I'm not asking you to trust corporations to take care of you. I'm asking you to make sure people are taking care of themselves before they go to the government for a handout. I was always taught that the order you seek help is from yourself, your family, your friends, then charities and the government. I was also taught that the constitution was in place to allow the states to have most of the power, since states are in a better position to deal with their populations than the federal government.
My original point was that there are several other methods for people to get what they deserve from the companies they work for that the federal government doesn't need to intervene, and that government intervention at a national level wouldn't work as well as a granular, state by state approach. I have yet to see why that's not the case.
Why is it that tax cuts targeted on big businesses and the wealthy never get labeled as redistribution of wealth?
From what I've seen, the tax cuts go back as a percentage of what you've paid into it, which naturally favors those who've paid more taxes. if the top 10% of tax payers get back 90% of the tax cuts, it's usually because they paid 90% of the taxes in the first place. In most places that's what's considered fair.
Yes, but then how will people police the behavior of people who live in another part of the country? That knife cuts both ways, too. Liberals have forced as many changes on people that didn't want them as conservatives have.
Considering that the average CEO...has been raiding pension plans
Citation? Pension plans have been declining since the 90s, which is why IRA's and other retirement plans were put into place.
I can tell you that I worked on the taxes of people who were making many times more than I was (as a graduate student) and who paid much less because of tax loopholes
Two things. First, did they pay less overall (ie you paid $1000, they paid $800), or did they pay less as a percentage of the amount earned? Second, what tax loopholes and why aren't they closed off? It seems that you want to solve the problem through treating the symptom instead of the disease.
The workers are putting in tons of work (albeit of a different expertise), and being cheated of overtime pay, healthcare and the works
How are they being cheated out of what is recognized as a benefit instead of a requirement? Why aren't they suing for their overtime pay or arranging for a strike? When you show me a worker who's exhausted their other options that are already well known and in place, then I'll start to believe that we should be redistributing income. Right now, it sounds like you want to use the federal government to solve a problem that could just as easily be solved on a lower level where the consequences of the decision will be more easily dealt with. The federal government should be the last resort, but it seems like that's the first thing most people go to.
I'll take the libertarian "The government is not your daddy" position seriously when the libertarians start talking about the real welfare system.
I've never known a libertarian or real conservative republican that didn't think corporate bailouts were good. Most of them just think that tax breaks should go evenly as a percentage paid instead of going evenly as a dollar value, ie instead of everyone getting $2000 back they get 10% of what they paid. Unfortunately, this is political suicide since that means 90% of the tax break goes to the richest 10% of the nation. They leave out the fact that the 10% also paid 90% of the taxes.
and the people being sued provoked the RIAA by allegedly sharing the files in question
So the people who were wrongly accused provoked the RIAA because the RIAA said that they shared the songs?
The imbalance exists because the RIAA has loads of money and the people they've decided to sue don't. Did the judge establish that situation? No.
But she helped to perpetuate. You're right in that it's a systemic problem and not necessarily her fault, but Marie Antoinette didn't create the situation that made the statement "let them eat cake" ridiculous either. Out of touch is out of touch, and just because the judge didn't create the situation doesn't mean she doesn't have the ability to fix it, at least in this situation.
the riaa is as if the monk scribe's union rose up and sued operators of printing presses
Actually, they did, or at least the Catholic Church as a whole fought the widespread possession of the bible. In many ways, monopolies act the same regardless of their target market, which is why you see a lot of corrupt popes back in the day.
That's what they do. The problem is that when you're doing a fusion reactor, you need to have positive energy yields. With a plasma engine, you just need to be able to propel yourself. So in the short term, I doubt anything will come of this.
However, in the long term, this could be key to getting workable fusion reactors. If the technology for a plasma engine becomes widespread with several independent firms working on it, it's entirely possible that a big breakthrough for fusion reactors will come from research into these engines. If nothing else, this should lead to greater efficiency in the containment fields.
No, you're supposed to feel back for these kids. Can't you see that they're really the victims? Not the victims in the sense that it's their identity that gets stolen, or in the sense that they're the ones who get hacked, but in the sense that they shouldn't have been able to do this in the first place. Just because they're using stolen credit cards and causing mischief in a public place doesn't mean they should be punished. Shit, what do you think this is, a concentration camp? [/sarcasm]
The only way I can really see it working is if we can develop AI to the point where it can actually understand what it is reading without a human having to first develop some huge ontology and join the dots for it
"Of course we must fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more... and that is the indifference of good men."
What's more evil, misusing an online service or letting your family starve? Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed a starving child? You're getting up in arms about something that's definitely unethical but isn't really all that evil in the long run. If the person asking the question has a family to take care of, however, then getting himself into a shitstorm that hurts his career is, IMHO, more evil than just letting his shitty boss make a shitty website that will probably not last a year.
Yes, some of you will refuse to buy games because of it, but you're not gamers
I am, in fact, a gamer, and I have refused to buy a game because of its DRM. How many hundreds of dollars per year do I need to spend on games before I pass your mystical threshold?
Enough already. I came in here to read about the game and there isn't a single post about it.
Because there's nothing to discuss. We've got a teaser video and a price drop; what's to discuss in this that hasn't already been said? Besides, people are talking about something that's important to them and important to video games as a whole. The issue of what DRM ships with the game is as or more pertinent than discussing the pricing structure.
If you hate it that much, maybe you should make a greasemonkey script to automatically hide posts that include the word "DRM".
As I remember, everything more complex than just outputting the value of the variable (ie calling a method, accessing a property, etc) requires you to use brackets inside of the string. Namespaces would work the same way without adding any complexity that wasn't already there.
When are you going to use the escape character outside of a string? I agree that it's dumb, and it's going to make for ugly looking code, but saying that it shouldn't be used because it's an escape character seems like an empty criticism. It's like saying that Elisabeth Taylor's personal life is messed up because she doesn't pay enough attention to her hair.
The whole purpose behind using '.' as string concatenation instead of '+' is that it eliminates ambiguity. What you're suggesting throws the ambiguity back in. Remember, if it's more complex for the parser to understand, it's more complex for a human to understand. As a programmer who moves between PHP and Javascript a lot, I can tell you that I miss being able to use a dot for objects when I'm in PHP, but the ambiguity in string concatenation/addition in javascript is an order of magnitude more annoying.
I suspect they're doing the same thing with namespaces. The backslash isn't used for anything except escaping strings, and I doubt that's going to add any ambiguity at all. There are a lot of problems with PHP, and it's well worth your ridicule, but making sure that separate operations have separate operators isn't one of those problems.
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I'm not asking you to trust corporations to take care of you. I'm asking you to make sure people are taking care of themselves before they go to the government for a handout. I was always taught that the order you seek help is from yourself, your family, your friends, then charities and the government. I was also taught that the constitution was in place to allow the states to have most of the power, since states are in a better position to deal with their populations than the federal government.
My original point was that there are several other methods for people to get what they deserve from the companies they work for that the federal government doesn't need to intervene, and that government intervention at a national level wouldn't work as well as a granular, state by state approach. I have yet to see why that's not the case.
Sorry, that first sentence was sarcastic. I didn't express it very well :(
Why is it that tax cuts targeted on big businesses and the wealthy never get labeled as redistribution of wealth?
From what I've seen, the tax cuts go back as a percentage of what you've paid into it, which naturally favors those who've paid more taxes. if the top 10% of tax payers get back 90% of the tax cuts, it's usually because they paid 90% of the taxes in the first place. In most places that's what's considered fair.
Yes, but then how will people police the behavior of people who live in another part of the country? That knife cuts both ways, too. Liberals have forced as many changes on people that didn't want them as conservatives have.
Considering that the average CEO...has been raiding pension plans
Citation? Pension plans have been declining since the 90s, which is why IRA's and other retirement plans were put into place.
I can tell you that I worked on the taxes of people who were making many times more than I was (as a graduate student) and who paid much less because of tax loopholes
Two things. First, did they pay less overall (ie you paid $1000, they paid $800), or did they pay less as a percentage of the amount earned? Second, what tax loopholes and why aren't they closed off? It seems that you want to solve the problem through treating the symptom instead of the disease.
The workers are putting in tons of work (albeit of a different expertise), and being cheated of overtime pay, healthcare and the works
How are they being cheated out of what is recognized as a benefit instead of a requirement? Why aren't they suing for their overtime pay or arranging for a strike? When you show me a worker who's exhausted their other options that are already well known and in place, then I'll start to believe that we should be redistributing income. Right now, it sounds like you want to use the federal government to solve a problem that could just as easily be solved on a lower level where the consequences of the decision will be more easily dealt with. The federal government should be the last resort, but it seems like that's the first thing most people go to.
I'll take the libertarian "The government is not your daddy" position seriously when the libertarians start talking about the real welfare system.
I've never known a libertarian or real conservative republican that didn't think corporate bailouts were good. Most of them just think that tax breaks should go evenly as a percentage paid instead of going evenly as a dollar value, ie instead of everyone getting $2000 back they get 10% of what they paid. Unfortunately, this is political suicide since that means 90% of the tax break goes to the richest 10% of the nation. They leave out the fact that the 10% also paid 90% of the taxes.
Agreed on the function naming. I don't find it nearly as bothersome as syntax issues, however.
and the people being sued provoked the RIAA by allegedly sharing the files in question
So the people who were wrongly accused provoked the RIAA because the RIAA said that they shared the songs?
The imbalance exists because the RIAA has loads of money and the people they've decided to sue don't. Did the judge establish that situation? No.
But she helped to perpetuate. You're right in that it's a systemic problem and not necessarily her fault, but Marie Antoinette didn't create the situation that made the statement "let them eat cake" ridiculous either. Out of touch is out of touch, and just because the judge didn't create the situation doesn't mean she doesn't have the ability to fix it, at least in this situation.
the riaa is as if the monk scribe's union rose up and sued operators of printing presses
Actually, they did, or at least the Catholic Church as a whole fought the widespread possession of the bible. In many ways, monopolies act the same regardless of their target market, which is why you see a lot of corrupt popes back in the day.
I'm thinking of...the old TV show Dinasaurs
Oh, so you're the one.
Let's not forget Congress. Remember, these are the people that we want to turn all healthcare over to.
That's what they do. The problem is that when you're doing a fusion reactor, you need to have positive energy yields. With a plasma engine, you just need to be able to propel yourself. So in the short term, I doubt anything will come of this.
However, in the long term, this could be key to getting workable fusion reactors. If the technology for a plasma engine becomes widespread with several independent firms working on it, it's entirely possible that a big breakthrough for fusion reactors will come from research into these engines. If nothing else, this should lead to greater efficiency in the containment fields.
Yes, trading stolen credit card information is "doing it for the lulz" and has no nefarious purpose.
No, you're supposed to feel back for these kids. Can't you see that they're really the victims? Not the victims in the sense that it's their identity that gets stolen, or in the sense that they're the ones who get hacked, but in the sense that they shouldn't have been able to do this in the first place. Just because they're using stolen credit cards and causing mischief in a public place doesn't mean they should be punished. Shit, what do you think this is, a concentration camp? [/sarcasm]
Yeah, but in this case they're doing it for lolz. I suggest lolkiddiez.
The only way I can really see it working is if we can develop AI to the point where it can actually understand what it is reading without a human having to first develop some huge ontology and join the dots for it
In which case we wouldn't need it anymore?
"Of course we must fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more... and that is the indifference of good men."
What's more evil, misusing an online service or letting your family starve? Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed a starving child? You're getting up in arms about something that's definitely unethical but isn't really all that evil in the long run. If the person asking the question has a family to take care of, however, then getting himself into a shitstorm that hurts his career is, IMHO, more evil than just letting his shitty boss make a shitty website that will probably not last a year.
Yes, some of you will refuse to buy games because of it, but you're not gamers
I am, in fact, a gamer, and I have refused to buy a game because of its DRM. How many hundreds of dollars per year do I need to spend on games before I pass your mystical threshold?
Enough already. I came in here to read about the game and there isn't a single post about it.
Because there's nothing to discuss. We've got a teaser video and a price drop; what's to discuss in this that hasn't already been said? Besides, people are talking about something that's important to them and important to video games as a whole. The issue of what DRM ships with the game is as or more pertinent than discussing the pricing structure.
If you hate it that much, maybe you should make a greasemonkey script to automatically hide posts that include the word "DRM".
I'm guessing at least 80% didn't use a package manager.
As I remember, everything more complex than just outputting the value of the variable (ie calling a method, accessing a property, etc) requires you to use brackets inside of the string. Namespaces would work the same way without adding any complexity that wasn't already there.
They get a server that's now a spambot, just like any other program that evals user input?
Case in point, javascript. Concatenating instead of adding causes a lot more bugs than anything else I've seen about the language.
When are you going to use the escape character outside of a string? I agree that it's dumb, and it's going to make for ugly looking code, but saying that it shouldn't be used because it's an escape character seems like an empty criticism. It's like saying that Elisabeth Taylor's personal life is messed up because she doesn't pay enough attention to her hair.
The whole purpose behind using '.' as string concatenation instead of '+' is that it eliminates ambiguity. What you're suggesting throws the ambiguity back in. Remember, if it's more complex for the parser to understand, it's more complex for a human to understand. As a programmer who moves between PHP and Javascript a lot, I can tell you that I miss being able to use a dot for objects when I'm in PHP, but the ambiguity in string concatenation/addition in javascript is an order of magnitude more annoying.
I suspect they're doing the same thing with namespaces. The backslash isn't used for anything except escaping strings, and I doubt that's going to add any ambiguity at all. There are a lot of problems with PHP, and it's well worth your ridicule, but making sure that separate operations have separate operators isn't one of those problems.
I head that Parlingapore's commutes are a bitch, though.