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  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,588
    edited February 9

    It’s actually an alternate name for the Thames (sort of). Since the middle 16th century.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isis

    I suspect TSE was merely being impish.

    Thankfully I went to a University that had no immediate rivals like Oxford/Cambridge, Kings/UCL etc. Perhaps that is why Cardiff
    are on the verge of bankruptcy.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,214

    GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/09/gb-energy-recruitment-ceo-aberdeen-hq

    Sounds like anybody with the experience won't work in Aberdeen unless they are paid big bucks.

    There are plenty of people in Aberdeen with great experience...

    ...in oil and gas, which is what we should be doing there.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,696
    Soy bean research in US red states. Cancelled.

    Gonna be thousands of examples of this kind of thing as Musk and five teenagers are allowed to burn down the federal government.



    James Surowiecki
    @JamesSurowiecki
    Brilliant decision by Musk to quash this obviously wasteful program. Red state colleges and farmers thank him.

    https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1888439017500230141
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,964
    edited February 9

    There are plenty of people in Aberdeen with great experience...

    ...in oil and gas, which is what we should be doing there.
    Interesting that all the massive AI compute centres in the US are being powered mostly by gas (and nuclear) due massive always on power requirements. The UK have hitched it wagon to a eco supplier who also claim they will run AMD chips rather than Nvidia....
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 5,173
    TimS said:

    Musk is now calling for the end of Radio Free Europe (“decide yourself if Radio’s gonna stay”) and Voice of America.

    If our government and the Beeb had any sense of strategic opportunity then surely this would be it. What Musk is threatening is to leave the market for Anglophone soft power radio - which remains a market of hundreds of millions, potentially billions of listeners - completely open to monopoly by the BBC world service.

    The BBC won't strip domestic services to fund foreign ones and the Government has more urgent calls upon it's funds (mainly pensions, pensions, pensions, pensions and a little bit to stop the NHS from collapsing in a heap of rubble.)
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107
    @annmarie

    Trump suggested DOGE has found irregularities in US treasuries & intimated that may lead the US to disregard some.

    “Maybe we have less debt than we thought,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the way to the Super Bowl.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,181
    edited February 9
    Barnesian said:

    Although both ℵ0 and ℵ1 are “infinite,” ℵ1 is “larger” than ℵ0 and can't be put in one-to-one correspondence with it.

    ℵ0 (Aleph 0) is countable eg the integers or primes.
    ℵ1 (Aleph 1) is uncounatable eg the irrationals.

    Finally, infinite is not the same as boundless. See Zeno's paradox.

    I hope that clarifies it.
    There is no one to one definable relationship between integers and primes

    Primes are less countable

    Integers are fractions over one

    The total count of fractions is infinitely bigger than that of integers

    There are countless irrational numbers between every rational number

    Your two infinities doesn't work
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,696

    Liz Cheney
    @Liz_Cheney

    .@JDVance

    -If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

    https://x.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1888671822888993170
  • Soy bean research in US red states. Cancelled.

    Gonna be thousands of examples of this kind of thing as Musk and five teenagers are allowed to burn down the federal government.



    James Surowiecki
    @JamesSurowiecki
    Brilliant decision by Musk to quash this obviously wasteful program. Red state colleges and farmers thank him.

    https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1888439017500230141

    Sounds like a load of pork barrel shite that should be scrapped.

    Perhaps its possible Musk can do a good job, afterall?
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    There is no one to one definable relationship between integers and primes

    Primes are less countable

    Integers are fractions over one

    The total count of fractions is infinitely bigger than that of integers

    There are countless irrational numbers between every rational number

    Your two infinities doesn't work
    Your fifth sentence is correct.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3M0L6S3tXA
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107


    Liz Cheney
    @Liz_Cheney

    .@JDVance

    -If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

    https://x.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1888671822888993170

    Trump is about to test this theory, to destruction I suspect.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,214
    ...

    Interesting that all the massive AI compute centres in the US are being powered mostly by gas (and nuclear) due massive always on power requirements. The UK have hitched it wagon to a eco supplier who also claim they will run AMD chips rather than Nvidia....
    It is obvious to everyone but Ed Milliband that the UK will need waaaaaay more cheap and reliable power than the current arrangements afford. That includes SMRs, oil and gas, and possibly clean coal mined in the UK, though this one I'm just open to, not certain of. It would be great if it also included tidal, but sadly Marquee Mark wouldn't be seen dead talking to Nigel Farage, so it will have to wait until someone more to his taste gets into power, in around 2075.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,696
    TimS said:

    Musk is now calling for the end of Radio Free Europe (“decide yourself if Radio’s gonna stay”) and Voice of America.

    If our government and the Beeb had any sense of strategic opportunity then surely this would be it. What Musk is threatening is to leave the market for Anglophone soft power radio - which remains a market of hundreds of millions, potentially billions of listeners - completely open to monopoly by the BBC world service.

    Damn fine song.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,255
    Trump’s Plaza in Gaza policy is decidedly unpopular.
    https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1888652406566637891

    13% in favour.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107
    @annmarie

    Inbox: A proclamation from the White House recognizing “February 9, 2025, as the first ever Gulf of America Day.”

    Trump says he calls “upon public officials and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”
  • FffsFffs Posts: 83

    There is no one to one definable relationship between integers and primes

    Primes are less countable

    Integers are fractions over one

    The total count of fractions is infinitely bigger than that of integers

    There are countless irrational numbers between every rational number

    Your two infinities doesn't work
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
  • MightyAlexMightyAlex Posts: 1,743
    edited February 9
    Scott_xP said:

    @annmarie

    Trump suggested DOGE has found irregularities in US treasuries & intimated that may lead the US to disregard some.

    “Maybe we have less debt than we thought,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the way to the Super Bowl.

    Are Trump & Musk gonna stiff international lenders? Wouldn't be out of character as neither seem predisposed to ethical business practises. Lenders beware!
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,110
    Scott_xP said:

    Trump is about to test this theory, to destruction I suspect.
    It’s unhelpful, I modestly propose, for JD Vance to suggest that judicial restraint on executive power is “illegal”.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107

    Are Trump & Musk gonna stiff international lenders? Wouldn't be out of character as neither seem predisposed to ethical business practises. Lenders beware!
    I don't know how they are going to apportion the blame for this when it all goes belly up (which is also happening waaayyyy faster than expected)
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,110
    He wants the world to know, got to let it show.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107

    It’s unhelpful, I modestly propose, for JD Vance to suggest that judicial restraint on executive power is “illegal”.
    He does have a law degree, so you can't realistically expect him to understand the law, but several people have pointed him towards a short pamphlet entitled "The Constitution" that might help him figure it out...
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,468
    pigeon said:

    The BBC won't strip domestic services to fund foreign ones and the Government has more urgent calls upon it's funds (mainly pensions, pensions, pensions, pensions and a little bit to stop the NHS from collapsing in a heap of rubble.)
    Exactly. The govt and beeb don’t have any sense of strategic opportunity. We’re talking pennies, in exchange for massive support for one of our largest export industries: media.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,110
    edited February 9
    TimS said:

    Exactly. The govt and beeb don’t have any sense of strategic opportunity. We’re talking pennies, in exchange for massive support for one of our largest export industries: media.
    Obvs Tim, you and I and a few others need to simply seize control of the British state to save it from itself.

    Project William of Orange.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,178
    Scott_xP said:

    He does have a law degree, so you can't realistically expect him to understand the law, but several people have pointed him towards a short pamphlet entitled "The Constitution" that might help him figure it out...
    This type of objection didn't stop FDR playing fast and loose with it to get the New Deal through.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    Andy_JS said:

    It's always interesting when someone changes their mind.
    Now we are all on the same page, what are the next steps? We have some great Legal and Parliamentarian people in this site - but I’m definitely not one of either (nor good at maths - I thought rule of 72 was something to do with Sir Edward Heath).

    All I got is questions.

    On the legal side of things, how do we manage a UN “binding ruling” go against us? Can it go to the Security Council, and we lose and face sanctions and other repercussions?

    From the report from when Cleverly opened negotiations 2022, claiming he’d conclude them swiftly:
    “The UK ignored the ruling on the grounds that it was advisory, but this position became increasingly untenable in the context of British attempts to uphold the importance of international law.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/uk-agrees-to-negotiate-with-mauritius-over-handover-of-chagos-islands
    From the same report “it was felt the British resistance to a handover was hampering the UK’s ability to build alliances in the region.”
    Had it really become untenable for us? To show some respect to Cleverly and his government, they needed some solid reasoning for such a big u-turn?

    Is it perhaps India flexing muscles and influence thats dragged it to needing a deal to “unblock alliances in the region”? Other reports I read mentioned India’s happiness we done a deal - India would bring a very different colonial perspective to the table
    https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/10/uk-must-focus-how-chagos-decision-implemented-gain-its-benefits-and-minimize-risks

    On the political side of things, surely a treaty of this magnitude needs to be scrutinised and pass through parliament - like Priti Patel’s equally controversial Rwanda Treaty was - and can’t by pass parliament and rack up so many years of commitment and spending merely labelled as MOU, or Executive Order - that would surely be an undemocratic precedent?
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,181
    edited February 9
    Fffs said:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
    What's the one to one relationship between integers and primes that doesn't describe them just as the Nth one?

    There's no way of defining this, except by finding the next prime number

    That's not a countable set, but it is infinite and smaller than the integers

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,255

    Sounds like a load of pork barrel shite that should be scrapped.

    Perhaps its possible Musk can do a good job, afterall?
    Why is it pork barrel ?
    Soy beans are one of the world’s - and America’s - most important food crops.

    Are you expert in this area. or just guessing ?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,821

    What's the one to one relationship between integers and primes that doesn't describe them just as the Nth one?

    There's no way of defining this, except by finding the next prime number

    That's not a countable set, but it is infinite and smaller than the integers

    What's the one to one relationship between integers and primes that doesn't describe them just as the Nth one?

    There's no way of defining this, except by finding the next prime number

    That's not a countable set, but it is infinite and smaller than the integers

    OK. My postie has difficulty with Street names, let alone numbers.
  • What's the one to one relationship between integers and primes that doesn't describe them just as the Nth one?

    There's no way of defining this, except by finding the next prime number

    That's not a countable set, but it is infinite and smaller than the integers

    Square numbers, on the other other hand, obviously have a very clear one to one definition to integers (less so if you include negative numbers)

    So they're countable in a very real sense, even if there are obviously fewer square number integers than there are integers
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,178
    TimS said:

    Exactly. The govt and beeb don’t have any sense of strategic opportunity. We’re talking pennies, in exchange for massive support for one of our largest export industries: media.
    Are things like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America still relevant in the age of the internet?
  • Nigelb said:

    Why is it pork barrel ?
    Soy beans are one of the world’s - and America’s - most important food crops.

    Are you expert in this area. or just guessing ?
    Our man Barty is on a carnivore diet. He don't like the veggies.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    DavidL said:

    IANAE on the Chagos Islands but the facts I have gleaned are that:

    They once belonged to the French. We took them off the French in 1814 after Waterloo.
    For most of the 18th and 19th centuries we controlled them from Mauritius, a place that had no historical connection with them whatsoever.
    In the 1960s the Americans wanted a mid Indian Ocean base and chose Diego Garcia.
    In 1965 we, somewhat shamefully, kicked the remnants of the French, some African slaves and sundry others off the islands so the Americans could have that base without interference.
    Most of their descendants now live in the UK.
    At the same time we broke the administrative link between Mauritius and the Chagos islands.
    In 1968 Mauritius became independent of the UK.
    In 2021 the UN International Tribunal for the law of the Sea said that we should hand them back to Mauritius and that we had no sovereignty over them, despite controlling them since 1814.
    We are now trying to come to a "deal" by which we pay Mauritius money to take them off our hands without upsetting the Americans.

    To describe the UN Tribunal decision as bizarre is to understate matters by several orders of magnitude.
    Mauritius never had any control of the Chagos when it was independent, either before we conquered it or at the time of their independence in 1968. If the UN is not going to recognise sovereignty after 210 years we are going to need a lot of new maps. The idea that we should pay anything to anybody for this is...words fail me.

    We are not paying Mauritius to take them off our hands. We are proposing to pay Mauritius so that we can de facto retain control of them after de jure handing them over. We are proposing to rent them back, basically.
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 5,173
    kle4 said:

    Very very few places play Rugby (or Cricket for that matter, albeit some big places), we cannot afford to relegate anyone established.
    The real problem isn't that, it's what happens if England or France have a bad year and get sent down. It is unlikely in any given year, but always a risk: the French last collected the wooden spoon as recently as 2013. The broadcasters aren't going to pay the necessary amount of money to help keep the tournament solvent if they think there might be a year that 30-40% of the usual audience won't bother to watch.
  • Nigelb said:

    Why is it pork barrel ?
    Soy beans are one of the world’s - and America’s - most important food crops.

    Are you expert in this area. or just guessing ?
    Just guessing.

    Sounds like pork barrel shite designed to impress soy farmers and other voters like that.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,696

    Our man Barty is on a carnivore diet. He don't like the veggies.
    This is populism in a nutshell:

    "Sounds like a load of pork barrel shite that should be scrapped" shouts the man on the stool in the saloon bar knowing nothing about the background or context.



  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,110

    Are things like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America still relevant in the age of the internet?
    Ask the people who subsidise GB News, X, etc.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    TimS said:

    Musk is now calling for the end of Radio Free Europe (“decide yourself if Radio’s gonna stay”) and Voice of America.

    If our government and the Beeb had any sense of strategic opportunity then surely this would be it. What Musk is threatening is to leave the market for Anglophone soft power radio - which remains a market of hundreds of millions, potentially billions of listeners - completely open to monopoly by the BBC world service.

    a. What in particular should the BBC World Service do differently?

    b. This may be a strategic opportunity for the UK, but how does the BBC pay for any additional World Service activity?
  • glwglw Posts: 10,255
    Nigelb said:

    Trump’s Plaza in Gaza policy is decidedly unpopular.
    https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1888652406566637891

    13% in favour.

    13% in favour of ethnic cleansing is 13% too high.
  • This is populism in a nutshell:

    "Sounds like a load of pork barrel shite that should be scrapped" shouts the man on the stool in the saloon bar knowing nothing about the background or context.



    Its also democracy in a nutshell.

    Good riddance to any expenditure that is unnecessary. The US does have a fiscal deficit, you know?
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 5,173
    Scott_xP said:

    Trump is about to test this theory, to destruction I suspect.
    I wouldn't have thought that the administration would need to worry much about the judicial branch anymore. Can't they just ignore it and allow all the injunctions to be struck down when they reach the Supreme Court? They control a supine majority there just the same as in Congress, of course.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    DavidL said:

    Nah, they make FIFA look good.
    The UN Tribunal laid out their legal reasoning. If you think their answer is wrong, can you explain why with respect to the legal precedents?
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,570

    We are not paying Mauritius to take them off our hands. We are proposing to pay Mauritius so that we can de facto retain control of them after de jure handing them over. We are proposing to rent them back, basically.
    Why do we want to rent them back? Let the Americans pay for the base, they seem to be the ones using it
  • glwglw Posts: 10,255
    TimS said:

    Exactly. The govt and beeb don’t have any sense of strategic opportunity. We’re talking pennies, in exchange for massive support for one of our largest export industries: media.
    It's a very good opportunity so naturally we will miss it. We will also miss the opportunity to fund the scientific research the US is apparently on the cusp of abandoning.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107
    pigeon said:

    I wouldn't have thought that the administration would need to worry much about the judicial branch anymore. Can't they just ignore it and allow all the injunctions to be struck down when they reach the Supreme Court?

    That seems to be the plan
  • The UN Tribunal laid out their legal reasoning. If you think their answer is wrong, can you explain why with respect to the legal precedents?
    See DavidL's post at 20:27

    We should be invoking the legal precedence of Arkell v Pressdram to the Tribunal.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    There is no one to one definable relationship between integers and primes

    Primes are less countable

    Integers are fractions over one

    The total count of fractions is infinitely bigger than that of integers

    There are countless irrational numbers between every rational number

    Your two infinities doesn't work
    There is a one to one definable relationship between the primes, the integers, and the rational numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    What's the one to one relationship between integers and primes that doesn't describe them just as the Nth one?

    There's no way of defining this, except by finding the next prime number

    That's not a countable set, but it is infinite and smaller than the integers

    1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, forever
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, forever
  • I always thought that Cantor was a bit of a wanker

    He believed that infinity was God, or something equally idiotic
  • There is a one to one definable relationship between the primes, the integers, and the rational numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
    There's a one-to-one relationship between pairs of integers and rational numbers, not integers and rational numbers.

    Classing pairs of integers as the same as integers is a bit ... hmmm.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,178

    Ask the people who subsidise GB News, X, etc.
    GB News is relevant because it serves a domestic audience, fills a gap in the market and provides media opportunities for people who wouldn't get on the BBC or Sky as easily.

    I don't think RFE or VoA are comparable. They made sense when we had the Iron Curtain with limited media but even in Russia people have access to endless podcasts, Telegram channels, etc.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    .

    See DavidL's post at 20:27

    We should be invoking the legal precedence of Arkell v Pressdram to the Tribunal.
    We could, as nation, make a political choice to do that. One can argue for or against that. My point is that the decision was not weird or biased or unprecedented. It concords with international law.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    Square numbers, on the other other hand, obviously have a very clear one to one definition to integers (less so if you include negative numbers)

    So they're countable in a very real sense, even if there are obviously fewer square number integers than there are integers
    I think you are looking for a formula between say the primes and the integers. e.g. the nth prime is f(n).
    There isn't one. You just line them up.
  • .

    We could, as nation, make a political choice to do that. One can argue for or against that. My point is that the decision was not weird or biased or unprecedented. It concords with international law.
    International law is a bad joke.

    We should say piss off and move on.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,181
    edited February 9

    There is a one to one definable relationship between the primes, the integers, and the rational numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
    Barnesian said:

    1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, forever
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, forever
    Define the Nth prime without calling it the Nth prime

    If that's your one to to relationship then it's an undefinable one, so prime numbers can only be recorded, not counted
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    rkrkrk said:

    Why do we want to rent them back? Let the Americans pay for the base, they seem to be the ones using it
    When the matter first arose, we wanted to be nice to the Americans. These days, maybe we should no longer be thinking of the US as a steadfast military ally…
  • Barnesian said:

    I think you are looking for a formula between say the primes and the integers. e.g. the nth prime is f(n).
    There isn't one. You just line them up.
    So recordable, not countable
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 23,151
    edited February 9

    Define the Nth prime without calling it the Nth prime

    If that's your one to to relationship then it's an undefinable one, so prime numbers can only be recorded, not counted
    Calling it the Nth prime is defining it as the Nth prime.

    The first prime is 2, the 10th prime is 29, the 137th prime is 773 etc

    They go on infinitely and can be counted that way, in an infinite manner, there is no end to that. If you want to count the (mashes keypad) 979845647986134894135189135136th prime and have the power to work it out, you can.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,110
    The Super Bowl secret service ad is kind of fashy.
  • So recordable, not countable
    Countable.

    Start counting 1 at 2, 2 at 3, 3 at 5 and keep counting at each new prime number.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    Are things like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America still relevant in the age of the internet?
    RFE obviously also has a website as well as being on the radio frequencies. They did some good coverage of the Syrian civil war.

    If the US doesn’t want to pay for Radio Free Europe, then, sure, they can decide to stop it. However, I believe it was created by Congress and Congress should be the ones to stop it, not Musk wielding some illegal executive fiat.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    I always thought that Cantor was a bit of a wanker

    He believed that infinity was God, or something equally idiotic

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    There's a one-to-one relationship between pairs of integers and rational numbers, not integers and rational numbers.

    Classing pairs of integers as the same as integers is a bit ... hmmm.
    You can construct a one to one relationship between rational numbers and integers: https://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/rational-numbers-countable.php
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    Define the Nth prime without calling it the Nth prime

    If that's your one to to relationship then it's an undefinable one, so prime numbers can only be recorded, not counted
    The 8th prime is 17. I can count the primes.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    glw said:

    13% in favour of ethnic cleansing is 13% too high.
    In that poll, over 50% of Americans don’t say the Gaza Plaza is a bad idea.

    “What do you think of our presidents plan to have Palestine with no Palestinians in it?”
    “I’m not telling you it’s a bad idea.”
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,255

    Our man Barty is on a carnivore diet. He don't like the veggies.
    The majority of soybean demand is as a feedstock for the livestock industries.
    It’s the US’s most valuable crop.

    Not conducting research into it would be phenomenally stupid.

    (Though the most valuable ag research ever conducted was paid for by Mexico, which employed Norman Borlaug.)
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    edited February 9

    Matt Goodwin
    @GoodwinMJ

    Reform UK has just passed 200,000 members. Remarkable given that mass party memberships were supposed to be a thing of the past.

    As others have noted at 200k mass membership still would be a thing of the past, but it is an impressive number if they can harnass (and get money from) most of that, even if we know for a fact that large memberships do not automatically help a party succeed.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    International law is a bad joke.

    We should say piss off and move on.
    International law has worked fairly well over the last three quarters of a century to minimise the scale of warfare seen in the first half of the twentieth century or most of the nineteenth century. It has also supported a huge increase in global trade that has greatly added to prosperity for all.

    It is perhaps a work in progress and often contentious, but I don’t think it’s a joke.
  • So recordable, not countable
    Obviously you can count things that you've made a record of, but you can't count in them

    The next one is utterly unpredictable

    Even though N to the power of N is a smaller set of numbers than the primes, it's a definable one to one relationship, so equals the infinity of integers in a way that primes can't
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063

    There are plenty of people in Aberdeen with great experience...

    ...in oil and gas, which is what we should be doing there.
    Oil and gas? Don't led Ed Miliband here you talk about such things.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965
    edited February 9

    There's a one-to-one relationship between pairs of integers and rational numbers, not integers and rational numbers.

    Classing pairs of integers as the same as integers is a bit ... hmmm.
    It is school maths.

    https://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/rational-numbers-countable.php

    EDIT Just beaten to it by bondegezou.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    So recordable, not countable
    I don’t know what you mean by “countable”, but it means something specific to a mathematician, and to a mathematician the order of infinity of the primes is the same as for the integers (or rational numbers).
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,255

    This is populism in a nutshell:

    "Sounds like a load of pork barrel shite that should be scrapped" shouts the man on the stool in the saloon bar knowing nothing about the background or context.

    .

    He’s at least one step up from the MAGAts losing their shit over the research into transgender mice…

  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107
    First shot of Taylor Swift at the Superb Owl (DRINK!)
  • You can construct a one to one relationship between rational numbers and integers: https://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/rational-numbers-countable.php
    Yeah that works. Its countable.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 64,696
    Nigelb said:

    The majority of soybean demand is as a feedstock for the livestock industries.
    It’s the US’s most valuable crop.

    Not conducting research into it would be phenomenally stupid.

    (Though the most valuable ag research ever conducted was paid for by Mexico, which employed Norman Borlaug.)
    I'm eighteen years old and have spent my entire teenage years in a cupboard playing computer games and doing maths puzzles but I know how to run and entire country.

  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063

    International law is a bad joke.

    We should say piss off and move on.
    That kind of behaviour is not without consequence. The question is whether doing so in this instance would have practical consequences we do not want to face. The government have done a poor job communicating those practical consequences, being a bit vague or advancing some scenarios which don't seem very likely, though a case is capable of being made at least, and the sheer rapid persistance to get it over the line has caused even some opponents to wonder if there is something to it (even if they are not yet convinced).
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 23,151
    edited February 9

    Obviously you can count things that you've made a record of, but you can't count in them

    The next one is utterly unpredictable

    Even though N to the power of N is a smaller set of numbers than the primes, it's a definable one to one relationship, so equals the infinity of integers in a way that primes can't
    Things don't have to be predictable to be countable.

    Stand at your bus stop and count how many buses arrive. If they're running late it might not be predictable how many do, but you can most definitely count it.

    Primes most definitely are countable.
  • Calling it the Nth prime is defining it as the Nth prime.

    The first prime is 2, the 10th prime is 29, the 137th prime is 773 etc

    They go on infinitely and can be counted that way, in an infinite manner, there is no end to that. If you want to count the (mashes keypad) 979845647986134894135189135136th prime and have the power to work it out, you can.
    There isn't a way to work it out, except by.finding the next number with no factors

    There's no next prime number formula
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081
    edited February 9

    Obviously you can count things that you've made a record of, but you can't count in them

    The next one is utterly unpredictable

    Even though N to the power of N is a smaller set of numbers than the primes, it's a definable one to one relationship, so equals the infinity of integers in a way that primes can't
    What is the point of this, Blanche? Do you really think we’re all making this up? Go read a maths textbook on the subject if you want to understand it.

    EDIT: Or try this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06319
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063

    I'm eighteen years old and have spent my entire teenage years in a cupboard playing computer games and doing maths puzzles but I know how to run and entire country.

    I've seen some of these grand strategy titles which go right over my head, depending on the game they might in fact do ok.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,965

    Yeah that works. Its countable.
    You learn something new on PB every day!
  • Barnesian said:

    The 8th prime is 17. I can count the primes.
    You can count the recorded primes
  • There isn't a way to work it out, except by.finding the next number with no factors

    There's no next prime number formula
    But there is a next prime number definition and your statement is totally moot to whether they are countable or not.
  • You can count the recorded primes
    You can count primes infinitely. There is no end to the number of primes you can count, even if we don't know what they all are.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,107

    I'm eighteen years old and have spent my entire teenage years in a cupboard playing computer games and doing maths puzzles but I know how to run and entire country.

    Was the computer game Civilisation?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    rkrkrk said:

    Why do we want to rent them back? Let the Americans pay for the base, they seem to be the ones using it
    I assume we gain some theoretical benefit to being the formal leaseholder, but that seems pretty weak a connection, versus the current situation where the USA are the main users and we really do possess it to give to them. Is there a benefit to being just the middleman? Presumably it is some legal thing where since we currently own it only we can then get it leased back or something strange.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,081

    There isn't a way to work it out, except by.finding the next number with no factors

    There's no next prime number formula
    But finding the next number with no factors *is* a way to work it out. It’s a very slow way, but it always works.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    Barnesian said:

    You learn something new on PB every day!
    I've learned nothing from this maths discussion other than confirming the depths of my ignorance and lack of comprehension of the subject.
  • kle4 said:

    That kind of behaviour is not without consequence. The question is whether doing so in this instance would have practical consequences we do not want to face. The government have done a poor job communicating those practical consequences, being a bit vague or advancing some scenarios which don't seem very likely, though a case is capable of being made at least, and the sheer rapid persistance to get it over the line has caused even some opponents to wonder if there is something to it (even if they are not yet convinced).
    What's the consequence?

    Countries tell "international law" to piss off all the time. As they bloody well should, its domestic law we should respect.

    Barbossa had it right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ojK9Q_ARE
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,489
    FF43 said:

    Mildly interesting fact, Aberdeen butteries, the city's take on croissants, aren't in fact called butteries in Aberdeen.

    Aberdeen is a fine city by the way, despite being definitively the coldest place on earth.
    I grew up near Aberdeen and they were always called butteries. What... are they called in Aberdeen?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,255
    edited February 9
    Barnesian said:

    The 8th prime is 17. I can count the primes.
    Can you tell me the two billionth prime ?
    No; and nor can any mathematician.

    They are discoverable, and listable. And you can count the number that have been discovered (though I’d challenge you to tell us what that number is).

    But they are not countable in the mathematical sense.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    Scott_xP said:

    Was the computer game Civilisation?
    Valuble lessons to be learned from that series. Such as that it doesn't matter if you are up against Gandhi, he might still nuke you, so be careful.
  • But finding the next number with no factors *is* a way to work it out. It’s a very slow way, but it always works.
    My turn to nitpick: Next number with only two factors.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063

    What's the consequence?

    That was my exact question, albeit expressed in 100 words.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,778
    edited February 9
    Nigelb said:

    The majority of soybean demand is as a feedstock for the livestock industries.
    It’s the US’s most valuable crop.

    Not conducting research into it would be phenomenally stupid.

    (Though the most valuable ag research ever conducted was paid for by Mexico, which employed Norman Borlaug.)
    This is the funniest one yet. 20% of all soybean production goes to pork barrel, compared with just 3% for Tofu and 2% for milk.

    Poultry is 37%, Oil 13%. MAGA are going to destroy American agriculture in an attempt to own the libs vegans.
  • Nigelb said:

    Can you tell me the two billionth prime ?
    No; and nor can any mathematician.

    They are discoverable, and listable. And you can count the number that have been discovered (though I’d challenge you to tell us what that number is).

    But they are not countable in the mathematical sense.
    The two billionth prime exists, and is unique, even if we don't know what it is.

    So it is countable.
  • Eabhal said:

    This is the funniest one yet. 20% of all soybean production goes to pork barrel, compared with just 3% for Tofu and 2% for milk.

    Poultry is 37%, Oil 13%. MAGA are going to destroy American agriculture in an attempt to own the libs vegans.
    So frigging what?

    If soy bean production is so valuable, let the market sort it out.

    Why does the Federal taxpayer need to be involved?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    Eabhal said:

    This is the funniest one yet. 20% of all soybean production goes to pork barrel, compared with just 3% for Tofu and 2% for milk.

    Poultry is 37%, Oil 13%. MAGA are going to destroy American agriculture in an attempt to own the libs vegans.
    Next step kill all the sparrows?
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