In my view Bannon is a symptom of the change in the public discourse. It is more offensive than before. Actually, it was all quite easy to forecast if...
Neither Brexit nor Trump even together aren't enough to start a true de-globalization, they can lead partly to it, but the change would have to be hug...
I think the major critique of Bannon points basically what kind of articles are there to be found at Breitbart. And basically that he's not alarmed of...
Well, that's the way manners actually do change. If someone behaves really rudely, there is legislation starting with slander etc. Typically the perso...
The basic problem in our times is that what are common sense "good manners" tend to then be overstretched or handled with oversensitivity when it come...
The most hilarious thing is that people view Trump as an "outsider" from the elite or that he would do something to the corruption in Washington. Yet ...
Nope, doesn't go like that. First, something that can be counted goes against what is infinity (hence it's even theoritically wrong), secondly, green ...
So infinity is meaningless to you? Not something in any way used in ordinary math? Who said that infinity was now treated as a number now? Obviously i...
And btw this topic could get back to the focus of the media, if something happens with Deutsche Bank and they need to be bailed out. The bank is one o...
But does that something refer to a finite amount? Basically I think it ( here the "infinity-infinity=?" question) is regarded in math as an indetermin...
...that is the democratic process ought to give power to a Pro-US, secular administration that has similar ideas about democracy and liberal freedoms ...
Well, when the Caliph of the IS was first detained by the US forces in 2004, imprisoned and then sent free, then was the head of ISI (Islamic State in...
Actually Russian propaganda is extremely successfull and is not allways disinformation, but often biased information or picked information/facts that ...
Assuming you don't concieve something that is logically false, not correct, then yes. And the reality of numbers? When you broaden the definition of e...
Not actually, in a way that kind of thinking comes once we have the solutions. I'm thinking about it from the standpoint of basically "What Cantor did...
To invade Iraq itself was the incredible mistake. Not lack of long term commitment. Before in the case of Korea and Vietnam, at least there had been a...
Well, in my view the US Middle East policy has been a slow moving train wreck that went off the rails totally years ago when the younger Bush had this...
Thanks for the Frontline clip, have to watch it! Even without looking at the Frontline report (which usually are very good), something important happe...
I think the biggest problem with mathematics is that we have put as it's basis a practical use of mathematics and that is counting. Math evolved from ...
Or the crisis morphed into another... in Europe, for example. But yes, the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve is quite as big as it was during the f...
It will happen someday, but it won't be the end of the World. And that's what has to be understood. The financial crisis is well, just like any other ...
When it's the easiest way and there has been basically no risk to increase the debt, why wouldn't the politicians use debt financing? And if (when) th...
What exactly is your question, jorndoe? I can assume that there can be mathematical systems that simply are incommensurable to each other, yet are tot...
The present situation has similarities to the Cold War, but in all respects it isn't as during the Cold War. Both sides aren't on the alert of a nucle...
You don't recall it correct this time, swstephe. First: Central Banks usually aren't the bank regulating bodies. In the EU I think the regulatory body...
Was it officially termed a default when Nixon got off the gold standard? No. And in many places it is argued that the US has never defaulted. Technica...
Basically the centralized banking system, basically a fiat monetary system, has created for us a big problem. The most important price formation by su...
Seems that the US is going through some sort of a transformation in the bi-party system. Not that the system itself will change, but the parties are c...
Had basically a summer vacation from PF (and here) and it's very sad to see a dead site over there. What I am really sad about is the math & logic for...
The real problem is that those guns, no matter how much the constitution had in mind a collective defence of the nation by a militia force, are primar...
How can country be more important than the party because the party is the best thing for the country? :D I think many politicians, and people in gener...
No, I think you misunderstood. It's not a problem of causality. Causality exists. It's a problem of computability. You can have causal relations, but ...
Non computability comes from negative self reference. Even just self-reference makes it hard make a correct working model for something. Perhaps this ...
What would be the link between the two? Sort of, I would say, but not 100%. I think the link is basically computability. It's not about causality. For...
Bit sad that the old Forum isn't working well. Good that it at least came back. The Prevent forest fires Smokey add is ok. Yet in general it is a bit ...
Been down for a long time. In any case, thanks again for this site. What I'm feeling sorry are all the very good discussions that actually had very go...
Pleasure and happiness are indeed two different things. Far often the goal of being happy is confused with hedonism in this age of individualism and c...
Why do you presume that happiness is temporary? I don't think it is. It's only temporary to those that don't understand what happiness is. Or to those...
I think it would be great if Scotland would become independent once again! One North European country more. Now you can refer to Scots as being Pseudo...
How excellent is it for Great Britain, if now Scotland opts to leave? But hey, that would be also a triumph of democracy. Let's see if this triumph of...
Bernie vs. Trump debate would have been something to see. Except being indicted, nothing could have been worse for Hillary. But Trump perhaps understo...
Lol. I think the binary system is something very fundamental to us. And perhaps other species too. With it we have made much sense to the World. But t...
On the contrary, when talking about POWs, interrogation, the need to get intel, was what I had in mind here: the ones who have surrendered aren't them...
Nondisfiguring torture can be very harmful too. The bottom fact is that torture is not a successfull interrogation method. Now obviously a long interr...
When the legal system uses harsh punishment and torture, it's primary purpose is not to "punish" the criminal, but to instill fear onto others. And wh...
Looks like at least from my perspective that the TTIP is dead. It's not only France, Austria and Germany aren't happy with it either. I think it has b...
The process of creating the TTIP and its draft is a perfect example of how much power corporations have; how they use this power; and how weak nation ...
Our problem is that we want to make our definitions so that they can be defined either that something belongs to the group or not. Either you are cons...
As a child, I was two years in the US School system, then went back for third grade here in Finland. I visited my former classmate friends when I was ...
Thumbs up for this one!!! (Y) Oh and a smiley... :D Humanity has actually lost something from the time when the only method of long distance communica...
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