I have always considered base-12 to be superior to base-10 when it comes to the practicality of it. It is a question of number of non-trivial factors, base-10 has 2 and base-12 has 4. I never cared for the fact that the decimal system does not represent 1/3 and 2/3 well.
Decimal
1/3 =.333333... 1/2 =.5 1/4 =.25
Duodecimal
1/3 =.4 1/2 =.6 1/4 =.3
From my experience these are usually are the fractions that come up the most in day to day life.
Sherif Ali: Have you no fear, English? T.E. Lawrence: My fear is my concern.
Once you decide that you will refuse to allow you opponent to know what you feel inside you're halfway there. Then, work on your thousand yard stare and fringe scanning. This allows you (from your opponents view) to look directly into their eyes, yet what you are really looking at is their shoulders and hips and yet you look completely impassive. I hear it is quite disconcerting.
Disclaimer: You should learn how to fight before using these techniques.
Well, as mentioned below the US does not recognize the Hague. But, I was interested in what the Geneva Conventions have to say about it and really, it seems to not be addressed. It is a complicated subject as different nations/states have their utilities controlled by governments and/or private organizations.
If it was really an issue, I think it would have come up relating to invasion forces using local water systems and sewer systems as these functionally are no different that an electric utility. I can't recall any invading force using the local toilets coming up as a war crime.
Pillaging relates to personal gain/profiteering, theft of captured soldiers personal effects, looting bodies or theft of opposing forces equipment for personal gain (i.e. Kelly's Heroes)
"Part III. Captivity; Section 1. Beginning of Captivity, Art 18. All effects and articles of personal use, except arms, horses, military equipment and military documents, shall remain in the possession of prisoners of war, likewise their metal helmets and gas masks and like articles issued for personal protection. Effects and articles used for their clothing or feeding shall likewise remain in their possession, even if such effects and articles belong to their regulation military equipment."
I cannot find anything that restricts the capturing force's ability to apply the captured equipment (w/ the exception of certain medical equipment and medical circumstances) for their own purposes.
"Persons who were assaulted but not shot are not studied."
So, anyone who was assaulted and successfully defended themselves/avoided getting shot were not counted. It is a built in bias, as since only counting circumstances that someone got shot there had to be at least 1 gun there, probably in the hands of the perpetrator. I'd be more interested in knowing the statistics relating to numbers of weapon carriers having their weapon used against them and also statistics of assault where a weapon was present regardless whether someone was shot at all.
I once said to a friend, "I wish there was a pill I could take so I wouldn't need to sleep." He replied, "I know some drugs you can take so you will never need to sleep the rest of your life."
I agree completely. It also goes beyond just the difficulty settings. It can also be enjoyable to set restrictions on your own gameplay, particularly for replaying..
GTA Vice City or San Andreas: beat game and/or hit a certain % complete, no cheats, no deaths, no arrests. Meaning every time you die or are arrested you MUST start over from last save. (having to wait through the first time death/arrest dialog before being able to reload was annoying, you learn to pause REAL fast)
Lego Star Wars 1 and 2: complete all without buying extras (esp. invincibility)
FFVII: Beat all WEAPONs/max out lvls.
Civilization (any): attempt to win by playing the game as the leader/civ you choose as they historically would have
Resident Evil 2: beat it with the knife
These are just a few artificial restrictions/handicap to increase the difficulty and/or improve re-playability of a game.
P.S. I shoot some decent pool and when I am playing someone who I can tell has a lower skill level than I, I don't call out their slop or non-called combos or if they accidentally touch a ball and put it back. We are all supposed to be having fun.
I'd say you are spot on. I think too many people around here forget the roots of the word and only associate it with web context forum as opposed to an actual location or medium that allows the free exchange of ideas. I would suggest it be interpreted as the traditional definition and not the web hijacked (although apt) version.
I was going to post much the same thing. Some nerd eulogy, 10 words pertaining to the death of a math hero, ~70 devoted to the author. Can we get more HF Asperger/Narcissistic.
From my experience, most low level pot dealers (right above users) don't sell primarily for profit but to reduce/eliminate their own usage cost and to provide for people they know, even if they are hard drug users they don't usually sell harder drugs because of the steeper fine/jail time. Where low level coke dealers for example don't deal pot as there is no money in it comparatively and doing so increases their chances of being busted for the harder drug, what coke dealer wants to get busted with a couple of ounces of coke for selling eightballs at $20+ profit in their home/car in order to sell an 1/8 ounce of weed for a $5 or less profit.
On a personal note: While I do not care what drugs someone uses, I choose to not associate with those I determine are habitual with harder more addictive drugs.
Actually there are a variety of methods used for different purposes.
Sugar water to increase stickiness, crystallization and weight; certain over the counter aerosol spays that can change the apparent potency and weight (while the user ends up smoking glade or something) or even mixing in pot that has already been smoked in a vaporizer (looks the same, no potency); to the classic adding dried basil (looks like dried leaves.)
Low level coke dealers are known to cut it with baking soda to bulk up weight, which puts you halfway to crack as it is.
"When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed."
I wish I had read your post before I posted to to parent, very insightful. From your comments I am sure you have more weapons training/experience than myself, I was mostly trained for ship self defense, tactics and room entry. I agree with your whole post.
I dislike the same things about FPS's, especially where when using a single pistol you cannot switch hands or walk/stand/fire single handed side profile or go low prone to fire from beneath low cover, we were trained to be able to fire from under a 1" - 2" gap at ground level.
Generally such things have turned me off most FPS's
Strangely enough, I also can do this. I am ex-military and have a goodly amount of firing and tactical training. Personally, I (depending on current firing hand) aim with one eye and scan for targets and use peripheral vision with the other. Thinking upon it, I am fairly ambidextrous, I wonder if there is any relationship.
I used to agree with this, but have come to the following conclusion:
A citizenry that can and does rely on litigation as a first resort when they perceive themselves as wronged is less likely to rely on vigilante justice.
I think the real problem is a combination of greed and/or a false/misplaced sense of entitlement.
The circumstances in which I have been annoyed have been when I made online purchases for my 4 and 10 year old nieces and now constantly see ads for that demographic which as a 36 year old male with no children, I find tiresome. Also, every time one of my home user IT customers needs a new piece of equipment and I do the research for them forever after I see ads for stuff I already have or never want.
Since I do much more research and pricing of stuff for other people, I always end up seeing ads for demographics that I am not a part of. I pretty much constantly use Adblock and CookieSafe nowadays.
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I have always considered base-12 to be superior to base-10 when it comes to the practicality of it. It is a question of number of non-trivial factors, base-10 has 2 and base-12 has 4. I never cared for the fact that the decimal system does not represent 1/3 and 2/3 well.
Decimal
1/3 = .333333... .5 .25
1/2 =
1/4 =
Duodecimal
1/3 = .4 .6 .3
1/2 =
1/4 =
From my experience these are usually are the fractions that come up the most in day to day life.
I find for this this quote from Lawrence of Arabia to be appropriate:
Sherif Ali: Have you no fear, English?
T.E. Lawrence: My fear is my concern.
Once you decide that you will refuse to allow you opponent to know what you feel inside you're halfway there. Then, work on your thousand yard stare and fringe scanning. This allows you (from your opponents view) to look directly into their eyes, yet what you are really looking at is their shoulders and hips and yet you look completely impassive. I hear it is quite disconcerting.
Disclaimer: You should learn how to fight before using these techniques.
Well, as mentioned below the US does not recognize the Hague. But, I was interested in what the Geneva Conventions have to say about it and really, it seems to not be addressed. It is a complicated subject as different nations/states have their utilities controlled by governments and/or private organizations.
If it was really an issue, I think it would have come up relating to invasion forces using local water systems and sewer systems as these functionally are no different that an electric utility. I can't recall any invading force using the local toilets coming up as a war crime.
Pillaging relates to personal gain/profiteering, theft of captured soldiers personal effects, looting bodies or theft of opposing forces equipment for personal gain (i.e. Kelly's Heroes)
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/CONVPRES?OpenView
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/375?OpenDocument
"Part III. Captivity; Section 1. Beginning of Captivity, Art 18. All effects and articles of personal use, except arms, horses, military equipment and military documents, shall remain in the possession of prisoners of war, likewise their metal helmets and gas masks and like articles issued for personal protection. Effects and articles used for their clothing or feeding shall likewise remain in their possession, even if such effects and articles belong to their regulation military equipment."
I cannot find anything that restricts the capturing force's ability to apply the captured equipment (w/ the exception of certain medical equipment and medical circumstances) for their own purposes.
Here's an abstract of the study sachamm's article cites:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2008.143099v1
and here's an extract to the counter: "FLAWS IN STUDY OF FIREARM POSSESSION AND RISK FOR ASSAULT"
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/extract/100/6/967
From extract:
"Persons who were assaulted but not shot are not studied."
So, anyone who was assaulted and successfully defended themselves/avoided getting shot were not counted. It is a built in bias, as since only counting circumstances that someone got shot there had to be at least 1 gun there, probably in the hands of the perpetrator. I'd be more interested in knowing the statistics relating to numbers of weapon carriers having their weapon used against them and also statistics of assault where a weapon was present regardless whether someone was shot at all.
I once said to a friend, "I wish there was a pill I could take so I wouldn't need to sleep." He replied, "I know some drugs you can take so you will never need to sleep the rest of your life."
I didn't, some A/C did. Note the double URL indicator "[slashdot.org][slashdot.org]" left over from my sloppy pasting.
I agree completely. It also goes beyond just the difficulty settings. It can also be enjoyable to set restrictions on your own gameplay, particularly for replaying..
GTA Vice City or San Andreas: beat game and/or hit a certain % complete, no cheats, no deaths, no arrests. Meaning every time you die or are arrested you MUST start over from last save. (having to wait through the first time death/arrest dialog before being able to reload was annoying, you learn to pause REAL fast)
Lego Star Wars 1 and 2: complete all without buying extras (esp. invincibility)
FFVII: Beat all WEAPONs/max out lvls.
Civilization (any): attempt to win by playing the game as the leader/civ you choose as they historically would have
Resident Evil 2: beat it with the knife
These are just a few artificial restrictions/handicap to increase the difficulty and/or improve re-playability of a game.
P.S. I shoot some decent pool and when I am playing someone who I can tell has a lower skill level than I, I don't call out their slop or non-called combos or if they accidentally touch a ball and put it back. We are all supposed to be having fun.
Maybe we can hook her up with this guy, that would be awesome:
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1915946
I'm more inclined to say it is even worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
How many carbon nanotubes does it take to make Massachusetts?
I'd say you are spot on. I think too many people around here forget the roots of the word and only associate it with web context forum as opposed to an actual location or medium that allows the free exchange of ideas. I would suggest it be interpreted as the traditional definition and not the web hijacked (although apt) version.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forum
You probably caught the Nova Episode about fractals, it has a segment where it talks about fractal phone antennas:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/181084/nova-hunting-the-hidden-dimension
Here's some other stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna
http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/Panorama/ManuFractals/FractalAntennas/FractalAntennas.html
http://www.fractenna.com/
I was going to post much the same thing. Some nerd eulogy, 10 words pertaining to the death of a math hero, ~70 devoted to the author. Can we get more HF Asperger/Narcissistic.
His hobbies include:
Trolling Slashdot
Flaming Slashdot
Making new Slashdot accounts
Only using capitols for emphasis
His favorite catch-phrases:
ur mum's face is...
idiot
coward
straighten out your dick, pee hook.
you are NOTHING
slashdot = stagnated
Please expect further abuse in the future, pee hook.
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or phonetically
A bee ceeze deez ease, Won to tree.
From my experience, most low level pot dealers (right above users) don't sell primarily for profit but to reduce/eliminate their own usage cost and to provide for people they know, even if they are hard drug users they don't usually sell harder drugs because of the steeper fine/jail time. Where low level coke dealers for example don't deal pot as there is no money in it comparatively and doing so increases their chances of being busted for the harder drug, what coke dealer wants to get busted with a couple of ounces of coke for selling eightballs at $20+ profit in their home/car in order to sell an 1/8 ounce of weed for a $5 or less profit.
On a personal note: While I do not care what drugs someone uses, I choose to not associate with those I determine are habitual with harder more addictive drugs.
Actually there are a variety of methods used for different purposes.
Sugar water to increase stickiness, crystallization and weight; certain over the counter aerosol spays that can change the apparent potency and weight (while the user ends up smoking glade or something) or even mixing in pot that has already been smoked in a vaporizer (looks the same, no potency); to the classic adding dried basil (looks like dried leaves.)
Low level coke dealers are known to cut it with baking soda to bulk up weight, which puts you halfway to crack as it is.
It does happen sometimes.
I just wanted to share some entertaining thoughts I had while reading your post.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly
"When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed."
George C. Scott in "Patton"
Introducing the new and improved SeaGuay.
I wish I had read your post before I posted to to parent, very insightful. From your comments I am sure you have more weapons training/experience than myself, I was mostly trained for ship self defense, tactics and room entry. I agree with your whole post.
I dislike the same things about FPS's, especially where when using a single pistol you cannot switch hands or walk/stand/fire single handed side profile or go low prone to fire from beneath low cover, we were trained to be able to fire from under a 1" - 2" gap at ground level.
Generally such things have turned me off most FPS's
Strangely enough, I also can do this. I am ex-military and have a goodly amount of firing and tactical training. Personally, I (depending on current firing hand) aim with one eye and scan for targets and use peripheral vision with the other. Thinking upon it, I am fairly ambidextrous, I wonder if there is any relationship.
The U.S. has become far too litigious
I used to agree with this, but have come to the following conclusion:
A citizenry that can and does rely on litigation as a first resort when they perceive themselves as wronged is less likely to rely on vigilante justice.
I think the real problem is a combination of greed and/or a false/misplaced sense of entitlement.
The circumstances in which I have been annoyed have been when I made online purchases for my 4 and 10 year old nieces and now constantly see ads for that demographic which as a 36 year old male with no children, I find tiresome. Also, every time one of my home user IT customers needs a new piece of equipment and I do the research for them forever after I see ads for stuff I already have or never want.
Since I do much more research and pricing of stuff for other people, I always end up seeing ads for demographics that I am not a part of. I pretty much constantly use Adblock and CookieSafe nowadays.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris
May, might, maybe. I am optimistic, but let me know when they actually find life and not every speculation someone has each day.