This pitiful use of McCain's POW status to excuse every one of his shortcomings is really sickening
He usually leaves out the part about making propaganda films for his captors, though.
Score: 5, Interesting, *not* Flamebait?
Wow.
I'm not really sure that a Senator or President should spend a lot of their time emailing or posting hate-rants on their favorite blogowebs. That seems like a job for their staff as, hopefully, they have more important things to do.
if only so conspiracy theorists can STFU and stop thinking every election where their preferred candidate doesn't win is "stolen".
There were NO stories in the mainstream media on election machine tampering and voter fraud after the 2006 election when Democrats swept to power. (as compared to 2000 and 2004)
Any bets on that being the case if McCain pulls an upset??
Forbes, May 2000: His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.
some cutesy slides with LOCAL data. Just because it's getting colder (since 1998, w00t!) in a canyon in Colorado, doesn't mean that "global warming" is (or isn't happening).
The slides point out four different metrics including NASA's, that show a cooling trend since 1998, and a fifth (NOAA Argo Buoys) since 2003. Not just "a canyon in Colorado".
There was also a period of global cooling in the 1970's, which is *not* in dispute and some scientists *were* concerned about a coming ice age. The parent tries to dismiss this all as
a complete myth
just because some scientists did not agree with the conclusion about the ice age.
Like the complete myth that all respectable climatologists are on board with man made global warming? Like Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at the University of Colorado. He has created a power point on climate change.
You *know* you totally dug it that album. I mean, like, they played *acoustically* man! That takes talent, like classical training and stuff, for real, man.
Then they can set the temperature to whatever they want.;)
Re:Great, but how about clicking and carpal tunnel
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Have they done anything to tone down the insane amount of mouse clicks needed to play the game?
I so wish they'd add an "Auto-Attack" feature. You'd think it'd be easy enough to implement. That way you could take a break once in a while. It could be made more interesting by choosing more than one attack type for your character to randomly (perhaps weighted) use in this mode. Or combos, etc.
How will Al Gore blame this one on Man?
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The Quietest Sun
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Perhaps our solar panels are absorbing TOO MUCH SUNSHINE!!!!
It sounds like they errantly based the rules for the contest on his prediction:
He predicted that by the end of the century, computers would have a 30 per cent chance of being mistaken for a human being in five minutes of text-based conversation.
Compare that to Turing's description of his test.
Turing suggested that a computer could be said to be thinking if, in a text-based conversation, it was impossible to distinguish its responses from those of a human.
"Impossible to distinguish" certainly sounds like more than 30% to me. It would seem the threshold should be the percent in a control group where all the candidate conversationalists are human. Unfortunately, the article does not mention what that percent is. Does anyone know?
Only one anonymous hater? C'mon internet, I know you can do better than that!
what you consider to be "Econ 101" has been proven over and over to not be a universal truth
I didn't claim it was a universal truth, but it certainly applies to our current situation as the "Bush tax cuts" the dems are so eager to "rollback" raised revenues.
Earlier this month the Congressional Budget Office released its latest report on tax revenue collections. The numbers are an eye-popping vindication of the Laffer Curve and the Bush tax cut's real economic value. Federal tax revenues surged in the first eight months of this fiscal year by $187 billion. This represents a 15.4% rise in federal tax receipts over 2004. Individual and corporate income tax receipts have exploded like a cap let off a geyser, up 30% in the two years since the tax cut. Once again, tax rate cuts have created a virtuous chain reaction of higher economic growth, more jobs, higher corporate profits, and finally more tax receipts.
This Laffer Curve effect has also created a revenue windfall for states and cities. As the economic expansion has plowed forward, and in some regions of the country accelerated, state tax receipts have climbed 7.5% this year already. Perhaps the most remarkable story from around the nation comes from the perpetually indebted New York City, which suddenly finds itself more than $3 billion in surplus thanks to an unexpected gush in revenues. Many of President Bush's critics foolishly predicted that states and localities would be victims of the Bush tax cut gamble.
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and have a girlfriend
I've dated Rosey too, but I don't brag about it.
How are her sisters anyway?
Good to see the best minds of this generation have chosen to benefit humankind with... ...a better way to steal stuff!
Gee, I hope she stays off the Vicodin
This pitiful use of McCain's POW status to excuse every one of his shortcomings is really sickening
He usually leaves out the part about making propaganda films for his captors, though.
Score: 5, Interesting, *not* Flamebait?
Wow.
I'm not really sure that a Senator or President should spend a lot of their time emailing or posting hate-rants on their favorite blogowebs. That seems like a job for their staff as, hopefully, they have more important things to do.
Nobody wants to look stupid
I passed a guy this morning with a Bush/Quayle '92 bumper sticker who begs to differ.
if only so conspiracy theorists can STFU and stop thinking every election where their preferred candidate doesn't win is "stolen".
There were NO stories in the mainstream media on election machine tampering and voter fraud after the 2006 election when Democrats swept to power. (as compared to 2000 and 2004)
Any bets on that being the case if McCain pulls an upset??
Yeah, media bias is SO overblown.
Or disqualify McCain for the inability to use a computer.
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_mccain_unable_to_use_a_computer.html
Forbes, May 2000: His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.
some cutesy slides with LOCAL data. Just because it's getting colder (since 1998, w00t!) in a canyon in Colorado, doesn't mean that "global warming" is (or isn't happening).
The slides point out four different metrics including NASA's, that show a cooling trend since 1998, and a fifth (NOAA Argo Buoys) since 2003. Not just "a canyon in Colorado".
There was also a period of global cooling in the 1970's, which is *not* in dispute and some scientists *were* concerned about a coming ice age. The parent tries to dismiss this all as
a complete myth
just because some scientists did not agree with the conclusion about the ice age.
If you are reading this, you owe me ten cents per word. I can no longer afford to give away my valuable insights on slashdot free of charge.
This is a complete myth.
Like the complete myth that all respectable climatologists are on board with man made global warming?
Like Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at the University of Colorado.
He has created a power point on climate change.
Read this and be enlightened
http://climatesci.org/2008/10/14/dr-richard-keens-global-warming-quiz/
...who's takeaway from the article is that we need to build more nuclear plants?
America does need to build more nuclear plants.
The rest of the world is because it is safe and clean.
Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, need you name more?
Yes, you do.
Even reasonable environmentalists are considering nuclear.
Happens when you play Pan's flute too long.
You *know* you totally dug it that album.
I mean, like, they played *acoustically* man!
That takes talent, like classical training and stuff, for real, man.
How many people casually compare the Patriot Act to Nazi-facism on their way to buy a cart full of Chinese products at Target?
By my reckoning, ever since "Five Man Acoustical Jam".
best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million
Or 1% of web pages
And whoever smelt it, is probably undergoing explosive decompression.
laughing out loud! (my abbreviator is broken)
Those modding flamebait need to youtube the Saturday Night Live Shatner skit. It's very funny.
I, for one, HAVE a life, so though I will be seeing the new Star Trek movie opening night, I will NOT be in costume. Those people are freaks! ;)
Correction: ..... .....
Why don't.... you... people....
Get a life!
I have MythTV, but it only records what Obama says. ;)
IT'S A JOKE PEOPLE!
Then they can set the temperature to whatever they want. ;)
Have they done anything to tone down the insane amount of mouse clicks needed to play the game?
I so wish they'd add an "Auto-Attack" feature.
You'd think it'd be easy enough to implement.
That way you could take a break once in a while.
It could be made more interesting by choosing more than one attack type for your character to randomly (perhaps weighted) use in this mode. Or combos, etc.
Perhaps our solar panels are absorbing TOO MUCH SUNSHINE!!!!
Just deducing from TFA:
It sounds like they errantly based the rules for the contest on his prediction:
He predicted that by the end of the century, computers would have a 30 per cent chance of being mistaken for a human being in five minutes of text-based conversation.
Compare that to Turing's description of his test.
Turing suggested that a computer could be said to be thinking if, in a text-based conversation, it was impossible to distinguish its responses from those of a human.
"Impossible to distinguish" certainly sounds like more than 30% to me. It would seem the threshold should be the percent in a control group where all the candidate conversationalists are human. Unfortunately, the article does not mention what that percent is. Does anyone know?
Only one anonymous hater?
C'mon internet, I know you can do better than that!
what you consider to be "Econ 101" has been proven over and over to not be a universal truth
I didn't claim it was a universal truth, but it certainly applies to our current situation as the "Bush tax cuts" the dems are so eager to "rollback" raised revenues.
Here's some pesky Econ 101 for ya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006842
From the article above:
Earlier this month the Congressional Budget Office released its latest report on tax revenue collections. The numbers are an eye-popping vindication of the Laffer Curve and the Bush tax cut's real economic value. Federal tax revenues surged in the first eight months of this fiscal year by $187 billion. This represents a 15.4% rise in federal tax receipts over 2004. Individual and corporate income tax receipts have exploded like a cap let off a geyser, up 30% in the two years since the tax cut. Once again, tax rate cuts have created a virtuous chain reaction of higher economic growth, more jobs, higher corporate profits, and finally more tax receipts.
This Laffer Curve effect has also created a revenue windfall for states and cities. As the economic expansion has plowed forward, and in some regions of the country accelerated, state tax receipts have climbed 7.5% this year already. Perhaps the most remarkable story from around the nation comes from the perpetually indebted New York City, which suddenly finds itself more than $3 billion in surplus thanks to an unexpected gush in revenues. Many of President Bush's critics foolishly predicted that states and localities would be victims of the Bush tax cut gamble.