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Bedtime stories: Leather is the real feeling.
This story is dedicated to Sam from London and Fred from Paris.
The leather is one of the materials that I like! Why? it's the real deal! You start with the old leather jacket. More masculine you can not be. The weight of it and the crisper of the leather parts rubbing another… It's the experience! And then there is the smell. Real leather smells so good! An orgasm on its own. And being a car freak the leather seats have that muscle man feeling.
There are 1 or 2 things to know before I tell (write) my bedtime story. First, you have to ask your self if you like the modern motor look or the classic black look. Don't do it in the name of fashion and try to make a statement. That will never work. It should be timeless and you have to love it, even after 20 years. Because you will have it even after that.
Also important to know, don't over dress your self. You don't need to. make a nice set of 3 or 4 pieces maximum of leather clothes so you can show off the nice pieces. And don't hang almost nothing (or just nothing) on your leather pants or chaps. Your poppers holder, Crisco holder, gloves (should be on your hands anyway), changes, dildos, etc..Otherwise you going to look like a drag queen in black. For me at least. Keep the line clean, so you make the best first impression when some one sees you. That is the turn on for me.
Also, don't mix race moto with classic lines. It just looks weird. Keep it in one direction. We are gay, for god's sake!!
So, now you have to think back to me being 21 years old when I was more naive and discovering a new world of leather! At that time I was already bar-tending in the April and Exit Bar in Amsterdam. Also did a Wednesday Night Bingo night as a DJ in the cruising bar "The Web in Amsterdam Center. That was very interesting and new for me. Around that time I got into a different crowd. I remember the excitement of trying out sex in the darkroom and "older" guys in leather Pants and boots. I was loving the whole idea and trying to master a real man! Then there was that one guy I could not get my eyes off. Tall, German looking strong build Mister in his 30ties. He was wearing horse riding boots, or old French police officer boots, with the tight pants with flaps at the sight, like those German 2nd world war (SS'er uniform, sorry to describe it like that) trousers, and on top a shirt in Leather with short arms, like the American police cop. And to finish it of the famous leather cap with fitting police glasses. All in black and mysterious. Could not see his eyes. They were hiding behind the big mirrored Aviator Ray Ban glasses. From that moment I fell in love with the leather look and also the guy! Later, of course, i turned into that guy, funny enough. But I was falling in love with that guy and did every thing in my power to have sex with him! not sure if it was him, the outfit or both! I had to fuck with him.
As I was working behind the turntables in the Leather-bar the Web, I was able to give the guy some free drinks. I followed him when he accepted the beer from the bartender and thank me for a small "cheers" and walked away into the direction of the darkrooms. Those were on the 2 floors upstairs. Lucky I had my DJ buddy "Dicky" with me to help me take over with the music! Me being a desperate 20-year-old running after him and tried to get part of the action. Naive that I was, I was not the only one! I'm looking all over the 2 floors and could not find him. Just walking, and walking and walking for sure 15 a 20 min. Then he was there! In the corner staring at me. Walk over to him and touched his shoulder and feel his upper arm wrapped in leather. He was wearing gloves very tight on his hand. It made noise when he made his hand like a fist. Then he was checking out what I had in my jeans. At that point, I was fully hard.No help needed. One of my wet dreams came out at that moment. He took me in a cabin, or so and start kissing me passionately. I was feeling all that black cowskin against my body. If felt like a second skin of him. so warm and sticky in sort of way. and those gloves touching my hair and face. That was a sensation that I never experienced before in my life! And when he was holding my body and his body smell mixed with that leather was the real deal for me to get high on. The real man feeling! I popped open his shirt (press buttons) and his hairy hot chest came from under there! My eyes went open. Wow, that was the whole deal… His nipples were so right.Easy to play with and while I was doing that he went down on his knees. Pants were open in no time and his mouth was doing all the right thing he needed to do. Some sort of trick he did with his tongue to make it harder not to come. It's not easy to hold that up!? So to avoid to come in the first 10 minutes I pull him up on his 2 feet and gave him a hard time not to come that fast. Love doing deep-throat on those thick big dicks. He bent half over me, with 2 hands leaning against the wall. And he was moaning from pleasure. When I looked up to him I saw so many eyes looking at us from the people looking over the wall of the cabin. Normally I'm more a private person, but now I really did not care! I came up a gain and check out his bear butt. You know that tight straight hard ass, difficult to get into. A bit of the professional football player ass with a bit of hair on it. Anyway, I start doing my magic and bit by bit start opening his butthole. When I broke into there, I took one of his arms and put it on his back while I was fucking him! Pushed his face against the opposite wall of the cabin and start banging harder and harder. With the other hand, he was stroking his massive tool until he explodes his white load on the black wall. His orgasm was so loud I could hold it up anymore and shoot almost at the same time all over his hairy hills.
Without a word he put him self into his gear and left the cabin! Never saw him ever again after that! Maybe ashamed or just a tourist visiting Amsterdam! Hope I gave him the fantasy he wanted like he did for me! Also, my interest for leather has been created and I'm happy that I translate these things into movies. With the time I got more experienced. When the passion is there, you can take on the world. But please be careful with your sex partner if you do this kind of thing. Do it with respect and care!
Cheers Peto

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Intern PR2 Challenge 2009
Above: Team Won's PR2 gets ready (L). Willow Garage CEO Steve Cousins and Advisory Board Member Larry Page get a kick out of their waiter (R).
Last week we held Willow Garage's inaugural Intern PR2 Challenge. We divided the interns into teams and presented them with this year's challenge: use a PR2 to serve drinks to judges positioned around the cafeteria and clean up their mess. Teloperation was allowed, though each team would be scored on technical merit. The teams were given 72 hours, starting Friday afternoon, to build and test their PR2 waiters.
On the following Monday, the teams were each given 20 minutes to run the challenge. What resulted far exceeded our expectations. Not only had they achieved the objectives of the challenge, but they had taken the time to create entertaining presentations that demonstrated great service quality. Team Two put together a User's Manual (see below) that described their system in detail. Team Won followed a partly improvisational script that had the audience frequently laughing.
While both teams mixed autonomy and teloperation in their final systems, including sophisticated motion-planning algorithms for grasping the bottles, they took very different approaches overall. Team Won focused on humor-driven human-robot interaction, using pre-recorded sayings to create a live theatrical performance with the PR2. Team Two focused more on autonomy and created a Web application on a touch-screen phone to enable the judges to place their orders. Both teams also put together their own interfaces for controlling the PR2 behind the scenes: Team Two used a GUI to switch between various goals while Team Won used a LISP-based scripting system. Their approaches taught us a lot about how we can extend our codebase and even gave us some new packages, like an Ogg-Theora-based streaming video package for ROS.
Our judges -- CEO Steve Cousins, Founder Scott Hassan, HRI reseacher Leila Takayama, and Advisory Board Member Larry Page -- had a hard time judging a winner. Both teams took such vastly different approaches to solving the challenge that they had to call it a tie! This was fun and sucessful event that we plan to hold in coming summers.
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AVONDALE, La. (AP) - Lucas Glover smoothly rolled in an 18-foot birdie putt on his final hole Friday, giving him the outright lead in the Zurich Classic - and showing he has regained his touch on the greens.
Distancing himself from the putting problems that sabotaged good ball-striking rounds, Glover shot a 5-under 67 to reach 12 under and take a one-stroke lead over Boo Weekley.
"I've been hitting it good for a couple months and finally started making some putts," said Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open winner who won the last of his three PGA Tour titles in 2011. "I mean, I was hitting it as good as I can hit it. But at the same time, if you putt poorly. ..."
Weekley had a 68. He holed out with a wedge from 105 yards for an eagle on the par-4 10th, his first hole in the second round at TPC Louisiana.
"I couldn't tell it went in because it's got a little bit of an upper lip in the front of it," Weekley said. "I saw it bounce, and then I didn't see it no more. Then the people in the background started hollering and whooping, I was like, 'Wow, that really went in.' I didn't believe it."
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur playing on a sponsor exemption, followed his opening 72 with a 69 finish at 3 under to make the cut. He tied for 58th two weeks ago in the Masters after becoming the youngest player to make the cut at Augusta National, and said Thursday that he will play in a U.S. Open qualifier in two weeks in Dallas.
"I think I played a very good round today," Guan said. "I made a lot of birdies and a couple of good up and downs."
Glover missed the cuts in three of his past four events, mainly because of the putting woes.
Glover had 49 putts in the first rounds, 11 on the front nine Friday when he made the turn in 4-under 32. He birdied the first two holes with putts of 3 and 6 feet, and added birdies on the fifth and 11th holes.
He got to 12 under with a short birdie putt on the 13th, but a poor chip from the right side of the green on the par-3 17th green led to bogey. He then rebounded with the 18-footer on the par-5 18th.
"Getting off to a good start at this course is pretty important because 17 coming in, nine coming in, depending on which side you play first, I had about an 8-footer on 2, after a good bunker shot then a tough read," Glover said. "I had the break going one way, the green going the other, and I made that one. That was a good feeling to birdie the first two, two good reads, two good strokes and I just kind of felt like that got me going."
D.A. Points was 10 under after a 68. Morgan Hoffmann was three strokes back at 9 under after a 69, and Ernie Els had a 69 to reach 8 under. Els lost a playoff to Jason Dufner last year in the event.
"I like the course." Els said. "I obviously played well here last year and I'm just trying to set that same game plan and really wait for the course to come to me."
Bubba Watson, the 2011 winner, rebounded from an opening 73 with a 65 to reach 6 under.
"It was good," Watson said. "Yesterday, I played really scared. I'm trying to play good. When you do that you don't hit quality shots and you just struggle."
Dufner was 3 under after a 71.


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News item: the estimated cost of building California's high-speed rail system has increased, again, to at least $60 billion, perhaps as much as $80 billion, and maybe more, according to the Mercury News.
This comes on top of news that ridership of the system likely will be lower than previously estimated.
How much is that? Put it this way, space travel is much, much cheaper than a fast train to San Francisco.
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The annual budget of NASA is $18 billion. Estimates of a manned mission to Mars are between $30 and $40 billion -- half as much as California high-speed rail.
Right now, I can't get to Mars. But I have a host of ways -- flying, driving, taking the bus, or taking a slow train -- of getting from my home in LA to the Bay Area.
So why not take that high-speed rail money and use it instead for a state space program? Yes, space travel is notoriously expensive. But a space program would be cheaper and more likely to produce innovation and economic breakthroughs than high-speed rail.
And if it seems outlandish for a state with California's fiscal problems to start its own space program, just thnk about what that says about the practicality of high-speed rail.
Or to put it another way: If we're going to spend that kind of money on a transportation program, shouldn't it take Californians out of low earth orbit?


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Monday, November 12, 2012
Giant Rats and Tiny Men
In the year of the rat, the election came down to a whole bunch of men and women loudly chanting, "Who do we are, What do we want." The Democrats had clear answers to both questions. They wanted the rat. They wanted to be rats. They wanted to be the last rats on the sinking ship of state.
That was the hysterical frenzy of the Democratic National Convention in a nutshell. It was the pied piper calling forth all the rats by name and teaching them to march around when the pan pipes played. And the pipes played, the rats went to the polls, they voted, once, twice, three times and then waited around for their cheese.
And who were the Republicans? What did they want?
Watching the Republican National Convention, you got the sense that they were amiable people who like hard work, and talking about hard work, who like minorities and Clint Eastwood movies. They were as American as apple pie, in the way that commercials for frozen apple pies that you defrost in an oven are. Pop the Republican Party in your Sunbeam, punch out 60 years and you'll get the Eisenhower Administration, toasty and fresh in your kitchen.
But the voters didn't want apple pie. Some of them did. The older ones. The married ones. And yes those hordes of horrid white males. But a bunch of the electorate wanted burritos, they wanted hot pockets and a hundred other treats. And they wanted them free of charge.
The Republican Party was proposing a country where anyone can open up their own pie shop, while the Democrats were offering free burritos and degrees in Transgendered Mayan poetry in order to "invest in our future." The party of apple pie came close, but the party of burritos with cheese for voters who vote early and often, came in closer.
The first question of any movement is who are we. The second question is what do we want. And until we can answer those questions and communicate those answers, then we are always going to be flailing, moving from one compromise to another, while our own rats ponder which principle to dispense with first. After all, what good are principles if they don't get you in to ride the rat?
What the Republican Party communicated in 2012 was that it wanted to win an election. It chose the most electable candidate and put on a show that had little of substance. Three nights of apple pie commercials and then months of apple pie speeches about how wonderful this country is. Little was said, but the unspoken message was that policies didn't matter, winning did.
As Churchill said of Chamberlain, "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." The Republican Party thought it had a choice between defeat and dishonor, it chose dishonor and got defeat anyway. Now we are offered even greater dishonors to avoid greater defeats. And when the GOP has appeased every single element of the electorate except its own base, then surely it will be allowed to win.
But winning isn't the point. Winning is a power play. It only matters if you either expect to ride the rat or if you are fighting for something. The Republican Party fought to win and it lost. Now might be the time to fight for something, rather than to fight for the sake of winning the fight.
Tiny men don't defeat giant rats. Not unless they are fighting for more than themselves. More than mere antipathy for the rat. And men who don't know who they are or what they are fighting for will always be small, no matter how much fame they have or how well known their names are.
And that brings us right back to the question being shouted under the giant rat. "Who are we and what do we want?"
The Republican Party is divided, not split, between an establishment that wants to ride the rat and a base that wants the rat gone. The establishment is still trying to figure out how to win over giant rat voters with the promise of a better, slimmer, but more efficient rat. The base wants it to build a rat trap. But in elections the establishment usually gets its way and whatever the election results are, the giant rat stays around for another year, getting bigger and bigger.
The Republican and Democratic leaderships might be divided into the moderate and extreme wings of the same party. But their bases are very different.
The old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democrats have become Republicans. The Republican Party is at the voting level, the rural party, the party of those skeptical about federalism and looking to lock in liberties with the Bill of Rights. At the same time its leadership consists of Hamiltonian Federalists who are interested in moving business forward. Throw in a moral traditionalist base and the party becomes even more impossibly conflicted.
Meanwhile the Democrats have become what the Republican Party turned into after Lincoln, corrupt, elitist and widely hated. A modernist party that postures as a party of civil rights, but views black people as walking votes and tools for extending the federal power grab of fanatical unionists. It is a party with no more vision than consolidating authority into central organizations that are run by the incompetent and it is not above pulling any and every illegal trick in the book to violate the Constitution. Its only reason for success is that its opposing party has so comprehensively disgraced itself that much of the country will not even consider voting for it.
But as rotten as the giant rat of the Democrats may be, it at least knows what it wants. The same can't be said for a Republican Party that is stuck in a schizophrenic state. It is united, not by a vision, but by an opposition to the left.
The one thing that the Hamiltonians, Jacksonians and Jeffersonians can agree is that they don't like the left and its vast bureaucracy that is hostile to business and bent on total control of all aspects of human life.
This opposition transcends federalist issues or moral divides. The Republican base and leadership may differ on how much big government they should be, but they can all agree that the endlessly expanding horror show of the giant rat, towering over Washington D.C. and sharpening its teeth on the Washington Monument is too much.
America is the other thing that the Hamiltonians, Jacksonians and Jeffersonians agree on. They all like it and think that it's a special and exceptional place. And turning conventions to that theme is a point of agreement. Unfortunately the unwillingness to define what makes America special, beyond the ability to open your own apple pie shop and the ability of immigrants to open their own apple pie shops, means that there is little disagreement, but also no real message.
The Hamiltonians turn Jeffersonian when talking to the base. But then they revert back to being old Alexander. Romney is the first presidential nominee in generations to run on such an explicitly Hamiltonian platform and the results should surprise no one. Hamilton was a good deal more popular after he was killed by Aaron Burr, probably the most ruthless American progressive of all time, who makes ratlings like Ayers or Alinsky seem downright inconsequential, than when he was alive.
Ideology follows interests. The Hamiltonians are city dwellers. They believe that men need regulation but that free markets don't. They understand the power of the economy in building a nation and how making unpopular decisions that hurt people in the short term can help them in the long term. But they don't understand people and are terrible at getting their message across. They are sophisticated enough to think big, but not to think small, and the populists beat the stuffing out of them every time.
The Jeffersonians are rural and suspicious of cities and central organizations. They want to keep their way of life by limiting the power of the central government. They are passionate about freedom and instinctively dislike the Hamiltonians. Jeffersonians can win the majority of the country by land area, but the cities stifle them. They are instinctive revolutionaries, but like the Hamiltonians they struggle to communicate their deeply felt beliefs to the rest of the country. They always think small.
And then there are the Jacksonians, who go deeper, challenging the disenfranchisement of the public by the elites. The Jeffersonians still believe, to a degree, in the basic decency of their opponents. The Jacksonians do not. They suspect, and sometimes rightly so, that their opponents seek a one party state. They don't just protest, they organize public outrage, marshaling the frustrations of those who feel excluded to challenge and overturn the entire system. The Jacksonians can think big and small.
The question is are we going to be Hamiltonians, Jeffersonians or Jacksonians? The question is what do we want?
Do we want to keep the urban federal technocracy going or pull back to local government? Does our future lie with big institutions that plan to do a lot or small ones that we control? Do our economic interests, short term and long, lie with free trade and open borders, or small business and domestic manufacturing? Do we believe in the system or in the family? Do we believe in the expert or the wisdom of the mob? Do we want to push on into the future or protect our past? These are the debates that we need to have if we are ever going to move forward.
We all know what we're against. The question is what are we for? Once we answer that question then we'll know not just what we're fighting against, but what we're fighting for. And until then we will not be able to step out of the shadow of the rat.
32 comments:
- fsy said...
Do we want to push on into the future or protect our past? These are the debates that we need to have if we are ever going to move forward.
"into the future"?
"move forward"?
Sounds too much like someone who should not be named.
- 13/11/12
- Leo said...
Yes, "move forward" etc may sound eerily familiar, but I guess here it is merely "change the current poor state of affairs to the better" ("better" along the lines of "is good", as opposed to "feels good").
- 13/11/12
- Ex-Dissident said...
Very thoughtful and thought provoking essay. There is one item you initially touched on, that requires greater attention. The fact that the pied piper played a tune and the rats marched towards the voting booths ready to vote once, twice, three times, or however many times the piper told them to do so. In a real fight, if your opponent fights dirty and there is no referee, you must be able to counter that dirty play. We will not come out of this mess with clean hands.
I like imagining that I am surrounded by people who play fairly, value honesty, and are responsible for themselves. However, I am often confronted by the reality that shows a very different form of humanity. I want the giant rat gone, but will it take an even bigger rat to accomplish this??? How do we tell the bigger rat to go away afterwards? Something else we need to figure out, moving forward.
- 13/11/12
- Leo said...
@Ex-Dissident: same old story, "who will guard the guardians". Incidentally, the nation's founding documents address the same problem. Although, one can always offer a better solution.
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Good article. I especially am interested in how Americans will define themselves. "Who are we" - I don't know anymore. We, as a nation, need to find out.
Sorry, I'm still seriously disappointed in the election process. If I thought it was just and accomplished with integrity, then I would accept the Obama Administration's leadership. But I do not believe it was a fair and just election. We need to work on that voter fraud thing.
- 13/11/12
- Shloimo Seskutov said...
republicans are lost only because democrats,
who choose unfair methods of fighting (because they didn't have anything good to offer, just freebies, lies, fraud, etc.)
but shame on republicans, who gave up so far
and i think if one side choose fraud (dems) it's legitimate for another (reps) to choose whatever unfair methods they can have
- 13/11/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
ex-dissident, or maybe it's using a 1000 small rats to beat one big rat
whether a 1000 small rats is an improvement over 1 big rat is a matter of opinion... but there is a limit to how big small rats can grow
- 13/11/12
- Ex-Dissident said...
Leo, our founding fathers lived in a far more moral society and a world dominated by individual farmers and small business men. Now the majority of our country lives in industrial age cities and most people work for someone else; they rely on others for responsible decisions. They have different values and are not constrained by traditional sources of moral behavior. They really need a big government to control their lives.
- 13/11/12
- Ex-Dissident said...
Are we ready to turn ourselves into dirty rats? I don't think there is any other way to fight this monster.
- 13/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
Must it be an either or scenario? I guess you would say I am a Jeffersonian who can probably be converted into a Jacksonian.
- 13/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
Ex-Dissident--there is truth to what you wrote. There are no swans in the sewer, the natural habitat of rats.
It's hard if we become too much like our enemies that will leave a whole lot of people confused and unable to differntiate the corrupt from the clean.
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
"And when the GOP has appeared every single element of the electorate except its own base, then surely it will be allowed to win."
Surely "appeared" is supposed to be 'appeased.'
- 13/11/12
- ErisGuy said...
The question is are we going to be Hamiltonians, Jeffersonians or Jacksonians
Those, alas, are not the choices. That America is dead. The choices are Chavez, Georges Boulanger, or Francisco Madero.
- 13/11/12
- VA_Rancher said...
As a staunch Fiscal & Social Conservative, if the only way to win is to become that which I abhor, then I reject "winning".
If the only way the GOP can win elections is to become Progressive... Then I will not be a member of the GOP.
I wholeheartedly reject all the defeatist and appeasement talk I am hearing from supposed conservatives.
Words have MEANINGS. Take your statements and replace "Democrat" with "Islamic Terrorist" and replace "Republican" with "American Citizen" and do you still agree with your statement?
Winston Churchill in 1941 said "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
His statement is STILL correct today.
- 13/11/12
- Ron said...
It would have saved you a lot more time if you just linked to this
Truth is ugly.
- 13/11/12
- Unknown said...
Gen Stanley McChrystall
Gen Carter Ham
Gen David Petraeus
Gen John Allen
Colonel Harry D Tunnell
Gen Kip Ward
These are just the impeccable leaders whose careers have all been eviscerated under Barack Hussein Obama's tenure that we know about. why would there suddenly be so many Military high level brass losing their careers after, in some of these cases, never having a single black mark on their records? Well, it's become known that these brave leaders of men would never turn their military power on their own countrymen. And as we all know, that just won't work for a dictator.
In the Congressional District formerly held by Retired Col Allen West, voter turnout last week reached 141.1%. Yes, more people voted than were even registered to vote. And I checked, you have to register in Florida 28 days prior to the election. If elections are this corrupt, why bother having them? And as you opined last week Daniel, there is no guarantee that elections will continue in the future. we had that Southern Female Governmor say out loud during the 2010 midterm that Obama should just suspend the elections.
So I don't think it matters if we try to out rat the rats or not, I think America may have just seen it's last Presidential election.
- 13/11/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Those, alas, are not the choices. That America is dead. The choices are Chavez, Georges Boulanger, or Francisco Madero.
That America isn't dead... and it is up to us to define ourselves.
- 13/11/12
- Unknown said...
We can all remember North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue (D) stating in 2010, "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover."
It may have been poor wording to say "last election" maybe I should have said last one for a while. Looking back on some of your previous works, such as the discussion on how Obama could never get the military to back him with Marshall Law and would need the police unions to help him with that, not if he eradicates the current military leadership and promotes more Administration friendly officers.
Just after the election you cautioned us to not take the election process for granted because it might not always be around. I agree now. You were right yesterday when you pointed out that they only stole elections in certain localities rather than taking the whole thing. Its all an illusion to make us think we are still represented. Many Countys are reporting more than 100% turnout at the polls. weird. Some districts are reporting not one single vote for Romney? Mostly in urban highly populated areas. Not one vote? I can see him getting shalacked, but not one single vote? Vegas bookys would find that amazing.
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
The Republican Party was proposing a country where anyone can open up their own pie shop, while the Democrats were offering free burritos... Spot on.
I would add, the Party was proposing a country where anyone can get a job in a pie shop.
Or in that candy factory in Nevada... I was very impressed with what the RNC was selling. But nobody was watching, and the MSM wasn't going to talk about jobs in candy factories.
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Another great, but fruitful, cry in the wilderness? The magic formula needs to reach those whose main goals are to utilize their sexual organs as much as possible, stuff their faces, and have other people's money find their way into their pockets. In short, the classic "O" man voter. Unless you pay this crowd in cash, and perhaps give them a free car, I doubt Republicans will ever get their vote. I wonder if you can be high-minded if the lowest common denominator determines elections?
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Adam G. - West was not running in his old district. Rooney was our rep. The Florida republican party re districted and West ended up in this newly created district and Rooney in a safe new district to the west of here. It was suggested that the establishment republicans in Florida did Col. West in at the time. Turns out the talk was correct. Col. West was probably taken out by his own party.
St. Lucie County
- 13/11/12
- Anonymous said...
The democrats know what they stand for and how they will get it. They have always been the party of hate and racism and now that hate and racism has turned against White America, via millions of third would brown hordes; both legal and illegal.
What does the GOP stand for? They want to "evolve" and start pandering to the brown hordes themselves. Who is looking out for the dwindling number of White Americans in this country? We need our own Golden Dawn party to rise up and represent White America.
- 13/11/12
- Steve D said...
'amiable people who like hard work, and talking about hard work, who like minorities and Clint Eastwood movies. They were as American as apple pie, in the way that commercials for frozen apple pies that you defrost in an oven are.'
I'm grumpy, I hate hard work; I hate talking about it even more. I am not even sure if I've ever met a minority (whatever that word means; are their non-human aliens around somewhere whom the Republican's like?) and I've never seen a Clint Eastwood movie. (In addition, I stopped watching James Bond after the second movie failed miserably)
I'm also Canadian and I prefer blueberry pie. Apples give me heartburn.
So technically I'm not Republican but Romney was one of the few people I have ever seen who could call himself both decent person and a politician. Why anyone in his right mind would vote for a nihilist like Obama over him is a mystery to me.
- 13/11/12
- larrhal said...
My heart says 'Daniel Greenfield is right.' My head says 'Adam Greenfield is closer to the truth.'
I write from Israel. Once upon a time, I thought the system here was more corrupt than the American one. Twenty years ago, it was. Now, and despite the overwhelming power of 'liberal' justices, I no longer believe that.
I think Obama and Axelrod stole the election. Romney rolled over - unlike the great Allen West. The great Allen West should be President one day, and play the role of Churchill against Islam and 'Islamism.' In the meantime, we have Bibi - it's not that much but it will have to do.
- 14/11/12
- fsy said...
Today the word "conservative" really applies only to the Left, who are always working to conserve and expand their power base. Those of us who still dream of some sort of freedom are the real radicals. This intentional misuse of language, beginning with the co-opting of the word "liberal", is one big cause of the huge confusion in people's minds.
- 14/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
fsy--I couldnt agree more
- 14/11/12
- Unknown said...
@Terry St. Lucie County - This still doesn't explain the unexplainable phenomena of 141.1% voter turnout. You guys have a law that voters have to be registered 28 days prior to the election. This means peoople can't register at the polls like some states allow. How is it that more people voted than were actually registered?
- 14/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
Adam--you are absolutely right. The problem, from a Conservative perspective is that questioning corruption at the polls in primarily African American communities carries the risk of being charged with voter intimidation. Or at the very least accused of it.
Not that there actually was voter intimidation --in the GOP--but rest assured that the left would find some reason to get people charged or accused of it.
But election fraud is also illegal and a 141.1-percent voter turnout clearly demonstrates election fraud.It's very doubtful that a liberal would be charged with that, though.
The US election system is a mess.
- 14/11/12
- james wilson said...
Adam Smith's brilliant insights wound up being applied in, among other things, the Federalist and the Constitution of the United States. Ambition against ambition, in defect of better motives. But the Constitutional Convention only happened after the horrifying experience of 1783-1789, well described in Greenfield's Rhode Island Country Party post.
Toward the end of his life Smith labored to write another book which, instead of general insights, contained specific remedy, but when he was near death Smith ordered his servant to burn every last note. Burke,Tocqueville, and Russell Kirk offered similar advice--deep understandings form prepared minds, which suddenly, and unexpectedly, find oxygen and form when calamity kills or enfeebles commonly held beliefs.
There can be no progress under universal suffrage. Tocqueville described it as not only the most despicable element of democratic government, but a powerful revolutionary instrument as well. No one can make an honest case otherwise.
When conservatives join in this contest, we improve a product in decay and forget who we are at the same time and at the same rate. Then we wonder why there is no messenger. There can't be a messenger. Romney may have been even be better than we deserve.
Daniel Greenfield is like Adam Smith. A prepared mind can sometimes only prescribe action when events prepare them, and until that time comes no practical remedy will do. Universal suffrage is a powerful revolutionary instrument and the left finally learned to take ownership of it in 1933. They took off their berets and their whiskers, buried their bolshevism, and went to live inside the gates. That is the carny game. You can play; in fact, they need players. But you can't win until you cross to the other side.
- 14/11/12
- Anonymous said...
The Rinos are "Tiny Men".
- 14/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Sounds dangerously like an argument to vote based on principle -- a principle other than the Republican candidate winning.
Conform, or else you're just another Obama voter.
- 14/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
LOL. Well, I suppose there's a FEMA camp or gulag or something in my future since I won't conform to either party under duress.
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To address a number of topics prior to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's (RVIA) 50th Annual National RV Trade Show, Nov. 27-29 in Louisville, Ky., Navistar International Corp. President & COO Troy Clarke agreed this week to field an array of questions on behalf of the Lisle, Ill.-based company, a global truck builder and parent company of Navistar RV. Clarke, a former GM executive like Navistar's new chairman Lewis Campbell, joined Navistar in 2010 and assumed the reins of the company's top day-to-day job in late August during rather turbulent times for the legendary Chicago-based firm. Here's the highlights of that RVBUSINESS.com conversation:
RVBUSINESS.com: There have been quite a few changes for Navistar over the past several months and plenty of news reports in recent weeks about the company. What, in your view, is going on at Navistar these days?
Clarke: Yes, you're right, we've had a good amount of change these past several months. One of the major announcements was the change in our engine strategy. For our commercial trucks and engines, we'll begin to use the same emissions technology, a system called Selective Catalytic Reduction, or SCR, the same one used by our competitors. With this change in strategy, we've made several other important changes and announcements, including bringing on our new CEO, my boss, Lewis Campbell.
Together, Lewis and I have been working with the Navistar leadership team on a plan we call "Drive to Deliver," which provides a renewed emphasis on our company's North American truck and engine business and doing the things that need to be done to quickly turn the company's performance around and drive shareholder value.
RVB: So, what are some of these things you're doing to improve the performance of the overall company?
Clarke: Well, as we move to our new emissions technology, we've really tried to take some noise out of the system, address some of the criticism head-on and make some decisions that will help make this a smooth, swift and high-quality transition. We're bringing back the Cummins ISX15 in our trucks and will use the Cummins SCR aftertreatment system for our heavy-duty engines.
We believe we have sufficient liquidity to make this transition, and we expect to end our 2012 fiscal year at the high end of our guidance of $875 million to $1.25 billion in operating cash. And, just last week we announced a public offering of stock that generated upwards of an additional $200 million to enhance our balance sheet. We did this to put to rest yet another uncertainty — the question of whether Navistar will have enough available liquidity to manage through the current industry downturn and bridge us through our new product launches throughout the year.
RVB: And how about your Navistar RV business? How will it be impacted by these developments?
Clarke: We are currently evaluating all parts of our non-core business, which we define as businesses outside our core North American truck, engine and parts businesses. We are making an assessment as to both their strategic fit and their current and anticipated return on invested capital – ROIC — using a disciplined process. We are moving quickly, and we will communicate those decisions when appropriate.
RVB: So, for the benefit of all those who regularly visit RVBUSINESS.com and generally follow the industry, the question looms: Do you consider Monaco, Holiday Rambler and R-Vision brands part of Navistar's "core business?"
Clarke: Our focus is on restoring our North American truck, engine and parts businesses to their market leading positions. While we view our RV business as an important part of our what we do, we do not consider Navistar RV and our Monaco, Holiday Rambler and R-Vision brands to be a part of our "core" North American commercial truck, engine and parts business. So, RV is under review.
RVB: So, if Navistar RV is under review, what does that mean for the Navistar RV business moving forward?
Clarke: It's important to note that Navistar RV is not being singled out; all aspects of our business are on the table for review. As you know, there's been some steady growth over the past few years in the RV industry, and we're committed to the long-term viability of the RV business.
Navistar RV President Bill Osborne and the entire Navistar RV team are excited about the great new products we're introducing at next month's Louisville RVIA show and we are well positioned to take advantage of the growing RV industry.
RVB: What, specifically, are some of the things the company is looking to improve on the RV side of the business?
Clarke: When Navistar acquired Monaco out of bankruptcy a little more than three years ago, we implemented many changes to enhance the business. We recently completed a number of actions to improve our quality, increase efficiencies, reduce costs and better leverage the significant RV supplier base in northwest Indiana. So, many improvements have already been made.
RVB: And you closed down your Coburg, Ore., operations.
Clarke: Yes, in August of 2011, we announced the consolidation of our manufacturing operations from Coburg, Ore., to Wakarusa, Ind. and those actions are complete. Since January of this year, we have added more than 500 manufacturing employees to ramp up production in our Elkhart and Wakarusa facilities. In fact, our 2014 model year lineup and the RVs we'll be showing next month at the Louisville Show represent the first RVs produced through our streamlined manufacturing processes. As a result, we'll be able to provide our customers with the best combination of quality, comfort and affordability in the industry.
We've done some other things as well to improve the business. We've leveraged the sourcing and engineering strengths of Navistar to achieve improved scale, higher quality standards and improved costs. And, we also closed our Union City, Ind., RV chassis operations and have idled production of our Workhorse RV and step van chassis operations.
RVB: So, realizing that your evaluation is currently underway and looking in your crystal ball, what, realistically, does the future hold for Navistar RV? Is there a chance Navistar could sell or close its RV business?
Clarke: We are committed to the long-term viability of our RV business. With that said, there are really three potential outcomes for our RV business — close the business, sell the business or continue to invest in and grow the business.
Well, I can tell you, we have no plans to close the business and have not studied a closure scenario. It is not our plan to do so. In the last three years, we've made significant investments and have taken actions that have delivered improvements in the performance of the business. Right now, we are simply evaluating all of our businesses to ensure they are delivering the appropriate "Return on Invested Capital" and have the right strategic fits.
Selling the business is a realistic potential outcome and would support our efforts to maintain the future viability of the business. If a sale were to occur, Navistar would be looking to sell to a buyer who can create more value in the RV business than we can.
If someone else can maximize its value, that is ultimately best for all stakeholders. That's another option and one that we are closely evaluating. Now, this would not be a distressed sale. We don't have that need. As I said, we have the cash necessary to manage our emission transition plan. And, we have already made investments in the business and have taken actions that are driving improvements in the business.
RVB: Any other closing comments, Troy, or anything else you'd like our readers to know?
Clarke: Let me end with where I began. When evaluating our businesses, and in this case, Navistar RV, we are using a disciplined process to assess both return-on-invested capital and strategic fit and the close/sell/grow options. We want to make these decisions in a timely manner to address the uncertainties for our employees, customers and dealers, but we won't sacrifice performing the due diligence that's required. My commitment is that when we have made a decision and are ready to announce that decision, these key stakeholders will hear about it first from us.


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July 4, 2013 I analyzed the Seguin (and company) for Ericsson (and company) trade, and said to ask in five years to see who won. Given the number of young players in the deal (Seguin, Morrow, Fraser, Smith) it is still to early to tell who won the trade. That doesn't mean either team is getting what they want.
Loui Ericsson was the biggest, best known return for the Boston Bruins. Last year his season was crushed as thoroughly by two concussions as he was by the hit that lead to the John Scott suspension. This season the former 36 goal scorer is fourth on the team in scoring. That would be a lot more impressive if he had more than three goals to his name. Or if he were assisting like a hall of fame bound center, but he's not. It's not all his fault, but the Bruins aren't even in the top 10 in scoring for the first time in years, they are in fact in the bottom third. Ericsson has been consistently dissapointing, not every bit of it can be laid at his skates, but the fact remains they traded for a top line winger and got a depth player.
Tyler Seguin is scoring at a level commiserate with his OHL resume and his second overall selection. That's awesome. It gives the fans something to cheer for, and gives the team a chance to win every night. Right now he even leads the team and the NHL in goal scoring. Not to shabby an accomplishment. But the Dallas Stars wanted him to be a center when they picked him up from Peter Chiarelli and company who were weary of his off ice youthful exerberence and on ice indifference to three zone play. If you take a look at who he has played with over the course of the season he's spent about half of his time at right wing playing with Jason Spezza.
The problem there is that the Stars wanted Seguin not just at center but as their number one center. Call me kooky, but in my book your number one center doesn't play wing to the guy brought in to player further down the depth chart. Seguins failure to thrive in the center position pushes the teams thin depth out of balance. The Stars are 10th in total goal for, and way down in 23rd on the powerplay, that's not a failure of talent its a failure of balance.
Seguin isn't taking many faceoffs and what few he's taking he's not winning. Cody Eakin, Jason Spezza, Vernon Fiddler, Shawn Horcoff, are all ahead of Seguin in faceoffs taken. Just a handful behind Seguin is left wing Jamie Benn. Even the notoriously poor faceoff man Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is better at winning draws than Tyler Seguin. The bottom line is that Seguin's abject deficiency at faceoffs, whatever the reasons for it may be, is hurting the team, and will continue you to hurt the team until it is remedied or they bring in yet another number one center. What that turns all his goal scoring into is failing with style.


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VIRGINIA WATER, England – Simon Dyson of England received a suspended two-month ban from the European Tour and fined $49,000 on Thursday for a rules violation at the BMW Masters in Shanghai in October.
Dyson attended a hearing on Thursday, where he was found guilty of a serious breach of the tour's code of behavior for using his ball to press down a spike mark on the green in direct line of a short par putt.
His ban will become effective only if he commits another rules breach in the next 18 months.
A three-man disciplinary panel, who convened at the European Tour's headquarters at Wentworth, found that Dyson's actions were deliberate and "committed by him in the knowledge of the rule forbidding such an act." However, the panel said it was "a momentary aberration on his part, not a premeditated act of cheating."
Dyson's previous good conduct on tour was also taken into an account.
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A television viewer noticed the infraction, which occurred on the eighth green at Lake Malaren during Dyson's second round, and rules officials met with Dyson the next morning.
He was tied for second, four shots off the lead, at the time, but was disqualified for not adding the two-shot penalty to his scorecard.
Dyson, a six-time winner on the European Tour, said in a statement released five days after the incident that the violation was unintentional. The maximum sanction was expulsion from the tour.
Dyson returned to action at the start of the 2014 season in November, finishing tied for 52nd in the South African Open and then tied for third in the Alfred Dunhill Championship last week.


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Eric's Morning Forecast November 19
The fog was quite thick this morning along the Rio Grande Valley, and our weakening November sun will take a little time to burn it off.
By midday though, everyone should be enjoying a sun-filled sky, and we are headed toward another above-average afternoon with temperatures once again at 60 degrees or better, almost 10 degrees above average for this time of year!
Tuesday looks to be another beautiful fall day, but clouds will start to increase across the west as another weather system approaches from the southwest.
Confidence is increasing that a storm will bring another round of moisture to the state on Wednesday, with some rain and high-terrain snow early in the day from Farmington down to Silver City.
Showers and mountain snows will then push east through the day, and there may even be some mountain snow for the Sacramentos with this storm system.
By Thursday, Thanksgiving morning, this storm system should be off to our east and we will be right back to sunshine without a big shot of cold air coming our way.
There could be a shot of slightly cooler air moving into the state Thursday night into Friday morning which would bring a moderate canyon breeze our way, so we'll mention breezes Friday along with high temperatures just below 60 degrees, but by Saturday and Sunday the expectation is for a couple more of those quiet, sun-filled days with continued mild temperatures.


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The Sciences, Volume 38, Number 1,
© 1998 David A. Mechner
T his past July, the annual conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence was marked by an oddly heroic event. Throughout the conference, held in Providence, Rhode Island, world-class players of chess, checkers and other games pitted their skills against state-of-the-art computer adversaries. For the most part the humans either lost or barely eked out victories. Then a twenty-seven-year-old native of New Mexico named Janice Kim challenged a computer to the oldest, most complex game of all: go.
When a video image of the match flickered onto one of the oversize monitors in the "Hall of Champions," audience members laughed and shook their heads in disbelief: the computer was being granted a twenty-five-stone handicap. Kim is an exceptional player--the only female go professional the West has ever produced--but this seemed ridiculous: the first stone she placed looked like a lone paratrooper dropped into an enemy garrison.
I was the commentator for the match, yet I had not seen a handicap like that in a long time. When I started playing go as a high school sophomore living in Chappaqua, New York, my father, then an experienced amateur, started me out at twenty-three stones. I did not stay at that handicap for long. The rules of the game are easy to learn--much simpler than those of chess--but playing go well requires a combination of restraint and aggression, of quick intuition and cold calculation that appealed to me. And I liked to win. I devoured all the go books I could find and spent every weekend at the go club in New York City. By 1988, still a high school senior, I was the U.S. representative to the world go youth championship in Paris, and had made arrangements to apprentice myself to a Japanese go master in the fall.
Despite its prestige and history in Japan, its huge popularity in Korea, and its cachet among European intellectuals, go is all but unknown in the United States. As a result, we go players are used to explaining ourselves. We can intone an (inevitably stilted) litany in our sleep: Go is an ancient game of strategy that originated in China some 4,000 years ago. The board is a nineteen-line grid; the stones are black and white, all alike; and the subtleties that develop from those simple elements make it the deepest game in the world.
Go is a game of construction--the board starts out empty, and the opponents, one playing black, the other white, take turns placing their stones on the intersections, trying to surround and control unclaimed territories. Once played, the stones do not move. Go is a game of construction, but it is also a game of war: once a group of stones is completely surrounded, it is removed from the board. As conflicts arise over territory, each player struggles to surround and capture his opponent's stones while protecting his own. The game ends by agreement, when neither player can improve his position.
But that only begins to explain the true character of the game. If chess is a battle, go is an entire campaign. It is a long game in which a number of battles may rage simultaneously, none of them decisive, and a single move can affect the entire board. There is a saying (mostly among go aficionados, I have to admit) that go is to chess as poetry is to double-entry accounting.
Unfortunately, a twenty-five-stone handicap gives the game's true depth and beauty little chance to emerge. After a dozen moves, Kim's stones were adrift without a base. It looked as if Handtalk, the best go program in the world, would maintain control of the entire board and deal her a crushing defeat. A few people in the audience suggested that the game be abandoned, that the handicap was too great for even a professional to overcome.
As commentator, I was torn. When I arrived at my go master's house in Tokyo, tradition dictated that the apprentice paint a slogan in Japanese calligraphy and hang it on the walls of the playing room. My slogan, blobbed in a script more awkward than any Japanese first grader's, was katsu, or "win." To begin training for go at the professional level, you need only love the game; to survive for any length of time, though, you have to hate to lose. My sympathies, in other words, were entirely with Kim, but I was tempted to agree with the skeptics.
My concern turned out to be unwarranted. Just as the spectators began to lose heart, the computer made a bad move, and as Kim told us after the game, she heard a little voice in her head saying, "Just put one foot in front of the other, keep taking little baby steps across the board, and you will win." And win she did. The loss with a twenty-five-stone handicap gives the world's best go program a ranking of around seventeen kyu--that of a beginner who has been playing for a couple of months. In stark contrast, last year the world's best chess program, Deep Blue, handily defeated the Russian world champion, Garry Kasparov, with no handicap at all. Kasparov seemed to feel that his was an epochal defense of humanity's intellectual supremacy, yet the affair afforded go programmers little more than a rueful chuckle: the day a go program can stump even an average amateur is still a long way off.
If computers can be programmed to master chess, why are they so weak at go? The answer, in a nutshell, is that Deep Blue's approach simply will not work with go. Go is too complex, too subtle a game to yield to exhaustive, relatively simpleminded computer searches. To master it, a program has to think more like a person. That fact represents a high hurdle to programmers--and an exciting opportunity. Since the 1950s chess has posed a grand challenge to the field of artificial intelligence, or AI. But the more chess programs have improved, the more they have sidestepped the issues that once made them seem worth designing. Go sends investigators back to the basics--to the study of learning, of knowledge representation, of pattern recognition and strategic planning. It forces us to find new models for how we think, or at least for how we think we think.
A rtificial intelligence has always joined mundane goals with lofty ones. On one level the field has been about making clever devices: computers that understand English, systems that diagnose diseases, toys that play games. On another level, though, such devices are supposed to serve as windows on the mind. AI investigators have long maintained that intelligence can be understood strictly in terms of computation--and apart from any physical systems that happen to exhibit it. By dissecting and characterizing intelligence, then building its components into devices that can do some of the things that people do, engineers and programmers hope to succeed where philosophers and psychologists have failed: they hope to develop a scientific understanding of intelligence.
In the late 1950s, when computer programs began, however tentatively, to approximate elements of human reasoning, AI investigators made some bold predictions. Within a decade, many said, computers would be as intelligent as humans: they would communicate with people in English and discover important mathematical proofs. But distilling the calculus of cognition proved much harder than most people expected.
Intelligence demands knowledge, of course, but most of what people know is so deeply ingrained that it hardly seems like knowledge at all: that a cup of water, tipped over, will spread onto a table; that painting a wall will not change the shape of the wall or cause a flash flood in Texas. But those bits of common sense are embedded in a nervous system that has been optimized over millions of years of evolution. Reproducing such knowledge in a computer program is still impossible. The result, for AI, is that programs designed to deal with some part of the real world "intelligently" can do so only by ignoring everything else. A program called MYCIN, for instance, can correctly diagnose a patient with meningitis if certain symptoms are described to it. But if you describe the rust spots on your car, MYCIN will likely diagnose your car with meningitis as well.
To skirt the shortcomings of their machines, AI investigators have had to focus on "toy domains"--highly simplified and idealized worlds in which the rules governing reality can be expressed by a handful of axioms. In the 1950s chess seemed an excellent choice. The game is formally simple--played as it is with an eight-by-eight-square checkerboard, thirty-two pieces and a few basic rules--yet mastering it is a hallmark of human intellectual achievement. At the time, machines that could evaluate billions of positions a minute were practically inconceivable. To succeed at chess, it seemed, computers would have to beat human players at their own game. Investigators therefore began by focusing on planning, on the optimum ways of representing tactical and strategic knowledge of the game, and on sophisticated positional judgment, as well as the mechanics of "search."
The term search, in this context, refers to a simple algorithm known as "minimax," used in all successful modern chess programs. When choosing from among several moves, the logic goes, explore as many branches of the "game tree" as possible: first try all your currently possible moves, then try all your opponent's possible responses to each of your moves, then try your responses to those responses, and so on, until you run out of time to think. Finally, pick the move that leads to the best possible position, assuming your opponent will offer the strongest possible resistance.
By the 1980s, chess-playing programs that focused on identifying high-level goals and ways to achieve them were making only halting progress. Programs that concentrated on search, meanwhile, were fast becoming serious contenders. The story of computer chess had begun to sound like the children's book Fortunately, by Remy Charlip: Fortunately, the further computers could think ahead, the better their moves were. Unfortunately, deeper searches took longer. Fortunately, computer hardware doubled in speed every couple of years. Unfortunately, that speed encouraged investigators to abandon high-level processing and focus on search alone.
Today, forty-seven years after the minimax algorithm was first proposed as an approach to computer chess, Deep Blue can examine a staggering 200 million positions per second. That raw power, combined with clever refinements in the algorithm, enable Deep Blue to think fourteen or fifteen moves ahead--and as deep as forty or forty-five moves when necessary. As a result, the program has beaten Kasparov, arguably the strongest chess player ever. The grand challenge of computer chess has been met. Unfortunately, it has left many of the questions that inspired it unanswered.
Over the years, AI investigators have gotten used to swallowing big, nasty doses of reality. Many of them, therefore, are greeting Deep Blue's success as a refreshing change of pace. Still, others are left cold. They deride Deep Blue for using "brute force"--for having nothing whatever to do with human intelligence. If the purpose of AI is to learn enough about intelligence to create intelligent computer programs, as the pioneering investigator John McCarthy, professor of computer science at Stanford University, suggests, then computer chess has little to do with AI, and Deep Blue is just a triumph of engineering. When human players look ahead, they examine just a few moves at various choice points--or, more often, just one. Instead of considering billions of positions, they consider dozens. When a reporter asked the former world chess champion José Capablanca how many moves ahead he looked while playing, Capablanca replied: "Only one, but it's always the right one."
Other students of AI argue, however, that criticisms of brute force are misguided, and that computer chess shows that the end justifies the means. Since computers match human performance in mechanistic ways, they say, people who are uncomfortable calling computers intelligent will simply have to redefine what they mean by intelligence. Not only is it unnecessary for computers to emulate human thought, they argue, it is a bad idea. People have parallel "hardware"--the brain--in which the basic computational events occur slowly (on the order of milliseconds), but simultaneously, by the billions. Digital computers have serial hardware, which carries out fundamental operations one after the other, but in a matter of nanoseconds. People are good at recognizing patterns; computers are good at crunching numbers. Trying to get computers to solve problems the way people do, such AI advocates conclude, makes as much sense as trying to build an airplane that has feathers and flaps its wings.
That sounds reasonable, but it still smacks of retreat: if a task seems too hard, Deep Blue fans seem to be suggesting, just redefine it. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, the game of go will not let programmers off that easy. The most practical way for a computer to play go, it seems, just happens to be the most interesting way.
A cursory analysis might suggest that the difficulty of computer go has to do with combinatorics. The go board has a much larger grid than a chessboard, so the number of possible moves is much larger. On average, at any given moment in a chess game, a player has twenty-five legal moves to choose from. Various refinements have enabled the minimax algorithm to effectily considers only the five or six best choices, pruning away the rest. In go, on average, a player can choose from 250 legal moves per turn. Even if a go algorithm could prune that number down to fifteen or sixteen, and consider 200 million positions per second, it would need seventy years to explore as deeply as Deep Blue does in three minutes.
Very well, one might say; computers will get faster soon enough. But the problem goes deeper than that. Go programs not only fail to evaluate 200 million go positions a second; they cannot accurately evaluate a single one.
Remember that Deep Blue must not only follow those billions of branches of the game tree; it must also calculate the value of the final position in each branch, so that a choice of moves can be made. In chess, positions are relatively easy to evaluate. The identity of each piece is overwhelmingly important: being down a pawn is acceptable, being down a queen is not. Throw in a few positional factors, such as king safety and the number of squares the pieces on each side can attack, and you have a definition of positional value that, combined with massive search, is good enough to beat a grand master.
In go, such a strategy will not work. Each stone is worth the same amount, and there is no king to protect. The amount of territory the players control determines who is ahead. The trick is deciding just who controls what.
A group of stones can be surrounded and captured, but it can also assume a defensive formation, called "making life," that protects it from capture for the rest of the game. In order to make life, a group has to claim two separate pieces of territory, or "eyes." But to ensure a group's safety a player need not always waste moves forming both eyes: he only has to know that he can do so if attacked--like a castle guard who keeps the drawbridge down until invaders are sighted. Similarly, groups of stones are "dead" when they have no hope of making life. The opponent can capture and remove a dead group at any time, but he may not bother to do so. Why waste lives storming castle walls when the defenders have nearly run out of food?
Now take a particular group of black stones resting on the go board: how should the computer count it? Is the group dead? If so, the space it occupies and the territory it surrounds belong to white. Or is the group alive? Then the territory it surrounds belongs to black. The answers to such questions can be passing subtle. Is the group defensible or indefensible? Does the group need to spend moves defending itself, or can it become the aggressor? Hundreds of points, at any given moment, can hinge on the status of groups that are neither clearly alive nor clearly dead. How well a player analyzes the signs helps determine how well he plays the game.
With experience, people can learn to judge a group's status quickly and skillfully. But how can those judgments be turned into numbers a computer can use? People are astonishingly good at pattern matching: they can recognize a face at various angles, in shadows or in light, smiling or frowning; they can recognize a voice across a squealing subway car or a crackling telephone line. But people cannot easily evaluate go positions at a glance. They must learn to combine their pattern-matching abilities with logic and knowledge in order to make deep but highly restricted searches of the game tree. Go programs, on the other hand, depend largely on rough heuristics, or rules of thumb, for deciding whether groups are alive or dead. That tactic works in simple situations, but when used to evaluate even slightly complicated positions it can fail disastrously.
Kim's game against Handtalk demonstrated the problem perfectly. Early on, she trapped two of Handtalk's stones so that she could capture them at any time. Handtalk recognized that those stones were lost--that a rescue attempt would be pointless. But Kim's configuration posed another, hidden threat: her stones could not only capture Handtalk's stones, they could make life as well, thereby threatening all the stones around them. Handtalk failed to notice the dual nature of the attack. It wrote off the battle as an isolated loss of two stones, and never bothered to defend the others at risk.
I can sympathize with Handtalk in a strange way: I have had to learn the difficulties of go twice, once as an aspiring player, and once as a programmer trying to teach the game to a computer. When I moved to Tokyo at the age of eighteen, I felt like a kind of retarded older brother to my master's four other pupils, who ranged in age from eleven to seventeen. Every weekend we joined some fifty other aspirants at the playing hall of the Japanese Go Association for the ongoing tournament that would, at the end of the year, determine who was promoted to professional status and who was left to struggle on for another year.
At the time, I was the only Westerner in the league. Most of the young people I played with were hugely talented and had started playing by the age of eight. Many of them had dropped out of high school to concentrate on the game. Yet even among these professional students, our house was considered the most serious.
My teacher's house was perhaps the last still following an ancient Japanese instructional tradition of austerity. Our days were spent kneeling on tatami mats in front of our go boards, playing through masters' games and mulling over our victories and defeats of the preceding weekend. Sometimes we would cross the street to play ball in the park or visit the corner store, but we were implicitly forbidden to have outside friends or interests.
When I got back to the United States and started college, I tried playing go against the existing computer programs, but I was appalled at their shortcomings. I was sure I could do better. After writing down some ideas, I teamed up with an old friend, Tim Klinger, now a doctoral candidate in computer science at New York University, and we set about creating our own go program.
As an experienced player, I knew that certain configurations of stones come up again and again. Tim and I decided to incorporate those patterns into our program as a number of if-then rules: if pattern X appears on the board, then Y is a good move to achieve goal Z. Because I think in terms of groups of stones, our program also recognizes and operates on groups. That general approach--explicitly seeking to model human knowledge and decision-making processes--might be called the traditional AI approach to computer go. All the best go programs have used it.
Because "life" and "death" are critical aspects of go, we have concentrated mostly on them. Our life-and-death engine performs deep, narrow search. Instead of assuming that all moves are admissible, as a chess program does, it begins by assuming that none are. First, the algorithm establishes a goal for the search--"capture stone A," for instance. Then it decomposes that goal into subgoals, sub-subgoals and so on. Once a "goal tree" has been established, the program can draw on its various if-then rules to determine which moves are most likely to achieve each minor goal in turn. Once all those subsets of moves have been determined and compared, the program is left with a few legal moves most likely to achieve the ultimate goal.
The goal tree enables the program to recognize futile positions quickly and abandon bad lines of play. Suppose, for instance, that the program has to achieve subgoals A and B in order to achieve ultimate goal C. If it can find no moves to achieve A, it can stop; there is no need to waste time determining how to pursue B.
Our life-and-death engine is almost complete. Although the knowledge base we have given it is made up of only about 200 patterns, the system is solving problems successfully. Over the next six months we hope to incorporate the engine into our go program and flesh out the knowledge base. If all goes well, and if life and death in go are as important as we think they are, the resultant program should easily best every other in the field.
In the meantime, we have a number of problems to overcome. The traditional AI approach relies on introspection: How do I evaluate a position? How do I encode that method into software? But our powers of introspection are extremely limited; if you doubt it, try explaining exactly how you catch a ball. (You may be tempted to say, "I just raise my hand and grab the ball as it flies by." But that only begins to explain it. First you have to calculate the distance and trajectory of the ball from the flat image projected onto your retina; then you must use that trajectory to calculate how much the muscles in your hand, shoulder, arm, back and legs need to flex in order to move your limbs and bend your joints in just the right way at just the right moment. As experts in robotics have found out, the whole process is almost impossible to state as an equation, let alone to solve in real time.) Perverse as it sounds, writing a go program is a constant battle against common sense. At every turn, your brain tries to convince you that what it is doing is complete and coherent--but it never is.
Then there are the software engineering problems common to any large programming project. Our program handles a lot of complex knowledge, and while it is designed to do so as efficiently as possible, unwanted interactions between its various parts are hard to avoid. Countless parameters and pieces of code can interfere with performance, and we spend a dismaying amount of time tracking down problems caused by seemingly innocuous changes.
We are increasingly tempted to write a program that simply teaches itself--either by analyzing the games of strong players or by playing against itself. That approach may sound too simpleminded to work, but a couple of remarkable programs have already taught themselves to play other games. TD-Gammon, the best backgammon program in the world, written by the physicist Gerald Tesauro of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, started out by making random moves. Then, after playing millions of practice games against itself, the program bootstrapped itself into a nearly perfect player. The "neural net" that encodes TD-Gammon's expertise takes a long time to evaluate positions by the standards of computer chess: TD-Gammon can search only three moves deep in 15 seconds. But the positional knowledge it encodes is so sophisticated that its decisions are nearly always right.
A few programmers have tried to apply the same techniques to go, but their success has been limited. Even the most sophisticated self-taught programs play like rank beginners; a bright newcomer to the game of go might beat any of those programs in the very first game. Yet machine learning remains a highly promising avenue of research, and I am beginning to pursue it now, with the help of the electrical engineers Donald C. Wunsch and Raonak Zaman of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Learning to play go from scratch may be too much to ask of a neural net. But if such a net were added to our already sophisticated program, it might gradually teach itself some of the more intuitive points of go strategy--how to evaluate the strength of a group or the value of a wall of stones, for instance.
No matter how you approach it, go is hard to program. Fortunately, its difficulties happen to be the right kind of difficulties: they force programmers to be innovative, to unify existing techniques, and thereby to foster basic advances in artificial intelligence.
And yet, for the moment, computer go remains the campaign-finance reform of AI: everyone agrees it is a good idea, but no one wants to do it alone. It may be that computer go is simply too daunting, too prone to disappointment, to attract the kind of concerted effort that led to Deep Blue's triumph. Although a few tens of thousands of dollars in prizes are given out every year in computer go competitions, they are not enough to support even one programmer. The Ing Foundation in Taiwan is one of the most generous supporters of computer go, and offers a tantalizing $1.6 million prize for a program that can beat a professional. Unfortunately, the offer ends in the year 2000, and the goal is still so remote that the offer might as well expire tomorrow.
As it stands, the field of computer go is dominated by dedicated hobbyists. Handtalk was not written by a team of computer scientists and engineers funded by a giant multinational corporation, nor by a government-funded team of academics at a top research institute. It was written by a retired chemistry professor from Guangzhou Province in China, on his ancient PC, and in assembly language because he did not have a C compiler. The bottleneck in computer go has to do not with processor power, but with ideas.
Nevertheless, following gingerly in the footsteps of AI optimists before me, I predict that thirty years from now a computer will play go, without a handicap, against someone of Kim's caliber. And the computer will win. Whether the essence of intelligence can be captured in manipulated symbols, whether massive search will be of any use outside of toy domains, whether self-taught machines can ever solve real-world problems: those are all open questions. But whatever the answers, computer go is poised to be an integral part of the process of discovery.
David A. Mechner is a doctoral fellow at New York University's Center for Neural Science.


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