I read all the visible posts looking for one that talked about evolutionary models and the slaves dying out. Parent is the only one I saw, but I might have missed another. Anyway, Parent is right, long term this slavery strategy doesn't work (just as in human history...)
On the compound rule strategy, if you know Southampton is taking part, you write a program that takes the first few moves to see if it's opponent is a Southampton Slave and takes advantage if it is. If not, it then plays a couple of cooperations in a row (to fix any recriminations with a tit-for-tat-like opponent) then plays simple tit-for-tat.
Maher resigned as host of PI in 2002 after making a controversial on-air remark, in which he objected to the President and others calling the September 11 terrorists cowardly: "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
And if you think that the current administration thinks of censorship as a necessary evil, something we have to endure for the crisis, remember this: when Bill Maher called US pilots "cowards", White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said, "... they're reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that;
there never is."
Actually, Maher said that when the US Government called the 9/11 terrorists "cowards" they were flat out misusing language. Maher's sentence was more like "Which takes more guts: deliberately flying oneself into a building, or lobbing in a cruise missle from hundreds of miles?" Maher didn't say the terrorists were *good* or *right* ('cause they aren't) but that accusing them of cowardice is a stupid rhetorical ploy and that our *policies* could be seen as relatively cowardly.
Of course your main point, that the President's spokesperson was declaring a censored "off limits" topic is completely valid.
Yes, there's a bias in the news in any given country (it tends to be less in open, democratic countries than youre example of Uzbekistan) but if you watch news from several countries as the original poster said s/he does, then one can easily filter out local bias. (Now if the several countries were closely aligned, there might be a uniform bias too, but at least the specific local ones would be gone.)
Totalitarian, or patriotic?
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I think my first respondant didn't get the speculative, rather than totalitarian, tone I was using.
But looking at both reponses, let's explore further... was gas rationing in WWII totalitarian, or patriotic? The trouble with waiting for pure market forces to take care of waste like Billy Bass and Robosaurus is that by the time the market fixes the problem, the damage is done, the resource wasted. In WWII, the government (and all of us) needed gas to remain at a reasonable price for essential activities while not wasting it on the non-essential. Thus rationing. By the time it's uneconomic to manufacture and transport Billy Bass, it's uneconomic to manufacture and transport a heck of a lot of more important items.
I'm not saying massive government intervention is always the answer, but I think the free market is going to need some help on this one. Maybe the combination can get us to biodiesel/electic hybrid engines.
Start by banning plastics for useless crap
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A few years ago, one hell of a lot of "Singing Billy Bass" and "Rock Lobster" gag gifts were given at Christmas. At the time I said "All the oil used to make and transport these stupid things was completely wasted."
Oh, and we could ban auto-racing, truck pulls, the robosaurus that shoots flame and eats cars...
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In general I agree with your implication - that inflation, particularly of food, is picking up very quickly and is probably underreported right now.
However, there are a number of other things that are still falling in price - telecommunications, electronic goods, etc. The inflation number that governments come up with depends on what they put in the "shopping basket" measured.
If transportation keeps going up and telecommunications keep coming down, that *should* lead to more telecommuting.
I then looked up the stats for the 2003 Tour and Lance Armstrong's winning finish of the 2129.4 mile race in 83h41'12" gives him an incredible average speed of 25.45miles/hour.
Note that that includes a significant number of mountain stages, with some serious climbs. On the flat, the peloton often rolls along at 55 mph.
I'm impressed - Scottrade does have a good reputation for low commissions. If I was an active trader I'd definitely consider making them my broker. However, you still have to admit that 0.1% is a lower-than-market interest rate. What would the rate be if you were under water and paying?
Retail investors are usually not paid any interest in a situation like that. Check out this article. As the article points out, there are several issues to consider, including freeing up the funds for other investments.
How much interest are you paying on the short position? SCOX is/was a "hard to borrow" stock. You should take the money and run at the point where diminishing further gains are outweighed by continuing interest.
Although French-English bilingualism is common in the eastern provinces, it is rare in the west. Less than 7% in BC [ocol-clo.gc.ca] and Alberta [ocol-clo.gc.ca]. I would say this percentage is even smaller within the techie demographic.
I'm from Vancouver. I was inclined towards the sciences. I stopped taking French as soon as I could (it was hurting my GPA:-) )
The other poster who said Chinese would be much more useful in Vancouver is correct. My high school was more than 50% Chinese (most of whom had perfect English anyway)
All his proof-of-concept exploits are on his website... BUT, he did notify the company AND gave them lead time to fix each problem before publishing. Sounds like a perfectly responsible approach, similar to that used by university researchers here in the US.
Why don't nuclear subs have batteries to run silently too? And why do they need them, is the nuke plant noisy?
You can't just turn off (and turn back on!) a nuclear reactor the way you can turn on or off a fossil fuel engine (whether diesel or anything else). It's a major, time consuming process. So, shutting off the reactor to "run silent" is not an option.
Yes, reactors are noisy relative to batteries. They have hot fluids being pumped around in heat exchangers and driving generating turbines.
While various varieties of tangible interfaces might be useful in specific circumstances, the typical user doesn't want more crap on their desk. They want a flat, easily positioned, brillant screen (or three). They want a keyboard (which could be virtual, but most people prefer some tactile feedback for typing). They want something for pointing (which could be a glove, a mouse, entirely virtual,...) They don't want a metaphor that looks like Play-School.
No, sunspots are systems far larger than and completely unaffected by any normal infalling material.
Here's a good Q&A at space.com covering the flares in general.
"of this magnitude" is wrong. The poster is right that the Halifax explosion was 2.5 KILOtonnes, but that is 1000 times what Guy Fawkes had (at the most). Another respondant here questioned the 2.5 Kt number thinking it seemed too high. Check http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explode. html - it was the largest man-made explosion until the Atomic bomb in 1945.
and I just needed a new cartridge (black). This was my first replacement, and what I discovered was that in ordinary retail channels, you can't buy third party. You have to go to the web for that (which means you have to plan ahead). I hope this ruling makes third party cartidges more available, but I suspect that Lexmark has leverage over typical places like Office Max (Don't sell third party ink, or you can't sell our printers).
Consider the basic argument that resource production/depletion tends to follow a bell-shaped curve. See this page (in particular and the whole site in general). Now that data is 5 years and a relevant war out of date, but the general concept is still valid.
Scientific American has a followup that is only 2 years out of date and it puts the peak between 2004 and 2008. I haven't seen any huge discoveries of new oil fields in the last two years so...
I'd like that too - and I'd like the maps to show bicycle/foot trails. Currently, after cycling on some trail, I have to guess at where I went based on where it crossed a few roads.
I'm sure that if they start the clock at the point they decide a bug is important enough to fix and assign a programmer to work on it right away, then they can claim 24 hours.
In the real world where we are concerned with how long a vulnerability is out there from the first moment somebody notices it... well 3 months is often closer to the truth.
So as Ben Kenobi said "... from a certain point of view."
I wonder what happens when VoIP becomes VoMAC, where addresses are based on MAC addresses [...] You could then have a privately held list of addresses used by telemarketers. They'd have to buy new hardware (or be issued new unique numbers) in order to get out from under it.
Who is "you" and who are "they"? Are you saying consumers would have to buy new hardware to escape VoIP spam? I doubt it for two reasons. One, the "Do not call" registry would likely be expanded to cover VoIP if more people use it than regular telephony. Two, MAC addresses can be spoofed by a router. I can change my apparent MAC address any time I want (although I suppose I should be careful!)
Problem with Finding Bin Laden with mini sensors.
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Put little sensored cameras with radio transmitter onto bomb projectiles shaped like blades of grass to go undetected.... Put these sensors onto paths on the Pakistan border of Afghanistan where Bin Laden is...
Jed Bartlett's administration on the "The West Wing"?
Seriously, some people criticize TWW for political advocacy, but it's a show about a fictional liberal administration - how could the characters not advocate liberal positions? People who watch it know this and accept it (or they don't watch it).
Likewise, with product placement, if it makes sense in the plot, it will add realism. If it looks like a blatant plug, people will hate the show.
Finally, the problem with the newsroom will never be product placement. The problem is that corporate owners can get certain stories or types of stories "de-emphasised".
Maybe, maybe not. I was just wondering how stable the elevator would be against damage. That is, suppose we build one 50 or 100 years from now, but we haven't completely solved terrorism. Anything as big and impressive as a space elevator would be a magnet for terrorists. So, if it can be cut, it has to be able to be repaired, or it's not worth building. So, efficient launch vehicles may have a future even if we do gain "elevator" tech.
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I read all the visible posts looking for one that talked about evolutionary models and the slaves dying out. Parent is the only one I saw, but I might have missed another. Anyway, Parent is right, long term this slavery strategy doesn't work (just as in human history ...)
On the compound rule strategy, if you know Southampton is taking part, you write a program that takes the first few moves to see if it's opponent is a Southampton Slave and takes advantage if it is. If not, it then plays a couple of cooperations in a row (to fix any recriminations with a tit-for-tat-like opponent) then plays simple tit-for-tat.
Of course your main point, that the President's spokesperson was declaring a censored "off limits" topic is completely valid.
Yes, there's a bias in the news in any given country (it tends to be less in open, democratic countries than youre example of Uzbekistan) but if you watch news from several countries as the original poster said s/he does, then one can easily filter out local bias. (Now if the several countries were closely aligned, there might be a uniform bias too, but at least the specific local ones would be gone.)
I think my first respondant didn't get the speculative, rather than totalitarian, tone I was using.
... was gas rationing in WWII totalitarian, or patriotic? The trouble with waiting for pure market forces to take care of waste like Billy Bass and Robosaurus is that by the time the market fixes the problem, the damage is done, the resource wasted. In WWII, the government (and all of us) needed gas to remain at a reasonable price for essential activities while not wasting it on the non-essential. Thus rationing. By the time it's uneconomic to manufacture and transport Billy Bass, it's uneconomic to manufacture and transport a heck of a lot of more important items.
But looking at both reponses, let's explore further
I'm not saying massive government intervention is always the answer, but I think the free market is going to need some help on this one. Maybe the combination can get us to biodiesel/electic hybrid engines.
A few years ago, one hell of a lot of "Singing Billy Bass" and "Rock Lobster" gag gifts were given at Christmas. At the time I said "All the oil used to make and transport these stupid things was completely wasted."
Oh, and we could ban auto-racing, truck pulls, the robosaurus that shoots flame and eats cars...
In general I agree with your implication - that inflation, particularly of food, is picking up very quickly and is probably underreported right now.
However, there are a number of other things that are still falling in price - telecommunications, electronic goods, etc. The inflation number that governments come up with depends on what they put in the "shopping basket" measured.
If transportation keeps going up and telecommunications keep coming down, that *should* lead to more telecommuting.
I'm impressed - Scottrade does have a good reputation for low commissions. If I was an active trader I'd definitely consider making them my broker. However, you still have to admit that 0.1% is a lower-than-market interest rate. What would the rate be if you were under water and paying?
Retail investors are usually not paid any interest in a situation like that. Check out this article. As the article points out, there are several issues to consider, including freeing up the funds for other investments.
How much interest are you paying on the short position? SCOX is/was a "hard to borrow" stock. You should take the money and run at the point where diminishing further gains are outweighed by continuing interest.
All his proof-of-concept exploits are on his website ... BUT, he did notify the company AND gave them lead time to fix each problem before publishing. Sounds like a perfectly responsible approach, similar to that used by university researchers here in the US.
Yes, reactors are noisy relative to batteries. They have hot fluids being pumped around in heat exchangers and driving generating turbines.
While various varieties of tangible interfaces might be useful in specific circumstances, the typical user doesn't want more crap on their desk. They want a flat, easily positioned, brillant screen (or three). They want a keyboard (which could be virtual, but most people prefer some tactile feedback for typing). They want something for pointing (which could be a glove, a mouse, entirely virtual, ...) They don't want a metaphor that looks like Play-School.
No, sunspots are systems far larger than and completely unaffected by any normal infalling material. Here's a good Q&A at space.com covering the flares in general.
"of this magnitude" is wrong. The poster is right that the Halifax explosion was 2.5 KILOtonnes, but that is 1000 times what Guy Fawkes had (at the most). Another respondant here questioned the 2.5 Kt number thinking it seemed too high. Check http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explode. html - it was the largest man-made explosion until the Atomic bomb in 1945.
and I just needed a new cartridge (black). This was my first replacement, and what I discovered was that in ordinary retail channels, you can't buy third party. You have to go to the web for that (which means you have to plan ahead). I hope this ruling makes third party cartidges more available, but I suspect that Lexmark has leverage over typical places like Office Max (Don't sell third party ink, or you can't sell our printers).
Consider the basic argument that resource production/depletion tends to follow a bell-shaped curve. See this page (in particular and the whole site in general). Now that data is 5 years and a relevant war out of date, but the general concept is still valid.
...
Scientific American has a followup that is only 2 years out of date and it puts the peak between 2004 and 2008. I haven't seen any huge discoveries of new oil fields in the last two years so
I'd like that too - and I'd like the maps to show bicycle/foot trails. Currently, after cycling on some trail, I have to guess at where I went based on where it crossed a few roads.
I'm sure that if they start the clock at the point they decide a bug is important enough to fix and assign a programmer to work on it right away, then they can claim 24 hours.
... well 3 months is often closer to the truth.
... from a certain point of view."
In the real world where we are concerned with how long a vulnerability is out there from the first moment somebody notices it
So as Ben Kenobi said "
Jed Bartlett's administration on the "The West Wing"?
Seriously, some people criticize TWW for political advocacy, but it's a show about a fictional liberal administration - how could the characters not advocate liberal positions? People who watch it know this and accept it (or they don't watch it).
Likewise, with product placement, if it makes sense in the plot, it will add realism. If it looks like a blatant plug, people will hate the show.
Finally, the problem with the newsroom will never be product placement. The problem is that corporate owners can get certain stories or types of stories "de-emphasised".
Maybe, maybe not. I was just wondering how stable the elevator would be against damage. That is, suppose we build one 50 or 100 years from now, but we haven't completely solved terrorism. Anything as big and impressive as a space elevator would be a magnet for terrorists. So, if it can be cut, it has to be able to be repaired, or it's not worth building. So, efficient launch vehicles may have a future even if we do gain "elevator" tech.