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Here is a very entry level book on the subject of information theory, I enjoyed the heck out of it: http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Universe-Information-Explaining-Everything/dp/0143038397/sr=8-3/qid=1171824330/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-3349355-0179005?ie=UTF8&s=books D-Wave has a 16 qbit machine...

The Democrats have to keep their voting base of anti war ideologues happy so they make a non-binding resolution!! They probably know that the ideologues are dumb enough to buy into that being actually meaningful..... These anti-war people... what were they doing before 9-11 to avert an...

Yeah, but on the other hand, wouldn't it be fun to look in the mirror every day and see somebody that had all the money they needed for the rest of their life and could do whatever they felt like doing every single day??

LOL :D

I know a couple in California that are currently faced with having their children taken away. A kid from a dysfunctional mess across the street from them used their telephone to call 911 and report the dad, who was on a drunken rampage. The cops and protective services refuse to believe the call...

I just royally horked up my machine with XP on it. I tried to do a reingstall with the disc that came with the machine, it wound up with the cpu at 100% because some antivirus process was running, after I uninstalled the virus software days ago, so I killed the process and now I cannot reboot. I...

Uninformative post, off topic too. You have to take philosophy 101 to know the difference between data and information. That Eastern European guy quoted on drudge knows the difference. He also knows the difference between scientific argument and a belief system based on hysteria. France and...

I feel like the world is a little better place :)

Here is instructions on installing Vista on a new machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ypt_FzRAk

Weird post

I've gotta do this: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-skywalk11feb11,0,6802248.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Many of us are fatigued by arm waving, shouting ,alarming, warnings and subsequent power grabs. Global cooling followed by Global warming, economic disaster from inflation or deflation, God is going to kill us for our evil ways, we must wipe out poverty, kill the abortionists, etc. Write your...

Look at Bill Cook's picture, doesn't look like a predator much... NOT!!. The guy looks like a dinosaur with an appetite!! Jeez. That is one scary looking member of the human species. :eek:

It wasn't worth it anymore?

This thread reminds me.... I keep forgetting to get on Amazon and review SA's book... darn procrastination!! In another thread here somebody quoted Winston Churchill as saying "a boorish person is one whose opinion cannot be changed and will not change the subject". I think that pretty much...

It's a replay of what happens every time leftists get in power. They centralize control, put in price controls, and exactly the same thing happens every time that I know of.... The mob gets lots of business via the black market and becomes the ruler of a big portion of the economy and they do...

And these climate models are as accurate as .. oh say... weather models? Essentially climate models can be rigged to output anything the rigger wants them to so basically, they can't be taken as factual. Even if the programmer is trying to be scientifically accurate and honest the probability...

Trading is an art that is working very hard at becoming a science but never seems to quite achieve it.

Politicians need crises to expand their power. On the left it's global warming and the poor, and the poor from the neighboring countries, stray dogs, historic rocks that get scratched by people, etc., etc. ad nauseam. They always appeal to experts, which is not a valid argument philosophically...

Personally my work ethic has always been modified by the employer. If said object of reverence chose to expose me to chemicals and danger and mal treatment I did very little work, if said object of reverence chose to conduct business in a way that was good for everybody, the customers, the...