Yeah, so? Mostly they're all there just lying in wait for the order to kill millions of other people. They're not really doing anything of great utility to the human race beyond being a deterrent to one group of humans murdering a specific other group of humans.
You can compare states with oil (and other) resources whose population wants to exploit those resources (texas, alaska,..) to states with states with resources whose population doesn't want to exploit those resources (louisana, fl,...). You'll find that the representatives generally go with the population's wishes.
Drilling for oil means oil company profits, yes, but it also means local jobs.
Many banks are now offering contractual terms that match the credit card's legally limited liability for that very reason. I would not suggest even having a debit card that does not have such a contractual liability limit.
Ironically, the example you just cited is actually not an example of corruption. It's actually an example of ordinary, somewhat respectable short-sightedness. They do represent their respective states' interests, after all.
That's a shitty exemption. It seems we should have held out for the more specific language of operational security reasons. Otherwise, it seems there's a huge hole for the occupiers of high office to sweep embarrassing shit under the rug.
Not that this particular thing is particularly embarrassing, though, I'm assuming. It's probably just gross. The pictures need to come out because they're a record of something the government has done, and releasing them can't possibly reveal anything useful about ongoing operations, and "released to the public" should be the default for all information the government holds that doesn't need to be kept secret for operational security reasons.
I don't think I'll look at the pictures when they come out, but it'll be my choice not to.
Aside from the fact that you actually want to gestate the embryos about 20ish years ahead of reaching the target system?
How about the fact that we don't yet have a mechanical womb? Or Auto-Teacher..?
While there are certainly difficulties in planning a trip like this, you always plan the first-order trip using only technologies that are actually available. Then you can plug in new ides or "just" make refinements to the plan until, one day, the cost calculations on your one-time fantasy suddenly fall past the line of "feasible." Then you start the donation campaign.
I think the problem was Pakistan. Since we couldn't be sure there wasn't a leak the size of the mississippi's current flooding in the pakistani government (or outright cooperation, even...), we couldn't inform them of the operation until it was too late for Bin Laden to escape.
Unfortunately, that rules out the kind of siege operation we might have used to convince bin laden to surrender. Pakistan has a sufficient military that we couldn't just roll over the whole country to get what we want, and without asking for permission first, I don't see how we could have obtained it after beginning siege operations around the "mansion."
No, little-endian makes more sense because it's consistent. In your example, you've got a big-endian super-format, where each of the constituents are little-endian. That's just stupid.
And there's already a standard for dates. ISO 8601. It's basically what the parent described.
We have some very high traffic sites, and outside of web crawlers, I don't believe we've seen it blocked, ever.
And do you have a way in place to measure it?
I've never seen a bear crap in the woods. But that doesn't mean I'd claim that bears never crap in the woods. It just means that I don't go hiking in woods where i'm likely to encounter bears at all.
I'm rather a fan of "instant-runoff" voting myself. There are so many different options that perhaps the scheme itself should be something that is re-considered every so often..
I think if you actually took a poll, you'd find that most people aren't voting for one of the two parties. They're voting against the other one. The first-past-the-gate election system has created a nice big hole for tyranny, through perfectly rational decisions by game theory.
Unfortunately, the usurpers won't ever put in place a system where they likely won't be able to maintain power, so we're going to be stuck with first-past-the-gate until things get bad enough that armed revolution stops sounding crazy. And probably after that, too, because most people are used to it and don't even know of another way to do things...
I've argued on the wrong side of this, too, but the fact is that if DHS doesn't care about the law, then you should not make things easier for them by complying, and further opening yourself up to the risk of greater infractions. And if they do care about the law, then it shouldn't hurt you to refuse the search.
Plus, if you've got nothing to hide, then getting searched is just a waste of everyone's time.
On the HP48, this would put a symbolic equation on the stack (and it'd be formatted mostly as you expect...) you'd then enter another x and drill down through a few menus to reach the [solve] button, which would take the two items on the stack (an equation, and the character, "x") and solve the equation for the "x", if it could. It had a number of symbolic manipulations available to it, and I think there might even have been a numeric solver that required a third input (the initial guess), that would work in a few more cases than the CAS.
There was some design work done on the 49G, but IIRC, it was mostly cosmetic (although the layout did allow them to increase the total number of keys while appearing less cluttered than the 48). Under the hood, it was basically the same as the 48, except instead of an expansion slot and IR port, it had an extra 1.5 MB of flash memory hardwired in. The main improvement was software, and that was mostly cribbed (presumably with permission and/or help) form andre schorlrl's HP48 programming/hacking forum, which did achieve significant improvements by machine-coding a lot of stuff that was previously in the interpreted RPN language....
I'm glad you've learned the meaning of the word, "Tautology."
However the issue was over this quote,
Apparently even being a hilltop mansion isn't enough to get people to buy a place where a bunch of cultists in matching shoes all killed themselves.
It is clear from the article that the house did sell. Just not for as much as the realtor originally expected and/or thought it was "worth." But the failure sell for a number of years was not because being a hilltop mansion isn't enough to get people to buy a place. It's just that it isn't enough to get people to buy at the price you were hoping for. There is always a price where land will sell. The failure is in your expectations as a seller.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. In 1999, when it was sold, it was worth $668k. The previous listing, and even the tax assessment are not relevant unless someone actually bought it at that price. The article you linked does not say what the cultists paid for the estate.
Land and homes, and other items do not have a "worth." They have the price someone is willing to pay, and someone else is willing to accept.. If a transaction occurs, that it what it was worth. To those parties. At the time.
The death of the cultists may have driven down the price, but there is always a price at which someone is willing to accept the baggage, and it is the job of a good realtor to set the asking price realistically given the circumstances. Not hold out hope for some arbitrary "worth" to be realized only to have the property never sell.
Wait.. How are we gathering this 90% statistic? Does it involve the court outcomes of cases where prosecutors and police have been guided by the 90% statstistic?
Generally, that is not the case. It is far more likely that the realtor set the asking price too high and that is what scared away potential buyers. Was this pre- or post- bubble? Was the realtor trying to capitalize on the celebrity of the location to extract a premium?
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Yeah, so? Mostly they're all there just lying in wait for the order to kill millions of other people. They're not really doing anything of great utility to the human race beyond being a deterrent to one group of humans murdering a specific other group of humans.
We can't have too many legal immigrants, or we might eat into our slave labor supply of illegal immigrants....
Not really, no.
You can compare states with oil (and other) resources whose population wants to exploit those resources (texas, alaska,..) to states with states with resources whose population doesn't want to exploit those resources (louisana, fl, ...). You'll find that the representatives generally go with the population's wishes.
Drilling for oil means oil company profits, yes, but it also means local jobs.
Many banks are now offering contractual terms that match the credit card's legally limited liability for that very reason. I would not suggest even having a debit card that does not have such a contractual liability limit.
Ironically, the example you just cited is actually not an example of corruption. It's actually an example of ordinary, somewhat respectable short-sightedness. They do represent their respective states' interests, after all.
That's a shitty exemption. It seems we should have held out for the more specific language of operational security reasons. Otherwise, it seems there's a huge hole for the occupiers of high office to sweep embarrassing shit under the rug.
Not that this particular thing is particularly embarrassing, though, I'm assuming. It's probably just gross. The pictures need to come out because they're a record of something the government has done, and releasing them can't possibly reveal anything useful about ongoing operations, and "released to the public" should be the default for all information the government holds that doesn't need to be kept secret for operational security reasons.
I don't think I'll look at the pictures when they come out, but it'll be my choice not to.
Aside from the fact that you actually want to gestate the embryos about 20ish years ahead of reaching the target system?
How about the fact that we don't yet have a mechanical womb? Or Auto-Teacher..?
While there are certainly difficulties in planning a trip like this, you always plan the first-order trip using only technologies that are actually available. Then you can plug in new ides or "just" make refinements to the plan until, one day, the cost calculations on your one-time fantasy suddenly fall past the line of "feasible." Then you start the donation campaign.
I would have thought that a cat's paw would mean you duped a lackey into doing your typing for you....
I think the problem was Pakistan. Since we couldn't be sure there wasn't a leak the size of the mississippi's current flooding in the pakistani government (or outright cooperation, even...), we couldn't inform them of the operation until it was too late for Bin Laden to escape.
Unfortunately, that rules out the kind of siege operation we might have used to convince bin laden to surrender. Pakistan has a sufficient military that we couldn't just roll over the whole country to get what we want, and without asking for permission first, I don't see how we could have obtained it after beginning siege operations around the "mansion."
No, little-endian makes more sense because it's consistent. In your example, you've got a big-endian super-format, where each of the constituents are little-endian. That's just stupid.
And there's already a standard for dates. ISO 8601. It's basically what the parent described.
We have some very high traffic sites, and outside of web crawlers, I don't believe we've seen it blocked, ever.
And do you have a way in place to measure it?
I've never seen a bear crap in the woods. But that doesn't mean I'd claim that bears never crap in the woods. It just means that I don't go hiking in woods where i'm likely to encounter bears at all.
I'd have walked out too, as soon as it became apparent that the interviewer would not understand or accept the explanation of why he was wrong.
Well yes, if proportional was your only option.
I'm rather a fan of "instant-runoff" voting myself. There are so many different options that perhaps the scheme itself should be something that is re-considered every so often..
I think if you actually took a poll, you'd find that most people aren't voting for one of the two parties. They're voting against the other one. The first-past-the-gate election system has created a nice big hole for tyranny, through perfectly rational decisions by game theory.
Unfortunately, the usurpers won't ever put in place a system where they likely won't be able to maintain power, so we're going to be stuck with first-past-the-gate until things get bad enough that armed revolution stops sounding crazy. And probably after that, too, because most people are used to it and don't even know of another way to do things...
I've argued on the wrong side of this, too, but the fact is that if DHS doesn't care about the law, then you should not make things easier for them by complying, and further opening yourself up to the risk of greater infractions. And if they do care about the law, then it shouldn't hurt you to refuse the search.
Plus, if you've got nothing to hide, then getting searched is just a waste of everyone's time.
That's kind of a shitty conscience, though, if it requires him to manipulate and force the hands of the shareholders like that....
Arg..
Tried to get too clever for my own good there...
you're not doing the stack right either.
It would be
On the HP48, this would put a symbolic equation on the stack (and it'd be formatted mostly as you expect...) you'd then enter another x and drill down through a few menus to reach the [solve] button, which would take the two items on the stack (an equation, and the character, "x") and solve the equation for the "x", if it could. It had a number of symbolic manipulations available to it, and I think there might even have been a numeric solver that required a third input (the initial guess), that would work in a few more cases than the CAS.
There was some design work done on the 49G, but IIRC, it was mostly cosmetic (although the layout did allow them to increase the total number of keys while appearing less cluttered than the 48). Under the hood, it was basically the same as the 48, except instead of an expansion slot and IR port, it had an extra 1.5 MB of flash memory hardwired in. The main improvement was software, and that was mostly cribbed (presumably with permission and/or help) form andre schorlrl's HP48 programming/hacking forum, which did achieve significant improvements by machine-coding a lot of stuff that was previously in the interpreted RPN language....
Most serious number crunching is done on a spreadsheet...
You, sir or madam, owe me a new monitor and beverage. Although the sad thing is that I believe you...
I'm glad you've learned the meaning of the word, "Tautology."
However the issue was over this quote,
Apparently even being a hilltop mansion isn't enough to get people to buy a place where a bunch of cultists in matching shoes all killed themselves.
It is clear from the article that the house did sell. Just not for as much as the realtor originally expected and/or thought it was "worth." But the failure sell for a number of years was not because being a hilltop mansion isn't enough to get people to buy a place. It's just that it isn't enough to get people to buy at the price you were hoping for. There is always a price where land will sell. The failure is in your expectations as a seller.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. In 1999, when it was sold, it was worth $668k. The previous listing, and even the tax assessment are not relevant unless someone actually bought it at that price. The article you linked does not say what the cultists paid for the estate.
Land and homes, and other items do not have a "worth." They have the price someone is willing to pay, and someone else is willing to accept.. If a transaction occurs, that it what it was worth. To those parties. At the time.
The death of the cultists may have driven down the price, but there is always a price at which someone is willing to accept the baggage, and it is the job of a good realtor to set the asking price realistically given the circumstances. Not hold out hope for some arbitrary "worth" to be realized only to have the property never sell.
WTF were they on when they came up with that idea?
God, I hate TV. At least Bin Laden paid for his crimes.
Probably thinking about all those myriad channels that compress the audio so the shows have low fidelity and commercials are ear-piercingly loud.
A better solution, though, would be to use the volume as a commercial-skip signal...
Wait.. How are we gathering this 90% statistic? Does it involve the court outcomes of cases where prosecutors and police have been guided by the 90% statstistic?
Generally, that is not the case. It is far more likely that the realtor set the asking price too high and that is what scared away potential buyers. Was this pre- or post- bubble? Was the realtor trying to capitalize on the celebrity of the location to extract a premium?