I do not think it means what you think it means
Specifically, a dichotomy is a separation, usually a splitting of one thing into two separate and distinct parts. It usually requires that there be a choice, A or B.

It does not mean "hey, that's interesting."

I often wonder what the state of things would be if software and business method patents had been allowed 50 years earlier.

Quicksort (and others) would be patented, as would the very idea of software encryption. Codebook + on a computer = patent!

Wait, so competition increases prices for the consumer? Sometimes I wonder what the Invisible Hand is doing while I'm watching the other one take my money.

Regarding the actions of the police under the covers, are these activities in general efficient uses of police time and taxpayer money? Why are undercover police spending seven years infiltrating environmental activists? Not terrorists, mind you, but activists. Another officer spent 4 years infiltrating an anti-racist group. Not racists, but people against racism. Really?

Seems like in seven years agents could infiltrate various government or corporate entities and expose enough graft that the program could pay for itself.

What the locket was doing with a metal detector, I'll never know

To calculate a yearly increase of some initial amount A at a rate of r, you would use A(1+r)
You don't just multiply the rate of increase by the initial value to get the value at the next iteration. A 100% yearly growth rate implies doubling each year, whereas in your calculation a 100% growth rate implies a static state

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Somebody forgot about compounded growth.

1000% growth over three years (compounded annually) would have them grown a thousandfold over three years. Compounded continuously would be ridiculously large.

If you assume continuous growth, the actual growth rate would be ln(30)/3, or about 113%. If you just want a number to quote as the annual growth rate that would give a thirtyfold increase over three years, go with 211% since (1+2.11)^3 is about 30.

Immaculate conception is not the same concept as virgin birth. If the original sin of Adam and Eve have tainted all births since Genesis, consider what the serpent's offspring have had to deal with.

To the religious minded it may be even more inconceivable that a snake be born without sin than without a father.

There are other methods to increase the alcohol content besides distillation. Freezing, for example, works very similar to distillation since alcohol freezes at a lower temperature than water. Get a freezer between these two temperatures and then remove the ice. The finished product is still considered beer.

all of our foodstock has been randomly and chaotically modified over thousands of years

Make that millions of years. There's another name for random and chaotic modification of genetic code until something is found that works. It's called natural selection. Agriculture takes a bit of the nature out of this natural selection, but selective breeding keeps one important thing in place that is missing in GM crops: biodiversity.

Biodiversity protects a species against diseases and against pests. If every wheat plant in an area has the same genetic code they are all vulnerable to the exact same pathogens to the exact same degree, so instead of a bug wiping out 80-90% of a field of wheat and leaving the remaining plants resistant to that disease and stronger, you now have lost 100% of the plants and will have to start over with a new GM strain that is similarly vulnerable.

Obama planning to cut nuclear arms. Emo President trying to see past 100 megaton bangs.

Rather than post completely uninformed comments on the subject, leave that to people in the field.

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Maybe not yours...

Telegraph is arguably digital communication, but not at all packet-based. No more so than speech, anyway. If you choose to call a message a single packet, you're ignoring the underlying method of communication, where a link is established and then characters are encoded, sent, and decoded at the other end as just a long string. What's the packet here? What's the payload and what's the header?

When I was a kid, if I was locked up against my will and given something to swing, they would have had to take me down with a tranquilizer gun, and by then half the house would have been broken. This is not how you motivate people to do well.