Dude, chill the fuck out. What the fuck kind of amazing math are you doing with the single figure "4.7%"?
I never said "4.7%" -- maybe you should learn to read whats on your screen, such as where slashdot indicates who wrote what posts. Maybe looking an inch or so away from the stuff you are replying to is too hard for you.
Where the fuck did Maudib mention a 10 year term?
He didn't, but the wars went on for over 10 years, and the total cost of those wars at the 10 year mark was highly publicized and also highly cited here on slashdot and wall as in the mainstream media. In other words, not only isnt this a number that is hard to find, anyone with their eyes open should at least be able to ballpark the figure (within an order of 10) even if they dont know the specific value.
Contrary to the old saying, there really ARE stupid questions, especially when the search bar that can answer simple ones without bothering anybody with your ignorance is at the top of the window.
We're not all budget wonks here
being able to ballpark the spending on the war as well as the GDP does not make someone a budget wonk. It makes them a normal human being that spends a little bit of time each weak reading the fucking news.
this whole thread is about me asking for specific policy alternatives from critics..
So this whole thread is about you asking for alternative federal solutions to a local problem.
You've been told what policy change would have worked. The change in policy was for you to switch from a policy of "the federal government must do something!" to one of "its a local problem so needs a local solution!" THAT was the policy difference, and this too has already been explained to you. It was YOUR policy that was wrong, and no amount of changes to a federal action would solve the problem with YOUR policy.
Is it really so unnatural for you to accept that there is absolutely no federal policy that could have solved your local monopoly problems? The federal government still isnt preventing competition from moving in, but its soon going to.. and its your fault.
As far as reactionaries go, "don't fuck it up" is probably the safer of the two than "Aw, you crazy environmentalists, saying the sky is falling, IT'LL NEVER BE A PROBLEM!" which is all too prevalent.
No, the "all too prevalent" thing are the claims of falling skies.
The idea that "the end is near" is not a new idea.
Its only a legitimate question if you are extremely bad at math (addition and subtraction are formidable obstacles for you) or cant even ballpark the numbers (being even a trivially informed person is too much to ask from you.)
The entire cost, which was spread out over 10 years, is significantly less than 10% of a single year of GDP.
That is, even if we compacted the entire cost of a decade of war into a single year, and then only cared about that years military budget when comparing to the magical "10%" figure, your "legitimate question" remains in actuality "a fucking stupid question,"
The entire with the "answer" is that it is ignoring the most likely motive for inventing gods, and then inventing monotheism:
The power to control people.
His answer was a nerd answer because it is wishful thinking. Gods were used for control, so lets suppose that they were invented for some other reason than control? Sorry but hat line of reasoning is blasphemy in the eyes of our holy god Occam.
I wonder if you would feel the same way about what the "concerning bit" is if the program they were distributing included a rootkit and keylogger instead of a DRM circumvention.
Clearly the real concerning bit is that these clowns accept arbitrary code into their source tree, and then distribute it in binary form.
The FCC didnt give you net neutrality while people like you defended them on the grounds that they were. They weren't going to... and surprise they didn't.
You were told that the FCC wasn't going to give you net neutrality, but you refused to listen. It was also obvious that they werent, because companies like AT&T supported the FCC's "net neutrality" push.
..and now you wonder if I am for or against network neutrality? If you mean the kind of network neutrality that YOU supported and defended, the one thats fucking us all on a whole new level, then no sir.. I do not support network neutrality. The old timers knew better. You didn't. Thanks for fucking us all.
Which part of $85 billion a month is confusing you?
Thats over $1 trillion per year.
Werent the democrats up in arms over the entire Iraq war costing $800 billion over 10 years? Werent they up in arms over some Republican-supporting private interests such as Haliburton catching some of that $80 billion per year?
So now we are talking about the Democrats pushing money at banks and corporations at a rate that is over 10 times what they were up in arms about when Bush was on office... and when we don't hear crickets from them, we hear excuses.
So let's say we didn't let the FCC have any authority over the Internet. What then? ISPs would just ignore net neutrality.
I get it. You think completely ineffectual appearances of doing something is superior to doing nothing. Wrong. You could have gotten involved in your local government to address the real problem (your ISP's franchise agreement) but instead, because you fell for the appearances of doing something, you are now going to get fucked by both the local and federal government. Now its too late. Now you have no voice because you are just one voice in a hundred million on the federal level.
You were told that the FCC wasn't the solution (and logically it is not) and you were also told what the solution was (because logically it was.) Now there is no solution thanks to your ignorance. Go fuck yourself and your "do something regardless of what it is" because "something must be done" philosophy. Its ignorant, it lessens you, and it hurts us all.
GP may be the type that looks at this all as "inevitable" and will just keep lobbing criticisms of policies while never stating what an alterative would be...that happens alot around these parts.
..or you could be completely mistaken.
The problem is that there are monopolies and they collude against you, right? Well why are there monopolies? Its because your local government grants them. The solution then is to get involved in your local government, not grant powers to the federal government which will erect barriers to entry on top of what your local government has already erected.
This is one of the problems with the current generation. They think the solution to everything is the federal government, where they are just one voice in a hundred million. You know what happens when you are one voice in a hundred million? Nobody hears you. They will pander to you and then stick it up your ass.
Actually, it was not the idol fans that asked for this.
The people here at slashdot were very vocal in their support for letting the FCC include the internet on its agenda, because it came in a pretty package titled "network neutrality" -- in spite of the fact that many of us old timers told you that it will end badly if you let the FCC have any sort of authority over the internet.
The previous guy at the FCC was also a shill. He was just a slightly different shill, but working for the same business interests that the new guy is working for. The guy before that, also a shill for the very same business interests. Its shills all the way down.
Shashdot, putting their dreams ahead of reality since 1997.
The performance of the language environment has absolutely nothing to do with the competence of the programmers
...which has fuck-all to do with your first post.
You cannot save your argument about "Modern JVMs often out-perform even assembly language due to their ability to analyse [SIC] and tune for the actual operating environment" by inventing a new argument.
Your have crossed over into bull-blown intentional dishonesty.
Stalin killed 50 million of his own citizens. That's a pretty big step up from what's going on in the US.
Whats going on here hasn't been concluded yet. At no point while sliding down the slippery slope will a snapshot indicate the speed, or even the direction of motion.
This is slashdot.. you are supposed to be familiar with more than just basic mathematics. The first order derivative tells us that things are not looking well at all going forward. Its more than just a remote possibility that Stalin was small-time compared to whats coming. This is the most powerful nation on the planet, turning into a full blown dystopian police state, more aggressive internationally than it has ever been, and to round that all out its on the cusp of financial implosion.
But maybe you are right.. nothing to see here. Just keep your eyes forward, your mouth shut, and move along.
How come its you that seems to have problems with understanding?
The founding fathers wrote extensively about the topic. The right to bear arms is for individuals. Full stop.
The real problem is that you didnt bother to check to see if the people you were listening to were being honest with you. A further problem is that you are now parroting their dishonesty. You are a sheep.
When all's said and done, when you put power tools in the hands of the incompetent, you amplify their incompetence.
Interesting that you ignored this logic when you so quickly pointed out that "Modern JVMs often out-perform even assembly language due to their ability to..."
The fact is that "modern JVM's" continue to prevent serious attempts at approaching optimality, just like their ancestors. Full stop. You dont get to have it both ways, so stop pretending that you can.
Nice approach. Who cares how long it takes once you've thrown an exception?
Well a lot of programmers seem to use exceptions for normal/common flow control. You can declare them to be bad programmers, but the code is never-the-less in the wild as part of libraries and frameworks.
For instance, this behavior is all over the collection of stream classes in.NET. This has resulted in there being no way to reliably determine that there is still data in a non-specific stream other than trying to read from it and catching an end of stream exception. You either end up with code that only works with some kinds of streams but not others, or you use god damned exceptions for flow control.
(at this point some defenders may come in and say "just check if the streams position is greater than length" -- only works on streams that have a length, or the might say "just see if peek returns -1" -- only works on streams that support peeking, and so on...)
You are all over the place. You wonder what the GPU is for, then state that you actually will love this very product because its a low cost CPU/GPU combo, but then specifically name your "rather meager" rig that is even slower than the last generation of APU's in both CPU and GPU performance (ie, your rig is the thing that cannot hang), and finish the whole thing off hypothesizing that AMD might in fact be targeting "enthusiasts."
Both inflation and deflation are a measure of a systemic problem. Small amounts indicate small systemic problems, which is close to Good Enough(TM.)
The trouble with QE is that its very large amounts of what is only temporarily sector-specific inflation. It cannot be contained perpetually, and it will eventually spill over into large amounts of cost-of-living inflation. The more troubling fact is that they cannot ever stop QE without immediately causing the spill.
The wealth of people, of nations, and of the world is the goods and services that people enjoy. A currency is just a convenient means to exchange goods and services for other goods and services.
Arguments about inflation, deflation, changes in spot prices, deficits, debts, surpluses, and so on are a distraction because these things are not the problem; they are merely a measure that can indicate a systemic problem.
For instance, the problem in Zimbabwe isnt the hyperinflation, its that the government exists outside its means: they are using the inflation to rapidly transfer all the credits of accumulated goods and services (which is stored in "currency") to the government because it is not possible to transfer the amount needed any other way. You see that this does not mean that the problem only manifests when there is hyperinflation, nor is it only a problem when inflation exists at all. Accumulating large amounts of debt is another way to do it. The problem remains that the government exists outside its means. It generally only devolves into hyperinflation when the government can no longer issue enough debt, and that happens when it becomes obvious to enough people that its existing outside its means.
Bitcoin isn't flawed because of anything to do with "value" -- a bad argument the article (and many folks here) tries to make. Bitcoin is flawed because its an arbitrary choice. When the Germany switched to the Euro, the people of Germany happily continued to use Marks. It was not until Germany insisted that taxes be paid in Euros that the country rapidly switched to the new currency. The Euro was just an arbitrary choice that had no justification until the government demanded that taxes be paid in it, and then it instantly became a justified choice, and was rapidly adopted as the justification for the other choice disappeared.
So why Bitcoin instead of some other virtual currency? While you can find reasons not to use other specific virtual currencies, its still arbitrary to choose Bitcoin over SameAsBitcoinWithAnotherNameAndBlockchain.
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This monopoly was created by government regulation, so where do you get off saying to pick between regulation and monopoly?
Dude, chill the fuck out. What the fuck kind of amazing math are you doing with the single figure "4.7%"?
I never said "4.7%" -- maybe you should learn to read whats on your screen, such as where slashdot indicates who wrote what posts. Maybe looking an inch or so away from the stuff you are replying to is too hard for you.
Where the fuck did Maudib mention a 10 year term?
He didn't, but the wars went on for over 10 years, and the total cost of those wars at the 10 year mark was highly publicized and also highly cited here on slashdot and wall as in the mainstream media. In other words, not only isnt this a number that is hard to find, anyone with their eyes open should at least be able to ballpark the figure (within an order of 10) even if they dont know the specific value.
Contrary to the old saying, there really ARE stupid questions, especially when the search bar that can answer simple ones without bothering anybody with your ignorance is at the top of the window.
We're not all budget wonks here
being able to ballpark the spending on the war as well as the GDP does not make someone a budget wonk. It makes them a normal human being that spends a little bit of time each weak reading the fucking news.
this whole thread is about me asking for specific policy alternatives from critics..
So this whole thread is about you asking for alternative federal solutions to a local problem.
You've been told what policy change would have worked. The change in policy was for you to switch from a policy of "the federal government must do something!" to one of "its a local problem so needs a local solution!" THAT was the policy difference, and this too has already been explained to you. It was YOUR policy that was wrong, and no amount of changes to a federal action would solve the problem with YOUR policy.
Is it really so unnatural for you to accept that there is absolutely no federal policy that could have solved your local monopoly problems? The federal government still isnt preventing competition from moving in, but its soon going to.. and its your fault.
As far as reactionaries go, "don't fuck it up" is probably the safer of the two than "Aw, you crazy environmentalists, saying the sky is falling, IT'LL NEVER BE A PROBLEM!" which is all too prevalent.
No, the "all too prevalent" thing are the claims of falling skies.
The idea that "the end is near" is not a new idea.
Its only a legitimate question if you are extremely bad at math (addition and subtraction are formidable obstacles for you) or cant even ballpark the numbers (being even a trivially informed person is too much to ask from you.)
The entire cost, which was spread out over 10 years, is significantly less than 10% of a single year of GDP.
That is, even if we compacted the entire cost of a decade of war into a single year, and then only cared about that years military budget when comparing to the magical "10%" figure, your "legitimate question" remains in actuality "a fucking stupid question,"
The entire with the "answer" is that it is ignoring the most likely motive for inventing gods, and then inventing monotheism:
The power to control people.
His answer was a nerd answer because it is wishful thinking. Gods were used for control, so lets suppose that they were invented for some other reason than control? Sorry but hat line of reasoning is blasphemy in the eyes of our holy god Occam.
I wonder if you would feel the same way about what the "concerning bit" is if the program they were distributing included a rootkit and keylogger instead of a DRM circumvention.
Clearly the real concerning bit is that these clowns accept arbitrary code into their source tree, and then distribute it in binary form.
What does it matter?
..and now you wonder if I am for or against network neutrality? If you mean the kind of network neutrality that YOU supported and defended, the one thats fucking us all on a whole new level, then no sir.. I do not support network neutrality. The old timers knew better. You didn't. Thanks for fucking us all.
The FCC didnt give you net neutrality while people like you defended them on the grounds that they were. They weren't going to... and surprise they didn't.
You were told that the FCC wasn't going to give you net neutrality, but you refused to listen. It was also obvious that they werent, because companies like AT&T supported the FCC's "net neutrality" push.
Which part of $85 billion a month is confusing you?
Thats over $1 trillion per year.
Werent the democrats up in arms over the entire Iraq war costing $800 billion over 10 years? Werent they up in arms over some Republican-supporting private interests such as Haliburton catching some of that $80 billion per year?
So now we are talking about the Democrats pushing money at banks and corporations at a rate that is over 10 times what they were up in arms about when Bush was on office... and when we don't hear crickets from them, we hear excuses.
So let's say we didn't let the FCC have any authority over the Internet. What then? ISPs would just ignore net neutrality.
I get it. You think completely ineffectual appearances of doing something is superior to doing nothing. Wrong. You could have gotten involved in your local government to address the real problem (your ISP's franchise agreement) but instead, because you fell for the appearances of doing something, you are now going to get fucked by both the local and federal government. Now its too late. Now you have no voice because you are just one voice in a hundred million on the federal level.
You were told that the FCC wasn't the solution (and logically it is not) and you were also told what the solution was (because logically it was.) Now there is no solution thanks to your ignorance. Go fuck yourself and your "do something regardless of what it is" because "something must be done" philosophy. Its ignorant, it lessens you, and it hurts us all.
GP may be the type that looks at this all as "inevitable" and will just keep lobbing criticisms of policies while never stating what an alterative would be...that happens alot around these parts.
The problem is that there are monopolies and they collude against you, right? Well why are there monopolies? Its because your local government grants them. The solution then is to get involved in your local government, not grant powers to the federal government which will erect barriers to entry on top of what your local government has already erected.
This is one of the problems with the current generation. They think the solution to everything is the federal government, where they are just one voice in a hundred million. You know what happens when you are one voice in a hundred million? Nobody hears you. They will pander to you and then stick it up your ass.
Actually, it was not the idol fans that asked for this.
The people here at slashdot were very vocal in their support for letting the FCC include the internet on its agenda, because it came in a pretty package titled "network neutrality" -- in spite of the fact that many of us old timers told you that it will end badly if you let the FCC have any sort of authority over the internet.
The previous guy at the FCC was also a shill. He was just a slightly different shill, but working for the same business interests that the new guy is working for. The guy before that, also a shill for the very same business interests. Its shills all the way down.
Shashdot, putting their dreams ahead of reality since 1997.
The performance of the language environment has absolutely nothing to do with the competence of the programmers
You cannot save your argument about "Modern JVMs often out-perform even assembly language due to their ability to analyse [SIC] and tune for the actual operating environment" by inventing a new argument.
Your have crossed over into bull-blown intentional dishonesty.
Stalin killed 50 million of his own citizens. That's a pretty big step up from what's going on in the US.
Whats going on here hasn't been concluded yet. At no point while sliding down the slippery slope will a snapshot indicate the speed, or even the direction of motion.
This is slashdot.. you are supposed to be familiar with more than just basic mathematics. The first order derivative tells us that things are not looking well at all going forward. Its more than just a remote possibility that Stalin was small-time compared to whats coming. This is the most powerful nation on the planet, turning into a full blown dystopian police state, more aggressive internationally than it has ever been, and to round that all out its on the cusp of financial implosion.
But maybe you are right.. nothing to see here. Just keep your eyes forward, your mouth shut, and move along.
No, it's just a misunderstanding
How come its you that seems to have problems with understanding?
The founding fathers wrote extensively about the topic. The right to bear arms is for individuals. Full stop.
The real problem is that you didnt bother to check to see if the people you were listening to were being honest with you. A further problem is that you are now parroting their dishonesty. You are a sheep.
When all's said and done, when you put power tools in the hands of the incompetent, you amplify their incompetence.
Interesting that you ignored this logic when you so quickly pointed out that "Modern JVMs often out-perform even assembly language due to their ability to..."
The fact is that "modern JVM's" continue to prevent serious attempts at approaching optimality, just like their ancestors. Full stop. You dont get to have it both ways, so stop pretending that you can.
Nice approach. Who cares how long it takes once you've thrown an exception?
Well a lot of programmers seem to use exceptions for normal/common flow control. You can declare them to be bad programmers, but the code is never-the-less in the wild as part of libraries and frameworks.
.NET. This has resulted in there being no way to reliably determine that there is still data in a non-specific stream other than trying to read from it and catching an end of stream exception. You either end up with code that only works with some kinds of streams but not others, or you use god damned exceptions for flow control.
For instance, this behavior is all over the collection of stream classes in
(at this point some defenders may come in and say "just check if the streams position is greater than length" -- only works on streams that have a length, or the might say "just see if peek returns -1" -- only works on streams that support peeking, and so on...)
Iris Pro is on par with the 650m for gaming and the 650m isn't even 2 years old.
The Iris pro is on a $500 part only made possible by bolting expensive eDRAM onto a processor that otherwise would cost $300.
The mind boggles at how people think that this is boasting material.
You ask in the title "What's the GPU for?"
You are all over the place. You wonder what the GPU is for, then state that you actually will love this very product because its a low cost CPU/GPU combo, but then specifically name your "rather meager" rig that is even slower than the last generation of APU's in both CPU and GPU performance (ie, your rig is the thing that cannot hang), and finish the whole thing off hypothesizing that AMD might in fact be targeting "enthusiasts."
Are you some sort of discordian shill?
A key part of learning is understanding the material. You didn't.
Sounds like bad insurance.
He wasnt talking about the cost of the insurance, or its quality. He was talking about the price before insurance. $250 vs $6000
..and high deductible plans are not bad - your method of paying for wholly expected costs that includes a middle man is bad.
Just leave and give the place a bad review.
I'd expect far more "bad reviews" if they allowed Google Glass at the objection of patrons.
Both inflation and deflation are a measure of a systemic problem. Small amounts indicate small systemic problems, which is close to Good Enough(TM.)
The trouble with QE is that its very large amounts of what is only temporarily sector-specific inflation. It cannot be contained perpetually, and it will eventually spill over into large amounts of cost-of-living inflation. The more troubling fact is that they cannot ever stop QE without immediately causing the spill.
The wealth of people, of nations, and of the world is the goods and services that people enjoy. A currency is just a convenient means to exchange goods and services for other goods and services.
Arguments about inflation, deflation, changes in spot prices, deficits, debts, surpluses, and so on are a distraction because these things are not the problem; they are merely a measure that can indicate a systemic problem.
For instance, the problem in Zimbabwe isnt the hyperinflation, its that the government exists outside its means: they are using the inflation to rapidly transfer all the credits of accumulated goods and services (which is stored in "currency") to the government because it is not possible to transfer the amount needed any other way. You see that this does not mean that the problem only manifests when there is hyperinflation, nor is it only a problem when inflation exists at all. Accumulating large amounts of debt is another way to do it. The problem remains that the government exists outside its means. It generally only devolves into hyperinflation when the government can no longer issue enough debt, and that happens when it becomes obvious to enough people that its existing outside its means.
Bitcoin isn't flawed because of anything to do with "value" -- a bad argument the article (and many folks here) tries to make. Bitcoin is flawed because its an arbitrary choice. When the Germany switched to the Euro, the people of Germany happily continued to use Marks. It was not until Germany insisted that taxes be paid in Euros that the country rapidly switched to the new currency. The Euro was just an arbitrary choice that had no justification until the government demanded that taxes be paid in it, and then it instantly became a justified choice, and was rapidly adopted as the justification for the other choice disappeared.
So why Bitcoin instead of some other virtual currency? While you can find reasons not to use other specific virtual currencies, its still arbitrary to choose Bitcoin over SameAsBitcoinWithAnotherNameAndBlockchain.
If you don't have any medical issues why are you trying to figure out if you have problems on your own?
Maybe its the "once you experience symptoms, with his particular problem its too late to save you" thing that concerns people.
Let me know how that pancreatic cancer treatment works out for you.