An interesting idea from PPD 524: Planning Theory:
There are approximately 100,000 new homes sold every year in California. Most of these are on the edge of our cities. This number represents 1-2% of California homeowners. Furthermore, new home buyers tend to repeat new home purchases. Is this one percent minority representative of the population? If not…
The city is being built, year by year, by a minority. One percent dictates the future.
Had lousy cards for most of the night. I probably played fewer than half the hands I was dealt. Yet I managed to finish up for the night, due largely to Bandur’s willingness to call my 50 cent bets in one hand, as well as a couple other good hands.
What the Stanford Prison Experiment shows is that “‘good people are not enough'” to prevent abusive excess, [says experiment-lead Professor Philip Zimbardo]. ‘Individual differences matter very little in the face of an extreme situation. . . . Institutional settings develop a life of their own independent of the wishes and intentions and purposes of those who run them.'”
It comes down to the fundamental question of what is the purpose of prison? Is its purpose correctional, or punitive? If a prison sentence is intended to rehabilitate the convict, then why do we allow them to become dehumanized and exposed to danger? Can a man who’s been ass-raped, beaten, and starved ever rejoin society as a fully-functioning member?
Car’s been hit. Smashed. Fucked up.
More at eleven.
Here’s a game I played today:
PokerStars Game #: Hold’em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) – 2003/08/11
Table ‘Actor’ Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Player 1 ($9.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Player 2 ($19.60 in chips)
Seat 3: Player 3 ($20.70 in chips)
Seat 4: Player 4 ($22.30 in chips)
Seat 5: Player 5 ($23.10 in chips)
Seat 6: Player 6 ($21.60 in chips)
Seat 7: Our Hero ($20.70 in chips)
Seat 8: Player 8 ($8.30 in chips)
Seat 9: Player 9 ($8.50 in chips)
Player 1: posts small blind $0.10
Player 2: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Our Hero [7c Kd]
Player 3: calls $0.25
Player 4: calls $0.25
Player 5: folds
Player 6: calls $0.25
Our Hero: calls $0.25
Player 8: folds
Player 9: folds
Player 1: calls $0.15
Player 2: checks
*** FLOP *** [As Qc Jh]
Player 1: checks
Player 2: checks
Player 3: checks
Player 4: bets $1
Player 6: raises $1 to $2
Our Hero: folds
Player 1: folds
Player 2: folds
Player 3: folds
Player 4: raises $4 to $6
Player 6: calls $4
*** TURN *** [As Qc Jh] [Ad]
Player 4: bets $1
Player 6: raises $3 to $4
Player 4: calls $3
*** RIVER *** [As Qc Jh Ad] [6h]
Player 4: checks
Player 6: bets $5
Player 4: calls $5
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Player 6: shows [Ac Js] (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
Player 4: shows [Td Ks] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Player 6 collected $30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $31.50 | Rake $1.50
Board [As Qc Jh Ad 6h]
Seat 1: Player 1 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Player 2 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: Player 3 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: Player 4 showed [Td Ks] and lost with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 5: Player 5 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: Player 6 showed [Ac Js] and won ($30) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
Seat 7: Our Hero folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Player 8 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: Player 9 (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Player 4, having been re-raised when he had the nut hand, might have suspected something dangerous was afoot. He might have been able to go all-in and scare Player 6 out.