Archive for July 21st, 2010

Author Tony De Maio INTRODUCTION Given the response to my probability post, let me pursue another topic which has received some notoriety over the past few years due to a considerable amount of corruption and misinformation. I’m sure most of us have heard the phrase “The teacher is teaching the test.” and/or “70% is a [...]

Author Tony De Maio I have watched with some amusement over the years at the attempted implementation of “Affirmative Action”, “Leveling the Playing Field”, “Equal Opportunity”, and other euphemisms for favoritism, discrimination, and preferential treatment. I guess it’s somewhat of a coincidence that all these attempts results in “pleasing” some privileged faction, obtaining votes for [...]

Author James The Wanderer The 1983 movie _War Games_ has a sentient computer put in charge (actually, it gains control) of all American nuclear weapons. The computer “games” all the possible outcomes of thermonuclear war, whether the Americans attack first, the Russians attack first, the Russians attack the Chinese who then attack America, and so [...]