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To: koan who wrote (761444)	1/5/2014 2:09:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574005

Ice Station Amnesia January 2nd, 2014 - 11:49 am “All 52 passengers on board a ship trapped in sea ice for nine days off the Antarctic coast have been airlifted to safety in a five-hour operation,” the London Telegraph reports: A Chinese helicopter ferried the scientists and tourists from the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy to an Australian icebreaker. The operation came after days in which blinding snow, strong winds, fog and thick sea ice forced rescuers to turn back time and again. Three icebreakers were sent to try to break through the ice surrounding the ship, but all failed. The Aurora Australis came within 12 miles on Monday, but fierce winds and snow forced it to retreat to open water. The passengers were shuttled off the ship and on to the helicopter in groups of seven or eight, with each journey taking up to 45 minutes. Say….why were they there in the first place? Perhaps because elsewhere in the Telegraph today is a story headlined, “World’s climate warming faster than feared, scientists say,” the reader has to make it past at least ten paragraphs, a video, and three photos in the story of the rescue mission before this passage: One of the aims of the expedition was to track how quickly the Antarctic’s sea ice was supposedly disappearing. Oh. ....... pjmedia.com

To: koan who wrote (761444)	1/5/2014 2:32:15 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574005

De Blasio horse ban is favor for RE tycoon: RED BILL'S ANTI-HORSE JIHAD It’s a tradition for New York City mayors to start banning innocent things that everyone before them found completely inoffensive. For Mayor Bloomberg, it was large sodas. For Red Bill de Blasio, it’s carriage horses. Bill de Blasio, like any good Communist, isn’t just pushing the horse ban at random. His elevation was made possible by NYCLASS; a bunch of rich people posing as animal rights activists. The man behind the Anti-Horse Jihad is Steve Nislick, a real-estate tycoon with an eye on their stables, and a hand in Bill de Blasio’s greasy pocket. sultanknish ‘Horses count; babies don’t’ in de Blasio’s New York City New York City’s brand-new mayor Bill de Blasio has an ambitious progressive agenda that includes tax increases, much talk about somehow crushing inequality and punishing “the elite.” Two issues high on de Blasio’s agenda are the creation of more abortion clinics across the five boroughs and an outright ban on horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park. De Blasio’s animosity to the horse-drawn carriages runs deep, apparently. [ Nah, he has a rich friend who has plans for the land their stables are on. ] “We are going to get rid of horse carriages, period,” he said at a news conference Monday, according to CNN. He added that he believes the tourist attraction — popular since 1858 — is inhumane and dangerous. The new mayor, who took an oath of office on Wednesday administered by former President Bill Clinton, wants to replace the romance of horse-drawn carriages with the romance of antique-looking electric cars. (The carriage drivers would switch to these vehicles.) The City Council must approve de Blasio’s carriage ban before it can take effect. If the iconic horse-drawn carriages are banned, over 200 horses will be out of work. The fate of those horses is not at all clear. It could be the slaughterhouse. The United States already sends over 90,000 horses to Mexico and Canada to be killed each year. “Horses that have jobs are the last horses that get neglected,” carriage driver Christina Hansen told the Daily News. “It’s the horses that don’t have jobs that we’re seeing shipped to slaughter.” The price for sending the 200 carriage-carrying horses of Central Park to a shady pasture would be about $500,000 every year. In addition to his dedication to eliminating horses that draw carriages, de Blasio, 52, is deeply committed to opening a slew of abortion clinics across New York City. The proudly progressive and once-whole-hog socialist, Sandinista-loving mayor’s dot-com website pledges to “ensure that all women in New York City have access to” abortions whenever their hearts desire. He adds that he will work closely with Planned Parenthood. He will also force New York City’s police department to assist in his citywide efforts to increase abortions. De Blasio has also promised to prevent opponents of abortion from speaking freely near abortion clinics and to shut down the city’s handful of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. He calls them “sham crisis pregnancy centers” “masquerading as legitimate healthcare providers.” Bill Donohue of the Catholic League told The Daily Caller he isn’t happy with the new mayor’s platform. “Horses count; babies don’t,” Donohue told The Daily Caller. “Look for 2014 to be an epic year in the Big Apple.” Read more: dailycaller.com

To: koan who wrote (761444)	1/6/2014 6:16:09 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

Hi koan; Mandelbrot set is cool but as far as applications go, it's essentially useless. None of this stuff is taught to physics grad students, for example. And it's application in mathematics is infinitesimal. What it's mostly used for is in making amusing pictures for stoned leftists. Before chaos theory, the previous failed mathematics theory was "catastrophe theory". And by "failed" I don't mean that it doesn't "work". It just doesn't do anything particularly useful. If it hadn't been invented, the world would not be in any way different from the way it is now. That is not true of, for example, differential equations, trigonometry, complex analysis, geometry, etc. These are branches of mathematics that are useful. Sure you can find people who make a living in chaos theory but they're in academia and they're not making anything useful. For example, your Intel semiconductors are not designed using chaos theory. Chaos theory is not one of the subjects grad students in physics have to master to get a PhD. Hey, it makes for great movie plots as in Jurassic Park, but it's not a part of actual, useful, real science. Instead, it's primarily studied by a very small number of pure mathematicians and academic people working in junk science like sociology and business, who want to give their work a gloss of being scientific. There are some sort of similar things that are a part of real science. One that comes to mind is the order parameters used in phase transitions in thermodynamics. But I don't think that these have any practical applications either. And when I met a physics professor (who was teaching graduate thermodynamics) I asked him if there were any practical applications. All he could think of was more accurate descriptions of system behavior around critical points. But the critical points themselves do not have much in the way of applications. I see the theory as mostly being a nice way to get tenure. So go ahead! Prove me wrong! Tell me which practical item (something you can buy at Walmart, LOL) needed Chaos Theory in its design. -- Carl P.S. "Thumbprint of God", my ass, LOL.