No. In states where gambling is legal, they have made it legal for casinos to rig their games for the house so long as part of the house's cut goes to the government. The government may make rules requiring that slots pay off a certain percentage of their contents a certain percentage of the time--say, $0.96 out of every $1 of credits must be paid to some gambler--but they'll never require that casinos pay out more than they take in, at all.
One of the gas stations I frequently use usually has its higher grade gas at the same price or a lower price than the regular gas. This is because the higher grade has ethanol and the lower grade doesn't. I am used to this situation, and get premium there when I would get standard anywhere else.
What happens to people who live with and use similar gas stations, but don't know why the price quirks run that way (since they aren't reading the label carefully)? What happens when they get a price error at an unfamiliar gas station that looks like status quo at one of their normal ones?
One other thing: in one of the areas I'm familiar with, gas stations have on occasion deliberately sold gas at "typo" prices. The price of gas is high, the gas station is in an awkward location, and so, to attract customers, they charge, say, $0.30 when the standard is $3.00. (My examples come from last year.) The deals rarely last long because they quickly run out of gas, but these deals are now known to happen on purpose in that area. Who's to say they won't again?
No, the manufacturer would probably argue that the machine in question was never meant to be used in America in the first place, so it's Harrah's fault for importing that machine to Indiana.
Assuming you're not at one of those casinos that quietly slip in new decks before the old ones are used up. Someone above us claims that some casinos do that. If you don't know whether there's 42 or 94 cards in the card pile, it would make accurate counting tougher.
Actually, the fine article seems to indicate that a gambler reported that machine. The casino likely didn't know before then. Their misfortune that she wasn't the first gambler.
If the only thing wrong with the slot machine was that it was turning $1 of plain credits to $10 of slot credits, and it did nothing to the odds of paying off, then likely at least some of those slots players still lost money overall. They may have lost it ten times slower, but they still lost money.
Also, it might take a little while before the casino realizes that there is a systematic error and not just an unusually generous run. In theory, slots are random.
Surely there are other slot machines out there which do think $1=$1. Surely Caesar's Indiana can use them. I mean, all the Caesar's and Harrah's casinos are tied into each other, so either there are some slot machines in the system that work as intended which Caesar's Indiana can borrow, or this story is gonna spread to other states fast.
The good news: Adobe makes Flash players for Linux and Solaris.
The bad news: the keylogger bug on certain old Flash players (the one most of you seem the most worried about) is specific to the Linux and Solaris models. Windows and MacOS/OSX only got the other bugs.
Unless the DMVs start getting tougher on giving out driver's licenses in America, yes. You are presenting a dilemma: do we want to worsen the near-certain disaster of global warming, or do we want to risk a major EPA disaster every time there's a car crash? (As opposed to the current minor disasters.)
I don't object to nuclear power plants; I understand now that a well-run nuclear plant is safer than a well-run coal plant at present. I just don't think that cars should be fueled by nuclear power directly.
No, I don't think Rain Man is anywhere near typical for an autistic. I just cited Rain Man because that fictional case is well known.
I do think that we would have more autistic savants, and more autistic people with skills, if we could get more autistics in contact with civilized society, however tenuously. You can only have someone do math instantly in his head if he's actually shown the basics of math in the first place. How many artistic autistics might there be in places where no one will give them, or teach them to use, even a crayon?
Would Temple Grandin have become a PhD if she had been locked in an institution? They didn't know in the beginning that she was high-functioning, did they?
I am convinced that there are autistic people who could possibly have savant skills, or even actual skills, but because they are institutionalized, they never find the raw material from which their savantry or skills can develop.
Yes. Thus, teaching autistic children to socialize must be done in moderation--not so much that they lose the abilities, but preferably enough that the benefits of those abilities can emerge at some point.
We would never have known that Rain Man could count cards if his brother Charlie hadn't taken him to the casino. And they wouldn't have been kicked out of the casino if Rain Man hadn't told other people that he was counting cards.
"Hey, parents! Don't you hate how baby monitors stop being effective just when your kids start to be able to get in real trouble? Well, we have the logical solution for you! Irona 800(tm) will keep an eye on your kids and send the image to your PDA! You can control her through your PDA, and she has dozens of programs she can run herself to keep your little ones entertained and out of trouble!"
We already have robots and computers and machines teaching children. We've had this sort of thing since Speak&Spell, and it's still being heavily used and advertised. Ever hear of Leapfrog?
And if teaching kids with robots or machines instead of people denies them social skills--well, I'm sure that there was a time before one out of every 166 children had autism, and anything that would help explain how this happened could be useful.
I consider Stranger in a Strange Land a transitional work.
Before, you get works like Starship Troopers and "On the Slopes of Vesuvius" and "LifeLine" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."
After, you get works like The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walked through Walls and Time Enough for Love.
Oops! My stupid mistake.
Okay. It's not simply that he had the strange sexual fantasies and put them to paper: it's that he assumed that his quirks were enlightened.
I believe that Heinlein's disdain for the soft sciences went beyond his cultural exposure. The soft sciences were, in fact, starting to take hold before 1977: Think of Dr. Spock and his theories of child-rearing--which would eventually help open the Generation Gap. Think of post-Great-Depression economics, and then think of Lazarus Long closing down his bank on one planet in Time Enough for Love because the populace chose to go off the grain standard...
I recommend you look up his piece on "how to go to college without getting an education." And there's a passage early in The Number of the Beast where a character expresses his own method of reaching that state. (I think he did get an education elsewhere, though.)
Heinlein believed that the critical things to know were English composition (how to write clearly), math, and history. (He made this list before history became a soft science, when people learning history studied what happened rather than why it happened.)
Hard science was worthwhile for those who chose to learn it. Soft sciences--economics, psychology (as it was taught in his lifetime--Freud was popular then), anthropology, etc.--weren't deserving of study; what couldn't be picked up intuitively wasn't worthy of study. How was he to know how thoroughly we'd end up mixing them?
It is a pity he thought so little of soft sciences, actually. Some of his insights into human nature were excellent, but some were horrific. He wouldn't have had such strange sexual fantasies if he understood why we had taboos against them. Not that he wanted to understand.
I hear--they claim in Who Killed the Electric Car?--that it's possible to make batteries that go 300 miles before recharging. Unfortunately, even that wouldn't solve Salt Lake City to LA.
I personally have similar problems with the electric car's range. I like the open road, and I've frequently acted on that urge, sometimes on short notice. I don't want to have to live with only 100 miles-per-charge either. There have been times in my life where 300 miles-per-charge would've been too few.
But just because it won't suit your needs or mine doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Some people, esp. in cities or near suburbs, don't need to drive 100 miles a day on any ordinary day and don't actually heed the call of the open road. They only want cars that can freely roam the open road to keep their options open, and never actually use that option. They could live with electric cars if they needed to; they would just need to be sold on such cars.
Analogy: I understand there are times and places where SUVs are more practical than anything else on the road--or, more precisely, off the road. They have their advantages. But I resent that car companies killed off true minivans to give SUVs footholds. That was over fuel, too--minivans had to follow fuel and air-quality standards that SUVs didn't...
Perhaps he meant that it's only been that long that people have researched mass-producing bacteria with the bacteria in mind.
Incidentally, I don't believe beer and bacteria mix well. Beer needs yeast.
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It appears that Indiana law isn't like Nevada law, then...
No. In states where gambling is legal, they have made it legal for casinos to rig their games for the house so long as part of the house's cut goes to the government. The government may make rules requiring that slots pay off a certain percentage of their contents a certain percentage of the time--say, $0.96 out of every $1 of credits must be paid to some gambler--but they'll never require that casinos pay out more than they take in, at all.
One of the gas stations I frequently use usually has its higher grade gas at the same price or a lower price than the regular gas. This is because the higher grade has ethanol and the lower grade doesn't. I am used to this situation, and get premium there when I would get standard anywhere else.
What happens to people who live with and use similar gas stations, but don't know why the price quirks run that way (since they aren't reading the label carefully)? What happens when they get a price error at an unfamiliar gas station that looks like status quo at one of their normal ones?
One other thing: in one of the areas I'm familiar with, gas stations have on occasion deliberately sold gas at "typo" prices. The price of gas is high, the gas station is in an awkward location, and so, to attract customers, they charge, say, $0.30 when the standard is $3.00. (My examples come from last year.) The deals rarely last long because they quickly run out of gas, but these deals are now known to happen on purpose in that area. Who's to say they won't again?
No, the manufacturer would probably argue that the machine in question was never meant to be used in America in the first place, so it's Harrah's fault for importing that machine to Indiana.
Assuming you're not at one of those casinos that quietly slip in new decks before the old ones are used up. Someone above us claims that some casinos do that. If you don't know whether there's 42 or 94 cards in the card pile, it would make accurate counting tougher.
Actually, the fine article seems to indicate that a gambler reported that machine. The casino likely didn't know before then. Their misfortune that she wasn't the first gambler.
If the only thing wrong with the slot machine was that it was turning $1 of plain credits to $10 of slot credits, and it did nothing to the odds of paying off, then likely at least some of those slots players still lost money overall. They may have lost it ten times slower, but they still lost money.
Also, it might take a little while before the casino realizes that there is a systematic error and not just an unusually generous run. In theory, slots are random.
Surely there are other slot machines out there which do think $1=$1. Surely Caesar's Indiana can use them. I mean, all the Caesar's and Harrah's casinos are tied into each other, so either there are some slot machines in the system that work as intended which Caesar's Indiana can borrow, or this story is gonna spread to other states fast.
The Windows vs. don't appear to be affected by keyloggers, either.
Have you read the fine article?
If Adobe is openly fixing security holes, then there likely were security holes.
The good news: Adobe makes Flash players for Linux and Solaris.
The bad news: the keylogger bug on certain old Flash players (the one most of you seem the most worried about) is specific to the Linux and Solaris models. Windows and MacOS/OSX only got the other bugs.
Unless the DMVs start getting tougher on giving out driver's licenses in America, yes. You are presenting a dilemma: do we want to worsen the near-certain disaster of global warming, or do we want to risk a major EPA disaster every time there's a car crash? (As opposed to the current minor disasters.)
I don't object to nuclear power plants; I understand now that a well-run nuclear plant is safer than a well-run coal plant at present. I just don't think that cars should be fueled by nuclear power directly.
No, I don't think Rain Man is anywhere near typical for an autistic. I just cited Rain Man because that fictional case is well known.
I do think that we would have more autistic savants, and more autistic people with skills, if we could get more autistics in contact with civilized society, however tenuously. You can only have someone do math instantly in his head if he's actually shown the basics of math in the first place. How many artistic autistics might there be in places where no one will give them, or teach them to use, even a crayon?
Would Temple Grandin have become a PhD if she had been locked in an institution? They didn't know in the beginning that she was high-functioning, did they?
I am convinced that there are autistic people who could possibly have savant skills, or even actual skills, but because they are institutionalized, they never find the raw material from which their savantry or skills can develop.
Yes. Thus, teaching autistic children to socialize must be done in moderation--not so much that they lose the abilities, but preferably enough that the benefits of those abilities can emerge at some point.
We would never have known that Rain Man could count cards if his brother Charlie hadn't taken him to the casino. And they wouldn't have been kicked out of the casino if Rain Man hadn't told other people that he was counting cards.
"Hey, parents! Don't you hate how baby monitors stop being effective just when your kids start to be able to get in real trouble? Well, we have the logical solution for you! Irona 800(tm) will keep an eye on your kids and send the image to your PDA! You can control her through your PDA, and she has dozens of programs she can run herself to keep your little ones entertained and out of trouble!"
We already have robots and computers and machines teaching children. We've had this sort of thing since Speak&Spell, and it's still being heavily used and advertised. Ever hear of Leapfrog?
And if teaching kids with robots or machines instead of people denies them social skills--well, I'm sure that there was a time before one out of every 166 children had autism, and anything that would help explain how this happened could be useful.
I consider Stranger in a Strange Land a transitional work.
Before, you get works like Starship Troopers and "On the Slopes of Vesuvius" and "LifeLine" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."
After, you get works like The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walked through Walls and Time Enough for Love.
Oops! My stupid mistake.
Okay. It's not simply that he had the strange sexual fantasies and put them to paper: it's that he assumed that his quirks were enlightened.
I believe that Heinlein's disdain for the soft sciences went beyond his cultural exposure. The soft sciences were, in fact, starting to take hold before 1977: Think of Dr. Spock and his theories of child-rearing--which would eventually help open the Generation Gap. Think of post-Great-Depression economics, and then think of Lazarus Long closing down his bank on one planet in Time Enough for Love because the populace chose to go off the grain standard...
I recommend you look up his piece on "how to go to college without getting an education." And there's a passage early in The Number of the Beast where a character expresses his own method of reaching that state. (I think he did get an education elsewhere, though.)
Heinlein believed that the critical things to know were English composition (how to write clearly), math, and history. (He made this list before history became a soft science, when people learning history studied what happened rather than why it happened.)
Hard science was worthwhile for those who chose to learn it. Soft sciences--economics, psychology (as it was taught in his lifetime--Freud was popular then), anthropology, etc.--weren't deserving of study; what couldn't be picked up intuitively wasn't worthy of study. How was he to know how thoroughly we'd end up mixing them?
It is a pity he thought so little of soft sciences, actually. Some of his insights into human nature were excellent, but some were horrific. He wouldn't have had such strange sexual fantasies if he understood why we had taboos against them. Not that he wanted to understand.
Ah, but that was sixty years ago. The gov. is more savvy now--they only open bids to largish corps.
Humvees went much smoother....
Nice, but I don't think any of us is ready for the nuclear-powered car yet.
No, I'm not proposing helium cars as an alternative to hydrogen cars. A helium/electric hybrid might make a good flying car, though.
I hear--they claim in Who Killed the Electric Car?--that it's possible to make batteries that go 300 miles before recharging. Unfortunately, even that wouldn't solve Salt Lake City to LA.
I personally have similar problems with the electric car's range. I like the open road, and I've frequently acted on that urge, sometimes on short notice. I don't want to have to live with only 100 miles-per-charge either. There have been times in my life where 300 miles-per-charge would've been too few.
But just because it won't suit your needs or mine doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Some people, esp. in cities or near suburbs, don't need to drive 100 miles a day on any ordinary day and don't actually heed the call of the open road. They only want cars that can freely roam the open road to keep their options open, and never actually use that option. They could live with electric cars if they needed to; they would just need to be sold on such cars.
Analogy: I understand there are times and places where SUVs are more practical than anything else on the road--or, more precisely, off the road. They have their advantages. But I resent that car companies killed off true minivans to give SUVs footholds. That was over fuel, too--minivans had to follow fuel and air-quality standards that SUVs didn't...
Pity. I think that fella intended it to have the same tempo as a song by some American surf-band from the early '60s.
Perhaps he meant that it's only been that long that people have researched mass-producing bacteria with the bacteria in mind.
Incidentally, I don't believe beer and bacteria mix well. Beer needs yeast.