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It is possible to change the "title" of the card. Why not try (for example) SAYC 24Mar21 when you create it?

Google translate allows me to read the post in English.

[hv=pc=n&s=sakq76hqjt76dcj32&w=s932h98dq4ckq8654&n=sjhak5432dj98763c&e=st854hdakt52cat97&d=e&v=b&b=10&a=1d]399|300| So many possibilities! 1. 1♦ - 2♦ - pass - pass - pass - my favourite 2. 1♦ - DBL- 1NT - 3♥ - pass - 4♥ - pass - pass - pass. Hopefully what would happen with my partner. 3. 1♦ - 2♦ - 1NT - 4♥ - pass - pass - pass. What the "experts in my club" seem to do. 4. 1♦ - 2♦ - pass - 4♥ - pass - 7♥ - pass - pass - pass. What happens in a Goulash tourney. 5. 1♦ - 2♦ - 1NT - 4♥ - pass - (insert slam bidding conventions) - - - 6♥ or 7♥ -pass - pass - pass. If I was an expert - or a Fiddler on the Roof. [/hv]

(One of) My favourite Ice Hockey moments: http://bit.ly/HansonFight

Speaking of six degrees of separation - he said hijacking the hijacked thread - I just learned that Anderson Cooper is a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

lol Yes Curling is an Olympic sport governed by the World Curling Federation. It has been around for longer than Bridge. It is easily the craziest 'sport' at the Olympics. Some of the most successful "Curlers" are Canadians. They take it pretty seriously by the look of it. Yes, they don't wear skates. The stone (see above) weighs nearly 20 Kg. So the image of Ice hockey players (with skates) dodging around a slow-moving stone with their sticks and a puck while beating the living ***** of each other struck me as appropriate. For an Australian, Curling looks a lot like a winter version of backyard cricket.

Ho hum, sigh, etc, Here is the text of your message. Accompanied by a picture of a table that isn't completely set up. You haven't placed a human or a robot in the East and West seats - unless you have named them "West" and "East"? In what sense is that easy to understand? Or is it meant to be a sort of crossword clue? What exactly is 100% replicable? GIGO. I have tried the bidding table in all kinds of configurations. It works fine for me. If there is a bug, I too would like to know what the effect is to help me avoid it. I'm pretty sure other users might be interested. At first glance, It looked like you are complaining that bidding is not happening. If you are complaining that there is a z-index bug because the image of the bidding box is on top of the table and hiding other elements, then that also isn't a problem for me. It works fine when the table is set to "pass throughout" if the EW seats are empty. If you change the setting to "pass throughout" then yes, I can reproduce the "bug", but even then I can replace the EW robots and it starts working. Oddly, I then took the Robots out again to reproduce your situation and everything started working just fine! Speaking of (possibly intermittent) z-index bugs, the one that gets my goat is when the little box that tells you what a bid means appears underneath an old one. The only workaround for that is to leave and come back - which you can't do on a regular table.

The interesting thing about Trump is his use of the "passive voice" in absolutely everything. I see this in academic writing all the time. Academics will never say 100% or speak in the present tense when the past or future pluperfect has been or would have been better, but not necessarily always. The level of devious obscurantism in Trumpspeak (as with newspeak) is impressive. When the totalitarian regimes - and it's getting harder and harder to differentiate these days since there are so few real democracies around anymore - feel that a citizen "doesn't know their place" they say that they are in need of "re-education". When I Google "re-education" some excellent explanations come up. The funniest/saddest is an astonishing mismangling of the truth in which the "theft" of the recent US election is resulting in threats by "Democrats" to - you can read it here. One of the worst most egregious pieces of conspiracy theory drivel I've come across. We can make up all the silly names we want to describe Trump, but Trump is not the problem. Reading Woodward's first book, it quickly becomes obvious that Trump is better imagined as Chance the Gardener from Being there. He likes to watch (https://www.thechara...ce-the-gardener). He never listens, just regurgitates in a completely garbled form the last thing anyone said to him that makes him sound agreeable. All smoke and no fire. Trump is the golem Raised by evil forces as a slave Cast aside He now seeks to destroy. Or as Joan Didion/ W.B. Yeats might have said, Trump is like some rough beast, having loosed anarchy upon the USA, slouches towards Florida, hoping to be reborn. To break things in the Spring. While the rest of us,

I see what you mean, but when I put myself South, and robots in all the other seats it works fine. You have to have someone or some "thing" at all four seats. Your screenshot shows that the West and East seats are empty. "West" and "East" are not "things" that's why it doesn't work. There has to be some "thing" to bid even if it's just to pass. I'm trying it now. It's working fine. Or do you mean that it should work even when two of the seats are empty (as in your screenshot)?

What I meant was, it only works if all the seats are occupied: Unless this is because Prime members can add robots at no charge. Your image shows that there is nothing in the East seat (or West for that matter), which is why there is no bidding. Or is there some other problem?

Will it be available for robot tournaments? I want to see the North robot

by following this link: https://bilbridge.com/ApplyForMembership/applyonline.php

So, does this mean that sometimes, if you lose all hope, you can't find it again?

I just played a 16 board tournament. Every single board had a hand with a singleton or a void - nine had more than one. Therefore the Earth is flat and Santa Claus is green.

A quick google search suggests that the ".LIN" extension is used in more than one application. This link says that it is "type 4" - who knows why - and gives an interesting explanation of it. Probably written by one of the BBO people? https://fileinfo.com/extension/lin And then it gives a screenshot that looks like the post I made above.

Is that a cyclothymic pun? As in Beyond blue?

Fisher was famously irascible. You two aren't related by any chance?

It still sounds like you are trying to make tea in a cracked pot - so to speak. Skim milk for me, please.

Seriously? A former Nazi party member tried to sue a Jewish mathematician for poking fun at him? That's hilarious. From von brauns Wikipedia page

This doesn't sound like a mathematics problem as much as a Turing test problem. How do you define "interesting" mathematically? Who decides? It really sounds as though the wrong question is being asked. In which case, no satisfactory answer is possible. Why not climb back out of Alice-in-wonderland world? What is needed is an 'interest test.' Here's a simple example. Find 100 boards that mythdoc played 100 days ago and see if he bids/plays them in the same way. The percentage variance from the original bidding and play would be an "interest index".

It's very annoying, the simple solution is to start your own table. Then you are the host and it can't happen.

Thanks for that - I didn't realise that the BBO network connectivity would be separate from my Australian wireless signal strength.

It would be a boon for players that want to look at each other. Is there a pay-per-view option? My first question is: after Patrick led the D of hearts, and Aurora played the 5 from dummy, should she try and win it with the R or the V? C'est la vie say the old folks? (http://bit.ly/CestLaVieBerry). I guess we'll just have to wait and see if we can tell.

Unfortunately, those people are not 'psycho' as you artfully put it. Those people constitute about one-third of the world's population. I do understand that you are using the term "psycho" loosely, but one person's psycho may be quite normal to someone else. I have a lot of trouble making any sense out of the ideas that religious people hold dear, but I understand that are quite a few of them around- more than half the population. For me, the simplest "are you ruled by blind faith" test is the "external locus of control test". A person is governed by an external locus of control is when their actions are guided by principles or values laid down by someone or something other than themselves. To some extent, an external locus of control is a developmental phenomenon. We all begin life with the idea that everything is 'controlled' by factors outside and not by our own actions. It seems to me that this is certainly true. As we grow older, we acquire a sense that more and more of what we do is within our own control. To put it another way, a mature person does not say things like. "I must (act in a particular way) because (choose one) God/the Law/my Partner/the Devil etc says that I must. The recent Atlanta shooter who states (apparently) that he shot those people because he had a sex addiction is an extreme example. No, the mature adult acts because they have an internal locus of control. They act because they believe that their action is the most appropriate to any given circumstance AND they are willing to take responsibility for the consequences. When an outcome is not to their liking they do not say "It's Gods will" they try to learn from it and move on. We all have some mixture of internal and external. Here, I agree completely with your comment about being altruistic to a degree. When learning to play Bridge for example I always made a fourth-down lead in a no trump contract BECAUSE I had it on my card and if an angry declarer shouted: "what are your leads!" I didn't want to be in a position of being held to account for doing the wrong thing. Now, I try to make leads based on other factors and wear any opprobrium: real or imagined. What I am getting at this that my posit about "altruists" and "hesistants" was not intended to disparage the motivations of any individual. Right now, I am simultaneously feeling all of those emotions. After all, it is always possible that when someone sticks a needle in your arm bad things will happen, also, there are certainly other people that - from a hard utilitarian perspective - warrant the vaccination sooner than me. We have waded into a quagmire of moral philosophy. Health practitioners and philosophers have worked on this problem for decades without coming to a solution. A few decades back someone introduced the idea of QALY's (http://bit.ly/OregonQualy. quality of life years) the idea was that by attaching a monetary value to the amount of "quality life" a person might have, It would be possible to appropriately allocate scarce health resources (see the reference and quote below). It's a system that might appeal to the computationally minded, but if you are the 51st person in line for cancer treatment and the 50 allocations have been used up you might think differently. By the way, Rotter's second most highly cited paper (>1000 and counting) is titled "A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust" - something that may be of value to Bridge players (see third quote below).

Or, to put it another way, the drunk man searches for his lost keys under the lamp-post because it's too dark to see anywhere else?