Those are secondary functions that you list. The primary function of government seems to be to insure that their monopoly of being the ones with the power to grant monopolies to others is upheld.
Tim S.
I don't think you understand what a government is. The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies. Seriously, that is the primary function. Utilities are for cases where it's in each (or collectively most) persons advantage for the service to exist as deemed by the government but that no one would individually pay for given a choice. e.g. the armed forces or the highway system. The other is to monopolize certain powers such as the power to imprison. Monopolies are useful when many prviders would create chaos but there is no market force that would correct that. In the early days the buildout of rural phone and electric services and train service was aided by monopoly grants to bussinesses.
When governments do something other than offer utilities or monopolies this should be questioned. But those two things are it's purpose.
I wonder how well it fares with moving obstacles... like others drones with the same 10 meters of horizon.
Good question: I hope the drone software people look up the default aircraft maneuvers.
I think there is suggested ways to break to avoid other aircraft, not sure on it.
Tim S.
Ha Ha Ha; now that was very funny.
Filled with lies but funny!
Tim S.
So I have no skin in this game and do not for a second trust anything Anonymous puts out unless it comes with a huge amount of independently verifiable sources...
But I do just really need to say that the Republican party that Abraham Lincoln was a member of has nearly nothing in common with the GOP of today. Any decent student of American history will tell you pretty readily that the Republican Party of Lincoln's time more closely resembles the Democrats of today and that the Whig party much more closely resembled today's Republicans.
I love how Slashdot is a hotbed for people arguing that:
A) People who think that ISS, a permanent human presence orbiting our planet, is a huge financial boondoggle that we never should have done; and
B) Establishing a permanent human presence on the surface of Mars will be cheap and we should have done it long ago.
C) Why do we NOT have a real space station like the 50's and 60's Sci-Fi books had on the covers?
Tim S.
But, is this PAC for CAGW regulations, against CAGW regulations, or for finding out the scientific truth about global warming?
Hint: The dumb and the greedy are on both sides!
Tim S.
It's time a climate superPAC be formed to create an NRA-like political entity with teeth. Science, math, and logic just don't work on the dumb and the greedy. You gotta bribe politicians with campaign money (or lack of) to get action in our society. That's just the ugly truth.
The other side will say the existence of a superPAC is evidence of political motivation over science, but they say that anyhow now. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
Anyhow, if we were to reinstate some sort of poll test, it may not be used to disenfranchise according to racial lines, but you can be sure that whoever is in power will find a way to stop others from voting or to make their vote count less. It's probably impossible to design a system that couldn't be manipulated once you start disenfranchising people. Who gets to define the relevant "knowledge"? How do we measure " intelligence"?
And you must realize that political parties immediately get incentive to do this if the voters most likely to be excluded lean a particular way politically. Say party A is strong with the low income families and party B is more of a middle class party and that statistically if you make the test harder more low income families will drop out because they're already working their ass off making ends meet. Now one party has obvious incentive to set the bar higher, the other to set the bar lower. Here in Norway there's a campaign to lower the voting age from 18 to 16, you can compare the youth vote scores with the parties supporting it and it's obvious why. Voters who've mostly never had a real job, never paid taxes and never had to balance a budget because they live at home with mom and dad with an allowance tend to vote quite differently than people who've had to support themselves.
What we really need if for each Political Party to support knowledge tests on the candidates that are going to run in the primary and the results to be posted before the primarily is held. This would help to remove the really ignorant and some of the stupid politicians from getting into office.
Tim S.
Intelligence and Wisdom do not always occur together in the same person.
I strongly agree with the above statement.
An intelligent fool in public office will likely be more damaging then a wise person of average intelligence.
Tim S.
There are many reasons why drivers should be classified as employees rather than as contractors. The most obvious is that drivers don't price their own services. The labor laws were specifically written to protect people who are working for much more powerful companies which will treat them as serfs if they can get away with it.
Does this mean that people who cut hair as contractors price their own services?
Or that if they do NOT that they are NOT really contractors?
As someone who gets earaches fairly often, once upon a time, I would get a course of antibiotics, and occasionally needed a second course.
Then a very smart lady told me about hydrogen peroxide. A bit of that in your ear for a day or so would knock those little buggers on their ass.
It was very interesting the first time you put some in your ear - tickles a little and is loud as it releases the oxygen it kills the germs with.
21st century US litigation disclaimer:
This is not medical advice. Do not ever do this. Always consult a trained medical professional with the proper certifications for any and all medical treatments including antiseptics and band-aids. Do not use any other treatments than prescribed medicine. Always visit a trained professional for every physical ailment.
I might try this, once more, I forgot I used to do this when I was younger. And, it was very loud when I last did it.
Did you every gargle with hydrogen peroxide diluted with water?
I am trying to decide if I want to try that again.
You do realize the Governors have access to nuclear weapons through the Air National Guard?
Also each state has their own land management system for state forests and parks. It would be pretty simple to transfer federal land to the respective states.
I have never heard of a Air National Guard unit with nukes.
Did read a fictional book about an Air Force reserve unit that had nukes.
Please site what Air National Guard unit has nukes?
Tim S.
sorry, but wind is cheaper than coal, and with the next iteration of wind generators, they should be cheaper than nat gas.
EIA, and others all show this. You can not show ANYPLACE where Coal is actually cheaper than wind.
But, the cost of Batteries is expensive. And, the Wind generators maint. costs are NOT cheap.
Remember to figure in the cost to take down the wind generators when they no longer can be maintained.
Tim S.
A tortoise's shell needs to grow, else it will eventually maim then kill him. These "helpers" are making a huge assumption about the future, maybe it would have better to just euthanize "Fred"
From the photos there is at least 4 parts to the shell.
Looks like it is designed to break or separate if the tortoise grows longer or wider.
Hopefully that will be enough to prevent death from growing bigger.
Tim S.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think you understand what a government is. The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies. Seriously, that is the primary function. Utilities are for cases where it's in each (or collectively most) persons advantage for the service to exist as deemed by the government but that no one would individually pay for given a choice. e.g. the armed forces or the highway system. The other is to monopolize certain powers such as the power to imprison. Monopolies are useful when many prviders would create chaos but there is no market force that would correct that. In the early days the buildout of rural phone and electric services and train service was aided by monopoly grants to bussinesses.
When governments do something other than offer utilities or monopolies this should be questioned. But those two things are it's purpose.
No
I agree the answer is no.
Tim S.
I wonder how well it fares with moving obstacles... like others drones with the same 10 meters of horizon.
Good question: I hope the drone software people look up the default aircraft maneuvers.
I think there is suggested ways to break to avoid other aircraft, not sure on it.
Tim S.
Filled with lies but funny!
Tim S.
So I have no skin in this game and do not for a second trust anything Anonymous puts out unless it comes with a huge amount of independently verifiable sources...
But I do just really need to say that the Republican party that Abraham Lincoln was a member of has nearly nothing in common with the GOP of today. Any decent student of American history will tell you pretty readily that the Republican Party of Lincoln's time more closely resembles the Democrats of today and that the Whig party much more closely resembled today's Republicans.
I love how Slashdot is a hotbed for people arguing that:
A) People who think that ISS, a permanent human presence orbiting our planet, is a huge financial boondoggle that we never should have done; and
B) Establishing a permanent human presence on the surface of Mars will be cheap and we should have done it long ago.
C) Why do we NOT have a real space station like the 50's and 60's Sci-Fi books had on the covers?
Tim S.
Hint: The dumb and the greedy are on both sides!
Tim S.
It's time a climate superPAC be formed to create an NRA-like political entity with teeth. Science, math, and logic just don't work on the dumb and the greedy. You gotta bribe politicians with campaign money (or lack of) to get action in our society. That's just the ugly truth.
The other side will say the existence of a superPAC is evidence of political motivation over science, but they say that anyhow now. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
http://git.busybox.net/busybox... works for me. Tim S.
Nothing new here - I've been reading novels for decades!
Read the article; they mention lasers; but, sadly I did NOT see any mention of sharks.
Tim S.
I have it on good authority that we are just cows. Slashdot tells me so every day!
So, you have been cowed into thinking you are a cow.
Your post failed to moove me at all in rating your post as funny!
Tim S.
Ever heard of escaping things? Apparently not. Sane languages do not even allow you to use Unicode in source code and sane compilers reject it.
So, how long have you thought that GCC was insane? IIRC, GCC uses UTF8. Tim S.
Please stop using the term "solar systems" it is wrong most of the time it is used!! Tim S.
He is a multimillionaire so by definition he is a Republican.
FYI: Most of the multimillionaire in the US Congress are Democrats. Tim S.
OK, but who would use Edge on anything but Windows? People only use IE/Edge because it's preinstalled.
You know those guys who WINE a lot might just try it.
Or those REACT people might try it.
Tim S.
Yes, Motives matter. They matter a lot when it becomes time to sentence the guilty. Tim S.
Anyhow, if we were to reinstate some sort of poll test, it may not be used to disenfranchise according to racial lines, but you can be sure that whoever is in power will find a way to stop others from voting or to make their vote count less. It's probably impossible to design a system that couldn't be manipulated once you start disenfranchising people. Who gets to define the relevant "knowledge"? How do we measure " intelligence"?
And you must realize that political parties immediately get incentive to do this if the voters most likely to be excluded lean a particular way politically. Say party A is strong with the low income families and party B is more of a middle class party and that statistically if you make the test harder more low income families will drop out because they're already working their ass off making ends meet. Now one party has obvious incentive to set the bar higher, the other to set the bar lower. Here in Norway there's a campaign to lower the voting age from 18 to 16, you can compare the youth vote scores with the parties supporting it and it's obvious why. Voters who've mostly never had a real job, never paid taxes and never had to balance a budget because they live at home with mom and dad with an allowance tend to vote quite differently than people who've had to support themselves.
What we really need if for each Political Party to support knowledge tests on the candidates that are going to run in the primary and the results to be posted before the primarily is held. This would help to remove the really ignorant and some of the stupid politicians from getting into office. Tim S.
Intelligence and Wisdom do not always occur together in the same person.
I strongly agree with the above statement. An intelligent fool in public office will likely be more damaging then a wise person of average intelligence. Tim S.
There are many reasons why drivers should be classified as employees rather than as contractors. The most obvious is that drivers don't price their own services. The labor laws were specifically written to protect people who are working for much more powerful companies which will treat them as serfs if they can get away with it.
Does this mean that people who cut hair as contractors price their own services?
Or that if they do NOT that they are NOT really contractors?
Tim S.
As someone who gets earaches fairly often, once upon a time, I would get a course of antibiotics, and occasionally needed a second course.
Then a very smart lady told me about hydrogen peroxide. A bit of that in your ear for a day or so would knock those little buggers on their ass.
It was very interesting the first time you put some in your ear - tickles a little and is loud as it releases the oxygen it kills the germs with.
21st century US litigation disclaimer:
This is not medical advice. Do not ever do this. Always consult a trained medical professional with the proper certifications for any and all medical treatments including antiseptics and band-aids. Do not use any other treatments than prescribed medicine. Always visit a trained professional for every physical ailment.
I might try this, once more, I forgot I used to do this when I was younger. And, it was very loud when I last did it.
Did you every gargle with hydrogen peroxide diluted with water?
I am trying to decide if I want to try that again.
Tim S.
You do realize the Governors have access to nuclear weapons through the Air National Guard?
Also each state has their own land management system for state forests and parks. It would be pretty simple to transfer federal land to the respective states.
I have never heard of a Air National Guard unit with nukes. Did read a fictional book about an Air Force reserve unit that had nukes.
Please site what Air National Guard unit has nukes?
Tim S.
"the Black Hole Information Paradox"
"some types of Physics."
Neither of these things should be capitalized. Science education is important, but so is language education.
Look up the rules for the capitalization of titles. Tim S.
That's what? 10 Macbooks?
LOL. I was thinking how many Macbooks it was. Tim S.
sorry, but wind is cheaper than coal, and with the next iteration of wind generators, they should be cheaper than nat gas. EIA, and others all show this. You can not show ANYPLACE where Coal is actually cheaper than wind.
But, the cost of Batteries is expensive. And, the Wind generators maint. costs are NOT cheap. Remember to figure in the cost to take down the wind generators when they no longer can be maintained. Tim S.
Is nobody going to mention Godzilla?
I was going to ask how large does the shark have to be to have this laser mounted on it. But, maybe Godzilla would be a better Lazar platform. Tim S.
A tortoise's shell needs to grow, else it will eventually maim then kill him. These "helpers" are making a huge assumption about the future, maybe it would have better to just euthanize "Fred"
From the photos there is at least 4 parts to the shell. Looks like it is designed to break or separate if the tortoise grows longer or wider. Hopefully that will be enough to prevent death from growing bigger. Tim S.
I always wondered about Buffalo wings...
My I still try to find the online comic that jokes about Buffalo fingers. Tim S.