The final solution to the human problem on the planet will come when humanity is exterminated, or at least a massive reduction of the surplus population is achieved. Humankind should be reduced back to stone-age tech level so as to be incapable of further harm to Gaia.
The Deep Greens are currently working quietly in positions in genetic engineering. The human-terminator virus should be along in 20-30 years or so.
Actually, doing a google search on your name and having absolutely nothing come up at all is far more elite.
Of course, it won't work for people who have common names, but there are those of us out there that don't wish to be in the glaring spotlight of the www.
Actually Gnutella searches work pretty well for cracks as well. People download my stuff all the time, and PowerDVD is especially popular for some reason.
Yeah, that was the scariest part of the article. Everyone knows, of course, that anyone carrying a large amount of cash is a drug dealer. It's absolutely true. If you're carrying cash, and get searched, your cash will be confiscated unless you can positively prove in a court of law that your cash did not come from drug profits. Mind you, during the months while you're hiring a lawyer and preparing to sue, your cash is in the posession of the government.
I can hear you now - the Bill of Rights prevents unlawful search and seizure. Perhaps, but the Supreme Court has ruled that the case is against your money, not you. That's right, it's not the United States vs. John Q. Citizen, it's the United States vs. $200,000. The legal standards favor the government in property proceedings.
Good for him. I'd rather read stories about real people doing real things than endure some author's made-up stories in which he gets to exercise his prejudices.
Hahaha...you play the field? YOU PLAY THE YO? Bahaha, those are some of the worst bets on the table. Your dad might have known how to run a table, but he didn't know squat about how to bet. Now, run off to the Wizard of Odds' site and do some studying. Craps is a negative-expectation game, even with 100x odds at the Stratosphere. The yo has a whopping 11.11% house advantage. Even the field with 3x on the 12 still gives at 2.78% advantage. By contrast, a pass line bet with 10x odds is a measly 0.184% advantage for the house.
You're partially correct about tipping the craps dealers. Yes - a properly tipped dealer will remember your bets, and even make payoff errors in your favor! But dealers hate when you gamble with their tip money. Nothing worse than having a player make the decision to give you a tip, and have your hard-earned tip squandered on a lousy hardway bet with a ~10% house advantage. The dealers would just rather have the money...toss a chip or two towards the dealer and sing out "for the boys."
No kidding...if these MIT people were such geniuses as they say they were, they'd be playing poker or pan instead of trying to beat silly blackjack 20 years after the heat came down on card counters. You can't be barred for being a winning poker player, since you're not beating the house.
You don't get to cut the cards every time. The cut rotates around the table from player to player. They'd only get to perform their cut once every few deals, unless they can find a table to play alone at (good luck finding one at the Hard Rock, even in the hi-limit salon).
Additionally, due to idiot card counters, double- and single-deck games have begun paying a mere 6:5 on blackjack rather than the standard 3:2. Any gambler will tell you this is a Bad, Bad Thing. The casual players don't even notice that the payoff has changed, but the real players certainly do, and it's due to every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinking he can count cards, come to Vegas, and become the next Uston.
Yeah, there's something about card counters, and gamblers in general, that makes them inveterate braggarts. They always have winning sessions, and if they have a losing session, they're always "up for the trip." The 150% figure is just ridiculous. Even with perfect counting, a 50% advantage over the house just can't be had. I know, I've done it. I've never been barred, because I am a low, low, low roller ($5 table? yikes, too rich, let's find a $2 or $3 table somewhere) but a properly done count gives only a few percent advantage over the house. Even shuffle-tracking only adds a few percent extra.
Additionally from the 50% figure, they make several obvious errors. They sit down and have a drink? Card counters don't drink alcohol. They drink water, or juice. One mental lapse and poof, there goes your advantage over the house. The article just smells bad, like most articles written about "winning" players.
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You know why they picked kids of that particular ethnicity? Because a large percentage of the high-rollers in Vegas are Asian organized crime figures. This isn't flamebait, ask any dealer or pit boss. Their sons come over with money a thousand times more contaminated than any deBeers funds, and lose heavily. They then return home, gather more funds, and lose more in Vegas the next time.
You're advocating the same thing - "Up with us!" You just expanded the definition of "us" from "my country" to "my species". The real problem is humans trying to achieve things...the sooner we realize we need to go back to a peaceful agrarian society with no technological advancement, the better.
require a very particular type of person to pay to play
I'm not sure about that...the addictiveness of the online RPG translates well across all boundaries. When I watched my friend play Ultima Online (I bowed out after the beta test ended...I was like, they want me to pay to play this unfinished game?) I found that UO appeals to the same impulse in people as slot machines do. An online RPG is really nothing more than a slot machine with a positive expectation of gain. You put your quarter in (time), spin the wheels (mob spawns), and you get your reward (item). Because the rewards gained are virtual, the house (Origin) can guarantee gain, whereas a slot machine must take in more than it pays off.
I realize RPG'ers probably like to think of themselves as more sophisticated than slot players, but hey, there are a lot of parallels there.
I remember reading about the bullseye bar codes, and evidently at the dawn of the bar code age in the late 60s, there was a competition between the two standards, and the rectangular bar codes were determined to be technically superior (able to hold more information in a smaller area, less susceptible to damage, etc).
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The Deep Greens are currently working quietly in positions in genetic engineering. The human-terminator virus should be along in 20-30 years or so.
Yeah, they also split the Democratic vote, handing the election to Bush. Way to go!
REI is not a place for fitness. REI is a place for cashectomies for the overpaid.
Of course, it won't work for people who have common names, but there are those of us out there that don't wish to be in the glaring spotlight of the www.
Actually Gnutella searches work pretty well for cracks as well. People download my stuff all the time, and PowerDVD is especially popular for some reason.
Ken Uston did the same thing back in the 70s. Nothing new here.
I can hear you now - the Bill of Rights prevents unlawful search and seizure. Perhaps, but the Supreme Court has ruled that the case is against your money, not you. That's right, it's not the United States vs. John Q. Citizen, it's the United States vs. $200,000. The legal standards favor the government in property proceedings.
Good for him. I'd rather read stories about real people doing real things than endure some author's made-up stories in which he gets to exercise his prejudices.
You're partially correct about tipping the craps dealers. Yes - a properly tipped dealer will remember your bets, and even make payoff errors in your favor! But dealers hate when you gamble with their tip money. Nothing worse than having a player make the decision to give you a tip, and have your hard-earned tip squandered on a lousy hardway bet with a ~10% house advantage. The dealers would just rather have the money...toss a chip or two towards the dealer and sing out "for the boys."
Oh, come on. There was no robbery. The player just stole the $50,000. Happens in card-counting teams all the time.
Casinos do not allow winning players. Winning players are not being entertained, they are working .
No kidding...if these MIT people were such geniuses as they say they were, they'd be playing poker or pan instead of trying to beat silly blackjack 20 years after the heat came down on card counters. You can't be barred for being a winning poker player, since you're not beating the house.
You don't get to cut the cards every time. The cut rotates around the table from player to player. They'd only get to perform their cut once every few deals, unless they can find a table to play alone at (good luck finding one at the Hard Rock, even in the hi-limit salon).
Additionally, due to idiot card counters, double- and single-deck games have begun paying a mere 6:5 on blackjack rather than the standard 3:2. Any gambler will tell you this is a Bad, Bad Thing. The casual players don't even notice that the payoff has changed, but the real players certainly do, and it's due to every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinking he can count cards, come to Vegas, and become the next Uston.
Additionally from the 50% figure, they make several obvious errors. They sit down and have a drink? Card counters don't drink alcohol. They drink water, or juice. One mental lapse and poof, there goes your advantage over the house. The article just smells bad, like most articles written about "winning" players.
You know why they picked kids of that particular ethnicity? Because a large percentage of the high-rollers in Vegas are Asian organized crime figures. This isn't flamebait, ask any dealer or pit boss. Their sons come over with money a thousand times more contaminated than any deBeers funds, and lose heavily. They then return home, gather more funds, and lose more in Vegas the next time.
Is she going to have the 3 weeks in Hawaii on her finger 70 years from now?
Ah...knew it was one of those "but of course" things.
You're advocating the same thing - "Up with us!" You just expanded the definition of "us" from "my country" to "my species". The real problem is humans trying to achieve things...the sooner we realize we need to go back to a peaceful agrarian society with no technological advancement, the better.
Breaks the first rule of parody...it must be funny.
Nah, it's a red herring. India will just set up some TV sets, and fake a moon landing. That's what the USA did, after all.
Nope. Money transfer to space/defense contractors.
I'm not sure about that...the addictiveness of the online RPG translates well across all boundaries. When I watched my friend play Ultima Online (I bowed out after the beta test ended...I was like, they want me to pay to play this unfinished game?) I found that UO appeals to the same impulse in people as slot machines do. An online RPG is really nothing more than a slot machine with a positive expectation of gain. You put your quarter in (time), spin the wheels (mob spawns), and you get your reward (item). Because the rewards gained are virtual, the house (Origin) can guarantee gain, whereas a slot machine must take in more than it pays off.
I realize RPG'ers probably like to think of themselves as more sophisticated than slot players, but hey, there are a lot of parallels there.
I remember reading about the bullseye bar codes, and evidently at the dawn of the bar code age in the late 60s, there was a competition between the two standards, and the rectangular bar codes were determined to be technically superior (able to hold more information in a smaller area, less susceptible to damage, etc).
Oh, so HE'S the guy who had random collections of monsters living together next to each other for no particular reason?