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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:57PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:57PM (#619143)

    The New Colossus

    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
    Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
    "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
    With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

    Hasn't been the national policy for over a century, but didn't hurt us one bit while it was.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:02PM (#619203)

    Some third rate prose some otherwise unknown Jew nailed to the pedestal of a French gift decades after it was built isn't U.S. policy or law. And I'm not letting you get away with conflating the controlled, legal, immigration through Ellis Island with the modern desire for unlimited uncontrolled illegal immigration now. We rejected a fairly large percentage of those poor starving huddled masses and sent them back for one reason or another. I will also note that after that flood we had similar problems with integration and closed down the flow almost entirely between 1924 and 1965. So yes, it did hurt us, we just retained a survival instinct then and stopped when it became painful. We also had vast unsettled swaths of land in the 19th Century. Probably most important, we had no welfare state so about one in five who came in eventually went back home.

    So as predicted, you have not addressed my concern. What is the urgent need for millions and millions of third worlders?

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:59PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:59PM (#619223)

      So, you resent the Jews, hate the French, and are afraid more immigrants will swamp your idea of culture altogether?

      No urgent need for immigrants here, but when my ancestors arrived from Europe (in the early 1800s) they too were scum of the earth debtors with less than nothing to their name.

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      Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/