I'm not entirely sure there's a problem. Apparently the reason to give pregnant girls their own flats was to prevent babies from being raised homeless. Mission accomplished.
If by "problem" you mean that kids are now making this their goal...why is that a surprise?
It's like opening a soup kitchen and being surprised there's more people now than last year. Well if you're going to give away free food, you should expect it to become more popular. It's not the soup kitchen's job to put itself out of business. It's somebody else's job to provide a superior alternative to welfare.
For example, some good employment opportunities. Something that makes being on welfare seem crappy in comparison.
The OP is talking about why affluent children get into crime. Sure, if you're a crack addict, and your kids grow up to be car thieves, no harm no foul.
But if you went to Harvard, and your rich, white kids grow up to be heroin addicts, it means you did something wrong.
Yeah. I raised an eyebrow when I saw this in the newspaper. Tenenbaum says, "I'm disappointed, but I'm thankful it wasn't millions. To me it sends a message of 'We considered your side with some legitimacy.'"
He's *thankful*??
I've never heard of a defendant who was this much of a douchebag. It makes me wonder if there's some way he could have taken a dive.
>while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.
Really? You mean those 5-foot-1 suits of armor at the museum were worn by the same 6-foot-5 monsters who grace our modern football fields and armed forces?
I guess men from the Renaissance were the same as us, except highly compressible.
You're right, the *copy* is owned. That was made clear when you bolded, "Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content." So yes, they stole your PS3 and left $400 behind.
So let's rewind and ask what they should have done. According to Amazon, the PS3 they sold you was bootleg and made in China. It's not a "real" PS3 and shouldn't exist. Like a twin from the future, Amazon believes that if your PS3 is allowed to exist, a rift could open and the fabric of spacetime could be destroyed.
But here's where it gets strange. Your bootleg PS3 works just fine. It's virtually identical to the real thing; in fact, neither you nor Amazon noticed the difference, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. And it's not like the PS3 is a dead product; from the way Amazon is behaving, you'd think the PS3 was an EV1 destined to be crushed into a cube.
Check Amazon, 1984 is available for download on Kindle. If that's the case, then why does it need to be deleted? Is there some bootleg Amazon store that I'm not seeing?
>But if you have the ability to get a refund on your purchase and have them take the ebook back, that makes perfect sense.
No. Wrong.
If I buy a shirt from Macy's, and I want a refund, I go to the store and give it back. That's how refunds work. If you think a gallon of milk smells funny, you can go to the supermarket and give it back. The supermarket doesn't search your fridge for an identical gallon of milk with the same date stamp and chemical structure. Likewise I've never had Macy's search my closet for an identical shirt.
Refunds are processed on the assumption that you haven't duplicated the item. Get it? All Amazon needs to process refunds is a server where you can give it back.
There's something odd about a hacker going after security groups. Feels like they are taking a hostage, and threatening the very agencies who would defend against such hacking.
I wouldn't assume these people are well-intentioned. If they are, they are wasting our time or they are un-prioritized. Script kiddies? Who cares? What about Total Information Awareness?
The easiest way to hack Imageshack would be to inspect the packets going in and out until you gathered enough passwords to log in as administrator.
Who can perform packet inspection? The phone company can.
I'll agree that cs is a philosophy, but not knowing how to program makes you feel like shit. In eight semesters, I took about 32 classes. Of those, four were programming classes, and one of them was "Intro." Two were electives.
For the average teenager, a theoretical education is really going beyond what they need for the next stage of their lives. It's true that anyone with a theoretical understanding can fall back to practical application, but the problem is, until you actually do it for real, nobody is going to take you seriously.
I walked out of college basically hysterical. "I know matrix algebra!!!" Nobody cared.
Your examples promote the idea that central planning (i.e. "Communism") eventually results in a democracy.
First, the Kremlin "exited" Eastern Europe in 1989. How true. This was a deliberate decision by Gorbachev and other central planners that top-down organization was obsolete. The people didn't rise up because there was nothing to rise against - Gorbachev literally decided to let his people go forth on their own. Note that he didn't seem particularly bent on retaining power for his own sake; fifty years of post-Stalinist decline left Russia without political or religious fervor.
Second, the reason the Socialist Republic of Vietnam isn't pissed about agent orange is because the aforementioned socialist republic fought a war with us to become a Communist nation - and won. They fought a war specifically to reject freedom and free markets. After ten years of malaise, plus further wars, the Vietnamese central planners wisened up and instituted reforms in 1986.
To continue with Asian examples, China exports so many of our consumer goods, that you would have a hard time believing that they are a Communist nation. In fact, the amount of commerce done by the Chinese directly contradicts any notion that they are not a free-market society. A restricted market, perhaps, but most certainly free.
Even the North Koreans are snickering behind our backs, their fierce nuclear aggression a mere charade for Western audiences. Like the above examples, there is no religious fervor here, no deep passions. Just central planning, humming along for as long as it can before the gears collapse.
So what are you really saying? That the cultural failure of the Iranians is their inability to fight a Marxist Revolution?
Well you're right, there seems to be no history of Communism in Iran.
The chartingstocks article shows that Israel has an interest in promoting Mosavi's candidacy. That it jives with events on the ground is convenience. After all, if Ahmenijad is "jewish," then why would Israel try to destabilize his election? You're contradicting yourself. According to the third article, this election turmoil could get Ahmenijad killed. More likely, these claims of jewish ancestry are an attempt by the mullahs to distance themselves from someone who has become a liability.
A generation of specific monkey colonies containing genetic defects that mirror human diseases is aiding efforts to cure such diseases as your mom's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease?
I mean, she is on her way over here. The question is, does Alzheimer's let me bang her in the ear?
I play online games other than poker. You guys remind me of ourselves in some ways.
For example, playing 3v1 ("I've got three accounts and you're the only one at the table who isn't me") is a common problem in online gaming, yet a seemingly novel one in the poker world. Who hasn't played against 3 bots, or 3 allied humans, or 1 human and 2 bots?
Likewise, ("I'm sitting with a friend...and comparing notes") is something I participated in, with a house intercom, back in 1996 (namely: Command & Conquer). I never did it again, because we steamrolled the competition with our real-time tactical updates. I've played thousands of games since then, and never itched to be on the phone with a teammate. That's because even after they invented Skype, it just seemed like verbal chat - ANYTHING not explicitly declared - was rigging the odds.
Meanwhile, in the Poker world, two players getting on the phone to collaborate is considered innovative.
I guess the charm of Poker is in dicking over your opponent. After you play online games for awhile, however, you start to realize what is fair and not.
After reading all these testimonials, I'm starting to come around to the idea that on-line poker is an improved version of the real thing. Online poker reduces the game to pure heuristics - no more sunglasses and wide-brimmed hats. Makes a lot of sense.
You still have to treat your opponents as intelligent - just not necessarily human or even having a face.
Plenty of people drive piece of shit cars already.
And it's pretty hard to find a car that isn't made out of plastic. Bentley, maybe? That's just a guess.
>But his thesis is that such events are fundamentally unpredictable.
????
I just read the article, and I don't see where "predictability" or "unpredictability" were mentioned.
Maybe you are the victim of illusion of pattern?
Is your focus on "unpredictability" a post-hoc attempt to create a narrative? Maybe you think that real life is as unpredictable as, say, boss combat in Final Fantasy?
Or do you simply overvalue the content of the wiki?
I don't think anyone is questioning the value of his model.
>Ah, but if you are going to do that kind of
>calculation you then have to factor in the costs
>of exploration, drilling, refining,
>transporting, storing, and pumping fossil fuels.
Good point. What nobody seems to be getting is the concept of eliminating local pollution. Did you know that 2-stroke engines (lawn mowers, dirt bikes) are a major source of air pollution?
So you burn the same amount of fossil fuels with electric cars, as you do with combustion engines. At least it's not in my neighborhood. That makes a big difference to my lungs.
Local storage (#6) is an excellent point. Maybe electric vehicles will make headway when we agree that handing out batteries is more efficient than handing out gas cans.
>how many companies headquartered in say, Boston or Silocon Valley use COBOL vs how many companies in say Cowtown use COBOL.
I lived in Boston for 7 years. Number of COBOL programmers: ZERO.
Since then, I've lived in suburbia for almost 7 years. WE don't have cows but we did have quite a few potato farms up until recently. Here I've met exactly TWO cobol programmers.
Neither of them had the balls to actually talk about programming tho.
>Your TV/DVR could find shows that you would like but didn't know to ask for
I don't consider Tivo an "interlocutor." I consider it a poorly-trained pet that fetches trash and sleeps a lot, because I don't spend enough time petting it.
My dvr CAN find shows RIGHT NOW if it was programmed properly. There is no additional philosophy or theory of AI required to get this job done.
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It isn't obvious what the solution is either.
I'm not entirely sure there's a problem. Apparently the reason to give pregnant girls their own flats was to prevent babies from being raised homeless. Mission accomplished.
If by "problem" you mean that kids are now making this their goal...why is that a surprise?
It's like opening a soup kitchen and being surprised there's more people now than last year. Well if you're going to give away free food, you should expect it to become more popular. It's not the soup kitchen's job to put itself out of business. It's somebody else's job to provide a superior alternative to welfare.
For example, some good employment opportunities. Something that makes being on welfare seem crappy in comparison.
The OP is talking about why affluent children get into crime. Sure, if you're a crack addict, and your kids grow up to be car thieves, no harm no foul.
But if you went to Harvard, and your rich, white kids grow up to be heroin addicts, it means you did something wrong.
>>I think there is a plan behind it.
>I think you're interpreting things, and there is no need to do that according to the deeply insightful GP:
Actually, he was being funny. Read it again.
>There has to be more to this
Yeah. I raised an eyebrow when I saw this in the newspaper. Tenenbaum says, "I'm disappointed, but I'm thankful it wasn't millions. To me it sends a message of 'We considered your side with some legitimacy.'"
He's *thankful*??
I've never heard of a defendant who was this much of a douchebag. It makes me wonder if there's some way he could have taken a dive.
Check out his d-bag face
>while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.
Really? You mean those 5-foot-1 suits of armor at the museum were worn by the same 6-foot-5 monsters who grace our modern football fields and armed forces?
I guess men from the Renaissance were the same as us, except highly compressible.
You're right, the *copy* is owned. That was made clear when you bolded, "Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content." So yes, they stole your PS3 and left $400 behind.
So let's rewind and ask what they should have done. According to Amazon, the PS3 they sold you was bootleg and made in China. It's not a "real" PS3 and shouldn't exist. Like a twin from the future, Amazon believes that if your PS3 is allowed to exist, a rift could open and the fabric of spacetime could be destroyed.
But here's where it gets strange. Your bootleg PS3 works just fine. It's virtually identical to the real thing; in fact, neither you nor Amazon noticed the difference, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. And it's not like the PS3 is a dead product; from the way Amazon is behaving, you'd think the PS3 was an EV1 destined to be crushed into a cube.
Check Amazon, 1984 is available for download on Kindle. If that's the case, then why does it need to be deleted? Is there some bootleg Amazon store that I'm not seeing?
>But if you have the ability to get a refund on your purchase and have them take the ebook back, that makes perfect sense.
No. Wrong.
If I buy a shirt from Macy's, and I want a refund, I go to the store and give it back. That's how refunds work. If you think a gallon of milk smells funny, you can go to the supermarket and give it back. The supermarket doesn't search your fridge for an identical gallon of milk with the same date stamp and chemical structure. Likewise I've never had Macy's search my closet for an identical shirt.
Refunds are processed on the assumption that you haven't duplicated the item. Get it? All Amazon needs to process refunds is a server where you can give it back.
There's something odd about a hacker going after security groups. Feels like they are taking a hostage, and threatening the very agencies who would defend against such hacking.
I wouldn't assume these people are well-intentioned. If they are, they are wasting our time or they are un-prioritized. Script kiddies? Who cares? What about Total Information Awareness?
The easiest way to hack Imageshack would be to inspect the packets going in and out until you gathered enough passwords to log in as administrator.
Who can perform packet inspection? The phone company can.
I'll agree that cs is a philosophy, but not knowing how to program makes you feel like shit. In eight semesters, I took about 32 classes. Of those, four were programming classes, and one of them was "Intro." Two were electives.
For the average teenager, a theoretical education is really going beyond what they need for the next stage of their lives. It's true that anyone with a theoretical understanding can fall back to practical application, but the problem is, until you actually do it for real, nobody is going to take you seriously.
I walked out of college basically hysterical. "I know matrix algebra!!!" Nobody cared.
Your examples promote the idea that central planning (i.e. "Communism") eventually results in a democracy. First, the Kremlin "exited" Eastern Europe in 1989. How true. This was a deliberate decision by Gorbachev and other central planners that top-down organization was obsolete. The people didn't rise up because there was nothing to rise against - Gorbachev literally decided to let his people go forth on their own. Note that he didn't seem particularly bent on retaining power for his own sake; fifty years of post-Stalinist decline left Russia without political or religious fervor. Second, the reason the Socialist Republic of Vietnam isn't pissed about agent orange is because the aforementioned socialist republic fought a war with us to become a Communist nation - and won. They fought a war specifically to reject freedom and free markets. After ten years of malaise, plus further wars, the Vietnamese central planners wisened up and instituted reforms in 1986. To continue with Asian examples, China exports so many of our consumer goods, that you would have a hard time believing that they are a Communist nation. In fact, the amount of commerce done by the Chinese directly contradicts any notion that they are not a free-market society. A restricted market, perhaps, but most certainly free. Even the North Koreans are snickering behind our backs, their fierce nuclear aggression a mere charade for Western audiences. Like the above examples, there is no religious fervor here, no deep passions. Just central planning, humming along for as long as it can before the gears collapse. So what are you really saying? That the cultural failure of the Iranians is their inability to fight a Marxist Revolution? Well you're right, there seems to be no history of Communism in Iran.
The chartingstocks article shows that Israel has an interest in promoting Mosavi's candidacy. That it jives with events on the ground is convenience. After all, if Ahmenijad is "jewish," then why would Israel try to destabilize his election? You're contradicting yourself. According to the third article, this election turmoil could get Ahmenijad killed. More likely, these claims of jewish ancestry are an attempt by the mullahs to distance themselves from someone who has become a liability.
My glowing dick casts light on human jealousy?
How about,
A generation of specific monkey colonies containing genetic defects that mirror human diseases is aiding efforts to cure such diseases as your mom's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease?
I mean, she is on her way over here. The question is, does Alzheimer's let me bang her in the ear?
..actual Night-Life!
>"This episode's focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned,'
Meaning, you can get your balls rocked by GTA if you live in the U.S. and are under eighteen!
(Canadians nearing eighteen are already sneaking into titty bars...)
Waht is the rule for anwering the squetion?
Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science?
Incorrect?!
Do I get "Canoyon of Heores?" Y/N/Mayube?
I play online games other than poker. You guys remind me of ourselves in some ways.
For example, playing 3v1 ("I've got three accounts and you're the only one at the table who isn't me") is a common problem in online gaming, yet a seemingly novel one in the poker world. Who hasn't played against 3 bots, or 3 allied humans, or 1 human and 2 bots?
Likewise, ("I'm sitting with a friend...and comparing notes") is something I participated in, with a house intercom, back in 1996 (namely: Command & Conquer). I never did it again, because we steamrolled the competition with our real-time tactical updates. I've played thousands of games since then, and never itched to be on the phone with a teammate. That's because even after they invented Skype, it just seemed like verbal chat - ANYTHING not explicitly declared - was rigging the odds.
Meanwhile, in the Poker world, two players getting on the phone to collaborate is considered innovative.
I guess the charm of Poker is in dicking over your opponent. After you play online games for awhile, however, you start to realize what is fair and not.
>but I can't play poker online in my underwear?
After reading all these testimonials, I'm starting to come around to the idea that on-line poker is an improved version of the real thing. Online poker reduces the game to pure heuristics - no more sunglasses and wide-brimmed hats. Makes a lot of sense.
You still have to treat your opponents as intelligent - just not necessarily human or even having a face.
And by "resources" you mean what? How about trying to pick the winners - is that so hard?
Here's an easy one: GM + Hummer + $4.25/gallon = SELL.
Or how about this one: CitiBank + $1/share + Federal Bailout = BUY. Hell, if Citi goes up to $2, you make 100% return. And you know what? It did.
>How long before it decides that those pesky blobs of protoplasm need to be reigned in because they keep screwing things up?
Sounds like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Plenty of people drive piece of shit cars already. And it's pretty hard to find a car that isn't made out of plastic. Bentley, maybe? That's just a guess.
>But his thesis is that such events are fundamentally unpredictable.
????
I just read the article, and I don't see where "predictability" or "unpredictability" were mentioned.
Maybe you are the victim of illusion of pattern?
Is your focus on "unpredictability" a post-hoc attempt to create a narrative? Maybe you think that real life is as unpredictable as, say, boss combat in Final Fantasy?
Or do you simply overvalue the content of the wiki?
I don't think anyone is questioning the value of his model.
>a Seller's market for a long enough time leads to collapse. timing exactly when is the trick.
OK good point. Check this out (housing trends): http://www.mgic.com/pdfs/mt_northeast.pdf
Look at "OFHEO Home Price Index" for, say, Hartford CT. Housing price rate of change (derivative) peaked in 1st quarter 2005.
When did it flatten out? First quarter 2008.
In other words, it took THREE YEARS for homes to start losing any of their inflated value.
"Timing" in a five-year market? How about... anytime in the second half?
(Obviously, maximum value is obtained in 1Q2008. But that's also when everybody else is selling...do you want to be part of the mad rush to unload?)
>Ah, but if you are going to do that kind of
>calculation you then have to factor in the costs
>of exploration, drilling, refining,
>transporting, storing, and pumping fossil fuels.
Good point. What nobody seems to be getting is the concept of eliminating local pollution. Did you know that 2-stroke engines (lawn mowers, dirt bikes) are a major source of air pollution?
So you burn the same amount of fossil fuels with electric cars, as you do with combustion engines. At least it's not in my neighborhood. That makes a big difference to my lungs.
Local storage (#6) is an excellent point. Maybe electric vehicles will make headway when we agree that handing out batteries is more efficient than handing out gas cans.
>All it has going for it is eyecandy.
No.
A pure electric car doesn't make noise, and it doesn't smell like sulfur.
Electric motors basically have no moving parts in contact with each other, meaning no wear, and fewer repairs.
The Tesla electric can accelerate to 60mph in 4 seconds, which no ICE can match.
Oh, did I mention that electric motors are about 90% efficient, compared to 40% for ICE?
Congratulations, you completely missed the point.
>how many companies headquartered in say, Boston or Silocon Valley use COBOL vs how many companies in say Cowtown use COBOL.
I lived in Boston for 7 years. Number of COBOL programmers: ZERO.
Since then, I've lived in suburbia for almost 7 years. WE don't have cows but we did have quite a few potato farms up until recently. Here I've met exactly TWO cobol programmers.
Neither of them had the balls to actually talk about programming tho.
But they did talk about farts.
>Your TV/DVR could find shows that you would like but didn't know to ask for
I don't consider Tivo an "interlocutor." I consider it a poorly-trained pet that fetches trash and sleeps a lot, because I don't spend enough time petting it.
My dvr CAN find shows RIGHT NOW if it was programmed properly. There is no additional philosophy or theory of AI required to get this job done.