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2nd month of the 4th quarter of the 27th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

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  "Life expectancy in Europe and the Mediterranean world at the time [c. 5BCE] was less than 35. The probability of a couple's producing a male heir who survived into adulthood and who could carry on the ancestral line was quite low. As a result, 'societies' legitimated a wide range of practices that allowed individuals to produce heirs." --- Francis Fukuyama 2011 _The Origins of Political Order: From PreHuman Times to the French Revolution_ pg238  

 
 
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2016 November, week 1 (1-5) (16KB)
2016 November, week 2 (6-12) (16KB)
2016 November, week 3 (13-19) (16KB)
2016 November, week 4 (20-26) (16KB)
2016 November, week 5 (27-30) (16KB)
 
  "It turns out that, in addition to China's 8 'big' languages -- Mandarin and its 7 close relatives (often referred to collectively simple as 'Chinese'), with between 11M and 800M speakers each -- China also has over 130 'little' languages, many of them with just a few thousand speakers.   All these languages, 'big' and 'little', fall into 4 language families, which differ greatly in the compactness of their distributions...   Mandarin and its relatives... the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed from North to South China...   The other 3 families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by 'islands' of people surrounded by a 'sea' of speakers of Chinese and other language families.   Especially fragmented is the distribution of the Miao-Yao (alias Hmong-Mien) family, which consists of 6M speakers divided among about 5 languages, bearing the colorful names of Red Miao, White Miao (alias Striped Miao), Black Miao, Green Miao (alias Blue Miao), and Yao... in dozens of small enclaves... scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand.   More than 100K Miao-speaking refugees from VietNam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong...   Austoasiatic family... VietNamese and Cambodian [Kampuchean].   The 60M Austroasiatic speakers are scattered from VietNam... to the Malay Peninsula... to northern India...   Tai-Kadai family (including Thai and Lao), whose 50M speakers are distributed from South China southward into Peninsular Thailand and west to Myanmar [formerly Burma]." --- Jared Diamond 1997 _Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies_ pp324-325  

 
 

 

 


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2016 November

2nd month of the 4th quarter of the 27th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression


 
 
2016 November, week 1 (1-5) (16KB)
2016 November, week 2 (6-12) (16KB)
2016 November, week 3 (13-19) (16KB)
2016 November, week 4 (20-26) (16KB)
2016 November, week 5 (27-30) (16KB)
 
Proposed Bills 2016
 
 
  "A family that owns its home takes pride in it, maintains it better, gets more pleasure out of it, & has a more wholesome, healthful & happy atmosphere in which to bring up children.   The home owner has a constructive aim in life.   He works harder outside his home; he spends his leisure more profitably; & he & his family live a finer life & enjoy more of the comforts & cultivating influences of our modern civilization.   A husband & wife who own their own home are more apt to save.   They have an interest in the advancement of a social system that permits the individual to store up the fruits of his labor.   As direct tax payers, they take a more active part in local gov't.   Above all, the love of home is 1 of the finest instincts & the greatest of inspirations of our people." --- Herbert Hoover (quoted in Mark Skousen & Jo Ann Skousen 1993 _High Finance on a Low Budget_ pp 224-225)  

 
 
Kkilo-thousand 10^31,000
Mmega-millionone thousand thousand10^61,000,000
Ggiga-billionone thousand million10^91,000,000,000
Ttera-trillionone million million10^121,000,000,000,000
Ppeta-quadrillionone million billion10^151,000,000,000,000,000
Eexa-quintillionone billion billion10^181,000,000,000,000,000,000
Zzetta-sextillionone billion trillion10^211,000,000,000,000,000,000
Yyotta-septillionone trillion trillion10^241,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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.
1,024Kkilo- (kibi-)2^10
1,048,576Mmega- (mebi-)2^20
1,073,741,824Ggiga- (gibi-)2^30
1,099,511,627,776Ttera- (tebi-)2^40
1,125,899,906,842,624Ppeta- (pebi-)2^50
1,152,921,504,606,846,976Eexa- (exbi-)2^60
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424Zzetta- (zebi-)2^70
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176Yyotta- (yobi-)2^80

An alternate set of prefixes has been proposed.


 



 
Proposed Bills 2016


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  "Under a system of the widest possible liberty, each man thinks & acts according to his own judgment & his own sense of right.   He labors as he will, making such free bargains as he chooses respecting price & all other conditions that affect his labor; he is idle or industrious, he spends or he lays by, he remains poor, or he becomes rich, he turns his faculties to wise & good account, or he wastes possessions, time & happiness in folly.   He is, be it for good or evil, the owner & possessor of his own self, & he has to bear the responsibility of that ownership & possession to the full.   OT1H he is free from all restrictions places on him by others (except the 1 great restriction that he, too, in all his doings shall respect the like liberty of all men), & OTOH he is dependent in everything on himself & his own exertions.   Just because he is a free man, he must carry his own burden, such as it is, & not seek to compel others to bear any part of it for him.   The really free man will neither submit to restrictions placed on himself, nor desire to impose them on others...   to live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law.   It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously & deliberately imposed by himself on himself...   you will not make people wiser & better by taking liberty of action from them.   A man can only learn when he is free to act." --- Auberon Herbert _The Right & Wrong of Compulsion by the State & Other Essays_ pp 124-125  

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