The Nanjing Anti-African riots leading to Tiananmen Square may, themselves, have been a precursor to today's massacre at Virginia Tech University reportedly committed by an Asian student (although verification is not yet in). If so, it is important to discuss the raciosexual (yes I made up that word and it deserves reification) dynamics of campus life, particularly how it impacts the education of young men not equipped to deal with a sexual ecology that would never appear in nature. If this is taken to mean I harbor sympathies for young men who might go on murderous rampages against those of another race that are fucking their women on campus--the answer is, "Yes". If this is further taken to mean that I hold innocent young men, living among foreigners in another country, who go on such rampages--the answer is, "No".
It is on this basis that I would like to interview a Chinese nationalist with first-hand knowledge of the situation facing young men in Nanjing so we can discuss how to prevent such torture of young men trying to receive an education--and potentially prevent catastrophic wars between our great nations resulting from vicious policies of multiculturalism.
I challenge the companies who are buying politicians to cease corrupting the US's political process and OUTSOURCE.
You are convincing our politicians that you just have to have all this cheap labor at your disposal and you will take your taxable activities elsewhere if they don't do as you demand, while, at the same time, donating generously to those politicians who spout this propaganda to their constituents who are wise to the idiocy in which you indulge.
OUTSOURCE.
Prove the lazy, greying, stupid, fat, US engineers (who just happened to invent all the critical technologies that everyone says they own now) are as worthless you say they are.
OUTSOURCE.
Please... put your businesses where you think the good engineers are.
So you have a theory about how to control an epidemic and you are going to, on the basis of that theory, prevent people from firewalling themselves off from your theocracy's scale free network.
No wonder you worry about epidemics so much. You're a vectorist.
The proxy system didn't seem to appeal to people in sufficient numbers to make any impact on the electoral system. If widely adopted it would form the affinity groups in a public manner which would allow them to seek independence in conjunction with other groups that were disenfranchised. It might also put enough pressure on the political system to represent the interests of the people, although I don't hold out as much hope there.
The Hutter Prize basically depends on the largess of the wealthy (including corporations) which, as it turns out, isn't forthcoming. What the Hutter Prize would do in theory is solve the knowledge problem -- which would allow an objective metric of epistemological merit to be affixed to a given description of the world. This is the sort of thing you need if you are going to "argue" with a theocracy since theocracies insist on "dialog" rather than experimentation. It has the essential weakness of any theory-intensive approach to the problem of knowledge.
Having been involved with grassroots legislative reform of government I can attest that there is no real hope of "working within the system" to correct it. "The system" is broken. Positive feedback systems are in place, funneling tax payer money to groups that are thereby politically empowered to grab more of it, that ensure not only that it cannot be fixed but that it will fail catastrophically.
I honestly cannot think of anything more compassionate that has a realistic chance of working than to force decentralization by individuals, acting alone and undetectable, making synchronized, but otherwise uncoordinated and unplanned, attacks on its control nodes to bring it down. Yes, I know this means many people will suffer but I really think it is the least painful of a wide range of bad options.
What I'm talking about as "natural rights" is the Lockean "state of nature". In a state of nature, every man has territory or he dies. This is simply a biological observation.
Voting with a ballot is fundamentally flawed as the appeal of next-to-last resort in dispute processing. Voting with your feet is superior as it allows people to move to where their ballot means something -- but you can't allow people to vote with their feet unless their feet have territory to go to. That's why the whole idea of "democracy" limited by a laundry list of "minority rights" is merely a sham to let various nation states maintain their current territorial boundaries while they subject their populations to a tyranny of the managerial elites who "interpret the laws" for the rest of us. If people could simply say: "Bye. I'm taking my territory with me." this nonsense would stop fast.
We live under a defacto theocracy, with an entire canon of state enforced "morality" -- not just "anti-drug" but also "anti-racist" dogma, forced down the throat of an unwilling people by a managerial elite that think they're called by God or something to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.
There is only one fundamental human right from which all other options for living can be chosen:
The right to freedom of association with people of like mind upon land you have a natural right to occupy.
Although I proposed something similar back in 1989 for the national level (Google Groups won't return the relevant Usenet post for it by the way), I may as well re-propose it for the international arena before another huge failed bureaucracy starts doing nothing for huge amounts of money:
The International Science Trust
For the enhancement of scientific knowlege and the required development
of advanced technology, A International Science Trust shall be established,
with funding authorized by participating governments, for the purchase of information
about the natural world from Eligible Parties (private entities owned
and controlled by other such entities in the participating countries or their unified free-
trade partners). No less than 2/3 of the components and services used
by the Eligible Parties to acquire this information must be obtained
from other Eligible Parties.
The International Academy of Sciences shall identify areas of scientific
interest in which the quality of research results are quantifiable --
primarily in terms of information content. Examples of these
kinds of research results are: DNA sequencing (human genome project),
digital imaging of various phenomena (astronomical, planetary,
terrestrial ozone-layer monitoring), quantitative behavior of systems
in microgravity, quantitative mineral assay of various sites
(terrestrial and nonterrestrial), etc.
A dollar amount, to be established in conjunction with participating governments, shall
be associated with each informative item and with varying degrees
of accuracy of the information. That dollar amount will then be
appropriated to The Trust to be paid out only in the event that
an Eligible Party has delivered new information on the associated item of
interest to a designated recipient. When a measurement has already
been made, payout will be limited to information value corresponding
to the increased confidence level of the measurement (e.g. additional
significant bits or fractions thereof). In areas where an information
flow is required (periodic sampling) the value of various sampling
frequencies at the various degrees of accuracy (significant bits) will
be included in the valuation of the measurement. Duplicate information
flows will share the cash flow evenly. For superior information flows,
the incremental increase in accuracy will enjoy less diluted access to
funding flows allocated to those incremental increases in accuracy.
Income on The Trust will be used to adjust The Trust for inflation.
Additional income from The Trust may be used to fund items within
The Trust. In the event that an item is measured by a Party which
is not an Eligible Party, and that information is available to the
designated recipient -- the corresponding funding will be redistributed
within The Trust. After-inflation losses will be redistributed within
The Trust, deactivating items which are not currently being pursued by
any Eligible Party.
The problem with relying on rank ordered correlations alone for significance testing is the data dredging fallacy. Just by random chance a certain number of correlations with a given distribution will have a certain level of correlation. Frequently you can rely on the other correlations to give you an idea of the "random" distribution of such correlations but really to do it properly you must generate a bunch of random correlations where the variables have the kind of non-normality you want to test for significance and then see how that "Monte Carlo" sample looks. It's a real pain.
I wrote a primitive version of such a site several years ago which I called Laboratory of the States since the goal was to gather lots of demographic variables by State and present ecological correlations.
Shortly thereafter, a site called Nation Master cropped up, with a bit flashier and simpler user interface, but focused on CIA World Fact Book data, rather than the States of the US. (The same folks later did State Master using similar UI technology.)
Finally, Google tested Gapminder with an even spiffier and simpler UI -- again focusing on by Nation correlations.
Aside from the usual complaints about "The Ecological Fallacy" (a fallacy that cuts both ways BTW) there are two big pitfalls for this stuff:
Dealing with missing data.
Estimating statistical significance.
What I did about missing data was simply eliminate any data points where data was missing from one or both of the variables being correlated. This reduces the sample size, hence statistical significance, but it bypasses arguments over what sort of missing data should be used. The Netflix Prize is coming up with really good algorithms to compute missing data efficiently and accurately so maybe there is hope for something more effective here.
Statistical significance is more difficult to deal with. Usually one must look at tables for statistical significance of correlations under the assumption that the variables each follow a normal distribution. Unfortunately, many variables follow polynomial (like squared) or exponential distributions, so you have to do things like take the sqrt or log of one or both of the variables to try to normalize them. However, when you are looking for correlations, sometimes it its the relationship that is polynomial or exponential -- in which case you can apply sqrt or log to get the maximum correlation coefficient at the sacrifice of normality of one or both of the variables. Unfortunately, there is no simple arithmetic formula for calculating the significance level of a correlation given a non-normal distribution -- you can't just plug in the skewness, kurtosis, etc. as well as sample size and correlation coefficient, and get out a valid statistical significance. Therefore it is hard to make good statements about many very important correlations without watering them down to meaninglessness.
Also, a complaint about the "simple" user interfaces:
Some of the worst reporting from news media comes when they refuse to report statistics in terms remotely related to anything meaningful -- for example you will frequently hear statements to the effect that "California has the most orange trees in the nation." or some such. Such statistics are nonsense for the purposes of correlation studies since the size of the ecology (California state) is all you are really measuring with such statements. You have to divide by the population or divide by the total GDP or something to rationalize the ecology against other ecologies.
In Laboratory of the States, I did this with all my variables but I also left the raw variables around and allowed people to do arithmetic on them -- like dividing them -- to get their own rational comparisons if for some reason my choices were not adequate. This problem isn't as bad with Gapminder as it is with Nation Master and State Master -- but Gapm
the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University and a group of five prestigious games industry figures have inducted ten games into a sort of 'canon'. The New York Times reports
Don't most of the conspiracy theories about how the government destroyed the World Trade Center posit a remote control of the jetliners that crashed into the towers?
This is sort of like looking for the gene(s) that "cause" autism. We live in an ecology and our genes express different aspects of their potentials depending on how they 'experience' their ecology. Some of these potentials are pretty obviously maladaptive, like level one autism within which the individual remains nonverbal throughout life. Others are adaptive, resulting in far greater fecundity. Religions are the same. Some, like the Shakers, produce profoundly maladaptive behavior -- guaranteeing no offspring and removing the adherent from kin where they might at least gain through kin selection. Others, like Catholicism, Islam and tribal religions like Orthodox Judaism, and German National Socialism (yes it was a trbal religion within reasonable definitions) can be adaptive in that they have explicit protections of fecundity in them.
Sometimes these express a "God" phenotype -- or a similar phenotype such as "Der Furher" within the Nazis. Sometimes they express "heaven" and/or "hell" phenotypes. These phenotypes are not the essence of what is being selected for, however. They merely serve a purpose within a particular environment.
Sorry, that's just the myth. The reality is that Huey Long, a presidential contender promoting a wealth tax, was assassinated and Norm Thomas's platform was adopted in its entirety except for his Wealth Tax. FDR then proceeded to submit legislation he called "The Wealth Tax" and it didn't tax wealth but income, capital gains.... all the usual economic activities.
The communism vs pseudo-capitalism dichotomy is false and vigorously maintained.
42 with log(YugoslavianPercapita1990)
42 with -log(PrisonerDeathsPerInCustody1983)
41 with -log(PrisonerDeathsMalePerInCustody1983)
41 with -IrishPercapita1990
37 with SwissPercapita1990
36 with log(CostOfLivingRank2000)
36 with sqrt(DanishPercapita1990)
35 with log(FoodInsecureWithHungerPercentage3YearAverageSt arting2000)
35 with log(HungerPercentage3YearAverageStarting2000)
35 with log(NorwegianPercentOfWhites)
34 with log(FinnishPercapita1990)
34 with -DefenseExpendituresPercapita1997
33 with log(NorwegianPercapita1990)
33 with log(AirTrafficPercapita1999)
32 with log(DutchPercapita1990)
32 with sqrt(AirTrafficScheduledPercapita1999)
31 with log(MalesPer100Females2000)
30 with log(InjectedIllegalDrugUsingPercentHighSchoolFemal es2001)
30 with log(CostOfLivingTransportation2000)
30 with log(AdultMalesPer100AdultFemales2000)
30 with SwedishPercapita1990
30 with -French_CanadianPercapita1990
30 with AustrianPercapita1990
29 with PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1998
29 with -log(PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1994)
28 with -FrenchPercapita1990
28 with log(AirTrafficNonScheduledMailTonsPercapita1999)
28 with -log(PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1995)
28 with log(WhiteYearsSchooling2000)
28 with -IllegalSteroidUsingPercentHighSchoolMales2001
27 with log(Other_groupsPercapita1990)
27 with -HateCrimeEstimatedPercapita2000
27 with AgeUnder18Percentage2000
27 with log(ImmigrantsMexicoPercapita1998)
27 with -MethamphetamineUsingPercentHighSchoolMales2001
26 with WelshPercapita1990
26 with sqrt(AirTrafficScheduledMailTonsPercapita1999)
26 with log(AirTrafficPassengersPercapita1999)
26 with sqrt(AirTrafficMailTonsPercapita1999)
26 with -log(Age44To64Percentage2000)
25 with log(AirTrafficNonScheduledFreightTonsPercapita1999 )
25 with -log(AlcoholAbstainersPercentage1988)
25 with -log(MedianAge2000)
25 with -sqrt(United_States_or_AmericanPercapita1990)
25 with log(FoodInsecureWithOrWithoutHungerPercentage3Year AverageStarting2000)
25 with log(CostOfLivingHealthCare2000)
Be capitalist or not be capitalist. Accept competition or do not.
The US made a choice not to be capitalist with this little thing called "The New Deal". It basically was a way to deal with the centralization of wealth by nationalizing collective bargaining trade unions. This was done to avoid the alternative, genuine capitalism, in which there is a use fee paid for property rights as the primary source of government revenue. Guys like Gates like that Deal because they don't want to be taxed on their net assets but they don't like the other side of the Deal which is that there is a de facto Union with a picket line that consists of the US border.
Fine... break the New Deal and correct the mistake of not charging a use fee for property rights that would not exist in the absence of government -- but don't break the back of the working man with immigration before you shift the tax burden off him.
Yes, yes, yes. The javascript webapps. I remember those. Those were the ones that you could do online e-commerce, but by changing the URL at the price=200.00 to a smaller number, you could get things realllly cheap.
That's pretty humorous but I seriously doubt those "web apps" were written by people who had experience with business process reengineering as did the guys I'm referring to. Such security flaws are taken care of by server-side validation stored procedures as a matter of course. Web browsers weren't the first database clients you know...
There is no shortage of US engineers -- there is only a shortage of young engineers -- and of managers who see the difference between a line of code and productivity. Not one of the guys over 40 I know is making as much now as he was BEFORE 1996 and most of them have been unemployed most of the time since the year 2000 -- this during a time when real estate costs have skyrocketed along with H-1b imports.
This includes guys who were college buddies of Ray Ozzie and helped him with his CS homework. Yeah, I went to the University of Illinois and worked on the PLATO project as a system programmer.
And don't give me garbage about "keeping up on your skills" when the guys I've most closely worked with -- these obsolete aging engineers who "don't keep up on their skills" -- were doing 50K line Javascript web applications back in 1997 and couldn't get the mind-share among the "luminaries" who were all agog about Java -- and do we even need to talk about VB?
You see they know they are from a culture that respects women's sovereignty to the point that arranged marriages are out of the question -- unlike the hoards you idiots are importing.
Well, sorry, you're obviously not idiots. You're probably suffering from a mild form of Aspergers to be so unaware of these profound social problems afflicting your subjects -- sort of like a "nobility" that just can't understand why their subjects don't eat cake and then try to guillotine them. My nephew has a fairly severe form of Aspergers but he can get along a lot better now that he is self-aware about it and the limitations it places on his judgement about human social relations. Sometimes reality makes one sound like a satirist but there is truth to what I'm saying here.
The prize criterion appears inadequately objective. The problem with making prizes subjective is the guys who really can solve the problem are unlikely to put forth the effort because they know they aren't likely to be the guys who can appeal to the wiggle room in the judges' biases.
This can kill a prize competition if it isn't preemptively and vigorously rooted out.
Maximum by-State bivariate corelations with autism percapita 2000.
The following lines each contain the following items:
1) Correlation coefficient. 2) A function applied to adjust a State's percapita autism.
() means no function applied.
sqrt() means the square root was taken.
log() means the natural logarithm was taken. 3) The bivariate formula predicting the previously adjusted autism rate. 4) r1 is the correlation of the first variable alone with autism. 5) r2 is the correlation of the second variable alone with autism.
Maximum by-State bivariate corelations with autism percapita 2000.
The following lines each contain the following items:
1) Correlation coefficient. 2) A function applied to adjust a State's percapita autism.
() means no function applied.
sqrt() means the square root was taken.
log() means the natural logarithm was taken. 3) The bivariate formula predicting the previously adjusted autism rate. 4) r1 is the correlation of the first variable alone with autism. 5) r2 is the correlation of the second variable alone with autism.
I oppose "guest worker" visas or any other corporate welfare -- these visas not only violate the clear will of the voters but they bust the nationalized union created as part of the New Deal to prevent a demand-side collapse into third world disparities of wealth.
So do I oppose outsourcing? NO! Send all the work you want to India, Bill! Hell, MOVE THERE! These old cultures have the toady/sycophant thing down for rich guys much better than the US. You'll probably have your own private gurus with spiritual experiences you never dreamed possible including Melissa having a vision that she really likes seeing you with a harem of gorgeous concubines.
GO THE FUCK THERE NOW!
PS: You might like it even better in subSaharan Africa so do consider moving today.
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The Nanjing Anti-African riots leading to Tiananmen Square may, themselves, have been a precursor to today's massacre at Virginia Tech University reportedly committed by an Asian student (although verification is not yet in). If so, it is important to discuss the raciosexual (yes I made up that word and it deserves reification) dynamics of campus life, particularly how it impacts the education of young men not equipped to deal with a sexual ecology that would never appear in nature. If this is taken to mean I harbor sympathies for young men who might go on murderous rampages against those of another race that are fucking their women on campus--the answer is, "Yes". If this is further taken to mean that I hold innocent young men, living among foreigners in another country, who go on such rampages--the answer is, "No".
It is on this basis that I would like to interview a Chinese nationalist with first-hand knowledge of the situation facing young men in Nanjing so we can discuss how to prevent such torture of young men trying to receive an education--and potentially prevent catastrophic wars between our great nations resulting from vicious policies of multiculturalism.
Posted by James Bowery on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 06:56 PM inComments (9) | Tell-a-Friend
India has a "home grown" polar satellite launch vehicle now so if Gates wants people to take his stand in favor of unlimited H-1b engineers imported to the US seriously, he should launch himself to space on that vehicle.
You are convincing our politicians that you just have to have all this cheap labor at your disposal and you will take your taxable activities elsewhere if they don't do as you demand, while, at the same time, donating generously to those politicians who spout this propaganda to their constituents who are wise to the idiocy in which you indulge.
OUTSOURCE.
Prove the lazy, greying, stupid, fat, US engineers (who just happened to invent all the critical technologies that everyone says they own now) are as worthless you say they are.
OUTSOURCE.
Please... put your businesses where you think the good engineers are.
This could really boost the NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) hence number crunching projects like the Netflix Prize, which needs a second wind right about now due to a slowdown of progress in recent weeks. This depends, of course, on the detected error not being critical to the programs compiled for the 8800 hardware by CUDA, and on NVIDIA making the returned 8800s available for CUDA programmers.
No wonder you worry about epidemics so much. You're a vectorist.
The proxy system didn't seem to appeal to people in sufficient numbers to make any impact on the electoral system. If widely adopted it would form the affinity groups in a public manner which would allow them to seek independence in conjunction with other groups that were disenfranchised. It might also put enough pressure on the political system to represent the interests of the people, although I don't hold out as much hope there.
The Hutter Prize basically depends on the largess of the wealthy (including corporations) which, as it turns out, isn't forthcoming. What the Hutter Prize would do in theory is solve the knowledge problem -- which would allow an objective metric of epistemological merit to be affixed to a given description of the world. This is the sort of thing you need if you are going to "argue" with a theocracy since theocracies insist on "dialog" rather than experimentation. It has the essential weakness of any theory-intensive approach to the problem of knowledge.
I honestly cannot think of anything more compassionate that has a realistic chance of working than to force decentralization by individuals, acting alone and undetectable, making synchronized, but otherwise uncoordinated and unplanned, attacks on its control nodes to bring it down. Yes, I know this means many people will suffer but I really think it is the least painful of a wide range of bad options.
What I'm talking about as "natural rights" is the Lockean "state of nature". In a state of nature, every man has territory or he dies. This is simply a biological observation.
We live under a defacto theocracy, with an entire canon of state enforced "morality" -- not just "anti-drug" but also "anti-racist" dogma, forced down the throat of an unwilling people by a managerial elite that think they're called by God or something to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.
There is only one fundamental human right from which all other options for living can be chosen:
The right to freedom of association with people of like mind upon land you have a natural right to occupy.
The rest is details or theocratic aggression.
The International Science Trust
For the enhancement of scientific knowlege and the required development of advanced technology, A International Science Trust shall be established, with funding authorized by participating governments, for the purchase of information about the natural world from Eligible Parties (private entities owned and controlled by other such entities in the participating countries or their unified free- trade partners). No less than 2/3 of the components and services used by the Eligible Parties to acquire this information must be obtained from other Eligible Parties.
The International Academy of Sciences shall identify areas of scientific interest in which the quality of research results are quantifiable -- primarily in terms of information content. Examples of these kinds of research results are: DNA sequencing (human genome project), digital imaging of various phenomena (astronomical, planetary, terrestrial ozone-layer monitoring), quantitative behavior of systems in microgravity, quantitative mineral assay of various sites (terrestrial and nonterrestrial), etc.
A dollar amount, to be established in conjunction with participating governments, shall be associated with each informative item and with varying degrees of accuracy of the information. That dollar amount will then be appropriated to The Trust to be paid out only in the event that an Eligible Party has delivered new information on the associated item of interest to a designated recipient. When a measurement has already been made, payout will be limited to information value corresponding to the increased confidence level of the measurement (e.g. additional significant bits or fractions thereof). In areas where an information flow is required (periodic sampling) the value of various sampling frequencies at the various degrees of accuracy (significant bits) will be included in the valuation of the measurement. Duplicate information flows will share the cash flow evenly. For superior information flows, the incremental increase in accuracy will enjoy less diluted access to funding flows allocated to those incremental increases in accuracy.
Income on The Trust will be used to adjust The Trust for inflation. Additional income from The Trust may be used to fund items within The Trust. In the event that an item is measured by a Party which is not an Eligible Party, and that information is available to the designated recipient -- the corresponding funding will be redistributed within The Trust. After-inflation losses will be redistributed within The Trust, deactivating items which are not currently being pursued by any Eligible Party.
The problem with relying on rank ordered correlations alone for significance testing is the data dredging fallacy. Just by random chance a certain number of correlations with a given distribution will have a certain level of correlation. Frequently you can rely on the other correlations to give you an idea of the "random" distribution of such correlations but really to do it properly you must generate a bunch of random correlations where the variables have the kind of non-normality you want to test for significance and then see how that "Monte Carlo" sample looks. It's a real pain.
Shortly thereafter, a site called Nation Master cropped up, with a bit flashier and simpler user interface, but focused on CIA World Fact Book data, rather than the States of the US. (The same folks later did State Master using similar UI technology.)
Finally, Google tested Gapminder with an even spiffier and simpler UI -- again focusing on by Nation correlations.
Aside from the usual complaints about "The Ecological Fallacy" (a fallacy that cuts both ways BTW) there are two big pitfalls for this stuff:
What I did about missing data was simply eliminate any data points where data was missing from one or both of the variables being correlated. This reduces the sample size, hence statistical significance, but it bypasses arguments over what sort of missing data should be used. The Netflix Prize is coming up with really good algorithms to compute missing data efficiently and accurately so maybe there is hope for something more effective here.
Statistical significance is more difficult to deal with. Usually one must look at tables for statistical significance of correlations under the assumption that the variables each follow a normal distribution. Unfortunately, many variables follow polynomial (like squared) or exponential distributions, so you have to do things like take the sqrt or log of one or both of the variables to try to normalize them. However, when you are looking for correlations, sometimes it its the relationship that is polynomial or exponential -- in which case you can apply sqrt or log to get the maximum correlation coefficient at the sacrifice of normality of one or both of the variables. Unfortunately, there is no simple arithmetic formula for calculating the significance level of a correlation given a non-normal distribution -- you can't just plug in the skewness, kurtosis, etc. as well as sample size and correlation coefficient, and get out a valid statistical significance. Therefore it is hard to make good statements about many very important correlations without watering them down to meaninglessness.
Also, a complaint about the "simple" user interfaces:
Some of the worst reporting from news media comes when they refuse to report statistics in terms remotely related to anything meaningful -- for example you will frequently hear statements to the effect that "California has the most orange trees in the nation." or some such. Such statistics are nonsense for the purposes of correlation studies since the size of the ecology (California state) is all you are really measuring with such statements. You have to divide by the population or divide by the total GDP or something to rationalize the ecology against other ecologies.
In Laboratory of the States, I did this with all my variables but I also left the raw variables around and allowed people to do arithmetic on them -- like dividing them -- to get their own rational comparisons if for some reason my choices were not adequate. This problem isn't as bad with Gapminder as it is with Nation Master and State Master -- but Gapm
This sort of reminds me of the 'canon' produced by the First Council of Nicaea and it has about as much validity.
Don't most of the conspiracy theories about how the government destroyed the World Trade Center posit a remote control of the jetliners that crashed into the towers?
This is sort of like looking for the gene(s) that "cause" autism. We live in an ecology and our genes express different aspects of their potentials depending on how they 'experience' their ecology. Some of these potentials are pretty obviously maladaptive, like level one autism within which the individual remains nonverbal throughout life. Others are adaptive, resulting in far greater fecundity. Religions are the same. Some, like the Shakers, produce profoundly maladaptive behavior -- guaranteeing no offspring and removing the adherent from kin where they might at least gain through kin selection. Others, like Catholicism, Islam and tribal religions like Orthodox Judaism, and German National Socialism (yes it was a trbal religion within reasonable definitions) can be adaptive in that they have explicit protections of fecundity in them. Sometimes these express a "God" phenotype -- or a similar phenotype such as "Der Furher" within the Nazis. Sometimes they express "heaven" and/or "hell" phenotypes. These phenotypes are not the essence of what is being selected for, however. They merely serve a purpose within a particular environment.
The communism vs pseudo-capitalism dichotomy is false and vigorously maintained.
I wasn't able to get quantitative data on the geography of CCD but I was able to get a map of states reporting CCD has occurred there. So I ran these correlations at the level of state ecologies:
42 with log(YugoslavianPercapita1990)
42 with -log(PrisonerDeathsPerInCustody1983)
41 with -log(PrisonerDeathsMalePerInCustody1983)
41 with -IrishPercapita1990
37 with SwissPercapita1990
36 with log(CostOfLivingRank2000)
36 with sqrt(DanishPercapita1990)
35 with log(FoodInsecureWithHungerPercentage3YearAverageSt arting2000)
35 with log(HungerPercentage3YearAverageStarting2000)
35 with log(NorwegianPercentOfWhites)
34 with log(FinnishPercapita1990)
34 with -DefenseExpendituresPercapita1997
33 with log(NorwegianPercapita1990)
33 with log(AirTrafficPercapita1999)
32 with log(DutchPercapita1990)
32 with sqrt(AirTrafficScheduledPercapita1999)
31 with log(MalesPer100Females2000)
30 with log(InjectedIllegalDrugUsingPercentHighSchoolFemal es2001)
30 with log(CostOfLivingTransportation2000)
30 with log(AdultMalesPer100AdultFemales2000)
30 with SwedishPercapita1990
30 with -French_CanadianPercapita1990
30 with AustrianPercapita1990
29 with PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1998
29 with -log(PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1994)
28 with -FrenchPercapita1990
28 with log(AirTrafficNonScheduledMailTonsPercapita1999)
28 with -log(PrisonerDeathsFemalePerInCustody1995)
28 with log(WhiteYearsSchooling2000)
28 with -IllegalSteroidUsingPercentHighSchoolMales2001
27 with log(Other_groupsPercapita1990)
27 with -HateCrimeEstimatedPercapita2000
27 with AgeUnder18Percentage2000
27 with log(ImmigrantsMexicoPercapita1998)
27 with -MethamphetamineUsingPercentHighSchoolMales2001
26 with WelshPercapita1990
26 with sqrt(AirTrafficScheduledMailTonsPercapita1999)
26 with log(AirTrafficPassengersPercapita1999)
26 with sqrt(AirTrafficMailTonsPercapita1999)
26 with -log(Age44To64Percentage2000)
25 with log(AirTrafficNonScheduledFreightTonsPercapita1999 )
25 with -log(AlcoholAbstainersPercentage1988)
25 with -log(MedianAge2000)
25 with -sqrt(United_States_or_AmericanPercapita1990)
25 with log(FoodInsecureWithOrWithoutHungerPercentage3Year AverageStarting2000)
25 with log(CostOfLivingHealthCare2000)
Oh, did I forget to mention the caste system?
The US made a choice not to be capitalist with this little thing called "The New Deal". It basically was a way to deal with the centralization of wealth by nationalizing collective bargaining trade unions. This was done to avoid the alternative, genuine capitalism, in which there is a use fee paid for property rights as the primary source of government revenue. Guys like Gates like that Deal because they don't want to be taxed on their net assets but they don't like the other side of the Deal which is that there is a de facto Union with a picket line that consists of the US border.
Fine... break the New Deal and correct the mistake of not charging a use fee for property rights that would not exist in the absence of government -- but don't break the back of the working man with immigration before you shift the tax burden off him.
That's pretty humorous but I seriously doubt those "web apps" were written by people who had experience with business process reengineering as did the guys I'm referring to. Such security flaws are taken care of by server-side validation stored procedures as a matter of course. Web browsers weren't the first database clients you know...
This includes guys who were college buddies of Ray Ozzie and helped him with his CS homework. Yeah, I went to the University of Illinois and worked on the PLATO project as a system programmer.
And don't give me garbage about "keeping up on your skills" when the guys I've most closely worked with -- these obsolete aging engineers who "don't keep up on their skills" -- were doing 50K line Javascript web applications back in 1997 and couldn't get the mind-share among the "luminaries" who were all agog about Java -- and do we even need to talk about VB?
There has been a demographic collapse among young engineers because the prior generation of engineers couldn't afford to have children even if they could find a wife in one of the male saturated ghettos created by guys like you. The few young men sired by engineers are all-too-aware of what you've done to their fathers and they'll be better off going into real estate or moving out to a little plot of land in the country living an eco-friendly subsistence lifestyle.
You see they know they are from a culture that respects women's sovereignty to the point that arranged marriages are out of the question -- unlike the hoards you idiots are importing.
Well, sorry, you're obviously not idiots. You're probably suffering from a mild form of Aspergers to be so unaware of these profound social problems afflicting your subjects -- sort of like a "nobility" that just can't understand why their subjects don't eat cake and then try to guillotine them. My nephew has a fairly severe form of Aspergers but he can get along a lot better now that he is self-aware about it and the limitations it places on his judgement about human social relations. Sometimes reality makes one sound like a satirist but there is truth to what I'm saying here.
This can kill a prize competition if it isn't preemptively and vigorously rooted out.
Check out the rank ordered list of bi-variate ecological correlations with autism (ecology at the State level):
e .cgi [laboratory...states.com]
a 1998) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=0.429065274233648e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0415403559840862 and r2=0.428994227300325e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.032753948828485 and r2=0.433268832849086e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0386533075155627 and r2=0.428994227300325e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0293946227549309 and r2=0.433268832849086q uareMilePerYear1941to1996) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=-0.2456620400828468 ) bettering r1=0.473217563942744 and r2=0.3948977437946e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0504680681454933 and r2=0.415965047850537 ) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=0.322376040851882 ... etc.
Maximum by-State bivariate corelations with autism percapita 2000.
The following lines each contain the following items:
1) Correlation coefficient.
2) A function applied to adjust a State's percapita autism.
() means no function applied.
sqrt() means the square root was taken.
log() means the natural logarithm was taken.
3) The bivariate formula predicting the previously adjusted autism rate.
4) r1 is the correlation of the first variable alone with autism.
5) r2 is the correlation of the second variable alone with autism.
To generate a scattergram and see the raw data:
See http://laboratoryofthestates.com/cgi-bin/correlat
then enter "AutismPercapita2000SansOregonAndMass" for the vertical
and the formula given below for the horizontal.
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0.600310870050065 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990*ImmigrantsIndiaPercapit
0.599979036637678 sqrt() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.599618721521368 log() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.594501164716388 sqrt() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP2000*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.593739683661006 log() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP2000*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.590410355019427 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990/UFOReportsPercapitaPerS
0.589344939529547 () (FinnishPercapita1990*ImmigrantsIndiaPercapita199
0.588776855937162 () log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.586104765698104 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990*H1BWithJobsPercapita199
Check out the rank ordered list of bi-variate ecological correlations with autism (ecology at the State level):
e .cgi
a 1998) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=0.429065274233648e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0415403559840862 and r2=0.428994227300325e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.032753948828485 and r2=0.433268832849086e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0386533075155627 and r2=0.428994227300325e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0293946227549309 and r2=0.433268832849086q uareMilePerYear1941to1996) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=-0.2456620400828468 ) bettering r1=0.473217563942744 and r2=0.3948977437946e rcapita1998) bettering r1=0.0504680681454933 and r2=0.415965047850537 ) bettering r1=0.416806570345255 and r2=0.322376040851882 ... etc.
Maximum by-State bivariate corelations with autism percapita 2000.
The following lines each contain the following items:
1) Correlation coefficient.
2) A function applied to adjust a State's percapita autism.
() means no function applied.
sqrt() means the square root was taken.
log() means the natural logarithm was taken.
3) The bivariate formula predicting the previously adjusted autism rate.
4) r1 is the correlation of the first variable alone with autism.
5) r2 is the correlation of the second variable alone with autism.
To generate a scattergram and see the raw data:
See http://laboratoryofthestates.com/cgi-bin/correlat
then enter "AutismPercapita2000SansOregonAndMass" for the vertical
and the formula given below for the horizontal.
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0.600310870050065 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990*ImmigrantsIndiaPercapit
0.599979036637678 sqrt() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.599618721521368 log() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.594501164716388 sqrt() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP2000*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.593739683661006 log() log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP2000*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.590410355019427 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990/UFOReportsPercapitaPerS
0.589344939529547 () (FinnishPercapita1990*ImmigrantsIndiaPercapita199
0.588776855937162 () log(GSPIndustriesPerGSP1999*ImmigrantsNonWesternP
0.586104765698104 () sqrt(FinnishPercapita1990*H1BWithJobsPercapita199
So do I oppose outsourcing? NO! Send all the work you want to India, Bill! Hell, MOVE THERE! These old cultures have the toady/sycophant thing down for rich guys much better than the US. You'll probably have your own private gurus with spiritual experiences you never dreamed possible including Melissa having a vision that she really likes seeing you with a harem of gorgeous concubines.
GO THE FUCK THERE NOW!
PS: You might like it even better in subSaharan Africa so do consider moving today.