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    Posted by $ BobCat 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    Lots of things that must end. For example, IRS, Dept of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Transportation, CDC, Dept of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, EPA, ... , and our involvement in The Paris Accords, The United Nations, Public Broadcast System, National Pubic Radio... There are many, many more and these are just for starters.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 months, 2 weeks ago
      Has anyone ever successfully counted the number of those TLA agencies? I would say it's like counting sheep, but with sheep you simply count four or five times and take an average. "Yes, we have approximately 13.24 sheep." The number of those agencies is,as far as I've ever been able to tell, a monotonically increasing function of time. Call it n(t). It might be interesting to try discovering the derivatives. Historically, which administrations have the greatest d²n/dt² and even the greatest d³n/dt³ ??
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      • Posted by lrshultis 11 months, 2 weeks ago
        Do you really need to get down to the jerk in the function. That would be at the local level which is the base of government force, the purpose of government, and be time consuming with all the necessary social busybody interactions to keep the neighbors in line.
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      • Posted by mccannon01 11 months, 2 weeks ago
        Aha! So THAT'S why the debt rate is accelerating!

        BTW, how did you enter that really cool exponent font?
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        • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 months, 2 weeks ago
          I cheated. I went and looked up something sort of like d3x/dt3 and found it maybe on Wikipedia. Then I copied that text, not messing with the exponent.

          What I did NOT do is try to make it look right in MS Weird or some other text editor.

          There are other methods. I did not try any of them.

          The concept of jerk allows for consideration of even higher derivatives. Is there a name for the rate of jerk? I'd imagine that the ping of a steel-upon-steel hammer blow may have semi-infinite derivatives. Sure enough, here's a paper on jerk, snap, etc. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
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          • Posted by mccannon01 11 months, 2 weeks ago
            Nice article, Snezzy. Thanks!

            Although not a rocket sled or roller coaster, I figure getting bucked off a horse going up a hill I experienced velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, and pop in quick succession. I will call that sudden stop in the end up against a tree a real doozy. Took about a month to get over it - could have been a LOT worse, LOL!
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            • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 months, 2 weeks ago
              The technical term for that equine activity is Impromptu Aviation. The skilled equine aviator knows how to do a rolling landing, converting some of the ds/dt into dθ/dt, or perhaps landing in a pile of sawdust or mud, throwing the problem over into damped motion. There is a lot of good physics in there, just waiting for the horse and rider to demonstrate it all to spectators unaware of what is about to happen.

              The phenomena of those higher-order derivatives actually occur all at once, rather than in quick succession. When we study the science of mechanics we choose to let the acceleration be uniform or even zero. The horse and his aviator experience non-zero d²s/dt² and d³s/dt³ all crammed into a tiny little (but non-zero) dt.

              The above explanation is intended for helping non-horsemen understand horses, and is only a poor representation of the physics. The silly-sounding terms "jerk, snap, crackle, and pop" are really used, but are not standardized. See this Wikipedia page for more than anyone should want to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,...
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              • Posted by mccannon01 11 months, 2 weeks ago
                Thank you again! I would consider myself an unskilled equine aviator or else I may have somehow convinced the horse to launch me sooner when I could have dampened the experience in the muddy culvert we had just crossed before going up the hill. The technical term "Impromptu Aviation" is quite apt. Experience teaches me to avoid repeating the experiment.

                I haven't been exposed to the terms jerk, snap, crackle, and pop until now and the link article is very interesting. It is nicely written with definition links (blue text) to help with the understanding for folks like me.
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                • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 months, 2 weeks ago
                  Thus far nobody has tried to fault my mathematics for (falsely) claiming that a discrete function (integers, such as counting the number of Federal agencies) can be treated as a continuous function (real numbers). Actually I think the number of Federal agencies might be an opportunity for indiscreet mathematics. (Do I have to explain the pun that's based on the spelling?)

                  A true count of the number of agencies may actually be impossible, because as Wikipedia states in the first paragraph on the subject, "Legislative definitions of a federal agency are varied, and even contradictory."

                  Here's one approach to counting them.
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BSI3...
                  Maybe get some of those dogs?
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    • Posted by $ pixelate 11 months, 2 weeks ago
      Easily one of the most unnecessary -- The Department of Commerce.
      I visited and walked about the DC area a couple years ago -- so many of these large, beautiful buildings -- complete waste of resources -- filled with meddling self-important bureaucrats.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    I think that the easiest way to deal with the EPA is to make them abandon ALL vehicles first. Let them lead the way and demonstrate to everyone how things are going to work. Make them pay for this themselves - not out of taxpayer funds - and demand that they continue to get their jobs done - even if they have to walk 20 miles to work every day.

    There's an old saying in my world: Put the Pain where the Problem is. Until you do that, the problem never gets solved. It's the same reason that FICA, SS, and Medicare are withheld by the Employers, because if the taxpaying populace had to do this you can bet it wouldn't be around very long...
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    If CO2 is such a problem..

    Why is Coca Cola (and others)
    Allowed to sell Carbonated Drinks?

    Are they NOT Poisoning Us, AND causing more CO2 to be released into the air?
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  • Posted by Dobrien 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    More Government overreach that will once again will be determined to be unconstitutional by the SCOTUS . They do the same thing with gun regulations. That is how they play the game , eliminate rights and fight to keep them eliminated. The MotherWEFers should lose an appendage every time they are overruled.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    EOA us trtubg ti guve UN what they want, no cars, no prsonal propeperty ownership, farmland seized as excuse to bury CO2, which is a sham. Make it harder for farmers to produce food crops. Limit your electricity because they do not want you having any, not becasue of climate. It is well past tiem to put that lying agency out of business.
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 11 months, 2 weeks ago
    Increase engine efficiency.
    Eliminate the EPA.

    The problem with "government organizations" is that once the original intent of their usefulness (?) has ended, they justify their existence by creating issues to solve.

    Such is the current state of the EPA.
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