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32 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Do you think it's perhaps better if the American public pass their own judgement in November?

That would be nice. Looks like we'll have plenty of foreign assistance so everybody votes "right".

He didn't doit. Even if he did, it wasn't a crime. Also he has the affluenza so you can't blame him for his actions.
This presidency reminds me of the death of a Spinal Tap drummer. A mystery best left unsolved.
 

2 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

 

3 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Is there  a consensus here that deciding to have a trial with no witnesses is admitting that you don't want a fair trial, and that anyone who doesn't want a fair trial doesn't want a rational, fair, decent outcome?

Is there also a consensus that , if you don't want a fair trial, it's because  you are scared that the guy is guilty?

YES i concur.But the trump people have been so successful convicting the democrats with conspiracy theories, I don't expect to see any reasonable evidence from them.

Are the president's lawyers claiming the witnesses are being mis-quoted and the documents don't support a request for a bribe while demanding we don't need to see any documents or hear any witnesses?

wow sometimes i lookat things and don't even see it: ct^2-dx^2-dy^2-dz^2=0 or we're not in kansas anymore.Thanks for helping me with that.

So frequency is just an expression of a photon's energy (momentum) and not a little clock. That makes sense, but there are photons from the B.B. that are billions of years old out there, and i guess it's strange to me that in some ways it was no time at all. Probably just me being anthropocentric.

47 minutes ago, Mike10-4 said:

Your innate rights are listed at the beginning of this post

How do these rights affect constructal theory?
And who is granted these rights. Only Humans?

Thanks for your insights. I enjoy reading your posts, and usually learn something from them. 

13 hours ago, Mike10-4 said:

One may find inconsistencies across nature with the unalienable right to life in that animal life depends on the killing of other living things (animals or plants) for food.

Sounds like my innate rights are to eat and be food. Are there more?

I think it's because time and frequency seem so related it's hard to understand how a photon can exhibit different frequencies in the same amount of time, zero.

17 minutes ago, Markus Hanke said:

Well, massless particles do not accumulate any proper time, since they trace out null geodesics, so for them ds=0. But that’s not strictly a minimum, because all possible paths they can take are null geodesics, so this (I believe) is called an infinum, not an extremum.

To get a true minimum (saddle point) I think we would have to go to a region of spacetime in the interior of a mass-energy distribution, rather than vacuum. One can probably set up a relevant scenario there, but even then it’s not trivial.

I’d also like to mention that any confusion about maxima and minima can be avoided entirely if one considers not proper time, but rather the action (in the theoretical physics sense) of the system in question. One then applies the principle of least action (of which the principle of extremal ageing is only a special case) - the path that is taken then is always a minimum of the action, both locally and globally. 

 

Thanks, i was wondering about geodesics and minimizing the action earlier but didn't want to muddle things up. That's the Lagrangian? (analyzing the action).
I wonder about ds=0 for massless particles though. Is that because of the Lorentz factor or is there another reason?  

9 minutes ago, Mike10-4 said:

Jefferson’s innate rights is an axiom that applies to all life. The institution of governance decides whose rights are going to be protected; that is, who lives or dies.

The institution of governance says it's an economic decision, who lives or dies. Do 'innate rights' matter if you're defenseless? 

I'm suspicious when i hear about using the mathematics that describe nature to justify economic decisions. Maybe because it cost a few trillion dollars to bail out the banks just a few years ago because of the complex math used to sell the 'derivative' financial products. 

4 hours ago, Mike10-4 said:

We may interpret Jefferson’s “unalienable Rights” as life’s innate rights or bio-primitives, found throughout life down to the single-cell level

This seems  too generic. Does Ebola have the same rights as me? 

Seems that some people believe arguing about the discussion is the same as discussing the argument.

16 minutes ago, wallflash said:

In the immediate the poster has not been called a liar . However, the clear implication is that if said poster, or anyone else , chooses not to accept global warming and tells others this, they are lying, unless they are willing to admit they are just ignorant. If said poster tells his kids that global warming doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny , he must then be a liar . 

 

I am am not even debating the terms aren’t justified , I simply pointed out this isn’t allowed on most sites . If it is here , then it is . 

It is confusing. You can't find a clear example of someone being called a liar, but still think it's a problem? 

It just sounds like a rich person dream, low wages for bureaucrats who work for tips, and no lines for those who can afford services.
I used to feel some comfort in the 3-way split of power - executive,legislstive, and judicial, so disagreements are settled by 2 to 1 decisions. but the judiciary is argueably partisan now so that seems broken.

It feel's like some 'obfuscated bureaucracy' were acting behind the scenes to provide a pre-determined outcome for the trial.
If it's ok for the president to demand favors to do his job, why not the people at the Department of Motor Vehicles or the passport office?
 

22 minutes ago, Huckleberry of Yore said:

if someone tells you that your plane has a 97% chance of making it to the destination, my recommendation is: consider alternative transportation.

Sorry if I'm confused but I think the analogy is 97% are saying the plane won't make it and you are saying we should believe the 3% who claim everything is ok.

I was joking about doing an infinite number of steps in a finite amount of time because the number is a repeating decimal with a rounding error. or is it?

The Tweets are part of his public record so he could probably argue they are notification.

Seems like he still deletes them occasionally so he has it both ways - official AND just kidding, depending on what's convenient.
 

I have no love for authoritarians and won't grieve at their passing.
That is why I don't feel comfortable with the President unilaterally ordering assainations

After years of British and American destabilizing Iran.

I just think it's strange that Bill Barr (forgiver of Iran-Contra crimes) is A.G. while the President is assasinating foriegn nationals.
I never nderstood what Trump meant when he says "great". Now I think I understand better.

Maybe this will end when "greatness" is restored.
Or whatever "greatness" means to commander twittervent.

19 minutes ago, Browseruk said:

But what if the value I get is 1.2105263157894736842105263157895? (23/19)

Yes. That' s what I was indicating with "multiple [sic]"; but there can only be one that cannot be reduced by a common factor.

then hopefully you can do prime factorization quickly 

1020/1000
2 * 510 / 2 * 500
  2 * 255 / 2 * 250
   5 *51 / 2 * 125
              / 5 * 25
              / 5 * 5
51/50=1.02

1.2105263157894736842105263157895 / 100000000000000000000000000000000 =?