dimreepr

Darn it, that’ll learn me to believe what I see on the tinternet; in my defence, it not only sounds plausible but I actually wanted it to be true.

Prophetic...

Whilst I basically agree, I do have to say, pride in your tribe is a very useful attribute for survival; which is why it’s so often used as a motivator for those with lesser insight.

I think the definition of utopia, is to live in a country where that is never true.

Now that you’ve done this twice; I have to wonder if you use that phrase to mask a bias.

That has made it into my top ten worst apologies and top five for the most insincere ... And if you claim that was also a jest, that would be funny.

This seems to touch on a bell curve or, maybe, a Venn diagram in the description of rhyme or repeat, maybe this is more a poetic question? Edit/ If more than one empire failed due to a water shortage then that detail IS exactly the same, so repeat; scale that down to why water was a problem then rhythm prevails.

But that is exactly my point, on the scale of an empire history does repeat, whatever the reason. Edit/ can we get this tangent split please, it has more potential than I first thought?

I think it more relies on scale rather than detail given that every empire has failed.

Think about it, if everyone is a citizen then the unemployed are just government employees on a retainer. Being unemployed isn’t what a school leaver wants, they have plans, they have ambition and they even have dreams; what if you knew, deep down, that those plans and dreams are impossible: You have choices, of course, crime or apathy/cynicism/hatred, of course a few can defy the odds but that just blinds people (hard work and dedication and you can be him/her) and hardens them to the underlying problem/suffering. That would almost make a great topic, does history repeat or rhyme?

I’m starting to think Phi’s right because I always thought you deliberately missed the point. I’m sure that assuages your guilt or maybe it’s a chance to sneer at the people you so obviously look down upon. It’s so childish to think you’re immune from such a fate; perhaps if you’d tasted the bitter pill of such poverty and hopelessness you’d be happier to pay a reasonable tax; perhaps you’d even stop blaming starving people for wanting food.

It’s like big bird and the count had a baby...

For automation read immigration... and it is coming on strong... but either way business won’t suffer...

Drugs do skew the issue (as does a sufficient education) but my basic point remains, without an adequate overcapacity most countries would fail.

What else is needed?

If history teaches us anything that pertains to the current US conservative bias; it’s in the Victorian era that the lessons of our modern times need to be learnt, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_Tax_(United_Kingdom) Essentially the only time the super rich actually paid tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Government_1905%E2%80%9315 I do, however, realise that ‘some’ will, given free handout’s, choose to take “advantage” and opt to do nothing to improve themselves/work; but given: “He is richest who is content with the least” – Socrates. Why does it matter if you want to work for more? How many countries have 100% employment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_employment_rate http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-184751,00.html Given the above, lazy/content people are necessary to every country; so their persecution is detrimental to that society since overcapacity is an essential business model.

I'll let you guess which pertains to which.

My point is that in all iterations the mass/energy is finite whilst space doesn’t have to be, so mass will always be finite however many universes.

I realise that; but AJB’s post is far from basic. That is the difference between a child like drawing and a masterpiece.

Why would anyone worry about Tar (however much he seems to be a verbose conservative)? But Waitforufo would happy slap you with the least provocation, whilst Overtone just lives up to his name; I know which name I’d be more wary of.

The only people it would, properly, impress are those that fully understood his post; I don’t claim that but I do understand that you don’t.

Unless the spin is under constant acceleration then you seem to have got speed and acceleration all mixed up; the acceleration due to gravity should be thought of as a potential acceleration whilst a constant speed has no acceleration even in potential. Edit to add/ The poles are only 43 km closer to Earths centre than the equator which equates to 0.03% off a perfect sphere, so any difference with regards to gravity is almost unmeasurable. Another addition, the speed of the Earth at the equator is 1040 mph whilst at the pole the speed is effectively zero with almost no difference to gravity other than being 43 km closer to its centre.

It’s probable that the mass, of the universe, is finite and at the same time the universes size is infinite.

Read this.

I thought it might since “The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable.”.