Seriously, the Chinese had pretty much this from the mid 900's.

There is only one man, who would dare give me the Raspberry! Lone Starr!

-or-

3. Have more money to throw at lawyers on a whim than the GDP of small countries...

Detained for a few hours, no counsel present, interrogated by a bunch of FBI agents - because he wore Google Glasses inside a theatre? If that's not thuggery, I have no idea what is. Sure, he might not have been taken out the back and bruised within an inch of his life, but as far as proportional responses go, I think this is appaling.

As for "Why was he wearing them in the first place..." - how is that relevant in any way? They aren't illegal, they aren't dangerous and it's his own business if he wants to look a knob in his seat.

I would go one step further - and say that if you are REALLY on top of your game, then you would have noticed this malware running on your system, removed it yourself and the "eViL WiNdOwS" Malicious Software Removal Tool would have done nothing to your PC anyhow.

If you aren't on the ball enough to notice that your system has become infected, don't be so quick to anger when someone else removes the problem on your behalf.

Thank you muchly, I was actually going to explore it further on math.se myself lol.

Anyhow, thanks again for this most interesting spawn of a discussion!

Wouldn't it take longer to be pulled over, explain that you are in the secret service. Wait for the officer to stop laughing, then PROVE that you are in the secret service, then get back on the road?

I mean if something is "National Security" type stuff - where apparently seconds matter, it's so important that you can put your countrymen in the line of danger by whizzing past them at dizzying speeds, surely an interuption of at least five minutes (at the utter least) is going to be much much worse than simply doing the speed limit in the first place....

Oh, snap, I forgot I shouldn't have brought my logic and common sense into this conversation....

*sips coffee*

Am I missing something in your numbers:

How is 4/1 = 5?

Given that a Rational Number is a fraction of a Natural Int and Non Zero Int, isn't there basically an infinite set of Rational numbers between each Natural?

Between 1 and 2:
3/2... 4/3... 5/4... 6/5 .... ....

How so? Rational numbers can exist between natural numbers. 7/4 lies between 1 and 2. Therefore that infinity is a larger set?

The one where she is Natural is the smallest, followed by the one where she is Rational - and of course the biggest is the one where she is Real.

Because it is basically a gentleman's way between them where neither side wants to start invalidating patents too much else the other side comes back at their patents. Both sides want to basically "win" while retaining their own patents intact.

A "win" without holding a deck of patents at the end isn't a win for either of them.

You could also apply the basic premise of MAD during the cold war to this, but replace nukes with patent invalidation.

See also:

Whooooosh.

I for one, am incented by your incenting statement about incent!

Hmmm, I don't get it - and if you don't mind giving me a quick lesson, I am more than happy to learn it.

If we start with two particles, moving in a similar direction and come towards a point. Why is it different for the outcome? If the particles interact in a physical way, they hit one another, equal out and move in a straight line together. If they don't collide, doesn't their individual gravity entangle them into a mirrored curve? Over time, the amplitude of the curve would decrease due to the constant force applied to them - and sooner or later, even if they are still two particles, can't they be treated as a single particle with their combined vector (sort of like a flat helix shape)? At that point, wouldn't they weild a greater influence on other particles that they come past?

I mean if dark matter didn't clump due to gravity, it would be distributed utterly equally everwhere in a homogenous manner rather than clumping. And if it does clump, why doesn't it follow the conservation or angular momentum?

The gravitational force between them acts as a perfect friction. The energy goes into accelerating the particles in the ring. I get that an accretion disc around a large body spinning at stupid high speeds gets very very hot and does radiate a lot of that energy away, but something that couldn't radiate would simply rotate faster, and over time expand the radius of the orbit. The gravitational force of the earth will still be tugging on it, effectively slowing it down.