Stupid in so far as it is short-sighted: these people limiting people's freedom are ultimately limiting their own. They are reducing their own choices once they return to civilian life.
Though maybe by the time they retire they'll be in assisted living and won't have any real choices anyway...so maybe just selfish
It's government deciding that a company should be bailed out, not the private company.
And you might notice these institutions the government bails out are government enterprises (Fannie and Freddie), insurers of government enterprises (AIG), or directly dependent on government monetary policy to exist (banks).
"Too big to fail" is a government determination: not a private one.
Banks are a very poor example: they are only one-step away from government: merely a private extension of the Federal Reserve: a better reflection of poor legislative and financial policy than private lechery.
Don't confuse the free market with entites that live off public taxes and are first in line for public monetary distribution.
The main compliant if I recall correctly was that congress was presented a plan to buy "toxic" assets, when instead the banks took (or some cases purported forced to take) premium stock buys by the Treasury with interesting levels of control on each companies operation: limits on executive compensation and the ability of the company to buy back its own stock.
This switch from buying up each bank's bad paper (which, let's be honest is giving them money) to premium stock holding in the banks (government ownership in private enterprise = nationalization: step toward social-fascism where the government now has specific market interest instead of broad market interest) is what caught some idiot congressmen from Texas by surprise.
But at 451 pages, yeah I can't really blame him. I'm not about to read TFA either.
Could the Japanese earthquake and the magnitude of water it moved be a factor here?
Since we are spinning in free-fall on this planet a violent flailing on at one point would affect our rotational angle, but would the tsunami and earthquake have affected it a measurable amount?
Most of your world is made up of things have innate value. Here's a few examples:
Food
Tools
Shelter
All of these items have intrinsic value because they are functional. Could you use any one of them as currency? Yes.
But even if someone won't accept your item as currency: its intrinsically valuable because you could use it yourself.
Food: can be eaten, tools can build things, shelter may keep out the weather. Functionality defines value.
The value of gold as an intrinsic is based on its nearly unique property of very slow oxidation: it does not readily rust. Which means, if gold were plentiful, it would still have tremendous value: we would start plating cars with the stuff!
The influence of existing interests (Koch/Exxon, etc.) will wane.
Then
a small portion of Exxon's profits gets injected directly into the local economy
So you're going to pillage the profits of two specific companies after you've reduced their influence? That makes sense.
Electricity usage will come down
Is this because you are reducing the influence of oil companies or because your alternatives aren't going to provide enough to meet demand? Oh, I know, you're just going to legislate private energy consumption levels so electricity usage will come down!
It's really a non-brainer, and there is empirical proof that these are the effects, because other parts of the world (and the US) have already started trying these thing.
I have to agree with you here: you are merely spewing the ideals of socialist oppression, but you seem to lack the mental processes to think critically about the human suffering the policies enacted would inflict.
The contention here is that patients have more success when they determine what is "best" on a spiritual basis rather than a material one.
And it does matter what it is. A belief in big-foot is irrelevant to most individual's experience, however a belief in The Maker of Physical Existence who wants good things for people over the short span of their existence might be.
Somehow, a belief in a sympathetic powerful Supreme Being might be a little more compelling than a belief that the world and the individual's life is nothing more than a cosmic accident
Actually you can just tap the Windows Key to swap between desktop and Metro.
What gets me about Windows 8 is how stupid it is. I put in a DVD and a little fly-out hint asks what I would like to do with DVDs in the future. If you don't happen to notice in time, or don't quick click exactly and it goes away THERE'S NO WAY TO START THE DVD without launching a seperate program directly! You can't even do it through Windows Explorer (Windows + E)! And there's no way to get back to the hint, without ejecting the DVD and putting it back in again.
So once you do catch the fly-out hint and manage to save what you want to do with DVDs in the future, you will grateful to know that there are "enhanced DVDs" out there and Windows 8 knows the difference! Now you have to catch the fly-out again. Only this time, Windows doesn't actually save that preference. That's right, for "enhanced DVDs" you have to do it every time.
Before it was about the tools used, now its about entertainment they consumed, maybe after this gets dropped they will get to the real cause: the side of effects of SSRIs
According to the BATF, it is unlawful for you to posses the tools to make a fully automatic lower receiver.
This is probably a charge they add on after they raid your house and (accidentally burn it to the ground) when they think you have made a fully automatic lower receiver.
Therefore, its already against the law for you to have a forge or a CNC machine. The government (the BATF) will be by to pick it up on Thursday.
Yes, JavaScript is the ASM of the web: and I actually quite like it.
The elegance comes when you implement MVC to control your app, so maybe what's inspirational about JavaScript is that you may define this construct and all of its supporting elements even though the language never had them in the first place.
But you're right that everyone has to intimately familiar with what you are doing: if someone looks at OO JavaScript for the first time it might boil their brains a little.
Dealing with crazy PHB expectations I delivered a (beautiful) MVC JavaScript solution that worked beautifully. But the lead developer flipped out when he saw the code and got the project manager to end my contract in a week. So not everyone gets it right away.
They do have access to that equipment, because they're expected to go up against people using those weapons.
Which is my point...
It takes far more firepower to go into a home / office / van / bunker, etc and force out a target than it does to stay in that location and hold off a would-be-attacker
Huge assumption. You do not, nor can you know beforehand the circumstances any given person may find themselves in. Luck favors the prepared; your opinion on what constitutes "adequate" preparation for another person is dubious at best.
This article is about interconnecting databases to more quickly identify felons and the mentally ill during the background check process. Are we really arguing that properly reporting who is a felon or metal patient is "banning access to firearms"?
Because the database is not the only proposal being made: its part of linty of restrictions that are not on just felons or the mentally ill, but on regular people. The database is probably the most innocuous feature of these proposals ( one of the reasons it even made it on/. ) but its introduction is a venue for people to express that the government dealing with crime by lowering the bar for the innocent to defend themselves is not the answer.
The police obtain and carry "assault weapons": why do they need them?
They need them for exactly the same reason I need them: easily handled, durable weapons that can hold up in a fire-fight against bad guys
So while they are not saying no guns, they are effectively removing my ability to defend myself the same way they would defend me. Now why would they want to do that?
You know, here in the US we have several big media companies that control public perception. You, the common citizen, you don't have a big media company, so whatever you say: nobody is going to hear anyway. So you don't need any silly right to voice your opinion, no one is paying attention anyway! And if you think you can make any sort of difference with your little tiny voice, you're obviously delusional. And with you're mental health issues, we can't have you talking to other people: so we have this nice little room for you to stay in...
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Stupid in so far as it is short-sighted: these people limiting people's freedom are ultimately limiting their own. They are reducing their own choices once they return to civilian life.
Though maybe by the time they retire they'll be in assisted living and won't have any real choices anyway...so maybe just selfish
Parents only allowed me play games for an hour. However, if I was programming BASIC, I could use the computer for as long as I wanted!
Combine monitor drones first appearance traced back to dealing with graffiti at railroad stations...
No, I am clarifying that the point is wrong.
It's government deciding that a company should be bailed out, not the private company.
And you might notice these institutions the government bails out are government enterprises (Fannie and Freddie), insurers of government enterprises (AIG), or directly dependent on government monetary policy to exist (banks).
"Too big to fail" is a government determination: not a private one.
Banks are a very poor example: they are only one-step away from government: merely a private extension of the Federal Reserve: a better reflection of poor legislative and financial policy than private lechery.
Don't confuse the free market with entites that live off public taxes and are first in line for public monetary distribution.
Good point.
The main compliant if I recall correctly was that congress was presented a plan to buy "toxic" assets, when instead the banks took (or some cases purported forced to take) premium stock buys by the Treasury with interesting levels of control on each companies operation: limits on executive compensation and the ability of the company to buy back its own stock.
This switch from buying up each bank's bad paper (which, let's be honest is giving them money) to premium stock holding in the banks (government ownership in private enterprise = nationalization: step toward social-fascism where the government now has specific market interest instead of broad market interest) is what caught some idiot congressmen from Texas by surprise.
But at 451 pages, yeah I can't really blame him. I'm not about to read TFA either.
I wouldn't put too much trust in Congress for any accountability.
Remember the TARP bailout? The one that gave the Federal Reserve unlimited power in giving out money to banks foreign and domestic?
That bill was only a few pages long, and some congress members didn't even read it before they signed it
I think they're essentially trying to patent the Adapter Pattern for any telecommunications protocol
Though it reads like you can get around it by including spaces in any encrypted strings
You've got to admit, any wood filler that requires two gallons of Japan is pretty novel
Could the Japanese earthquake and the magnitude of water it moved be a factor here?
Since we are spinning in free-fall on this planet a violent flailing on at one point would affect our rotational angle, but would the tsunami and earthquake have affected it a measurable amount?
Isn't the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan a more likely candidate for a planetary shift on axis?
Most of your world is made up of things have innate value. Here's a few examples:
All of these items have intrinsic value because they are functional. Could you use any one of them as currency? Yes.
But even if someone won't accept your item as currency: its intrinsically valuable because you could use it yourself.
Food: can be eaten, tools can build things, shelter may keep out the weather. Functionality defines value.
The value of gold as an intrinsic is based on its nearly unique property of very slow oxidation: it does not readily rust. Which means, if gold were plentiful, it would still have tremendous value: we would start plating cars with the stuff!
Ender's Game ought to be more war-worn than shiny: less Deep Space Nine and more Saving Private Ryan
The influence of existing interests (Koch/Exxon, etc.) will wane.
Thena small portion of Exxon's profits gets injected directly into the local economy
So you're going to pillage the profits of two specific companies after you've reduced their influence? That makes sense.
Electricity usage will come down
Is this because you are reducing the influence of oil companies or because your alternatives aren't going to provide enough to meet demand? Oh, I know, you're just going to legislate private energy consumption levels so electricity usage will come down!
It's really a non-brainer, and there is empirical proof that these are the effects, because other parts of the world (and the US) have already started trying these thing.
I have to agree with you here: you are merely spewing the ideals of socialist oppression, but you seem to lack the mental processes to think critically about the human suffering the policies enacted would inflict.
The contention here is that patients have more success when they determine what is "best" on a spiritual basis rather than a material one.
And it does matter what it is. A belief in big-foot is irrelevant to most individual's experience, however a belief in The Maker of Physical Existence who wants good things for people over the short span of their existence might be.
Somehow, a belief in a sympathetic powerful Supreme Being might be a little more compelling than a belief that the world and the individual's life is nothing more than a cosmic accident
So on what basis does the therapist determine what is best?
Reading some text written by dead people, maybe? And who decides if the therapist is reading the "right" dead people?
Can Kevin Costner save us from Big Blue?
Actually you can just tap the Windows Key to swap between desktop and Metro.
What gets me about Windows 8 is how stupid it is. I put in a DVD and a little fly-out hint asks what I would like to do with DVDs in the future. If you don't happen to notice in time, or don't quick click exactly and it goes away THERE'S NO WAY TO START THE DVD without launching a seperate program directly! You can't even do it through Windows Explorer (Windows + E)! And there's no way to get back to the hint, without ejecting the DVD and putting it back in again.
So once you do catch the fly-out hint and manage to save what you want to do with DVDs in the future, you will grateful to know that there are "enhanced DVDs" out there and Windows 8 knows the difference! Now you have to catch the fly-out again. Only this time, Windows doesn't actually save that preference. That's right, for "enhanced DVDs" you have to do it every time.
Stupid. Just stupid.
Before it was about the tools used, now its about entertainment they consumed, maybe after this gets dropped they will get to the real cause: the side of effects of SSRIs
According to the BATF, it is unlawful for you to posses the tools to make a fully automatic lower receiver.
This is probably a charge they add on after they raid your house and (accidentally burn it to the ground) when they think you have made a fully automatic lower receiver.
Therefore, its already against the law for you to have a forge or a CNC machine. The government (the BATF) will be by to pick it up on Thursday.
Isn't this banned? Or is it only the ones that have military features?
The elegance comes when you implement MVC to control your app, so maybe what's inspirational about JavaScript is that you may define this construct and all of its supporting elements even though the language never had them in the first place.
But you're right that everyone has to intimately familiar with what you are doing: if someone looks at OO JavaScript for the first time it might boil their brains a little.
Dealing with crazy PHB expectations I delivered a (beautiful) MVC JavaScript solution that worked beautifully. But the lead developer flipped out when he saw the code and got the project manager to end my contract in a week. So not everyone gets it right away.
They do have access to that equipment, because they're expected to go up against people using those weapons.
Which is my point...
It takes far more firepower to go into a home / office / van / bunker, etc and force out a target than it does to stay in that location and hold off a would-be-attacker
Huge assumption. You do not, nor can you know beforehand the circumstances any given person may find themselves in. Luck favors the prepared; your opinion on what constitutes "adequate" preparation for another person is dubious at best.
This article is about interconnecting databases to more quickly identify felons and the mentally ill during the background check process. Are we really arguing that properly reporting who is a felon or metal patient is "banning access to firearms"?
Because the database is not the only proposal being made: its part of linty of restrictions that are not on just felons or the mentally ill, but on regular people. The database is probably the most innocuous feature of these proposals ( one of the reasons it even made it on /. ) but its introduction is a venue for people to express that the government dealing with crime by lowering the bar for the innocent to defend themselves is not the answer.
The police obtain and carry "assault weapons": why do they need them?
They need them for exactly the same reason I need them: easily handled, durable weapons that can hold up in a fire-fight against bad guys
So while they are not saying no guns, they are effectively removing my ability to defend myself the same way they would defend me. Now why would they want to do that?
You know, here in the US we have several big media companies that control public perception. You, the common citizen, you don't have a big media company, so whatever you say: nobody is going to hear anyway. So you don't need any silly right to voice your opinion, no one is paying attention anyway! And if you think you can make any sort of difference with your little tiny voice, you're obviously delusional. And with you're mental health issues, we can't have you talking to other people: so we have this nice little room for you to stay in...