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List the advantages. I can think of only two advantages of incandescent bulbs, compared to LEDs: Incandescent bulbs produce broad spectrum light, which is advantageous in some environments, especially outdoors. Performance of incandescent bulbs does not degrade noticeably due to heat. For most applications, these advantages are not worth the extra cost of operation. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Crack cocaine is not significantly more addictive than powder cocaine. Nicotine and heroin are both more addictive. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Because he's not willing to separate his good ideas (e.g., many of his ideas pertaining to civil liberties) from his bat shit insane ideas (e.g., many of his ideas pertaining to economics). Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I did. Apparently you did not, as it was not an example of what I asked about. Do you understand the difference between downloading and uploading? Do you understand how bit torrent works? Do you understand how other P2P methods work? Did you notice that Jammie Thomas-Rasset was not convicted of a crime? Did you notice that all damages were statutory and not actual? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Chick-Fil-A donates proceeds to hate groups. Chick-Fil-A does not donate all proceeds to hate groups. Chick-Fil-A donates proceeds from their business to hate groups. Chik-Fil-A does not donate the proceeds from their business to hate groups. That too. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Generally, P2P file sharing, such as Kazaa and bit torrent involves downloading and uploading. That's what happened in the case you referenced. I'll ask again: What courts have awarded damages for downloading only? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Chick-Fil-A donates proceeds to hate groups. Chick-Fil-A does not donate all proceeds to hate groups. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You say that as though a deflationary spiral would be a bad thing. C'mon, it will build character. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It is with good reason that the law deals with digital piracy differently than it deals with criminal offenses like stealing. The two are not as analogous as they might first appear. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

No, I've made no such judgements about anything being right or wrong or anything in between. That's all subjective. I've only shown that there are no actual damages in such cases. I don't believe the courts agree with you, as they have been quite willing to award damages in such situations. What courts have awarded damages for downloading only? The cases I've read about all involved peer to peer sharing, which involves uploading (i.e., distribution). Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

As far as I know, distribution (i.e., uploading) of copyrighted digital material is a civil, not criminal offense. In some countries, downloading (without uploading) pirated files is expressly legal. In other countries, it's a legal grey area. The premise of your question is inconsistent with the topic at hand. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Yes. The damages would be minimal, but non-zero. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

That's not what seems to have happened, though. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

No, I've made no such judgements about anything being right or wrong or anything in between. That's all subjective. I've only shown that there are no actual damages in such cases. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

There's a lot of training involved because it's not as easy as many people think do deal, take bets and give payouts all correctly and quickly. That's more in line with the responsibilities of the floorperson and pit manager. The dealer is just supposed to run the game without making mistakes. In this case, he dealt cards from a deck that was, as far as he knew, shuffled. There's no indication that the dealer did anything wrong. Looking further into the story, it looks like a multiple deck shoe was used, and the order of the cards was the same for each deck, resulting in a repeating sequence of cards. It doesn't look like the cards were in original order (e.g., As, Ac, Ah, Ad, 2s, 2c, 2h, 2d, … or similar). That makes it sounds more like the cards were shuffled identically (i.e., faulty shuffling machine or algorithm) rather than not being shuffled at all. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Who said anything about a dealer being a pre-programed automaton? The dealer's job is to deal the cards, not to pay attention to patterns in the cards as they come out. Any particular sequence of cards from a shuffled deck is equally improbable. The dealer was not responsible for shuffling; he was using decks that were, to the best of his knowledge, already shuffled. It's makes as little sense to blame the dealer as it does to blame the gamblers. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Incorrect. I'm making the case that not every download of pirated movies results in damages. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Without a doubt the stupidest, circular reasoning I've ever heard. Well, no shit, of course if you can just steal the movie from a pirate download site there's no reason to buy the ticket or Blu-ray. Therefore you ARE denying the industry the profits of their efforts. It's like saying, "as long as I can get away with stealing, it's ok." No. It's not. It's stealing. You may want to look up the meaning of circular logic! Lots of people download from pirate sites who would not otherwise buy a Blu-Ray, even if they didn't have access to a pirated copy. For example, some of these people simply don't have the extra disposable income to buy or rent movies, but they have access to an Internet connection. Others would happily pay for a legal copy if the industry would just provide one in a convenient digital format compatible with all their (i.e., the consumers') media devices. But, you're right. There are some people who don't buy movies because they can download pirated copies. These do often represent lost sales. Most people I know who watch pirated copies of movies belong to one of the first two groups. I've met very few who fall in the third category, perhaps because it's a PITA to download a version of a movie that is comparable in quality to Blu-Ray. There are no damages if a sale is not lost. Not every download of pirated copies of movies represents a lost sale. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

If a person is not going to purchase a movie ticket/Blu-Ray/etc., the studio is losing nothing if that person downloads and watches the movie. Their damages are zero. They didn't lose a sale. They didn't lose a tangible product that they now can't sell to someone else. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Yes, I agree that P(A) != P(A|B) when A and B are not independent. However, from the dealer's perspective, B is given, that is, to the best of the dealers knowledge, the cards were shuffled, so P(A) is irrelevant; only P(A|B) matters. There's no reason for the dealer to be fired. The floorperson or the pit manager, OTOH … Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Well, yes, that is possible. Eight out shuffles (i.e., perfect riffle shuffles) will return a 52 card deck to its original order. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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The dealer thought they were shuffled. Coming out As, 2s, 3s, 4s, … is no less likely than coming out Kh, 2c, 7h, 8d, Qc, …. Further, the more experience the dealer has, the more likely it is that he has previously seen some card sequences from well shuffled decks that appeared non-random at first. That's just the nature of randomness. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Except the default configuration from the factory is shuffled. So, while what you say holds true for the players (provided they don't know that the cards come pre-shuffled), it does not hold true with the dealer, who knows the cards come pre-shuffled. For the dealer, all permutations are equally likely. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Why? What would make the order of cards observed less likely than any other particular order? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!