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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the numbers-don't-lie dept.

Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:

https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/

More math!

~childo


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:42PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:42PM (#619214)

    Yes. You talk like a border wall could be effective.

    I have eyes. Israel built a wall, it worked. Hungary only built a fence, but it worked. China built one, it worked. Nobody can point to an example where a wall failed to control access. Because a wall can be breached with sufficient effort is not a reason to avoid building one. If it cuts the flow in half it will pay for itself in the first year of operation. And it almost certainly will achieve that, if from nothing other than psychology. That big beautiful wall is going to say "YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOME TO INVADE US" and cut the number who try.

    Again, i can smell your fear, and it isn't that it will be a waste of a puny $18B. You fear it will work. Why?

    Since the moon landings, the US has stumbled.

    Yes. Why? Could the Immigration Act of 1965 have anything to do with it? Could trading a space program for a welfare state have anything to do with it? Could our growing poz load have anything to do with it?

    We didn't need to build a wall. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Walls were for losers.

    Stop with the squid ink. The Soviets built walls to imprison their own population, who were fleeing for their lives as fast as they could. We are trying to stop an invasion.

    European nobility tried endlessly to paint the US as an unstable, experimental nation governed by ignorant peasants (ewww) that couldn't possibly survive more than a century.

    Go read some Carlyle and begin your journey to the Dark Side. Yup, they did say that and History is proving many of their criticisms valid. For example Carlyle said our form of government was only working because most people were too busy expanding into all that virgin territory to squabble over political power and control of resources. But that once we filled up the land we would have the same problems as Europe. Well we filled up and the Old Republic is dead and all but forgotten.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:19PM (#619246)

    >Israel built a wall, it worked.

    It's working for Israel, that's true. Good example.

    >Hungary only built a fence, but it worked.

    They had a fence on their border with Austria and it was working, but they turned off the electricity and tore it down. That was an odd decision.

    >China built one, it worked.

    It worked until the Manchus went through it and conquered China (look up the Qing dynasty sometime).

    >Nobody can point to an example where a wall failed to control access.

    What about the Maginot Line on France's eastern border? What about the Atlantic Wall on Europe's western shoreline?