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aquagoat - 17-12-2016 at 09:03

Congratulations, Poly.

BBP - 18-12-2016 at 23:24

It's official, I'm into the Master's course!!

Congratulations!

Just got back. I stayed a few hours longer than expected at my friend's. She's been on TV recently, a documentary about war graves shot when she went to visit her grandfather's final resting place in Thailand. We had a great time, talking and singing.

The two nights at my BF's.... well... I didn't sleep. Not for the right reasons, though. I haven't gotten used to sharing a bed with him yet. Neither has he. We both had huge bags under the eyes today. I'd love to spend more time with him but we need to resolve the sleeping arrangements somehow. Besides overcoming the distance.

BBP - 19-12-2016 at 20:35

Sore all over...

polydigm - 20-12-2016 at 11:01

Thanks for the congrats. I'm now trying to make the most of my holiday. From the 13th of February, it's nose to the grindstone.

Bonny, if you guys really like each other I'm sure you'll figure something out. I'm happy for you.

We're not visiting the Netherlands this time around, otherwise I'd suggest meeting up for a toast. Although, our long term plans are to move to Europe, so it'll most likely happen at some time in the future.

BBP - 20-12-2016 at 22:10

Pity, I'd have loved to meet you! Enjoy your holiday!

It's quite a conundrum isn't it? :biggrin: The ideal way to overcome the distance is staying longer, and the best way to overcome the sleeping problem is staying for a shorter time. It's like a sitcom brewing!

BBP - 22-12-2016 at 00:16

The AIVD (Dutch CIA) has an annual Christmas puzzle that I first did in 2014, this is my third attempt. It's the most difficult set of puzzles I even bother to try. Just solved 1 question in full so far.
This one's based on cryptography.

On the one question I just solved in full, I was given 6 ciphers:
tcjn
xdaaw mnzlyomn
acn aqisjwq
jq sot wdpne hjnnq edws
qlmjr koodsy
ciicp
pqtqkjg qj pqtqkjg
Every one of these ciphers uses a different encoding. Yet they're all connected.

BBP - 23-12-2016 at 00:25

Solving another question, but my head hurts now.

aquagoat - 25-12-2016 at 09:43

Merry Christmas to you guys.:bouncy:

BBP - 25-12-2016 at 13:47

Have a very merry Christmas everybody!

polydigm - 27-12-2016 at 15:25

A belated merry Christmas to all.

BBP - 28-12-2016 at 00:37

Way too many famous people dying. I don't like this.

BBP - 29-12-2016 at 18:03

One of my bags was stolen or lost today. I checked my route several times and asked in shops if they had seen it.
There wasn't anything of value in the bag (possibly a little plastic bag or some groceries I forgot last time) but the bag itself is made to hang down your bicycle, we always use them when we go for groceries, they're hard to come by and when they're new they aren't cheap.

:swear:

BBP - 30-12-2016 at 23:52

Sorry if I've been a bit quiet lately - I'm not sure why but for about a month I've been feeling terrible, eye pain, nausea... I'm at a loss now, I don't see the end of it...

polydigm - 1-1-2017 at 10:49

I'm not happy at all to hear that Bonny. Is the medical fraternity not able to figure it out?

BBP - 1-1-2017 at 12:19

They weren't the first time and a second-opinion is not covered by insurance.

polydigm - 2-1-2017 at 01:01

I don't understand. Are you saying that if you continue to feel sick and return to the doctor, it's not covered?

BBP - 2-1-2017 at 18:01

Yes.

Thank you, "New Healthcare System Based Off The USA One".

BBP - 6-1-2017 at 09:59

Now that Epiphany rolls up it's the last chance to wish you two a good New Year!
Happy New Year guys!

polydigm - 6-1-2017 at 11:58

And a good new year to you and Aqua too.

We have politicians in Australia trying to do the same thing to our health system and so far they've been held at bay. Our health system, Medicare, has none the less gradually deteriorated somewhat over the last few decades.

So why is it only you, me and Aqua here? Where is Punky and why can't others come here? Maybe I'm putting them off!

We have friendly conversations here and the atmosphere is preferable to that other place.

I hope Huck is going alright as well.

BBP - 6-1-2017 at 18:30

I don't know why Punky's staying away now...

I'm still at the insane AIVD cipher puzzle, inching forward. I wish I knew more about cryptography.

aquagoat - 7-1-2017 at 09:20

aquagoat - 7-1-2017 at 09:23

And a happy new year to you guys!:bouncing:

BBP - 7-1-2017 at 11:01

EU has no control over your nation's healthcare. It's those bastards you keep electing who do that.

polydigm - 7-1-2017 at 12:10

I get what Aqua is saying. If you are an EU member, you have to follow the rules. But this is not a reason to leave the EU. It needs to be fought within the EU. Australia is a small (population wise) independent nation and the same bullshit is going on there.

The UK is leaving the EU, but it is in the thrall of conservatives, some of whom are even talking about the advantages of war. Believe me, health, education and employment will not improve after Brexit is complete. Brexit just makes it easier for the vultures to exploit the isolated population of Britain.

You are right about the banks. I keep asking myself why banks are more powerful than countries; that's upside down. All countries should nationalise their banks and renationalise all the utilities that have been sold in a false economy to raise government funds.

I have come to the conclusion that unemployment is now the main issue everywhere in the world. If everyone in Britain had a job, why would they care if those Pakistanis around the corner also had jobs? The status quo in Britain of fear mongering about foreigners taking jobs would just vanish if everyone had a job. Employers should not be allowed to function without following strict rules, the main one being providing plentiful employment.

All you hear about is how the current rules make it hard for small employers, meanwhile, they are, all taken together as a group, only a small fraction of the whole economy. Multi nationals are the true rulers of the Western World and they are getting away with murder. Unemployment is a crime against humanity!

aquagoat - 7-1-2017 at 17:06

You can't fight it from inside the EU cause it's the central european bank that makes the rules and says what economical policy you have to apply, once you've regain control over your money, you don't have to borrow money from the central european bank, as we have to do now. It wasn't the case when I was young. When I was young, the government didn't need to borrow money to apply the policies they wanted to apply.

Plus, everybody knows that EU politics is a game of lobby influences, what do you want to do with that? It's not the way a sane healthy political system works. That system is rotten to the core.

As for the UK, it'll depend on what the politicians will do in the next few years. Of course, if there was full employment in the country, most of the resentment against foreigners would be appeased, but it won't happen unless the government stops the companies from sending the work in countries with little to no social security, payroil charges, etc. It's up to them to take the decisions necessary to do what they want, if they still have the power to do it. Cause, as you say, multi nationals rule the world, but they rule it cause we let them do it. But there's a tool called nationalization, we used to use that tool in the past.

And by the way, Brexit wasn't just about the fear of foreigners, just like Trump's election isn't just the result of some racist white votes, this aspect of the thing was largely exaggerated to prevent any other argument in favor of leaving the Eu from being discussed. It was a simple plan to divide the population into two groups, the good morally superior guys who vote for staying VS the bad racist old-fashionned guys who voted for leaving. Such an easy way of discrediting a part of the voting population.

BBP - 7-1-2017 at 18:54

It's because, whenever an impopular decision was made, politicians blamed it on the EU to wipe their own slate clean. The EU is largely invisible to people in the street. Making its position in The Netherlands extra hard now that it's the only country that's a net payer - all the other EU countries get more money from the EU than they contribute.

The EU would've worked out if it wasn't for the southern countries not obeying the financial regulations, thereby dragging all the other EU countries in their fal; and the expansion to Eastern Europe where the governments are owned by organized crime syndicates.

We had a double dip economy-wise but with Brexit and Trump it's going to be a triple dip. I blame short-sighted people who think that the situation in their individual country will get better if they leave the corrupt powers in but cut the large treaties.

Heathcare is not going to improve if France goes out of the EU, for the simple reason that EU doesn't regulate healthcare.
It will be very bad economically for France because it's a net gaining country, one of the largest gainers at that - because it's going to be bad for French economy it's going to be bad for healthcare since if there are budget cuts to be made by your government, it'll be done in the healthcare section.

polydigm - 7-1-2017 at 23:51

I obviously need to investigate the EU system further. But I can't accept that many isolated countries is good for the future. I see only conflict coming out of that.

aquagoat - 8-1-2017 at 08:33

Bonny, the EU doesn't regulate healthcare, that's true, they regulate the money we need to continue to apply that policy, so in the end, yes they control it, their only economic policy is: cut the expenses, cut social charges, cut social security, etc, etc It's the policy of restriction imposed by the central european bank that led to the state Greece is in, or at least aggravated it.

Getting out of the EU will make us regain control on our money, we won't have to pay interests, we won't follow restriction policies that don't work.

And I agree with you, the political class in each country is corrupted, but the european one is just as corrupted, if not more, their decisions are mainly influenced by financial lobbies with only their interests in mind. That's also one of the reasons why the nationalist parties in each country are on the rise, cause people wrongly think they will do what they say they'll do. People are tired of being told they have restrict themselves when they know the system worked well in the past, when the government hadn't given up their power to the big companies and banks.

The idea of a united european state isn't bad in and of itself, but it wasn't well prepared, and wasn't well applied. And it was quickly infected by greedy bastards.

aquagoat - 8-1-2017 at 08:42

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm

I obviously need to investigate the EU system further. But I can't accept that many isolated countries is good for the future. I see only conflict coming out of that.

Well, there was a time when each of these isolated countries ruled the world. So it's not necessarily a question of size.
Now, I agree with you, in the end, a united europe can be a good thing, but how can we create it? I don'treally know, but it surely won't work if we let the banks and the big companies create it.

BBP - 8-1-2017 at 13:15

Wel we have a bad track record when it comes to having European states coexist without war...
The main reason why healthcare is going down everywhere, is the prolonged economic crisis, healthcare and education are always the first categories to get the boot. There is no way leaving the EU will improve your healthcare.

The Greek crisis is because the situation that existed of hyper-rich people leeching the country, went on for way too long. The EU was lied to all the time about the financial state of the country, until it was too late. There's a limit to what the Troika can and will bail out - they're tied to other countries facing crises, remember.

polydigm - 8-1-2017 at 22:59

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat

... but it surely won't work if we let the banks and the big companies create it.

There we are in total agreement. Like I said, banks should be nationalised and big companies should be made to follow very strict rules. It's an upside down world.

aquagoat - 10-1-2017 at 09:13

Quote: Originally posted by BBP

Wel we have a bad track record when it comes to having European states coexist without war...
The main reason why healthcare is going down everywhere, is the prolonged economic crisis, healthcare and education are always the first categories to get the boot. There is no way leaving the EU will improve your healthcare.

The Greek crisis is because the situation that existed of hyper-rich people leeching the country, went on for way too long. The EU was lied to all the time about the financial state of the country, until it was too late. There's a limit to what the Troika can and will bail out - they're tied to other countries facing crises, remember.

I agree with you about our conflictual past. But I don't think it's necessary to be in the EU to live together without having a war every 50 years, lot's of countries in the world live side by side without conflicts and without being in a conglomerate of states.

Damned, I started a political debate without wanting it, I hate that, it's a very useless thing to do.

punknaynowned - 10-1-2017 at 12:06

Thank you all for this discussion on the EU. I learned stuff!
:bouncy:

punknaynowned - 10-1-2017 at 12:07

And certainly, have a happy new year all!

polydigm - 11-1-2017 at 00:27

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat

Damned, I started a political debate without wanting it, I hate that, it's a very useless thing to do.

The world does change. I don't believe it's useless to talk about and we're all being quite civilised about it. You've both given me food for thought anyway.

Happy new year Punky, it's about time you dropped by.

aquagoat - 11-1-2017 at 09:02

Hey, happy new year, Punky, glad to see you around.

BBP - 11-1-2017 at 11:01

With BF up north again... :bald:

polydigm - 12-1-2017 at 23:41

Some predicted bad weather in Normandy forcing us to change our plans tomorrow. Still having a good time meeting up with relatives.

BBP - 13-1-2017 at 17:45

There's been some snow in The Netherlands, not much where I am right now but storm's been predicted.
It may be Friday 13th but I haven't had any bad luck so far, unlike on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday when I contracted food poisoning.

BBP - 16-1-2017 at 22:13

Back home!

polydigm - 17-1-2017 at 00:14

I hope it wasn't all bad.

BBP - 17-1-2017 at 09:56

It was rather intense but we had a lot of fun, in spite of a large series of mishaps. I got food poisoning from a high tea we went to.

polydigm - 17-1-2017 at 11:07

I'm glad you had fun. It's a pity about the food poisoning.

We're back in London with only a week left of our holiday.

BBP - 17-1-2017 at 19:50

Enjoy Poly!

polydigm - 18-1-2017 at 10:27

I've been out of my tree for more than eight weeks now, it's getting a bit weird. But, of course, I'm not complaining, I'm lucky to be able to do this.

BBP - 18-1-2017 at 17:26

Enjoy!

Looking at my photos of last week, I found I made a couple when I'd gotten something in my eye. I'd almost forgotten that incident. It looked terrifying but it's OK now...

polydigm - 22-1-2017 at 01:02

That's a relief.

Off to sleep then off to the airport, heading home. I shall be substantially warmer within 34 hours.

BBP - 22-1-2017 at 17:22

Have a safe journey!

polydigm - 23-1-2017 at 21:49

Home safe and sound, back to reality.

BBP - 23-1-2017 at 23:27

Welcome back!

aquagoat - 28-1-2017 at 09:11

I had to get dressed and pay a visit to my neighbour, at 3:30 in the morning, cause the bloody bastard listened to music so loud it made my floor vibrate under my bed. I was pretty diplomatic. Firm and concise, but pretty diplomatic.

polydigm - 29-1-2017 at 00:36

Makes you wonder what goes on in the head of someone who behaves like that. I mean, it's pretty obvious what effect that behaviour will have. Although, one time, I had a neighbour who worked in a sheltered workshop (I don't know what his condition was). I paid him a visit and showed him how to use the tone controls and explained that if he wanted to turn the volume up a bit he should turn the bass down as well, because that is what travels through the walls. I demonstrated various settings and then took him into my flat so he could hear the result and after that things improved vastly.

Now, if he could learn that, you'd have to wonder who couldn't. Another time, another neighbour, who we had banging on our door complaining about the music keeping his baby daughter awake, told us to turn the bass up after bragging that he was a head of music in some school or other.

aquagoat - 29-1-2017 at 11:44

Yeah, it's pretty obvious it will cause trouble with the neighbours, but some people seem to think they're the only ones living on this planet.

BBP - 29-1-2017 at 17:03

Sorry to hear about that Aqua, I hope it won't happen again...

aquagoat - 30-1-2017 at 08:43

Well, we'll see that next friday, but I think he understood.

BBP - 30-1-2017 at 22:26

Good luck man!

Nothing much to report here...

polydigm - 31-1-2017 at 00:28

I'm still waiting for various enrolment details to fall into place, but I've got my desk at uni now and I'm getting ready for the hard slog ahead.

BBP - 31-1-2017 at 12:09

Good luck and good will to you!

I found a university-level calculus book I'm making (slow) headway in. So far the lack of a graphic calculator is getting painful.

polydigm - 1-2-2017 at 05:19

Anytime you've got a question just send a U2U.

Macs have the built in Grapher, what system are you using?

BBP - 1-2-2017 at 10:35

Win7.
BF sent me a link to fooplot.com which apparently does the same.

The question that was troubling me was about a tin can. The tin can must have a volume of 500 cubic cm. The cost for the lid and bottom is 0,02 ct per square cm, the cost for the tin wall is 0,01 ct per square cm. What will be the radius of the cheapest tin you can make?

I tried it by hand and then I found I'd made a mistake - either way there's a limit to what is doable by the time you have such a long formula.

BBP - 1-2-2017 at 11:56

BF helped me with the highly information to zoom out on your graph in Fooplot. Yay! Now I can put that to rest!

BBP - 2-2-2017 at 22:05

Spending way too much time on a drawing...

aquagoat - 3-2-2017 at 08:49

Come on, drawing is a sane occupation. Much better than doing coke.

BBP - 3-2-2017 at 15:00

You haven't seen the results...

polydigm - 4-2-2017 at 01:13

aquagoat - 4-2-2017 at 09:43

Quote: Originally posted by BBP

You haven't seen the results...

Hahaha. Show me.

BBP - 4-2-2017 at 10:51

^^Haha thanks Poly! Fortunately I did manage to get the formula right eventually (initially I'd forgotten to multiply the height by the circumference to get the wall surface) and after my BF explained to me that there would be two lines and that I could zoom out on that thing, I managed to get the visual instead of just doing the maths.

Even so I have to tell you that getting the derivative for such a complex formula is still way away for me to do. In doing this book I gave myself a gap of 2 years math ed.

^YAFIYGI:
http://bbp4bonnzai.tumblr.com/
The pencil sketch doesn't look too bad but I have ways to go with digital painting.

polydigm - 5-2-2017 at 02:01

aquagoat - 5-2-2017 at 08:22

Hey Bonny, that's pretty good. I've never done anything with digital painting. And I haven't drawn anything at least a year.:umm:

BBP - 6-2-2017 at 20:43

Thanks Aqua! I'm making a revised version. I'd hoped I could do that on Sunday, but at 10AM I had a phonecall from my boyfriend who decided to pop over. Bearing in mind he lives on the other side of the country, a three-hour drive!

He came by and we had a great time together, drinking tea, reading a book with beautiful photos and going on overly long walks. He's only just left.

^Thanks for that explanation Poly! I was aware of how to deal with exponents but am not yet well-versed in negative powers.

BBP - 7-2-2017 at 23:23

There's phase 2 of my drawing right here. I've managed to figure out how floating layers work.

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aquagoat - 8-2-2017 at 08:51

Yeah, good progress here, Bonny. Also, glad you spent good time with your boyfriend.:grin:

BBP - 8-2-2017 at 12:22

Thanks!
I noticed Mucha uses very thick lines just around the subject... still trying to get the paper to look better though... maybe a different colour for the peacock feathers and the green... I'm also reworking it on paper and that hasn't been nearly as much trouble.

polydigm - 8-2-2017 at 22:30

I need graphics software to produce physics diagrams, but they're mostly far too complicated (the graphics software that is).

BBP - 9-2-2017 at 21:32

Good luck finding one!

Got me a bad case of the sniffles, nose is runny beyond control.

polydigm - 11-2-2017 at 01:56

I hope it passes soon.

BBP - 11-2-2017 at 13:31

Not for today! Then again, we have snow now!

polydigm - 13-2-2017 at 14:27

Any better today?

BBP - 13-2-2017 at 17:02

Little better but Dad's caught the bug.

polydigm - 14-2-2017 at 10:39

Oh dear.

BBP - 14-2-2017 at 11:42

Yup! Right snot fest here!

A truck drove into our pavement this morning. Not sure what happened - I was barely awake when I heard a truck revving outside, didn't go out to see what was happening... when I went off to the dentist the pavement turned out to be all muddled at the corner which is just out of sight in our living room. Kinda scary - there's also deep tire tracks in the grit and skidmarks on the pavement. I'll take better photos today...

BBP - 14-2-2017 at 20:57

Made better photos and received a Valentine's card from my bf!

polydigm - 15-2-2017 at 14:21

We've been having lots of earthquakes. Turns out that I live in an earthquake prone region. I don't understand how I've been living here most of my life and I didn't know that.

BBP - 15-2-2017 at 20:55

That's strange... as long as you keep upright!
Do you get good earthquake-drills out there?

This was our pavement yesterday. This morning it was fixed.
I've been trying to work out what happened: there's one track in the sand underneath the tiles and there's one skidmark that's about 2m long leading right to that track. The track is probably not wider than 8cm. Because there's only 1 skidmark I guess it was made by a two-wheeled vehicle. Motorcycle?

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BBP - 17-2-2017 at 22:52

I'll be spending a few days with my BF up north again... not sure how that will affect my productivity here...

polydigm - 19-2-2017 at 00:41

Looks to me like it would take more than a motorbike to cause that damage.

aquagoat - 20-2-2017 at 09:15

Never forget to wear an OLD t-shirt when using bleach...:swear:

BBP - 20-2-2017 at 15:06

Sorry to hear that, Aqua... one of my favourite shirts was ruined because I did the washing-up after my father had cleaned the kitchen edges with bleach...

Thanks for your insight Poly! I'd hoped to get up early so I could see who was making all the racket earlier, but I'd forgotten I'm not home right now. I'm in Leeuwarden in a ground floor apartment, overlooking a channel and seeing the occasional boat sail by.

polydigm - 20-2-2017 at 22:41

Sounds relaxing!

BBP - 21-2-2017 at 10:04

It is! Bit lonely now though now that bf is away for a few hours, then again it gives me the chance to catch up on my news!

BBP - 23-2-2017 at 12:54

On my way back now...

BBP - 24-2-2017 at 12:48

I'm back! Had a great time! Nothing notable happened - basically we took care of the two guinea pigs, one of them is a nervous wreck who keeps hiding and who won't let you pet him, the other one is more dominant.
The boats were coming at a very close distance, at one point this huge boat filled with containers came by, was kinda weird... We cycled to the street in Leeuwarden where my grandma used to live when she was little...

BBP - 25-2-2017 at 18:21

Not feeling well today... :swear:

polydigm - 26-2-2017 at 14:09

Not another cold?

BBP - 26-2-2017 at 20:39

Nope, just bad time... I'm feeling better now.
In my bf's family there's a nasty virus making rounds, his sister has been having an ear infection for months.

polydigm - 26-2-2017 at 22:31

I hope today is better.

BBP - 26-2-2017 at 23:15

Me too, I'm scheduled for a cleaning job again. So it's off to bed!

BBP - 27-2-2017 at 18:45

Went out cleaning again and got soaked.

BBP - 1-3-2017 at 12:08

They're working on the pavement corner again!

BBP - 3-3-2017 at 14:35

Scored a job again!

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