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Make it up for yourself.
I would do it, but there might be children reading these posts.
[Well, it is at least conceivable].
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![[Linked Image from imgs.xkcd.com]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/more_accurate.png) We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patroling the skies
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He also never forgot what's Watt. Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
"I am young, whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy." ~~~ Kato Havas
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Why're you tormenting us so?! 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I bought a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle. So I bought a lead whistle, but they wooden lead me whistle. I bought a copper whistle, but the copper wooden lead me whistle. So I bought a steel whistle, and steel the copper wooden lead me whistle! Then I bought a tin whistle, and now I tin whistle. 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Did you happen to read The Baroque Cycle? Yes, I did. That's how I became interested in the great calculus invention controversy. Stephenson was writing an entertaining novel, but managed to incorporate a lot of historical fact. Here's an interesting link: Leibniz-Newton calculus controversy wiki pageIn any event, a bias favoring Newton tainted the whole affair from the outset. The Royal Society set up a committee to pronounce on the priority dispute, in response to a letter it had received from Leibniz. That committee never asked Leibniz to give his version of the events. The report of the committee, finding in favor of Newton, was written by Newton himself and published as "Commercium Epistolicum" (mentioned above) early in 1713. But Leibniz did not see it until the autumn of 1714. Nice trick: Writing the report of the committee investigating yourself! 
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