1 Jul
2000
1 Jul
'00
1:56 a.m.
That's funny; I got my PhD out of showing other
engineers
and economists that the "simplifying assumptions" that they
make when designing deregulated electric power markets _in the
real world_ are, well, too simplistic. Electrons cannot be
bribed to obey economics rather than Kirchhoff, period.
Yet, that seems to be a hard point to sell to politicians
and economists.
Hoosier politicians have particular trouble understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
-dq
1 Jul
1 Jul
4:08 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Hoosier politicians have particular trouble
understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
From what I recall, it actually got pretty close until
someone stood up to
point out the stupidity of it all, whence it quickly died.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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8:16 a.m.
At 09:08 AM 7/1/2000 -0700, you wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
The one I liked was when they were going to eliminate the U.S.
Patent Office because everything had already been invented!
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Hoosier politicians have particular trouble
understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
From what I recall, it actually got pretty close until someone stood up to
point out the stupidity of it all, whence it quickly died.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
Danger
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