If I can find Iraq on a map, will you stop lumping all Americans together as morons? If I send video of a protest, will you stop lumping us all together as murderers?
I can agree that there are groups that stupid, but they tend to be short-lived, as they make mistakes and get caught. A group that's at least smart enough to get to the fourth or fifth bombing is going to be smart enough to break itself up into subgroups.
The majority of bombs will be placed by these more intelligent groups, as the less-intelligent groups will be arrested after bomb one or two.
It's kind of like not running an antivirus on a Linux system. Yes, there are viruses out there that can get you, but most of them can't, so you don't bother. Yes, there are bombers out there who won't be able to properly disguise their bombs, but most of them can and do.
Numbers weren't the point. The point was that the statement "People, en masse, are dumb" does not necessarily negate that the people who build and hide the bombs can be effective and intelligent about doing so. Even if there's 10 people who know how to hide bombs, they are still an expert subset. This isn't like playing chess by committee, where everyone votes on the moves, whether they know anything about chess or not, this is a small, trained taskforce that gets a bunch of extra votes, enough so that a consensus amongst the taskforce can overrule the rest of the group.
If anti-abortion group x says "Let's plant a bomb at the 'Babies make good fertilizer' abortion clinic", then they're going to go to their engineer or engineers to figure out how much bomb they need to get their point across. There will be a single returned value, despite any bickering amongst the group. There has been a decision, and the rest of the possible choices have fallen by the wayside. They go to the bomb maker or makers, and give him or them the parameters for the bomb. The task is completed by this expert group. Then they give it to the bomb deploying team, which likely already has a location from the engineer. They figure out how to most effectively put a bomb there, and they act as an individual once they have come to a decision. This is why we don't get FedEx packages with long tubes attached sitting in the trunk of a car. Expert groups act as individual under normal circumstances.
It doesn't matter how stupid the group might be, so long as they are smart enough to compartmentalize tasks. The bomb hiders don't get input on how much PETN to use, or if they want to go with RDX or ANFO instead of PETN. The engineer doesn't tell the bomb hiders to use a FedEx package, that's in the bomb hiders area of expertise.
So no, in an anarchist group of my devising, the whole group doesn't get to decide on anything except which abortion clinic to hit.
Anti-abortion groups don't design bombs by committee. Only the government does that. Anti-abortion groups (or whatever other kind of group you want to substitute) have a guy who knows about making bombs, and he makes them with no input other than size and yield. There may be a second guy who knows about hiding bombs. The point is, these two people are smart. Individually, everyone else in the group is likely reasonably intelligent. It's only as a group that they become dumb enough to place bombs at clinics frequented by pregnant women in an attempt to keep fetuses alive.
Fair enough. My anecdotal evidence follows what Wikipedia says, but I generally don't have to worry about getting a lot of exotic formatting in my docs.
If you're expecting water, any wine could be called "the good stuff". There are of course ways to enhance this trick, including putting the piece of bread in a stronger wine and leaving it until the wine has evaporated all on its own. You now have a piece of super-wine bread, and, depending on the size of the pitcher, could make something almost as close to real wine as orange juice from concentrate is to real orange juice. Not all that close to the discerning tongue, but 4 out of 5 unwashed masses think it's better than water.
Because eagles are solo hunters, just like the rest of the modern birds of prey? I'm pretty sure that there are species of duck that hunt solo, and migrate in groups.
This is why I use RTF for everything. Everyone reads it. It was originally developed for interoperability. Of course, now Microsoft will have to change it...
It may be freedom, but it isn't a stable equilibrium. Every society has a leader or leaders, even getting right down to insects. If we stripped all of the rulers from the U.S. tonight, then I guarantee there'd be someone in power within the week.
It could entail a little stage magic by dropping a wine-soaked piece of bread into a metal pitcher demonstrated to contain water while nobody's watching. Keep anyone from finding the bread, and you've got yourself some weak wine.
There have also been buried alive tricks and euphoria-based faith healings that last long enough for the healer to leave town.
Note: Baptist ministers don't like statements like that, in my experience.
Then he'd be following rather closely in Turing's footsteps, wouldn't he? Now that it has been determined that "fags" have you beat in every walk of life, don't you think this is the time for you to stop using that derogatory term?
Or, the young man is a cigarette, in which case I withdraw my objection.
I remember from my college days, I worked at a Taco Bell. We had a guy who we banned from coming in, because he had been claiming more free food than he'd ever paid for. Former employee, let go for theft.
Or when they don't expect any ability at all, such as when they are visiting the U.S., and you have not been mentioned to them as an expert with their language. My brother speaks very fluent German. He was working as a cashier, and German tourists arrived. As they were having some trouble with English, my brother switched to German, startling and pleasing them.
How about an electrician working on sensitive electronics? Even as close as they are, electrons making circuits or not making circuits, there is a wide gap between the people who work on 220V mains and 5V chips.
He's dead. He was executed. Yet the situation did not improve. Are you going to keep blaming Saddam for the current situation? Just because he's dead doesn't mean that his influence is no longer felt. Look at New Orleans. Katrina is over. We're past that by quite a while. But the fact remains that there a lot of problems directly caused by Katrina (and aided and abetted by FEMA and government incompetence).
Saddam caused a lot of trouble for Iraq. We may not have done much cleaning up, but stopping the hurricane was a good thing.
Absolutely correct, and if it weren't for the gaming, I would likely have two Linux machines instead of one. Of course, I also earn money by doing computer maintenance for people and local businesses. These people use Windows, so it's worth my while to keep myself up to date.
I'd trust his insight into the human psyche. More than a master forger, he was an extraordinary con artist and social engineer. To him, the human psyche was as computer systems are to skilled hackers: something to look at, understand, and control.
Windows can be secured. I've got an XP desktop for gaming, and I run Linux on my laptop. Neither of them get viruses. My protection suite is all free software, so there's no annual fee there. And, if enough regular people switched to something with a Unix base, they'd have virus issues too. There are viruses and rootkits for systems other than Windows. They aren't prolific because the average moron who clicks everything is on Windows.
Yes, those systems are more secure than Windows. No, they are not secure enough to deal with the assault of a wave of moronic users. Feel free to dream of an exodus away from Windows, but understand that nothing will change, even if your dream comes true.
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Sure you can, just put the same amount down on red for all of them. If I bet $10 on red for each of those 13 rolls, I end up $30 if I'm right.
If I can find Iraq on a map, will you stop lumping all Americans together as morons? If I send video of a protest, will you stop lumping us all together as murderers?
I can agree that there are groups that stupid, but they tend to be short-lived, as they make mistakes and get caught. A group that's at least smart enough to get to the fourth or fifth bombing is going to be smart enough to break itself up into subgroups.
The majority of bombs will be placed by these more intelligent groups, as the less-intelligent groups will be arrested after bomb one or two.
It's kind of like not running an antivirus on a Linux system. Yes, there are viruses out there that can get you, but most of them can't, so you don't bother. Yes, there are bombers out there who won't be able to properly disguise their bombs, but most of them can and do.
But 00 and 01 make up 10 values. Kind of like 0-9 being 10 values. The shirt makes perfect sense as is.
Numbers weren't the point. The point was that the statement "People, en masse, are dumb" does not necessarily negate that the people who build and hide the bombs can be effective and intelligent about doing so. Even if there's 10 people who know how to hide bombs, they are still an expert subset. This isn't like playing chess by committee, where everyone votes on the moves, whether they know anything about chess or not, this is a small, trained taskforce that gets a bunch of extra votes, enough so that a consensus amongst the taskforce can overrule the rest of the group.
If anti-abortion group x says "Let's plant a bomb at the 'Babies make good fertilizer' abortion clinic", then they're going to go to their engineer or engineers to figure out how much bomb they need to get their point across. There will be a single returned value, despite any bickering amongst the group. There has been a decision, and the rest of the possible choices have fallen by the wayside. They go to the bomb maker or makers, and give him or them the parameters for the bomb. The task is completed by this expert group. Then they give it to the bomb deploying team, which likely already has a location from the engineer. They figure out how to most effectively put a bomb there, and they act as an individual once they have come to a decision. This is why we don't get FedEx packages with long tubes attached sitting in the trunk of a car. Expert groups act as individual under normal circumstances.
It doesn't matter how stupid the group might be, so long as they are smart enough to compartmentalize tasks. The bomb hiders don't get input on how much PETN to use, or if they want to go with RDX or ANFO instead of PETN. The engineer doesn't tell the bomb hiders to use a FedEx package, that's in the bomb hiders area of expertise.
So no, in an anarchist group of my devising, the whole group doesn't get to decide on anything except which abortion clinic to hit.
Anti-abortion groups don't design bombs by committee. Only the government does that. Anti-abortion groups (or whatever other kind of group you want to substitute) have a guy who knows about making bombs, and he makes them with no input other than size and yield. There may be a second guy who knows about hiding bombs. The point is, these two people are smart. Individually, everyone else in the group is likely reasonably intelligent. It's only as a group that they become dumb enough to place bombs at clinics frequented by pregnant women in an attempt to keep fetuses alive.
Fair enough. My anecdotal evidence follows what Wikipedia says, but I generally don't have to worry about getting a lot of exotic formatting in my docs.
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Wikipedia thinks I'm right.
If you're expecting water, any wine could be called "the good stuff". There are of course ways to enhance this trick, including putting the piece of bread in a stronger wine and leaving it until the wine has evaporated all on its own. You now have a piece of super-wine bread, and, depending on the size of the pitcher, could make something almost as close to real wine as orange juice from concentrate is to real orange juice. Not all that close to the discerning tongue, but 4 out of 5 unwashed masses think it's better than water.
Because eagles are solo hunters, just like the rest of the modern birds of prey? I'm pretty sure that there are species of duck that hunt solo, and migrate in groups.
This is why I use RTF for everything. Everyone reads it. It was originally developed for interoperability. Of course, now Microsoft will have to change it...
It may be freedom, but it isn't a stable equilibrium. Every society has a leader or leaders, even getting right down to insects. If we stripped all of the rulers from the U.S. tonight, then I guarantee there'd be someone in power within the week.
It could entail a little stage magic by dropping a wine-soaked piece of bread into a metal pitcher demonstrated to contain water while nobody's watching. Keep anyone from finding the bread, and you've got yourself some weak wine.
There have also been buried alive tricks and euphoria-based faith healings that last long enough for the healer to leave town.
Note: Baptist ministers don't like statements like that, in my experience.
Then he'd be following rather closely in Turing's footsteps, wouldn't he? Now that it has been determined that "fags" have you beat in every walk of life, don't you think this is the time for you to stop using that derogatory term?
Or, the young man is a cigarette, in which case I withdraw my objection.
I remember from my college days, I worked at a Taco Bell. We had a guy who we banned from coming in, because he had been claiming more free food than he'd ever paid for. Former employee, let go for theft.
And that fine song.
Or when they don't expect any ability at all, such as when they are visiting the U.S., and you have not been mentioned to them as an expert with their language. My brother speaks very fluent German. He was working as a cashier, and German tourists arrived. As they were having some trouble with English, my brother switched to German, startling and pleasing them.
How about an electrician working on sensitive electronics? Even as close as they are, electrons making circuits or not making circuits, there is a wide gap between the people who work on 220V mains and 5V chips.
Saddam caused a lot of trouble for Iraq. We may not have done much cleaning up, but stopping the hurricane was a good thing.
Close, but Bush's black nothingness is currently being contained by his skull.
Because you can't afford a politician. That's why.
Absolutely correct, and if it weren't for the gaming, I would likely have two Linux machines instead of one. Of course, I also earn money by doing computer maintenance for people and local businesses. These people use Windows, so it's worth my while to keep myself up to date.
I'd trust his insight into the human psyche. More than a master forger, he was an extraordinary con artist and social engineer. To him, the human psyche was as computer systems are to skilled hackers: something to look at, understand, and control.
Windows can be secured. I've got an XP desktop for gaming, and I run Linux on my laptop. Neither of them get viruses. My protection suite is all free software, so there's no annual fee there. And, if enough regular people switched to something with a Unix base, they'd have virus issues too. There are viruses and rootkits for systems other than Windows. They aren't prolific because the average moron who clicks everything is on Windows.
Yes, those systems are more secure than Windows. No, they are not secure enough to deal with the assault of a wave of moronic users. Feel free to dream of an exodus away from Windows, but understand that nothing will change, even if your dream comes true.