Pretty sure "Jane" is a repressed gay man. They tend to be the only people who love delving that much into the nasty details of the sex they claim to hate.
Hahahahaha. About the only way you could be more wrong is if you had researched my life and deliberately reversed everything you found.
How long is the recorded history of similarly accurate storm measurement? How old is the planet? Maybe we're just in a cycle that is a bit longer than the amount of time people have been able to measure hurricanes, or have been able to measure them as accurately.
The other reply is misleading.
We've been using "modern" measurements for hurricanes since about 1959, which just happened to have a record storm. BUT... that year also had an El Nino. And the strong El Nino of this year again made one more likely. Nothing terribly special about that, statistically. And nothing particular connecting it to "global warming".
Prior to that time, hurricanes were only actually measured at all when they made landfall. Others were only estimated from ships or from shore. Which means most of them were never measured, and in fact we actually have no idea where Patricia falls in the severity range since records began.
While Obama has broken many promises including this one, I'll remind everyone something that's been said before; getting meta-data isn't wiretapping. So much of what's happening now would still happen if Obama was dutiful. Just like his promise to close Guantanamo prison didn't mean the end or torture or the exercise of due process.
And that still doesn't excuse any of it, or let any of them off for their dereliction of duty, and (at least temporary) damage to the Constitution.
Also, meta-data doesn't have to be "wiretapping" to be violation of constitutional privacy rights, as the Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion.
(Clarification: while "privacy" is not stated explicitly in the Constitution, SCOTUS has many times ruled that any rational interpretation of the Bill of Rights must include privacy.)
their attempt to sway the vote with a xenophobic campaign message
Not unlike many other liberals, you grossly misuse "phobia". Not wanting X in no way implies a fear of X.
In fact, it puzzles me why liberals have such a tendency to put everything in terms related to "fear". The only theory I've found so far that makes any sense is that they're afraid of a hell of a lot of things, and are "projecting", as the psychologists say.
Because I can guarantee you that a lot of the people you call "phobic" are laughing at the idea that they are afraid of things you seem to think they are afraid of.
They don't have to provide a severance package (outside of whatever may be in their current contract), and they are offering one
Do you understand what "no consideration" means?
According to GP, the company was offering nothing in exchange for this. No "severance package". Nothing.
If they actually are, great. But that wasn't the context in which my comment was made.
And no, there is no such thing in the U.S. as a "voluntary", one-sided "contract". That's not what "contract" means. If the other side isn't offering anything, it's not a contract. It's an unenforceable promise. Not even a "promise", in the technical legal sense.
And to what non-existent law might you be referring?
It isn't a single specific email law in the US (it is in the UK). In the US, it is a whole plethora of other laws. If a blacklister has you falsely blacklisted (i.e., you aren't sending spam, or fraud, etc.) and they won't remove you from their blacklist on reasonable notice they make themselves subject to all kinds of civil and possibly criminal liability. The possibilities are almost endless: libel and defamation (being on the blacklist implies wrongdoing), attempted censorship, unfair commercial practices, etc. The list is long.
In theory, the high tuitions that foreign students pay keeps tuition lower for domestic students.
BS. It doesn't work that way. Because of regulations, they can only charge state residents so much. So they charge others more. You're imagining some kind of "This is our total budget, so if others pay more, they pay less" scheme. Hahahaha. What world do you live in?
As in "do not write your own data structures", as in no one should do that after their sophomore year. That's a stupid rule, people have to write data structures all the time
You're misinterpreting. "Do not write your own data structures" does not mean don't design your own objects, or structs, or whatever. It means don't don't try to second-guess your language by trying to create a new low-level structures like say a "character hash" with markedly different properties/behaviors from a regular hash.
In modern languages, you'd almost always be wasting your time, and losing efficiency.
It doesn't really matter. If there's no consideration offered by the company, they can sign it 10 times in blood and with their children's names too. It's still unenforceable. It might be funny to see them try.
If nothing of value is offered in return, it's not a contract.
I've tried to tell people this many, many times here on Slashdot. You might be surprised at how many people said I was nuts.
Don't forget, also, that a contract is supposed to be negotiable by both parties... otherwise it's pretty much impossible to call it an "agreement". A take-it-or-leave-it "contract" offered by a corporation is often considered a "Contract of Adhesion", over which judges traditionally give greater weight to the signer's position.
It's simple, if the input is large. You simply include the punctuation as part of the word to which it is attached when generating your probability tables.
That doesn't work so well with small inputs... and wasn't part of the M.I.T. generator I demoed.
What Z00L00K said. Also:
Many corporate email systems, especially the larger ones, are configured to ignore anything from a dynamic IP address. The email must have a fixed IP address or they'll just plain ignore you. This is ostensibly for "security" but I suspect there's some barrier-to-entry aspect of it too.
Also, by law, you have to be allowed to get yourself removed from grey- and black-lists. It's a pain in the butt, but it can be done.
There is also the issue that both Constitutionally and according to the Air Commerce Act which established it, the FAA only has authority over "navigable airways", which means commonly flown interstate routes, including the areas around airports.
Also being a Federal agency, the Department of Transportation only has jurisdiction over similar situations: interstate travel, etc.
Federal agencies don't have authority over all roads on the ground, nor all parts of the air. That's the way the Federal government was set up.
It doesn't surprise me that they're trying these unconstitutional rules again, especially in a Democratic adminstration. But they will fail again. The Constitution is what it is.
... And here is some output from a simple (naive) Markov-Chain generator fed Alice in Wonderland:
It unfolded that it and then all the water and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not," for she had nibbled some more tea," the Cat said, without opening itself up on tiptoe and peeped over them, all ornamented with her head through that day.
"You ought to her lips, saying tone; "don't be nervous, or I'll have finished," said the King, "call the party I ever was a little feeble, squeaking voice.
"Then you should say what was coming to, but it was all ridges and found that it led into a tidy little cart-wheels and that's a fact."
Just then Alice (she had kept a piece out of sight.
Alice was a paper label, with the wood. "It's a Cheshire-Cat," said the Cat in a languid, sleepy voice.
"What do you know about the same solemn tone, "For the fire, stirring a long hookah and take it and there. There was no "One, two, the Caterpillar took the house before seen a rabbit with the Queen, stamping about something; Alice heard this, she found that sort.
Next came the royal children; there were trying every now and then hurried out, "The race was over at the Mouse only shook its head impatiently and was just begin?"
This question is 'What?'"
Alice was just going to get very tired of swimming away.
"You're looking about for serpents! There's no name signed at the same thing, you know about two feet high and was "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"I'm glad they'll do next!" thought, "it's sure to do with you. Mind now!"
"He took me for her neck from being broke off and Alice heard it muttering to eat or drink under the immediate adoption of more energetic remediesâ""
"Speak English!" said the Pigeon, raising its eyes, "Of course," said the King and very gravely, "I think of anger, and tried to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she did not get hold of any good reason to be afraid of it.
Presentâ"at least notice this morning
I've
nothing
to do.'
Said the Knave of Hearts.
The King looked up and bread and birds with draggled feathers, the animals with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on going to turn into a cucumber-frame or some way out of prisoner toâ"to somebody to talk to."
"How are you grow shorter, until there was hardly knowâ"No more, thank ye. I'm better now," Alice thought the flamingo and tucked it and people up like a telescopes. There was a general chorus, "Yes, please do!" But when they had been. world of trees, and I've tried her way through was more hopeless than ever.
Parameters are adjustable. It can be made to make more sense than this, and there are some refinements to the general technique that aren't present here, particularly in the way of punctuation. I just generated a quick-and-dirty on the fly.
It may have been generated via "AI" techniques, but the results are little if any better than a simple Markov-Chain text generator, of the kind I built back in the 80s with my programmable calculator... and used today to generate spam emails.
The only difference I see is that there are pictures accompanying the "articles". But I don't see anything about an algorithm for that, so I think I am safe to presume that the text is generated by the so-called "AI", but composed by an actual human.
But maybe not... the pictures seem pretty random and unrelated to the texts. So it could be done algorithmically... but then it's still just as UNimpressive.
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Pretty sure "Jane" is a repressed gay man. They tend to be the only people who love delving that much into the nasty details of the sex they claim to hate.
Hahahahaha. About the only way you could be more wrong is if you had researched my life and deliberately reversed everything you found.
How long is the recorded history of similarly accurate storm measurement? How old is the planet? Maybe we're just in a cycle that is a bit longer than the amount of time people have been able to measure hurricanes, or have been able to measure them as accurately.
The other reply is misleading.
We've been using "modern" measurements for hurricanes since about 1959, which just happened to have a record storm. BUT... that year also had an El Nino. And the strong El Nino of this year again made one more likely. Nothing terribly special about that, statistically. And nothing particular connecting it to "global warming".
Prior to that time, hurricanes were only actually measured at all when they made landfall. Others were only estimated from ships or from shore. Which means most of them were never measured, and in fact we actually have no idea where Patricia falls in the severity range since records began.
While Obama has broken many promises including this one, I'll remind everyone something that's been said before; getting meta-data isn't wiretapping. So much of what's happening now would still happen if Obama was dutiful. Just like his promise to close Guantanamo prison didn't mean the end or torture or the exercise of due process.
And that still doesn't excuse any of it, or let any of them off for their dereliction of duty, and (at least temporary) damage to the Constitution.
Also, meta-data doesn't have to be "wiretapping" to be violation of constitutional privacy rights, as the Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion.
(Clarification: while "privacy" is not stated explicitly in the Constitution, SCOTUS has many times ruled that any rational interpretation of the Bill of Rights must include privacy.)
Mod way up.
their attempt to sway the vote with a xenophobic campaign message
Not unlike many other liberals, you grossly misuse "phobia". Not wanting X in no way implies a fear of X.
In fact, it puzzles me why liberals have such a tendency to put everything in terms related to "fear". The only theory I've found so far that makes any sense is that they're afraid of a hell of a lot of things, and are "projecting", as the psychologists say.
Because I can guarantee you that a lot of the people you call "phobic" are laughing at the idea that they are afraid of things you seem to think they are afraid of.
Pardon me then, I should have paid more attention to context.
Even so, I still think the tagline was misleading, and likely deliberately so.
Pro bono, consumer legal services, and State AG haven't disappeared.
They don't have to provide a severance package (outside of whatever may be in their current contract), and they are offering one
Do you understand what "no consideration" means?
According to GP, the company was offering nothing in exchange for this. No "severance package". Nothing.
If they actually are, great. But that wasn't the context in which my comment was made.
And no, there is no such thing in the U.S. as a "voluntary", one-sided "contract". That's not what "contract" means. If the other side isn't offering anything, it's not a contract. It's an unenforceable promise. Not even a "promise", in the technical legal sense.
And to what non-existent law might you be referring?
It isn't a single specific email law in the US (it is in the UK). In the US, it is a whole plethora of other laws. If a blacklister has you falsely blacklisted (i.e., you aren't sending spam, or fraud, etc.) and they won't remove you from their blacklist on reasonable notice they make themselves subject to all kinds of civil and possibly criminal liability. The possibilities are almost endless: libel and defamation (being on the blacklist implies wrongdoing), attempted censorship, unfair commercial practices, etc. The list is long.
Like regulating drones?
No one, including myself who submitted the story, claimed that those deaths were from radiation.
No, you don't get off that easy. If you didn't intend to imply it, you would not have written this tagline:
First Cancer Case Confirmed From Fukushima Cleanup
You aren't going to get it both ways. Either you intended to imply a link, or you're particularly shitty at English, your second language. Choose one.
In theory, the high tuitions that foreign students pay keeps tuition lower for domestic students.
BS. It doesn't work that way. Because of regulations, they can only charge state residents so much. So they charge others more. You're imagining some kind of "This is our total budget, so if others pay more, they pay less" scheme. Hahahaha. What world do you live in?
It's just exactly greed, nothing more.
Americium is NOT an isotope of plutonium, it is a decay product of Uranium/Plutonium, specifically
That was the first thing that struck me when I read OP.
And I think it's probably fair to say that the fact that they didn't blow up was far from an accident; they were designed that way.
As in "do not write your own data structures", as in no one should do that after their sophomore year. That's a stupid rule, people have to write data structures all the time
You're misinterpreting. "Do not write your own data structures" does not mean don't design your own objects, or structs, or whatever. It means don't don't try to second-guess your language by trying to create a new low-level structures like say a "character hash" with markedly different properties/behaviors from a regular hash.
In modern languages, you'd almost always be wasting your time, and losing efficiency.
It doesn't really matter. If there's no consideration offered by the company, they can sign it 10 times in blood and with their children's names too. It's still unenforceable. It might be funny to see them try.
If nothing of value is offered in return, it's not a contract.
I've tried to tell people this many, many times here on Slashdot. You might be surprised at how many people said I was nuts.
Don't forget, also, that a contract is supposed to be negotiable by both parties... otherwise it's pretty much impossible to call it an "agreement". A take-it-or-leave-it "contract" offered by a corporation is often considered a "Contract of Adhesion", over which judges traditionally give greater weight to the signer's position.
Naive enough to have actually studied Constitutional history.
It's simple, if the input is large. You simply include the punctuation as part of the word to which it is attached when generating your probability tables.
That doesn't work so well with small inputs... and wasn't part of the M.I.T. generator I demoed.
What Z00L00K said. Also: Many corporate email systems, especially the larger ones, are configured to ignore anything from a dynamic IP address. The email must have a fixed IP address or they'll just plain ignore you. This is ostensibly for "security" but I suspect there's some barrier-to-entry aspect of it too. Also, by law, you have to be allowed to get yourself removed from grey- and black-lists. It's a pain in the butt, but it can be done.
There is also the issue that both Constitutionally and according to the Air Commerce Act which established it, the FAA only has authority over "navigable airways", which means commonly flown interstate routes, including the areas around airports.
Also being a Federal agency, the Department of Transportation only has jurisdiction over similar situations: interstate travel, etc.
Federal agencies don't have authority over all roads on the ground, nor all parts of the air. That's the way the Federal government was set up.
It doesn't surprise me that they're trying these unconstitutional rules again, especially in a Democratic adminstration. But they will fail again. The Constitution is what it is.
Only if you misunderstood my position.
20 to 30?! Markov chains are almost 90 years old! They're fabulous, especially for project Euler problem 'flea circus' ;)
As with many innovations, not only practical but (today) SIMPLE applications took a long time to develop.
It unfolded that it and then all the water and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not," for she had nibbled some more tea," the Cat said, without opening itself up on tiptoe and peeped over them, all ornamented with her head through that day.
"You ought to her lips, saying tone; "don't be nervous, or I'll have finished," said the King, "call the party I ever was a little feeble, squeaking voice.
"Then you should say what was coming to, but it was all ridges and found that it led into a tidy little cart-wheels and that's a fact."
Just then Alice (she had kept a piece out of sight.
Alice was a paper label, with the wood. "It's a Cheshire-Cat," said the Cat in a languid, sleepy voice.
"What do you know about the same solemn tone, "For the fire, stirring a long hookah and take it and there. There was no "One, two, the Caterpillar took the house before seen a rabbit with the Queen, stamping about something; Alice heard this, she found that sort.
Next came the royal children; there were trying every now and then hurried out, "The race was over at the Mouse only shook its head impatiently and was just begin?"
This question is 'What?'"
Alice was just going to get very tired of swimming away.
"You're looking about for serpents! There's no name signed at the same thing, you know about two feet high and was "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"I'm glad they'll do next!" thought, "it's sure to do with you. Mind now!"
"He took me for her neck from being broke off and Alice heard it muttering to eat or drink under the immediate adoption of more energetic remediesâ""
"Speak English!" said the Pigeon, raising its eyes, "Of course," said the King and very gravely, "I think of anger, and tried to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she did not get hold of any good reason to be afraid of it.
Presentâ"at least notice this morning I've nothing to do.' Said the Knave of Hearts.
The King looked up and bread and birds with draggled feathers, the animals with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on going to turn into a cucumber-frame or some way out of prisoner toâ"to somebody to talk to."
"How are you grow shorter, until there was hardly knowâ"No more, thank ye. I'm better now," Alice thought the flamingo and tucked it and people up like a telescopes. There was a general chorus, "Yes, please do!" But when they had been. world of trees, and I've tried her way through was more hopeless than ever.
Parameters are adjustable. It can be made to make more sense than this, and there are some refinements to the general technique that aren't present here, particularly in the way of punctuation. I just generated a quick-and-dirty on the fly.
Before anybody misunderstands... I am not using them to generate spam emails. But you've most likely seen some.
It may have been generated via "AI" techniques, but the results are little if any better than a simple Markov-Chain text generator, of the kind I built back in the 80s with my programmable calculator... and used today to generate spam emails.
The only difference I see is that there are pictures accompanying the "articles". But I don't see anything about an algorithm for that, so I think I am safe to presume that the text is generated by the so-called "AI", but composed by an actual human.
But maybe not... the pictures seem pretty random and unrelated to the texts. So it could be done algorithmically... but then it's still just as UNimpressive.