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How do you calculate how many dice you need to roll before the probability threshold of rolling one of each side is reached? For example, how many 6-sided dice do one need to roll before the probability is >50% of rolling each of 1 through to 6? Then >75%? My gut feeling is around 13 and 20 respect...

No, I don't. I never said I support the death penalty in First World nations . Moreover, most of the threads implicitly center the debate about First World nations, but forget about all the other places in the world. I'm not a First World citizen, and my views on the death penalty mostly apply to S...

You're still assuming the death penalty has any measurable effect in First World nations at all. I'm not. The effect is and should be in my view neglible in the First World, for other factors have already decreased the crime rate to a great extent; measuring this effect due to this is hard on it's ...

Sharon Athena participated in the genocide of the colonies as I understood. Her post-genocidal sympathies aren't much of a redeeming factor. Yeah, they do make the character more interesting to follow, and quite so. It might be though that this copy of Eight is not occupying a leadership position i...

Neither am I going to say that with the rather low crime rates present in First World nations the impact of death penalty is anything but a very marginal influence on crime, because that is true - the overall better economic position has reduced crime rates to sizes where the impact would not be se...

Stas, it would be really helpful if you could tell me how far you've seen. I've got a feeling I could dispense with most of the spoiler tags, but I don't want to accidentally, well, spoil you. What happens later doesn't mean a parole for past actions of such magnitude. Even if they save these 40,000...

If the person is not a psychopath but a criminal who is considered sane, capital punishment serves as a deterrent to all those in their own mind who might commit such crimes. The potential deterrence factor is higher than actual deterrence, and it's hard to estimate, but considering that really hei...

"Evilness of their hearts"? Who cares what their motivations are when the action is unquestionably evil beyond any redemption? [Cylons are evil evil evil [/i].] So you think the Cylons are evil beyond redemption? Thanks for clearing that up, it totally didn't get through the first three d...

so if you accept the latter view, the first Cylon war can be seen as more of a slave rebellion. Obviously, this doesn't justify the attack on the colonies decades later, but it casts it in a different light: instead of killing for the sake of it, it's violent blowback for the enslavement. I've yet ...

Fourth Season till Ep13 > Webisodes Face of the Enemy Nitpick: Face of the Enemy takes place between episode 11 and episode 12. Could someone also explain to a nBSG first-time seer - how can anyone (well, except the complete idiot) consider the Cylons "morally ambigious", relative to the ...

If every year or so the public at large has to worry about their source for warmth because a nation has a quarrel with another, a quarrel entirely unrelated to the rest of the EU, then the pressure to do something about it will grow. The gas shortage didn't hit Finland back then nor now, but there ...

This whole incident, which has been all over the news here in Finland, might have the effect of almost forcing the EU into considering other sources for energy than Russian gas. Definitely. When a minor contract spat with one country cuts off half the Union, it's time to reconsider energy policies....

What evidence would it take to prove your beliefs wrong? I simply will not reply to challenges that do not address this question. Refutability is one of the classic determinants of whether a theory can be called scientific. Moreover, I have found it to be a great general-purpose cut-through-the-cra...

Heh. A paperback of a movie based on a graphic novel that was originally comic book issues. Silly. Or, they'll just do what they always do when there's a movie based (however loosely) on a book, which is reprint the book but with movie-themed covers. But this is me ruining the joke. Actually, after...

Christopher Nolan's Insomnia is a good flick. ...until the final act, when the movie plunges head first into tired Hollywood conventions. See the Norwegian original instead. So, a request: recommend for me one and only one cop movie, the cop movie you think anyone who loves the genre must see. I'm ...

I previously thought Obama would be best, but after seeing the election, not any more. There's no way in hell this race should be this close after the past 8 years and last 2 elections. [...] So what I'm hoping, and willing to take a gamble on is after their messiah loses, democrats finally get it ...

Guys, the problem is, that this is NOT Car Tycoon This game's name is "Car Industries 1894-2060". Interface is very similar, the game was released in 2006 and also developed by Vectorcom (the same company that did Car Tycoon). Im guessing a sequel. Some German reviewers I read claim it ac...

No luck. I've turned off all programs that might have interfered... still nothing. EDIT: Besides, I got Windows XP and everything else works like a charm. EDIT2: I got an Nvidia Nforce onboard sound system A look at JoWooD's official forum suggests that you might need to reinstall the patch . Anoth...

Most people have these feelings about the US government, though, not the US citizens. Are you sure about that? Well, he does have every reason to be sure considering that, for instance, in Britain 70% have a favourable view of Americans (with favourable view of the US itself at a mere 51%). I alrea...

As far as I am concerned, the US has NEVER been popular with foreigners during my lifetime. Even before Bush people would always be complaining of 'Americanisation' and all that crap. Bush has just been the latest instalment in the international Anti-America whine-fest. Actually, in 1999/2000 83% o...

According to TV critic Alan Sepinwall , Rove is scheduled for a session on the FoxNews press tour today. If I were working for a major news outlet, I'd wait until after that to report him "fleeing" the country - it'd be pretty stupid to claim he's left the country for good if he actually ...

It's rather curious how I have yet to see any of the major news outlets reporting on Karl Rove fleeing the country. Ignoring the subpoena, yes, but fleeing the country, no. According to TV critic Alan Sepinwall , Rove is scheduled for a session on the FoxNews press tour today. If I were working for...

Is there a site that has Dr. Who scripts online? I am especially looking for the script of the episode "The girl in the fireplace". I am afraid an episode synopsis will not do. The BBC Writerroom has the script for the opener to the last series Smith and Jones (Warning: PDF) . As far as I...

Is he shown going through all the hoops, going through the waiting period, coming back later to pick up the weapon, et all? This was presented as a documentary. IIRC he's basically shown opening an account, and walking out with a firearm. Yeah, that's editing. It's dishonest editing. Michigan doesn...

Again, how is it newsworthy that "some" group file a criminal complaint that was so baseless that the court refused it to accept it? WTF are you trying to show here? Be alarmist about "secularism under attack in Germany?" If so, I wonder where you get that perception from. I kno...