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5 Criminals Who Pulled Off Major Crimes With Only a Phone
#2. Epic Business Fraud
If we told you someone managed to con themselves up a ton of money over the phone, what amount would you guess we were talking about? A quarter of a million dollars? 2 million? 10? Not even close: Over the course of about a decade, Elliott Keith Offen managed to swindle businesses out of a staggering 30 million dollars.
That's golden phone money.
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Again, if you're expecting some elaborate, ingenious ploy involving a dozen skilled switchboard jockeys and one inexplicable gymnast, prepare for disappointment: It all comes down to smooth talk, giant balls and a poor sense of morality. Offen deployed "dozens of voices and personalities" to trick people into believing he was an upstanding businessman by calling and pretending to make a payment for an order he'd never placed. When the accounting department became embarrassed that they had no record of the order, Offen would "magnanimously" offer to make the payment in advance, anyway, trusting that the goods would show up eventually.
Because he's such a good guy, you see, and who cares about frivolities such as "money" and "services" when the joy of commerce is its own reward?
"Don't worry, friends, you'll get it right the second time!"
The businesses would of course refuse to accept the payment for nonexistent goods, but would at the same time find themselves overcome with unwarranted admiration for Offen's "honesty." When he called back later to place more orders, the businesses would (hopefully) remember Offen, and many would then ship orders to him on virtue of his "good credit" alone: Everything from shoes and pocketbooks to light bulbs and leotards.
So what did he do with such a random assortment of stolen goods? Start a shitty general store? Stage an epic rendition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? Just dress up like a pretty, pretty princess and change a fuckton of light bulbs in his neighborhood?
Illegal circus?
Sadly, none of the above.
Having conned his way into piles of goods, Offen would merely warehouse them for a time, then resell them on the black market. This worked for a staggeringly long time, however -- hence the 30 million dollar payday. But in the end, authorities caught up with Offen, who at least went down doing what he loved: Standing in a phone booth, attempting to swindle General Electric out of $100,000 worth of light bulbs.
Somehow, drugs have more flair.
#1. Prison Escape
Ingredients we imagine you'd need for a prison escape via telephone:
1. Shrink ray
2. Wire cutters
3. Syringe
4. Tiny submarine capable of traversing telephone lines (we assume them to be filled with liquid, for reasons unclear even to us)
5. A direct line to the A-Team or its Central American equivalent.
Ingredients you actually need for a prison escape via telephone:
1. Cell block payphone
2. Girlfriend with access to a fax machine (who will double as downfall)
3. 400 pounds of fat that keeps you from just tunneling the hell out
4. Giant prison-balls
Not that kind.
How He Did It:
Carlton Rich used his one phone call to ring up his girlfriend, who then called the very same jail where Rich was incarcerated, with Rich himself on three-way. Rich pulled a killer impersonation of a prison official in New Mexico (which we imagine sounding like Boss Hogg) and granted himself bail. Then a fax showed up in the jail's main office from the New Mexico authorities at just that moment, confirming that Rich was, indeed, set to be released.
"According to the screeching robot in our break room, you're free to go."
But of course, Rich had orchestrated the fax as well: It was sent by his girlfriend -- whom we should note sounds like a hell of a multitasking receptionist, if this whole "accomplice to fraud" thing ever falls through -- from a copy store not far from the prison's perimeter walls. And incredibly, it worked: The jailer's keys came jangling down the hall, the cell door slid open, the caged man stepped out into the dazzling glare of freedom ...
And then ran straight to his girlfriend's house, in the very same city, and settled in for a few days of hot, stupid freedom sex.
And that's exactly where police found him, three full days after his escape: Still snuggled warmly in bed with his phone pal, presumably secure in the belief that the rule of "no-take-backsies" applies to prison terms. For their part, the police and prison officials were pretty embarrassed by Rich's push-button breakout, with head investigator Amadeo Ortiz explaining the escape by stating the obvious:
"The man is very, very slick."
"No, literally, he just got out of prison and spent three straight days boning. Don't touch him."
Jason Edward Harrington is a writer based in Chicago. To check out more of him, visit his blog or follow him on Twitter.
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We have a probability game, where we have $N$ number of events, each of which outcome can be $A,B$ or $C$. We do/will NOT know real probabilities afterwards: only the discrete outcome ($A, B$ or $C$) of each event.
Player 1 forecasts these events with certain probabilities (not only guess what is the outcome, but gives probabilities for each outcome option), and Player 2 as well with own probability estimates.
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Are all submodules of free modules free? I would like a reference to a proof or counterexample please.
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Вот общий пример: неглавной идеал в кольце $A$. Кольцо $A$ -- свободный $A$-модуль. Идеал в кольце -- подмодуль, а он тоже свободный $A$-модуль только в случае, что он главной идеал: ненулевые элементы $a$ и $b$ в кольце удовлетворяют нетривиальному $A$-линейному соотношению $c_1a + c_2b = 0$, где $c_1 = b$ и $c_2 = -a$, поэтому если существует базис, то мощность является одним.
No, for a general ring, yes for PIDs. Take as a counter example the ring of integers mod 4 as a module over it self.
For any (unitary commutative) ring $A$, the following are equivalent: (i) submodules of free $A$-modules are free, (ii) any ideal is free as $A$-module, (iii) the ring $A$ is a principal ideal domain. The proof is already clear form the above discussion. Therefore, if counterexamples exist, conterexamples must exists as ideals of the ring. As for the counterexamples already given here, (1) the ideal $(X,Y)$ of the polynomial ring $k[X,Y]$ is not even flat, as noted by Robin Chapman, (2) the ideal $2\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}$ in the ring $\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}$ is not flat, since it is generated by a non-zero nilpotent element, (3) the ideal $\mathbb{Z}\times 0$ in the ring $\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}$ is projective but not free, similar result holds for the ideal $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ or $\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z}$ in the ring $\mathbb{Z}/6\mathbb{Z}$. I am trying to find an ideal $I$ of a ring $A$ such that $I$ is flat but not projective as $A$-module. Obviously, such a conterexample esists only if the ring $A$ is non-Noetherian. Maybe non-Noetherian prufer domains can work. Could someone give me such an example, i.e., to find an ideal $I$ of a ring $A$ such that $I$ is flat but not projective as $A$-module?
To answer ding8191's question: let $A$ be any valuation ring of height $1$ which is not a discrete valuation ring. That is to say, let $F$ be a field and suppose that there is a function $v : F \to \mathbb{R} \cup \{ \infty \}$ such that $v(xy) = v(x) + v(y), v(1) = 0, v(0) = \infty$ and $v(x + y) \geq \min $ $\{ v(x), v(y) \}$ (thus $v$ is a valuation), such that $v(F)$ is not a discrete subgroup of $\mathbb{R}$, and let $A = \{ x \in F :v(x)\geq 0\}$ (the valuation ring of $F$).
Then the maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ in this ring is a direct limit of principal ideals and is therefore flat. If $\mathfrak{m}$ was projective, then it would have to be free by Kaplansky's Theorem (all projectives over any local ring are free), but since $\mathfrak{m}$ is contained in $F$ it has to have rank at most $1$, hence $\mathfrak{m}$ is principal. But this would force the valuation on $A$ to be discrete.
You can find this material in Chapter VI of Bourbaki's "Commutative Algebra" (Hermann, 1972). In particular, Lemma $1$ of $\S 3.6$ says that if $A$ is a valuation ring (in a more general sense than I defined above), then every torsion-free $A$-module is flat, and Proposition $9$ of the same subsection implies that $A$ is a discrete valuation ring whenever $A$ is a valuation ring of height $1$ with principal maximal ideal.
To give a concrete example, consider the field $F$ of Puiseux series and let $A$ be its valuation ring.
Another example: let $R=k[x,y]$ where $k$ is a field. Then $R$ is a free module over itself, and the ideal $I$ of $R$ generated by $x$ and $y$ is not only not free over $R$, it is not even flat over $R$.
For a ring R, if e is an idempotent element diferent from zero and one, then Re is projective module which isn't free.


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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz To Renounce Canadian Citizenship
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in the 2016 election. But to run for president, the U.S. Constitution says a candidate must be a "natural born" U.S. citizen; it doesn't mention dual citizenship.
The Dallas Morning News has reported that Cruz holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. Amid concerns that being born in Canada could derail a possible presidential bid, Cruz released his birth certificate to the paper.
It shows that Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on Dec. 22, 1970. His mother was born in the U.S., and his father was a native of Cuba.
In a statement released Monday night, Cruz says, "Because my mother was a U.S. citizen, born in Delaware, I was a U.S. citizen by birth. When I was a kid, my Mom told me that I could choose to claim Canadian citizenship if I wanted. I got my U.S. passport in high school."
In the statement, Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, announced plans to renounce his Canadian citizenship.
President Obama in 2011 released a copy of his birth certificate confirming his birth in Hawaii. He was born to an American mother and Kenyan father, and faced sharp criticism from some conservatives who claimed he wasn't an American citizen.
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What is real labor like? Ask 50 women and you'll get 50 different stories. It's a unique, wonderful, terrifying, thrilling, difficult, easy, fast, unforgettable experience that will bring your baby into the world one way or another. Although no one can predict the details of your labor and delivery, the stages of delivery are the same for most women. Knowing where you are in the labor process should help you feel more in control and therefore less anxious during the birthing process.
|During the first stage of labor, the tough cervix begins to soften and stretch to prepare to let the baby's head pass through during delivery. This is called effacement.
|As the first stage of labor continues, the cervix begins to dilate (about 1 to 1½ centimeters per hour). When the cervix dilates to 10 centimeters, delivery of the baby begins.
When a woman tells you she was in labor for 40 hours, you can bet she's counting from the earliest stages of labor—not hard labor. Don't let tales like this one worry you.
Your job in the first stage of labor is to keep your partner (and yourself) calm. Try relaxation exercises and a massage. Play board games or go for a short walk together. Do whatever you have to do to stay calm and distract your partner. Encourage her to rest and store up the energy she'll need for what's ahead. If you can't stick around for too long (after all, this stage of labor can last for days), keep in constant touch and always be available when your partner says, "It's time!"
The first stage of labor brings you from the first twinge of a contraction to the serious business of getting ready for birth. This first stage can be long—up to three days sometimes. That's why it's important to know what's going on so you don't rush to the hospital or birthing center only to sit around for hours or be sent home because it's still too early.
In the very early stage you might not even know you're in labor. You might feel some menstrual-like cramps, or a bloated, constipated feeling, or a pain that starts in the back and moves across to your abdomen. Gradually the discomfort will grow into sharp pains that become more regular and intense.
During this early stage you might (or might not) have two signs of progressing labor:
This early stage of labor can last hours (or even days), so don't get too excited and do things that will get you tired out. It's not necessary at this point to do any breathing exercises, for example, and forget about putting the last touches on the baby's bedroom. The best thing to do is get some rest. You have a physically challenging job ahead of you—rest up.
If your early labor drags on, you're bound to get hungry, but watch what you eat. During labor, your stomach and intestines slow down, so you don't want to burden your sluggish digestive tract. Eat light foods that will give you energy. Toast, crackers with jelly or honey, hot cereal, or soup are all good choices. Above all, drink lots of water and juice to keep yourself from dehydrating.
The early stage of labor ends when contractions are about five minutes apart for an hour. Your doctor will tell you to let her know when your contractions reach a certain frequency and intensity. She'll also tell you not to worry too much about accidentally delivering your baby on the living room floor. Despite all the anxiety, most new mothers manage to arrive at their birthing place when it's not too soon and not too late. If you pay attention to your body, you will hear the body signals that say, "It's time to go!"
First babies usually take longer to deliver than second and third babies, because the unused birth passage is tense and unyielding.
Stage two labor is more intense than early labor. You might not be able to talk or walk through these contractions. In this stage, you should not eat anything (if an anesthetic is administered when the stomach is full, severe nausea might occur and complicate delivery). You may sip some fluids or eat hard candy or ice chips if you like.
Now is the time to use the breathing and relaxation exercises you were taught if you went to childbirth classes. These will help you relax and tolerate the pain. But don't expect them to make the pain go away completely—it is very unusual for this to happen. Expecting a pain-free labor will probably leave you very disappointed and surprised. Your cervix has to dilate to 10 centimeters, and the baby has to work her way down the birth canal—this just hurts.
Now is the time to get going. In the second stage of labor you should go to the hospital or birthing center to prepare for delivery. Ideally, you will have preregistered and won't have too many forms to fill out between contractions. When you're admitted, you will meet a nurse (or midwife, if you are delivering your baby in a birthing center) who will guide you through the rest of your labor and delivery. She will explain what's happening and will answer your questions. To prepare for the safe delivery of a baby in a hospital you can expect the following:
In days long passed, it was routine to give women in labor an enema (to empty the bowel, making more room for the birth canal to expand) and to shave their pubic hair (to keep bacteria out of the vaginal area). Today, many doctors and midwives have abandoned these practices, and recent studies show they are unnecessary. Still, some continue the habit. When you write your birth plan, talk to your doctor about having an enema and shaving. If you have the option, tell the primary nurse when you enter the hospital what you and your doctor have agreed upon.
You will have a bed to lie on during labor, but that doesn't mean that lying on your back is the best labor position for you. If you are not hooked up to fetal monitors or an IV pole, ask the nurses if you can get up and move around. Try different positions during your contractions until you find one that makes you feel most comfortable. Possible labor positions include the following:
No matter how much you and your partner have practiced for active labor, you can't count on things going as expected. Your calm and collected spouse might get loud and obnoxious. She might tell you to get out. She might cry and forget everything she's practiced. Whatever happens, stay supportive. Follow her lead and give her whatever she needs. Don't be critical or demanding, just do your best to offer encouragement.
In the second stage of labor it's not uncommon to feel sick with nausea, chills, sweats, or shakes. Deep breathing and relaxation exercises can help you through this.
The best labor position is the one that makes you feel most comfortable. Try them all out, move back and forth from one to another. If you're able, moving around helps labor progress.
This stage of labor can last about 4 to 6 hours as your cervix continues to dilate (about 1 to 1½ cm per hour). Things move along a little faster if you've previously given birth.
As your cervix becomes almost fully dilated, you'll have contractions that last for 60 to 90 seconds. You'll also have a strong urge to push out your baby. This "bearing down" is like pushing out a difficult bowel movement. You strain the vaginal muscles to push the baby down the birth canal. When you first feel this urge, the nurses might tell you not to push yet. This means you aren't dilated enough for the baby to be pushed out. (It can be hard to resist the urge but they know what they're doing!)
When you are fully dilated (at 10 cm) and feel the urge to push, it's time for delivery. If you are in a hospital, you might be wheeled into a delivery room where your doctor will join you, or you might deliver right in the labor room. After a quick examination and review of your labor, you'll be relieved to hear the doctor say, "Push!" with the next contraction. This pushing stage can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. This is where you might find yourself getting very tired and impatient, but the end is near.
This is also when the doctor might perform an episiotomy. This is a surgical incision that is made from your vagina toward the rectum in order to make the opening wider. An episiotomy prevents tearing, which can damage the pelvic muscles. If there is enough time to give a local anesthetic into the area, the doctor will do that. But if you've had an epidural, you won't need further anesthesia.
There is some debate over the necessity of having an episiotomy. Certainly, it's not a necessity if the baby's head has enough room to pass through. But whether or not to perform an episiotomy is a judgment call made by the physician at the last moment. I would estimate that probably 90 percent-plus of first-time mothers get an episiotomy. On subsequent babies, there is more room, and the necessity for an episiotomy is less likely.
If the baby is slow coming down the birth canal, he might need what's called an instrument-assisted birth. At this point, a woman under the care of a midwife at home or at a birthing center would be transferred to the care of a physician, who would take over the delivery process. She might also be moved to her backup hospital if the physician feels this would be best. A very long labor can endanger the life of the baby, so in some cases, forceps or vacuum extraction can be lifesavers. Forceps are large, spoon-like metal tongs, the smooth blades of which are inserted into the vagina and placed on either side of the baby's head. A vacuum extraction uses a caplike device that attaches to the baby's head and uses suction to extract the baby. These instruments are used in about 10 percent of all vaginal deliveries (especially medicated ones, in which the mother is unable to push hard enough).
Although it's always best to let nature take its course, labor must be induced sometimes. This means that labor contractions are produced artificially with the use of the drug oxytocin (trade name, Pitocin). Oxytocin is a hormone that is produced naturally by the pituitary gland during pregnancy. As the cervix begins to efface and dilate, the uterus becomes sensitive to the oxytocin and reacts with contractions. Administering oxytocin as a medication can encourage the natural process of giving birth.
There are many reasons a doctor or midwife might decide to induce labor (which is always done in a hospital setting). A few common ones include the following:
The hormone oxytocin is released by a pregnant woman when her nipples are stimulated. To induce labor naturally, she might be asked to rub her nipples and stay alert for signs of uterine contractions.
There are two ways to induce labor. If the cervix is uneffaced and closed, you will be asked to go to the hospital the night before the induction to have a special medicated gel (a prostoglandin) placed on the cervix.
As soon as the cervix is soft and effaced, oxytocin will be administered through an intravenous (IV) drip. This will cause contractions to begin. Oxytocin is administered through a needle in the arm or the back of the hand. The needle is connected with a tube to a medication bag that hangs from an IV stand. This controls dosage.
Usually an induction begins slowly, with very little use of oxytocin. Then the rate of medication is increased gradually until strong contractions build in intensity and come closer together, mimicking normal labor. If labor hasn't begun after six to eight hours, the induction will be stopped, in all probability, and a second induction might be scheduled for a later time or a cesarean will be considered.
Whether the birth is natural, medicated, instrument-assisted, or induced, eventually your baby's head will "crown." This means the doctor (and you, with the help of a mirror) can see the baby's head pushing its way through the vaginal opening. After another strong contraction and a push the head might be delivered. At this point, the doctor might tell you to stop pushing. It can be very difficult to resist the urge to push, but some doctors and midwives like to suction the baby's nose and mouth immediately, in order to remove mucus and amniotic fluid. This takes only a minute and the next push is generally the one that delivers the baby's shoulders and body. Your baby is born! Shortly afterward, the umbilical cord will be clamped and cut.
What? There's more? After the birth of your baby, contractions will continue, at intervals of about one minute, to help deliver the placenta. The contractions help separate the placenta from the uterine wall and move it down into the vagina so you can then push it out. Your doctor might help by pressing and kneading the uterus and gently pulling on the umbilical cord.
After the placenta is delivered, your doctor or midwife will stitch up your episiotomy (if you had one) and any tears (if necessary).
Now, you're finished. The labor and delivery that you looked forward to for so long is over and you are now officially a mother. At this time the nurses will sponge-bathe the lower part of your body, give you a clean gown, and help you put on a sanitary napkin to absorb the blood you will pass. You might also put an ice pack on the perineum (crotch area) to ease the discomfort of the stretched tissues.
During this third stage of labor, your newborn baby is probably lying on your stomach (or nursing, perhaps) while you and your partner admire, praise, and gush over this new miracle of life. If you are planning to breast-feed your baby, you might start nursing right away. (This early breast milk is not high in calories, but is high in antibodies that protect the baby from infection.) If you talk softly to your baby he might turn and look for the face that goes with the voice he has listened to for the last nine months.
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth © 2004 by Michele Isaac Gliksman, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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- 4 chicken breast fillets, skin on
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The Genesis of the GATT, by Columbia Law School Professor Petros C. Mavroidis, Dartmouth College Professor Douglas A. Irwin, and Stanford Law School Professor Alan O. Sykes, discusses the economic logic behind the development of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It is the first in a series sponsored by The American Law Institute that explores the foundations of world trade law as found in the GATT and other World Trade Organization agreements.
The GATT, the immediate predecessor to the WTO, was created to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers and to develop a commercial agreement on trade practices among its affiliated countries. In their book, the authors examine what the historical record indicates about the GATT framers' objectives, as well as how the provisions of the GATT evolved through international meetings and drafts. The book notes that the two main framers of the GATT were the United Kingdom and the United States, and that developing countries' influence was noticeable only after the mid-1950s. The authors acknowledge that an underlying purpose of the GATT was to expand international trade, thereby promoting world prosperity and serving as a vehicle for maintaining world peace. However, the framers of the GATT were mindful of the costs of achieving such far-reaching objectives and were not willing to disproportionately allocate the costs of achieving them.
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By contrast, a newer set of players has begun to participate in LNG export projects in North America, including large independent exploration and production (E&P) companies, utility/pipeline companies, and master limited partnerships (MLPs), all with different credit profiles.
The entry of a new set of players in US liquefied natural
gas (LNG) export projects has highlighted the importance that
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Fitch Ratings report released Tuesday.
Traditionally, LNG projects have been dominated by supermajors
and national oil companies (NOCs) -- entities whose generally
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large, multiyear projects with relative ease.
By contrast, a newer set of players has begun to participate
in such projects in North America, including
large independent exploration and production (E&P)
companies, utility/pipeline companies, and master limited
partnerships (MLPs), with different credit profiles. Fitch
believes that over the long run, LNG facilities could become a
particularly attractive source of growth for larger MLPs.
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is generated. For MLPs which rely on growing distributions to
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large financial commitments which may not pay out for an
extended period.
Some of the financial strategies MLPs may use to balance these
considerations include: avoiding higher cost greenfield
projects, keeping investments at manageable sizes through
phased-in projects and joint ventures (JVs), and minimizing construction cash outflows.
Development of US LNG facilities to accommodate the boom
in domestic shale production is becoming a reality, although
political and market factors could pose a challenge for their
Eight of the nine onshore LNG export facilities in the lower 48
state are at some stage of development, with several greenfield
projects also proposed. However,
political opposition, long lead times to permit and build, high
construction costs, and rising
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I've seen many programmers here at tex.se, and I'd like to know how they view TeX/LaTeX as a programming language in relation to other languages, and whether it would boost my progress as a beginner using other (non-typesetting related) languages, that is of course in an abstract or semantic sense.
My not-oft-enough-expressed opinion is that TeX is a terrible programming language and that anyone learning to program is well advised to avoid learning anything from it. In fact, it is much more helpful to have experience programming in order to write TeX than the opposite. Various points major and minor come to mind:
Essentially, programming in TeX is an endless parade of frustration over minutiae concerning code format, multiple rounds of parsing and subsequent (possibly partial) execution, and poorly defined program state. Although it's true that "only perl can parse Perl", at least this is true of Perl because of the overwhelming plethora of programming styles and facilities it makes available (including, yes, the ability to modify its own syntax). In TeX you can have a hard time getting it to do addition.
(This is another long comment along the lines of Aditya's answer.)
Yes, it can help you understand other languages (in a theoretical sense).
And for all the reasons that Ryan gives.
In mathematics, we're always on the look-out for the counterexample, the outlier, the slightly-odd-thing-that-still-satisfies-the-definition. Indeed, we have whole books whose titles are "Counterexamples in X" which are among the "must have" books on people's shelves. We believe that to truly understand a concept, you have to take it to its extreme and examine what happens there - it's not enough to understand the safe, cosy examples that motivated the concept. So we learn about the empty set, discrete metric spaces, non-Hausdorff manifolds, non-separable Banach spaces, the field-with-one-element (aka F_un), and many, many similar things. We do so not because we seriously want to study them, but because if we really want to understand what the statement "S^3 is a smooth manifold" means, we also need to know about the weird examples.
If all you ever want to do is learn one programming language and never be curious as to why it works the way it does, then don't bother looking at TeX. Regard it as Magic and forget about it. But if you truly want to understand what programming is about, and learn what it can really do, then you really should look at TeX because there is nothing quite like it.
Where I'd start is by looking at TeX from the point of view of its purpose (I'm extrapolating back here, I've no real knowledge about its beginnings). It is a programming language embedded into a document typesetting language, and the latter is the dominant part. So the programming language has to hide itself most of the time, which is one reason why spaces and new lines are more significant than in other languages: they are significant in the document typesetting part.
The other main unique feature of TeX is that most of its users are not programmers, and would never wish to be. So, again, its design takes that into account. A writer would expect
(But I'm no expert, and definitely not a programmer. So maybe my view is tainted by my programmatic development.)
This is more of a long comment rather than an answer.
TeX is an excellent source of learning programming. It tells you how not to write code! One of the basic tenets of programming is that you should write code that is easy to read by others. I find that a lot of TeX code, especially TeX macro code written during the early days of TeX, is impossible to read. Part of the reason is the idiosyncrasies of TeX, the macro language. But a bigger reason is the horrible macro naming convention used by macro authors, especially using
As an example, consider the macro
where the helper macros
The above code would have been much easier to read, if the two macros were named
Note: I do not mean to criticize the authors who wrote the code. I understand that the code was written at a time when computational efficiency was more important than readability.
Modern TeX code, whether written in LaTeX3 style or in ConTeXt style is much easier to read. For example, this is how the same macros are defined in ConTeXt:
Notice that proper indenting and expressive variable names make the code much easier1 to understand (perhaps at the cost of efficiency).
So, if you read a lot of TeX code, you will come across the same macro written in different styles. You can compare the two implementations to understand how to write readable code.
1: The
The answers so far have been fairly negative, but let me try to offer a little bit of positive spin on this. I have, in the past, tried to teach a variety of people a little bit of HTML. If they already used LaTeX, then they were already familiar with the idea of a markup language. This made things much easier. Then you can just say "Look,
And then you can use the idea of using
So while HTML is also a fairly specific language (arguably not a programming language at all) but a familiarity with LaTeX does help in learning it.
What doing this has taught me is that most people who use LaTeX use it very badly:
In 2004 Victor Eijkhout taught a course of Computer Science based on TeX as a programming language. This year he published the course notes (see http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-computer-science-of-tex-and-latex/18798879). I recently bought this book and I am going to write a review for TUGboat. My initial impression from this book is that TeX as a language indeed gives you a valuable insight in many aspects of CompSci and programming.
This is an interesting question.
I agree with Peter's comment - LaTeX is not a good medium for learning about programming in general, but proficiency in other languages will help you understand LaTeX better. A good language for self-study and experimentation is Python.
The bad news is that working with a concise, flexible, powerful language such as Python will make you realize how incredibly verbose, arcane and crippling programming in TeX and LaTeX actually is. It has been said about Perl that it 'makes simple things simple and hard things possible'. About TeX, it would be fair to say that it makes simple things hard, and hard things virtually impossible.
The good news is that there now is LuaTeX, which allows you to implement all the heavy-lifting inside your own macros in Lua, which is similar to Python in spirit and also in syntax. LuaTeX means that, if you decide to study Lua, you will be rewarded with very real and immediate benefits for your work in TeX and LaTeX.


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Cynthia M. Owen, 68, of Hamburg, died Oct. 22, 2012 at her home. She was born on Feb. 17, 1944 in Denver, Colo., to Henry Dwinger and Francis (Homedale) Dwinger. She attended school in Rock Port, Mo., and Ava, Mo.
She married J.D. Owen on Dec. 16, 1960 in rural Hamburg and the couple shared over 51 years of their lives together.
Cynthia worked for EXCEL/Cargill in the Meat Packing Industry for 30 years at Phelps City, Mo., and Nebraska City. Most recently, she worked at the ConAgra Popcorn Factory in Hamburg for 10 years before her health declined.
She is survived by husband J.D. Owen of Hamburg; children Jannifer Davis and husband John of Republic, Mo., and Kenneth Owen of Omaha; six grandchildren: Joseph, Jill and Jacob Davis, all of Republic, Alicia Ketchum and husband Mark of Gretna, Neb., Addison Morong of Omaha and Chloe Owen of Omaha; sisters Grace Clawson and husband Larry of Larned, Kan., and Gail Dwinger of Elk City, Okla.; nieces, nephews, other family and many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents and brother Robert Banes.
Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the United Methodist Church in Hamburg with Pastor James Young officiating. Inurnment will be in the Mt. Zion Cemetery northeast of Hamburg.
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The Logan County Sheriff's Department was involved in a stand off after a domestic disturbance call last night.
Deputies say they were called to a home on Deer Lick Rd. in Lewisburg last night around five.
47 year old Lisa Derr told police her husband 78 year old Gerald Derr fired several shots at her.
When police tried to get him out of the house he refused.
"When officers got there Mister Derr who is 78 years old barricaded himself inside the house. We had a stand-off for about an hour and 20 minutes before we could get in to get him," said Logan County Sheriff Wallace Whitaker.
The stand off ended when police entered the back of the house and Derr tried to run out the front.
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Is there a way to link to the facebook photos tab of a Page via an iFrame loaded from a custom App (tab)? If I try to link to num?sk=photos, it gives me the "Go to Facebook.com" loaded in that iframe. I pretty much want a redirect.
Is that possible? Or does FB block link-ins like that?
Let me know, Thanks!


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WACO (October 30, 2012)--Waco police were searching for one and possibly two robbers Tuesday after a 26-year-old man was hit with a gun and robbed of his wallet Monday night near the Baylor campus.
Just before 10 p.m. Monday the victim was in an alley behind the University Terrace Apartments where he had been talking with an Asian woman, police said Tuesday.
The woman left and a short time later a man accosted the victim, pulled out a gun and struck him on the head, which caused the gun to discharge.
The robber took the victim's wallet, iPhone and keys, police said.
The robber was last seen on James Avenue near South 8th Street.
The victim suffered a gash on his head, but was not taken to the hospital, police said.
The man whom police are seeking is black and was wearing a blue and white letter jacket, police said.
The woman is Asian and was wearing purple pajama pants, police said.
It's not clear whether she was involved in the robbery.
Baylor officials issued a campus-wide alert late Monday night that said the victim was female and it wasn't immediately clear Tuesday whether the alert was in reference to the same incident.


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Could anyone tell me in what sense the following is an "asymptotic formula":
Theorem 1 from
(this is open access, so I think I'm allowed to link it)
At the moment, I'm just trying to understand what the bit with $Q\leq x$ means. I assume the Theorem says something like: the LHS varies like the main term, in that LHS/[main term] tends to one as x tends to infinity. But it's not clear to me that [error terms]/[main terms] tend to zero. There seems to be definitely something I'm not understanding with the relationship between $Q$ and $x$.
Can anyone clarify?
Thanks very much.


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