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I don't believe you. Where did you get this information?

I read governor Huckabee commuted his possibly 70 year sentence in 2001.

It's really easy not to get people to be mad at you, just (1) don't tell them what to do, and (2) don't steal their work. As in life, don't expect people will help you; expect to never get SSC access or that your zone will not be that much fun without significant changes and work. Then, if something does go your way, it's seen as a bonus, rather than everything that doesn't go your way being seen as a negative. If you make a truly better product, at least in the subspace community, people will use it.

This thread is about the person (look at the title). Other threads may be about views or options he supports. Sorry for the confusion. Anyways I was eating thanksgiving with my cousins who are somewhat conservative and they were complaining about how the people at Guantanamo are going to be tried in a US court. One thing they brought up was that because the captives weren't read their Miranda rights when they were captured, or that because they were apprehended in their home in Afganistan without a search warrant, they'll undoubtedly be set free on a technicality. I said that was BS and offered to bet $100 that they're not going to be set free on a technicality like that. They refused.

yes! I did the server-side checks for reliable packets. I'll see what I can get done today.

there is a server in the same sourceforge project although it's in progress so i've yet to make a release for it. check the svn if curious

when I start a project initially it's like 75% coding, 25% debugging... with a project like Discretion it's like 20% planning, 50% reviewing code to make sure assumptions are correct, 10% coding, 10% debugging, and 10% undoing work that I thought was correct but turned out to be misunderstood assumptions about earlier code I suspect this is not abnormal. Are there solutions?

BS/MS in Computer Science, working on PhD

Hmm maybe not twister-like, but I may or may not have two "hacks" due to nontrivial design flaws. I don't think I'm quite evil enough to release them to force people to switch to Discretion, though.

Hello yes, great! I'm glad people are excited about Discretion. Next week I get thanksgiving break and I get to work on finishing up the anti-cheat stuff, which would certainly be a big milestone. Plus it may be nice to work on coding in C/C++ for a little while after all the hardware coding I've been doing for work lately. Honestly, my only constraint is time, although I do like the project a lot. I do like DSB; I even wrote a bot for you guys (turf flag race bot with top times per map and global points system). It was part of my unfinished plan to get high-level connections in major zones ha. Anyways, who are these DSB programmers? Do they know C/C++? If they want to help out there's a great Discretion development tutorial with videos I made a few years back ( http://wiki.minegoboom.com/index.php/Discretion_Module_Tutorial ). What's wrong with Discretion? It may or may not be a failed pun on 'Continuum', although that should be Discretization, which just isn't as sexy as Discretion.

Does Jowie run any custom code on his ASSS server? Perhaps he should code modules in a safe language like python if he can't help making mistakes in C modules.

hakaku can you please cite your source? From what I heard, Guillain-Barré Syndrome resulted from vaccines only during the 1976 outbreak. You made it sound like it happens every once in a while with flu vaccines, and was especially bad during 1976. Can please cite one particular study from this "increasing amount of research" showing the "one-to-one" correlation you described?

it's "the" not "teh" so 36,000 people die in the US each year from seasonal flu (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm), 90% of which are elderly people (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/711067). From H1N1 flu so far, over 88% of deaths have been in people under 65 (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/711067), and there are 1000 deaths so far (http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=11374890). It's therefore expected that 3,600 nonelderly people will die from seasonal flue this flu season, and about 900 people have already died from H1N1 (25% of the expected deaths from seasonal flu). Now how many do we expect by this time of the flu season? Look at the chart here (http://www.clevelandhealth.info/flusummary0508_small.gif), and keep in mind that we're 8 weeks from the end of the year (week 44). People have reason to be getting the vaccine. And keep in mind that it's expected that most people would recover, even from terrible pandemics. Just because you know five people who have gotten it and recovered doesn't mean it can't kill thousands or more.

yes defiantly. I'd say first do the module tutorial at http://wiki.minegoboom.com/index.php/Discretion_Module_Tutorial after that works / makes sense we can move on from there

It comes with a million dollar cash prize which he's giving to charity. You obviously hate charity.

link?

Didn't he make some partial nuclear disarmament deal with Russia? Controversially side against Israel when it comes to building settlements on Palestinian lands, settlements which make permanent middle-east peace much more difficult? Ease cold-war era travel restrictions to Cuba? Reaccess a missile defense system that was making Russia, which still has thousands of nuclear weapons, anxious? Generally engage not only our friends, but our historical opponents? I agree it's probably not deserving of the prize, but you guys were making it sound like he's done absolutely nothing related to world peace. Are you referring to the voting for the nomination, or the voting for the prize? Source?

nooo just got my MS though. Anyways thanksgiving coming up, I'm sure I'll get bored at my parent's house and work on Discretion

I like their points about how debt seems to generate money. Consider this, there is currently 100 trillion dollars in existence. If I give you a loan with interest for 30 years, after those 30 years there is 100.0001 trillion dollars in existence because you have to pay me back the capital, plus the interest. Doesn't that seem absurd? Shouldn't money be a zero-sum system? This is why a gold standard couldn't work, we would all owe each other more gold than exists. It's true that some things like basic foods may be able to be free and not managed by money. However, scarcity still exists and that's what money is needed for. For example, I want to go to space, but resource-wise society can't let everyone who wants to go to space do it. There is always scarcity at the cutting-edge of technology, where they are suggesting things should be built.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html

http://flowingdata.com/2009/09/24/how-long-people-live-in-america/life-expectancy-map-clean/

my hope is that the life expectancy rate increases to the point where it is increasing faster than we age. There may currently be some societal problems with an aging population in that it's difficult to find work they can do so they may risk becoming a drain on society, but with more computers around and people knowledgeable of computers aging, I think we'll find ways to stay productive much later than is currently normal. We may even see societal benefits with a larger workforce.

Atheists cause all of America's problems -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEuAVgmWt0U (no more youtube tags?)

seems like a tcp proxy. is the benefit that you don't lose the chat after you disconnect? you don't really have to open outgoing ports for servers you connect to, as firewalls do this automatically

The interview is less important than what he's saying like, "I'm just asking questions" as if that's always an innocent activity. Asking questions without any reason to can sway people's opinions, hence, the second website