Wait.. are you arguing that people with warrants out shouldn't be caught?
The thing about rejecting the phrase, "You don't have anything to worry about unless you have something to hide" is that the phrase itself conflates concepts to get you to reject other ideas.
It should be replaced with the phrase, "You've only got a right to complain if you don't have something to hide." Because, frankly, if you commit a crime, you don't have a right to "not get caught."
How is "gather 10x livers of generic monster" where generic monster drops the livers 1% of the time, which is followed up by "gather 20x hearts of slightly tougher generic monster" where slightly tougher generic monster drops hearts 0.5% of the time not a grind?
They even have monsters that are extra-hard and give extra-low exp/loot. They call these monsters "elite" to trick players into thinking they should go after them.
Well this thread fizzled. Somehow, in a thread making fun of redundancy, there wasn't nearly enough of it. We need more redundancy people, or at least, more "saying the same thing a different way" in the same thought
No, no, that's not quite how it works. The insurance companies can make money by averaging over a lot of people with coarse granularity if they choose. They could just take the average rates of whatever disasters over the whole population and charge one rate for everybody.
But they find that if they have finer granularity in their bins, they can offer differing rates to various risk groups. This works as long as the bins aren't too specific. In the limiting case, the insurance knows exactly what will happen to each an every person individually, at this point insurance ceases to be a useful tool for everyone, because everyone would be paying exactly for their own care and also something for the insurance company to run itself.
Now, the problem with finer-grained risk-bins is that given the choice between a company that averages over a diverse population with affordable rates for everyone and one which has a high degree of specificity enabling low-risk people to have much lower rates than high-risk people, the low-risk people will migrate towards the high-specificity insurance, leaving the "general" insurance to cover the high-risk people at, if it is to be profitable, much the same rate as the "high-risk" group at the high-specificity company.
e.g. the existence of high-specificity insurance companies naturally forces all other companies into a high-specificity niche.
So what is to be done?
I think that for things that you can control, like where you choose to build your house, the insurance companies should be able to use whatever granularity they care to. If people living in flood-prone areas, like giant beach-houses in florida for instance, are exposed to the true cost of living there, they might choose to live further out of the flood plane or use a more robust house design.
On the other hand, for something you cannot change, you could easily end up in a situation where you could not prepare for your "true-risk" and could not afford the insurance to cover it. Anti-discrimination laws for insurance companies is really a government enforced collusion for them to keep the maximum number of people insured.
On the other other hand, if the information exists, it can be acted upon. The genie can't really be put back in the bottle, and all indicators are that the information will/already does exist.
If that's really the case, then they should follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rather than the French Revolution. If you just want to take stuff from people, violence works ok if you can get the numbers. If you want them to accept you, you should probably avoid killing them or wrecking their stuff.
It is not a necessary condition. The 4d klein bottle does indeed have the property you describe, but the 3d "projection" bottles are still perfectly valid: if you bother to trace it, you'd find that they do indeed have only one surface.
Sure there is. Just do what the cell phone companies are doing now anyway: stick a gps reciever (or part of one..I'm not sure how that part of it works) on every device. I think they're even in the $50 pay-as-you-go phones, so the price has to have come down a bit by now. Forward the calls based on the geographical location (and include the coordinates in the feed to the 911 call center)
This is a solved problem. It's only an issue because the traditional phone companies are making it one. IIRC, they run the call centers, and are refusing to let vonage participate while simultaneously complaining that vonage isn't participating.
You're calling a 1337 5P34K word with two ascii characters tacked on to the beginning, "strong"? Yeah, I'm sure no one doing dictionary attacks has a leet word file.
If you want a secure 8-character password, use something like,
No, it's still quite scary. though probably not for the reason the gp intended..
For instance, in addition to the sub-critical nuclear terrorism angle, nuclear catalysts could cause a bit of a stir in isotopic dating.
If such a catalyst exists, geology should give us some clues: We should look for minerals composed of reaction products, but in concentrations that shouldn't exist.
Ah, but then you trot out the old, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." Which is the definition of the tyranny of the majority, in terms even the sheep can understand.
It doesn't do the sheep any good to "get out the vote" and convince more wolves to join in the voting.
The survival technique I'm aware of still requires significant quantities of greenery or damp sand (albeit greenery with undetermined levels of toxicity) It doesn't work like Owen Lars' farm unless you're in a desert as humid as Florida. (Or rather, it could work, maybe, if you have a lot of area.)
Methinks you don't understand what a patent IS. It is a trade in which *both* parties benefit. The goal of patents is to get inventors to publish their results, in part so that the technology doesn't disappear with the death of the inventor, and also to increase the available information which people can learn from and build upon.
The price for them publishing is modest compared to the risk they would take doing it: since they will not be able to maintain a monopoly through trade secrets once they publish (by definition), we grant them a temporary monopoly through threat of force.
The fact that we seem to be living in the freakin' future (where the single greatest cause of death basically amounts to "too much food," no one worries about dingos eating the baby at night, and the streets aren't covered in poo) is testament to the fact that this trade has been mutually, greatly beneficial.
No, it handles that case quite clearly. It probably would've been better to arrange for exitstate to be zero if everything was initialized successfully, but that's left as an exercise for the reader.
A wireless mouse is much more useful than a wired one because you can swap hands frequently. Which is good for dexterity and reducing repetitive stress injury. With a long enough cord, you can swap a regular mouse too, but a wireless one avoids the inevitable keyboard&mouse cord twist-up.
You are changing your typing and mousing position throughout the day, right?
Though I don't know why you're trying to catch failures on the return: if that fails, how is the subsequent return going to be any better? I don't see why the gotos are necessarily any clearer.
I'm confused, Is AACS the encryption algorithm or the total scheme? I thought that this recent crack was actually a key-distribution crack rather than an actual algorithmic weakness.
I agree. The poor are unfortunate and I'd like to help them. But I don't want to do it with my own money if I can help it. Now, if there was some way I could force others to do something, we'd all be in great shape. They'd have clear consciences for giving the money, and I'd feel great for having helped too.
A turnpike IS a toll road. It's the very definition of a toll road: you pay the toll then they turn the pike blocking the way so you can get on it. They're already charging a "real toll." of course the modern "pike" is an array of cameras backed by the threat of violence later, but it's the same basic idea.
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Scratch our heads and wait 10 months for the next episode in the series.. of events.
Wait.. are you arguing that people with warrants out shouldn't be caught?
The thing about rejecting the phrase, "You don't have anything to worry about unless you have something to hide" is that the phrase itself conflates concepts to get you to reject other ideas.
It should be replaced with the phrase, "You've only got a right to complain if you don't have something to hide." Because, frankly, if you commit a crime, you don't have a right to "not get caught."
i of them.
How is "gather 10x livers of generic monster" where generic monster drops the livers 1% of the time, which is followed up by "gather 20x hearts of slightly tougher generic monster" where slightly tougher generic monster drops hearts 0.5% of the time not a grind?
They even have monsters that are extra-hard and give extra-low exp/loot. They call these monsters "elite" to trick players into thinking they should go after them.
Well this thread fizzled. Somehow, in a thread making fun of redundancy, there wasn't nearly enough of it. We need more redundancy people, or at least, more "saying the same thing a different way" in the same thought
No, no, that's not quite how it works. The insurance companies can make money by averaging over a lot of people with coarse granularity if they choose. They could just take the average rates of whatever disasters over the whole population and charge one rate for everybody.
But they find that if they have finer granularity in their bins, they can offer differing rates to various risk groups. This works as long as the bins aren't too specific. In the limiting case, the insurance knows exactly what will happen to each an every person individually, at this point insurance ceases to be a useful tool for everyone, because everyone would be paying exactly for their own care and also something for the insurance company to run itself.
Now, the problem with finer-grained risk-bins is that given the choice between a company that averages over a diverse population with affordable rates for everyone and one which has a high degree of specificity enabling low-risk people to have much lower rates than high-risk people, the low-risk people will migrate towards the high-specificity insurance, leaving the "general" insurance to cover the high-risk people at, if it is to be profitable, much the same rate as the "high-risk" group at the high-specificity company.
e.g. the existence of high-specificity insurance companies naturally forces all other companies into a high-specificity niche.
So what is to be done?
I think that for things that you can control, like where you choose to build your house, the insurance companies should be able to use whatever granularity they care to. If people living in flood-prone areas, like giant beach-houses in florida for instance, are exposed to the true cost of living there, they might choose to live further out of the flood plane or use a more robust house design.
On the other hand, for something you cannot change, you could easily end up in a situation where you could not prepare for your "true-risk" and could not afford the insurance to cover it. Anti-discrimination laws for insurance companies is really a government enforced collusion for them to keep the maximum number of people insured.
On the other other hand, if the information exists, it can be acted upon. The genie can't really be put back in the bottle, and all indicators are that the information will/already does exist.
If that's really the case, then they should follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rather than the French Revolution. If you just want to take stuff from people, violence works ok if you can get the numbers. If you want them to accept you, you should probably avoid killing them or wrecking their stuff.
It is not a necessary condition. The 4d klein bottle does indeed have the property you describe, but the 3d "projection" bottles are still perfectly valid: if you bother to trace it, you'd find that they do indeed have only one surface.
Sure there is. Just do what the cell phone companies are doing now anyway: stick a gps reciever (or part of one..I'm not sure how that part of it works) on every device. I think they're even in the $50 pay-as-you-go phones, so the price has to have come down a bit by now. Forward the calls based on the geographical location (and include the coordinates in the feed to the 911 call center)
This is a solved problem. It's only an issue because the traditional phone companies are making it one. IIRC, they run the call centers, and are refusing to let vonage participate while simultaneously complaining that vonage isn't participating.
If you want a secure 8-character password, use something like, which yielded, b&9y@)HN just now. Humans are lousy password pickers, because we automatically patternize everything we see or create.
or better yet, tell strings to pick out 8-bit characters, too and get something like:
although that and non-printable are probably not the greatest of ideas, because they're usually non-typable (or at best typrobatic) too.
No, it's still quite scary. though probably not for the reason the gp intended..
For instance, in addition to the sub-critical nuclear terrorism angle, nuclear catalysts could cause a bit of a stir in isotopic dating.
If such a catalyst exists, geology should give us some clues: We should look for minerals composed of reaction products, but in concentrations that shouldn't exist.
Ah, but then you trot out the old, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." Which is the definition of the tyranny of the majority, in terms even the sheep can understand.
It doesn't do the sheep any good to "get out the vote" and convince more wolves to join in the voting.
The survival technique I'm aware of still requires significant quantities of greenery or damp sand (albeit greenery with undetermined levels of toxicity) It doesn't work like Owen Lars' farm unless you're in a desert as humid as Florida. (Or rather, it could work, maybe, if you have a lot of area.)
What is the humidity of the air in the Sahara? You can only condense water vapor that exists, you know.
Although I agree that teraforming the Sahara would be a good test project for teraforming a whole planet later...
Methinks you don't understand what a patent IS. It is a trade in which *both* parties benefit. The goal of patents is to get inventors to publish their results, in part so that the technology doesn't disappear with the death of the inventor, and also to increase the available information which people can learn from and build upon.
The price for them publishing is modest compared to the risk they would take doing it: since they will not be able to maintain a monopoly through trade secrets once they publish (by definition), we grant them a temporary monopoly through threat of force.
The fact that we seem to be living in the freakin' future (where the single greatest cause of death basically amounts to "too much food," no one worries about dingos eating the baby at night, and the streets aren't covered in poo) is testament to the fact that this trade has been mutually, greatly beneficial.
And to abuse your analogy: those school owned vehicles are also specially modified: there is a brake lever on the passenger side for the instructor.
No, it handles that case quite clearly. It probably would've been better to arrange for exitstate to be zero if everything was initialized successfully, but that's left as an exercise for the reader.
A wireless mouse is much more useful than a wired one because you can swap hands frequently. Which is good for dexterity and reducing repetitive stress injury. With a long enough cord, you can swap a regular mouse too, but a wireless one avoids the inevitable keyboard&mouse cord twist-up.
You are changing your typing and mousing position throughout the day, right?
Interesting. So, in 2084, we'll be able to watch the meta-watchers watch the watchers watching us?
I'm confused, Is AACS the encryption algorithm or the total scheme? I thought that this recent crack was actually a key-distribution crack rather than an actual algorithmic weakness.
A common generally accepted use of goto that happens to be functionally equivalent to switch?
Yes, and a pill composed mostly of sawdust and carnauba wax coupled with a healthy diet and exercise will help you lose weight.
In addition, a "cereal" composed chocolate bars and marshmallows is "part of" a complete breakfast.
I agree. The poor are unfortunate and I'd like to help them. But I don't want to do it with my own money if I can help it. Now, if there was some way I could force others to do something, we'd all be in great shape. They'd have clear consciences for giving the money, and I'd feel great for having helped too.
A turnpike IS a toll road. It's the very definition of a toll road: you pay the toll then they turn the pike blocking the way so you can get on it. They're already charging a "real toll." of course the modern "pike" is an array of cameras backed by the threat of violence later, but it's the same basic idea.