In general I agree, but requiring that developers learn something they need for work on their own in their free time isn't really fair, developers have lives too, so at the very least the budget should include time for developers to read up on these things in their working hours.
90% of the US candidates for the 2012 presidential election appear to be religious nuts (even moreso than Bush), I don't even want to think about what will happen when they decide to hasten the progress of the apocalypse... Makes me think the world should have a contingency plan for eliminating US nuclear weapons in case one of them is elected.
Mod parent up! Too much scaremongering going on about communism and socialism from ignorant people who haven't the faintest idea of what the concepts mean.
Well it was a class in formal logic, not philosophy.;) (and the example was in a textbook, the teacher did not bring it up) Logic is useless without valid premises, and when it comes to religion, it's impossible to use logic because the premises are not founded in solid evidence and are subject to change without notice. ("Fossil evidence you say? God put them there to test our faith!")
It makes sense though. Computer programmer is not a "traditional" female profession, and the barrier for entry is likely to be higher, thus mostly women who are truly passionate for the work end up in the computer business. I can see this at my university as well, there were very few women in the first year (Computer Science), but generally they've stuck with it to a higher degree than their male counterparts so that now that I'm in my 5th year, there is a higher proportion of women than when I started.
It's not illogical. The logic is simple: God is omnipotent; God made it so; therefore it is.
This reminds me of an example in a textbook used for logic in my first year of university.
The gist of it is that if God exists and is just, omnipotent, omniscient, and given that there is evil in the world, then either God is not just, or he is not omniscient or not omnipotent. Either of these three contradict the notion of the Christian God, therefore he does not exist.
Any god who is not omniscient and omnipotent is obviously not a god. This of course does not disprove a god, but it does disprove a just god, which I believe is part of the basic premise of Christianity.
CFLs already have virtually taken over the market, by the time they were banned in the EU, I at least had not used an incandescent lamp for years, but there were obviously holdouts, and it makes sense to ban such wasteful technology completely. As for LEDs, they are not quite mature enough for general purpose lighting yet, but their time will come. Without a gas price that reflects the damage its use causes, there will never be an incentive to increase efficiency, and gas prices in the US are ridiculously low... I know this is heresy to a "libertarian" like yourself, but there are more important things than what is economically beneficial in the short term, the long term viability of this planet we call home is one of them...
"ridiculous mpg requirements"? You guys drive cars that use more than double the amount of fuel/km than Europe, it couldn't hurt you to downsize a bit for the benefit of us all, you're not alone on this planet... And you're aware that incandescent light bulbs consume 4 times the energy of CFLs while burning out 8-15 times faster right? I've had maybe one CFL go out since I moved in to my apartment 5 years ago, incandescent required new ones at least once every year. Sure if you disregard the short lifespan of incandescents they may be okay in the winter if you don't have a more efficient means of heating your house than electricity, but they're essentially just a bunch of small heating elements that happen to produce light as well.. It's not an either/or, the amount of money spent on both R&D and "expensive tech" to lessen the CO2 produced is ridiculously small compared to the amount given to banks with virtually no strings attached. If that much money was spent on green tech, we'd probably be virtually CO2 free within the decade...
Bullshit. First of all, GDP is not a measure of physical production, it's a measure that includes ridiculous things like transferring a bunch of money between banks that have very little impact on pollution, hell your ridiculous health insurance fees increase the GDP for an example of how ridiculous of a measure it is. China produces *alot* of stuff for the west. Using real GDP is even more ridiculous, using PPP GDP, the US has twice the PPP GDP/emissions than China, half of France, and 1/3 of Sweden...
Why do you say per capita restrictions are "silly"? More population equals greater pollution, no matter how little each extra person pollutes. Are we supposed to equate the US and China despite China having four times the population? Or maybe the US should restrict its total pollution levels to the levels of Sweden with 3% its population?
Well yes, per capita China produces less CO2 than any western country, or at least they did in 2007, they may have passed Switzerland by now. The truth is the Chinese are investing more in clean tech than pretty much anyone else, but unlike the west they have a very quickly growing economy.
Cutting America's CO2 levels by 50% would merely put you in the middle of the current European pack, it's not nearly enough... We in Europe need to seriously curtail our CO2 emissions, and you guys need to double your efforts to get down to the same levels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
The weapon fired at the screen was the only time I really noticed the "3D" effects in the new Tron movie. I rarely go to 3D movies and then only when friends want to see a particular movie in 3D. To me it adds nothing of value to the movie, it just makes it darker than it normally would be and wearing those uncomfortable glasses over my regular glasses is just annoying. (but then I've never been very impressed with special effects in general and I'm not much of an action fan)
Windows comes with a text-editor (albeit a crappy one), a terminal (also a crappy one) and runtimes for.NET, that doesn't seem to scare people off. It's not an either/or, you can have a user-friendly phone with advanced features, the less advanced users can just ignore the advanced features.
Except the data retention directive requires providers to store email for at least 6 months.. (minimum in directive, actual period can be longer in individual countries)
Um, no. Stop talking out of your ass. The health insurance in Sweden is funded through the payroll tax and everyone gets an equal public insurance no matter what.
All Scandinavian countries, France, Italy, UK, and probably a host of other countries have fully public universal health-insurance. It works fine. Germany appears to have some weird hybrid system with both public and private insurers, with the vast majority in the public system. The obvious downside of such a system is that "premium care" can be reserved for the wealthy few who can afford private insurance. Health-care really isn't something that should be distributed based on income, but based on need.
In this case, Windows would make matters worse, much worse.. He wanted his development environment to be 100% compatible with his deployment environment, developing for Linux on Windows is a nightmare.
He's welcome to work himself to death if he wants to, employers have no right to require anyone to work such hours however and they most certainly shouldn't encourage it. Besides the health risks and obvious lack of anything resembling a life, it's simply not even remotely productive to work such long hours.
Long term? Long term you're liable to get get a heart attack. Working 100 hour weeks is not even remotely healthy... I feel sorry for you if you feel the need to work 100 hour weeks. Money is not everything despite what Americans seem to believe.
No job no matter what the benefits is worth regularly working 100-hour weeks for. That would entail working 14 hours/day every single day of the week, no sane person will ever go along with something like that. Some of us work for a living, we don't live to work like you obviously do. As an aside, 100 hour weeks would be illegal here in Sweden and probably most of Europe, overtime is allowed, but within reason, you can't have your employees regularly work 60 hour weeks, no one can be expected to cope with such insane working hours. If there is so much work to do that employees have to work such insane hours, hire more people...
$1900/month for childcare for two kids? That's insane! That's $22,800/year, 2/3 of the median income in the US, how do people afford to have childcare over there? It seems like the cost of having the kids in childcare would eat up most of the second income in a family with two working parents, and most single parents would have no chance of affording childcare...
oops, I meant to say that the high costs of city living is artificially imposed by market forces, the low costs of suburban living subsidised by the government charging the same taxes to those living in the exurbs as those living in the city yet providing more infrastructure per capita in the suburbs.
Yes but the low cost in the suburbs is artificially imposed by "market forces". City living requires much less resources per capita than suburban single family housing, both in terms of infrastructure and energy, but there is an abundance of suburban developments whereas there is a lack of attractive apartments in the city, so the price of the apartment in the city is artificially inflated whereas the price of the suburban single family house is subsidized by vast inefficient infrastructure funded by the tax-payers. It would make sense to adjust property taxes based on the costs per capita in the area of expanding and maintaining the infrastructure required.
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In general I agree, but requiring that developers learn something they need for work on their own in their free time isn't really fair, developers have lives too, so at the very least the budget should include time for developers to read up on these things in their working hours.
90% of the US candidates for the 2012 presidential election appear to be religious nuts (even moreso than Bush), I don't even want to think about what will happen when they decide to hasten the progress of the apocalypse... Makes me think the world should have a contingency plan for eliminating US nuclear weapons in case one of them is elected.
Mod parent up! Too much scaremongering going on about communism and socialism from ignorant people who haven't the faintest idea of what the concepts mean.
Well it was a class in formal logic, not philosophy. ;) (and the example was in a textbook, the teacher did not bring it up)
Logic is useless without valid premises, and when it comes to religion, it's impossible to use logic because the premises are not founded in solid evidence and are subject to change without notice. ("Fossil evidence you say? God put them there to test our faith!")
It makes sense though. Computer programmer is not a "traditional" female profession, and the barrier for entry is likely to be higher, thus mostly women who are truly passionate for the work end up in the computer business. I can see this at my university as well, there were very few women in the first year (Computer Science), but generally they've stuck with it to a higher degree than their male counterparts so that now that I'm in my 5th year, there is a higher proportion of women than when I started.
It's not illogical. The logic is simple: God is omnipotent; God made it so; therefore it is.
This reminds me of an example in a textbook used for logic in my first year of university.
The gist of it is that if God exists and is just, omnipotent, omniscient, and given that there is evil in the world, then either God is not just, or he is not omniscient or not omnipotent. Either of these three contradict the notion of the Christian God, therefore he does not exist.
Any god who is not omniscient and omnipotent is obviously not a god. This of course does not disprove a god, but it does disprove a just god, which I believe is part of the basic premise of Christianity.
CFLs already have virtually taken over the market, by the time they were banned in the EU, I at least had not used an incandescent lamp for years, but there were obviously holdouts, and it makes sense to ban such wasteful technology completely. As for LEDs, they are not quite mature enough for general purpose lighting yet, but their time will come.
Without a gas price that reflects the damage its use causes, there will never be an incentive to increase efficiency, and gas prices in the US are ridiculously low... I know this is heresy to a "libertarian" like yourself, but there are more important things than what is economically beneficial in the short term, the long term viability of this planet we call home is one of them...
"ridiculous mpg requirements"? You guys drive cars that use more than double the amount of fuel/km than Europe, it couldn't hurt you to downsize a bit for the benefit of us all, you're not alone on this planet... And you're aware that incandescent light bulbs consume 4 times the energy of CFLs while burning out 8-15 times faster right? I've had maybe one CFL go out since I moved in to my apartment 5 years ago, incandescent required new ones at least once every year. Sure if you disregard the short lifespan of incandescents they may be okay in the winter if you don't have a more efficient means of heating your house than electricity, but they're essentially just a bunch of small heating elements that happen to produce light as well..
It's not an either/or, the amount of money spent on both R&D and "expensive tech" to lessen the CO2 produced is ridiculously small compared to the amount given to banks with virtually no strings attached. If that much money was spent on green tech, we'd probably be virtually CO2 free within the decade...
Bullshit. First of all, GDP is not a measure of physical production, it's a measure that includes ridiculous things like transferring a bunch of money between banks that have very little impact on pollution, hell your ridiculous health insurance fees increase the GDP for an example of how ridiculous of a measure it is. China produces *alot* of stuff for the west. Using real GDP is even more ridiculous, using PPP GDP, the US has twice the PPP GDP/emissions than China, half of France, and 1/3 of Sweden...
Why do you say per capita restrictions are "silly"? More population equals greater pollution, no matter how little each extra person pollutes. Are we supposed to equate the US and China despite China having four times the population? Or maybe the US should restrict its total pollution levels to the levels of Sweden with 3% its population?
Well yes, per capita China produces less CO2 than any western country, or at least they did in 2007, they may have passed Switzerland by now. The truth is the Chinese are investing more in clean tech than pretty much anyone else, but unlike the west they have a very quickly growing economy.
Cutting America's CO2 levels by 50% would merely put you in the middle of the current European pack, it's not nearly enough... We in Europe need to seriously curtail our CO2 emissions, and you guys need to double your efforts to get down to the same levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
The weapon fired at the screen was the only time I really noticed the "3D" effects in the new Tron movie. I rarely go to 3D movies and then only when friends want to see a particular movie in 3D. To me it adds nothing of value to the movie, it just makes it darker than it normally would be and wearing those uncomfortable glasses over my regular glasses is just annoying. (but then I've never been very impressed with special effects in general and I'm not much of an action fan)
Windows comes with a text-editor (albeit a crappy one), a terminal (also a crappy one) and runtimes for .NET, that doesn't seem to scare people off. It's not an either/or, you can have a user-friendly phone with advanced features, the less advanced users can just ignore the advanced features.
Soviet Russia had universal healthcare, so at least the disposal wouldn't cost you anything. ;)
Except the data retention directive requires providers to store email for at least 6 months.. (minimum in directive, actual period can be longer in individual countries)
Um, no. Stop talking out of your ass. The health insurance in Sweden is funded through the payroll tax and everyone gets an equal public insurance no matter what.
All Scandinavian countries, France, Italy, UK, and probably a host of other countries have fully public universal health-insurance. It works fine. Germany appears to have some weird hybrid system with both public and private insurers, with the vast majority in the public system. The obvious downside of such a system is that "premium care" can be reserved for the wealthy few who can afford private insurance. Health-care really isn't something that should be distributed based on income, but based on need.
In this case, Windows would make matters worse, much worse.. He wanted his development environment to be 100% compatible with his deployment environment, developing for Linux on Windows is a nightmare.
He's welcome to work himself to death if he wants to, employers have no right to require anyone to work such hours however and they most certainly shouldn't encourage it. Besides the health risks and obvious lack of anything resembling a life, it's simply not even remotely productive to work such long hours.
Long term? Long term you're liable to get get a heart attack. Working 100 hour weeks is not even remotely healthy... I feel sorry for you if you feel the need to work 100 hour weeks. Money is not everything despite what Americans seem to believe.
No job no matter what the benefits is worth regularly working 100-hour weeks for. That would entail working 14 hours/day every single day of the week, no sane person will ever go along with something like that. Some of us work for a living, we don't live to work like you obviously do.
As an aside, 100 hour weeks would be illegal here in Sweden and probably most of Europe, overtime is allowed, but within reason, you can't have your employees regularly work 60 hour weeks, no one can be expected to cope with such insane working hours. If there is so much work to do that employees have to work such insane hours, hire more people...
$1900/month for childcare for two kids? That's insane! That's $22,800/year, 2/3 of the median income in the US, how do people afford to have childcare over there? It seems like the cost of having the kids in childcare would eat up most of the second income in a family with two working parents, and most single parents would have no chance of affording childcare...
oops, I meant to say that the high costs of city living is artificially imposed by market forces, the low costs of suburban living subsidised by the government charging the same taxes to those living in the exurbs as those living in the city yet providing more infrastructure per capita in the suburbs.
Yes but the low cost in the suburbs is artificially imposed by "market forces". City living requires much less resources per capita than suburban single family housing, both in terms of infrastructure and energy, but there is an abundance of suburban developments whereas there is a lack of attractive apartments in the city, so the price of the apartment in the city is artificially inflated whereas the price of the suburban single family house is subsidized by vast inefficient infrastructure funded by the tax-payers. It would make sense to adjust property taxes based on the costs per capita in the area of expanding and maintaining the infrastructure required.