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Keeps the Faradays out.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

We's have less EMI if we just repealed Faraday's Laws.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

This is interesting:

Some guys came along later and cleaned things up.

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The Faradays...sounds like a heavy metal band from the past!

Faraday's laws weren't enacted by the US Congress or the UK House of Commons. Influencing somebody with the power to repeal them could be difficult.

The Vatican could have petitioned to have reality changed so that what Galileo observed conformed to their preferences, but in practice they just told him to shut up about what he had seen.

I recall a certain Australian politician trying something like that. It was a bid to make crypto software vendors put in back doors that only the government could access. When someone explained that that violated the laws of mathematics, Downunda’s pride said, “The laws of Australia take precedence.”

Different notation, iirc.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Australia has produced some remarkably silly politicians, but nothing as silly as Donald Trump. Donald Trump's approach to global warming is slightly more arrogant -if he can't understand the evidence it has to be a hoax.

John Larkin wouldn't know what that might mean.

It might have looked that way to John.

Stop generating childish insults and read the book.

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Why bother? The personal relationships between the people who got the math into more accessible forms aren't all that interesting.

I trump sees it he will start rambling about taking over Greenland to protect from Martians trying to steal cookies

But you are all about personal relationships, specifically nasty ones.

Design some electronics. Build it. You'll feel better.

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I think he is concerned about russian ICBMs and undersea fiberoptic cables and ghost ships.

He is strutting of course, the first step in making a deal. He'll probably settlle for a peninsula for a giant US military base.

The europeans should realize that it would be in their interest too.

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Didn't some legislature pass a law to change pi to 3?

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Indiana

This came up in another context lately--the Indiana House of Representatives passed a law that said that the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference was in the ratio of 5/4 to 4, which would make pi = 16/5 or 3.2. It didn't pass the Indiana Senate.

It makes better jokes if it's 3.0--all the train wheels turning hexagonal and so on. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

you do know that for the last ~75 years Denmark and the US have had an agreement that the USA can basically have as many bases and personnel in Greenland as they want?

The US used to have three bases there, successive POTUS have reduced bases and personal there. So now only Pituffik Space Base (Thule air base) is left

Didn't know that. I can't see why DT would want it.

Check it out on Street View. It looks dreadful.

I spent some time in Alaska. Same feeling, not much to do but drink and smoke weed. Lots of SAD.

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You keep on flattering yourself that I see you as a person, rahter than a depressing example of a tye.

You can build electronics - of a sort. If you understood what design was about you might be able to design some yourself, rather than fiddling about until you find something that works. That might make you feel better. My own experience of the process was complicated by the fact that I mostly had to spend a lot of time explaining why the approach I was suggesting would work.