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General Discussion / Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« on: February 25, 2012, 07:47:41 pm »
Imaginary number CAN have "a NOT zero". "5 + 3i" is an imaginary number. It's nonsense to say a must equal zero for an imaginary number.

I wrote :-
Quote from: Reelya on February 25, 2012, 05:22:48 pm
Numbers are called "imaginary" when b is not = 0

It doesn't make a difference what "a" is, "a" is assumed to be a scalar factor, however.


You wrote:

"Anyway "5" is a fully Real number, or a Complex number that just happens to have a zero Imaginary component.  But it isn't Imaginary."

^ isn't this exactly what i said, a=5, b=0 hence not imaginary. So how does that conflict with what i wrote, which was :-

Quote from: Reelya on February 25, 2012, 05:22:48 pm
That's because you can conceive of 5 apples, even -5 apples (a debt in apples), or 1.5 apples (1 and half apples).

You cannot conceive of an amount of apples "five times square root of negative 1".

Where i'm clearly making a distinction between "5" as a conceivable amount (real) and "5i" as a non-conceivable amount (imaginary).

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General Discussion / Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« on: February 25, 2012, 05:26:50 pm »
Sorry was typo which i already corrected.

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General Discussion / Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« on: February 25, 2012, 05:22:48 pm »
Quote from: Kogut on February 25, 2012, 11:31:23 am
Quote from: MaximumZero on February 25, 2012, 10:06:45 am
Quote from: Starver on February 25, 2012, 08:44:51 am
Quote from: Reelya on February 25, 2012, 08:17:48 am
Extending this logic, a spacecraft going "faster than light" would be subjected to such high time-dilation in that it subjectively would arrive at the destination before it embarked.
Worse than that.  It's not negative time that will pass, but imaginary time.  Which is different.  And almost certainly no less weird.
Isn't all time imaginary?
Well, 5 (and any other real number) is also imaginary number.

Only if you take a very vague English language use of "imaginary", rather than the precise mathematical definition.

Consider numbers with the form :

a + bi

Where i = square root of -1

Numbers are called "imaginary" when b is not = 0

That's because you can conceive of 5 apples, even -5 apples (a debt in apples), or 1.5 apples (1 and half apples).

You cannot conceive of an amount of apples "five times square root of negative 1".

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General Discussion / Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« on: February 25, 2012, 08:17:48 am »
One thing i thought of on reviewing this thread (don't know if this has been mentioned) is the seeming confusion of frames of reference when talking about FTL things going backwards in time.

As something approaches the speed of light, it's subjective time freezes in relation to the outside world. i.e. if you traveled to another planet at light speed you'd subjectively get their in zero time. But "real" time does actually pass externally. Extending this logic, a spacecraft going "faster than light" would be subjected to such high time-dilation in that it subjectively would arrive at the destination before it embarked. Which for macroscopic objects (people etc) would obviously cause a big pile of paradox. You'd still arrive at your destination after leaving, according to external observers, just your clocks on the spacecraft would say you arrived at an earlier time to departing.

FTL does not necessarily meant "back in time" in an external frame of reference, any more than Speed Of Light means "instantaneous" in that frame.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Friendly goblin residents.
« on: February 25, 2012, 06:26:37 am »
Lots of things are set to "friendly" when you newly embark. e.g. i used a utility Just Embark to embark on top of a necromancer's tower. All the necromancers were friendly. Unfortunately the undead horde were not, and poured out of the tower and killed my starting 7.

What you can do for your trap corridor are a few things - put a raising bridge on the outside after the cages, then if it looks like your traps will be over-run, then close the bridge and turn off your burrow, your dwarves will clear and reset the traps.

You can also create automated "fall back" defences. Try a hatch-pressure plate combo set to trigger when non-citizens creatures step on it. You can put this after the cages and it'll block any number of enemies (just remember to make single-width tunnels for these). Raising bridges strategically placed can alter the best-path for the enemy, making them walk back and forth over your cage-trap area (increases chance of each one getting caged).

Another idea is to put your cage corridor in a dip and have raising bridges at both ends. You can then flood the tunnel if enemies are just standing around. Especially if they're enemy archers.

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 25, 2012, 02:27:19 am »
Quote from: Tellemurius on February 25, 2012, 02:01:41 am
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-lauds-thieves-of-us-nuke-intel/453523.html
woah Putin, thats the first strange article about you i ever seen, what happened?
First strange article about Putin? Not for me. How he came to power was extremely dubious (from documentaries i've seen on television here).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Ryazan_incident_controversy

That's just a sample. But there's a whole lot of dodgy stuff surrounding how Putin took power, e.g :-

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On 13 September, just hours after the second explosion in Moscow, Russian Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov of the Communist Party made an announcement: "I have just received a report. According to information from Rostov-on-Don, an apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk was blown up last night". However, the bombing in Volgodonsk took place three days later, on 16 September. When the Volgodonsk bombing happened, Vladimir Zhirinovsky demanded an explanation in the Duma, but Seleznev turned his microphone off. Vladimir Zhirinovsky said in the Russian Duma: "Remember, Gennadiy Nikolaevich, how you told us that a house has been blown up in Volgodonsk, three days prior to the blast? How should we interpret this? The State Duma knows that the house was destroyed on Monday, and it has indeed been blown up on Thursday [same week]... How come... the state authorities of Rostov region were not warned in advance [about the future bombing], although it was reported to us? Everyone is sleeping, the house was destroyed three days later, and now we must take urgent measures..." [Seleznev turned his microphone off].
[...]
FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko described this as "the usual Kontora mess up": "Moscow-2 was on the 13th and Volgodonsk on 16th, but they got it to the speaker the other way around," he said. Investigator Mikhail Trepashkin confirmed that the man who gave Seleznev the note was indeed an FSB officer.[76]

Also, on the last bombing they caught officers of the FSB (rebadged KGB) planting the explosives. Putin was head of the FSB prior to becoming prime minister, and the bombings were the pretext for the war against Chechnya, which was used to push Putin's presidential career.

EDIT: One of the people making the claim of a cover-up was ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko who you may remember was assasinated by radioactive polonium-210 :

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During his time in London Litvinenko wrote two books, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, where he accused Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
On 1 November 2006 Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 and that resulted in his death on 23 November. The events leading up to his poisoning and death are a matter of controversy, spawning numerous theories relating to his poisoning and death. The British investigation into his death resulted in a failed request to Russia for the extradition of Andrey Lugovoy whom they accused of Litvinenko's murder, contributing to the further cooling of Russia–United Kingdom relations.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Minimum requirements?
« on: February 25, 2012, 02:15:58 am »
That's not so much a ram issue as a problem with not enough sites.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Reducing amount of Y-levels at world creation
« on: February 24, 2012, 08:09:24 am »
Quote from: Yaotzin on February 24, 2012, 07:55:40 am
On this topic, I'm using some parameters I found somewhere called "Matts". I like everything except the z level depth, which always seems to be around 60. What should I change to make it high? Ideally I'd like to embark on ~140 and the magma sea down at ~0.
Make sure caverns = 3, magma layer on, bottom later on, and try increasing the z-levels between each layer.

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 24, 2012, 08:07:05 am »
I was partly responding to being labelled an American, and also pointing out i'd linked the article he could easily check, he didn't have to be drowning in anything. The links on this very page he's reading.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Reducing amount of Y-levels at world creation
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:51:19 am »
I get Phantom Spiders occasionally on the surface for silk.

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:46:46 am »
Well the other choice was McCain / Palin. So people who voted for Obama and are disappointed - who else were they meant to vote for?

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:42:35 am »
Quote from: Max White on February 24, 2012, 07:39:40 am
I'm Australian, I'm not drowning in your media.

Lol, I'm australian too, reading the article i linked above wasn't hard. Basically i checked the story before i commented :/ is that so hard?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Reducing amount of Y-levels at world creation
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:30:35 am »
Try cutting all layer thicknesses to minimum, removing "magma layer" and setting cavern number to 1. You get about 20 levels underground then but still have HFS, magma, cavern critters and the like.

World elevation variance (actually the variance in elevation in your entire 16 x 16 embark zone) affects how many "above ground" levels you have, along with the "Above Ground" amount in the parameters.

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:16:09 am »
I hope Mittens is wearing his magical Mormon undergarments. Like a superhero or something. While munching on celestial vegetables so he can have spirit children. Go Mormons!

@Max White, read the Washington Post. The main point is that Santorum blatantly lied about his previous stance and voting record. He didn't take a "middle road". He's trying to play both sides and claiming "i never said that" about the other viewpoint.

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General Discussion / Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:07:01 am »
Quote from: NinjaBoot on February 24, 2012, 06:52:43 am
Quote from: Blargityblarg on February 24, 2012, 06:19:55 am
So you did assume for that first post that when someone else said 'leaving the house' they were referring to adultery? Seems understandable, given your current mental and emotional state (i.e. stoned and having recently been cheated on)

True, but I blame my tin-foil hat for failing me in that regard! 

Now with that hopefully cleared up!

Quote from: kaijyuu on February 24, 2012, 03:16:29 am
Lack of contraception harms everyone. It's not just a women thing.


Women or no, they're only harming their own interests if they're preventing access to contraception that they, themselves, would use. It's a bit silly to say they're harming themselves because they're harming people in a group they happen to belong to.

(ignoring of course social issues like welfare/etc that is exacerbated by unwanted children, and ultimately harms everyone)

It comes down to actually being responsible for the actions you take.  It is not actively harming women to expect them to pay for something that will let them live the lifestyle they choose.  Contraception is already widely available, so it comes down to whether government should fund Contraceptives or not. 

Now, as mind boggling as this sounds, Santorum by belief would be against the funding of Contraceptives.  Does this mean he actually is?  Well, according to Santorum himself... no?  I guess he flip-flopped to appease the left!
He flip-flopped to appease "the right" not the left.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/santorum-is-for-federal-funding-of-birth-control-except-when-he-isnt/2012/02/23/gIQAPt1UVR_story.html

His "flip" was to say he was against the funding of Title-X which he'd previously voted for, and publically stated he supported  - this was to a crowd of republicans after he'd already said he supported it to other journalists.

There's a small thing call "before" and "after" which will tell you who he "flipped" to appease.

EDIT: and the thing about personal responsibility is a red-herring. Sometimes the rest of us end up paying for one persons actions. And there's often a cheap way to avoid it. Providing contraceptives to low-income women reduces unwanted pregnancies, and therefore abortions, also shortening the welfare queues years later. (saves a lot of money compared to the low cost of contraceptives).

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