MrMongoose

What ciphers have you tried so far? I used to do quite a bit of cryptography on an amateur level, but the message seems too short to attack from a statistical standpoint without any clues.

DrDNA, I didn't say pacifism is bad. That was just a response to it not being propoganda. In your latest post, lockheed, you tell me that it is not propoganda because the figures are accurate, then go on to bold part of a definition saying that propoganda is most often truthful (accurate), so I'm afraid you've really lost me there. Also, in your second paragraph, you say that these are things that could be acomplished in the same time span, then immediately say that it does'nt matter how long it takes, and comment on how the video shows timesclaes ranging from instantaneous to 60 years. Until your arguments hold any kind of continuity, I'm not going to be able to argue against any one of your points without arguing for another!

Well just repeating the examples i used above if you'd care to read my first post, counting 3000 compared to 160000 as negligible, but not doing the same for 4000 is unfairness. Thinking that just because grain costs x amount today, it would be that cheap if there was a sudden $24trillion increase in grain demand is a huge misunderstanding. Admittedly the following definition is from an online dictionary, but nonetheless, how is the video anything other than propoganda? Frankly anybody who puts time aside to make antiwar propoganda is a pacifist. I'll say again though. I'm not pro-war. I just don't think that poor propoganda is the answer.

I was taking the scale to be on the sloped side. You're right;)

With which part exactly?

Not necessarily.. It could be anything. What exactly are you struggling with?

That was meant to be a tan. Thanks for pointing it out. You're making your original mistake again with the areas. The important area is the area of the opening which is a constant, not the free surface area which varies with depth. Doubling the area of the opening doubles the volume taken in, and so the depth is multiplied by a factor of root 2 for the prismatic case and root 3 for the conic case. The angle affects the scale, yes. It will still have a square/cube root relationship, but the coefficients will change.

Doesn't entropy further the life of the Earth?

Well, height is equal to the cube root of (3 times the volume divided by pi cos theta) Where theta is the angle of the sides from the vertical. You'll have to excuse the lack of symbols.

Well I'll save time on the actual calculations, but the realtionship will be a cube root one.

They do?

A statement of opinion the peace is good and a set of unbiased facts is good. A completely biased list riddled with inaccuracies, unfairness and misunderstandings just makes pacifists look like fools.

Ah ok. Well I disagree. Not because I think that war is good. I don't. My problem with the anti-war video is not that it is anti-war, but that it is pretty terrible. No point having an argument

I think you've missed the point. The point is that saying 3000 deaths isn't worth getting upset over (because cancers so much worse, blah blah), yet 4000 shows that the author of the video is only willing to apply thier logic to the case which supports thier pointless video. Exactly- is something that kills 3000 people in a day not more of a priority than something that kills 4000 people in 6 years? For the duration of 9/11, 9/11 was killing 1.5 million people a year! Well If you're talking about the lack of a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, then I agree with you, but my point was really meant in the spirit of critiquing the video. I don't have a hummer, but if I did, it would be no more than the number of people I'd have to shoot in the face to fill my Prius with petrol. I don't have a prius either. Over thier operating life, Priuses are less efficient than Novas. They won't come up with devices you'll use but they'll come up with technology that Toyota will buy in 20 years to make hybrid cars. We can't live in an imaginary dream world where $2.4trillion will be given to Toyota, but you can be assured that your tax money isn't going entirely to waste. I agree it would, but I object to people making videos which lie, especially if its because they're stupid rather than devious. Well that was my explanation of why $2.4trillion is useless if you don't have enough farmland. I guess that explains your above comment. Well I'm not going to say war is not a good thing just because of peer pressure thanks. It has many pros and cons, and Im fed up of everyones views being so extreme. It seems 80% of people think all war is terrible, 18% of people think kicking foreigners asses is awesome and 2% are open to arguments from both sides. I didn't say that antiwar propoganda is bad- I said that extremely biased propoganda of any ilk is bad. I'd like to know how you think being against antiwar propoganda would be inconsistent with anything I've said, especially as you seem to have me down as pro-war.

9/11 killed nearly 3000 people, but this is completely unimportant when compared to the 65000 people that die of flu, the 50000 that die of alzheimer etc. each year. Yet it is NOT acceptable that 4000 soldiers have died in the war. Why is that? Using the same logic as the author of the video, surely thats completely unimportant compared to the 65000 people killed by flu each year and so on? Very hypocritical. Also, 9/11 happened over the course of a day, but the war on terror has caused 4000 American deaths over a period of 6 years. That means that the war on terror kills only 700 people per year, or 1.8 over the duration of 9/11. Doing nothing would show that America tolerates murder by foreign nations, and a whole lot more people would have died to date and a whole lot more money would have been spent on defending the country against the Chinese or the Russians. While the war has cost $24 trillion, the additional oil that will tide the US over until everybody has a Toyota Prius is priceless, so the war is only worthless if compared to the very limited list of assumed reasons for war given by the author of the video. Yet Toyota Priuses are less efficient than standard IC cars, so that would be a worse way to spend the money. Of course, it could be argued that buying them puts money into a company that is trying to improve hybrid technology, but a $24 trillion war on terror is providing funding to defence companies who create technology which historically has led to greater efficiency of devices used in the domestic sector. I think a lot of the other data is far too presumptious too. $24 trillion would not feed every starving child in the world, because although at todays food prices that would be the cost, there just isn't enough suitable land to grow the crops and food prices would go up enormously if we beagn to try. Now I'm not saying that war is a good thing, but I am saying that propoganda with extreme bias is a terrible thing and that without an infrastructure as strong as the government itself, an army of protestors motivated by nonsense they found on youtube isn't going to have an effect.

Anyone got a photo of a fluid splach in a vacuum? Or in orbit?

How are savants not intelligent though?

I don't see the connection between being less discerning and being a better target for a conman because of the potential gains. If you were saying clever people are better targets for conmen because they're all thick, there would perhaps be some sense in what you said, but clearly not much.

When a chicken gets killed, I don't feel pain.

Sounds similar to firing a rifle, except there you breathe out because your'e leaning on your chest and as air is compressible, it would be like lying on a spring if you breathed in.

When the entire pipe/cup section is enclosed, the hydrostatic pressure is atmospheric at the bottom and decreases linearly to the top of the pipe, so the water is having to flow against an adverse pressure gradient. By drilling holes, you relieve the negative pressure at the top, so the water is flowing from an area of atmopsheric preussre to an area of atmospheric pressure under gravity.

Between not over...

Thrilling tale

Oh sorry... I thought I'd be wrong as usually these things have a trick to them. Was I meant to forget to carry one of the digits over?

I normally see these coming. Now I know what it feels like to be stupid