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Bobby Fischer Found
paulydavis writes "Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted since 1992 for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia despite U.N. sanctions, was detained in Japan for an apparent passport violation and will be deported to the United States."
That is the worst written post I have ever read on Slashdot.
And that's saying a lot.
I haven't actually watched the jeopardy guy (I have no idea when it's on in the Boston market) but it seems like once he builds up a pretty sizable warchest he'll be essentially un-dethroneable unless he makes a stupid, all-in wager and loses. I'm not really positive on the rules, but maybe the value of the questions should be scaled somehow as a function of the defending champion's wealth?
Actually, if you want to stimulate the economy by 1., then you should give tax cuts to poor people, who typically spend all of their available income on consumption.
Tax cuts are a "temporary high" because they must be met by either lower government spending in the future, undoing 1., or higher interests rates and higher interest payments to non-US residents, undoing 2.
If job creation is the goal then it's far wiser to cut payroll taxes (social security, etc.) which raise the cost of hiring people rather than income taxes. Or the payroll taxes could be replaced them with taxes on commodities and other inputsto encourage businesses to substitue labor for natural resources.
foldplay your photos won't know what hit them.
You obviously know nothing of the rules of Jeapordy!
The defending champion can only use their current-day winnings to wager. It's not like the other two contestants have "$0" and Ken has "$1,006,384" at the beginning of the show. They all start at zero, at the beginning of each show.
Education is the silver bullet.
That makes sense then. IANAGSW (game show watcher).
Well, since your argument seems to be summed up by:
a american football and baseball are the most intellectual sports (implied*)
b cycling is possibly as intellectual (with evidence)
Because of a and b, american football and baseball are the most intellectual sports. So if you want to call my argument dishonest, stop begging the question. I have made no attempt to quantify the smarts involved in the other sports I am familiar with (hockey, basketball, lacrosse, soccer)** with all of the sports of the world, because I know I don't know everything.
What I am saying, more clearly now, is that the sports I am familiar with are on par with american football and baseball intellectually. Not to discount other sports like motorsports, curling etc. You simply did not discuss any sports that were below your examples, and made it hard for me to refute your claim.
*implied because you say football and baseball are intellectual (true), but then say the only sport that comes close is cycling
**I am also famaliar with baseball and american football. But I'm speaking now strictly of other examples.
-Reid
Another example of my ignorange=].
I can't throw a frisbee very well or long distance run, so I never got into it.
-Reid
Remember, if this guy doesn't think it's funny, then it's not. At all. For anyone. I only hope that in the future my humor can measure up to the great AC Humor Stick (tm) so that my life will be complete.
IMAM (I Am A Mathematician)
Maybe so, but you're certainly not an editor. "am" does not start with the letter "M".
Of course, "IAAM" just looks stupid. I think I would like to declare open war on acronyms - especially when the acronym is followed by the entire phrase written out, and then never used again.
"Pardon me sir, but did I just catch you making up an acronym as a rhetorical device even though it does not increase the efficiency and clarity of your overall message? Yes?"
BLAM!!!
"That'll teach you..."
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Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
That's not the way it works. He starts over at $0 every day. It's true that by Final Jeopardy he generally has locked in the game (more than double the nearest competitor), but that's due to his superior performance, not an inherent financial advantage.
And recently i was just watching something about this and the big problem is money, we would be sending people out of jail, but unlike all you other countries who get money FROM US, we have to make due with what we have and thus go the cheaper route of jail rather than rehabilitation...
Course many more coutries in the world kill people who commit the crimes some of our jail population does (like rape and insest), we only kill mass murderes, and serial killers, and even then maybe 5 a year at most....
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Ah, another Go fan! And yes, Go is more difficult than Chess. Simply put, despite the simplicity of the rules (relative to chess), it's quite harder to surround your opponent when your opponent can move anywhere on the board. There are simply more possible moves at any given time in Go (except there at the end).
Haec merda tauri est. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
*Moorewatch is a pretty ridiculous site. You can cite it, and I'll check it out, as anyone else can. But, from the times I've checked it out, they'll find any excuse to say something nasty, even if it's completely inconsistent with anything else they've said. Like when they called Moore an evil capitalist for *only* donating 60% of F 9/11's profits to charity. How horrible! But other times, he's a communist jerk. Well, anyway, waiting for the source. ;-)
Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.
Wow. The idiot mods must move in heards. Idiot struck again. I wonder if it's spectecjr doing this. He certainly seems the type. Not only is he dumb, but he acted childish enough to hold a grudge for being wrong. I'd place a modest bet that he's the brainless troll moderator. None of the troll mods started until right after he acted like a complete idiot and we came into conflict.
All I know is, you have to be one serious loser to brainlessly hold a grudge to constantly troll me like what this person is doing. It's obvious that they are following the posts via my profile. Which means, I am specifically being targeted. One can only hope that meta moderation will address the mods being done by this idiot-loser troll.