There are some significant differences between your examples (food, housing, clothing) and healthcare. All three of yours are regular, usually predictable, and generally controllable expenses. I can choose whether to go for the cheaper or more expensive kinds, and when. I can even choose when to make a down payment on a house - an amount of money that would be catastrophic if that expense came up unexpectedly.
Health expenses, can come up suddenly and offer me absolutely no choice at all about how, when, or where I incur them.
Technically true, but look beyond the formulae for a brief moment and look at what they're *doing* and you'll see the way out: his mechanism for computing [x,y,z]^n is to convert it to spherical coordinates [r,theta,phi], then do something similar to complex exponentiation - [r^n,theta*n,phi*n] - then convert that back to rectangular coordinates. So rectangular [0,0,1] becomes polar [1,0,0], which squares to polar [1,0,0].
Makes sense as long as you think about it a little, but not too much.
Why is "hate crime" legislation a good thing again?
If I beat you up and leave you for dead, that's one victim.
If I beat you up and leave you for dead because I don't like your hair color, and it's known that I belong to a large group of similarly-minded people, then not only have I victimized you, but everyone who has your same hair color is now going to be looking over their shoulders, in fear that one of my compatriots is after them next.
That's why "hate crimes" deserve special punishment - because they have the intent and effect of victimizing not just one or two or a few people, but a whole group. It's a whole new level of unacceptability.
It's a big help for software developers needing to support multiple platforms/versions. At my company we provide support for the past 5 or 6 versions of our software, so I have a VM for each version that I fire up when I need to check something or patch a bug. Lots easier than dealing with multiple physical machines.
Maybe I'm reading a different summary and article than you did, but I don't see a reference to that misquote anywhere other than in your comment. Might want to have a neurologist look at that knee-jerk you're developing...
Hey, that's my old stomping grounds!
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Well, ok, I lived in the Hyde Park area (the setting of the game) for a good solid 8 months. Odd, though... they've got the police station located at 55th & Woodlawn... Unless my memory is decieving me, that's actually a *fire* station...
(Hrmm. No, now that I think of it, that corner has a Starbucks [what corner doesn't?], a church, a school, and some nasty-looking apartments. The fire station is one block west. Ohwell, this is supposed to be the fictional future hyper-advanced year 2000 Chicago, maybe there'll be some changes by then...)
Isn't that the sort of thing that the patent system was originally intended to promote? Where the "bounty" is the short-term monopoly on your invention...
That's odd.... seeing as they talk about the pressure from/., the line that *I* thought of was "never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"...
1) If 'younger ones' at MSFT already know about this (suggesting it's widely known in Redmond), why is an AC posting on/. the first the rest of the world hears about the alleged offer?
2) From TFA:
Cornett wrote that the $2 million severance package, plus health care, given to Stone "suggests that Mr. Stone was asked to resign." The severance details were unveiled in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Doesn't exactly tally with your tale of Ballmer buying him off. Which is not to say that he couldn't go to MSFT, but I doubt that Redmond was his intended destination when he left.
That page is worth reading just for the number of variations on "won" or "lost" they have... "edged", "walloped", even "spooked" for a Halloween game...
...and what's this about the "Boston Yanks"?
*head explodes*
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Government is a tool that can be hacked to work for you, just as a computer can be hacked to work for you.
There's just one problem with your analogy - I hack my computer to make it work for me, but most other people would find it more or less unusable. That's fine, because they have their own computers. A government, we have to share. And we don't have root on it. So while we're trying, in our small ways, to hack the gov't to do X, other people are working, oftentimes much harder, to make it do not-X.
Which is not to say that we shouldn't try to make it better, because we should. Just that it's going to be many many orders of magnitude harder to get anything useful accomplished.
Look in linux/kernel/SillySounds on your favorite kernel mirror for a file called english.au (or swedish.au if you prefer). If you don't have a favorite kernel mirror, you can just Google it.
(Not posting any direct links so nobody gets slashdotted.)
Actually, this is exactly the sort of thing that the organizers were hoping would happen. From the FAQ, question 12:
But we don't want to [impose limits on the number of entries] as it will be interesting to see if people can come up with strategies that cooperate with themselves within the whole population.
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There are some significant differences between your examples (food, housing, clothing) and healthcare. All three of yours are regular, usually predictable, and generally controllable expenses. I can choose whether to go for the cheaper or more expensive kinds, and when. I can even choose when to make a down payment on a house - an amount of money that would be catastrophic if that expense came up unexpectedly. Health expenses, can come up suddenly and offer me absolutely no choice at all about how, when, or where I incur them.
Makes sense as long as you think about it a little, but not too much.
I'm always at a loss for what to say when the Cialis commercials come on.
"Bathtime, kiddo!"
Dude. You are my hero. That just became my project for tomorrow. Sure, I'll spend a lot of time on it... but if it works, no one will ever know!
Why is "hate crime" legislation a good thing again?
If I beat you up and leave you for dead, that's one victim.
If I beat you up and leave you for dead because I don't like your hair color, and it's known that I belong to a large group of similarly-minded people, then not only have I victimized you, but everyone who has your same hair color is now going to be looking over their shoulders, in fear that one of my compatriots is after them next.
That's why "hate crimes" deserve special punishment - because they have the intent and effect of victimizing not just one or two or a few people, but a whole group. It's a whole new level of unacceptability.
Looked at your /. username lately?
It's a big help for software developers needing to support multiple platforms/versions. At my company we provide support for the past 5 or 6 versions of our software, so I have a VM for each version that I fire up when I need to check something or patch a bug. Lots easier than dealing with multiple physical machines.
Maybe I'm reading a different summary and article than you did, but I don't see a reference to that misquote anywhere other than in your comment. Might want to have a neurologist look at that knee-jerk you're developing...
Bah...
"Hello. My name is ____. My thoughts are my passport. Verify me."
...and the username wasn't taken already????
No, chess was developed by the Persians. Don't call Persians Arabs if you want to make any friends in Iran.
The word you want is "nimium".
(Hrmm. No, now that I think of it, that corner has a Starbucks [what corner doesn't?], a church, a school, and some nasty-looking apartments. The fire station is one block west. Ohwell, this is supposed to be the fictional future hyper-advanced year 2000 Chicago, maybe there'll be some changes by then...)
Thanks, I needed a new sig :)
Isn't that the sort of thing that the patent system was originally intended to promote? Where the "bounty" is the short-term monopoly on your invention...
That's odd.... seeing as they talk about the pressure from /., the line that *I* thought of was "never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"...
1) If 'younger ones' at MSFT already know about this (suggesting it's widely known in Redmond), why is an AC posting on /. the first the rest of the world hears about the alleged offer?
2) From TFA:
Doesn't exactly tally with your tale of Ballmer buying him off. Which is not to say that he couldn't go to MSFT, but I doubt that Redmond was his intended destination when he left.*head explodes*
Which is not to say that we shouldn't try to make it better, because we should. Just that it's going to be many many orders of magnitude harder to get anything useful accomplished.
In other words, people aren't rigging elections because they hate the other guy, but because they want to win and have power.
Look in linux/kernel/SillySounds on your favorite kernel mirror for a file called english.au (or swedish.au if you prefer). If you don't have a favorite kernel mirror, you can just Google it.
(Not posting any direct links so nobody gets slashdotted.)
Sounds like something a few people from my college did... wonder if that's where they got the idea...?
Google is your friend.
I can explain it in one sentence: No one is trying to outlaw MS Office.