With a presidency that is socialist-leaning and big-government-oriented, it seems we are backsliding into a kind of pre-Reagan era where business is viewed as a necessary evil, the best and brightest should work for the Feds or community organizations, and we shouldn't even try to compete with our ultra-capitalistic competitors in East Asia and elsewhere.
Let me guess where you heard that -- Rush Limbaugh? John McCain? Get a grip on yourself, man; if Obama was "socialist-leaning," how the hell did he get support from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and other capitalist corporations? How did he get endorsements from such well-known millionaire capitalists as Warren Buffett, Hilary Rosen, Craig Newmark, David Geffen, etc.? How about Ben Bernanke? Or Brink Lindsey of CATO?? Do you really believe any of these people would endorse a "socialist"??
This is exactly right. I don't know why but this company seems to be doing everything ass backwards and still getting away with it. I work at a very large organization, and a lot of Office documents get sent back and forth on email. Most people have not "upgraded" to the latest version of office (2007/8). The few who have send everything in the new xml format (docx etc), which is not compatible with older versions. This is annoying as hell when I have to explain that Word is incompatible with Word, or Excel is incompatible with Excel. Thankfully there are tools on the microsoft site that can convert these documents, but there is no reason people should have to jump through these hoops. Even worse, these programs have expiration dates -- just today I tried to open a docx document and was told the program had expired. I had to go to the MS website and download a minor point upgrade to the converter program (the link was hidden on a page that was mostly about Microsoft Messenger. Then I ran the program and it told me to quit Entourage, Word, and Excel - each of which had about 10 windows open - just so I could update this external application. Even as I'm typing this I just realized there is yet another minor point update on the website, so I'll need to upgrade to 1.0.2 now. What a nightmare.
Here's another example of this sort of nonsense -- if you own MS Office 2004 for OS X, it has been updated to 11.5.3. But you can't just update from version 10 to version 11.5.3 in one swoop. If you installed Office years ago and kept it up to date it's a minor nuisance but if you're installing Office 2004 on a new computer, you need to use AutoUpdate like 15 times to get it up to date, one point upgrade at a time. Seriously, who has time for this nonsense? And who thinks up this crap?
Read the book - it's not just masking the changes in the betting (in fact, their behavior was welcoming scrutiny rather than trying to be inconspicuous) but it's a paradigm shift from counting. Rather than just figuring out whether the deck is hot or cold you are using your counting techniques to determine where a particular card will land. Think about it - if you know the dealer's going to get a 10 on the next deal and he's showing 12-15, you know the dealer's going to bust. And if you've got a group of five people at the table who all know the dealer's going to bust, you're going to win big -- a certainty rather than a 51% probability.
That's what, five or six shots? If you aren't feeling five shots of tequila, consult your physician. Or consult the label; perhaps you got the nonalcoholic variety?
Get a bottle of tequila. Drink at least a quarter of the bottle. Take pictures or a BAC test or get witnesses or something so you can later prove you were hammered. Click "I agree." You can't be bound by a contract you sign while inebriated, so you didn't really agree. Much cheaper than cats in the long run; no need to worry about feeding and cleaning litter boxes and cuddling and such. Plus getting drunk is fun!
I've had mixed experiences with both of these. Ultimately gave up on fink. I had problems with ports too but I think I figured out that you just need to treat it like apt-get and only install using the ports command. If you try to install anything separately or configure things yourself outside of ports you may run into problems. I don't know enough about UNIX to understand why this caused problems but when I did things like install w3m (which at the time I couldn't get via ports) it broke some other stuff. My sense is that if you *really* know what you're doing you should just avoid both of these and compile everything yourself from source but if you're like me and do most of your work in os x anyway, using dports is fine as long as you stick with the tools provided. But any unholy combination of one of these and your own installations is bound to cause trouble.
On top of the risk/reward issues outlined above, card counting made blackjack boring for me. Instead of being fun, it was a job, and a job that required a lot of outside work as well.
Read the book Busting Vegas by the same guy who wrote the book that the movie 21 was based on. He describes more advanced techniques that aren't card-counting per se but use some of the same skills. They also drastically tilt the odds against the house if done right. Basically it involves following a single card rather than estimating the general tilt of the deck toward "hot" or "cold." (Actually there are three techniques described, but they are all related to this principle). It not only sounds like better odds than card counting, but a hell of a lot more fun, too. And also pretty dangerous, if any of these stories are to be believed. Top that off with the fact that casinos are all alert to these techniques (I think the guy sells videos showing how to do them too), and it's probably not worth investigating for more than informational purposes, but it seems a quantum leap from card counting.
When your friend got to his car, was there a hook hanging from the door handle?
Yes, and the tip of the hook was actually an AIDS-infected needle. It didn't matter though, when he drove the car he flicked his brights at someone who didn't have their headlights on; turned out it was a gang initiation so the guy in the car shot him.
"And even if the cyber attack on Estonia in retrospect, not as a "war" browsed meanwhile shall any State which is a substantial electronic IT infrastructure operates, potential threats posed by cyber attacks seriously."
What's more, these documents were apparently already available for a fee from this company. All they're doing is (rightly, imho) making them available for free rather than forcing people to pay a publishing company for access to records that we supposedly already own.
It is not "pointless" to release such reports -- they show the results specifically of an organization's investigation into a topic. Not just a source of info about the topic but also a source of info about what the organization considered and concluded on that topic. Very important for an organization that is supposed to be accountable to the people, such as Congress. These CRS reports used to be (and should be again) released by the GPO in hardcopy. CRS lobbied against bills that would have required them to be published over the internet.
This isn't secret information at all; these are reports that are constantly published by the US Government. I think they used to be put in public libraries; I remember researching CRS reports at university libraries in the 80s. Putting them online is something the government should be doing, not Wikileaks, but either way, nobody is going to get in trouble for this, and nobody is going to find any state secrets here.
Their Advisory Board is hardly anonymous, and of course they have a bunch of Contact information that would lead you to owners of domains. I don't know how anonymous Wikileaks is overall; it looks more distributed to me.
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With a presidency that is socialist-leaning and big-government-oriented, it seems we are backsliding into a kind of pre-Reagan era where business is viewed as a necessary evil, the best and brightest should work for the Feds or community organizations, and we shouldn't even try to compete with our ultra-capitalistic competitors in East Asia and elsewhere.
Let me guess where you heard that -- Rush Limbaugh? John McCain? Get a grip on yourself, man; if Obama was "socialist-leaning," how the hell did he get support from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and other capitalist corporations? How did he get endorsements from such well-known millionaire capitalists as Warren Buffett, Hilary Rosen, Craig Newmark, David Geffen, etc.? How about Ben Bernanke? Or Brink Lindsey of CATO?? Do you really believe any of these people would endorse a "socialist"??
This is exactly right. I don't know why but this company seems to be doing everything ass backwards and still getting away with it. I work at a very large organization, and a lot of Office documents get sent back and forth on email. Most people have not "upgraded" to the latest version of office (2007/8). The few who have send everything in the new xml format (docx etc), which is not compatible with older versions. This is annoying as hell when I have to explain that Word is incompatible with Word, or Excel is incompatible with Excel. Thankfully there are tools on the microsoft site that can convert these documents, but there is no reason people should have to jump through these hoops. Even worse, these programs have expiration dates -- just today I tried to open a docx document and was told the program had expired. I had to go to the MS website and download a minor point upgrade to the converter program (the link was hidden on a page that was mostly about Microsoft Messenger. Then I ran the program and it told me to quit Entourage, Word, and Excel - each of which had about 10 windows open - just so I could update this external application. Even as I'm typing this I just realized there is yet another minor point update on the website, so I'll need to upgrade to 1.0.2 now. What a nightmare.
Here's another example of this sort of nonsense -- if you own MS Office 2004 for OS X, it has been updated to 11.5.3. But you can't just update from version 10 to version 11.5.3 in one swoop. If you installed Office years ago and kept it up to date it's a minor nuisance but if you're installing Office 2004 on a new computer, you need to use AutoUpdate like 15 times to get it up to date, one point upgrade at a time. Seriously, who has time for this nonsense? And who thinks up this crap?
Read the book - it's not just masking the changes in the betting (in fact, their behavior was welcoming scrutiny rather than trying to be inconspicuous) but it's a paradigm shift from counting. Rather than just figuring out whether the deck is hot or cold you are using your counting techniques to determine where a particular card will land. Think about it - if you know the dealer's going to get a 10 on the next deal and he's showing 12-15, you know the dealer's going to bust. And if you've got a group of five people at the table who all know the dealer's going to bust, you're going to win big -- a certainty rather than a 51% probability.
LOL... and if you think punishing your liver makes you a man, you need to grow up.
In any case, going by blood alcohol content, drinking 6 oz. of 80 proof liquor in an hour will make you legally "drunk."
Good move! Save time for the important things in life, like self-indulgent narration of things you didn't do.
That's what, five or six shots? If you aren't feeling five shots of tequila, consult your physician. Or consult the label; perhaps you got the nonalcoholic variety?
Get a bottle of tequila. Drink at least a quarter of the bottle. Take pictures or a BAC test or get witnesses or something so you can later prove you were hammered. Click "I agree." You can't be bound by a contract you sign while inebriated, so you didn't really agree. Much cheaper than cats in the long run; no need to worry about feeding and cleaning litter boxes and cuddling and such. Plus getting drunk is fun!
I CAN HAS LAWSUIT?
I've had mixed experiences with both of these. Ultimately gave up on fink. I had problems with ports too but I think I figured out that you just need to treat it like apt-get and only install using the ports command. If you try to install anything separately or configure things yourself outside of ports you may run into problems. I don't know enough about UNIX to understand why this caused problems but when I did things like install w3m (which at the time I couldn't get via ports) it broke some other stuff. My sense is that if you *really* know what you're doing you should just avoid both of these and compile everything yourself from source but if you're like me and do most of your work in os x anyway, using dports is fine as long as you stick with the tools provided. But any unholy combination of one of these and your own installations is bound to cause trouble.
On top of the risk/reward issues outlined above, card counting made blackjack boring for me. Instead of being fun, it was a job, and a job that required a lot of outside work as well.
Read the book Busting Vegas by the same guy who wrote the book that the movie 21 was based on. He describes more advanced techniques that aren't card-counting per se but use some of the same skills. They also drastically tilt the odds against the house if done right. Basically it involves following a single card rather than estimating the general tilt of the deck toward "hot" or "cold." (Actually there are three techniques described, but they are all related to this principle). It not only sounds like better odds than card counting, but a hell of a lot more fun, too. And also pretty dangerous, if any of these stories are to be believed. Top that off with the fact that casinos are all alert to these techniques (I think the guy sells videos showing how to do them too), and it's probably not worth investigating for more than informational purposes, but it seems a quantum leap from card counting.
When your friend got to his car, was there a hook hanging from the door handle?
Yes, and the tip of the hook was actually an AIDS-infected needle. It didn't matter though, when he drove the car he flicked his brights at someone who didn't have their headlights on; turned out it was a gang initiation so the guy in the car shot him.
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Remember the flying toasters screensaver? This version has flying chairs.
I would like to call Pirate #4 to the witness stand Your Honor...
Pirate 4: Yaaarrrr?
Swedish judge: bork bork bork!
so now they have nuclear laptops. WOW and mine still runs solar power.
They have a solar edition of World of Warcraft?
The whistleblower isn't Wikileaks. The whistleblower may be anonymous but Wikileaks is not.
Hank Hill: Dale, there are no robots and there are no Cubans.
Dale Gribble: If there are no Cubans, how do you account for Desi Arnaz?
the best part was that the CPU monitor allowed you to turn off both CPUs, instantly locking the computer
I'm not sure what to say about an OS that boasts this as its best feature :)
BeOS is easily the most pleasant-to-use operating system I've ever seen.
I agree - it is very pleasant to be able to use an operating system without having to worry about things like software!
"And even if the cyber attack on Estonia in retrospect, not as a "war" browsed meanwhile shall any State which is a substantial electronic IT infrastructure operates, potential threats posed by cyber attacks seriously."
What's more, these documents were apparently already available for a fee from this company. All they're doing is (rightly, imho) making them available for free rather than forcing people to pay a publishing company for access to records that we supposedly already own.
It is not "pointless" to release such reports -- they show the results specifically of an organization's investigation into a topic. Not just a source of info about the topic but also a source of info about what the organization considered and concluded on that topic. Very important for an organization that is supposed to be accountable to the people, such as Congress. These CRS reports used to be (and should be again) released by the GPO in hardcopy. CRS lobbied against bills that would have required them to be published over the internet.
Who is going to take time to read this and miss out on American Idol?
Oh shit am I missing an episode? I better get off slashdot and turn on my TV!
This isn't secret information at all; these are reports that are constantly published by the US Government. I think they used to be put in public libraries; I remember researching CRS reports at university libraries in the 80s. Putting them online is something the government should be doing, not Wikileaks, but either way, nobody is going to get in trouble for this, and nobody is going to find any state secrets here.
Their Advisory Board is hardly anonymous, and of course they have a bunch of Contact information that would lead you to owners of domains. I don't know how anonymous Wikileaks is overall; it looks more distributed to me.