No it's not. The most likely explanation is that something with a probability of (greater than*) 1 in 64 simply happened. Such things happen all the time.
*Sanders won at least one out of at least seven flips.
when we have such a close tie in such an important situation
But it's not important. It made no difference to the overall result. It was basically the tying up of an administrative loose end.
why are we tossing a coin when a whole slew of models of handheld calculators come with a rand() function?
Because tossing a coin is much easier, just as random, and far easier to demonstrably do fairly.
it's pretty simple...
not that damn hard to figure out. but these are the people who get into politics rather than something that takes intelligence.
The intelligent thing to do would be something that doesn't take over a hundred words to explain and would still not be clear to a significant proportion of the attendees.
The summary says both "at least six" and "all six" suggesting the story was put out before all the facts were known simply because it's a good story. Maybe Hillary's team have just been quicker to publicise their coin-toss wins.
6 different coin flips... 12 different people calling heads or tails
That could get confusing. Maybe just have one person call per flip.
how can you group them together
You can group them together just as well as you can group any other six independent events, such as six fair coin tosses done by the same person, with the same person calling heads or tails.
It seems odd, but is it really?
Yes, yes it is. But not so much that it's worth investigating for fraud.
And how do the Native American tribes for whom the bald eagle is sacred feel about that?
Your point about keeping endangered should-be-wild animals was perfectly valid, but I think you did it a real disservice by playing the "offended!" card.
Another example is English Premiere League club Crystal Palace, which has a live Bald Eagle "mascot" [dailymail.co.uk].
Kayla was stolen from the wild as a chick, recovered, and released back into the wild, but her lack of a natural upbringing left her unable to hunt naturally (she stole food from humans instead). Long story short, she ended up at the Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation in England (she doesn't actually live at a football club).
Where do they keep getting these Bald Eagles?
Well, when a mummy bald eagle and a daddy bald eagle love each other very much...
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Sure, that is the most likely explanation.
No it's not. The most likely explanation is that something with a probability of (greater than*) 1 in 64 simply happened. Such things happen all the time.
*Sanders won at least one out of at least seven flips.
GOP's typical BS
You heard it here first. Sanders is a Republican plant!
there has been one streak of 5 heads, one streak of 4 heads
Since there has been one streak of 5 heads, there must have been at least two streaks of 4 heads, and so on.
The odds against CLINTON winning all six are 2^6.
The odds (of Clinton winning all 6) are 63:1. The probability is 1/64.
I'm not sure what you'd call "64" here.
...you were probably being sarcastic. So hard to tell these days.
when we have such a close tie in such an important situation
But it's not important. It made no difference to the overall result. It was basically the tying up of an administrative loose end.
why are we tossing a coin when a whole slew of models of handheld calculators come with a rand() function?
Because tossing a coin is much easier, just as random, and far easier to demonstrably do fairly.
it's pretty simple...
not that damn hard to figure out. but these are the people who get into politics rather than something that takes intelligence.
The intelligent thing to do would be something that doesn't take over a hundred words to explain and would still not be clear to a significant proportion of the attendees.
98.4375%.
And, in fact, there now seem to have been at least seven coin flips, and Sanders won one of them. So now we're at a mere 94.53125%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The summary says both "at least six" and "all six" suggesting the story was put out before all the facts were known simply because it's a good story. Maybe Hillary's team have just been quicker to publicise their coin-toss wins.
in at least six precincts [...] Clinton won all six
Never get the facts get in the way of a good story.
Why on Earth would anyone ever actually vote for Hillary Clinton?
Really? She's the potential President whose popularity most boggles your mind in this election?
6 different coin flips ... 12 different people calling heads or tails
That could get confusing. Maybe just have one person call per flip.
how can you group them together
You can group them together just as well as you can group any other six independent events, such as six fair coin tosses done by the same person, with the same person calling heads or tails.
It seems odd, but is it really?
Yes, yes it is. But not so much that it's worth investigating for fraud.
Biden remains on standby.
You mean he'd be.. *snigger* he'd be... *snort*
Sorry. Ahem. He'd be - oh, wait, wait...
*dons sunglasses* 8) ...Biden his time?
YEEEAAAH
Explain why he's wrong.
Or do it up proper and get rid of the undercarriage, and have the plane mate with an electrically driven cradle on the runway.
I love that episode of Thunderbirds.
That's where commas go in a list like this. I don't know why; I think...
"Parents React", "Celebrities React", and "Parents React"
...looks more right.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki...
But the poem itself is called "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay."
So pedantically I am not going to get off your lawn.
And yet you're perfectly happy to start a sentence with a preposition. Disgusting!
One Hoss Shay
His name is Juan-José, you racist!
Combine that with them being a symbol of the USA
And how do the Native American tribes for whom the bald eagle is sacred feel about that?
Your point about keeping endangered should-be-wild animals was perfectly valid, but I think you did it a real disservice by playing the "offended!" card.
Another example is English Premiere League club Crystal Palace, which has a live Bald Eagle "mascot" [dailymail.co.uk].
Kayla was stolen from the wild as a chick, recovered, and released back into the wild, but her lack of a natural upbringing left her unable to hunt naturally (she stole food from humans instead). Long story short, she ended up at the Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation in England (she doesn't actually live at a football club).
Where do they keep getting these Bald Eagles?
Well, when a mummy bald eagle and a daddy bald eagle love each other very much...
The original submission did say "including", but Slashdot has a style manual that requires replacing that with "too".
That makes it sound like slang, to me. Or an insult:
"Some of the world's greatest actors, including William Shatner..."
"Some of the world's greatest actors - William Shatner, too - ..."
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Great. Now "too" no longer looks like a word to me. That's going to take a while to shake off.
I think it's meant to be a slang, emphatic form.
After MSN Chat closed in 2003, and then again in 2006, some guy has finally documented the authentication system used — over a decade later!
Uh, what? "Some guy" documented it twice?
Or did MSN Chat close twice?
It makes perfect sense for a format of my drive...
Pass your geek card through /dev/shredder.
I wonder if my distro does that as well.
If I don't report back, it doesn't.
"wiping EFI data in ROM"
Can you see which bit you got wrong there?
Perhaps you try reading the summary.
"Bricked" indicates that the firmware is bad.
Yes, yes it does. And that's exactly what's being described.