It seemed from the behavior of Jennings realized that Watson had won given the easy nature of the question.
Jennings realized that Watson had won, but not due to the easy nature of the final Jeopardy question. Watson already had the game won before Final Jeopardy. Had Ken doubled his score with his wager and Watson got Final Jeopardy wrong, Watson still would have won by $1.
Outing honest people whose only so-called "crime" is wanting to avoid the theft of their hard and presumably legitimately-earned dollars is completely and totally wrong, and negates much if not all of the good Wikileaks has done in exposing actual government and corporate wrongdoing. It also makes Wikileaks, directly or indirectly, an accomplice to the very real crimes of the state that it has spent so much of its time trying to expose.
What sense does it make to out those crimes, but also at the same time sign what might as well be the death sentence for many, many honest people who were heroic and brave enough to, at great personal risk, try their best to avoid funding those crimes?
Should I Monty Python you? It's so overdone though.
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers!
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers!
Reg: All right Stan, don't belabour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
Man: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Man: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah, that they've given us, yeah, that's true, yeah.
Man: And the sanitation.
Stan: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: Yeah, all right, I grant you, the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things the Romans have done.
Mathias: And the roads!
Reg: Well, yeah, obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they! But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct and the roads...
Man: Irrigation.
Man: Medicine.
Man: Education!
Reg: Yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough.
Man: And the wine.
All: Yeah, yeah, the wine!
Francis: Yeah! yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.
Man: Public baths.
Stan: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
Francis: Yeah, they certainly like to keep order. I suppose they're the only ones who could in a place like this!
Reg: Yeah, all right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us!?
Man: Brought peace.
Reg: Oh, peace. Shut up!
These kind of studies are fine, showing that there is a link between video games and mental problems, but careless interpretration and reporting of the data screws it all up. Surely it's obvious that people with mental problems, especially the people they studied, which have "depression, anxiety and social phobia", will withdraw from society and play video games OR some other solitary pastime. But that makes for a boring headline. So, it becomes, video gaming may cause mental problems, your child may be at risk!
At least video gaming doesn't cause shootings for the moment. Thanks to similar loose causation/correlation, shootings are caused by Republicans...
The absolute most it would cost to disable such a device would be $200. Most people already pay that just to have their smartphones, so there would be tons of people disobeying the law. Plus, there could be no enforcement, there's no way to detect that such a device has been disabled. Therefore, the technology is NOT quite there yet. We need to go much more Big Brother before they can enforce this policy (don't get any ideas!).
Don't have a late payment. Call your creditors if you do. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
People don't. That's why we have entire companies that make money calling people that have late payments. Facebook would become even more trashed with creditor notices posting on your friends' accounts. They're going to contact and embarrass the wrong people with the same names on Facebook. Scammers are going to start successfully posing as creditors on Facebook. If you're a creditor, simply don't use Facebook as one of your primary business tools. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
Why exactly was my post marked as trolling? Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
Seriously?
Because you're using the "Blame the Victim" argument which is not only a weak argument but also kind of inflammatory. Maybe this specific person could have simply paid their bills, but there are plenty of other people that have a very good reason to get into this situation, such as illness. Also, you may have never let a bill go late, but don't consider that a simple task, you're underestimating yourself! That's actually quite an accomplishment. It's an easy thing to misplace a bill or get something lost in the mail. I've done it and I know plenty of people who have as well. The issue here is if we have a late payment, do we want to let creditors be able to post to us and our friends on Facebook? Argue Yes or No on that question, and you're less likely to get modded down.
I would consider his point of view, but TFA is pretty useless. Did the pope finally get around to watching the Matrix? If so, I'd actually love to see a more detailed article. But if he's talking about the present, then I have a really hard time believing that anybody (that isn't crazy) is confusing today's technology with real life.
There is a good argument that humans are done evolving. To evolve, the strong survive and the weak die out. That is no longer occuring with humans, so it's unlikely we'll move onwards to Q-like beings without a catastrophic event or two.
I'm no Nascar fan, but, puh-leeze. Citation needed. I'm going to go ahead and assume you think Mario Kart fans have a general disregard for speed limits as well.
ONE tournament play is heavily influenced by luck. No doubt about that. But a serious, skilled poker player isn't only going to enter one tournament in their lifetime, he's going to enter LOTS and LOTS of tournaments. So a skilled played can still brush off one bad tournament beat just like you said, and still make money in the long run. In many tournaments, if you literally play 100 times and only take first place once you'd still make a boatload of cash overall.
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It seemed from the behavior of Jennings realized that Watson had won given the easy nature of the question.
Jennings realized that Watson had won, but not due to the easy nature of the final Jeopardy question. Watson already had the game won before Final Jeopardy. Had Ken doubled his score with his wager and Watson got Final Jeopardy wrong, Watson still would have won by $1.
What a wishy-washy summary. It's not like you have anything better to do tonight than watch Jeopardy, is it?
Speaking of which, it seems like *I* was supposed to buy or do something tonight... now what was it...
I have no idea how good Harris is. If you like Gallup, Gallup 2005 says 25%, so that might be more accurate.
A 2010 Harris Poll shows that only 31 percent of Americans believe in astrology. But it's not a science here, yet!
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Here it is: http://slashdot.org/story/10/01/21/179242/Facebook-Master-Password-Was-Chuck-Norris. How much they enforced that policy seems sketchy.
Outing honest people whose only so-called "crime" is wanting to avoid the theft of their hard and presumably legitimately-earned dollars is completely and totally wrong, and negates much if not all of the good Wikileaks has done in exposing actual government and corporate wrongdoing. It also makes Wikileaks, directly or indirectly, an accomplice to the very real crimes of the state that it has spent so much of its time trying to expose.
What sense does it make to out those crimes, but also at the same time sign what might as well be the death sentence for many, many honest people who were heroic and brave enough to, at great personal risk, try their best to avoid funding those crimes?
Should I Monty Python you? It's so overdone though.
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers!
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers!
Reg: All right Stan, don't belabour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
Man: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Man: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah, that they've given us, yeah, that's true, yeah.
Man: And the sanitation.
Stan: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: Yeah, all right, I grant you, the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things the Romans have done.
Mathias: And the roads!
Reg: Well, yeah, obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they! But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct and the roads...
Man: Irrigation.
Man: Medicine.
Man: Education!
Reg: Yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough.
Man: And the wine.
All: Yeah, yeah, the wine!
Francis: Yeah! yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.
Man: Public baths.
Stan: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
Francis: Yeah, they certainly like to keep order. I suppose they're the only ones who could in a place like this!
Reg: Yeah, all right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us!?
Man: Brought peace.
Reg: Oh, peace. Shut up!
These kind of studies are fine, showing that there is a link between video games and mental problems, but careless interpretration and reporting of the data screws it all up. Surely it's obvious that people with mental problems, especially the people they studied, which have "depression, anxiety and social phobia", will withdraw from society and play video games OR some other solitary pastime. But that makes for a boring headline. So, it becomes, video gaming may cause mental problems, your child may be at risk!
At least video gaming doesn't cause shootings for the moment. Thanks to similar loose causation/correlation, shootings are caused by Republicans...
The absolute most it would cost to disable such a device would be $200. Most people already pay that just to have their smartphones, so there would be tons of people disobeying the law. Plus, there could be no enforcement, there's no way to detect that such a device has been disabled. Therefore, the technology is NOT quite there yet. We need to go much more Big Brother before they can enforce this policy (don't get any ideas!).
Don't have a late payment. Call your creditors if you do. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
People don't. That's why we have entire companies that make money calling people that have late payments. Facebook would become even more trashed with creditor notices posting on your friends' accounts. They're going to contact and embarrass the wrong people with the same names on Facebook. Scammers are going to start successfully posing as creditors on Facebook. If you're a creditor, simply don't use Facebook as one of your primary business tools. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
Why exactly was my post marked as trolling? Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
Seriously?
Because you're using the "Blame the Victim" argument which is not only a weak argument but also kind of inflammatory. Maybe this specific person could have simply paid their bills, but there are plenty of other people that have a very good reason to get into this situation, such as illness. Also, you may have never let a bill go late, but don't consider that a simple task, you're underestimating yourself! That's actually quite an accomplishment. It's an easy thing to misplace a bill or get something lost in the mail. I've done it and I know plenty of people who have as well. The issue here is if we have a late payment, do we want to let creditors be able to post to us and our friends on Facebook? Argue Yes or No on that question, and you're less likely to get modded down.
Oh it's your's? Okay.
Here you go. Catch! You're welcome.
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Isn't that an oxymoron? Either that or I'm being too US centric...
I would consider his point of view, but TFA is pretty useless. Did the pope finally get around to watching the Matrix? If so, I'd actually love to see a more detailed article. But if he's talking about the present, then I have a really hard time believing that anybody (that isn't crazy) is confusing today's technology with real life.
My grandfather died in WW2, could you please remove the Germans from all your future WW2 games as well? The Japanese, too.
I think we should keep the Germans in the WW2 games, and my grandfather died in a concentration camp! He fell out of a guard tower.
"I cannot believe what a bunch of losers we are. We're looking up 'money laundering' in the dictionary!" - Apple Execs
"the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions"
OK guys, I have to admit, girls are WAY ahead of us on this one.
There is a good argument that humans are done evolving. To evolve, the strong survive and the weak die out. That is no longer occuring with humans, so it's unlikely we'll move onwards to Q-like beings without a catastrophic event or two.
Yeah, yeah, Stephen Hawking, we already know this! We saw those movies too.
Actually, this is how he got his money for the Death Star.
At least we know they can pay around half in portable games.
I'm no Nascar fan, but, puh-leeze. Citation needed. I'm going to go ahead and assume you think Mario Kart fans have a general disregard for speed limits as well.
Yeah, check out the comments at CNN.com and Yahoo.com.
It's not intelligent discussion but it will make you appreciate Slashdot more.
ONE tournament play is heavily influenced by luck. No doubt about that. But a serious, skilled poker player isn't only going to enter one tournament in their lifetime, he's going to enter LOTS and LOTS of tournaments. So a skilled played can still brush off one bad tournament beat just like you said, and still make money in the long run. In many tournaments, if you literally play 100 times and only take first place once you'd still make a boatload of cash overall.
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Ha, joke's on them! I sold my soul on eBay YEARS ago, twice!
Cheapskate Troll,
NASA costs $57.10 per taxpayer per year. The average taxpayer pays a total of $25,000 per year.
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