You could just buy the DVDs of whatever movie/show you wish to see. It would certainly be less expensive than this "space" plan.

The frickin shows I want to see is not available in stores, unless months afterwards, dubbed by people who don't understand the poorly translated references the translator did not get; DVD is an obsolete technology, sometimes I download the content of a DVD I own because it's inconvenient to manipulate the disk; DVDs are at the store, internet is at my home.

The United Mexican States ?

Wow, I didn't know Steve Ballmer was german

I'll write it in finnish, maybe you'll understand

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But the Awesome bar IS awesome. by remembering a few keytstrokes, you can reach any page previously visited. It really IS progress if you actually try to use it. Actually, now that Firefox 4 has effectively killed plugin backwards compatibility, the Awesome Bar is the only thing that keeps me from moving to Chrome.

Imagine a 3 star restaurant where people can get a price they can afford by booking in time yet where more well off people can just drop by at any time.

I'm curious what the point of my inventing something is if you can just immediately steal it and sell your own copy.

Because in return you can steal anyone else's invention and sell your own copy.

And how do you know that, as has always been the case until now, technological advances will not encourage people who like/can't help breeding to breed until the higher carrying capacity is reached again? Ultimately, there IS a limit to growth, be it one sq metre per person, or the number of atoms available in the universe. Will technology solve this ?

Duh.

Travelling longs distances is cool and associated with freedom. Everybody wants to do it, as quick, cheap and often as possible.
Shipping long distance is neutral to lame, and associated with pollution, ofshore outsourcing. Everybody hates it, except for truckers (whom everybody hate) and oil sheiks (ditto).

So the former is politically easy to defend, the latter is harder.

Did I propose any system that was better? Churchill was pretty much spot on.

But if you want a direct democracy that works, forget about Cali and go to Switzerland.

That's the issue with representative democracy, party politics and lobbying.

Suppose 33% of the voters support A, 30% support B, 20% support C and 17% support D
Furthermore, suppose that unrelated to this general policy choice, 90% of the voters support X.

Now, suppose that the 10% that would lose when a policy favoring X would be in place, are actually rich enough to lobby parties A, B, C, and for all it matters don't bother lobbying D. For all it matters, party D can even find a niche in actively defending X.

This is how after the elections, anti X legislation gets passed. Sheeple live with it, party D opposes but nobody cares.

DMCA, HADOPI, PATRIOT are typical examples of this situation.

one word: chapters.

Does he at least provide the actual value of N ? Also, did he consider the trivial case where P=0 ?

no, in base Pi, Pi=1*Pi^1 + 0*Pi^0 + 0*Pi^-1 + 0*Pi^-2 + 0*Pi^-3 + 0*Pi^-4...

hence, in base Pi, Pi= 10.0000000000..., like in base 10, 10=10.00000000000..., like in base 2, 2=10.0000000...