Political scientist mathemeticians have shown that by being able to list multiple candidates on a piece of paper, it increases the voting power of a citizen to > 1
In instant runoff/alternative preference election, how does a citizen's voting power increase? Is it simply that one vote can choose which candidate is excluded, and thus if/how other people's votes are transferred? Or is it something else, that doesn't require knowledge of how other people have voted in order to abuse?
When we say the sphere is two-dimensional, what we mean is roughly that we can describe it using two coordinates. We do this every day, using latitude and longitude to describe positions on the Earth's surface.
To be a little more precise about it, at each point in a 2-dimensional manifold, we can find a small neighbourhood around it which "looks like" part of the plane. (which of course is 2 dimensional)
Great idea... but sadly not original - several people have already had the same idea. Don't let that stop you having a go though. See for example this paper on arXiv for hints on how to do it. Or try a Google search - leads to many helpful resources.
... which, among other things, has embedded a Javascript engine within Diablo II to facilitate the creation of AI "bots" which can play the game on their own, "thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with... er... for... himself," he says."
Mind you, that's assuming that it's classified as a major planet. Since Pluto is twice the diameter and was possibly going to be reclassified as a planetoid (does anyone know the status of this?), I doubt that will happen.
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dollar to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the
power."
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The Moon, along with most of the Solar System, is "owned" by Dennis M. Hope. He claims that the UN document doesn't prohibit private individuals claiming ownership of celestial bodies, and in 1980 filed a Declaration of Ownership with the US, USSR and UN General Assembly.
There are now variouswebsitesselling 1 acre plots of the moon on his behalf (amazingly, one of them claims 1-3 days for delivery).
What fascinates me is the price. 880 miles and a real car and the guy is selling it for less than $5000 + 50% of the transport costs? Makes you wonder a bit.
He says it's the best he can do. Since the XP-38 came out, they're just not in demand.
You probably couldn't do it - many (most?) theories of time travel contain the limitation that "the earliest point you could go back to is the point when the time machine was first switched on."
But then, I know bugger all about General Relativity, so I could easily be wrong.
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No, but if you scale up enough, it can emulate a cellular automaton using the Universe ...
Just remember, if you do catch it, you owe everyone a taco ...
Tell that to Nintendo.
What? Washington DC? Where the heck's that?
1a) The first one gets Slashdotted (11.00001 seconds)
Hang on, where's all that smoke coming f
When we say the sphere is two-dimensional, what we mean is roughly that we can describe it using two coordinates. We do this every day, using latitude and longitude to describe positions on the Earth's surface.
To be a little more precise about it, at each point in a 2-dimensional manifold, we can find a small neighbourhood around it which "looks like" part of the plane. (which of course is 2 dimensional)
(I presume that this is what they were referring to).
"KITT, play some Metallica MP3s"
"I'm sorry Michael, I just can't do that."
"Damn it! I told Devon we should have ported you to Linux!"
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Mind you, that's assuming that it's classified as a major planet. Since Pluto is twice the diameter and was possibly going to be reclassified as a planetoid (does anyone know the status of this?), I doubt that will happen.
"Worse - my car's been Slashdotted"
"I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power."
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There are now various websites selling 1 acre plots of the moon on his behalf (amazingly, one of them claims 1-3 days for delivery).
But then, I know bugger all about General Relativity, so I could easily be wrong.