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Sunday, 23 June 2019

Persepolis and the Persian Empire

This is why the West is really afraid of Iran and Russia. See Uzbekistan Back on the Silk Road and Putin in Astrakhan.

At 8 minutes 6 secs you get an insight into the economic system on which the greatest empire on earth was built. And it is assumed by most that the creators of this device were Greeks, but ....

See Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry.

For more technical detail, see

So the argument about where the Global Hawk actually was when it was shot down, might reduce to the level of arithmetic precision in Iranian air-defence versus American drone navigation systems.

Trouble is, I am not sure there is anyone in the Pentagon anymore who knows anything about this sort of thing. But go on, surprise me. Maybe ask General Votel? This post has a sound track:

The FT Explains the Market For Assets With Negative Yield

It's the well-known capitalist principle of wealth-creation called "incurring negative costs" (See Economics). It's also because the ECB is considering charging more for holding deposits. See from 1 min 33 secs. See Italy Actually Doing Something.

And on being burned alive: it's nothing unusual:

See also What is Socialist Economic Development.

Putin on Sovereign Internet

Apparently this call-in programme was subject to Internet DoS attacks while it was on air. It seems that the Sovereign Internet idea has been widely misunderstood in Russia as a censorship initiative. See also Russians Prefer to Use Russia's Domestic Internet Services.