If you're making $200,000 a year right now, does it matter to you that Bill Gates is worth billions? It shouldn't.
If wealth gaps mattered, we'd all want to live in Africa where there is hardly a wealth gap at all and average income is actually a good representation of the norm. But where would you rather be poor, the U.S., or Ethiopia?
The fact is that all of society, like it or not, benefits from the acheivements of a very small minority. That minority is very well rewarded in the U.S., which is why the country has the richest poor in the world.
This article is one of the most poorly written sophomoric diatribes I've ever read. As if it weren't obvious enough that the author has no idea what he's talking about, he feels the need to italicize every other word just in case his point doesn't come across like a brick to the head.
Also, at the time, "regular" was a word for a person who was adept at using a firearm. Regulated meant a person could shoot straight, more than it meant "controlled by government."
>So if we outlaw guns because someone could get hurt, then what's not pornography because of the psychological damage it can do? Alcohol because someone might drive drunk? Daycare because some cheap labor might beat and abuse children? (and growing up as a latchkey kid can't be good either) Automobiles over 500cc. Anything larger can move too quickly, consumes too much gasoline and if everyone had such a puny engine you wouldn't need a big V6 to pull into highway traffic.
I can hear the slashdot crowd now, "Yeah! Ban all those things!"
...a New York Times Magazine article about this very topic I think in 96 or 97. Basically, they studied the history of recycling, the cost/benefits, and the political and economic motivations behind it.
I wish I could find the article, because it was excellent and thorough. The conclusion was recycling is more wasteful and pollutes more than just throwing away the old stuff (no polution other than transport) and making new. The problem was that sanitation companies (if you don't know who owns these, maybe a search for 'mafia' on google will clue you in) use the environmentalist recycling euphoria to push politicians to pass expensive and environmentally disasterous recycling laws.
...make going to an opera more bearable, as you could read the subtitles, possibly get a whole page of the script so you could glance down at the translation to understand what's going on.
Your correctly. Population mis-un-utilize of wordage continue to happen so therefore languageisms evolve.
Maybe U can hardly unstand what my sentence situation becomes, but u can't say I verbiage improper, why popular mis-utilization hasta start somewhere, absolutely.
My verbiage is brilliancy. Yours conforms to old sensibilitisms. Free yourself and lead generation X out from horrifical bondage of dictionaryism and into new ignorancy becoming popularity.
My favorites are "Discrete Math for Dummies" - it's very clearly written for normal people, not those math whizzes, and it has funny cartoons related to discrete math.
Also, "Learn Discrete Math in 24 Hours" is pretty good.
Something in me would love to see all electric cars look exactly like old Mustangs and GTO's, but the muscle car fan in me is screaming "blasphemy" at someone who would do that conversion.
>Also, I'd imagine firearms are used more offensively than defensively;
Remember too, that the numbers are most likely skewed in favor of the offensive uses, which are much more likely to be reported than the defensive ones.
If you successfully use a gun to deter a criminal, odds are you're not going to run to the cops and report it. Few people report incidences where crimes aren't committed. It's not worth it.
>No one is going to book 10 days in advance for a film.
Hold on there, boss. You're posting to a crowd who's planning on camping out at least twice that long to get the first ticket to the next Star Wars flick.
>Part of the barcode would have to identify the movie, and part probably the date.
Not really. The barcode would most likely be a unique primary key with a few random digits that corresponded to a database entry with the theater, time, showing, price, and film.
Just like UPC codes work, the information about the product you're buying isn't actually encoded in the barcode. The barcode is just a unique number. UPC readers query a database that you can even look up here.
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Wealth gap doesn't mean anything.
If you're making $200,000 a year right now, does it matter to you that Bill Gates is worth billions? It shouldn't.
If wealth gaps mattered, we'd all want to live in Africa where there is hardly a wealth gap at all and average income is actually a good representation of the norm. But where would you rather be poor, the U.S., or Ethiopia?
The fact is that all of society, like it or not, benefits from the acheivements of a very small minority. That minority is very well rewarded in the U.S., which is why the country has the richest poor in the world.
This article is one of the most poorly written sophomoric diatribes I've ever read. As if it weren't obvious enough that the author has no idea what he's talking about, he feels the need to italicize every other word just in case his point doesn't come across like a brick to the head.
The Navy one would be awesome. You could stand on the bridge of an aircraft carrier for hours and drink coffee.
Or paint the ship in an exciting maintenance mission.
Also, at the time, "regular" was a word for a person who was adept at using a firearm. Regulated meant a person could shoot straight, more than it meant "controlled by government."
Because we all know Jews can't shoot and wouldn't be able to defend themselves...
>So if we outlaw guns because someone could get hurt, then what's not pornography because of the psychological damage it can do? Alcohol because someone might drive drunk? Daycare because some cheap labor might beat and abuse children? (and growing up as a latchkey kid can't be good either) Automobiles over 500cc. Anything larger can move too quickly, consumes too much gasoline and if everyone had such a puny engine you wouldn't need a big V6 to pull into highway traffic.
I can hear the slashdot crowd now, "Yeah! Ban all those things!"
...a New York Times Magazine article about this very topic I think in 96 or 97. Basically, they studied the history of recycling, the cost/benefits, and the political and economic motivations behind it.
I wish I could find the article, because it was excellent and thorough. The conclusion was recycling is more wasteful and pollutes more than just throwing away the old stuff (no polution other than transport) and making new. The problem was that sanitation companies (if you don't know who owns these, maybe a search for 'mafia' on google will clue you in) use the environmentalist recycling euphoria to push politicians to pass expensive and environmentally disasterous recycling laws.
Mary Goldring sounds like a fun, upbeat person. I think I'll invite her to my Halloween party.
...make going to an opera more bearable, as you could read the subtitles, possibly get a whole page of the script so you could glance down at the translation to understand what's going on.
But then again, it's still opera.
Your correctly. Population mis-un-utilize of wordage continue to happen so therefore languageisms evolve.
Maybe U can hardly unstand what my sentence situation becomes, but u can't say I verbiage improper, why popular mis-utilization hasta start somewhere, absolutely.
My verbiage is brilliancy. Yours conforms to old sensibilitisms. Free yourself and lead generation X out from horrifical bondage of dictionaryism and into new ignorancy becoming popularity.
They should have done it right:
Also, some cable subscribers use the vi editor, while others use emacs. Microsoft's popular operating system Windows is compatible with cable modem.
>or it might be a disagreement over what movie to see this weekend.
How did you know? That's amazing.
Do they weigh the same as a witch?
My favorites are "Discrete Math for Dummies" - it's very clearly written for normal people, not those math whizzes, and it has funny cartoons related to discrete math.
Also, "Learn Discrete Math in 24 Hours" is pretty good.
You wield that sarcasm like a heavy iron club. Very subtle...
I was more shocked they're using Emacs.
No wonder they don't want to spend a lot of time there.
AND he's anti-coporate just like Rush! Must be a conspiracy.
Oh, wait...
Grrreat:
"See the way the knife melted into your hand, son?
That's why you should think before you do what Daddy tells you to do."
Talk about mixed emotions here...
Something in me would love to see all electric cars look exactly like old Mustangs and GTO's, but the muscle car fan in me is screaming "blasphemy" at someone who would do that conversion.
...when Gregory Peck was in charge of NASA. It didn't really work out too well for the astronauts.
Yeah, and you just KNOW your girlfriend's robot would look a lot better than the real thing.
When your robot is dating a "big boned, but attractive" robot, watch out.
>Also, I'd imagine firearms are used more offensively than defensively;
Remember too, that the numbers are most likely skewed in favor of the offensive uses, which are much more likely to be reported than the defensive ones.
If you successfully use a gun to deter a criminal, odds are you're not going to run to the cops and report it. Few people report incidences where crimes aren't committed. It's not worth it.
>No one is going to book 10 days in advance for a film.
Hold on there, boss. You're posting to a crowd who's planning on camping out at least twice that long to get the first ticket to the next Star Wars flick.
>Part of the barcode would have to identify the movie, and part probably the date.
Not really. The barcode would most likely be a unique primary key with a few random digits that corresponded to a database entry with the theater, time, showing, price, and film.
Just like UPC codes work, the information about the product you're buying isn't actually encoded in the barcode. The barcode is just a unique number. UPC readers query a database that you can even look up here.
Of course they're not corrupt. They have that Zen stuff and martial arts over there.
Didn't you know "The West" are the bad ones.