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Mornington Crescent Explained (was RE: Global Strike to protest Wassenaar)
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Ben[SMTP:ben@edelweb.fr] wrote, in reply to me replying to Richard Bragg: > >> > Ever played Mornington Crescent? Try the same thing with >> > e-mail. The idea is that only those in the game know "the rules". >> > These rules can change at any time in any way and all >> > "real players" can tell about the new "rules" and adjust accordingly. >> >> showing of course that he either doesn't know the *real* rules of >> Mornington Crescent or else (more likely) doesn't want to reveal them! Oh, >> and this posting quite clearly wins this round - even with the new DLR >> extensions and the Elverson Road footbridge:-) >Ok Ken--you didn't get 'Soccer Moms', now us Yanks don't get 'Mornington >Crescent'. You want to explain to the list? Well, you *did* ask. Don't blame me. It is summed up well at: http://vortex.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~asheiduk/pgg/06S/06S008.html or, more prosaically, at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/6270/ed_morning.htm Straight from the horse's mouth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_79000/79273.stm A transcript of an actual game can be found at: http://www.lazarus.demon.co.uk/mc/mc100.html - he also has many other links at: http://www.lazarus.demon.co.uk/mc/mc.html The Encyclopaedia Morningtonia has more detail than anyone in their right brain would want to know about the game at: http://aurora.york.ac.uk/mc_em.html Here are the rules of a slightly different game that Richard may have been thinking of: http://members.xoom.com/mornomic/ruleset.html and http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~c94kd/mornomic/ruleset.txt Ken

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17 Dec '03

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update.403 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:40:29 -0500 (EST) > From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) > Subject: update.403 > CLUSTERING AND COLLAPSE IN GRANULAR MATERIAL. > DOES CHAOS AFFECT THE COURSE OF AN ARMS RACE? > Yes, it may, particularly when great disparities exist between two > nations' economies (as is the case with the US and Iraq), according > to a new mathematical model developed by researchers in Japan > (Mitsuo Kono, Chuo University, kono(a)fps.chuo-u.ac.jp, 011-81- > 426-74-4161). In an attempt to mathematically model the feedback > between two adversarial nations as each builds up arms stocks, > British scientist Lewis F. Richardson published in 1949 a well- > known set of equations with variables describing such things as a > nation's military spending levels and parameters quantifying factors > such as a nation's internal pressure against military spending. This > model suffered from shortcomings, most notably that its linear > equations provided all too predictable results; critics noted that > many arms races spiral unpredictably out of control. In the > Japanese researchers' model a nation's reaction to an enemy's > weapons buildup is not automatically to build more weapons but is > instead a function of the difference in weapons and military > spending between two nations. This approach leads to more > realistic nonlinear differential equations which quantify concepts > normally unknown to physics, concepts such as fear, threat, > grievance, and fatigue. Their model shows an arms race can > progress in a mathematically chaotic fashion when the economic > situation of the two countries is different, but is more predictable > when the economies are more comparable (Tomochi and Kono in > the journal Chaos, December 1998.) > CORRECTION. A typo affecting a single letter can completely > reverse the meaning of a sentence. Thus in Update 402 in the > sentence "It is not thought that physics does differentiate between > the forward or backward movement of time," "not" should be > changed to "now." ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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