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Kilroy

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I believe what we are looking at in the "Carelessly" hacker file with the X-Y-Z axis is a mathematical representation of the "Butterfly Effect." In essence it:

"...shows a graphical representation of the time variation of three variables X(t),Y(t) and Z(t), coupled by non-linear evolution equations. For the default parameters of the applet a single solution is shown evolving from an initial condition (X0,Y0,Z0). You can also start two solutions running simultaneously from initial conditions separated by (dX0,dY0,dZ0) by setting any of dX0, dY0, dZ0 to nonzero values (e.g. 0.01). This tiny difference in the initial conditions becomes amplified by the evolution, until the two trajectories evolve quite separately. The amplification is exponential; the difference grows very rapidly and after a surprisingly short time the two solutions behave quite differently. This is an illustration of the butterfly effect - the idea in meteorology that the flapping of a butterfly's wing will create a disturbance that in the chaotic motion of the atmosphere will become amplified eventually to change the large scale atmospheric motion, so that the long term behavior becomes impossible to forecast."

This was gleaned form this site:

http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.html

This site also has a simulator that allows you to modify the variables to show how one small variation can affect the entire equation - and on that note, isn't that a major part of the Matrix? Variations in an unbalanced equation? An anomaly exponentially increasing in its deviance from a selected course, resulting in a paradigm shift from the normal path (i.e. the previous Matrix versions). Just a thought.

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 		Wasn't there also another site that wasn't "live" just yet but had been discovered?

I knew this one and another were mentioned, and it seems since this one has gone live, maybe the other has as well?

Anyone have that?

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 		the lifeand..... site is still 'private'
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Ehsan
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yeahyeah wrote:
the lifeand..... site is still 'private'


And maybe we should just forget about it for now? I felt really bad when I discovered murpha was live.. I mean it would have been really exciting to get the Emerson CD, and then see the murpha document and try murpha.com to find that it works! whoah!

maybe next time..

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 		is that the same Lorenz that came up with the lorenz curve in economics? not that its important...

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 		Lorenz Curve
I believe so.

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 		Yes, that is a representation of the Lorenz attractor, which has lots of applications. And it may also have some significance to this game. It is dicussed in probably the best theory I have read on these boards here.
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 		I just wanted to point out that the so-called "unprofessional" image of a pen and ruler is in fact a professional stock photo:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=113199

the one at http://www.murpha.com/images/pen2.JPG was color-tinted.

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 		The A in Murpha
Anyone notice how the A at the end of Murpha, looks like the Masonic Symbol?

Also the quote: "Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Appius Claudius. Just some background on info on the author of the quote.

CLAUDIUS, AppIus, surnamed CAECUS, Roman patrician and author. In 312 B.C. he was elected censor without having passed through the office of consul. His censorship which he retained for five years, in spite of the lex Aemilia which limited the tenure of that office to eighteen months was remarkable for the actual or attempted achievement of several great constitutional changes. He filled vacancies in the senate with men of low birth, in some cases even the sons of freedmen
His most important political innovation was the abolition of the old free birth, freehold basis of suffrage. He enrolled the freedmen and landless citizens both in the centuries and in the tribes, and, instead of assigning them to the four urban tribes, he distributed them through all the tribes and thus gave them practical control of the elections.

Appius Claudius transferred the charge of the public worship of Hercules in the Forum Boarium from the Potitian gens to a number of public slaves. He further invaded the exclusive rights of the patricians by directing his secretary Gnaeus Flavius (whom, though a freedman, he made a senator) to publish the legis acliones (methods of legal practice) and the list of dies fasti (or days on which legal business could be transacted). Lastly, he gained enduring fame by the construction of a road and an aqueduct, which a thing unheard of before he called by his own name

In 307 he was elected consul for the first time. In 298 he was interrex; in 296, as consul, he led the army in Samnium, and although, with his colleague, he gained a victory over the Etruscans and Samnites, he does not seem to have specially distinguished himself as a soldier.

Next year he was praetor, and he was once dictator. His character, like his namesake the decemvirs is not easy to define. In spite of his political reforms, he opposed the admission of the pleheians to the consulship and priestly offices; and, although these reforms might appear to be democratic in character and calculated to give preponderance to the lowest class of the people, his probable aim was to strengthen the power of the magistrates (and lessen that of the senate) by founding it on the popular will, which would find its expression in the urban inhabitants and could be most easily influenced by the magistrate.

He was already blind and too feeble to walk, when Cineas, the minister of Pyrrhus, visited him, but so vigorously did he oppose every concession that all the eloquence of Cineas was in vain, and the Romans forgot past misfortunes in the inspiration of Claudiuss patriotism.

The story of his blindness, however, may be merely a method of accounting for his cognomen. Tradition regarded it as the punishment of his transference of the cult of Hercules from the Potitii.

Appius Claudius Caecus is also remarkable as the first writer mentioned in Roman literature. His speech against peace with Pyrrhus was the first that was transmitted to writing, and thereby laid the foundation of prose composition. He was the author of a collection of aphorisms in verse mentioned by Cicero (of which a few fragments remain), and of a legal work entitled De Usurpalioni bus. It is very likely also that he was concerned in the drawing up of the Legis Actiones published by Flavius. The famous dictum Every man is the architect of his own fortune is attributed to him. He also interested himself in grammatical questions, distinguished the two sounds R and S in writing, and,
did away with the letter Z.

Just another history lesson from PM's for us to all absorb.
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 		Is it possible that Ryan was Murpha's CEO in his previous life? And after he's been brainwashed, he has been substituted with a Robert with the same surname. Although, on the other hand, it would make sense for Robert's e-mail to be rAemersonSPLATmurpha.com to distingtuish it from Ryan's which would probably be rSemersonSPLATmurpha.com

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anima wrote:
Is it possible that Ryan was Murpha's CEO in his previous life? And after he's been brainwashed, he has been substituted with a Robert with the same surname. Although, on the other hand, it would make sense for Robert's e-mail to be rAemersonSPLATmurpha.com to distingtuish it from Ryan's which would probably be rSemersonSPLATmurpha.com


Any Connection to Ralph Waldo Emerson?

http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html
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 		There is something in Phillip K Dicks Novel Valis that mentions emerson
Damned if i can remember right now though I'm in a bit of a rush to leave the house

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anima wrote:
Is it possible that Ryan was Murpha's CEO in his previous life? And after he's been brainwashed, he has been substituted with a Robert with the same surname. Although, on the other hand, it would make sense for Robert's e-mail to be rAemersonSPLATmurpha.com to distingtuish it from Ryan's which would probably be rSemersonSPLATmurpha.com


If this were the case, might Murpha be looking for a new CEO like Metacortex was? (They still may be...just not publicly on their news page).
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 		I tried e-mailing rsemersonSPLATmurpha.com, but the e-mail got bounced saying "user unknown".

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 		Re: The A in Murpha
Mendax XIII wrote:
Anyone notice how the A at the end of Murpha, looks like the Masonic Symbol?


I am inclined to believe the connection actually goes the other way around: "the Masonic symbol looks like the A in Murpha." Architects use a compass and square in their daily jobs. Well, not so much since CAD software. Masons borrowed the compass and square for their symbol because of all the symbolism. Although the A crossbrace looks more like part of the compass and less like a square in this case. Also, it is possible that the Masons borrowed the symbol from architects, then Murpha specifically borrowed it back from the Masons for their logo--but their stylization does not seem close enough to the Mason symbol for this.
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