Missing the point slightly. The point is that small government benefits only the rich, Who just get the things (defence, law and order, maybe roads) that they cannot provide for themselves. Meanwhile they avoid having to pay taxes for healthcare, education etc, which they can easily buy for themselves.
The weird thing about America , as seen from the rest of the world, is that so many people have the illusion that one day they will be rich (I'm a good guy, so god will deliver eventually) and seem to care more about having a system that will benefit them then, rather than one that suits where they are now. (deep in the crap, along with everyone else.)
I lived in the states for a few years back in the Reagan era, and the fraction of my income that went on "taxes plus things taxes should pay for" (healthcare, decent education for kids etc) was (or would have been if my kid was school age then- without it was marginal) significantly higher that it would have been here in the UK at the time.
I can understand how selfish bastards on $200k+ would vote republican, I've spent 30+ years trying unsuccessfully to understand why anyone else would
I don't think anyone really used windows 1.0 - on machines of the time it was imposibly slow, Windows 2 wasn't too bad, especially on a 386.
I always believed that the first release of NT was called NT 3.1 because it had a nearly identical interface to the 16 bit Windows 3.1, although as I recall it took forever for the trutype fonts etc. to catch up. (NT 3.5 maybe, I didn't use it at the time)
NT was really a server operating system at that time, I dont remember anyone (except maybe for CAD or scientific simulation work) using NT on the desktop until the NT 5 beta (which then became windows 2000)
Nobody that I know of objects to this on the basis that they are afraid that the students will leave class believing that giant earth-bearing tortoises are real.
Remember that at the last official UK census approximately 400,000 people recorded their Religion as 'Jedi'. Thats around 25% of the number of muslims. and a couple of percent of the number of nominal christians.
Given the amount of Resource most universities allocate to invisible man in the sky related studies I think this is long overdue.
(This is the UK, we don't have the no religion in schools BS. We learn what a pile of crap it all is)
Most 'nuclear waste' is not spent reactor fuel. Most 'waste' is just general crap that has been irradiated or contaminated. Thats what causes the problem with volume.
On the bright side though, this defense can be used to defend Open Source projects against patents.
Of course, as long as somebody actually DID think of the idea, and patent or publish it at the appropriate time. You cannot just say you invented it. Proof is required. This guy has it. His patent may have expired, prior art doesn't.
Creationism is not based on some book written two thousand years ago. For most of Christian history the dominant theory was evolution, it was just the mechanism that was not worked out until Darwin. 'Absolutist' Creationism as we know it today appeared around the time of the Spanish inquisition.
To be honest, I don't think its unreasonable. A company employs me because they believe I will generate more value than I cost. If I invent something while I work for them its theirs. If its worth patenting its reasonable for the company to patent it, and reasonable to expect I will cooperate.
If I was employing someone I would expect the same.
I work in the UK, where we have much stronger employment protection laws. I could certainly be fired if I didn't cooperate with filing a patent. And under my contract I have a specific obligation to cooperate, even if I've left the company (not sure if they could easily enforce that one..)
I don't like the way that trivial software/process patents have worked out, especially in the US. but to reckon that this is an 'ethical' issue seems probably a bit hyperbolic.
No one who has ever flown RyanAir would voluntarily do so again. They keep getting exposed for all kinds of dubious practices, such as:
* cancelling flights because there aren't enough passengers (I've been caught by that one) * Not letting disabled people on planes because they are too slow (Its a safety issue, honest) * not cleaning up vomit in between flights (Quick wipe and a bit of air freshener is fine - one of the TV companies did an expose on that) * Taking you to airports far away from where you think you are going - Their 'New York' service would be to an old military airfield in Maine somewhere. * Charging much more than the ticket cost for normal amounts of luggage, so that your cheap fare becomes an expensive one
And none of it matters, because they are perceived as 'cheap' and that is all people care about.
We are leading the way here, Once we have all paid a few Hundred pounds each, got our digital passports and the system has be proven entirely unworkable it will be rolled out to the rest of the world...
In the case of autopiloted cars, I suspect that people will find the experience similar to riding the subway or a bus. People do not get the same temporary increase in satisfaction riding the subway or bus that they do from driving their own vehicles.
I drive around 30,000 miles a year - in the UK so a lot of that is very slow in traffic.
Its damn tiring.
I cant wait for the 'full auto' button so that i can switch off for a while and still make progress.
This doesn't sound much different from the Crew rest modules that are fitted on to a lot of commercial planes - If the second pilot is taking over mid-flight he needs to be rested.In this case there is an office/study component as well. I do enough intercontinental travelling to understand how valuable this could be.
You can argue about decor standards, but that's pretty trivial.
If they need to do this travelling as part of the counter terrorist effort then why shouldn't it be in the budget?
OK I think the whole 'war on terror' is bullshit, but I can't see a particular issue here.
The "Crap-shacks" are where the Historic and important stuff happened.
The main House is very nice (I used it for a seminar a few years back - I'd recommend it as a location for anyone doing something similar) but we are not particularly short of nice old house. Its the complex which is significant and thehastily thrown up wartime buildings are worth preserving, even if they don't look pretty
Its been nearly two years since I've been to the US, probably the longest gap in twenty five years. NO plans to come back soon.
A friend is in a fairly senior job with one of the larger US corporations - has to go to the states about once a month on average. He reckons that every time seems to suck worse than the last - can't be possible but...
Twenty years ago US officials were mostly pretty friendly (I'm sure it helps that I'm white and speak English) nowadays they obviously hate their jobs and don't care who knows it.
Not strictly true. I have met a few New Zealanders who are reasonably sympathetic to the the idea of the West Island(s) joining, as long as they are governed from Wellington
> Yes! You know who else was part of that fine tradition? Stalin, Hitler, Mussolin All three renowned for being upstanding members of the house of Lords? Considering some of the members of our august second chamber over the last century I'm sure they would have fitted in quite well.
I worked on a project with scientists from one of the larger Defence/scientific organisations here in the UK. They did the modelling, I did a part of the experimental side.
These guys were all Phd's with a lot of experience in many languages. All at a much higher level than me, so I wouldn't care to comment on the science.
But they used Excel and it seemed to work pretty well. Certainly it was not a 'simple' model. If there were other tools better for the job they would certainly have known how to use them.
That said, I find the continual changes with each version enough to put me off.
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Missing the point slightly.
The point is that small government benefits only the rich, Who just get the things (defence, law and order, maybe roads) that they cannot provide for themselves. Meanwhile they avoid having to pay taxes for healthcare, education etc, which they can easily buy for themselves.
The weird thing about America , as seen from the rest of the world, is that so many people have the illusion that one day they will be rich (I'm a good guy, so god will deliver eventually) and seem to care more about having a system that will benefit them then, rather than one that suits where they are now. (deep in the crap, along with everyone else.)
I lived in the states for a few years back in the Reagan era, and the fraction of my income that went on "taxes plus things taxes should pay for" (healthcare, decent education for kids etc) was (or would have been if my kid was school age then- without it was marginal) significantly higher that it would have been here in the UK at the time.
I can understand how selfish bastards on $200k+ would vote republican, I've spent 30+ years trying unsuccessfully to understand why anyone else would
I don't think anyone really used windows 1.0 - on machines of the time it was imposibly slow, Windows 2 wasn't too bad, especially on a 386.
I always believed that the first release of NT was called NT 3.1 because it had a nearly identical interface to the 16 bit Windows 3.1, although as I recall it took forever for the trutype fonts etc. to catch up. (NT 3.5 maybe, I didn't use it at the time)
NT was really a server operating system at that time, I dont remember anyone (except maybe for CAD or scientific simulation work) using NT on the desktop until the NT 5 beta (which then became windows 2000)
Wrong way round
In Earths' FOR it would take a minimum of 4.3 years. The Guy travelling might perceive it as much faster.
Nobody that I know of objects to this on the basis that they are afraid that the students will leave class believing that giant earth-bearing tortoises are real.
Believe or not as you wish.
The turtle still moves
Remember that at the last official UK census approximately 400,000 people recorded their Religion as 'Jedi'. Thats around 25% of the number of muslims. and a couple of percent of the number of nominal christians.
Given the amount of Resource most universities allocate to invisible man in the sky related studies I think this is long overdue.
(This is the UK, we don't have the no religion in schools BS. We learn what a pile of crap it all is)
Most 'nuclear waste' is not spent reactor fuel. Most 'waste' is just general crap that has been irradiated or contaminated. Thats what causes the problem with volume.
Not to mention .... genetically engineered supersoldiers.
I'm damn sure there is prior art on that one.
On the bright side though, this defense can be used to defend Open Source projects against patents.
Of course, as long as somebody actually DID think of the idea, and patent or publish it at the appropriate time. You cannot just say you invented it. Proof is required. This guy has it. His patent may have expired, prior art doesn't.
Creationism is not based on some book written two thousand years ago. For most of Christian history the dominant theory was evolution, it was just the mechanism that was not worked out until Darwin.
'Absolutist' Creationism as we know it today appeared around the time of the Spanish inquisition.
To be honest, I don't think its unreasonable. A company employs me because they believe I will generate more value than I cost. If I invent something while I work for them its theirs. If its worth patenting its reasonable for the company to patent it, and reasonable to expect I will cooperate.
If I was employing someone I would expect the same.
I work in the UK, where we have much stronger employment protection laws. I could certainly be fired if I didn't cooperate with filing a patent. And under my contract I have a specific obligation to cooperate, even if I've left the company (not sure if they could easily enforce that one..)
I don't like the way that trivial software/process patents have worked out, especially in the US. but to reckon that this is an 'ethical' issue seems probably a bit hyperbolic.
No one who has ever flown RyanAir would voluntarily do so again. They keep getting exposed for all kinds of dubious practices, such as:
* cancelling flights because there aren't enough passengers (I've been caught by that one)
* Not letting disabled people on planes because they are too slow (Its a safety issue, honest)
* not cleaning up vomit in between flights (Quick wipe and a bit of air freshener is fine - one of the TV companies did an expose on that)
* Taking you to airports far away from where you think you are going - Their 'New York' service would be to an old military airfield in Maine somewhere.
* Charging much more than the ticket cost for normal amounts of luggage, so that your cheap fare becomes an expensive one
And none of it matters, because they are perceived as 'cheap' and that is all people care about.
We are leading the way here, Once we have all paid a few Hundred pounds each, got our digital passports and the system has be proven entirely unworkable it will be rolled out to the rest of the world...
This is obviously confusing some people.
in the UK we have one card from debit(Maestro) , one for credit (M/c, visa etc)
Other countries (I've found it in Australia) appear to be able to access several accounts from one card
can we check back with you on this in say 50 years?
In the case of autopiloted cars, I suspect that people will find the experience similar to riding the subway or a bus. People do not get the same temporary increase in satisfaction riding the subway or bus that they do from driving their own vehicles.
I drive around 30,000 miles a year - in the UK so a lot of that is very slow in traffic.
Its damn tiring.
I cant wait for the 'full auto' button so that i can switch off for a while and still make progress.
This doesn't sound much different from the Crew rest modules that are fitted on to a lot of commercial planes - If the second pilot is taking over mid-flight he needs to be rested.In this case there is an office/study component as well. I do enough intercontinental travelling to understand how valuable this could be.
You can argue about decor standards, but that's pretty trivial.
If they need to do this travelling as part of the counter terrorist effort then why shouldn't it be in the budget?
OK I think the whole 'war on terror' is bullshit, but I can't see a particular issue here.
The "Crap-shacks" are where the Historic and important stuff happened.
The main House is very nice (I used it for a seminar a few years back - I'd recommend it as a location for anyone doing something similar) but we are not particularly short of nice old house. Its the complex which is significant and thehastily thrown up wartime buildings are worth preserving, even if they don't look pretty
Haven't you figured out you're not welcome yet?
Its been nearly two years since I've been to the US, probably the longest gap in twenty five years. NO plans to come back soon.A friend is in a fairly senior job with one of the larger US corporations - has to go to the states about once a month on average. He reckons that every time seems to suck worse than the last - can't be possible but...
Twenty years ago US officials were mostly pretty friendly (I'm sure it helps that I'm white and speak English) nowadays they obviously hate their jobs and don't care who knows it.
I'm not an American, but didn't they return the bits of Virginia quite a while back?
Not strictly true. I have met a few New Zealanders who are reasonably sympathetic to the the idea of the West Island(s) joining, as long as they are governed from Wellington
All three renowned for being upstanding members of the house of Lords? Considering some of the members of our august second chamber over the last century I'm sure they would have fitted in quite well.
"I know a ton of fat idiots..."
"I'll tell you this, I know of a WHOLE LOT MORE skinny idiots than fat ones. "
Maybe , but you get more skinny idiots to the ton. so you could both be right.
I worked on a project with scientists from one of the larger Defence/scientific organisations here in the UK. They did the modelling, I did a part of the experimental side.
These guys were all Phd's with a lot of experience in many languages. All at a much higher level than me, so I wouldn't care to comment on the science.
But they used Excel and it seemed to work pretty well. Certainly it was not a 'simple' model. If there were other tools better for the job they would certainly have known how to use them.
That said, I find the continual changes with each version enough to put me off.
Sorry, I should have said North America, I am well aware that Canada has the same technical standards, But is NOT part of the USA.