Correct. It's important not only that voters have faith in the system, but also that the system actually has a good record of counting votes. And that is a difficult task.
I think that having individuals check on their vote might work, but I don't see how you could do that and retain anonymous voting. I mean, you could retain anonymous voting and just let them check, but it would be nigh impossible for them to prove that their vote was counted incorrectly.
This is a huge issue. As someone who has more than one computer it annoys the hell out of me that I can't just hook my iPod up to any of them and have it work. You can get programs like senuti, but I don't want to have to do that, I just want it to connect.
Also, iTunes has issue with very large music libraries, like 500+ GB. It gets kinda sketch.
Generally speaking the Nobel Peace Prize is given to more left than to the right, as is the case with the literature, but really right wingers can't, or don't, write decent literature. The science prizes are hardly political in terms of government. The Prize in Economics is generally given to more free-market type economists than people who lean left. It's actually a different prize than the real Nobel Prizes, about 70 years younger than the real ones.
Globalization in this context means the continued lowering of trade barriers a la NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. That has pretty much failed at this point. The psuedo-libertarian idea of free trade, AKA the Washington Consensus, is dead in the water at this point and one can expect that movement in that direction will be reversed by the current economic woes.
On another topic, it should be noted that the Nobel prize for economics is not the same as other Nobel prizes. It was instituted by the Swedish central bank about 70 years after the original prizes were instituted and is not considered a Nobel Prize by the actual Nobel organization. Generally the Prize in Economics, as the Nobel Foundation refers to it, has been awarded to rather more conservative economists. I have to wonder if the utter failure of deregulation and free trade in recent years is a reason for Krugman's winning this year.
We do that in the U.S. as well. The last few years I've read a story on yahoo news about what the president said (past tense) in the State of the Union Address, the morning of the day it is going to take place. You see speeches leaked regularly, almost always from the Bush administration, less from senate and house politician.
And seriously, why do the taikonauts get cooler spacesuits than the American astronauts?
And the fact you got modded down pretty much proves your point. That was why his speech on race was so great, it talked about the issue but also calmed down the white folks who were afraid he would get into the White House and suddenly start "acting black."
The article says that the program counts certain words and uses the number of uses to determine the amount of spin.* One of those words is 'we', so inevitably Obama is going to come out as spinning more, one of his slogans includes the word 'we'. Really, language usage is to malleable to base anything on something as simple as word counts. Yeah, Obama says 'we' a lot, you figure they could look at the content of what they say for spin rather than simply how they say it.
Science and religion *now* cover some different aspects of human endeavors, but that wasn't always the case. Otherwise why would the church have attacked the Copernican model of the solar system?
And yes, you can't use science to inform morality, that's what philosophy is for, not some old book most of whose rules are ignored anyway.
I was saying that homeopathic medicine of the sort that doesn't actually have medicinal effects is a superstition, and that said superstition would be beneficial to individuals thus increasing their evolutionary fitness.
It never takes an indirect route to a goal.
Correct, there is no goal to which evolution could take an indirect route.
I'm just saying you didn't explain anything by saying something evolved to help cause people to take advantage of the placebo effect, that doesn't make sense.
Why not? If I said that thumbs evolved because they allowed us to make better use of our hands it would explain something. Things evolve in the context of the whole organism and are beneficial or deleterious in that context, among others.
I don't know. If I could explain the placebo effect I'd be a millionaire. Again, evolution, which is how the placebo effect came to be, doesn't work as we would like it to. It doesn't take the most direct route and it doesn't make sense. So don't ask me to explain why it doesn't make sense.
The placebo effect is when you get the effects of having taken a medicine when you didn't really take it, so it would be beneficial because you could cure diseases, or maybe just symptoms, without actually needing an effective agent, just an agent that you believed to be effective.
Isn't that kind of stupid to have a brain evolve a feature just to counteract another arbitrary feature?
Maybe, but evolution can be pretty stupid sometimes. It works pretty much by brute force, sometimes literally, so it ends up taking strange routes. Remember, evolution is not guided, not stupid or smart, just a natural process.
Unless they suddenly wake up one day with a commitment to value instead of just revenue, nothing is going to change. I don't know where you're from, but where I live, a company that has a commitment to value does not gain stock value. Unless of course they are WalMart.
All of the symbols I recognize are mathematical or logical notation. i is imaginary numbers, the character under it could be an empty set or a zero. B is a minus sign. 6 is the negation sign. in logical notation. 7 is the greek letter phi, used for a number of things, most importantly the golden ration. D looks familiar but I can't place it right now, same with 4.
Just for the record, first strike means you don't use nukes first, regardless of the conventional weapons used against you, not that you only use nukes when you're really, really in trouble. So you pretty much admitted that Israel would use them as a first strike weapon.
like they've done before, with MASSIVE casualties, they lost 500.000 people, most of them children in an attempt to expand into Iraq
You fail at history. Saddam started the Iran-Iraq war, basically at our, the U.S., bidding. Of course, there wouldn't be a foreign military in the region that they might be worried about attacking them.
This also assumes that they really are secretly building a bomb, which has hardly been established, despite your intimations otherwise.
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Correct. It's important not only that voters have faith in the system, but also that the system actually has a good record of counting votes. And that is a difficult task.
I think that having individuals check on their vote might work, but I don't see how you could do that and retain anonymous voting. I mean, you could retain anonymous voting and just let them check, but it would be nigh impossible for them to prove that their vote was counted incorrectly.
This is a huge issue. As someone who has more than one computer it annoys the hell out of me that I can't just hook my iPod up to any of them and have it work. You can get programs like senuti, but I don't want to have to do that, I just want it to connect.
Also, iTunes has issue with very large music libraries, like 500+ GB. It gets kinda sketch.
Generally speaking the Nobel Peace Prize is given to more left than to the right, as is the case with the literature, but really right wingers can't, or don't, write decent literature. The science prizes are hardly political in terms of government. The Prize in Economics is generally given to more free-market type economists than people who lean left. It's actually a different prize than the real Nobel Prizes, about 70 years younger than the real ones.
Globalization in this context means the continued lowering of trade barriers a la NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. That has pretty much failed at this point. The psuedo-libertarian idea of free trade, AKA the Washington Consensus, is dead in the water at this point and one can expect that movement in that direction will be reversed by the current economic woes.
On another topic, it should be noted that the Nobel prize for economics is not the same as other Nobel prizes. It was instituted by the Swedish central bank about 70 years after the original prizes were instituted and is not considered a Nobel Prize by the actual Nobel organization. Generally the Prize in Economics, as the Nobel Foundation refers to it, has been awarded to rather more conservative economists. I have to wonder if the utter failure of deregulation and free trade in recent years is a reason for Krugman's winning this year.
RTFA
If you can't be bothered to read the article then I can't be bothered to re-quote the damn thing.
And you missed the part where it is "recently accelerating," but thanks for playing.
One could, i suppose, call it silent but deadly.
That sounds somehow familiar.
We do that in the U.S. as well. The last few years I've read a story on yahoo news about what the president said (past tense) in the State of the Union Address, the morning of the day it is going to take place. You see speeches leaked regularly, almost always from the Bush administration, less from senate and house politician.
And seriously, why do the taikonauts get cooler spacesuits than the American astronauts?
And the fact you got modded down pretty much proves your point. That was why his speech on race was so great, it talked about the issue but also calmed down the white folks who were afraid he would get into the White House and suddenly start "acting black."
The article says that the program counts certain words and uses the number of uses to determine the amount of spin.* One of those words is 'we', so inevitably Obama is going to come out as spinning more, one of his slogans includes the word 'we'. Really, language usage is to malleable to base anything on something as simple as word counts. Yeah, Obama says 'we' a lot, you figure they could look at the content of what they say for spin rather than simply how they say it.
*Which is really poorly defined.
Science and religion *now* cover some different aspects of human endeavors, but that wasn't always the case. Otherwise why would the church have attacked the Copernican model of the solar system?
And yes, you can't use science to inform morality, that's what philosophy is for, not some old book most of whose rules are ignored anyway.
I was saying that homeopathic medicine of the sort that doesn't actually have medicinal effects is a superstition, and that said superstition would be beneficial to individuals thus increasing their evolutionary fitness.
It never takes an indirect route to a goal.
Correct, there is no goal to which evolution could take an indirect route.
I'm just saying you didn't explain anything by saying something evolved to help cause people to take advantage of the placebo effect, that doesn't make sense.
Why not? If I said that thumbs evolved because they allowed us to make better use of our hands it would explain something. Things evolve in the context of the whole organism and are beneficial or deleterious in that context, among others.
You are right, a placebo isn't going to cure cancer, but having a medicine that reduces pain would be a huge benefit to survival.
I don't know. If I could explain the placebo effect I'd be a millionaire. Again, evolution, which is how the placebo effect came to be, doesn't work as we would like it to. It doesn't take the most direct route and it doesn't make sense. So don't ask me to explain why it doesn't make sense.
The placebo effect is when you get the effects of having taken a medicine when you didn't really take it, so it would be beneficial because you could cure diseases, or maybe just symptoms, without actually needing an effective agent, just an agent that you believed to be effective.
Isn't that kind of stupid to have a brain evolve a feature just to counteract another arbitrary feature?
Maybe, but evolution can be pretty stupid sometimes. It works pretty much by brute force, sometimes literally, so it ends up taking strange routes. Remember, evolution is not guided, not stupid or smart, just a natural process.
Belief in Homeopathic medicine would also be beneficial because of the placebo effect.
That would be sweet to be able to tell your boss "I'd love to come in, but it's punishable by death."
All of the symbols I recognize are mathematical or logical notation. i is imaginary numbers, the character under it could be an empty set or a zero. B is a minus sign. 6 is the negation sign. in logical notation. 7 is the greek letter phi, used for a number of things, most importantly the golden ration. D looks familiar but I can't place it right now, same with 4.
If that guy squatting my house put his gun down I'd kick him out.
Just for the record, first strike means you don't use nukes first, regardless of the conventional weapons used against you, not that you only use nukes when you're really, really in trouble. So you pretty much admitted that Israel would use them as a first strike weapon.
like they've done before, with MASSIVE casualties, they lost 500.000 people, most of them children in an attempt to expand into Iraq
You fail at history. Saddam started the Iran-Iraq war, basically at our, the U.S., bidding. Of course, there wouldn't be a foreign military in the region that they might be worried about attacking them.
This also assumes that they really are secretly building a bomb, which has hardly been established, despite your intimations otherwise.
to have his suspicions confirmed like this.
Nothing against Clarke, but wrong moon.
I meant biotic in origin.