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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
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 written Monday, February 27 2006 04:30 Profile #63
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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

We would prefer if you used symbols other than R and W for your games.
I was wondering if someone would notice that.

-Khoth, perhaps you could direct me to a proof of that? Its stands fairly contrary to my understanding of it. R x W, for W = {1, 2} would contain all the elements (1,1) .... (infinity,1) and all the elements (1,2) .... (infinity,2). I believe that would be twice as large as just, 1 .... (infinity)

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
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 written Sunday, February 26 2006 18:44 Profile #59
Kill me for this, but Chuck Norris counted to infinite and back. Twice.

Anyways, infinities are fun, until they turn into head aches.

But as an example of larger infinities...

Think of R to be the set of all Reals, obviously an infinite set (though a countable one).
Then think of R x W to be the direct product of R with W, and unless W only has one element, R x W will be bigger then R. If W is an infinite set, say R again, R x W, will be infinitely bigger then infinity. Then you can repeat for an infinite amount of times, and it keeps getting bigger. And I'm fairly sure that even R ^ (infinity) isn't too high on the 'totem pole'.

[ Sunday, February 26, 2006 18:48: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Census ][ in General
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 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 07:19 Profile #19
Kermit

I believe there is some cross over.

Anyways.

Means of transportation to work/school: Car/Bus.
A RL nickname not previously mentioned here:The Cheese.
Worst choice of Halloween costume you've ever had: Don't really do Halloween.
A mythological figure you identify with: Hephaestus.
A Simpsons character you identify with: None.
Favorite Sesame Street character: Oscar.
Favorite Spidweb game character: Athron.
Favorite (English) word: Conglomerate.
Favorite cereal: None.

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Written by Aran
The question whether it is a Spiderweb game is open to argument, but overshadowed by the question if it is a game or a weapon banned under various international treaties.
Was it all that bad? I just could never beat the demo, as I always magaged to kill a monster over some important lever. From what I saw of it besides that though there have been worse things.

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 07:22: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 13:20 Profile #60
Eh, yeah, but they are taught in any non-calc based course. How else are you going to do free fall stuff?

In fact, if I remember correctly there is some painful way to get them without using calc. Besides the integrals involved to do them the easy way are about as easy as integrals get.

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 13:23: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 11:34 Profile #58
In response to the question actually, you don't have to use calc.

Here's an algebraic way to do it.

Consider this problem:

How much work (W) must be done to bring an object of mass m, and velocity v to a stop over a distance x in a time t by applying a constant force F.

Take the acceleration to be the constant a. Take the initial position to be x = 0.

We know F = ma, and W = Fx. Substituting ma for F, W = max.
We also know our equations of motion under constant acceleration.
x = vt + (1/2)at^2
v = -at
=> a = -v/t,
=> W = m(-v/t)[vt+(1/2)(-v/t)t^2]
= m(-v/t)[vt-(1/2)vt]
=-(1/2)mv^2

KE = -W = (1/2)mv^2

I have the feeling my negatives are shady, but this works well enough I guess. I'd have to look up an actual derivation to check, my mechanics must be getting rusty.

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:38: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
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 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 08:01 Profile #38
Yup, double post. Well kinda. But 'This is your life' topics are fun.

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 08:02: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
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 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 07:54 Profile #36
Well, he hasn't gotten to 777 yet. I'd be willing to take Kel's wager, leaving for a short time is too easy. Anyways, though I'm mostly a lurker, I've enjoyed reading some of your posts. G'luck with getting your life together, and all that. TTFN :P

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David Irving Jailed in General
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 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 07:32 Profile #9
Odd, that he was arrested for entering a country he was barred from is understandable and fine, that there is a law banning denial of the holocaust is rather less understandable.

Ok, so there is reason behind it, but imprisonment seems a bit extreme.

Denying the holocaust is simaler to denying that 9/11 happened (or was run by the U.S. government), or denial of visitation to the moon, all rather far-fetched but not too threatening.

Edit for correctness.

Edit the second:
If you happen to be interested in the 9/11 thing, this movie has been suggested to me for viewing. I never really cared to watch it, but hey, feel free to spend an hour and then comment.

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 07:50: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Just what is the deal with Alorael?* in General
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 written Monday, February 13 2006 07:01 Profile #32
Singleton, with all Advantages, and no disadvantages... have to love them. I don't play new SW games with anything but a singleton, it just seems to make it more fun, and not too much more challenging.

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[ Topic closed ] in General
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 written Monday, February 6 2006 07:29 Profile #36
Yes, welcome back. Yay for free posts :P .

I believe I had an appology topic here once, but I think now that even such things as those aren't really needed, though 'tis a nice guesture.

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Birthday! in General
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 written Saturday, February 4 2006 19:34 Profile #31
Perhaps it went over Ben's head? Or perhaps Ben is... branching out?

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Let this forum die in SubTerra
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 written Saturday, February 4 2006 17:53 Profile #16
Well, as a magnet, this forum can do no work (at least on spam I guess), and unless it has value besides its capacity for work...

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bye everyone, goodbye forever in General
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 written Saturday, February 4 2006 17:45 Profile #8
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Goodbye forever, Edward. See you next week.
All too true, as often as not.

Edward, if you really enjoy something, its often hard to quit. I've done the 'quitting topic' myself on some boards, and then totally gone back on myself within a month or two. Offenses seem big at the time, but really, the good outweighs the bad, and some of the bad can begin to look a bit different, as your perspective changes. Anyways, g'luck if you do end up staying away, and if you do come back, then just learn to ignore TM's bursts. (And hey, as Ben seems to have pointed out recently, he can be fun to troll. ;) )

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how did you find out about spiderweb games? in General
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 written Friday, February 3 2006 06:46 Profile #3
Hurrah for the appearance of a bi-monthly topic.
I found E1/E2 demos on some game collection CD. E1 was about the first computer game I ever got really into. Then, years later, when I could actually purchase them, I found them again.

Edit: And totally randomly, out of pure curiosity is AM still around?

[ Friday, February 03, 2006 06:51: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Good Cop, Bad Cop in General
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 written Monday, January 23 2006 13:31 Profile #13
There is nothing in the CoC against sharing an account, but problems might arise with double posting.

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Website modifications in General
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 written Friday, January 20 2006 06:49 Profile #2
Is it just me, or do you refer to Kel as 'her' in your description of the Pink and Pretty?

Edit: Ah... New facts for Slith Culture. Great. Perhaps we shall see this gender changing in some future productions.

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Online Games in General
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 written Wednesday, January 18 2006 07:18 Profile #5
The clicking gets tedious in KoC, and the sabbing sucks as well. It can be fun, but it got old for me fast. Then again, I only reached like 4000 or so, but I got involved in a guild spat around that time and got the guts sabbed out of me.

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Yarrr... Linux! in General
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 written Wednesday, January 18 2006 07:08 Profile #83
This may be outdated, but evolution is partially based on the fact that all species can and do overproduce. Technology and Mechanization do make life easier for a larger amount of people, but humans most likely will continue to 'overproduce' and thus I would doubt that poverty ever will be truely eradicated.

To eradicate poverty, you would have to have a strict breeding program, and thats a breach of freedoms as grievious as any. I suppose you could give people cyber children... but that just seems to be a lousy idea.

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Yarrr... Linux! in General
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 08:43 Profile #64
Going back a bit;
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It's entirely possible under our current economic system for a wealthy person to earn over a thousand times more in a lifetime than someone on an average income (and that's just in developed countries; in poorer countries, income disparities can be even greater). Do you really think anyone works one thousand times harder than average.
Your assuming a linear relationship with that question, perhaps with the point of making it ludicrous, but any relationship between work and earned wealth could almost never be bijective.

As for moderating the economy and the ups and downs, isn't that the purpose of the Fed?

Edited for quote fixing purposes.

[ Wednesday, January 18, 2006 06:58: Message edited by: AxB ]

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The Old Exiles in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Wednesday, December 7 2005 15:38 Profile #14
Really? I've moved the games from my old computer to my new computer without having to re-enter my code. *shrug*

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The Old Exiles in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Tuesday, December 6 2005 21:50 Profile #12
Eh, I know Kel has the registered version, but you might want to be careful with just mailing them out. Perhaps just the graphics would be better.

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Physics questions. in General
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 written Tuesday, December 6 2005 06:22 Profile #34
Here's one you can try on for size if your feeling really perky. Twas on an Estats test last semester.

There are two cocentric spheres (centered at the orgin), with radii, a and b respectively, with surface charge distributions (sigma)_1, and (sigma)_2 respectively. The inner sphere is rotating with an angular velocity of (omega)_1, with its axis of rotation along the z-axis. The outer sphere has an axis of rotation at an angle (phi)from the z-axis, and an angular velocity of (omega)_2. (In the original problem the cavity was filled with fluid of a certain viscocity, and a certain permitivity and yady yady ya, which is what reminded me of the problem)

Find the Capacitance, the E,B fields, (D, and H as well with the fluid included) and any other relevant information.(I think these included the bound charge/free charge, and sich, but I don't believe that I remember the info that was given to allow you to find it.) There were extra points for anyone that included the relativistic effects of rotational motion, but I don't think a single person in the class got them. Stupid Tensors.

You have to love take home finals, because it allows the teachers to go to town with the problems.

[ Tuesday, December 06, 2005 06:28: Message edited by: AxB ]

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Civilization IV in General
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 written Tuesday, October 25 2005 17:03 Profile #4
Hmm.. I've gotten all the other Civ games, and played most of them quite a bit, but none of them could really beat Civ 2. It had the magic, and the others only could attempt to improve on it, but seemed to just complicate it more.

Here's hoping Civ IV is better.
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Politics and Beliefs in General
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 written Friday, October 14 2005 06:05 Profile #154
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Originally written by Thuryl:

You can't give the church all that much credit for merely holding onto something when plenty of other institutions could have done the same, and when what was being held onto could so easily have been redeveloped even if it were completely lost.
True, but you also can't decredit the church for doing what it did. What other institutions could have done this? I'm not so sure that writing and an appreciation for learning could have been so easily regained though.
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A church here, a monarchy there; it doesn't matter. A church is as good as a monarchy is as good as an empire, and anarchy is just a temporary setback.
If thats what you all are saying, then I'm really arguing against nothing. I make no pretenses that the church was the ideal institution, the best that was theoretically possible. It was often quite corrupt, evil, and highly destructive to the better aims of humanity. At the same time, it didn't do any worse then most other control forms would have done.

As a slight disclaimer, I personally believe that the church shouldn't be a control form, but rather(as its purpose is biblically set forth) a 'light', a helper, support... not a political institution.
Unfortunately what the church should be, and what the church was, and often still tries to be, are two different things.

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If your goal is to see a society progress as far as possible, then progressing at all times is essential; staying in one place just leaves more time for unfortunate political accidents that require the whole process to start over.
This is where it can get sticky. Define what needs to be changed, and you will find almost everyone disagrees. I believe that some of the things others call 'progress' are more akin to regress. If your goal is to see a society progress as far as possible, then progressing at all times in essential; going backwards is even more dangerous then staying still, it tends to snowball and leave you at square one... again.

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Politics and Beliefs in General
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 written Friday, October 14 2005 04:31 Profile #152
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Originally written by Thuryl:

One has to wonder, though, whether the society the church arguably stabilised was worth stabilising, and indeed whether any society that needs a single politically powerful church in order to be stable is worth stabilising.
Do stable societies not need politically powerful institutions? Does it matter if its called the church, the feds, or 'yore mamma'? Almost any form of stability is arguably better then anarchy. Besides, even if the church hadn't stepped into the power vacuum, something else would have, and quite possibly wouldn't have done as good a job. If Galileo had to be out working the fields, because all human resources needed to be devoted to survival, he wouldn't have been able to do his research. He also 'stood on the shoulders of giants', but of the economic and cultural type, rather then scientific, or technological ones.

And yes the churches were centers of learning, but rarely was anything 'new' learned. It was more of a center of propagation for that which was already known. Basic skills like reading or writing could easily have died out all together in that part of the world. Nothing 'glamorous' but very essential skills like this are needed as a basis for any scientific research.
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