My dad had a PhD in engineering, but still played. He just liked it (only spent $20 to $40 when on vacation). He would always say that you can't win by not playing, but I was would say 1 in 7.1 mil (more or less depending on which lottery) rounds to Zero.
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Also for the curious, US and Denmark (something to do with Legos or Escher I'm sure) are the only ones WITH debt ceilings.
There's a hundred people pointing out problems with your interpretation of what The Prince INTENDED to be. I thought I would add the funny one from cracked.com
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If you've ever heard a politician or other powerful person referred to as "Machiavellian," you can guess it's not a compliment. That's thanks to a shifty-looking Italian diplomat named Machiavelli. He was bad enough that we turned his name into a pejorative adjective that means "cruel, amoral tyrant." Napoleon, Stalin and Mussolini were three of his biggest fans, and the Mafia considers Machiavelli the father of the organization.
In his defense, he cleans up well.
The reason for this is Machiavelli's The Prince, one of the most notorious political treatises ever written, designed as an instruction manual for the Florentine dictator Lorenzo de' Medici to help him be more of a bastard. Completely disregarding moral concerns in politics, the book serves as a levelheaded discourse on the best way to assert and maintain power, noting that it's better to be feared than loved, and that dishonesty pays off in the long run as long as you lie about how dishonest you are.
Machiavelli's masterpiece is equal parts brilliant and irresponsible, showing tyrants how best to run a country like a video game. [Civ3 shot.. playing as Ruskies]
What it's really about:
Actually, Machiavelli was totally just trolling. Far from being the spiritual patriarch of the Gambino crime family, he was a renowned proponent of free republics, as noted in a few obscure texts called everything else he ever wrote. The reason The Prince endured the ages while the rest of his philosophy gathered dust in the back of an old library warehouse is chiefly 1) it's really short, and 2) it angries up the blood. By far the best way to get a book on the best-seller list is to write something that pisses everyone off, but the drawback is that it steamrolls the message of any work that's only meant to be understood in context.
The context in this case is that the Medici family to whom he dedicated his love letter is the same group who personally broke Machiavelli's arms for being such a staunch advocate for free government. He worked for the Florentine Republic before the Medicis marched in, mowed down the government and mercilessly tortured him, and then he sat down and wrote The Prince from his shack in exile, assumedly with some really bendy handwriting (on account of the arms). When you learn about that, it kind of adds a new layer of meaning to the text -- it suddenly sounds like it's dripping with sarcasm.
Not everyone was in on the joke.
For centuries, the consensus on Machiavelli's best-known work has been that he was just trying to brown-nose his way back into the government. But a deeper study of his full body of work reveals that this is a pretty absurd ambition, considering not only did Machiavelli repeatedly say that "popular rule is always better than the rule of princes," but after he wrote The Prince, he went right on back to writing treatises about the awesomeness of republics. Considering also that he was no stranger to the literary art of satire, scholars these days are turning to a more likely scenario -- Machiavelli was the Stephen Colbert of the Renaissance.
Part of the blame might also be leveled at the shitty job that people have done in trying to translate his work into English. It's from Machiavelli that we get the notorious phrase "the end justifies the means." A much more accurate translation from the original Italian is something more like "one must consider the end," which kind of means something totally different.
Yea.. some doctor hate. I love it (I always love humble doctors too, all 4 of you). Half the time, I don't bother... and play dumb like I don't know what's in what they are prescribing me. I can be dumb too; one time, I didn't look at the effects for when you STOP taking a certain something (and I am NOT talking opioids/anit-dpressents here) nor was a I told. I like to know that shit a head of time. I blame the manufacturer more though.
Just as long as I can continue to hate doctors. (Most computer geeks LIKE explaining how things works; most doctors like to handwave thinking I'm not going to understand- this does not apply to all of either group of course).
The gov't is still here + more from BRAC movement, Nasa in whatever form it is, the heat still sucks,.. and it's whether'd most downturns (if not all since about ~1950). We use to have IEEE/Computer fair here open to anybody during the 90s that was pretty cool to me as a kid with lots of simulators and VR stuff (Sun, NEC, SGI were probably the biggest showers on average.). Now, it's like a computer swap meet.
It's a good place for family, but high school to college kids find themselves very bored (hence the dropouts of a lot people I knew to be very bright)
Slashdot Mirror
There is no defense, they either run at you with a spiked helmet or chop your legs off at the knee. Tenacious buggers ... and god, the music alone ...
gam also rhymes with gam (as in leg)
If they are going to bust your balls over that, they need to not use any euphemisms like gosh, jeez, or bear (yea.. bear)
Your fingers might not match your brain (liek me ;), but I think you're the only one to get the Number 6 ref.
Be seeing you!
Haven't look at it (at work), but maybe it is form of wavelet compression which is functional similar to a procedural fractal.
OMG? What happened to Prisoner 4? You bastards, wait until Number 6 hears about this. (He'll probably look smugly at you .. in knowing sort of way)
I've done that with some (probably older) video poker tables. But honestly, I did it because they were at the bar to get my free drinks even easier.
My dad had a PhD in engineering, but still played. He just liked it (only spent $20 to $40 when on vacation). He would always say that you can't win by not playing, but I was would say 1 in 7.1 mil (more or less depending on which lottery) rounds to Zero.
Also for the curious, US and Denmark (something to do with Legos or Escher I'm sure) are the only ones WITH debt ceilings.
http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=2280
http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=2292
and they're were hookers and blackjack?
It got you to want to shave. Come on, that's something! Sort of like how Michael Bay films give me dysentery.
There's a hundred people pointing out problems with your interpretation of what The Prince INTENDED to be. I thought I would add the funny one from cracked.com
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If you've ever heard a politician or other powerful person referred to as "Machiavellian," you can guess it's not a compliment. That's thanks to a shifty-looking Italian diplomat named Machiavelli. He was bad enough that we turned his name into a pejorative adjective that means "cruel, amoral tyrant." Napoleon, Stalin and Mussolini were three of his biggest fans, and the Mafia considers Machiavelli the father of the organization.
In his defense, he cleans up well.
The reason for this is Machiavelli's The Prince, one of the most notorious political treatises ever written, designed as an instruction manual for the Florentine dictator Lorenzo de' Medici to help him be more of a bastard. Completely disregarding moral concerns in politics, the book serves as a levelheaded discourse on the best way to assert and maintain power, noting that it's better to be feared than loved, and that dishonesty pays off in the long run as long as you lie about how dishonest you are.
Machiavelli's masterpiece is equal parts brilliant and irresponsible, showing tyrants how best to run a country like a video game. .. playing as Ruskies]
[Civ3 shot
What it's really about:
Actually, Machiavelli was totally just trolling. Far from being the spiritual patriarch of the Gambino crime family, he was a renowned proponent of free republics, as noted in a few obscure texts called everything else he ever wrote. The reason The Prince endured the ages while the rest of his philosophy gathered dust in the back of an old library warehouse is chiefly 1) it's really short, and 2) it angries up the blood. By far the best way to get a book on the best-seller list is to write something that pisses everyone off, but the drawback is that it steamrolls the message of any work that's only meant to be understood in context.
The context in this case is that the Medici family to whom he dedicated his love letter is the same group who personally broke Machiavelli's arms for being such a staunch advocate for free government. He worked for the Florentine Republic before the Medicis marched in, mowed down the government and mercilessly tortured him, and then he sat down and wrote The Prince from his shack in exile, assumedly with some really bendy handwriting (on account of the arms). When you learn about that, it kind of adds a new layer of meaning to the text -- it suddenly sounds like it's dripping with sarcasm.
Not everyone was in on the joke.
For centuries, the consensus on Machiavelli's best-known work has been that he was just trying to brown-nose his way back into the government. But a deeper study of his full body of work reveals that this is a pretty absurd ambition, considering not only did Machiavelli repeatedly say that "popular rule is always better than the rule of princes," but after he wrote The Prince, he went right on back to writing treatises about the awesomeness of republics. Considering also that he was no stranger to the literary art of satire, scholars these days are turning to a more likely scenario -- Machiavelli was the Stephen Colbert of the Renaissance.
Part of the blame might also be leveled at the shitty job that people have done in trying to translate his work into English. It's from Machiavelli that we get the notorious phrase "the end justifies the means." A much more accurate translation from the original Italian is something more like "one must consider the end," which kind of means something totally different.
>> Urinade
Man, since Gatorade went to G* ... they've gotten some really interesting choices.
Or 60-mpg diesels ... but that's a whole another can of worms.
Yea.. some doctor hate. I love it (I always love humble doctors too, all 4 of you). Half the time, I don't bother ... and play dumb like I don't know what's in what they are prescribing me. I can be dumb too; one time, I didn't look at the effects for when you STOP taking a certain something (and I am NOT talking opioids/anit-dpressents here) nor was a I told. I like to know that shit a head of time. I blame the manufacturer more though.
>> the real reasons for all your social and romantic failures.
that' shouldn't be too hard to figure out with an alias of MaxBooger.
Just as long as I can continue to hate doctors. (Most computer geeks LIKE explaining how things works; most doctors like to handwave thinking I'm not going to understand- this does not apply to all of either group of course).
The gov't is still here + more from BRAC movement, Nasa in whatever form it is, the heat still sucks, .. and it's whether'd most downturns (if not all since about ~1950). We use to have IEEE/Computer fair here open to anybody during the 90s that was pretty cool to me as a kid with lots of simulators and VR stuff (Sun, NEC, SGI were probably the biggest showers on average.). Now, it's like a computer swap meet.
It's a good place for family, but high school to college kids find themselves very bored (hence the dropouts of a lot people I knew to be very bright)
For system administrators, everday is monday.
>> If Nintendo was a sheepherder then it would not just kill the sheep for its wool, it would machine gun the entire herd to do a blood sampling.
No, no, no ... you don't understand Nintendo at all. They would use a ping-pong gun to make the sheep "sweat to sleep". (say that three times fast)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(video_game)#Ports
Are you from HSV? Cause you sound like it :)! (oops, now I sound like a girl LOL)
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
They just like riding ponies :)!!!!!!
Still waiting on the Glitter Boys
IT probably is the strongest field at slashdot.