I think that somebody is the EFF. HTTPS-Everywhere (look to the bottom of the page to DL the latest .xmi) has a LOT (certainly hundreds) in their list ... with qualifiers noted.
That war drove the rise of -empires- seems no surprise at all (see e.g. Alexander). But is that civilization ("An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society") ?? I'm having trouble decoding the semantics to understand why this isn't trivial.
In fact, searching for x such that 1+4x10^(Ceiling[Log10[x]])-4x^2 is a perfect square gives you tons of integers that make up half of a pair that has this property. 123288,328768 is my favorite pair, for arbitrary reasons.
Thanks. Not just everyone will
understand what I wrote. Many
readers will need to listen to
the YouTube piece, and for the
first few times through
that music
will be a challenge for many
readers.
Glad you 'got it'.
It's not really psychology but
just Art 101. E.g., there's a
good reason Wagner wrote that
music; it's been darned effective
for well over 100 years; lots of
people 'get it', enough to keep
opera companies going around the
world.
"You mean you can make such sounds
with a symphony orchestra?"
"Yes, Virginia!".
The music can sound like what it
feels like to have a great loss,
a dear child, a loved spouse,
a company founded that failed,
a case of cancer, and much more.
Great losses are so common that
the music can 'reach' nearly
everyone in a large audience.
Absolutely. What makes (non-vocal) music "sad" is not inherent in the scales or harmonies used but in culturally-conditioned responses to them. The sad part is that some people can't enjoy truly beautiful music because of that kind of conditioning.
About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35 "overdraft insurance" fee. I "invited" him to check his computer and see how many overdrafts I'd had in the past 10 years ... and that my "insurance" was keeping my checkbook balanced.
Not sure what game was afoot there, but I'd bet that some of the people who were treated to that strong-arm tactic resigned themselves to paying that monthly graft. Vampire squid indeed.
Baj. Jumbug. Their hedrons are only special cases of my 42-dimensional Universahedron, which certifiably and undeniably contains everything, including all possible universes. The proof is too small to publish in this post.
