Here's a simpler answer: The Tea Party's initials are supposed to be "Taxed Enough Already".
..which does not support the claim "MORE tea-partiers [are] completely anti-tax, than any other political groups even half their size"
You seem to have a problem keeping track of what you are claiming, because within 1 post you completely forgot it.
Either you make claims that you can defend, or you make claims that you cannot defend. Your "defense" in this case does not defend your claim, yet you eagerly await my response...
Here is a hint: Something that supports a claim has to actually include the thing being claimed, rather than specifically exclude the thing being claimed. I realize that in your blind hate-filled rage against the tea party that pesky details such as logic are easily to overlooked... but thats because you arent grounded in reality, but instead in emotion.
They want to have the right to do anything WITHOUT TELLING WHAT THEY DO.
OK I'll take what you said in its entirety at face value, without any use of rationalization to extract truth from your statement. Now there is no truth at all, because the claim you are making is false.
Anything' includes the entire set of things within imagination.
Either you want me to treat you as a sloppy statement maker that needs to be parsed with the obvious deficiencies of your vocabulary selection segregated from the rest of the stuff that you say, or you want me to presume that you arent such a sloppy statement maker and really meant so say that you think that Apple wants the right to do anything within the imagination with the data.
I guess you win, and are wrong. Apple does not want the right to kill jews with your personal data without telling you about it.
Yes, because the government conspiracies of the past never looked like or involved profiling...
Are you listening to yourself closely? Try turning it into a proof and you will see that a proof requires that these things to be mutually exclusive, but instead of being mutually exclusive these things nearly universally come in pairs. If you believe that it was profiling, then you also should believe that its likely to be a conspiracy against those profiled. Its the kind of conspiracy that is in question.
But haven't you heard MORE tea-partiers be completely anti-tax, than any other political groups even half their size?
Answer: No.
Either you have evidence that members of tea party groups are more anti-tax than the general population, or you do not.
Let me translate your question for you... "Come on guys.. I know I can't prove it.. but surely someone else has anecdotal evidence that supports my hate of these people! Come on, chime in! Lets support each other against those people!"
But Apple, like many other companies, wants to have the right to do anything without telling what they do.
Hate to be a defender of Apple, but you just took shit out of your butt and added it to the argument.
The issue is that they arent telling what they do, not that they "want to have the right to do anything." These things are not mutual, so you don't get to argue as if they were.
Is it really so hard to stick to the substance here? Seriously.. it isn't... you could bash apple for a week without having to pull shit out of your ass, so why are you pulling shit out of your ass? Every time you reach for your ass, you look like you've got nothing.
The problem with the West is that all its governments are currently having their treasuries siphoned off to various private concerns from defense to private medical contractors. There are three ways to fix the budget problem:
i) Stop tax avoidance and evasion - being done here;
ii) Stop paying private companies to do state business. Either you decide it's within the remit of the state, in which case the work should be done by state employees at cost, or you decide it's a private concern, in which case the state should not be sponsoring it;
iii) Bump up penionsable age in line with life expectancy. No choice here, I'm afraid. Reduced working hours (we can do fine on a 4 day work week) would help toward this.
i) That has nothing to do with "various private concerns" and the so-called loopholes are there on purpose, as otherwise the U.S. finds itself with the highest corporate taxes in the world.
ii) Are you suggesting that a State maintain a crew of bridge builders during periods where they don't need bridges built? I agree that the amount of private contracting needs to be cut back, but its because I think spending should be cut way back and not out of a vague notion that private contracting is bad. I think the government should have even fewer direct employees than they do now, and that includes dumping current public workers and finding private contractors to do the work those public workers do.
iii) How about we simply end public pensions? The problem with public pensions is that todays promises never get paid for/funded today. The government would have to offer higher wages to remain competitive with private sector positions that do offer pensions, but at least then whats promised today is paid for today rather than being allowed to become a big budget problem 30 years from now.
Shannon estimated the actual entropy of the written english language to be about 1 bit per character and there exists data compression algorithms which come pretty close (see the Hutter Prize in data compression.) The average word length is about 5 characters.
The 3KB/sec figure is presuming a recording rather than transcript. In transcript form, even the worlds fastest speaker (about 600 words per minute) can be transcribed and compressed down to about 6.25 bytes per second.
Due to systemic transcription errors which could never be entirely removed, it might even be more compressible than Shannons estimate.
The "slow interconnect" you're talking about to main memory, PCI Express v3.0 has an effective bandwidth of 32GB/s
32GB/s doesnt sounds like a lot when you divide it amongst the 400 stream processors that an upper end AMD APU has, and thats as favorable a light as I can shine on your inane bullshit. There is a reason that discrete graphics cards have their own memory, and it isnt because they have more stream processors (these days they do, but they didnt always).. its because PCI Express isnt anywhere near fast enough to feed any modern GPU.
Llano APU's have been witnessed pulling 500 GFLOPS. Does 32GB/s still sound like a lot? No, it sounds like shit. Clearly memory bandwidth is a big issue in this scene.
The south knew that if they seceded that the north would go to war with them, and they did secede so therefore started it.
This sort of circular bullshit is exactly the sort of crap that sometimes passes for "education" in America.
Then you went on about slavery but that doesnt have anything to do with who started the civil war, and for the record no other country on the planet needed a civil war to end slavery. There were however civil wars and other forms of internal unrests all throughout time, and nearly universally happened for the exact same reason that the north declared war on the south. A large group of people decided that the people in power shouldnt be in power over them, and decided not to obey. The people in power then used their power to make them obey.
I agree. At least it should originate from the state's department of education and not from the state's legislature.
The classroom-content buck should stop with the teachers, their direct supervisors, and the parents. Once you are at the point of saying the buck should stop with people far removed from the classroom and students, such as the department of education, then you have already admitted that buck-should-stop rules are a proven failure when talking about the education system. Shouldn't the highest ranks of the department of education be dealing with management related stuff, rather than classroom content stuff? We are talking about the supervisors of the people that supervise the supervisors.
So now what is the State legislature supposed to do when there is an already obvious failure of the buck-should-stop rule? Well legislators happen to make a profession of legislating, so thats exactly what they are going to suggest.
The problem isnt that the legislators are legislating. The problem is that they are legislating the wrong thing. The core failure is in the classroom, but it isnt a content failure. The failure is the buck not stopping there, leading to the conclusion that entire system is fucked up because the buck aint stopping. Nobody is taking any responsibility.
there are a hell of a lot of people who quit public school NOT because they don't want to learn but because the school is a hellhole and the parents can't afford to move.
I grew up in a mid-sized city that had been steadily losing its factory's from the 60's to the 80's, so child population was crashing in the 80's and every few years they would close a school down, always one of the better schools because busing student out of the inner city was cost prohibitive. They closed the local middle school the year I entered 6th grade and the school they were going to bus me to was a complete shithole, so my parents decided they would drive me every day to one of the other middle schools.. they chose the one with the fewest broken windows during summer recess (really.)
There were only 2 high schools left when I entered 9th grade, the shitty one and the really shitty one. During my freshmen year there was a drive-by shooting moments before school started, one kid getting the double-tap (he was the target.) They caught the guys that did the drive-by like a week later, and they were from a gang in a city 30 miles away.
I dropped out 2 weeks later. I had to wait until my class graduated before I could take the GED.
They were definitely timed tests 20 years ago where I am. It was two 4 hour days broken up into four 2 hour tests. It was the kind of stuff easily breezed through (30 minutes and done for each test) by anyone with a good grasp of english that is also comfortable with long division.
Having the ability to swap out processors also gives an upgrade path as my machine reaches its end of life. Maybe I want to double my cores and nothing else.
You don't seem to understand reality. Unless you are buying server motherboards, you do not get to do that upgrade in the Intel world. Intel CPU's with twice as many cores use a different socket.
Do you realize how hard it is to average over 10 GB / day?
For a single person that only streams one thing at a time, well its almost unbelievable (I use netflix and hulu HD streaming extensively, 6+ hours per day, and my highest month so far was 232 GB)
I admit that a family of 4 might find it quite a bit easier to blow through 300 GB if they all stream separately, but then maybe a family of 4 that is doing that *should* be paying more than I am.
(p.s. - my ISP's cap is only 250 GB / month, not 300 GB)
and in fact do the shitty DNS ad serving for unknown domains which Google does not do.
Perhaps you are suffering from a little bit of myopia here, because my cable ISP (metrocast) does not do that. They don't throttle my 20mbps connection either, and their stated 250 GB "cap" seems to be quite difficult to go over (thats an average of 7.5 GB per day) even with extreme amounts of netflix'ing. My highest month in the last 6 was 232 GB (as recorded locally), my highest day in the past 6 months was 20.6 GB, the median day is 5.05 GB, and the mean is 5.87 GB.
In short, I am quite happy with my ISP and have been for nearly a decade. Google Fiber does not offer the same level of service for the same cost at all, as the 1gbps service is twice what I am paying now and even the "free" fiber costs $25/mo the first year and is only 5mbps.
If your options do not include a good provider, maybe you should get involved in local politics because your options are constrained by the decisions of local politicians, usually your town council. If you'd rather whine about your choices and some people certainly seem to follow this theory, well you can do that too.
PC enthusiast market is dying. Intel plans on having motherboard manufactures solder the CPU directly to the PCB.
This isn't a problem in the Intel world because the Intel users already surrendered. Intel changes the socket every 3 minutes or so... so why not solder the CPU on?
If you seriously think that factories don't have quotas, you must have never ever worked in manufacturing of any sort. Sure there are quotas, sometimes they are not called that but there certainly are.
Emphasis mine.
You just restated exactly what I have been saying. Perhaps you should have responded to the person that has more than once claimed that what they are called is whats important, rather than what they represent.
The problem is, people who get speeding tickets dont want to take responsibility for their actions.
This has nothing to do with whether or not a cop gets fired for giving out 0 tickets month after month.
No, I'm certain you aren't thinking about this clearly.
yes, thats why its you that goes off on tangents in order to somehow ignore the fact that an cop that writes 0 tickets month after month will as a matter of fact be fired.
Police forces, especially in Australia have repeatedly said there is no quota.
No official quota, sure. You are now just saying what I already responded to in my first post. The fact that there is no official quota does not change the fact that an officer that gives out 0 tickets month after month they will be fired. If 0 is not acceptable, then there is in fact a quota. There is some number greater than 0 that must be given out.. thats exactly a quota, even if its not official.
You go on about conspiracy theories, yet the only person to mention any conspiracy is you. I am talking about basic pragmatic facts that everyone knows. Most factories also dont have official quotas either, yet employees that produce nothing day after day get fired. Programmers typically dont have quotas, but if they dont write any code day after day then they get fired too. A secretary that never files any paperwork gets fired. A grounds keeper that never mows the lawn gets fired.
These are basic facts and you really dont seem to be able to swallow them, because clearly you are so biased that you feel the need to change the subject, invoke conspiracy theories, and other such nonsense rather than admit that a traffic officer that writes 0 tickets month after month always gets fired. Always. Thats called a quota, with 0 being below it.
Given the fact that you cant simply hire and fire police officers (they have to go through reveiw boards to be sacked and new cops take years of training) this is untrue.
What about your "fact" makes it untrue?
You seem to be suggesting that a cop whose duties include traffic enforcement would not get fired if they gave out 0 tickets month after month because of the magic of "review boards."
I don't think that you are thinking about this clearly, that perhaps you are biased in a way that prevents you from thinking frankly and honestly about this, because what you are claiming is obviously not true.
So the car speeds up when it detects a pedestrian?
To be fair, it does solve the problem of a specific person crossing outside of cross walk in front of oncoming traffic once and for all....
..and I guarantee you that quite quickly many people will just stop doing it, while the rest maybe deserve the die because they are in fact threatening the life of the driver and others in the area by attempting to cause an accident.
Expect someone to chime in that "there are no quotas"..
Of course there arent any official quotas.. but you can be damned sure if the officer gave 0 tickets out each month that he would be fired.. proving that there are in fact both acceptable and unacceptable levels of ticketing.. which are of course quotas.
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Here's a simpler answer: The Tea Party's initials are supposed to be "Taxed Enough Already".
You seem to have a problem keeping track of what you are claiming, because within 1 post you completely forgot it.
Either you make claims that you can defend, or you make claims that you cannot defend. Your "defense" in this case does not defend your claim, yet you eagerly await my response...
Here is a hint: Something that supports a claim has to actually include the thing being claimed, rather than specifically exclude the thing being claimed. I realize that in your blind hate-filled rage against the tea party that pesky details such as logic are easily to overlooked... but thats because you arent grounded in reality, but instead in emotion.
Another hint: Feeling is not Thinking
Their only merit, in some cases, might well have been mom and dad's bank account.
Isn't guessing fun?
They want to have the right to do anything WITHOUT TELLING WHAT THEY DO.
OK I'll take what you said in its entirety at face value, without any use of rationalization to extract truth from your statement. Now there is no truth at all, because the claim you are making is false.
Anything' includes the entire set of things within imagination.
Either you want me to treat you as a sloppy statement maker that needs to be parsed with the obvious deficiencies of your vocabulary selection segregated from the rest of the stuff that you say, or you want me to presume that you arent such a sloppy statement maker and really meant so say that you think that Apple wants the right to do anything within the imagination with the data.
I guess you win, and are wrong. Apple does not want the right to kill jews with your personal data without telling you about it.
Yes, because the government conspiracies of the past never looked like or involved profiling...
Are you listening to yourself closely? Try turning it into a proof and you will see that a proof requires that these things to be mutually exclusive, but instead of being mutually exclusive these things nearly universally come in pairs. If you believe that it was profiling, then you also should believe that its likely to be a conspiracy against those profiled. Its the kind of conspiracy that is in question.
But haven't you heard MORE tea-partiers be completely anti-tax, than any other political groups even half their size?
Answer: No.
Either you have evidence that members of tea party groups are more anti-tax than the general population, or you do not.
Let me translate your question for you... "Come on guys.. I know I can't prove it.. but surely someone else has anecdotal evidence that supports my hate of these people! Come on, chime in! Lets support each other against those people!"
The value of money is the trust of the issuing authority.
Actually, its the demands of the taxation authority that give currency value.
But Apple, like many other companies, wants to have the right to do anything without telling what they do.
Hate to be a defender of Apple, but you just took shit out of your butt and added it to the argument.
The issue is that they arent telling what they do, not that they "want to have the right to do anything." These things are not mutual, so you don't get to argue as if they were.
Is it really so hard to stick to the substance here? Seriously.. it isn't... you could bash apple for a week without having to pull shit out of your ass, so why are you pulling shit out of your ass? Every time you reach for your ass, you look like you've got nothing.
The problem with the West is that all its governments are currently having their treasuries siphoned off to various private concerns from defense to private medical contractors. There are three ways to fix the budget problem:
i) Stop tax avoidance and evasion - being done here;
ii) Stop paying private companies to do state business. Either you decide it's within the remit of the state, in which case the work should be done by state employees at cost, or you decide it's a private concern, in which case the state should not be sponsoring it;
iii) Bump up penionsable age in line with life expectancy. No choice here, I'm afraid. Reduced working hours (we can do fine on a 4 day work week) would help toward this.
i) That has nothing to do with "various private concerns" and the so-called loopholes are there on purpose, as otherwise the U.S. finds itself with the highest corporate taxes in the world.
ii) Are you suggesting that a State maintain a crew of bridge builders during periods where they don't need bridges built? I agree that the amount of private contracting needs to be cut back, but its because I think spending should be cut way back and not out of a vague notion that private contracting is bad. I think the government should have even fewer direct employees than they do now, and that includes dumping current public workers and finding private contractors to do the work those public workers do.
iii) How about we simply end public pensions? The problem with public pensions is that todays promises never get paid for/funded today. The government would have to offer higher wages to remain competitive with private sector positions that do offer pensions, but at least then whats promised today is paid for today rather than being allowed to become a big budget problem 30 years from now.
Shannon estimated the actual entropy of the written english language to be about 1 bit per character and there exists data compression algorithms which come pretty close (see the Hutter Prize in data compression.) The average word length is about 5 characters.
The 3KB/sec figure is presuming a recording rather than transcript. In transcript form, even the worlds fastest speaker (about 600 words per minute) can be transcribed and compressed down to about 6.25 bytes per second.
Due to systemic transcription errors which could never be entirely removed, it might even be more compressible than Shannons estimate.
The "slow interconnect" you're talking about to main memory, PCI Express v3.0 has an effective bandwidth of 32GB/s
32GB/s doesnt sounds like a lot when you divide it amongst the 400 stream processors that an upper end AMD APU has, and thats as favorable a light as I can shine on your inane bullshit. There is a reason that discrete graphics cards have their own memory, and it isnt because they have more stream processors (these days they do, but they didnt always) .. its because PCI Express isnt anywhere near fast enough to feed any modern GPU.
Llano APU's have been witnessed pulling 500 GFLOPS. Does 32GB/s still sound like a lot? No, it sounds like shit. Clearly memory bandwidth is a big issue in this scene.
Let me translate what you just said:
The south knew that if they seceded that the north would go to war with them, and they did secede so therefore started it.
This sort of circular bullshit is exactly the sort of crap that sometimes passes for "education" in America.
Then you went on about slavery but that doesnt have anything to do with who started the civil war, and for the record no other country on the planet needed a civil war to end slavery. There were however civil wars and other forms of internal unrests all throughout time, and nearly universally happened for the exact same reason that the north declared war on the south. A large group of people decided that the people in power shouldnt be in power over them, and decided not to obey. The people in power then used their power to make them obey.
I agree. At least it should originate from the state's department of education and not from the state's legislature.
The classroom-content buck should stop with the teachers, their direct supervisors, and the parents. Once you are at the point of saying the buck should stop with people far removed from the classroom and students, such as the department of education, then you have already admitted that buck-should-stop rules are a proven failure when talking about the education system. Shouldn't the highest ranks of the department of education be dealing with management related stuff, rather than classroom content stuff? We are talking about the supervisors of the people that supervise the supervisors.
So now what is the State legislature supposed to do when there is an already obvious failure of the buck-should-stop rule? Well legislators happen to make a profession of legislating, so thats exactly what they are going to suggest.
The problem isnt that the legislators are legislating. The problem is that they are legislating the wrong thing. The core failure is in the classroom, but it isnt a content failure. The failure is the buck not stopping there, leading to the conclusion that entire system is fucked up because the buck aint stopping. Nobody is taking any responsibility.
Fuck SciFi... Asimov should be in schools for his thousands upon thousands of science essays...
there are a hell of a lot of people who quit public school NOT because they don't want to learn but because the school is a hellhole and the parents can't afford to move.
I grew up in a mid-sized city that had been steadily losing its factory's from the 60's to the 80's, so child population was crashing in the 80's and every few years they would close a school down, always one of the better schools because busing student out of the inner city was cost prohibitive. They closed the local middle school the year I entered 6th grade and the school they were going to bus me to was a complete shithole, so my parents decided they would drive me every day to one of the other middle schools.. they chose the one with the fewest broken windows during summer recess (really.)
There were only 2 high schools left when I entered 9th grade, the shitty one and the really shitty one. During my freshmen year there was a drive-by shooting moments before school started, one kid getting the double-tap (he was the target.) They caught the guys that did the drive-by like a week later, and they were from a gang in a city 30 miles away.
I dropped out 2 weeks later. I had to wait until my class graduated before I could take the GED.
They were definitely timed tests 20 years ago where I am. It was two 4 hour days broken up into four 2 hour tests. It was the kind of stuff easily breezed through (30 minutes and done for each test) by anyone with a good grasp of english that is also comfortable with long division.
Having the ability to swap out processors also gives an upgrade path as my machine reaches its end of life. Maybe I want to double my cores and nothing else.
You don't seem to understand reality. Unless you are buying server motherboards, you do not get to do that upgrade in the Intel world. Intel CPU's with twice as many cores use a different socket.
Do you realize how hard it is to average over 10 GB / day?
For a single person that only streams one thing at a time, well its almost unbelievable (I use netflix and hulu HD streaming extensively, 6+ hours per day, and my highest month so far was 232 GB)
I admit that a family of 4 might find it quite a bit easier to blow through 300 GB if they all stream separately, but then maybe a family of 4 that is doing that *should* be paying more than I am.
(p.s. - my ISP's cap is only 250 GB / month, not 300 GB)
and in fact do the shitty DNS ad serving for unknown domains which Google does not do.
Perhaps you are suffering from a little bit of myopia here, because my cable ISP (metrocast) does not do that. They don't throttle my 20mbps connection either, and their stated 250 GB "cap" seems to be quite difficult to go over (thats an average of 7.5 GB per day) even with extreme amounts of netflix'ing. My highest month in the last 6 was 232 GB (as recorded locally), my highest day in the past 6 months was 20.6 GB, the median day is 5.05 GB, and the mean is 5.87 GB.
In short, I am quite happy with my ISP and have been for nearly a decade. Google Fiber does not offer the same level of service for the same cost at all, as the 1gbps service is twice what I am paying now and even the "free" fiber costs $25/mo the first year and is only 5mbps.
If your options do not include a good provider, maybe you should get involved in local politics because your options are constrained by the decisions of local politicians, usually your town council. If you'd rather whine about your choices and some people certainly seem to follow this theory, well you can do that too.
PC enthusiast market is dying. Intel plans on having motherboard manufactures solder the CPU directly to the PCB.
This isn't a problem in the Intel world because the Intel users already surrendered. Intel changes the socket every 3 minutes or so... so why not solder the CPU on?
Heaven forbid you might have to choose a window manager too...
Don't bother with the Linux world if you don't want to 'hack it' -- so your only alternative is OS/X -- enjoy the overpriced bullshit.
If you seriously think that factories don't have quotas, you must have never ever worked in manufacturing of any sort. Sure there are quotas, sometimes they are not called that but there certainly are.
Emphasis mine.
You just restated exactly what I have been saying. Perhaps you should have responded to the person that has more than once claimed that what they are called is whats important, rather than what they represent.
I have to wonder why you didnt respond to him...
The problem is, people who get speeding tickets dont want to take responsibility for their actions.
This has nothing to do with whether or not a cop gets fired for giving out 0 tickets month after month.
No, I'm certain you aren't thinking about this clearly.
yes, thats why its you that goes off on tangents in order to somehow ignore the fact that an cop that writes 0 tickets month after month will as a matter of fact be fired.
Police forces, especially in Australia have repeatedly said there is no quota.
No official quota, sure. You are now just saying what I already responded to in my first post. The fact that there is no official quota does not change the fact that an officer that gives out 0 tickets month after month they will be fired. If 0 is not acceptable, then there is in fact a quota. There is some number greater than 0 that must be given out.. thats exactly a quota, even if its not official.
You go on about conspiracy theories, yet the only person to mention any conspiracy is you. I am talking about basic pragmatic facts that everyone knows. Most factories also dont have official quotas either, yet employees that produce nothing day after day get fired. Programmers typically dont have quotas, but if they dont write any code day after day then they get fired too. A secretary that never files any paperwork gets fired. A grounds keeper that never mows the lawn gets fired.
These are basic facts and you really dont seem to be able to swallow them, because clearly you are so biased that you feel the need to change the subject, invoke conspiracy theories, and other such nonsense rather than admit that a traffic officer that writes 0 tickets month after month always gets fired. Always. Thats called a quota, with 0 being below it.
Given the fact that you cant simply hire and fire police officers (they have to go through reveiw boards to be sacked and new cops take years of training) this is untrue.
What about your "fact" makes it untrue?
You seem to be suggesting that a cop whose duties include traffic enforcement would not get fired if they gave out 0 tickets month after month because of the magic of "review boards."
I don't think that you are thinking about this clearly, that perhaps you are biased in a way that prevents you from thinking frankly and honestly about this, because what you are claiming is obviously not true.
So the car speeds up when it detects a pedestrian?
To be fair, it does solve the problem of a specific person crossing outside of cross walk in front of oncoming traffic once and for all....
..and I guarantee you that quite quickly many people will just stop doing it, while the rest maybe deserve the die because they are in fact threatening the life of the driver and others in the area by attempting to cause an accident.
Expect someone to chime in that "there are no quotas" ..
Of course there arent any official quotas.. but you can be damned sure if the officer gave 0 tickets out each month that he would be fired.. proving that there are in fact both acceptable and unacceptable levels of ticketing.. which are of course quotas.