That is actually larger than pi... The real value of pi is:

3.14159265358979323846264338

Yeah. Take that you poverty stricken public schools.

New is appearing that Stephen King has passed away also.

The way to describe equilibrium in the macro-economic environment was done just over 100 years with the Pareto principle.

The right to read?

Either that, or you have to create the Hermaphrodite Olympics.

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Imagine the earth floating on a sine wave. The sine wave passes though the zero point. The zero point is a plane which contains the hot gasses. Are going to be other civilisations outside this cycle? Are there other civilisations who thrive inside the plane? Do some humans need to grow a brain?

Do it part time. One or two days a week, even more if you want. This will force you to interact with the hoi polloi. The general day to day communication skills you learn will help you to communicate better with others, including geeks.

Where to meet fellow geeks? University is the only place I have ever meet such people... oh, and then there was linux.conf.au where my partner said that I actually looked normal rather than the usual "out of place awkward geek that I really am".

In reference to your film set idea.

Instead of huge robot armies with lots of bombs, destruction, murder, death and explosions for the film... how about a proactive film. While the idea of everyone working together, holding hands and building a better society in the film won't sell millions at first glance; I'm sure there have been many constructive ideas for exciting films that lead to the idea of building a better society without everything ending in disharmony.

Taking care not to lead everyone into a world where they want to build an empire that forces its ideas upon the rest of the world, yada, yada, yada, yada... I have my expertise in the sciences, not the humanities. I'm sure there are some arts grads out there who can envisage what I am suggesting.

Utilise these foreign wastelands and harvest them. Films with ideas of utilising the power grids for collection of electricity from distributed solar/wind collectors (provided the copper hasn't been stolen from these suburbs). Films with ideas of of future small towns doing this, especially with all the cliche people from films like "back to the future". The football jock, the nerd, the hottest girl in town who everyone wants to sleep with, etc, allowing the common man on the street to identify with. The cliche leaders such as the mayor should behave in a way which isn't the same as some of these older movies, ie, no blanket corruption, no high life, hard working, always introducing wind-farm (et al) ideas. The cops are not there to always bust the football jock, the cops are there to blah blah blah...

We need a revolution in films to encourage the hoi polloi clean up this mess.

It's called beer. When you drink enough of it, even the most unattractive members of the opposite sex begin to look good.

You have more success if you set up an isolated/sterile region like North Korea.