Zero-sum is a description of a relationship/interaction that cancels itself out. Entropy is caused by the EXACT opposite, where every interaction causes greater complexity/reactions etc. (Note: It is possible that entropy is a side-effect of the universe having enough internal dimensions that all change/movement is no longer directly reversible.)

If the universe was zero-sum, entropy would not exist.

Of course, none of this works to combat profiteering, but then...

NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE!!!!

Are they part of SPECTRE?

The problem is that so many in the US do NOT understand freedom fully, only partly, and selfishly.

The only freedom too many recognise, is the freedom TO do something/anything. The most important and fundamental freedom FROM harm/death/suffering (and others!) etc., however, is not fully understood and therefore freedom becomes confused with, for, as and by POWER over others.

And this is how and why the US WILL become a fascist state at some point.

But saying that Brexit still had no impact upon this would be a lie - it's still made a bad situation worse.

No - economically, Brexit was and is always going to be a disaster, it's just COVID has covered up a lot of problems so far due to lower economic activity. That problems start to appear once that rises is no surprise to ANYONE who understands what Brexit would truly mean for the UK. That a number of industries have used foreign workers to fill their ranks does not make anything good or bad, until you get rid of them at short notice without any plans to fully fill the vacuum in time, even if it was made worse by COVID. Either way, it's the COMBINATION of COVID and Brexit that is the problem now, not either in isolation, even if either would still have a negative impact, regardless. And anyone denying the latter, is stupid and/or ignorant.

One of the problems is that I've never really seen anyone, anywhere, use the true description for what is trying to happen: to copyright rules of language, rather than when a language is specifically applied. This is what an API is - a set of rules of how to apply such existing communication used with computers. The basic rules of the English language is an API, just for humans rather than computers, and trying to copyright that, is the equivalent of what is happening here - in addition to any other additional rules governing any language we may otherwise create - e.g. how to enable 'Yodaspeak' with the English language.

Hide and seek? Nah - DEMOLITION! (Assuming anyone knows where my username is from, of course, and have read all the books.)

I guess the US is heading into a new guilded age?

Mathematics is NOT a language - it consists of a shared set of further representations/symbols for things that have different words in different languages. For mathematics to be a language by itself, there would have to be only one (unique) set of words for each number/function etc.. (And if we talk about only what the information is of, separately from its labels and representations, then that, by its very nature is something even more fundamental that language itself.)

(Applied) Semantics != (Applied) Syntactics.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarrenTomlyn/20110311/6174/Contents_NEW.php

(That) Such is the nature of the problems we currently have, that mathematics isn't really a separate language, and should not be considered and labelled as one - instead being merely a consistent part of every other language, that now shares a set of (standard) labels. If this wasn't the case - then every language would not have their own labels for numbers etc., which act as the foundation of mathematics, itself.

(Note: There is a difference between what we perceive (of the universe around us), the information of this, and how we represent such information to allow communication between us. Language is ONLY an application of the latter - any consideration of mathematics being defined as and by the former information and perception, automatically means it has nothing to do with language, directly, at all. Unfortunately, some still like to confuse them.)

Programming languages are applications of both mathematics and logic, whilst often using additional elements of another language, (to make them easier to read by humans), in order to allow computers to function, by transferring the information they require to do so. (Calling them languages is consistent with what language is/how languages function, and not a problem.)

Art = creative story-telling
Puzzle = interacting with stories being told
Game = competing by writing your own stories (in a structured/rules-based environment)

Story = an account of things that happen created and stored inside (a person's) memory (bank (see: account)).

(Edirol DA2496) Am planning to get a removable HDD bay and hot-swap between XP (music) and Win 7 (games/everything else) - but can't even afford that and another HDD atm. :(