Wikipedia: "With a combined population of over 500 million inhabitants, or 7.3% of the world population, the EU, in 2011, generated the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 17.6 trillion US dollars, representing approximately 20% of the global GDP when measured in terms of purchasing power parity."

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Just for some thoughts, quote: "The Convention prohibits in particular: torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, slavery and forced labour, death penalty, arbitrary and unlawful detention, and discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention."

(to be found at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/Introduction/Information+documents/ )

How is that in the US of A?

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Perhaps.

Quote: "Instead, plasma cosmology assumes that, because we now see an evolving, changing universe, the universe has always existed and always evolved, and will exist and evolve for an infinite time to come." ( http://www.bigbangneverhappened.org/p13.htm ; )

That is, we believe (have faith in) the correctness of the most popular current set of theories, though we probably know nothing.

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Axioms? e.g. as simple as Peano or as complex as Choice?
Regards Peano: http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/

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Almost same with me (without the silver attachment). But I am sure it helped me to improve in my days (made it to a LISP machine). What was missing was endless exercises with proper guidance by a master of the field.

But I could also say that I never was a programmer in the first place.

Besides, I am suspicious regards people claiming to be *great* anyway.

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... and would read "The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition [Paperback]".

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A forced timelag netween interactions would probably help. Could create a difference one in the old days could observe between correspondence chess (by surface mail) and blitz chess.

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From what I learned here it has failed.

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Quote:"Every year, Sweden publishes everyone's income tax returns. So do Finland and Norway. And nobody really cares." ( http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-18-salaries_N.htm )

Not quite the same, but still.

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Agreed, though I have one spare; quite sure both will outlast me.

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Would like to watch when car manufacturers (all at the same time, sure) will start to follow NIKON'S policy.

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Quote from the introduction: "The science writer, John Horgan (1995, 1997), has ridiculed what he labels “chaoplexology,” a combination of chaos theory and complexity theory. A central charge against this alleged monstrosity is that it, or more precisely its two component parts separately, are (or were) fads, intellectual bubbles of little consequence. They would soon disappear and deservedly so, once scholars and intellects realized what worthless dross they truly were (or are). As the culminating centerpiece of his argument, Horgan introduced the label, “the four C’s,” which consist of cybernetics, catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory." (emphasis mine)

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Dark matter theory vs. MOND - who is owned by the bias?

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