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Moral Immunity
New York media have been absorbed by two stories this past week: Governor Chris Christie's mea culpa on Thursday, and the departure (also on Thursday) of Indian consular official, Devyani Khobragade, after indictment by the U.S. attorney for violating federal and state laws.
The humiliated, unknowing, and flabbergasted govenor apologized for the GWBridge lane closings that snarled Fort Lee, NJ, traffic for four days in September. His staff and various political operative were getting even, apparently, with the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee for failing to endorse Christie's reelection in November. Christie says he knew nothing about it.
Consular official Khobragade, behaving as she might in India, was arrested and indicted by the U.S. Attorney for lying on a visa application for Sangeeta Richard whom she hired as a housekeeper and for violating New York labor laws. The scandal was brought to a conclusion by Ms. Khobragade's departure from the U.S. On leaving she said to the U.S. State Department official accompanying her: "You have lost a good friend. It is unfortunate. In return, you got a maid and a drunken driver. They are in, and we are out." Actually only Ms. Khobragade is out; her husband and children remain in New York. Times story.
Does political immunity, which Christie has enjoyed, or diplomatic immunity, which Khobragade claims, bestow moral immunity? It seems so.
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I think Christie's political immunity is far from over. Firing one woman is hardly solving the problem. Clearly, there was an entire culture of payback, misuse of services to punish opponents that is far, wide, and deep and extends far beyond this one woman.
What caught my eye immediately was the e-mail that triggered the whole thing. "Time for some traffic problems". Obviously the recipient knew exactly what that meant without any further prompting. And other leaders knew as well. I mean she did not even write "Time for some traffic problems ;)". It is like a gigantic clandestine affair, complete with code words, and signals.
And Rush Limbaugh of all people actually had an insightful observation. Christie, in the press conference said, I have not been able to sleep the last two nights" but in response to a specific question he said that he first heard the previous morning, and he even specified the time 8:5- or 8:55 after his workout. So that accounts for why he could not sleep ONE night. Why couldn't he sleep the previous night? Oh, and he looked pretty well rested to me.
George's conclusion: he's lying.
On the Khobragade case; diplomatic immunity shouldn't bestow moral immunity. But strip-searching her went way too far, and was probably the thing that escalated this into an international incident. And one has to ask, would it have happened to a man, for a similar offense?
Peggy -- Christie was "humiliated", yes. "Unkowing" and "flabbergasted"? Come on. It's no secret that Christie's entire career has been characterized by thuggishness.
As for motive, Rachel Maddow proposed a much more plausible explanation for what happened than payback for an endorsement that Christie never should have expected. Charles Pierce at Esquire glosses it well:
Correction -- that should have read "payback for not offering an endorsement." My bad.
Would a man have been strip-searched for abusing a servant? The Supreme Court allows if for all offenders being admitted to jail.
Interesting the sympathy for Devyani compared to the lack of sympathy for her victim. In the NYT story this morning, an Indian woman is quoted:
"What kind of checking are they doing, strip-checking?" she said. "She is a diplomatic person and you strip her and check her because the maid says she was ill-treated? It's ridiculous. It's not that she had employed an American servant. This was an Indian servant."
And that makes it okay? (I like the expression on Devyani's face in the picture with her father.)
The Decca Chronicle says "she was held with common criminals."
Gerelyn, no, what she did isn't okay, and yes, I do sympathize with the servant. However, regarding the strip search thing; the Supreme Court allows it, but my understanding is it isn't required. Especially for this type of thing. It could have been handled better. India comes under a lot of (justified) criticism for the way women are sometimes treated there, and for human rights abuses in their justice system. If the U.S. wants to preach about that, we need to set a better example.
Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "this type of thing." Visa fraud? Surely that should rank high on the list of crimes our law enforcement officials should be vigilant about. Terrorists get into our country and stay here with fraudulent visas.
As to Sangeeta Richard? She's just one more victim of the human trafficking that "diplomats" routinely indulge in.
But authorities allege that Khobragade drew up two contracts — one with the proper amount and one with the actual amount paid (about $3.31 an hour for a 40-hour workweek, a wage that would often amount to much less because of longer hours worked).
I'm disgusted by John Kerry's expressing regret over this "incident." I agree that "we need to set a better example." The Secretary of State should have done that by denouncing the grotesque sympathy shown this criminal. He should have denounced India's anti-woman culture and ranted and raved about the 8000 women who are burned to death each year in India in dowry disputes.
On strip searching: The stories in the Times said, that in New York City all arrestees are strip searched before being jailed. I have assumed this is to do with drug trafficking in the jails. The story says she was strip searched by a woman corrections official. Certainly it seems imprudent given the reactions in India (where I have read that a video of the "incident" is circulating with a woman beseiged by male officers). But perhaps Mayor de Blasio will take satisfaction in the practice that treats all arrestees equally.
I can't quite get over her parting statement. You are loosing me, who is a wonderful person, and getting a pile of trash! Also not very diplomatic.
Gene McC: Someday I will write a post about IQ--"irony quotient," as in "unknowing" and "flabbergasted."
Claiming to have been "unknowing" is trying to sell his constituents the Brooklyn Bridge after his GW Bridge fiasco.
At one point in the Christie interview I was struck by the momentary but intense fury in his face. It made me wonder if he's one of those world class charmers who also are world class manipulators, but underneath is a psychopath.
Anderson Cooper did a little report on psychopathy this very week. The psychiatrist on it said that psychopathy is not an either-or thing, it's a matter of degree, and everyon is a psychopath to at least some degree. Cooper's blog has an article on it at
anderson cooper360.com. (You can even take a little test there to see how psychopathetic you are.)
And you can find the profile of a psychopath at Wikipedia, Psychopathic Personality Index.
Traits that seem to fit Christie are:
I: Fearless dominance. Involving social influence, fearlessness, stress immunity.
II: Impulsive antisociality/selfishness. Involving 'Machiavellian' egocentricity, Rebellious nonconformity, Blame externalization, Carefree lack of planning.
III: Coldheartedness.
The first trait listed certainly seems to fit Christie -- the fearless dominance. He also had a two-hour press conference which would seem to show a high tollerance of strerss. He's blamng his employees, and it does look coldhearted to leave them alone out in the political if not criminal cold.
These traits can be positive if used well, but they also have terrible donwsides at times, for instance, substance abuse (check out Christies weight). Failure to accept responsibility for one's actions is another biggie in some psychopaths.
Not that Christie is the only politician who would seem to have a high score in the trait. One can think of some others. Maybe politics by its nature attracts people with high scores.
Each, Christie and Khobragade, had some responsibility for what has happened. Neither seems willing to acknowledge that (apart from whether they are "guilty" as charged) they have direct responsibility for what has happened.
He hired the miscreants and apparently fostered a style in his office that dealt out retribution to people who crossed him.
She brought a woman to the U.S., and treated her badly as well as illegally and seems oblivious to her responsibility to the woman and for her role in fostering good relations between the U.S. and India.
I can't quite get over her parting statement. You are loosing me, who is a wonderful person, and getting a pile of trash! Also not very diplomatic.
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both employed a famous thug. A couple of years ago he was elected mayor of Chicago. Bridgegate means little or nothing to anyone who doesn't have to cross that bridge, and Christie may ultimately benefit should be decide to run for president, as political operators across the country have now been warned that it's risky to cross this man.
Yes, retribution was/is not unknown in Chicago. BUT, it would be taken out directly on the miscreant pol, not the voters! But this is Jersey.
But you may be right; he could be the Republican candidate. If not, it will be a Jeb Bush/Hillary Clinton contest.
MO'BS, C'mon. "This is Jersey."? And New York is Athens. And I am Marie of Romania.
The Rs would be lucky to get Bush or Christie the way they have been behaving.
The comparison was to Chicago, my native city, where retribution is done properly.
Chicago is my native city, too. (Well, Evanston.) I was defending the Garden State where I spent nine enjoyable years.
Retribution: One of the great acts of civic retribution has always seemd to me to be Daley the Younger digging up Mieg's Field (airport) on the Lake Front. But I have forgotten with whom he was getting even. Anyone remember?
Let's assume, if only for the sake of argument, that Christie didn't know ahead of time about the decision to close the lanes -- or didn't order it himself. Still, doesn't it make sense to say that the first thing he would have done when the controversy broke out -- i.e. on the first day of the lane closings -- was call in his top staff members and say, "What the hell is going on here?" And given everything we've read about Christie and how he operates, can we really believe that those staff members would have refused to answer his question or lied to him about it? In other words, isn't it very likely that he knew from the beginning (if not ahead of time) what he claims he's only found out about now?
And then there's this, from a comment on George Vecsey's blog:
You recall the sign on Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here." Having served as staff on the Hill and "downtown," there is one cardinal rule: you do not act outside your "principal's" wishes and goals. The people involved knew Christie for years, what he wanted and what his codes of behavior would allow. This is the way it works at every level of government and in the private sector. People don't last on staff for five years or one year without understanding the rules.
You might enjoy the book. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Teach us about success written by psychologist, Kevin Dutton:
Dutton argues that there are indeed "functional psychopaths" among us—different from their murderous counterparts—who use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to succeed in mainstream society, and that shockingly, in some fields, the more "psychopathic" people are, the more likely they are to succeed. Dutton deconstructs this often misunderstood diagnosis through bold on-the-ground reporting and original scientific research as he mingles with the criminally insane in a high-security ward, shares a drink with one of the world's most successful con artists, and undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation to discover firsthand exactly how it feels to see through the eyes of a psychopath.
As Dutton develops his theory that we all possess psychopathic tendencies, he puts forward the argument that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: after all, psychopaths tend to be fearless, confident, charming, ruthless, and focused—qualities that are tailor-made for success in the twenty-first century. Provocative at every turn, The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a riveting adventure that reveals that it's our much-maligned dark side that often conceals the trump cards of success.
Christie is so finished. He knew. No doubt. As far as perception? If he knew then he is guilty. If he didn't then he cannot govern. Finished. There is enough political ad material to last forever.
As far as the Indian ambassador, India has a very strong Caste system. The upper middle are terrible snobs. Shame on India for having half of the world's slaves. They should be exposed more often.
Ms. Khobragade is a member of a lower caste, and I assume that her sense of entitlement to servants is a reflection of her perception of how higher caste people live. She wanted all the attributes of full membership, apparently. At any rate, if she had gone to Tiffany's and pilfered jewelrey, no one would think to defend her by looking at the cost of comparable items in India or whining about how all upper class Indian women must have beautiful jewelry, and if they can't afford the prices in the U.S., well of course, they must resort to cunning and subterfuge. Everyone would know it for what it is, which is stealing. She stole from her servant, pure and simple. Body cavity searches are par for the course for arrests. They shouldn't be, I agree, but there you are -- if you weren't offended previously I don't see why you should get started now over her. She's just another person who thinks of criminality in class terms, instead of as actions that comprise the elements of what is laid out in a statute.
Christie knows full well what it means to commit a crime. You could hear it firsthand with the careful phrasing of his press conference, in spite of its over the top self-pity, He only SAW the e-mails for the first time -- I noted that careful construction -- and he was upset that he had been LIED to, but he never said what the lying consisted of -- like "Are you sure there aren't any incriminating e-mails out there?" wherein, Ms. Kelly LIED and said, "No, Governor there are no incriminating e-mails."
So my assumption at this point is that he guessed well enough what happened but thought he could bluster and joke his way through without any real details emerging as the subpoena clock ran down. Remember, his reaction wasn't "I'm going to make sure something like this never happens again," it was, "I was the guy who put the cones in place. Ha ha!" The fact that he demanded that Cuomo cease investigating the incident raises a fair inference that he had sufficient knowledge to know at least approximately what an investigation would show.
But what really shocks me is that there are at least three or more individuals in his close circle who were aware of the plan to drown Fort Lee in traffic and not a single one among them said, "Are you kidding me? We can't do that!" Or even just, "That won't work out the way you think it will." Not one. So while this might not have been Christie's idea, he considered among his closests associates people who exhibited an utter lack of perspective, gross indifference to public welfare (and that's being charitable considering their evident glee at tying up traffic) and on a scale of 1-10, a moral compass with a negative value. These people shouldn't be in charge of anything.
Barbara's analogy of stealing from household workers to stealing from Tiffany's is clarifying. In many ways, we have become accustomed to seeing wages as something people must win, rather than something they justly earn and deserve through labor, sometimes hard labor. We might even go on to argue that stealing from someone weaker than ourselves is worse than stealing from Tiffany's because it is harder for them to garner support from the law and the surrounding society.
There is a lot of speculation about how the "Khobragade" scandal got out of hand. One item referred to the Times' stories is the role of a victims service agency, Safe Horizon, from which Ms. Richard sought help when she left her employer. There must be many such cases of exploitation that never make the front pages. In this case, I wonder if the agency decided to press ahead and force the issue with the U.S. Attorney Preet Bhara and also made the case public in a way the media could not ignore. I don't know this, but it seems more probable than the various conspiracy theories running loose.
Prarie Home Companion just did a fine little satire on Christie's Deputy Chief passing the buck... seems like an intern escaping into Siberia is to blame....
Among the many things I don't understand in this and I think will ultimately implicate Christie in a Henry II and Becket scenario ("Who will make some trouble for that meddlseome mayor?") is the apparent lack of interst from the NY side. Why wasn't someone in Bloomberg's office raising holy hell about the back-ups?
David, who do you think reversed the decision? It was one of the New York appointees, who began trying to get to the bottom of it immediately once he realized what had happened.
David: the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a combined State Agency. New York City and its mayor have nothing to say about it unless the governor intervenes at their behest. That's why Laguardia and Kennedy Airports located in New York City are very much in need of rethinking and repairs. Imagine a bicycle rental post at LaGuardia!
In the current imbroglio I think Governor Cuomo of New York has started an investigation (which Govenor Christie has asked him to call off!).
Here is the NYTimes rundown of previous and similar cases of diplomats abusing the hired help. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/nyregion/claims-of-diplomats-mistreati...
You wrote,
My assumption at this point is that he guessed well enough what happened
Just curious: why do you think he only guessed? I think it's inconceivable that he didn't know. How would he have known? If not by having ordered the lane closings himself in the first place, then by what he would have learned when he spoke to his staff – as he must have done, right? – after all hell broke loose on the first day.
I also find it inconceivable – Christie being Christie – that his staff, when questioned by him, would have dared to keep the truth from him. That's why I conclude that surely he knew the true story.
I just don't see how we can let him off with a "maybe he didn't know, but he probably guessed" what had happened.
Your thoughts?
Gene, my assumption is that at a minimum he knew enough to know he didn't want to know the ugly details -- it's hard for me to speculate what form that knowledge took, how early, etc. The fact that he worked hard to impede an investigation and made it clear by his blustering that he had no intention of getting to the bottom of it in a real way suggests he knew quite a bit. The definitive statements made during his press conference were clearly orchestrated to allow him to claim that he did not lie during the conference. As I said above, "Bridget lied to me" could suggest that she lied about her involvement or she lied about the evidence of her involvment. Two very different kinds of lies, with two very different inferences regarding Chrstie's own culpability. Those e-mails clearly show that they were the culmination of prior communications, most likely in person or on the phone, between Kelly and Wildstein and it is unthinkable to me that Wildstein would do what he did based solely on instructions from Kelly. Learing how to bruise without leaving fingerprints is a fine art and Christie has mastered it pretty well.
Thanks, Barbara.
Thanks, Barbara, for the that part of the history that I didn't know. I haven't read all the details of how it was discovered and reversed.
Margaret, thanks for the clarification re: the bridge too far as a State issue.
So, I guess i'll have to read the details to see who comlained and knew what when from NYC or State side.
In any or all scenarios, it seems absurd to think that Christie didn't know something during or immediately after its cessation and stonewalled after that.
No excuses for Khobrogade. But just to bring some perspective about the Indian reaction.
Barabara compared Khobrogade's behaviour to stealing. But in India it is hardly likely to be seen that way. $500 a month, about Rs.30000 in Indian currency, (which is what the maid seems to have been actually paid ) is very good money by Indian standards, about 3 times what a maid would earn in India. (When I retired as Senior Vice President from India's biggest bank, in 2004, my monthly salary was about Rs.25000). The other thing is that in most such cases, there is some oral undesratanding between the maid and the employer as to what she actually would be paid notwithstanding any written agreement. So in India while people would agree that Khobrogade broke the law, they would see it more like tax evasion than a criminal act. Hence the outrage. Even the way she was arrested , on the street just after she dropped off her daughter to school seemed unnecessarily aggressive. She was after all a diplomat, in no danger of fleeing the country or anything (at that time, at least). Plus there was the fact that there was already a court order in India in a case between the two which the U S authorities appeared not to have taken cognizance of whereas the Indian authorities feel that in terms existing mutual arrangements they should have done so. I am not sure if that is the correct position.
Personally I feel convinced that Khobrogade is guilty as charged and really don't understand how she is able to protest her innocence. But I do feel the treatment meted out to her went a little over the top. And how such a matter could have escalated into such a row is hard to understand [With all my 3 children married and settled in the U.S, India - U.S relations are important to me :-)]
Thank you. You put your finger on a critical and so far mysterious element. How did this case escalate to the point where India-U.S. relations have deteriorated so rapidly. Perhaps we will find out as more of the principals tell their side of the story.
Here in the U.S., there is the different "etiquette" of the State Department and the U.S. Attorney's office. Though they are both federal bodies, they operate under very different sets of rules and even cultural understandings. The decisions of each body seem to have gone in very opposite directions. The U.S. Attorney is himself of Indian ancestry so various theories have circulated about his motives in pressing the case. And, of course, the State Dept. must concern itself with the treatment of its own diplomats abroad.
From the Indian perspective, there seems to be a strong reaction to police practices, including her arrest and incarceration, practices which the U.S. public seems to take for granted, perhaps because most of us are not subject to them. The story I posted in my comment above with reactions from friends and media at the Delhi airport also underline the view that the U.S. is a bully, plain and simple; though the example given--the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan--was as I recall supported by the Indian government. Her father too has played an active role, according to this story, of rallying support, as what father would not.
So there we have it: many unanswered questions.
Soundbite for '16: if this happened with cones, imagine what could happen with drones.
It rhymes! I can see it now on billboards.
Soundbite for '16: if this happened with cones, imagine what could happen with drones.
Make no bones - he has the stones. But does he have a White House jones? What are his views on student loans? What does he say when Israel phones? Will he get the Indie vote? Will he get them on a boat? Will he get them with a goat? Hispanics like them here and there. Women don't like him anywhere.
Maybe. Christie seems to eat a lot--of green eggs and ham.
Sunil, surely it must occur to people in India that many things are more expensive in the U.S. -- from things as small as manicures, haircuts and spa services, to things as large as private school tuition, rent, and so on, and lower costs in India would not have been a defense to Ms. Khobragade refusing, for instance, to pay her landlord and then complaining about eviction. What makes paying a nanny different? Why is it in any way surprising that Ms. Khobragade might be expected to pay more for the services of a nanny?
All this tells me is that the U.S. should add India to the list of countries that it will henceforth refuse to approve these sorts of household employment related visas, just as it has already done for most Middle Eastern countries because of the level of trafficking and abuse. But really, this woman must be exceptionally stupid. When my trafficking client escaped her Middle Eastern employer and formally requested the return of her passport, he complied immediately. He understood that the jig was up and that the best thing for him was to not make the situation worse by providing even more evidence of his employment violations. Indeed, because he cooperated with her, she never made an issue for him.
Ms. Steinfels - if memory serves, Daley had wanted to close and eliminate Meigs Field for years - it interfered with his plans for downtown Chicago, Soldier Field, museums, etc. and to make the lakefront the pre-imenent downtown in the nation.
He actually did a handshake with governor to approve expansion of O'Hare (state funding in exchange to keep Miegs until 2024. Thus, mayor, unions, developers vs. corporate rich (who did not like him anyway). After handshake, 1AM bulldozers. Avoided decades of lawsuit delays. Gov Ryan later imprisoned (that says something about what the mayor fought against
Paid about $1.5 mil fine - had Bush support- FAA did nothing. O'Hare was expanded at state cost. He won re-election. Now seen as a brilliant decision.
His man in charge went to work for next governor, Blagoveich - both arrested same day.
Well!!! Thank you for the details...
All's well that ends well--sort off! Blagoveich and Co. arrested for something else as I recall.
Barabara, I agree with you.


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14 Sep 2012 2:24 AM #111
Shouldn't be a problem, as long as you adhere to the List and the itemtemplate mechanism it uses.
I show for each item an image with a couple of lines of text.
For a screenshot:
The list on the right is the buffered list and loads 500 items per 'page'. So after scrolling down 500 items, 500 new items are loaded.
The list on the left too, but it loads all items at once. But it shows the index bar and grouping working with the buffered list.
14 Sep 2012 3:50 AM #112
Alright so, tested it on a list containing 80 pictures, 3 per row, it doesn't work I'm afraid. The framerate drops to 0 essentially, scrolling is choppy and often just freezes completely.
EDIT: For reference, this is my code:
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14 Sep 2012 3:53 AM #113
14 Sep 2012 3:55 AM #114
Just edited my post, none of that. But honestly, I can't say if it's scrolling a all... sometimes when I drag down (i.e. trying to scroll up), nothing happens for a few seconds, then it scrolls a few pixels in the opposite direction... If it's a performance issue, than it's a CRIPPLING issue, one which the normal list doesn't have.
And no, images are small thumbnails, that CSS there, coupled with a bit of float / margin stuff to make them line up properly is all there is =/
14 Sep 2012 4:16 AM #115
You may try to set the maxItemHeight config option of the buffered list to the expected height of an item, maybe that helps?
You can also take a look at my code, maybe you'll see something that helps.
The entire project:
The list:
14 Sep 2012 4:21 AM #116
O, btw, you did enable the listpaging plugin and are using a data proxy?
Because otherwise it just may be that the list renders ALL items instead of only a small portion.
2 Oct 2012 10:32 AM #117
For what it's worth, I have been testing the new Sencha List in Touch 2.1 beta 3. We still need the UxBuffered list for some of the Androids we test on.
We have a channel list with about 1200 items. From what I can tell on the problem Androids (HTC LTE), the new Sencha List performs about the same as the old Sencha List. The UxBuffered list does work fine extending the new List.
For us anyway it looks like most Androids will be able to render a list of 1200 without seizing up fairly soon.
The only reason I really want to switch is there's a bug in the UxBuffered list where if you click a letter on the Index Bar that has no associated items - the list goes blank until the user scrolls a little.
2 Oct 2012 10:47 AM #118
Anyone know if packaging your app as a native app using PhoneGap gets around any of this performance problems (in 2.1 beta 3 or otherwise), or if the embedded browser has the exact same drawbacks?
7 Jun 2013 2:40 AM #119
Image Gallery view
I am creating a image (grid) gallery view which fetch and load the images. But the preoblem is that
my application is getting slow and hanged when I am trying to load the image grid(gallery) view. Can anyone help me to resolve this problem.
22 Sep 2013 11:01 AM #120
Is there Ext.ux.BufferedList support for Sencha Touch 2.2.1
We are facing serious issue on the list performance for 1000 items.
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why i'm feeling that the game became easy after 12.1 i'm starting new game with leverkusen in germain and now i'm 2nd with easy lost 1 game against Stuttgart 4-1 but the rest of the matches mostly won it
The game is too easy.
The difficulty is about right.
The game is too hard.
why i'm feeling that the game became easy after 12.1 i'm starting new game with leverkusen in germain and now i'm 2nd with easy lost 1 game against Stuttgart 4-1 but the rest of the matches mostly won it
I didn't want to make a new thread for this... but has anybody else noticed how bad the team talks are? Not long ago they seemed fine but now it seems impossible to motivate the team... some of the time you say things like "Keep going out there and you can still win" And the team switches off?? Practically impossible to get a positive reaction.
That post made my day, cheers Keyzer :-)
@Keyser Soze...i won't quote you (as it takes up too much space) but, a very good point well made. The isssues raised by "click continue and win" mob have all been addressed. And yes it's harder to motivate your team, but rightly so. IMHO this game (difficulty wise) is spot on now. It requires some effort to win, not just choosing the right teamtalk. Well done for 12.1 SI !! Really enjoying the game.
BUT that said, those not happy with 12.1, should be able to choose which version suits and play accordingly. But then that's Steam not SI by all accounts.
I don't know what has happened since the patch. Playing with Sunderland going into the xmas period I was 7th. Not changing tactics/teamtalks significantly I haven't won a game since the new patch. No major injuries either.
peaople who thinking that the game is now harder after 12.1 try to start new game and see the game still hard cuz i'm feeling the opposite
Think I am gonna have to start a new game. I just can't see what has happened to my Sunderland save to make performances and results go so badly overnight.
I just reloaded a game v Norwich away 3 times and lost all 3 time to try different team talks. It wasn't just getting beat it was the manner of the performance that had me bemused. Norwich players had poor morale and and where 19th in the league and hadn't won for 6 games. 12.1 really seems to have spoiled this game for me.
I am playing with a continued save. Was really enjoying it with Sunderland doing ok in 7th nothing to write home about then wham all of sudden after I patched up to 12.1 performances, and results went down hill massively. I'm not saying I should be winning games just since the patch the team appears unmotivated and performs poorly. I aint doing much different than before. I then tried changing team talks and still the same. I don't want to have to start again.
since last patch I'm unhappy because my players are too... however I'm sure I do the best possible team talks. Strange definition of game difficulty to make players behaviour unstable like now.
Last edited by Kravitz; 21-12-2011 at 18:13.
Trust me, you must tweak your tactic!
See posts number: #1655, #1658, #1661, #1662, #1663 and #1700
I had the exact same problem, and the solution was start a new game, and tweak my tactic.
I was playing with Droyslden, semi-pro footballer rep, and found the game ridiculously easy season 1: 120+ points, romped home, fluid football, click, continue = win.
2nd season was harder to be fair, as difficult to attract players, but still was 2nd in league and playing great stuff with only few adjustments.
Post patch however the footballing quality dropped in accordance with the morale! More realistic for BSP standard, and after three 0-0 draws in a row, I've started to get some tweaks to get the wins coming again more frequently.
The main differences I've found is my BSP players now look more like BSP players on the highlights, I'm drawing much more frequently (only drew 2 matches in 1.5 seasons pre-patch) and I'm actually having to think about squad selection, tactical tweaks and shouts in order to get results. I'm still 2nd, will be top if I win the game in hand, but it's a better challenge now. So far, so good.
I have found that the football is more realistic (albeit at a lower level than Sunderland, although maybe not that much lower level given their performances IRL!) post patch, presumable from the morale drops: most players are now Fairly Good/Good rather than a squad full of Superbs.
One slight concern is that I have seen 2-3 goals where a defender basically stands and watches a forward run twice as far as them to a loose ball to score, but may just be coincidence (all of these goals have been in my favour FWIW)
We should reach a conclusio on this, you are going to get a few people who are discontented with the game, but especially since the new patch, I think the majority of players are very happy with the game and so am I, I ponder around team threads quite often and have seen the difference in results. If you have claimed a victory where you have completely battered the team and you feel it is 'unrealistic', give yourself credit, but the debate on this thread has been led with an update that most people are very happy with it and that should be the end of it @Ianscousemac maybe it was that in the last patch you didnt have much to think about this time maybe you should re-consider tactics, you may have given different team talks but have you looked at your tactics eg are you playing too attacking when you could slow down the tempo, your point proves to em that the game is challenging and doesnt provide a click of the button to give victory, there are many other elements in it.
Well done SI on creating an improved match, as with every game there are some bugs/flaws but overally you have a majority of people who enjoy the game, I have some mates who play this game and are never on these threads and they never have criticism of the game, they normally want help on how to stop conceding goals
I guess i am one of the oldest and perhaps sadest users of FM and that's not counting the sinclar spectrum versions of football management so i would like to think i know what i am talking about.
The game is hard and easy and well that's because of the unknown factors in the programing. I sit wondering if the player i have signed is as good as the stats i required. When you scout him there are no indications of injury proneness big match bottler of inconsistent but he just doesn't seem to be wowing me. Is it the role i have given him? i know i will check his stats with Genie scout, no no concerns there, is it the players behind him?, have i set the passing to get him on the ball enough? you could drive yourself mad but at the end of it you must tell yourself that even the best teams loose and have poor form.
The question is do you want to be the best and feel ultimately unsatified or inconsistent and constantly trying to meet the chalenge. There's probably better things to be doing with our life
I am an experienced player and I am disappointed.
I have started as Sunday League player rep. Joined FC Juventus and won the Serie A with only 1 lost. My central defenders scored more than my forwards.
I am going to install FM2011 again.
maybe it would be worth taking a look at this thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...ld-it-be-a-bug
Interesting thread but its stuff we will review in the next gen iteration of the ME rather than tweak the current one, which btw hasn't changed enough since 11.3 for the issues being reported to be down to 12.0 or 12.1.
nice to hear you have it in mind, still AM strata players tracking back doesn't sound like a major tweak, but I might be wrong. cheers
It might have knockons to the balance of goals per game, etc, and that could take weeks to rebalance.
That isnt something I am willing to allocate time for unfortunately. I'd rather work all out on something for 13 or 14 that will take the whole thing to a new level.
so the majority of voters said the game is about right, yet si force a game ruining (for me) update that takes any enjoyment i once had out the game
good work!!! what a joke
SI hasn't increased the game difficulty IMO.
They have messed up some features (without any constructive and real motivation) in order to create (more) problems to the user. In fact they have put some bugs theirselves...
Maybe SI and some strange people consider this as increasing game difficulty, BUT in fact this is 100% flawing/messing up the game playability & enjoyment.
Unfortunately this has been one of the worst patches I have ever known. Because it hasn't improved anything, but only has ruined some game features.
SI will not accept this at the moment, but I'm sure they won't be able to clean these recent bugs in the near feature... Thats why it's easier to say that the game now is better than before...
Last edited by Kravitz; 26-12-2011 at 18:09.
"Strange people"?
this game is only fun for masochists
My 2 cents.
I think the game is about right, but I am in no means a veteran or tacticle wizard. I only use players my scouts find and never go for a big club like MU or Barca.
The thing that I think that inbalances the game is moral/talks, it seems to have more baring on the game than player ability or the tactics employed.
It hasn't as such been made 'harder' - if you start a new game with a low experience (such as semi-pro) will struggle more to motivate high rep players until they earn their trust.Likewise morale is harder to keep very high but likewise it's easier to get out of very low morale. The whole thing has been balanced to make it fairer and less dependent on just morale. As with all FMs tactics and signings can make a massive difference.
My perception is that the game is set up for 4-4-2 with wingers that cross, everyone saying the game is easy plays this formation. I found the game easy using this formation, so I changed to 4-3-3 with wide inside forwards set to cross rarely one to sometimes, I find it a much greater challenge, you need a lot of luck at the start of the season when they are learning your tactic, or morale will plummet.
well in my original arsenal game where i won the treble, my players are low on morale and don't listen to me in team talks and generally lose alot more than before....
I don't know how you guys find this easy! It's not as hard as real life management (as within time, it's possible to make most low teams into CL winners), but for a video game, its one of the hardest I've ever faced.
In my game with Stoke before 12.1, I had only managed a 7th position in 5 seasons as manager and even then I was still about 10 points off 6th place. 12.1 came and along with it came a change of formation to a NARROW diamond. This has seen me 24 games into the season and I am sat in 3rd, this has been my best season ever so far and that is with a narrow formation. I've had to work very hard to get these results to catch the top 6, who have occupied those positions for the past 5 seasons (Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham). I've had to push the boat out in terms of wages to attract top players but this has also seen the size of my squad drop, where now it is only 19 players.
You can read my progress in this thread.
Don't beg, it's so undignified.
I read your thread, enjoyed it, hope you do well this season and with your new tactic.
For me though a 4-4-2 has been easy, except for stronger teams where I would change to the christmas tree, I did ok that way.
But, I find it very difficult to replicate Bayern's way of playing, with essentialy 2 wide inside forwards, Robben and Ribbery, with Ribbery tending to cross more than Robben and Robben cutting in a lot, I do create a lot of chances, but out of 25 - 30 shots I'll get 1 -2 goals, the conversion rate is horrible, while I stop the opposition with their chances they seem to score every second shot they take lol. Yet my conversion rate with 4-4-2 with crossing wingers was a lot higher???
It's just my observation and maybe what I perceive to be ME weighted, may just be what I am better at setting up? But my players are creative and tallented enough.
The reason wingers will always work better is because on counter attacks, their crosses usually result in a point blank shot with the gk at the near post. The through passes from inside forwards however, results in a one on one, and FM rules dictate that 8/10 times the gk will parry it.
I am enjoying the game a lot but can't help feel something is amiss because there's not really much of a challenge.
I started off in BSN with no players and pretty much every season i've tonked every team in sight and won the league. Each season I just sign a new team of players and again, off I go and win the league or at least hit the automatic spot. I'm currently in the Championship with a total wage bill of 40k and again, beating everyone in sight! It's rather sad that only 1,000 fans can cram into my tiny stadium to watch my team. My team rep is lower than half the teams in League 1 !
The issue for me is the same as it has been for a while now. You don't actually need good players to win matches on FM. So long as you sign players with a few key attributes that's all you need. Physical attributes still win over everything else and mental/technical attributes can all but be ignored. They are just like an added luxory if you have money to spend, but they aren't really required.
I'm playing exactly the same tactics/formation and applying the same prinicples I was when playing FM Live a year or so ago now and nothing much seems to have changed. I've not made a single tactical change in 6 seasons, I ignore all player interaction and press conferences because there's simply no need to do it. (and it's a bit boring)
Winning matches is simply down to a few key attributes and maintaining some form... that's it. The problem is, it's hard to forget what you know. I could start playing a different formation and I could start signing players because they look good rather than because I know they will score 50 goals a season.... but it's hard to do that!
You shouldn't ignore mental attributes, but I agree on technical ones.
I completely agree with this. I realised this when playing FM11, especially about the over-powered physical attributes and attributes in general not being the be-all and end-all when it comes to (human) team building. However instead of giving up on FM I looked for ways to make my game challenging - I tried FMRTE (by improving rival clubs' squads), LLM rules, imposing artificial rules on myself to level the playing field with my AI opponents etc... Eventually I settled on removing the whole attribute thing from my game completely and began playing with full fog of war with an attribute hiding skin.
Now my team building boils down to effective use of scouts but more importantly - my own assessment of how good or bad I perceive a player to be by actually watching him play instead of getting an instant snapshot via attribute panels etc. I still use scouts to identify potential transfer targets, but before deciding wether to take a risk in buying them, I'll go watch transfer targets play for their respective clubs, or bring them in on trial for a few games and make my own assessments. I have no idea what their physical, mental, or technical attributes are, and never will - I base my opinion of them by how they perform in 3d matches, what their average ratings are, and their playing history (apps / goals etc), and what their personalites are. Basically removing about 90% of the non-subjective info we normally get handed to us on a silver plate and replacing it with my own subjective interpretations, intuition, and past experiences playing FM.
For me its more challenging and rewarding buidling a team based purely on my own assessments rather than that based on attribute panels etc. I still have success, but it takes much much longer to achieve and there's crucially plenty of mid-table seasons and the odd relegation thown in along the way, so its not for everyone (probably appeal to long term career players). It may be worth a try to bring a bit of challenge back to your game - especially with the 12.1.1 patch, which is a massive improvement imho
Here's a link for the no attribute skin if you're interested...
Last edited by Erimus1876; 27-12-2011 at 14:11.
So what physical attributes are we talking about? Just pace and acceleration for everyone?
It depends on the posistion and what style you are trying to play really, it's not all about pace and acceleration. For example, pace isn't so important for a DC (although you don't want one who's too slow either, so anything above say 10-11 should be ok) but you just need to look for jumping/strength mainly but it's useful to have other physical attributes fairly rounded for this position. But by contrast if i'm looking for a DL or a DR the only thing I filter on is pace and acceleration. My current DR only has 2 technical attributes in double figures (Championship level) and he performs just fine. There's no hard and fast rule and it still does require some knowledge and skill? to work out which players can perform in certain posistions.
I don't think I could have the patience to play with a skin hiding all the attributes though, but good effort on that! I don't really watch the games in enough detail to make my own judgements on players without seeing their atts and stats.
The game is so easy :S
Cant play this..
Well after playing four seasons I can officialy say that the game is now ridiculously easy, and by far the easiest recent FM version. I've won everything there is to win for four years. I've NEVER been able to do that with world class teams from the start of the game. Also, the amount of brilliant regens now is daft so not only does the game start easily, it just gets easier and easier.
I guess I'll start a new game with some crappy club and no money, but I already know that after two or three seasons (if that), I'll be in the top flight sitting in the top four, if not top.
People can dress it up all they like but the simple fact remains that it's way too easy now.
New or old patch?
Do you share with us your wonderfull tactic that made you win everything? Which team were you? Which patch did you played?
Secondly, there is a lot more to the game, and winning, than just tactics.
And thirdly, how is me downloading and trying out different tactics an argument that the game isn't too easy? All in all it's Pretty baffling logic and I could pick it apart but I just cant be bothered as somebody will always find some way of trying to dress the game up as not being too easy, like you just did.
It's too easy now, for me, and a lot of other people.
Last edited by dking; 06-01-2012 at 10:19.
By downloading a tactic that someone may have spent hours refining you are eliminating a major aspect of the games learning curve, to argue that a game is too easy after making the decision to skip one of the most crucial aspects of the game (tactic creation & development) is about as illogical as it gets.
Last edited by Barside; 06-01-2012 at 10:33. Reason: tidy up
Its too easy for you, yet we have a heaps of threads with people complaining since the patch its too hard, are they all wrong because you say so?
It is pretty obvious that downloading other people's succesfull tactics will make your games easier. If you weren't searching for other people's help on this forum, you might have experienced more difficulties.
By the way, you didn't read my post well, because I never said the game wasn't easy. I just pointed out a logical inconsistency in your behavior.
Further I agree with milnerpoints post above me.
So basically, what you're saying is that if anybody has come into these forums, or any FM forum and looked for any sort of help or tips, or had a look around for whatever, is then void of posting in a thread about game difficulty? Therefor anybody who has posted in this thread shouldn't be taken seriously because who knows what else they've been doing in these forums.
@Millner - Yes, they're all wrong because I decided they were. Just like you have decided that I downloaded tactics and used them to win everything.
No matter how hard I seem to try I never find the game easy.
this thread & this thread should help jog your memory.
So far you've not clearly stated that you are not using a download tactic, in the context of a discussion where you've said that you find the game too easy I do believe this piece of information is crucial to understanding your perspective.
Last edited by Barside; 06-01-2012 at 14:56.
I mean even in the career/challenges forums it seems that everyone gets consecutive promotions really easy and win the Champions League on the 2nd or 3rd season when they get to the top.. i never found it that easy.


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WEIRTON - Efforts to market the Northern Panhandle to outside investors took the director of the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle to Chicago recently for Fab Tech, the nation's largest metal forming, fabricating and welding exposition.
BDC Director Pat Ford joined Keith Burdette, West Virginia Secretary of Commerce and executive director of the West Virginia Development Office, other state development personnel and representatives of Putnam and Morgan counties at the trade show.
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ATTEND TRADE SHOW — A week spent at Chicago's Fab Tech, a trade show for metal forming, fabricating and welding interests, yielded a number of serious nibbles, according to Pat Ford, director of the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle. Ford, at right, is shown with Keith Burdette, West Virginia Secretary of Commerce and executive director of the West Virginia Development Office. - Contributed
Ford said they had a number of "serious nibbles," though it would be premature to identify the companies involved.
"We were able to showcase the Northern Panhandle," he said. "We were able to highlight the metal and metal-related industries we already have to show (prospects) the high concentration of businesses here and how strong the steel culture still is here. We showed national and international industries that West Virginia is still extremely strong in metal and metal-related industries, and why this is a great location for them to expand to."
Ford said they also unveiled a new marketing tool, a 55-page brochure identifying metal and metallurgical companies in the Northern Panhandle, including contact information and a business summary for each. It was designed and printed with funds from a $10,000 marketing grant from WVEDA.
Burdette had said the new booth is part of an effort "to be seen and to be heard."
"We can't expect companies to find us we have to go out and find them," he'd said. "We have to bring investors to West Virginia."
Ford said the new booth offers private meeting space where before there was none, as well as a half-dozen flat screens touting everything from testimonials from companies already doing business in the Mountain State to an interactive touchscreen where visitors could find out tidbits about business life in West Virginia things like business costs, available sites and the quality of life. The slick, high-tech appeal, coupled with a highly visible location at the heart of the lobby, helped them attract national and international attention, he said.
Ford said the trade show "helps us strengthen existing relationships with companies already located in West Virginia and accelerate new business relationships."
"When businesses are considering the Northern Panhandle, we talk to them about how they can capitalize on our access to a strong regional market, low business operating cost, skilled and dedicated work force and high quality of life," he said.
More than 30,000 visitors attended the trade show, he added.
"What was interesting was a couple of businesses showed interest simply because of the booth," he said. "We had not planned on meeting, they happened to come by and saw the booth. The state got us in one of the hottest spaces in the (show)."


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I have flashes of one of my favourite ever videos as a kid, but I cannot for the life of me think of the name. I also can't remember much about it, which isn't helpful, I know, but it was very old and I must have watched it in the 90's.
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There was a narrator to the video and he was sat in a very old style cottage and was drinking tea. I think he had dark blonde hair. I'm having flashes of him wearing a red, maybe green, jumper. I'm not a 100% sure on that one. But basically he read fairy tales, and it would cut to the actual story then back to him in between. I'm pretty certain 'Red Riding Hood' was one of the stories. I can't remember much else.
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The Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft stand at Space Launch Complex 40 ahead of the upcoming launch to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was delayed Saturday morning May 29, 2012 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket, intended to go the International Space Station, was supposed to be the first from a private company attempting the feat. As the countdown reached zero, the engines of a SpaceX vehicle shut down. Officials say chamber pressure on an engine was high, causing the abort.
(CNN) -- SpaceX aborted the historic launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Saturday at the last second because of a rocket engine glitch.
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center also posted a Twitter message Saturday saying "early data shows that the chamber pressure on Engine 5 of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was high, causing the abort."
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(AP) ASHBURN, Va. - Quarterback Robert Griffin III says "without a doubt" that he expects to be fully recovered from knee surgery and in uniform when the Washington Redskins open training camp on July 25 in Richmond.
Griffin said Thursday he's confident because "it's a mindset" and because of how his surgically repaired right knee has progressed. The QB says "training camp's a month and a half away. That's why I say without a doubt."
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Can the transcendence of e be shown using its continued fraction expansion e = [2;1,2,1,1,4,1,1,6,...]?
I have to join Gerry in his claim that $e$ is uniquely determined by its continued fraction, but transcendence proofs for the latter use the number $e$ instead. Without pretending to prove the transcendence of $e$ (proofs can be found in so many books and articles), I would like to mention that more general "pseudoperiodic" continued fractions of the form $\alpha=[b_0;b_1,\dots,b_s,(\overline{c_1+\lambda d_1,\dots,c_m+\lambda d_m})^\infty_{\lambda=0}]$ are known to be transcendental. This is because they can be expressed through the values of so-called Siegel's $E$-functions at rational points, and the transcendence result for the latter goes back to Siegel's 1929 paper.
The result where the use of continued fraction for $e$ is crucial is the following [C.S. Davis, Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 20 (1979) 407--410]. For each $C<1/2$, the inequality $$\biggl|e-\frac pq\biggr|< C\frac{\log\log q}{q^2\log q}$$ has only finitely many solutions in rationals $p/q$, and at the same time there are infinitely many solutions of the inequality if one takes $C>1/2$. This means that the continued fraction gives us an efficient way to measure the "quality" of rational approximations to $e$, and this is exactly the thing continued fractions are designed for! This result was generalized to the general "pseudoperiodic" continued fractions in [B.G. Tasoev, Math. Notes 67 (2000) 786--791].
I know only one family of examples where continued fractions are used directly to prove the transcendence of the numbers they represent. This is related to Mahler's method and the numbers are Liouvillian numbers, so that they are "too good" approximated by rationals.
In his article Transcendental continued fractions, Journal of Number Theory 13, November 1981, 456-462, Gideon Nettler shows that two numbers given by continued fractions $A = [a_0,a_1,a_2,...]$ and $B = [b_0, b_1, b_2, ...]$ have the property that $A$, $B$, $A \pm B$, $A/B$ and $AB$ are irrational if $\frac12 a_n > b_n > a_{n-1}^{5n}$ for sufficiently large $n$, and transcendental if $a_n > b_n > a_{n−1}^{(n−1)^2}$ for sufficiently large $n$. The growth of the $a_i$ in the continued fraction expansion of $e$ is so small that present methods seem useless for proving the transcendence of $e$ in this way.
Edit. Similarly, Alan Baker proved in Continued fractions of transcendental numbers (Mathematika 9 (1962), 1-8) that if $q_n$ denotes the denominator of the $n$-th convergent of a continued fraction $A$, and if $$ \lim \sup \frac{(\log \log q_n)(\log n)^{1/2}}{n} = \infty, $$ then $A$ is transcendental.
Edit 2 I guess that the answer to your question should be a firm "yes" after all. In
Siegel proved that all continued fractions $$ \frac{1}{a_1 + \cfrac{1}{a_2 + \cfrac{1}{a_3 + \ldots}}} $$ in which the $a_i$ form a nonconstant arithmetic sequence are transcendental. Applying this to the continued fraction expansion of $\frac{e-1}{e+1}$ gives the transcendence of $e$.
Siegel's proof uses, predictably, analytic machinery (solutions of Bessel and Riccati differential equations) going far beyond Liouville's theorem.
There is a not-very-helpful sense in which the answer is yes: the continued fraction expansion determines $e$, and therefore can be used to prove anything one can prove about $e$, including its transcendence.
We know so little about the continued fractions of real algebraic numbers of degree exceeding 2 that I would be surprised if there were any direct path from continued fraction to transcendence.
To use the continued fraction for a number to prove it's transcendental, one usually shows that the rational approximations it affords are "too good" for an algebraic number. The traditional tool here is Liouville's theorem, but this has been improved to the more powerful Roth's theorem:
If $\alpha$ is algebraic, then for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there are only finitely many rational numbers $p/q$ satisfying $$ \left|\alpha - \frac{p}{q}\right| < \frac{1}{q^{2+\epsilon}}. $$
Unfortunately, $e$ also satisfies this. Indeed, rational approximations to $e$ are uncommonly bad. As Wadim mentions, there are only finitely many $p/q$ satisfying the following inequality. $$ \left|e - \frac{p}{q}\right| < \frac{\log \log q}{3 q^2 \log q}. $$
But Khinchin proved that, for almost all $\alpha$, $$ \left|\alpha - \frac{p}{q}\right| < \frac{1}{q} \phi(q) $$ has infinitely many solutions if and only if $\sum_q \phi(q)$ diverges.
Additionally, Khinchin showed that the geometric means of the entries of the continued fraction expansion of a real number almost always converge to a universal constant. The geometric means of the entries of the continued fraction expansion of $e$ diverge.
If either of Khinchin's conditions hold for nonquadratic algebraic numbers, the transcendentality of $e$ would follow, but a proof is probably out of reach.
Finally, the continued fraction expansion of $e$ provides an immediate proof of its irrationality, because rational numbers have finite continued fraction expansions. We also have that $e$ is not a quadratic irrational, because those have (eventually) periodic continued fraction expansions.
I thought that all the algebraic transcendentals had a repeated pattern in their continued fraction representation. I know this is true for all the quadratic surds.
The fact that the representation for e, as well as e^2^n don't truly repeat, in the conventional sense, would suggest that they are not algebraic, hence transcendental. Many 'non-algebraic' numbers, like e and pi, have simple representations as continued fractions.
If there were to be a relation between the CF and the transcendence of e,one would feel that it would involve the pattern in the values of the CF. Considering also there appears to be no decipherable pattern to the CF of pi it may well be that such a path does not exist, as if it did then it seems likely that a similar relation would be present in pi.


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Bad as they are, I used to like playing Q8 off/on suit and more recently A & a low number card (say 9 or less) on suit. I know these cards are pretty raggy, but do any of you often find yourselves playing similar duff cards on the back of large/sentimental previous wins?
Having favourite hands is more of a goofy thing to do in order to reduce boredom. Many professional players have such favourite hands because they'we been playing for many years and can afford it.
The problem with having something like this is that you immediately lose objectivity. Emotions must be avoided at all costs in the context of poker; having a favourite hand is included in this rule. Poker is something cold and calculated. The only good emotion is some sort of cold, distant empathy, because it can help predict what your opponent(s) will do in the short and medium run.
After many thousands of hands, you will get into situations that will be memorable. That's how the brain is built to work. That's when you'll have the tendency to start loving or hating certain hands. CRUSH THAT !! Because it's wrong. That hand was good or bad in that particular context and situation. That's it, nothing more (or you played it wrong :D ). Given that poker does have a luck factor, it only inforces my argument.
There are plenty of scenarios in which it is more than OK to play hands like Q8o, Q8s, and definitely Axs. There are also plenty of scenarios where you should be folding these hands rather quickly.
Whether or not you do fold them should be completely independent of sentimental wins and losses. Instead, play them or fold them because it is the most profitable option to do so.
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