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They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology ( e. g., similar to Cantor dust )— the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers ' paradox.
He spoke of the paradox of deleveraging, in which precautions that may be smart for individuals and firms and indeed essential to return the economy to a normal state nevertheless magnify the distress of the economy as a whole.
Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911, there have been numerous explanations of this paradox, many based upon there being no contradiction because there is no symmetry only one twin has undergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases.
The paradox centers around the contention that, in relativity, either twin could regard the other as the traveler, in which case each should find the other younger a logical contradiction.
Whereas the first two paradoxes presented divide space, this paradox starts by dividing time and not into segments, but into points.
Heinlein later revisited a similar theme in his 1958 story All You Zombies —, in which the main character's interactions with sex-changed versions of himself / herself at various points in his / her life result in a bizarre version of the ontological paradox in which the character becomes his / her own mother and father.
A related objection is that the paradox only occurs because the judge tells the prisoner his sentence ( rather than keeping it secret ) which suggests that the act of declaring the sentence is important.
In a sense, the classic statement of the omnipotence paradox a rock so heavy that its omnipotent creator cannot lift it is grounded in Aristotelian science.
The barber's claim applies to only " men in our town ," so there is no paradox if the barber is a woman ( or a gorilla, or a child, or a man from some other town or anything other than a " man in our town ").
The fact that this is not in line with the compared to today 30 % lower solar radiance of the early sun has been described as the faint young Sun paradox.
* 1720 Edmund Halley puts forth an early form of Olbers ' paradox
* 1744 Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux puts forth an early form of Olbers ' paradox
* 1826 Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers puts forth Olbers ' paradox
* 1848 Edgar Allan Poe offers first correct solution to Olbers ' paradox in Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay that also suggests the expansion and collapse of the universe
The paradox also applies within countries the northern U. S. states are more developed than the southern U. S. states.
Designers faced a fundamental paradox make the droids overly intelligent, and they might rebel ; yet make the droids not intelligent enough and they would be ineffectual.
Stephen Hawking once suggested that the absence of tourists from the future constitutes a strong argument against the existence of time travel a variant of the Fermi paradox, with time travelers instead of alien visitors.
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" In support of this, he referred to " the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero .... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.

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The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).
Ambrose told Theodosius to imitate David in his repentance as he had imitated him in guilt Ambrose readmitted the emperor to the Eucharist only after several months of penance.
But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.
The stiyaha or kwi-kwiyai were a nocturnal race that children were told not to say the names of lest the monsters hear and come to carry off a person sometimes to be killed.
Initially, Emperor Wilhelm II told the Archduke Franz Ferdinand that Germany was ready to support Austria in all circumstances even at the risk of a world war, but the Austro-Hungarians hesitated.
Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours I've got a new song for it.
Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.
You ought to have heard him recite poetry his own, too, it was, he told me.
It came after the umpire allegedly told Hank that he was ready to call the game due to darkness, because the ump former Yankee pitching star of the 1920s Murderers Row team, George Pipgras, supposedly said " Sorry Hank, but I'm gonna have to call the game.
In 1953, he mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $ 600, and raised $ 8, 000 from 45 investors including $ 1, 000 from his mother (" Not because she believed in the venture ," he told E!
The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.
Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens the same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
The reference stated that Jabir said, " The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, ' You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad the striving of a servant ( of Allah ) against his desires ( holy war ).
He told visiting regional preachers to return to the churches they were meant to be serving without any payout.
" Grammer later told Maxim, " Whether or not you ’ re a celebrity even if you ’ re just an old slob with a video camera you don ’ t realize you shouldn ’ t do it.
The garage owner told her that while young men were easy to train, it was those in their mid-twenties to thirties, the men who had been through World War I, whom he considered a " lost generation " une génération perdue.
When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described incorrectly as a box ) she was told to never open.
By the end of the story, rebels have established themselves at another stellar system where their descendants, the reader is told, would eventually build a liberating fleet and set out back to Earth.
Bushnell decided to inform each of the two groups that the other was uninterested Bushnell told the Bally executives that the Midway executives did not want it and vice versa to preserve the relationships for future dealings.

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bands dubbed " punk pathetique "— including Splodgenessabounds, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, and Toy Dolls had a more humorous and absurdist bent.
Other enduring features have been " Goings on About Town ", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and " The Talk of the Town ", a miscellany of brief pieces frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary.
Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt he had always found it vaguely humorous.
Thus, closet as an adjective means secret usually with a connotation of vice or shame, as in " a closet alcoholic " or " a closet homosexual ," though sometimes used as a humorous exaggeration for any potential embarrassment, as in " a closet comic book fan.
High Life has enjoyed a resurgence recently, using its humorous " Take Back the High Life " campaign which features a common sense-wielding deliveryman ( portrayed by Windell Middlebrooks ) removing beer from " non-High Life locations " ( such as restaurants serving $ 11. 50 hamburgers ) to position the brand as " a good honest beer at a tasty price ".
* Xenon The home planet of Roger Wilco, janitor, in the humorous computer game series Space Quest.
He privately attended ' academies ' in Madrid throughout his reign these were lighthearted literary salons, aiming to analyse contemporary literature and poetry with a humorous touch.
The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1964 ) presents the tragic conquest of Peru by the Spanish, while Black Comedy ( 1965 ) takes a humorous look at the antics of a group of characters feeling their way around a pitch black room although the stage is actually flooded with light.
* 17 December 1989 The animated cartoon series The Simpsons debuted on television on the Fox Network, providing a humorous look at the Atomic Age, since the main protagonist, Homer Simpson, is employed as an operator at a nuclear power plant.
The narrative songs often had passionate themes of death, solitude or ill-fated love a reaction to their harsh exile and rough frontier experience, as well as celebrations of love and humorous tales.
Among such of his designs are four charming plates to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ), the broadly humorous etchings in the Comic History of England ( 1847 – 1848 ), and the still finer illustrations to the Comic History of Rome ( 1852 ) which last, particularly in its minor woodcuts, shows some exquisitely graceful touches, as witness the fair faces that rise from the surging water in Cloelia and her Companions Escaping from the Etruscan Camp.
Earlier, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Johnson who has described himself as " pretty much center-left before 9 / 11 "— transformed his blog's discussion of bicycle racing, programming, web design, and the occasional humorous news item into a very active discussion of the War on Terror, Islam and Islamism, Eurabia, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A native speaker of German, Fritz Spiegl did not speak a word of English when he moved to England as a 13 year-old a fact which has often been regarded as the trigger for his preoccupation with language phenomena such as, say, malapropisms and for the biting yet humorous linguistic purism of his later years.
As well as the comedy content, the title itself is a humorous reference to Mao's " Little Red Book " and despite the title, the book has a blue cover.
Talk Soup aired selected clips of the previous day's daily talk shows ranging from daytime entries like The Jerry Springer Show and to celebrity interview shows like The Tonight Show surrounded by humorous commentary delivered by the host.
Such a terminated process process whose data has not been collected is called a zombie process, or simply a zombie, in the UNIX parlance ( in a possibly humorous analogy that dubs the terminated process as " no longer alive " or " dead " -- since it has really ceased functioning --, and a lingering dead process still " incarnated " in the " world of the living " processes the process table is therefore actually " undead ", or " zombie ").
* Performance art starting with the enigmatic solo text / music pieces of Laurie Anderson, which often made innovative ( even subversive ) use of electronic technology, many Downtown artists developed an often humorous or thought-provoking style of solo performance with conceptualist overtones.
It hardly seems possible ...." Jim Wolf being a person from the first humorous story Twain ever told the story recorded in " Jim Wolf and the Cats ".
* A humorous British TV series, Young Dracula, featured Mr. Eric Van Helsing presumably the descendant of his more famous predecessor, though with none of his competence trying to exterminate Count Dracula and his children, who had been chased out of Transylvania by an angry mob and were now living in rural Wales.
As Moore and Glynn would later describe it, TV Nation " would be a humorous magazine show but with one distinct difference it would have a point of view.

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