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Well, let's also note that those countries begged/pleaded to join NATO -- such as Poland.
Russian military brass looking incompetent. Seriously, whose brainiac idea was it to send in conscripts (teenagers, basically, who'd rather be home texting their friends) for a major invasion?
Funniest thing I heard yesterday was Putin's threat to send in Chechen fighters [snicker] to fight alongside the Russian teenagers. The putz thinks we don't know that those guys are not the same Chechens that fought the Russians.
Javelins, stingers pouring into Ukraine -- even Sweden(!) is sending weapons.
So do the Russians double (triple?) down? Yeah, the Russian military has egg on their round, slavic faces. So what? They are still a military superpower that can blow up the world many times over. I mean, look at the American military. They haven't won a war in over 75 years if you don't count the tiny island of Grenada (smaller in area than your average American ranch). You don't see the American generals shamed, do you? Hell, these loser American generals make a good living on all the tv networks as professional analysts. Just this morning, CNN had the fornicator Patraeus on. (Patraeus has good taste in mistresses, I'll give him that).
On a Greece note: The Turks will now begin, slowly, but surely, disengaging themselves from the Russians. Not good for Greece because so damn obvious that the Americans will strongly favour the Turks.
Well, if Putin's strategy were to unite the whole world against Russia, then it's working.
But,, then again, what do I know except some math. Go ahead. Ask me a math question.
Did you know that one of the greatest human achievements is the ancient Greek proof (a proof by contradiction) that the square root of 2 is indeed irrational.
Btw, when we say "irrational" we don't mean in the psychiatric/mental sense. It just means that a number can't be expressed as a ratio (which means fraction) of two integers (counting numbers including the negatives).
Sometimes I am not sure when you're serious and when you're not.
For the young'uns here, a rational number is a rational number in any number system. Sooooooooooo, 1/3 is rational in any number system (integer over an integer, whether it repeats or not)
And in the same logic (and I'm just full of it), an irrational number is irrational in any number system; for example, "pi".
For the record, my favourite number system is the sexagesimal number system for reasons I don't want to get into lest I be accused of arousing improper desires amongst the young.. I am no perv a la Scott Ritter, you know :)
Believe it or not, this was an excellent question because it leads to very interesting discussions, not at all boring, about number systems as well as our development of our numbers:
natural/counting numbers
integers
rational
irrational
imaginary/complex (don't let the names scare you; nothing complex in the least)
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Finland may be next...
Well, let's also note that those countries begged/pleaded to join NATO -- such as Poland.
Russian military brass looking incompetent. Seriously, whose brainiac idea was it to send in conscripts (teenagers, basically, who'd rather be home texting their friends) for a major invasion?
Funniest thing I heard yesterday was Putin's threat to send in Chechen fighters [snicker] to fight alongside the Russian teenagers. The putz thinks we don't know that those guys are not the same Chechens that fought the Russians.
Javelins, stingers pouring into Ukraine -- even Sweden(!) is sending weapons.
So do the Russians double (triple?) down? Yeah, the Russian military has egg on their round, slavic faces. So what? They are still a military superpower that can blow up the world many times over. I mean, look at the American military. They haven't won a war in over 75 years if you don't count the tiny island of Grenada (smaller in area than your average American ranch). You don't see the American generals shamed, do you? Hell, these loser American generals make a good living on all the tv networks as professional analysts. Just this morning, CNN had the fornicator Patraeus on. (Patraeus has good taste in mistresses, I'll give him that).
On a Greece note: The Turks will now begin, slowly, but surely, disengaging themselves from the Russians. Not good for Greece because so damn obvious that the Americans will strongly favour the Turks.
According to The Saker and Moon of Alabama, Russia's strategy is working.
Well, if Putin's strategy were to unite the whole world against Russia, then it's working.
But,, then again, what do I know except some math. Go ahead. Ask me a math question.
Did you know that one of the greatest human achievements is the ancient Greek proof (a proof by contradiction) that the square root of 2 is indeed irrational.
Btw, when we say "irrational" we don't mean in the psychiatric/mental sense. It just means that a number can't be expressed as a ratio (which means fraction) of two integers (counting numbers including the negatives).
1/3 in base 10 is 0.333333 repeating.
1/3 in base 9 is 0.3 exactly.
So an irrational cannot be expressed in any positional number system?
Sometimes I am not sure when you're serious and when you're not.
For the young'uns here, a rational number is a rational number in any number system. Sooooooooooo, 1/3 is rational in any number system (integer over an integer, whether it repeats or not)
And in the same logic (and I'm just full of it), an irrational number is irrational in any number system; for example, "pi".
For the record, my favourite number system is the sexagesimal number system for reasons I don't want to get into lest I be accused of arousing improper desires amongst the young.. I am no perv a la Scott Ritter, you know :)
Believe it or not, this was an excellent question because it leads to very interesting discussions, not at all boring, about number systems as well as our development of our numbers:
natural/counting numbers
integers
rational
irrational
imaginary/complex (don't let the names scare you; nothing complex in the least)
Number systems have rules, for example 1 ^ 2 = 1
Some of these rules seem absurd.
I prefer non-positional number systems.
MMXXII - MM = XXII
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