You're just saying that because you're fat. And fat people, as everyone knows, are jollier than everyone else. Don't blame wall0159 for being a skinny over-sensitive clod!
There was something that LOOKED like that in chemistry: The isolation of Fluorine. It turned out to be pretty straightforward. But the stuff was SO toxic that a number of chemists died in "mysterious laboratory accidents" before one succeeded AND kept it sufficiently contained to live to tell about it. Then they figured out what had happened to the rest.
Bah! That's what the government wants you to think! The gov't had isolated Fluorine long before, but they had been putting it into those chemists air supply to prevent the chemists from finding out the awful truth about the fluoride in the drinking water supply.
The US has not moved forward, economically, since 1970. The only thing the US has done since then is accumulate debt and manipulate accounting rules so that the debt looks like a product export to strengthen our GDP.
Let me introduce you to my friend, basic economics. Everything in this example will be in 2005 dollars, as that's how the Bureau of Economic Analysis has the data:
Our annual GDP in 1970 was $4.27 Trillion(T). Our 1970 Gross Federal Debt was 37.6%, or $1.6T. That means our non-debt economy in 1970 was $2.66T.
Our 2008 debt was 67.5%, or $8.98T of our $13.3T annual GDP. Which means our non-debt GDP for 2008 was $4.32T. That's a total non-debt inflation-adjusted growth of 270% and an average compound annual growth of 2.65%. It's not stellar, but it's definitely not stagnant like you claimed. Of course, the idea of the debt-to-GDP being the only measure of economic growth is absurd, but even by that metric we've been chugging along at a good pace.
As my high school teachers would say, don't forget to credit your source. Your first two paragraphs (or at least the substance of them) are commonly attributed to Alexander Tytler.
Or they would be charging other firms that want to do the same...
Probably using some kind of Temporal-Increment Adjusted Use-Royalties Scheme... hmmm, sounds like the perfect time to patent a Recursive Licensing Method!
Oh, you have it lucky. Back in my day we didn't have anything completely different. Everything was a bit of everything else, and we were grateful to have such a homogeneous reality!
According to the article it was actually built by the same druids, they were just following a a set of instructions that said each stone should be nine spans high instead of the intended 9 cubits high. Needless to say, the head druid was furious at the unveiling ceremony and was reported to have had the stones crushed by a dwarf that wandered by.
What California needs transportation-wise is solutions to get people to work and back more efficiently, not crazy-expensive long distance trains.
Duh. They'll work on building the train. And they can build another rail system to get the construction workers to the job site - which will require more construction workers... repeat until unemployment is solved and/or California has gotten a proportional (population-wise) share of the stimulus bill.
It's as if your local petrol/gas station were to offer you "unlimited mileage" fuel contracts for a set monthly fee. This fee would be proportional to your vehicles consumption rate (mpg). However, they only receive a set amount of fuel from the refinery each month, but they oversell these "unlimited" fuel contracts based on average consumption, not reserving enough for each person to drive much farther than their calculated average. They then start watering down the fuel when their supply is low (causing serious performance issues with everyone's vehicles), or alternatively, they later tell you that what they meant by "unlimited" was actually only 1000 miles a month, after which you get no fuel, or have to pay 10 times the normal cost per litre/gallon.
I think he, like most of us, denies the existence of ME and Vista.
Speak for yourself, unlike the current Iranian president I will not deny the reality of something that has destroyed the (digital) lives of millions of innocent people.
Score: -1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-The-Holocaust-and-a-piece-of-software or
Score: +1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-Microsoft-and-the-Nazis or
Score: +/- 0: Trying-to-predict-the-mods ...could go any way...
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... a self-loathing, suicidal universe that is only kept intact by the fact that if it didn't stay intact, we wouldn't be here to notice.
I know that this is an allusion to some celebrity, I just don't know which one. So many seem to fit the bill!
You're just saying that because you're fat. And fat people, as everyone knows, are jollier than everyone else. Don't blame wall0159 for being a skinny over-sensitive clod!
There was something that LOOKED like that in chemistry: The isolation of Fluorine. It turned out to be pretty straightforward. But the stuff was SO toxic that a number of chemists died in "mysterious laboratory accidents" before one succeeded AND kept it sufficiently contained to live to tell about it. Then they figured out what had happened to the rest.
Bah! That's what the government wants you to think! The gov't had isolated Fluorine long before, but they had been putting it into those chemists air supply to prevent the chemists from finding out the awful truth about the fluoride in the drinking water supply.
The US has not moved forward, economically, since 1970. The only thing the US has done since then is accumulate debt and manipulate accounting rules so that the debt looks like a product export to strengthen our GDP.
Let me introduce you to my friend, basic economics. Everything in this example will be in 2005 dollars, as that's how the Bureau of Economic Analysis has the data:
Our annual GDP in 1970 was $4.27 Trillion(T). Our 1970 Gross Federal Debt was 37.6%, or $1.6T. That means our non-debt economy in 1970 was $2.66T.
Our 2008 debt was 67.5%, or $8.98T of our $13.3T annual GDP. Which means our non-debt GDP for 2008 was $4.32T. That's a total non-debt inflation-adjusted growth of 270% and an average compound annual growth of 2.65%. It's not stellar, but it's definitely not stagnant like you claimed. Of course, the idea of the debt-to-GDP being the only measure of economic growth is absurd, but even by that metric we've been chugging along at a good pace.
As my high school teachers would say, don't forget to credit your source. Your first two paragraphs (or at least the substance of them) are commonly attributed to Alexander Tytler.
Or they would be charging other firms that want to do the same...
Probably using some kind of Temporal-Increment Adjusted Use-Royalties Scheme... hmmm, sounds like the perfect time to patent a Recursive Licensing Method!
You voted bush out, remember?
FINISH HIM!
Actually the 22nd amendment "voted" him out, but why let a little detail like that detract from a good Bush rant?
Constitutionality! Shakrai wins. Play again?
Ye gods! Have you ever heard of a line break?!
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This degrades the award so much it's laughable.
You do realize who, and for what reason, the award was given to in 2007, don't you? This prize has been a joke, in my opinion, since 1994.
That would make an interesting checkbox on the submit form.
And about as useful as a checkbox that says "Check here if you are illiterate".
You can interpret Mozart's Fifth to be racist
Mozart's Fifth? Opera? Symphoy? Did you mean the magic flute? Please elaborate.
The Magic Flute is obviously an attack on the sacred institution of marriage, deviously engineered by The Homosexual Lobby.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
If we assume that 15% of people have a mac and the other 85% have a windows (I know, a terribly insulting assumption on Slashdot!)
Not as long as you grant that the other 50% of people have a linux.
Do you realize who you're arguing with? I think he knows what he's talking about when it comes matters like this...
For something completely different.
Oh, you have it lucky. Back in my day we didn't have anything completely different. Everything was a bit of everything else, and we were grateful to have such a homogeneous reality!
I believe the GP was looking for an argument, not contradiction.
No you don't.
In Korea, only old people have chromosomal degradation in cell replication.
Druids: 200 BCE or earlier - 200 century CE Stonehenge: 3000-2100 BCE
Actually, I have it from a very reliable source that the druids were around hundreds of years before the dawn of history.
According to the article it was actually built by the same druids, they were just following a a set of instructions that said each stone should be nine spans high instead of the intended 9 cubits high. Needless to say, the head druid was furious at the unveiling ceremony and was reported to have had the stones crushed by a dwarf that wandered by.
Here's a nice link that easily explains how immigrants only ever take away jobs.
Well here's a nice link that easily explains the GP's point:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6610212795155043011#
What California needs transportation-wise is solutions to get people to work and back more efficiently, not crazy-expensive long distance trains.
Duh. They'll work on building the train. And they can build another rail system to get the construction workers to the job site - which will require more construction workers... repeat until unemployment is solved and/or California has gotten a proportional (population-wise) share of the stimulus bill.
Me too. Any country that spends more on weapons than on education should be called a developing nation.
That sound you hear is the buzzing of a hive of puns flitting over your head.
This is impressive efficiency.
50cm is still too short though, so let's see if the efficiency remains workable as distance increases (square law).
IDK, according to a square law you could just move it farther away from the source to get more power
:-P
It's as if your local petrol/gas station were to offer you "unlimited mileage" fuel contracts for a set monthly fee. This fee would be proportional to your vehicles consumption rate (mpg). However, they only receive a set amount of fuel from the refinery each month, but they oversell these "unlimited" fuel contracts based on average consumption, not reserving enough for each person to drive much farther than their calculated average. They then start watering down the fuel when their supply is low (causing serious performance issues with everyone's vehicles), or alternatively, they later tell you that what they meant by "unlimited" was actually only 1000 miles a month, after which you get no fuel, or have to pay 10 times the normal cost per litre/gallon.
The lowly beer bottle has had a much greater impact on the world's institutions of higher learning than all other academic topics combined.
That's only because you can't hurl "academic topics" through the Dean's office window...
I think he, like most of us, denies the existence of ME and Vista.
Speak for yourself, unlike the current Iranian president I will not deny the reality of something that has destroyed the (digital) lives of millions of innocent people.
...could go any way...
Score: -1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-The-Holocaust-and-a-piece-of-software
or
Score: +1 billion: Making-an-analogy-between-Microsoft-and-the-Nazis
or
Score: +/- 0: Trying-to-predict-the-mods