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My searches these days are somewhat less ambitious. @TheVat gets where I'm coming from.

I think this is probably the lead in to the best counterargument. Each section of society has to fight for its slice of political power. And once gained, it must wield that political power to maintain it. Once in place, removal of that power becomes impossible except by force of insurrection. Ethics doesn't come into it, it's realpolitik.

O happy memories! Had to play that one for my Grade VIII exam. Must have been late 1972 or early '73, so I'd be 14.

Three statements, all presented without a shred of supporting jjustification. What do you expect me to say? A ravenous horde demanding a continuous supply of free cake? Not really in society's best interests I think. They would fail to recognise or understand the consequences of their actions. Being one of them, I remember it quite well. Free health care, free primary/secondary/tertiary education, and the genuine prospect of stable permanent employment. My, how we suffered! That's not a reason to deny the elderly the vote for the short time they have left. Those future generations are denied a vote in the matter. My proposal is very much in line with protecting their best interests. See earlier comment regarding "A ravenous horde demanding a continuous supply of free cake". Fortunately (I think), I have no understanding of what you are referring to here. There are some things I'm happy to remain blissfully unaware of. 🙂

Cycle times vary, but most serious policy initiatives (eg housing, public health, educational standards) are generational in their impact. The elderly are going to be spared the full burden of climate change. But their grandchildren will be paying the price. The logic of this one escapes me. Minorities will always be reliant on the good will of the majority (unless they control the military). Are we looking to give toddlers the vote here?

Again, a brave move. I would prefer my angry pursuing mobs to be slowed by Zimmer frames. And again more of a swing effect than a long term characteristic. I'd be tempted to put this down to the failure of the major progressive parties in both the US and UK to offer candidates with charisma and strong leadership qualities (compare Obama, Blair). Definite shortcomings on the testicular front.

Some Flatt trumpets and warblers to soothe your furrowed brow while we wait.

I don't dispute this at all. But it would take a brave fellow indeed to suggest disenfranchising rural populations in general. Even if they are largely uneducated halfwits. I understand why you limit voting rights of the institutionalised mentally challenged (and the imprisoned?), but doing so for just being a bit dim is pushing it. My OP was not specifically about the USA, it was more driven by Brexit and the rise of Reform - widely seen as being down to the uneducated and the elderly. For me the right to vote should be matched by a willingness and ability to bear full responsibility for the consequences. (I have another similar issue with men exercising their ''rights'' to an equal voice on specifically women's issues etc.). The elderly are not in a position to meet that condition, yet in the uk at least, they nevertheless turn out in numbers and inflict hardship and financial burdens on the young out of spite. I hope you understand that I''m playing devil's advocate to a certain extent here. I'm interested in hearing the counterarguments. Besides the Republicans have been gerrymandering your side of the pond forever. How exactly do you intend to undo that without doing more of the same?

Same misinterpretation as @TheVat too. The swing value for a group is specific to one election and independent of the group's typical voting characteristic. The justification for my proposition is based on typical characteristics, not random statistical noise.

The swing only reduced the differential. It got nowhere near reversing it.

Intentionally, I put no ban on younger heads having eminence gris advisors. Just - given an equal footing there was a saying

How do you make that out? Your link shows that a significantly higher proportion of elderly voters chose Trump than those in the 28-44 age group, both men and women.

Now that I'm of pensionable age, I've had time to look at the actions of my generation and their predecessors in public office; their actions as corporate stakeholders; their typical voting tendencies; and come to the inescapable conclusion that their attentions for the limited remainder of their time here would be better focused elsewhere. Gardening or reading shallow, rose-tinted recollections of the good old days. Let's face it, their performance in these areas has been woeful and one cannot help but come to the conclusion that their declining mental faculties and limited personal investment in anything but the immediate future may be the root cause. So if I felt sufficiently deserving of a vote, it would be to ban us all from public and military office, corporate directorships, and permanently remove our political and share holder voting rights. Our interests should still be protected out of self-preservation by those approaching retirement age, and there would be some incentive to curry favour with the remainder by breaking the mould and actually being pleasant to others. Don't you agree?... ... Donald?

Actually, now that I've written it down, I'm seeing some issues in the standard sign convention. Y = f(ct - r) + g(ct + r) is mathematically identical to the customary presentation of course, but avoidance of the -ct term doesn't push a time-reversed possibility in your face quite so much. Moreover the path choice at the intersections of the diagonal characteristic equations in the time forward direction is not a split of incoming and outgoing waves, but of transmitted vs reflected waves. This seems a more 'useful' distinction. Waves in all four quadrants now read naturally as moving forward in time, unless one is determined to impose a retrocausal possibility.

Let us adjust coordinates to those of a spatially stationary observer progressing forwards uniformly along the time axis. Also we can eliminate wave speed and express both time and distance in the same units. Hence we obtain the linear, homogenous, hyperbolic PDE: Yrr - Ytt = 0 Note that this implies the mixed derivative Yxy = 0 where x = r + t, y = r - t Now the visualisation. Picture the observer riding an ascending escalator mounted on the edge of a regular stepped pyramid. Looking diagonally in the -r, +t direction (ie, along a direction of constant x) each step is fitted with a horizontal moving walkway approaching the observer. Each delivers a regular supply of envelopes marked with their x value that functions both as a delivery time to the t axis and delivery location to the r axis. Within each envelope is a number of crossword puzzles each representing a value of Y. As Y = constant is a valid solution, some may be featureless. Others maybe at least partially filled in with across and down clues representing detailed variation of Y with r, t respectively. Some of these may remain duplicated in all envelopes in that x stream, or other agencies may add or change solutions on the way representing evolution of Y with x. (Note that paths of constant x can be expressed as systems of ODEs for Y in y). Looking diagonally right in the +t, +r direction (ie. along a path of constant y), similar situation applies, excepting that the moving walkways are departing the observer; the envelope y-value addresses represent elapsed time since intersection with the t-axis and (backwards projected) intersection address on the r-axis; and that these constant y walkways represent systems of ODEs for Y in x. So far, there has no discussion of waves. However, each 'crossword puzzle' can be expressed as eg a bounded Fourier series, and that since the principle of superposition applies for this type of equation, the sum of the whole shooting match can be expressed as a sum of sines and cosines. This is at least mathematically convenient. Perhaps more pertinent is that when the equation is applied to real world physical systems, the boundary conditions frequently feature natural harmonic fluctuations inherent to the medium being studied. So the waves are not caused by the PDE itself, but are introduced by either the physical system under study or the mathematical treatment adopted. Hope someone at least finds this helpful, and I haven't made too great a blunder anywhere.

A pickled egg for me. Possibly dipped in the pineapple chutney jar. (he says while finishing off a bowl of sliced mango) Of comparable texture to peanut butter would be my in-laws' preferred snack of moin moin.

I store mine in a glass Kilner jar so avoid the problem. The manufacturers add citric acid to accelerate the sucrose inversion process so perhaps that eventually initiates the corrosion. The DIY recipe includes for a good squirt of concentrated lemon juice. Definitely second breakfast territory 😄

Homemade? Hummus and guacamole maybe? Parkin is a very local speciality of the region I was brought up in. Can't be explained. Nothing else much like it.

I'm on the lookout for one but no luck so far. Local cooking practice has something of an on or off basis.

A few steps above me on the baking front. The oven I inherited has no temperature indications and a brutal simplicity that frankly scares me. By trial and cremated error, I've got the hang of (very) crusty bread and flapjacks. But I don't yet have the nerve to try such sophisticated stuff as you. Next on the experimental agenda is parkin. See how that goes. I'm currently adding ground almonds, but dried apricot sounds good. Not sure they're grown here, but dried mango might do the same job.

Tomatoes are hard to beat on sunny days for sure. I fondly remember gazpacho from a job I had in Spain and make a reasonable facsimile by blending chilled ripe tomatoes with pickles (onions, gherkins, chilli, garlic). I even recently tried adding a tin of sardines and couple of slices of stale bread for a more substantial treat. It works. Either hot or cold. My wife and her sisters regularly pan fry sweet potato chips as it's a staple here. I go more for Irish potatoes as a taste from home. Maris Piper etc won't grow here, but the German new potato Nicola does very well on Jos Plateau, and is a good all-rounder in the kitchen. I can warmly recommend this recipe for Bombay Aloo Like you, I'll eat half for supper warm, and then snack on the cold leftovers the following day.

I make a batch every two or three weeks. It doesn't take me 2 minutes to pull one out of the biscuit tin. 'At time of need' is the qualifier. Likewise, I always keep a stock of whole-wheat roti in the fridge. 30 seconds in the microwave, spread with blue cheese, and wrap around a pickled gherkin. Lovely! Okay, let's stretch it to ten minutes. You can be doing something else while it's in the pan, and we've got to allow bacon! Don't understand the oatmeal and baked beans though. Guess it's a Canadian thing. Or maybe you meant just the beans. 😊

What do you hoard in the fridge or back of the pantry ready for when you have an attack of the munchies? I've a few. Mainly defensible, but I've recently rediscovered my weakness for Flapjacks. The only non-Brit here who might really know what these are is @Ken Fabian as treacle (aka Golden Syrup) is an indispensable ingredient and there few places outside the UK where it's readily available. I have to make my own (but it's worth it). What's your guilty secret? (No more than 2 minutes prep time at time of need, or it's just 2nd breakfast)

Unfortunately, no longer with us. But it's good to know that enjoying both Yes and Afrobeat is not so unusual.