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While we're on ratios, from the PLANCK and WMAP data.

10 hours ago, zapatos said:

You are the one making the claims, not me.

As someone who seems to be unaware that the media is manipulative, you are.

On 3/7/2024 at 2:22 AM, zapatos said:

Really going out on a limb with your predictions there. 

Do these dim voters vote WITH the majority or AGAINST the majority as seen in the biased polls.

Are dim people similarly affected by NON-biased polls?

You tell me.

In Australia the current federal government has replaced the head of the Australian Broadcasting Commission with an ex NEWSCORP boss to ensure that their journalists are impartial. Note that the channel bringing this news (below) is just as impartial as the ABC and no different from the partisanship of US media. 

ABC CEO

18 hours ago, StringJunky said:

The animosity towards UK/US administrations will only increase. The first thing we Brits need to do is to get rid of Sunak and Co. I voted for him, to my shame.

It wouldn't matter. https://elbitsystems.com/global-partnerships/

12 hours ago, zapatos said:

As deplorable as they might be, I believe they know that someone does not win an election by getting the most votes in a poll.

Although biased polls might possibly influence the vote of some of those who aren't too bright.

11 hours ago, CharonY said:

The assumption that Trump would do a better job or even side with Palestinians appears preposterous (they haven't given him enough money to warrant that).

If the choice were between a guarantee of 'getting into heaven' or winning an election what do you think Trumps choice would be?

10 hours ago, Phi for All said:

At some point, I think historians are going to blame a LOT of the stupid in this country on FOX News and how they train uneducated people to misunderstand things.

That's funny, I always got the impression that those 'deplorables' who vote for Trump thought the media stole the election through its biased poll 'figures'. But then again I did read an article today that related their opinions to mass psychosis/conspiracy theories.

15 hours ago, StringJunky said:

Go too far left or right, one ends up basically the same as the other.

Yes, the ancient Greek play "the Clouds" written by by Aristophanes around 2 thousand 4 hundred years ago is a good example  of what's happening now. It was no wonder that the Athenian League lost the Peloponesian war to the Spartans shortly after and democracy came a cropper. The hard bit is how to prevent the sophism, that mainly benefits the wealthy, from causing the Academy to be burnt down.

The neo far left may think it's smart but it is just being used as a weapon by the neo far right of the left to cow the traditional left wing rump and implement those draconian neo right wing policies. The neo's are the cause of the problem and they just drive their victims to Trump because they label all of them them as bigoted and racist.

3 hours ago, iNow said:

It’s not America per se, but the right wing. 

And when the US is no longer dominant, it’s China who will take over. Be careful what you wish for. 

In Australia over the past 35 years the (right wing of the) left wing political party has implemented more draconian right wing policies than the right wing party themselves.

2 hours ago, Phi for All said:

I hope that one isn't held on the same weekend as the "Focus on the laws broken no matter who breaks them" convention. That would be awkward.

Possibly but there are expected to be many clashes in the year of "Engineering a bigger and better Warsaw Ghetto 'legit'", courtesy of the NY Yacht Club lawyers fan club.

14 hours ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

Where does Putin find the time?

Yes, he's probably having enough of a struggle working out his opening speech for the "Countries who prosecute their political opponents' convention.

43 minutes ago, CharonY said:

There are difficult paths and none that are obvious. If the war has any chance of securing long lasting peace one might make the tenuous argument that the civilian deaths might have been worth it. Yet everything points to further escalation, so my question is now what purpose does it serve besides ringing the bell for the next round of deaths.

With an average of 20 Palestinian deaths per Israeli death, before October 7, I suppose the reduction of this ratio and the cessation of hostilities in Gaza both depend on how right wing the politicians in Israel and the US are.

100% + 25% = 125% = 125/100

200 * 125/100 = ?

250 * 100/125 = 200/1.25 = ?

14 hours ago, swansont said:

“The swagman is starving. He hasn't eaten in days. So he catches the sheep, kills it, eats what he can, and stows the rest in his backpack (tucker bag).”

"Matilda" is his swag or backpack, i.e. a rolled blanket that contains his possessions, which rests on his back, and is tied in 2 places by a strap that goes over his right shoulder.

His Tucker bag is at the front so that the food doesn't taint his swag and vs vs.

10 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:

I think the uncertainty of meaning has been part of the song's allure - lots of Australians have spent time pondering and arguing over it. Slang terms no longer used, that no-one is really sure the meaning of, suggestive of an age (already) passed. Not sure it ever fully made sense and what was comprehensible in it was kinda depressing.

I do suspect if the lyrics were not by an already very popular poet who wrote mostly about and popularised Australian "outback" settler society and recent history it probably would not have been widely sung or known.

If you are under 50, maybe, but for the wrong reasons. Back in these unenlightened 'colonial' times, first nations people were considered to be possessions of the UK monarch, while poor white itinerant bush workers were considered fair game.

https://www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/year-6/documenting-federation/themes/national-identity#

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The meaning of the song’s lyrics is the subject of much discussion and speculation. While Paterson never confirmed its meaning, it is widely accepted that the song is linked to the turbulence generated by the 1894 shearer’s strike and the violence that erupted at Dagworth Station in September of that year.

The swagman hero of the song is thought to be modelled on Samuel ‘Frenchy’ Hoffmeister, a shearer who took part in the Dagworth riots and who was found dead near a billabong in mysterious circumstances. Paterson’s song quickly spread around the district and the country. It came to represent the independence of the itinerant bush workers and, consequently, the spirit of Australian independence and a growing sense of national identity.

grayson, the following is just my opinion. Also don't forget about proper and improper integrals.

Elementary Calculus an Infinitessimal Approach http://Reference link: https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/keislercalc-03-07-17.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9807044v2

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Though the general theory of relativity was completed in 1915, there remained unresolved problems. In particular, the principle of local energy conservation was a vexing issue. In the general theory, energy is not conserved locally as it is in classical field theories - Newtonian gravity, electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, etc.. Energy conservation in the general theory has been perplexing many people for decades. In the early days, Hilbert wrote about this problem as ‘the failure of the energy theorem’. In a correspondence with Klein [3], he asserted that this ‘failure’ is a characteristic feature of the general theory, and that instead of ‘proper energy theorems’ one had ‘improper energy theorems’ in such a theory. This conjecture was clarified, quantified and proved correct by Emmy Noether.

At a conceptual structural level improper integrals in calculus are integrals, usually with limits from +infinity to -infinity, that converge at their limits. Refer H.J. Keisler, p367, Definition to P370, examples 7, 8, and 9. If they don't converge then they are indefinite integrals which are entirely different. Refer H.J. Keisler p370, example 10, diagram 6.7.10

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It is tempting to argue that the positive area to the right of the origin and the negative area to the left exactly cancel each other out so that the improper integral is zero. But this leads to a paradox... So we do not give the integral ... the value 0, instead leave it undefined.

That doesn't mean that indefinite integrals don't play a part in our calculus or physics as an indefinite integral that cycles between +infinity and -infinity, as a sub function of a higher level function, is a valid proper use of indefinite integrals. Refer H.J. Keisler p224-5, Definition and example 8, diagram 4.4.6 second equation with u and substitute infinite limits.

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We do not know how to find the indefinite integrals in this example. Nevertheless the answer is 0 because on changing variables both limits of integration become the same.

A valid proper integral of any form is not equivalent to a valid improper integral because that is the underlying conceptual difference between classical and modern physics as discussed by Hilbert and Klein above.

While Emmy Noether provided the conceptual symmetries of relativity Arthur Compton provided the final piece of the puzzle by experimentally and theoretically uniting the wave and particle natures of electromagnetic particles between 1922-23. He was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in 1927.

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

A boy stood on the burning decks,

That reminds me of some childish nonsense, or is it?

The boy stood on the burning deck, (boys tend to do high risk things like that)

his feet were full of blisters, (they would be)

the fire burnt his trousers off, (it would)

he should have worn his sisters. (if he did his trousers wouldn't have burnt off)

One fine day in the middle of the night,

two dead men got up to fight,

back to back they faced each other,

drew their swords and shot each other.

In comparison we're at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War stage before WWII, so there's still a lot of weapons to be tested by all sides.

13 hours ago, TheVat said:

Maybe this could help save those seaside condo foundations in Florida that are so beset with problems.

That's an interesting article.

The heat generated would probably be a major problem for large pours unless you had many slaves handy.

12 hours ago, Airbrush said:

When I try to answer this question, I think of light traveling through the vacuum of empty space as photons.  But if light is both a particle AND a wave, when light travels through space, it is a wave of WHAT?  There is no medium, no ether, to transmit a wave.

A stream of in transit photons?

Modelling the locations of in transit photons emitted from rotating sources

Above is a link to a thread in an Against The Mainstream (ATM) area on another forum. I was penalised twice for posting what was regarded as ATM by moderators so I posted there and the last post by the Administrator was as follows.

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Given this and subsequent posts indicating that no ATM claim is being advocated, this thread is closed. If I am mistaken or if there is some other reason to reopen this thread, please report this post.
 

14 hours ago, iNow said:

Mostly I reject the idea of personality types. They're forced categories that rather often miss detail. I've also been reading about this stuff for a few decades now given my background and consistently the data seems to suggest they're more fluff and marketing than accurate indicators.

The real strength of personality typology IMO lies with the discussions they start among team members and colleagues. The conversations are what bring the benefit, the understanding that others think and respond differently than we ourselves do.

I did the MBTI test and the D.I.S.C. assessment in the late 1980's and there was one notable difference between them that was removed from D.I.S.C. in the early 1990's.

The D.I.S.C. assessment back them had two extra categories called Overperform and Underperform that identified when someone had selected all of the 'best' results or all of the 'worst' results.

It's a real pity (for the world that is) that they removed the one binary method of detecting psychopaths/sociopaths in business/politics but then again, if they left them in, they would just rename the categories 'executive material' these days.

Just for the record I was a MB ENTJ and D.I.S.C. had 3 categories for how you perceived yourself, how you perceived how others perceived you and the difference between the first 2 so I tested Achiever, Developer, Developer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment

There is a gap in posts between 5 hours ago (4 hours on the image in your post) and last Monday at 7:25 am (it is Thursday now) so you should assume that something was wrong with the site for 3 days.

In Herodotus "the Histories" he describes the meaning of 'happiness', as summarized in the following abstract, so it wouldn't surprise me if the meaning of 'success' is similar'.

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In conversation with Croesus, Herodotus' Solon makes two important points about human happiness: a) any human life is filled with change, so a person's happiness cannot be evaluated properly until he or she has died; b) the rich and powerful are as subject to change as anyone else.

Sabre Rattling

When somebody says "All options are on the table" do they mean all options but the nuclear ones?

The following was published on 27 November 2021 at 10:03am.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/all-options-on-the-table-for-us-as-russia-ramps-up-troops-on-ukraine-border/4pmh5ului

All options are on the table in how to respond to Russia's "large and unusual" troop buildup near Ukraine's border, the top United States diplomat for European affairs said on Friday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_evasion#By_country

I can remember "Trustee from the Toolroom", "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute and "All the Kings Men" by Robert Penn Warren.