Posted by Caela on January 8, 2010 · 1 Comment
In this case, we look at this from a mathematical point of view, since infinitely long games are not considered outside the field of mathematics. We have to consider the possibility of an infinitely long game for they have elections, no time limits. They are willing to fight no matter how much it costs them or how long it takes. The resources are infinite: one side with the nuclear arsenal of the obscenely powerful and the other with the incandescent, destructive power of the utterly delusional.
Filed under Culture, Politics · Tagged with Civilization, Democracy, Game Theory, John von Neumann, Nondemocratic enetity, Peace of Westphalia, Policy of Deterrence, Project RAND, RAND Corporation, Rational Choice Theory, Sovereign States, Terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, winning strategy
Posted by Caela on October 9, 2009 · 5 Comments
Isn’t it funny when the media find fault and cry “undeserving” in recent years when the Nobel Peace Prize is given in this manner? Hello? Do they they get amnesia every year? After all, this is the institution that gave Kofi Annan and the UN an award “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.” (Where that world is, I’d like to arrange a transfer please. Hitler’s intention too was for a more organized world, or so I heard.If intent alone warranted prizes I would be on this list as so every beauty queen who wanted “world peace”. Also I would have a Nobel Prize for Literature and Physics too.) Raise hell whenever the Oslo Selection Committee names a laureate who is actually “worthy of great honor or distinction”, it’s out of character. This backfire after a long playing zarzuela and trahedya de komedya of the media’s love affair with Barack Obama deserve a good ribbing and lots of laugh. This was expected and can be seen and heard from a mile away, so grin and bear it. Don’t fuss and be a kill joy.
Filed under Americas, Culture, Europe, Politics · Tagged with Henry Kissinger, Kofi Annan, Le Duc Tho, Media, Nobel Peace Prize, UN, United States, US President Barack Obama
Would you buy it for a quarter? 