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Give me a child until he* is seven, and then don't let him learn anything more and I will show you the modern conservative. *this applies to other genders as well.

Straight out of "Mean Girls". According to Axios the house fecal caucus (both of them) is meeting to discuss kicking MGT out because she said something nasty to the gentlewoman (that line always cracks me up) from Colorado.

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Unfortunately no - I only get a blank page. I do see your favicon, the https details and then a blank white page.

Sounds interesting but your link produces a blank page.

In another thread the frequently debated topic of which game is more interesting arose: chess or bridge. For me they are both interesting but in very different ways. When one is faced with the starting position of a chess game, the possible intermediate positions a player must contend with are vast, yet the result can only be win, lose or draw. This richness of intermediate positions before a clear outcome is reached is a key feature of chess. In Bridge OTOH, the starting position is determined by the deal of the cards so that in tournaments with players of above average skill it is common for the same outcome to occur at every table. In this way bridge seems to have a lot in common with solving a chess puzzle where there is a knowable optimal outcome and you have to find it. It is also quite common in tournaments to get a result where one pair gains a score of 100% not because they skilfully find the best contract but because their opponents make a terrible bid. So, my question is: Is it possible to design a scoring system for bridge that best rewards the pair that achieve the optimal contract for any given deal?

Your "suggestion" is exactly the point I'm making. Trump is as likely to fly off to Brazil as you are to turn into a tomato. Half of the voting population still think he should be President. They also think UFO's are real, the earth is flat and on BBO they all believe they're experts. If Agnew and Nixon didn't go to prison and Kissinger got the peace prize, Trump will live out his days in the presidential ballroom. Only poor people that aren't white and rich go to prison unless they rip off other rich white people - e.g. Bernie Madoff. If a former President of the USA can be convicted of espionage the whole experiment is over. Murder, yes, financial fraud, definitely, even defamation. But how does the system cope if a person elected to the pinnacle by half the population and responsible for all the nation's secrets is convicted of espionage. Even though - on the face of it, and by his own admission - he did it, there's a major political/structural problem in convicting him; far less imprisoning him with his secret service entourage. It would take a special act of congress - at a minimum.

Well now we have to define "intelligence". chatGPT agrees with you.

It was offline for "improvements".

If Trump were to hop on Trump force 1 and seek refuge in the Cayman islands - would anybody care? He can never go to prison so the best that can be hoped for is that he is forced to withdraw from the races and peters out rant and raving at the rising sea levels in southern Florida. 548 has him winning the GOP primaries with a crushing margin and neck and neck with Biden. With the economy booming and COVID quiescent there's a very high likelihood he'll be back. I'm expecting boatloads of US refugees in Australia in 2024. Mexico might decide to finish the wall after all.

Bent Larsen would probably disagree with L. Bengtsson. But perhaps this discussion deserves a thread of its own.

Ay, when I were lad we wished we had an abacus. We'd walk 50 miles across broken glass to get home from school where dad would cut off our thumbs. Now I can only count in base 8.

Tal, Jewish from Latvia, would be offended! In any event, the oft-repeated idea that chess is 'easy', compared to bridge, because all the information is available and the answer is only limited by number-crunching is false. A single Bridge hand has a 'solution'; so in that way it is comparable to an end-game in chess. A chess game has an infinite number of possible outcomes and is therefore much harder to comprehend and play - no matter how good the calculating ability of the carbon or silicon based player.

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