The great thing about a vaccine, even if imperfect, is it also reduces the chance that your partner is infected (if the vaccine is widely deployed). Picture the graph of how a sexually transmitted disease potentially spreads, where each node is a person and each edge is a sexual encounter. Now make 30% of the nodes immune to the disease. That's enough to protect a large chunk of graph (much more than just the 30% who are immune).
It would be nice to have a perfect measure of actual emissions. As you point out though, collecting such a precise and accuate measure is difficult. That's why we offer taxes and rebates based on other things (gas, mpg ratings of cars), which estimate the actual values. Yes, an exact measure of emissions would be better, but isn't an estimate better than nothing?
Another other issue that everyone conveniently ignores, of course, is counting error. Simply put, the likely error in any given count of N random items (as long as N is sufficiently large) is 1/sqrt(N). With a really close election, you simply can't know who the true winner is.
The problem is that the documented fraud in the Ohio 2004 Presidental Election is substantially more than 1/sqrt(N). If it was a really, really close race, it's more or less a coin toss who actually wins, and I'm okay with that. But the election wasn't close. In the exit polls, Kerry won by a landslide. Exit polls in Germany, by comparison, have never missed the mark by more than three-tenths of one percent
If they're paying low insurance rates, they're safer. Insurance companies have squads of mathematicians who do nothing but figure this stuff out. There's no way they're giving a discount to a group that's actually more dangerous.
(Hint: alert and quick reflexes may decrease your risk of having an accident, but they do not help much with decreasing the severity of the accident)
The best strategy on those fronts is a habitual reading of clearly-formatted texts and scrupulous multi-stage review of everything you write, both of which are somewhat outside the scope of a semester-long class.
You could try to impress this point on the students. One value of a class like this is improving their writing ability. Another value is improving their ability to improve their own writing down the road.
Aside from grammar, what I've found most useful is peer review. Knowing that my peers will be reading a piece of text dramatically improves my desire to produce quality writing. At the same time, correcting others' writing improves my skills at critiquing my own writing and draws my attention to errors that I might be making myself. Being able to see the difference between a great essay, a mediocre essay, and a lousy essay will go a long way towards convincing them that they should put some effort in beyond the first draft. You can also get a lot more write-review cycles in because you don't have to read them all yourself.
Because the Olympic Rings are a trademark, which are definitely protected under the law. The Miro situation is about copyright, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
in a field like mathematics, hardly anyone ever reads the original papers (even for work done in the 20th century)
Out of curiosity, how do you know this? Are you a math professor with firsthand experience? Or a sociologist who has taken an extensive survey of mathematicians?
Slashdotters are hardly the first people to think the free flow of information is a right.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
-- Thomas Jefferson
If you want to bitch, fine, but direct it at someone who gives a damn and can do something about it. But don't fuck with the roads and interfere with all of us who are just trying to live our lives in peace and do our friggin jobs.
You are *exactly* the sort of person who could do something about it. You choose not to. It's not their fault if you don't give a damn.
Well, it's true that the RIAA/MPAA has as much legal right to run ads as anyone else. Personally, I would prefer that non-people have fewer rights than real people.
I disagree. This allows corporations with lots of money to have a disproportionate impact on public opinion. Their ads are not intended to be a form of discourse; they are hoping people will simply swallow their views as fact.
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Since earlier comments indicate that humans see this as a bad bet, I can only assume that 1 in 100 people on Earth are already, in fact, aliens.
The great thing about a vaccine, even if imperfect, is it also reduces the chance that your partner is infected (if the vaccine is widely deployed). Picture the graph of how a sexually transmitted disease potentially spreads, where each node is a person and each edge is a sexual encounter. Now make 30% of the nodes immune to the disease. That's enough to protect a large chunk of graph (much more than just the 30% who are immune).
He's running for a state representative position in Kansas. How much influence do you think that has on immigration policy exactly?
Because of if we screw up Mars, we can try again. If we screw up Earth, we're done.
On Phobos, duh. Unfortunately we keep landing the probes on Mars.
It would be nice to have a perfect measure of actual emissions. As you point out though, collecting such a precise and accuate measure is difficult. That's why we offer taxes and rebates based on other things (gas, mpg ratings of cars), which estimate the actual values. Yes, an exact measure of emissions would be better, but isn't an estimate better than nothing?
The problem is that the documented fraud in the Ohio 2004 Presidental Election is substantially more than 1/sqrt(N). If it was a really, really close race, it's more or less a coin toss who actually wins, and I'm okay with that. But the election wasn't close. In the exit polls, Kerry won by a landslide. Exit polls in Germany, by comparison, have never missed the mark by more than three-tenths of one percent
Q: How many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two, but I don't know how they got in there...
If you're a parent, it means you forgot step 2.
The business should fix their software to automatically capitalize text that must be in all-caps.
If they're paying low insurance rates, they're safer. Insurance companies have squads of mathematicians who do nothing but figure this stuff out. There's no way they're giving a discount to a group that's actually more dangerous.
(Hint: alert and quick reflexes may decrease your risk of having an accident, but they do not help much with decreasing the severity of the accident)
The best strategy on those fronts is a habitual reading of clearly-formatted texts and scrupulous multi-stage review of everything you write, both of which are somewhat outside the scope of a semester-long class.
You could try to impress this point on the students. One value of a class like this is improving their writing ability. Another value is improving their ability to improve their own writing down the road.
Aside from grammar, what I've found most useful is peer review. Knowing that my peers will be reading a piece of text dramatically improves my desire to produce quality writing. At the same time, correcting others' writing improves my skills at critiquing my own writing and draws my attention to errors that I might be making myself. Being able to see the difference between a great essay, a mediocre essay, and a lousy essay will go a long way towards convincing them that they should put some effort in beyond the first draft. You can also get a lot more write-review cycles in because you don't have to read them all yourself.
Because the Olympic Rings are a trademark, which are definitely protected under the law. The Miro situation is about copyright, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
There's a very good reason:
Can you guess what that reason might be?
Out of curiosity, how do you know this? Are you a math professor with firsthand experience? Or a sociologist who has taken an extensive survey of mathematicians?
This is wrong. MSN estimates there are around 16 results. However, if you hit Next, it does a better estimate of over 8 million.
This is just a problem with the estimator. If you just search for "Windows", it estimates less than 3 thousand hits.
Because new books have been published and added to the system since then. The article points this out.
False. When you are a convicted criminal, you can lose some of your rights. How many rights do you think prison inmates have?
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
-- Thomas Jefferson
You are *exactly* the sort of person who could do something about it. You choose not to. It's not their fault if you don't give a damn.
Well, it's true that the RIAA/MPAA has as much legal right to run ads as anyone else. Personally, I would prefer that non-people have fewer rights than real people.
Yeah, I just wait a few weeks and watch it for $1.50!
For $10/ticket you are not paying to see a movie. You are paying to be part of the herd.
I'm an avid supporter of free speech for people.
Arrrrr, matey! Your DVDs are due back in two weeks, ya landlubber!
Do selective enforcement rules only apply to the government?