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- Mr Murphy strikes by Vorpal on Apr 14, 2009 in Current Events
When attempting to update Vorpal.us to be able to use the newest version of Wordpress, I succeeded in saving only a partial backup of the site before trying to convert the character set to UTF-8. Unfortunately, many of my posts have been truncated af...
- Jabberwocky Decoded! by Vorpal on Apr 9, 2009 in jabberwocky portmanteau
Hollywood Flakes has decoded the Jabberwocky. I am not sure just how accurate her decryption engine performs. I think that I have a more sinister vision of the Jabberwock - somewhere between Darth Vader and a “fast zombie”. Galumph ove...
- New Odds on Pascal’s Wager by Vorpal on Mar 17, 2009 in Conjecture Philosophy Religion Belief in God Bet on Life Disbelief in God Heaven Hell Odds
The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote in his Pensées, a collection of notes made towards the end of his life, that when making a life wager on the existence of God, belief in God is the best bet. This is known as Pascal̵...
- An Experiment with Time by Vorpal on Mar 5, 2009 in Science Time Antares information flow simultaneity speed of light SR 1572 tense time cone
Is time immutable, or is it subjective? Philosophers have debated the nature of time, and whether it is intrinsically ordered and has tense. I have devised a mind experiment to show that time depends not only on the observer, but the observerR...
- A Trillion Dollars Visualized by Vorpal on Feb 12, 2009 in Current Events Acres of dollars lots of money size of a trillion dollars Trillion Dollars
Continuing on the theme of my recent post on the difficulty of understanding scope of large numbers, a friend of mine published a compelling demonstration of the size of a Trillion Dollars: With the latest round of Washington bailout money approach...
- “In this world nothing is certain except Death and Taxes” by Vorpal on Feb 5, 2009 in Government History bush tax cuts death death and taxes estate tax inheritance tax
Nothing is as true as Ben Franklin’s quote. We will all die, and the government will have its pound of flesh. Estate taxes involve the confluence of both. One of the results of this type of taxation is that it inhibits the formation of Americ.
