1) congrats.. that's pretty smart;> 2) curse this question for being worded so poorly.
If the answer uses "word games" in a devious way, then a pox on chessbase. I am reading the question to mean that on either white or black's turn during the fifth set of moves (5. XxX | XxX), there is a move in which a knight takes a rook, and this capture in itself is the mating move.
Disclaimer: These are just things to think about. The whole matter confuses me thoroughly, so I could be 100% wrong.
We discussed the WTO in my political science class last week. If I got the jist of it straight, the WTO is basically supposed to give underdeveloped countries the chance to develope.
Suppose that you've got a few big industrial nations that import raw materials from smaller, poorer countries. They take those materials and turn them into much more expensive goods. This way, they get lots of profit. The poor countries are stuck selling their cheap raw materials and importing expensive manufactured goods (created with the same materials they sold.) Thus they don't make enough money to start industrializing themselves, and it becomes a cycle.
The WTO is supposed to let the poor countries impose high tariffs on the manufactured goods from foreign nations. This way demand will be created for domestic industry to produce cheaper goods. With demand comes capital, and with capital comes industry. With industry comes being able to compete in the global marketplace.
But this is dealing with raw materials, like metals and food, etc. Does the same logic hold for non-material-based goods like software? After all, there is no "raw material" to create software, other than a compiler and good mind. I suppose this is what Microsoft, and many other software companies think. They think that the WTO does not need to impose tariffs to help the smaller countries, because there is nothing stopping the smaller countries from buying a few computers and creating there own software.. it's a lot cheaper and easier than building a factory to start an industry.
This is a reasonable argument, but it can also be said that countries underdeveloped in the electronics industry resign themselves to importing superior products from their more technological neighbors. Some could argue that by imposing (at least temporary) tariffs on software imports it would spur domestic interest in software development. As soon as the domestic software industry in these smaller countries gets on it's feet, the tariffs can gradually decrease as they become more competitive in the global software marketplace. So maybe tariffs wouldn't be that bad.
I'm not taking a stand either way. I'm Just thinking about it.
Unless there's something about the linux OS I didn't know about, how would the ASIO go about logging into individual computers and changing data? It's not like there's a special "Government" port waiting for a connection on every linux box. And even if the government somehow forced linus to code such a stupid concept into the kernel, it is open source, right? I don't see how the ASIO plans on using backdoors, when the source is completely open.
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sorry, but no.
you're forgetting 6. d1-d2 or 6. c1-d2 or 6. b1-d2.
good thoughts though.
if your solution is the correct one, then:
;>
1) congrats.. that's pretty smart
2) curse this question for being worded so poorly.
If the answer uses "word games" in a devious way, then a pox on chessbase. I am reading the question to mean that on either white or black's turn during the fifth set of moves (5. XxX | XxX), there is a move in which a knight takes a rook, and this capture in itself is the mating move.
How are other people interpreting this question?
Disclaimer: These are just things to think about. The whole matter confuses me thoroughly, so I could be 100% wrong.
We discussed the WTO in my political science class last week. If I got the jist of it straight, the WTO is basically supposed to give underdeveloped countries the chance to develope.
Suppose that you've got a few big industrial nations that import raw materials from smaller, poorer countries. They take those materials and turn them into much more expensive goods. This way, they get lots of profit. The poor countries are stuck selling their cheap raw materials and importing expensive manufactured goods (created with the same materials they sold.) Thus they don't make enough money to start industrializing themselves, and it becomes a cycle.
The WTO is supposed to let the poor countries impose high tariffs on the manufactured goods from foreign nations. This way demand will be created for domestic industry to produce cheaper goods. With demand comes capital, and with capital comes industry. With industry comes being able to compete in the global marketplace.
But this is dealing with raw materials, like metals and food, etc. Does the same logic hold for non-material-based goods like software? After all, there is no "raw material" to create software, other than a compiler and good mind. I suppose this is what Microsoft, and many other software companies think. They think that the WTO does not need to impose tariffs to help the smaller countries, because there is nothing stopping the smaller countries from buying a few computers and creating there own software.. it's a lot cheaper and easier than building a factory to start an industry.
This is a reasonable argument, but it can also be said that countries underdeveloped in the electronics industry resign themselves to importing superior products from their more technological neighbors. Some could argue that by imposing (at least temporary) tariffs on software imports it would spur domestic interest in software development. As soon as the domestic software industry in these smaller countries gets on it's feet, the tariffs can gradually decrease as they become more competitive in the global software marketplace. So maybe tariffs wouldn't be that bad.
I'm not taking a stand either way. I'm Just thinking about it.
Unless there's something about the linux OS I didn't know about, how would the ASIO go about logging into individual computers and changing data? It's not like there's a special "Government" port waiting for a connection on every linux box. And even if the government somehow forced linus to code such a stupid concept into the kernel, it is open source, right? I don't see how the ASIO plans on using backdoors, when the source is completely open.