Only Texans, for whom it is reasonable (just as it's reasonable for Georgians to assume Athens, Georgia instead of Athens, Greece -- but they all damn well know the Greece version exists!)
Well if you want to use a browser extension to do something interesting when you get the error, that's perfectly fine. The problem is that if this idea were implemented, it would break things like Errorzilla and nobody would have a choice about it anymore!
To everyone who might think of subverting the HTTP standard to "helpfully" show me an alternative to a page that does not exist: fuck you.
I don't give a shit whether you're doing it because you want to advertise to me or because you want to altruistically show me what I'm looking for even if it doesn't exist anymore. Either way, you are still lying to me and breaking everything that relies on accurate error reporting. So quit it!
'Cause now all somebody has to do is claim iOS is bloatware and Apple has to let them put Android on their iPhone (or FirefoxOS on their Samsung or whatever -- relative merits of platforms is not the point of this post).
Backdoor anti-DRM/anti-locked-firmware law for the win!
(Shrug) I use a "binary without sources" every time I start my car
And my car's computer was hacked to make it run better. If the sources had been available, maybe I'd have been able to do it myself instead of paying a tuning company.
Some developers like the whole BSD thing, which gives more freedom to the person who uses and implements the software, rather than the original developer.
Exactly, it gives more freedom to the person who uses the product that some middleman developer closed-sourced.
A far stronger play sequence is X1, O5, X9.
This presents player O with an apparently free choice play. The choice boils down to playing in a corner or a side. Humans have an implicit knowledge that corner squares are more powerful than side squares. Furthermore the symmetry of the X1, O5, X9 board amplifies the reflex to play in the more symmetrical corner square. In my experience above-average-intelligence-humans have a greater than 95% likelihood of playing a corner move when facing that position! This leads to X playing a forced block in the opposite corner, and a win for X.
We're explicitly assuming both players exhibit perfect play, which means that O has a 100% chance of playing the side move, not the corner.
I wrote up a move list for this case, but chose not to post it before. It turns out that this is also inevitably a tie, but takes all nine moves to get there instead of only seven. That's actually what I was referencing when I mentioned "equally good [but not] perfect" move sequences in my previous post.
Oh, by the way -- before you object to my position expressed previously, consider this: If it were okay to ignore the rule of law for "useful" "national security" purposes and I were in charge, your cowardly, totalitarian ass would be among the first up against the wall.
By handling them exactly the same way NAZIs get handled today: approving their parade permits and ignoring them otherwise. And then, if anybody -- NAZI or otherwise -- commits a crime, prosecute them for that crime according to normal judicial procedure.
Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Norway, by the way, were a Hell of a lot closer to Germany than the US was, both culturally and geographically, and also did not have the same tradition and laws of freedom that we had. Very little about their experience would have been applicable.
The Constitution is quite clear that "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". However, you can't bear arms in the White House,
and that's Constitutional. You have a right to bear arms. The government has a duty to protect the president. The usefulness ("furtherance of a
legitimate government interest") is larger than the freedom cost of prohibiting carry in the White House and a limited number of other locations.
IMO, the reason that these things don't conflict is not because you don't have the right to bear arms everywhere you go, but rather because you don't necessarily have the right to go into the White House.
Yeah, fuck that. That's the same kind of argument the government used to justify the Japanese internment during WWII. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
Not to mention the more fundamental problem with making that prediction only 16 years into the future: some of us will still be driving the gas-powered cars being built now!
even if it isn't legal, it's Too Important to stop doing it.
I am sick and tired of hearing the Government say this. Usefulness is not a valid criterium for arguing the Constitutionality of a law!
Even the board's statement (quoted in the summary" that the spying "has shown only limited value" is a non-sequitur and should not have been mentioned because doing so lends credibility to the false premise that usefulness is relevant.
Tic-tac-toe is so small that even humans can play perfectly. For example, here are the perfect play maps for X and O, which only look complicated until you realize that, due to symmetry, many of the cases are actually the same.
Here is a move list for a perfectly-played game. (For the purposes of the following, number the squares from 1 to 9 in telephone keypad order.)
X plays a corner (assume square 1)
O plays the center (square 5)
X plays a side adjacent to its previous move (assume square 2)
O blocks (square 3)
X blocks (square 7)
O blocks (square 4)
X blocks (square 6)
The game is a draw.
Every perfectly-played game follows this sequence, after accounting for rotational and reflectional (is that a word?) symmetry. (There are other sequences that could be called "equally good" because they still result in a draw, but I suppose they aren't "perfect" because they contain more moves.)
"More efficient" in the economic sense only means that it operates at lower cost. Always start from that axiom
Right, and pollution counts as a cost. It's just usually externalized, so it often gets omitted from the balance sheet.
That's why pollution tariffs exist; they add environmental impact to the efficiency problem.
No. Pollution tariffs do not create costs; they merely stop them from being externalized. In other words, they shift the costs back onto the producer's balance sheet.
Here's how it works: if your Senator is a Democrat, you'll get a form letter response about how the Affordable Care Act is the best thing since sliced bread. If your Senator is a Republican, you'll get a form letter response about how Obamacare is evil and must be abolished as quickly as possible. Neither response will come anywhere close to addressing your specific concern.
However, I have to admit that calling (not writing) your Representative (not Senator) works a bit better -- you might actually to talk to them, two weeks later when they've returned your call -- but not so well that any useful change will be made.
Are you really going to go full retard on me? Show me where the NSA created a secret police force in another country (repeatedly), and trained them, created a large network of "sleeper agents", assisted in smuggling in weapons and nuclear secrets, created and financed a terrorist organization responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, deseceration of cemeteries, orchestrated a large-scale industrial chemical disaster solely to distract from domestic problems, numerous assassinations, and routinely engaged in psychological warfare of social undesireables so extreme that its victims often committed suicide or went insane.
Well obviously the NSA doesn't do that; that's the CIA's job!
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Only Texans, for whom it is reasonable (just as it's reasonable for Georgians to assume Athens, Georgia instead of Athens, Greece -- but they all damn well know the Greece version exists!)
1950s textbooks would work great for math and pretty good for literature, but perhaps less well for science or history.
Why the hell would anybody want that when they could just use GFortran instead?
Well if you want to use a browser extension to do something interesting when you get the error, that's perfectly fine. The problem is that if this idea were implemented, it would break things like Errorzilla and nobody would have a choice about it anymore!
To everyone who might think of subverting the HTTP standard to "helpfully" show me an alternative to a page that does not exist: fuck you.
I don't give a shit whether you're doing it because you want to advertise to me or because you want to altruistically show me what I'm looking for even if it doesn't exist anymore. Either way, you are still lying to me and breaking everything that relies on accurate error reporting. So quit it!
'Cause now all somebody has to do is claim iOS is bloatware and Apple has to let them put Android on their iPhone (or FirefoxOS on their Samsung or whatever -- relative merits of platforms is not the point of this post).
Backdoor anti-DRM/anti-locked-firmware law for the win!
Oh, how I wish for modpoints!
And my car's computer was hacked to make it run better. If the sources had been available, maybe I'd have been able to do it myself instead of paying a tuning company.
Exactly, it gives more freedom to the person who uses the product that some middleman developer closed-sourced.
Oh wait...
We're explicitly assuming both players exhibit perfect play, which means that O has a 100% chance of playing the side move, not the corner.
I wrote up a move list for this case, but chose not to post it before. It turns out that this is also inevitably a tie, but takes all nine moves to get there instead of only seven. That's actually what I was referencing when I mentioned "equally good [but not] perfect" move sequences in my previous post.
Oh, by the way -- before you object to my position expressed previously, consider this: If it were okay to ignore the rule of law for "useful" "national security" purposes and I were in charge, your cowardly, totalitarian ass would be among the first up against the wall.
Be glad that rule of law exists.
By handling them exactly the same way NAZIs get handled today: approving their parade permits and ignoring them otherwise. And then, if anybody -- NAZI or otherwise -- commits a crime, prosecute them for that crime according to normal judicial procedure.
Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Norway, by the way, were a Hell of a lot closer to Germany than the US was, both culturally and geographically, and also did not have the same tradition and laws of freedom that we had. Very little about their experience would have been applicable.
IMO, the reason that these things don't conflict is not because you don't have the right to bear arms everywhere you go, but rather because you don't necessarily have the right to go into the White House.
Yeah, fuck that. That's the same kind of argument the government used to justify the Japanese internment during WWII. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
On the contrary; sailing around Cape Horn was the fastest way, at least until the Transcontinental Railroad got built.
Not to mention the more fundamental problem with making that prediction only 16 years into the future: some of us will still be driving the gas-powered cars being built now!
I am sick and tired of hearing the Government say this. Usefulness is not a valid criterium for arguing the Constitutionality of a law!
Even the board's statement (quoted in the summary" that the spying "has shown only limited value" is a non-sequitur and should not have been mentioned because doing so lends credibility to the false premise that usefulness is relevant.
Tic-tac-toe is so small that even humans can play perfectly. For example, here are the perfect play maps for X and O, which only look complicated until you realize that, due to symmetry, many of the cases are actually the same.
Here is a move list for a perfectly-played game. (For the purposes of the following, number the squares from 1 to 9 in telephone keypad order.)
Every perfectly-played game follows this sequence, after accounting for rotational and reflectional (is that a word?) symmetry. (There are other sequences that could be called "equally good" because they still result in a draw, but I suppose they aren't "perfect" because they contain more moves.)
No, tic-tac-toe is always a tie.
Right, and pollution counts as a cost. It's just usually externalized, so it often gets omitted from the balance sheet.
No. Pollution tariffs do not create costs; they merely stop them from being externalized. In other words, they shift the costs back onto the producer's balance sheet.
Either the Googlers are responsible for the increased demand and the rents would drop if they left, or they're not. You can't have it both ways.
...or a couple of other plans for $20 less than that.
Here's how it works: if your Senator is a Democrat, you'll get a form letter response about how the Affordable Care Act is the best thing since sliced bread. If your Senator is a Republican, you'll get a form letter response about how Obamacare is evil and must be abolished as quickly as possible. Neither response will come anywhere close to addressing your specific concern.
However, I have to admit that calling (not writing) your Representative (not Senator) works a bit better -- you might actually to talk to them, two weeks later when they've returned your call -- but not so well that any useful change will be made.
Shouldn't healthcare.gov count?!
Well obviously the NSA doesn't do that; that's the CIA's job!