I've not yet seen a reason to have the.xxx domain.
It says so right in the post. "Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US"..... If that Evil Bush administration and the fundamentalists that back him say that it is a bad thing, that is clearly a sign of oppression.
Why oh why are they blocking our freedom to have a.xxx domain?
I was trying to be ironic..... posts that just link to wikipedia deserve an informative mod about as much as a post saying "Hey everyone, water is wet" deserve an informative mod.
Insightful? INSIGHTFUL??!!!..... Please tell me that was just someone's mouse slipping and they didn't actually intend for that to get moded insightful.
I could be mistaken on this, but I am almost positive that parent post is not an actual bank robber. I doubt you are gaining any insight into the mind of how a bank robber actually thinks and feels.
I use 355/113. It is good out to 6 places. Easy to remember as well. Read it from the bottom up and it just repeting odd digits..... one one three three five five.
No, it will not ever be over. Stupidity will always exist. As long as there has been patents and as long as there will be patents there will be stupidity. Stupidity will always be in any human endeavor.
Exactly my point. Taking the corn in the first place was totally natural and neither Jesus nor the Pharisees though anything was wrong with THAT at all. They might have disagreed on if it was or wasn't ok to do it on the sabbath, but absolutely nobody thought it was wrong to take crops that belonged to someone else.
Jesus had no moral or ethical hangups with taking corn that wasn't his, therefore I claim he would also not have any issue with taking music that "belongs" to someone else.
There has been a popular meme throughout history, back to the days of the Old Testament that said that beggars were entitled to the excess of any farmer's crop. If the vagrant were to walk past a farm, they could take as much as they needed from the outer ring of crops, but they were not to venture inside.
Mark 2:23-25 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
If Jesus and his crew didnt have problems with doing this kind of petty theft then I cant find any moral fault in it either.
While that may be true for physical goods, I am not all that convinced it is true for 'intellectual property'
For someone taking crops out of a field, it reduces the total amount of crop. However, when I download music off the net doesn't mean that the total amount of music on the net has been reduced.
I would also tend to believe that CD sales have an inelastic demand curve. The people who are willing to fork cash for a Brittany Spears CD are going to pay for it regardless if it is downloadable or not. The people who refuse to listen to Brittany Spears will not listen to it even if it is made available for free. Food isn't like this at all. Offer free food and people will stuff themselves with all they can possible eat even if they would not normally eat chocolate covered hotdogs otherwise.
One way they are alike, however, is in loss leader. I personally have purchased CDs after hearing samples I have downloaded off the net. Likewise, I have made purchases at a grocery store of food I would not have otherwise purchased because I was handed a free sample.
Those of us who are not morons like to learn new things.
I read that as "those of us who are not Mormons" and thought for a second that Ken Jennings was posting as AC. (You gotta admit that Ken Jennings would probably have the history of rats in New Zealand memorized)
Dent and Thor fought while they were at the party that was flying through the sky. Dent puts up his fists and says "wanna make something out of it?". Thor, knowing that he can easily pummel this puny mortal, agrees. Dent says "fine, lets step outside" and thor steps out the door before remembering that "outside" was several thousand feet up in the air. Dent stays safely inside the building and thuss ~wins~ without ever throwing a punch.
In the hustler, Fast Eddie chalanges Minisota Fats to a very high stakes pool match. The match lasts for hours and hours at a virtual tie. However, Fast Eddie is fairing slightly better. After something like 24 or 36 hours of constant play, Fast Eddie is about to win the match. Fats steps into the bathroom, cleans his face, washes himself down, has a glass of water, puts on a new suit, and steps out again fresh as a dazy. In quick order, Eddies lead vanishes and he finds himself on the defensive. He looses the match just a few hours later.
Several "off the board" tactics worked in Deep Blues favor.
First of all, ther match was shorter than a regular chess championship match with few days off between games. Though it is true that Kasprov didnt think Deep blue would become fatagued, neither did he expect that he himself would get fatagued. But he did.
Second of all, it is common in chess matches for the "coach" of each side to study the games of the oponet and then help the player prep. This is very much like how a baseball or football coatch will watch the sports reels of a rival team to find out that teams weeknesses. Deep blue was feed extensive information about Kasprov and his playing styles (It would be fair to say that Deep Blue was not the best chess playing program ever, but the best beet-kasprov program ever. In a computer only tournment shortly after the original match, Deep blue came in at the bottom of the pack . It did so because it was designed to play againt kasprov, not play chess againt other computers or play chess just in general). However, the "coach" kasprove uses didnt have any previous games played by Deep Blue in order to study. Kasprov went into the match not knowing what to expect, where Deep Blue knew exactly what to expect.
Probably the biggest blow however came durring a dinner conversation after game 2. Kasprov resigned that game. However, it turns out that he had one last "dirty trick" he could have used in order to get a draw. But Kasprov reasoned "well, its a computer. Im fairly sure that dirty trick wouldent work because Deep Blue would never get into that kind of position in the first place". But it turns out the trick would have worked after all. If he had played againt anyone besides Deep Blue he surely would have at least tried the trick. At dinner that night, Kasprovs coach told him the he had resigned in a position that was a draw. Kasprov was angry and upset by this and was beeting himself up the whole rest of the match. Computers dont get frustrated or mad.
There is also the issue that IBM was "tweeking" the computer inbetween each game. Kasprov Might have learned a thing or two about the computers playing style in the first few games and could have used that in the folowing games. But he was efectivly playing a brand new computer every game. This showed up most in the famous bishiop retreat at move 32 of game 2. This move just wasent Deep Bl;ues "style" and it suprised Kasprov. Computers never get suprised.
In the last game, Kasprov was actualy ahead on material when he stormed off the stage. However, he had blundered by thinking to himself "Ok, I will move the night and then move the pawn" but instead reached out to the board and played the pawn first and then the night. This out-of-order sequence sent things into a chaotic tailspin with all kinds of crazy odd complications. Its the kind of position that computers thrive at and humans are terible at. Kasprov once again assumed "hey, the computer must know what its doing" and just gave up less than a quarter of the way into the
I was going to let this go on by assuming it was a troll. But on further thought I will try to address the issue you raise.
Two examples I would like to give. IN Douglass Addams book "life the universe and everything" Auther Dent gets into a fight with Thor. Now clearly Thor is the better fighter, yet Dent "wins" the fight anyway. A second example, though not nearly as much a nerd-refrence, is the movie The Hustler. Fast Eddie was clearly the better pool player than Minisota Fats. However, Fats "wins" the pool match anyway.
Saying that Deep Blue is a better chessplayer than Kasprov is a bit like saying that Dent was the better fighter or Fats was the better pool player. Where each of them won was not in the game itself, but in the meta-game.
You asked what caused Kasprov to become so stressed. It was *NOT* because he was loosing the chessgame, but rather that he was loosing the battle of wills.
It also was not 'the chess playing computer program that defeated the world's top chess player'. Instead it was 'the chess playing computer program that caused the world's top chess player so much stress that he stormed off the stage in an angry huff in the last game'
What makes you think he'll stand down after his second term?
I learn from experience and know that history repeats itself. Lets take a look at a few of the other things that folks claimed Bush would do.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush only went to iraq to ensure cheep oil. His whole family is in the oil business and he picked a vice-presedent who was head of an energy company. He is clearly in bed with OPEC.
ME: Hummm? Price of gas still looks a little high. Seems to me that OPEC is damn well dictating their own prices. Not listing to the US.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush is just power hungry and wants to take over every country in the world.
ME: Afghanistan has its own functioning government now and women are allowed to vote in free elections for the first time ever. Iraq has their own functioning government now and volunteers are signing up in droves to be policemen. Kuwait is having elections as we speak. The recent Lebanon elections were won by those who are opposed to the united states. Dosen't seem too imperialistic to me.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush wants an ongoing war in order to keep the American population afraid. People who live in fear are easier to control.
ME: The American news hasen't said didily shit about anything in the middle east for months. The only way I even know whats going on is by going to the BBC website. Today the lead news item on every network is about the Michal Jackson trial and even then only to say "No new news". A few days ago, the lead story on FoxNews was that Spamalot won a tony. People are talking more now about a missing teen in Aruba than are talking anythign about the war. Iraq has slipped from the front of americas attention
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush is just part of the old-boys club and is pulling the strings to make sure all his white+male+fundamentalist Christian friends are the ones in power.
ME: The white male fundamentalist Christian Attorney General got thrown out on his ear. His Secretary of State is a pro-choice black woman. His cabinet includes Blacks, Women, Latinos, and Asians.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will reinstate the draft.
ME: Still waiting on that one. Someone wake me up when that one happens? Ok?
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will pass a constitutional amendment baning gay marriage. He just hates all gays because of his faith and he will do whatever he can to persecute homosexuals.
ME: No amendment is in the works. Massachusetts courts upheld gay marriage during his watch, and if Bush sent in National Gard troops to Massachusetts to crack down on them all I must have been watching some other channel when that news hit.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will overturn roe-vs-wade and end all abortions in the country as we know it.
ME: As of today, abortions are still happening in the country. He sure is taking his sweet time about overturning it. He might try for it when a few of the folks on the supreme court drop dead, but the ones at risk of dying are the conservative ones. So he will replace a conservative judge with another conservative. Whoptie do! They could very well be filibustered anyway. And besides, Reagan packed the court so far to the right that it lost its balance, fell over, tumbled off capital hill, and splashed into the Atlantic Ocean and they STILL didn't overturn roe-vs-wade.
Every warning cry I have heard of "bush will do this" or "bush will do that" has turned up not coming true. Now that folks are screaming that he will try and take a third tern I foresee that not coming true either.
Mod me Flamebait if you must. The only thing more sure than "Microsoft is evil" around this place is "Bush is evil". We all KNOW they are evil regardless of what bill/bush actually does.
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It says so right in the post. "Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US"
Why oh why are they blocking our freedom to have a
Lightweights!
I was trying to be ironic ..... posts that just link to wikipedia deserve an informative mod about as much as a post saying "Hey everyone, water is wet" deserve an informative mod.
Did you look in the obvious place first?
Insightful? INSIGHTFUL??!!! ..... Please tell me that was just someone's mouse slipping and they didn't actually intend for that to get moded insightful.
I could be mistaken on this, but I am almost positive that parent post is not an actual bank robber. I doubt you are gaining any insight into the mind of how a bank robber actually thinks and feels.
I know it may look like parent is insulting grandparent, but this is a quote from the movie 'Demolition Man' ..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
I use 355/113. It is good out to 6 places. Easy to remember as well. Read it from the bottom up and it just repeting odd digits ..... one one three three five five.
Well actually what they need is a General Products' #3 hull. NOTE TO MODS: This post should be moded funny. Child post should be moded informative.
I'm sorry, I have a patent on informing people about preexisting patents. Now you owe me money. :-P
No, it will not ever be over. Stupidity will always exist. As long as there has been patents and as long as there will be patents there will be stupidity. Stupidity will always be in any human endeavor.
Ok, looks like taxes are the only sure bet left.
Exactly my point. Taking the corn in the first place was totally natural and neither Jesus nor the Pharisees though anything was wrong with THAT at all. They might have disagreed on if it was or wasn't ok to do it on the sabbath, but absolutely nobody thought it was wrong to take crops that belonged to someone else.
Jesus had no moral or ethical hangups with taking corn that wasn't his, therefore I claim he would also not have any issue with taking music that "belongs" to someone else.
If Jesus and his crew didnt have problems with doing this kind of petty theft then I cant find any moral fault in it either.
While that may be true for physical goods, I am not all that convinced it is true for 'intellectual property'
For someone taking crops out of a field, it reduces the total amount of crop. However, when I download music off the net doesn't mean that the total amount of music on the net has been reduced.
I would also tend to believe that CD sales have an inelastic demand curve. The people who are willing to fork cash for a Brittany Spears CD are going to pay for it regardless if it is downloadable or not. The people who refuse to listen to Brittany Spears will not listen to it even if it is made available for free. Food isn't like this at all. Offer free food and people will stuff themselves with all they can possible eat even if they would not normally eat chocolate covered hotdogs otherwise.
One way they are alike, however, is in loss leader. I personally have purchased CDs after hearing samples I have downloaded off the net. Likewise, I have made purchases at a grocery store of food I would not have otherwise purchased because I was handed a free sample.
Those of us who are not morons like to learn new things.
I read that as "those of us who are not Mormons" and thought for a second that Ken Jennings was posting as AC. (You gotta admit that Ken Jennings would probably have the history of rats in New Zealand memorized)
Not the first. This was predicted for years. Just listen to all those rap songs talking about G-money.
also there is Angle-grinder Man http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3112670.stm
Right, sure, like anyone believes that you want that much storage for music. You just want to use it for pr0n.
His ego lost him the match.
Exactly my point. It was not that Deep Blue was better at chess than him. The loss happened because of ego, not because of skill at moving the pieces.
How about the fact that Batman is Bruce Wayne .....
Way to ruin it for me ya jerk! How about a spoiler warning next time?
Dent and Thor fought while they were at the party that was flying through the sky. Dent puts up his fists and says "wanna make something out of it?". Thor, knowing that he can easily pummel this puny mortal, agrees. Dent says "fine, lets step outside" and thor steps out the door before remembering that "outside" was several thousand feet up in the air. Dent stays safely inside the building and thuss ~wins~ without ever throwing a punch.
In the hustler, Fast Eddie chalanges Minisota Fats to a very high stakes pool match. The match lasts for hours and hours at a virtual tie. However, Fast Eddie is fairing slightly better. After something like 24 or 36 hours of constant play, Fast Eddie is about to win the match. Fats steps into the bathroom, cleans his face, washes himself down, has a glass of water, puts on a new suit, and steps out again fresh as a dazy. In quick order, Eddies lead vanishes and he finds himself on the defensive. He looses the match just a few hours later.
Several "off the board" tactics worked in Deep Blues favor.
First of all, ther match was shorter than a regular chess championship match with few days off between games. Though it is true that Kasprov didnt think Deep blue would become fatagued, neither did he expect that he himself would get fatagued. But he did.
Second of all, it is common in chess matches for the "coach" of each side to study the games of the oponet and then help the player prep. This is very much like how a baseball or football coatch will watch the sports reels of a rival team to find out that teams weeknesses. Deep blue was feed extensive information about Kasprov and his playing styles (It would be fair to say that Deep Blue was not the best chess playing program ever, but the best beet-kasprov program ever. In a computer only tournment shortly after the original match, Deep blue came in at the bottom of the pack . It did so because it was designed to play againt kasprov, not play chess againt other computers or play chess just in general). However, the "coach" kasprove uses didnt have any previous games played by Deep Blue in order to study. Kasprov went into the match not knowing what to expect, where Deep Blue knew exactly what to expect.
Probably the biggest blow however came durring a dinner conversation after game 2. Kasprov resigned that game. However, it turns out that he had one last "dirty trick" he could have used in order to get a draw. But Kasprov reasoned "well, its a computer. Im fairly sure that dirty trick wouldent work because Deep Blue would never get into that kind of position in the first place". But it turns out the trick would have worked after all. If he had played againt anyone besides Deep Blue he surely would have at least tried the trick. At dinner that night, Kasprovs coach told him the he had resigned in a position that was a draw. Kasprov was angry and upset by this and was beeting himself up the whole rest of the match. Computers dont get frustrated or mad.
There is also the issue that IBM was "tweeking" the computer inbetween each game. Kasprov Might have learned a thing or two about the computers playing style in the first few games and could have used that in the folowing games. But he was efectivly playing a brand new computer every game. This showed up most in the famous bishiop retreat at move 32 of game 2. This move just wasent Deep Bl;ues "style" and it suprised Kasprov. Computers never get suprised.
In the last game, Kasprov was actualy ahead on material when he stormed off the stage. However, he had blundered by thinking to himself "Ok, I will move the night and then move the pawn" but instead reached out to the board and played the pawn first and then the night. This out-of-order sequence sent things into a chaotic tailspin with all kinds of crazy odd complications. Its the kind of position that computers thrive at and humans are terible at. Kasprov once again assumed "hey, the computer must know what its doing" and just gave up less than a quarter of the way into the
I was going to let this go on by assuming it was a troll. But on further thought I will try to address the issue you raise.
Two examples I would like to give. IN Douglass Addams book "life the universe and everything" Auther Dent gets into a fight with Thor. Now clearly Thor is the better fighter, yet Dent "wins" the fight anyway. A second example, though not nearly as much a nerd-refrence, is the movie The Hustler. Fast Eddie was clearly the better pool player than Minisota Fats. However, Fats "wins" the pool match anyway.
Saying that Deep Blue is a better chessplayer than Kasprov is a bit like saying that Dent was the better fighter or Fats was the better pool player. Where each of them won was not in the game itself, but in the meta-game.
You asked what caused Kasprov to become so stressed. It was *NOT* because he was loosing the chessgame, but rather that he was loosing the battle of wills.
It also was not 'the chess playing computer program that defeated the world's top chess player'. Instead it was 'the chess playing computer program that caused the world's top chess player so much stress that he stormed off the stage in an angry huff in the last game'
Losing is not the same as quiting.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush only went to iraq to ensure cheep oil. His whole family is in the oil business and he picked a vice-presedent who was head of an energy company. He is clearly in bed with OPEC.
ME: Hummm? Price of gas still looks a little high. Seems to me that OPEC is damn well dictating their own prices. Not listing to the US.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush is just power hungry and wants to take over every country in the world.
ME: Afghanistan has its own functioning government now and women are allowed to vote in free elections for the first time ever. Iraq has their own functioning government now and volunteers are signing up in droves to be policemen. Kuwait is having elections as we speak. The recent Lebanon elections were won by those who are opposed to the united states. Dosen't seem too imperialistic to me.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush wants an ongoing war in order to keep the American population afraid. People who live in fear are easier to control.
ME: The American news hasen't said didily shit about anything in the middle east for months. The only way I even know whats going on is by going to the BBC website. Today the lead news item on every network is about the Michal Jackson trial and even then only to say "No new news". A few days ago, the lead story on FoxNews was that Spamalot won a tony. People are talking more now about a missing teen in Aruba than are talking anythign about the war. Iraq has slipped from the front of americas attention
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush is just part of the old-boys club and is pulling the strings to make sure all his white+male+fundamentalist Christian friends are the ones in power.
ME: The white male fundamentalist Christian Attorney General got thrown out on his ear. His Secretary of State is a pro-choice black woman. His cabinet includes Blacks, Women, Latinos, and Asians.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will reinstate the draft.
ME: Still waiting on that one. Someone wake me up when that one happens? Ok?
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will pass a constitutional amendment baning gay marriage. He just hates all gays because of his faith and he will do whatever he can to persecute homosexuals.
ME: No amendment is in the works. Massachusetts courts upheld gay marriage during his watch, and if Bush sent in National Gard troops to Massachusetts to crack down on them all I must have been watching some other channel when that news hit.
CHICKEN LITTLE: Bush will overturn roe-vs-wade and end all abortions in the country as we know it.
ME: As of today, abortions are still happening in the country. He sure is taking his sweet time about overturning it. He might try for it when a few of the folks on the supreme court drop dead, but the ones at risk of dying are the conservative ones. So he will replace a conservative judge with another conservative. Whoptie do! They could very well be filibustered anyway. And besides, Reagan packed the court so far to the right that it lost its balance, fell over, tumbled off capital hill, and splashed into the Atlantic Ocean and they STILL didn't overturn roe-vs-wade.
Every warning cry I have heard of "bush will do this" or "bush will do that" has turned up not coming true. Now that folks are screaming that he will try and take a third tern I foresee that not coming true either.
Mod me Flamebait if you must. The only thing more sure than "Microsoft is evil" around this place is "Bush is evil". We all KNOW they are evil regardless of what bill/bush actually does.
the mnemonic "King Philip Cried Out For Goodness Sake" comes to mind I like to use "Kids, please come over for gay sex".