The last century should have taught everyone is there is no limit at all to how bad it an get before it turns around. The worse it gets, the bloodier a price we have to pay to do it.
To those who say we have to balance security with our freedoms: we had more than enough info to break the 9/11 plot. The government doesn't need more powers, they need leaders that are more interested in getting terrorists than getting Saddam or kissing Saudi butt.
Yeah, but the guy in that proverb was under a deferred death sentence. If your life may depend on teaching a Bayesian filter how to play chess, then it could be worth a shot.
D&D has many facets. Players role play their characters, players level their characters and work to increase their stats, etc... the first one makes D&D a roleplaying game, but CRPG creators have for years latched on to the second and called *that* roleplaying.
It's done a real disserve to the genre and dashed many expectations from the paper rpg crowd. Leveling dungeon crawls or stat-building adventure games are great in their own right, but they're not RPGs.
Last year around the Democratic convention, the Bush administration ran a terror alert associated with some buildings in New York.
To back up the alert, they claimed information about the buildings was found on a computer of an Al Qaida agent that was arrested in Pakistan.
This was true, but the furor died when it was reported that he'd been under arrest for sometime and the information was old.
Less widely reported was the reason why Pakistan did not announce the arrest earlier. The Al Qaida agent had flipped. He'd maintained after his arrest contact with a team of terrorists planning a series of attacks.
When the Bush administration disclosed the arrest, police who were monitering that team had to round them up quickly, in some cases resorting to high speed chases.
The police arrested a dozen or so plotters, but said their investigation was cut short and they thought it possible that they hadn't yet detected everyone.
That terrorist team was in the UK, and one of their targets was the London Underground.
Rove seems to have a pattern of blowing intelligence operations for political gain.
The BBC had a debate between a pro ID card pol and an anti ID card pol. The pro guy was asked whether making everyone carry an ID card would restrict their liberties. He said of course it would, but the benefits outway the risks.
I was shocked. That man wouldn't last two seconds in American politics. Every American knows that you deny any negative fact no matter how obvious. Weasel words are part of the same problem. An aversion in America from speaking the truth in public.
Hehe, I never officially owned that game so figuring this out was a big Eureka moment. Afterwards, I'd always play so as to get the best glider shots at the enemy. That and the baptimal fonts made the game.
I don't know if this is good advice, but it worked for me when my landlord tried to collect money beyond my security deposit because we forgot to clean the driptray under the fridge when we left.
Which is why they lost his business, duh. The guy never said he sued blockbuster, he said he's never going to rent there again.
I'm in the same boat. Some jerkoff manager gave me the third degree when I dropped off a movie two days late.
For all I know it's in the contract that he gets to insult me when I return movies. Maybe I should have read the fine print, but I'll be damned if they ever lure me back inside.
Tidal locking. The increased gravitational field towards the bottom of the toast will act to brake the rotation of the higher mass of the jam as it reaches the lowpoint and starts to rotate upwards.
As an aside, this theory predicts that, dry, unadorned toast will tend to land on it's edge.
I've played around with it now and it looks like you can only set artificial goals for fitness level, like the robot that scores the most hits has the highest fitness, or the one best able to stick to a group.
I don't think that kind of boring fitness function is likely to breed any of the cool things you want.
Also, many of those things just aren't in this game, like powerups, or perhaps even the ability to detect the health of the enemy.
There was a group that evolved FPGA circuits to produce a sine wave at a particular frequency. Only problem was the circuit worked when a computer in the room was on, and didn't when the computer was off or out of the room. It had solved the problem by building an antenna and receiving a signal at the frequency instead of producing it.
If it wasn't for the internet we'd never know about all this stuff and it would be easy for guys like us to feel good about our meager accomplishments.
I'm not sure about each appealing to a different par of your personality. There are certain sorts of people that are least compatable with those like themselves.
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Had there not been a war, slavery would likely have dissolved without any bloodshed or bad feelings.
Oh bullcrap. The *South started the war*.
The last century should have taught everyone is there is no limit at all to how bad it an get before it turns around. The worse it gets, the bloodier a price we have to pay to do it.
To those who say we have to balance security with our freedoms: we had more than enough info to break the 9/11 plot. The government doesn't need more powers, they need leaders that are more interested in getting terrorists than getting Saddam or kissing Saudi butt.
That's funny, because slavery is the original "States Rights" issue that got conservatives so excersized in the first place.
Yeah, but the guy in that proverb was under a deferred death sentence. If your life may depend on teaching a Bayesian filter how to play chess, then it could be worth a shot.
Kirk: Mister Scott, you old space dog. You're well?
Scott: I had a wee bout, sir, but Doctor McCoy pulled me through.
Kirk: Wee bout of what?
McCoy: Shore leave, Admiral
D&D has many facets. Players role play their characters, players level their characters and work to increase their stats, etc... the first one makes D&D a roleplaying game, but CRPG creators have for years latched on to the second and called *that* roleplaying.
It's done a real disserve to the genre and dashed many expectations from the paper rpg crowd. Leveling dungeon crawls or stat-building adventure games are great in their own right, but they're not RPGs.
I'm sorry, sir, they don't make blur circles that large, sir. (rolls eyes)
And of course, you still need power, so you're either back to wires or you have a lot of batteries.
Tesla coils.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones.
No, but the Age of Democracy might.
Last year around the Democratic convention, the Bush administration ran a terror alert associated with some buildings in New York.
To back up the alert, they claimed information about the buildings was found on a computer of an Al Qaida agent that was arrested in Pakistan.
This was true, but the furor died when it was reported that he'd been under arrest for sometime and the information was old.
Less widely reported was the reason why Pakistan did not announce the arrest earlier. The Al Qaida agent had flipped. He'd maintained after his arrest contact with a team of terrorists planning a series of attacks.
When the Bush administration disclosed the arrest, police who were monitering that team had to round them up quickly, in some cases resorting to high speed chases.
The police arrested a dozen or so plotters, but said their investigation was cut short and they thought it possible that they hadn't yet detected everyone.
That terrorist team was in the UK, and one of their targets was the London Underground.
Rove seems to have a pattern of blowing intelligence operations for political gain.
The Washington Times is still owned by the good Reverend and it's run at a loss, so the paper exists entirely on his largess.
And the company she worked for was a CIA front company and all it's operations and agents were blown, too.
Bob McKenzie: ...Statue of Liberty
Doug McKenzie: pssst! Act! Act!
The BBC had a debate between a pro ID card pol and an anti ID card pol. The pro guy was asked whether making everyone carry an ID card would restrict their liberties. He said of course it would, but the benefits outway the risks.
I was shocked. That man wouldn't last two seconds in American politics. Every American knows that you deny any negative fact no matter how obvious. Weasel words are part of the same problem. An aversion in America from speaking the truth in public.
Hehe, I never officially owned that game so figuring this out was a big Eureka moment. Afterwards, I'd always play so as to get the best glider shots at the enemy. That and the baptimal fonts made the game.
I don't know if this is good advice, but it worked for me when my landlord tried to collect money beyond my security deposit because we forgot to clean the driptray under the fridge when we left.
Which is why they lost his business, duh. The guy never said he sued blockbuster, he said he's never going to rent there again.
I'm in the same boat. Some jerkoff manager gave me the third degree when I dropped off a movie two days late.
For all I know it's in the contract that he gets to insult me when I return movies. Maybe I should have read the fine print, but I'll be damned if they ever lure me back inside.
WiFi could easily be considered as an extension of the public education system for exactly the same reasons.
Coding is technical. User interface is an art, debugging is an art, optimization is an art.
Tidal locking. The increased gravitational field towards the bottom of the toast will act to brake the rotation of the higher mass of the jam as it reaches the lowpoint and starts to rotate upwards.
As an aside, this theory predicts that, dry, unadorned toast will tend to land on it's edge.
I've played around with it now and it looks like you can only set artificial goals for fitness level, like the robot that scores the most hits has the highest fitness, or the one best able to stick to a group.
I don't think that kind of boring fitness function is likely to breed any of the cool things you want.
Also, many of those things just aren't in this game, like powerups, or perhaps even the ability to detect the health of the enemy.
There was a group that evolved FPGA circuits to produce a sine wave at a particular frequency. Only problem was the circuit worked when a computer in the room was on, and didn't when the computer was off or out of the room. It had solved the problem by building an antenna and receiving a signal at the frequency instead of producing it.
This is an interesting excerpt for another reason: This sort of collusion is just as illegal as any file trading ever was.
If it wasn't for the internet we'd never know about all this stuff and it would be easy for guys like us to feel good about our meager accomplishments.
I'm not sure about each appealing to a different par of your personality. There are certain sorts of people that are least compatable with those like themselves.