[jody neel's asshole comments deleted, ok, jody pointed out that NATO and others are still in afghanistan. why is this an asshole comment? because i was going to add that, but figured that it would be a sucker punch since we all know this. that i knew that there were still troops should be implicit when i said " it is reallocating resources toward activities we are already pursuing, or at least shifting in that direction." let me make one thing clear: the point of this blog is not to devolve into the "gotcha" comment boards of other blogs, so don't try to pull that bullshit. i'll shut this blog down before i let you animals take over. you're smart, *clap *clap*, now go roll in your shit pig. i can't really express how comments like this enrage me. anymore sucker punch comments and i'm going to delete these boards 
 
-the fucking management]

White is the Hindu color of mourning." Well, not only do South Indian Hindus reject this claim 
 
I may be misreading you, but my Tamil (Hindu) wife (and her family) said that white was the color of mourning.

More seriously and echoing Peter, I think the current scuttlebut is Zidane got a purple nurple (no, really -text search for "nipple") and was called ?the son of a terrorist whore? (same link, but the primary subject of the article)

For those of you who doubt ZiZou's neck strength should check this out. 
 
As to why ZiZou did it, I've seen two alternate (though not mutually contradictory) explanations. See here and here.

I blame Abraham (or Ibrahim)...

Let me give an example - a colleague of mine is doing his dissertation on applying hidden markov models (HMM) to to cellular systems (so topology is predominately star, though soft handoffs blur the topology for his application) to predict call drops. 
 
Answering the other questions before continuing to a broader description, in his work, the traffic in the network is a mix of voice, video, and data (read as text messages and file downloads) and traffic patterns are estimated via measurements and Motorola's massive multi-cell simulator (he's on a Motorola UPR). It is my understanding that the simulator incorporates thousands of simulated devices some of which have little effect on a particular call, some of which have a greater effect.  
 
Using a HMM, he's able to show that a call passes through sevenish states with the exact number of states and exact transition probabilities a function of the multipath profile of the device in the call and the load and positioning in the network (not a lot of variation though). (I would be able to be more specific, but I missed his prelim defense and am relying on second hand reports.) 
 
The upshot being, he can estimate the probability that a call will shortly transition into the "dropped-call" state. Eventually, the network would reallocate resources to reduce the likelihood of a dropped call. Of course that changes all the transition probabilities, and I'm not certain if the effect of the implicit network adaptation recursion has been worked out yet.

Sounds like a hidden markov model to me.  
 
We use them in the analysis of wireless systems which again have thousands of interacting nonlinear systems yet have emergent states.

"Why not? What are they going to do? Not vote for him in the next election?" 
 
Conservatives came out to vote in unprecedented numbers inthe 2004 election significantly motivated by the prospect of conservative judges on the Court.  
 
So under a belief that voting Republican is not useful for their big issue, they may just do what they're famous for: stay at home on election day.

Just a data point to buttress the point that given a chance, conservatives will pay for alternatives to abortion, consider Liberty Godparent Home. Situated in Lynchburg (which is how I know about it), "The Liberty Godparent Home is a Christian, residential maternity home providing housing, education, medical care, and counseling for single, pregnant young women who either parent their child or place their child for adoption." 
 
Outside of Lynchburg (well in Lynchburg as well), many locations have Family Life Services (just google Family Life Services) which will help arrange for alternatives to abortions (adoptions, help with financing for school, creative day care programs for continuing education).

On 25 vs 33 (I've always heard 30 if we're discussing the fair tax, but I believe they claim other efficiencies to reduce the rate), that's because the 25 is an inclusive rate and 33 is an exclusive rate. 
 
For example, consider a 33% sales tax (calculated exclusively) on a one dollar item. The total cost to you is 1.33. So out of the 1.33 that you've earned, you've now paid 25% (technically 24.81%) of your earnings in tax.

for this dicussion, the sun has two important effects.

1) burning 2) heating

baker is right when it comes to burning. only some whites resist burns. almost all mestizos and blacks resist burns.

baker is probably wrong when it comes to heating. whites and mestizos seem to handle heating better than blacks.

i'd guess there are two reasons.

1) black skin. it resists burns great. it also absorbs heat great.

2) testosterone. blacks have the most. it means they have more sweat glands.

this is the ideal design for losing water as quickly as possible in the heat.

i live in las vegas. today it will be 112 with 19% humidity. generally, only the mexicans will feel good today.

cleveland is bigger.

columbus: blue jackets

cleveland: browns, indians, cavaliers.

been to columbus 2 times and cleveland 5 times.

people inside political borders of city: columbus 711,000 cleveland 478,000

people inside metro area: columbus 1.5 million cleveland 2.9 million

indians are the true master nerds! one time i was at some academic challenge for high schools, and this indian freshman got every single geography question. never even let anybody else buzz in. completely obscure stuff too, places nobody had heard of.

speaking strictly of jewish last names, the only ones i could find that were almost certainly jewish:

bohr
brand
lerner
goldstein
schlesinger
singer

that's 6. definitely not "lots". not even a cohen or a levy on this list.

the following could be jewish, but lots of gentiles have these names too:

alexander
baer
barnett
beck
brooks
brown
burton
carroll
chapman
davis
fox
hahn
horn
king
livingston
miller
schindler
summers

so at most there were 24, but probably less.

wait a minute. what about my man yisrael witty? with the whole blond hair, blue eyes thing, he's got the nazis fooled! add 1 to the count. 7 jews for sure.

"In recent years brown people in the tech industry probably also benefited from group perception of competence."

i don't like to say negative things about groups. but oh my goodness, yes. the indians who actually are genuine talents in computer science have made the majority of american business executives believe that almost any indian is a good programming hire.

i was directly involved in this. i worked under the CIO of a division of Eaton corporation. he dealt with american hires as well as hires from bangalore.

i worked with a few good indians. but most of them should not have been hired until they were better. some barely knew what they were doing. it was clear they were hired only because they were indians associated with that company in bangalore.

it got ridiculous. it would be like the NFL and NBA just dropping the draft, and going to west africa to sign players, almost at random.

it doesn't even make sense in terms of money. you have to pay them more when they're here. they cost less in india. it's stupid.

"an all-white basketball team probably would not be competitve in the NBA."

yes it would. if you dressed the 12 best american whites, they would do ok. if you dressed the 12 best whites in the world, not only would they be one of the best teams in the NBA, they might actually dominate the league.

hi WD. you missed some guys. i was thinking:

guard: williams, b. barry, sura
forward: harpring, m. miller, murphy, piatkowski, szczerbiak, van horn
center: b. miller, ostertag, lafrentz

they might be able to a get playoff spot in the east.

of course the interesting question is, where do bibby and kidd fit in?

for the international team, you just have to put ginobili at guard.

"and if you played them against the 12 best west african blacks, they'd lose by 30 points."

you missed the point. as you often do.

the idea here is to let a general manager pick only whites if he wanted. the rest of the league remains the same.

also, american blacks fill the league. not african blacks. there might be enough african blacks in the league to make 12, but that team won't be good.

"There was a post a while back on music where I asked for sources for your assertions."

this is why i love you. YOU made an assertion. not me. and without any evidence. now, i'm supposed to defend something?

i'm sure you looked at the evidence first, because that's why you made your claim. so show me your evidence. show me RIGHT NOW.

no wait. don't bother. it's not dominant even in the united states.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/music/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1888681

america counts for about 5% of people. that means 95% of people are living in countries where rap is also not dominant.

you got smashed in this argument. you got smashd by my last post but came back for more. mostly because you are so arrogant you think you know everything. I WORKED IN RADIO FOR 3 YEARS. i know this stuff. YOU DON'T. you know MTV and downloading rap from kazaa. in other words, you know about 15% of what is really happening.

"Don't you think that you're open to the same charge"

hmm. i must be a white supremacist. let me count the ways.

1) until you pointed out which whites were jews, i didn't even know. but, you're right, i secretly hated them all along!

2) half of my girlfriends have been jews.

3) two times in my life, my best friend has been black. got two black friends now in fact.

4) i worked with brahmins at eaton and liked them. the programmers that is. the engineers were just like you. did not like them. hey, nobody's perfect.

5) i dated one of those brahmin girls at eaton. aparna was sweet. i would have dated another too, but i didn't have the nerve to ask rachna out.

7) i don't care about mexicans. unlike a certain somebody, initials GC. i also know a lot more about INS policy than you. which is why your post about the INS not doing their job was hilarious. here's a clue. the INS is helping the mexicans.

8) i don't hate arabs. unlike a certain somebody, initials GC. i even tried to date an iranian. but she was too christian for me.

9) one of my best friends here in vegas is an arab blackjack dealer. that guy is a riot. too bad his lakers lost.

on second though, no. you have no idea what my thoughts are in general, or what i do in the 99% of my time that i don't spend on this blog. on multiple occassions here i have pointed out instances of non-whites being better than whites at specific things.

however, rarely, or nev
More....

response the now staggeringly arrogant, mr know it all. part 2 or 3.

"I look forward to your rationalization"

you are wrong about sports. again.

"I don't dispute that the all white team would be really, really good"

they would not be good. they would be the best.

"rejuvenate guys who used to play"

the best 12 active players are more than enough.

"But the context in which Jody was citing it was part of a pattern"

yes. pointing out when you are wrong. like when i explained that IQ does not explain every brain function, since blacks are by far the best at mental improvisation. you had zero comment on something that is both indisputable and, most important to you, measurable.

"This "all time, all world" white basketball team is a case in point"

it's clear you MISSED the point.

it's not even an all time team, idiot.

"why construct it without comparing it to the obvious control"

because that wasn't the idea. it wasn't obvious. it wasn't part of the discussion at all!

as for science. you knew which whites were jews. i did not. however, i now think i know even more about jews than you. i stand by my original statements, which you also seem to have paraphrased wrong. you also continue to not understand the difference between neuroscience and cognitive science. the difference is critical. kandel's work is at the implementation level. it's IRRELEVANT to cognitive science, as explained by tank.

listing pinker as important shows you don't understand the field. pinker's main scientific work has been taking chomsky's universal grammar to new levels of being disproven by experimental evidence.

i am not interested in resuming our science argument because your jewish supremacism is overbearing. it also wrong. i have researched it extensively. other posters have also explained why your jewish supremacism is wrong.

jews are white too, in case entine was not clear enough for you.

response to the now staggeringly arrogant, mr know it all. part 3 of 3.

here's a post i wrote just for arrogantcrapitalist.

1 in 6 people is indian, but to my knowledge, there are 0 indians in the NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL. this is never mentioned. but it is often pointed out that east asians are not good at sports. that indians are not represented at all in sports, and that nobody talks about it, would be a GREAT mystery, ESPECIALLY on a blog about genetics. WOULD be. but godlesscapitalist is indian.

anytime he talks about race and sports, get ready for things like "american indians are bad at basketball" or "yao ming will suck." but there is one mestizo in the NBA, carlos arroyo. and 3 chinese players. when it comes to baseball, mestizos are actually good. and there are mestizo players and east asian players in all 4 leagues.

on the other hand, there is NOT ONE indian in american professional sports. that means 16% of the world population accounts for nothing in major league sports! that's wildly statistically significant! the only comment godlesscapitalist should have on sports at all is "indians are the worst at sports, it's genetic, and here's why they are wimps."

there you have it. an argument using godless' favorite tool, math, which makes indians look absolutely terrible.

get ready for him to reply with something like "indians hardly play american sports". that's a good one. because this is exactly the comeback he shoots down when anybody points out that different races have different interests. he'll whine "indians hardly play basketball." yes, and black americans are generally not interested in science.

so either he is stuck admitting that interest and participation are important factors along with genes, or india is the biggest collection of wimps in the world.

he might bring up cricket. you know cricket, that major international game everybody in the world plays. er, wait. almost nobody cares about cricket much.

everybody, feel free to discuss why indians almost never even qualify for the world championship of any real olympic sport. or the kicker, why india is so abysmal at soccer. it's genetic, isn't it, godless?