Why do they always involve some type of machine to do the counting in the US? Is there a shortage of volunteers to do the counting?
No, but historically there has been a shortage of trustworthy volunteers to
do the counting. Up until the late 60's, many big-city (eg Chicago) and rural (mostly Southern) districts just reported whatever results the local boss told them to report.
You make people more independent by making them wealthy.
Except is isn't "the people" that get wealthy. Instead, the already-wealthy get more wealthy and buy
more arms to protect themselves from their people.
Yes: he is basically saying "I want to go back to fooling people into thinking that I am a responsible journalist. So, nerds, now please stop reminding people that I am really a useless fucktard".
A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either
You're forgetting: a light saber can slice through anything except another lightsaber blade! I think this blade-on-blade collision is what the GP is referring to.
It's important to remember where the "anti-circumvention" clause came from.
Back in the late 90's, there were a lot of companies selling devices that allowed anyone to watch satellite or cable TV without paying. These devices (like the "Motubu III") simulated a genuine smart card and were sold in the tens of thousands. This was killing the satellite business until the DMCA outlawed them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_piracy and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078496 .
Of course, as with all sloppily written laws, unscrupulous types soon found ways to abuse the law to the consumers' detriment.
Wrong. The cancer-sniffing dogs can detect some kinds of cancer, but not all kinds.
This will be true of any detection method, including the laser method described above. If you want to a have a good chance of early detection, you need to employ as many methods as you can.
George Lucas has assured us the money will go to deleting the entire Obi-Wan Darth Vader duel of A New Hope and adding a new scene (digitally remastered and better, of course) with Ewan McGregor.
And all the stormtroopers will be replaced with singing Ewoks!
What if a large SaaS company had a 100,000 business customers... just 100,000? That's a ripe DDOS blackmail target if I ever saw one. And if you could hack the systems and gain access to the tax and banking spreadsheets of 100,000 clients?
And all their vaunted security measures won't mean shit when the cracker is an inside employee. If the head of the FBI's Counter-Espionage division could be persuaded to spy for the Soviets, anything is up for grabs.
The argument that the anti-trackers make is that the slower students will benefit from the presence of the smarter ones. Removing those smarter ones will make the others "feel dumb", and if they feel dumb they will act dumb and distruptive.
The anti-streamers also maintain, with some validity, that the slower students are a more serious problem for society, as they are more likely to wind up illiterate and unemployed. Some 90% of criminals come from this group.
The science is completely settled about the fundamental principals of evolution, namely that:
Life has existed continuously on earth for at least 4 billion years
For the first 70% of that time, life existed only in very simple forms (pond scum, basically)
there were no sea animals for the first 85% of that time, no land animals for the first 90%, no mammals for the first 95% and no humans for the first 99.995%
while there is much that we don't yet understand about how evolution works, we do know that random mutation, natural selection and sexual reproduction all play a part
Further, evolution says nothing whatsoever about where the pond scum came from, let alone the origin of the universe.
These are facts, not opinions. Any person who doubts them is being neither logical nor reasonable.
Instead of the cat blocking the screen, the cat bursts into flames. How the heck am I going to explain that one to the wife?
"Well you see, dear, the cat was actually in a superposition of in flames and not in flames until you looked at it. So it's really your fault." "Um, can we have sex tonight?"
The sad reality is that most of life is boring -- and the sooner people recognize this, accept it, move on and learn the necessary material anyway, the better off we'll all be
Wow. Sucks to be you. Maybe a career change is in order.
I'm a university professor, and I love teaching, which definitely involves entertaining my students. I spend a few hours a week doing boring shit (marking, administrivia) but so what?
I'm also happily married and a devoted father. I enjoy nature every day. Life doesn't need to be boring, so find out what thrills you and devote the rest of your life to it. It may not work out, but what the hell?
I object to the word "mathematics" being debased to elementary-school arithmetic.
The thing is, as McKeller points out, that you will never get to the hard stuff if you let yourself be intimidated by elementary stuff.
If you read Danica McKeller's thesis (the abstract begins: "For a region of the nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller spin systems on
Z^2, we characterize the existence of multiple Gibbs states via percolation. In particular, there
are multiple Gibbs states if and only if there exists percolation of any of the spin types..") you'll see that it is definitely in the "hard math" realm. McKeller's Erdos number is 4. What's yours?
The biggest reason for this is America's mediocre system of secondary education that graduates hordes of students who barely know math and are afraid of pursuing majors involving any "hard" subjects from the beginning. Raising tuition for such majors will discourage people from getting into engineering even more.
I don't believe that.
People don't take the soft subjects because they can't afford the hard subjects, but because they can't hack the hard subjects (i.e. can't do the math).
At UBC, engineering and business are very expensive programs, but available coop jobs pay enough to cover all tuition and living expenses. Arts students have no such opportunities.
My favorite of the Harry Potter movies is Cuaron's Azkhaban. The big "magic" effect at the end was just a bright light. There was literally nothing they could have put up on the screen that by itself would convince you that Harry was doing awesome magic. But by treating magic with restraint through the movie, the director sold the finale.
Didn't sell me. I found Azkaban boring, by far the worst of Potter movies. But then, I haven't liked anything Cuaron has done.
I thought Tim Rus' Tuvok was one of the best parts of the spotty Voyager series.
IORAL*, but if the RIAA lost the argument that the original suit is based on, can they really continue? Or are they just posturing?
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It also reflects what other scientists think of your work, and that certainly matters.
On the other hand, one citation might say, -----"SoAndSo reported in [SoAndSo1999] that suchandsuch is observed. More recent analysis confirms this." while another citation might say -----"SoAndSo reported in [SoAndSo1999] that suchandsuch is observed. More recent analysis shows that SoAndSo is a fucking liar."
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Yes: he is basically saying
"I want to go back to fooling people into thinking that I am a responsible journalist. So, nerds, now please stop reminding people that I am really a useless fucktard".
It's important to remember where the "anti-circumvention" clause came from.
Back in the late 90's, there were a lot of companies selling devices that allowed anyone to watch satellite or cable TV without paying. These devices (like the "Motubu III") simulated a genuine smart card and were sold in the tens of thousands. This was killing the satellite business until the DMCA outlawed them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_piracy and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078496 .
Of course, as with all sloppily written laws, unscrupulous types soon found ways to abuse the law to the consumers' detriment.
Wrong.
The cancer-sniffing dogs can detect some kinds of cancer, but not all kinds. This will be true of any detection method, including the laser method described above. If you want to a have a good chance of early detection, you need to employ as many methods as you can.
Didn't Jack Bauer have to deal with this once?
The argument that the anti-trackers make is that the slower students will benefit from the presence of the smarter ones. Removing those smarter ones will make the others "feel dumb", and if they feel dumb they will act dumb and distruptive.
The anti-streamers also maintain, with some validity, that the slower students are a more serious problem for society, as they are more likely to wind up illiterate and unemployed. Some 90% of criminals come from this group.
GOP candidates need no help in making themselves look bad.
- while there is much that we don't yet understand about how evolution works, we do know that random mutation, natural selection and sexual reproduction all play a part
Further, evolution says nothing whatsoever about where the pond scum came from, let alone the origin of the universe.These are facts, not opinions. Any person who doubts them is being neither logical nor reasonable.
"Um, can we have sex tonight?"
I'm a university professor, and I love teaching, which definitely involves entertaining my students. I spend a few hours a week doing boring shit (marking, administrivia) but so what?
I'm also happily married and a devoted father. I enjoy nature every day. Life doesn't need to be boring, so find out what thrills you and devote the rest of your life to it. It may not work out, but what the hell?
Hi-power rechargeable dildos?
But your cat and dog will get married.
If you read Danica McKeller's thesis (the abstract begins: "For a region of the nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller spin systems on Z^2, we characterize the existence of multiple Gibbs states via percolation. In particular, there are multiple Gibbs states if and only if there exists percolation of any of the spin types
People don't take the soft subjects because they can't afford the hard subjects, but because they can't hack the hard subjects (i.e. can't do the math).
At UBC, engineering and business are very expensive programs, but available coop jobs pay enough to cover all tuition and living expenses. Arts students have no such opportunities.
Nuk-U-Lar. It's pronounced Nuk-U-Lar.
IORAL*, but if the RIAA lost the argument that the original suit is based on, can they really continue? Or are they just posturing?
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*I Ordinarily Rent A Lawyer
It also reflects what other scientists think of your work, and that certainly matters.
On the other hand, one citation might say,
-----"SoAndSo reported in [SoAndSo1999] that suchandsuch is observed. More recent analysis confirms this."
while another citation might say
-----"SoAndSo reported in [SoAndSo1999] that suchandsuch is observed. More recent analysis shows that SoAndSo is a fucking liar."
Each would count as +1 citations for SoAndSo.
Capitalists of the world unite!
Fight those Commie free-marketers!