RTFA...One of the things covered is that bluffing and reading tells, although effective at taking the occasional hand and a marginally winning strategy, is not as effective as it is given credit in the Poker Community. A better long term strategy is just playing strong hole card positions (especially in Hold-em, where 5/7 of the ending hand is the same between all players.)
Now, they also say the machine has to be able to bluff, but the trick was to get it to do it the right amount, and at the right time postionally. Reading the opponent isn't as important as seeing the right situation in the cards.
Yeah, I know you're a troll...but I can't help it...Lance Armstrong uses no items that are on the banned/restricted list for cyclists. Anything he's on is within the rules for any cyclist.
Now...I freely admit the cycling drug rules make it so that damned near anything is free game (It's almost like that old SNL skit "The All-Drug Olympics"), but he ain't no better than anyone else because of drugs. He's better than anyone else because he's on the bike something like 355 days a year, where most cyclists do a "3 on, 1 off" kind of thing, and he spends more time focusing on the specific mountains and trails the Tour De France is taking in a given year than any other racer out there. In other words, he wins because he tries harder than the rest...and he's gifted, and extraordinarily driven, not because he's hopped up.
Well...from a complete cost/benefit analysis point of view, that would still be a win for the forces of 'good'.
Plane crashes in field after avionics disabled - 100 passengers die, large insurance mess
Plane crashes into World Trade Center - 100 passengers, 3000 nonpassengers die, massive insurance mess, not to mention loss of civil liberties and whatnot.
A is preferable to B. Admittedly C "plane doens't crash, terrorists and flight crew are put to sleep by sleeping gas spat out from the ceiling in a similar fashion to those oxygen masks, plane is taken over by remote control from ground and routed to a safe landing at nearest secure airport" would be even better.
Two bills were proposed. One, which failed in committee was backed by many consumer advocates, including the article poster. The other, which passed, was favored by Microsoft, America Online, etc.
The bill which passed is regarded as less anti-spam than the one which was rejected. Is it? Dunno, I'd have to read the actual bills. Both appear to at least be a first step, and it should come as no surprise that the one backed by bu$ine$$ passed.
Believe it or not, OxyClean works every bit as well as chlorine bleach, without as much of the fading of fabrics and colors. I've used it to clean out coolers, unsightly stains on clothes, and many other things.
No, it doens't work as well as "seen on TV", but it does work.
On a day like today? Damned straight I'm afraid to go outside. It's hot and humid and the world is full of terrorists and evil people and Hackers and Stock Swindlers and Republicans.
Except that what they are doing is sending a confirmation message to that e-mail address and requiring you to click on a link contained in the e-mail, so you need to be able to retreive the e-mail. Supposedly, unless you confirm within 72 hours, the registration is not valid.
So, unless you call up Bill and have him forward it to you, that strategy wouldn't work anyhow.
On the other hand, I'm still waiting for my confirmation e-mail, so I don't know for sure exactly how this is working, it all came from their instructions.
It doesn't matter that you didn't know that girl was only 15, you're going to jail for statutory rape. (You may have an out if she *said* she was 19, but that's acting in good faith, not ignorance).
It doesn't matter that you didn't know "soccrkid95" was only 8, you're going to jail for child abuse through exposure to images.
If you want to avoid going to jail, check ID. In other words...Opt-IN.
Now..If I choose to live in a high cost area, can I expect the government to subsidise my mortgage payment?
Why yes, yes you probably can...investigate HUD, FHA, or any of the dozens of other housing programs out there, most of which have no income restrictions at all, and base the amount they will underwrite on "local markey conditions", which means that they'll underwrite a higher loan on your 2 BR loft in San Francisco than on the 4 BR ranch in Nowheresville, ND
If I choose to drive an expensive car, can I expect the government to help me pay for it?
Perhaps not directly, but you are certainly benefiting from the better roads paid for by the Highway program, fixing the potholes to protect your $35,000 Mercedes.
It's in the government's interest to encourage rural development. If it becomes mandatory for those in the Computer Industry to live within a suburb or better in order to keep their jobs (since they need the DSL connection to be able to maintain their 24 hour on-call status), then the rural communities will be left with the poor and those unable to get those decent jobs, which will lead to a lower tax base, therefore lower levels of services such as schools, leading to less education, leading to poorer people, leading to a lower tax base, etc, etc, etc.
These sorts of movements are meant to try and level that out...and they are good.
Maybe it's just me, and maybe we're the exception...but down here in Richmond, Virginia, one of the local ClearChannel stations (98.1 FM, WTVR) has the morning show news almost exclusively of local news (well, except when there's a HUGE national story). Admittedly, it's just the headlines, since the news fits in 1 minute between the morning drivetime DJ's inane blather about how Richmond is wonderful, but our City Council is inept...
But it certainly seems to be local news, even though the channel is owned by ClearChannel. Are we just the exception? Alternatively, do they have *really* good "drop-in" technology, and Bill Bevins's show is exactly the same in Kalamazoo, except they digitally substitute out the names of the streets and City council members that suck?
Unfettered deregulation creates too many areas where *noone* is willing to provide service, because they believe it to be uneconomic (or at least, insufficiently profitable to justify their expenses).
That's why a TVA sort of solution could work. If noone wants to undertake the fixed costs of building the infrastructure for profit, then a non-profit, subsidized organization is given the task, and expected to recoup their expenses by charging for the service.
One effect it has had is significantly increasing the difference in service levels between Urban and Rural communities.
For example, DSL Service. Deregulation has made it so that is exceptionally profitable (well...okay...maybe) for DSL services to be offered in Urban Centers, so that there are many competing companies offering service. On the other hand, live just 250 feet past the City Limits (as I do), and there are zero, none, nadda, companies willing to have the service go to you.
I'm beginning to wonder if we don't need a Telecommunications version of the Tennessee Valley Authority. For the American History Impaired, the TVA was created during the Depression to bring electricity to Appalachia, and other rural regions, and it accomplished it's goal of extending the grid to virtually everyone in America. Something similar could/should be done to encourage cooperatives or the like for Internet bandwidth.
Except for one thing...parody with intent to defraud is not protected, and never has been (so far as I know, IANAL). Bonzai and other similar UI based ads were completely and totally intended to fool the unsupecting user into taking an action they ordinarily wouldn't, and generally to spend money they wouldn't ordinarily spend. That's fraud, and it's illegal, even if you claim it's a parody.
Well, of course they can...that was the 'Last Crusade'...this one will be the "Last Roundup" or "Last Time to the Vault" or "Last ripoff" or "Last pillaging of a culture's priceless artifacts"...something like that. The well is deep of those!
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The important thing is, we're not talking Sears Roebuck or Wal-Mart, we're talking a park.
Someone should turn marconi's wireless station into a WiFi access point. Or, perhaps I should lay off the drugs
Now, they also say the machine has to be able to bluff, but the trick was to get it to do it the right amount, and at the right time postionally. Reading the opponent isn't as important as seeing the right situation in the cards.
Now...I freely admit the cycling drug rules make it so that damned near anything is free game (It's almost like that old SNL skit "The All-Drug Olympics"), but he ain't no better than anyone else because of drugs. He's better than anyone else because he's on the bike something like 355 days a year, where most cyclists do a "3 on, 1 off" kind of thing, and he spends more time focusing on the specific mountains and trails the Tour De France is taking in a given year than any other racer out there. In other words, he wins because he tries harder than the rest...and he's gifted, and extraordinarily driven, not because he's hopped up.
Plane crashes in field after avionics disabled - 100 passengers die, large insurance mess
Plane crashes into World Trade Center - 100 passengers, 3000 nonpassengers die, massive insurance mess, not to mention loss of civil liberties and whatnot.
A is preferable to B. Admittedly C "plane doens't crash, terrorists and flight crew are put to sleep by sleeping gas spat out from the ceiling in a similar fashion to those oxygen masks, plane is taken over by remote control from ground and routed to a safe landing at nearest secure airport" would be even better.
Two bills were proposed. One, which failed in committee was backed by many consumer advocates, including the article poster. The other, which passed, was favored by Microsoft, America Online, etc.
The bill which passed is regarded as less anti-spam than the one which was rejected. Is it? Dunno, I'd have to read the actual bills. Both appear to at least be a first step, and it should come as no surprise that the one backed by bu$ine$$ passed.
No, it doens't work as well as "seen on TV", but it does work.
I'll stay inside and play my PS2, thanks.
So, unless you call up Bill and have him forward it to you, that strategy wouldn't work anyhow.
On the other hand, I'm still waiting for my confirmation e-mail, so I don't know for sure exactly how this is working, it all came from their instructions.
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It doesn't matter that you didn't know that girl was only 15, you're going to jail for statutory rape. (You may have an out if she *said* she was 19, but that's acting in good faith, not ignorance).
It doesn't matter that you didn't know "soccrkid95" was only 8, you're going to jail for child abuse through exposure to images.
If you want to avoid going to jail, check ID. In other words...Opt-IN.
It's just *snapping fingers* that easy
Why yes, yes you probably can...investigate HUD, FHA, or any of the dozens of other housing programs out there, most of which have no income restrictions at all, and base the amount they will underwrite on "local markey conditions", which means that they'll underwrite a higher loan on your 2 BR loft in San Francisco than on the 4 BR ranch in Nowheresville, ND
If I choose to drive an expensive car, can I expect the government to help me pay for it?
Perhaps not directly, but you are certainly benefiting from the better roads paid for by the Highway program, fixing the potholes to protect your $35,000 Mercedes.
It's in the government's interest to encourage rural development. If it becomes mandatory for those in the Computer Industry to live within a suburb or better in order to keep their jobs (since they need the DSL connection to be able to maintain their 24 hour on-call status), then the rural communities will be left with the poor and those unable to get those decent jobs, which will lead to a lower tax base, therefore lower levels of services such as schools, leading to less education, leading to poorer people, leading to a lower tax base, etc, etc, etc.
These sorts of movements are meant to try and level that out...and they are good.
- Who'll be the first to get Mom's Singer to boot Linux?
- Who'll write the first sewing machine virus, which copies the contents of the pattern directory and sends it to a IRC bot in #SeW1NGH@CkOrZ
- WHo'll be the first overclocker to break the 200Msz barrier (200 Million Stiches)? And will the machine be water cooled?
- And, of course, the mandatory case mods so the lady next door's sewing machine is also her fishtank
Hmm...this could almost be cooler than I thought at first...Plus, IBM ain't gonna be going bankrupt. They won't even see a blip. And no, I don't own any IBM stock (all my investments are in student loan debt).
But it certainly seems to be local news, even though the channel is owned by ClearChannel. Are we just the exception? Alternatively, do they have *really* good "drop-in" technology, and Bill Bevins's show is exactly the same in Kalamazoo, except they digitally substitute out the names of the streets and City council members that suck?
now that would be technology....
Unfettered deregulation creates too many areas where *noone* is willing to provide service, because they believe it to be uneconomic (or at least, insufficiently profitable to justify their expenses).
That's why a TVA sort of solution could work. If noone wants to undertake the fixed costs of building the infrastructure for profit, then a non-profit, subsidized organization is given the task, and expected to recoup their expenses by charging for the service.
For example, DSL Service. Deregulation has made it so that is exceptionally profitable (well...okay...maybe) for DSL services to be offered in Urban Centers, so that there are many competing companies offering service. On the other hand, live just 250 feet past the City Limits (as I do), and there are zero, none, nadda, companies willing to have the service go to you.
I'm beginning to wonder if we don't need a Telecommunications version of the Tennessee Valley Authority. For the American History Impaired, the TVA was created during the Depression to bring electricity to Appalachia, and other rural regions, and it accomplished it's goal of extending the grid to virtually everyone in America. Something similar could/should be done to encourage cooperatives or the like for Internet bandwidth.
Ahh, Gor, counter-earth, and no advanced technology... In other words, the Priest-Kings require everyone to use Windows.
"Garble, Garble, Garble, invade Poland, garble, garble, SCO is Mein Fuehrer, garble, garble, judgement"
There...that help?
Oh, wait...they're hoping to Succeed...silly me.
Except for one thing...parody with intent to defraud is not protected, and never has been (so far as I know, IANAL). Bonzai and other similar UI based ads were completely and totally intended to fool the unsupecting user into taking an action they ordinarily wouldn't, and generally to spend money they wouldn't ordinarily spend. That's fraud, and it's illegal, even if you claim it's a parody.
Umm...he already was...by five cockroa...err...Supreme Court Justices. Apparently the only five votes that mattered.
Freedom in just a hair under two years!!!!!!
Well, of course they can...that was the 'Last Crusade'...this one will be the "Last Roundup" or "Last Time to the Vault" or "Last ripoff" or "Last pillaging of a culture's priceless artifacts"...something like that. The well is deep of those!