THIS is your anecdotal evidence to "prove" that libertarianism doesn't work and that people can't possibly self-organize?
You make a good point. Clearly libertarianism could work if only every other nation on the planet didn't keep interfering with it. Kind of like how you can build a sand castle on the beach that will last a thousand years, but somehow the tide just keeps knocking it over.
The answer is obvious. Vote Skynet for Congress! (L, NH)
Christ, you have a persecution complex. Get over it.
To be fair, he was arrested, interrogated, and finally nailed to a wooden board and left to die in the sun by government agents. After all that I think that we can forgive Christ for thinking that someone might be out to get him.
So, what is really needed is a one seated car with no gadgets installed and which block cell phone traffic. CityEl, this one has 1 seat and not enough room for you to actually move your hands, let alone use your phone - and certainly no room for kids.
That's standard operating procedure for Facebook. They don't just have a single server that everybody in the world logs in to, and they don't update everything at the same time.
Whenever new code is deployed, it is sent to a small group of servers, tested on the group of users there, and then finally pushed out to the rest. If something is broken by a new release then Facebook's Reverting is for losers! policy applies, and anyone affected by the bug just gets to live with it until it is fixed.
Don't be surprised if it looks like you are logging into a completely different facebook.com from everybody else you know, because there's a good chance that you are.
With no ticket your chance of winning is 0, with at least one ticket it is non-zero. If you can't understand how having a greater than zero chance is greater than having a zero chance, I'm afraid there's no hope for you at all.
With no ticket, you have spent $0 and have an expected return of $0. Your expected return from the transaction is $0.
If you buy a ticket then you have spent $X on the ticket and have a probability Y of receiving $Z, and a probability of (1-Y) of receiving $0. No matter what happens you have spent $X, but statistically you can expect a return of $(Y * Z), assuming that there are no other players with a chance of picking the same numbers. Your expected return from the transaction is $( (Y*Z) - X ). Unless the lottery is run by complete morons who are desperate to give away money, X will always be greater than (Y*Z), so you can always expect to lose money.
As an example, let's suppose that you are playing a lottery in which you need to correctly guess six different numbers between one and fourty-nine. Your chance of winning the grand prize is [ (49!) / (6! * (49-6)! ) ] or one in 13,983,816. If a ticket costs $2, then any jackpot of less than twenty-eight million dollars means you are paying more than you can expect to make back. The chance of winning the jackpot is overshadowed by the certainty of losing your initial investment, meaning that you are just giving money away.
If you can't see from this that lotteries are a tax on people who aren't good at math, then I'm afraid there's no hope for you at all. It's just one of many ways to pay for a few minutes of entertainment, really no different from paying for cable TV or giving money to a street magician performing "Three Card Monty".
this would be the equivalent to holding the engineering firms that design the bridge responsible for the terrorist that bombed it.
If the terrorist was able to bring down the bridge using three toothpicks, an ice cube tray and a plastic whistle that he found inside a cereal box, then yes I would hold the engineers responsible.
Rhode Island Population: 1.05 Million
New York Population: 19.47 Million
What might work for Rhode Island doesn't necessarily work for New York.
Canada, with a population of 35 million and over 70 times the land mass of New York state, is still able to conduct federal elections using only pencils and paper. Is Canadian drawing-an-x-on-a-sheet-of-paper-and-then-reading-it-again technology so far ahead of what New York is capable of?
I haven't seen that movie, but I'm pretty sure that the majority of American baseball is played by humans. Maybe one or two players are actually relentless cybernetic assassins from the future, but I don't think that any of them use a spreadsheet to run, swing the bat or throw the ball.
Given how well hidden the "power" menu and logout button are in Windows 8, that might actually not be a bad idea...
That hasn't changed in years. It's still the big round one a little bit below the bottom edge of your monitor, right near the optical drive. Push it once to politely request a shutdown, and hold it for at least four seconds to add "and stay down".
What, you think someone smart enough to design a mission to intercept an asteroid with an impactor and hit that crater with a nuke wouldn't know to take the spin into account?
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THIS is your anecdotal evidence to "prove" that libertarianism doesn't work and that people can't possibly self-organize?
You make a good point. Clearly libertarianism could work if only every other nation on the planet didn't keep interfering with it. Kind of like how you can build a sand castle on the beach that will last a thousand years, but somehow the tide just keeps knocking it over.
The answer is obvious. Vote Skynet for Congress! (L, NH)
Christ, you have a persecution complex. Get over it.
To be fair, he was arrested, interrogated, and finally nailed to a wooden board and left to die in the sun by government agents. After all that I think that we can forgive Christ for thinking that someone might be out to get him.
Just follow this helpful online guide to dealing with management and all of your problems will go away. Well, for two weeks. And there may be some additional legal entanglements if you're not careful.
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do, we do!
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do, we do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do, we do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night? We do, we do, we do!'
So, what is really needed is a one seated car with no gadgets installed and which block cell phone traffic. CityEl, this one has 1 seat and not enough room for you to actually move your hands, let alone use your phone - and certainly no room for kids.
I would really rather be driving this car.
Oh, right. Mountain View, California, where the temperature sometimes drops as low as 4 degrees Celsius in the deepest part of Winter.
Nobody who lived anywhere with actual weather would assume that everybody would want their face uncovered just to use their phone.
Sorry, but the solution to Beal's Conjecture is in another castle.
Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform' us' down I take TCBin, man.
CO-ordinated UNiversal Time
ONE! One hour! Ah-ah-ah! *lightning*
TWO! Two hours! Ah-ah-ah!
Just saying.
That's standard operating procedure for Facebook. They don't just have a single server that everybody in the world logs in to, and they don't update everything at the same time.
Whenever new code is deployed, it is sent to a small group of servers, tested on the group of users there, and then finally pushed out to the rest. If something is broken by a new release then Facebook's Reverting is for losers! policy applies, and anyone affected by the bug just gets to live with it until it is fixed.
Don't be surprised if it looks like you are logging into a completely different facebook.com from everybody else you know, because there's a good chance that you are.
Sorry, but the language doesn't get mangled, it evolves.
And your car wasn't "totalled" by a collision with a tractor trailer, it just "evolved".
Strangely, the scenarios presented were placed 20 years in the future. Posted in 1993, then-revolutionary Wired Magazine got it exactly, dead on.
Actually, in 1990 then-science-fiction-author and some-time Wired Magazine contributor David Brin got it exactly, dead on. He just kept on writing about it for several years after that.
Appeasement isn't a very sound foreign policy either, Prime Minister Chamberlain...
I know that quote! John F. Kennedy, October 28, 1962, right?
With no ticket your chance of winning is 0, with at least one ticket it is non-zero. If you can't understand how having a greater than zero chance is greater than having a zero chance, I'm afraid there's no hope for you at all.
With no ticket, you have spent $0 and have an expected return of $0. Your expected return from the transaction is $0.
If you buy a ticket then you have spent $X on the ticket and have a probability Y of receiving $Z, and a probability of (1-Y) of receiving $0. No matter what happens you have spent $X, but statistically you can expect a return of $(Y * Z), assuming that there are no other players with a chance of picking the same numbers. Your expected return from the transaction is $( (Y*Z) - X ). Unless the lottery is run by complete morons who are desperate to give away money, X will always be greater than (Y*Z), so you can always expect to lose money.
As an example, let's suppose that you are playing a lottery in which you need to correctly guess six different numbers between one and fourty-nine. Your chance of winning the grand prize is [ (49!) / (6! * (49-6)! ) ] or one in 13,983,816. If a ticket costs $2, then any jackpot of less than twenty-eight million dollars means you are paying more than you can expect to make back. The chance of winning the jackpot is overshadowed by the certainty of losing your initial investment, meaning that you are just giving money away.
If you can't see from this that lotteries are a tax on people who aren't good at math, then I'm afraid there's no hope for you at all. It's just one of many ways to pay for a few minutes of entertainment, really no different from paying for cable TV or giving money to a street magician performing "Three Card Monty".
This is Walmart. Their employees are eligible for both.
this would be the equivalent to holding the engineering firms that design the bridge responsible for the terrorist that bombed it.
If the terrorist was able to bring down the bridge using three toothpicks, an ice cube tray and a plastic whistle that he found inside a cereal box, then yes I would hold the engineers responsible.
Rhode Island Population: 1.05 Million New York Population: 19.47 Million
What might work for Rhode Island doesn't necessarily work for New York.
Canada, with a population of 35 million and over 70 times the land mass of New York state, is still able to conduct federal elections using only pencils and paper. Is Canadian drawing-an-x-on-a-sheet-of-paper-and-then-reading-it-again technology so far ahead of what New York is capable of?
At times the frustration boiled over, and there were shouting matches between voters and poll workers.
This is New York City. I think someone misspelled "shooting".
We're the New York Times and we're trying to remain relevant by sucking our own dicks non-stop! Just like New York City itself!
Just remember that you are limited to sucking only 16 oz at any one time.
Yeah, well, I’m gonna go build my own computer science club. With blackjack and hookers.
In fact, forget the club.
I haven't seen that movie, but I'm pretty sure that the majority of American baseball is played by humans. Maybe one or two players are actually relentless cybernetic assassins from the future, but I don't think that any of them use a spreadsheet to run, swing the bat or throw the ball.
And yet the results are indistinguishable. Funny how that works.
If they're using Excel to play baseball, then they're doing something wrong.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised to see someone abusing Access in that way.
Given how well hidden the "power" menu and logout button are in Windows 8, that might actually not be a bad idea...
That hasn't changed in years. It's still the big round one a little bit below the bottom edge of your monitor, right near the optical drive. Push it once to politely request a shutdown, and hold it for at least four seconds to add "and stay down".
What, you think someone smart enough to design a mission to intercept an asteroid with an impactor and hit that crater with a nuke wouldn't know to take the spin into account?
I used to think that someone smart enough to land a space craft on Mars could figure out how to convert to and from metric units, test their own code, and not spend several weeks ignoring critical warnings. So I have been wrong before.