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A man entered a local paper’s pun contest. He sent in 10 different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in 10 did.

I think only few countries are actually government employees. Canada is weird, it is single payer, but MDs are basically self-employed and often functionally incorporated and they bill the provinces. They are fully or partially government employees if they work in hospitals, IIRC. Most other countries are not single payer but often have a mixed system. But there self-employment makes more sense (plus government run facilities).

Not sure. I’ve read things that show the NHS in the UK employs doctors. Canada, as I recall, is a single-payer system. The advantage of medicare is that it strips out the middleman (for-profit insurance) that only seems to add cost and deny service when it threatens profits.

This is inevitable in systems of representative democracy, because you are voting for a person to represent you in government. You are not even voting just for the policy positions they announce, but for their wisdom and judgement in dealing with whatever unforeseen issues arise during the tenure of the government. The alternative is to hold direct referenda on individual issues. The snags with that are you will be asking people to vote repeatedly, leading to fatigue and so to low turnout, calling into question the legitimacy of the outcome of the vote, and, more seriously, the very high risk that people vote without really understanding the issue and the consequences of each decision they vote on. The Swiss manage to do it, to a limited degree, but they have had decades of practice. There is no perfect system. Representative democracy is rough and ready but does at least prevent tyranny, so long as the limits on terms of government remain respected.

I believe you are aware that problems like these are specially categorised under the area of Circle Packing in mathematics. By intuition, the number of circles that can be fitted into the mother circle should be infinite because of your second premise, so I suppose there isn't any least number(?). One of the ways to prove this is to show that for any given area (no matter how big or tiny it is and regardless of its shape), you can always try to fit some circle of area (N^k . A) where k is a natural number, A can take any arbitrary value and 0<N<1 as you have conditioned. And subsequently you can reasoned out that the number of such circles that can be fitted must approach to infinity. Premise 3 doesn't have much an effect on this, in fact even if you slightly change it in certain ways, the result will still be the same because of the overpowering premise 2. This will hold true even if the mother shape (A) isn't a circle. Until mathematically proven, I can't really be sure if all of this is true so there's room for speculation.

You really need to be readmitted to KG school. You have no sense of even the ABCs of science. Don't you know that the universe is not only composed of ordinary energy and matter? The fact is that 75% of the universe's composition is a mystery or unknown stuff that scientists have arbitrarily named dark energy and dark matter.

The members of this forum are seriously biased against religion and even philosophy, so I don't know why you posted in this forum. I suppose you read that this was the philosophy forum so you thought it would be OK. No. The members of this forum believe that science is the beginning and end of knowledge. This means that if the information did not come from science, then it can not possibly be knowledge. It could be imagination, speculation, or maybe garbage, but it is not knowledge. But I found your thoughts interesting. You still need to do some work on your ideas, but I doubt that you will get any help here. Gee

Further Dialogues and discussions on WhatsApp Business [11:52 am, 1/1/2025] Chai BC: Interesting [12:10 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: Let not the Chinese be the first to take up my idea and bring out the Product 😊 [12:13 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: TY Chai 🙏 [1:07 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: Another advantage is Robots can be players or substitutes too [1:38 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: In the case of Rummy a round table will be employed with provision for multiplayers This can revolutionise the entire Card Games and Tournaments [4:28 pm, 1/1/2025] Chai BC: Can we build a prototype [7:58 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: Why not. We can think of that [7:59 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: I rang up to wish you Happy New Year [5:55 am, 2/1/2025] Chai BC: Happy New Year to you too!... C u at the bridge room soon 🙏 [8:08 am, 2/1/2025] Mannan: Good morning sir. What is the final objective of this project? [8:15 am, 2/1/2025] T W: Maybe we can take up the Development in a National Level Researchers' Competition which will bring Bridge in the Lime Light increasing the National Awareness and Research in General and pave way for Indian Team to become world Champions [recently they came 2nd] [1:57 pm, 1/1/2025] Ramanand Baliga: True, but card players love the feel of cards, arranging them, playing actual card when their turn comes. Same as BBO versus playing in person with friends [2:01 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: I understand Yes ! [3:57 pm, 1/1/2025] T W: Give up some Take some [8:07 am, 2/1/2025] T W: To enhance the Card Playing Feel and Pleasure we can also come out with an RFID based new Generation cards Pack which can be monitored and used for Shuffle Cut and Deal and thereafter played on by Humans holding the cards in their hands and doing what exactly they otherwise do ! This will have Software Tools including AI Tools under the Control of the Server. This can be used standalone eliminating the requirement of Digital Touch display or can be used in conjunction with the Bridge Table appropriately ! 👍 [8:23 am, 2/1/2025] Ramanand Baliga: Computer won't allow revoke to be committed by a human player. [8:43 am, 2/1/2025] T W: No it will allow revoke to happen (in case of RFID cards) but record it and take action Setting can also be allowed to give Warning or Prevent it ! [8:45 am, 2/1/2025] T W: Computer Director can speak to the table too [9:18 am, 2/1/2025] Ramanand Baliga: Good design. 🙏 [1:03 am, 2/1/2025] Pratap: Work on it Walker. Good luck! [10:35 am, 2/1/2025] T W: TY 🙏 Now that I have broadcast the idea thinking of going for a National level Product Design Competition [2:56 pm, 2/1/2025] Walker… 😎 Amit Walker…: Hi daddy, Happy New Year 2025 again… In this new year why don’t you try developing & implementing some of your ideas… Because ideas will just be ideas till they are implemented… And they can be done your way… Because the best part of when I do something, is I get to do it my way with my own ideas, irrespective of what anyone else’s ideas might be since I will do only what I would like to do when I do… 🙂 [9:23 am, 7/1/2025] T W: TY Amit Very true but as I have shared the ideas with many I am thinking of instituting a National level or International level of Product Development Competition in which Researchers and Students can participate and we can have a panel to assess them and assist them in the development This will also popularise Bridge and generate Awareness [9:26 am, 7/1/2025] T W: I need some support from Organisations and Individuals Maybe you or Ajit too can pitch in [12:05 pm, 7/1/2025] Walker… 😎 Amit Walker…: Nobody works for free anymore daddy… 🙂 Even if you call it a competition… I have too many ideas of my own, and too little time to spare for them itself, so not sure if I would be of much help… But I will always be able to help by sharing my thoughts and ideas whenever it might be needed…