On 6/22/2015 6:12 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: > At 5:23 PM -0700 6/22/15, Joe Touch wrote: > >> The push back I've seen so far indicates to me that there are clear >> political motivations for using the US Debt numbers instead. So be it. >> >> I'll be glad to pick equally offensive values for entropy in the next >> specs I author. > > I just happened to see this thread, and this response makes me very > curious. Quite likely I'm naive or ignorant, so this may be very > obvious, but I can't see what political statement is being made, or how > the sources are offensive. Obviously, the debt and budget of any nation > is a political topic, but I can't see what statement is being made by > using it as a source of digits, or who is being offended and why. If you don't feel it's an issue, then let's use the debt of another group - e.g., the EU, and we're done. If you think that's not appropriate to use the EU instead of the US, then that's why we shouldn't use the US. Joe