->stat Atlantic time
stat: cannot stat `Atlantic': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `time': No such file or directory

Well after reading the announcement or whatever we're calling it, I'd have to say it affirms my recently evolved judgment (over about the last two years) that Apple is the opposite of cool...So no worries, they are definitely not infringing your patent.

1. Create something nobody needs, and everybody but the most juvenile will find annoying.
2. Create (obvious) method for limiting the annoyance created by step 1.
3. Patent the method in step 2.
4. ????
5. Profit!

I don't think you meant "ring and index gripping the right side", but "ring and pinky gripping the right side". Well, I have large hands, but gripping the mouse between thumb and ring finger feels (to me) like an unnatural stretch. Even more so for click-and-drag" operations. So it's between thumb and pinky for me. Maybe it's a difference in musculature between us, but I find that gives the best fine positioning control.

I've already uninvented it for you. How long since you last saw a time traveler?

I'll amend that -- every *desktop* GUI.

I've always preferred keyboard input over mouse. But I'm using one now. Why? Because every GUI on earth is too reliant on them. But the mouse is ergonomically a terrible invention. Why is it so hard to drag without accidentally tripping the right button (left button, if you are left-handed) with the ring finger? I'd want to un-invent the mouse so that I could reinvent it without a button in that position. I'd have two buttons, one would be under the index finger, the other under the middle finger. Then it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.

Okay, that reading of it is more credible.

Ah, we have somebody who isn't familiar with the Halting Problem, I see.

I'd take off my hat to you, sir, if I were wearing one.

Well, you don't need to say what P is because the definition is for the property of degeneracy, which can be applied to *any* topos. And we all know that e is approximately 2.718. So the only thing left is Q, which stands for the quality of the paper, which is clearly much less than 2.718.

Therefore every topos is degenerate.

And people find this hard to grasp?

The first two frames seem unrealistic. Logarithms, really? That would take an engineering *freshman* about 3 seconds to see through. And Klingon? I don't know anybody who has studied linguistics. But plenty of people who haven't could easily see that the question is nonsense. I don't think learning in this field is going to reduce that ability.

The last two frames, though...completely believable.

I hope at least that they chose these wisely enough to get a low Erdos number out of it.

That's not what the incompleteness theorems say. There are true statements in any sufficiently rich system of mathematics that cannot be proven. The theorems don't say which statements those are (except for the constructed examples). And they really don't say anything about physics, which is an empirical endeavor.

"the Cuba"?

Is that like "the Iraq, and such"?