Really? As of last year, Russia held $225 billion in U.S. dollars. So, you think Russia will tank a $17 Trillion dollar economy with $225 billion. I find it helpful to have a sense of perspective when dealing with numbers.
Yep, I think it is about time we weed out those like Einstein who were mediocre all through their preteens and teens. We only want the brightest and we aim to determine who they are early on so any late bloomers should have thought twice before sitting on their arses all those years.
Bullshit. The science you are referring to is mostly medical science. Try cutting corners in physics or chemistry. Mathematics isn't technically a science but if you tried it there too, you'd get your ass handed to you. Logic is similar.
So stop cherry picking to support your beliefs...much like the science you claim not to like.
Or....to Kremlin criminal bosses. The Ukraine ought to offer Tsar Putin a final resting place, cheap. And he'll remain there to inspire the faithful since he won't decay very well. Hell, they could even promise to put up one of those Lenin "I-Just-Cut-One-for-the-Proles" statues. Instead of striding forcefully into the future, they could give him a tail and tuck it between his legs in a galloping romp headed back towards Mother Russia. Who knew she was really a Mother-in-Law?
You are nuts, the worlds economy is waaaay too complicated to be controlled by a PID. For one thing there are feedbacks on top of feedbacks, untangling the lot is beyond current mathematics. And that's assuming you've correctly included everything and everything needed to be included was included. And the world's economy is probably non-linear, good luck understanding any control in that situation.
For some. For televangelist preachers, it seems to work out quite well. In fact, Joel Osteen, just had $600,000 stolen and that was only one week's take. Who among us wouldn't find having a captive audience of about 43,000 people every week captivating, he has a old sport stadium in Houston to perform in.
It worked well for Jimmy Swaggert for a long time, until he got caught fondling a prostitute. I think that's only an errant data point though, he was probably having a bad week and only took in enough for a fondle instead of a complete job. Jerry Falwell was kept in designer suits right up until he hit the deck of his desk due to a heart attack. While religion worked for him, he didn't work for it...certainly not enough to lose the weight.
Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband had a good run too. That eye makeup was expensive.
My personal favorite is Creflo Dollar. There's no BS with this man, he tells it like it is, just like his surname.
However, Buzzword Bingo is a great game for CEOs as one of your contestants. Imagine this, you get team from company A and team from company B, both of whose CEOs are to speak at some bs-a-thon. Both teams get to construct their own bingo boards within certain rules, i.e., all the entries need be unique, a CEO has to utter precisely the phrase on a spot, etc. Then to make it a bit interesting, the teams get to make wagers.
The game can be player intra-company as well. Here, we can have teams of contestants. I see a bright future for games.
Hell, it would get more interesting if we run HR departments against each other for the most seriously stupid "requirement". Two company's rank and file agree to contribute an equal number of judges.
The Cat Flap. Douglas Adams (in I think Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) makes the comment of consider the cat flap, that door within a door. When the first person invented it, everyone else who thought about it said, yeah, well, I could have thought of that...except they didn't.
Maybe a measure of the language might be to program FindShortestTour in it. If that turns out to be elegant and simple, then he might have something....assuming there are no further calls that do "too much" of the hard work instead of doing the hard work in the algorithm.
Regardless of whether you believe in global warming or not, humans have managed to add enough CO2 to the atmosphere to change the PH of the oceans. You may recall the oceans being at the base of the food chain. Science, learn it or else.
The Asian pine beetle might take out a significant portion of the U.S. pine forest. We'd need a replanting effort to fill in the gap. Good luck getting that through our scientifically illiterate Congress. And the accountants masquerading as CEOs won't find next quarter's profit in replanting hardwood.
NYS has been going downhill ever since Nelson Rockefeller in the 60's and early 70's...yeah, I'm that old. After him, the state swung Democrat although not many noticed the change because Rocky was really a Democrat in spirit. After their fling with the Democrats, the state turned to Pataki, a Republican. I don't recall much of him, he was that influential. Then they swerved Democrat again.
NYS got screwed because Rocky taught the legislature how to really shake down the companies and the people. The labor unions were right behind those policies and helped drive business out of NYS, though Rocky got the ball rolling. This happened while the older rust belt industries were being decimated by the Japanese. The later free trade agreements only accelerated the decline.
NYS never gets out from behind the 8-ball. It is a shame really since they have decent colleges and universities. Somehow, they always manage to fail to capitalize on those. The taxes are enough to prevent many new companies from getting started in the state. And even if they did have tax incentives for companies, they'd have trouble hiring because NYS believes in taxing the pop. out the whazoo.
The local governments also got into the taxing and bureaucratic treadmill. Erie County, where Buffalo sits, should whack about half of their county politicians and the City of Buffalo doubly so. The decrease in pop. was large yet they are carrying on like their pop. was 3 times what it is currently.
I'm planning to build a small one on the Sun. I don't yet have it on a web site, but it will supply more energy than the Earth can possible use. We can sell it to other galactic civilizations. It turns out with enough energy, we can all become Thetans whereupon we won't have to sell energy any more, we'll be energy and can sell our souls instead...very efficient.
No way, MS continues to fester because too many apps depend upon it and it alone, starting with Office and going all the way to those VB monsters developed by departments who were told they too could be little mini-developers, no need to learn about support, maintainability, etc. They also tied their desktops to their servers, there's no getting rid of them until entire organizations die and are replaced.
Yep, some of us are waiting for China to give Tibet back to the Tibetans. Somehow, China's government cannot bring itself to right that wrong because they believe they deserve to have Tibet. Similarly, MS believes it deserves the ill-gotten booty they've stolen over the years.
Yep, it is great how the press picks up on argot. Remember "ordnance" during the first Gulf War, and "spider hole" during the second. Then there was "starey decisis" during (I think it was) the Robert's Supreme Court confirmation. Once the press gloms on to a new phrase, we want to shoot the next reporter uttering it.
I see, so the terrorists successfully using planes, and not protecting aviation, would lead them to what, precisely? Declare victory and go back to bothering the locals? Hold news conferences showing their superiority and stating there's no need to use planes again? What exactly do you propose to do when a hole is found in security? State unequivocally that this was an isolated incident and the American people can feel confident that their government is not worried?
Your argument presumes terrorists have been trying to get onto planes. Now you could argue they aren't trying so there's no need to protect. Do ya feel lucky, punk?
I only have a data point of one, a gizmo to use the radio to capture iPod tunes and play them so I could hear them. Never worked right. I finally gave up resolved not to believe anything Belkin says about their stuff. With only one data point, that's not a good argument, but then I don't want to get burned again.
You presume the proof has unique steps at every point. It doesn't, if something couldn't be found in a random sequence of 1161 numbers, then it couldn't be found in an infinite sequence (my apologies for paraphrasing, go read the article). So they used a computer to check the 1161 numbers. So they essentially had a for loop. The code for the for loop was finite. The loop was finite. A few invariants and a bit of Floyd-Hoare logic and whallah, the proof be checked, just not the usual way you'd expect.
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Really? As of last year, Russia held $225 billion in U.S. dollars. So, you think Russia will tank a $17 Trillion dollar economy with $225 billion. I find it helpful to have a sense of perspective when dealing with numbers.
Yep, I think it is about time we weed out those like Einstein who were mediocre all through their preteens and teens. We only want the brightest and we aim to determine who they are early on so any late bloomers should have thought twice before sitting on their arses all those years.
Gates predicting anything ought to cast a cloud over the anything.
Bullshit. The science you are referring to is mostly medical science. Try cutting corners in physics or chemistry. Mathematics isn't technically a science but if you tried it there too, you'd get your ass handed to you. Logic is similar.
So stop cherry picking to support your beliefs...much like the science you claim not to like.
Or....to Kremlin criminal bosses. The Ukraine ought to offer Tsar Putin a final resting place, cheap. And he'll remain there to inspire the faithful since he won't decay very well. Hell, they could even promise to put up one of those Lenin "I-Just-Cut-One-for-the-Proles" statues. Instead of striding forcefully into the future, they could give him a tail and tuck it between his legs in a galloping romp headed back towards Mother Russia. Who knew she was really a Mother-in-Law?
You are nuts, the worlds economy is waaaay too complicated to be controlled by a PID. For one thing there are feedbacks on top of feedbacks, untangling the lot is beyond current mathematics. And that's assuming you've correctly included everything and everything needed to be included was included. And the world's economy is probably non-linear, good luck understanding any control in that situation.
For some. For televangelist preachers, it seems to work out quite well. In fact, Joel Osteen, just had $600,000 stolen and that was only one week's take. Who among us wouldn't find having a captive audience of about 43,000 people every week captivating, he has a old sport stadium in Houston to perform in.
It worked well for Jimmy Swaggert for a long time, until he got caught fondling a prostitute. I think that's only an errant data point though, he was probably having a bad week and only took in enough for a fondle instead of a complete job. Jerry Falwell was kept in designer suits right up until he hit the deck of his desk due to a heart attack. While religion worked for him, he didn't work for it...certainly not enough to lose the weight.
Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband had a good run too. That eye makeup was expensive.
My personal favorite is Creflo Dollar. There's no BS with this man, he tells it like it is, just like his surname.
In Malaysia.
Sure, Atom Ant would have no problem doing it.
However, Buzzword Bingo is a great game for CEOs as one of your contestants. Imagine this, you get team from company A and team from company B, both of whose CEOs are to speak at some bs-a-thon. Both teams get to construct their own bingo boards within certain rules, i.e., all the entries need be unique, a CEO has to utter precisely the phrase on a spot, etc. Then to make it a bit interesting, the teams get to make wagers.
The game can be player intra-company as well. Here, we can have teams of contestants. I see a bright future for games.
Hell, it would get more interesting if we run HR departments against each other for the most seriously stupid "requirement". Two company's rank and file agree to contribute an equal number of judges.
The Cat Flap. Douglas Adams (in I think Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) makes the comment of consider the cat flap, that door within a door. When the first person invented it, everyone else who thought about it said, yeah, well, I could have thought of that...except they didn't.
Maybe a measure of the language might be to program FindShortestTour in it. If that turns out to be elegant and simple, then he might have something....assuming there are no further calls that do "too much" of the hard work instead of doing the hard work in the algorithm.
Regardless of whether you believe in global warming or not, humans have managed to add enough CO2 to the atmosphere to change the PH of the oceans. You may recall the oceans being at the base of the food chain. Science, learn it or else.
The Asian pine beetle might take out a significant portion of the U.S. pine forest. We'd need a replanting effort to fill in the gap. Good luck getting that through our scientifically illiterate Congress. And the accountants masquerading as CEOs won't find next quarter's profit in replanting hardwood.
NYS has been going downhill ever since Nelson Rockefeller in the 60's and early 70's...yeah, I'm that old. After him, the state swung Democrat although not many noticed the change because Rocky was really a Democrat in spirit. After their fling with the Democrats, the state turned to Pataki, a Republican. I don't recall much of him, he was that influential. Then they swerved Democrat again.
NYS got screwed because Rocky taught the legislature how to really shake down the companies and the people. The labor unions were right behind those policies and helped drive business out of NYS, though Rocky got the ball rolling. This happened while the older rust belt industries were being decimated by the Japanese. The later free trade agreements only accelerated the decline.
NYS never gets out from behind the 8-ball. It is a shame really since they have decent colleges and universities. Somehow, they always manage to fail to capitalize on those. The taxes are enough to prevent many new companies from getting started in the state. And even if they did have tax incentives for companies, they'd have trouble hiring because NYS believes in taxing the pop. out the whazoo.
The local governments also got into the taxing and bureaucratic treadmill. Erie County, where Buffalo sits, should whack about half of their county politicians and the City of Buffalo doubly so. The decrease in pop. was large yet they are carrying on like their pop. was 3 times what it is currently.
I'm planning to build a small one on the Sun. I don't yet have it on a web site, but it will supply more energy than the Earth can possible use. We can sell it to other galactic civilizations. It turns out with enough energy, we can all become Thetans whereupon we won't have to sell energy any more, we'll be energy and can sell our souls instead...very efficient.
No way, MS continues to fester because too many apps depend upon it and it alone, starting with Office and going all the way to those VB monsters developed by departments who were told they too could be little mini-developers, no need to learn about support, maintainability, etc. They also tied their desktops to their servers, there's no getting rid of them until entire organizations die and are replaced.
Yep, some of us are waiting for China to give Tibet back to the Tibetans. Somehow, China's government cannot bring itself to right that wrong because they believe they deserve to have Tibet. Similarly, MS believes it deserves the ill-gotten booty they've stolen over the years.
Like the cannibals of New Guinea.
Yep, it is great how the press picks up on argot. Remember "ordnance" during the first Gulf War, and "spider hole" during the second. Then there was "starey decisis" during (I think it was) the Robert's Supreme Court confirmation. Once the press gloms on to a new phrase, we want to shoot the next reporter uttering it.
Bullshit. Point to the Fatwa against Jihad.
I see, so the terrorists successfully using planes, and not protecting aviation, would lead them to what, precisely? Declare victory and go back to bothering the locals? Hold news conferences showing their superiority and stating there's no need to use planes again? What exactly do you propose to do when a hole is found in security? State unequivocally that this was an isolated incident and the American people can feel confident that their government is not worried?
Your argument presumes terrorists have been trying to get onto planes. Now you could argue they aren't trying so there's no need to protect. Do ya feel lucky, punk?
I only have a data point of one, a gizmo to use the radio to capture iPod tunes and play them so I could hear them. Never worked right. I finally gave up resolved not to believe anything Belkin says about their stuff. With only one data point, that's not a good argument, but then I don't want to get burned again.
You presume the proof has unique steps at every point. It doesn't, if something couldn't be found in a random sequence of 1161 numbers, then it couldn't be found in an infinite sequence (my apologies for paraphrasing, go read the article). So they used a computer to check the 1161 numbers. So they essentially had a for loop. The code for the for loop was finite. The loop was finite. A few invariants and a bit of Floyd-Hoare logic and whallah, the proof be checked, just not the usual way you'd expect.