Actually, I did a master's thesis on early MT efforts with someone who was there and he always vehemently denied that this ever happened and I in two years of digging thru every source I could find couldn't find anything but folksy repitions of that.
But what about grammatical limitations of this method? English-Japanese has a severe grammatical limitation (not just word order but sentence structuring) or even a morphological limitation of agglutinative vs isolating langugaes (like English-Turkish.) These language pairs just won't respond to the method, IMHO.
I can see this working for languages with similiar grammars (like English German or even English-Chinese) but once you throw in languages with somewhat different grammars (like English-Japanese or English-Basque) I can't see how a statistical approach will succeed.
"The Reagan arms shipments to Iran might have reached a value of $82B. Even the smaller, officially admitted figures account for TOW missiles illegally shipped through Israel, which were strategically valuable to Iran in its Iraq war. That's what "Iran/Contra" was (half) about, but I suppose you've got some kind of "legitimate" explanation that excuses that illegal guns/drugs/policy scam."
the total was $38 million. The TOW missles were surplus, Ollie North got them because he divereted them from being scrapped. The Hawk missle was being abandonded by the US and NATO.
Having been an infantry company level officer, I can tell you that 2,000 TOW missles wouldn't have made a dent in the war. They probably could have put a few dozen, max 100 Iraqi tanks out of the war. Considering Sadaam had built the seventh largest army in the world and third largest tank army, that would have no effect on the war.
Your 'reliable' secretary is 85 years old, resides in a nursing home and missidentifed which Bush she was speaking of the first time CBS News tried to confirm the memos. Were she supportive of the President, you'd call her biased.
As an alumni of the U of C, I have to say I'm not surprised. DCS was never permitted near the IS office and the enmity between the two just caused IS to be the most frequent target of pranks by DCS students.
The US never collaborated in Iraqi or Iranian WMD efforts. At the time of the handshake, Rumsfeld was a private businessman and Iraq was a legitimate trading partner for processed food and non-lethal chemicals, like Rumsfeld was peddling. The US never sent or sold weapons or any material which could be readily converted to military or WMD usage, unlike the Russians, French or Germans (who truly did beef up the Iraqi military.)
As for Iran, pre-1979 the US supplied Iran with a great deal of military hardware. Post-1979, the amount of "To Be Destroyed" military hardware traded to Iran would fill fewer than three railroad cars. If that's "beefing up" then the USA also "beefs up" the mighty military power of Fiji.
Bias. The simulated memos which anybody thinking even vaguely critically could see were "typed" on a modern word processor. The secretary says the memos reflect the general attitude of the CO, his son says they do not.
The Newsweek article has been retracted, the military reports 5 minor acts of inapproriateness toward the Koran, only three intentional. So twice somebody accidently dropped it and three times non-Muslim interrogators removed the book from the hands of a Muslim. Hardly the equivalent of flushing it down the toilet.
Face it, the LEFT BIASED PRESS has egg all over their collective faces and only people with no ability to think for themselves should believe them anymore.
the NY Times article you cite doesn't say the US beefed up his chemical weapons programme. It says it ignored evidence of it while helping Iraq with certain military issues (like giving them satelitte photos of recent Iranian troop movements.)
Citing the NYTimes is as likely to be unbiased as CBS News or Newsweek.
I had a strip search at Fiji International Airport and I don't think the 'gentlemen' who conducted it, enjoyed it anymore than me. I don't think TSA people should be likely to view this as beyond their jobs.
Anybody know how to invest in the corporation which is implementing this man's ideas? I have a few thousand dollars and could use some 'green karma' in my portfolio.
It is information. But I've yet to see a relational database which properly modeled the fuzzy logic required to emulate this linkage information and adapted to knowledge changes. It would require a massively parallel structure with an ability to switch to sequential processing.
It's not the information that the human brain stores which makes it unique, it's the way we process it and the interconnections between different bits of knowledge. For example, my grandmother neuron happens to be linked to my blueberry pie neuron, when I think of her, I recall blueberry pies (which she loved to make.)
With that act still in place in 1959 this makes more then sixty years to repay the dept. That's quite a long time, especially when you consider that at that time, a war was by no meas as destructive as say WWII. Russia got (or took) things any money away from East Germany, but I'm quite certain that this ended before I was born (late sixties). Therefore, I'd say even if the Cubans bought into the security you were talking about that treaty was by no means fair - just like the laughable $4000 or so annual rent for Guantanamo Bay.
Your level of ineptitude is surpassed only by your blind hatred of all things American.
The $4000/year rent on Guantanamo was $4000 in gold bullion and that represented the purchase value of the whole base in 1898. In other words, the USA paid for full purchase of the base in 1899, paid again in 1900, paid again in 1901 and has given the Cuban people a true bargain by paying the full value of owning the land at least 60 times over in the more than century since that lease was negotiated. Laughable? The joke is on the US.
As for the debt, a sixty year loan was far from excessively long at the time or now. Hong Kong (1898 treaty) was on a 99-year lease and the Panama Canal return treaty (under President Carter) involves Panama paying an indemnity (for the loss of US built infrastructure in the Canal Zone) for 100 years. Besides, the Cubans were getting ongoing protection from European powers during those sixty years.
If you think the Soviets were any better, well you've obviously learnt your lessons in a garbage can. In 1989, over 90% of East German exports were headed east, including significant parts for 7 major Soviet military systems. The Soviets were still enforcing good old colonialism in the year before their country fell.
Next time you consider US history, try to hold back the gag reflex you parrotted from your mentor. In ethics, the USA is far cleaner than most of the rest of the world. It's only red flag sociologists like you who don't think so.
I think it's more like capturing a picture of a baseball, while riding a baseball in a different direction and telling the guy riding the first baseball to wave and capturing that wave.
The article does say that inmates wear the transponders. Like forcing prisoners to wear different uniforms from guards, I don't consider this a transgression of their rights.
No. Not surprised at all. I 'helped' a friend write a political science thesis on Cuba. Although you've reasonably well turned the clock back to 1934, you've come off as shallow because you haven't examined Cuban history very deeply. The Jones Costigan Act was meant to re-pay the costs of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in which the USA invaded Cuba and rid the Cubans of their Spanish overlords.
By linking their economy intimately to that of the USA, the Cubans were buying their ongoing protection as well. Throughout the first half of the 20th century there were real or at least perceived threats from foreign European powers. Placating the neighborhood bully is a relatively common method of insuring your own safety.
By the 50s, this system was becoming old. The Batista regime was becoming to arrogant, brutal and corrupt to recieve sympathy from the USA and the sugar producing states were developing. The Everglades was partially drained in the early fifties, producing wonderful sugar cane acreage.
Cuba was ripe for revolution and the US was unwilling to prevent it.
But for you to say, "Before 1959, Keynesian economics were more advanced in Cuba than in the United States." just shows the shallowness of your comprehension. Cuba was paying off an international debt and as a commodity producing nation had everything to benefit from stability in the commodity price. By throwing wide open the production, the revolutionary government obliterated that stability and forced their own nation into an economic tailspin which could only be rescued by joining the Soviet bloc. Soviet oil supported the Cuban economy for over 30 years, the Cuban people only managed to trade one master for another via revolution.
Fidel, as a true socialist, deserves respect, but his economic background was in no way Keynesian.
As usual the academic left tends to approach Cuba from an ideological standpoint without paying any attention to reality.
I have a friend who works in a prison (as a cook.) She is always concerned about her safety and I believe this RFID tag could help insure that for her and all of the staff who are just doing their jobs.
Obviously you haven't. Please provide me with a quote where I said that 9/11 was all Bush's fault.
Nothing simpler.
Now I see where you are coming from. I can't take anyone seriously who blames 9/11 on Clinton. ..
Argueing with blind morons like you truly makes my day. It reminds me the American left is so empty of reason that the majority of Americans see right thru their claptrap (and yours.)
The Clinton admin missmanaged the responses to terrorist events throughout it's term. The Bush admin did not correct all the flaws as well as they could have. On the other hand, attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan was the appropriate response and it was taken immediately under the Bush admin.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but morons like you who say WTC was Bush's fault are just swallowing the press' bias whole hog. Watch out for the bones if you use that little of your brain in rational thought.
I assume your aware of the illegal imprisonment of japanese men, woman, and children in WWII as well (including George Takei and his family).
Lots of stuff happened during WWII and not all of it was good. So I don't see how the fact that a national ID was used in WWII has anything to do with whether it's a good or bad idea.
Aware of it? My first wife's family were interred. My great-uncle also chose voluntary internment to be with his fiancee. Yes, I am aware of it.
A national id card was needed during a time of national crisis when the nation was battling an enemy capable of causing greta harm to our way of life. Currently, we are battling an enemy (international terrorism) which thanks to the gross missmanagement by the Clintoon administration, has become capable of threatening the American way of life.
In times of national crisis certain individual freedoms may need to be subjigated to group responsibilities. The sacrifice of the one for the good of the many.
Are you aware that there was a national id during WWII, which although not linked thru an electronic database did exactly the same function albeit with days not milliseconds as the cycle time.
Take the propoganda which you've been swallowing hook, line and sinker my stupid, idealistic friend and realize that you are the one choking on it and spitting on the graves of Americas defenders.
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Actually, I did a master's thesis on early MT efforts with someone who was there and he always vehemently denied that this ever happened and I in two years of digging thru every source I could find couldn't find anything but folksy repitions of that.
But what about grammatical limitations of this method? English-Japanese has a severe grammatical limitation (not just word order but sentence structuring) or even a morphological limitation of agglutinative vs isolating langugaes (like English-Turkish.) These language pairs just won't respond to the method, IMHO.
I can see this working for languages with similiar grammars (like English German or even English-Chinese) but once you throw in languages with somewhat different grammars (like English-Japanese or English-Basque) I can't see how a statistical approach will succeed.
"The Reagan arms shipments to Iran might have reached a value of $82B. Even the smaller, officially admitted figures account for TOW missiles illegally shipped through Israel, which were strategically valuable to Iran in its Iraq war. That's what "Iran/Contra" was (half) about, but I suppose you've got some kind of "legitimate" explanation that excuses that illegal guns/drugs/policy scam."
$82 billion? That's hysterical!!
According to http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/jphuck/BOOK3Ch7.html
the total was $38 million. The TOW missles were surplus, Ollie North got them because he divereted them from being scrapped. The Hawk missle was being abandonded by the US and NATO.
Having been an infantry company level officer, I can tell you that 2,000 TOW missles wouldn't have made a dent in the war. They probably could have put a few dozen, max 100 Iraqi tanks out of the war. Considering Sadaam had built the seventh largest army in the world and third largest tank army, that would have no effect on the war.
Your 'reliable' secretary is 85 years old, resides in a nursing home and missidentifed which Bush she was speaking of the first time CBS News tried to confirm the memos. Were she supportive of the President, you'd call her biased.
U. of C. does not use SSNs as student id numbers (or at least they didn't when I was there.)
As an alumni of the U of C, I have to say I'm not surprised. DCS was never permitted near the IS office and the enmity between the two just caused IS to be the most frequent target of pranks by DCS students.
The US never collaborated in Iraqi or Iranian WMD efforts. At the time of the handshake, Rumsfeld was a private businessman and Iraq was a legitimate trading partner for processed food and non-lethal chemicals, like Rumsfeld was peddling. The US never sent or sold weapons or any material which could be readily converted to military or WMD usage, unlike the Russians, French or Germans (who truly did beef up the Iraqi military.)
As for Iran, pre-1979 the US supplied Iran with a great deal of military hardware. Post-1979, the amount of "To Be Destroyed" military hardware traded to Iran would fill fewer than three railroad cars. If that's "beefing up" then the USA also "beefs up" the mighty military power of Fiji.
Bias. The simulated memos which anybody thinking even vaguely critically could see were "typed" on a modern word processor. The secretary says the memos reflect the general attitude of the CO, his son says they do not.
The Newsweek article has been retracted, the military reports 5 minor acts of inapproriateness toward the Koran, only three intentional. So twice somebody accidently dropped it and three times non-Muslim interrogators removed the book from the hands of a Muslim. Hardly the equivalent of flushing it down the toilet.
Face it, the LEFT BIASED PRESS has egg all over their collective faces and only people with no ability to think for themselves should believe them anymore.
the NY Times article you cite doesn't say the US beefed up his chemical weapons programme. It says it ignored evidence of it while helping Iraq with certain military issues (like giving them satelitte photos of recent Iranian troop movements.)
Citing the NYTimes is as likely to be unbiased as CBS News or Newsweek.
I had a strip search at Fiji International Airport and I don't think the 'gentlemen' who conducted it, enjoyed it anymore than me. I don't think TSA people should be likely to view this as beyond their jobs.
Anybody know how to invest in the corporation which is implementing this man's ideas? I have a few thousand dollars and could use some 'green karma' in my portfolio.
It is information. But I've yet to see a relational database which properly modeled the fuzzy logic required to emulate this linkage information and adapted to knowledge changes. It would require a massively parallel structure with an ability to switch to sequential processing.
It's not the information that the human brain stores which makes it unique, it's the way we process it and the interconnections between different bits of knowledge. For example, my grandmother neuron happens to be linked to my blueberry pie neuron, when I think of her, I recall blueberry pies (which she loved to make.)
With that act still in place in 1959 this makes more then sixty years to repay the dept. That's quite a long time, especially when you consider that at that time, a war was by no meas as destructive as say WWII. Russia got (or took) things any money away from East Germany, but I'm quite certain that this ended before I was born (late sixties). Therefore, I'd say even if the Cubans bought into the security you were talking about that treaty was by no means fair - just like the laughable $4000 or so annual rent for Guantanamo Bay.
Your level of ineptitude is surpassed only by your blind hatred of all things American.
The $4000/year rent on Guantanamo was $4000 in gold bullion and that represented the purchase value of the whole base in 1898. In other words, the USA paid for full purchase of the base in 1899, paid again in 1900, paid again in 1901 and has given the Cuban people a true bargain by paying the full value of owning the land at least 60 times over in the more than century since that lease was negotiated. Laughable? The joke is on the US.
As for the debt, a sixty year loan was far from excessively long at the time or now. Hong Kong (1898 treaty) was on a 99-year lease and the Panama Canal return treaty (under President Carter) involves Panama paying an indemnity (for the loss of US built infrastructure in the Canal Zone) for 100 years. Besides, the Cubans were getting ongoing protection from European powers during those sixty years.
If you think the Soviets were any better, well you've obviously learnt your lessons in a garbage can. In 1989, over 90% of East German exports were headed east, including significant parts for 7 major Soviet military systems. The Soviets were still enforcing good old colonialism in the year before their country fell.
Next time you consider US history, try to hold back the gag reflex you parrotted from your mentor. In ethics, the USA is far cleaner than most of the rest of the world. It's only red flag sociologists like you who don't think so.
I think it's more like capturing a picture of a baseball, while riding a baseball in a different direction and telling the guy riding the first baseball to wave and capturing that wave.
The article does say that inmates wear the transponders. Like forcing prisoners to wear different uniforms from guards, I don't consider this a transgression of their rights.
To answer your biggest question:
No. Not surprised at all. I 'helped' a friend write a political science thesis on Cuba. Although you've reasonably well turned the clock back to 1934, you've come off as shallow because you haven't examined Cuban history very deeply. The Jones Costigan Act was meant to re-pay the costs of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in which the USA invaded Cuba and rid the Cubans of their Spanish overlords.
By linking their economy intimately to that of the USA, the Cubans were buying their ongoing protection as well. Throughout the first half of the 20th century there were real or at least perceived threats from foreign European powers. Placating the neighborhood bully is a relatively common method of insuring your own safety.
By the 50s, this system was becoming old. The Batista regime was becoming to arrogant, brutal and corrupt to recieve sympathy from the USA and the sugar producing states were developing. The Everglades was partially drained in the early fifties, producing wonderful sugar cane acreage.
Cuba was ripe for revolution and the US was unwilling to prevent it.
But for you to say, "Before 1959, Keynesian economics were more advanced in Cuba than in the United States." just shows the shallowness of your comprehension. Cuba was paying off an international debt and as a commodity producing nation had everything to benefit from stability in the commodity price. By throwing wide open the production, the revolutionary government obliterated that stability and forced their own nation into an economic tailspin which could only be rescued by joining the Soviet bloc. Soviet oil supported the Cuban economy for over 30 years, the Cuban people only managed to trade one master for another via revolution.
Fidel, as a true socialist, deserves respect, but his economic background was in no way Keynesian.
As usual the academic left tends to approach Cuba from an ideological standpoint without paying any attention to reality.
Your reply would be funnier were I a Cuban.
First thing he did was nationalize the sugar industry. I'm sure getting rid of Micro$oft is in the same vein to him.
I have a friend who works in a prison (as a cook.) She is always concerned about her safety and I believe this RFID tag could help insure that for her and all of the staff who are just doing their jobs.
I have no problem with prison id bracelets.
I commend any decision to reconsider servicing the HST and not de-orbiting it.
"Have you even read your posts?"
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Obviously you haven't. Please provide me with a quote where I said that 9/11 was all Bush's fault.
Nothing simpler.
Now I see where you are coming from. I can't take anyone seriously who blames 9/11 on Clinton. .
Argueing with blind morons like you truly makes my day. It reminds me the American left is so empty of reason that the majority of Americans see right thru their claptrap (and yours.)
Have you even read your posts?
You're the one who distorted what I said.
The Clinton admin missmanaged the responses to terrorist events throughout it's term. The Bush admin did not correct all the flaws as well as they could have. On the other hand, attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan was the appropriate response and it was taken immediately under the Bush admin.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but morons like you who say WTC was Bush's fault are just swallowing the press' bias whole hog. Watch out for the bones if you use that little of your brain in rational thought.
So you place FULL blame for the original WTC attacks on the Clinton admin? That's good to hear.
I assume your aware of the illegal imprisonment of japanese men, woman, and children in WWII as well (including George Takei and his family).
Lots of stuff happened during WWII and not all of it was good. So I don't see how the fact that a national ID was used in WWII has anything to do with whether it's a good or bad idea.
Aware of it? My first wife's family were interred. My great-uncle also chose voluntary internment to be with his fiancee. Yes, I am aware of it.
A national id card was needed during a time of national crisis when the nation was battling an enemy capable of causing greta harm to our way of life. Currently, we are battling an enemy (international terrorism) which thanks to the gross missmanagement by the Clintoon administration, has become capable of threatening the American way of life.
In times of national crisis certain individual freedoms may need to be subjigated to group responsibilities. The sacrifice of the one for the good of the many.
I spit on the graves?
Are you aware that there was a national id during WWII, which although not linked thru an electronic database did exactly the same function albeit with days not milliseconds as the cycle time.
Take the propoganda which you've been swallowing hook, line and sinker my stupid, idealistic friend and realize that you are the one choking on it and spitting on the graves of Americas defenders.