<p>I love Americans online because we (as in people in the US) always assume everyone else is from the US, as well.</p>
<p>I'm not from Israel, thankfully.</p>
<p>You mean ter say there are people outside of t3h United States?</p>
<p>I am shocked.</p>
<p>There used to be, before we annexed Cuba.</p>
<p>Meh, another thread we're going to have to abandon.</p>
<p>Why do our threads always get moved?</p>
<p>Maybe other forums don't turn discussions about rap into political dissertations.</p>
<p>...the other forums don't do that?</p>
<p>I thought everyone did..</p>
<p>Wanna make a political rap?</p>
<p>Corranged--Are you a lib as well??????????????????????????????????????/</p>
<p>We must go to Harvard together.</p>
<p>Duality--I disagree. The political spectrum is a 2-D vector, in its simplest form ;) Left/right (economic liberal/conserative) and up/down (social liberal/conserative). Duh :p</p>
<p>Meh I consider politics waaaaay too complicated to represent it in dimensions. I hate how some people keep things to one issue and completely ignore the rest.</p>
<p>Yes, but you'd be very surprised how effective such a 2-D political spectrum is at characterizing one's stance on the "major", timeless issues.</p>
<p>By the way, "I'm not from Israel, thankfully."...would you care to explain what you meant by that?</p>
<p>GuitarMan, that what I was saying! I said it was two dimensional rather than one dimensional. I was just using the two-by-two matrix analogy to emphasize the polarization of the two dimensional spectrum into four parties.</p>
<p>Hmm. Alrighty ;)</p>
<p>How you could've misrepresented that into quite the opposite is beyond me. :p</p>
<p>Well in a matrix there are only four options. In a two-D spectrum there are an infinite number of options. And you took care to distinguish between an infinite-point vector and a 2x2 matrix. So, I thought you meant something different :p</p>
<p>Aye, I thought that would've been a problem. I really wanted to compare a 2x2 matrix to a 1x2 one, and leave the association to 2d and 1d spectra to the reader. But the literal redundancy felt atrocious. Faced with a choice between technical parallelism and literary aesthetics, guess which choice I made? LOL...</p>
<p>To salvage the situation, I can only present this: imagine, then, that the one dimensional vector I was talking about, was really a vector describing a state with only two eigenvalues, -1/2 and +1/2.</p>
<p>Haha well, I can see the literary reasons for that, but it hurt the scientist within me to read those two terms being equated. haha</p>
<p>Nice recovery ;)</p>
<p>GuitarMan, I wouldn't want to live in Israel for a few reasons. First, I'd be scared of terrorist attacks, second, I'd have to serve in the military. Personally I think Israel is doing a great job, but I'd rather be an American than an Israeli at the moment.</p>
<p>It's a common misconception that living in Israel is actually dangerous or that Israelis are constantly in fear of being attacked. The terrorist attacks are so few and far between these days that I'd say at this point you're more likely to die in a car accident. And there are ways of getting out of service but growing up in Israel, many people want to serve in the army, even (or sometimes especially) in combat duty.</p>