I agree that Medicare should remain, but I disagree with the role of Social Security. SS is designed as a safety net, but in popular use, has been pushed into the role of a retirement income supplement.
I would prefer it stay as a safety net (kick in when little money or value is left because you lived longer than you expected to, say, 10 years after retirement). Some system to reduce its cost. Though, even SS isn't so bad, since, in theory, it is already paid for.
If we had bumped taxes and cut spending when the economy was good (pre2008, in which Bush did the opposite to boost his popularity) and then cut taxes and boosted spending when the collapse happened, we wouldn't be having these discussions.
False dichotomy. If the DoD can't justify spending that money, they won't (look at NASA). Cutting programs like these merely reduce the demand for engineers, it doesn't offer our country any advantages.
Yep, cost (materials and labor)+10%(the profit) is totally sucking our country dry... Nothing to do with the Pentagon driving costs through the roof by forcing bidding on one set of requirements, then changing them hundreds of times before the program is finished.
I'm not sure what your analogy is, since airlines don't make airliners, unless you imply that somehow we can magically poof the planes into existence for free, and then run the airforce like an airline. If you meant something about commercial airlines being most efficient:
Airline turbofans don't have nearly the same requirements as an engine designed for higher mach numbers.
Your analogy is comparing Team Ferrari and a schoolbus manufacturer, and claiming that Ferrari could save a lot of money if they fired all of the people involved with testing performance, since schoolbuses don't need it.
The funniest part is, Boeing, the loser of the bid on the JSF program, is a commercial airline maker (supercapitalist) but couldn't do better or cheaper than LMC (almost pure defense contractor).
The F35 has had problems and is an easy target for scapegoating, but these are because of cutting edge designs and advances in material science more than any other reason. It also employs tens of thousands of our nation's best and brightest engineers.
Not to mention that the money isn't being thrown away into a pit. Because of Lockheed Martin's pricing model, they keep very little of it, and almost all of it goes to labor (and a big chunk returns in taxes, if not all in economic activity).
If you want an easy way to save money, turn Afghanistan back over to its rightful owners (the Taliban), and lets stop pissing away money on mercenaries committing warcrimes.
Limiting your framerate to only 59fps on Crossfire is acceptable to you? What resolution are you pushing that 59fps doesn't defeat the purpose of having Crossfire?
No, it really should not. I thought this too, for a while, before I realized the impact of what I was saying.
Imagine a loan given to a farmer by Mr. Moneybags (or any investor or Angel) to purchase land for farming. Mr. Moneybags determined that 7% interest APR was fair, given the risk of the farm failing, inflation, taxes, and a small slice of profit. Farmer uses this interest to maximize the farm he can afford, so that he maximizes his own profit. Because it is a long term loan 30 years, small changes in interest mean big changes in cost.
Gov't steps in because the DNP decides it should be taxed like income. Now Mr. Moneybags is paying four times more in taxes on the return from his loan. Because that breaks his risk calculations, he is losing money on it, and has to adjust his loan price to 11% APR to compensate. Farmer can no longer afford the large farm because 30 years of compound interest at 11% makes his monthly payments higher than what he can afford or, so his farm size shrinks dramatically (i don't have a calculator off hand, but intuition says by half).
That effect ripples in all sectors of the economy, and the whole economy slows. Gov't ends up with less revenue and people end.up poorer than if t ad been left alone.
If it is something with an IDE like Java, of something running on websites, two large monitors(1080p+) are great. If it is something like C++ with the gcc tool chain, I am more interested in high contrast and monitors just wide enough to fit four or six 80 character width terminals with bold text ( for me, 1280x1024 is fine).
The kookiest part, you'd see the largest performance gains still by wiping off W7 and replacing it with Windows XP. In almost all games I tested, running Windows XP with a 7950GT was exactly equivalent to running a 9800GT on W7. Incredible how less efficient the W7 OS is. You need roughly twice the power to achieve the same performance.
That would be the story of the century. One reason is that Windows likes to keep redundant copies of things. Looking for the login screen background? It is located in no less than five different places on your HDD. This is true for many files.
That might be true for something like transcoding, but it isn't for gaming. I pull the same FPS with my Phenom II 965 black and 6950 as people with the same card and 500$ I7s.
CPUs are almost never the bottleneck in a system, and because of this, upgrades to it rarely have a significant impact on gaming performance.
The same is not true for the GPU, as that is where almost all the work is done.
Hardly. Gamers rarely stress even a 400w supply, and even 5 years ago 500-550watt were the most common PSUs to be had. In fact, in the last 5 years, the only reason why I needed to upgrade my PSU was because mine lacked the power connectors for my HD6950. That is, mostly bad luck.
They are damned if they do, damned if they don't. Since they are now a country filled only with criminals, they may as well act like it and make sure all of the government is represented by criminals like themselves.
Of course, I don't have much room to talk... as I live in America, land of the arbitrarily scheduled herbs and weapon restrictions set up to make sure that everyone has bomb making supplies or some other contraband in their homes.
You don't even need fertilizer. You can buy smokeless powder and black powder cheaply and in large amounts (used for reloading ammunition). Packed into a PVC pipe and capped at both ends, it is either a big firework or a pipebomb.
"Shut up the WBC or prevent them from picketing, as we don't want to hurt the families of soldiers. But don't take my rights away, I need my free speech."
"Make terrorist and predators online names associated with their real person to protect the children. But don't take away my privacy, I need my privacy."
Yep, strikingly. Though, it sounds different when dealing with rights instead of material property. That is, gun rights vs the physical guns. And when you pose it as "owners should willingly give up for the greater good", vs what is being discussed as "government should take away".
Phrase your car analogy as "right to buy a car" without taxes making them unaffordable or restricting you to only driving Toyota Prius', and the gun owner argument doesn't seem so hypocritical.
I think if Beanie Babies have taught me anything, it is that toy collecting is extremely volatile, and if people think they can buy something for collecting or investing, chances are, it will never increase significantly in value.
As for this article, being that it came long after many "investors" have bought their stocks, it smells oddly like just a run-of-the-mill pump-and-dump scam. Except that instead of posting it on obscure investment "advice" sites, they used the Lego brand nerd attraction to post this BS somewhere mainstream.
He said it would work for 1:10, and not likely for an order of magnitude difference, and I agree, but it is close. 1:100, at 10$ a pop to break even, I would think that the lifelong addicts caused just by the single advertisement averaged with the people stopping in for a single cup of coffee, just because of the ad, would likely average out somewhere around that.
Ahahahaha! What a funny guy! 'Less you need me to tell you a story about a person who wants to be presented as stupid and unrefined...
Many Americans view their nation as one in decline, and are disappointed in their technological progress. Thinking of NK as primitive (which it is, in many ways unrelated to their ICBM chase), might help them not worry so much, but it has little to do with that imagined, homogenized worldview.
I don't care much about the safeguards, I agree that is FUD. What I do care about is how ethanol is produced, and how Brazil can produce it efficiently with sugarcane, but we can't because of the corn lobby.
Because of this, I hope E25 never comes on corn, and prefer there to be an E0.
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I agree that Medicare should remain, but I disagree with the role of Social Security. SS is designed as a safety net, but in popular use, has been pushed into the role of a retirement income supplement.
I would prefer it stay as a safety net (kick in when little money or value is left because you lived longer than you expected to, say, 10 years after retirement). Some system to reduce its cost. Though, even SS isn't so bad, since, in theory, it is already paid for.
If we had bumped taxes and cut spending when the economy was good (pre2008, in which Bush did the opposite to boost his popularity) and then cut taxes and boosted spending when the collapse happened, we wouldn't be having these discussions.
False dichotomy. If the DoD can't justify spending that money, they won't (look at NASA). Cutting programs like these merely reduce the demand for engineers, it doesn't offer our country any advantages.
Yep, cost (materials and labor)+10%(the profit) is totally sucking our country dry... Nothing to do with the Pentagon driving costs through the roof by forcing bidding on one set of requirements, then changing them hundreds of times before the program is finished.
No, it is killer 10% markup that is the problem.
I'm not sure what your analogy is, since airlines don't make airliners, unless you imply that somehow we can magically poof the planes into existence for free, and then run the airforce like an airline. If you meant something about commercial airlines being most efficient:
Airline turbofans don't have nearly the same requirements as an engine designed for higher mach numbers.
Your analogy is comparing Team Ferrari and a schoolbus manufacturer, and claiming that Ferrari could save a lot of money if they fired all of the people involved with testing performance, since schoolbuses don't need it.
The funniest part is, Boeing, the loser of the bid on the JSF program, is a commercial airline maker (supercapitalist) but couldn't do better or cheaper than LMC (almost pure defense contractor).
The F35 has had problems and is an easy target for scapegoating, but these are because of cutting edge designs and advances in material science more than any other reason. It also employs tens of thousands of our nation's best and brightest engineers.
Not to mention that the money isn't being thrown away into a pit. Because of Lockheed Martin's pricing model, they keep very little of it, and almost all of it goes to labor (and a big chunk returns in taxes, if not all in economic activity).
If you want an easy way to save money, turn Afghanistan back over to its rightful owners (the Taliban), and lets stop pissing away money on mercenaries committing warcrimes.
Limiting your framerate to only 59fps on Crossfire is acceptable to you? What resolution are you pushing that 59fps doesn't defeat the purpose of having Crossfire?
No, it really should not. I thought this too, for a while, before I realized the impact of what I was saying.
Imagine a loan given to a farmer by Mr. Moneybags (or any investor or Angel) to purchase land for farming. Mr. Moneybags determined that 7% interest APR was fair, given the risk of the farm failing, inflation, taxes, and a small slice of profit. Farmer uses this interest to maximize the farm he can afford, so that he maximizes his own profit. Because it is a long term loan 30 years, small changes in interest mean big changes in cost.
Gov't steps in because the DNP decides it should be taxed like income. Now Mr. Moneybags is paying four times more in taxes on the return from his loan. Because that breaks his risk calculations, he is losing money on it, and has to adjust his loan price to 11% APR to compensate. Farmer can no longer afford the large farm because 30 years of compound interest at 11% makes his monthly payments higher than what he can afford or, so his farm size shrinks dramatically (i don't have a calculator off hand, but intuition says by half).
That effect ripples in all sectors of the economy, and the whole economy slows. Gov't ends up with less revenue and people end.up poorer than if t ad been left alone.
If it is something with an IDE like Java, of something running on websites, two large monitors(1080p+) are great. If it is something like C++ with the gcc tool chain, I am more interested in high contrast and monitors just wide enough to fit four or six 80 character width terminals with bold text ( for me, 1280x1024 is fine).
The kookiest part, you'd see the largest performance gains still by wiping off W7 and replacing it with Windows XP. In almost all games I tested, running Windows XP with a 7950GT was exactly equivalent to running a 9800GT on W7. Incredible how less efficient the W7 OS is. You need roughly twice the power to achieve the same performance.
That would be the story of the century. One reason is that Windows likes to keep redundant copies of things. Looking for the login screen background? It is located in no less than five different places on your HDD. This is true for many files.
That might be true for something like transcoding, but it isn't for gaming. I pull the same FPS with my Phenom II 965 black and 6950 as people with the same card and 500$ I7s.
CPUs are almost never the bottleneck in a system, and because of this, upgrades to it rarely have a significant impact on gaming performance.
The same is not true for the GPU, as that is where almost all the work is done.
Hardly. Gamers rarely stress even a 400w supply, and even 5 years ago 500-550watt were the most common PSUs to be had. In fact, in the last 5 years, the only reason why I needed to upgrade my PSU was because mine lacked the power connectors for my HD6950. That is, mostly bad luck.
They are damned if they do, damned if they don't. Since they are now a country filled only with criminals, they may as well act like it and make sure all of the government is represented by criminals like themselves.
Of course, I don't have much room to talk... as I live in America, land of the arbitrarily scheduled herbs and weapon restrictions set up to make sure that everyone has bomb making supplies or some other contraband in their homes.
Surely a team of below average developers will put together a poorer performing system than a team of rockstar developers plus an intern?
You don't even need fertilizer. You can buy smokeless powder and black powder cheaply and in large amounts (used for reloading ammunition). Packed into a PVC pipe and capped at both ends, it is either a big firework or a pipebomb.
This is "stuff that matters".
You are going to drive me crazy repeating B-does defense.contracting on the side-oeing and C-not even on the map-ESSNA.
The ones really hurt are the hardcore defense contractors: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, CACI, Honeywell, Micron, L3 Com, etc...
"Shut up the WBC or prevent them from picketing, as we don't want to hurt the families of soldiers. But don't take my rights away, I need my free speech."
"Make terrorist and predators online names associated with their real person to protect the children. But don't take away my privacy, I need my privacy."
Yep, strikingly. Though, it sounds different when dealing with rights instead of material property. That is, gun rights vs the physical guns. And when you pose it as "owners should willingly give up for the greater good", vs what is being discussed as "government should take away".
Phrase your car analogy as "right to buy a car" without taxes making them unaffordable or restricting you to only driving Toyota Prius', and the gun owner argument doesn't seem so hypocritical.
I think if Beanie Babies have taught me anything, it is that toy collecting is extremely volatile, and if people think they can buy something for collecting or investing, chances are, it will never increase significantly in value.
As for this article, being that it came long after many "investors" have bought their stocks, it smells oddly like just a run-of-the-mill pump-and-dump scam. Except that instead of posting it on obscure investment "advice" sites, they used the Lego brand nerd attraction to post this BS somewhere mainstream.
More importantly, some Xenon isotopes are common byproducts of our current fission reactors.
I can't find anywhere that says the new rockets are named Next Gen anything. The title's usage was as an adjective.
He said it would work for 1:10, and not likely for an order of magnitude difference, and I agree, but it is close. 1:100, at 10$ a pop to break even, I would think that the lifelong addicts caused just by the single advertisement averaged with the people stopping in for a single cup of coffee, just because of the ad, would likely average out somewhere around that.
I doubt ROI is 1, but it probably isn't far off.
Ahahahaha! What a funny guy! 'Less you need me to tell you a story about a person who wants to be presented as stupid and unrefined...
Many Americans view their nation as one in decline, and are disappointed in their technological progress. Thinking of NK as primitive (which it is, in many ways unrelated to their ICBM chase), might help them not worry so much, but it has little to do with that imagined, homogenized worldview.
I mean, it was the test of an MRBM/IRBM platform, it really is no surprise that it is only a technological hair away from its SRBM/MRBM ancestor...
I don't care much about the safeguards, I agree that is FUD. What I do care about is how ethanol is produced, and how Brazil can produce it efficiently with sugarcane, but we can't because of the corn lobby.
Because of this, I hope E25 never comes on corn, and prefer there to be an E0.