big result under wraps until the proof is written down properly and checked for bugs. that is the way to get yourself into the hall of fame. it is almost certain among mathematicians that fame is valued far more than money. money gets you graduate students, but mathematicians mostly think by themselves. fame gets you a theorem, or better yet, a chapter in the textbooks 400 years from now.
Exactly. If you were a terrorist, why go to the bother of smuggling stuff past x ray machines, suspicious security guards, fellow passengers etc. Wouldn't be simpler and just as effective to blow up a truck outside a random office block? Or a cineplex? Or (ironically) right beside the huge snaking queue waiting to go through airport security.
simply because the density of people packed is higher on an aircraft than in the airport queue, if you think about it. so a smaller bomb would suffice. also more dramatic, since a "high-tech" artifact - an aeroplane - is destroyed rather than a airport retail shopfront.
Actually, I'm not but it is simply not up to AOL or the government or anybody to snoop into my business without probable cause. And probable cause is limited to the government, the rest stay the fuck out of my business.
well said. private companies must be penalized for intrusion of privacy, as for government:
the concept of (a) government rises solely so that it can do good for society, which includes maintenance of law and order. investigation without probable cause, or as in many cases today, surveillance of all citizens referred to by the government with the misleading term "intelligence", is one of the biggest hoaxes federal and state governments are pulling off today. i cannot believe the same citizens do not rise up, strike the government one in the face and pull it down. write to your senators!
err, believe it or not, whining and complaining serves the sole useful purpose of gathering attention to it so someone somewhere will do something about it.
reports on slashdot, investigations by news agencies, investigations by federal agencies, referral to an international net-watchdog. its all about the rolling stone gathering moss.
You're right that it belongs to them but there is such a thing as playing nicely. Also it's a bit of a spammy trick, so it's already making me associate Cameroon with spammers and their ilk.
thank you for welcoming us to the new way in which the third world is to be oppressed, on moral grounds this time. maybe they should be put on the axis of evil soon.
some people clearly have no idea what third-world poverty is like. cameroonians are scraping together every cent they can since they were split as war-spoils after WWII. they dont need to be reported by the BBC, and then have the US iron hand strike the hungry waif for stealing a loaf of bread.
The people get completely invisible, but they can still see just like normal. But to see like normal, the light has to be fist bent by your eye's lense, and then absorbed by your eye's retina. Which should make at least your eyes visible quite well.
nope, do not get it. for your eyes to be visible, they should reflect light. if your retina absorbs all light and reflects none, and the rest of your body bends it, why shouldnt the invisible man be able to see?
My daughter can eat what she wants when she gets past 18. For now, no sodas, reduced trans-fats, tons of fruits and vegetables, and good meats. That's the rule in my home, and I'm sticking by it.
dont ever give her that impression, for which 15yo does not want to "grow up" as soon as possible? she will crave to be 18 just so she can drag her tongue through grease.
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No law parents set up a child does not understand will be broken.
Likewise, no sentence you write a reader does not understand will be considered.
i found it interesting that a woman (with roots) from india was conducting the nutrition classes. either she's a better instructor than americans for the program, or noone else gives a damn for the refugees, so let the asians do it. or maybe i was reading too much into it.
Probably not as long as the patent lawyers are milled out of "the world's finest educational institutions.
Wait, didnt Idaho State file a patent 2 years ago describing a method to assimilate transfer information to certain individuals, hereby referred to as students, in a process hereby referred to as education?
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citations or calculations please.
i believe the Guardian is twisting words here and drawing its own conclusions. it's only the claymath institute that would receive a notification about such a decision.
Dr Perelman showing up at the Guardian office for a little press briefing is comparable to Angelina Jolie serving the poor in Africa without telling anyone. there are some people who thrive on publicity, some who abhor it.
snippet from a 2204 textbook on geometric topology
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"... the proof of this is derived from the famous conjecture made by Poincare in 1904, which was later proved by Perelman and others in 2006
assuming Perelman does not achieve more fame than Poincare did.
the submitter seems to have misplaced the incredulity. the important thing is that other mathematicians are amazed that someone would throw around important parts of the proof, not wait for credit and leave it to others to write it up. then again, knowing perelman they are not incredulous.
in mathematics, the trend has mostly been to keep the insights of a big result under wraps until the proof is written down properly and checked for bugs. that is the way to get yourself into the hall of fame. it is almost certain among mathematicians that fame is valued far more than money. money gets you graduate students, but mathematicians mostly think by themselves. fame gets you a theorem, or better yet, a chapter in the textbooks 400 years from now.
the concept of (a) government rises solely so that it can do good for society, which includes maintenance of law and order. investigation without probable cause, or as in many cases today, surveillance of all citizens referred to by the government with the misleading term "intelligence", is one of the biggest hoaxes federal and state governments are pulling off today. i cannot believe the same citizens do not rise up, strike the government one in the face and pull it down. write to your senators!
err, believe it or not, whining and complaining serves the sole useful purpose of gathering attention to it so someone somewhere will do something about it.
reports on slashdot, investigations by news agencies, investigations by federal agencies, referral to an international net-watchdog. its all about the rolling stone gathering moss.
i'd love it if 20 years from now, the kids in question run for parliament and vote to overturn the law.
now send this to the russians, and they'll drill a hole through it and send it back.
You can also report phishing instances at http://report-abuse-phishing-yahoo.com/ our customer service site dedicated to fighting phishing attacks. ;-)
keep one handy, and let one rip for one helluva human-powered jetpack..
considering that you like to watch un-edited movies, i am curious to know what alternative uses you find for Bounty paper towels.
They're stored at the back of the store, behind a curtain..
square the speed of light, take some mass and..
if it comes running after you, stoop down and hurl a rock at it. if it's smart, it should back off..