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"'Those who wish to enjoy peace must be ready for war.', [Epaminondas] lectured them [in 370BCE], 700 years before Vegetius's more famous Roman dictum, Qui desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum." --- Victor Davis Hanson 1999 _The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How 3 Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny_ pg54 |
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2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
30 | 31 |
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights & privileges of free people & who would preserve what is good & fruitful in our national heritage." --- Dwight D. Eisenhower (quoted in Chuck Asay & Sharon Cooper 1994 _TaxPayers' Tea Party!_ pg 124) |
"Mass communication... presents us with a serious danger, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country." --- Rollo May 1975 _The Courage to Create_ pp 72-73 |
ox, house, camel, door, window, peg/nail, sword, fence, snake, hand, palm-of-hand, ox-goad/lamp/lantern/lanthorn, water, fish, prop/support/post, eye, mouth, fishing-hook, back-of-head/monkey, head/top/beginning/first, tooth, t
alfa (α), beta (β), gamma (γ), delta (δ), epsilon (ε), zeta (ζ), eta (η), theta (θ), iota (ι), kappa (κ), lambda (λ), mu (μ), nu (ν), xi (ξ), omicron (ο), pi (π), rho (ρ), sigma (σ), tau (τ), upsilon (υ), phi/fi (φ), chi (χ), psi (ψ), omega (ω)
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
alef (א), beth (ב), gimel (ג), daleth (ד), heh (ה), vav/w/u/o (ו), zayin (ז), chet (ח), teth (ט), yod (י), kaf (כ/ך), lamed (ל), mem (מ/ם), nun (נ/ן), samekh (ס), aayin (ע), pe/fay (פ/ף), tzaddi (צ/ץ), quoph (ק), resh/rash/rosh (ר), shin/sin (ש), tav/sav (ת)
K | kilo- | thousand | 10^3 | 1,000 | |
M | mega- | million | one thousand thousand | 10^6 | 1,000,000 |
G | giga- | billion | one thousand million | 10^9 | 1,000,000,000 |
T | tera- | trillion | one million million | 10^12 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
P | peta- | quadrillion | one million billion | 10^15 | 1,000,000,000,000,000 |
E | exa- | quintillion | one billion billion | 10^18 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Z | zetta- | sextillion | one billion trillion | 10^21 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Y | yotta- | septillion | one trillion trillion | 10^24 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.
1,024 | K | kilo- (kibi-) | 2^10 |
1,048,576 | M | mega- (mebi-) | 2^20 |
1,073,741,824 | G | giga- (gibi-) | 2^30 |
1,099,511,627,776 | T | tera- (tebi-) | 2^40 |
1,125,899,906,842,624 | P | peta- (pebi-) | 2^50 |
1,152,921,504,606,846,976 | E | exa- (exbi-) | 2^60 |
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 | Z | zetta- (zebi-) | 2^70 |
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 | Y | yotta- (yobi-) | 2^80 |
3. 14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 ≅ π
"Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, has conducted some of the most detailed studies available of the evolution of the high-tech work-force in California's Silicon Valley. His analysis of the 1990 census data shows that average salaries for foreign-born computer professionals in the area were nearly $7K -- about 15% -- lower than average salaries among comparable US-born workers. Paul Ong, a professor of Asian studies at UCLA, has found even wider disparities -- of more than 30% -- between immigrant and native-born workers' salaries in engineering as a whole. The British research group Oxford Analytica pegs the difference at as much as 50%... as of 1997, 6.1% of new computer science PhDs could not find stable, full-time employment... the unemloyment rate for computer programmers over the age of 50 was an astounding 17%... High-tech [executives] have not run out of workers. They just do not want to hire even experienced techies who have families that prevent them from working 100-hour weeks, or who might require more expesive health insurance coverage than 23-year-olds or foreigners." --- Alan Tonelson 2000 _The Race to the Bottom_ pg51 (citing Norm Matloff 1997-05-19 "A Critical Look at Immigration's Role in the US Computer Industry" pg19 ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/svreport.html; "United States: Immigration Politics"; Edwin S. Rubenstein 1999 Fall "Piled Higher and Deeper" _American Outlook_ http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_faa999/rubenstein.htm) |
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