The answer is not to regulate business till it goes away. The answer which was already though of by the founding father was to have a weak federal government. So that business could not use it against the people. The problem is that we have allowed our governments (Federal, State, Local) too much power.
Unions did help. Unions now have become full of themselves and overpowered. When it is cheaper to pay a guy for sitting at home then it is to attempt for a few years to fire him there is a problem. This is not even taking into consideration the abominations that are public employee unions.
Capitalism: When companies are granted near monopolies by the government and then protected from competition by the same government. That must be the definition. It is what I see every time some idiot attacks capitalism. I would love to attack everything like that. All Asians suck, because when you stab them in the head and then break their legs they are always noisy and slowing me down. Not to mention the mess they make.
And yet you attack republicans. Not that they do not deserve it. Just as the Dems do. They all want one thing. The people to bicker about small petty things while bit by bit they consolidate federal powers and remove personal freedoms. How they go about it in the short term is different. The end game though is the same. The end game is bad for the people.
You are so correct. If only we could get a Democrat in the White House with Democrat control of the House and the Senate then things would get fixed right. The Dems have only love (hatred only for those that think differently) and the good of the people (if they went to law school or joined a union) in their hearts.
You only need 7 out of 10 provinces representing at least 50% of the population agreeing to a change. How hard could that be!/sarcasm
Canada wold likely break up before someone could get a constitutional amendment could be passed. So short of buying off every eligible voter in the country the entertainment industry is SOL.
Free 3D movie running at 67,000 FPS this weekend for every person in Canada! and, Done!
Well done sir. Sadly though I am married. So due to this inconvenient and highly over rated morals subroutine in my brain I can not at this time partake of any girlfriends. Sigh.
so, what you said is only true when as long as the precision you *need* is the same as or less than the precision of the inputs.
I believe that my statement stands. Calculate with as much precision as you can. Report with as much as you need.
If you can not calculate with the precision you need for the report.... Well we all know what happens there.
P.S. My boss asked me to start giving him weekly reports of Mobile Data Terminal inventory when I started working here. There was no tracking of these assets in place. So I counted the number of Vehicles in the field, added the number of MDTs I saw in the yard, then added the number in my office and those I had out for repair, and gave him the count. He said that I was wrong and he had more of them. We argued a bit and it ended with him telling me that he wanted the correct number on the sheet as total. He also did not want me to impiment a tracking solution for the MDTs. The next week I gave him the report. Leased = X Yard = X Office = X Repair = X Missing = X Total = X I gave him the number he wanted. He bitched and when he would ask where the missing ones were I would ask him how given what he allows me to do I could get that information. After a few weeks he stopped bitching. After a few months he no longer wanted the report.
Activist judge actually to me means. Judge whom for what he perceives as a need decides to attempt to interpret the constitution in a way that solves a problem. Once a judge goes from "What did they mean?" to "What could it mean?" he is an activist judge. Me wanting the decision to go that way or not.
So by your logic 2.6 + 2.6 can only be. 2.6 + 2.6 = 5.2 or 3 + 3 = 6 One must not blindly follow rules because they are there. 2.8 is a very high value of 2 not a low value of 3. Rounding should be used where appropriate. Try real hard not to start rounding when you are adding lots of shit up. You can introduce some very large errors. 2.9 + 2.9 is either 5.8 or 6 If you begin rounding during the calculations instead of at reporting the more calculations you do the more inaccurate your total can become. It can become much more inaccurate than if you round only at the end. But what ever makes you feel good about yourself.
I did not ask the developer to develop. So the case you provided does not equate with software. Not saying right or wrong. Just stating that the GP and GGGP are correct in that. Personally I do not like software copyright. I think the current implementation of the laws are at best stupid. I think we could have a much bigger effect by just ignoring there shit product though. As long as we are "Stealing" it these people have a leg to stand on with the people that count. (Lawmakers) If we decided looking at the entire product that it is as presented "shit" and just left it sitting there developers and studios would get the hint and produce content we want.
See here is the issue. I do not like defending the banks. They are full of shit and feel entitled to being saved. Fuck them. OTOH. What happens when the banks loan money mostly to the people it believes can pay them back? Well. What did happen was that the government decided that poor people need a leg up. That not enough of them were getting loans. The government MANDATED that loans be less restrictive. This would not have been a problem. The banks that listened to the government would are some point fail and new banks would come up and the mandates would be removed. In steps the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. When did we think that telling people that it did not matter if one bank is safer with their money than another bank because "we got your back", Was a good idea? Really? Removing safety of depositors funds as something that you can compete on against other banks is good? Not only was that a horrible idea for that reason alone. It is a horrible idea because without FDIC there would be some type of market for a fully non governmental private insurance. You bet that a private company would require much better accountability for its banking members. After all if a back with their sticker fails they are out a shitload of cash. Not only that but it would hurt their reputation. When you have FDIC and mandate that loans be increased you are going to have major issues. Again. Most of the banks we have now are fucking tools that needed to fail. BUT. Less would have needed to fail without the mandate and FDIC, and the failed ones would have rightly failed without the bailout.
"Free" The worst word ever. This word makes the stupid stop thinking. The word should be banned. There is no such thing as free. The use of the word is almost always a ruse. A ruse to suck in the stupid and sell them on a product or idea. "Free Shipping!" "A second set absolutely Free!" "Free Health Care" "A free meal with the purchase of another meal of equal or greater value." All things designed to make you think you are getting a deal when you are not.
That truly was a war between states. If we ever have another one you will of course be right in looking at how that went and applying it to this situation. However. I am not talking about a war between states of the US. I am talking about the people in mass losing all faith in right of the government to govern over them any longer. This is different. More like the Revolutionary war than the Civil war.
Think of it this way. Show me how without an armed populace we can take power from the federal government. Power which it has slowly usurped from the States and the People for generations. With enough money we can slow down the amount of power grabs, but we will not even be able to stop the government from expanding its powers. This country is in trouble. We can rush headlong at full speed to it or ease back on the accelerator a bit. But we will continue to move in the direction of full federal power over the States and the People of the US. Do you think the TSA will ever go away? Do you believe that they are not plotting to expand their duties? Do you not think that all the federal agencies do the same? When the people are finally done what will it matter when none have a weapon. One by one we will be silenced. I know it sounds extreme and a little bit nuts. I tried not to believe this for a long time. But it is true. Look at it. We only move in one direction. Some policies increase federal power a lot. Some a little. Some have no effect. I have not seen a bill pass congress yet that has given back federal power because they do not need it anymore. It will continue till a breaking point.
Seriously? You were completely unable to find in humor in the GPs link? Although it would have been more funny to post the real "Fix-It" link and the under that the Debian "Fixed-It" link.
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The answer is not to regulate business till it goes away.
The answer which was already though of by the founding father was to have a weak federal government. So that business could not use it against the people.
The problem is that we have allowed our governments (Federal, State, Local) too much power.
Unions did help.
Unions now have become full of themselves and overpowered.
When it is cheaper to pay a guy for sitting at home then it is to attempt for a few years to fire him there is a problem.
This is not even taking into consideration the abominations that are public employee unions.
Capitalism: When companies are granted near monopolies by the government and then protected from competition by the same government.
That must be the definition. It is what I see every time some idiot attacks capitalism.
I would love to attack everything like that. All Asians suck, because when you stab them in the head and then break their legs they are always noisy and slowing me down. Not to mention the mess they make.
And yet you attack republicans.
Not that they do not deserve it. Just as the Dems do.
They all want one thing. The people to bicker about small petty things while bit by bit they consolidate federal powers and remove personal freedoms.
How they go about it in the short term is different. The end game though is the same.
The end game is bad for the people.
You are so correct.
If only we could get a Democrat in the White House with Democrat control of the House and the Senate then things would get fixed right.
The Dems have only love (hatred only for those that think differently) and the good of the people (if they went to law school or joined a union) in their hearts.
You only need 7 out of 10 provinces representing at least 50% of the population agreeing to a change. How hard could that be! /sarcasm
Canada wold likely break up before someone could get a constitutional amendment could be passed. So short of buying off every eligible voter in the country the entertainment industry is SOL.
Free 3D movie running at 67,000 FPS this weekend for every person in Canada!
and, Done!
If they take too many trees out I am sure they can just kill some Canadians to keep the Tree to Human ratio steady.
"Land" lost to glacier melt is not lost. :)
It was never "land" just solid water. It just changed to squishier water.
Well done sir.
Sadly though I am married. So due to this inconvenient and highly over rated morals subroutine in my brain I can not at this time partake of any girlfriends.
Sigh.
Do not let the words you quote get in the way of thinking you have something to add.
so, what you said is only true when as long as the precision you *need* is the same as or less than the precision of the inputs.
I believe that my statement stands.
Calculate with as much precision as you can.
Report with as much as you need.
If you can not calculate with the precision you need for the report. ...
Well we all know what happens there.
P.S.
My boss asked me to start giving him weekly reports of Mobile Data Terminal inventory when I started working here. There was no tracking of these assets in place. So I counted the number of Vehicles in the field, added the number of MDTs I saw in the yard, then added the number in my office and those I had out for repair, and gave him the count.
He said that I was wrong and he had more of them.
We argued a bit and it ended with him telling me that he wanted the correct number on the sheet as total. He also did not want me to impiment a tracking solution for the MDTs.
The next week I gave him the report.
Leased = X
Yard = X
Office = X
Repair = X
Missing = X
Total = X
I gave him the number he wanted.
He bitched and when he would ask where the missing ones were I would ask him how given what he allows me to do I could get that information.
After a few weeks he stopped bitching. After a few months he no longer wanted the report.
Activist judge actually to me means.
Judge whom for what he perceives as a need decides to attempt to interpret the constitution in a way that solves a problem.
Once a judge goes from "What did they mean?" to "What could it mean?" he is an activist judge.
Me wanting the decision to go that way or not.
No.
Calculate with as much precision as you can.
Report with as much precision as you need.
This is how it should be done.
Rounding during calculations is a mistake.
Calculate with as much precision as you can.
Report with as much precision as you need.
So by your logic 2.6 + 2.6 can only be.
2.6 + 2.6 = 5.2
or
3 + 3 = 6
One must not blindly follow rules because they are there.
2.8 is a very high value of 2 not a low value of 3.
Rounding should be used where appropriate.
Try real hard not to start rounding when you are adding lots of shit up. You can introduce some very large errors.
2.9 + 2.9 is either 5.8 or 6
If you begin rounding during the calculations instead of at reporting the more calculations you do the more inaccurate your total can become.
It can become much more inaccurate than if you round only at the end.
But what ever makes you feel good about yourself.
That is correct for mid values of 2.
For high values of 2 it should be 6.
2.9 + 2.8 = 5.7 which rounds to 6.
Move to Nigeria then. I am sure you will have very little of what you despise.
192 sharks.
I did not ask the developer to develop. So the case you provided does not equate with software.
Not saying right or wrong. Just stating that the GP and GGGP are correct in that.
Personally I do not like software copyright. I think the current implementation of the laws are at best stupid.
I think we could have a much bigger effect by just ignoring there shit product though.
As long as we are "Stealing" it these people have a leg to stand on with the people that count. (Lawmakers)
If we decided looking at the entire product that it is as presented "shit" and just left it sitting there developers and studios would get the hint and produce content we want.
See here is the issue. I do not like defending the banks. They are full of shit and feel entitled to being saved.
Fuck them.
OTOH.
What happens when the banks loan money mostly to the people it believes can pay them back?
Well. What did happen was that the government decided that poor people need a leg up. That not enough of them were getting loans. The government MANDATED that loans be less restrictive. This would not have been a problem. The banks that listened to the government would are some point fail and new banks would come up and the mandates would be removed.
In steps the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
When did we think that telling people that it did not matter if one bank is safer with their money than another bank because "we got your back", Was a good idea?
Really? Removing safety of depositors funds as something that you can compete on against other banks is good?
Not only was that a horrible idea for that reason alone. It is a horrible idea because without FDIC there would be some type of market for a fully non governmental private insurance. You bet that a private company would require much better accountability for its banking members. After all if a back with their sticker fails they are out a shitload of cash. Not only that but it would hurt their reputation.
When you have FDIC and mandate that loans be increased you are going to have major issues.
Again. Most of the banks we have now are fucking tools that needed to fail. BUT.
Less would have needed to fail without the mandate and FDIC, and the failed ones would have rightly failed without the bailout.
"Free" The worst word ever.
This word makes the stupid stop thinking.
The word should be banned. There is no such thing as free. The use of the word is almost always a ruse. A ruse to suck in the stupid and sell them on a product or idea.
"Free Shipping!"
"A second set absolutely Free!"
"Free Health Care"
"A free meal with the purchase of another meal of equal or greater value."
All things designed to make you think you are getting a deal when you are not.
They do not monitor for that here.
Although if he posts that comment to Facebook ?????
That truly was a war between states.
If we ever have another one you will of course be right in looking at how that went and applying it to this situation.
However. I am not talking about a war between states of the US. I am talking about the people in mass losing all faith in right of the government to govern over them any longer. This is different. More like the Revolutionary war than the Civil war.
Think of it this way.
Show me how without an armed populace we can take power from the federal government.
Power which it has slowly usurped from the States and the People for generations.
With enough money we can slow down the amount of power grabs, but we will not even be able to stop the government from expanding its powers.
This country is in trouble. We can rush headlong at full speed to it or ease back on the accelerator a bit. But we will continue to move in the direction of full federal power over the States and the People of the US.
Do you think the TSA will ever go away?
Do you believe that they are not plotting to expand their duties?
Do you not think that all the federal agencies do the same?
When the people are finally done what will it matter when none have a weapon.
One by one we will be silenced. I know it sounds extreme and a little bit nuts.
I tried not to believe this for a long time. But it is true. Look at it. We only move in one direction. Some policies increase federal power a lot. Some a little. Some have no effect. I have not seen a bill pass congress yet that has given back federal power because they do not need it anymore.
It will continue till a breaking point.
Seriously?
You were completely unable to find in humor in the GPs link?
Although it would have been more funny to post the real "Fix-It" link and the under that the Debian "Fixed-It" link.