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== War Powers == | |||
"The senate has effectively given up its veto with the ongoing AUMFs, and The house gave up its veto a lot longer ago. Up until WW2, the US maintained a peacetime standing army of 3-5% the manpower it would use in a war. This core would train a new army when a war was started, but the President had to get funding from the house before he could put the army on a wartime footing. We’ve been on a constant wartime footing since then, so the House gave up its veto to the eternal war party." | |||
-- [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/amy-klobuchar-legendarily-abusive-to-staff/138560/61?u=karl_jones Comment by Space_Monkey] @ Boing Boing | |||
See also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists]. | |||
== If War Were Arithmetic == | == If War Were Arithmetic == | ||
Revision as of 13:19, 24 February 2019
Things to use or delete. See Snippets.
War Powers
"The senate has effectively given up its veto with the ongoing AUMFs, and The house gave up its veto a lot longer ago. Up until WW2, the US maintained a peacetime standing army of 3-5% the manpower it would use in a war. This core would train a new army when a war was started, but the President had to get funding from the house before he could put the army on a wartime footing. We’ve been on a constant wartime footing since then, so the House gave up its veto to the eternal war party."
-- Comment by Space_Monkey @ Boing Boing
See also Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.
If War Were Arithmetic
Game of Thrones - Season 2, Episode 14 - Garden of Bones - Essay - Winter is Coming
Lord Baelish noted, "If war were arithmetic, mathematicians would rule the world."
https://winteriscoming.net/2012/04/25/episode-14-garden-of-bones-essay/
On This Day in History
7-12-1831 Gauss to Schumacher: "I protest against the use of an infinite quantity as an actual entity; this is never allowed in mathematics. This infinite is only a matter of speaking, in which one properly speaks of limits to which certain ratios can come as near as desired, while others are permitted to increase without bound."
7-12-1925 Werner Heisenberg announced basic principles of quantum mechanics. He received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932.
7-13-1527 John Dee born in London, England. In 1570 he wrote a "fruitfull Praeface" to Billingsley's translation of Euclid's Elements, which he edited. This was the first English edition of the Elements.
7-13-1733 Giovanni Saccheri, a Jesuit priest in Italy, received the imprimatur of the Inquisition for his Euclides ab Omni Naevo Vindicatus, an important forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.
7-13-1832 Babbage received Gold Medal. Charles Babbage was the first recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal. He earned it for his work "Observations on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Numerical Tables."
Rehuel Lobatto (June 6, 1797 – February 9, 1866) was a Dutch mathematician. Pic.
Ferdinand François Désiré Budan de Boislaurent (28 September 1761 – 6 October 1840) was a French amateur mathematician, best known for a tract, Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques, first published in Paris in 1807, but based on work from 1803. Pic (book cover).
Freedom
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/all-are-in-chains.html
Scallop shell pilgrimage
Since the ninth century, pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela in Spain have followed a route marked by scallop shells.
In the Middle Ages, shells of the species Pecten maximus were collected on the nearby Galician coast and sold to pilgrims who wore them as prized symbols of a successful pilgrimage.