I didn't quite not fail to understand what you weren't not saying there.
It's seems like the problem here wasn't the BS "his wall calender offend me" kind, but the genuine rapey kind - quite illegal. Well, in this country. Maybe the field work was in a country where the victim is presumed guilty unless she has the testimony of 4 men not related to her?
Same thing happened to Turbine a couple years back: DDO, LotR, etc all down for exactly the same reason. You wouldn't think this would be that hard to get right, but chances are no one in dev at either company survived from the early days to when the problem happened, so the tribal knowledge was lost.
Well, that was the requirement for this RNG to, wasn't it? But they had a bug where the pid was presumed to be unique within the foliation of process forking. Testing found that assumption to be incorrect (given maliciousness on the backend), and so the code was fixed. Seems perfectly fine to me. That's why there's testing: you can't see the errors in your assumptions through any amount of inspection.
Clearly, we'd know something about the distribution of dark matter if the detector encountered a particle: 1 particle, right here. That may sound like a joke, but we know so little that any sort of estimate of dark matter density near Earth would tell us something interesting about its distribution (presumably affected only by gravity, but we don't really know beyond "not affected by EM").
Public utilities are (usually) still for-profit companies, just with government-set prices (and often a government-enforced monopoly). Taxes don't enter into it.
I'd love to see the "last mile" connection maintained by public utilities, breaking all cable company monopolies everywhere, but both "profit seeking" and "taxes" are orthogonal to that discussion.
Well, if seawater hits a nuclear plant, chances are that radioactive steam will be the result. On the other hand, if ash or molten rock envelopes one, it will probably either A) seal the radioactivity in. B) melt it apart, bringing the fuel geometry to sub-critical mass
C) Radioactive rock monsters! Don't you know that rationality has no place in discussions of nuclear power? Next thing you know, you'll be pointing out that Fukushima was a quite minor footnote in the story of the tsunami and the damage it wrought.
DLC policy basically means that companies that rely on large amounts of DLC for additional revenue and use their own in-game DLC store won't be publishing on Steam
For me, that's just as nice as Origin. Games will just have to make money without selling Smurfberries to 8-year-olds. Ultimately, GoG is the only one I'm rooting for, but Steam isn't terrible.
Have you been following the NSA leaks at all? The NSA routinely intercepts computers purchased by "high-value" targets and adds bugs that you'd never find and that don't need an internet connection to report back wirelessly (admittedly, the range isn't that great). That sort of thing is mature, n-th generation tech to the NSA now, and would be pretty cool if it weren't mostly used against US citizens and allies.
I have a simple text file with a mnemonic for my password for each site I use. I have half a dozen or so passwords - not so many I can't remember each, but too many to keep straight which is for which site. So I might have a note that this bank uses my strong financial password, while that one uses my weak financial password, and that store uses my merchant password, and so on.
Right - there's a physical gap, but there's no redundancy there, as there's no magnetic gap - infact as you noted there's actually overlap needing cleverness to sort out on a normal read.
Back in the days of MFM drives (and the previous decades), is was needed. But that was because there was space on the media that wasn't actively used for bits, and so would leave traces. Such waste was eliminated long ago in the quest for ever-larger drives.
You may be the only one arguing for raising the tax rates without an agenda of "social justice". Usually people arguing are talking past each other. Far to many Americans these days don't care how much it hurts government funding as long as it hurts people better off than them. Talk about cutting off your nose to spiderface (never spiderface!).
Naturally, GDP growth is all that matters long term. Heck, even in just 20 years, the difference between 2% and 4% growth makes more difference in our day-to-day lives than anything else the government can do. But so few people seem to care.
Is that a bad thing or a good thing? If the ideal case is for taxation to decrease during lean times, and to increase during times of plenty, that might make a rather nice automatic adjustment.
Except it's not the tax rates going down! Those stay the same. It's incomes going down, which really doesn't help recovery.
While too much income concentration can certainly be a problem, it's not what the tax code is for. Taxes are for funding the government, after all. (And those with very high income have great flexibility as to when, where, and how they receive compensation - it's those in the "Second 1%," small business owners, doctors, lawyers, and top-tier salaried workers, who really get screwed by attempts at social justice through the tax code. The executive making $500k has other options to dodge taxes, such as getting paid in Ireland, or get pay spread over 5 years, or whatever.)
So lets say that's your unavoidable future. Do you want air conditioning in the desert, or no? Let's say you'll spend the next 5 years cleaning toilets - do you prefer they be the kind where you can flush the toilet paper, or the kind where you make the used toilet paper the maid's problem?
Incremental improvements remain better than no improvements. Do you know much about working and living conditions during the American industrial revolution? Living in 7-story walk-ups, heavy industry with child labor and no thought to safety at all, company stores, etc? And still people flocked to those jobs because it was better than rural America for most. It gets better, one increment at a time.
Fixing the problem starts with popular acceptance of the idea that one can say we're sending too much without being some extremist calling for the end of government. Less does not mean none - spread the word!
It's worth noting that the more we depend on income taxes on high earners, the more federal revenue will suffer in bad economic times (the very times when the left would argue we need to spend most). Changes to the sum total of income of the bottom 95% in bad times are pretty small: maybe unemployment goes from 5% to 8%, so how much does that affect the total tax base? But top-tier incomes are really unstable, they go down fast in a downturn and up fast in an upturn, so federal revenue takes it on the chin from that group during times like 2008-2011.
That's probably the dominant factor in changes federal revenue as a percentage of GOP these days, now that 1% of tax payers pay about 1/3 of all income taxes, and that noise drowns out any signal we might get from changes in top marginal rate.
The House of Representatives is "the people's house". That's why they stand for election every 2 years. And that's why all tax bills must originate in the House. Now, of course, that has been thoroughly subverted both by Gerrymandering and by Senate workflow (amend some House bill to replace all the text with a tax bill - see, it originated in the House!). But still, that was the clear intent.
Business, private security, etc will always be corrupt. Always. People are people. Doesn't help that corporations are also bigger people. Taxes are the only practical weapon the common voter has against corporate overreach. What's your solution if we don't fund a group to watch them? We shouldn't just force agencies to spend our taxes wisely, but also demand how and to whom we allocate those taxes to.
This is the other kneejerk response to any suggestion of reduced government spending that needs to die forever.
1 - How about we cut government spending in some are other than the tiny percentage spent on protecting people against corporate abuse?
2 - We have a system in place for this. The problem with it is not that it's underfunded, but that it's been corrupted by the very corporations it tries to regulate! Arguably, stuff like the DMCA shows that more harm than good is done in some areas, thanks to this. This is perhaps the most serious problem in internal politics in America today but it's not in any way a funding problem.
Government, police, etc will always be corrupt. Always. People are people. The only defense is to give them just barely enough resources to do their job, with no excess or space for overreach. It's all about taxes - taxes are the only practical weapon the common voter has against government overreach, and the Constitution was written with this fundamental truth firmly in mind.
Of course, of all of Congress there are but a handful of congresscritters who actually are for less government spending, and usually the voter's choice is merely between which group of supporters the tax money will go to. That's a cultural problem in the US, and we can't begin to fix it until every call for lower taxes stops being dismissed with "you anarchist and probable racist, why do you want 0 government".
Fixing the problem starts with popular acceptance of the idea that one can say we're sending too much without being some extremist calling for the end of government. Less does not mean none - spread the word!
You don't go to a Christian church and shout "FUCK YEAH, JESUS! WHOOOO!" for 2 hours.
Never seen an evangelical mega-church? You don't pass 10k members by without a lot of up-with-people let's-celebrate. But then again, they barely mention Jesus, and certainly don't mention sin - wouldn't want to offend anyone in the audience after all. But then, that's exactly why the fundies hate the evangelicals.
There are a couple of big religions that grew during medieval times, and so are very feudal in their structure, with God as the king-of-kings, and humility and suborning one's will to him are the key to salvation - this was after all the fundamental basis of feudal society. But that's just a handful of religions. Pantheistic religions have a different model. Religions without a deity seem to actually focus the most on humility for some reason, and like support your argument the best. But there sure are a variety of religions out there!
Slaves? WTF? Are you so blind to the conditions in much of the world that you think offering a job to someone is bad? Are you insane? These are the best jobs most of the poor in Dubai are likely to have offered in their lives.
It's not right for the first world, so better the jobs don't exist at all? Seriously, I can't imagine how you think this is bad. These jobs are vastly better than early industrial revolution American jobs, let alone no job at all in a place with no real social safety net.
Sheltered suburban enclave American middle class are something else. No sense of perspective at all.
Do you have any idea of the rich-poor gap in Dubai? Sure, there's a difference between driving a Porsche for someone else and actually owning it. But there's a vastly greater difference between a Porsche for someone else and starving. WTF? How can you think this is bad for all the newly employed?
He's claiming women are poor at spatial relationships as measured by some (pretty arbitrary) objective standard. You're claiming they're just find in fields where success is a matter of fashion. Was that really the argument you wanted to make?
I don't think basketball has much to do with spatial relationships myself - I'd think athletic ability and hand-eye coordination would be the dominant factors (well, and height can't hurt). But then, what do I know about it?
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I didn't quite not fail to understand what you weren't not saying there.
It's seems like the problem here wasn't the BS "his wall calender offend me" kind, but the genuine rapey kind - quite illegal. Well, in this country. Maybe the field work was in a country where the victim is presumed guilty unless she has the testimony of 4 men not related to her?
Same thing happened to Turbine a couple years back: DDO, LotR, etc all down for exactly the same reason. You wouldn't think this would be that hard to get right, but chances are no one in dev at either company survived from the early days to when the problem happened, so the tribal knowledge was lost.
Well, that was the requirement for this RNG to, wasn't it? But they had a bug where the pid was presumed to be unique within the foliation of process forking. Testing found that assumption to be incorrect (given maliciousness on the backend), and so the code was fixed. Seems perfectly fine to me. That's why there's testing: you can't see the errors in your assumptions through any amount of inspection.
Clearly, we'd know something about the distribution of dark matter if the detector encountered a particle: 1 particle, right here. That may sound like a joke, but we know so little that any sort of estimate of dark matter density near Earth would tell us something interesting about its distribution (presumably affected only by gravity, but we don't really know beyond "not affected by EM").
Public utilities are (usually) still for-profit companies, just with government-set prices (and often a government-enforced monopoly). Taxes don't enter into it.
I'd love to see the "last mile" connection maintained by public utilities, breaking all cable company monopolies everywhere, but both "profit seeking" and "taxes" are orthogonal to that discussion.
Well, if seawater hits a nuclear plant, chances are that radioactive steam will be the result. On the other hand, if ash or molten rock envelopes one, it will probably either A) seal the radioactivity in. B) melt it apart, bringing the fuel geometry to sub-critical mass
C) Radioactive rock monsters! Don't you know that rationality has no place in discussions of nuclear power? Next thing you know, you'll be pointing out that Fukushima was a quite minor footnote in the story of the tsunami and the damage it wrought.
DLC policy basically means that companies that rely on large amounts of DLC for additional revenue and use their own in-game DLC store won't be publishing on Steam
For me, that's just as nice as Origin. Games will just have to make money without selling Smurfberries to 8-year-olds. Ultimately, GoG is the only one I'm rooting for, but Steam isn't terrible.
Hey, now, Origin performs a vital service to the community - it keeps EA games off out Steam, so that folks don't accidentally buy one!
Have you been following the NSA leaks at all? The NSA routinely intercepts computers purchased by "high-value" targets and adds bugs that you'd never find and that don't need an internet connection to report back wirelessly (admittedly, the range isn't that great). That sort of thing is mature, n-th generation tech to the NSA now, and would be pretty cool if it weren't mostly used against US citizens and allies.
I have a simple text file with a mnemonic for my password for each site I use. I have half a dozen or so passwords - not so many I can't remember each, but too many to keep straight which is for which site. So I might have a note that this bank uses my strong financial password, while that one uses my weak financial password, and that store uses my merchant password, and so on.
There's nothing recoverable from that file.
Right - there's a physical gap, but there's no redundancy there, as there's no magnetic gap - infact as you noted there's actually overlap needing cleverness to sort out on a normal read.
Back in the days of MFM drives (and the previous decades), is was needed. But that was because there was space on the media that wasn't actively used for bits, and so would leave traces. Such waste was eliminated long ago in the quest for ever-larger drives.
You may be the only one arguing for raising the tax rates without an agenda of "social justice". Usually people arguing are talking past each other. Far to many Americans these days don't care how much it hurts government funding as long as it hurts people better off than them. Talk about cutting off your nose to spiderface (never spiderface!).
Naturally, GDP growth is all that matters long term. Heck, even in just 20 years, the difference between 2% and 4% growth makes more difference in our day-to-day lives than anything else the government can do. But so few people seem to care.
Err, I thought "Throwing more money at them will not fix the problem" was, in fact, my thesis?
Is that a bad thing or a good thing? If the ideal case is for taxation to decrease during lean times, and to increase during times of plenty, that might make a rather nice automatic adjustment.
Except it's not the tax rates going down! Those stay the same. It's incomes going down, which really doesn't help recovery.
While too much income concentration can certainly be a problem, it's not what the tax code is for. Taxes are for funding the government, after all. (And those with very high income have great flexibility as to when, where, and how they receive compensation - it's those in the "Second 1%," small business owners, doctors, lawyers, and top-tier salaried workers, who really get screwed by attempts at social justice through the tax code. The executive making $500k has other options to dodge taxes, such as getting paid in Ireland, or get pay spread over 5 years, or whatever.)
So lets say that's your unavoidable future. Do you want air conditioning in the desert, or no? Let's say you'll spend the next 5 years cleaning toilets - do you prefer they be the kind where you can flush the toilet paper, or the kind where you make the used toilet paper the maid's problem?
Incremental improvements remain better than no improvements. Do you know much about working and living conditions during the American industrial revolution? Living in 7-story walk-ups, heavy industry with child labor and no thought to safety at all, company stores, etc? And still people flocked to those jobs because it was better than rural America for most. It gets better, one increment at a time.
Fixing the problem starts with popular acceptance of the idea that one can say we're sending too much without being some extremist calling for the end of government. Less does not mean none - spread the word!
If you want zero taxes, go to Somalia.
Fuck you very much sir troll; fuck you very much.
It's worth noting that the more we depend on income taxes on high earners, the more federal revenue will suffer in bad economic times (the very times when the left would argue we need to spend most). Changes to the sum total of income of the bottom 95% in bad times are pretty small: maybe unemployment goes from 5% to 8%, so how much does that affect the total tax base? But top-tier incomes are really unstable, they go down fast in a downturn and up fast in an upturn, so federal revenue takes it on the chin from that group during times like 2008-2011.
That's probably the dominant factor in changes federal revenue as a percentage of GOP these days, now that 1% of tax payers pay about 1/3 of all income taxes, and that noise drowns out any signal we might get from changes in top marginal rate.
The House of Representatives is "the people's house". That's why they stand for election every 2 years. And that's why all tax bills must originate in the House. Now, of course, that has been thoroughly subverted both by Gerrymandering and by Senate workflow (amend some House bill to replace all the text with a tax bill - see, it originated in the House!). But still, that was the clear intent.
Business, private security, etc will always be corrupt. Always. People are people. Doesn't help that corporations are also bigger people. Taxes are the only practical weapon the common voter has against corporate overreach. What's your solution if we don't fund a group to watch them? We shouldn't just force agencies to spend our taxes wisely, but also demand how and to whom we allocate those taxes to.
This is the other kneejerk response to any suggestion of reduced government spending that needs to die forever.
1 - How about we cut government spending in some are other than the tiny percentage spent on protecting people against corporate abuse?
2 - We have a system in place for this. The problem with it is not that it's underfunded, but that it's been corrupted by the very corporations it tries to regulate! Arguably, stuff like the DMCA shows that more harm than good is done in some areas, thanks to this. This is perhaps the most serious problem in internal politics in America today but it's not in any way a funding problem.
Government, police, etc will always be corrupt. Always. People are people. The only defense is to give them just barely enough resources to do their job, with no excess or space for overreach. It's all about taxes - taxes are the only practical weapon the common voter has against government overreach, and the Constitution was written with this fundamental truth firmly in mind.
Of course, of all of Congress there are but a handful of congresscritters who actually are for less government spending, and usually the voter's choice is merely between which group of supporters the tax money will go to. That's a cultural problem in the US, and we can't begin to fix it until every call for lower taxes stops being dismissed with "you anarchist and probable racist, why do you want 0 government".
Fixing the problem starts with popular acceptance of the idea that one can say we're sending too much without being some extremist calling for the end of government. Less does not mean none - spread the word!
You don't go to a Christian church and shout "FUCK YEAH, JESUS! WHOOOO!" for 2 hours.
Never seen an evangelical mega-church? You don't pass 10k members by without a lot of up-with-people let's-celebrate. But then again, they barely mention Jesus, and certainly don't mention sin - wouldn't want to offend anyone in the audience after all. But then, that's exactly why the fundies hate the evangelicals.
There are a couple of big religions that grew during medieval times, and so are very feudal in their structure, with God as the king-of-kings, and humility and suborning one's will to him are the key to salvation - this was after all the fundamental basis of feudal society. But that's just a handful of religions. Pantheistic religions have a different model. Religions without a deity seem to actually focus the most on humility for some reason, and like support your argument the best. But there sure are a variety of religions out there!
Slaves? WTF? Are you so blind to the conditions in much of the world that you think offering a job to someone is bad? Are you insane? These are the best jobs most of the poor in Dubai are likely to have offered in their lives.
It's not right for the first world, so better the jobs don't exist at all? Seriously, I can't imagine how you think this is bad. These jobs are vastly better than early industrial revolution American jobs, let alone no job at all in a place with no real social safety net.
Sheltered suburban enclave American middle class are something else. No sense of perspective at all.
Do you have any idea of the rich-poor gap in Dubai? Sure, there's a difference between driving a Porsche for someone else and actually owning it. But there's a vastly greater difference between a Porsche for someone else and starving. WTF? How can you think this is bad for all the newly employed?
He's claiming women are poor at spatial relationships as measured by some (pretty arbitrary) objective standard. You're claiming they're just find in fields where success is a matter of fashion. Was that really the argument you wanted to make?
I don't think basketball has much to do with spatial relationships myself - I'd think athletic ability and hand-eye coordination would be the dominant factors (well, and height can't hurt). But then, what do I know about it?