Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Okay - comparison versus mention. Fair's fair.
Still, if you have to go back 70 years in time where the worst they did was supplying a dictator with tabulating machines, and you can't find anything else, then involving Hitler doesn't really strengthen the case versus IBM.
The market for talent is a global one, you should be grateful companies decide to stay in the US, where they pay taxes, instead of moving operations elsewhere, as many have done.
Western salaries have been historically too high, a global economy will correct this, wether one likes it or not
Funny. Whenever CEO's tell us the market for talent is a global one, they mean that they should get paid more, or else they leave. Whenever it's about us, it somehow means we have to make do with less, or else they kick us out.
As a freelancer, I've found that it's exactly the opposite: I get hired for jobs in other countries because the market for workers is global. But CEO's are CEO because they are tied into the political superstructure of a country. Once they leave, they usually find that their whole network is gone and that is most of their value.
That the USA has a history of rotten unions is obvious. It also has a history of much better ones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World). In the 90's we had some trouble over here with a union that didn't do anything for its members either. A new one was founded and quickly outmatched the old one whose members left in droves for the new union.
Having no union is still worse than even a corrupt union, though, as the corrupt union has to do at least *something* for their members in order to get them to join. And if you're in a closed shop, you can apply and organize inside the union. Not easy but sitting back and complaining never helped anyone.
The law applies to *public* demonstrations. Not closed demonstrations covered by a solid wall of NDA's. And if you demonstrated it years ago in the US, there's no way a EU firm could hold the patent. You could still file it in the USA if noone did before you, but never in the EU. On the other hand, the guy in the audience that was a bit faster than you? Neither could he.
Don't discount the advantages because you dislike one particular disadvantage.
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Black Holes contain information. So I'm sure tweets do too.
If my car died while waiting at a red light someone doesn't have the right to kill me.
Now see, it just looked like that car was in real pain. It was obviously dying or dead. So I thought, why not relieve it of its misery? How was I to know there was still some live in it? It was all a simple mistake.
To say nothing of the fact that Burning man now bans 'private' explosives, dogs and guns. I'll admit that dogs were a bad idea as they get scared and run away.
I don't mind that, but I'm drawing the line at banning private artillery pieces.
The important bit here is why? Why does this methodology work so well. Is it because that deep down on a very fundamental level this "Geometry" is hard coded in the way the universe works? If so. What does this tell us about how things really work?
That's a pretty good question. I've been wondering about that too, given the convergence between our definitions of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity, which describes how much information is encoded in a signal (also tied in with Shannon's law). It hits directly into the heart of the question: what is information and how does it relate to reality? At a basic level, our universe may be comprised of "information", or rather: a signal on top of noise.
This new discovery seems to suggest that at the most basic level, particles can be described as a mathematical function on top of some sort of "white noise" as well. I wonder how long it will take to converge the two ideas. If ever.
In any case, exciting times are ahead for so-called computer scientists that deal with things like geometric algorithms. I predict a hot demand for top mathematicians in that field to arise very soon.
Anyway, exciting times to be a theoretical physicist! Everyone expecting breakthroughs coming from the LHC and the experimental boys and girls, and now suddenly, out of left field the theoretical physicists come back with a big right hook out of nowhere:)
You confuse fraud detection, willingly installed and lovingly maintained as "core business" by any serious bank - with the official blacklist, not well maintained and quite useless for stopping serious fraud.
The fact you were called is because the fraud detection software kicked in - and "less than one hour" means the calldesk was quite busy, you're usually flagged in seconds. Banks employ all kinds of software for this, from rule-based detection (not very good) to neural networks trained on all the cases they see in the entire world (very very good at detecting fraud, much better than human rules even), ranging in price from 100K to millions.
The blacklist is implemented by the trainee in a lazy afternoon and it dates back to the Dark Ages. Only the really stupid get caught by it.
Yeah, I see what you mean: the old "communists and jews eating our babies" conspiracy again - aka the Blood libel. It's not an explanation, it's a rambling collection of bullshit that traces right back to the Tsarist Ochrana and even darker times before that.
The reason why Israel is supported is pretty obvious: it's a stable and well guarded military base in a globally sensitive region. It's also a testbed for new tactics to use against unruly populations (handy if the Occupy movement ever gets out of hand) and for new military hardware - no(t many) questions asked.
All in all the military/industrial complex is getting your money's worth out of supporting Israel.
Even though the first posters all respond like they've been touched in a bad place, I think it's a great idea. There are several games I don't really play and some of my friends would like to try. Or vice versa. Brilliant.
Congratulations, you RTFA'd. That's 5 points right there. However, you didn't click on the links, and you missed several of the pretty obvious signs that this was satire. But you get another point for replying with legible comments.
All in all, I give you 6 out of 10.
On the other hand, the article is a rather nice example of why Poe's law is valid.
1. He followed Trayvon -- he was the one doing the assaulting.
1. So if I'm on the street, I can turn around and open fire on the crowd. They're all following me!
As for question 2. No. They usually have less money than white folks. Money wins in the US courts. And even besides that, the judges and officers are more likely to be white and have prejudices stemming from their background, education, or social environment. Which is a good reason to be diligently avoiding the police and the courts if you're not white, or a foreigner.
But having said that, Zimmerman was still cleared on good grounds, in my opinion.
If Zimmerman provoked a fight, why was he attacked in the back on the way to his car, after losing sight of Trayvon?
The authorities didn't warn Zimmerman to not follow Trayvon, they said he didn't have to. Given the burglaries in the neighbourhood and the way Trayvon looked (a rather unsavory character who I wouldn't care to meet in a dark alley late at night) Zimmerman opted to see what he was doing.
The US are at the point that extradition from The Netherlands to the USA is actually becoming pretty difficult. Suspects claim with a reasonable amount of success that the prisons in the USA are a form of torture and that they can't expect a fair hearing anyway, due to the plea bargaining system.
Which is good news, since you'd get even more prisoners otherwise:)
I'm talking about online though. I've been to Switzerland, and while people point out the good things about their country, I don't know if they'd say it was "the best". And to be fair, Switzerland is objectively a pretty awesome place by most metrics;)
Measured by looking at how things work out for the Swiss. I'm not so sure I'd like to migrate there - even as someone from a neighbouring state it's pretty hard to get accepted outside the main cities, according to several people that worked there. Also, the ideas they have about women are still pretty backward, even though all states allow women to vote nowadays.
But if you go by air quality and chocolate cacao content, I'm pretty sure they're nr. 1:)
The US embassy in Hanoi is deeply concerned about the situation in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Russian embassy is deeply concerned about the situation in the US. Meanwhile, the Turkish embassy was deeply concerned about the situation in Germany. Meanwhile...
Every government is deeply concerned with the freedoms of someone else's citizens. Even Putin is probably deeply concerned about some foreign citizens somewhere.
It really breaks my heart to see all our leaders so concerned for the welfare and freedom of citizens that don't live in their own country *sniff*.
Although I don't think the US embassy is wrong here. This decree is ofcourse a blatant attack on the rights of the Vietnamese people to have a say in how their country is run, which is undesirable as far as the Vietnamese rulers are concerned. The fact they deemed it necessary to actually pronounce this decree, however, gives me great hopes for the future, since laws are mostly made about events that are happening. Even the laws in Hammurabi's codex give great insight of the problems the rulers had in these days with the opposition. And while this decree is a big step backward, it also shows huge trouble brewing for the Vietnamese government.
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Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Okay - comparison versus mention. Fair's fair.
Still, if you have to go back 70 years in time where the worst they did was supplying a dictator with tabulating machines, and you can't find anything else, then involving Hitler doesn't really strengthen the case versus IBM.
The market for talent is a global one, you should be grateful companies decide to stay in the US, where they pay taxes, instead of moving operations elsewhere, as many have done.
Western salaries have been historically too high, a global economy will correct this, wether one likes it or not
Funny. Whenever CEO's tell us the market for talent is a global one, they mean that they should get paid more, or else they leave. Whenever it's about us, it somehow means we have to make do with less, or else they kick us out.
As a freelancer, I've found that it's exactly the opposite: I get hired for jobs in other countries because the market for workers is global. But CEO's are CEO because they are tied into the political superstructure of a country. Once they leave, they usually find that their whole network is gone and that is most of their value.
That the USA has a history of rotten unions is obvious. It also has a history of much better ones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World). In the 90's we had some trouble over here with a union that didn't do anything for its members either. A new one was founded and quickly outmatched the old one whose members left in droves for the new union.
Having no union is still worse than even a corrupt union, though, as the corrupt union has to do at least *something* for their members in order to get them to join. And if you're in a closed shop, you can apply and organize inside the union. Not easy but sitting back and complaining never helped anyone.
I count 7 posts before you Godwinned the thread. That's pretty fast work, Slick7!
The law applies to *public* demonstrations. Not closed demonstrations covered by a solid wall of NDA's. And if you demonstrated it years ago in the US, there's no way a EU firm could hold the patent. You could still file it in the USA if noone did before you, but never in the EU. On the other hand, the guy in the audience that was a bit faster than you? Neither could he.
Don't discount the advantages because you dislike one particular disadvantage.
Black Holes contain information. So I'm sure tweets do too.
If my car died while waiting at a red light someone doesn't have the right to kill me.
Now see, it just looked like that car was in real pain. It was obviously dying or dead. So I thought, why not relieve it of its misery? How was I to know there was still some live in it? It was all a simple mistake.
To say nothing of the fact that Burning man now bans 'private' explosives, dogs and guns. I'll admit that dogs were a bad idea as they get scared and run away.
I don't mind that, but I'm drawing the line at banning private artillery pieces.
This isn't a particle so much as methodology
The important bit here is why? Why does this methodology work so well. Is it because that deep down on a very fundamental level this "Geometry" is hard coded in the way the universe works? If so. What does this tell us about how things really work?
That's a pretty good question. I've been wondering about that too, given the convergence between our definitions of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity, which describes how much information is encoded in a signal (also tied in with Shannon's law). It hits directly into the heart of the question: what is information and how does it relate to reality? At a basic level, our universe may be comprised of "information", or rather: a signal on top of noise.
This new discovery seems to suggest that at the most basic level, particles can be described as a mathematical function on top of some sort of "white noise" as well. I wonder how long it will take to converge the two ideas. If ever.
In any case, exciting times are ahead for so-called computer scientists that deal with things like geometric algorithms. I predict a hot demand for top mathematicians in that field to arise very soon.
Anyway, exciting times to be a theoretical physicist! Everyone expecting breakthroughs coming from the LHC and the experimental boys and girls, and now suddenly, out of left field the theoretical physicists come back with a big right hook out of nowhere :)
You confuse fraud detection, willingly installed and lovingly maintained as "core business" by any serious bank - with the official blacklist, not well maintained and quite useless for stopping serious fraud.
The fact you were called is because the fraud detection software kicked in - and "less than one hour" means the calldesk was quite busy, you're usually flagged in seconds. Banks employ all kinds of software for this, from rule-based detection (not very good) to neural networks trained on all the cases they see in the entire world (very very good at detecting fraud, much better than human rules even), ranging in price from 100K to millions.
The blacklist is implemented by the trainee in a lazy afternoon and it dates back to the Dark Ages. Only the really stupid get caught by it.
Okay - so my next games will be purchased on different accounts. Problem solved.
Yeah, I see what you mean: the old "communists and jews eating our babies" conspiracy again - aka the Blood libel. It's not an explanation, it's a rambling collection of bullshit that traces right back to the Tsarist Ochrana and even darker times before that.
The reason why Israel is supported is pretty obvious: it's a stable and well guarded military base in a globally sensitive region. It's also a testbed for new tactics to use against unruly populations (handy if the Occupy movement ever gets out of hand) and for new military hardware - no(t many) questions asked.
All in all the military/industrial complex is getting your money's worth out of supporting Israel.
Even though the first posters all respond like they've been touched in a bad place, I think it's a great idea. There are several games I don't really play and some of my friends would like to try. Or vice versa. Brilliant.
Congratulations, you RTFA'd. That's 5 points right there. However, you didn't click on the links, and you missed several of the pretty obvious signs that this was satire. But you get another point for replying with legible comments.
All in all, I give you 6 out of 10.
On the other hand, the article is a rather nice example of why Poe's law is valid.
It is very likely because of the 1:1 relationship between people who do not RTFA.
Yup, but if you only skim the article, it's a blatant application of Poe's law.
1. He followed Trayvon -- he was the one doing the assaulting.
1. So if I'm on the street, I can turn around and open fire on the crowd. They're all following me!
As for question 2. No. They usually have less money than white folks. Money wins in the US courts. And even besides that, the judges and officers are more likely to be white and have prejudices stemming from their background, education, or social environment. Which is a good reason to be diligently avoiding the police and the courts if you're not white, or a foreigner.
But having said that, Zimmerman was still cleared on good grounds, in my opinion.
If Zimmerman provoked a fight, why was he attacked in the back on the way to his car, after losing sight of Trayvon?
The authorities didn't warn Zimmerman to not follow Trayvon, they said he didn't have to. Given the burglaries in the neighbourhood and the way Trayvon looked (a rather unsavory character who I wouldn't care to meet in a dark alley late at night) Zimmerman opted to see what he was doing.
I have the same feeling. I just reread Agent to the Stars and I found that quite funny. But redshirts didn't do much for me.
Yes, that's the US I meant. I'll add [sarcasm] marks next time. Sorry!
The US are at the point that extradition from The Netherlands to the USA is actually becoming pretty difficult. Suspects claim with a reasonable amount of success that the prisons in the USA are a form of torture and that they can't expect a fair hearing anyway, due to the plea bargaining system.
Which is good news, since you'd get even more prisoners otherwise :)
Noone who ever tasted Scottish cooking can hold any illusions about Scotland's position in the ranking of nations :)
I'm talking about online though. I've been to Switzerland, and while people point out the good things about their country, I don't know if they'd say it was "the best". And to be fair, Switzerland is objectively a pretty awesome place by most metrics ;)
Measured by looking at how things work out for the Swiss. I'm not so sure I'd like to migrate there - even as someone from a neighbouring state it's pretty hard to get accepted outside the main cities, according to several people that worked there. Also, the ideas they have about women are still pretty backward, even though all states allow women to vote nowadays.
But if you go by air quality and chocolate cacao content, I'm pretty sure they're nr. 1 :)
The US embassy in Hanoi is deeply concerned about the situation in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Russian embassy is deeply concerned about the situation in the US. Meanwhile, the Turkish embassy was deeply concerned about the situation in Germany. Meanwhile...
Every government is deeply concerned with the freedoms of someone else's citizens. Even Putin is probably deeply concerned about some foreign citizens somewhere.
It really breaks my heart to see all our leaders so concerned for the welfare and freedom of citizens that don't live in their own country *sniff*.
Although I don't think the US embassy is wrong here. This decree is ofcourse a blatant attack on the rights of the Vietnamese people to have a say in how their country is run, which is undesirable as far as the Vietnamese rulers are concerned. The fact they deemed it necessary to actually pronounce this decree, however, gives me great hopes for the future, since laws are mostly made about events that are happening. Even the laws in Hammurabi's codex give great insight of the problems the rulers had in these days with the opposition. And while this decree is a big step backward, it also shows huge trouble brewing for the Vietnamese government.