This unwelcome result prompts Chaitin and Kolmogorov to suggest the need for a new standard of randomness, one that relies on the internal coherence of the set as opposed to its origin.
The special fare systems on the airlines' computers encourage more people to fly on less popular flights, and this means that as a result all flights are equally full.
The only initiative in the field that he does not welcome is a competition which a Swiss-based foundation launched to choose the “seven new wonders of the world” by electronic ballot.
Sometimes her intervention has been welcomed, as when Ireland unilaterally extended a deposit guarantee to its banks, putting other countries’ banks at a disadvantage.