Spot the NOT

What is wrong with this picture? Red indicates countries NOT using the metric system.

Metric System Map
Metric System Map

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Beware of iPhone 4 and iOS 4.3 Update

I just upgraded from 4.2.1 to 4.3, and have been spending the better part of the afternoon trying to get my phone to work again. After the upgrade, my battery started draining at a rate of 10% per 30 minutes. That implies in 5 hours the battery would be completely drained. I have not installed any new software or changed any settings other than the iOS upgrade.

In addition to this, the screen refused to auto lock. It is set to 1 minute, but it never turns off. So I restored, factory reset, restored, without success.

A plain 4.3 install with no restoring of any data seems to work fine. The phone is fast and does not drain the battery, and it auto locks the screen. The moment I restore my data, the above behaviour occurs.

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Surrey, Canada vs Quartermain Hotel in South Africa

Canada

Canada Network Graph
Canada Network Graph

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Life, Death and In Between

What happens when you have found the perfect theorem to describe nature? You worked your whole life to discover and compose the one theorem that perfectly describes all of science. With it you can make perfect predictions about anything that will ever happen or has ever happened.

A seasoned scientist will tell you such a theorem does not yet exist. Superstring theory (M-Theory) goes a long way but Calabi-Yau manifold abundanness causes some trouble for answering even a basic question such as why the electron has the mass it has been measured to possess? Regardless, if such a theory were to be discovered, it would be pretty amazing.

However, consider what happens when that theory is discovered amongst a sea of false theories, limited theories. It would be subject to intense scrutiny because scientists would want to be sure that it is consistent. The problem with scrutiny is that sometimes it can lead to false negatives. Meaning sometimes one can over scrutinize something and find a problem where no problem exists. And if the scientist making that claim is prominent enough, it might even overthrow the theory. A perfect theory. Nobody would ever know.

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