I still don't get it, and I'd be glad if someone could explain.
The entire first statement seems irrelevant, since the question is "what is the probability that my other child is a boy?" The probability of any child being a boy is 1/2. The two events are entirely independent. It's like saying "I flipped a coin on Tuesday and it was heads. What's the probability of another coin flip being heads?" The answer is always going to be 1/2. The first coin flip has no effect on the second. The day of the week has no effect on the coin flip. What am I missing here?
I don't think you're capable of understanding the justification. You're coming at the situation with the preconceived notion that Raytheon is evil and wrong, and you're downplaying people's honest beliefs as
nonsense" and "pathetic". You need to understand that there are many people who do not share your opinions and beliefs, and are not coming to the table with even close to the same assumptions about how the world works.
>"Well, look at what has happened in the past - we must be strong or we'll be crushed!" is the mantra of every abusive government.
Correction, that's been the mantra of every government and group of people that's survived to see today. It's a shitty world. You could use a dose of reality if you think it's not.
Seriously, why should I care what he has to say about anything? People are always throwing quotes around as though I should give two shits about what the guy being quoted has to say. I don't. If you can't make an argument as to why your point of view is correct, don't try throwing quotes at me in an attempted appeal to authority.
The thing that bothers me about people who are all about the "spirit of copyleft" is that they're aren't happy to just release their own ideas. They want to force everyone to abandon copyright and release their ideas/work into the public domain, with imho, is just not right.
Ah yes, great minds that come up with ideas like "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we set up a website that would be used almost exclusively for people to illegally trade copyright materials? And wouldn't it be great if we named that site after a word commonly used to refer to the practice of copyright infringement?"
>We don't need a military-like "big red button" in the boss's office that shuts down all Internet systems... that would open us up to even worse problems.
Why does everyone on this site go full retard when Microsoft is involved? I just looked in my addons/plugins on Firefox and I've got plugins for:
* Google's Picasa
* Hulu Desktop
* Google Update
* Google Earth
* Adobe Acrobat
I didn't specifically install any of those plugins, and yet they are there. Are you going to call out Google, Hulu, and Adobe for installing their plugins "silently"?
Doesn't it depend on how 33 mpg vehicles there are compared to how many 10 mpg vehicle there are and how often each kind is driven? It's not so simple as you think. While 10-20 might be the better choice for a single car, does that hold when you consider the aggregate of both types of cars?
Which one do you drive more? If the truck is used to haul stuff occasionally, but the car is used all the time, it makes more sense to upgrade the car.
Does it really make that big of a difference? Either way you can pretty quickly figure out how many gallons it will take to get somewhere. If anything, it might be easier to figure out how much farther you can go on your current fuel if you know mpg instead of gpm.
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I guess it depends on how you look at it. I say we're both right.
> the only thing that is definitely "used" is the name (Lemmings) and the original EGA graphics from the game
You do realize that those are actually a big deal, right?
The "it's not theft, it's copyright infringement!" is often the only argument that anti-IP people have in these discussions.
Age doesn't matter to the question. You either have a boy and a girl or a boy and a boy. In this case, BG and GB are the same outcome.
If you already have an H, TH is not longer an option for you. You're left with HH and HT.
How is it 33%? If you have a boy, then you only have two options for your kids: BB or BG.
I still don't get it, and I'd be glad if someone could explain.
The entire first statement seems irrelevant, since the question is "what is the probability that my other child is a boy?" The probability of any child being a boy is 1/2. The two events are entirely independent. It's like saying "I flipped a coin on Tuesday and it was heads. What's the probability of another coin flip being heads?" The answer is always going to be 1/2. The first coin flip has no effect on the second. The day of the week has no effect on the coin flip. What am I missing here?
How is that not the same? Either way, once you know that one coin is heads, the only two options left are HH or HT.
I don't get it. He tells us that he has a boy. So that leaves two possibilities. He has a boy-boy or a boy-girl. That 1/2.
Obviously the dead bugs act as fertilizer, right?
Why are you accusing people of using strawman arguments when you've been using them through your posts?
Example: "because without firms like Raytheon my daughter would be raped in the streets by the enemy" (nonsense)"
I don't think you're capable of understanding the justification. You're coming at the situation with the preconceived notion that Raytheon is evil and wrong, and you're downplaying people's honest beliefs as nonsense" and "pathetic". You need to understand that there are many people who do not share your opinions and beliefs, and are not coming to the table with even close to the same assumptions about how the world works.
>"Well, look at what has happened in the past - we must be strong or we'll be crushed!" is the mantra of every abusive government.
Correction, that's been the mantra of every government and group of people that's survived to see today. It's a shitty world. You could use a dose of reality if you think it's not.
"Lloyd Biggle is an assclown."
--Me
Seriously, why should I care what he has to say about anything? People are always throwing quotes around as though I should give two shits about what the guy being quoted has to say. I don't. If you can't make an argument as to why your point of view is correct, don't try throwing quotes at me in an attempted appeal to authority.
The thing that bothers me about people who are all about the "spirit of copyleft" is that they're aren't happy to just release their own ideas. They want to force everyone to abandon copyright and release their ideas/work into the public domain, with imho, is just not right.
Ah yes, great minds that come up with ideas like "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we set up a website that would be used almost exclusively for people to illegally trade copyright materials? And wouldn't it be great if we named that site after a word commonly used to refer to the practice of copyright infringement?"
>We don't need a military-like "big red button" in the boss's office that shuts down all Internet systems... that would open us up to even worse problems.
That's not in the bill, and it never has been.
They already released the source for 3.0: http://www.abine.com/taco_source.php
And people like you seem to be under the false impression that just because you don't understand something, it is bad.
I didn't get this installed on any of my computers. Guess what I don't have? The Bing toolbar! Who would have guessed?
Why does everyone on this site go full retard when Microsoft is involved? I just looked in my addons/plugins on Firefox and I've got plugins for:
* Google's Picasa
* Hulu Desktop
* Google Update
* Google Earth
* Adobe Acrobat
I didn't specifically install any of those plugins, and yet they are there. Are you going to call out Google, Hulu, and Adobe for installing their plugins "silently"?
Somewhere along the line, you consented.
HE'S SAYING THAT SWITCHING FROM A 10 MPG CAR TO A 33 MPG CAR WOULD BE EVEN BETTER. Are we clear now?
Doesn't it depend on how 33 mpg vehicles there are compared to how many 10 mpg vehicle there are and how often each kind is driven? It's not so simple as you think. While 10-20 might be the better choice for a single car, does that hold when you consider the aggregate of both types of cars?
Which one do you drive more? If the truck is used to haul stuff occasionally, but the car is used all the time, it makes more sense to upgrade the car.
Does it really make that big of a difference? Either way you can pretty quickly figure out how many gallons it will take to get somewhere. If anything, it might be easier to figure out how much farther you can go on your current fuel if you know mpg instead of gpm.