Utilitarianism negates free will, property rights and individuality when misapplied (and perhaps when correctly applied too).
Meanwhile, free will, property rights, and individuality negate everything else when misapplied (and definitely when correctly applied too).
Everything is a tradeoff; that's life.
I'm just amazed that there's a court in the U.S. that doesn't subscribe to the opposite fundamentalist philosophy: sacrifice everything for the weakest. But given that one exists, I'm not surprised it's Texas.
I found it more of an excursion into simple division.
Most typical lightning game: 1 0 Most typical blitz game: 3 0
3/1 = 3 331/24 ~= 14
Orders of magnitude off. So even the roughest of estimates suggests that lightning games wouldn't be the majority of games. Anyway, there's no need to even use my estimate, since I've now posted freechess's statistics elsewhere in this thread.
Blitz games outnumber lightning games about 5 to 1. (What a coincidence, 14:3 is on the rough order of 5:1.)
"I'm fairly certain there's a hidden agenda here. They say it is a voluntary system, but what they mean is that privacy conscious students won't have access to the library. Libraries hold books. Books hold information. Information leads to knowledge. Knowledge is power."
I'm fairly certain that Yoda has a schizophrenic brother.
Now go look at the changes in the human condition since the scientific method was created in the 17th century and compare the evolution in these 400 years with the 40000 years that preceded it.
In fact, if you graph "human condition" vs "prevalence of scientific method" the shape of the graph looks something like this.
The odds of this kind of skew are ridiculously low.
We have ages of 27 people. 13 of them are over 65. If you look here, you can compute that of all Americans over 15 years old, 16.5% are over 65. (14.4/(14.4+72.9)=16.5)
I'll be generous and assume that 20% of Toyota owners are over 65.
So in a sample of size 27, what are the odds of getting 13 or more people over 65, when the population you are looking at has only 20% of its people over 65?
The odds of getting that skewed of a sample are only about 1 in a thousand. (1-binomdist(12,27,.2,1)) So despite claims to the contrary, that is indeed statistically significant.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing about where this sample even came from, and am not claiming anything about its validity. I am merely disputing the posts dismissing this sample out of hand without doing some simple math.)
The idea is that government is fundamentally incompetent.
I know you meant this sarcastically, but in fact, this example demonstrates their incompetence. How often do you see boondoggles like this when two private sector companies write contracts with each other? Maybe it's because when a private sector buyer writes a contract, the contract guarantees delivery of the product. With the government, everything is "renegotiable".
And let's get real. It's not like there isn't any backroom dealing going on here.
The outsourcing model doesn't work for us.
And the antiquated payroll system is evidence that the government can get it done itself?
I have a hard time wrapping idea around the concept of forcing someone [Microsoft] to sell something [XP] they don't want to sell. The idea is absurd.
And if you RTFA, you'll note that the lawsuit was about the fact that Microsoft was coercing downstream computer sellers NOT to sell XP; in other words MS was forcing them to sell Vista with the new laptops!
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...the intent of causing a chilling effect throughout a community ...
You're a fucking brainiac.
Was the irony intended?
... there is no way for me to judge how appropriate this was or wasn't.
This is slashdot. What site were you looking for?
Utilitarianism negates free will, property rights and individuality when misapplied (and perhaps when correctly applied too).
Meanwhile, free will, property rights, and individuality negate everything else when misapplied (and definitely when correctly applied too).
Everything is a tradeoff; that's life.
I'm just amazed that there's a court in the U.S. that doesn't subscribe to the opposite fundamentalist philosophy: sacrifice everything for the weakest. But given that one exists, I'm not surprised it's Texas.
As Windows gets less crappy
If we ever meet in the 4th dimension, it will only be in passing...
He'd have gotten away with it if he didn't post the picture
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It doesn't make sense to replace titanium with aluminum. Busted, mofo.
5 = 4.999999....
WTF?
(Yes, your death is a matter of public record. More of your precious privacy gone.)
If I see them publicly notice my death, I am going to be so pissed!
"a sort of 'World Cup of data sorting"
It ended in a 0-0 tie?
Last edited by: "GP, over on Slashdot. Nah-nah, told ya so!".
And here I thought this story was about patients having thin skin...
I found it more of an excursion into simple division.
Most typical lightning game: 1 0
Most typical blitz game: 3 0
3/1 = 3
331/24 ~= 14
Orders of magnitude off. So even the roughest of estimates suggests that lightning games wouldn't be the majority of games. Anyway, there's no need to even use my estimate, since I've now posted freechess's statistics elsewhere in this thread.
Blitz games outnumber lightning games about 5 to 1. (What a coincidence, 14:3 is on the rough order of 5:1.)
Yes, most.
Ok, if 15% counts as "most", then you are right.
This is what I get for posting in a chess thread.
Most of the games played on freechess.org are 'lightning' games, and usually its the 'fastest' setting of "1 0"
Most? I'm logged in right now:
Lightning games in progress: 24
Blitz games in progress: 331
Total in progress: 473
It may only be a temporary glitch, but it's one that's providing some pleasure for internet users in China.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a perverted sentence?
I usually don't get that upset about split infinitives.
"I'm fairly certain there's a hidden agenda here. They say it is a voluntary system, but what they mean is that privacy conscious students won't have access to the library. Libraries hold books. Books hold information. Information leads to knowledge. Knowledge is power."
I'm fairly certain that Yoda has a schizophrenic brother.
The word agnostic means someone who believes it's impossible to know whether God exists or not. It does not mean a device
...debating the existence of God.... ...one of the devices in question is from Apple...
There's a really great joke in here somewhere, and I just can't find it.
""Most of us know about the sun's eleven-year activity cycle."[citation needed]
In fact, if you graph "human condition" vs "prevalence of scientific method" the shape of the graph looks something like this.
DVI? No. One word: fonts.
The "P" in PDF stands for portable. You don't replace that with DVI.
The odds of this kind of skew are ridiculously low.
We have ages of 27 people. 13 of them are over 65. If you look here, you can compute that of all Americans over 15 years old, 16.5% are over 65. (14.4/(14.4+72.9)=16.5)
I'll be generous and assume that 20% of Toyota owners are over 65.
So in a sample of size 27, what are the odds of getting 13 or more people over 65, when the population you are looking at has only 20% of its people over 65?
The odds of getting that skewed of a sample are only about 1 in a thousand. (1-binomdist(12,27,.2,1)) So despite claims to the contrary, that is indeed statistically significant.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing about where this sample even came from, and am not claiming anything about its validity. I am merely disputing the posts dismissing this sample out of hand without doing some simple math.)
The idea is that government is fundamentally incompetent.
I know you meant this sarcastically, but in fact, this example demonstrates their incompetence. How often do you see boondoggles like this when two private sector companies write contracts with each other? Maybe it's because when a private sector buyer writes a contract, the contract guarantees delivery of the product. With the government, everything is "renegotiable".
And let's get real. It's not like there isn't any backroom dealing going on here.
The outsourcing model doesn't work for us.
And the antiquated payroll system is evidence that the government can get it done itself?
I have a hard time wrapping idea around the concept of forcing someone [Microsoft] to sell something [XP] they don't want to sell. The idea is absurd.
And if you RTFA, you'll note that the lawsuit was about the fact that Microsoft was coercing downstream computer sellers NOT to sell XP; in other words MS was forcing them to sell Vista with the new laptops!
I got the RSS feed for this story, and thought the same thing. I came to this page late and wondered why no one had tagged it as such.
Yes, of course. 13 years old kids in 1974 got access to UI computer systems without paying for timeshare.
Yeah, there's no way UI would show some kid favoritism.
There is some evidence about the crime thing, but it is far from conclusive. Let's use Occam's Razor, and keep it simple:
tax on people poor at math ==>
more people who need bailouts ==>
yet another excuse to increase tax on the 10% of us who actually pay taxes.