The US social safety net is pretty damned generous as it is. Now, if you're of the opinion that working should be optional, I could see how you'd have a different opinion.
I started this thread going on about law enforcement, in response to TFS talking about--wait for it--sentencing guidelines. If 'your honor I plead not guilty' wasn't enough to tip you off. Been holed up in your safe space so long you've forgetten how to read?
I'm for that too. I'm still waiting for the Palestians to grow up enough to be trusted with one (badum-ch). On an even more related note, it might be worth asking the good professor what the scientific consensus is on what point exactly should a human age out of the urge to strap bombs to his children?
America is good at exporting four things:
1. Agricultural products
2. Aircraft
3. Semiconductor devices
And leaving the last three in the dust...
4. Our bullshit
So you're rich enough that you don't feel the pinch of socialism-lite is what you're saying? That must make you more than qualified to champion it on the behalf of people too dumb to see how good it is for them.
And twenty years ago it was bullshit, too. The point of law enforcement is to sweep up the troublemakers and put them away where they can't cause any more problems for us normals, not to facilitate state-sponsored navel-gazing for every precious little snowflake who decides that responsibility is for chumps.
WTF? A good chunk of ISIS territory is in Iraq and a good chunk of ISIS military equipment is/was captured from the Iraqi Army. Syria is it's own clusterfuck which Obama didn't handle well at all, but regardless: my comment was about as silly as blaming the cause for the effect.
I'm not saying that functional is the correct paradigm to replace event-driven as typically used in those places. I'm saying that for working with the actual equations for the system dynamics for some large multi-state model, functional can be cleaner as in fewer lines of code to wrap your head around. But: its output needs to be usable inside a good old fashioned C program which implements the state machine event loop.
Yes and no. Yes in that functional programming isn't nearly all it's cracked up to be by its evangelists. No in that there are some applications (mainly in things involving control systems, physics modelling, and a few other niche applications) where Lisp is a much more elegant (read: less spaghetti-prone) way of writing the code, and having a good way to make your academic Lisp usable in real software is a way to make your life easier if you happen to work in one of those domains.
"Countryside"? I won't even touch that. Anyway: yes...you have to pay for land that you want to build on, AND installing all of your solar panels in tiers inside a warehouse you already own will yield you zero power generation. These are not mutually exclusive facts. It seems people are inexplicably disappointed by the realization that they can't cross their arms and blink their eyes and out comes a profitable solar installation that also works in the dead of night.
You know that way that an SJW would say the word 'Wow' upon hearing someone express an opinion that's not hard-left or states a fact that contradicts The Narrative? Well, her website elicits that kind of 'Wow'. Have a look.
"War in Iraq": bipartisan support at the time. In hindsight, insufficiently forceful. Obama pulled out unilaterally and left the door for ISIS.
"8 years of Opposition to progress in Congress during the Obama administration": well that's the point of being the opposition, isn't it. Whose fault is it that Obama tried dictating terms and refused to even try to negotiate. The man's term has been characterized by complaints, executive orders, and zero attempt at reaching across the aisle. Maybe he believed his own propaganda so much that he thought he didn't have to, maybe he's just that arrogant in general, but whatever the situation, his excuse was always to blame Congress and never take any responsibility for his failings. Remind you of any other recent candidate?
"Keystone pipeline": Oh you mean trying to build critical infrastructure instead of tying it up in red tape at every turn? What's you're argument again?
"Years of climate change denial," Yep. Eight or more years please. Back in my day we referred to that 'denial' as level-headed skepticism of extraordinary claims. The extraordinary claim here being not global warming but the assertion that the science is so settled that we should give up control of our thermostats and our living arrangements to a bunch of central planners who are definitely qualified and totally not a bunch of academics with inflated senses of self-importance.
"Under the table promotion of the KKK and racist groups in the US,": As a Jewish immigrant to the US, the only people who've ever told me I wasn't truly American are--wait for it--liberals trying to scare me into voting Democratic. And reading through the supposedly unbiased mainstream media, that's a recurring theme. Whenever some ethnic or religious or cultural group is called out as being less than American, it's coming from a leftist trying to scare up a voting bloc bound by fear. Look in the mirror dude. It won't be that hard to find a reflecting surface somewhere in that glass house of yours.
"Fox News,": HuffPo, DailyKos, MSNBC, NYT, NPR, Slate, and more
"Accusing every network except Fox News.. to be some sort of biased "Fake news",": Jayson Blair, same recurring set of names for 'man in the street' interviews in NYT articles not written by Jayson Blair, Sitting on the story of John Edwards's mistress, rumor-mongering about supposed Trump-related hate crimes against Muslims, which all turned out to be... fake. There are more examples.
"Promoting Economic slavery": By wanting to crack down on the black market for cheap labor and refusing to inflate the minimum wage to a point where more people would become unemployed at the low end or have their hours and/or base wage cut if converted from salaried to hourly under new overtime rules? OK. Someone needs remedial arithmetic and economics, in that order.
"Allowing money to rule politics.": Like how Hillary out-spent Trump by $600M to $300M and still lost? See above, remedial arithmetic.
No, it isn't. Because a back-of-the-envelope calculation will tell you that it's orders of magnitude less bang for the buck than those same solar panels installed on the side of the road or on a gantry over the top of the road. This same reasoning can be used to come to the conclusion that you shouldn't try to build a skyscraper out of lego bricks or a submarine out of wax paper.
to pump out a totally cloud-based artillery targeting app for your smartwatch that sends your exact coordinates in a GET request to jquery.com.
Yeesh.
When I was in the NSA museum, they had a little placard in their Enigma exhibit that said that the US and British kept the details of Turing's work classified well into the 60's because a lot of countries were still using Enigma. For some reason I thought of that now.
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The US social safety net is pretty damned generous as it is. Now, if you're of the opinion that working should be optional, I could see how you'd have a different opinion.
I couldn't hear you. Maybe you should hold down the right alt key when you type so I can understand you better.
Everything's funny and incomprehensible when you live in a black-and-white world.
Wow. Is there any opinion you hold that wasn't put there by someone else?
Texas? Like that's never happened in a blue state. Cough California cough cough.
I started this thread going on about law enforcement, in response to TFS talking about--wait for it--sentencing guidelines. If 'your honor I plead not guilty' wasn't enough to tip you off. Been holed up in your safe space so long you've forgetten how to read?
I'm for that too. I'm still waiting for the Palestians to grow up enough to be trusted with one (badum-ch). On an even more related note, it might be worth asking the good professor what the scientific consensus is on what point exactly should a human age out of the urge to strap bombs to his children?
WTF is a "food kitchen?" Is that where you call up on your Obamaphone to get something to eat, anon?
America is good at exporting four things:
1. Agricultural products
2. Aircraft
3. Semiconductor devices
And leaving the last three in the dust...
4. Our bullshit
If gainful employment were to be made a condition of being eligible to vote, I could get behind that.
In the US, rental cars will cost you about 50% more if you're under 25 than over.
Watch out. That's the sort of lucid thinking that'll get you tarred and feather in some parts.
So you're rich enough that you don't feel the pinch of socialism-lite is what you're saying? That must make you more than qualified to champion it on the behalf of people too dumb to see how good it is for them.
Yup. We're the few who aren't wired like a shag carpet that's been through a blender. Glad the liberals finally understand their shortcomings.
And twenty years ago it was bullshit, too. The point of law enforcement is to sweep up the troublemakers and put them away where they can't cause any more problems for us normals, not to facilitate state-sponsored navel-gazing for every precious little snowflake who decides that responsibility is for chumps.
of being a special snowflake.
Huh? Obama pulled out of Iraq in the end of 2011. The shit hit the fan in Syria in early 2011.
WTF? A good chunk of ISIS territory is in Iraq and a good chunk of ISIS military equipment is/was captured from the Iraqi Army. Syria is it's own clusterfuck which Obama didn't handle well at all, but regardless: my comment was about as silly as blaming the cause for the effect.
I'm not saying that functional is the correct paradigm to replace event-driven as typically used in those places. I'm saying that for working with the actual equations for the system dynamics for some large multi-state model, functional can be cleaner as in fewer lines of code to wrap your head around. But: its output needs to be usable inside a good old fashioned C program which implements the state machine event loop.
Yes and no. Yes in that functional programming isn't nearly all it's cracked up to be by its evangelists. No in that there are some applications (mainly in things involving control systems, physics modelling, and a few other niche applications) where Lisp is a much more elegant (read: less spaghetti-prone) way of writing the code, and having a good way to make your academic Lisp usable in real software is a way to make your life easier if you happen to work in one of those domains.
"Countryside"? I won't even touch that. Anyway: yes...you have to pay for land that you want to build on, AND installing all of your solar panels in tiers inside a warehouse you already own will yield you zero power generation. These are not mutually exclusive facts. It seems people are inexplicably disappointed by the realization that they can't cross their arms and blink their eyes and out comes a profitable solar installation that also works in the dead of night.
You know that way that an SJW would say the word 'Wow' upon hearing someone express an opinion that's not hard-left or states a fact that contradicts The Narrative? Well, her website elicits that kind of 'Wow'. Have a look.
OK, I'll play.
... fake. There are more examples.
"War in Iraq": bipartisan support at the time. In hindsight, insufficiently forceful. Obama pulled out unilaterally and left the door for ISIS.
"8 years of Opposition to progress in Congress during the Obama administration": well that's the point of being the opposition, isn't it. Whose fault is it that Obama tried dictating terms and refused to even try to negotiate. The man's term has been characterized by complaints, executive orders, and zero attempt at reaching across the aisle. Maybe he believed his own propaganda so much that he thought he didn't have to, maybe he's just that arrogant in general, but whatever the situation, his excuse was always to blame Congress and never take any responsibility for his failings. Remind you of any other recent candidate?
"Keystone pipeline": Oh you mean trying to build critical infrastructure instead of tying it up in red tape at every turn? What's you're argument again?
"Years of climate change denial," Yep. Eight or more years please. Back in my day we referred to that 'denial' as level-headed skepticism of extraordinary claims. The extraordinary claim here being not global warming but the assertion that the science is so settled that we should give up control of our thermostats and our living arrangements to a bunch of central planners who are definitely qualified and totally not a bunch of academics with inflated senses of self-importance.
"Under the table promotion of the KKK and racist groups in the US,": As a Jewish immigrant to the US, the only people who've ever told me I wasn't truly American are--wait for it--liberals trying to scare me into voting Democratic. And reading through the supposedly unbiased mainstream media, that's a recurring theme. Whenever some ethnic or religious or cultural group is called out as being less than American, it's coming from a leftist trying to scare up a voting bloc bound by fear. Look in the mirror dude. It won't be that hard to find a reflecting surface somewhere in that glass house of yours.
"Fox News,": HuffPo, DailyKos, MSNBC, NYT, NPR, Slate, and more
"Accusing every network except Fox News.. to be some sort of biased "Fake news",": Jayson Blair, same recurring set of names for 'man in the street' interviews in NYT articles not written by Jayson Blair, Sitting on the story of John Edwards's mistress, rumor-mongering about supposed Trump-related hate crimes against Muslims, which all turned out to be
"Promoting Economic slavery": By wanting to crack down on the black market for cheap labor and refusing to inflate the minimum wage to a point where more people would become unemployed at the low end or have their hours and/or base wage cut if converted from salaried to hourly under new overtime rules? OK. Someone needs remedial arithmetic and economics, in that order.
"Allowing money to rule politics.": Like how Hillary out-spent Trump by $600M to $300M and still lost? See above, remedial arithmetic.
No, it isn't. Because a back-of-the-envelope calculation will tell you that it's orders of magnitude less bang for the buck than those same solar panels installed on the side of the road or on a gantry over the top of the road. This same reasoning can be used to come to the conclusion that you shouldn't try to build a skyscraper out of lego bricks or a submarine out of wax paper.
to pump out a totally cloud-based artillery targeting app for your smartwatch that sends your exact coordinates in a GET request to jquery.com.
Yeesh.
When I was in the NSA museum, they had a little placard in their Enigma exhibit that said that the US and British kept the details of Turing's work classified well into the 60's because a lot of countries were still using Enigma. For some reason I thought of that now.