USA-England drew 16 million. The average match on ESPN is getting under 5 million, and it's declining.
To put that in perspective, the biggest soccer game the USA has played in 4 years got a smaller rating than an average midseason Sunday Night Football or Monday Night Football game.
Last night's (my time) Portugal vs Ivory Coast 0:0 game was one of the most exciting in this cup yet. Uruguay vs France 0:0 was tedious and as exciting as watching paint dry. The fact of being a scoreless draw is not determinative of the quality of the game.
The point of any game is to score points to win.
If you score no points, you can not adjudge your actions in the game as having any quality demanded by the purpose of the game.
There's so little scoring in soccer it's all but impossible to infer the qualities the game should possess.
So, for all but those who've spent decades forming a heuristic by aggregating thousands of tiny samples, the game is just so much juggling and jogging, with the occasional acting performance, albeit by a grown man acting like a child who's been pushed to the ground by his big brother for the first time. The only exciting part of it for a neophyte is the astonishing punts the goalies get to make from time to time. But if the most exciting part of Soccer is the same as the most boring part of Football, Soccer isn't going to grow in popularity anywhere it has competition from a game that involves 22 guys getting into a fight every 45 seconds and puts some serious numbers on the board.
Actually, innovating with new forms of income is why nations are going broke these days.
They're pretending that speculation is investment, borrowing is income, and money-multiplication through circular lending is economic growth.
And hidden among these obvious insanities is a much more subtle one that will snap the rubber band: they track money borrowed to speculate as risk at the interest rate of the loan, not at the rate-of-ruin of the speculation.
The United States was as usual the most innovative, and therefore led the world. To a precipice and beyond. As usual by setting a good example.
If the breach can be characterized as fraud (i.e., you lied about your bravery to get the contract to fight the bull), then you can be arrested for it in America as well. But if not (you're brave enough, but you just decided to go fishing that day instead), then it is not fraud, it is merely a breach of the contract.
Mexican law may not have a strict principle of "innocent until proven guilty," so failing to fulfill a contract could be taken implicitly as evidence that you lied to get the contract, and it's up to you to prove you merely failed to accurately determine your own ability to fulfill it.
Or we could send a roving waldo with a mass-spectrometer on it, and get months or years' worth of data from tons of samples in an exhaustive, directed survey, instead of waiting an extra two years to have a few pebbles in-hand and no way to examine the rock they were sitting on...
The part about a spacefaring society completely forgetting that it has the ability to make anything more complicated than stone axes is the part that i can't suspend disbelief of.
If there was that much water on Mars, and now it's not, then it likely went out into space with the solar wind. Which means some of it will have fallen to Earth.
in my version of The Dog and the Bone the dog sees the bone hit the water, observes the group velocity of the waves, estimates the depth of the bottom, and realizes he can retrieve the bone by waiting a few minutes for the tides to recede.
In the 'shadow and substance' version, the dog learns to swim, impresses a small pack of females on the shore, and shows them he has quite a bone after all.
In the Kalayamutthi Jataka the monkey does indeed lose most of his peas, but after eating the one he retrieved he gets violently ill, and realizes they were poison berries, not peas, and eating two of them would have killed him.
In the Fox and the Kite, the fox gains the loyalty of the kite, who appreciates the handout and helps the fox kill a chicken a day until they retire.
The moral of the story is: all risks require the application of analytic intelligence. You're a human being, not a dog, a monkey, or a fox. You can always precalculate the expected value of a risk, because when you know the advantage is in your favor nothing ventured is a bigger loss than nothing gained.
The contrast between the NASA article and the Telegraph article and the/. article and your post and mine are all amazing. Less and less information and more and more sensationalism and judgmentalism.
They already have thousands of image-recognition devices: their users.
Put a button next to the image that says "Report Penis".
When pressed, it brings the offender up on an admin's screen, and the admin can verify the report and close the connection if necessary.
A couple of days of that, and offenders will get the hint that it's not wanted there.
Some won't, but they're the types who won't be deterred by pixellation of a subset of penis-like images. CR will end up having to develop testicle, taint and W-hole detectors.
I thought it was pretty tasty even if the smell was evil.
But more on-topic: considering the Internet, and the lives of Software Engineers, I suspect they've seen enough cock (going into pussy, mouth, anus, cloaca, etc.) to have fully inured themselves to any revulsory effects that might result from tediously iterative use-case testing of a visual regex for it.
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Ha. They banned "salad tossing."
When I read that I had to double-check that the article wasn't from The Onion.
USA-England drew 16 million. The average match on ESPN is getting under 5 million, and it's declining.
To put that in perspective, the biggest soccer game the USA has played in 4 years got a smaller rating than an average midseason Sunday Night Football or Monday Night Football game.
George was trying to sell baseball books.
You can't trust a thing he says.
Last night's (my time) Portugal vs Ivory Coast 0:0 game was one of the most exciting in this cup yet. Uruguay vs France 0:0 was tedious and as exciting as watching paint dry. The fact of being a scoreless draw is not determinative of the quality of the game.
The point of any game is to score points to win.
If you score no points, you can not adjudge your actions in the game as having any quality demanded by the purpose of the game.
There's so little scoring in soccer it's all but impossible to infer the qualities the game should possess.
So, for all but those who've spent decades forming a heuristic by aggregating thousands of tiny samples, the game is just so much juggling and jogging, with the occasional acting performance, albeit by a grown man acting like a child who's been pushed to the ground by his big brother for the first time. The only exciting part of it for a neophyte is the astonishing punts the goalies get to make from time to time. But if the most exciting part of Soccer is the same as the most boring part of Football, Soccer isn't going to grow in popularity anywhere it has competition from a game that involves 22 guys getting into a fight every 45 seconds and puts some serious numbers on the board.
So there's some perspective for you Soccer fans.
I don't suppose Spamhaus is actually obligated to pay this fine, either, unless they were sued in the country they're actually in.
If you are on a golf course, looking back at the tee-box, and someone yells, "FOOUR" at you - what do you do?
I'd duck, then I'd wait until he reached his ball and then I'd brain him with my 4-iron because he hit into my group.
Now, if he'd been in the tee-box on an adjacent hole, I'd merely duck.
If by "modern" you mean "antique".
I bet we could automate the process in a portable module that the rover could dump pebbles into from time to time.
Actually, innovating with new forms of income is why nations are going broke these days.
They're pretending that speculation is investment, borrowing is income, and money-multiplication through circular lending is economic growth.
And hidden among these obvious insanities is a much more subtle one that will snap the rubber band: they track money borrowed to speculate as risk at the interest rate of the loan, not at the rate-of-ruin of the speculation.
The United States was as usual the most innovative, and therefore led the world. To a precipice and beyond. As usual by setting a good example.
Terrific. 6 more ways for a mouth-breathing cash-register operator to fuck up your transaction...
If the breach can be characterized as fraud (i.e., you lied about your bravery to get the contract to fight the bull), then you can be arrested for it in America as well. But if not (you're brave enough, but you just decided to go fishing that day instead), then it is not fraud, it is merely a breach of the contract.
Mexican law may not have a strict principle of "innocent until proven guilty," so failing to fulfill a contract could be taken implicitly as evidence that you lied to get the contract, and it's up to you to prove you merely failed to accurately determine your own ability to fulfill it.
Or we could send a roving waldo with a mass-spectrometer on it, and get months or years' worth of data from tons of samples in an exhaustive, directed survey, instead of waiting an extra two years to have a few pebbles in-hand and no way to examine the rock they were sitting on...
The report is due six months or so
Oh, horseshit.
I hate when an experiment is performed and nobody says a word on what happened, even from a qualitative view.
They can at least describe what it looks like. "Grey dirt" would be plenty to hold me for the 6 months it takes to produce a full assay.
Or we could wait for another martian meteorite to arrive.
The part about a spacefaring society completely forgetting that it has the ability to make anything more complicated than stone axes is the part that i can't suspend disbelief of.
If there was that much water on Mars, and now it's not, then it likely went out into space with the solar wind. Which means some of it will have fallen to Earth.
Who gets to define neutral though? One man's fact is another man's propaganda.
Sez you.
The WikiProject model has a peer-review process. Just create a WikiProject for frequently-vandalized pages.
ironically, I just made a joke post to that effect, but now I realize it's the best course of action.
"This page is part of Wikipedia Project:Vandalism. Please be kind."
in my version of The Dog and the Bone the dog sees the bone hit the water, observes the group velocity of the waves, estimates the depth of the bottom, and realizes he can retrieve the bone by waiting a few minutes for the tides to recede.
In the 'shadow and substance' version, the dog learns to swim, impresses a small pack of females on the shore, and shows them he has quite a bone after all.
In the Kalayamutthi Jataka the monkey does indeed lose most of his peas, but after eating the one he retrieved he gets violently ill, and realizes they were poison berries, not peas, and eating two of them would have killed him.
In the Fox and the Kite, the fox gains the loyalty of the kite, who appreciates the handout and helps the fox kill a chicken a day until they retire.
The moral of the story is: all risks require the application of analytic intelligence. You're a human being, not a dog, a monkey, or a fox. You can always precalculate the expected value of a risk, because when you know the advantage is in your favor nothing ventured is a bigger loss than nothing gained.
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The contrast between the NASA article and the Telegraph article and the /. article and your post and mine are all amazing. Less and less information and more and more sensationalism and judgmentalism.
The current lull in sunspot activity is caused by Global Warming.
So the Mayans were predicting the end of iPhones.
They already have thousands of image-recognition devices: their users.
Put a button next to the image that says "Report Penis".
When pressed, it brings the offender up on an admin's screen, and the admin can verify the report and close the connection if necessary.
A couple of days of that, and offenders will get the hint that it's not wanted there.
Some won't, but they're the types who won't be deterred by pixellation of a subset of penis-like images. CR will end up having to develop testicle, taint and W-hole detectors.
How did Zimmern react to Durian?
I thought it was pretty tasty even if the smell was evil.
But more on-topic: considering the Internet, and the lives of Software Engineers, I suspect they've seen enough cock (going into pussy, mouth, anus, cloaca, etc.) to have fully inured themselves to any revulsory effects that might result from tediously iterative use-case testing of a visual regex for it.