Recent content by CRGreathouse

I love differences of opinion too! Will do!0 I'll miss the debates. As for math... I just hope someone else handles Number Theory in my absence! :-p Thanks. I'll miss seeing your posts. (Similarly for the rest of you!)

It's been a blast these past 6+ years. If you need to get in touch, search my handle -- there shouldn't be too many of me around. Or just wait around: maybe I'll be back some day.

I have no personal objection to your plan: it would benefit me. But I'm concerned about those who would just miss the cutoff, as well as the years in which the government has funding obligations but no income stream for it.

Can't you get a loan? That's what I did, and what most people do. Who seriously expects their parents to pay for their college?

Those would be a painful few years...

Evo... I don't know what I've done wrong. I think this is a valid point that strikes to the heart of the matter: a law that has no analog in another country. I've brought up similar points in other threads: criticism of the King of Thailand, for example. (Is that an appropriate example?) I...

That would surprise me.

Or if, say, an Australian buys a copy of Mein Kampf, can Germany extradite her?

Is it illegal in the UK to possesses materials deemed by the DPRK to be secret? Where do you draw the line? I don't think it's in violation of UK law for a UK national to hold material classified by the US. Consider, for example, cases of the UK spying on the US (for various reasons), where...

France almost never extradites its citizens, even for serious charges, even when the capital punishment is off the table. (To bring that home: I know a prosecutor who had the prime suspect in a major case flee to France.)

Sigh... You said this so much better than I did.

I prefer to say that every (r.e.) system is weak, inconsistent, or incomplete. :biggrin:

For those not familiar with the term Fermi estimate/problem/question see here: http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir0/fermi_questions.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem My question: Between the time that Riemann posed his famous question (in 1859) and now, how many hours have...

An inconsistent system* can prove any proposition that can be phrased in its language. That makes them boring. Intuitively, they're systems that are "wrong" about something: they assert that 1 = 1 and that 1 ≠ 1, for example. Goedel's theorem shows that we can't show that any reasonably...

Yeah, how ridiculous. Is that even legal? It shouldn't be.