Ummm... if they have this computer thing then why don't they count the cards too?
Because they can't. House doesn't play like a player does; that's why the house has an edge. House always plays by a set of fixed set of rules, generally hit on 16 or less, stand on 17 or more, no hand splitting, doubling down, or insurance....
Quite right. But what if the house found it in their financial interest to use a shill at one of the player seats, to irrationally hit (and try and suck up the 10s/As) on a favorable count? Maybe someone wandering around the floor, getting buzzed over to tables where the pit boss (or computer in the sky) suspects a counter?
I haven't thought that all the way through to decide if that would ever be possible or practical, but if it is, I'd bet on the casinos doing it.
Great. Now that we've been desensitized by hacked road signs warning about phony zombie attacks, no one is going to believe it when the signs say "IRRADIATED MUMMIES AHEAD! RUN!"
And how much more likely do you think the innocent air traveler is to have changes in his "facial expressions, body heat and... pulse and breathing rate" if there's a 22% chance he'll be pulled out of line and TSAed no matter what?
...Take a ride past your local police parking lot, and jot down two or three license plate numbers. Then use a good quality laser printer and make yourself some copies of those "plates". With luck they'll never notice they're effectively tracking themselves....
I look forward to your future post describing the reaction of the first bored cop who idly runs your plate while sitting behind you at a stoplight.
This reminds me of a horrible device I once received as a gift. I eventually realized that a button on the device, when pressed, was triggering some hidden process that was recording my location, often along with a timestamp. God knows where it was sending that info.
That was the last time I used one of those "Digital Cameras".
...YouTube is a private company and, thankfully, has just as much right to pick and choose what you're allowed to say in it's [sic] "home" as you do.
From TFSummary:
"The move comes after pressure... from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman... "
When a nannying Senator uses the threat of federal government action to force said private company to change its policy, it is perfectly reasonable to consider the constitutional implications.
...Just further proof that this Administration only cares to ruin lives.
I wouldn't go that far. But I would say it adds to the considerable body of evidence that this administration only cares about giving lucrative, exclusive contracts to private companies to have them do what should probably be the government's job in the first place.
I'm not in a position to verify the facts in that Salon article, but the quotes from WP columnist Richard Cohen (about how the anthrax attacks influenced him to be pro-Attack-Iraq) bring up an interesting conspiracy theory question: Did whoever was behind all of this send anthrax to Tom Brokaw in order to try and spook major news columnists, and turn them into Iraq War cheerleaders?
If you buy Greenwald's premise -- that there was more to the whole anthrax episode than met the eye, more than just a Unibomber-type loner responsible for it -- then it doesn't take too many layers of foil on your hat to make that leap.
Certainly misleading. Between the headline and the summary, I assumed this was a story about some official cancellation of Usenet. Instead, it's someone pining for the good ol' days (of free pron, if I understood right after skimming TFA).
When I worked QA in a dairy, we put cow's milk in the cartons. What we did not do was arbitrarily switch to putting soy milk in the cartons, and then require customers to call the grocery store and beg to get cow's milk (which would only be allowed if you were a restaurant).
This looks like the right way to do it -- anonymously (if I'm reading the Dutch right: "blijft gegarandeerd anoniem") self-reported incidents. Especially for something like the flu, where you can be fairly confident that you have it, even if you don't bother going to the doctor when you do.
For a concrete example of this, I offer the DJ/band called Girl Talk. His music is an extreme case of the single-occurrence-quote, where the entirety of the music is a series such quotes mixed together.
Ah, yes, the sun is growing. A couple hundreds of a percent a decade, you say. Let's assume.02 % per decade. A quick back of the napkin calculation... you're saying that the sun is 4% larger than it was 2000 years ago, and is more than double the size it was 35,000 years ago.
Tell me, where did the mass for that come from?
Without examining your numbers too closely, I must point out that mass (which, as you rightly suggest, would have to come from somewhere if it was increasing) is not the same as volume (which is what one would more traditonally equate to "size").
...But with smaller things (refrigerator or smaller) distance transport from foreign lands is pretty low. The cost of shipping a refrigerator across the sea is way smaller than the cost of trucking it across a state... And if you don't live in Long Beach or Houston or Baltimore, exactly how is the refrigerator going to get to your house? Won't the shipping cost be that of trucking it across a state (or several states, for those of us in the center of the country) *plus* the cost of getting it from China?
If there were a refrigerator plant in our state, the shipping cost would be much lower. It still might not be cheaper (yet) than getting it from overseas, but the higher gas goes, the closer we get to the intersection of the two price lines.
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Your scenario does not actually involve ethics. Ethics deals with the question of whether an action is morally right or wrong. There's nothing *inherently* morally wrong about making a flashy widget if your boss asks you to. Nor is it morally wrong that your boss asks you to do something he/she considers a better use of your time than long-term IT fixes.
It would be unethical if he/she asked you to falsify data in your graphs or create a widget that stole users' credit card numbers.
You're confusing "misguided" with "unethical".
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Unlikely, people don't do things for the heck of it.
Says the user posting for the heck of it, on the site created for the heck of it back in the day...
Because they can't. House doesn't play like a player does; that's why the house has an edge. House always plays by a set of fixed set of rules, generally hit on 16 or less, stand on 17 or more, no hand splitting, doubling down, or insurance. ...
Quite right. But what if the house found it in their financial interest to use a shill at one of the player seats, to irrationally hit (and try and suck up the 10s/As) on a favorable count? Maybe someone wandering around the floor, getting buzzed over to tables where the pit boss (or computer in the sky) suspects a counter?
I haven't thought that all the way through to decide if that would ever be possible or practical, but if it is, I'd bet on the casinos doing it.
It was just a bat clinging to the inside of the accelerator.
Great. Now that we've been desensitized by hacked road signs warning about phony zombie attacks, no one is going to believe it when the signs say "IRRADIATED MUMMIES AHEAD! RUN!"
When was the last time a white anglo saxon christian tried to commandeer and/or blow up an airplane in America?
Great point. Those guys prefer to blow up government buildings.
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Yes it is, but what do you expect? This guy is not a rocket scientist, he is a little known scientist.
And only recently made public, at that.
Finally I have a legitimate excuse for all the pr0n sites that are in my browser history. No honey, it isn't me, it's a browsers exploit! I swear!
I don't know how things work for you, but saying that I just got clickjacked is only going to get me into more trouble, not less.
And how much more likely do you think the innocent air traveler is to have changes in his "facial expressions, body heat and ... pulse and breathing rate" if there's a 22% chance he'll be pulled out of line and TSAed no matter what?
...Take a ride past your local police parking lot, and jot down two or three license plate numbers. Then use a good quality laser printer and make yourself some copies of those "plates". With luck they'll never notice they're effectively tracking themselves....
I look forward to your future post describing the reaction of the first bored cop who idly runs your plate while sitting behind you at a stoplight.
This reminds me of a horrible device I once received as a gift. I eventually realized that a button on the device, when pressed, was triggering some hidden process that was recording my location, often along with a timestamp. God knows where it was sending that info.
That was the last time I used one of those "Digital Cameras".
Combine it with a Google-Street-View-app that pops up a picture of their house... "Oh, look, Roberticus, there you are! Nice to see you..."
I might cut my ethernet cable right then and there.
...YouTube is a private company and, thankfully, has just as much right to pick and choose what you're allowed to say in it's [sic] "home" as you do.
From TFSummary:
"The move comes after pressure... from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman... "
When a nannying Senator uses the threat of federal government action to force said private company to change its policy, it is perfectly reasonable to consider the constitutional implications.
You mean that I'd finally be able to afford a house there?
Suggestion: Deadsea-captcha.
...Just further proof that this Administration only cares to ruin lives.
I wouldn't go that far. But I would say it adds to the considerable body of evidence that this administration only cares about giving lucrative, exclusive contracts to private companies to have them do what should probably be the government's job in the first place.
I'm not in a position to verify the facts in that Salon article, but the quotes from WP columnist Richard Cohen (about how the anthrax attacks influenced him to be pro-Attack-Iraq) bring up an interesting conspiracy theory question: Did whoever was behind all of this send anthrax to Tom Brokaw in order to try and spook major news columnists, and turn them into Iraq War cheerleaders?
If you buy Greenwald's premise -- that there was more to the whole anthrax episode than met the eye, more than just a Unibomber-type loner responsible for it -- then it doesn't take too many layers of foil on your hat to make that leap.
Certainly misleading. Between the headline and the summary, I assumed this was a story about some official cancellation of Usenet. Instead, it's someone pining for the good ol' days (of free pron, if I understood right after skimming TFA).
For what it's worth, this is the top story on MSNBC.com right now.
When I worked QA in a dairy, we put cow's milk in the cartons. What we did not do was arbitrarily switch to putting soy milk in the cartons, and then require customers to call the grocery store and beg to get cow's milk (which would only be allowed if you were a restaurant).
This looks like the right way to do it -- anonymously (if I'm reading the Dutch right: "blijft gegarandeerd anoniem") self-reported incidents. Especially for something like the flu, where you can be fairly confident that you have it, even if you don't bother going to the doctor when you do.
Nice contribution; thanks for the link.
For a concrete example of this, I offer the DJ/band called Girl Talk. His music is an extreme case of the single-occurrence-quote, where the entirety of the music is a series such quotes mixed together.
See a Wikipedia entry on a recent Girl Talk album if you're interested. I believe the article links to an official site with sample songs.
Ah, yes, the sun is growing. A couple hundreds of a percent a decade, you say. Let's assume .02 % per decade. A quick back of the napkin calculation... you're saying that the sun is 4% larger than it was 2000 years ago, and is more than double the size it was 35,000 years ago.
Tell me, where did the mass for that come from?
Without examining your numbers too closely, I must point out that mass (which, as you rightly suggest, would have to come from somewhere if it was increasing) is not the same as volume (which is what one would more traditonally equate to "size").
...But with smaller things (refrigerator or smaller) distance transport from foreign lands is pretty low. The cost of shipping a refrigerator across the sea is way smaller than the cost of trucking it across a state... And if you don't live in Long Beach or Houston or Baltimore, exactly how is the refrigerator going to get to your house? Won't the shipping cost be that of trucking it across a state (or several states, for those of us in the center of the country) *plus* the cost of getting it from China? If there were a refrigerator plant in our state, the shipping cost would be much lower. It still might not be cheaper (yet) than getting it from overseas, but the higher gas goes, the closer we get to the intersection of the two price lines.Your scenario does not actually involve ethics. Ethics deals with the question of whether an action is morally right or wrong. There's nothing *inherently* morally wrong about making a flashy widget if your boss asks you to. Nor is it morally wrong that your boss asks you to do something he/she considers a better use of your time than long-term IT fixes. It would be unethical if he/she asked you to falsify data in your graphs or create a widget that stole users' credit card numbers. You're confusing "misguided" with "unethical".