There now should follow a backlash that will guarantee that we don't continue to give away our most profitable, most strategic global asset, that the public paid to invent, and build and promote, to those crooks who will say anything to steal it.
Hah! You must be new here.
There will be no backlash. The amount of apathy in the general population increases in proportion to the number of reality-tv programs being broadcast.
Bob? Our petty cash reserves are low and it's Friday. You know? Hookers and blow-day? Yeah, kidnap a child and send out 3 million amber alerts. That'll raise enough cash to see us for tonights festivities....
The psychologists were claiming that if you choose X over Y then you are more likely to choose Z over Y because your *choice* causes bias against Y. (This fits the observed data).
The new suggestion is that if you choose X over Y then you are more likely to choose Z over Y because that's just the statistics. This ALSO fits the observed data. But it's a simpler hypothesis, because the effect falls naturally out of the equations.
The Monkey picking the M&M's could choose the 3 in these ways X Y Z X Z Y Y X Z Y Z X Z X Y Z Y X
If the monkey chooses X over Y, then he could have chosen X Y Z X Z Y Z X Y Of those 3, you can clearly see that TWO of the THREE options, show a natural preference for Z over Y
Thus, the monkey is twice as likely to pick Z instead of Y.
This experiment does not support the Cognizant Dissonance theory.
I shared a hospital room with a Chinese kid once, about 10 years ago. He had got sick while travelling in Europe. It came up in conversation that he thought China was fantastic in every way, and when I asked him about the massacre at Tienamen Square, he said "What massacre?" That was the first time I really understood just how amazing the Chinese governments control of information is.
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All of the US cellular providers charge not just per message sent, but per message received. Using an SMS e-mail gateway may save you sending fees, but it won't save you on the receiving cost.
So can we spam people?
And they have to PAY for each SMS received?
I was at a hotel in England a few years ago, which was packed. (Okay, it was the scene of an SF convention....) Anyway, around 2am, the fire alarm went off.
The way the hotel was evacuated in an orderly non-panicked almost casual fashion, was pretty damn impressive.
Therefore, I think the models need a modifier ( If British then Stiff_Upper_Lip++ )
Assume the question implies that Congress won't cripple your decision making and that the global elite don't put a bullet in your brain, these are the top things I'd do.
1) Revoke the rights of Corporations the make them the same as immortal persons. 2) Change the voting system to break the 2 party deadlock. Perhaps proportional representation. 3) Open source paper trail electronic voting. 4) Reduce the salaries of the President, Senate and Congress, to be equal to average wage in their constituency. Expense accounts can be used, but overseen/audited etc... 5) Halt all NEW military spending for a single year. Just one year. Take that 250 Billion and invest it in schools and hospitals.
I'd love to recind the Patriot Act and a bunch of other bad laws too... but I'd settle for those 5 as a most excellent start.
Even Democrats who thought Bill was a great President have to realise that Hillary is not Bill. And voting for her, won't get Bill back into the Whitehouse through a side-door. She is hungry for power, and the Bush admin have invested a LOT of unchecked power in the Oval Office.
She is Machiavellian in the truest sense of the word and makes Il Prince look like Mother Teresa.
Well I went through the Irish educuation system, and that's how it worked for us. From the age of 8 till 18, our classes were divided into anywhere from 3 to 5 streams. (Call them A1, A2, A3, B1, B2) All the smartest kids were in A1. They studied subjects like Latin, which were not available to kids in A3, B1, B2. Kids in A3 could do Music, for example, which was not available to B1, B2. And the kids in B1, B2 could do Art, but they wouldn't study artists, forms and artistic movements. They'd be trying to colour in without going outside the lines.
when it's revealed that they knew there was a Skrull invasion underway, and this was the ideal way to tag all the superheroes, license and train them, get S.H.I.E.L.D to investigate them all thoroughly, and have a ready made army in every single state, of super powered well trained heroes, ready to turn back the invasion.
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The Christian Brothers, (a Roman Catholic educational sect), has such a system I believe, for the Christian Brothers who are teachers.
Fixed that for you.
Remember, if they want white poon, they have to rape a female US soldier. Who will then get punished if she raises a stink about it.
Examples: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-02-05-our-view-usat_x.htm
http://mibodegaonline.com/2008/04/04/another-us-female-raped-by-fellow-soldiers-kbr-rape-case/
Google for Jamie Leigh Jones, etc...
It's not in almost every culture. It's in a few cultures. The ones that were living / based in/near the Bospherous valley around 4000 years ago.
Schrodinger's Pigeon?!?!
Aw man! I think it pooped on my car. I'm not sure though.
Hah! You must be new here.
There will be no backlash. The amount of apathy in the general population increases in proportion to the number of reality-tv programs being broadcast.
*ring*
Bob? Our petty cash reserves are low and it's Friday. You know? Hookers and blow-day? Yeah, kidnap a child and send out 3 million amber alerts. That'll raise enough cash to see us for tonights festivities....
The small hot ones are usually dense.
(I'll avoid the "sucking anything in the area" jokes)
Not quite.
The psychologists were claiming that if you choose X over Y then you are more likely to choose Z over Y because your *choice* causes bias against Y. (This fits the observed data).
The new suggestion is that if you choose X over Y then you are more likely to choose Z over Y because that's just the statistics. This ALSO fits the observed data. But it's a simpler hypothesis, because the effect falls naturally out of the equations.
The Monkey picking the M&M's could choose the 3 in these ways
X Y Z
X Z Y
Y X Z
Y Z X
Z X Y
Z Y X
If the monkey chooses X over Y, then he could have chosen
X Y Z
X Z Y
Z X Y
Of those 3, you can clearly see that TWO of the THREE options, show a natural preference for Z over Y
Thus, the monkey is twice as likely to pick Z instead of Y.
This experiment does not support the Cognizant Dissonance theory.
Old enough to be travelling in Europe on his own. Early 20's maybe?
I shared a hospital room with a Chinese kid once, about 10 years ago. He had got sick while travelling in Europe. It came up in conversation that he thought China was fantastic in every way, and when I asked him about the massacre at Tienamen Square, he said "What massacre?"
That was the first time I really understood just how amazing the Chinese governments control of information is.
Just use
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
All of the US cellular providers charge not just per message sent, but per message received. Using an SMS e-mail gateway may save you sending fees, but it won't save you on the receiving cost.
So can we spam people?
And they have to PAY for each SMS received?
Where's Bill Gates cell phone number?
Yeah, funny, but truthfully not always.
I was at a hotel in England a few years ago, which was packed. (Okay, it was the scene of an SF convention....)
Anyway, around 2am, the fire alarm went off.
The way the hotel was evacuated in an orderly non-panicked almost casual fashion, was pretty damn impressive.
Therefore, I think the models need a modifier ( If British then Stiff_Upper_Lip++ )
Assume the question implies that Congress won't cripple your decision making and that the global elite don't put a bullet in your brain, these are the top things I'd do.
1) Revoke the rights of Corporations the make them the same as immortal persons.
2) Change the voting system to break the 2 party deadlock. Perhaps proportional representation.
3) Open source paper trail electronic voting.
4) Reduce the salaries of the President, Senate and Congress, to be equal to average wage in their constituency. Expense accounts can be used, but overseen/audited etc...
5) Halt all NEW military spending for a single year. Just one year. Take that 250 Billion and invest it in schools and hospitals.
I'd love to recind the Patriot Act and a bunch of other bad laws too... but I'd settle for those 5 as a most excellent start.
Wasn't that about as long as Man was going to survive in Olaf Stapleton's "Last and First Men"?
If God were a man, balls would be on the inside.
If God were a woman, semen would taste of chocolate.
QED God is neither man nor woman.
Such as the recent Liberal googlebomb which gave the term Liberal Fascism the primary hit return of the Urban Definition of "Fuckwad"
Even Democrats who thought Bill was a great President have to realise that Hillary is not Bill. And voting for her, won't get Bill back into the Whitehouse through a side-door. She is hungry for power, and the Bush admin have invested a LOT of unchecked power in the Oval Office.
She is Machiavellian in the truest sense of the word and makes Il Prince look like Mother Teresa.
But we didn't expect the downhill slide to turn so steep, so quickly.
Also known (though it takes more than 4 turns to do it) as "U.S. Foreign Policy"
If they're THAT dumb, I don't want them breeding. Let 'em die.
years ago. Charlie came up with it, as I recall. But it was for ALL subjects.
Your college tuition is paid for, if you teach where the government sends you, for a few years.
Well I went through the Irish educuation system, and that's how it worked for us. From the age of 8 till 18, our classes were divided into anywhere from 3 to 5 streams. (Call them A1, A2, A3, B1, B2) All the smartest kids were in A1. They studied subjects like Latin, which were not available to kids in A3, B1, B2. Kids in A3 could do Music, for example, which was not available to B1, B2. And the kids in B1, B2 could do Art, but they wouldn't study artists, forms and artistic movements. They'd be trying to colour in without going outside the lines.
Actually, you should listen to some of Cameron's webcasts, to get a better idea of what he might have been like as a teenager...
"That man never enjoyed a Duff in his life!" -- Homer Simpson (referring to richard nixon)
when it's revealed that they knew there was a Skrull invasion underway, and this was the ideal way to tag all the superheroes, license and train them, get S.H.I.E.L.D to investigate them all thoroughly, and have a ready made army in every single state, of super powered well trained heroes, ready to turn back the invasion.
Or maybe the Hulk will just kill everyone.
There's no truth to that old wives tale, about fapping causing blindness...
Unless you aim it right, and hit her in the eye.