michel123456

Good example of natural behaviour caused by the lack of presentation of Mods & experts. @ Jiggerj. I am Michel, I am not an expert, I am not from the staff. You can check my presentation page here. You shouldn't get angry so quickly, it is a misunderstanding. We (almost) all got through this. I insist: Jiggerj is right. He is new here, he knows nothing about the people he is talking to. Respectable Swansont should have presented himself ("Hello, welcome, I am blahblahblah, PhD in physics, Nobel Prize 2010, have a look at the wiki article about me, etcaetera, that's an interesting question of yours, as an expert in this field I'll try to answer, then go blahblahblah and as a result I consider your question and statements as absolute nonsense") If you erase all the introduction and keep only the word "nonsense", the new member gets angry. That is most natural. When the staff don't introduce himself, the fault goes to the staff. I consider the new member as not guilty.

That's in China.

Paradoxally, as technology evolves, one can observe a reduction of the size of construction elements. Megalithic construction is characteristic of very ancient civilizations, today we build with gypsum board. An thick wall in a medieval fortress consists in fact in 2 parallel walls of rectangular stones filled in with rough material. You need good artisans only for the external parts, the inside is filled by unexperienced workers. have a look at this thread. Also, as technology evolves, you can observe a substantial increase in the ratio empty space/ filled space. An extreme example is a pyramid, where the filled space is huge regarded to the empty space (the space for the funeral chambers). Another example is the hall of columns at Karnak (Egypt) Already in the middle ages, the will for creation of large spaces is represented by the structure of the gothic cathedrals. The very thick walls had a defensive purpose that has been lost due to technological achievements in offensive military art. You can still encounter some, made of reinforced concrete (hochbunkers or blockhouses). ---------------- edit. Now if you ask about city walls, there are other reasons. The city walls were a frontier: to enter the city, you had to pay a fee, like customs. Society in and out of the city was different, or at least tried with huge efforts to be different. The society we are living right now is a by-product of the spirit cultivated in these cities, contrasting with the feodarchic model. Not to be confused with the walls of a castle or citadel that belonged to the Duke, Earl or Vicomte.

I liked this one. ----------------------------- edit So you are an Eleatic.

You said what you want, skyscrapers and rockets, but that is a result of a society model. You didn't propose what kind of a model it is. Or did you? I understand you were sarcastic with your title " Give Us Back Good Old FASCISM.." but maybe you were not. Autoritarism is a model. It can be the feodal system, with despotic Kings Queens & other Pharo's Maharaja's followed by a cast of overwealthy people. It can be the fascist system, with its idealism & expansionist strength at all expenses. It can be a tyranic leader of wathever philosophy or religion imposing its truth to anybody. It can be the dictatorship of the people (aka communism), also imposing its model to anybody. The common factor of the autoritarian model is that the one who disagrees openly is sent to the galleys, concentration camps, some hidden prison or in a gulag. So most simply shut up.

Oh yes. These are very bad diagrams. It looks like Greece is a very very bad companion. First of all, this diagram has a cut from below. It should look like this: Now you can compare. If you can compare a pachyderm to a mouse of course, because Greece's economy is only 3 or 4 % of Europe's. I added roughly the datas about Belgium, from the link provided in the OP. you can see that Greece in 1999 was in a better position than Belgium. Things didn't go that bad until 2007. From this date and after things are going out of control for Greece. It corresponds to an average increase in the whole Eurozone, suggesting that the increase happened in other countries too (look at Belgium). What happened in 2007 ?

Need help in finding accurate data about Greek debt. The datas I found so far do not match together. 1.from medias we have Greek debt from 344 to 352 billion Euro. (media source JPmorgan). We'll take the higher figure. This is the whole debt. The greek problem is not the whole debt, because all countries have debt. When this debt reaches 100% of GDP, the bell is ringing. When it goes to 110% of GDP, the country is going bad. When it reaches 120% of GDP, there is a real problem. That was the situation of Belgium in the 80's-90's, which took measures at that time and managed to reduce to about 100% of GDP when entering the Euro zone. For Greece the ratio Debt/GDP is 352/238= 1,48 meaning that debt is 148% of GDP and that is far over the acceptable. 2.from Wiki, we have Greek GDP $312.042 billion (nominal, 2011 est.) $309.231 billion (PPP, 2011 est.) changed in Euro makes 238 billion Euro. 3.If I take the acceptable 110% of GDP (when the bell is ringing, just before the real trouble), we get an amount of acceptable debt of 110% of 238 billion= 261,8 billion So the greek real problem is equal to an amount of 352 - 261,8 = 90,2 billion. So the PSI program now under discussion , the "haircut" alone, said to be about an amount of 100 billion (?need a reliable source), should be able to solve the greek problem alone, without any other help from the european partners, nor from IMF. That's why I suppose my data's are wrong. Or maybe my logic is wrong. Does anyone here have some more knowledge in economics before I start spreading wrong information everywhere?

How will you manage to do that? Spyman is correct. I'll give a try for the last one Harry is the singer John is the writer Rose is the painter Joe is the critic.

BTW a microscope produces the image upside down, but does not mirror the image. There is no "inversion" (if i understand correctly the meaning of the verb "invert"). In fact the image is rotated 180 degrees: the up is down and the left is right. If it was mirrored upside down it would be very unusual and be like this:

Very profound Captain. Can I use that?

Yes, sure. You can't make real big money without that. There is a small story I'll try to translate: The great eagle stands on a rock. The snail comes slowly, raises his voice to the eagle, shouting: "get out of here you are sitting on my prefered rock." The eagle takes a look down to the snail and answers: "do you know who you are talking to?" "yes" says the snail, you are a common eagle. "Oh? and who do you think you are? Do you want to measure yourself to me? Why not, says the snail. The eagles turns around and says: "do you see this mountain? I bet that I can reach its summit faster than you do" O.K. says the snail, no problem. Go. The eagle spreads his wings, and flap flap in a few instants reaches the summit of the mountain. But who's already there? The snail. "how did you manage to reach the summit so quickly? asks the eagle. And the snail answers: "licking and crawling".

@ ironman79: too long. there may be some interesting points in it but if you want to spread a message I strongly suggest to change your tactic. I was even ready to support your POV but I cannot stand your posts.

What do you mean by "early universe" ? the one we are looking at when observing very very very distant galaxies?

Well I agree somehow about the analysis. What is your model for a solution?

A millenia is about 33 generations (counting 30 years/generation). So if you made a family reunion with 66 people all your fathers, fathers of fathers, etc. one of them would be synchronous with Jesus Christ. The Milky Way Galaxy makes a full rotation every 225 million years approx. which means about 4,5 rotations each billion years. 13 billion years represent about 58 rotations of the Milky Way.

That reminds me this fabulous quote

send us a picture of your model. you may get a + too.

Not now. But as a new member I had, that was with Martin. Hey Martin, where are you? ----------- edit And I have from time to time with DrRocket, which is not a mod or expert here (sure will become soon).

Why is this picture on photographic paper? (One can notice it has no margin, so it is a good confirmation of your statement) Why not use printer? And spend money on printing on unusual large format? Maybe the suspect does not manage computers at all, has no printer & no knowledge on how to retrieve a photo from his camera? If the suspect is from your building, he probably went to the closest photograph shop. You can go there and ask.

For an ancient member yes, but for a new member it would be precious info at a glance. IMHO. -------------- This is not about members credentials, it is about a new member engaging with a Mod or Expert. I would like to know the credentials of a Mod. And those of an "expert". They were not Mods, nor experts.

I am 51, but I manage to change that from time to time. Hoping that John don't believe I am 123456 years old. Free to believe that's my IQ. That is not my shoe size. I strongly suggest a presentation note. I know that anonymity is a must over the net, but it would be good to know that a moderator/expert is not a teenager acting like a scientist, but a scientist. It is very time consuming to go to each interlocutor profile and learn nothing in most of the case. What does that cost? Swansont, physicist, PhD from [insert country will do], age [twenties, thirties,will do]. Michel123456, Architect, ISABr Brussels Belgium, 51. oops I am not a Mod... ------------- edit John Cuthber, Chemist, England, 72? (my idea from his posts) ------------ edit#2 iNow, student?, Texas, 24? (my idea from his posts)

Each one paid 9$. (not $9.33) 3 times 9$ = 27$ That is too much, they ought to pay 25$. The difference 27$ - 25$ is 2$ to be found in the bell-boy pocket.

I have not seen on this Forum a presentation page of Mods & experts. Something like age/profession/PhDs/field of expertise would be informative.

So it's a warning. I understand that if you don't figure what the picture is, you will encounter a problem. If you figure what it is, you must be able to prevent it. --------------------- edit Is this my imagination or is there someone here? Also, the green thing looks like an object tied in a plastic bag and hanged to a rope. The object has a hand or phallic part.

If you turn the picture left side up, it looks like a hanging object (an aquarium net? maybe). Questions: 1. are you serious? 2. if yes, is the picture directly linked to the note? 3. if yes, do you consider yourself as a genius (or do other people around believe you are a genius?). In other words, is this a test for us, or for you?