# John McCain will repeal the 54 cents per gallon tax on imported sugar-based ethanol, increasing competition, and lowering prices of gasoline at the pump.
# John McCain will roll back corn-based ethanol mandates, which are contributing to the rising cost of food.
which are contradictory.
Well, corn-based ethanol doesn't lower the price of gas. In fact, it raises it. In part this is because generating the ethanol uses more gas than it replaces.
On the other hand, sugar cane generates ethanol far more efficently. And Brazil generates a surplus. If we reduced the tariff, we could import it, helping the environment, our and Brazil's economy.
Anecodatal evidence suggests that there is a hive mind forming.
The correct term is groupthink. You need to get on the same page as everybody else.
Groupthink would be if large groups of Republicans disagree with the party line, but no one wants to risk speaking up. So a bad decision is made that wouldn't be if one or two prominent people spoke up and provided cover to move.
Advesarial systems are designed to prevent groupthink. Which is why so many legal arguments can sound stupid but be said passionately. To give people a way to hold that opinion and not be ridiculed (inside the profession at least.)
Ironically, that's why I refuse to get BR. Stop putting scripting languages in every little thing. I want to watch a movie; I don't want code executing off the disc when I do so. I don't want another point of failure. I don't want whatever the publisher thinks is clever but annoys the crap out of me.
Legislation draws a line on which to build a contract, that way there is no reason for bitter strife between company and unions about very basic things like health care and pensions.
Because those are provided by the state. One of the advantages of having had unions for decades longer than the US.
Think of it each time you buy a trinket advertised on TV -- you seem to have drunk their cool-aid...
Why? I buy many things advertised on TV. Everything I buy is advertised somewhere. Do you just wander through stores hoping something piques your interest? Then hope it's a good price? Think that how things are laid out in a store is not covered with advertisers?
the bourgeois have centuries of experience in screwing the proletarians
You know that knowledge isn't heridtary, and advertising techniques are well-publicized?
While not murder, as she didn't pull the trigger, she is certainly culpable for doing more than her fair share for making this girl commit suicide.
Many states say that any death that results from the committing of a felony can lead to charges for (some variant of) murder. Assuming there are felony convictions for fraud or somesort, they most certainly could have pursued those charges.
claims to be the worlds fastest man, because he broke a record for the 200m
It's a nonsensical claim, without a whole host of constraints. Shortest time for a specific distance (and then you get into sprinting vs. long distance). Most distance covered in a day?
Can you show me where the USA Constitution authorizes Obama's health care plan?
Sure. Using the same argument many people (including yourself) use about the second amendment, the milita is comprised of the entire US male populace above a certain age (say 18). The Constitution clearly states Congres can equip the milita. Equiping our milita with health seems like a "duh" idea; they need to be healthy to fight. At the very least it is necessary and proper adjunct to the equiping of militia.
14th amendment grounds would forbid denying access to such a government program based on gender, so women are thus included as well.
Alternatively, one could claim it was a human right under the 9th amendment, similar to education. Which is why the Supreme Court gets involved with school standards.
Lastly, one could state that Congress needs to be involved because of the equality of state citizens language in Section 4. This clause prevents Mass from creating a public health system only they can use, and thus prevents the "local solution" people tend to argue for.
I'm not sure why unions act like every person should be guaranteed a job.
Because the concept of "people should get paid regardless of whether they work" didn't go over well. People need money to survive. Either you need to guarantee them a money for nothing, or guarantee them a way to earn money.
And unions cannot force you to do anything. They are a means for a group of people to spread out the risk of beocming unemployed (like insurance). You don't have to use union labor... but you may have to choose between all-union and no-union labor.
Isn't that an example of the free market that you worship?
In a business with this kind of budget problem you simply lay people off.
In a business no executive tries to reign in the size of their empire, and anyone who allowed the budget process (remember,it's the budget process, not the dollars that are the issue) to FUBAR things would be fired. Besides, running government like a business doesn't work. Look at our MBA president, for one example.
The Linux command you are thinking of would (from memory) be something like "mkfs.ntfs/dev/hda1".
No, the Linux command I am thinking of is a null string.
In any event, what you would do is boot an install CDROM, delete any existing partitions, and start all over again as if it were a blank, unpartitioned, unformatted disk.
The joke was that "format" isn't a Linux command, and a partition can't be called "c:"... So "format c:" does absolutely nothing in Linux
I understood that. What you apparently are misisng is that the "format c:" concept is not done by Linux (why would you format the drive that the OS is on? Can you even do that or are their locked files?) but by Windows as the first step of the install process.
Obviously Linux uses a different filesystem. But just like you don't bother to "format c:" when going from Windows to Linux, you do have to when going from Linux to Windows.
The "extend" part is normally done by taking a standards compliant product and extending it into non-standards compliant territory.
True. But people are willing to make it work with that product because it's easier/faster/more powerful. It's not through evil hocus-pocus that everyone uses the non-standards complaint features.
What everyone seems to miss about embrace, extend, extinguish is the "extend" part. That means Microsoft improves over what was there before. Look at Schema as one example. It's just more useful.
The solar wind is a moving flow of charged particles? That's the definition of an electric current, but obviously it's a strictly mechanical phenomenon!
But, it's not. It's the definition of moving ions. Electrons move very slowly through wires as electric current goes through the wires. It propegates, like those little 5 ball pendulem desk toys.
Free market theory only works when there's an actual free market (ie. preconditions for the theory to be true are met).
Hell, communism works just fine when the preconditions are met. A lot of the assumptions are simply false which is why it doesn't work according to theory IRL.
Well, to call it a "free market" theory is misleading. It's really a competitive market theory. The freedom is only there as a means of ensuring competition. Which is why, to make the theory work, government needs to intervein in some monopolies, etc.
And while Marxist communism is built on some shakey assumptions (and poor math skills), some of the varieties of communism work for some goods in the real world. Lighthouses, highways, and I'd contend telecom backbones, are all goods where it makes sense to have a centeralized decision maker and have everyone chip in. Basically, that's all communism is, but applied to all goods and services.
Right. Except for consumer price inelasticity (suburbs and suburbans somewhat, but factory locations and farms also), an oligopoly of sellers, significant government subsidies and tariffs, and a speculative market that makes the Dutch tulip market seem sane, the free market has worked great.
f the Republicans cut off debate on the Democrats and went home for vacation, I can guarantee you that this story would have been about the Republicans censoring the Democrats.
But, they actually did that quite frequently prior to 2006. So I'm confused. "If"?
All true. At least one college has outlawed water pong (but not beer pong) because it is too dangerous. They are more worried about "water poisoning" than "alcohol poisoning". Shame on the Wii for endangering our childern!
Ummm... when I remove those first two negatives, your statement reads "I'm [removed] saying that TSA should [removed] have these powers".
Except natural language doesn't work like that. I'm not saying that you can't interpert things like that, just that you will misunderstand them. The double negative is a weaker statement than the positive.
What I'm sure the GP intended was to say "I'm going to grant for the sake of getting to my point that maybe the TSA should have these powers".
That "Fire!" example comes up all the freaking time. Has it ever been tested?
It's actually from a SC decision.
Having said that, the first amendment was created to ensure that US citizens could question and challenge the government, not to ruin movies.
And say unpopular things in general. The "Fire" example is not because you are being an ass, but because it will cause people to run out of the theater, and they can get hurt. It's because we want to reserve some phrases for emergency action, not because we want people to be polite.
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Well, corn-based ethanol doesn't lower the price of gas. In fact, it raises it. In part this is because generating the ethanol uses more gas than it replaces.
On the other hand, sugar cane generates ethanol far more efficently. And Brazil generates a surplus. If we reduced the tariff, we could import it, helping the environment, our and Brazil's economy.
Groupthink would be if large groups of Republicans disagree with the party line, but no one wants to risk speaking up. So a bad decision is made that wouldn't be if one or two prominent people spoke up and provided cover to move.
Advesarial systems are designed to prevent groupthink. Which is why so many legal arguments can sound stupid but be said passionately. To give people a way to hold that opinion and not be ridiculed (inside the profession at least.)
Ironically, that's why I refuse to get BR. Stop putting scripting languages in every little thing. I want to watch a movie; I don't want code executing off the disc when I do so. I don't want another point of failure. I don't want whatever the publisher thinks is clever but annoys the crap out of me.
They seem to have done a good job keeping the launch codes secret.
Because those are provided by the state. One of the advantages of having had unions for decades longer than the US.
Why? I buy many things advertised on TV. Everything I buy is advertised somewhere. Do you just wander through stores hoping something piques your interest? Then hope it's a good price? Think that how things are laid out in a store is not covered with advertisers?
You know that knowledge isn't heridtary, and advertising techniques are well-publicized?
Many states say that any death that results from the committing of a felony can lead to charges for (some variant of) murder. Assuming there are felony convictions for fraud or somesort, they most certainly could have pursued those charges.
IANAL.
It's a nonsensical claim, without a whole host of constraints. Shortest time for a specific distance (and then you get into sprinting vs. long distance). Most distance covered in a day?
Sure. Using the same argument many people (including yourself) use about the second amendment, the milita is comprised of the entire US male populace above a certain age (say 18). The Constitution clearly states Congres can equip the milita. Equiping our milita with health seems like a "duh" idea; they need to be healthy to fight. At the very least it is necessary and proper adjunct to the equiping of militia.
14th amendment grounds would forbid denying access to such a government program based on gender, so women are thus included as well.
Alternatively, one could claim it was a human right under the 9th amendment, similar to education. Which is why the Supreme Court gets involved with school standards.
Lastly, one could state that Congress needs to be involved because of the equality of state citizens language in Section 4. This clause prevents Mass from creating a public health system only they can use, and thus prevents the "local solution" people tend to argue for.
Because the concept of "people should get paid regardless of whether they work" didn't go over well. People need money to survive. Either you need to guarantee them a money for nothing, or guarantee them a way to earn money.
And unions cannot force you to do anything. They are a means for a group of people to spread out the risk of beocming unemployed (like insurance). You don't have to use union labor... but you may have to choose between all-union and no-union labor.
Isn't that an example of the free market that you worship?
In a business no executive tries to reign in the size of their empire, and anyone who allowed the budget process (remember,it's the budget process, not the dollars that are the issue) to FUBAR things would be fired. Besides, running government like a business doesn't work. Look at our MBA president, for one example.
Wrong, it was a Linux PC.
No, the Linux command I am thinking of is a null string.
Which will say "format c:" That was my point.
Like when you throat-punch a guy on a resperator. It's not like he didn't already have problems breathing.
I understood that. What you apparently are misisng is that the "format c:" concept is not done by Linux (why would you format the drive that the OS is on? Can you even do that or are their locked files?) but by Windows as the first step of the install process.
Obviously Linux uses a different filesystem. But just like you don't bother to "format c:" when going from Windows to Linux, you do have to when going from Linux to Windows.
True. But people are willing to make it work with that product because it's easier/faster/more powerful. It's not through evil hocus-pocus that everyone uses the non-standards complaint features.
Why? You realize that to install windows, you have to "format c:", right?
What everyone seems to miss about embrace, extend, extinguish is the "extend" part. That means Microsoft improves over what was there before. Look at Schema as one example. It's just more useful.
But, it's not. It's the definition of moving ions. Electrons move very slowly through wires as electric current goes through the wires. It propegates, like those little 5 ball pendulem desk toys.
Well, to call it a "free market" theory is misleading. It's really a competitive market theory. The freedom is only there as a means of ensuring competition. Which is why, to make the theory work, government needs to intervein in some monopolies, etc.
And while Marxist communism is built on some shakey assumptions (and poor math skills), some of the varieties of communism work for some goods in the real world. Lighthouses, highways, and I'd contend telecom backbones, are all goods where it makes sense to have a centeralized decision maker and have everyone chip in. Basically, that's all communism is, but applied to all goods and services.
Right. Except for consumer price inelasticity (suburbs and suburbans somewhat, but factory locations and farms also), an oligopoly of sellers, significant government subsidies and tariffs, and a speculative market that makes the Dutch tulip market seem sane, the free market has worked great.
Like the kind who insist that, when it comes to gas prices, "the free market is working?"
But, they actually did that quite frequently prior to 2006. So I'm confused. "If"?
Or maybe whomever mailed the anthrax ( obviously not too concerned with other people's lives )offed him to take pressure off of them?
All true. At least one college has outlawed water pong (but not beer pong) because it is too dangerous. They are more worried about "water poisoning" than "alcohol poisoning". Shame on the Wii for endangering our childern!
Except natural language doesn't work like that. I'm not saying that you can't interpert things like that, just that you will misunderstand them. The double negative is a weaker statement than the positive.
What I'm sure the GP intended was to say "I'm going to grant for the sake of getting to my point that maybe the TSA should have these powers".
It's actually from a SC decision.
And say unpopular things in general. The "Fire" example is not because you are being an ass, but because it will cause people to run out of the theater, and they can get hurt. It's because we want to reserve some phrases for emergency action, not because we want people to be polite.