> it's certainly not more than most people can reasonably pay Perhaps most people in your social circle could pay that, but not most people in America.
Median income is around $50K/year.
The average amount of "disposable income" that is saved lately varies between -2% and +2%.
Paying off $7K/year would require 14% of the median income. I suppose one can survive on that, if one cuts back on luxuries like clothes, meat, and gasoline. And pirates their music.
> You're taking them off one drug and putting them on another. If it just trades one drug for another, it doesn't really work. It still doesn't matter who invented it, only whether it works.
> What is the state of the art in terms of 3D printing software and/or definition languages RTF Summary. Thanks to Knuth, now we can print animated audio stereographs in 3D.
For one thing the personification of software irked me. I also found the jargon strange, especially their frequent reference to the "user". I found the term nauseating, awkward and stupid.
The irony that I use the term all the time now is a nagging reminder to tone down my judgmental tendencies.
In conclusion, Disney sucks at sci-fi.
Still, maybe someday I should watch Tron on a color tv.
>>> Why is employment optional in a society which offers people no alternative means by which to sustain themselves? > If you want to live on a farm go do it
If you are saying we all have the option to go off-grid and start a farm, I don't think you've actually tried it. I won't say it's impossible, but the family farm in America is dead, and not because nobody wanted the lifestyle.
Your counter-argument supports his point. In practice, you can't really work just for yourself. You always work for somebody else.
You either have to serve in somebody else's company, or serve your own customers in "your own" company that either borrows capital from a bank or reports to venture capitalists/angels.
I don't think the "tool" comment is meant to be derogatory, nor directed at anyone in particular. I think he's done some research and now he's telling you what society is.
If you prefer lighter stories, by all means, stay on the blue pill. If you're a red pill kind of guy, you might start by downloading and reading the lay-accessible text "What Has Government Done to Our Money" by Murray Rothbard.
No offense taken. You're not a dickhead, just a guy cracking jokes. Like me. (My mom's not dead, and she approved my comeback. She's here in the basement doing laundry now).
> we can make games that run on pc, xbox, and ps3 but we can't manage some browser quirks?
We do manage browser quirks. It's just a huge time sink that takes away from productive work.
Also, try the following exercise. Make a list of every game that works on every version of xbox, every version of playstation, every version of nintendo, and every version of Windows. If you get zero, make a list of the apps that run on any version of each platform. I think you will realize that web apps are, in practice, much more multi-version and multi-platform than games. You should also realize that comparing console games to web apps is like comparing apples to oranges, making the snark irrelevant as well as false.
It used to be the **AA vs Jammie, now it looks like the **AA vs the Mafia. Fighting somebody their own size, playing by their same rules, is probably something they won't enjoy.
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Why is "inconvenient" in quotes? I never used that word, nor did parent.
But I would argue that a penalty of 3 months in prison for copying $24 worth of songs is bat-shit insane.
And what will keep the house from eating its occupants?
> it's certainly not more than most people can reasonably pay
Perhaps most people in your social circle could pay that, but not most people in America.
Median income is around $50K/year.
The average amount of "disposable income" that is saved lately varies between -2% and +2%.
Paying off $7K/year would require 14% of the median income. I suppose one can survive on that, if one cuts back on luxuries like clothes, meat, and gasoline. And pirates their music.
> You're taking them off one drug and putting them on another.
If it just trades one drug for another, it doesn't really work. It still doesn't matter who invented it, only whether it works.
it doesn't matter, cults aren't okay.
Thank you for that textbook example of the Genetic Fallacy.
If the program actually works, it doesn't really matter who takes credit for it.
> in this shedding of jobs we are not weaker we are stronger
Where "we" == "multinational corporations", and "the unemployed" are outside the scope of this discussion.
> What is the state of the art in terms of 3D printing software and/or definition languages
RTF Summary. Thanks to Knuth, now we can print animated audio stereographs in 3D.
Baldness FTW
I remember not being that impressed, too.
For one thing the personification of software irked me. I also found the jargon strange, especially their frequent reference to the "user". I found the term nauseating, awkward and stupid.
The irony that I use the term all the time now is a nagging reminder to tone down my judgmental tendencies.
In conclusion, Disney sucks at sci-fi.
Still, maybe someday I should watch Tron on a color tv.
> Why date someone so insecure that you have to lie to them?
Because it beats being alone?
We're all flawed humans. Insecurity isn't the worst problem a date/mate could have.
>>> Why is employment optional in a society which offers people no alternative means by which to sustain themselves?
> If you want to live on a farm go do it
If you are saying we all have the option to go off-grid and start a farm, I don't think you've actually tried it. I won't say it's impossible, but the family farm in America is dead, and not because nobody wanted the lifestyle.
Your counter-argument supports his point. In practice, you can't really work just for yourself. You always work for somebody else.
You either have to serve in somebody else's company, or serve your own customers in "your own" company that either borrows capital from a bank or reports to venture capitalists/angels.
I don't think the "tool" comment is meant to be derogatory, nor directed at anyone in particular. I think he's done some research and now he's telling you what society is.
If you prefer lighter stories, by all means, stay on the blue pill. If you're a red pill kind of guy, you might start by downloading and reading the lay-accessible text "What Has Government Done to Our Money" by Murray Rothbard.
Mod parent up. That is the most poignant question I've seen in a long time.
No offense taken. You're not a dickhead, just a guy cracking jokes. Like me. (My mom's not dead, and she approved my comeback. She's here in the basement doing laundry now).
I hope you're joking. She's been dead for 12 years.
I tend to expose private data after a fifth of scotch.
> we can make games that run on pc, xbox, and ps3 but we can't manage some browser quirks?
We do manage browser quirks. It's just a huge time sink that takes away from productive work.
Also, try the following exercise. Make a list of every game that works on every version of xbox, every version of playstation, every version of nintendo, and every version of Windows. If you get zero, make a list of the apps that run on any version of each platform. I think you will realize that web apps are, in practice, much more multi-version and multi-platform than games. You should also realize that comparing console games to web apps is like comparing apples to oranges, making the snark irrelevant as well as false.
No, the point is to get a product you want for a price you'll pay.
If the official marketplace doesn't deliver, a black market forms.
It used to be the **AA vs Jammie, now it looks like the **AA vs the Mafia. Fighting somebody their own size, playing by their same rules, is probably something they won't enjoy.
> unlikely to win re-election
Ooh, that would be unfortunate. After failing his supporters, he would no doubt dispatch himself as befits a Samurai.
> I can't show my ting-ting?
Dude, this is the internet. Exaggerate. Call it a dong-dong. Why sell yourself short?
Great explanation. The way I like to think about it is that randomness is not a property of the number, but of the generator.
> a random six-digit number associated with each transaction
Validating transactions. It's about damn time.
Nice loop you exposed there. Who knew that from cottage cheese would come perpetual motion.
Huh?
The question asks which of two differences is greater, but your answer compares one equation's difference to the other equation's minuend.
In other words, for two equations
c1-b1=a1
c2-b2=a2
the question asks which is greater, a1 or a2?
And your answer is c2.
> His reasons don't matter
Exactly. "Reasons" are irrelevant. Around here what we look at are "motives".