Problems? I see no problems.
Saturday, 5. September 2009, 14:21:17
Hark!
Hark!
Whisper, who dares?
6 billion people saying: "WTF?".
What's the problem?
From the 2001 Encyclopædia Britannica CD in an article on Differential Geometry
Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Problems in differential geometry can generally be divided into two types: Local problems and global problems.
The tangent space at a point and different concepts of curvature are local problems.
But the validity of a certain local property throughout the manifold could impose strong restrictions on the manifold as a whole; the determination of such restrictions is a global problem.
Thus, there are pieces of surfaces in Euclidean space with constant Gaussian curvature, but the spheres are the only surfaces that have constant Gaussian curvature and that are closed. Also, it is a local property for a curve on a Riemannian manifold to be a geodesic, but the index of a geodesic (i.e., the number of essentially different deformations that shorten the geodesic with the end-points fixed) is a global invariant.
Other problems on geodesics concern the existence or nonexistence of closed geodesics and the ergodicity of geodesic flows, both of which are global problems. (S.S.C.)
[So, now you know. -M.]
Hark!
Hark!
Whisper, who dares?
6 billion people saying: "WTF?".
I'm not even sure Global Warming is a true problem -apart from the problem with the Arctic Icepack -and my leg cramps of course. And minor difficulties in forecasting the weather with long term negative oscillations in bothe the North Atlantic and the North Pacific.
But that isn't so much a global problem as a "not having a decent internet access" problem in my severely restricted location. But at least it's more access than I got when I was in gaol.
I wonder if I can find out where the library server is. If it is in Hanley, going there might solve the problem.
WIDGETIZE
daxonmacs # 6. September 2009, 08:18
Weatherlawyer # 10. September 2009, 11:32
Nor was I in Redding. It's no big secret I was inside. Most Englishmen have been or deserve to be in prison at one time or another.
Most appreciate their abilities to stay out and head for politics or policing.
They say one in five cops is a criminal and three out of four are too scared to do anything about it.
And we all know that Parliament is only wracked with scandal from time to time because more juicy subjects come up for grabs between times.
But anyway, enough of the past 'tis a time for rejoicing. I have discovered that posting from Hanley Library (some 30 minutes by bike from home) is OK time-wise.
This must be the heart of the server. Stoke on Trent is divided into several towns that grew up along the Trent Valley just as the Industrial Revolution started to accelerate in Western Europe.
It kept its several heads until this century, combining "fairly recently" as Stoke on Trent as opposed to Stoke upon Trent (a smallish town smack in the middle of Newcastle, Hanley Longton and Burslem.)
A situation not quite melded within the library service. I wish I could use Firefox with a decent dictionary extension. It augght to be illegal for a public service to use licensed products such as windows when Linux and various freeware are better suited and free.
I despise IE.
How are you today?
daxonmacs # 10. September 2009, 11:53
They are not false ones, though.
Weatherlawyer # 10. September 2009, 13:54
With the Tudors another Henry ransacked the pool of hospitals the equal of the National Health Service of its time because he destroyed the monasteries that did all the hospitality.
From then on a series of chinless wonders and hooray henries has been ransacking the country in all sorts of ways ever since. WW 1 almost put paid to them but it seems they went underground.
I just found a book by Jeremy paxman called Who Runs Britain? Going to read it tonight or in a day or so.
As if I didn't already know the crime families involved.
Guess where the Kennedies and the Bushes got their start.
And the Low Germans weren't called low for nothing too neither so don't feel smug.
Edit to remove error about the Ford family.
daxonmacs # 11. September 2009, 05:50
You're not calling me a German, are you?
I think you may be surprised as to how wide the web of criminal families actually is. In Italy it started as an underground rebellion against tiranny, and called they were called the Maffia.
Their, not only the Italian, arm reaches far, how else would they get away with all they do? They are even called to help restoring and maintaining order.
But don't you dare stealing an apple. Oh no!
Weatherlawyer # 12. September 2009, 13:57
Germany got a bad name due the inability of some kings to take a joke and to glitches in the understanding of democracy.
I looked up the Fords in the Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Adopting the name of his step dad, Gerald Ford. 38th president of the United States' first act of office granted Nixon "a full, free, and absolute pardon."
Yet Ford had a reputation for honesty.
When Spiro Agnew, resigned in disgrace, and Nixon had to nominate Ford as VP.
When Nixon resigned, Ford became president but kept Nixon's administration staff.
Another early act was the amnesty for draught dodgers and deserts from the Vietnam War.
His decisions seemed to be those of the Nixon era plus, he got the blame for the duff calls
Some Fordisms:
"There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"
"I don't believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union,"
For his releasing Nixon and his Homer Simpson-esque pratfalls (such as slipping on airplane ramps, bumping his head on helicopter entrances, entangling himself in the leashes of his family dogs and generally falling over in front of television cameras all the time, Ford lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter.
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And even the "right" Ford wasn't as bad as he first seems. Henry Ford was a benevolent dictator with too much power and not enough empathy. But he was right to be a pacifist.
It seems to me his empire grew so big so fast he just lost touch with reality for the people he initially paid well.
Some say he supported Hitler but that isn't likely. He was anti-Semitic, OTOH, he might have known then, what we all know now?
It's all very sad. Imaging the world's criminals are only so because they are too stupid to know better.
I wish the bastards had daddies to smack them or if they were brutalised by their parents, had been lost boys instead.
God help us all.
daxonmacs # 12. September 2009, 14:08
And since they seen to lay out the path, it's unlikely that we will get rid of those "bastards" any time soon.
How are you today? Still dozey as ever?
Weatherlawyer # 12. September 2009, 14:28
I don't have Internet at home and it is cramping my style. I have 19 minutes to go on this machine at the library here.
They don't have a decent operating system and they don't have decent browsers and the service is further hampered by the lack of freedom.
So much for freedom. Without it the consumer would be consumed. And with it he'd eat himself or his neighbours. Who'd stop him?
Well TTFN.