Dude, you're stretching it. A natural property argument for copyright just isn't going to cut it. Once you've sold that book, in a natural sense your ideas and story are out there, and there's no natural right that stops other people from reusing them. Copyright is nothing but a shared hallucination.
Grin. To clarify, the normal curve is the gaussian curve. I'm going to refer this over to the wikipedia's writeup on the Normal Distn, which mentions IQ tests specifically.
The normal distribution is an extremely important probability distribution in many fields. It is also called the Gaussian distribution,
[...] As a deliberate result of test construction, IQ scores are always and obviously normally distributed for the majority of the population. The fact that intelligence is normally distributed is less clear.
So there it is - IQs are normal by design. The median of a normal is the mean, which for IQ tests is 100. That said - it's just a statistics thing, any random sample of actual IQ scores could have a wacky median.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
So, are you going to support the bills, or still fantasize about how the election was stolen?
Although you provide a much-needed realist viewpoint to all the tinfoil hattery going on these days, please at least apply the same standards of reason as you want the hippies to use. It is quite possible to both support the bills and "fantasize about how the election was stolen." And, not only can people fantasize, but they can employ their collective reasoning to attempt to determine whether or not it was.
That's a good point. No claim about the results of the election is falsifiable. Scientifically speaking, this election is far more a matter of faith than it is fact. Interesting.
Could a state choose not to send electors? Congressmen and senators can choose to abstain if they feel uncomfortable or to avoid conflicts of interest, could a state not also so choose?
Because the "support", even if it was in poor taste, was done in his capacity as a GOP campaigner, not to indicate that he was going to rig elections with his 13,000-employee company's voting equipment?
Unless he suffers from multiple-personality disorder, the Walden O'Dell who is a GOP campaigner and the Walden O'Dell who is CEO of Diebold ARE THE SAME PERSON. Talking about doing something in "his capacity" is a cop-out, and you know it. It was not just "poor taste," it was a fantastically bad thing to have done, and an obscene conflict of interest.
The conflict of interest is so big, I cannot even imagine how he got both positions. I have a family member who works for the government, and he isn't even allowed to suggest that they hire other family members, because it's perceived as a conflict of interest. The man severly compromised both his integrity and, by association, the integrity of the whole campaign.
The grandparent was asking for a USB dongle to convert the signals from any old regular IR remote, not for a custom remote. And I agree with the grandparent - the lack of anything at all is quite weird.
You're right - and not only could these Senators vote Nay on any bills they haven't read, there's an actual vote that means "Really, I don't know what to vote" and it's called an "abstention". You'd think that Senators would be somewhat familiar with these things, but apparently not.
Does that work? I'm not a big fan of handing my property to people who demand it. Nobody has said "no"? If a prof failed you for not giving him your cell, the ombudsperson would have a field day.
grin, not to get into an religious argument here - but do keep in mind that emacs is written in (e)lisp, and has been optimized for writing itself. *shivers*
To join the storm of people calling bullshit, if I was an electrician in the employ of a factory, I think that they'd be hard pressed to claim ownership of the radio I built in my basement in my spare time.
The employer should own what's done on work time, for work. End-of-story.
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Dude, you're stretching it. A natural property argument for copyright just isn't going to cut it. Once you've sold that book, in a natural sense your ideas and story are out there, and there's no natural right that stops other people from reusing them. Copyright is nothing but a shared hallucination.
Downloading music and buying CDs aren't mutually exclusive events.
So there it is - IQs are normal by design. The median of a normal is the mean, which for IQ tests is 100. That said - it's just a statistics thing, any random sample of actual IQ scores could have a wacky median.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
Although you provide a much-needed realist viewpoint to all the tinfoil hattery going on these days, please at least apply the same standards of reason as you want the hippies to use. It is quite possible to both support the bills and "fantasize about how the election was stolen." And, not only can people fantasize, but they can employ their collective reasoning to attempt to determine whether or not it was.
That's a good point. No claim about the results of the election is falsifiable. Scientifically speaking, this election is far more a matter of faith than it is fact. Interesting.
Could a state choose not to send electors? Congressmen and senators can choose to abstain if they feel uncomfortable or to avoid conflicts of interest, could a state not also so choose?
Tell that to the portion of the US Army in Iraq.
Unless he suffers from multiple-personality disorder, the Walden O'Dell who is a GOP campaigner and the Walden O'Dell who is CEO of Diebold ARE THE SAME PERSON. Talking about doing something in "his capacity" is a cop-out, and you know it. It was not just "poor taste," it was a fantastically bad thing to have done, and an obscene conflict of interest.
The conflict of interest is so big, I cannot even imagine how he got both positions. I have a family member who works for the government, and he isn't even allowed to suggest that they hire other family members, because it's perceived as a conflict of interest. The man severly compromised both his integrity and, by association, the integrity of the whole campaign.
Because modifying voting machines during the process is a brilliant idea.
Is that store format called IMAP? Because then pine and mutt and Mozilla and Evolution can all play too.
Divide-and-conquer. Any program is a sum of many smaller bits. The easier the smaller bits...
The grandparent was asking for a USB dongle to convert the signals from any old regular IR remote, not for a custom remote. And I agree with the grandparent - the lack of anything at all is quite weird.
Grin. I'll give you a hint why Debian is so easy to keep up to date - how often do they release new versions? ;)
You're right - and not only could these Senators vote Nay on any bills they haven't read, there's an actual vote that means "Really, I don't know what to vote" and it's called an "abstention". You'd think that Senators would be somewhat familiar with these things, but apparently not.
Maybe 'more modern' in this case is referring at least in part to a high-efficiency, clean deisel engine?
Does that work? I'm not a big fan of handing my property to people who demand it. Nobody has said "no"? If a prof failed you for not giving him your cell, the ombudsperson would have a field day.
My Star Tac had that. Best feature ever.
Here's an oft-cited explaination, by none other than Donald Knuth: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt
BO2k used to (does?) jump from process to process. No way would you see it.
You clearly didn't see the most recent RIAA article. You mean that it's the equivalent of 40 petabytes.
SQLite ;)
grin, not to get into an religious argument here - but do keep in mind that emacs is written in (e)lisp, and has been optimized for writing itself. *shivers*
To join the storm of people calling bullshit, if I was an electrician in the employ of a factory, I think that they'd be hard pressed to claim ownership of the radio I built in my basement in my spare time.
The employer should own what's done on work time, for work. End-of-story.
hahaha, try to get to their top 10 links, you end up with a form asking for your information and the text
Provide an email address and we'll send you the report.
"Top Ten Tips for Finding a Phish"
hahahaha, gold