Yet strangely grandmaster chess games are often like 3-2, and not always 5-0. I guess chess isn't a game of skill then. Hmm.
obligatory: I'm not saying that the apparent chance element of chess is in any meaningful way the "same" as the intrinsic chance element of poker, but it does seem hard to define legislatively. Certainly your definition would exclude (almost?) all interesting games.
I mean, there are even people who manage to gain statistical edge in rock-paper-scissors tournaments. Apparently anytime there are 2+ people in symmetric situation, who both want something, a skill pops up.
Except of course for the obvious, continuing trope in the series that they were constantly dead broke and had to take whatever jobs they could get. A person often make poor choices when they don't have the leeway to make better ones; this does not make the person an idiot.
However, given what we see and the fact that he makes stupid decisions even when money isn't at stake, it is a perfectly consistent explanation that Mal is why they're poor. And I certainly don't get the idea that they couldn't find a cheap compression coil; Kaylee literally finds one in the trash in Ariel.
Who were only defenseless because they had just been disabled and disarmed after trying to kill the crew.
Yes, true. However, morality aside, and no matter what the circumstances, outright executing a defenseless person in view of his compatriots will cause the aggrieved party to take revenge on you. Right or wrong, and no matter what came before, it's just a suicidally stupid move to (further) tick off someone like Adelai Niska for no material gain.
Not really; he puts the crew's lives at stake several times by blithely ignoring the reality of his "strategies". He repeatedly refuses his genius mechanic's requests to buy a "nothing part" and a few months later, the ship explodes, dooming everyone (except for two very convenient dei ex machinae). He unquestioningly takes a job for a murderous mob boss; betrays him based on pure emotional response (and apparently learns nothing from the experience, one adds); and on top of this gratuitously kills one of his defenseless henchmen (we note, that in War Stories the supposedly-dimwitted Jayne is the only one on the crew to make this connection...). Risks the lives of his crew playing mercenary for a backwater settlement in exchange for trinkets. Risks the lives of his crew defending a whorehouse for no practical reason, mostly because he's emotionally confused about Inara.
Yes, Mal is, in practical terms, a complete failure as an effective leader, but the point is that his naive charm keeps the crew hanging on his word (which inhibits his redemption). This is intentional; as River points out in a rare lucid moment, "Mal. Bad. From the Latin." He's a short-sighted psychopath who kills whimsically and with no consistent regard for even his own safety. (and keep in mind, this is after Joss "lightened up" the character at the network's behest)
It's a testament to Nathan Fillion I guess that Mal is such an admirable character, which only reinforces the point: that his naive charisma more-or-less completely masks his deep flaws as correctly observed here...
Assuming that the password is changed according to a fixed random policy (which is reasonable) and that the cracker is operating similarly, it is an obvious result of Wald's equation.
I never understood the hate for Minority Report. I thought it was fairly well-executed and that the effects mostly helped convey the plot and inherent paranoia, rather than being gratuitous. Sure there were some stupid scenes, like the car factory escape, or the ridiculous vomit baton weapons, but I think it still better than the Hollywood average. Yes, the ending was far too perfectly redemptive, but again I think that the overall plot execution was still above-average.
Spielberg is quoted as saying that MR was absolutely his darkest possible vision of the future. This doesn't speak well to Spielberg's imagination (the case can be made that life is just as bad now), and he did spend too much time trying clumsily to ape the recently-deceased Stanley Kubrick. Nonetheless, the imagery was stunning: the matron with the motile plants; the spider-invasion of the apartment building; and even the almost-cheesy eye surgery scene. I appreciated all of this.
In short, it's a lot like Fifth Element to me: a combination of flaws and merits where the narrative is occasionally compromised by spectacle. Anyway, it's easy for me to deal with the flaws.
I remember when I was looking for a Bible, the reviews were invaluable. In particular the one for the Oxford World Classics edition which described it as a satanic trap placed by the world's secular elitist intellectuals, and to be avoided by all true Christians at all costs. That pretty much clinched it for me and I've been quite satisfied with my purchase.:-)
From my experience and tales from others, USPS is far superior to Canada's privatized post, so I am suspicious about the social value of privatizing the mail.
According to wikipedia, this exemption is valid only if the declarant is unavailable as a witness. It's vague to me, whether a defendant is or is not available as a witness since of course he can't be compelled to testify against himself.
Even notwithstanding this exemption, It's not clear to me. There's of course an obvious contrary social interest in dishonestly bragging about such a thing, and this seems to be exactly the kind of thing hearsay was meant to protect against. Basically, bullshitting around shouldn't be enough to convict someone, since plenty of actually innocent people would do the same.
You can easily stuff yourself with mars bars no end; try eating 50 grams of 70% cocoa chocolate and you won't be able to fit more.
I only wish; it'd be easier to keep it around. I can easily finish off a 3.5 oz bar of 90%, and even pure baking chocolate, if it's high enough quality (e.g. Ghirardelli). Dee-lish.
Clearly the doctors and scientists didn't think he was crazy; they did after all bother to take the time to harshly dismiss his work. (He only went insane later, due to plain old nervous breakdown and/or syphilis.)
The social function of the odious meme at hand is to 1) keep the marginal kooks (not really crazy, but they think they are) buoyed up by the silly hope that they're really brilliant; 2) provide a just-so story by which normal people can ignore offensive, but nagging, ideas (after all, great ideas are indistinguishable from crazy ones so fuck it and accept the so-called "real world").
In fact the real Nash wrote once, that a lot of people who would otherwise be totally "crazy" can live just fine, if they are wealthy (or cared for) enough to basically never feel any pressure. It's a comorbidly-social disease.
I do wonder just how much damage this single ridiculous idea has caused, just in the U.S. (where it seems most prominent?), over the years. It is non-zero, I can say for sure.
Do (continental) Europeans have this kind of nonsense meme kicking around?
It's rational to join an MLM if you're high enough on the pyramid. Speaking for my self, the reason I don't join these things is that 1. I "know" (or believe that I know) I am very low on the chain; 2. I'm a bad salesperson anyways because I have trouble buying into lies.
I've never even bothered to compute my expected payoff, mostly because of the uncertainty associated with point 1., supra.
Patent is, among other things, a tax on future entrepreneurs with a very complicated (and often impossible to predict in advance) variable rate between 0% and 100%. Actually with submarine patents it can go over 100%, but we'll leave that out.
Isn't it possible that we could get more bang-for-buck by simply paying for significant inventions out of a general fund, and placing them in the public domain?
Arguments about the "real world" are, in the final analysis, insulting nonsense. Even the most ideologically "extreme" foundations, such as Hoover Foundation and Cato Institute, are honest enough to occasionally justify their policies in terms of the real world that they would imply. That is, the moral and economic outcomes of a system of private property and simulated-private property (patents).
I went to a statistical genetics talk by a Yale postdoc and it was almost completely lies about the state-of-the-art, invented to prop up his trivial result.
For now. If this kind of data-leak became common, you can bet there would emerge specialist firms/consultants to do the mining, perhaps as a value-add onto a more general background check.
Wal*mart is a very American store. America thrives on a vigorous and unresolved conflict between popular socialist movements and rather-popular big business movements. Wal*mart's affiliation is obvious.
As for the rest of your reply, I find it incomprehensible.
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Yet strangely grandmaster chess games are often like 3-2, and not always 5-0. I guess chess isn't a game of skill then. Hmm.
obligatory: I'm not saying that the apparent chance element of chess is in any meaningful way the "same" as the intrinsic chance element of poker, but it does seem hard to define legislatively. Certainly your definition would exclude (almost?) all interesting games.
I mean, there are even people who manage to gain statistical edge in rock-paper-scissors tournaments. Apparently anytime there are 2+ people in symmetric situation, who both want something, a skill pops up.
Except of course for the obvious, continuing trope in the series that they were constantly dead broke and had to take whatever jobs they could get. A person often make poor choices when they don't have the leeway to make better ones; this does not make the person an idiot.
However, given what we see and the fact that he makes stupid decisions even when money isn't at stake, it is a perfectly consistent explanation that Mal is why they're poor. And I certainly don't get the idea that they couldn't find a cheap compression coil; Kaylee literally finds one in the trash in Ariel.
Who were only defenseless because they had just been disabled and disarmed after trying to kill the crew.
Yes, true. However, morality aside, and no matter what the circumstances, outright executing a defenseless person in view of his compatriots will cause the aggrieved party to take revenge on you. Right or wrong, and no matter what came before, it's just a suicidally stupid move to (further) tick off someone like Adelai Niska for no material gain.
Not really; he puts the crew's lives at stake several times by blithely ignoring the reality of his "strategies". He repeatedly refuses his genius mechanic's requests to buy a "nothing part" and a few months later, the ship explodes, dooming everyone (except for two very convenient dei ex machinae). He unquestioningly takes a job for a murderous mob boss; betrays him based on pure emotional response (and apparently learns nothing from the experience, one adds); and on top of this gratuitously kills one of his defenseless henchmen (we note, that in War Stories the supposedly-dimwitted Jayne is the only one on the crew to make this connection...). Risks the lives of his crew playing mercenary for a backwater settlement in exchange for trinkets. Risks the lives of his crew defending a whorehouse for no practical reason, mostly because he's emotionally confused about Inara.
Yes, Mal is, in practical terms, a complete failure as an effective leader, but the point is that his naive charm keeps the crew hanging on his word (which inhibits his redemption). This is intentional; as River points out in a rare lucid moment, "Mal. Bad. From the Latin." He's a short-sighted psychopath who kills whimsically and with no consistent regard for even his own safety. (and keep in mind, this is after Joss "lightened up" the character at the network's behest)
It's a testament to Nathan Fillion I guess that Mal is such an admirable character, which only reinforces the point: that his naive charisma more-or-less completely masks his deep flaws as correctly observed here...
Assuming that the password is changed according to a fixed random policy (which is reasonable) and that the cracker is operating similarly, it is an obvious result of Wald's equation.
I never understood the hate for Minority Report. I thought it was fairly well-executed and that the effects mostly helped convey the plot and inherent paranoia, rather than being gratuitous. Sure there were some stupid scenes, like the car factory escape, or the ridiculous vomit baton weapons, but I think it still better than the Hollywood average. Yes, the ending was far too perfectly redemptive, but again I think that the overall plot execution was still above-average.
Spielberg is quoted as saying that MR was absolutely his darkest possible vision of the future. This doesn't speak well to Spielberg's imagination (the case can be made that life is just as bad now), and he did spend too much time trying clumsily to ape the recently-deceased Stanley Kubrick. Nonetheless, the imagery was stunning: the matron with the motile plants; the spider-invasion of the apartment building; and even the almost-cheesy eye surgery scene. I appreciated all of this.
In short, it's a lot like Fifth Element to me: a combination of flaws and merits where the narrative is occasionally compromised by spectacle. Anyway, it's easy for me to deal with the flaws.
The problem with common sense is that often it's exercised by idiots: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=340a79d6-839a-470d-b662-944325cea23d
I guess you had the edition with the lesbian incest removed.
I remember when I was looking for a Bible, the reviews were invaluable. In particular the one for the Oxford World Classics edition which described it as a satanic trap placed by the world's secular elitist intellectuals, and to be avoided by all true Christians at all costs. That pretty much clinched it for me and I've been quite satisfied with my purchase. :-)
some day I'll stop biting the trolls.
Yeah, I'm sure $200 a week is a great hardship for a company. Your "stipend and small wage" would be, what, $100/week? $50? Are you actually serious?
The USPS is completely self-sustaining and has been since the 1980s (although back then, yes, it was a money hole). It receives no funding from taxes.
I would say USPS is not subsidized, except that you are right about the monopoly on letter post. The law itself is interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
From my experience and tales from others, USPS is far superior to Canada's privatized post, so I am suspicious about the social value of privatizing the mail.
According to wikipedia, this exemption is valid only if the declarant is unavailable as a witness. It's vague to me, whether a defendant is or is not available as a witness since of course he can't be compelled to testify against himself.
Even notwithstanding this exemption, It's not clear to me. There's of course an obvious contrary social interest in dishonestly bragging about such a thing, and this seems to be exactly the kind of thing hearsay was meant to protect against. Basically, bullshitting around shouldn't be enough to convict someone, since plenty of actually innocent people would do the same.
As long as he was bragging to students (and not cops), isn't this inadmissible hearsay?
You can easily stuff yourself with mars bars no end; try eating 50 grams of 70% cocoa chocolate and you won't be able to fit more.
I only wish; it'd be easier to keep it around. I can easily finish off a 3.5 oz bar of 90%, and even pure baking chocolate, if it's high enough quality (e.g. Ghirardelli). Dee-lish.
Or: "It tastes like chlorine because it's made from chlorine."
I wonder why they didn't go with that one...
As you say, it "sounds like" you're insane. There's miles of difference, not a thin line. And we also have just such an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Clearly the doctors and scientists didn't think he was crazy; they did after all bother to take the time to harshly dismiss his work. (He only went insane later, due to plain old nervous breakdown and/or syphilis.)
The social function of the odious meme at hand is to 1) keep the marginal kooks (not really crazy, but they think they are) buoyed up by the silly hope that they're really brilliant; 2) provide a just-so story by which normal people can ignore offensive, but nagging, ideas (after all, great ideas are indistinguishable from crazy ones so fuck it and accept the so-called "real world").
In fact the real Nash wrote once, that a lot of people who would otherwise be totally "crazy" can live just fine, if they are wealthy (or cared for) enough to basically never feel any pressure. It's a comorbidly-social disease.
"Like idiot-savant good."
Yeah, that'd just be "savant" then.
I do wonder just how much damage this single ridiculous idea has caused, just in the U.S. (where it seems most prominent?), over the years. It is non-zero, I can say for sure.
Do (continental) Europeans have this kind of nonsense meme kicking around?
It's rational to join an MLM if you're high enough on the pyramid. Speaking for my self, the reason I don't join these things is that 1. I "know" (or believe that I know) I am very low on the chain; 2. I'm a bad salesperson anyways because I have trouble buying into lies.
I've never even bothered to compute my expected payoff, mostly because of the uncertainty associated with point 1., supra.
Patent is, among other things, a tax on future entrepreneurs with a very complicated (and often impossible to predict in advance) variable rate between 0% and 100%. Actually with submarine patents it can go over 100%, but we'll leave that out.
Isn't it possible that we could get more bang-for-buck by simply paying for significant inventions out of a general fund, and placing them in the public domain?
Arguments about the "real world" are, in the final analysis, insulting nonsense. Even the most ideologically "extreme" foundations, such as Hoover Foundation and Cato Institute, are honest enough to occasionally justify their policies in terms of the real world that they would imply. That is, the moral and economic outcomes of a system of private property and simulated-private property (patents).
I went to a statistical genetics talk by a Yale postdoc and it was almost completely lies about the state-of-the-art, invented to prop up his trivial result.
I have known uneducated and racist republicans (as well as many who are neither). Have not met a democrat with an altar to any human being at all.
Your invalid contrast belies your request for an end of prejudice.
For now. If this kind of data-leak became common, you can bet there would emerge specialist firms/consultants to do the mining, perhaps as a value-add onto a more general background check.
Vigilance.
Wal*mart is a very American store. America thrives on a vigorous and unresolved conflict between popular socialist movements and rather-popular big business movements. Wal*mart's affiliation is obvious.
As for the rest of your reply, I find it incomprehensible.