the traditional religions in Asia have absolutely no problems with cloning or experimentation on embryos (which is basically verboten in western countries)
There is, as far as I can tell, only one sure way to detect and block spam, and that is the one thing that cannot be forged easily in email headers...
The "Received: " header added by your server. Filtering on anything the spammer can control means an arms race; filtering on the IP address is the only consistent thing, whether the hosts are complicit with spammers (netvision.il, wideopenwest.net, chello.nl) or just too incompetent/lazy to act on reports of trojanned machines on their network (attbi / comcast.net -- 4,200 spams to me and rising -- this means you!)
I block on IP addrees, and block 99% of the spams; the remainder get a polite note to abuse@ ; if they persist in spamming, they go on the blacklist.
No, the article is about people who leach off eBay, by buying misspelled items and selling them at a profit. I'm a genuine buyer, whose own genuine bad spelling has led me to bargains. Thats not the same.
I've come across some items that were *underpriced*, because bad spelling has made them difficult to find. (Fortunately, I was as bad a speller as the seller). After that, I've occasionally searched for easy-but-uncommon misspellings of items I'm after.
Well without prejudice to this year (and I think `Lost In Translation' stank, so roll on RotK)... I love Star Wars (have a Star Wars t-shirt on right now) but Annie Hall IS a better movie. Better acted, better plot, better script, better direction, funnier jokes.
No. It requires either self awareness or the ability to falsify a plausible answer. If I'm self aware enough to know that "I can't get out of bed in the morning" is my greatest weakness; I'm also self aware enough to know that I am not going to write that on my application form in a million years.
The average height of a Japanese male is about 5'4"
But its not very funny, is it. A joke that consists of a tall westerner with some short Japanese people just isn't very funny.
Japanese really don't distinguish between "r" and "l"... It's not really a sterotype if its true.
But is it funny to mock the Japanese for this cultural difference. Many Japanese characters speak excellent english, neither USian speaks (or even attempts to learn) any Japanese. And yet the Japanese characters are continually mocked for their stupidity ("Cut-a! Cut-a!", say, or "Lip my stockings") as our "heroes" look down their noses at them.
Westerners are used to their food coming shrink wrapped and packaged in such a way as to be un-identifiable.
You might be; personally, I like sushi.
Five star hotels in tokyo w/ shower heads below 7 feet?
Murray was in a hotel clearly designed for and frequented by, westerners. But rather than reflect how western hotels are homogenised the world over, Coppola took went for the cheap "All Japanese people are short" joke (again).
The film is designed to highlight the experiance of culture shock.
The film is "designed" (although thats altogether too dignified a word) to get cheap laughs from Japanese culture. My intelligence was insulted at the paucity of ideas. Johannsen's arse was lovely, though.
Gee great. 20 years of patronising and stereotyped portrayals of the Japanese ("They're short!, "They can't pronounce the letter 'r'", "Their food looks like toes" -- hi-fucking-larious)
Now, how many 5 star hotels in Tokyo do you suppose there are that don't have shower heads that go up to at least 7 feet?
Christ, thats an overrated film. 20 minutes of good dialogue compressed into 2 hours of lingering shots of Scarlett Johannsen's arse.
It's pretty unlikely that each person in the first group has a probablity of positive response of 0.6 as the model requires
I'm not sure I follow you here. Suppose you have the two traditional black bags containing (very many) red and yellow balls. Pull 30 from each, get 6 red and 18 red, respectively. You've invalidated the null hypothesis "contents of the bags are indentical." You've made no statements or assumptions about what the distribution in the bags are.
This isn't quite whats been done here (because of the replication issue, on which I cheerfully concede) but I think its close enough.
I stand by my conclusion that the P-values reported in most small-sample studies in the psychological and social sciences literature are generally too small.
However, that P-value relies on some pretty hefty assumptions (most importantly, Normality)
No, it doesn't. The null hypothesis only assumes that, in the total population, a fixed proportion 'p', will figure out the test, and that the two sample groups are sampled from that population in a representative fashion. The rest is just a Binomial / Bernoulli trials (I use normality [Z-test], because for n >= 30, its so good a sufficiently good approximation to the binomial, for the sake of this argument).
The Nazis never used the Reichstag once they got into the swing of things, but it was used as a sort of last stand by some SS guys when the Russians showed up.
I know. As you stand on the steps queueing to get in, you can still see the bullet holes in the pillars.
The building "Reichstag" in Berlin has actually no Nazi-connection (they burned it iirc)
They burned it, then blamed someone else (an unfortunate sap named Marinus van der Lubbe) as a pretext to the Enabling Act and Reichstag Fire Decree. The Reichstag itself sat, purely as a purely as a rubber-stamping exercise, until 1942 when Hitler finally devolved the last of its power to himself.
"I am not a crook" was not said in direct response to accusations over the Watergate break in, but accusations that he had avoided income taxes, and obstructed the IRS's investigation. That's why the full quote continues : "I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I got."
It was in 1973 though, and in an interview session when he was questioned about Watergate, so many people forget this.
Politicans and people who are into politics are all insane. Kind of like the telephone sanitizers in the Hitchhiker's Guide. Maybe we should send all of them up to Mars for that one way mission.
Maybe we should also remember what happened to the other 2/3rds of the Golgafrinchams...
But just 1 year ago, weren't we criticizing Windows for achieving EAL 4:
We? No. Follow that link. See at the beginning where it says "lewko writes". That means the section you quoted is the opinion of lewko. Not mine, and probably not yours, either.
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There is, as far as I can tell, only one sure way to detect and block spam, and that is the one thing that cannot be forged easily in email headers...
The "Received: " header added by your server. Filtering on anything the spammer can control means an arms race; filtering on the IP address is the only consistent thing, whether the hosts are complicit with spammers (netvision.il, wideopenwest.net, chello.nl) or just too incompetent/lazy to act on reports of trojanned machines on their network (attbi / comcast.net -- 4,200 spams to me and rising -- this means you!)
I block on IP addrees, and block 99% of the spams; the remainder get a polite note to abuse@ ; if they persist in spamming, they go on the blacklist.
No, the article is about people who leach off eBay, by buying misspelled items and selling them at a profit. I'm a genuine buyer, whose own genuine bad spelling has led me to bargains. Thats not the same.
I've come across some items that were *underpriced*, because bad spelling has made them difficult to find. (Fortunately, I was as bad a speller as the seller). After that, I've occasionally searched for easy-but-uncommon misspellings of items I'm after.
You need to stop taking the word "literally" so damn literally.
Well without prejudice to this year (and I think `Lost In Translation' stank, so roll on RotK)... I love Star Wars (have a Star Wars t-shirt on right now) but Annie Hall IS a better movie. Better acted, better plot, better script, better direction, funnier jokes.
So, if there is a patent on numerical ranking systems for games, I say we defrost Ted Williams and sue his .400-hitting ass .... err, head.
Not as impressive as all those multi-lingual continental Europeans like the Dutch, but still pretty cool.
Gee great. 20 years of patronising and stereotyped portrayals of the Japanese ("They're short!, "They can't pronounce the letter 'r'", "Their food looks like toes" -- hi-fucking-larious)
Now, how many 5 star hotels in Tokyo do you suppose there are that don't have shower heads that go up to at least 7 feet?
Christ, thats an overrated film. 20 minutes of good dialogue compressed into 2 hours of lingering shots of Scarlett Johannsen's arse.
Pull 30 from each, get 6 red and 18 red, respectively. You've invalidated the null hypothesis "contents of the bags are indentical." You've made no statements or assumptions about what the distribution in the bags are.
This isn't quite whats been done here (because of the replication issue, on which I cheerfully concede) but I think its close enough.
Feel free to multiply it by ten
"I am not a crook" was not said in direct response to accusations over the Watergate break in, but accusations that he had avoided income taxes, and obstructed the IRS's investigation. That's why the full quote continues : "I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I got."
It was in 1973 though, and in an interview session when he was questioned about Watergate, so many people forget this.
Note to young people : Richard Nixon was a crook.
Comparing two population proportions:
n1=n2=30
p1 = 0.6
p2 = 0.22
Null Hypothesis: Population proportions equal
Pooled proption = 0.41; standard deviation = sqrt(0.41 * 0.59) = 0.49
Z statistic = (p1-p2) / (sigma * sqrt(1/n1+1/n2)) =2.99
p-value = 0.0014.
That seems pretty significant to me. Go to the top of the class, and jump off.
If nothing else, it means I've been thinking very hard indeed while at work this morning.
Linux : going from competing desktops to competing desktop initiatives...
Yeah, but Angel was in that episode for, what?, 35 seconds?