More people died due to international meddling and behind-the-curtains deals the US government revels in, and that was the main sort of thing that got exposed, not sensitive information about troop placements etc.
And if there were consequences for lawbreaking, Obama would be arrested already, never mind a lot of others.
Could be a nocebo effect [wikipedia.org] case? if enough people think that plastic bags are bad in a way they don't understand, and keep getting food on them, could became sick by their own. Seem to be happening to smokers [impactednurse.com]
The problem with this sort of thinking is that foodborne diseases are caused by germs. You don't develop a salmonella, E.coli or C.difficile infection by wishful thinking, especially not as vague as "people think they are bad in a way they don't understand". Especially if that's not at all the position. People have no reason to be thinking the bags are bad for them, - what people tend to think is "fucking government making me haul around my own bags I had to pay for instead of the neato one-use ones which I could use for garbage bin lining and other such once I'm home with groceries."
There may well be something very different that just happens to track in time with the bag ban.
It could. However, that means precisely nothing until you discover such a hidden cause, and until you find it you can't use it to parry accusations that arise from a plausible mechanism explaining what is shown to be happening - the hypothesis that filthy reusable bags are the cause.
Zerg are IMHO far more original and I like them more than tyrranids.
However, Protoss and Eldar are scarily similar indeed.
At least makes sense I liked the UED so much in Brood War. They were fighting for the Emperor. XD
Indeed.
Take Silvana Koch-Mehrin , the german EU politician who had plagiarised her graduating thesis (having before waved on about how she manages being a mother, an active politician and an academician at the same time, well, amusing how that turned out to be) , and was kicked out of function for it.... only to be appointed on the EU commission for research and industry.
I use Kindle to read papers in.pdf format. It works pretty damn well if you ask me.
Sure, the font can be a bit small,but all that means is *take off glasses*
I got my programmable Casio on the grounds of us having to have a scientific calculator in school. Then I learned it wasn't allowed for exams because of being programmable. Well, what did I do, I learned to use a slide rule, got one (I inherited it after another engineer in my family - the surviving didn't use it at all) and used it for the last two years of high school, to the point of passing my final exams with it, and a $2 calculator to do the sums.
I guess that's the way to deal with disallowed kit fuckery.
I have a colour CFX-9950, (Graph 65 - it's the france-sold version).
While the screen is uncomfortably slow for things like games (and I *have* written some back then, and it was good enough for a chess clock eg.), it's an awesome calculator and buying it used, it's been with me for 6-7 years by now, ever since high school. (last year of MEng now)
Though the library programs in the EU version are nowhere near as useful as the US ones, it's still a good piece of kit.
That said, I dislike anything that comes with a touchpad -they are utterly clumsy tools. Something with a kindle-like keyboard, a good processor and RAM , and running Octave would be a dream, though.
I don't particularly care. You have no business extraditing someone if he does something that's not a crime in his own country, because you have no business enforcing another country's law on your turf.
Another poster aptly commented a few months ago that this is like extraditing the Archbishop of Canterbury into Iran because his office maintains a website propagating christianity, which is illegal under Iranian law.
I'm no feminist, but this is unjust and stupid
It's also hilarious how the USA are all over supposed human rights in Russia and Belarus where people live with dignity, and overlook insane places like the Saudi Arabia is.
My laptop is something like four years old now. So, yes performance is an issue, perhaps. And while I don't play the latest and greatest, I'd have to repartition the disk to dual boot, and changing partition sizes with ext3 is a good bit of black magic which I'm not about to undertake, never mind that I'd have to make space for it.
As such, I'm pretty happy using Wine, given that there's at least one game I have to finish as-is.
Because I do a lot of other things where Linux is superior, and given how full my disk is, setting a dual-boot with XP would be a chore that I can't be arsed to deal with.
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I count an Ethiopian Ruby developer who writes a small Ruby application to manage the coffee trade as worthwhile diversity, even if far less competent as a Ruby specialist than other available speakers. I really don't give a damn if he or she is black or any other pigment.
That's a diversion , not diversity. If the person is not an expert comparable to the others,and offers no relevant insights, there's little reason for him to speak at such a conference.
Merit-based promotion doesn't encourage balanced lifestyles. It tends to mainly reward fanatics. Women complain about this, and well they should, but it's no trivial matter to decide which man who sacrificed more should be excluded to the benefit of a women who sacrificed less, but did so within a rich and balanced lifestyle (raising children, being active in the community, etc.)
They shouldn't.
I'm sorry,but I don't find it a valid complaint. An analogous situation would be me walking into a game store, asking for an X-box, and when asked to pay, responding with "Sorry, but I had to lend a bunch to my father to get his car fixed.". While having a balanced lifestyle is a valid life choice, it doesn't entitle you to reaping the benefits equivalent to someone who focuses on work to exclusion of most other social activities, much like the other person isn't entitled to the benefits of your lifestyle (say, a social contacts network, or hell, even having offspring).
Wrong
I'm all for banning someone from presenting their own views as institutional views. However, using university facilities to present their views is something completely different.
Your analogy works on that - someone making death threats from your phone is a problem because you, not him will be the one to get in trouble for the illegal act. A better example would be someone running public phone booths (you pay for college, after all) and basically stating the list of allowed conversation topic to take place while using his phones.
I'm an author at the SCP Foundation wiki, which uses it, and it's head and shoulders better than mediawiki syntax, at least in my opinion. The commands used are more obvious, such as **bold**//italics// instead of wikimedia's deluge of dashes that has to be supplemented by HTML anyways, modules work in much more obvious ways, and there's much less formatting that induces accidental screwups. WYSIWIG is not a good way to edit anything but plain text, either way.
This actually shows that Silver is poorly calibrated. if he were accurately calibrated, 80% of his 80%-confidence predictions would come true, 50% of his 50%-confidence predictions would come true, etc. But 100% of his >50%-confidence predictions came true. In the future, he should be more sure of his predictions.
Congratulations, this is the stupidest thing I have read today.
The confidence rate of a prediction doesn't work like that. It's the probability with which the null hypothesis can be rejected given the data, basically, suppose that the relationship you are trying to prove isn't there, how likely it is that the data were generated by a statistical fluke?
And much like any other statistics, a bunch of predictions with a 50% confidence interval doesn't mean that half of them must come right, especially in a single sample - all it means is that it's as likely for the theory to be true as for it to be false.
Never shall I sit my arse in a self-driving car. Bus? Fine, that's what I tend to prefer being a shitty driver. But not something that can be messed with as easily as these sort of control systems.
Someone wise said this on slashdot earlier to the topic - Society can cope with serial killers, but parallel ones are a different cup of coffee entirely. Imagine the result of a software flaw or a malicious intervention where twenty cars do the same fucking stupid thing on an interstate highway. Sure, people fuck up all the time, but at least there, the probabilities of them doing so are fairly independant, and they can adapt to a messup better than software.
Uh... if it works, then so what?
Unless you assert that racial profiling would be wrong regardless of whether it works, in which case you have abandoned science and went over to the territory of ideology.
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More people died due to international meddling and behind-the-curtains deals the US government revels in, and that was the main sort of thing that got exposed, not sensitive information about troop placements etc. And if there were consequences for lawbreaking, Obama would be arrested already, never mind a lot of others.
The problem with this sort of thinking is that foodborne diseases are caused by germs. You don't develop a salmonella, E.coli or C.difficile infection by wishful thinking, especially not as vague as "people think they are bad in a way they don't understand". Especially if that's not at all the position. People have no reason to be thinking the bags are bad for them, - what people tend to think is "fucking government making me haul around my own bags I had to pay for instead of the neato one-use ones which I could use for garbage bin lining and other such once I'm home with groceries."
It could. However, that means precisely nothing until you discover such a hidden cause, and until you find it you can't use it to parry accusations that arise from a plausible mechanism explaining what is shown to be happening - the hypothesis that filthy reusable bags are the cause.
Sadly, there are nutcases like that. Called "Christian Scientists"
Zerg are IMHO far more original and I like them more than tyrranids.
However, Protoss and Eldar are scarily similar indeed.
At least makes sense I liked the UED so much in Brood War. They were fighting for the Emperor. XD
Close.
Protoss = = Eldar, with a makeover. Complete with Dark Eldar / dark templars with warp blades
Indeed.
Take Silvana Koch-Mehrin , the german EU politician who had plagiarised her graduating thesis (having before waved on about how she manages being a mother, an active politician and an academician at the same time, well, amusing how that turned out to be) , and was kicked out of function for it.... only to be appointed on the EU commission for research and industry.
I use Kindle to read papers in .pdf format. It works pretty damn well if you ask me. ,but all that means is *take off glasses*
Sure, the font can be a bit small
I got my programmable Casio on the grounds of us having to have a scientific calculator in school. Then I learned it wasn't allowed for exams because of being programmable. Well, what did I do, I learned to use a slide rule, got one (I inherited it after another engineer in my family - the surviving didn't use it at all) and used it for the last two years of high school, to the point of passing my final exams with it, and a $2 calculator to do the sums.
I guess that's the way to deal with disallowed kit fuckery.
I have a colour CFX-9950, (Graph 65 - it's the france-sold version). While the screen is uncomfortably slow for things like games (and I *have* written some back then, and it was good enough for a chess clock eg.), it's an awesome calculator and buying it used, it's been with me for 6-7 years by now, ever since high school. (last year of MEng now) Though the library programs in the EU version are nowhere near as useful as the US ones, it's still a good piece of kit. That said, I dislike anything that comes with a touchpad -they are utterly clumsy tools. Something with a kindle-like keyboard, a good processor and RAM , and running Octave would be a dream, though.
I don't particularly care. You have no business extraditing someone if he does something that's not a crime in his own country, because you have no business enforcing another country's law on your turf. Another poster aptly commented a few months ago that this is like extraditing the Archbishop of Canterbury into Iran because his office maintains a website propagating christianity, which is illegal under Iranian law.
As my friend said, we should attempt extraditing a large, random sample of US population on possession of handgun charges (Illegal under UK law.)
And that's a good thing how, unless you believe that only dying in combat will bring you eternal reward in Valhalla?
I'm no feminist, but this is unjust and stupid
It's also hilarious how the USA are all over supposed human rights in Russia and Belarus where people live with dignity, and overlook insane places like the Saudi Arabia is.
My laptop is something like four years old now. So, yes performance is an issue, perhaps. And while I don't play the latest and greatest, I'd have to repartition the disk to dual boot, and changing partition sizes with ext3 is a good bit of black magic which I'm not about to undertake, never mind that I'd have to make space for it. As such, I'm pretty happy using Wine, given that there's at least one game I have to finish as-is.
Because I do a lot of other things where Linux is superior, and given how full my disk is, setting a dual-boot with XP would be a chore that I can't be arsed to deal with.
Did it also reduce the amount of teeth in the yelling person's mouth?
That's a diversion , not diversity. If the person is not an expert comparable to the others,and offers no relevant insights, there's little reason for him to speak at such a conference.
They shouldn't. ,but I don't find it a valid complaint. An analogous situation would be me walking into a game store, asking for an X-box, and when asked to pay, responding with "Sorry, but I had to lend a bunch to my father to get his car fixed.". While having a balanced lifestyle is a valid life choice, it doesn't entitle you to reaping the benefits equivalent to someone who focuses on work to exclusion of most other social activities, much like the other person isn't entitled to the benefits of your lifestyle (say, a social contacts network, or hell, even having offspring).
I'm sorry
You are assuming one selects speakers for a conference randomly from the IT workforce, which is plain wrong.
Linux keeps me from playing a good few games. Though, a lot of excellent ones run under WINE.
Wrong
I'm all for banning someone from presenting their own views as institutional views. However, using university facilities to present their views is something completely different.
Your analogy works on that - someone making death threats from your phone is a problem because you, not him will be the one to get in trouble for the illegal act. A better example would be someone running public phone booths (you pay for college, after all) and basically stating the list of allowed conversation topic to take place while using his phones.
I'm an author at the SCP Foundation wiki, which uses it, and it's head and shoulders better than mediawiki syntax, at least in my opinion. The commands used are more obvious, such as **bold** //italics// instead of wikimedia's deluge of dashes that has to be supplemented by HTML anyways, modules work in much more obvious ways, and there's much less formatting that induces accidental screwups. WYSIWIG is not a good way to edit anything but plain text, either way.
Congratulations, this is the stupidest thing I have read today.
The confidence rate of a prediction doesn't work like that. It's the probability with which the null hypothesis can be rejected given the data, basically, suppose that the relationship you are trying to prove isn't there, how likely it is that the data were generated by a statistical fluke? And much like any other statistics, a bunch of predictions with a 50% confidence interval doesn't mean that half of them must come right, especially in a single sample - all it means is that it's as likely for the theory to be true as for it to be false.
Never shall I sit my arse in a self-driving car. Bus? Fine, that's what I tend to prefer being a shitty driver. But not something that can be messed with as easily as these sort of control systems.
Someone wise said this on slashdot earlier to the topic - Society can cope with serial killers, but parallel ones are a different cup of coffee entirely. Imagine the result of a software flaw or a malicious intervention where twenty cars do the same fucking stupid thing on an interstate highway. Sure, people fuck up all the time, but at least there, the probabilities of them doing so are fairly independant, and they can adapt to a messup better than software.
Uh... if it works, then so what?
Unless you assert that racial profiling would be wrong regardless of whether it works, in which case you have abandoned science and went over to the territory of ideology.