Actually, even if you know the face of the coin, it is still random, it is simply not "fair" (At least according to these guys). But, considering the fact that the numbers they got were very close to 50-50 (they said 49-51), it is entirely possible that they are wrong. Random variation tells us that some time, somewhere, there will be one million heads in a row, on a fair coin toss. Don't try calculating it, but here is the equation:
P(X=N) = ((1-p)^(n-1))p
Where little p is the probability of success (aka heads). This gives us the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads one million times in a row.
With the fact that this is possible in mind, it is also entirely possible that they got these results through random variation alone. I would like to see them run some significance tests on their results, and release them so others can do the same.
You quoted yourself, not exactly earth shattering evidence. You claim that the only people who were violent appeared to you to be "agents provocateurs", AKA Cops inciting a riot. Then you say: "they certainly were not part of any group *we* would ever support"
Sounds pretty cocky to me. So basically, cuz you're right, and all liberals are good people, no one who is unsupportive of the war could possibly be violent?
And you got modded interesting?
Man, I wish I knew where you lived. My mother has been teaching in an elemetary school here in South Texas for 25+ years, and she sure as hell doesn't earn 60k. She get's more in the area of 40k, which isn't very much when you consider that teachers are some of the most important influences on the development of any child. Also, it's not just "9 Months" as you say. Teachers work late nights, and early mornings in the year, get very very few vacation breaks, and work throughout much of the summer in conferences, work days, meetings, and seminars.
Next,
I refuse to believe that students learn better in a new building than in one built in 1970
Well, walk on over to my high school. It is the oldest school in my city (San Antonio), and it was built in the 60's. No, students do not necessarily learn better in a newer school then in an older one, but most of the time, the older schools have some major "distractions". Such as mold so bad that some sensitive students get sick. Or, the heating system is so old, that they have to turn in on onl after the temperature outside is under 50 F and they have to leave it on all winter, until March, because it is far to expensiv to be turning it on or off just because it is 80 outside. Same with the AC, it often doesn't get turned on till it's 90 F outside, and it gets prety hot here in Texas. When the banisters on the stairs aren't there anymore because they fell of, the bathrooms don't have any lights because they were expanded and no additional light fixtures were installed, the only fans n rooms are the ones that teachers paid for out of their personal pockets, and the district's swimming pool was built in 1935, it just might be time to rebuild.
It's sad when all the retired residents of your town are forced to sell the houses their families have owned for generations because some self-focused parents have no concept of the long term concequences.
My school District, Alamo Heights, has the highest property tax allowable under state law. We have 60% of our tax raised funding taken directly out of our hands and placed into a state fund for the government to decide what schools are "needy" this year. We get the lowest funding of any school district in the city, and we need every penny we can get. State law prohibits us from raising more money, and it takes more money from us every year.I don't see people raising taxes then skipping out of town when their kids graduate, maybe thats something that you northerners do, sounds like a social problem to me.
You sound like a grumpy old man whose mailbox got smashed in a couple of times, so he decides to hold his own personal grudge against all kids.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some journal entries to do.
If the RIAA is the one being directly issued subpoenas and executing the subpoenas, then are they not, in fact, and agent of the state and should be held accountable to the same standards?
No, if you want to get technical, the RIAA is not issuing the subpoenas, they are going to a judge and getting him to issue them. This is like me suing an insurance company, claiming they mishandled my claim. My lawyer would go to a judge and get a subpoena for all of the applicable records from the company. This does not make me an agent or actor of the state.
Wasn't there something about many of the subpoenas being filed wrongly, didn't they file them with a county clerk in D.C. instead of in the individual states?
Actually, that is what I plan to do. I plan to go through college, majoring in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (haven't decided which yet) and then go back through JAG (Gonna enlist) to go to lawschool.
I think that this would be a very sturdy career for me, since I love to argue and study law, and am a huge geek. If there is actually serious tort reform that makes being a lawyer less desireable (Yeah Right), I can always fall back on admining (Another Yeah Right).
"Find something you love to do, and make a living out of it. You will never be unhappy or broke."
Well, for starters, the reason you don't want to use a Compact flash for a HDD is because they wear out after about 100,000 read/writes. That will last you about a month. HDDs OTOH, will last you about 2 years, even with the shock of everyday driving. You decide.
It is possible that the 802.11g AP you buy will support the final version with a Firmware Update. However, I personally think anyone investing anything in 802.11g right now is wasting their money, too many things could change between now and June
"What's so bad" is that eventually you won't be paying 3.00 for a demo CD, you will be paying 30.00 for the full game that expires in oh say, a week. The companies who are pushing this aren't trying to find a way to make renting easier, they are trying to get the money that BlockBuster and Hollywood video get. I.E. You pay for a new DVD, or rental every 2 days.
Since they can decide not to release their movies or music on anything else, you have 2 choices, watch the movie, paying for when you want to watch it, or just stop watching movies alltogether.
I may just be paranoid, but I really don't think these companies are trying to Save you money....
I can see it now...
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Nice try, I used to use that, but Bess must have hired some good security personeel, because all of the loopholes are gone. It used to be as simple as disabling "Use this proxy to connect to the internet" in IE, but now thats gone, and all proxy sites are summarised as "loophole" sites are blocked by default.
Anybody have any tips about proxy programs that can be run off of a floppy disk?
The reason my school gives for blocking Discussion sites is the idea that when we surf the internet from school, we are representing the school. By allowing us to talk on forums and boards, they are afraid we may offend someone, and that would reflect poorly on the school.
*Tongue in Cheek*
The reality of Bess is is that it is unquestionable. Most of my teachers aren't willing to walk over to my computer and type in a password every minutes so that I can actually see the pictures of Mussolini's dead body. (We are covering WWI). The problem lies with Bess and other such filtering software in that its database is inaccurate and beyond reproach. Bess used to allow you to submit webpages that it blocked for reviews, it would even email me telling whether or not the site was allowed. I would usually get a response within 4 days, and they would usually agree with me, that the site shouldn't be blocked. Now, when you try to submit the page, there is no option to allow
you to give them your email addy (I didn't use my private one of course), and they don't even allow you submit
freepages. They are blocked by default. Without notification, they could never get around to checking the site, and
you would never know which way it went unless the site was magically unblocked one day.
I don't even get the point of having a filter at a High School. Very few people are stupid enough to be surfing Pr0n in the middle of library, so what are they afraid of? I dont't knw, maybe I'm just angry because they block/. and
Penny Arcade, both of which I need to live.
Just my two bits..
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Actually, it would take more then 925 days :
60sec * 60 sec/min * 60 min/hour * 24 hour/day = 86400
1 PetaByte = 8*10^7 100 MegaBits
80000000 seconds / 86400 seconds/Day = 925.9259259259259 Days
Actually, even if you know the face of the coin, it is still random, it is simply not "fair" (At least according to these guys). But, considering the fact that the numbers they got were very close to 50-50 (they said 49-51), it is entirely possible that they are wrong. Random variation tells us that some time, somewhere, there will be one million heads in a row, on a fair coin toss. Don't try calculating it, but here is the equation:
P(X=N) = ((1-p)^(n-1))p
Where little p is the probability of success (aka heads). This gives us the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads one million times in a row.
With the fact that this is possible in mind, it is also entirely possible that they got these results through random variation alone. I would like to see them run some significance tests on their results, and release them so others can do the same.
You quoted yourself, not exactly earth shattering evidence. You claim that the only people who were violent appeared to you to be "agents provocateurs", AKA Cops inciting a riot. Then you say: "they certainly were not part of any group *we* would ever support" Sounds pretty cocky to me. So basically, cuz you're right, and all liberals are good people, no one who is unsupportive of the war could possibly be violent?
And you got modded interesting?
Man, I wish I knew where you lived. My mother has been teaching in an elemetary school here in South Texas for 25+ years, and she sure as hell doesn't earn 60k. She get's more in the area of 40k, which isn't very much when you consider that teachers are some of the most important influences on the development of any child. Also, it's not just "9 Months" as you say. Teachers work late nights, and early mornings in the year, get very very few vacation breaks, and work throughout much of the summer in conferences, work days, meetings, and seminars.
Next,
Well, walk on over to my high school. It is the oldest school in my city (San Antonio), and it was built in the 60's. No, students do not necessarily learn better in a newer school then in an older one, but most of the time, the older schools have some major "distractions". Such as mold so bad that some sensitive students get sick. Or, the heating system is so old, that they have to turn in on onl after the temperature outside is under 50 F and they have to leave it on all winter, until March, because it is far to expensiv to be turning it on or off just because it is 80 outside. Same with the AC, it often doesn't get turned on till it's 90 F outside, and it gets prety hot here in Texas. When the banisters on the stairs aren't there anymore because they fell of, the bathrooms don't have any lights because they were expanded and no additional light fixtures were installed, the only fans n rooms are the ones that teachers paid for out of their personal pockets, and the district's swimming pool was built in 1935, it just might be time to rebuild.
My school District, Alamo Heights, has the highest property tax allowable under state law. We have 60% of our tax raised funding taken directly out of our hands and placed into a state fund for the government to decide what schools are "needy" this year. We get the lowest funding of any school district in the city, and we need every penny we can get. State law prohibits us from raising more money, and it takes more money from us every year.I don't see people raising taxes then skipping out of town when their kids graduate, maybe thats something that you northerners do, sounds like a social problem to me.
You sound like a grumpy old man whose mailbox got smashed in a couple of times, so he decides to hold his own personal grudge against all kids. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some journal entries to do.
No, if you want to get technical, the RIAA is not issuing the subpoenas, they are going to a judge and getting him to issue them. This is like me suing an insurance company, claiming they mishandled my claim. My lawyer would go to a judge and get a subpoena for all of the applicable records from the company. This does not make me an agent or actor of the state.
Wasn't there something about many of the subpoenas being filed wrongly, didn't they file them with a county clerk in D.C. instead of in the individual states?
Actually, that is what I plan to do. I plan to go through college, majoring in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (haven't decided which yet) and then go back through JAG (Gonna enlist) to go to lawschool.
I think that this would be a very sturdy career for me, since I love to argue and study law, and am a huge geek. If there is actually serious tort reform that makes being a lawyer less desireable (Yeah Right), I can always fall back on admining (Another Yeah Right).
"Find something you love to do, and make a living out of it. You will never be unhappy or broke."
I graduate from High School in May of 2005 you Insensitive Clod!
Well, for starters, the reason you don't want to use a Compact flash for a HDD is because they wear out after about 100,000 read/writes. That will last you about a month. HDDs OTOH, will last you about 2 years, even with the shock of everyday driving. You decide.
But, Can you imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these?
It is possible that the 802.11g AP you buy will support the final version with a Firmware Update. However, I personally think anyone investing anything in 802.11g right now is wasting their money, too many things could change between now and June
*Cough* Slashdot.org *cough*
"What's so bad" is that eventually you won't be paying 3.00 for a demo CD, you will be paying 30.00 for the full game that expires in oh say, a week. The companies who are pushing this aren't trying to find a way to make renting easier, they are trying to get the money that BlockBuster and Hollywood video get. I.E. You pay for a new DVD, or rental every 2 days.
Since they can decide not to release their movies or music on anything else, you have 2 choices, watch the movie, paying for when you want to watch it, or just stop watching movies alltogether.
I may just be paranoid, but I really don't think these companies are trying to Save you money....
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Nice try, I used to use that, but Bess must have hired some good security personeel, because all of the loopholes are gone. It used to be as simple as disabling "Use this proxy to connect to the internet" in IE, but now thats gone, and all proxy sites are summarised as "loophole" sites are blocked by default.
Anybody have any tips about proxy programs that can be run off of a floppy disk?
The reason my school gives for blocking Discussion sites is the idea that when we surf the internet from school, we are representing the school. By allowing us to talk on forums and boards, they are afraid we may offend someone, and that would reflect poorly on the school.
/. and
Penny Arcade, both of which I need to live.
*Tongue in Cheek*
The reality of Bess is is that it is unquestionable. Most of my teachers aren't willing to walk over to my computer and type in a password every minutes so that I can actually see the pictures of Mussolini's dead body. (We are covering WWI). The problem lies with Bess and other such filtering software in that its database is inaccurate and beyond reproach. Bess used to allow you to submit webpages that it blocked for reviews, it would even email me telling whether or not the site was allowed. I would usually get a response within 4 days, and they would usually agree with me, that the site shouldn't be blocked. Now, when you try to submit the page, there is no option to allow you to give them your email addy (I didn't use my private one of course), and they don't even allow you submit freepages. They are blocked by default. Without notification, they could never get around to checking the site, and you would never know which way it went unless the site was magically unblocked one day.
I don't even get the point of having a filter at a High School. Very few people are stupid enough to be surfing Pr0n in the middle of library, so what are they afraid of? I dont't knw, maybe I'm just angry because they block
Just my two bits..
P.S. This is my first post! Yay!