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I tried to understand your paper, but could not.

Then I understood why not. Your paper proves that I am unable to understand your paper. It also proves that you are unable to understand your paper.


What’s the contradiction you see?


"The Telegraph finally admits left-wing economist had it right all along."


Funny seeing The Economist as left wing. Wikipedia has it as "It takes an editorial stance of classical and economic liberalism which is supportive of free trade, globalisation, free immigration and cultural liberalism." Guess it shows how right the right has gotten.


my theory: tom bombadil is the author.


traditionally there have been exactly two options available: employment and unemployment, the former being considered preferable.


so you are saying there is a correlation between guns-per-capita and gun-deaths-per-capita?


No, I'm (foolishly) responding to an Onion article of all things. The claim is being made that the U.S. is the only place where mass killings with firearms happen. I'm merely stating this isn't true.


Just to clarify, here's the headline (my emphasis):

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"


money has to come from somewhere, and it has to go somewhere.

just like water, money disappears forever once used.

water flows from the mountain into the sea, and one day the river will run dry.

the government is like Niagara falls, a huge waste of money/water.

Universal Basic Income would accelerate this flow of moneywater, and is so obviously a bad idea that its opposite, Universal Basic Outgo is a good idea.

UBO would reverse the flow of moneywater by taking the same monthly sum of money from every citizen and pumping it uphill.

this would motivate everybody to work harder, resulting in a happier society with enormous moneywater reserves in the mountains.


an effective mandatory helmet law, from a national health perspective, would be to force those who drive a car to work to wear a bicycle helmet ...all day long.


has the ping data been published?

to my knowledge, we've seen one arc (from the last ping) that has been split into two parts based on assumptions of maximum and minimum ranges of straight flight at even speed.

that's a lot of assumptions.


As far as I know it´s not been published, I´m just making an example of what kind of information it would give (not too much).

I´ve read that the telephone ping was just every hour or so, that gives you at least 5 or 6 pings during the flight, some of them when the aircraft was at known positions.

It´s a pity because with a ping every 5 min it would have been possible to obtain a pretty narrow route.

The ping arc error zone it´s quite wide (about 100NM) but maybe it could be possible to correct it somehow comparing the ping string with the last known positions.

Of course it´s just going to give wide probable routes, but there is a possibility that they give additional indirect information, like some branches overflying radar zones, or airways on the general direction of the probable route that could be used to narrow the search again. Even if it just works for reducing the actual search surface it´s worth looking at it. I suppose that the SAR teams are trying to do something similar, but after seeing last´s week response it´s difficult


for something to remain floating after 12 days?

maybe a wing with an empty fuel tank.


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